The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-23 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1860.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The disturbances in Lebanon, which have neces-
sitated the presence, in the waters of Syria, of
the Commandant of the Levant naval stationo M.
de, la Ronciere le NourY, appear to have assumed
some gravity, and are complicated, it is said, by
the antagonism of French and English influences
—the French flag protecting the Maronites, alias
the Catholic Christians, while the cause of the
Druses (Mussulmans) is understood to have the
support of the English.

The Canadian Legislature has abolished tolls
on vessels passing through the provincial canals,
thus sacrificing 150,000 dollars of revenue. Last
year 26,466 vessels passed through the canals of
Canada, of an aggregate tonnage of 2,455,021
tons. Of these vessels 22,800 were Canadian.

Not only is it untrue that England had sup-
ported the application of the Sardinian Ambas-
sador at Naples for a regtitution of Garibaldi's
two captured ships, on the ground that they had
papers for Malta, but it is said that the govern-
ment of Turin has repudiated the step taken by'
its representative as being unjustifiable by the
law of nations. We hear from Genoa that a
rumour is general in that city to the effect that
the capture of the two vessels bearing reinforce-
ments to Garibaldi was owing to treachery. It

is said that a Neapolitan frigate, near the channel
of Piombino, hoisted the British flag, and offered
to tow the two vessels into Palermo. This offer
being accepted, the frigate ran up the Neapolitan
colours, and carried both craft into Gaeta.
A disembarkation in Calabria is expected every
hour, and nobody deceives themselves as to the
inevitable result. The King himself has put in
safety his most valuable property, but he appears
resolved to struggle to the end, both against the
force of events and against the opinion even of
his most intimate advisers. It is positively
uscrted that, quite recently, his Majesty ejacu-
lated in the full council of Ministers, "I will never
yield ; I would rather become a corporal in the
Austrian army than a constitutional monarch."-

Baron Rothschild, of Naples, has just arrived
in Paris. It is said he will not return to Italy
again. It appears to be his intention to retire to
a magnificent mansion he purchased four years
ago, on the banks of the Lake of Geneva, fore-
seeing at the time the present convulsed state of
Italy. He has caused works to be executed there
on a grand scale, and which are not yet com-

pleted. M. de Rothschild is said to entertain
very gloomy views of the actual situation of the
Neapolitan kingdom.

Various speculations are afloat as to the success
of Louis Napoleon's visit to Baden-Baden ;• be
there seems no doubt as to his unpopularity with
the German people. It is stated that the popula-
tion of Baden manifested anything but sympathy
for the Einperor Napoleon during his visits there.
On his arrival at the railway station, some
Frenchmen who had collected there endeavoured
to get up a cry of Vire l'Empereur, but their
attempts were quickly frustrated by the Ger-•
mans, and it is even said that the crowd com _
menced to whistle in a very significant manner,
which must have had an unpleasant effect on the

imperial ears.
By an advice from Baden-Baden we are assured
that it is now an incontestable fact that the Prince
of Prussia particularly insisted on the presence
of the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha gt
the interview of the German sovereigns with the
Emperor of the French. The Prince Regent
insisted upon the Duke's presence, because, as a
German sovereign who is so intimately connected
with the royal family of England, he could, hav-
ing been a witness, inform the Court of St. James
of all that passed in that interview, and would be
enabled to state that the interview in question,
far from being a subject of mistrust for the other
Great Powers, was a fresh guarantee for the
peace of the whole of Europe. The crafty policy
of the French Emperor at the late meeting is
strikingly illustrated by the following ;acts :
Since the Italian war none of the German govern-
ments have surpassed that of Hanover in the
manifestatio4 of rational aentiments and hostility
to the French Emperor, 44 req oppQrtltnity
was permitted in Paris to escape, in order
to express the bad feeling which the French
Goverment entertained to the cabinet of Hanover.
But the French Emperor proceeded personally, on
the evening of the 17th, immediately after his

arrival at Baden-Baden, to the hotel at which the
King of Hanover resided, with the object of pre-
senting to that Monarch thetrois 'of the Legion of
Honour. The circumstance acquires, under pre-
sent circumstances, a signification all the more
remarkabl&as it is known in. Germany that the
Emperor, iii:tthelnouth of April last, made pro-
posititins tolhe Cabinet of Berlin of assisting the
latter.to the incorporation of Hanover with
Prussia; on condition that the lift banks of the
Rhine be ceded to France, to constitute her natural
frontiers.

—Serious complaints' continue to be' de fir•alY
branches associated with the Custom-house and
bonded warehouse system of the extraordinary
difficulties and delays interposed by the regula-
•tions introduced throughethe new tariff.. .If ever
a Chancellor of the Exchequer has rendered him-
self unpopular among the 'mercantile community
it is Mr. Gladstone, whose complex scheme of
operations will require a lengthened period for
initiatory working before it can be made practi-
cally efficient. The waste of time and labour—
two important considerations in the successful
management of business—is said not to be in any!
shape compensated by the supposed beneficial
influence of the change. If the arrangements
had been carried out on a broad and well-defined
basis, unaccompanied by the tedious details en-
forced, the revenue would not havQ suffered, And
the Custem-house• and warehousing regulations
would have been placed on n more satisfactory

footing.
Captain Blakely maintains that he did chal-
lenge Mr. Whitworth to a match- between their
two guns. He says :—" lam still willing, indeed
very desirous, to fire either a 48cwt. or a 60cwt.
shell-gun in competition with Mr, Whitworth's
84cwt, solid shot-gun, or any other gun at present
in existence, at 21, 3, 34, 4, 44, and 5 degrees of
elevation. I would rather not bet on- the matter,
but will do so, if desired, £5O to £25 on
.each
event, or £2OO to £75 at 3 or 34 degrees." He
wal agree to '4almost any terms jr,i Whitworth
chooses to propose," . . _
The number of paupers receiving relief in Eng-
land and Wales in April last was rather more than
2 per cent. less than in the previous April. • - In
Lancashire and Cheshire not far from 10 per cent.
less. The South Midland and Eastern districts
were exceptions ; pauperism there had increased
more than .2 per cent.
We are informed that it has been intimated to
Lord Clyde, by command of the highest personage
in the realm, that he will be presented with--the
baton of a field-marshal shortly after his return
to England.
A number of large commercial as well as
wholesale establishments in London have resolved
to follow the example of the Stock Exchange,
and make Saturday .a holiday.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
announce her intention of inaugurating the first
great prize meeting of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation, on the 2nd of July next, on which occa-
sion addresses will be presented to her Majesty
and to the Prince Consort by the president of the
association. The competition will commence im-
mediately afterwards, the opening being an-
nounced by her Majesty's firing a rifle from a
fixed mechanical rest.