The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-01 00:00:00

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN TURKEY.

Despatches from Constantinople state that the
war preparations are still being carried on there
with the utmost energy and activity.
The suggestions made by Omer Pacha have been
fully approved of by the Ottoman Government.

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SWEDEN,

Intelligence from Stockholm informs us that it
is officially announced that the most active prepa-
rations for war are to be continued in that king.
dom. Sweden will be fully prepared to take part,
if necessary, in warlike operations.

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, THURSDAY 'EVENING

The transactions to-day on the Bourse closed
at the following quotations :—Four and a Half per
Cents., 96f. 25e. ; Three per Cents., 70f. 80c.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

Still we have nothing official about the great
questiotiof the moment. But it is expected that
in a day or two at the most, the signing of the
preliminaries of peace, which is to take place in
this city, and not, as at first supposed, at Vienna,
%yin he announced in the llfoniteur. The text of
the Russian acceptance of the Austrian proposi-
tions having been for some days in the hands
of the French and English governments, surprise
is expressed at their not having published it. The
date of meeting Of the Conferences will be the 21st
February, or a day or two before or after, and it is
expected that the conferences will not last more
than a month.

The Bourse continues to manifest the most
complete confidence in the conclusion of peace;
the man who should there venture to express any
doubt on the matter would be insulted, perhaps
illtreated. To day the confidence has been mani-
fested by another very considerable rise. The
Boursiers pretended to know positively that the
speech to be delivered by the Queen of England
on opening Parliament to•morrow, will be ultra-
pacific.
_ _ _

- A piece of court gosip is, that the Emperor
said to a general who waited on him to pay his
respects—" General, I hope by the 20th of March
(the anniversary of the great Napoleon's return
from Elba) to give France an heir to the throne,
and peace ! " Another bit of gossip is, that His
Majesty said to General Bosquet, the Crimean
hero,—" Well general we are to have peace ?"
"So it seems, Sire," answered Bosquet, " but
notwithstanding, I recommend your Majesty not
to cease warlike preparations." "Why so ?" "Be-
cause they will naturally be required to enable us
before long to join the Russians in making war on
the English." To this answer the Emperor is said
to have smiled gravely, • I have some reason to
believe that the first story is true, but I doubt very
much the second one about Bosquet.
Such is the engouement for peace just now, that
no attention is paid to the gravity of the relations
between the United States and England.

The Constitutionnel has a letter from St. Peters-
burg which says that the Russian nobility of
Moscow—the old Russian party—are. indignant in
the extreme against the Czar for having accepted
the.. Austrian conditions, which they proclaim
humiliating to Russia. ln the city some appre-
hension is entertained that perhaps some san-
guinary outbreak of the fanatic Russian nobility
and,''people will render it impossible for the
Emperor Alexander to maintain his acceptnace of
the conditions.

We have accounts from Constantinople to the
20th. The news of the Russian acceptance arrived
on the lath, and created a tremendous sensation.
The Greek population could not believe the thing
true : the Turks received the news with pleasure.
A vessel containing the intelligence has been sent
off to the Crimea. On the 9th the Russians
attempted to atteek Kertch, but were prevented by
the vigilance of General Vivian. _

A. grand ball was given at the Tuileries last
night.

CIIRIST/ANITY IN NEW Zr'ALAND.—A similar meeting
to th at held in Everton on Wednesday night, was held in
Cornwallis-street eehools last night, for the purpose of
bearing a statement from the Rev. Richard Taylor, mis-
sionary, o; the progress of Christianity in N.,w Zealand.
tors of Midbnrst,
" Hepango,)' a native New Zealander, was also present.
nomination as a candidate at the
Mr. Walpole has issued his farewell address to the eke-
allow myself to be" Having received
such numerous app:;..
nations from my own University to
approaching election. I felts had hardly any other alterna-
tive than to respond to the e:x11 which h&s thus been made
to me."
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pirult hwohich he
sass :

Fdate of the 10th
January,
passed
the frontiers of St. Domingo wi.h his army in three divi-
m St.
w e p
learnomintghoatanttd)e iltnitlpe' ro; under: iustin had
!‘ionsl one of which he commanded in person. The
Dominicans met Lim, gave battle, and totally rowed the
Havtian army, capturing many prisoners and vighty cases
of am ruzlition. Several generals in the Emperor's service
have been tried, condemned and shot, for having ft,d
during the battle. Nearly all the male population between
the ages of 16 and 60 were compelled to accompany the
Emperor. Business is very dull in oonsequonce.