The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

Congress, and that during that period events have
proved the accuracy of the opinions expressed by
the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries when they deClared
that it was necessary to ameliorate the political
situation of the Italian Peninsula. The declarations
of the municipal councils of Bologna and of
Ravenna, the address of the provincial congrega-
tion of Brescia, the legal resistance of the
inhabitants of Pesaro, the refusal of the pro-
vincial council of Benevento to allow in the
budget a sum for an indemnity to the Consultore
of Finance, and other significent facts of the same
nature, demonstaate the progress of liberal ideas
in Italy and the development of the spirit of legal
resistance which must continue to gain ground.
The movement in Sicily, the administration
chaos in the Roman States, and the judicial atro-
cities committed in Naples have proved, on the
other hand, that by persisting to shut one's ears to
the language of sagacious and moderate men the
revolutionary element is encouraged rather than
suppressed. In fact, the present state of Italy is
the most eloquent commentary on the note of the
inth of April. The question resolves itself to this.
If it be seriously intended to secure the peace of
Europe something must be done for Italy. If
nothing be done for Italy the peace of Europe will
be ever uncertain and precarious, and after all it
cannot be durable. The Italian cause is-a cause of
order, of justice, and of legality. It can never
triumph except by order, justice, and legality.
The following private telegraphic despatch has
been received :

TURIN, DEc. 16.

The Chevalier Boncompagni, President of the Chamber
of Deputies, has been named Minister Plenipotentiary at
Florence.
Letters from Bologna state that Count Lavatelli
died of his wounds after three:days' suffering. The
Milanese journals assert that le was stabbed, like
Count Rossi, by Mazzinians, for having joined the
Pontifical Government, and that pamphlets writ-
ten by Mazzini was found on the assassin.
A letter from Janina of the Ist, in the Itioniteur,
says,—
The province has just been freed from those malefactors
who had established their haunts in the mountains of Kour-
velech. Hussien Pacha returned to Janina a few days since,
bringing with him in chains the noted brigand chief Birbi
Aga. forty four of his band, and about the same number of
individuals accused of having taken a more or less direct
part in the depredations which have been carried on for
some years past in the district of Argyrocastro. Hussien
Pasha, whose ardour is indefatigable, is preparing to set out
again for Thessaly, where bands of brigands are being orga-
nised, and who find recruits at this season among the Wal-
lachian mountaineers, who come down into the plains for
the winter.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 9th say :
The fete ',of the military order of St. George was cele-
brated at the palace yesterday. The Emperor was present
at Divine service, and afterwards gave a dinner to all the
Knights of the Order. It is said that, about the 17th, the
Emperor will remove from Tzarskoe-Selo, to take up his
definite residence at St. Petersburg. M. Cheremetieff,
Minister of remains, has had an attack of apoplexy, and his
life is in danger. Changes in the civil service are about to
take place. Hitherto Russian educational establishments
have been divided into three categories, so that employes had
greater chances of promotion if educated in a superior
establishment than in an inferior one; but it is now said
that this distinction is to be abolished. It is also rumoured
that no rank in the civil service is henceforth to give rights
of nobility.

MARSEILLES, DEc,lB.
M. Bouree, the French minister to Persia, has
arrived here, and is going to Paris,
General Rostolan, commander of the troops in
the department of the Bouches du Rhone, has
just left Marseilles, with the Colonel of the staff,
and an aidado-camp, to visit the Empress Dowager
of Russia, at Nice.