The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

opinion that it would materially weaken the tie
eribetween the Principalities and the suzerain power,
ire be an encroachment on the rights and pri-
et,es of the latter. The Neufchatel question is
oaoCher matter to which the attention of Austria
f Particnlarly directed, and the Volksfreund, one
t,,the organs or
the Ultramontane party, has
day blurted out a piece of news which is well
tb°rth the attention of British politicians. " Nei-
., el; Austria nor France," says the Vienna paper;
haul object to Prussia sending troops to Schaff-
balh,, as it will afford them an opportunity of
an_nctrig their outstanding accounts with Tessin
Geneva." A cry is being got up against the
erSwiss Confederation, and some of the German
tans of the press hint that perhaps the fitting
tieeTent is at hand for putting an end to that poll-
monstrum, the Swiss Republic. Many expei
0,,,1e.ed professional politicians are, however, of
ton that the Neufchatel question will be ami-
;o7 settled, and the proverbially timid finance
"4? cl Often quotes the North German adage of
for cc~tJe?nachen. gilt nicht ." (Rhodomontading counts
hot b 0 ) Austrian military men say it would
against Etafe for Prussia to undertake anything
80,601‘ Svvitzerland with fewer than 60,000 or
State' In", and officers belonging to other German
Swig 8 use the same language. It appears that the
btina authorities are resolved to lose no time in
lear„gilM their Royalist prisoners to trial, for we
aire"..,,oY electric telegraph, that true bills have
%vic"lY been found against sixty-six of them. A
the tresiding in this city, who is well acquainte
he intentions of his Government, says that
_Prisoners will be tried, and amnestied as soon.
rei:tentenee has been pronounced on them. It is
taie.ecl that the bail demanded for Count Pourl-
offe„-,wars 80,000 francs. On Sunday the political
stray still in confinement can see any one who.
tie is 9EIII on them, as no order or ticket of admis-
rsequired.
te
prwork
a, Which has just quitted the press is likely.
Wora-uce a great sensation in the Roman Catholic
Priest i• N author is the Rev. Thomas Braun, a
vho -
me at Holzkirchen, in Bavaria. Mr. Braun.
Cathnlis• a man of great learning, and a zealous
P° e'
tie' Some time since denied the right of the
C0nep,,"3,.; Make the doctrine of the Immaculate
the ,zr,on a dogma of the Roman Church. On
corer,'" .f June last the rev. gentleman was ex-
hin:Zuttllcated for heresy, and he now defends
find for
the charge. The book will never
Pers,l„‘a IvaY into this priest ridden country, but a
it is who has seen it in Germany tells me that
extre
3 not ,„ ttlelY well written. The charge of heresy
the stv.'ulY boldly refuted, but the Papal Bull of
1111111 ' December, 1854, which decrees that the
ati`raeulate Conception is one of the dogmas of the
an Church, is denounced as " illegal, heretical,
teeol?refane." According to the canonical laws,Ec. uh
sew Councils Councils are alone privileged to establis
I)o,c."greas, and consequently His Holiness thel
assumed a power to which he had no legal
that The Wiener Zeitung continues to assert
eorcia,`.'e Austrians are well content with the Con-
toeo:Plid the New Marriage Laws, and endeavours
Th "urrn its assertion by the following remark—
e outcry at first raised by the press has ei
rf te ceased, which would not have been the case
nation had not disapproved it." The. truth
Per - Matter is, that the Austrian press is not
-
eivraitted to censure any measure which has
Ceue,,cl the sanction of the Emperor. Matrimonial
cao„'l3 have been formed in all the provincial
ep`ctlis) and the defensor matrimonii in the archi
;?°pal see of Vienna is Dr. Fessler, whoon
arch °nee professor of canonical law. and
fort i,-esuit• A diligent search is now being made
%.,,,;-3 remains of Duns Scotus, In 1304, Dunbs.
tilisqls. Who had the cognmnen of " Doctor Su
Th ;," Was engaged in a long controversy with
ra %la! of Aquinas on the subject of the Im-
ctiatef„4" Conception. As a reward for the opinions
ae C'ained by the " sharp-witted doctor" on such
rnelll, portant point, he is to be canonised, if his
theual remains can be found at Cologne, where
zei:V, Were interred in 1308. The Protestan Kirchen
C`ung thus announces its satisfaction that the
thavarian Government has given such a check to
the
Consistory
to Le rejoice to find that our presentiments are not likely
lia,s," realised, and congratulate our Protestant brethren in
thqaaria on the protection whicha Catholic King has afforded
ititrc,lgainst their own High Consistory in its attempt
to
b `tuee the Roman regime.
Tato" Constantinople correspondent of the Oss.er
f„1, re Triestino, who is almost always well ua-
4TM writes that Esa Khan did not
.surrender
,at because he was in want of provisions, but
the-°:tsequence of a quarrel with Emir Sirdar
ext g.,°4 of Dost Mohammed. Esa Khan was
therb'elY well received and is kindly treated by
creia
trio
Th e followingns-
is news of the 12th from Con stan'
know :---On the 12th of November it was not
ci;tl
en at Bagdad that the war between England
sra had begun, The British Minister and
sclad'une Were still in the neighbourhood of Bag-
leev rialib Bey, Redscid Pacha's son, was to
tive4cti the 12th for Paris, with instructions rein-
to b "3 the Conference. It is related that a railway,
ieD called " The Imperial Turkish Railroad," is
Da„„e, constructed from Constantinople to the
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1:1 Principalities.