The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-04 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

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FRANCE

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Government has, this afternoon, received a
telegraphic despatch from Naples, announcing
that, on Saturday, the 20th ult., an insurrection
commenced at Cephale, in Sicily, under the leader
ship of a gentleman named Bentevenga, and that
troops were sent off from Palermo to put it
down. The result is not known, neither are any
details of the affair. At the moment at which I
write, this grave news is known to very few people
even in Paris, but it comes to me from such a
source that there is no doubt of its truth.
For some time past the railway world has been
waiting with very natural impatience that the
Government would fix the amount which the
different companies are to be authorised to spend,
next year, in the execution of prolongations and
embranchments. In a long report to the Emperor,
published in the lifoniteur this morning, the
Minister of Commerce and Public Works, after enter-
ing into an elaborate statement of French railways,
proposes that the sum shall be fixed at 214,000,000 f
(X 8,560,000), in addition to the sums which
the companies have in hand, the subventions they
have to receive from the government, and the calls
on shares and bonds, not yet paid up. The report, '
however, does not, strange to say, state in what
manner the companies are to raise these 214,000,000 f.
—whether by the creation of new shares, the issue
of new bonds, or the issue of bills—all three of
which measures have been recommended. It ap
pears, from the report, that at the end of the present
year there will be 6,500 kilometres (4,062 miles) of
railway in work in France ; that the expense of
them has been 3,080,000,000 f. (X 120,300,00), and
that of the lines conceded, 4,7'50 kilometres (nearly
3,000 miles) remain to be executed. The amount
which the companies have obtained is much less
than they demanded they wanted 500,000,000 f.,
400,000,0001, or, at the very least, 300,000,000 f.
The report has produced an excellent effect on
the Bourse, and there has been a rise in railway
shares of from 10f. to 55f.
It is reported that the proprietorship of the
Journal des Debats is about to change hands.
In return for the cession of Bolgrad, to which it
now appears that Russia is willing to submit, she
asks, and it is said, will perhaps obtain, a slice—
more or less large—of the Moldavian territory.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France is
continuing to increase. This is a favourable thing
in itself, and it is a symptom. that the crisis under
which, for weeks past, Paris has been suffering, is
on the decline.
The report that the Government is concocting
some financial and commercial measures of great
importance, gainS credit.
The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia goes to
Rome, as do also a great number of Russians of
distinction. It is considered not improbable, I
hear, that the Emperor and Empress of Austria
will also go to that place.
By the ordinary mail, Naples letters to the 27th
ult, have reached Marseilles, but they only state.
that the King had gone there to stall for a fort-
night, and that he had visited different parts of
the city ; also that a project had been submitted
by him to the Chamber of Commerce, for estab-'
lishing a company, with a large capital, for agri-
cultural purposes.
A Munich letter states that Baron Von Pfordten,
Prime Minister of Bavaria, slipped down in the
snow, on the 27th ult., and broke his arm near the
shoulder. •

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PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, DEC

In my letter of Saturday last, containing the
King's speech at the opening of the session of the
two Chambers, I omitted to mention one incident,
of so much interest that I cannot conscientiously
refrain from supplying the omission now. During
the whole first part of the speech relative to the
state of the country, and the financial and juridical
measures that were about to be submitted to the
Chambers for their approval, the members assem-
bled observed the usual silence that etiquette im-
poses during a speech from the Throne ; but at
the words " I cannot and will not suffer that my
long enduring patience itself be converted into a
weapon against me," the assembled members broke.
out in a universal " Bravo." And when the King
affected, as was noticeable in his voice, by this
unexpected expression of sympathy, proceeded to
express his conviction that " his people would, if
circumstances ever required it, evince the same
energy, loyalty, and devotion, as they had ever
shown in supporting the honour of his crown,"
the whole assembly gave him three cheers, real
good cheers, that sounded as if they came from
healthy lungs and meant something. This fur-
ther manifestation of loyalty and love to his person
(for the sovereignty of Neufchatel affects the King
only personally, Prussia as a State having no
relation with the Principality), moved the King to
an immediate acknowledgment, and he expressed
his thanks by removing his helmet and bowing.
If it really was, as I am told, the object of the
Neufchatel Royalists, who risked their liberty
and their fortunes in the last unsuccessful
demonstration, to offer themselves up for the
sake of rousing the attention of Europe to the
unsettled state of the conflict between right de jure
and power de facto, it must be admitted they have
succeeded ; but it must be much doubted whether
they have chosen the best moment for the attempt,
or have gone the best way about it. The King is
so satisfied with the universal recognition of his
treaty right to the sovereignty of the Principality
which he has met with from the various Cabinets
concerned, as also from the German Diet, that he
will be very well disposed to conciliatory conces-
sions, when once the men who have sacrificed
themselves for him have been liberated ; but this
very undisputedness of his right makes him lay
the greater stress upOn the necessity of their liber-
ation as a preliminary to negotiations. The recog-
nition of his right, it. is argued, relieves the men,
who rose as its champions, from all moral and legal
culpability.
The two Chambers proceeded the same evening
as the session was opened, viz., last Saturday, to
constitute themselves in due form for the transac-
tion of business, under the presidency of the
senior member of the House of Notables. The
President and Vice-President of last session were
re-elected for the -.first month of this one : at the
expiration of that period another election takes
place definitively for the remainder of the session.
In the House of Deputies, on the other hand, they
did not proceed so far, there being still 120
members out of 352 who had not at that time taken
their seats. It is presumed that the election of
the President and Vice-President will take place
to-day.
The number of members who have vacated their
seats at the approach of the session amounts to 29
The result of the supplementary elections will in
so far benefit the Opposition as that the places
hitherto represented by members of the right side
have for the most part returned men who have
taken their places in the centre, or, as we should
say, "on the cross benches." The number of
secessions from the House on the part of the right
side is explained to have arisen from an unwilling-
ness to submit to the exertion of the strict party
discipline required by its leaders and diapproval of
the tendency and manner in which the leaders of
that side of the house have availed themselves of
the votes of their followers. This view gains
strength from the fact that most of the elections
to supply the seats vacated by members of the
right have returned members to the centre, while
the left side of the House has, in almost all cases
where a member of that party has vacated his
seat, succeeded in procuring the return of another
of the same colour.

30,000 reals per annum, to attend the Royal levees
in future
On St

Isabella's day the Queen presented a
magnificent cloak of white velvet, embroidered with
gold, to the marvellous image of our Lady of
Monserrat, which
_is so highly venerated by the
Castilians. The Dowager Duchess of Noblejat,
one of her Majesty's Ladies of Honour., is directed
to present the cloak on the 2nd of next February,
the anniversary of the day when the Queen's life
was preserved from the danger which menaced it.
There is no foundation for the report that the
Court of Rome was opposing ob3tacles to the com-
plete reconciliation of Spain with the Holy See.
On the contrary, recent dispatches show that there
never was a period when the closest relations were
deemed more desirable.
A large sale by auction of cereals raised on the
national lands has just taken place in Madrid, and
has helped to keep down the price of corn. The
21b loaf is still being
,'sold at 10 cuartos to the

poorer cla9ses

The Madrid Gazette has been required to insert

ronowinfy,

antoe:ranhlc correspondence,_ known by the name of

minaTs, are in the habit 3f inserting

ecting

y, which is often ineorreci.
41 for the future, as hitherto

The 0, ]eon's Government
to

_ ____ measures they may adopt respeeting military
matters to be made public; but, in order to avoid mis-
takes application must henceforth be made to the Minister
at War, for all facts concerning the department, which are
intendel to be publ.shed.

I~Z. Rios liosas's resignation as Councillor has

been accepted

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THE STATES OF THE CHURCH

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ; HOLY
GAMBLING; THE AUSTRIANS.

ROME, Nov. 27,

The approaching solemnity of erecting the
monumental column in honour of the Tmmaculate
Conception just now occupies the mental and
physical resources of many different classes of
his Holiness's subjects, from the Cardinal Vicar,
who puts forth an lnvito Sacro for the prayers
of the faithful upon the great festival, and for
nine days before to the chained galley slave
and stalwart buffalo driver who toil amidst the
masses of stone and timber that strew the
Piazza di Spagna. The Cardinal having received
the Pope's express commands to invite the faithful
to prepare for the coming festivity, announces at
some length the various motives which urge his
Holiness to call them together in prayer so as to
effect an increase of grace on Christian society, by
" a soft violence to the heart of God " (" una
dolce violenza al cuore di Dio" through the
intercession of the Immaculate Virgin. The con-
version to the catholic faith of those who as yet
tread the paths of error is the first and principal
object adduced,an object of extraordinary import-
ance during the great events that now agitate the
hopes and fears of the world. His Eminence assures
heretics that they seek in vain for salvation where
' exists " no infallible master, and no chair of truth,"
and urges them to open their hearts to the truths
which their intellects must have already received.
But the charity of the Supreme Pastor is not
limited to those who are outside the fold of Christ—
the languid, the indifferent, the worldly-minded,
and the worshippers of pleasure, amongst those
who enjoy the true-faith, come in for a share of the
Cardinal's exhortations and invocations of celestial
intercession. The following paragraph gives his
Holiness's wishes upon the weighty question of
peace and war :
Finally, the Holy Father has another most important
object in view in his invitation to prayer, which is to obtain
a true and lasting peace in the world. This inestimable
gift comes only from God, the world cannot give it, not
knowing what it is, and the enemy of mankind uses .every
effort to see it banished from the earth. This peace
consists in uniformity of thought, tending to the real
welfare of men, and in a moderation of those wish
when unchecked and unjust, are the true cause of the
agitation of spirits, the license of words and writings,
and the commission of excesses never to be sniliciently
deplored. _ _

es which,

Invito Sacco concludes with a promise on
the part of his Holiness of seven years' indulgence
and. seven times forty days for every visit to the
novena, and plenary indulgence for five visits.
Meanwhile a solid inclined plane has baen con-
structed on the Piazza di Spagna for the ponderous
column to be dragged up to a level with its haae;
and many a sylvan monarch has fallen beneath the
woodman's axe in the lofty pine forests on the sea
;At to contribute its straight and rigid trunk to
,-;antic scaffolding. The Bth of December
is fixod on for the solemnity, as being the annual
al, but it will be probably deferred -till the
octa in order to gain a few more days.
A tombola, or public lottery, took place on Sun-
day last, by government authorisation, part, of the
proceeds being devoted 'to the cholera orphans.
The ceremony came off on the ample Piazza
Navona, where, lured by prizes amounting to
23,000 francs, all Rome resorted to gamble tickets
in hand. Just when the great prize was announced
to have been won, and the happy individual was
seen ascending the steps to the official platform,
a mighty wave of tumult agitated the thickly-
wedged crowd, and the usual panic, which now
invariably accompanies numerous meetings in
Rome, took place, people treading ono another
under foot in all directions in their frantic efforts
to escape. The cause of the row was the capture
by the gendarmes of a thief disguised as a monk,
who left his spolia opima (a false beard) in the
hands of his unceremonious assailants.
An event has recently occurred not calculated to
reflect credit upon a certain class of government
partisdns in this country. The Governor of the
Custom-house at Ferrara has just been condemned
by default, for smuggling transactions •on an
enormous scale. This worthy individual is Signor
Virinio Alpi, well known as a, devoted Papilino
and'unscrupulous sanlediste, who was arrested for
conspiracy against Pio Nono's liberal government
in 1847; 'and kept in prison until the restoration,'
when he obtained liberty and a handsome employ-
ment. On his nefarious practices. being discovered,
he
.had the audacity to come: to Rome to defend
himself, but not finding so much complaisance as
• he expected in the-authorities, he fled (without let
'. or hindrance) 'to: Modena, where his sentence has
, just followed him. •
The new general, Count do Goyon, has com-
menced his period of command by keeping the
troops in constant activity. In the northern pro-
vinces the withdrawing of the Austrian troops from
the smaller towns and concentrating them at
Bologna awl Ancona is not considered as anything
very remarkable. The same operation has been
gone through before from time to time, the com-
manders sending their troops out again into country
garrisons when they wanted elbow room in the
large towns. The principle of Austrian occupation
remains unaltered.

the

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.— At the Lambeth Police-
court, on Tuesday, Mr. William Glover, for some time a
confidential clerk and cillector to the Messrs. Chaplin,
brewers, of Stockwell Green, London, was finally ex•
amined and committed for trial, on a charge of embezzling
large sums of money, received on account of his employers.
A CIIECK TO " TICKET OF LEAVE" the case
of Simon Byrne, a ticket of leave convict, who is at pre-
sent awaiting his trial for attempting to steal sheep from
the lands of Mr. Robert Hanlon, and an ass belonging to
a person in Athy, besides other robberies, the police of
Carlow have received a warrant from the Lord Lieutenant
directing that he shall be arrested on his leaving prison,
and transmitted to Dublin, for the purpose of undergoing
the remainder of his sentence in penal servitude, in con-
quence of his having violated the. liberty granted him to
go at large.
EXTRAOUDINARY CASE.—A robbery, the circumstance
which, considering the juvenility of the offender, may be
accounted almost unprecedented, occurred at Snringficld,
Essex, on Saturday last, A girl, named Eliza Betts, but
fifteen years o'd. it seems, purchased a small quanti y'of
laudanum at Ch. lrusfe.rd, to cure (she said) the toothache.
With this she drugged her father's and sister's tea, and, in
night, takinY o of the somniferous effect of the
her's pockets in the bedroom,
• early with the spoil, which

r,,nsacked the house, de

PENINSULAR MAILS.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
By Express.

SOUTHAMPTON, W
- EDNESDAY AFTERNOON

The steam-ship Euxine, of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Capt. Weeks,
with the Peninsular Mails in charge of Lieutenant
Brown, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived here this
afternoon.
During the passage the Euxine experienced
light winds from the North-East, and fine weather
across the Bay of Biscay.
The Euxine brings 10 first, and 4 second class
passengers, also 14 on deck, in all 28.
The cargo consists of 11 casks of wine, 860
baskets of chesnuts, 192 boxes of eggs, 40 boxes
of onions, 670 boxes of almonds, 343 boxes of
raisins, 1,382 half chests of oranges, and 10 pack-
ages sundries; besides 30 packages of specie,
valued at £13,725 sterling.
By this arrival we have received advices from
the following places, to the dates annexed :
Gibraltar Nov. 25
Cadiz ..
Lisbon
Oporto 3O
Vigo .. „ 30
The general news is not of much moment.
The terms of the loan with the Bank of Portu-
gal have been published in Lisbon ; as a guarantee
of payment the Portuguese government have
deposited in the bank temporary titulos repre-
senting Three per Cent. Bonds. These titulos
have been preferred as more negotiable than
inscriptions in foreign markets. The interest of
these bonds is to be provided put of the revenues
of the custom-houses of Lisbon and Oporto. The
Bank takes a portion 'of the loan at 5, and offers
the rest to subscription at 64. This loan :will be
for six months, when the Portuguese government,
it is expected, will be in a position by transactions
on the bonds in the London and other markets to
raise the security. _ _ _

—ll:change on London at Lisbon 30 days, 52; ;
90 days, 531

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,

Gibraltar, Nov. 16.—Arrived—Steamer Damascus, 5i
days from Liverpool, with a general cargo for Malta and
Constantinople (cleared). Nov. 17—Brig Superb, with
oil and lead for Liverpool (cleared). Nov. 18—Steamer
Dane, 41 days from Marseilles, with a general cargo for
Liverpool (cleared). Nov. 19—Barque lleath, 12 days
from Liverpool, with coals. Nov. 20—Steamer Milan.
from Naples and Palermo, with a general cargo, for
Liverpool (cleared); steamer Tiber, 61 days from
Liverpool, with a general cargo for Genoa. Steamer
Danube, from Trieste, Patras, and Palermo, with
a general cargo for Liverpool (cleared). Nov. 24
Steamer Albanian, 5* days from Lliterpool, with a general
cargo for Gibraltar and Trieste (cleared). Nov. 25
Steamer Teneriffe, froni Alexandria, Malta and Tunis,
with'Wheat for Liverpool. H. M.'s Ships at Gibraltar—
H.M.S. Curlew, screw Teneriffe.
Lisbon.—Cesar, Centurion, Exmouth. Sanspareil, and
Colossus, French man-of-war Austerlitz, Dutch frigate
Prince Charles, U.S.S. frigate Merrimac.

Ship observed on the voyage.—Nov. 30, at 4.30 p.m.,
spoke the Peninsular and Oriental s.s. Alhambra, off the
Island of Ous, about 18 miles N.N.W. of Vigo.

TOTAL WRECK OF THE REGINA, OF LONDON,
FOUR OF TILE CREW FROZEN TO DEATH.

The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for
Trade have received the following letter, giving particulate
of the loss •of the Regina, and detailing the sufferings of her