The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
Colonel Barmann, Charge d'Affaires of the Swiss
AJOrifederation in Paris, left on Saturday for Berne,
kith the object of conferring personally with the
i\tederal Council on the great question of the day.
clay Barmann had an audience of the Emperor the
4 of his departure. His Majesty is said to have
expressedl.. his earnest desire that an arrangement.
should
p be effected between the Confederation and
Gr,ll"ia• I believe that the English and French
I,•"7.erements are agreed on this head, and
.are
111 lag to co operate together towards a pacific
solution, The Emperor wishes to be made
acquainted with the exact state of the question,
"ad he t
co precise nature of the demands of the
afederation, as he evidently is well aware of
Ire Pretensions of Prussia. A telegraphic despatch
of°re Berne of this day's date announces the arrival
thl\l. Barmann, who, in all probability, has before
il! conferred with the Council. The concessions
tOli Switzerland has agreed to make are these :--
;:),rneration
of tho Neuchatel prisoners in exchange
in the formal renunciations of the King's authority
ofthat canton ; the preservation to the King
tai i title of Prince of Neuchatel, without, of
aer:3s
.4e; any real authority annexed thereto; pre-
est ,74an of the property belonging to charitable
of Ikelishments of Prussian origin, and restitution
TLPrePerty belonging to the Prussian government.
p' e vote on the authorization demanded by the
The demand
Council was expected to take place to day,
to" demand is that the Council shell be authorised
lLegociate the pacific solution of the thiTerenees
n"le bases hitherto observed ; approbation of the
pee:sures of defence, and in course of execution ;
;ert employ all the efforts necessary to c.om•
fiee,,-: the defence of the territory ; an unlimited
0 -ueial credit, and authority to contract a loan ofd
to Zilliensof francs. A committee of 11 was name
be up a report ; of what nature that vote will
w"'S not difficult to say. The accounts from the
itol'es Cantons describe the unanimitywhich prevails
res°milg all parties and classes, and their unitedf
th,tve to defend to the last the independence of
at The Swiss Government will not be
•`13,88 for money to carry on the war, if war
hav:rOnatelY break out. Sums to any amount
knvir been offered by the Swiss bankers in Paris
ati, elsewhere, and indeed seldom has a question
loolieri which has called a nobler or more unani-
-17, Manifestation. than this. That unanimityh
not beers still more vigorously displayed since the
Swisttlinste article in the Moniteur, in which t
telt: were treated so cavalierly. This is all the
heerer
has gained by that ungracious lecture.h
I)i.or excited indignation in Switzerland, and as
letto,,lie,ed no good impression at home. A Paris
to elle of the Brusselsaers,
Napoleon having withdrawnsays that the
his " pro-
slices.- from the Swiss, they must infallibly
"ell in the quarrel with Prussia. Itwouldthee
lerein, the Government hinted to its writers of the
Too 64 Press to abstain from irritating language.
tre,ralich has been excited against the
• eerer
additio here and abroad to inflame it by
4 A nal gratuitous contumely.
sad from Berne, of yesterday's date,_:
th'e t that "the proposition of the Emperor. redla„
Ido the mediation, has not yet been received."
the not think that matters have gone so far yet as
cleeibt ej of mediation. The Emperor will, no
e
least
exactly informed of the state of thedctahse
'east %,"111 eat which Switzerland will grant, an
'Wet. Wruteh Prussia will accept—before a formal
Said,"4,Mediation is made. As I have already
Shoal Emperor is anxious that the question
wittibe settled by France and England.
of recallesPect to the power the Confederation. ha;
tti infing all Swiss citizens in foreign serviince;he
tay ellned that three of the re
°Nile -
Pill •
158. ationtionfg of Naples are stigllimuenndtesr
.those
which the term does not expire till
014 Consequently the power of recall exists..
'rovann",,ease I have little doubt that the Swiss
2e etisel'O-f.4.„,ent would make an appeal to all its cit
rR da 'me and abroad, that the country beingd
fence their services are required for its o-
th, ; Attempts have been frequently made by
'ivhiebw.iss Government to put a stop to recruiting.
hood
the
carried on in the neighbour
YeArs tee Lake of Como, and within the last two
Sons Yarn informed that not less than 200 per-
have bb"th Neapolitan crimps as well as recruits,
ofreoceeen tried, convicted, and punished for the
It is
said that the answer of the Cabinet of St.
rit_ersb
arg, with reference to the Paris Confe-
or 8
has been received, and that the Emperor
ssi
a assents to all that has been proposed.
be the case the Conferences will, after all,
eelv
ethere formality.
)°.ii following
yea telegraph despatch has been

" MADRID, DEC 27, EVENING.
111.0' The representative of the house of MM. Mires
i'l4„,! Co. has just paid into the treasury the
oult0110)?,000 of reals, the first instalment of the new
„The Persiat Envoy was to leave Constantinople
221, on his way to Pafis. A:private letter
s that he had written to the Shah
on account of
demands made by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.
op!! t'nvoy is the bearer of letters for the Emperor
I;_,,lte French and the Queen of England. The
deuilavourable weather is alleged as the cause of the
Thehich has already taken place.
qtriL Emperor yesterday received Count Kisseleff,
kac.eassador of Russia, who presented to his
11,42tY a letter from the Emperor Alexander, an-
Grn'e,ing the birth of Prince Nicholas, son of the
,inuke Nicholas.
inere.el,e has been but little movement in the corn-
Thealsal quarters of Paris during the last week.
at tf:°Pa have in general been deserted, although
Nvere-„ not of the shopkeepers, the hawkers
Low "c't Permitted to erect their booths on the.
whielelvards until Saturday last. These booths, in
tirtio are exhibited a great variety of cheap
pith ea calculated for new year's gifts, have been
Ntrerto opened on the 16th of December. The
Peara tot imposed on them this year does not ap:
ler have been of much advantage to the regu
Ivereealera• On Saturday afternoon the Boulevardsat
ever,. e, rowded with pedestrians, who stopped
for
8•Y Dootb. where new year's giftsexposed
were
fm
the ale, but made few purchases. Letters from
Plaints districts are filled withfc
cll%e 131 cl the scarcity of money, and the
s
hopedlitti: of obtaining discounts. It
oi f
gat the last decision of the Bank
ilavinFi'an-re,',admitting for discount commercialt bills
the
extent '5 days to run, though not going
flatiti,;:xPected, will tend to diminish the exioshtainvga
'iltelviViSarnentes, The Christmas holidays.
la, an -;:e caused a stagnation of business in the
o
he tilll'acturing towns. Of these Lyons appears
raw
.Beilinleat flourishing, The fall in the price
of
,their has enabled the manufacturers to renew
e►Nre
Elit:ick and to set to work many frames that
ins ; -'e• The price of wheat continues tocrdael-
%er,,an all the markets of France, and in general
'the
bortf, are more sellers than buyers, except
etoec The farmers who had held over theira
riow"s.k expecting a demand from the sou h
d at
;r4inina them to market, being alarme
''cint quanbtities of wheat arriving at Marseilles
recur tLie Black Sea. The following is the officialmar-
l(N`11 of the price of wheat in the different
ror., of France by which the price ofbread is
sled ; -
in ,), The highest price is 30f. 97c. per hectolitre
.181 p, -le Markets of Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, antd,
t.;raeillos
. ; and the lowest 24f. 58c. in thoseN of St,
Th',, 1%41p01, Quimper, Hennebon, and Nantes.
loty average for the whole of France is 27f. ,
than the last return.
1.1
the Paris flour market during the past week
Ina -ea have been constantly declining, and the
1fa5171
kih.,Y be estimated at about 2f. the sack of
at
7if•-grarnines. The four marks were offered
for
7ef and excellent samples could be obtained
The reserve
I'l'4 • Ti at the Hille is about 1.0,000
rleal quintals (the quintal is 2211 lb.)"
state
that from Varna, of the 7th December,.
at the arrival of wheat from the Interior was

impeded by heavy snow, which had rendered the
roads impassable.
An immense quantity of new wine has arrived
at Berey within the present month, partidularly
from the Loire and the Cher. These wines are of
good quality, and have Met a ready sale at high
prices. New wine from Lower Burgundy is not
saleable, in consequence of its inferior quality. It
appears there is no great stock on hands in the
wine growing districts, and that no decrease in
price is expected. Spirits of wine are in had de-
mand in the south, but spirits distilled from beet-
root are eagerly sought for in the north. Accounts
from Cambrai state that two thirds of the last crop
of beetroot is exhausted, and that the distillers
have been barely able to supply the demands
MARSEILLES, DEC. 28.

Accounts have been received from Constantino-
ple to the 18th. The Turkish government has
contracted a loan of 35.000,000 of piastres (about
350,00014 Feruk Khan has sent off a despatch to
Teheran, in which he declares that negociations
with Lord Stratford de Radcliffe had been broken
off. Despatches had been received from Teheran
to the 17th of November. A decree of the Shah of
Persia had invested the Grand Vizier with unli-
mited power for life. The same decree, adding
that serious events had arisen, calls on the people
to show themselves energetic in defence of their
honour. All the chiefs of tribes who occupy the
neighbourhood of Herat have made their submis-
sion. The Persian columns, sent in pursuit of
Dost Mahommed, were advancing towards Can-
dahar.