The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL,

CriANDELIERS, LAMPS, &c.

w jig TOO K E ,

SUCCESSOR TO

Respectfully invites attention to the extensve STOCK of
CHANDELIE-RS,
of Glass and Metal;
LANTERNS, BRACKETS, LUSTRES,
of all descriptions,

PATENT VESTIBULE AND OTHER LAMPS,
INCLUDING THE CELEBRATED AUREOLE LAMP.
Public Buildings and Private Residences fitted for Gas.

Experienced Gasfitters employed on the Premises, and all
kinds of repairs carefully attended to in the Manufactory,
24, CHURCH-STREET.

Crepy's Foreign Refined COLZA OIL, especially adapted
for the Aureole Lamps.

A large Assortment-of.
TABLE AND" POCKET CUTLERY,

at the lowest Prices.
The Stock of

A
PAPIER MACH) GOODS
Includes a very extensive assortment of Articles selected from
the productions of the most eminent Manufacturers in the
Kingdom, ensuring the greatest durability, exquisite finish,
&c.

OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS,

LIVERPOOL.

SEWELLERY, PLATE, &c.- •
WH. TOOICE;
• •

81JCCESSOR TO'
P. L. HAIJSIIIIRG,

Having completed the selection of his Stock for the season, in
which will be found all the, greatest novelties-in 'fashion and
design, solicits an itispeotiorCtf!,the seine;" comprising an
extensive collection_of r 5.1(1j

DEoloix:4l.,,vrtAtT.NFOßß.
LoNnosi4ilb WELLEI67

of, the very:beat ality.

snya:4ll g wOOOD$
of the newest styles and designs, from the first makers.

ENGJASu!! WATCHES,
combining an the latest T proveAents, fft#,F4p.pnteed to
perform witili'th# siceitisi*•pferttp7,l.-.-
GENEVA WA'TCHtS,.

from the first manufacturers.

W. H.T. would direct attention to his former connection with the
WHOLESALE AND MANUFACTURING BRANCHES,
and likewise to the fact of his making aIL his payments for
PROMPT CASH,
by which he is enabled and determined to submit Ili& goods at

SUCH MODER4TE PRICES
that no other house'cau offer such advantageous-terms—

OLD 130§TOFFICELBtILDINGS,

LIvREPOOL.

As we expected, public attention has been directed in
a very marked manner to the circumstance that both our
own Government and that of the Emperor ef the
French were indebted to the Ausstaii aathoritles fdr the
news of the 'Coneltision of the War With China, greatly
in advance of the ordinary mail ; and on inquiry it has
been ascertained that the telegraphic lines of Russia
have been quietly advancing into Asia to a most mar-
vellous extent, and that they are progressing with an
extraordinary rapidity. Siberia will soon be traversed
by them.; and it is said that the Russian Government
propose to connect Siberia with America by means of a
submarine line along the Aleutian islands: This is b'
no Means an impossible undertaking i and a despotic
GoVernitent has means at its disposal to execute its
designs without loss of time, which a Parliamentary
Government cannot hope to imitate. It is not altogether
impossible, therefore, that our American, as well as our
China news, may come to us through Russian channels.
And again we say we are rejoiced to think so, especially
if that knowledge shall act as a spur upon us to take
advantage of the molt wonderful application of the
greatest known power of natare to unite ourselves with
our,offshoots in the distant East, and retain in our own
hands, and under our own eye, the means Of torumani-
eating with then". There hat hitherto been sad bungling
in regard to most of our great undertakings in this
department:
The circular by Baron Von Schmerling, the new Aus-
trian Minister of State, addressed to the Governors of
the different provinces of the Empire, explanatory of
the leading principles by which his policy is to be guided,
Was published yesterday in the official Vienna Gazette.
A summary of the contents of this most important docu-
ment, which it is hardly an etageration to say, is big
with the fate of the Austrian monarchb will be found
in our telegraphic columns. there is tO be perfect
rreedoni or religious Worship, and the political and
civil rights of Austrian subjects are to be forever secured
against any encroachments, all the different religious
bodies being established upon an equitable footing, and
on a system whose foundation is charity. This is in-
deed a revolution. Public instruction is to be promoted
by every possible means, and all restrictions are to be
removed from the public press. Efforts will be redoubled
to further the development of the interests of agt-10;1Communes—a trade,: The Communes are here-
after to enjoy an independent existence ; and so is the
judicial department of the State. The connection between
the latter and the executive is to be severed; and the
whole of the proceedings in the law courts are to be allowed
to be published ; various salutary reforms are likewise
to be effected in the present mode of procedure. In short,
the reorganisation of every department of the state is
to be most complete, and the Government of the Empire
and the rights and liberties of the people are to be
placed on a thoroughly constitutional basis. In sanc-
tioning this programme of his new minister, the
Emperor Joseph has shown himself in the Most unmis-
takeable manner to be at last aroused to the gravity of
his position, and to the necessity—if he desires to pre-
serve for his empire its present limits—of anticipating
those concessions, which he would offer in vain, after
the struggle between himself and his people, which has
been so long imminent, had actually commenced. He
will also find that, while he has disarmed his foes, he
has likewise secured a far firmer hold on the sympathy
and support of .those Powers which weredisposed to be
friendly towards himself and his dynasty. We wonder
what will be the feelings with Which snob sweeping
changes will be regarded by Napoleon. The Aus-
trian envoy may now confidently calculate on the recep-
tion at the Tuileries, on the Ist of jahliiry next, passing
off without any unpleasantness, so far as he and the
government which he represents are Concerned.
We learn from authentic advices received by telegram
that the bombardment of Gaeta,which had been renewed
by the Sardinian army, has been so effective as to drive
the King and all his staff from the Palace, and to force
them to seek refuge in a remote corner of the fortress.
In Naples a great conspiracy has been discovered, it
is said, among the superior clergy. They have been in
active correspondence with the ex-King at Gaeta ; and
it is probably owing to their counsel, as much as the
unwarrantable interference of Louis Napoleon, that
Francis 11. has not long since surrendered that fortress.
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A letter from Moscow, in the Nord, states that the
Grand Duke Constantine, as Admiral-in-Chief of the
Russian fleet, has introduced a series of ameliorations in
the maritime schools of the empire. The Prince had
previously effected radical reforms in the organisation of
the department of naval stores, and he intends, it is
said, to continue his reforming mission with indefatigable
perseverance. As regards the naval schools, the Grand
Duke has, among other things, decided that boys of all
classes of society may enter them ; hitherto they, like
the military schools, were reserved to the sons of nobles.
On leaving these establishments pupils attain the grade
of officers.

Prussia appears bent on making a first-class fortress
of Treves, to be garrisoned, not like Mayente or
Coblentz, or Radstadt, by a mixed force of Federal
and Prussian troops, but exclusively by the latter. The
passport question is beginning to occupy the deni-
zens of the Rhenish provinces; and the other day, in
the Belgian Parliament, Mousier Coomans interro-
gated the Ministerial Bench as to what steps had been
taken towards the admission of Belgians ad eundum in
the matter of British freedom of entry here, The
Premier, M. Pogier, stated, in reply, that as far as that
Government was concerned, every facility of intercourse
would be given, and for the present a cheap ticket)
easily procurable, would be substituted for the old duce.=
ment, but that it was most desirable that the abolition
should be entire throughout the Oontintht. Americans
will, of course, avail themselves a the privilege which
the mother tongue can now be a test of claim ic, ; and
the ear of the seaport authorities must'-
than at present if they pretend • oecome more nice
to detect by the accent
The Pope deli,- - Queen Victoria.
who is and who is not A
subject of
tory of 0-
_,ere d another allocution to the Consis-
pr'
.....rdinals held en the 17th, but the speech has
yet yet reeched us in extenso. The brief reference to
it in the programme does not afford any satisfactory
materials for comment in the meanwhile.

The traffic returns of railways in the United King-
dom, for the week ending Dec. 15th, amounted to
£502,160, and for the corresponding period of last year
to £463,860, showing an increase of £38,300. The
gross receipts of the eight railways having their termini
in the metropolis amounted, for the week ending as
above, to £209,255 ; and for the corresponding week
of last year to £199,417, showing an increase of
£9,838. The increase on the Eastern Counties
Railway amounted to £1,092 ; on the Great West.-
ern to £2,431 ; on the London and North Western
to £4,357 ; on the London and Blackwall, to £l2B ; on
the London, Brighton, and South Coast, to £1,712; on
the London and South Western, to £2,550; and on the
South Eastern, to £635 ; total, £12,902. But from this
must be deducted £3,067, the decrease on the Great
lc/prthern, leaving the increase as above, £9,838. The
receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom
amounted to £292,905, and for the corresponding period
of 1859 to £264,443, showing an increase of £28,463 in

the receipts of these lines; which, added to the increase
on the metropolitan lines, makes the total increase of
£38,300, as compared with the corresponding period of
1859.

During the sharp snow squalls of Friday, the wind
blowing fresh from the north, a shocking shipwreck
took place on the Goodwin Sands. A Deal lugger
which came in reported that, about noon on Friday,
they were cruising near the .North Sand Head, when
they observed a brigantine with painted ports (appa,
retitly laden) go upon the Goodwin: The snow was
falling heaVily at the time, and almost immediately after
the ill-fated vessel struck she disappeared; and there IS
little doubt that the *hole of the unfortunate ore*
perished: The state of the Weather pre%euted any
assistance being rendered them, even if the destruction
of the ship had not been so rapid.
Mr. Reuter, it is rumoured, has been busy in making
arrangements for supplying the debates in both Houses
of Parliament to all the daily London journals at a hied
period. This eharigte would iekrohitiotiiie the present
One corps will in fritiire pe‘rforin the work of
six, and by the'stereotype proCess, one copy is all that
need be made. It is intended, we are told, to carry the
tetegraPh wires into each office, so that the last hour's
debate inaY be composed at Cike, aiid It IS Pro:
seeding. It IS ObViAs; in-
conveniences Will Ve fsluiia to attend Mr. Reuter's
iti6ject, without any great counter-balancing advantage.
It is well known that none of the debates are given
verbatim, even by the Times, and that much is left
to the discretion of the reporter whether a speech
shall be taken down in full or not: There are; of
course; a few Men in the itdttse dilydse tpeeehes arb as
folly reported as possible, and literally, when on any
important subject. It is also well known that certain
journals, in a certain class of debates, report more fully
those debates than others. We have, therefore, the
advantage of having a special version of the speeches.
Moreover, as no one is infallible, should the reporting
be left to one staff, an error, if made, will pervade all
the papers, arid not the most perfeet shorthand-Writer
can avoid, OaeasiOriall, iiiisinuterstaiiding a phrase or
Missing an iniportant *ord. The *latter is a Very
iniportarit one, both as regards the dEtily johrnala and
the Publit, but we should be inclined to think that great
vue uarrying o-tu el
the scheme,