The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

into Cette, which was all disposed of without
making any sensible effect on the price of French
wines. Accounts from Bordeaux state that there
is but little doing in the wine market. The weather
has been extremely favourable there for the growth
of the vine.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MARCH 14

The Emperor and Empress yesterday evening
Went to the Burg (palace) theatre, where they were
received with great cordiality by an extremely
select audience. As soon as a flourish of trumpets
had announced the arrival of their Majesties,
the public rose as one man, and cheered loudly
and long. The Emperor and Empress, who
seemed to be in perfect health and excel-
lent spirits, acknowledged the compliment paid
to them by a series of low bows. The " recep-
tion" lasted several minutes, and even when it
was over some little time elapsed before the actors
on the stage were able to obtain a hearing. On their
way back to Vienna the Imperial travellers paid a
visit to the fanione grotto of Adelsbcrg, which was
brilliantly lighted up for the occasion. According to
the Triest Zeitung, there were no fewer than 16,000
lights burning. Their Majesties passed rather mere
than two hours in the grotto, which is composed of
several halls connected with each other by means of
a labyrinth of passages: A military band, which
was stationed in the so-called Dome, struck tip the'
Austrian Anthem as the illustrious visitors entered.
In the ball room, and near a monument erected to
the memory of the Emperor Ferdinand 1., who
visited the grotto towards the middle of the 16th
century, were 50 couples, dressed in the quaint
costume worn by the peasants of Inner Carniola
on Sundays and holidays, who danced to the music
of the band of the workmen in the quicksilver
mines of Idria. The tWo grottoes which were
discolored a few years ago were, with the consent
of their Majesties, named Francis Joseph and
Elizabeth.

There is great reason to fear the Aiistrian goveka.
nient will Win a deaf ear to the well meant counsel
of gngland and France, and recall Count Paar from
Turin. The order has not yet been issued, but
persons who are in a position to know what is
intended, say that in a very few days the diplo-
matic relations between Sardinia and Austria will
be entirely broken off. A. semi official correspon-
dent inforMs the Prrini:fort Post Zeitang that the
Imperial Government considers it neither desirable
not advisable to keep a representative in a country
" in which attacks are daily made on the person
of the Emperor, and the inhabitants of Lombardy
continually incited to rebellion against hi-6 autho-
rity" The wrath of this government, and, as is related,
of his Majesty, has been greatly roused by an article
which recently appeared in the columns of the
Risorgimento. The Sardinian paper relates that
the Grand Duke Constantine recently visited
some of those battle fields on which the Austrians
awl Russians fought side by side against the forces
of the first Napoleon. On being told that on a
certain occasion the Atietrians had run away at the
very first attack, his Imperial Highness pronounced
them to be " swine" (cochons), and declarei that it
was invariably their habit to show their backs to
their enemies. The members of the family of
Hapsburg-Lorraine have very retentive memories,
and you may be sure that the observation of the
Russian Grand Duke will never be either forgotten
or forgiven.
In the course of this month the finishing touch
will be put to the statutes for the future repre-
sentation of Hungary. The Archduke Albrecht, as
Governor-General of Hungary, will make known
to the Emperor the necessities and wishes of the
Hungarians; but it is not the intention of Govern.
ment to grant more extensive privileges to the
Magyars than those enjoyed by the inhabitants of '
the Lombardo Venetian kingdom. The " Estates"
will be allowed to occupy themselves.with provincial
matters of minor importance, but they will have
neither legislative nor executive pourer. In fact,
the members of the provincial representation of
Hungary will be neither more nor less than coup
senors to the Presidents of the five "Statthaltereien '
and to the Governor General. The Emperor has •
consented to let the Protestant clergy in Hung try
hold a general Synod, and the measure is a
wise one, for the Protestant part of the population.
of the province, although but small, possesses
very great influence The unfortunate " Concor-
dat" will always be a thorn in the side of the Gov-
ernment, and the truth of the remark will be seen
as soon as it becomes the question of guaranteeing
the rights and privileges of the non-Catholic part
of the population of the Empire. The inhabitants
of Temesvar believe that the Statthalterei in
their city is about to be done away with, and
the Banat and Voivodina restored to Hungary; but
they certainly deceive themselves. Hungary,
when connected with the Banat and Voivodina,
was a very large kindgdom, and "divide et impera"
has always been a favourite adage with Austrian
statesmen. In a letter of the day before
yesterday, it was said that no " calls" were likely
to be made for the next twelve months on the
subscribers to the various Austrian indastriel un-
dertakings, but reliable information has to diy
been, given that the Credit Bank will form an
exception.
At the beginning of April the French company,
Matthis, Magnan, Parrot, and Co., will enter into
competition with the Austrian Danubian Company,
on the Lower Danube. The French aro likely to
prove very formidable rivals to the Austrians, for
their prices are about 10 per cent. lower than those
now paid by the public. The Lyonnais is still at
Belgrade, and there she is likely to remain for a
long time to come, as she has the guns of the
fortress on board, and consequently requires an
unusual depth of water. According to reliable
private letters from Bucharest, the French are
agitating in favour of the union. The Aus-
trian end Russian Commissioners leave for
the Wallachian capital on Monday, the
16th, but nothing whatever is known of Sir
Henry Bulwer. The Moidavians and Wallachians
are extremely desirous to have a free press while
the elections are going on, and while the Divans ad
hoc are sitting, but the Porte—probably at the
instigation of Austria—is not inclined to grant the
request of its Rouman proteges. Could not Lord
Redeliffe say a word in favour of the Moldavian.
and Wallachian press ? Several of the Paris cor-
respondents of the German papers have written
that Austria is no longer so much opposed to the
• union of the Danubian Principalities as she was a
few weeks since, but the sequel will prove that they
are marvellously ill-informed.
Authentic information has been received that
vessels which have clean bills of health will no
more he obliged to keep quarantine in the ports of
New Russia and Bessarabia,
According to a telegraphic despatch from Trieste
the new steam frigate Donau has been successfully
launched.

SPATS.

MADRID, MARCH 12.

A court-martial, presided over by Lieut. General
Sanz, Captain General of Madrid, met this morn-
ing for the trial of General Prim, who for some time
past has been in confinement at Toledo. The
ground of offence is the following :—Genoral Zapa-
tero, Captain General of Catalonia, having learnt
that a revolutionary movement, having for pretext
the re-imposition of the tax of consumes, was
about to break out at a certain point of the
district under his command, caused twelve per.
sons to be arrested, several of whom were
intimate friends of Prim. This occurred just at the
time of the municipal elections, and Prim, believ
in g the object of the arrests to be intimidation, and
the intention to prevent men of his party from
giving their votes, wrote to one of the persons
arrested, qualifying the measure as stupid and
brutal on the part of Zapatero and of Ordonez, the
civil governor ; in short, stigmatising the autho-
rities, and encouraging his friends to be firm. He
sent a copy of this letter for insertion in the
Iberia, Progresiata paper. The number of the
paper was seized, but other copies were struck off
and circulated. Prim was arrested, and ordered to
be brought to a court martial for breaoh of disci-
pline. When the Court met to day, the Fiscal read