Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-13 00:00:00

EDITION. NORTHERN TIMES UFPICE, FRIDAY, 9 A.M . Th e AMERICA. 41, zlilton has arrived with the United States The She left New York April 30th. kr, c 4fri elt had arrived out. Th eii 'bden was staying with the President. , eot trs av igation of the St. Laurence had been opened. :Vhe at ' ll dull prices unaltered. Flour less ac !ye. 404,, e 'nd corn firm. Pork heavy. Sugar active. " aid Exchanges on Europe high. liIIPORTANT FROM MEXICO. I : ` u at 1; h ad reached New York on the 30th ut. ' ll € ra nien had succeeded in penetrating the c4 lit: r t he Liberal forces. Had reached tie . kc! • °II the 11th April, and had begun murdering 41 )le tied for eigners indiscriminately. He. had also .44 rez a f °ll '.al protest against the recognition of the "4444origevernment by the United States, and aNit ti ;" American Consul-General from the At 41e tap sT i t W al h ile theseoccurrenees were transpiring at • d er , e kai l d a Cruz the British minister had made a of c " 1 the Juarez Government for the ay Oct e - i all the claims of his country . men, ,andin -141)4i4 e commander of the British fleet to 'lie city i n case of refusal. AR A - 11 2,. PREPARATIONS. - 'reks eri zines gives a l ong ac count of the immensely as and going on in the production of wea- Re.4,l4l.Warlike preparations of all kinds at W0011b,641,1e,11. l b , 6 4 1 , 1e , 11. are said to be as great as at the height of t c 7" l t . n " 11 , war. The resources of the Arsenal are -4Lting out and issuing, —O. or omoY : 411 44, 4° guns per week, of the best and largest e orl t ; Ther e are now twelve thousand pieces of e oft an te in store 'at Woolwich, of which 7,000 1 ; 6 b est make and modern calibre. At each ° ; ` ,4 oo ls h -a t dock - ards there are stores of from 1, t ;., 44 tal",, ea vY cannon. With regard to small arms, , et i that there are about 90,000,000 rounds of f !licafisalalunition in store, and the production o '44(18 tt uilliets is going on at the rate of 2,000,000 Week. nri COMMERCIAL. ,4 e N--s still improved in the morning, under the ° I, ° l,, 6 2. 4 a fi cieOperations, and relapsed in the after - 'or e "ui B support is withdrawn, and the field is left Illi4B,B,Deculative sales and disquieting rumours. This elmn`misols attained a fresh advance of 4 toe per cent. ??ate r i,g quotations, however, were scarcely below those :gatl, t r,73% In the other departments of the Stock ": 4 il t - ct :' business continues very languid, but firmness T L , 1 , 9 0 'OM confidence is gradually returning. e I. `gkse c iT Australian gold by the .Morning Star was the day for exportation. No gold was withdrawn *'l44 k. —Daily News City Article, Thursday 1L9,; 45 1. 5 h (4 eth' I Funds opened this morning at a fractional tlt but declined late in the day on some rumours lie t batiees ` 4l not be trac e d to any definite authority, of beratC in Turke. The demand formoney h e 1 9. hrate A t the Bank to-day the were ou as a :',41%,-re,pa„ea,te• In reply t o an i nqu i r y w hether the Indian be,willing to increase their rate of allowance hs 4 ht ent of in s t a l men t s t o th e B an k m i n i mum o f 41 " has been intimated that no such measure is n ee „44,1 v, essary.—Times City Article Thursday Evening. 5,.4116'1, TRAFFIC RETURNS.-The Lancashire and koWsthis week an increase of £56 ; the East . ' e astf: 411 increase of £215; the North Eastern, and c' r, N - is and Carlisle, an increase of £460 ; the Man and incolnshire an increase of £1,085 ; T he i ld an increas e o f £2,274. ' ,,ree - e"ns e '/c/ says that one or two important suspensions B l~k a Y taken place in the branches asso ciated with ;tapti'll.d tile Mediterranean trade, but in other respects oeaflairs show a healthy appearance, notwithstand -11 Loreak of war. ` ) 4t - ' 4 ` 0 1:1 of Francis Earl of Moray is announced. -It I, IR ILS PO CANADA.—The Postmaster-General jrisieta'(icts s ucceeded in obtaining from the British 4et - " e a cceptation of a reciprocal money order Weea the two countries. k e tt *-11 RIFLE Coars.—The Times highly applauds kiliC a ent for recognising the necessity of appealing o ke ar ," A Y Spirit of the country- .and this for the sake °n- ' " ll at With any warlike views ; for if w e choose T l able preeaution there is no possible con a,l t a u e continent chess-board which would draw c° l lB equenc al e an attack upon the British LATEST TELEGRAMS. . 4111 rAL OF THE EMPEROR. MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIANS. Yttj at ' 1 "1 ,) sda y —The Emperor is expected at ,1 1t 0 - ` o'clock ' to-day. N i i:cour took his departUre for Genoa yester lil " I NIAN OFFICIAL BULLETIN, a tii - ke Publ i shed Wednesday, May 11 th. Q 11 ehBtrian siege trains, a regiment of infantry, ta t 1044 / tient of Chasseurs, have recrossed at Al l'llq eis ' i 4 e l ld directed their course towards Casale TI P, in Lombardy. of I,'"eetl A q. the enemy ' s t roo p s are co ncentrated 4 h t ars, Palestro, and Robbio. (l'arae Or -' quarters of the Austrian staff are at .now FRENCH FUNDS. 1.44 8' 'hurs da 11 40 a.m.—Rentes commenced 44 c1 are. v * c ii,. 2 0 1.111 61.60. :The Bourse opensveryr. Rentes t 4N terda_ further rise of nearl y r zis 1 4 44 1, • --- The su b scr ipti ons t o th e new loan ..I kt YeSt ertlay to 1,500,000,000 f. Rentes are per cent. i '4 l • 11 1 n • • - rise Rentes has been 'roll ~OUpt sink prices are 61.80 Money, and 61.70 t Z s k o. , t \'A.L OF THE EMPEROR , - , 4 0 „ , May 12th, 1 p.m. — The Emperor q gas not yet arrived, but the steamer : t N tll l4 In sight ; the sea is calm. The populace :c1 appearance of a fete, and an immense as sembled on the landing place. A huge covered with flags symbolically repro -244 °ti the ench and Sardinian alliance, has been s k) D, spot where the Emperor is to land. trtt D ade -- The Emperor has landed at the inner kit t4eaa ki t th e and gone direct to the Royal Palace, t4 e al cony of which he has just shown him assembled populace, who greeted him wa s pla u dit s and acclamations. The '1414 •k , a 8 accompanied to the palace by Prince ‘ 4341 1t Cavo ur , a nd Count D'Auvergne, the tn t4oe Pe bsa sador. ti r t ttO(1 • w as full of ornamented sm all boats, q ;V * ke. et spectators, who saluted his Maj est y aoniti '4(l hi ons of Welcome !" and cast flowers It 4°l 4i The Emperor held a review of some ?!n erB of 1 -11 tle first Empire, in the courtyard `` 't(!a Sal Palac e . C row d s o f people have been ‘4r . all a "t ki 111 - 0, 3 - beneath the Emperor's w indow, t, and ayplauding him incessantly. His 0 4 this evening to the theatre. FRANCE. PARIS, Wednesday.—Private accounts from Turin, of the 9th, inform us that great excitement and some apprehension prevailed in that city at th e near ap proach of the Austrians, but that the mind of the public became tranquil when it was ascertained that their advanced troops had been severely handled by the Piedmontese. It is stated that the Minister has ordered five additional frigates to be immediately fitted for sea. A commission appointed to devise a plan for the protection, of the coast of France, of which Admiral le .Barbier de Tinan is president, has completed its report, which has been presented to the Minister of Marine. Captain d'Herbinghem, of the Imperial navy, who had been named to the command of a division of gunboats, has, in consequence of the idea of employing gunboats having been abandoned, been appointed to the command of the steam frigate Foudre. There can be no question of the fact—there was great enthusiasm manifested yesterday among the hundreds of thousands of people who lined the way as the Imperial cortege slowly descended the Rue de Rivoli on its way to the Lyons railroad. The tnise en scene was, indeed, perfect, and, as usual, the weather conspired in favour of the spectacle. The Emperor, with kepi on head, and wearing his mili tary undress, ready, as it were, for instant field service ; the Empress, looking sad and pale, and smiling in her tears ; the Princelmperial; with his innocence ; the Emperor clasping the , hands of several among the people,' and bidding a most friendly farewell to his Ministers and Prefects all these, and several other' circumstanca curred. to impart an interest to the performance which it was impossible not to share. In the multitude it is true were man' of the ultra ,vno probably had: their own private reasons for the shout of " Vice lu guerre whirls tne j nn The* whole, it cannot be denied that there was a very strong reeling, evanescent' it may be, but which looked very like enthusiasm. The thing was got up well, and it had more than a succes d'estime. But what shall we say, to the rapid change which has come over the people's minds ? What shall we say to the two, legislative chambers, the great majority of whoSe members spoke of war, and of all who advocated it with a feeling of horror, and, while, boiling with rage at the very mention of the word, voted unanimously the funds to carry' it on, and the masses who are to furnish the hecatombs ? What shall we say to the crowds who received Prince Napoleon and his bride with death-like silence and with scowling brows; because they concluded that the hand of the - Piedmontese Princess was the price of the co-operation of France and yet who threw up their caps, and raised their sweet voices to the sky yesterday ? What shall we say to the provincial bankers and capitalists who solemnly declared only five days ago that, in the departments—at least in their departments, the war loan would not be . taken ; while we are now told that double the amount is already sub scribed for, and - that instead of 500,000,000, 1,500,000,000 might be had for the same purpose, if required ? To all this there is, alas ! no answer ' • we have but to bow the head, smite the breast, and confess that it is a strange people ! It is a people so fickle, so contradictory. Of course not the slight est doubt is entertained of the defeat of the Austrians, and their expulsion from Lombardy. ThiS. is so certain, that it is said M. Bacciochi, who has the honour of superintending the Imperial concerts and dramatic performances, and otherwise acting as the arbiter elegantiarum, is to arrange for the transport to Milan of the actors and actresses of one of the Paris theatres to perform for the Emperor, and, perhaps, a " parterre of Kings." A despatch just received announced the Emperor's arrival at Valence at nine this morning; and a second despatch his arrival at Marseilles at twelve o'clock. It adds that the reception given to him was magnificent. The Minister of Public Worship has addressed the follow ing circular to the archbishops and bishops of the volutionist Empire Paris, May 10 Monsigneur,—The Emperor is about to place himself at the head of the army of Italy. His Majesty desires that public prayers shall be ordered in all the churches of the Empire, beseeching the Almighty to vouchsafe the success of our arms and to protect France. I therefore requrst your Eminence to take the necessary measures for responding to those pious intentions.—Accept, &e. ROULA ND. A similar circular has been sent to tue presidents of consistories, Now that the Emperor Napoleon has proceeded to take the command of the French army in Italy, is may not he uninteresting to your readers to be informed of the names of the Generals who are to act under his orders. Major-General of the Imperial army, Marshal Vaillant. Generals commanding corps d'armee : —Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, Marshal Canrobert, General Itegnaud de St. jean d'Angely, General MacMahon, General Niel. Generals of Division.—Renault, Roquet, Herbillon, Morris, Forey, Camou, Ladmi rault, Partonnee,ux, De Goyon, De Cotte, De Luzy de Pellissac, D'Antemarre d'Erville, De Martimprey, Mellinet, De la Motterouge Ulrich, Espinasse, Vinay, Bazaine, De Failly, De Montebello, Bourbaki, Le &ea, Frossard, Desvaux, Trochu. Generals of Brigade. —Baron Richepanse, Foltz, De Cassaignolles, Genestet de Planhol, Gaudin de Villaine, Marquis de Forton, Baron Marion, De Beaufort d'Hautpoul, Bouteilleux, Chauchard, Grandchamp, Be Martim prey, Verge, Beuret, Niol, Cler, De Champeron, De Whnpffen, Cauvin de Bourguet, De Sevelinges, Soleille, Yuelin de Beville, Manque Jannin, Dumont, Blanchard, Picard, Goze, Decaen, Coffinieres, Forgeot, Comte de Clerambault, Ladreit de la Charriere, Douay, Prince de la Moskowa, Fleury, Anger, O'Farrel, Borgella, Courtois-Roussel-d'Hur bal, De Negrier, Bataille, Collineau, Baret de Rouvray, Baron Neigre, Lenoble, Correard, Ducrot, Roze, Fiereck, Saurin, Delmas de Lape rause, Gault, Lefevre, Lebrun, De Castagny, De Bounet-Maurelhan, Polkes. The names of the Generals are inscribed according to the date of their commissions. lam informed that the Emperor has decided that no correspondent of a newspaper or journalist will be permitted to follow the French army in Italy. Those profane and dangerous indi viduals must remain at Turin, or at Genoa, or at home. One or two persons are spoken of as attached to the corps which is to be commanded by Prince Na poleon. I am reminded, however, that the corps separe, which the Moniteur announced would be under the orders of his Imperial Highness, does not neces ---411, imply one employed in field operations • and that corps separe the army. If this be the cause, the speciarcnroniSlM who are to note the acts of his Highness cannot do much mischief. I cannot say whether any exception is made in favour of the Progus du Pas de Calais (if it still exists), of which his Majesty was himself once upon a time the diligent correspondent, and in whose pages he so often exposed the vices of the government of Italy. The Empress gave audience to several persons to-day at the Tuileries. She likewise signed several decrees as Regent. The following letter has been received from St. Petersburg, dated the 2nd inst : To judge from the series of articles published by the Invalide, the organ of the War Department, the Russian official press is undoubtedly favourable to French policy in Italy. You may judge by the following extract from the Invalide: "Austria evidently expected that the French could not arrive so promptly to the assistance of the Piedmontese army, and that General Gyulai would have had sufficient time to disperse them, but the calculation of the Austrian General was erroneous. The greater part of the Piedmontese army shut itself up in the fortress of Alessandria, and the Austrians did nothing to capture that fortress previous to th e arrival of the French at Turin and Genoa. We are inclined to believe that the other calculations made by the Austrians will not be more successful. History alone can diSclose to us the diplo matic secrets which preceded the present invasion of Piedmont by Austria, and the audacious resolution of the famous ultimatum. At present it would be idle to endeavour to discover the real motive of the infatuation and presump tion of the Vienna Cabinet, which rushed head foremost into such a rash undertaking, without having secured the alliance of some Power, or of at least one great Power. Let us admit that Austria possesses the sympathies of Bavaria, Wurtember r % Hesse, Hanover, and the other second-rate States of Germany ; we ask what support they THE NORTHERN TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 13 1859 can afford Austria without the assent of Prussia ? We may add that the opinion of the German nation sympathises so little with the cause of Austria in Italy that the people everywhere refuse the horses which the respective goverzl -111 ents require to place their armies on a war footing, and it becomes necessary to take them by force. On the other hand, we can certify that up to the fatal moment of pre senting the famous ultimatum Austria might have preserved the possession of her Lombardo-Venetian provinces by making some very trifling concessions. Now, however, the die is cast, and no Cabinet in Europe doubts of the defeat of Austria, who has for so long a period been devoted to the malediction of all nations. Such are the consequences of an over-cunning policy, which the Emperor Nicholas, of ipperishable memory, designated the policy of subter- AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 9.—As it may excite some surprise that the intelligence from the seat of war contained in some of my more recent letters was not forwarded by electric telegraph, it will be well to observe that information relative to the strategic movements of the different corps can never be sent along the wires. No important news received from the head quarters of the army will be withheld from me, but there is a tacit understanding between my informants and myself that no intelligence which is likely to be of service to the Frenc and Sardinians shall be tele graphed. It would appear that the sudden rising of the Po, and the inundation of, the adjacent districts, has led to a change in the plan of operation, for we now learn that the gros of the. Austrian army is marching on Turii and Susa by way of St. Germano and Chivasso. On. Saturday, the 7th inst., Count Gyulai had his head-quarters at Vercelli, with the right. wing of his army at St. Germano. Columns have also been pushed forward to Trino, and as they passed shots were fired at them from Casale. IN they passed the Austrians, and will serve as points d'appuz for the army, should it be forced to make a retrogade movement. It does not admit of a .doubt that the Austrian commander intended to send a_ corps to Novi, to destroy the railroad at that place, but the sudden rising of the Po rendered it necessary that the troops should .return to the left. bank of the river without delay. Had the Austrians been able to reach Novi,, they would have cut off. the railway communication between Genoa and Alessaudria, and between those two places and Tortona, but the rain was so tremendously heavy, and the danger of a general inundation so imminent, that the commander of the detached corps did not deem it advisable to go far beyond Voghera. The Po rose so suddenly that it " burst " the bridge at Cornale, and four or five of the pontoons in the centre were first violently lifted and then carried away by the stream. It is said that it took-no less than four hours to repair the damage done to the bridge. In general a great deal of rain falls in Lom bardy and Piedmont in the months of- May and June, and I recollect that in 1848 it rained almost incessantly during six weeks. In the year in question the bad weatherset in on the 26th May The Austrians have learnt that the French troops which entered Piedmont by way of Mount Cenis are not in good fighting order, and it is highly probable that they will attempt to break through the Dora Baltea line in order to, attack them before they have recovered themselves. The Austrians are accused of being slow in their movements, but it should be remem bered that they have had great difficulties to con tend with. They expected to find the roads de stroyed, but they certainly did not expect that it would rain in torrents for several days consecu tively. Water has been a valuable ally to the Sar dinians and French, for it has saved them from being taken at a disadvantage. The corps d'artnee now at Trieste, under the command of Feldzeug neister Count Wimpffen ' is about to march into the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, and the corps in garrison in this city is now leaving for the maritime coast. The most contradictory state ments relative to the strength of the Austrian forces in Sardinia, are in circulation, and it may therefore be well to state that they now consist of about 150,000 men. It is generally believed here that the corps under General von Benedek, left Piacenza, and marched by way of Corte Olono to Pavia, but the fact is that it went straight from the province of Venice to the Ticino. A , military correspondent of the Militar Zeitung, states that the army was exceedingly vexed at being kept nearly three days, the 27th, 28th, and 29th April, in inactivity. When, in the afternoon of the 29th of April, Count Gyulai gave orders to the van-guard to cross the Ticino, there was a joyful cry in half-a dozen different languages, of "At last ! at last " When the troops got into Piedmont they found the roads broken up, but the pioneers soon made them passable. We are told that the inhabitants of some of the Piedmontese villages cheered the Austrian Commander as he passed, but it is not to be presumed that they did so from any kindly feeling towards him. ----~-- ITALY. TURIN, May B.—l have just returned from a tour of exploration as far as Genoa, and find Turin just as calm and secure as I left it, though the Austrians are at Vercelli, and completely masters of the coun try north of the Po, between the Ticino and the Doro Baltea. From what I have seen during my trip, I cannot consider the confidence of the Turinese ill founded. A large French and Piedmontese army is concentrated south of the Po, and any attempt of the Austrians to advance upon the capital would leave their flank and rear opposed to its attacks, whilst the Pied montese forces, strongly entrenched on the D oraß altea , would meet them in front. It is not therefore at all likely that they will attempt anything against Turin. Their wisest plan is that which they have adopted— to fortify themselves on the Sesia, where they have concentrated the bulk of their army, supported by an imposing cavalry force and (it is said) 400 guns, and patiently wait the course of • events. From Genoa to Novi the corps of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers is encamped, and the late rainy weather must have made their quarters anything but com fortable. A good many men in the French army, have had to be sent into the ambulances with fever and desentry, but the men were in excellent spirits, and that with French troops is the essential. Baraguay d'Hilliers' quarters were at Novi. The French Etat Major had established there the same system that answered so well during the stay of the French RIMY ill.. Pir,lmNsky WAfen. €ll6-cAltilrat'e - ny want of, is purchased a prix fixe. The extraordinary enthusiasm which prevails for " i nostri liberatori," as the French are called, has made it necesssry . for the Marshal to issue an order of the day against drunkenness, and a notification to the inhabitants that any one found treating a French soldier to la goutte, would be subjected to a fine, varying from five to twenty lire. At Alessandria there are about 30,000 Frenchmen (Canrobert's corps), and some 25,000 Piedmontese. On the principal squares of the town are about four batteries of artillery, which I was told were rifled guns, but no one being allowed to get near them, I was unable to verify the fact. The troops were not well pro vided with necessaries, and several regiments were without their tentes-abris, the want of which they must have severely felt during the late rains. Most of those in Alessandria are now comfortably housed, but those outside the town are•exposed to all the inclemency of the weather, and that is no joke when you consider that the merry month of May in Piedmont bears a strong family likeness to May in England. The enthusiasm of the troops, however, is very great, and the privates go about the streets in bands, singing the " Marseillaise," and shouting " Mort aux Autrichiens," with a degree of entrain that shows how thoroughly ripe the French army is for active service; a fact which may possibly explain the warlike disposition of the Emperor, Here we have daily the most extraordinary " Shaves." The affair at Frassinetto, for instance, which the Piedmontese staff themselves describe as a mere reconnaissance, is magnified into the defeat of an attempt of the Austrians to cross the Po. There is also anabsurd report of Garibaldi having driven the enemy out of Vercelli, where there are something, like 60,000 men. I' only mention this, as the tele- , graph will probably have represented it as a great victory by General Garibaldi. Touching this same General Garibaldi,- -he is about the most unPopular man in existence among the Piedmontese army. He and his free corps are voted nuisances, and I have heard very uncharitable wishes expressed with regard to them. lam sorry to say that although no engagement worth speaking of has taken place as yet, the-war promises to assume the character of -war to the knife —no quarter given or taken, The Austrians have, it seems, behaved with great cruelty since their invasion. No one who knows the state of the exchequer at Vienna could reasonably expect the Austrians to pay for what they took---but they might have asked for it civilly, and refrained from _helping themselves. They carry on the war, on the contrary, as mere savages. The general levies a certain sum of money in every village through which the army passes, besides a certain number of rations, blankets, carts, &c. Independently of this, the soldiers are allowed to help themselves to what they please—wine casks are smashed, costly furniture is used as firewood, crockery is shivered, the men able to bear arms are seized upon and sent handcuffed to Lombardy, and as to the fate of the women, in the hands of a wild and infuriate soldiery, I leave you to imagine. Here in Turin the greatest indignation prevails in conse quence of these atrocities. In the cafes and all places of public resort the outcry against the Aus trians is unanimous, and, I fear, but too well deserved. Reprisals are loudly clamoured for, such as the bom bardment of Trieste, .and the shooting of prisoners. It is said that the King sent an envoy under a flag -of truce to the Austrian head-quarters. to request the general not to make war like a savage, but as a civilised being: A curt acknowledgment .4,,ting. the difficulty of restraining the common soldier, &c. The French army themS'elves are not in point of fact immaculate in this respect, and the brigade of 'Purees, or Arab riflemen, are reported to have made so free with the natives of Castel-Cerivolo, that a battalion of the line had to interfere. I know not whether you will have received Giulayi's proclamation to the inhabitants of Placentia. It will excite throughout Europe as much indignation as in Piedmont. -.-.-..6......-.-.-.----- NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND ROMI The follthving imperial decree was proclaimed by order of the Emperor Napoleon I. at Rome on the 10th of June, 1809, accompanied by the firing of cannon from the Castle of St. Angelo, fifty years ago next month : Rome, June 10, 1809 Napoleon, Emperor of the French, &c., taking into con sideration that when Charlemagne, Emperor of the French, and our sublime predecessor, endowed the bishops of Rome with various lands, they were g iven as fiefs to maintain the peace of his subjects, and that Rome did not therefore cease to form a part of his empire ; considering, further, that since that.time the union of spiritual and temporal power has been, and still is, the source of dissension; that the popes have but too frequently availed themselves of the one to support their pretensions to the other, and that with spiritual concerns, which are in their nature immutable, have been confounded worldly affairs, which change with the circumstances and politics of the times ; considering finally, that it is in vain to attempt to reconcile with the temporal pretensions of the Pope all that we have . concerted for the security of our army, the repose and prosperity o the nations over whom we reign, and the dignity and inviolability of our empire, we have decreed and do decree as follows Art. 1. The Papal territory is united with the French empire. 2. The city of Rome—illustrious for the recollection it recalls, and for the monuments which it contains—is declared to be a froe and imperial city ; its government and adminis• tration shall be fixed by a particular decree. 3. The monuments of Roinau greatness shall L and preserved at the expense of our treasury. 4. The public debt is declared to be the debt of the empire, 5. The revenue of the Pope shall be fixed at 2,000,000 fr., free from all charges and contributions. ie maintainec 6. The property and palaces of his Holiness shall be subject to no imposition, jurisdiction, or visitation, and shall besides enjoy special prerogatives. Au extraordinary consulta shall take possession in our name of the Pamil dominions. and adopt measures that on the Ist of January, 1810, the constitutional government take effect NAPOLEON. _....._- HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT AND THE FORMATION OF VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS A copy of the following circular, relative to the formation of volunteer rifle corps, has been issued from the War-office to all Lords Lieutenants of Counties : War-office, Pall-mall, May. 1859 Her Majesty's government having had under considera tion the propriety of permitting the formation of volunteer rifle corps, under the provisions of the act of 44th Geo. 111., cap. 54, as well as of artillery corps and companies in mari time towns in which there may be forts and batteries, I have the honour to inform you that I shall be prepared to receive through you, and consider any proposal with that object which may emanate from the county under your charge. The principal and most important provisions of the act are— That the corps be formed under officers bearing the com mission of the lieutenant of the county. _ _ That its members must take the oath of allegiance before a deputy lieutenant or justice of the peace, or a commis sioned officer of the corps. That it be liable to be called out in case of actual inva sion, or appearance of an enemy in force on the coast, or in case of rebellion arising out of either of those emergencies. That while thus under arms, its members are subject to military law, and entitied to be billetted, and to receive pay in like manner as the regular army. That all commissioned officers disabled in actual service are entitled to half-pay, and non-commissioned officers and privates to the benefit of Chelsea Hospital, and widows of commissioned officers killed in service to such pensions for life as are given to widows of officers of her Majesty's regu lar forces. _ That members cannot quit the corps when on actual ser vice, but may do so at any other time by giving fourteen days' notice. . That members who have attended eight days in each four months, or a total of twenty-four days' drill and exercise in the year, are entitled to be returned as effectives. . . . That members so returned are exempt from militia ballot, or from being called upon to serve in any other levy. That all property of the corps is legally vested in the com manding officer ; and subscriptions and fines under the rules and regulations are recoverable'by him before a magistrate. The conditions on which her Majesty's government will recommend to her Majesty the acceptance of any pro posal, are That the formation of the corps be recommended by the ..2f the. oniuntv already quoted. That its members undertake to provide their own arms and equipments, and to defray all expellees attending the corps, except in the event of its being assembled for actual service. That the rules and regulations which may be thought necessary, be submitted to me, in accordance with the 56th section of the act. The uniform and equipments of the corps may be settled by the members subject to your approval ; but the arms, though provided at the expense of the members, must be furnished under the superintendence, and according to the regulations of this department, in order to secure a perfect uniformity of gague. The establishment of officers and non-commissioned officers will be fixed by me and recorded in the books of this office ; and, in order that I may be enabled to deter mine the proportion, you will be pleased to specify the precise number of private men which you will recommend, and into how many companies you propose to divide them. I have only to add, that I shall look to you, as her Majesty's lieutenant, for the nomination of proper persons to be appointed officers, subject to the Queen's approval.— I have the honour to be, &c., J. PEEL. Tier Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of —. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.—The Penin sular and Oriental steamer Tagus, with Peninsular mails, arrived here at one o'clock, bringing 4,2991. in specie and 54 passengers, with a large and valuable cargo of fruit, &c. She left Lisbon, May 7 ; Oporto, May 8 ; and Vigo, May 8. She brings no news. Bartholomew Diaz arrived at Lisbon on the 7th in4ant. Mails disp a tched by special train. THE SUSPECTED .CASE OF POISONING AT RICHMOND. On Wednesday Dr. Thomas Smethurst, lately holding temporary residence at 10, Alma Villas, Richmond, was brought up before E. Penrbyn, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates, at the Rfchmond Court of Petty Sessions, charged with the wilful murder of a lady named Isabella Bankes, by the administration of poisr a iii small doses his case, which are as Sc The circumstam but partly known, have so wrought upon the leek local residents, iat long before the appointed door of the court was surrounded by hundreds of determined, if possible, to obtain admission. It is, therefor almost needless to say that every avaliable s to inconvenience, the zentlemen and of the town being accommodated with seats at t pot was crowded back of Major the bench, and among the foremost of whom were _ Price,-James Smith, Esq., Rev. Gardner Guyon, and severa of the medical profession. Mr. Sergeant Ballantyne, instructed by Mr.. Teesdale, o the firm of Symes, Teesdale, and Sandiland, appeared for the friends of the deceased ; and Mr. 11. S. Giffard, instructed by Mr. Humphreys, attended for the accused. The prisoner, a gentlemanly looking man, wearing a moustache, having been brought into court, was allowed to be seated during the examination. Sergeant Banantyn in commencing the proceedings. said that. having been instructed by the relatives of the deceased Miss Bankes to conduct the prosecution of the case, he should not enter into any unnecessary length, but confine himself to those facts which were of the greatest importance in the present charge. Having referred to the lady's osition in society, and' her highly respectable family, stating _ ;cased had a life interest of £5,000, and apersonalty if £1,700 or £l,BOO, under her father's will, which she could di- learned counsel stated that the dc as she pleased, tl igh the deceased lady had been living witl o,n+ thni- married to hin Ravin of the lady up to the time of her death, the apparent affectionate terms upon which she and the prisoner lived, the bedside attention of the prisoner, the contrary effects of the medicine administered by the medical attendants, and the finding of arsenic in the evacuations, and antimony in the stomach, he referred to a will which had been executed by a solicitor in Richmond in prisoner's favour, from a document said to have been prepared by a barrister in town, bnt which could be proved .to be in prisoner's handwriting, and although the lady was extremely ill (inso much so that the will was executed on a Sunday), refused. . clical attendant presen ret that he and the lady were unmarried led that the above facts bore terribb to have any m it a profound The learned sergeant a he wished to keep import, particularly,as the prisoner was at the time com municating by letter with his wife. However- th- "-- facts would be dispassionately and impat and God forbid that any other feeli should enter into their minds than that of truth The examination of witnesses was then proceeded with the first called being Miss Louisa Ban'kes, of 10, Lanark-villas Maida-hill, who deposed that she saw her sister after death. Her name was Isabella, forty-three years of age, and unmarried. Witness and the deceased did not live together. She recol lected her going to live at a boarding-house, No. 4, Rifle- terrace, Bayswater She went therein Sq. Itember last _her _...g-nouse, in .n.11.1.1.0.,0-were were in Bayswater, and ini the neighbonrhood of her friends. Witness was not in the habit of seeing her, and could not say whether she was subject to relaxation of the bowels. Witness was introduced to prisoner by her sister, at Rifle terrace, as Dr. Smethurst. She was in good health at the time. After her sister left Rifle-terrace, she met her and in ano the prisoner in Kensington-gardens. She left the prisoner and spoke to her. After that meeting, witness saw her at Kildare-terrace. She then left Kildare-terrace; and witness heard nothing of her until she received a letter on the 9th of January, which she answered. On the 18th of April, she received another letter, as follows Dear Miss Bankes —Your dear sister Isabella wishes me to request the favOur of your calling upon her as early as Convenient, as she by coming alone, and that you will greatly oblig k for Dr. and Mrs. Smethurst (that you have called to see your sister), and that you breathe not a word of th She further wishes me She simply 801 ontents of this note to any on state that she cannot k you to remain T the present. Ra station about every half hour, and Richmond 'buses from Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, about a 3 often —I remai Dear Miss Bankes, your} faithfully T. SMET/31.:RST 10, Alm Richmond-hill, A Witness went the same day to visit her, and arrived between two and three o'olock. Saw the landlady, and ultimately the prisoner. He took witness to her sister, who was in in bed. She was much changed from the time she had last seen her. Witness remained some hours, but not in her sister's room. She was never alone with her. She did not express such a wish. She was alone with the prisoner Iler sister gave no account of her sickness in her presence, but the prisoner did. He said it was sickness and diarrhoea. Witness made a proposal to Dr. Smethurst that Mr. Mayer, a friend from St. George's Hospital, should visit her. He said he had better not, as her sister did not like it. While he was in the room an inquiry was made respecting pro perty. Dr. Smethurst said the money she received was not. so much as she ought to have had. Witness left about five o'clock. Her sister expressed a wish: that she would come on and see her, which witness promised to do. e it, 'but did nut s: cup. Her sister said she did not 1 why, She said it had a disagreeable t like witness to prepare some for her. however, because r. Smethurst said the milk had not com( and that it 'would interfere with the landlady. Witne: then proposed to give her some Isinglass, but he made no observation. Her sister told her that Dr. Smethurst was very kind, for he watched her so tenderly. She was quite happy. They occupied but one bedroom, but witness made no remark. Her sister, however, said, •‘ Wait a little, be quiet, it will be all right." Witness received another letter, written by Dr. Smethurst, as follows : and she would She did not do so 10, Alma-. Api My dear Miss Bankes, •We are in receipt of yours of yesterday's date, for which we are truly obliged. After your departure, dear Bella had a very bad evening and night of it, purely from the excitement of seeing you, and the fatigue consequent thereon Vomitting and purging set in at a fearful ra which, of course prostrated her greatly. Her doctor at once forbade any visitors for the present, or he would not be responsible for the effects attendant thereon. Last night was a good one, but lam sorry to say has been a trying one ; she is now, however, again better, am happy to say recovery is expected by a I will write v shortly. Dearest Bella sends her kindest love, regards, believe me, yours faithfully, td with kindes T. SMETHURST After receiving that letter, witness did not go down, and the following letter was received by her : My dear Mies Bankes,—BAla's dearest love and best thanks fol your kind attention, in which I most cordially unite. She has not ' • •" yet got over the emotion of meeting you, poor dear, and is stil. !looking forward to a very early interview ; indeed, she would like to name Monday next for your taking a chop with me ; but I think it would be most advisable to say the middle of next week. /e powers, since it would be impossible for her to bear up against the shock of the nervous system ; and on these grounds alone she is ordered to keep her room, in order to•get up her strength. Affairs are favourable, if great care be observed, and we three doctors have every hope of a successful termination. I shall not fail to call for the jelly. I purchased some very beautiful yesterday, and dearest Bella has partaken of two or three glasses of it, and I think with benefit. Dearest Bell says she would rather not see Uncle Lane. However, we will talk this matter over at our next meeting. With every kindest wish, in which dearest Bell unites.—Believe me, yours faithfully, T. SMETHURST. 23rd April, 1859. This was followed by the following letter My dear Miss Bankes—We saw Dr. Todd, from London, as late as ten o'clock, in consultation with Dr. Julius, of Richmond, dear Bella's dailymedical attendant. He not only acquiesces in what is being done, but recommends our perseverance in the treatment with some slight addition of his own prescribing, and entertained favourable hopes with the rest of us. The bilious vomitings are entirely arrested, but sickness still prevails to a great extent, with occasionally violent retellings, which almost shake her very life out of her, and the bowels continue to act from eight to ten times in the twenty-four hours, iu spite of all we can dO. This is very different from what is commonly called diarrhoea, as the result of infracted bowels and coajested liver, which must have existed for a very long period, judging from what is produced. I confess the circumstances somewhat mystify me, but there are still good and important points in her favour, which I sincerely hope may be the means of creating and rallying that point which we trust to build some hopes upon. I much regret the state of the case will not yet admit of you seeing her for the present, since any or the least anxiety now tends to disturb her nervous system. We both, how ever, anticipate seeing you here. Dearest Bella sends her kindest love and best wishes. I beg to unite.—Believe me, yours very faithfully, T. SMETIIIIIIST. On receiving this letter witness did not go down, and on the following day another letter arrived, which was ay follows : My dear Miss Bankes,—ln reply to your favour of yesterday's date, lam exceedingly sorry to say that dear Bella has pawed a wretched bad night, passed fifteen motions in the twenty-Srer hours, and of a very bad description, and much blood in the strops, and besides which there is the active want of appetite, andrAmse- lumtly a great dread for the result. She received yourkindlette grees with me that it will be better that you should be ue o us, so that if you will run down as early as Convenient, hen take a room or rooms near at hand. That will, indeed, ive f comfort to me to know that you are with us. I • o accommodation in this house, as we ocen - py Dearest Bel/ ad not room enough for o ;ends her kindest love, with every good wish.—Yours faitt 30th April, 1859. T. SMET/ ,deration for the critical state of dearest Bella, i al attendant perfectly unites She -areat very ill, but 'she she brought saw her sister which he Witness received the above letter on the 30th, and NG Anwn nn the followinz day, Sunday, May lone, which was n (town atnme bed-room. — Dr. Smethurs' said her sister w Withes 4 rc ained Smethurst was in the r broHght s aid it was he put into hot wate . i. He then to to cool it. He was out about a n little larder outside the bedroom up immediately. W on and off during ti There was an apparent change in her. ,c3l v able to -speak, but she put her hand ot le day soup, R. foh..-1,,a en, ti soup. ' effect ses. D Are it to lie Led very vipleati: tien while he administered it. 'An uttempt-was.then .made to get her'to take' some more '.diluted soup, but. the eirNi was the same. Witness left to post two letters to ha Dr. Smethurst said ho was sorry he could notleave witness's sister. - lie said that since she had had Dr. Todd's pills she had been worse. Witness - saw no pill boxes about the rooin Before retiring, she asked Dr. Smethurst if she could he of any'service in remaining with her sister; lass he said he preferred sitting up with her. Witness occuni a room in a cottage a house or sisters, again about half-past nine,in.themorn He said on Sunday night that witness prepare her si -. Witness p; of the 2nd Smethurst wis :s he would to receive he howevE had better not lie room in readiness When she got the me med and, on her return, he mid ister had had something the. He was upstairs at the time. Witness did mne know then that information had been given to the ntagis trate. She saw the constable come. Dr. Smethurst cans le for her s ig it. Dr. S cl it was no use her 3 to town for son} with something in Lamb's Conduit-street which he had written, Site was about three was no us -room, Dr. Julius had beeti a Witnes! ,nd was much agitated. He •ed which her si her some arrow Smeth said Dr. Julius was treating her wrong, and they wen killing her. He went up stairs and he then kissed her with every mark of affection. He then came down to the witness, •ave food to her sister, and witness thought she was too& r. Witness knew Dr. Smethurst had been to ske ~ .-court. A nurse had h^^ -- t for, and _ _—• uee❑ sen, _ witness put the things out for her, Dr. Smethurst remarking that as kke (witness) had taken the matter in her own hands, the responsibility would fall upon her. The deceased wished to get out of bed for a necessary purpose, when witness retirtvl„ leaving the nurse in the room. Dr. Smethurst went in ma said the room was too warm. On witness's return she ra.ve deceased some brandy-and-water, and shortly after she 4,atk. nto a state of unconsciousness, and died that day. Witzrem ooked into the room on one occasion, and thought itx ister was sleeping. By the Chairman : The quantity of brandy she gave lima three_or four teaspoonfuls. Witnesses were next called to prove the marriage of deceased with the prisoner, and documents were put inm fying the fact of their marriage by license at Battersea chuath. Frederick Barnard, sen., solicitor. was next called., azif, said that on Saturday, the 30th April, the prisoner came it the morning part, and asked if he would make up a will far a lady. lie consente,d, and said he would come directly, but the prisoner said he did not want him tilt 11:z next day. An objection was raised, as it was Sun iv, when prisoner said it must be then, as it was a case of necessity, as the lady was so ill. Witness said he wymlld. rather it be on Monday, to which the prisoner conscate4 if he would agree to come on the Monday if required. The prisoner produced a piece of foolscap paper, with writim on, which he said bad been prepared by a barrister fries in London. About nine o'clock on Sunday morning D. Smethurst called upon him, a n d sa id h e wan t e d him as the lady was very ill. Witness asked that the medical might be present, which Dr. Smet.hnrst declined, as the lady was not particularly right in her mind ; she was suffer ing from diarrhoea and vomiting, which lasted for al - A..1, three weeks. Witness went to the house and was shows, into the parlour, and he there told him that the lady aza himself were living together as man and wife, and t. t. consequently, that the Te aan should be a .witness 'y matters were sett Itichinom little while, lie ftirther said that vilivst ,hey wet nd then return 7tvi settle. They went up stairs and entered the room wheze the lady was ill in bed. • Dr. Srifethurst said, " This is die gentleman, my dear, who has come to make your will?" She then produced a paper, the same that witness iz before Seen. from her pillow, and on his ascertaining koala her that it was quite correct with the exception the she wished to leave a friend a brooch set with diamowtts and pearls, and containing her father's hair, and a having been completed, making Dr. Smethurst sole ex tor, it was read over and pronounced correct ; and ( witness being asked for, Dr. Smethurst said he er fetch Miss 'Wheatley, the' daughter of the landlady, but 1 did not want her tolinow it was a will. That being c-m -ruled, when they were about to attest after the lady`' signature, Dr. Smethurst said, "You have not said it Is s Will." The will was then properly signed and attested. By Mr. Giffard: Dr. Smethurst was present all the time. The lady was perfectly cognisant of the act she was doitsg. Evidence was then given by a nurse attendant on ae deceased, respecting the forwarding the retchings to &It pOlice, as also a letter addressed by prisoner to Ma. Smethurst, his wife, accounting for h's being tumble to return to town, owing to his medical attention being re quired ,in a case of illness, but stating that if nothing unforeseen should occur, he should be home by the Il& The letter concluded by wishing her sincerely well, le companied by his best love. h cas ad e, n w ow ith • isr cecl e c i d -ge a a s n f t ar ß a a s l 1 a n possiblet yne t w h i e t n h s t h te e te f d a c t t s h o a t f t h h e e oat touching the medical evidence, and he would therefore TWE ask for a remand. The Bench complied with the request, and the orison's. ENGLAND AND TILE WAR.-The Paris correspondent of the Globe says :—A most disastrous statement comes up Paris to-day from the Siecle correspondent at Genoa, to the effect that a British eighty-gun ship had taken up thee& athwart the entrance of the harbour, m defiance of the purl captain who pointed out its allotted mooring, and to the intense disgust and indignation of the whole city. As to the French their forbearance is miraculous, as they haw guns and steam frigates alongside enough to blow the English craft out of the water. What on earth cart the Foreign Office or Admiralty mean? The British uniform is hissed in the streets, and the officers are refused as fare by the very boatmen who ply in the port. The milliginc who read the Siecle this morning throughont France, v t li curse the meddling of Malmesbury, and the sentiment wiM find an echo all over the peninsula. EXTRAORDINARY AND USEFUL INVENTION. — There iW nothing that housewives complain of with greatef truthfd:-- ness, than the breaking of some favouritehundreds piece of glem, valuable china, or earthenware. Inundearnednsotofbecamseesnsiude4. things cannot be matched, and of Course The latter want has been obviated a by an extraordinary 'anti Derby.effecti effective invention ,lt isa oe m b e not only alli in y nt li that rA may be said to heal, in a per feet ead, of Derby Pottery, new feet manner, cracks and b rea k s i n th e articles spoken of , and these, n b e u ed t innotmbaerbdlwee,latlaobnas. We &e. benefit of this article e some of its effects at Mr. Hall's, our neighbour's, and the glass that h as b een cemented by it is stronger in that pad than in any other. The article is very cheap, and no house can be long *ithOut it. Mr. Hall is the agent for its sale in LiverpoOl,'Etid all interested can judge for themselves W looking in at his establishment. Agent for Liverpool, E. T. Hall, 23, South John-street. Sold in bottles, is eack or sent free on receipt of sixteen postage stamps. None are .genuine, except bearing the signature, "E. r id BAIL