The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

FROM OUR OWN C3RRESPONDENT.
PARIS, THURSDAY Evziarco.
A telegraphic despatch, from Dresden, informs us that
the Journal of that city announces that the views of the
French Government, relative to the affairs of Naples, ha"
undergone an essential modification ; and that, probablire
the fleet will not leave. This assertion is entitled to aoill
attention, inasmuch as the Dresden Journal, the sere'
official organ of the Saxon Government, has more
than once proved itself to be well informed.
in Paris, too, a report has been current that tu.
French Government was more and more reluctant
to follow the lead of England at Naples. What is certat
is, that the French fleet has not yet sailed from Toulon
and yet we learn, by a despatch from Ajaccio,
of Corsica, which place you will remember was some tit%
ago fixed as the rendezvous of the allied fleets, that tv/
English corvettes had arrived there. After all, befell!'
we must wait the return of the Emperor to know preciseh':
what course the French Government will pursue, in
eyes of most people it cannot well draw back now from b's
position it took up, seeing that to do so would be to give ,o
in the islan°
great triumph to Russia, and would, after that Pvier
recent note, make it look ridiculous in Europe. rs
From an article in the Journal des Debats, it apnea a
that the King of Naples has recently granted a greet
number of pardons to political offenders ; but that, in order
not to be imputed of yielding to the Western powers, he
h:,
e
kept them profoundly secret. On the other liana,
no
telegraph informs us that a Vienna newspaper, of
authority, has this day announced that the King has
all his valuable effects to be removed to Gaeta, thafft
er";
population is excessively irritated, and that the ee
which General Martini, the Austrian Minister, was make if
n
to bring his Majesty to reason, were not considered lik
to be crowned with success. ed.
The Emperor and Empress attended mass, and Ps" to
grand review at Bordeaux yesterday. They are
have been received with immense enthusiasm. They W
arrive at St. Cloud this evening. rich
The Bourse has been much better to-day the low!, sea
of yesterday having tempted purchasers. Threes have„ fr.
at an advance of lfr. 20c., and Credit Mobiliere, Piot
As to the railways, most of them are lower for cash'
higher for time. #
The official Moniteur has, at last—" better 111'e Lt.
never"—published an article, in the name of the go'n-ers-
ment, in reply to the statements made in English newsParitt,
stated
with reqpect to the treatment of political prisoners
Cay9ne. It alleges that the number of political prisooehe,
though originally 320, is now only 180, and that 52 °f 111,
320 have died. It declares, that so far from being :10
treated, they have no reasonable grounds of complain,-101
that they have not been made to work with one
convicts. But it seems that they have been made to W°T
are
a thing-which is, perhaps, rather hard, seeing that the/ to
not legally condemned—and the tlfoniteur is oblig,eadill
admit that a number of them have been placed on `oyld
Island"—a dismal place enough—and there made to u„,eit
houses, and to occupy themselves in providing part of
subsistence, .a do
The papers announce the arrival, in paiis of 0"0.
Benkendorff, the Russian envoy, who is eharg' ad to'
establish diplomatic negotiations with Spain.

AMERICA.