The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Prussian Gradle) n replying to the Opinione
of Turin, declares that the latter journal is 'entirely
in error itt attributing to Prussia hostile designs
as respciets France and Italy. PrusSia; according
to- the Berlin ministerial journal; desires the
maintenance of peace more than any othei
country "; and it is in order to guarantee still
further its seearity to Europe that PrusSia adopts
those 'energetic meastires on which the attention
of Europe is now so much fixed. This way of
petting the matter is a very favourite one at the pre-
sent moment,. but whether it be a satisfactory mode
of doing so or not, but at the same time objections
to military preparations which are made upon that
ostensible ground, come with a very indifferent
grace from France, which is itself busily engaged
with 'armaments all directions. "rhe Fench
Government refuses to accept any other explana-
tion of the meaning of the warlike attitude which
has been assumed by William 1., than that which
,assigns to that monarch the intention of making
war upon Prances and it hastens to justify the
enormous military preparations which are being
so perseveringly carried out in France, in every
department of the army and navy, on the ground
that it is necessary to prepare for being attacked,
The world at large is at the same time reminded by
one of the numerous •tribe of •Semiofficial Parisian
pamphleteers that the rule in which Napoleon 111.
chiefly delights to appear iu before Europe is, as
as the champion of nationalities ; and Prussia,
Which has a vulnerable point in that respect in
the Duchy of Posen, js threatened to be struck at
by means of a rising amongst her Polish subjects,
supported by the legions of France.
The Syrian question is also another breaker
ahead, which, with Lord John Russell at the
helm of our foreign affairs, will, if cleared at all,
be cleared with very great hazard and difficulty.
The accounts which are transmitted from Turin
relative to the elections to the new Italian Parlia-
ment are satisfactory, both as regards the order
and decorum with which they are conducted, and
as to the • prospect which the result holds
out in behalf of the policy of order and
moderation which are represented by the govern-
ment of M. Cavour. Garibaldi continues to refuse
to make any sign that affords, a correct clue to his
actual intentions. In a letter, which he sent on
the 20th to the President of Venetian Emigration
Committee, declining the honour of receiving a
deputation from that body at Caprera, with an •
address, he again indulges in one of his dark say-
ings—" It is With regret," he thus concludes,
the communication to which we refer, " I must
beg the committee not to send a deputation to me
at Caprera, seeing that it is probable that I may
be absent very soon, and for an indefinite space of
time." It' is, however, now said that General
Biiio, like 'General Turr, has also given in his
adherence to the party of prudence, and that he
has likewise gone to Caprera on a similar mission
of dissuasion ; while a correspondent of the Sleek,
who writes from Turin, thus pronounces upon the
real state of the case as regards the present
views and intentions of the ex-Dictator :—" Rest
assured that Garibaldi allows himself to be.
influenced by no one, in any sense ; he goes
along with M. Cavour in arming the nation ; he
goes against M. Cavour when that statesman is
stationary. He has not resolved upon entering
on a campaign, either on the Ist of March, or on
the Ist of May, or on any other particular date ;
he awaits the propitious hour, and when it shall
arrive, nobody will be able to stop him." .
In Austria the unwonted spectacle was an-
nounced as positiveiy to take place at an early
date of an Imperial Assembly of Representatives,
who were to be elected by direct popular vote of
the inhabitants of the German and Sealvbnie Pro-

vinces of the Empire, excluding, of course, Hun-
gary ; But thin turns out to be a mistake : the
members are to be elected from the Diets.

The Czar is making military preparations on
an enormous scale, nominally for the purpose of
suppressing any attempts at insurrection in Rus-
sian Poland and the adjoining districts, but in
reality, no doubt, with the view of being ready
for any emergency which may arise in conti-
nental affairs generally in the course of the
coming spring. All these warlike arrangements
are, however, also merely of the nature of " mea-
sures of precaution," made in the interest and for
the "security of peace."
An important notification to mariners appears
in another column, intimating that the ship chan-
.nel entrance to the harbour of Charleston has
been closed by the authorities of South Carolina,
in order to prevent the ingress of vessels which
may be sent there by the Federal Government to
uphold its outraged authority in that State.
We publish in another column the result of an
interview which a deputation of shipowners con-
nected with the port of London had with Lord J.
Russell, to ascertain whether the Government
purposed taking any steps upon the report of the
committee appointed to inquire into the laws
respecting reciprocity and belligerent rights.
Having heard the special points urged by the
deputation, his lordship stated that lie could not
of course give them an immediate reply to a ques-
tion of so much importance, but he assured them
that her Majesty's Government would bestow upon
the subject their most serious consideration.
Another proof has been just given of the Queen's
increasing interest in her suffering subjects at
Coventry, which is as judicious as it is graceful.
A pattern of a ribbon, captured in the Summer
Palace at Pekin, has been transmitted from her
Majesty, of which she has not only ordered some
pieces for her own especial use, but has also
graciously waived all priority in this produce of
and has desired that it should be communicated
to the trade generally, in the benevolent hope
that it may come into general demand, and thus
give useful employment to the suffering district.
Last Sunday evening the special Sunday ser-
vices were resumed at St. Paul's Cathedral, which
was filled by an enormous mass of people whom
the alterations and fitting up of the interior of
the nave, which have just been completed, per-
mitted of being accommodated. The sermon was
preached by the Bishop of London from the new
marble pulpit.
The Court of Enquiry into the cause of the
recent explosion at the Royal Engineer establish-
ment at Chatham, arrived at the opinion that the
accident was caused by Sapper Smith, who was
I! tamping " too hard, and also, that the %north
gun-shed- was an unfit place for carrying on .the
works. It was likewise elicited that the sergeant
on duty was absent at. the time of the explosion.
All the sufferers are recovering.
The Tipperary Free Press says :—" It is re-
ported that the Earl of Donoughmore, disgusted
at the breach of faith committed by the Govern-
ment towards his regiment, has resigned the
lieutentant-colonelcy of the Tipperary Artillery.
We believe the report is premature, but the noble
earl, in his place in the House of Lords, intends,
on the first opportunity after the session shall
have opened, to make a thorough expose of the
entire transaction, which will be looked for with
great anxiety, not merely in this county, but in
England, where rcd-tapeism is not in the best
possible odour."