The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

family have given the directors permission to that
effect.
The Commercial and Industrial " Union " at the
town of Kiel has formed a committee for the pur-
pose of carrying out the project of uniting Kiel,
Eckernforde, and Schleswig by a railway, which
promises to be of the greatest future benefit to that
part of Holstein and Schleswig, and consequently
it is fully expected that the Government will afford
to the execution of the scheme every desirable
support. The committee is composed of men of
the highest respectability and influence in those
respective places, which cannot fail to make a
favourable impression upon the Minister for the
Duchy of Holstein. The plan of uniting the
Altona and Kiel railway by a branch line with that
of Hamburg and Berlin direct has been unsup-
ported by the Government from strategic motives.
Russian accounts from St. Petersburg up to the
26th ult. state that on the 15th of that month the
proof nnmber of a new periodical, at Helsingfors,
as an official organ of the Government, had been
published in the Finnish language, which will
continue from the Ist of January, 18 .7, to be cir-
culated twice a week throughout the Finnish
provinces.
The number of 119,639 passengers were for-
warded on the Nicolai railway from St. Petersburg
to Moscow in the month of October, according to
accounts officially published.
The Polish-Russian post was waylaid near the
village of Wilamowic, on the road between Plock
and Warsaw, on the 31st of October last, and robbed
of the sum of 8,000 roubles silver in paper money;
the conductor of the mail and the postilion were
killed.
The navigation of the river Elbe being now in-
terrupted sailing vessels and steamers prefer re-
maining at Gluckstadt to encountering the large
masses of floating ice, with which the navigation
has become impeded since yesterday. Three or
four steamers taking in cargoes will leave this
afternoon if possible. A considerable quantity of
snow has fallen during the past night, and much
more appears in prospective.
The navigation of the Eider is also at an end, in
consequence of the large quantity of floating ice in
the river. The English steamers Powerful,
Leipzig, Tonning, and Florence Nightingale have
left the harbour in order to reach sea, to avoid
being caught in the ice. They have been obliged
to leave part of their cargoes behind.

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. and Ist inst.
are altogether devoid of political intelligence.

The price of wheat continues to increase despite
the efforts made to keep it down.
A fire, which destoyed a large mill at Valladolid,
unfortunately consumed more than 3,000 arobas of
flour, but 14,000 bushels of wheat and 4,000 arobas
of flour were saved.

The works for the conveyance of water to Madrid
are progressing actively. They will be a great boon
to all classes, and the day the new works ara for-
mally opened, will be hailed as a holiday by the
entire population.
A bank of issue has been established at Seville,
for 25 years, with a capital of 18,000,000 reals, in
9,000 shares. M. Cavestany is at the head of the
establishment, with the title of Commissary Royal.
General Urbistondo is expected to replace Gene-
ral Concha in the government of the Havannah.

VA decree in the Official Gazette orders that the
budget of the present year shall be closed on the
31st December proximo, instead of on the 30th of
June next.

The Novedades is surprised that nothing has been
done relative to attacks made by the French journal
published in Madrid against the French Ambas-
sador, the Marquis de Turgot. The Hoja Autografa,
however, declares that notice will be taken of the
matter.
A number of troops had been collected at
Alicante for embarcation to Cuba.
The civil guard arrested seventy deserters from
the provincial militia during the month of
November.

INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

The insurrectionary movement in Sicily appears
to have commenced in the district of Palermo on
the 22nd. The diligence was stopped which passes
from Palermo to Catania and Messina. The insur-
sents forced the vehicle to return to Palermo on
its arrival at Caltanizetta. A number of insur-
gents, well armed, took up positions in the neigh
bourhood of this town, from whence and from the
surrounding villages, all the government au-
thorities fled. The insurgents were consequently
iu possession of a considerable district. The gover-
nor of Sicily, Prince Castelcicala, at his post in
Palermo, immediately ordered two battalions of
infantry to march towards the districts occupied by
the insurgents. These troops were under the com-
mand of General Guyon, a Swiss. The next day,
namely, on the 23rd, a large cavalry force, with
light artillery, moved out of Palermo in the came
direction. The little army first met the insurgents
near Cefalu, and a few shots were exchanged,
wounding some of the royal troops. The cavalry
took eight or ten prisoners, as the insurgents re
tired into the town of Cefalu. The royal troops
now surrounded the town, and eventually entered
it. The despatch does not say if any fighting took
place on this occasion.
The armed insurgents fled from Cefalu, and had
taken up positions in various points about the city.
The whole surrounding country is in revolt. The
Sicilians have brought to light the arms hidden
since 1848.

A despatch from Sicily, of the 25th ult., says :
" A movement is expected to take place in
Catania.

"Palermo was to be placed in a state of siege.
"An insurrection has broken out at Marsala.
The cry is, Long live the Constitution of 1812:
" Swiss troops were expected from Naples."
The Paris Moniteur has the following :—" Intelli-
gence has been received from Messina in Sicily of
the 29th ult. Notwithstanding the agitation that the
news from Palermo had produced at Messina, the
town was tranquil. The police, however, had
taken every precaution. The guards had been
doubled and increased, but no arrests had taken
place. The Neapolitan corvette, the Misena, left
Messina on the 28th for Naples, to fetch 1,000 men
and artillery."