The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-29 00:00:00

vember next, at' twelve o'clock, at the Town-hall,
Preston, to receive the report of the central committee,
and. to take such further steps as may be necessary.
In compliance, with these resolutions, a meeting of
the deputy lieutenants of the Kirkdale sub-
division of this county was held on Saturday
last, at the office of Mr. J. B. LLOYD, clerk to
the deputy lieutenants of this division, HENRY
LAWRENCE, Esq., senior lieutenant 0r the sub-
division in the chair, when JOHN ABRAHAM
TINNE, Esq., was uhosen the deputylieutenant to
represent this sub-division at the Central Corn-
Mittee. The meaning and bearing of these pre-
liminary steps will be best understood by looking
little more closely into the sections of the
act. The Lieutenant of the county having
reported the result of the meetings abeve referred
to, and her Majesty having ascertained and fixed
the full number or quota of militiathen which
each sub-division shall be bound to furnish, it is
the duty of the Secretary-at-War, some time
within the present year, to determine such pro-
portion of these quotas as may be required to be
raised by ballot, and to do the same in so far as
necessary for the ensuing year, before September
next, and so forth annually, for the maintenance
of the strength of the Militia force. All pro-
ceedings for the purpose of an actual ballot are,
however, suspended until the Ist of October
next. At the same time, it is especially enacted
that it shall be lawful for her Majesty, .by
ari order. in. Council, to direct that any pro-
ceedings shall be had at any time before that
Period for proceeding to ballot and enrol men to
fill up vacancies in the proper strength of the
as her Majesty shall deem expedient. In
a word, her Majesty in Council is empowered to
put the whole law in force for telling out the
Militia at any moment. In the meantime, as we
have seen, the preliminary steps for the alteration
of the subdivisions and for ascertaining and fixing
their several quotas are being authoritatively pro-
heeded with; and it is quite evident that the
Goveenment has in contemplation the propriety
tq' speedily following up these steps by others of
a more decisive character.
In the event of the ballot being resorted to, it
appears from a printed memorandum, issued this
month from the Lancashire Lieutenancy office,
Preston, that the following will be the course of
Proceeding in reference to some of the principal
provisions comprised in the new act :
A subdivisional meeting will be held on the first Wed-
nesday in October in each year, (at which, as well as at
ether subdivisional meetings, two deputy lieutenants
Will form a quorum,) when the several overseers within
the subdivision will produce and verify upon oath lists
of all persons liable to serve in the militia within their
respective townships, such lists having been posted on
the church and chapel doors on the preceding Sunday.
The deputy lieutenants will then amend the lists by
the addition of names improperly omitted, and the
erasure of others improperly inserted, whether such
errors may be within their own knowledge, or brought
before them by the overseers, or otherwise, and the lists
so corrected will together form the ballot lists of the
subdivision.
At this first meeting, also, the Deputy Lieutenants
Will fix the quota of militiamen for each township ; in
doing which they will give credit for the men then
Serving in the county militia, who, at the time of being
carolled, were resident in such township, the requisite
information to enable them to do this having been pre-
viously given to the subdivision clerk.
The Deputy Lieutenants will then, at the first meet-
ing, appoint another meeting to. be held not later than
seven days thereafter, for the ballot, public notice
Whereof will be given by the overseers, and at such
second meeting the Deputy Lieutenants will choose by
ballot for each township list twice the number of men
required to serve for such township, and the names of
the men chosen will be entered in a book and numbered.
(A slight deviation from this course will be necessary in
case of a township furnishing volunteers to avoid a
ballot.)
The Deputy Lieutenants will then, i. e., at their
second meeting, appoint a third meeting, to be held
Within seven days; and the clerk will forthwith send
notice by post to each balloted man, summoning him to
attend such meeting, the overseers also affixing to the
church and chapel doors lists of the men chosen, and
thereby requiring them to attend.
At the third meeting claims to exemption will be
heard and decided, and the number of men required for
each township will then be taken from the township
list in the order in which they stand, and having been
examined, shall (if qualified) be sworn and enrolled
until the full quota of such township shall have been
Made up.
As, however, it may be found impracticable, in the
larger subdivisions, to transact all this business in one
day, it is suggested that in any such case the subdivision
may be divided into townships, or in any other way
that may' be found convenient, and intimation given to
each man (by endorsement on his notice) of the par-
ticular day for hearing claims of the persons included in
that portion of the list containing his name, and the
Meeting will be adjourned from time to time to those
days..
The swearing in and enrolment of the men or their
substitutes (if any such shall be provided pursuant to
the 20th section), may take place, if mere convenient, at
any adjournment of the third meeting.
Provision is made by the 17th section for the case of
the lists being exhausted before obtaining the requisite
number, and by the following section for the supply of
vacancies occurring by death, &c.
The use of the ballot for a compulsory levy of
olilitiamen is not likely to be a popular measure.
It never has been so, and, perhaps, never will be.
But a moment's reflection must satisfy every
iolpartial mind that, under certain circumstances,
it is a justifiable and unavoidable resort in defence
of our common country. On the present occasion,
however, we are less interested in advocating so
ottacceptable a step on the part of the Govern-
'ient, than in directing the attention of all liable
to be affected by a forced enrolment of the Mili-
tia to their only certain way of escape from the
chances of the ballot-box. The only alternative
is that of becoming an effective volunteer. We
liaT effective, for too many 'volunteers are non-
effective. Those volunteers who have attended
eight days in each four months, or a total of
twenty-four days' drill and exercise in the
Year, are alone entitled to be returned as effec-
tive& " A day's drill " may mean only an
hour's drill—so that twenty-four hours'
drill per annum, may be the whole tax upon a
kan's time to render him- " effective ;" and it is
enacted that all members of volunteer corps so
returned are wholly exempt from Militia ballot,
or from being called upon to serve in any other
levy. Here, then, is a powerful inducement to
all young men to join the volunteer movement
Without a moment's delay; and a strong stimulus
to all enrolled volunteers to perfect themselves in
drill—without which they are as liable to be
ballotted for as if they had never taken the oath
of allegiance. It is important for parents and
guardians, andalsoforemployers and those occupy-
ing positions of influence, to consider how far it is
their duty to urge upon the young, of all classes,
the proprietY of at once making their choice
between voluntarily joining the grand national
self-defensive movement—for doing which there
are now so many facilities and attractions—and
running a great 'chance of, very soon, being
'°repulsorily enrolled in the Militia. It ought
especially to .be kept in view that exactly in
l'roportion to the success of the Volunteer move-
went, and the number of effectives returned, there
dill be so much the higher probability of the
remaining " outsiders " being drawn for the
and so much the greater difficulty in
finding substitutes. It is also to be remembered
that when so considerable a number of the
Population have voluntarily subjected themselves
to the trouble and expense of being enrolled and
'killed effectively for the defence of the country,
there will be but little hesitation in public
°Pinion as to the propriety of having recourse to
the Ballot to compel those who, dead to a sense of
Patriotic duty, have, with short-sighted selfish-
-485, attempted to escape their proper share of
service to the country, its freedom, honour, and
Elependence. To your rifles then ye sons of
ti gland. The hour of danger is at hand—may
"le nearer than we have supposed. Let every
young man in England learn effectively to handle
a rifle. To the drill, the parade, and the butts
• let all repair. In the piping times of peace, it is
Dastirae--innocent, honourable, and invigorat-
4g. In time of danger it will be our greatest
stronghold, our surest road to victory over any
invader—the rock and mainstay of our glorious
'oatitutions, and the triumphant vindication of
°lO Character as a people—brave, loyal, and free.

laW Lord Palmeston's speech at Leeds, on the bankruptcy
has givenr great satisfaction in the city.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

ITALY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEN.)

MILAN, Oct,
The last telegrani we received from Naples,
dated the 21st instant., in reference to the vote by
Universal suffrage, is reported. in La, Lombardia,
as follows :—II plebiscito precede stupendemente ;
l'enthusiasmo a incredibile. Pallavieino nominato
cittadino di Napoli, ando a votare fia ovazoni
imponente della Guardia Nazionale e del popolo;
stasera ci sara illuminazione," which, in English,
is—The votation by universal
.suffrage proceeds
stupendiously ; the enthusiasm is incredible. Pa-
lavicino is. created citizen of Naples ; he is just
gone to vote amid the imposing ovations of the
National Guard and the people ; this evening there
will be an illumination. The above telegram will
give your readers some faint idea of the grandi-
loquent diction of the Italians, adorning almost
every phrase they either write or speak with the
most superlative expressions that they can find in
their vocabulary. The day after any festa or
political event, even the most insignificant, it is
the fashion to report the same in the most exag-
gerated language, that one reading the account
the next day in the papers is absolutely astonished
at the cool impudence of the writer. This was
admirably shewn when a battalion of the Tuscan
National Guards arrived in Milan, the reception
being a very milk and water affair, not more than
three or four hundred people idly sautering up
and down the Corso, and about forty pounds of
" eights" burning in the windows of the houses
from the Duomo to the Gate of the Porta Orien-
tale, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile,
and whose light was dingily struggling with the
evening breeze, almost making the night still
darker. Along the same distance there was
positively not more than a dozen cabs and three
or four paltry private carriages waiting in expec-
tation of the arrival. This, however, was suffi-
cient for the writers in the journals of this
city, who have, since the departure of the
Austrians, sprung up like mushrooms. Obscure
writers and seedy individuals who formerly
occupied cobwebbed garrets have now descended,
into superbly-furnished first floors, and every day
strut up and down the Corso with that haughty
pride and pomposity which distinguish mush-
rooms of this class when cased in fine clothes.
So unbridled is the mania with these speculators
of the political circumstances of the times, and so
anxious that no chance of gain should be thrown
away, that scarcely hod Garibaldi entered Naples,
when off started two or three of the editors and
principal writers to establish corresponding or
similar journals in that city. The greater number
of these writers were formerly the most devoted
partisans of the Austrians, and whose pens were
entirely devoted to the service of that govern-
ment, and among which stand pre-eminently
the Gazette of Milan, Unione, and Pungolo.
These papers are now vieing with each other in
order to prove their attachment to the present
government, by indulging in the vilest; most
vulgar, and often most indecent language,
against their former patrons, the Austrians and
Bourbons. These are the class of men who write
against the Paris correspondent of the Times for
exposing the deceptive policy of Cavour and
Louis Napoleon. The above explanation will
clearly show how much it is to the interest of
these journals to deceive the people and keep up
the present state of excitement. But to return
to my former question. The next morning the
milk and water reception of the Tuscans, as I
have above stated, was reported in these journals
as follows :—" Last evening, a battalion of the
Tuscan National Guard arrived in our city, and
were received at the railway station by the
Milan National Guard , preceded by a brilliant
staff (there were four officers on horseback—not
a soul more) and their magnificent band. The
immense multitude (at the outside four hundred)
of citizens of every class, and splendid equipages
filled with the smiling faces of the beauty and
fashion of our city, choked up the Corso in such
a manner as rendered almost impassible the
passage 'of our noble and genteel Tuscan brethren
to their barracks. The hearty thunders of cheers
from this imposing multitude was beyond all
description, and must have awakened in the
bosom of all the deepest feelings of emotion.
The stupendo effetto (the stupendous effect) of the
illumination which brilliantly shone .from every
window along the entire line of the Corso with
the tricoloured flag gaily spreading its glorious
colours, gave to the whole scene such a charming
effect, as to render impossible, even for the most
fervid imagination, to realize any idea of the
memorable scene of last evening."—What would
George Robins or Barnum say to this style of
description ? Would it not put to the blush their
most eloquent, romantic, or poetical effirts ? When
I read this account the following morning in. La
Gazetta di Milano, I said to an English friend
who was with me during the entry of the Tus-
cans, and who laughed most heartily at this
specimen of cool unblushing exaggeration ; if
ever you wanted a proof of the warm imagination
of the ItalianS, and their power of invention, here
you have it to your heart's content;
_but this is

only a poor illustration of what the Italians can
do. The above account has been reported in
other papers, and generally with additional orna-
ments of the most flowery and poetical rhetoric.
The same flies over the whole length and breadth
of the Peninsula, each reader delighted with the
splendid picture that is brought before his ima-
gination. This again is condensed into short
paragraphs which appear in the French and
English journals, that many of the readers are
induced to form the most absurd notions of the
Italians, and the different scenes that have been
enacted in Italy for the last eighteen months.
This exaggerated style is not confined to news-
paper writers ; it is the natural phraseology of
the people of every class. If you make the ac-
quaintance of an Italian at any of the alberghi
or cafes, and he meets you the next morning,
the odds are ten to one he addresses you as

earissimo amico ! stimatissimo SignorC! or,
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mio carissimo ed buordssinzo gzovane amico
(most dear friend! most esteemed sir! most

dear and good young friend!) All this is
not so bad after five minutes' acquaintance. If
he addresses you by letter you /hay be certain to
have the envelope adorned with " Illustrissimo
Signore ! Onoratissomo Signore !" or " Egregio
e Distintissimo Signore !" and often, "Milord !"
To a lady, " Gentillissima Signora! Mabilissima
Signora!" &c. Whenever these compliments
come too thick I invariably button up my pockets
or seriously run over in my mind the circum-
stances of my correspondent before allowing my-
self to be ensnared into too close an intimacy,

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fearing the next letter to begin with " Carissimo
amico,—Conscendo l'estrema bonta dell anima
vostro mi prendo •la liberta," &c.; "Dearest
friend,—Knowing the goodness of your heart I
take the liberty," &c. The above mode of
address is common even among the people them-
selves ; and it is by no means unusual to see in a
public cafe an Italian at his breakfast with knife
and fork in the most delightful action flourishing
over a beefsteak, veal cutlet, or quietly picking
the bone of a fowl, suddenly throw down those
implements upon the plate with .a loud crash, the
bone of the fowl sent spinning upon the always
black and greasy floor of the café, dart from his
chair like a• shot from a cannon, embrace and
kiss both cheeks of his friend who has just
entered (and whom he has not seen for some
time), cover him with ten thousand compliments
in one breath, then as rapidly make a hop, step,
and a jump to his seat and go on with his break-
fast without scarcely taking any fuather notice
of his " carissimo amico" no more than if he was
a log of wood. Even the waiters at the alberghi
have the same seducing mode of speech. When
a customer• asks a waiter, " What have you

for dinner to-clay ?"he is almost certain to
reply, " Abbiano un grand buon brodo ; mauzo
buonissimo; vitello eccellentissimo •, un polio stu-
pendo ; cervo superb° ; verdnra d'ogni qualita
buonissimo, e per it vino (kissing the tips of his
fingers, which in Italian means incomparable)
non si parla ;" which translated is, "We have
an exquisite soup (but this is weak in comparison
to the Italian expression gran buon brodo ') ;
very good beef; most excellent veal; a stupendous
fowl ; superb venison ; vegetables of every kind.
very good ; and as for the wine (which is often
as sour as vinegar) it is useless to speak." These
strong characteristics of the Italian even show
themselves when he studies the English or any
other language,—because instead of beginning
like all other Christians with the alphabet for
the different sounds of the vowels and conso-
nants, definite and indefinite articles, the genders
and number of the nouns, genitive case, and then
the adjectives, •he is certain to nearly drive his
poor professore mad by persisting in simply
throwing his eye over the alphabet, and then
with a splendid spring make a. hop, step, jump,
and then um salto mortale among all the super-
lative adjectives of the English language, from
whence he begins his study, almost breaking the
heart of his master by continually bringing for
translation such words as the following :—adora-
tissinzo ; carissima ; dilethevolissima stella dell'
anima lnia ; piacevelissimo momenti ; (ST., (s"c•
Most adored ; most dear ; most delightful star of
my soul ; most pleasing moments, 4.c., e
These few characteristics of Italian life will.
not only be confirmed by many of your readers
that have travelled or resided in Italy, but prepare
those for many amusing scenes and anecdotes, who
intend to visit the bright and unclouded sky of
this highly favoured land. To-day lam not
serious enough to write politics, notwithstanding
the importance of the present passing movements,
and therefore send you the above, being a true
picture of my own observations, free from all
exaggeration.
A telegram arrived here on Monday evening,
announcing the reforms which the Emperor of
Austria is about to introduce into different parts
Of the empire. The journals, as I anticipated,
are already writing the bitterest articles against
the same, describing it as it a sham," " a deceit,"
"44 a snare." This is but natural, as this step on
the part of Austria is not very acceptable to the
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