The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-11 00:00:00

SPAIN

A despatch from Madrid, dated the 9th instant,
mentions that the cholera has happily not made
any progress beyond Seville,
At Valladolid several workmen had been arrested,
and the return to Madrid from that city of the
Minister of the Interior, M. Ecosura, had been
deferred. The Marquis de Montecastro had been
set at liberty.

Confident expectations of an adjustment of the
differences with Mexico were entertained.

FRANCE.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

You will see by the Moniteur that it is not true
that tho Emperor is to have an interview with the
Emperor of Austria in Switzerland, or on her
frontiers. " There is no foundation," says the
official journal, " for the rumours that have been
current on the subject." Of course, the grave
Moniteur is right ; but it is not a little strange that
in well-informed circles the rumours were fully
credited.

The precise object of the visit of the King of
Greece to Germany has given rise to much specu-
lation. lam told, on good authority, that his
Majesty has gone there for nothing less than to
see whether he cannot effect his abdication, with-
out injury to the designs of his good friends,
Austria, Russia, and Bavaria. But though he is
willing, and even anxious, to subside into private
life, his august spouse, who, you may have heard,
is more king than he, has sent people with him to
beg and pray that his abdication may, on no
account, be accepted.

Our political circles are occupying themselves a
good deal with the question as to who is to succeed
M. Portoul as minister of public instruction. M.
Dumas, the chemist, M. Le Verrier. the astro-
nomer, M. Sainte Bauve, the critic, M. de La
Guerronniere, the ex-journalist, and some other
gentlemen, are named. But the Emperor will
decide, and an attendant his decision, specula-
tion is idle. It is not improbable, however,
from what I hear, that the ministry of Public
Instruction will be abolished altogether, and
its functions be divided between the minis-
tries of Justice, State, and the Interior.
Some newspapers announce the arrival of
English and French consuls in the Russian ports
of the Black Sea. As regards France this
announcement is erroneous, for thus far France
has not even nominated her consul.

The Count de Morny will, I am told, leave to-
morrow for Wilbad. After stopping there a short
time for the benefit of his health, he is to proceed
to Berlin, and from there to St. Petersburg.
The directors and workmen of the state quarries
of Trelaze, near Angers, which suffered so much
in the recent inundations, have, it appears,
resolved to erect a monument to commemorate
the visit that the Emperor made. them. These
workmen were formerly red hot socialists, and only
last year got up an insurrection against the govern-
ment.

The Senate yesterday adopted the Senatus Con-
sultun► on the Regency presented by the govern-
ment.

A telegraphic despatch confirms the news of the
complete evacuation of the Crimea by the French
on the 6th, and says that Marshal Pelissier em-
barked that day in the Roland, for France.
The Lord Mayor of London has sent another
£4,000 for the victims of the inundations.