The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-14 00:00:00

the neighbourhood. Contrary to the general ex-
pectation, the Pope visited the E.nprese-Dowager
previous to his kparture. Her 11,Iajesty received
him, with the.same ceremonial with which she had
herself been received at the Vatican. The Em-
press had visited the Palace of the Vatican five
qumesive days, and closely exAtnin.od all the
curiosities contained in it. She likewise visited
the. Museum by torch-light. One hundred cannon
are being cast, under the Direction' of a Pied-
mootese officer, to arm the fortress of Ancona.

The Parma Gazette, of the 6fh inst, announces
officially that the concession of a railway, to con-
'ncct Piacenza with the Sardinian frontier has been
granted to an Italian company.
The. 9th anuiersary of the promulgation of the
constitution granted by the late Charles Albert
`was Celebrated at Turin on the 10th inst. - _

The ministerial journal, the Pays contains the
following contradiction of the announcement in
'the JoUrnal cle Dracle that the Shah of Persia had
Trellised to ratify the' treaty of peace concluded
with the',British.goternmeut.
" The Journal (le Dread d annottnees, in the most
formal manner, that the Shah of Peraia has refused
to ratify the 'treaty signed in Paris by Feruk
Khan. We believe this information to be com-
pletely etronew.is. No news from Teheran has
reached Europe ainiotincing the arrival of the
treaty of peace in that city. Consequently* it is
impossible that the intentiens, of the CcUrt of
pe-rs4l, with respect to that treaty, can be known.
These facts are positive. We' will add that the
circumstances which preceded and followed The
nogociations, and everything relating Persian
affairs, induces us to regard the ratification of the
treaty as certain."
The following despatches have been received
"BERLIN, MAY 11, EirtNING.

"Prince Napoleon was present this morning at
a grand military review at Potsdam, after which a
djeuner was given at. the Palace of Sans- Souci.
c)7night the Prince will be. present at a ball at the
French Embassy. Yesterday. morning he attended
Mass,, and afterwards received the diplomatic corps.
In the afternoon he proceeded to Charlottesiburg,
.where a family dinner took place. The. Queen will
leave tomorrow, and Prince Napoleon the day after,
for Dresden.

I` MAY 12

"The Chamber of -Deputies adopted yesterday
the bill imposing a tax on pateit4es (license to trade),
s,vith the am3ndenent, which re-establishes the
tariffs rejected by the Upper House." •

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MAY 10.

The officiil` Wiener /icitung of this morning con-
tains the following autograph letter from hiS Ma-
jesty the:-Emperor to the Minister of Justice:—
"Dear Baron de Krauss,—ln order, to consign to
eternal oblivion the political ah3rrations of a sad
time past, and more particularly the revolutionary
movements which in the year 1848 were directed
against the existing order of things, I now, in the
way of grace, remit all further punishment to all
my subjects, being civilians, who belong to those
parts of my Empire which do not appertain to my
Lombardo Venetian KingdOm, that have been con-
demned for 'hig;h treason, rebellion, or sedition,
(paragraphs 58, 01, 08, and 75 of the State Laws,)
and.are still impriJned in this country.
" At the same time I ordain that no criminal
proces.s shall be insti, uted for the abovemencioned
crimes committed before this present day, unless
the accused shall have escaped the hands of justice
by flight, and shall still be fugitives ; and I do
further ordain that all the penal examinations now
carried on for the abovemeutionedl crimes shall be
dis‘conlinue 1 immediately.
" This act of grace, shall also extend to the indi-
viduals included in the afore-mentioned category
who have been guilty of one or more of the herein
after named crimes or offences : Insult to majesty,
insult to members of the imperial family, dis
turbance of the public peace (paragraphs 63-66),
exciting to sedition, as mentioned in paragraph,
300 of the:State Laws, or aiding and abetting in the
commission of •one of the above-mentioned acts.
(Paragraphs 212 215, 217, 219, and 307.)
" Thus, all the aforementioned persons, whether
imprisoned for punishment or for examination,
shall immediately be liberated.
" In respeet, to those individuals who have been
guilty of other punishable offences, in addition to
those which have been enumerated, you will pro-
ce ed to a corresponding (entsprescends). diminution
of punishment, agreeably to the instructions -which
you With these presents receive from me.
" You will take appropriate Afieasures, so that
this act of grace may inamediatelY be made known
to all those whom it may concern, and be properly
carried out, " FRANCIS JOSEPH.
1 " Buda, May Bth, 1857."

PRUSSIA:

BERLIN, MAY 11.

Yesterday, being Sunday, furnished very little
material towards a history of Prince Napoleon's
stay in this capital. It will hardly interest you to
know that 'his Imperial Highness attended high
mass at the Catholic church here, that on entering
he was received, and on leaving the edifice he was
"preceded to the door, by the ministering clergy
bearing a cross. On his return from mass the
Prince received the Corps Diplomatique, who came
to pay him their respects.
I cannot ascertain that the Prince- has any
" mission" here-beyond returning Prince Frederick
William's visit of last year ; the Emperor Louis
Napoleon's visit to Prussia, which has for a long
time past been more or less on the tapir, and is at
present talked of as . to take place in the autumn
(for the purpose of his being present at the konigs
manceuvre of the 6th armee corps in the province 'ot
Saxony), is just as much au open question as ever.