The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.—At half.past one, on Wednesday, the Emperor
reviewed the different corps of the Imperial Guard now in
Paris, in the Champs de Mars. The Duke of Cambridge, in
the uniform of a Colonel of the Guards, rode on his Majesty's
left hand. Marshals Vaillant and Magnan followed at the
head of a numerous staff. The Empress, who now goes out a
great deal, was on the ground in an open carriage. The Pope's
Nuncio has left Paris on the pretext that he has a bishop to
consecrate somewhere in Italy, but in reality in order that he
may not come in contact with the excommunicated Sovereign
the King of Sardinia.
BELGIUM.—On the 20th the Belgian ministry carried the
address of the Chamber of Representatives, in answer to the
speech from the throne, by a majority of only seven, in a
house of 91 members.
Sre.nr.—Madrid journals to the 16th have been received.
The Epoca says :—The question of an alliance with the Wes-
tern Powers is decidedly adjourned. Spain, or to speak more
correctly, the government which represents her, desires that
if our country be called on to interfere actively in the great
events which are being prepared in Europe, she shall do so as
beeomes a great nation, which, though fallen, has not yet lost
the remembrance and the pride of her ancient glory. But
Spain cannot act in this way until she shall be constituted,
shall have at least 100,000 soldiers under arms, and shall have
a budget in which the real and permanent resources shall be
equal to the expense.
SWEDEN.—A letter from Stockholm, dated November 13,
says :—ln proportion as the sojourn of General Canrobert is
prolonged the population of Stockholm gives louder vent to
its sympathies for the person of the illustrious soldier and
for the country which he represents. Wherever the carriages
stop which have been placed at his disposal by the King crowds
assemble and cheer. Invited yesterday to the royal box at the
opera, the General was the object of a real ovation. On his
arrival the house greeted him with applause, and successively
demanded the national hymn of Sweden and that of France.
The King, who entered the box shortly afterwards, received
the most enthusiastic welcome. General Canrobert devotes
his mornings to visits to the military establishments, and the
evenings to the files given in his honour by the court and
high functionaries. The sojourn at Stockholm of the ambas-
sador extraordinary of the Emperor Napoleon appears likely
to be prolonged a few days more. It is asserted that on his
way to Copenhagen the General will proceed by land as far as
Elsinore. The Paris correspondent of the Times says :--" The
terms of a military convention have, it is affirmed, been agreed
on, in virtue of which Sweden will furnish a contingent next
spring, to act conjointly with us in the event of peace not being
made before then, and her gunboats will co-operate with our
fleet in the north. It is also stated that an army, composed
of French, English, and Swedes, will be sent to Courland, so
that both Austria and ?russia will be forced to declare them-
selves." On the other hand, the correspondent of the Post
writes :—" I am able to assure you that there is no foundation
in the report of General Canrobert having been instrumental
in forming an alliance with the Western Powers which would
cause Sweden to declare war with Russia. General Canrobert
may have satisfied himself as to the naval, and military
resources of Sweden, but nothing more. The relations between
the government of Stockholm and those of France and Eng-
land are precisely what they were before the general's depar-
ture—highly satisfactory. The French general has received a
most cordial welcome from the King, the court, and the
people. He will proceed to Denmark on his return to Paris."

ITALY.—Letters from liome-oftiTelsih;iaie that the police
there have just arrested in..a room in the Strada Laurina two
of the most active and dangerous agents of Mazzini, namely,
Mancini, of the village of Ariccia, and Lucenti, bell-founder
at Rome. Mancini was arrested in 1853, as one of the getters
up of the plot of the 15th August, and was condemned to se-
veral years' hard labour. To escape the punishment he pre-
tended to be subjected to attacks of madness, and acted so skil-
fully that he deceived the physicians who were charged to exa-
mine him, and he obtained admission to the Lunatic Asylum
of the Holy Ghost. In a short time he succeeded In escaping -
in a boat placed on the Tiber, and all attempts to discover
him proved unavailing.. Lucenti played a leading part- under
the republic of 1849. He was condemned to several years'
hard labour, but he had the skill to get himself pardoned.
These two men hired, in the Strada Laurina, a chamber which
became the centre of democratic conspiracies. On being ar-
rested, a number of papers, some of them of great importance,
were seized : amongst others is a list of accomplices contain-
ing, it is said, upWards of 2,000 names ; also a great number
of tickets which were distributed to men charged to act as
spies in different quarters of the town on behalf of Mazzini,
and which, it is said, bear the title " Democratic Army."
PIEDMONT.—A correspondence from Genoa of Nov. 16, in
the Presse, says that the serious difference between Piedmont
and Tuscany is in a fair way of arrangement. The powers
which have offered their good offices have suggested a solution
which satisfies the honour of both parties. Piedmont finds
herself bound by a precedent of her own making, since in 1846
she refused to receive M. Thuriot-de la Loziere as an attache
of the French Embassy, underiireumstances which (as it is
now represented) preclude her from contesting the right which
Tuscany now claims to exercise with regard to the Piedmon-
tese attache, Count Casati. It being recognised that the dis-
cussion had been embittered by the notes and acrimonious
letters exchanged between M. Baldasseroni and Count Sauli,
the Sardinian ambassador, it has been agreed that these letters
shall, in the first iiiitance,-be withdrawn ; then Tuscany will
declare that she is ready to receive a Sardinian Chargé
d'Affrires, and will, at the same time, nominate one at .Turin,
where it is to be observed tbere.has been no Tuscan diploma-
tist for many yearS. It is understood that neither Count
Swill nor Count Casati will form part of the new Sardinian
Embassy at Florence.
PRUSSlA..—Letters from Cologne -state that the sentence
passed against Mr. Curtis, the English Consul, accused of hay-
ing enlisted recruits for the British Foreign Legion, has been
objected to by the Prussian government on the ground of its
being inadequate to the offence, and brought as an appeal case
before the higher correctional tribunal. The penalty of threw
months' imprisonment, decreed by the puisne police Judge
against Consul Mr. Curtis, has been raised to six months,' and
the Consul's secretary, M. Kray, who had been acquitted, has
been condemned to three months. A Berlin despatch, of the
20th inst., says :—The mission of Gen. Canrobert to Sweden
has caused great alarm here and at St. Petersburg. It has been
current to-day that his embassy has been 'successful, and that
Sweeden has consented to join the Western Alliance. It is
,said, that though the Western Powers repudiated territorial
aggrandizetnent for theniselves, their allies have made no such
engagement. Sweden will therefore conclude a military con-
vention with the Allies, and take part in an invasion of the
Russian territories on the Baltic in the ensuing spring. Rus-
sia having broken through the treaties by which the division
of Eurppe is regulated, has forfeited her right to those Swed-
ish provinces she acquired in virtue of them.
Russre.—Advices from St. Petersburg say the most gloomy
feelings exist for the future. It is believed there that the Allies
will attack the capital in the spring.. A double line of fortified
works will be erected round the city during the winter. The
Emperor has ordered the consideration by his council of a
plan, his own, of another levie en Inane, to take place through-
out the empire, and form the third ban. An order of the day,
issued by the Minister of War, dated the 6th of November, has
been published. It orders that, for the purpose of obtaining
greater unity in its operations, the maritime administration at
Nicolaieff shall be submitted to the government of General
Luders, to whom, in this particular instance, Prince Gortscha-
koff will be subordinate.—A letter from the Russian frontier
says, " Another proof of the fearful losses of men the Russian
army must have suffered in the last campaign is to be found
in the circumstance that all the regiments of militia thtnetcanaToe
as yet reached the Crimea have bthe active arm,'. Phe chiefs een at
atoi,
Moscow,ee incorporated
hSmolensk
,
and Pe
ra
and the Tola militia have severally been thanked by the Em-
peror, in autograph letters, for their good services in raising
and forming these corps up to their incorporation into the
active army; at the same time they are relieved by him from
their military offices, and, though their names will still be
kept on the rolls of the druschines, they will return to their
duties in the senate and the imperial council.