The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-12 00:00:00

SPAIN,

We learn from Madrid, July 10, that in various
parts of the province of Toledo, some incendiary
fires had broken out, but happily had been got
under without much damage. As a matter of course,
the Government authorities are exerting them-
selves to discover the perpetrators.
The Minister of the Interior, M. Escosura, had
returned to Madrid from the provinces.

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

To-day the French Funds closed as under :
Four and a half per Cents., 83f. 60c.; Three per
Cents, 71f. 30c.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, TIIIIRSDAY EVENING.

The talk of the day in political circles is on the
reply which the King of Naples has given to the
notes addressed to him by the governments of
France and England on his atrocious system of
government. If lam correctly informed, the
worthy man expresses his intense astonishment at
their presuming to address him, an independent,
sovereign, on such a subject, and he refuses even
to enter into any discussion on the various allega-
tions of their notes.

This King's conduct is so extraordinary in every
respect that it is almost a charity to suppose that
he is mad—but his madness is fast driving Italy,
and, through her, perhaps all Continental Europe,
into a frightful convulsion.

Count de Morny, Ambassador Extraordinary t)
Russia, has at last left Paris,---not for his post,.
but for Wilbad, a watering place in Wurtemburg,
where he is to pay his respects to the Dowager
Empress of Russia.
The body of M. Fortoul, ex• Minister of Public,
Instruction, has reached Paris to clay. The dis-
cussion as to who is to be his successor continues
to be very fierce in governmental circles. M.
Dumas, of the Institute, and M. Parien of the
Council of State, are, to day, supposed to have the
best chance.

Nobody ever supposed that the assassination of
an unfortunate French soldier, at Giurgevo, by
some Austrian soldiers (an event, I believe, which
I was able to communicate to you before any
other correspondent got hold of it,) would lead
to any misunderstanding between the French and
Austrian Governments. The Moniteur, of this
morning, contains an announcement that the
Austrian Government has commenced a searching
investigation into the circumstances of the crime,
and that, in the meantime, it has granted a pen•
sion to the family of the victim.

The Duchess d'Orleans has given 15,000 f. (6001)
to the victims of the inundations.

A Petersburg despatch, dated yesterday, says
that the Russian government has granted art
amnesty to the Polish refugees who took part in
the insurrections of 1830 and 1831.

A Russian return shows that the number of
soldiers who perished in the late war was 277,000*

The Earl of Shelburne entered on his official duties as
Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, at
the Foreign-office, in Downing-street, on Wednesday last:
SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAYS.--OR Thursday a large and
influential meeting was held at Willis's-rooms, in favour
of the Saturday half-holiday movement ; Lord Stanley in
the chair. Addresses were delivered by the chairman,
the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., the Earl of Shaftesbury,
the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Sodor and
Man, and the Hon. H. Liddell, and a series of resolutions
in support of the movement were unanimously adopted.
CROSSING THE ALPS.—The possibility of forming a road
across the Alps to unite France to Italy haq, for a long
time, occupied the attention of the French Government;
and it appears that at present the problem is in a fair way
of solution. A plan of a road from Grenoble into Pied-
mont by the Valley ofthe Drac and the department of the
Hautes-Alpes, crossing the frontier by a tunnel through
Mont Genevre, has received the approbation of the Ponta
et Chaussees.

FATAL AcctnENT.—On Friday a man named Charles
Bellor, employed at the Agar-town carriage depot of the
Great Northern Railway, was assisting at a crane, when
he accidentally fell between two carriages, and alighting
upon his head, fractured his skull to such an extent that
the blood oozed out of his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
lie was at once removed to the University Hospital, where
he died in less than an hour.

A RUSSIAN ADM.BAL.—Admiral Puttiani, who com-
manded the Russian squadron that eluded the vigilance
of our cruisers in the Chinese Seas during the late war,
married an English lady some years since, and is shortly
expected to arrive here with his family, on a visit to the
relatives of the countess. Prior to the breaking out of
the war they frequently passed two or three of the
summer months in this country, to which the Admiral is
much attached.

THE MANCHESTER EXHIBITION OP ARTS..--At a meeting
of the council for the Exhibition of Art Treasures in
Manchester, held last month, it was decided to devote 100
guineas, to be given in portions, as an acknowledgment to
the artists who had sent the best designs. The executive
committee have exercised that power, and forwarded a
letter, with an order for 20 guineas, to each of five gentle-
men whose designs were " selected for further considera—
tion," out of the whole, about 30. The gentlemen to whom
the letters were addressed, were 0. Jones, London ; Mr.
Darbishire, London; Mr. Watson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
Messrs. Holden and Son, Manchester; and Messrs.
Hayley, Sons, and Hall, Manchester. Mr. Owen Jones
has declined to receive the 20 guineas, but the other gen-
tlemen accepted the acknowledgment offered.
RUSSIAN 'PROJECTILES.—The Courier of Marseilles
says :—" The arrivals of war materiel from the Crimea
are very numerous every day ; but what particularly
attracts attention is an immense quantity of singular pro-
jectiles employed by the Russians in the desperate defence
at the latter part of the siege. Some of these are long
tubes of cast iron, closed at the end by wood, and con-
taining as much as 150 kilogrammes of balls and grape
shot; others are masses of balls and grape shot placed in
canvass covered with a thick and strong tar, and of a
cylindrical form o f about one metre in length ; others again
are bags of sail-cloth containing the same objects, and
made:to fit the gunslofithe largest size. These strange pro-
jectiles were only destined to be thrown a short distance,
and in many of them inflammable materials are mixed."
The Daily News draws attention to the imprudent
conduct of the English government in the Brazils, By
instructions from Lord Clarendon, Mr. Jerningham,
it seems, has threatened to renew all those harsh instruc-
tions to our naval squadrons which Lord Malmesbury
felt compelled, by a sense of justice and propriety, to
withdraw, as long ago as 1852, instructions, by virtue of
which they seized on the coasting vessels of Brazil,
ascended up its rivers, put what ships they pleased out of
its ports, and actually bombarded the Castle of Parana-
gua. The pretext for this threatened revival of harsh
measures is most insufficient. The Daily News concludes
by remarking
that the Brazilian government has, at this
time, a new
tariff of customs' ditties in hand, and with
the Brazilian population excited in this way aaainst
England nothing is more likely than that the tariff will
reduce the duties on all goods but those of England ; it
may, indeed, go further, and impose differential rates on
English fabrics.