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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1859

THE DAY'S NEWS.

As we expected, England will not go into the
Congress on Italian affairs,. except upon condi-
tions, if not in favour of Italian Independence,
yet' with a-view of redressing Italian grievances.
It is now stated, with some confidence, that our
Foreign Minister has addressed to the French
Governratnt, a communication,. setting forth those
terms ; and they are described as being such as
will meet the approval of the people of England,
and the friends of Italy.

The activity now prevalent at Woolwich Ar-
senal is represented as being greater than has.
been witnessed there since the Crimean war.
The utmost energies of the several establishments
are being put forth, in the preparation and ex-
port, of materials, it is said, for two distinct pur-
poses, first for the defence of our own coasts ; and,
second, for the expedition to China.
The revolution in New Grenada is causing con-
siderable interruption, it appears, to commerce.
The ports continue closed, notwithstanding the
remonstrances of the British and United States
ministers upon the spot.
The papers continue to give very distressing
accounts of the gale of last week ; and also that
at the beginning of the present week, which was
so severely felt on the southern coast and in the
English Channel.
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Another of our steamers has been lost off the
coast—the (s.s.) Africa, which left this port, on
Saturday, for the Levant. She was not u pas-
senger ship, and, therefore, the loss of life has
not been great, being confined to the captain, two
engineers, and the stoker,—a melancholy cata-
logue enough, it must be confessed, although
bearing no comparison with what it might have
been, had there been passengers, as well as crew.
The channel fleet is represented as having been
so ably managed during=the late storm, as to
have weathered it most completely, and without
sustaining the slightest damage--forcibly indi-
cating, as is well observed by a contemporary,
" that our ships and our seamen still maintam
their ancient character."

We insert in another column a very interesting
communication addressed to us by Professor
Haughton, of Trinity College, Dublin, as to the
state of the tidal current at oelfra at the time of
the wreck of the Royal Charter. The calculations
given, as to the state of high water on the melan-
choly occasion referred to, are, no doubt, perfectly
accurate ; and they have a painful significance.
We quite agree with our learned correspondent,
that " it is of the utmost importance the attention
of shipowners should be directed to the subject of
the tides and tidal current of the Irish Sea ;" and
we are promised, it will be seen, some particulars
respectinc, the wrecks of several other vessels
with which this subject has, no doubt, had much
to do.
We had two arrivals of screw steam-ships from
America yesterday, viz., the Indian from Canada,
and the City of Washington from New York.
The intelligence by these arrivals is to the 22nd
ult., a summary of which will be found in our
latest news.
At the weekly meeting of the Mersey Docks
and Harbour Board, held yesterday, the im-
portant topic of improved means of access to the
Landing-stage was the main feature of the busi-
ness under consideration. After an interesting
debate, in
which Messrs. S. It. Graves, J. A.

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