Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

E LATEST TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. epees, M on d ay, April 11.—The Pays of this g states that, if the information it has received be correct, the difficulties which obstructed the a ssembling o f th e C ongress are definitively removed. The Powers are said to have agreed upon dthe conditions under which they will disarm simul he°llslY, and thereup on A us t r i a h a d g i ven i n h er "`"lesion fe to the C ongress , w hi c h wou ld meet in a w d ays. The Pa ys - publishes this news under rese rva ti on , bat believe s it correct. THE FRENCH FUNDS. P ARIS, Monday, April 11.-11.50: Rentes com '4Reed at a further decline of per cent., and are "r 66.70 . 12.44 p.m : 11 Rentes have risen sper cent., in con eecillenee of a rumour that the Congress will take Pl i a ce. h 1.20 P.m. : Th e greatest excitement prevails e e- Rentes o p ene d 6 7 .25, an d rose immediately t o 67.40. d 34 p.m.: Th e Bourse closes at 67.45 for money, 411 67.25 for account, being an advance of I- per teat' since Saturday evening. • PORTUGAL. has arr i ved at The Alhambra, with Lisbon mails of April 7th, tion b etween Southampton. The Postal Con ven - En,gland and Portugal has been agre e d t 2: Th e bad weather has damaged the crops Disease is prevalent in Lisbon POR, SIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. p. 1) ,, e 4? `. I s , Sunday, 6 p.m.—The Moniteur, you will und er contains contains two things to-day of importance o rd , r . actual circumstances. One. is, the decree of th',,14,4,,the apportionment among the departments l of ifio-)0,000 conscripts for this year of the_ . c ass U rn s 7. It is remarked that, while in ordinary 4 1): 1 ; ; ° 3 0 ° 0 , and sometimes even 40,000 only are ti0,,, 1 ; toned, on the present occasion the whole con art.T.,',,Tl,t is called out. The other document is the , °ll Germany, It is the work of the same of I 4 vo o gl, before. It is judged variously, but not the By some it is regarded as an admission it Air Af ' l .,,L B tenee of a strong feeling in Germany of ;,-" zrance, notwithstanding the assurance think ' 8 having calmed down ; and others leri o ' t hat it indicates the persistence in a it 84118 I quarrel with A us t r i a , w hil e a f ew l oo k upon dents so quarrel like a menac e t o th e German govern pa . It was stated a few day s ago i n some of the in„ th at the question of the abolition of the slid tl? scale had been discussed in the Council of State ; wo4„ti,lac discussion was closed, and that the report e o s`t, shortly be published. This is not strictly but there There was no discussion, properly called, ti n " an enquiry before that body. Persons of great . kpl e rience in all that relates to agriculture, agri „'lrists, and proprietors were called before the pr s :„." 11 , and asked to give their views on the pro- Th;lpor continuinc , or abolishing the sliding scale.. lacts that were elicited, and the opinions APre for d ss ed, haNe been collected and arranged ; they lif‘ a r i° less than three volumes, and will be pub- Of ti; Wi thout delay. I may add that one member 44C f e Council of State, one of the most consistent to p`el.vent partisans of Prohibition, was converted Ili a 7e Trade doctrines in the course of the inquiry. vlav d l, lla ,gmant was enlightened, his prejudices gave to *,,,,,,"-e'.ore i. the evidence of men perfectly competent °f the evils resulting from the present 1 ; 11 :1;1' and- the undeniable advantages of a more L il tor a-°4 e. We may expect that the mass of P r oduce " ° rl, which is said to be very valuable, will merelysimilar effect, not on those who con su lt ', 4 .loi;t;'°ir individual interests, b u t on th e vas t °' ,Pf . the nation, who have been so long the this monopoly. AUSTRIA. April B.—ln a few days it will probably utell-rjalnful duty to inform you that Austria . has ached war against Sardinia, information tha i t av t in h g e 111Perole of an authentic character that 11 , ot t b rancis Joseph has expressed resolve trail °): Spielball (" football "is the most correct r each s--& " of the word) of the Emperor of the toc r ,. Great complaints are made of the want of Prow a 'tu of the French Government, which solemnly . Ailst,,l.d that it would make Sardinia disarm if Noero`la accepted those four propositions w stea,Olentioned in one of my recent letters. In tile 11,• " ke ePing that promise—which was made Paris .4. ti sh and Prussian Governments—the d 13 abse r1 „;" advised Count Cavour not to disarm, s an r. tliiiialktlently proposed that both Austria and a Die pro withdraw their forces from the frontiers.. fowe°Position was made by one of the mediating • dine .8 to Austria, who rejected it, but at the same ,cincj PPreSSed her readiness to disarm, if France .. 4 :,( l \v - , ara ilita would do so likewise. The mediating , e 4 ,: ""It was probably England—communicated Ithe hOer ?wade by Austria to the Emperor Napoleon, tossr'Odireetly rejected it, inasmuch as he ordered lainents to be continued with the greatest ~.vrea4e,..clespatch. Such conduct on the part of the 446' atenarch naturally confirms the Austrians in t B b ilB Picien that he is resolved on going to war,. Nutt' the are, therefore, now considering whether it ~g e -ett, o „ "t be better to take the initiative, and en ole p„' t to put the Sardinian hors de combat before b high t `e is nch are fully prepared to take the field. The '11 ) „"efore last a Council of War, at which the rr Presided, was held, and it was not at an end °w ards four in the morning, although it . had ithat et 1 , 13 ° after ten in the evening. It is not unlikely ' 4l til e ee question relative to the advisability of s Itto ot lately declaring war against Sardinia was deroriQci theat no positive intelligence has yet reached -bsubject. Several measures of importance nb -stIN-e) -ow e ver resolved on, and two or three of them ae,,oe°Me to my knowledge. The second corps l e ‘ e4 ve - o e ,' nich forms the garrison of this city, will -ail °? ./ 3 8 ' t ab' in three or four days ; and the Silesia, tiarni6e, which is now in Moravia and s vi e ,:k.ce its place. At this moment the Emperor i is L arg e -14 R the first-mentioned corps on the Schme z, Vi enna space outside the lines on the road from ll 1, 1) e W a rt , t.(,) Schonbrunn. A powerful army-corps will 4 0 iv oc r i e u. in the Temescher Banat and Servia . n ~4 b an , n a , as it is foreseen that there will be dis (triii Italy in Eur o p ean Turkey if there should be a i ttt ill Vor. No time w ill be lost in forming a 4',ltarlbe rg , w hi ch would be exposed to the 44 14: :r the French should they violate the neu- Patiy*ol%!vvitzerland. The first, or grenadier com bats'a i n `','„e, regiments of the line which are in Italy ali-c,Luis city are to be formed into separate s re gha e - , 1 4 . s ?f four companies each, and each of the f7,' S 18 to have a new company instead of that Lerik,n;?lll it. Each of the cavalry regiments be .; aboa the Italian army and to the corps which n. quit Vienna is to have a reserve squa bl.4.lBed, '''''znalleNV battalions of border troops are being -V° the majors who are to command thenl kati o , a AreadY been nominated. The foregoing infor ta, -, eserv es implicit confidence, but guarantee I 4t is the correctness of the following on dits : In•oces6id that, after the Kirchen-gang," (solemn b Non to church), which took place yesterday, /1-I P-r e e s tile anniversary of the death .of the (21 the Ludovica (of . Este), the third wife late 111 P e rOr Emperor Francis I. of Austria, the -11 Peri rancis Joseph observed to some of his . trat,qa.i_c_erse„ that war was inevitable.._ It is thflr, she p. twin. the above-mentioned Council of at i; 4 . a IrlPeror gave the generals to understand Arivat ItCould if necessary, be left almost Tt would appear that a ,ice has, through the medium • recently been carried on between Austrian monarchs. In fact, it 7 cert.ll, that the RIF.Aan diplomatist not long ago sent to this Court is the confidential `,g'ent - to the Emperor Alexander as well as the representative of the Russian Government: It is rumoured that an Austrian memorial is about to appear, in which the various efforts that have re cently been made by this Government to bring about a pacific solution of the Italian question will be enumerated. It is sincerely to be hoped that the report is correct, for the cause of Austria is -so good that she must necessarily be a gainer by an appeal to public opinion. Count Buol still has a faint hope that war may be avoided, but the Emperor is of opinion that any more time spent in negotiation will be time lost. The Augsburg Gazette learns from Strasburg that about 3,000 horses have recently been sent as a YAnforeement for the three regiments of artillery which are stationed in Alsatia, and the correspond ent also states that some troops of the line which served as cannoneers during the war in the Crimea are now to be regularly employed as artillerymen. 150,000 muskets and some hundred cannon have been sent from Strasburg by the Eastern Railroad, and it is understood that the latter are to be rifled in Vincennes. Orders have been given to cast 500 guns •at Strasburg. Troops are continually sent to Weissenburg and Hagenau on the Bavarian frontier, and the garrison of New Breisach is to be reinforced. It may be observed that several batteries and very many horses have recently made their appearance on the so-called "Weissenberg line of operation." In a few days a part of the garrison of Strasburg is to join the army at Lyons, which now consists of more than 80,000 men. In Italy, and in the south and south-east of France, people laugh at the diplo matists for believing that the Italian complication can be settled by a Congress. In Moldavia, Walla chia, Servia, Montenegro, and Greece people are waiting with extreme impatience for the outbreak of war in Italy, as they know that it is good fishing in troubled waters. Turkish troops are being col lected in Albania, as it is believed that Prince Daniel of Montenegro is plotting mischief. ITALY. TURIN, April B.—On finding that neither his promptly-despatched circular nor his quickly suc ceeding visit to Paris was likely to obtain him a place in the coming Congress on the same footing as the representatives of the great Powers, the Sardinian Premier seems to have become disinclined to attend in any way at the important conferences respecting the Italian question, and it is now generally believed that there is no probability of his being present there. It appears to be unhappily true that a most in flammatory order of the day has been published by General Giulay to the Austrian troops under his command. It was issued on the 6th, after a review of two Hungarian regiments and a battalion of Croats passed by that General. The following is the text of this order of the day, which is vehement in the extreme, and smells of gunpowder to the utter extinction of pacific hopes : " Soldiers : His Majesty the Emperor has called you to join the standard, in order, for the third time, to hnmble the presumption of Piedmont, and to cleanse the haunt of fanatics and subverters of the general peace of Europe. Soldiers of every rank ! march against an enemy whom you have ever put to flight. Remember only Volta, Somma-Campagna, Curtatoni, Montanara, Rivoti Santa Lucia, and a year later, la Cava, Vigevano, Mortara, and, finally, Novara, when you dispersed and annihilated him. It is useless to recommend discipline and courage to you, since, as regards the former, you are without your rival in Europe , and as to the latter you are second to none. Let your cry be, "The Emperor and our rights for ever !" It is to be feared that Austria seeks war rather than a pacific solution, since no commander in chief would thus inflame the minds of his soldiers unless ordered to do so by his government. As the Emperor Napoleon is also eagar for a warlike solution, and Victor Emmanuel rather outstrips him in this respect, few hopes of the preservation of peace can be entertained. Austria has made a gigantic effort, which she could not renew later. Her troops are in prime order, and warlike, and the prospect of being assisted by Germany renders her most desi rous to humble, if possible, the overweaning pre sumptions of France. The force of Austria in Lombardy amounts, I believe, to 150,000 men, of which 30,000 would - be required to keep down the population and to garrison the fortress. The 9th corps darmee, 20,000 strong, is moreover on its way. Volunteers continue to pour into Sardinia, and it is a pity they are not sound soldiers, for of such are we in want. Seventy Lombards arrived yesterday, led by the cure of Ostiglia, near Mantua. The clerical fire-eater is named the Abbe Gusmeroli. The depot of the volunteer corps, which rejoices in the name of the "riflemen of the Alps," has taken up its quarters at Fossana, in a building calculated to hold a thousand men. The volunteer corps at Cuneo have reeeived its uniform and arms, and the corps at Savigliano is in daily expectation of being properly fitted out. The men complain of the severity of the drill, on which they had not cal culated ; they will fight, but they object to the dis cipline to which they are submitted.. It has been decided that in the free corps, which Garibaldi is to command, no Piedmontese shall be admitted; it will be almost exclusively composed of Genoese and in habitants of the Ligurian coast. A number of Genoese, who had joined the corps at Savigliano, have been despatched back to their native city, in order to form a nucleus for the free corps. General Giustiniani, one of the veterans of the army, and an able officer, was buried yesterday with considerable pomp. Four major generals held the pall, and a great number of officers followed the hearse. The military element of the Royal household also figured in the mournful procession. A pamphlet has just appeared here, and is already in its second edition, written by a Liberal member of the Chamber, named Boggio. Its title is " Within a Month." The anther argues that the status quo cannot be maintained beyond the present month—that war or bankruptcy must be expected. It gives the choice between war or political reaction, which would be at once followed by a revolution, and pronounces himself for war, even single-handed. This pamphlet, which exactly represents the ideas passing in the public mind, has attracted much attention, and com pletely meets the views of the war party. The Opinione, Count Cavour's organ, expresses the follow ing opinion on the said pamphlet :—" Deputy Boggio has no faith in the Congress. All Italy is of his opinion on this point. But what signifies within a month ?' Why, that within four weeks we shall be engaged in war. Certainly, if the Congress does not solve the question, war alone can trench it." The Bank of Savoy has hitherto enjoyed the privi lege of issuing bank notes of the small value of 50f. Yesterday the Minister of Finance presented to the Senate a bill, voted by the Chamber, which proposes the issue of notes of 20f., or 16s. of your currency. This is an approach to the Austrian financial system, and in fact, thanks to the administration of the last ten years, the two rival governments are in about the same pecuniary position, I acquainted you with a circular, issued by that eminent character, the major domo of the Duchess of Parma, having for object to prevent persons in the employment of the Court, from rushing over the frontier, and volunteering in the Sardinian service. This officious gentleman, who drew up the document on his own authority, has been dismissed, and re placed by Count d'Asta, who is reported to be of Liberal opinions. INDIA AND CHINA. The despatches received by the - Daily News are from Calcutta to March 9th. HONG KONG, Feb. 27.—The Government at Calcutta has increased the import and export duties. The Calcutta import markets continue depressed. The fives 12 per cent., and the fours 23 per cent. discount. Exchange 2s IZd. Freights were dull. At Hong Kong business was dull. Exchange 48 7d. The advices from Shanghai are to Feb. 19. The Import Market was quiet. Silk had advanced 10 taels to 15 taels for Tsaklees, and 5 taels for Taysaams. Exchange, 6s 2d for bank bills. The supplies of tea very short, and prices higher at all the ports. There was a decrease in exports to Great Britain of 4,528,000 pounds. There was no political news of interest from China. Lord Elgin did not accompany the late expedition up the Canton river, but started by the Furious to Hainan. THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 12,_.,1859 'AMERICAN -AFFAIRS: FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. POLITICAL NEWS : DISHEARTENED CONDITION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY. EXTRAORDINARY MANIFESTATION OF FEELING AT SAVANNAH IN FAVOUR OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. RAILROAD CON VENTIONS ; THEIR CHARACTER AND OBJECTS ; QUARRELS AMONG THE COMPANIES BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC. A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR TO THE NEW YORK HERALD OFFICE ; HIS APPRE CIATION OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM. THE NEA POLITAN EXILES; GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT AT THEIR NON-ARRIVAL AT NEW YORK. SPIRITUAL ISM ; EXPOSURES OF ITS IMMORALITIES ; FREE LOVE AND FREE THINKING. CRIME IN NEW YORK ; MORE MURDERS. There is no political news of any particular moment. The determination to dispense with an extra-session only gives satisfaction to those whose party interests would have suffered by such a session. The Pre- sidential party are still, however, in something very like despair ; and in the last issue of the New York Times is the following statement in evidence of this : Mr. Buchanan's Administration has done what everybody, until within the last few months, deemed absolutely impossible. It has incited a large number of its friends to look to General Pierce as a Presi dential candidate. Up to Mr. Buchanan's time General Pierce's Administration was considered the weakest and the worst the country had ever known. Since then it has been so far surpassed that people actually look back upon it with envious admiration." Now I am not supposing that this is literally true. But when such things can be said by a respectable and influential journal, it shows that there is some thing "rotten in the State,"—and that, as drowning men will catch at straws, so a falling party will have recourse to any expedient. The Northern newspapers relate, on the authority of a letter from the spot, an occurrence at Savannah which affords another striking illustration of the desperately demoralised state of public feeling on the subject of the slave-trade. You no doubt remember' the case of the Yacht Wanderer, condemned as a slaver, as having been caught in the very act. This Yacht was sold the other day, at public auction, by order of the United States' Court. Its owner's name, when captured with slaves on board, was Lamar ; and it appears that when the auctioneer commenced the sale, Mr. Lamar stood forth and, addressing the company, said—" Gentlemen, this vessel belongs to me in every sense of the word. She has been taken from me by the high hand of the law. The United States claim her, but I say she is mine ; and I shall not expect any one to bid against me. And I bid one dollar for her." Mr. Van Horn bid against him, and the price was run up to %4,000, at which the vessel was knocked clown to Mr. Lamar. The successful bidder then turned to Mr. Van Horn and, with words too profane and indecent to be repeated, knocked him down. The fallen man rose to defend himself, but the sympathy of the company was so manifestly with the assailant, and the indications of violence and bloodshed so plain, that his friends took him away, some of Lamar's backers calling out, " Charley, kill him !" which the writer of the letter does not doubt would have been done, had any resistance been made. This display of brutal feeling is certainly quite in character with slavery; and it is only another instance of the debasing influence which the system produces on the public mind. Bc;ilroaci Conventions hive been very plentiful lately,—that is, meetings of deputies from various Railroad Companies, for making arrangements to promote their general interests. "Most frequently," I see it stated, " the conventions are for the purpose of reconciling the differences between the great roads that are in direct competition for the carrying trade between the lakes and the seaboard, and to fix the rates of freight and of passenger fares, the hours of starting, the rate of speed, th e employment of agents, the discontinuance of free passes, &c. Some times it is found impossible to reconcile opposing interests in all these respects, and the convention breaks up without effecting anything. When an understanding is had, however, it is never more than a mere temporary cessation of hostilities; and the truce is sure to be violated within a week or two of the day when it is solemnly entered into. Then the various roads underbid and try to ruin each other till the suicidal policy of that game becomes felt, and till it becomes imperatively necessary to patch up another truce. Another convention is called for that purpose, and new arrangements are made, only to be violated as soon as the high contracting powers return to their head-quarters." It would not seem, therefore, to be of much use holding such conven tions, to the Railroads themselves—whatever it may be to the public. But sometimes it does turn out to be of public advantage, temporarily at least : for their quarrels, which are more apt to arise in Conven tion than out of it, do not unfrequently produce a system of competition, through rivalry, which often tells very considerably in favour of the public. The New York Herald has been publishing an account of a visit to its establishment of a distin guished Russian traveller. Dr. Hammel, of whom it remarks that he "is well known in this country as one of the most distinguished men in Europe, and his intimacy with the family of the reigning Emperor, and his father before him—having been the associate of one and the preceptor of the other— proves that his merit as a man is equal to his talents as a scholar." The Herald people state —" He had heard of the astonishing celerity with which news was issued from our office, and could hardly realize it in his own mind. He wanted to see an extra Herald got out himself, and he begged to be sent for on the arrival of the next foreign' news. His request was complied with, and on the receipt of the news from the telegraph office he was taken into our composing room to witness the despatch with which business was transacted. Here everything seemed l i incomprehensible to the doctor, as he surveyed, the rapid movements and business air of the men with whom he was surrounded. He watched the copy as it reached the composing room; he saw it was. unprepared, and he looked about for an editor, but he saw none. His surprise increased as he saw the compositors taking the copy away to their cases without asking any questions ; and as each returned with the matter in type, and placed it properly in the form, his admiration and amazement were unbounded. During the time this was going on the Doctor was silent, and it was not until the forms were lowered to the press-room that he gave vent to his feelings. His first exclamation was, ' My God ! I see it all. Here every man is au editor every man a master—every man a scholar.' It seemed as if a new light had burst in upon the Doetor, and that he at once comprehended the reason of the progress of America in all her industrial pursuits. I see it all,' said the Doctor, with emphasii, ' and on my return to Russia I will. inform my Emperor of what I have seen. It is the intelligence of the people—the diffusion of know ledge,' " They further state, that the Russian notability,—who, it appears, has come across the Atlantic on a voyage of political and social dis covery,—told them that on his return home he would endeavour to introduce the American newspaper system at St. Petersburgh ; and one may well imagine how the shrewd and polite in vestigator would laugh in his sleeve at the gaping gullibility of his editorial audience. The following winding-up of the account is too rich a bit of conceit not to be given you : it cannot fail to tickle John Bull into an outburst of uproarious laughter,—" The Doctor appears to have become fully convinced, by what he saw while in this country, of the superiority of the free system of intellectual mechanical labour over all industrial systems of the old world ; and no doubt the opinions formed in this country by the learned Doctor have had great weight with the Russian Government in the consideration of the subject of the abolition of serfdom." So that it is Brother Jonathan who, after all, is becoming the regenerator of the world ! There has been great, I had almost said grievous disappointment, to find that the Neapolitan exiles are not, after all, coming to this country, but that you have got possession of them, and have thereby intercepted us of an occasion of a grand display in the cause of liberty. Independently, however, of the oration to the exiles, it was intended to take advan tage of their arrival to mulct, and otherwise mark with reprobation, their tyrant persecutor, the King of Naples. " By, the law of the State (of New York)"—such has been the published statement, in anticipation of their arrival—" the Commissioners of Emigration have the power to compel the owners of-passenger- skips -to -give-bonds - for - the 'support of such emigrants- as are unable to make a living for themselves. Now, it is very evi dent that the. Italian exiles , cannot earn a living, and the ships will be seized as security for their sustenance for five years. But the Spanish owners will have their remedy against the Neapo tan government, and compel it to pay damages ; and Ferdinand will find that, instead of the forty dollars per head with which he expected to come off, he will have to pay a pretty round sum. In the case of the Des Jenneys the Sardinian Consul had to deposit $5,000, and a compromise was finally accepted. But in this case there will be no com promise. The law must take its course to the end." This proceeding, however, the assurance was at the same time given, was not to be " adopted to annoy the exiles, who are men of character and position, and who will be warmly received by our citizens, but to mulct the King of Naples, and to mark our detestation of his meanness and his tyranny in send ing out here, as if they were paupers or criminals, men of education and refinement, and unstained by crime, without any means of support, or immediate prospect of a livelihood." But all this is now at end. Your free country has been preferred to ours,—very naturally, all things considered; 'and it must rejoice' every freeman's heart to find them meeting with so much English sympathy and kindness. The revelations of the great convert from the de moniacal delusions of " Spiritualism," Dr. Hatch, which I have noticed in a former communication, are creating a very deep and painful interest in really respectable circles. He discloses some most startling proceedings; the common results of the abominable system. " Profane and. intemperate men," he declares, "libertines, adul terers and adulteresses, are openly upheld and encouraged by the spiritual societies all over the country and their public teachers in their sacrilegious worship. Women, thirty or forty years of age, with children growing up around them, and who have abandoned their husbands, of whom they were not worthy, and are living in adultery with their paramours, produce abortion and arise from their guilty couch and stand before large audiences as the mediums for angels. It is fully acknowledged in their public journals that moral character is no test of qualification for a public teacher. Private circles form no small share of this evil and delusion." And then he describes the process through which this is all brought about,—which is one too indecent to pollute your columns with. Yet, strange to say, even among sonie of the religious sects, this demoral ising system has found favour ! Out of it, not unnaturally, arose that particular social libertinism ycleped " free love ;" and this, it has been remarked, invariably found easiest access among free thinkers. The state of New York is appalling, as respects crime. There have been at least a score of murders during the last month. The last number of the Herald before me says, - " Our record of crime to day is truly appalling. Scarcely is the excitement attending one murder allayed, ere a fresh tragedy equally horrible takes place. Since Wednesday last there has been .nothino• t' but poisoning, shooting, and stabbing, and already four unfortunate victims have been sent to their last account through the instru mentality of the assassin." . The fact is, that not only does new York abound with desperadoes, but there is nothing to check them. The peopl e won't let the law be made a terror to evil doers—even mur derers. SPECIAL MISSION OF THE SARDINIAN AMBASSADOR TO LONDON. The Daily News has received the following tele gram from Turin : " TURIN, Sunday, 4.20 a.m.—Cavaliere Massimo D'Azeglio is to be sent to London on a special mis sion. He leaves Turin in a couple of days.' GREAT APPREHENSIONS OF WAR. The Times says the preservation of the peace of Europe appears, to the closest observer, to become from day to day more desperate, and all probability favours the belief that the struggle is even now upon the eve of its commencement. The Advertiser publishes a despatch from Berlin, which states it is assorted in competent military circles, that by the Ist June, Louis Napoleon will have 600,000 men ready to march, of which 150,000 are to be used in Italy; the remainder for other eventualities. The tone of the Berlin press is expressive of apprehensions of a general European War. The Paris correspondent of the Herald says that war is now considered inevitable, and it is expected within a fort night at latest hostilities will have begun. The Post, iu a Paris despatch of Sunday night, states that Sir James Rudson, British ambassador at Turin, had just left Paris for London. The Post has a despatch announcing that the Austrian troops continued to advance towards Piedmont, and were taking up formidable positions. The 7th Army Corps has transferred its head-quarters from Verona to Bergamo. The 3rd corps which, had arrived only a few days from Vienna and established its head-quarters at Breccia, has changed them from there to Lodi. The sth corps still has its head quarters at Milan, bat has commenced its march towards the banks of Lago Maggiore. The Bth corps, which was at Padua, is to be replaced by the 9th corps, now expected from Olmutz. The City Article in the Times conjectures, from the movements that were taking place, that something has transpired to reveal, a few days before the time, the pians of the Emperor Napoleon. THE NEW BARONETS.—CoIoneI George Stucley is to be one of the new baronets. The death of M. de Tonqueville, the great philosophical historian, is announced. The Conference of Paris remains yet disagreed on the subject of the Principalities._ THE PRINCIPALITIES.—The Daily News announces that there has been a change of Ministry at Bucharest. The Times announces that Sir J. Rawlinson, K.C.8., will succeed the Hon. Charles Murray as minister at the Court of Teheran. The Herald's correspondent says that attention to business has affected the health of the Emperor of the French, and he has left Paris for a few days' shooting. The Daily News repeats, after a weekly paper, the report that two Lords of the Admiralty, Captain Carnegie and Admiral Dandas, have abandoned their posts. DRPARTIIRE OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR FROM PARIS. —The Times announced that Lord Cowley was expected to arrive in London either yesterday (Monday) or to-day (Tuesday). DEATH ?nom ALLEGED HYDROPHOBIA.-An inquest was held at Wolverhampton, on Friday afternoon, before Mr. Coroner Phillips, on the body of Thomas Price, a labourer, at the Swan Garden Works in that town, who had died a few days previously in terrible agonies. During the paroxysms, he charged his wife with administering poison to him ; and this, notwithstanding the marked character of the symptoms exhibited by the unfortunate man, was considered to render an inquest necessary. The post mortem examina tion, however, fully cleared the poor woman of participation in her husband's death. Price was a great dog fancier, and had, it is thought, been inoculated with the fatal virus by some one of his canine pets ; but neither he nor any of his friends seemed to have any recollection of his having been bit, or any of his dogs having become rabid. The ju found that the deceased had died from hydrophobia. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday an inquest was held before John Tuttock, Esq., in the board-room of the General Railway Station, at Chester. on view of the body of James Haynes, who met his death under the following circumstances. From the evidence adduced it appeared that deceased was foreman of the smiths' shop, at the General Railway Station. On Wednesday last the daughter of Mr. L. Jones, the manager at theistation, was married. The event was celebrated with much rejoicing by the employes at the railway station. The deceased contributed his part by firing fog signals, and powder obtained there from, by means of an anvil ; not satisfied with this, he got an old cannon out of Mr. Jones's garden, which he loaded and rammed down, and fired off several times ; he however was not satisfied with the report, and though cautioned by Mr. Mills, the station master, not to overload the gun, he continued to ram in as much pow der as it would hold, and at length got a wooden plug, saying he would now have as loud a report as from the anvil. The bystanders, now fearful of the result, drew off to some distance, and the deceased, having m ad e a p iece of iron three-eighths ' of an inch in thickness, and four feet long, red hot at one end, lay down on his face about a yard from the gun, and fired the char,P. The thc face cannon burst, the , and car butt end struck him on the rigid away the entire bt , ad, the -- being scat tered amongst the fragment , idstotr that was . shattered by the ban instau p tineo us. 'n " Accidental death." The us: . ears of ..r, IMPERIAL PARILDIENT: HOUSE OF LORDS.-111ognAT The Chancellor took his seat at five o'clock. CONVICTS Viscount Dungannon moved for a return of the number of convicts to whom tickets of leave had been granted during the years 1857 and 1858. He observed that he should bring the subject forward at the earliest opportunity in the next parliament, and for that reason he moved for these returns. The motion was agreed to TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) BILL On the order for the second reading of the Tramways (Ireland) Bill, The Earl of Lucan objected to any measure of the kind being confined to Ireland. The Earl of Bandon approved of the bill, as likely to be of great service in districts where there were no railways. The order was discharged Lord Monteagle asked the First Lord of the Treasury, in what mode, and under what authority, it was proposed to glye effdct to the contract, respecting the declaration of the Irish mails, now upon the table of the House. He objected to the yearly increase of expenditure removed from Parlia mentary controul, especially that incurred by the post-office. He charged the contract in the present instance with illegality, owing to the nrinner in which the funds were raised out of the revenues of the post-office, and objected in strong terms to contracts which were not open to public competition. He trusted that the House of Commons would interpose its just authority between the government and the violation of its own rules ; as for the contract itself, it was one of which he approved in itself. The Earl of Derby denied the illegality of the transac tion, and explained the circumstances of the transaction, which was founded on the powers given to the railway companies to make contracts with the government. The contract in question was made and signed by the late government The transaction throughout bad been perfectly open and legal. The funds for the execution of the contract were entirely under the controul of the House of Commons. The Duke of Argyll admitted the state of the Irish packet regarded the service to be very unsatisfactory, especially as Post-office arrangements THE GENERAL ELECTION. Mr. Lowe has withdrawn from Kidderminster, Mr. Uuddleston being the more popular candidate. Lord Ashley has appeared as a candidate at Cricklade. Mr. Caird's retirement from Dartmouth is reported. Sir Lytton Bulwer, Sir G. Grey, and G enera l P e el, a re again offering- themselves ' to their old constituencies. The Hon. George Fitzwilliam has withdrawn from Peter borough. Mr. Heathcote has withdrawn from Tiverton, where the second son of Lord Denman has offered himself. Mr. Thornley retires from 'Wolverhampton, and will probably be succeeded by Sir Richard Bothell. The extreme assiduity with which Sir Bulwer Lytton had devoted himself to his public duties had at one time so far affected his health that he had contemplated a tem porary retirement from the harassing arena of politics. Fortunately, however, for the country, his intention will not be carried out. 'We are glad to learn that he has been the request of many of his m os t i n fl uential to reappear as a candidate for th e county of induced, He )ersonal exertion and fatigue in the contest. We sincerely Hertford, by on the understanding that he is to be sp are d a ll constituents, ;rust that the short repose which Sir Bulwer Lytton will ')efore t experient enable him still to devote his ut service of the country. Herald. of the new parliainent will ired energies to the Mu. BRIGHT IN SIANCIIESTEII. - Mr. Bright, M.P., has promised to be present at the conference of the leading Reformers, which will be held in connection with the Lancashire Refer Free Trade Hall, Union kssembly Room of the ernoon (From the Dublin D ARMAGH Bonor Mr. Rond have ad; all Killer, Esq., Q.C., and tors of the borough. COUNT Verner, Bart., and Mr. Close will be returned withon_ _ CASHEL Bonouon.—Mr. John -Carden and Mr. John for this borough. return for this Lani , ran, it is said, Is WICKLOW COUNTY county is secured. —Major Ormst Too much was often paid to the companies on account of the Post-of He thought that all cont should be laid before Parliament before they were carried into effect sari of Hardwicke admitted that exorbitant sums The F were often paid on account of the postal service, but it would be very inconvenient if all contracts required in the first instance to be sanctioned by Parliament. Lot. I Stanley of Alderley complained of the enormous amount of money taken from the supervision of Parliament under the existing system, and trusted that contracts would not be entered into unless subject to the immediate super vision of Parliament, and should not be binding till that approval was given. The Marquis of Clauricarde observed that some of these contracts were not only made exclusively for postal services, but likewise for the convenience of passenger traffic. To submit the contract to Parliament would open the way to Parlianientary jobbery ; and, under our present form of Government, these matters should be left to the respon sibility of the Ministers of the Crown. After a few observations from Lord Colchester, Lord lionteagle, in reply, and Lord Redesdale, the subject dropped. tie Affidavits by Commission, and Indemnity Bills passed through committee. The Savings Bank (Ireland) Bill, and Recreation Grounds Bill, were read a third time, and passed. The Earl of •Hardinge gave notice that the noble Lord the head of the Foreign Office would make a statement specting Foreign affairs on Friday. The House adjourned at 7.50 paii HOUSE OF COMMONS —Moan AY The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock Sir B. Hall gave notice that he would, on the next day, ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether it was true that Captain Carnegie had been dismissed from the Admiralty, and whether Admiral Pandas had offered to resign, but had been induced to remain. AFFAIRS OF EUROPE, AND THE DISSOLUTION, Lord Palmerston enquired of the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he would give the precise time when he would make his promised statement as to the affairs of Europe. He also hoped that the Government would state more clearly than they had done hitherto when the prorogation and the dissolution would take place. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it would be most convenient if he made his statement on Friday next. As for the dissolution, it was quite a mistake to suppose that the Government intended to interpose any delay in the matter. He expected that the prorogation would take place on Tues day. The dissolution would not take place the same day, but it would take place as soon after as was consistent with decorum. Sir G. Grey, amid the cheers of the opposition said, that had just received, and hoped that - the right honourable gentleman would give a more explicit answer. It was desirable to know whether the dissolution would take place before Good Friday. It would not, he admitted, be advisable to dissolve on that day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer protested against being thus called upon to do what no government had ever been called upon to do under similar circumstances. The govern ment had no wish whatever to delay the dissolution, but he ought not in his position to be called upon to name the day. It would .be done as soon as it could properly be done probably in Passion week. Mr. B. Osborne gave notice that, to-morrow (Tuesday) he should put a question as to the law adviser in Dublin castle. Mr. S. Estcourt suggested that the question should be postponed till Wednesday, as the noble chief secretary woLid then be in his . place Mr. B. Osborne said, that he understood the noble lord would not return from Ireland. Perhaps the right hon. gentleman would inform himself of the circumstances. The Chancellor of the Exchequer observed that the Attorney-General for Ireland would then be in his place. The report of the Committee of Ways and Means was brought up, and agreed to. _ The Local Government Supplemental Bill passed through committee. The Pauper Maintenance Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. The Confirmation and Probate Act (1858) Amendment Bill passed through committee. On the motion for the third reading of the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Annuities Act Con tinuance Bill, Mr. Bowyer called attention to the unsatisfactory state of Greenwich Hospital. There was now a large number of vacancies in the hospital, which shelved' that the institution was not popular with the navy. He wished to know if any steps •would be taken to place it on a better footing. Sir J. Pakington said, that inquiries were now being made, and that proper steps would be taken in conse quence. The bill was then read a third time, and passed. The House went into committee on the Railway Tickets Transfer Act. Mr. Ayrton complained of the stringent terms of the penal clauses. Any traveller, by a mere accidental mistake in giving away his ticket, or changing it, might be liable to be arrested, and detained on his journey. He moved an amendment to remedy this evil. Mr. S. Estcourt proposed to postpone the committee for that day. Mr. H. Willoughby likewise complained of the stringent terms of the bill. Mr. E. James made a similar complaint, and thought that it would be advisable to withdraw it. Colonel French likewise thought that the bill should be withdrawn. Mr. Henley said that, by this act, any person could arrest any other person anywhere and at any time. Lord Lovaine observed, that the clauses complained of was copied from the Railway Passengers' Ilegulative Act. The Solicitor-General said, that any one who transfered a ticket marked " not transferable," knew that he was violating the law. He proposed, therefore, that the clause should be restricted to this case, and that the large powe e t r e e of arrest should be modified with these alteratio ns , rs t r usted that a bill which was much wanted should itee allowed to pass. Palmerstone case, especiallyobserved,withreference that there were return m any di ffi L c o u r l d tiesin the tickets. The bill might cau se u ncertainty. great v exa ti on and Mr. W. Patten thought that the Railway Companies required protection, but objected to the wording of the bill. Lord Lovaine, after some observations, withdrew the bill. The Convict Prisons Abroad Bill was read a second time, The Appropriation Bill was brought in by Sir S. , rthft.ote, and read a first time. lime then adjourned, at 5.35. Mr. W. E CARLOW Bonoutm.--The supporters of J. Alexander, Esq., are confident of success. The opponents spoken of are John Thomas Ball and Mr. 11. G. Gridley. DOWN COUNTY. - It is expected that Lord Edwin and Colonel Forde will walk over, GALWAY COUN Mr. Gregory, Lord )urnloe idition to Sir Thomas Burke and and Captain Bellew are spoken DROGIIEDA Bc Mr. William Kir. Brodigan, Esc Somerville are also .ddresses have been issued by I. Singicton de Baths. Francis ib, London, and Sir William DONEGAL COUN GALWAY Boil `;o contest named, amongst Anthony 0' Mho and Captain o'Hai kNTKIM COUNTY of persons are L Dankellin, John 0. Lever, lteddington, Thos. Howard, y Gore is again in the PonTAnuxoToN.---Captain Dawson Daler has issued his address. SLIG9 BOROUGH.---Charles Kelly, Q.C., has addressed the electors of this borough Dublin Evening Mail.) • ---Dr. Boyd and Alderman Humphrey will C OLERAIN contes ENNISKILLEN Bonouon.---No contest anticipated THE QUESTION OF THE DISSOLUTION. The Star says Lord Palmerston and his friends will make an effort to get the dissolution put aside. Ths Post repeats its statement that ministers intend to postpone the writs for a new Parliament, it may be for a fortnight after prorogation. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ABDUCTION. At the Clerkenwell Police Court on Saturday, a tall, well-grown girl, of prepossessing appearance, who gave the name of Emma Jane D o h er t y, age d 15, residing at 58, Church-street, Birmingham, described on the charge-sheet as a milliner, and Thomas Mason, aged 28, a violinist, of Albert-street, King's-cross, were placed at the bar before Mr. Burcham, who sat for Mr. Corrie, charged with stealing a shawl and a bonnet, the property of Mr. John Doherty. The prosecutor, who is the father of the female prisoner, said he was a milliner, carrying on business in Bir mingham. He wished to withdraw the present charge, and prefer a charge of abduction against the man. The man whom he had never seen before, although he had heard of him, had resided in Birmingham, and the female prisoner had 'worked for his wife. He (witness) learning that an intimacy had sprung up between the prisoners, took his daughter away, and she had gone on well until last week. The male prisoner, who has a wife and two children, with the speedy prospect of a third, left Birmingham three weeks ago, and came up to London. On Monday last the female prisoner left her home, and although she had been advertised for, nothing was heard of her until Friday morning, when she wrote to a friend, and stated that she was living at the house of Mason, and was going by the assumed name of Smith. lie had also ascertained that the prisoner Mason had written to his (witness's) daughter several letters, containing very loving expressions, and that on Saturday last he had sent her a letter containing a post-office order, to enable her to pay her expenses up to town Witness at once came to London, and having pro cured the services of police-constable Kitchen, 423 N, they went to the house of the male prisoner and asked f or 1 the female prisoner. Both Ma son and his wife denied any knowledge of his daughter, or of having seen her y since they left Birmingham, but, upon searching the room a sonnet and shawl - b e l ong i ng to puu. his (prosecutor's) wife were found. They still denied any knowledge of his daughter, but, upon making a further search, his (wit ness's) daughter was found at the bottom of the house, concealed in a box. Under the circumstances he gave both prisoners into custody. The female prisoner, who treated the matter very lightly, and who continually smiled at the man, said she did not want to go home with her father; a ll she wanted was a situation. Sbe had not slept with the prisoner, but had been at ivork for his wife. The male prisoner, who looked very sheepish, said nothing in answer to the charge. Mr. Burcham said it was a sad case, but he was of opinion that the evidence would not make out a case of abduction. The man, who was married, and had a family, was a very bad fellow, and would lure the girl to her ruin. Why did a fellow, twenty-eight years of age, want to write love letters to a girl of fifteen, without it was to bring her to destruction. The girl, who was discharged, had better go home with her father, and be careful of such men as the other prisoner. Having expressed his disgust at the conduct of the male prisoner, Mr. Burcham con cluded by saying, " There, fellow, go away, and do not let me see your face again." The fellow slunk away, amidst hisses, and the girl, who did not express any willingness to go home, left the court with her father. " GUBBINS is very close," it was observed; "he will squabble about a single farthing. " " Well " replied Sharp, "I have always thought the less one squabbles the better. " _ _ _ lomatire, a very able P ar i s j ournal, which lftalian question with a d ec id e d leaning The d Af isc c u m ss o e r d ia/ th D e towards a pacific solution, has received an intimation, though not so an official form, that its publication must be suspended for the present—that is, so long as the crisis lasted. Seven new pictures have just been added to the National Gallery. Of these, six were purchased ; " St. Dominic, as is the the Institutor of the Rosary," a picture in tempera, ascribed to Marco Zoppo ; " St. Francis contemplating a Crucifix," by Filippino Lippi ; a " Dead Christ," by Marco Palmazzano ; a "Madonna and Child," by Mare Basaiti; " Madonna and Child," by Giambattista Chua de Miss m M or a ds rtit f icau Conegliano ; "Portrait of a Lady," by Battista Zelotti. The contribute p tr r i i b n u c t i e p al to e o hi n t o: i t b s e u h t o o / r d ; , seventh picture, n " Blind Beggar," by Dyck bequest of the late Miss Jane Clarke. In a letter to the editor of the Critic, the advantage of more than the s I never cl writesthe first — ;" I I ndeivde rnot a s lightest personal acquaint ance with Mr. Dickens, who was never therefore m ' old reed with Mr. Dickens;' friend ;' I have ne ver ' guar 11 , I withdrew from Hou se h o l d Words a ear and a half before y the disgraceful attack •on the millowners appeared in it ; and my withdrawal was for a reason which bore no relation to any views of social subjects." • • 1 • 1 . r. Dickens's on economical or soc subjects." iN FINE ART walls ".l‘ia r r i i n a ge May;of AirG o s sip,—No one picture of commanding in terest,crronFirwith'! "Derby Day," or Mr. Maelise's ....i. . s likely to grace the Academy and the young men will this year have a chance, not often permitted them, of carryin ,, off the p r i zes o f pu bli c favour. Yet the known carrying pros pects of the Academy Exhibitio n are no t discou raging. Mr. Augustus Egg has a large picture, " The Night before Naseby ;" M r . E. M. W ar d ano ther scene illustrative of the sentimental side of the French David Roberts, Millaisoberts, Revolution, "Marie Antoinette in the Concierge ;" Mr. Philip one of those Seville pictures, of which the public never tire ; Mr. Faed, an ambitious Canadian cottage scene, called " Sunday in the Backwoods," and a lesser picture . ty p l e a . from Scottish life ; Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, two or three of well-establishedthwisotroarntshreriepetswofrroksmitinpieact has some good gardenpainting•ooand spring blossoms of pre- Raphaelite finish ; Air. E. t., ke has his accustomed sea ; an d r r s pieces; Mr. Rankley has a domestic subject —a clergyman and his wife on the eve of parting from their parish ; and Mr. O'Neil the companion picture to his " Eastward Ho !" of last year. Mr. Frith has only one picture —a portrait of Mr. Charles Dickens.—Athanaum. r ess we icki i ted 1 " the en• o ther nerl' ea :rzbe°' The sti es ' iproP et 11 113 .1°1: "lace , , P ,1 It .. co bl rfulll of rhe obie; eie' C'o, A'i liCl. l C ll , l 11000