The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-19 00:00:00

BOMBARDMENT OF GAETA.

GAtTA (vid Marseilles), Nov. 13.
Yesterday, the Piedmontese bombarded the
suburbs of Gaeta.

The Neapolitan troops continue to fight reso-
lutely, but the defection of staff officers is increas-
ing. Four generals—Salzano, Colona, Barbobriza,
and Polizzi—have resigned. The King has
dismissed and sent away General Bertohne.

Colonel Planella has surrendered a battalion of
Chasseurs to the Piedmontese. Further resistance
by' the llourbon troops is paralysed by the
insubordination of their chiefs and the confusion
which prevails.

FRANCE AND GAETA.
The 31Oniteurde la Flotte says it is authorised
to believe that the instructions of Admiral de
Tinan have not been modified in any respect, and
that his mission is still the same,—to prevent,
while maintaining .the most strict neutrality, an
act of hostility by sea against Gaeta.

PASTORAL,LETTERS IN FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 17.

The Minister of the Interior has called the
attention 'of the prefects to the exceptional favotir
hitherto shown to pastoral letters, which, in a
spirit of generous 'confidence in the religious
authority, have been freed from the formalities
imposed upon other publications; lint for some
time many writingS have been published under
the title of mandements, or of pastoral letters,
treating of questions most foreign to, spiritual
interests—political pamphlets, in fact—in which
the events now being accomplished in Europe are
considered, in which the acts of the Government
are discussed and sometimes attacked with great
vigour, thus usurping the exclusive immunities
granted to the special acts of the episcopal juris-
diction. This abuse has provoked the attention
of the Government. To remedy this, the Simplest
and easiest measure would incontestably have
been to withdraw the privilege granted, and,
without distinctiop, to submit all its affairs to
the common law. Sincerely desirous of not
obstructing in any way the action of the eccle-
siastical authority in its legitimate sphere, the
Government has not considered it necessary at
present to resort to that Radical measure.
Those
mandements and pastoral letters which do not
depart from the spiritual domain, and which are
printed as placards, in order to be posted or read
in the churches, will therefore continue free of
the stamp and the deposit; but those writings,
whatever may be their title, which, taking the
form of a pamphlet in order to emerge from the
sanctuary, too often mix themselves up
with
temporal politics, cannot profit by a dispensation
which was not established for them. Such writ-
ings, although enjoying entire liberty of publica-
tion, will be subject to the conditions of the
common law: In preserving a generous exemption
to publications of a spiritual order, but in opposing
as mucluas possible the confounding of the,man-
dements with pamphlets, relic ion with politics,
and the decisions to which the citizen may con-
tradict, the Government is conscious of maintain-
ing everything in its place without prejudicing
either the rights or the liberty of anybody.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, Nov. 17, 3.25 p.m.
The Bourse has- been flat. Further measures
on the part of the Bank of France are spolpn of.
Rentes closed at 69f. 85c., or 10c. lower than
yesterday. It is not supposed in Paris that the
Bank of France will again increase its rate of
discount.