The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

'REIGN INTELLIGENCE . -...... .......a.•:........ FRANCE , W EVENING. /Ira have t o day abundant confirmation of the hews I was able to send you yesterday of the attempted assassination of the King of Naples on the Bth inst., but whilst one account says that he Was not wounded at all, another declares that he IllouWas wounded by a Pistol ball. From the high ree from which my information came yes prch ty, I w ounded correct • doubt not that it will turn out to ; thP4t is to say, that the King was -co unts slightly by a bayonet, One of the ac wlil„llts Come in to-day says, too, that the assassin, zs - was , a soldier, was massacred by his comrades ; X in fornaation is th at h e was s i mply arrested, and bade little doubt that that will turn out to be the th e ' ver sion. According to one of the despatches, ;thi'' Population manifested the greatest indignation e attempted regicide. Although lam able to send - 3 , e . 1 , 11 e inlportant news of the attempted assassination ci:`, er day, it was known only to a very limited sa ` c le) indeed, up to this afternoon, when, the ordi rsZ: newspaper despatches brought it, The i`ung Papers, of course, have not a word about it. l u te sul info rmed that the government has, th i s s,,r?°on, rec e i ved a telegraphic despatch from its ti; e "' at Messina, dated the Bth, announcing that zsenrinsurrection in Sicily Was all over, and Lad rli ng , as a Prriof of it, that the telegraph an 3,000 . a l Peered 11 be en re-est ablirAed, and that the authorities 7 infer • th e pr . matio.,, leading g i reward for the arrest, or to the arrest, of twelve of that tireiPal. leaders in it lam further informed Mal e gc , _lags ,vernment has received information that ti le br; saki several other towns in Spain are on O n , ' ,:rAtc of revolt. Cr '''' s wspa ers continue to put forth all manner of ' " ldiet P any t i... ory statements about the Congress. Some tti sq u• ls at Franc e is notin accord with E n gland ,othe r a `the'le,is ; some th a t S ard i n i a will not support ligair,nPish view, o th ers t h at she will, and others tape' t oat Sh e i s d oubtful; some that all difficulties b brok ee n settled, o th ers t h a t new ones h ave eorr: 1:1 ° lit; and some that on a settlement being f er to, ~England and Austria will withdraw their eth ees ° ll l the Black Sea and the Principalities, pu erile that they will not. All this, however, is kat rl tp, e .', T o - morrow the papers will have n ew . ree ls — Eo discuss,- ta--the shape of the Russian A n or as thn, which has arrived to day. pet ers extraordinary despatch has arrived from St. b„ 5 0,0n n - rg, under date the 2nd ; it says that ar s r " Russians, commanded by Gen. Bernloff, the e ad y to march to the frontiers of Persia on Ecti The is, nli nens.3 of the Shah !" ba ti^ Cl " ° E this evening announces the resig• • . 1 , f .,,, NI o " Rim Pacha, Minister of War in the Turk. / - , ebi ll . N et . ) et, but it does not state the reason.. If 'et' I, o '.ce not, his retirement is a new triumph to ti. Lor d Stratford de Redcliffe, as he belonged ,1 Fren ch party. he i c .. --- A. late despatch says that the attac i k hr o a n . lie h 0 1 , n g of Naples was made during the ce e was Dre ve „', a Military mass, and that its success was t he 4 8 7„ ed . by the Colonel of the regiment to w bas s titnia belongs, having seized his arm. The waS arrested. RUSSIA zTh e f BERLIN, DEc. 10. its, be-chewing intelligence from Russia will, if whi c h r f ,und important. It comes from a source _ Ain b -- uave generally found to be correct, but I rat e e l ind to state that I do not find it corrob.o ctegNatlYWhere else, and that it stands in a certain tro ta ' e °t• opposition to the information I receive . A_aek;.°tber quarters on military movements n A - op; A St. Petersburg correspondent of the St . re i er 9 Journal states that it is understood in ;Salm e‘ersburg that General Birjuloff, who coma laae 4 the troops on the Russo. Persian frontier, at treived orders to enter Persia with 50,000 men f Pe rsia first r equisition made to him by the Shah o d'0, 4 14. At the same time it is said that two corps sow n f e h ave been set in motion towards the Ausa torentier. The correspondent then says, as . , e ,lln ot T , l t of his own on this statement, that Russia ore ia, - ', ° ,ok on ; a passive spectator of the bold steps Of ,',"ish Government is taking towards Persia,. `v, of 'le t ergiversations of Austria ; and that it tiiee:labe Russia's fault if new warlike complica niste.7B,e- The conviction that the Anglo.Gallie Pditi„ -- , I? at its last extremities gains, he says, e 'ilai- -I,'-ittl strength from observing the trouble . the t Qii i li;; Press takes to be friendly with Austria ; as 1-.,'' ) fall is -r Y Power on land is necessary for England i 4 _, kj h a n e on to enable her to act boldly in the 7 44 los,' is now seeking on the Danube what she 4'l 'er, •" the Seine. Of the Russian army, how ill it is added, ' u Rh t que e ne demande pas nzieux N'ill ° 1 1:t o , : nl ensure its strength with the Austrians, t (4. 11 It saved in 1849. As an indication d ° ,S tl rd W s i ti . the ideas of the Russians . are . change d e llay sa ,rance, he mentions that it is generally " 4 4e1 1 - , - ulat Prince Napoleon is about to mar . ry m a v °f th, 'er of the Grand Duchess Marie, the widow eq e buk 100 11 10 0 of Leuchtenburg. .If the press and 1i: 4 report had not already given Prince . Napo .on in age to so many princesses, it might be ..,ch s. e 0 enquire which daughter of the Gran '- 'Whi , -,1 8 IVarie is to be honoured on this occasio i n s 11110W'Luer it is the one of her children that ?, t. tl l e ,, d „to bear their reputed father's name, or one lviills- th ree that are only allowed to be called t I , o s e - 0 4 ,. ( 1• The Emperor Alexander, when a g°olB3,- lately Om the occasion of his coronation, I re ga r '' 4 ed the marriage of his sister with Prince r ‘° ,4 , etl l . stroganoff, but it was not made clear ft. ,r th, ‘ tt. ring v.. hat marriage had taken place recently or ni_ l it t l . ue lifetime of the late Emperor; however I, Qi ldre? be there is no contrivance by which th_o ni se ,„' el 'er i\F., e t so he made legitimate. The late E the ' e l nir'ettclas would not only never hear of il llc l the being effected between his daughter s Sligii,e Ilussia n Prince, but also upbraided bi ' ' ollt h ,'e t i. wi th the notorious liaison that she had G i4 gts ' e e e Le l_ W ith him, telling her . that she was a t e rtt lad t o I.° the Imperial Family. To this the ^eet the answered, that she was in . this "i ,tapershe clnite worth of her father, aad especially ncestr e ss the Empress Catharine, in whose 1142,age followed. lady and her prese . n s. ' l lO ll tild have, as it a ears, now received permi e Th e ° travel, and are on their way to Switzerland.. a 1 14 , in --.ll;2l9Bburger Algemeine Zeitung contains. \‘'f:4lllli-„`eittion, dated from the Polish frontier I , l ,,ktlie 1 , --- 'seine degre corroborates the statement 4cl aZfelnent of the e Russian forces southward ,°, 3', e Ni ?ard. It states that the entire Russian the 1 - titl i, "'"ell has hitherto been stationed in in ter h's i.tct only to remain there during the al t ed ' f,: l l', l Bo a cosiderable portion of it is to be . a 1. 1;,, i , a atiT u t e h r e s c oUth t ward to the frontier of Besse . oas of the Black Sea. There is 4 the roe i t etre sirlerab_le movement of troops going on Ni l car p , c r a On, for the purposes of strengthening ei.fonder tootle in ki' P ""d, is destined to c Orenburg, which, it is gene ross the Caspian Ph sh Persia for the purpose of protecting . the T r Ei gai , th:l'Liellersnst European as well as Asiatic foes. :o - uot'll com ing from Astrakhan mention that ), Well . 14 of the Caspian Sea is so numerous and t tb"Sta 07PPcinted, that it could, in a very short cics.,„,tiee, transport a whole corps d'armee to wltiov, -- 'vicinity of Teheran. upof a totally different q gir th 'i e a t k r y e Ete i t i re a r t i sPwitaehesee-boref breakingof the second active kea•• r al t imers till I a c te . l g y under the command of II be recollected that im lars,stelY after • diff e " t che s of th the l ' p t e . a w o l e the various independent tenePt Portiones a f et t i. h ve army stationed in the that were threa ()4sl tWere united ° int e o empiretwo equal armies, ope n r ,‘ l 'est 1, 4 g of the first three corps darmee in th ' (l rlai s l r l, der Prince Gortschakoff, and the other i l lr ide r ,°R of three corps darmee in the south ti,,4deras'eneral Luders. Not long back General `qee - received leave of absence for a year; no St ts itior Was . - his place, and now the th S' 10,t el appointed in . P r eo E l LY under his command is broken up into . lT.. ll : l3 lftp i) d a Etp corps . &armee. The officer next in th '' til t , eo after him, General Helfreieh, 4th of t 3 th O l iriander of the sth, and Lipran . di, of A - ‘ C otli' " V e each of them received the attributes ' il lotVtllder of a detached corps in time of peace. ' 4 pl easure that was previously decided on remains to be carried out, viz., the reduction of the tetrerves. Some stress is laid upon the circunistance that the equal manner in which the active army is now distributed over the empire is evidence that Russia looks upon all matters connected with the late war as adjusted, and has herself no intention of disturbing the peace again. For instance, in and about St. Petersburg is located the Guard, in Mos cow and its neighbourhood the Grenadiers, in the western provinces the first three corps d'armee under Gortschakoff, the fourth corps d'armee to the south of Moscow, and the fifth and sixth in the south or south east. This may all be quite cor rect, and yet not preclude the possibility of the first news being correct, viz., that some portions of the troops in the south east are being passed over the Don for the purpose of strengthening the Orenburg corps, in case of its being called into requisition in Persia. General Mouravieff, who has been almost lost from view, so long has he has he b een on hi s journey from Kars northward, arrived in Moscow not many days back; he appears to be in very bad health, and to be very anxious of avoiding the ovations that popular enthusiasm is desirous of treating him to. According to a long article in the Invalide, it is the intention of the government to collect a flotilla of steamers in the Balkasch Lake (in the interior of Asia, on the China frontier.) The conviction which the 1 ate campaigns in the Baltic have produced of the openness of the Finland coast, and more particularly of the Gulf of Bothnia, has led to extensive plans being formed for its future protection. General von Berg has already commenced strengthening the old fortresses and selecting advantageous spots for the construc tion of fresh ones. In the place of Bomarsund, a marine fortress is being built on the Island of Kaskoe, in the Gulf of Bothnia, which enjoys the advantage of a deep and commodious harbour, and five other fortresses are, it is said, to be erected on the Bothnian coast. Hitherto there has been no place of any strength all along that coast, which is eighty leagues in length. Uleaborg, Brahestad, Wasa, and Nysford are nothing but small com• mercial harbours, and the only thing approaching to a fortification was Gustafsvarn, the chief port at Hangoe. It is now intended to construct five fortresses and fortified harbours along that coast ; the sites for them have already been selected, but they will be built not simultaneously but in suc cession. The first of these works will be a fortified harbour in the north, not far from the frontier town of Tornea. The spot selected is described as being most suitable, inasmuch as the river Kern ielf falls there into the bay, and the island of Sauvofaari (which is being armed with batteries) protects the entrance. The soil is described as being very fruitful just about there, and it is expected that very shortly a town will spring up around the fortress, for which the Government is said to offer every facility. There are nine fortresses spoken of as about to be built along the coast of the Bay of Finland ; a row of forts connected by coast batteries is to stretch from St. Petersburg up to Riga, by way of Narva and Revel. TURKEY CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 1 Last Monday it was announced that Aali Pacha had replaced Fuad Pacha as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the following day it was known that there had taken place a further modification of the Cabinet, by which Ethein Pacha—a name new to the West—would obtain the Foreign-office, and Aali Pacha and Fuad Pacha places in the ministry without special departments. The Cabinet, as now constituted, will stand thus : Reschid Pacha .Grand Vizier. Ethein Pacha . ....... Foreign Affairs. Ritza Pacha... Mehemet Ali Pacha Mukhtar Pacha Mussa Baffiti Pacha Izzet Pacha Police. Roauf Pasha Mustapha Pacha. Aali Pacha Departments. Fuad Pacha This must be looked upon as one of the strongest ministries that has been seen for many a day. The Takim. or movement party, is cidedly in the majority, while the presence of Mus tapha and Mehemet-Ali forms, so long as they are retained, a guarantee against a vast amount of intrigue and opposition, which would be certain to be bronght against the Government were tbey excluded from it. We read in the Pays of Paris :—" A telegraphic despatch,from Constantinople,announces that Riza Pacha, Minister at War, is no longer member of Reschid Pacha's cabinet. We do not know the reasons for his retirement, nor whether his suc cessor has yet been nominated. But at all events, the news, should it be confirmed, proves that the ministerial difficulties at Constantinople are not over T ITALY. TURIN, DEC. 8 Although two steamers have arrived at Genoa within the last two days, bringing news from Naples to the 3rd inst , we are still in the dark as to the movement in Sicily, its origin, progress, or result. The Monitore Toscano appears to have some peculiar advantages in acquiring information on this subject, which it probably owes to its official position, for it confidently asserts that not only has the insurrection been completely sup pressed, but that the Neapolitan Government had magnanimously given the ringleader, one Baron San Marco, a passport to leave the country. The Neapolitan Government has possibly selected the Monitore Toscano as the means of communi cating its benign intentions to the exterior world, and had the statement stood alone one would have had no difficulty in crediting it, but, coupled as it is with the alleged fact of the complete suppression of the outbreak, it staggers all belief to hear that the King of Naples has so entirely changed his tactics as to show mercy after victory, and makes one rather fancy there must still be some lurking danger for the peace of the island. The Muratists and Mazzi nians are said to be both active in endeavouring to make converts at Naples. Mazzini never had much credit in the Neapolitan dominions, but is said to be rather rising in popular estimation as the people lose hope of relief from other sources. The friends of Prince Murat are constantly predicting that their chief is just on the point of doing some thing, and are most prodigal of promises in his ' name, but I fancy they have considerable difficulty in persuading the Neapolitans that he is either a hero or a Liberal. The Gazzetta di Venezia announces that the Em peror of Austria has, by a letter to Count Bissen gen, Civil Governor of the Venetian Provinces, remitted the sentences altogether on 14 prisoners, half of those of two, and a third of that of one, but the Gazette does not state whether the persons so par doned were political offenders or not. With regard to the sequestrated properties or dered to be restored to their owners, I have to-day seen a letter from one of the proprietors, which says that he has received intimation from the local government, through his agent, that previous to re-entering on possession he will be required to sign a declaration of his satisfaction at the manner in which the property has been administered by the Government Commission, and his readiness to fulfil any engagements contracted by it during its management. From this communication it appears also that it is no part of the plan of the Austrian Government to pay over the rents of the last four years when it gives up these properties. Baron Burger has at length cut the Gordian knot of his difficulty in finding a Podesta for the city of Milan fit to set before an Emperor, but not without transgressing the unwritten, if not the written, laws of the country, and I believe both. According to those laws the Podesta should be chosen by the Government from three names sent in by the Muni. cipality ; but this year all the three persons named declined to serve on some excuse or other, and the Government, finding this disinclination to take the office general among the Milanese nobility, has appointed a person from another province, and THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. increased the salary by one-fourth, without consul? ing the municipality. The individual selected by Baron Burger is the Count Sebregondi, at present Podesta of Como, but formerly Aulic Councillor to the Viceroy, the Archduke Regnier, and a pensioner of the Austrian Government. Count Sebregondi was Vice-Delegate of Mantua in 1831, and gave refuge to the late Duke of Modena by harbouring him in his own house at that time, by which service he, of course, secured the Duke's protection, and having also gained the confidence of Prince Metternich, he was by him named Special Envoy from the Vienna Cabinet to the Court of Rome I when the Austrian Government wished to come to an understanding as to how the reforms suggested by the great Powers could be most easily evaded. All the world knows how eminently successful that mission was, and in something of the same capa city Count Sebregondi remained several years at the Papal Court, after which he was named Aulic Councillor to the Vice-regal Government of Lombardy. Marshal Radetzsky's health is said to be so infirm now that his retirement has become inevit able. On the day of the Emperor's arrival at Venice, the Marshal was taken ill, while waiting at the landing place, and attacks of the same kind have of late been so frequent, that although he has long been only nominally at the head of the government and the army, it is impossible he can continue so much longer. It has been generally supposed that the Marshal's name was a tower of strength in itself, particularly with the army, and I was very much astonished, therefore, when I heard the other day, from persons who must be pretty well informed on the subject, that his popu larity with the army is by no means great. His probable successor is said to be Count Gyulai, an officer who is not very popular with his meu either, as he is a soldier who never made a campaign, and a martinet. Judging from the manner in which he treated the town of Milan after the outbreak of February, 1853, it might be a dangerous appoint ment if he were to succeed Marshal Radetzsky in all his functions, as he gave a signal proof of want of temper and judgment on that occasion ; but as the contemplated changes include the nomination of a Vicerory, it may be supposed there will be less power left to the discretion of the General. The Archduke Charles, a younger brother of the Emperor, now Governor of the Tyrol, was first spoken of as likely to be made Viceroy, but reports say there are defects of temper in his case also (as are found occasionally in members of the very best regulated families), and that the Archduke Ferdinand, who is reputed the most amiable of the House of Hapsburg, will therefore be the person, and, being Admiral-in-chief of the Austrian navy, he will make Venice his head quarters. A horrible attempt at murder took place in the streets of Ravenna the other evening on the person of Connt Franceso Lovatelli, who was fired at, and severely, if not mortally wounded, just as he was about to enter his own house, about 9 o'clock in the evening. Count Lovatelli is a Liberal in politics, and is universally respected by all who knew him, but his political opinions being moderate, have earned for him the dislike of the extreme parties. In 1843 he was banished for expressing too openly his political opinions, and he remained in exile in France until 1848, when he was named a member of the Upper Chamber by the Constitutional Government, and filled the office of Intendant of the Province of Ferrara. A a yet no clue has been discovered of the aasassin. and the Papal police are accused by the people of Ferrara of want of energy in prosecuting the search, if not of something worse. By the last accounts received from there, it appears the unfor tunate gentlemen was still living, although in extreme danger. It has been rumoured for some time that His Holiness the Pope is about to proclaim an amnesty, and it is with much curiosity, there fore, that news in confirmation of this report is awaited from Rome. It can hardly be expected, indeed, that His Holiness will be more liberal in his amnesty than his devoted and very apostolic son the Fmperor of Austria, so that a release of from five to ten per cent. of politi cal prisoners, and a cautious permission (which may be rendered null in its operation by the agents appointed to execute it) for the readmission of political refugees, is all that is looked for, and oven of that thorn io no oortainty ao yot, thOugh I doubt not something will be done for the sake of appeal antes. Intelligence has been received from Sassari by telegraph, reporting the loss of the steamer Castor, belonging to the Company Rubattino, of Genoa. She was on her outward voyage from Genoa to Sassari, and was wrecked near Bonifacio. The crew and passengers were all saved, and part of the mails had been recovered conclusion, as the auditors of the military tri bunal are preparing to leave the scene of their operations. Sentences to the galleys for various periods, have been inflicted wholesale, and five more men were to be shot almost imme diately, for attacking and robbing a diligence in the neighbourhood of Ancona. No doubt the severity of these measures ensures the destruction of the malefactors when once they fall into the hands of the military justiciaries; but legislative amelior ations, calculated to prevent the demorilisation of the people, and the consequently perpetual recur rence of brigandage are apparently beyond the reach both of Austrian and pontifical authorities. Queen Christina !s honouring Ancona with her presence. She arrived there at the end of last month to take possession of the large estates which she has purchased in that neighbourhood, and which formery belonged to the late Duke of Leuch tenberg, who married the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Count Antonelli, brother of the Cardinal, and the Marquis of Castillo, left Rome, three days ago, for Ancona, to pay their homage to her Majesty, on her arrival from Tuscany, and to attend to the count's interests in the transfer of property just alluded to. The Queen is expected daily in Rome, where she is to take up her residence in the Vidoni Palace, which, if not one of the most spacious in the city, can boast at any rate of having had Raffael for its architect. The great column is beginning its march from the shed in which it has been polished on the Piazza Mignanelli, towards the base of the monument on whose pedestal it is to be erected on the 15 h, it being now ascertained that the preparations cannot be completed by the Bth, which is the festival of the Immaculate Conception. Two masons fell from the top of the lofty scaffolding yesterday, One of them was killed on the spot, his head striking the base of the monument; but the other is still alive, although much injured. PORTUGAL The Calpe steamer has arrived here from Lisbon with dates to the 6th inst. The United States steam frigate Merrimac, for Cadiz, had arrived on the 4th inst. The following were the foreign vessels of war in port:—Her Ma jesty's screw ships Caesar, Captain Robb ; Sanspa reil, Captain Key; Centurion, Captain Fanshawe ; Colossus, Captain Thompson ; Exmouth, Captain Byres; the French screw ship Austerlitz and steamer Phenix, and the Dutch frigate Prins Alex ander. The Government loan of £330,000 for public works was progressing favourably under the auspices of the Bank of Portugal, but it was still doubted whether the ministry could command, without some modifi cation, a safe majority in the newly elected Cha m ber of Deputies _.....__ NAVAL AND MILITARY The following general order has been pro mulgated Horse Guards, Dec. 5, 1856. The British German Legion having been disbanded in consequence of her Majesty no longer requiring their services, the General Commanding-in-Chief cannot permit that body to separate without expressing to the officers of the British army who were attached to it his Royal Highness's high appreciation of their services during the period they were employed in the force, to which, in a great degree, the high state of military efficiency at which the Legion had arrived may be justly attributed. By command of his Royal Highness the General Com manding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHERALL, Adj utant-General ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11 . — APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenants H. L. C. Robinson (1854), to the Dasher, 2 paddlewheel steam vessel, at Portsmouth ; and W. T. W. Hambly (1854) to the Pembroke. 60, screw steam ship, at Portsmouth. Second Masters J. E. Chapple (1853), to the Pluto, 4, paddlewheel steam vessel, at Wool w i c h ; an d A. R. Bur niston (1850), to the Wizard, 6, brig, at Cork. Clerk F. St. J. O'Neill, to the Hermes, 6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, North America and West India station. Assistant Clerks, E. A. Phillips and R. T. Arundell, to the Monarch, 84, flag ship, Pacific station ; C. H. Stone to the Wellesley, 72, guard ship of ordinary, at Chatham ; A. Hughes and W. P. Albin, to the Scourge, 6, paddle-wheel steam shpi, West Coast of Africa station. Naval Cadets, C. F. Hotham, F. R. Boardman, and C. T S. De Michell, to the James Watt. 9 Devonnort IPUBLIC INCONIE_AND EXPENDITURE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. The return to parliament of the public income and expenditure of the United Kingdom in the years ending the 31st March, 1855 and 18.56, shows the following results : The total income in the year ending 31st March, 1855, was 64,091,571/, and the excess of expenditure over income 6,145,2461. The total income for the year ending 31st March, 1856, was 70,552,1451, composed of the follow ing items :—Customs and Excise, 40,845,9361; Stamps, 7,063,6101, Assessed and Land Taxes, 3,136,0771; Property and Income Tax, 15,159.4581; Post-office, 2,767,2011; Crown Lands, 421,7151; other ordinary revenue and other resources 1,158,148/. The excess of expenditure over income was 22.597,1651. The expenditure for this latter year, amounting to 93,149,3101, was composed of the following items :—Col lection of revenue, 2,863,3531; public debt, 28,112,8251; civil government, 1 ,695,0521; justice, 3,192,4201; diplo matic, 366.4431 ; army, 17,395,0591 ; navy, 19,654,5851; ordnance, 10,411,5441; vote of credit (war with Russia), 4,200,0001; bounties, &c., for promoting fisheries, 14,5751; public works, 950,5761; payments out of the revenue of crown lands for improvements and other public services, 107,0421; Post-office, 1,578,2991; quarantine and ware housing establishments, 137,3071; miscellaneous, 2,470,2301. The excess of expenditure in 1856 over that of 1855 was 22,912,4931. The excess of income in 1856, as compared with 1855, was 6,460,5741. The excess of the expenditure for the Forces—Army, Navy, and Ordnance—in the year ending March 31, 1856, over that in 1855, was 19,139,4811., while the vote of credit (war with Russia) for 1856 exceeded by 2,400,0001. that which was voted for 1655. A note appended to the civil government return states that no sum is at present paid for the use of King Leopold of Belgium. The trustees, after discharging certain annu ities and pensions to the establishment of the late Princess Charlotte, repay the balance of the annuity to the ex chequer. The sum so repaid in the last year, viz. 1856, Was 33,500/. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY His Lordship, Baron Alderson, entered the court at nine o'clock yesterday. SENTENCE.—EmiIy Mason, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of William Reay, at Liverpool, on the 24th of August, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—James Close, aged 35, turner, and George Berry, aged 30, labourer at the Chemical Works, were charged with having at Elton, on the Bth of November, 1856, feloniously assaulted Samuel Rams bottom, putting him in bodily fear, and stolen from him one sack, one leather bag, and two hundred pounds in money. Mr. Wheeler prosecuted, and Mr. Fearnley defended the prisoner Close. The prosecutor stated that he is a postman, in the employment of Mr. Gordon, a calico printer, at Kirkless. Had been in the habit of going to the bank at Bury, for money for Mr. Gordon on Saturdays. On Saturday, the Bth November, took to the bank a cheque for £2OO, and got £l5O in gold, and £6O in silver. Placed the gold in one bag and the silver in another, and pat both bags together into a sack, the mouth of which he tied up. Left the Bury bank about ten o'clock in the forenoon. Called at a gro - ers in Bury, where he remained about four or five minutes after which he called at his own house remained about the same time, and then went along the Bury and Bolton road towards Mr. Gordon's works, until he got to a turn rather more than a mile from Bury. Had an umbrella open over him, as it was raining very hard, and the end of the ock was twisted round the handle of the umbrella. A man came up to him from behind, and laid bold of the sack containing the money. Did not observe the man before, and did not pass him on the road. The man pulled at the sack, but did not at first succeed in getting it away. He then gave another jerk, and got the sack away. Prosecutor was pulled down on his left knee by the jerk, and the man ran away. Prosecutor ran after him. The man came to a stile, and getting over it ran along a footpath for about twenty-five yards. He then threw the sack into a hedge dividing a meadow from the footpath. The sack stuck in the top of the hedge. Prosecutor ran to - the sack, and when he had get near to it he saw another man in the field, at the other side of the hedge. Prosecutor seized the bag. Observed that both the men ran away. Having got the bag, the prosecutor went on to Kirkless. In the struggle which took place with the first man, prosecutor pulled his cap off, which he retained and produced in court. Saw the man's face, and knew him again, haring seen him once before, about five or six week's previous to the transaction. It was the prisoner Berry, cannot speak positively to the identity of the second man. The jury found Berry guilty, and Close not guilty. It was proved that Berry was a ticket of leave man, having been sentenced to transportation for ten years, in the year 1851, for a similar offence. He had been allowed to return in the present year. His Lordship sentenced him to transportation for twenty years. BURGLAILIES.—James Ramon, aged 13, baker, and Thomas Ruddy, aged 15, factory hand, were indicted for having, in November last, broken into the dwelling-houses of George Parker and John Harrison, at Manchester, and stealing from each of them a quantity of wearing apparel. The prisoners were found guilty of the charge of breaking into Harrison's house, in Newcastle street, Manchester, which they effected through the grating of a coal cellar. His Lordship, having ascertained from the governor of the gaol that the prisoners were Roman Catholics, said he had been making enquiries with a view to see whether he could find a proper place to send them where they might be made better boys than they had previously been. He hoped that what he was going to do would be for their ultimate good. The sentence of the court was, that they should be imprison e d i n gao l, an d k ept to hard labour for the period of three weeks, and at the end of that time be committed to the Reformatory School at St. Bernards, in Leicestershire, for a period of five years. Mr. Sowler, who prosecuted, stated that he should not proceed with the other indictment against the prisoners. —James Clinton, Mathew Gelligan, and John Burrows were charged with having, _in Manchester, feloniously and - burglariously brOken and entered the dwelling-house of Wm. Entwistle, and feloniously stolen therefrom several pairs of boots. Mr. Ovens prosecutor, and Mr. Wheeler defended. The jury found Clinton and Gilligan guilty; Burrows not guilty. A previous conviction was proved against Clinton. who was sentenced to penal servitude for five years. Gilligan was sentenced to penal servitude for four years. A MOTHER ALLEGED TO BE KILLED BY HER SON.— George Howarth, aged 40, described as a labo charged with mansl rew steam ship, at I his own moth The facts, which appeared by th-e engaged, from two in the day until six in the evening, washing for a friend of hers, named Mary Howarth, who, although a namesake, was no relative. The parties all lived at Oswald wistle, near Blackburn. At six in the evening the deceased went, with Mary Howarth, to a public house in the neighbourhood, called the Coach - and-Horses, to look at a cow which the latter had bought. After this they had some drink in the public house. They had a noggin of gin, and when that was drunk they ordered another. The prisoner came into the room about 7 o'clock, and said to his mother —" Are you coming home ? I'll punch you home ?" He took hold of her, carried her out of the room, and went away. The landlady, who was in the'passace,saw him draggingher out of the room. A man named Hartley, who was standing at the door, saw the prisoner knock the deceased down, ill treat her in several ways, and drag her al on g th e road by the feet. He called out to the prisoner not to ill treat the woman, and he then saw the prisoner going away through a meadow, called the " Coach Meadow." It then appeared that, between seven and eight o'clock, the prisoner came home to the house where his father was living, and told him he had brought his mother from the Coach and Horses to the Coach Meadow, bat that he could not carry her any further, and had left her there. The old man went to the field, and found the woman Horseslying assis ta nce i hen :here ofhis e senseless.daughtere e aHseed Jane. l carried nge T re lingered enr prisoneralmosthome a w n i with did not assist, but w en t away in the directi on o f th e C oac h an d insen sible condition until Sunday afternoon, when she died. She was about 64 years of age. A surgeon, who attended the deceased up to her death, and made a post mortis's; examination, deposed that he found severa l marks of bruises on be head, and the brain highly congested with blood. Both arms were very much bruised, and the right arm was scratched. There was a small bruise on one of the legs. The deceased appeared to have died of congestion of the brain producing apoplexy. The injuries she had received might have caused such a state of the brain. These injuries might have been produced by falls or blows. It appeared, however, that while the old man was carrying the deceased home she received some falls. Under these circumstances, his lordship directed an acquittal. Ticxsr or LEAVE MEN.—In sentencing a prisoner during the day, his lordship made some remarks, which were scarcely audible in the reporters' gallery, but which were understood to express condemnation of the course Parsued by the chaplain of the gaol. in writing to a newspaper, while the assizes were proceeding, some comments upon his lordship's remarks on the Subject of granting tickets of leave to convicted criminals. The court rose at half-past six o'clock. SECOND COURT. BEFORE MR. SERGEANT CHANNELL. CIrAROR OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A SURGEON.` Edward Astle, aged SS, surgeon, who was out on bail, surrendered to take his trial on a coroner's warrant, for the manslaughter of Hannah Newton, at Barton-upon- Irwell. Mr. Cross prosecuted, and Mr. Owens and Mr. Scott defended the prisoner. The deceased was the wife of an engineer, at the above place. Having been badly seized with the pains of childbirth, the prisoner was called in to her assistance. The birth was an abdo minal presentation, and the poor woman sank under the pains of her labours. The mother died, and the child was born dead ; and the charge ag a i n st th e p r i soner was , that her death tad been caused by his negligence, arising out of gross ignorance. (The details were unfit for publication.) After the case for the prosecution had closed, the court adjourned for a quarter of an hour, and on the re-assembling of the jury in their box, their foreman stated, that they were unanimously of opinion that no case had been sustained against the prisoner. His Lordship said : Th a t h e concurred in their opinion. The question was not whether the pri soner had acted rightly in his treatment of the woman, or had committed an error in judgment; but it was, whether he had been guilty of gross negligence. The birth was not of the ordinary kind, and it did not seem that the prisoner had been guilty of the negligence im puted to him. Mr. Ovens observed, that, if the case had gone on, he would have produced a number of medical witnesses for the defence, who, he was led to believe, would give a very favourable turn to the case as regarded the prisoner ; and would prove that instead of being an inexperienced person, he was a man of long and much experience in his profession. The prisoner was then, at once, discharged from custody, TRE ATTEMPT TO FIRE THE AMPHITHEATRE,— Ball, aged 34, who was described in the calendar porter, was put upon his trial !‘ fori THE MURDER OF MR. LITLTE DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. A. discovery, which it is hoped may lead to still further results, was yesterday made at the Broadstone terminus shortly after twelve o'clock. A hamper being required for some purposes in connection with the works, one of the foremen proceeded to a store in the locomotive department, and in one of the hampers discovered a bag containing a quantity of silver, amounting to £43 17s 6d. The bag and even the running strings were dripping wet, and could only have been a very short time—probably not more than a few minutes—in the position in which it was found. The police entertain no doubt whatever that the bag was one of those used by Mr. Little to hold his money, and the suspicion before entertained that the murderer was a person connected with the railway has received forcible confirmation. There was a large tank of water immediately under where the bag was found, and also some butts in one store filled with water; but there was no trace or mark of spots such as would have been made in lifting the bag out of these. The probability is, that it was carried in a pail or some other receptacle to avoid observation. WRECK OF THE DUTCH BARQUE PETRONELLO, WITH LOSS OF LIFE.— WEYMOUTH, DEC. 10.--The Dutch barque, " Petronello," Captain Louws, from .Akyab for Ghent (rice), came on shore last evening on Portland Beach, near Chisel Cove, i n a h eavy ga l e f rom th e south. Th roug h the active exertions of the Coast-guard and others on the spot eight of the crew were rescued, four of whom including the master, subsequently died. The ship lies in a very pre carious position, and it is much feared will become a total wreck ; the cargo is being landed and conveyed to this port, in a damaged state, and should the weather continue moderate, the whole will, most probably be saved. The captain and one man expired after reaching the shore ; the whole of the crew, with the exception of four, having been ill from scurvy. The mate having died on the Bth of the same disease ; the original number of the crew was 11. It now stands—mate, died at sea ; four men drowned on the beach ; the captain and one man died on shore; four men still living ; thus making the total 11 men. Two of the bodies have not been found. AS SASSINATION IN ITALY—One of the most eminent men in the States of the Church, Count Francis Lovatelli, has been assassinated at Ravenna. He was going home, ac companied by his man of business, when an unknown per son fired a pistol close to his body. The wound is mortal. The murderer has escaped. Count Lovatelli was a devoted liberal, and in 1843 was obliged to exile himself in France on account of his opinions. PERSIA Additional advices from Constantinople, of the sth instant state that the news of the capture of Herat by the Persians is confirmed. The town surrendered to General Mourad-Chafi. The English troops had commenced operations in the Persian gulf. The Presse &Orient of the Ist of December says : _ _ It was on the 25th of October that the town was taken. 'Fhe tchapar (messenger), who was immediately sent to Teheran, with the news only took eight days to cross the vast plains which separate Herat from the Persian capital. The same journal announces the departure from Teheran of all the members of the British Con sulate. Mr. Stevens had gone to Tabriz, and Air. Abbott, with the other members of the Consulate, had taken the road to Bombay. THE NETHERLANDS THE HAGUE.—DEc. 10, The war party has prevailed by a majority of one, Another million sterling has been voted for the service of the army. The Minister of the Interior, who is dangerously ill, has sent in his resignation to the King ; the other Ministers will, at least, provisionally retain their portfolios. The King has ordered the Budget of the Home Depart ment to be preliminarily fixed at the cypher pro posed by the defeated Minister of the Interior. Whether this is to be regarded as a royal demon stration against the proceedings of the Chamber in rejecting the Budget remains to be seen. In all cases it has an equivocal look. _-,......-- THE STATES OF THE CHURCH ROME, DEC. 4 The newly arrived French general, Count de Goy on, has somewhat surprised the: military authorities of his Holiness, by paying a visit of inspection to the barracks occupied by the pon tifical soldiers, where he found things not exactly as he could have wished with respect to cleanliness, comfort, and general arrangement. He is said to have expressed his disapprobation on the subject rather strongly, accompanying his censure with a hope that suitable ameliorations would be made, without delay, in those respects which he principally complained of. Although the actual command of the Pope's army by a French general ceased after the reorganisation of the forces by General Vaillant, the supreme command of the soldiers of all arms actually in Rome is of course vested either directly or indirectly in the com mander of the French army of occupation, and it is probably from this consideration that General de Guyon has taken upon himself to examine into the treatment and efficacy of the Papal battalions now in garrison ; Austrian martial law, after having been the law of the land for more than seven years, ceased at the commencement of the present month in the town of Ancona, and of the surrounding province of La Mama or at least was to do so, when the last accounts arrived, if the criminals still under trial could be disposed of by that time. By way of getting through business as quickly SS possible, the Austrians shot seven men on the 29th of last month, who were condemned to that mode of punishment by the military tribunal for carrying arms, robbing, and inflicting wounds. All pending cases are to be brought to a rapid cm the September, 1856, unlawfully and maliciously attempt 4, by the explosion of gas, to destroy a certain dwelling wit, the Royal Amphitheatre, several persons Mr. Brett appeared for the prosecution. I /louse:, I being therein The prisoner was undefended. the prosecution, said that the c. ordinary course, but that the only diffi arise in it would be one of law, which, ance, would probably be reserved by the courts abore. They were probably building, known in Liverpool as theltlY was leased by Mr. Copeland. Tb employed there as one of the On the night of the 12th September was being performed there, and the prise.discharge the duties for which he was em, Cawdry, who acted as Mr. Copeland's rei and under whom the prisoner immerl' observing that he was drunk, told bi— Mr. Brett: i pening t of the lty which would from its import- TdshiP for aware tt at the Amphitheatre, ,iisoner had beeri assistant scene shifters ,t a pantomine ended to m tha acted. be allowed to work in the theatre ordered him to leave the building. There wert time as many as 2,000 people in the theatre, and just as the pantomine was about to begin, the footlights were seen to sicker. Several of the employees hastened down under the stage, and, endeavouring to ascertain where the gas failed, came on the stable. Along that ran the main pipe (a three inch one), and from that main pipe ran a smaller one which supplied the footlights. It was a place where no person in the ordinary busine, of the the theatre had occasion to visit, but yet when the parties arrived at that spot they found the prisoner, who had not left the theatre as ordered, crouched under the small pipe and ' ' - ".1 hands. Gas was at the rdinary business holding it i It the time, •gely escaping he prisoner observed the parties approaching, conceal himself in a hole, and let F.ttempt. A stream of gas rushed in the was at once 3:.' had been sawed and cut through just at the pl:. 4 .ce where the prisoner had grasped it. The ends of the pipe viTre at once bound up, and had not that been promptly done, s might have as would have been tnost disistious. The 6' taken fire from the adjoining lig ;re no explosion, which was most -possi,` building would soon have been a mass consequence ping g id even if there ',le, the whole Imme- diately below the pipe was found a small handsaw . , and it was by means of it and a clasp knife, which was found in the prisoner's possession, that the pipe was cut. In conclusion, the learned counsel submitted that the prisoner, knowing the consequences of his act, must have cut the pipe with a mischievous intention, and that the indictment was therefore maintainable under the act under which it was laid. His Lordship said that he was against the learned counsel en the opening of the whole case. The prisoner was admittedly drunk at the time, and it might be fairly considered that his intention was rather to disappoint the audience and annoy his employer, than to do any damage or personal injury. Mr. Brett replied, that that objection had also struck him, and his hope was that he might be able to proceed legally in the case, and then if the court above decided that the charge could not be maintained under the act, that the law might be improved in the requisite particular. The case proceeded for some time, but at each moment it became more clear th a t th e indictment could not be maintained, his and Lordship had reluctantly to stop the trial. Before discharging the prisoner he observed that his act was a most mischievous one, deserving the strongest reprobation, and cautioned him to be careful how be conducted himself for the future. The prisoner was then discharged. NIGHT POACHING.—WiIIiam Markham, aged 25, weaver, Henry Neville, aged 20, weaver, and William Cross, aged 24, weaver, were placed at the bar, charged with having at Pleasington, near Blackburn, at night, on the 6th September last, being armed with bludgeons, and other offensive weapons, unlawfully entered the lands in the occupation of William Walmsley, for the purpose of destroying game. Mr. Whigham conducted the prosecution, and the prisoners were defended by Mr. Bowler, Mr, Torr, and Mr. Saunders. The land on which the prisoners were found trespassing is part of the estate of Woodfold park, at present in the occupation of Mr. Sparrow, a magistrate of the county. Mr. sparrow preserves his lands, and on the night in question his keepers were out watching. About 2 o'clock in the morning they heard the yelp of a dog, and in a few minutes afterwards, saw the prisoners and a number of other persons in pursuit of a hare. They closed with the poachers, and a regular fight ensued. The keepers had the best of it, and succeeded in securing the prisoners. Here, however, another difficulty arose. The prisoners would not walk to prison until they were supplied with some " grub" and drink. The head gamekeeper thought it better to drink than fight, and so all parties proceeded to make merry. The prisoners sang some good songs, and, relishing the gamekeeper's beer, assured him that they would visit him again at Christmas, as they would " only 'ee mon his tit f him to well fling. st all eir co COMMITTAL OF A SHAM NOBLEMAN FOR FORGERY AND FRAUD. On Thursday, Henry Philip Arthy waf Bingham, at Marlborough street Police final examination, charged with obta tradesmen, a quantity of valuable pro! it before M carrying out his swindling Lord John Hay, the Hon. H. I Sir John Burgoyne. Of course least related to either of the above gentle❑ that he is the son of a clergyman in K alleges, in the expectation of any proper of. He was formerly a dresser in the 111 and served some time in the Crime home, he has been ving upon his , w❑ res, various Amongst ephew of speaking Staff Corps, ss been nee he The only additional evidence to that which has already appeared in our columns was that of Mr. Martin, of the firm of Stone and Martin, bankers, Lombard street, who proved that, although the prisouer's name was entered in their books, he bad no account whatever with them. It was also proved that the prisoner was no relation to Sir John Burgoyne, nor was he the son of the Earl of Kinnoul, as he fraudulently represented. attendance, and a b n e d en pr p o l d ed u g ce ed d a t ; Several immenset hepri 5 pris o ne r , n eequanti t y pawnbrokers a an at idtyamn of by John Murphy, of the 19th n w g pe e r t roepl Ot ir h nty er articles was the ring, fouud questionp r timeo promise, i s e , afterwards. and form pledged e rly belonged : t ;o h e n e gp r er i dine prisoner nt f oe o r r under the pretence of getting him a situation with some R up e a g n im t e h n e t fi n e f ld Fn o n f t, ln w k b e i r e m b an b n e branch of his " noble family." The prisoner forgot his procured from the poor fellow of his, who was killed 4o Captain pretendedmere i r .n i e e t r t t ti t y h o e f a f r t t h e l n r e g Hussars, a relative S th itfth e battle of Inkerman. The depositions were then taken, and the prisoner fully committed for trial on two charges of forgery and one of fraud. After the prisoner was removed from the bar, Murphy, the soldier, asked Mr. Bingham whether he could not have his ring given up to him ? Mr. Bingham said no doubt the pawnbroker would, under t.ll circumstances, gladly give it up to him. The prisoner was then removed to Newgate in the van. ifle in a very short THE SEVEN PRINCES OF WALLACHIA.—There are no less than seven pretenders to the hereditary dignity of Hos podar of Wallachia. These are, Prince Alexander Ghika - John Ghika, Gove r no r o f S amos ; Demetrius Ghika, hea d of the police; Constantine Cantaouzeno ' President of the Council ; George Bib esco , f ormer l y hospo dar; John Elbow), who resides actually at ,Bucharest; and Barbon Stirbey, the last hospodar. THE NEW ARCTIC EXPLORING Someatz.—There was an open discussion at the Russell Institution on Wednesday night of the question whether another expedition should be fitted out to search for further relics of Sir John Franklin's exploring party. It was the opinion of the Arctic voyagers present—Dr. King, Lieutenant Pim, and others—that, by extending the search for a comparatively short distance beyond the point where traces of Franklin's party were found by Dr Rae, decisive evidence might be obtained to set at rest all doubt of their fate. MELANCHOLY CATASTROIHET—OIIe of the most melan. choly catastrophes that has occurred for a long time in the neighbourhood took place on Wednesday, tt cember, at Broseley, in Shropshire. Fou boys, James Pope, aged 16, John Taylor 14, and Charles Simmonds, 13, having of De- dinner, to their work, arranged themselv mouth to make the descent of a shaft ben , after e pit's feet deep. No sooner w as th e platform withdrawnand for the living load to descend than the machinery gave way, and the poor lads were precipitated from the top to the bottom After some time a workman went down. On his reaching the bottom of the shaft he proceeded to disentangle free . the chain the first boy that met his view, which wast.l". whom he found alive, and struggling to free himself. He f ile was no sooner freed than he stood 11 and d w w as drawn up, yards. Having been fixed to the chain p - t h 's e month with a and was received by the men the theyi shout of astonishment and delight at looked upon his a l t is them . The next haul living countenance staring y wild n i ;est, also alive • , the other brought up Simmonde, the ° e n tretehed the poor little living two were quite dead. s' carried them home, a very short distance boys on straw and eot them lived till half past six that from the pit, a n d o ther o t n ill between one and two the nest morn ing,evening, the di e d. It will be long ere this sad event is when . th e yth parish. forgotten in