The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

being called on to take the oaths at Valladolid, they
said ' Yes, we swear to defend the Queen, but only as
soldiers of the provincial battalions.' It is expected
that these men will be sentenced to death. The
press and several persons ofinfluonee are end eavour-
rg to save them from capital punishment. The inci-
dent proves the dislike felt by the provincial
soldiers to enter the active army, from which,
moreover, the law excludes them.
"General Narvaez has not given up his idea
of banishing from Madrid some of the mos e
influential Generals; and though O'Donnell, in
his last interview with the Queen, (succeeded in
warding off for a time the blow aimed at him,
yet this will not prevent the former from
profiting by the first occasion, if not
against O'Donnell, at least against some others,
who are no less in Isis way. At one of the
recent Cabinet Councils, Narvaez said, 'Gentle.
men, the fact of ,the matter is, with O'Donnell in
Madrid it is impossible to govern.' He is, of
conrse, apprehensive that he will be supplanted, at
O'Donnell was supplanted by him. In the mean.
lime the Queen amuses herself and the Court by
playing off their mutual suspicions and hatred.
She uses towards both, sweet and honeyed phrases,
and she flatters their vanity by smiling at and
saluting them affectionately at the Opera; It is
amusing to see them scowling when ono is more
favoured in this way than the other, and their fea-
tures alternately expressing rage and pleasure. This
is poor satisfaction for us who aro the victims of
licentiousness and tyranny; but, such as it is,
we heartily enjoy it; and I have no doubt that

the ridiculous figure cut by the rival Generals
under this petty torture of smiles and looks
affords many a hearty laugh to the Qaeen and her
bedchamber women. How long this state of
things will last is more than I can tell you."
The receipts of the Orleans Railway for the week
ending the 15th Dec. amounts to 1,173,120 f. 37e,
being an increase of 191,0601. 97c. as compared
with the corresponding week of last year. The
gross receipts since the Ist January amount to
50,277,871 f. 12c., being a decrease of 502,4071. 51e.
as compared with last year.
The Council of the Bank of France has just
fixed the halt yearly dividend of its shares at 1351.
The dividend of the first half year was 1371.,
making for the whole year 27.3 f. per share.
A letter from Nice, published in the Toulonnais,
states that some of the crew of the Russian corvette
stationed at Villefranche, having left the ship with-
out permission, to drink in a wine shop, the
captain on their return, commanded that they
should receive each twenty-tive blows of a stink,
and the leader one hundred. The latter died while
undergoing the punishment, and his body was
thrown into the sea
It is reported that about 200 royalists of the
canton of Neufchatel have taken refuge in France.
The Gazette de Lausanne says that such of them as
are liable to serve in the federal army will he treated
as deserters if they do not respond to the regular
calls.
The result of the elections for the Cher are now
known, though not yet published in the Moniteur.
In the first circumscription there were found in the
ballot boxes for M do Neste, the government can-
didate, 15,889 votes out of 10,205 votes actually
given. Ihe number of registered electors is 39,313,
so that according to the returns lees than half the
constituency came to the poll. In the second eir-
cumseription M. (tuillaumin is returned elected by
10.305 out of 40,253 registered electors, or nearly
half the constituency. There must have been some
mistake in the former report of the Journal du Cher,
from which it appeared that 10.000 votes were uiven
to other than government candidates. AM. de
Montsaulmin Appears to have obtained 612 votes,

tJ lid aM. de Villers 412. A few sc►re of votes ivere
distributed among other obscure individuals, but
that is the extent of the opposition attempted
The Emperor has ordervl the restoration of the
house of the Bonaparte family at *min,' and has
promised M. Montois, the Prefect of Corsica, t(
inscribe 200,900 f on the civil list of 1857, for the
purpose of building a mausoleum to receive the
ashes of the mother of Napoleon 1., and ut Uardinal
Fosch. What will M. Fould say ?
The Patrie announnes that the Count de &ferny
who was expected this month, will not return t(
Paris till the end of January.
Early in next month some fifty political prisoner
who were arrested in the autumn on a charge
conspiring to assas6inate the Emperor on
return from Biarritz, will he brought to trial at tl
Central Criminal Court of Peri-

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AUSTRIA

VIENNA, DE

It is generally believed that the siege and taking
of Herat is a matter which only indirectly concerns
Great Britain. but the subjoined documents, which
are extracted from the 6th volume of the New Col
lection of Treaties, by Martens, go Mr to prove that
the British Government is morally bound to
punish Persia for her recent canduct towards the
ruler of Herat. In April. 1838, the following
treaty of peace was concluded under the guarantee
of Great Britain between Persia and Kamran
Mirza, Prince of Herat :-
1. Hostilities and plunder shall cense, and the
capture and selling of slaves shall entirely be put
a stop to. 2. The subjeets and dependents of the
Shalt-in-Shah of Iran shall in no way be annoyed,
and no attempt shall be made to injure them, and
no disturbance shell be created on the frontier of
Khorassan. 3. Every possible endeavour shall he
used to prevent the Tureomans or others plunder•
ing in the territory of the shah-in•Shali I,f Iran.
and in the event of those tribes offending—should
the Shah-in-Shah desire to chastise and punish
them—this Government 814'11 furnish troops to the
extent of its ability toco-operate with the troops of
the Shah-in-Shah for the chastisement of the above
mentioned tribes. 4. Whatever may be the
number of slaves in bondage with the Affghans of
IL rat and its dependencies, all that are within
roach, or that they may be able to restore, shell be
restored. 5. Whatever persons of the Affghans
may have joined the Shah in-Shah of Iran shall
not in any way he molested or injured. II
Hereafter, Prince Karnran shall not give himself
the title of Shalt, but shall content himself with
that of Shalizadeh. 7. Merchants from all parts,
who shall enter the territory of Herat ani its
dependencies, shall be in every respect protected,
and shall not be molested in life or property. 14
The tribe of Hameh shell not be restored, but
this Government (Herat) shall do all in its
power fo remove them to their former abodes in the

Pereian territory"
" DEMANDS OF PRINCS KAMR

"1. His !sjosty the Shah-in-Shah of lran ehal
treat Prince Kamran as ono of his own brothers
2. The Ministers of the the Persian Governmen
shall in no possible way interfere in the interne
affairs of the dominions in the possession of Trine,
Kantran, but those affairs shall be left under th,
entire controul of the Ministers of the Governmen!
of Herat, in order that they may be able to fulfi
their engagements. 3. (orian shall he giver
over to Sheer Mahommed Khan, and Sheer Ma•
hemmed Khan himself, shall at all times remain
with the Shah-in-Shah of Iran 4. The Shah-in
Shah of Iran shall not send troops to the territories in
the possresion of Prices Kamran, and shall prohibit
his governors, soldiers, and subjects from plunder
in g. _

ratified, and the Persian army has been remove(
from tho immediate vicinity of Herat, Yar Mall=
med Khan, Vizier of Iferat, shall himself come tc
the presence of his Mtlesty, the Shali-in•Shnli
Iran, and shall present a peesh kush to hi,

Majesty:.
~Isis Excellency John McNeill, her Britannic
Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Mani-
potongary at the Court of Persia, engages that in
the fultVcoent or non fulfilment of those stipule
tionP, the British giovotornent shall act as judge,
and in the event of either party failing to perform
its engagements, it (the British (1
its best endeavours to make such party J

rnment) stud! usd

stipulations"
As you ar

Ire tt► receive detailed

the atate of the Neufchatel question from your

Berlin correspondent, it is only necessary to say a
few words on the subject. It is hero related that
the parties to the Protocol of 1852 are about

On the 21st inst. the Emperor returned toVonice
from Rovigo. His Majesty was well received by the
inhabitants of the dif•rent towns and villages lying
between Venice and Rovigo, and some little enthu-
siaarn was displayed by the natives of the last
mentioned place. After having driven through the
streets of the city to see the illumination, the'
Emperor went to the theatre, and et halt-past seven
in the morning of the following day, the 21st, he
was already on his way bank to Vonioe. the
18Th His Majesty went to Verona to see Marshal
Radetzky, and have a little friendly chat with him.
As no business was transacted the visit %s as a short

A person, in the correctness of whose judgment
I have perfect confidence, writes :—" On the %Owl,.
their Majesties have reason to be satisfied with the
reception they have met with at Venice."

According to a Milan letter, the reception ..f t
Emperor and Empress is likely to be respectab
'' but enthusiasm there will be none."

The Governors of Hungary and Transylvania ar
empowered to give employment to persona whoa
political reputation was tarnished in 18415 and lB4i
if they have behaved well sines.
The diplomatic and consular agents of Auatri,
have received orders to accept and forward t(
Vienna the petitions of those emigrants who ma;
wish to retnrn to their native country, but Owl
have also been furnished with a list of those persona
who will never be permitted to enter the empire
again. The columns of the Pesth papers are fill
of accounts of robberies committed in Hungary
That most rampant of Ultramontane organs, the
Vienna Church Gazette, has received the first
warning from the police. After having received
three warnings an Austrian paper ceases to appear.
The British Government has presented a sword
to the captain of the Anatrian steamer Lucia, in
acknowledgment of the service which he not (long
since rdndered to a British merchantman which
had gut on a sand bank in the Adriatio•

PRUSSIA

BERLIN, Di

Colonel von Manteuffel, one of the King's aites
de camp, who it will be remembered wn mud
employed during the negociations which toil to tht
admismon of Prussia to the Paris eonferences, hat
arrived in this city from Dusseldorf, wh,re hit
regiment ig quarteted, having been sent for by
telegraphic message. lie hail an audience of the
King today, and is about to stsrt on a delioato
diplomatic mission to the court of Otto of the great
powers.

Orders have now really been given for the
mobilisation of one-half of the Prussian army,
which is to be ready to mare!) and take the field on
the 2nd of January. General von der Groben is
now designated as the Commander-in-chief, and
under him the following officers will have the
command of divisions:—General von Wader,
General von Wuseow, General von Bonin (who
commanded the Prussian troops in the Schleswig
Holstein war), General von Sebaeh, and General
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
In consequence of what is here called the ob-
stinacy of the Swiss, the whole question has now
entered a new phase; for the replies from Paris,
Vienna, and even England CI to the Prussian Dote
of the Bth instant being favourable, Prussia eon
ceives it to be a point of honour not only to Maritime
the Swiss, and teach them a lesson for the future,
but to requiro a material guarantee" for their
Rood behaviour, and thus to prevent a repetition
of what is called hero their outrageous conduct.
Under any cireumstaceo Prussia t. mob.,

tuem pay "a round mum for the expetwa of Oil
expedition. or at least of the mobilisation of tht

Prussiatt troops

It is stated in court circles that Prinee Frederic,
William has, in the name of the King, invited tht
Emperor of the French to pay a visit to Berlin it
the spring, and that the invitation has been me
As cepted.

The following is a translation of the Prussiar
note of the Bth of December relative to Neufahatel
of which an analysis btu; already appeared in out
columns. It is addressed to tho Prussian A tubas
sadors at Paris, London, Vienna, and St Peters
burg :

1. BHRI.IN, Dec. E

" Sir,—Your Exec)Honey is alreo ly aware of the
refusal by which the Swiss Federal Conned replied
to the demand of Prussia for the liberation of the
Neufchatel prisoners, made by order of the King,
our august master, through his Minister to the
Helvetia Confederation. The preliminary and
uncouditionftl fulfilment of that demand was, as
you are aware, put by the King as the indispensable
preliminary of any ulterior nogocintion on the final
settlement of theoquesti6ns relating to the Prinei
polity of Neufchatel.

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" The fothearanee fillown by our august master
for a number of years 011 the subjoct of a slaw of
things contrary to his incoatestahle rights and
prejudicial to every principle of legitimate
authority. as well as to the sacred (diameter of
treaties, might and ought to offer to Switzerland
sufficient guarantees that in the eventual negoti•
ations his Majesty would not deviate from that
great moderation which had guided him in his
Prmer conduct, and which the European Powers
has appreciated more than once. Pressing and
almost unanimous counsels were consequently
addressed in this sena° to the Helvetii, Confede
ration by all the Cabinets that signed the London
protocol, and the German Confederation, after
having unanimously given its adhesion to the
principles enouneed in that protocol, formally
supported, through the medium of the German
Governments that have diplomatic representatives
in Switzerland, the demand of Prussia enneerning
the immediate liberation of the Neufchatel pri•
goners.

" From these circumstances the refusal of the
Federal Connell Requires double importance It is
evident that, with a lamentable blindness to its tint
interests, the Helvetia Ccnfederation does not tiilt..
into any account the international stipulations in
virtue of which the Principality of Neufchatel wan
admitted. and r the guarantee of Europe, to be-
come ono of the cantons of Switzerland. Proud of
a momentary success, drawing her inspirations
front principles subversive of all order awl
authority, and undergoing the influence of a revo-
lutionary propaganda, which for the most part was
originally a stranger to the Helvetic territory,

Switzerland forgets, or pretends to forget, the
previous rights of the Kings of Pi ussia, sanntioned
by Articles 22 tool 76 of the Treaty of Vienne,
upholding only those conferred on Switserland by
the 75th article of tho BAIIIO treaty.
" Tho King our august master has maturely con-
sidered the duties imposed upon him by the present
state of things. The revolt attitude of the Federal
Council in ti ueh grave end decisive conjunctures,
in opposition to the united efforts of the Powers,
has convinced His Majesty that ho can no longer;
with that confident forbearance which in latter
Teats a certain passive line of conduct imposed
upon him, dispense with taking measures to make
good his claim; on the Principality of Neufchatel
in a manner more efficacious than by purely (bpi°•
matio measures. As regards the latter, the

u Powers may

to them, and the King certainly will not refits(

examine the proposals that may be made to ii
Majesty as the result of their united notion.
" But the measures above hunt:mt.( d do not t
kaa form already one of the chief objects
the activity of the Royal authoritico. 1' ley w

ut with pereoreraneo and with the firm intent
(obtaining their object. Ti

!my will !lava to; bear. it

citcrilices which t
Kill bent- with tu
it knows—and tl

lenieland devotion

viotion must he 14 hared

Cabinets, unless they allow ibeinselves to I
misled by preconceived euppositions—that'b
Majesty only imposes them after having &mete

to mediate in corpora between Prussia and the
Swiea Confederation, and a telegraphio despatch
of yesterday evening, which has been received by
the Oesterreickische Correspondent, from Berne, tells
exactly the same story. The Danish Government
has not yet condescended to give an answer to
the notes of Austria and Prussia, but thn sale
of the Holstein-Lauenburg do►nains has been
postponed.

(very moans of a pacific and, nt the same time,
honourable transaction, t.) lead the question of the
final condition of the Prineip:ility ul Neuft'hatel to
a mutually satinfamory settlement. However, the
moderation of which the King hay heady given
so many proofs is not yet excluded by the military
measures which bin Majesty is preparing. Let
Switzerland return to wiser resolutions, lot her
communicate them to some friendly power, or to
the Cabinets which signed the London protocol,
nod your Excellency may be convinced beforehand
the King will not turn a dent oar to the voice of

" Tho above considerations and their attendant
decisions will doubtless be approved by the
Cabinets, friends of Prussia. Will you therefore,
Sir, communicate the same to the Cabinot of -,

NIA, by order of Hie Majesty, read this despatch to
the Miriater of Foreign Affairs of Ills Majesty the
Emperor of the French (of Russia, of Austria), and
to the Pilucipal Secretary of State of Her Majesty
the Queen of England?

" MANTEUFFEL!

Addressod to—
Count liArzrtri.n. at Paris.
Count BE lINSTORFF. at London.
Count ARNI M , at Vienoa.
Baron 1) Wicarn KR. at St. Potersburg,

A letter from 13,71 in. of the 23d (in the Cores
poridenee !lavas), contains these statements :

" England was the only one of the great powers
whose support had not yet been obtained by
Prussic, and it was even known that Mr. Gordon,
at Berne, had encouraged the Federal Council in
its resistance. Muni] surprise was f.-1t that Eng-
land should have taken up such au attitude, being
as she was, one of the powers which signed the
protocol of London, and an expression of this
surprise was conveyed to the English Cabinet
We have just learnt that in cot sequenee of
this representation being made to the Court
of St. James's, Mr. Gordon has now received orders
from his gevomment to support as much as he
can the demands of Prussia. Information from
Berne does, in fact, unsure us that Mr.
Gordon has declared to tine Federal Council
that he is obliged to insist upon the acceptance of
the Prussian conditions, and this declaration has
caused great sensation at Berne. England has
made, in her turn, an offer to the Prussian cabinet
of her mediation it► the Swiss affair, but this offer
has been made without success. There can be no
further question of any mediation now,and onlytho
immediate liberation of the prisoners can prevent.
Prussia front sending her soldiers on the march."
The Borzenteitang of Berlin, of the 22nd inst ,
says, " It is assured that the Englisli Government
lies desired its representative at Berlin, Lord
Bloomfield, to declare that the English charge
raffeirs at Berne, Mr. George Gordon, has been
irdered to give his decided support to the demand
which Prussia has made of the Federal Council,
or the release of the Neufchatel prisoners."

1 TA LY

Tho following address was presentod to Coiiut
favour, at Turin, on the 22(1, with a gold medal,
y tho inhabitAnta of Oomo

" Excellency,—Ths treaty of alliance you pro-
posed with courageous foresight, which by
associating Piedmont with a difficult war increased

f.! importance throughout Europe, and procured
r her brave army, which its the hope of the
ation, the menus of inereaming the glory and
aspoct of the tricoloured flag ; the eouragnoum
uiguago whioli you were the tirdt express at
e Diplomatic Conferences of Paris, where, while
efending Italy, you expoked her minioritinen,

rid created an interest 11111011 nations and
DverntnPnte in her fate; in fiuo, the fran
Feral Italian policy in which you, togethe
ith your colleagues, persevere by

ig tho exalted and gonerJus aspirations c
our noble sovereign, linve roadored your nam

ispevt.4.ll and dear to all 1 talittun who bye thpir
.nitury, anu It nits titiggested to tie the 'don
r sending you thin feeble teatiinony of our grati
Ice, in order that it may nervo to establkli in an
,contentablo manner the lively interest with which
t the other side of the Ticino everything you do
r the good of our common country ia follmved.
nd whilst we, though impationt after our long
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frerings, aro compelled to confine ourselves f
ee ateriln demonstrations, do you, whose higl

)sition pt rtnltm it, continuo without (Tatting th
ink you hive undertaken, in order that bIIOCOSI

THE PAPAL

STATES

Cardinal Anton°lli, the Pope's Minister of 11
'ulnae, has published a untie() in the Roman ,Journal
of the 20th inst., to the effect that in °entwine:lee
of the deficiency of the last crop of olives, the
exportatiottof olive oil is prohibited, and the free
importation into the Roman States of that article
is permitted until further orders.

The Emperor of Austria returned to Venice on
the 21st hist Fireworks were exhibited on the
one.asion. A Te Deem wits chanted in tho church
of S.utta Nlaria, in Venice, on the 22itil, in thenlis•
giving for the escape of the King of Naplos from
the hands of the Rosman.