The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-31 00:00:00

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,

BRUSSELS, TUESDAY.
The article in the French Moniteur, expressing a
sort of sympathy for the coup d'etat of O'Donnell
in Spain, has caused a very unfavourable impres-
sion, indeed, in this country. It shows, in the
eyes of the Belgians, that that Government is
favourable to tyranny; and that, consequently, it
is. and must be, hostile to liberal institutions in
Belgium

Although I have only been in Belgium some ten
days, I have, by going from place to place, and from
having had the honour of conversing with some
political personages of great note, and from my
attentive examination of the metropolitan and
provincial newspapers, acquired the conviction
that the Belgians, taken altogether, entertain the
deepest hatred and distrust of Louis Napoleon.
The terms in which they speak of him are such as
would excite the astonishment of the good people
of Paris and France. • The Belgians look on him
as the bitter enemy of their national inde-
pendence and their liberty, and they say that a
little sooner, or a little later, he will certainly
attempt to annex Belgium to France. The notion
is certainly (for the present at least) a mistaken
one, but the existence of it, and the hatred of
Imperial France which it excites, are facts which
are well worthy of note.

The Belgians intend to give grand fetes to their
King in all their principal towns, to commemorate
the twentyfifth anniversary of his accession to
the throne, and of their national independence.
On Sunday and yesterday, the old and quaint city
of Bruges gave its fetes. The King and royal
family were present, and were received with
extraordinary enthusiasm, not only by all the
population of the city, but by the inhabitants of
the towns and villages for tnany miles around. I
spare you a detail of the fetes, although present at
t I them—they -•

were a repetition, on a smaller scale,
of those at Brussels. But they showed what those
of the capital did—the deep affection in which the
King is held.
Lord John Russell and his family are at present
at Ostend. A vast number of Russian nobles and
their families are also there.

EVACUATION OF THE CRIMEA

OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM SIR W. J

CODRINGTON

A supplement of the London Gazette of Tuesday
contains the following official intelligence :
WAR DEPARTMENT, July 30.
Lord Panmure has received a despatch, of which
the following is a copy, addressed to his lordship
by General Sir William Codrington—
Constantinople, July 16.
My Lord,—Finding that all arrangements could
be completed for evacuating the Crimea on the
12th inst, I wrote the previous day to the officer in
command of the remaining troops, a colonel of the
gendarmerie at Kamiesch, that I should be ready
to hand over the dock yards of Sebastopol, and the
port of Balaklava, on that day.
Her Majesty's ship Algiers had entered the port
of Balaklava on the 7th instant; the 56th Regt.
embarked in that ship on the evening of the 11th,
and the only troops remaining were one wing of
the 50th Regiment which formed the guard
of the town that night. The following day
(the 12th), at one p.m., all the remaining
stores and establishments having been embarked,
a company of the 50th was posted outside of the
town to receive the Russian troops, and, on their
approach, marched in with the Russian guard,
composed of about fifty mounted Cossacks, and a
similar number of infantry Cossacks.
The usual form of salutes took place, the
Russians placed sentries where they wished, and
the four companies of the 50th marched on board
the Algiers.

I embarlced with my personal staff at the same
time. Although the weather was favourable, we
were unable to put into Balaklava that evening.
Admiral Sir H. Stewart and Admiral Fremantle
were at anchor outside the harbour. They weighed,
and we all sailed for this place, where I arrived
to-day.-1 have, &,e , W. J CODRINGTON,

eneral Commanding.

POCKET PICKING.—WM. Jones, a young fellow some 17
or 18 years of age, was charged at the police office, with
picking the pocket of Mary Beller of a portemonaie and
2s. The prisoner has been eight times already charged
with offences of various sorts, and was now committed
for trial.
A Cabinet Council was held on Monday afternoon at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon,
Mr. Secretary I aboochere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley c.f Alderley,- and the Right
Hon. M. T. Baines. The council sat two hours and a half.
COUNTY Comm, YESTERBAV.—(Before Joseph Pollock,
Esq., Judge.)—AN ABSCONDING DEBTOR—RINGLAND V.
EVANS.—Mr. Gray applied on behalf of the plaintiff, a
cabinet-maker and upholsterer, at Shelton, for a fraud
summons against the defendant, under the following cir-
cumstances :—Tho defendant was engaged in business at
Hanley, and on the 21st of this month ho obtained goods
from the plaintiff to the value of Bs., paying .ElO on
account. He then sold the goods by auction, and came to
Liverpool with his wife, and took berths for himself and
her in one of the " Black Ball Line " of packets for Aus-
tralia, which was to sail in the course of a day or two.
The plaintiff saw him since he came to Liverpool and
demanded the balance of the account, £4 Bs., but the
defendant refused payment, saying that he was going
abroad and that there was no law in England to compel
him. The court granted a fraud summons returnable
at tutu o'clock.