The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
The government is collecting a fleet off Tottlol
to manoeuvre under the orders of Admiral Tre`
hovart in the Mediterranean.
Surprise has been expressed at the Moniteur
having for some time past said nothing about the,
movements of the Emperor and Empress. Today
it breaks silence by saying that the Empress afld
the Imperial Prince are quite well, and that the
Emperor is employing himself with plans Pf
the improvement of the port of Bayonne, and withe
those for uniting in the Pyrenees the railways 0.
France and Spain.
The official journal says that the Emper-ail
received General Serrano at Biarritz. Tile recePi
tion was not, however, I understand, the offieu;
one for the presentation of credentials—that wit;
take place at Paris. His Majesty has also receive,"
at Biarritz, M. Olozaga, the retiring French

ambassador.
The government was very anxious to get posj
session of the original of the address (referred tu
in previous letters) from the students to the
editors of the Siecle, the Presse, and some ()that
newspapers, complimenting them on their supPorl
of the Italian cause. It has at length succectle'
in its object, the editor who received the address
having given it up. Inquiries are row being instl
tuted to ascertain whether' or not the signatures
are genuine, but it is not likely that the govern;
ment either will or can prosecute any of tti,
students, though it will very probably cause sow°
of them to be expelled.
It was reported some time back that Englo3,
and France were not in accord on the Neapo
question, and that, as a proof of this, when di!
English and French Ministers had an intervie'
with the Neapolitan Minister of Foreign Afrair.s,l
to present the joint notes of remonstrance of they
governments, the Frenchman said nothing at 111,4
A letter in the Independence of Brussels, written
authority, says that the report in question "tv6
entirely erroneous ; that England and France
perfectly in accord ; and the reason why, at the
interview referred to, his
nothing, French Minister 010
nothing, was, that the
English Minister was btt
senior, and that it is the usage in diplomacy i°g
seniors to do all the talking. The letter adds tbai,
the French Minister has, in order to dispel l',*lo
misunderstanding on the subject, given tt
Neapolitan Government a formal assurance tuft
England and France are perfectly agreed to the
views on Naples.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING' e,
It is again reported, and with greater postV.
ness than ever, that the Emperor is seriously ,i,
both mentally and bodily. His physical state
alleged to be such that he can hardly walk witlooll
assistance. But there is reason to belieVe
the reports about his Majesty's condition are, ih -
wholly unfounded, at least grossly exaggerate"'.
Some sensation has been caused by the sticUl°4
up of placards announcing that certain peracTsi
have been condemned to death, by the Impe,rinr
Court, for " attempting to assassinate the Po';,,
peror." The persons referred to, are, howey'a
only those who were concerned in what were calla{
the Hippodrome and Opera Comique Plots
1853, for the murder of his Majesty. These 11'0
have taken to flight; and in France, criminals-Wd,
escape from justice, are condemned par contunl of
and are placarded ; if they give themselves uPLOO
are captured, the condemnation par contumace, atbe
not take effect, but they are brought to trial
regular way

The weekly commercial report records a s,tile
improvement in the trade of Paris; ana
.40
receipt by it of rather large orders for
America. An extraordinary rise is noted in 00.74
the article is now double what it was a short t"'o,
time back. The manufactories of lOtind
Amiens, Roubaix, and Rheims, have D3',Do
some extensive sales. The question of o,
establishment of lines of transatlantic na7De
tion, continues to occupy much attention. ito
Franco_Ntrwrican Company has increased or
capital by £2,40 7,000, in order to organise a 0000
service, so that it may have a better chance
its
.competitors of obtaining the reqii!red Cco
tlio
ces uon from the government. At Havre 1130
demand for cotton was more brisk during

week; sales amounted to 5,100 bales. state
Accounts from Constantinople, of the 21st, .etc,
that the Russian Minister, M. de Bouteolv
arrived simply in a mercantile vessel, and thatbo
was not charged to act as regular ambassadors
was simply on a special mission. The Bustob
commission for forming the Asiatic frontiers
arrived at Tiflis.

A paragraph in the Constitutionnel of yesteT;(l
explains that the sentences of death race' 0,
against five persons who conspired against tiler 0;
of the Emperor (mentioned in our Paris letteopo
Sunday) applied to the affairs of the Hippodrotn..°
the Opera Comique in 1853, and not to anY
recent affair, as asserted by some journalistg-

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PRUSSIA

A Berlin letter in the Gazette of the of
Empire says :—" We are assured that the -1"'"V
Prussia lately wrote a confidential letter to,
King of Naples, in which he prayed him not Nolioi
the risk of renewing war by persisting in a P fl)°,
which may excite insurrections, and cause op
intervention of the Western Powers. It I°, tO°
that tin King did this because it appears 010050
King of Naples imagines Russia and Pr poll
approve of his political system, and will slOd" o
him if necessary. It is stated that the 101;ti°
Naples has not returned any reply to his ME&