The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-31 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN• CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, 28th Dec., 1860.
The latest news from Naples is that the decree
ordaining a general levy in the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, is about to be put into immediate_
execution. The men whose regular period of
service has expired within the years 1857 and
1880 itidlitsiVei are to he again called out In
this latter category are included those soldiers
who belonged to the army of Francis 11., who are
.not assisting in the defence of Gaeta. All vim
refuse to obey the call will be considered as con-
titimicious," and handed over for punishment to
ooilaits of
° lita6
According to the calculations of thel et-13°
War Minister, it is estimated that by the 28th 01
February next a total effective of 180,000
Wl'
will have been by this means raised, which ,
form no unimportant addition to the army
,P 1
Italy, which is reckoned upon as ready to take
field in the approaching spring, It is titidetstdout
thttt) independently of this tltottb; fitiOthtf
sore or the same kind will be adopted, fer the
purpose of calling out, under the title of a corP
of reserve, the whole of the soldiers who have
retired from the army within the period from
1852 to 1857. All this certainly looks very war-
like.

Francis It. has sent to Rome a part of the gar;
risoii of Gitetit, heifig desirous only to retain such
a number of then as are absohitely necessary for
the defence of the place. The correspondent of
one of the leading Paris papers speaks at the same
'time of two regiments having been sent away "3'
the Ex-King, because their fidelity was sa.!-
pected. The final termination of the siege is
manifestly close at hand, and already it is Ile",,
said, the fire of the besiegers is so hot and ,con-
tinuous day and night, that his Majesty is furred
to sleep on board a Spanish vessel in the Roads.
With reference to the recent arrivals from
Chinai it is said that besides the official report o
General Montatiban *hick has ben published to
the Abated,- , there is another abcoiiiit; whiele
official journal has not thought proper to vitas ;
which contains a relation of some shocking atro-
cities committed by the Chinese upon the person!
of the European prisoners who have succumb°
under their tortures, and even upon some of thou
who succeeded in finally escaping out of the bands
of their persecutors.
The exeesQive severity of the frost has led to
the general adoption of sledging in the streets and
boulevards of Paris. Several habitugs of the
Bourse and others may be seen in scudding along,
to their different places 'f business in vehicles or
this description. Tiro Emperor and Empress
theneselVes daily take tlpen=air exercise ih the
gardehs of the Tuileries in an elegant sledg•
The accounts from all parts of France unite in
describing the present snow storm as one of the
most severe on record.

THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT

On Friday, Lot Ivenson Leather, the young nitn
charged with attempting to murder Jane Mooney, I'l
shooting her, on the 13th inst., was again brought befell
the Bury magistrates. The girl, who appeared to gito
evidence against him, seemed weak and paloy and *ls
actommodated with a Seat. 81in said that en the iota
inst. the prisbnbi had shown her a small clasp knife, an
u
told her that had he had it on the previous Sendai
evening., he would have drawn it cross her throat. 01
the 13th he came to her frame, when the mill stopped
at dinner time, knelt down at the end of her frame, 'T
on her removing, he followed her through the mull'
She told him that she would not have him, and he
replied, " Then no one else shall." He went to her
lodgings at seven o'clock at night, and remained WO
about half an hour. After he had left, the witneo,
went to a dressmaker's, and on her return she feline
him sitting by the fire. A young man named C'Ook+ a
turner from Pendleton, Was present, as well as gra'
Rosebottont and her three children. Witness sat down.
the opposite side of the fire, and next to Coa•
The prisoner asked her where she had been, and she
replied that she had been on her own business, He then
asked her to go to his mother'ls far PshaWl, Wlfeh saw
replied she *oilld haVe &thing to do with him or anf."
thing hehlitging to him. He then went behind the chair
Which she was sitting, and fired a pistol close to her,
left ear, and wounded her severely. She then caught,
hold of Cook, and said " Bob, save me." Cook assisted
her to the door, from whence she was taken to a neigh'
bour's house. At this time the blood was flowing frog
her mouth as from a tap. She had been confined toll°
bed up to Monday last. The ball came away from het
on the 19th, She had sneered severely from her throat.
Evidence was then given as to the purchase of the
pistols at Mr. George Booth's, pawnbroker, and of the
purchase of powder and caps at Mr. Downhenn's, during
the interval of the girl's absence from her lodgings.
The prisoner, it appears, cooly tried the pistols with the
caps ere he purchased the latter.--The prisoner's de-
fence was reserved, and he was committed for trial at
the next Liverpool assizes.