The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(PROU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING

The Paris papers of yesterday and to-day talk
of the angry discussions in the Congress about
Italy, which I announced to you in my letter of
Monday last. But they give no particulars beyond
whet I was able to communicate to you, except it
be that they say that Lord Clarendon was so
vehement that he called the policy of the Austrians,
towards Italy, " infernal." The expression may
have been used, but it is a very strong one for a
smooth-tongued diplomatist.
The telegraphic dispatches we have received
to day are not without interest. From Marseilles
we have one announcing the arrival of news from
Constantinople to the 10th, to the effect that a
ratification of the treaty of peace was to be sent
oil' on the 14th ; that new disturbances, directed
against the Christians, had broken out at Toukayat
and Tokat; that part of the English Baltic fleet
was expected in the Crimea, to assist in removing
the troops; and that the report that Russia had
re•openea her ports to commerce was premature.
From Dresden we learn that a semi-official journal
had announced positively, that Count del Nes-
selrode is to resign the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and is to be succeeded by Prince Gortscha-
koff, late Ambassador at Vienna. From Berlin,
the intelligence is that the King had ratified the
treaty of peace.

Great attention has, as you will suppose, been
excited by the speech which the Emperor Alex-
ander delivered to the nobles and others, on
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arriving at Moscow, and of which, no doubt, you
will receive a copy before this letter, via Germany.
The tone of it is greatly admired, and the frank-
ness with which he admits that though Russia
might have continued the war, she would have
been exhausted by it, and that it had already done
great injury to her commerce, manufactures, and
agriculture, is considered highly honourable. But
the passage which, perhaps, is of most interest to
a commercial community, is the last one—" I have
opened," says his Majesty, " Russian ports to the
commerce of the world, and the land frontier to the
free entrance of foreign productions. lam deter-
mined that henceforth in our markets exchanges
between their merchandise of all kinds, and the
raw material and manufactures of our soil shall be
made as freely as possible."
A semi-official Vienna journal asserts that France
approves the occupation of Parma by the Austrians
and that the policy of France and Italy with res-
pect to Austria is the same, and will continue.
Paris letters, however, assert that this may be
doubted.

The commercial situation is beginning to be
clearly marked now that peace is definitely secured.
At Havre, at the beginning of the week, large sales
of cotton took place ; they amounted, for the week
ending Friday evening to 20,851 bales, whilst the
importations in the same period were only 95 bales
(23 of them from Liverpool.) The consequence
was an advance in price of 2 francs on the previous
week's quotations. On Georgia cotton, however,
the advance was only one franc. The provincial
manufacturers have received large orders, and are
expecting more. In corn, however, the decline has
not continued. In Paris, generally speaking, the
commercial activity is not so great as in the
provinces.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
The talk of the day in the political circles is
about the speech delivered yesterday by Count de
Montalembert, in the Legislative body, on the
recent extraordinary judgment of the Court of
Cassation, to the effect, that in an election, no
voting ticket, bearing the name of a particular
candidate, or candidates, could be issued without
the sanction of the Prefect. He showed that such
a judgment was contrary to the spirit and intention
of the law on which it professed to be based, and
that it would cause so much ill-feeling, that,
"if he was an enemy of the government, he
should rub his hands with joy." M. Baroche,
the government orator, after arguing that the
judgment was in accordance with the strict letter,
and even the spirit of the law, contended, that to
allow any persons to print lists of candidates, or
even the name of any particular candidate, without
control, might be dangerous, inasmuch, as the
very announcement of certain names would be an
act of decided hostility to the government, and
would embitter opposition where it existed, and
would excite it, where it did not. He said,
however, that the government would
allow candidates themselves to print them in
bulletins, for a certain period previous to the
election. Of course the discussion ended in
nothing ; but when it shall be read out of doors
even in the emasculated reports, which are all the
government permits to be published, it will create
great effect. Foreign readers will see from it to
what a deplorable state of despotism France is
reduced. As to M. Baroche's gracious offer, to
allow candidates to print their own names, he
forgot to state that if any unfortunate wight were
to put himself ostensibly forward in opposition
to a government candidate, he would stand a good
chance of being exiled to Africa or Cayenne.
I suppose you will have received, as we have
here, a telegraphic despatch announcing that
Prince Oscar, third son of the King of Sweden, is
to marry the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and is
about to go to London to seek her. The announce-
ment has created some little surprise, as nothing
was known of any marriage being intended, and
as, besides, it was thought on the Continent that
the royal family of England was too awfully grand
in its own conceit even to think of allowing one of
its daughters to marry a young prince, who,
though he " had a grandfather," is still but the son
of a parvenu monarch, and the grandson of a man
who began life as a common soldier.

THE RECENT ESCAPE FROM THE SOUTHWARK POLICE
COURT.—Up to the closing of the Southwark police court
on Saturday, no clue had been obtained to the whereabouts
of Mary Leonard, although very active exertions had been
made by the police.
EXPENSIVE ENTERTAINMENT.--.The dinner given by the
city of Paris to the members of the Conference on Monday,
it is calculated by those who are curious in culinary
statistics, came to £2O a head, or rather mouth ! The
Paris municipality must have a strange notion of the
appetites of the plenipotentiaries.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Another lamentable acci-
dent, owing to the carelessness of railway travellers, took
place at the Stockport station, on Friday night, about half-
past eight o'clock. Two respectable females, named Mrs.
Mary Goodyear, and Mrs. Bridget Cerro!, arrived at the
station for the purpose of returning to Manchester by the
8 40 train ; and at that particular time a luggage train was
standing on the up line. On reaching the centre platform,
they attempted to cross the end of the luggage train, to the
down platform, when they were held back by one of the
servants of the company, who said that they must not on
any account cross the line until an engine and tender re-
turning to Heaton Norris had passed. The two females,
regardless of the caution given them, immediately attempted
to cross, and at that moment thp engine and tender came
up, and although the porter at the risk of his life rushed
forward to save them, they were knocked down by the
engine, and one of them, Mrs. Goodyear, was dragged
upwards of fifty yards by the tender. When picked up Mrs.
Goodyear was found to have both her legs and arms almost
torn off, and Mrs. Carrel's left hand and arm were found to
be dreadfully crushed. Mrs. Goodyear only survived a short
time after her admission to the nfirmary, and. Mrs. Carrel
continues in a most dangerous state.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE...—A case of a providential
escape, as well as remarkable presence mind, occurred at
the Wellington Colliery, Whitehaven, on Saturday morn-
ing. A. man named Joseph Reid, who, for several years,
has discharged the duties of banksman, was in the act of
removing a full basket of coals from the cage and replacing
an empty one, when a portion of the basket caught his
clothes and he was flung head foremost into the shaft.
With great presence of mind he seized hold of the station.
ary rope, against which he was fortunately thrown, and
this to some extent checked his momentum. He grasped
the rope firmly in his arms, but continued to slide down a
distance of about twenty fathoms before he was able
completely to arrest his qescpnt, and the friction of the
rope not Only wore away his clothes, but even the skin
and a portion of the flesh from the inside of his arms.
Still he held on, life being the stake for which he was
contending. When he succeeded in bringing himself to a
stand-still, he managed to twist his legs round the rope,
which• in some measure relieved his arms. Here, then,
the unfortunate man was suspended
his
only hopededheadd of safetyownwards
about twenty fathoms from the mouth of a shaft at least
one hundredfathoms in depth,
being to cling to the rope, with arms lacerated by the
fr!tstioa of Sliding down that distance from the surface !
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was entertained of saving his 14fe. On the engine being
set in motion a new danger awaited him, which was that
of being brought in contact with the descending basket.
This, however, he happily escaped, and was at length
safely brought to the surface, with his feet uppermost,
and released from his perilous predicament.—Cnmberland
racquet.