The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-23 00:00:00

CRIMEAN DESPATCHES

The Gazette of last night publishes a despatch
received by Lord Paumure from General Sir W. J.
Codrington, dated Sebastopol, the Bth inst. The
despatch announces that news had been received
from Asia that General Williatris had redovered his
health, and had been sent to Razan, near Moscow.
Another despatch of the same date encloses the
report of the Inspector-General of the Medical
Department, Dr. Hall. on the sanatory condition
of the army in the Crimea, which continues very
satisfactory. The general health of the Land
Transport Corps has improved. Seventeen deaths
had occurred in the week ending the 7th inst., of
which eight were from fever, two from apoplexy,
produced by intemperance, three from diseases of
df the lungs, one from the effects of frost-bite, two
from accidents, and one from gangrene.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MONDAY EVENING,

Although the telegraph has announced that the
Austrian government had ratified the treaty of peace,
I learn that it has not only not done so, but that it
has determined on waiting to consult Fount Buol
before doing it. The French government, I under-
stand, expects the Turkish ratification about the
23rd.

From all I hear the. French government is very
averse to the idea of giving any encouragement at
all to revolutionary projects in Italy, and it does
not at all approve of the language of the English
press on the subject.

Although the publication of the treaty of peace,
and of the protocols of the Peace Congress, is
naturally looked forward to with impatience, it is
now generally admitted that the former will add
scarcely anything to what we know already, and
that the latter will be so softened down in their
language as to give but a faint idea of what was
really said by the different plenipotentiaries in
the course of the deliberations. People conse-
quentlylnow think that, after all, it will be from the
discussions in, and the papers presented to, the
Sardinian and English Parliaments that most
knowledge will be derived.

The state of Spain is beginning to attract the
attention of the government here, and' on the
whole it is disposed to think it a very serious one-
It has, I hear, been rather irritated on receiving a
report from its Consul at St. Sebastian to the
effect, that a piece, very hostile to the French, had
been performed at the theatre there, and that the
local authorities would not, for some time, please
the Consul by prohibiting it. Another circum-
stance which annoys the government is, that
Barbes, and some other of the violent French
socialists are in Barcelona, of course for the pur-
pose of creating disturbances.
The French Emperor, notwithstanding his un-
doubted ability, is one of the vainest men
breathing. It is therefore not difficult to believe
a report that is current to the effect, that he has
resolved (in compliance with a petition which is
said to have been aldressed to him by some Lyons
workmen) to have his effigy on coins, crowned with
laurel !

The Moselle newspapers announce an important
fact—the discovery of coal" in apparently large
quantities, and of good quality in several parts of
that department.

There is a talk of giving a grand banquet to
Marshal Bosquet.
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The French papers copy from the London papers
a quotation from the Manchester Guardian, stating
that the French Emperor has refused to accept an
invitation sent him by the Queen of England to
attend the grand naval review at Spithead. If
your Manchester correspondent be correctly trans-
lated, he displays woeful ignorance, for one monarch
never " refuses " the invitation of another, inas-
much as it is monarchical etiquette not to address
an invitation to a sovereign until it shall have
been ascertained that it will be acceptable and
accepted. _ _

Constantinople letters announce that great sen-
sation had been caused there by the Sultan having
paid avisit to the Greek patriarch, an act heretofore
unexampled. They add that typhus was rapidly
declining amongst the French in the Crimea.

A Venice letter says that the Dowager-Empress
of Russia is expected in that city for the benefit of
her health.

CABINET Co uNcrr..—Ministers assembled yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, when a
Cabinet Council was held. The Council remained some
time in deliberation.

THE EARL OF CLARENDON.—The Earl of Clarendon
arrived at his residence, Grosvenor-crescent, about half-
past seven o'clock on Monday evening, from Paris. It is
said that a step in the peerage has been most graciously
offered by the Queen to the noble earl, and respectfully
declined by his lordship. _

FREE IMPORTS INTO FRANCE.—By a decree published
in the Moniteur of yesterday, iron knees and other pieces
of bent iron to unite timbers in shipbuilding, are added to
the list of iron commodities which :are admitted duty
free into France, under the decree bearing date in the
month of October last.

THE DUCHY OF PARMA.—The Marquis of Clanricarde
has given notice of his intention to submit a motion to the
House of Lords for the production of papers and corres-
pondence relative to the occupation of the territory and
the assumption of the Executive government of the Duchy
of Parma by the Austrian authorities.

ON DITS AT COURT.—it is said said that the Earl of
Elgin shaving refused the :government of Victoria, the
important appointment has been offered to Mr. Oliphant,
who filled the office of private secretary to his lordship
when Governor-general of :Canada. Viscount Sydney is
to succeed the late Earl Cowper as Lord Lieutenant of
Kent.

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HEARTLESS CASE OF SEDUCTION AND ABANDONMENT.—
The following heartless case of seduction and abandonment
was brought under the cognisance of Mr. Mansfield, at the
Police-court yesterday, when a young girl, very meanly
dressed, but possessing considerable personal attraction,
was brought up on a charge of being found destitute in the
streets. It appeared her history was this. Her name is
Anne M'Mahon, a native of London. It did not transpire
what her parents and relatives are, but it seemed that she
had been the manager of a coffee-house, in Kent-street, in
the metropolis. Some time since, she was induced by a
fellow, whom she called a " gentleman," to leave Loudon
and come to Liverpool. She refused to disclose his name.
After stopping some time here, the rascal told her he was
going to Glasgow, and directed her to prepare herself to go
with him. He, however, ;rot off without her, leaving her
in a very forlorn and destitute condition, so much so, that
after selling or pledging all the things she possessed, she
was obliged to wander in the streets, when she was taken
up. Mr. Mansfield said he had received a letter from her
father, and in accordance with a wish expressed in it, he
(Mr. Mansfield) would, for the present, send her to an
asylum, and ultimately she might be taken back to London.
The unfortunate creature, who wept bitterly all the time,
expressed her thanks to the worthy magistrate, and she was
then removed.

FRIGHTFUL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.-It will be fresh in
the reader's recollection that, a short time since, the
magistrates held a private investigation at the police-court,
on a case in which the person charged with a serious
offence, was stated to be a Mr. Ashton, of Woolton. We
say stated, for, as our reporter was excluded, we could only
give what he heard by rumour ; but there was no doubt,
however, of the fact. Yesterday morning, about four
o'clock, Mr. Ashton, accompanied by Mr. Joseph Bates,
and another person, went to Lime-street station, for the
purpose, as we have heard, of proceeding to London.
Whilst waiting for the train, Mr. Ashton entered one of
the closets adjoining the platform; but, stopping rather
long, Mr. Bates went to look for him, as something struck
him all was not right, the more so, as the unfortunate
gentleman was labouring under excitement at the time.
The door of the closet was found fastened, and, on knock.
ing, there was no reply. The door was then burst open,
and Mr. Ashton was found in the act of stabbing himself in
the neck with a penknife, having already inflicted two or
three other wounds on his throat. He was at once con-
veyed to an hotel in the neighbourhood, and medical aid
was in prompt attendance. We have heard that, although
the wounds were of a serious character, yet that no im-
mediate danger is apprehended. In the course of the
afternoon, as we have been told, he was rembved from the
hotel ; and it was also stated to us that great hopes are
entertained that the wounds would not ultimately prove
fatal. We were also informed that the mind of the un-
fortunate individual has been very unsteady for some time
past. The above are all le facts we could collect at
present, relative to this unfortunate affair.