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

SCHOOLS OR NO SCHOOLS ?

TILE people of Liverpool are now asked the question
will they have a school for 600 children and a school-
church for 700 people, free of all encumbrance, for. the
trifling sum of £loo—that is to say,—taking school and
church together,—thirteen hundred sittings at little
more than six shillings each, as an out-and-out purchase.
These erections were nobly commenced by the Earl of
DERBY, on the 18th of August last, and all that is now
required to complete them, in addition to What was
formerly raised, is the sum we hate named. Shall we
raise that amount, or shall we allow the scheme to fail
rather than put onr hands into odr liookets td that ex-
tent? It really comes to that; for What has
been done is of no avail without the above balance.
Shall it be said that the people of Liverpool
would notor could not finish a good work so auspiciously
begun ? "We make this last appeal," says the rev.
incumbent of St. Mary's, Kirkdale, " most earnestly
and in hope. Do not disappoint us. Three hundred
subscribers of one pound each, and two hundred. Sub-
scribers of ten shillings `eaehi" aid 416 'work will be
dose.

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Dv ueplore the present alarming prevalence of
ine? Do we feel the pressure of taxation greatly
increased by the cost of watching, apprehending, trying,
and punishing the criminal population ? Would we
adopt the easiest, most, certain and most economical
means of preventing crime and reducing the expenses of
our system of criminal -administration ? Then let us
have Ragged Schools planted as thickly as we no* have
dens and nurseries of vice, profligacy, and criminality.
Then, and not till then, shall we stay the plague that
now threatens to overrun society. Ragged Schools have
already done more in that direction than any other
agency yet attempted. They only require full scope
and encouragement to multiply manifold the good
fruits they have already yielded. Let everyone who
reads these lines ask himself or herself ho-,; much he or
she can do for St. Marra ItNiged School and Church.
At present we have oly space to add that subscrip-
tions may be paid to the Ragged School account at the
Royal Bank; to Mr, Wright), the collector; to the
Rev. T. Major Lestd; 86, diaditiei-mount, Everton-
Valley. '

OREICIN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
CFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Night, Bth Oat, 1860.
You have been furnished with ample details of
the sanguinary fight nit the tide tif the 'Volturno;
bAt t have re son to believe that the loss on-both
M Mali
ak; iiten considerably underestimated. One
Weald have thought that this repulse of the Nea-
politans would have been followed by an imme-
diate retirement of their whole force to Gaeta,
leaving Capua to the victors ; but such does not
appear to have been the case.
On the morning of the 4th Garibaldi made a
reconnats' ante in person in the direction of
Capua, and he ascertained that the line of the
Volturno, which I have described elsewhere, is
capable of being well and thoroughly defended by
a strong force, was still very strongly guarded at
all points by the enemy ; and that the royal
troops, notwitstanding the severe check they
have sustained, are posted in such a manner
• as to make any effort to dislodge them a work of
great difficulty. 331 e next visited the Bridge of
Train(); *h'ere there are some mills situated just
bltt of tapnon shot, and at about five kilometres
or three miles from Capua, and discovered that
several new 'redoubts, protected by a nutnerout
artillery, have been recently raised oh this poifit,
and that it had become impossible, in bonsequence
of these defeneiare exreltrenfents, to turn the
north of the enetay's position. A• report has; been
subsequently spread, that the bombardment of
Capna tannthenced on the sth, and that the volun-
teers had carried one of the bastions, but this
report, probably, requires confirmation.
The Courrier of Genoa, of the 16th, states that
orders have been given by the Minister-at-War
for the immediate embarkation, for Naples, of the.
Royal Brigade, and that transports were to be
in readiness, on that evening, to receive troops on
board. The Naaoat, of the Same city, declares
that a commissioner is also to be sent to Sicily
immediately, to pat matters to rights there.
A letter from Bologna to the Corriere Afercaniile
bf Genoa, written during the visit of the Xing to
that city, says
Well informed persons assert that the King, after
having visited Ancona:, Will proceed to Naples to smooth
ever all the aillekilties which have arisen with Garibaldi.
liowtyer. that may be, it is certain that this journey of
Ris Majesty has a political object of the highest im-
Wcitance. It is also stated, that this step on the part
of the King has been, recommended by a very high
(altissimo) personage, as the only. means of neutralising
the republicanism established an. Naples, In fact,
by. Victor Emmanuel actually making war upon Francis
11, and taking the command in chief of the army, all
other persons must necessarily take second rank, and the
annexation being realiied in point of fact, will forth-
with be regulated and legalised by the general vote of
the inhabiants.
On the same subject the Opinione, of Turin,
says:--
This generous act Of the Monarch will accelerate
the completion of the work by the unity of command,
and will: amseerate still better the great results obtained
in Southern Italy by General Garibaldi, and by the
bands of volunteers who, would from that time form part
of the Italian army. • We are persuaded that this im-
portant act.will be hailed with joy by the whole world.
Vice-Admiral Persano set off for Naples this evening.
Undoubtedly, the Sooner the 'King and Gari-
baldi now meet, the better. It will be the better,
not only with reference to the state of matters in
Naples and the peculiarly delicate position in
which the one stands to the other—the diffi-
culties of which are not by any means lessened
by the additional triumphs which Garibaldi has
achieVed•—but because it will be the means of
reventing a useless contest between the Gari-
baldians
and the Royalists from being further
prolonged, and consequently of avoiding the
necessity for the further shedding of blood.
A letter from Naples of the 2nd says:—
Although matters are progressing so well with the
Garibaldians at Capua, there is not as yet much im-
provement to note in the state of things in Naples itself.
Although Bertani has gone to Turin with an unlimited
cove, the secretary-generalship has not been sup-
pressed ; and it is even said that it was offered to Crisps,
whose conduct in Sicily is the subjeCt of so much merited
disapproval. This would be passing from Scylla into
Charybdis. Some of the Sardinian riflemen, who have
been located in Naples for some time past, set off for
Capua this morning, and were in time to take part in
the action. Some cavalry from the Abruzzi also arrived.
This direct intervention of the Piedmontese, and the
approach of the King himself, must give the last blow
to the Mazzinists. Naples was illuminated last night
by order of the lazzaroni who entered into the houses,
and insisted upon the citizens rejoicing. There was a
great deal of singing and shouting in the streets. People
are beginning to get tired of this noise.
There are vague rumours in circulation as to its
being the intention of the French Government to
despatch a third division to Rome, in anticipation
of which the title of Commander-in-Chief of
Division has been conferred upon General de
Goyon. •
The family of General Lamoriciere is desirous
of instituting an action of defamation against the.
' authors of the despatch, true or supposed, which
charges the General with conspiracy and collusion
with the red party. There seems much reason
to doubt if the celebrated Bologna telegram
spoke the truth in this matter. 'The Govern-
ment has prohibited the proposed presentation of
a sword by some of the inhabitants of the west of
Prance to the General, and the cause of the pro-
hibition is said to be some words used by the
Prisoner of Ancona to General Fanti after the
surrender. The General is reported to have said
to his conqueror, "My army has not been van-
quished—it has been assassinated."
The more than cool character of the present
relations between the Imperial Government and
the Pontifical are strangely contrasted at this
Ibuthent by what has just taken place at the
exhibition in this city, at the school of fine arts,
where the subject chosen for competition by the
artists in bas rilievo is that of Pius IX. blessing
the Prince Imperial ! The drawing is afterwards
to be adapted to the casting of a medal.
The Theatre Italian has opened for the season
under most favourable circumstances,' which are
debutante
A. mainly due to the marked success of a fair
utante, Mad'lle Marie Battu. great artist,
t°llc(miy also, has been engaged for several
i•epresentations, which are to take place early in
November. He is to make his debut in 37
Barbiere al
along with Alboni, Mario, Zucchini; and
`Angeluslzig; and. afterwards he is to perform in
°lert'°' Luerezia -Borgia, Cenerentola, or, Il

Matrimozzio Segreto: Ertuzni is also to be
brought out, with Madame Penco, Graziani, and
Sancani, a strong tenor, who made his debut two
evenings ago in Il Trovatore.
The elder Niamezeck, the unfortunate rope-
dancer, expired on Saturday at the Beaujon
Hospital, from the injuries received by the fall
at the Hippodrome. He and his,eldest son, who
was killed on the spot; were buried to-day 3 and
the second son is also since dead,
At the opening of the liontsu; yesterday, trans-
actions Were very limited; arid dif6cUlt to effect;
hut matters improved towards the close. There
were various rumours afloat, which caused the
uneasiness and unsteadiness which the prices ma-
nifested ; but ultimately Bentes closed at the
rates of the preceding day: