The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-12 00:00:00

BELGIUM

The Presse of Brussels states that General Ortega, late
captain general of the Canary Islands, has arrived in that
capital in order to bring an action against the Indepen-
dance Beige for libel. The latter journal has accused the
Spanish general of having falsified a will during his admi-
nistration of that colony.

RUSSIA.

The Harlungsche gives the following news from St.
Petersburg, dated Sept. 9 :—The Czar has published a
manifesto on the occasion of his coronation. Bronze
medals have been given to the Russian soldiers who
served in the war of the East. These medals will be
hereditary as respects the heads of noble families.
Special exemptions from taxes are decreed in favour of
the Russian provinces on the coasts. They will also be
exempted from the obligation of furnishing recruits for the
next four years. An amnesty is granted for the events of
1825, 18-27, and 1831. The confiscations, however, which
were made on those occasions are maintained. All the rest
is remitted. The taxes will be assessed according to a new
census of the population.
A. letter from St. Petersburg of the 31st states that two
officers belonging to each of three branches of military
instruction—the academy, the staff, the engineers and the
artillery—are to be sent to foreign countries to study
military science and organisation. Very adequate means
will be placed at the disposal of these officers. A lieutenant-
colonel will receive 3 222 silver roubles a year ; a captain,
2,357 roubles ; and a lieutenant, 2,254. Each of these will
also be allowed 1,027 roubles for his outfit.
It is generally reported that the relations of Russia and
Sweden have been of late anything but friendly. and that the
Swedish ambassador sent by the court of Stockholm to the
coronation could not fail to have noticed the coolness which
exists between the two Statesl

AUSTRIA

A decree of the Minister of Worship recommends the
heads of the Protestant churches of Hungary to discuss with
the mostst entire liberty the project of law concerning the
definitive regulation of the situation of the Protestant con-
fessions of Hungary.
The Ost-Dostsche Post, contradicting its first version of
the second Neapolitan note, says that it is only more con-
ciliatory in form, that in substance its conclusions are the
same as those of the first. Austria, alone, it adds, has
hitherto prevented a stronger pressure on the part of the
Western Powers.
A Vienna journal, the Ost-Deutsche Post, publishes
a furious philippic against Sardinia, declaiing that
country to be in a state of war with Austria. " Does
war," says the Post," consist merely in a violation of tsrri-
^ Does international right permit a government to
,elf up to a series of acts in opposition to another
country that are an overt provocation to revolt ? This state
of things is intolerable. Diplomacy ill be compelled to
take the matter up, or else
instigators
.next spring the exasperalion
of the masses, whom the w00..1 be *finable to
restrain, may change this or that spot in Italy into a f -1d
of battle."

PRUSSIA

M. Techen, charged with stealing, some time since,
official despatches from the Foreign-office, at Berlin, has
been tried, found guilty, and sentenced to eight months'
imprisonment, with hard labour. The trial took place with
closed doors, but all the Berlin journals publish a communi-
cited paragraph, stating that it came out clearly in the
proceedings, that Techen had obtained these despatches for
the use of foreign governments, and it is hinted that the
secrecy of the trial was to some extent dictated by regard
for the governments, which would have been discredited by
publicity.