The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-04 00:00:00

OUTPORTS.

North Briton (ss), from Quebec at Lough Foyle.
Tyne (rms), from Brazil at,Southarnpton, '
St. Leon, from Bordeauxat Dublin.
Alias, from Santos at Falmouth.
Dzm, July 3:.--Arrived and passed : HALE. Firebrand,
from west to river; Union-London to Port Phillip • Cold-
stream, London to Madras ; Coquette, Berbice to London ;
Alexander Brandt, Boston to London ; Eliza, Lagos to Lon-
don; Alfred, Sydney to London; Columbia, Baltimore to Bre-
men ; Engelburg, Iquique to Hamburg ; Oak, Port Natal to
London ;- -Maria Warbell, Mexico to London. The Channel
fleet remains.
as Avzserm, July 3.---Arrived : Adonis, from Engelholm ;
Ark, and- Enfique Fredrieo, Porto Rico ; Bilboa, Santander ;
Prince of Wales, Melbourne ; Catherine Pemberton, Auckland;
David Cross, Lagos ; Mohawk, Tobago ; Wearmouth. Riga.
Sailed : Quito, for Mauritius;" Coldstream, Madras; Thames,
Geelong. •
BELFAST, July. 3.---Sailed Melodic, and Miss Evans, for

Ayr.
GREINOCK, July 3.--Arrived.: Sylph, from Bombay.
Sailed : Timandra, for Demera.
QCZENSTOWN, July 3.---Arrived: Ariadne Stathella, from
Cork ; Swan, St. John's, N.B. Sailed : Laubertus, for Gloster.
Wu-v.lll.ORu, July 3.---. Arrived : Earl of Moy, from
Llanelly ; Nanteos, Swansea; YeAa, '(s), Liverpool. Sailed:
Clio, for Cardiff ; Caerlon, Gloucester; Enilla, Glasgow.

MARITIME EXTRACTS.
LivEzpoot, July 3.

The Prince of Wales, Watson, arrived off Dartmouth from
Melbourne, reports that on the 29th April, lat. 53 S., lon. 160
W., she encountered a violent hurricane, and passed a great
many icebergs in lat. 54 S., lon. 125 to 113 W.

Sporting :4,rtttifigenrt.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1860.

THE DAN'S 'NEWS,

In the House of Lords, yesterday, the Man-
chester and Milford Railway Bill, and the
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Amendment
Bill, were read a third time and passed.
Earl St. Germains brought up the royal
approval of the Berwick-upon-Tweed election
commission. The Weights and Measures Bill
was thrown out. Lord St. Leonards moved
the second reading of the Masters and
Operatives Bill, the object of which was to
establish courts of conciliation between masters
and workmen. Although they could not hope
by this means to prevent disputes altogether, they
might expect that it would promote better feelings
between the two parties. Lord Ravensworth
moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a
second time that day six mouths. The Earl of
Derby urged the due consideration of a measure
so important as the present. No doubt it would
require alteration, but it ought to be allowed to
go into committee. Earl Granville proposed that
the bill be referred to a select committee. Lord
Ravensworth having assented to this arrange-
ment, the bill was read a second time. Several
other bills were forwarded.

In the House of Commons; the morning sitting
was occupied by the consideration in committee
of the Mining Regulation and Inspection Bill
In the evening sitting, Mr. S. Herbert said, as
the raising of volunteer corps was attended
with great expense, militia or yeomanry
officers incurring this expense might receive
volunteer .commissions; but if the force
• was called out, they must choose to which
they would belong. Colonel Lindsay moved for
a select committee to inquire into and report upon
the claims of seven major-generals to the pay of
general officers, which, after some debate, was
carried by 108 to 94. Captain Esmond's motion
for a select committee to inquire into the present
system of the cadetships Of the royal navy was
negatived by 81 to 24. Mr. M. Gibson obtained
leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the unship-
ment of goods, and secure the shipowner's lien
for freight. In the course of some further
formal business the House was counted out.
Notwithstanding the contradictory rumours
which have reached us as to the state of Naples,
it seems pretty clear that tumult prevails, and
that affairs are rapidly approaching a consumma-
tion. In Sicily the work of revolution progresses.
At Palermo the greater part of the bells were
being converted into cannon ; and the process of
taking up the suffrages of the people was being
rapidly forwarded. In Messina it is pretty clear
that some awfully bloody work has being going

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on. For particulars -we must refer to our latest

telegrams.
. It is stated that thißussian Go:•ernment has
,earnestly remonstrated.withrthe. Piedmontese on

the recruiting (*flied on in the Sardinian States
for the army of:Garibaldi, -notwithstanding the
repeipd. .declarations that it was without its

'authority. or consent, and that the Sardinian

:Governmint had no means of:preventing it. To
those declarations, it tvold -appear, the Russian

Government gives little credence—:so little that it

has announced its determination to withdraw its

Minister from Turin and-break off diplomatic rela-
tions if the practice be persisted in. In the-meantime
the French papers have been allowed to touch
-on
the subject. of Polish nationality, a very serious
consideration for Russia. Perhaps the French
Government really desires to. see an inftendont
Poland as well as in independent Italy. There
are some; however, who suspect that Russia and
France understand each other well on this point ;
that no harm whatever is meant and that if the
French press is allowed to discus's so delicate a
topic, it is to show the Italians that France does
not agree with Russia in these remonstrances.
Nevertheles4, it is believed that France would not
see with pleasure any further aggrandisethent of
Piedmont.

A letter from France states that the Emperor
intends to place 150,000,000 f. at the disposal of the
Minister of Agriculture and Public Works to be
expended in the completion of telegrap4ic lines,
the restoration of churches and historical monu-
ments, the rebuilding presbyteries and school-
houses, the encouragement of sciences, letters, and
the arts, the improvement of public roads, rivers,
canals, seaports, and lighthouses, and agricultural
operations.

Rely upon it, says a French correspondent,
that my view has been the right one : the Ger-
man intrigue is not finished. The Emperor of
the French knows, as well as we do, that against
united Germany,—between which and England
an alliance is so natural as to be all but inevi-
table,—he Can do nothing,--therefore, he will,
from this moment forwards, work at the process of
disuniting. The German press is just now, I
again- repeat it, the- thing to follow, to read, to
study,-and this for two reasons t there is a high,
German press,. which is the exponent of what is
ihought, felt, and at present planned, by the
German Governments in sympathy with the.
German people—but there is an inferior' German
press that is bought and being bought by the
Tuileries. Now if you follow and examine
narrowly what is set forth b), these two, you will
very easily see what on one side is being aimed
at, and what on the other is sought to be
resisted. The proof /if any were needed) that.
Louis Napoleon is now hard and persistently
at work at the achievement of disunion, and
that he means, eventually, not peace but en-
croachment to Germany. The proof of this lies
in the determined way in which he makes the.
German democratic press (which he has bought).
continue its besieging process. But as yet, to its.
honour be it said,—the high, and really national
press of Germany etioes its duty manfully ; and.
so,—be it not forgotten,—do the various German
governments and their Sovereigns. Up to the
present moment, all is right, that is certain
how long it may remain so is still a question.
England may do much, very much, towards
giving Germany confidence in herself ; -for that
she looks to England is undeniable.

At the Middlesei July Quarter Sessions, the
learned Assistant-Judge, in his charge to the
grand jury, congratulated them up. n -the cir-
cumstance that the number of prisoners to bp
tried was so small for the metropolitan county at
this period of the year. •
The inquest has thrown no light upon the bar-
barous murder perpetrated at a -village in the
neighbourhoOd of Frame. The. body of a child,
about four years of age, the son of Mr. Kent, an
inspector of factories, was found, in the water-
closet shockingly mutilated. He must have been
taken out of the nurse's room during the night
without her knowledge, and murdered, while'
asleep. The dreadful affair is at present involVed•
in mystery.
If the speakerS at the recent meetings held for
the purpose of remonstrating against the high
price of butchers' meat, says a contemporary,
would only look at the reports of prices at the.'
live cattle markets, they.may convince themselves
that at the present time the butchers, so far from
getting 'enormous or extra profits, are gaining
leis than usual. For instance, -the best beef at.
the New Cattle Market in. London on MOnday
last, was quoted at trs id. t 9 ss.' Bd.. per 81b., and.
prime mutton was the -same price. The latter
price isBld. per lb. ; and whenthe loss and waste
in cutting and weighing -out, and the reduced
value of the inferior joints are taken into
the account, it will be found that the butchers
are not a whit better of. than when the;
price was 25 per cent. lower ; nor indeed
so well, because the sales are less, and the losses
in warm weather much heavier. The public
must, therefore, rook beyond the retailer for the
origin of the dearness of animal food, and there:ie:
no difficulty in assigning it to its true cause air.,
the coldness of the winter and spring., andAlte:
consequent scarcity of cattle food, so that far less
than usual have been fattened and brought to
market. In addition to this, a vast number'of
cattle and sheep have been actuallr starved- to:
'death from the same cause. In Scotland. and:
Ireland, and the north of England, the sheep and,
lambs have perished by thousandi; and Ireland,
the cattle by hundreds, from positive starvation.
On the other hand, the importations of foreign'
cattle, which, if increased, might have stopped the
gap thus created, have fallen -off; so that very
inadequate relief has been afforded in .:that
direction:

The mercantile community have been'thrown

into a state of consternation by the announce-
ment that an old-established firm of leather and
hide factors were not in a condition to fulfil their
engagements. The depression in the leather
trade, principally through the depreciation of
stocks, it was known was likely to interfere with
the stability of many firms, and might eventually
'compromise some of the largest, but it was
scarcely anticipated that this highly-respected
honse would be reduced to the immediate neces-
sity of suspending. It is said that the failure
will be for nearly £1,000,000. Of the pro-
bable dividend no certain estimate can at present
he formed, because much will depend upon the
realisation of the estate and the debts due from
the various houses with which the firm has been
associated. but sanguine parties have put it as
high as 15s. in the pound, while many. think it
not improbable that 10s. may be secured. Both
these statements are based upon the circumstance
that the private property will yield a considerable
surplus for the benefit of the joint creditors. It
was roughly guessed, among several of the trade
who are deeply interested, that if the complete
number of firms who are compromised shall have
to succumb the liabilities will in round numbers
approximate to £2,000,000. The effect of this
shock upon this department of trade will not be
surmounted for a long period, even if the divi-
dends should he satisfactory, and the majority of
the operations prove clear from taint. The Liver-
pool branch of the firm, it is believed, may avoid
failure. It must, nevertheless, be extensively
involved in the transactions _of . the London
establishment.

The scene at Wimbledon onlTorid4 is described
as more like the hill of Epsom on the Derby day
than is usually witnessed on any other public
occasion. The Swiss mustered 1.50 strong to
compete for the prize open to all nations. They

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