The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING,

The Congress has held another sitting to-day
and it will probably hold daily sittings until its
labours shall be terminated. A more cheerful
view of things is taken to-day by the public and
the stockjobbers, and even in a high political
quarter I find that a more hopeful tone prevails ;
—not that in reality peace has for the last ten days
been considered at all doubtful, but that the diffi•
culties which arose fromPrussia,Turkey &c. it caused
the most sanguine to feel discouraged. What the
Congress has done to-day, I am not in a position
to tell ;—but its proceedings seem to require an
immense amount of writing,—for all the clerks of
the Foreign Office who write at all legibly, have
been told that they will be required at a late hour
at night, on a secret and important service, and at
this moment the poor devils are locked up, and
are under strict surveillance, in order to prevent
them from communicating with any one.
An official personage who is ordinarily well in-
formed, tells me, that what their clerks have to
copy is, the " Treaty of Peace," but the treaty can
hardly require so much scribbling.
It is remarked that within the last few days,
Count Orloff, and Count de Buol, the Russian and
Austrian plenipotentiaries, have been apparently
on somewhat better terms;—at a dinner yesterday,
given at the Minister's of the Interior, they talked
a good deal together and very amicably. And
apropos of Plenipotentiaries, Baron de Manteuffel,
the Prussian Prime Minister has had very little
success in." society,"—first, because he is short of
stature ; next, because he is very reserved ; thirdly,
because he wears spectacles ; fourthly, because he
does not speak French fluently; and lastly, because
he wears a coat of unfashionable cut. Argal, he is
set down as an ass and a humbug, and this is the
way " les salons " reason !

The revelations which the London Times has
made as to the lamentable state of the French
army in the Crimea have created profound sensa-
tion in the capital, and all the more from the fact
that as no newspapers dare publish them, they
are exaggerated by public rumour. In the highest
official circles they have done more than create
sensation—they have created profound indignation
because they are looked on as an attack on the
government, and through it on France. The
minister of war, Marshal Vaillant, whose depart-
ment is more peculiarly affected by them, is in
particular, in towering wrath, and all his subor-
dinates, high and low, naturally share his
sentiments.

And do you know what the enemies of the
English alliance are doing ? They are going about
saying that " perfi lions Albion," through her news-
papers is attacking, and in suiting and calumniating
chivalrous France, who had the generosity to save
her army from destruction at the Alma and Inker-
mann, to save it from starvation last winter, and to
repair its defeats and mishaps in the siege of
Sebastopol. The effect which such representations
will produce is not difficult to predict—great ill-
will against England. If this effect were confined
to the vulgar crowd, it would, though no doubt
greatly to be regretted, be of comparative little
consequence, for the crowd counts for nothing
in French politics just now. But depend on it
that it will reach and influence the government
also. It is not suspected in England, and yet it is
the undoubted fact, that all the great personages
about the Emperor, and the members of his own
family, with the exception of the Empress, and
some of his ministers, are bitter enemies of the
English alliance, and lose no opportunity of vent-
ing their spite against it. It is not suspected in
England, and yet it is the tact that at this very
moment the Emperor is besieged, in season and
out of season, by people who try to persuade him
that it is a duty to himself and his country to get
out of the English alliance at any cost and as
quickly as possible, and to form one with Russia.
Judge, then, how much these people's chances of
success are increased when they are able to say
that the English, by articles in their newspapers,
or by unseemly revelations, are seeking to damage
France in European estimation.

The article in the Jfoniteur in reply to the Times
on the above subject, was written, I am told, by
Marshal Valliant himself, and it displayed a not
over-friendly feeling to England.

A. circular from the Minister of Justice contra-
dicts the report that has been for some time current
to the effect that the government contemplates
taking possession of the monopolies of notaries,
avows, auctioneers, etc., and consequently deprive
the possessors thereof of the sums they have
paid for their places.

Vienna letters assert that no change whatever
is to be made in the commercial policy of Russia,
and that Russia has politely, but peremptorily,
refused to modify her commercial treaties with
Austria, as desired by the latter.

LONDON GAZ ETTE,

BANKRUPTS.—HENRY PRING, Bristol, baker and
flour dealer. HENRY ERMANNI FELLINGER, formerly of
Red Lion-street, Holborn, but late of Regent-square, flour
merchant. THOMAS EVANS, Wood-street, Cheapside,
umbrella and parasol manufacturer. ROBERT LINCOLN,
Tottenham-court road, licensed victualler. RICHARD
POTTER, Exeter, shipbuilder. JA.vIES BAILEY, Wood-street,
Cheapsido, merchant. WM. BARKER Moss, Stamford,
Lincolnshire, butcher. HENRY COLLINS, Ashford, Kent,
carpenter and builder. JOSEPH HirKlss, Tipton, Stafford-
shire, iron master. JONATHAN THOMAS OWEN, Swansea,
optician and mathematical instrument seller. JoHN Buck
TOKER, Manchester, and Ospringe, Kent, manufacturer of
malleable cast iron, and trader. IVIAXIMILIAN LASKER, and
GUSTAVOS BILTER, New Basinghall-street, merchants and
commission agents. JAMES COOPER, Ryde and Wootton-
bridge, Isle of Wight, grocer, tea dealer, coal and corn
merchant, and miller.

UPPER COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.—Mr. J. Rigby, whose
distinguished mathematical honours were lately announced,
is in the second class of the Classical Trips, at Cambridge.
COUNTY COURT, YESTERDAY.—Mr. Pollock, the udge,
presided in this court, and disposed of the usual number of
cases, all of which were devoid of interest. In the case of
Bahr Bebrend and Co., His Honour postponed giving his
judgment unt'l Tuesj-ly week nex`.
THE WEATHER.—During the week the atmosphere has
been very drv, with a harsh easterly wind, which, for a day
and night, blew a strong gale. It has been very sunny, but
cold all the week. Agriculturalists do not, however, object
to the state of the weather, up to the present time,
although a day's rain or so would he acceptable.
ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.—At the Corn Exchange,
Manchester, on Thursday, the agent of a Liverpool corn
house was robbed of £750. He had placed his money in a
drawer, whilst be went across the room to speak with a
friend, and ou returning, five minutes later, found that the
whole had been abstracted.
THE CHARGE AGAINST THE RAILWAY OFFlClAL.—Yes-
terday the prisoner in this case, William Parsonage, was
put forward according to remand, before Mr. Mansfield,
when Mr. Blenkensop said he had to apply for a further
remand for seven days, as it was found impossible to be
prepared to go on at present with the case. He had com-
municated with Mr. Brotherton, who conducted the
defence, and an arrangement had been made for the remand.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded to this day week.
An application to bail out the prisoner was made, but at
present Mr. Mansfield said he could not grant it.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF ART.--Some pupils in the
School rf Art, connected with Collegiate Institution, were
lately mentioned as having obtained prizes from govern..
ment. The following additional pupils have recently
received the same distinction :—William Woods, of St.
Mary's School, Edge-hill; Thomas Howarth, William
Bathgate, and Archibald Bathgate, of St. Chrysostom's
School; Henry Nicholls and Elizabeth Welch, of St,
James's School. Miss Jane Brown has also been appointed
pupil teacher, under the regulations of the Board of Trade
to give assistance after the quarter day, the first of April, to
Mr. Bishop and Mr. Burkinshaw in the female drawing
classes, whtch are largely increased.
Friday's Daily News remarks— No serious apprehension
is !entertained that the conferences at Paris can prove
abortive. Nobody, however, will venture to say that
peace is concluded, until he sees it in black and white.
All the world is waiting to be assured of a fact which,
in their hearts. they would most potently believe. Alen
gather into groups, and whisper conjecture about the
delay in the announcement of peace, and cannot settle
to business until it is published. The stock-braker
pauses in his speculations, and merchants hesitate to
give orders in manufactures—nobody will move till
-the members of the conferences set the example. There
is nothing to alarm men in this state of affairs, but it is
excessively tiresome. If the Plenipotentiaries would but
let people know what they have resolved upon, the
world's business would resume its wonted course.