The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PAIS, RIDAY. The following telegraphicß despFatches haver been
received

" The ''BERNE, JAN. 1.
for tire trier of the prisoners at Neuchatel is fixed
19th inst. A deputation from the Royalists
of -Neuchatel have proceeded to Berlin to pray that
there should be no war.
" The reports of an Anglo-French mediation are
becoming more frequent. The hopes of peace are
maintained. Considerable offers of money are
made.
" the The Council of State has adopted unanimously
decisions of the
Fe National Assembly. The
aeral Ass.aibly in its sitting of last evening
aPPei,ited General Dufour Commander in Chief of
the Federal Army, and M. Freyherone Chief of the
,Staff. The President of the National Assembly
ddivered a speech, which produced considerable
impression. General Dufour has taken the cus-
tomary oath, The Federal Assembly will meet
three times more"
Colonel Barmann, minister of the Swiss Confederation in Paris, returned this morning from his
visit to Berne. He was to have presen•cd to the
French Minister fur Foreign Affairs in the course
of the afternoon a communication from his Goyern,
inent. Of the particulars of this comrnunicatio.n I
:know nothing ; but I have some reason to believe
that it will contain the definitive resolution of the
TederalCouncil and thelast conceEsi:.. us it is disposed,,
to make to Prussia. It is certain that the basis of
the arrangement which Switzerland had already ad-
mitted remained unchanged, and I doubt whether
even now it is materially modified. Nevertheless it is
be.lived in quarters likely to be well acquainted
.with the state of affairs that a pacific arrangement.
1,3 probable. The Emperor will soon be made
r!quaitited with the result of Colonel Barmann's
Twini`sion, and with the utmost the Confederation
era: nt and much is honed
from the good offices,of En,4land and France, On the whole, I should
'say that the chances of hostilities are at this
moment a good deal diminished.
No Conference was held to day. A new difficulty
i 3 said to have occurred p
resecting the com
to be given to Russia. The principle, it is said,ensation was

admitted, but a difference arose in the details, and
it is found necessary to refer to the Limitation
Commission and again to the governments. Of
course, until that difficulty is removed, and,
indeed, all others, the English fleet will not quit
the Black Sea, and the Austrians will not evacuate
the Principalities.' There is but one Russian
Plenipotentiary in the Congress, •Baton- Brunow.
Count Kisseleff is only an "outsider.". It is said
the Emperor, at the receptions yesterday, expressed
to M. Kisseleff the satisfaction he felt at the
" moderation" of his government. It is not known
whether a Conference Ncill be held to morrow.

A letter from Constantinople, of the 22d ult,
says:— _ _

1‘ I am just informed that Feruk Khan (the Per-
sian Envoy), after having paid his farewell visit to
the Porte, and to the French and Russian Ambas-
sadors embarks this afternoon on board the Roland
for Marseilles.

"The Porsian question has entered into a new
phase. The declaration of war against Persia by
Lord Canning, though expected after the suspen-
sion of th^ conference between Feruk Khan and the
English Ambassador, has produced considerable
sensation here. It is said in official quarters that
the Persians will allow the English to land with-
out offering any resistance This plan of campaign
seems to be decided upon by the Persians, who f.,r
the present seem to feel no uneasiness, being, as
they say, full of confidence in the justness of their
cause.

" Here there is a good deal of agitation visible
in the high regions of the. Administration. The
difference between the Grand Vizie'r and Mehemet-
Kipresli Pasha is not yet at an end, and at the
moment when Redschid Pasha is doing his best to
free Turkey fiom the difficulties caused by his
predecessors no intrigue is omitted to obstruct the
Government in every way. The Austritin
Ambassador must have found auxiliaries better
disposed then Mehemet Ali, and the partisans of
some of the former Ministers declare loudly that
Redschid Pasha will be driven from office
after the Conf rences of Paris. Since bis
return to power the Administration of the
country has received a fresh impulse, and
if, in order to provide for the aecessities of the
service, the Government is obliged to borrow at
usurious interests large sums of money, it is owing
to the selfishness of the preceding Cabinet, which
discourag6d the numerous capitalists who tendered
their services six months ago. Redschid is
obliged -to act with the greatest energy to annul
the eff,,cts of the last loans, which were made at not
less than 20 per cent, and which are the cause of
the disorganisation of the finances, the state of
which is truly deplorable.
" The Congress for the discussion of the firman
which is to convoke the Divans ad hoe, for the
organisation of the Principalities. will be resumed
to-morrow. The first meeting takes place, they say,
at the English Embassy.
"Letters of recent date from Jaffa announce
that the Consular agent at G )xa has received a
grave insult from the Governor ad interim. Orders
from Constantinople exact an ample reparation."
A private letter from Athens, dated the 20th ult.,
speaks of a communication from Mr. Wyse, the
English Minister, to the Greek Minister for Foreign
Affairs. It seems that Mr. Wyse had, like the other
foreign ministers, received an official invitation to
attend at the opening of the Greek Parliament by
the King in person. The spectacle could hardly be
of an imposing character, as:comparatively few of
the deputies .vere present. If I can give credence
to the private letter alluded to, Mr. Wyse, while
aeknowledging the receipt of the letter of in-
vitation, declared that, as the representative of
the oldest and greatest constitutional power in
Europe, he could not attend the inauguration
of a parliament formed under the most flagrant
violation of the institutions of the country. That.
for several years consecutively he had occasion to
protest against the violuti--n by the government of
His Hellenic Majesty of the Constitution which the
Greek nation had unanimously given itself. That,
at the present moment, he eagerly embraced the op-
portunity offered hint of once more protesting, and
of recapitulafiog all that he had previously said on
the malversations .and immorality of the function-
aries whom the Greek Government seemed to
consider it an an obligation to select, as also
against the system, so long practised, of governing
a nation despotically with the forms of a Constitu-
tion. Foe these and other reasons ho Mr. Wyse,
thought it becoming to his dignity, as the repre-
sentative of Great Britain to abstain from wit-
nessing the opening of such a Parliament.
Mr. Wyse's communication aas at some length,
but the writer of the letter I refer to states that the
foregoing contains the substance and pith of it; and
that the absence of the British minister on the
occasion produced much greater sensation at
Athens than did the presence of King Otho, or his
speech from the throne. " The public," adds the
writer, " admits the truth, and eulogises the frank-
ness and sincerity of the English Minister." It
appears that the very day before the opening of
Parliament, and when the King was about to con-
gratulete the country on the extinction of brigan
dage, M. Pots (a Bavarian), with two soldiers who
attended him, was captured by a band of robbers
near Lattice; and they now demand a ransom for
their liberation.

A letter from.Canea, the capital of the Island
of Candle.. published in the Moniteur, informs us
that the qu:lntity of spun silk produced in that
island during the year 1856 was much inferior to

that of 1855. It is estimated that the last crop
will not exceed 15,335 kilogrammes. Spun silk
was worth in July last 250 piastres the eke, (the
Turkish piastre is equal to 2fd., and the eke of
Candia is 2ilb ) but the article having risen in
Europe, the price rose in Candia to 280 piastres.
It is now quoted at 265 piastres. The Candian
silk carefully spun is of very fine quality, hut that
spun by the peassntry is very inferior.
Official returns show that the last vintage has
been remarkably abundant in Lombardy and
throughout Upper Italy. Lombardy contains
2,141,000 hectares of arable land, of which one-

third is planted with vines. In 1852, the year the
vine disease declared itself,,the crop amounted to
1,500,000 hectolitres of wine for Lombardy, and
2,500,000 for the Venetian territory. The latter
province now exports annually 200,000 hectolitres
to Lombardy.
The receipts of the Orleans Railway Company
for the week ending the 22nd December amount to
1.215,432 f. being an increase, as compared with tbe
corresponding week of the year 1855, of 240,288 f.
55c , The total receipts from the Ist of J,inuary
to the 22d Decembei, 1856, amount to 51,493,303 F.
120, being a decrease as compared with the year
1855, of 256,1181. 96c.

MARSEILLES, JAN. 1.

The Carmel brings news from Constantinople to
the 22nd of December. At that date Feruk Khan
was about to embark on the Roland. The Sultan
had assured the Persian Ambassador of his pacific
intentions.

It is said that the Shah is forced to carry on the
war by the fanaticism of the population. The
tribes of Asterabad had offered cavalry to the
Shah.

The Carmel announces that 500 ships, laden
with corn, bound for England and the ports in the
Mediterranean, had passed the Bosphorus on the
19th of December. Raisins had risen in price
at Datnascus, and silk at Broussa. Wheat had
fallen at Salouica.