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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1859,

THE DAY'S NEWS

The only news of interest from the continent, in
relation to the present War, is that in connection
with the attitude of Prussia. By a telegram received
last night, we have received the intelligence that
Prussia has demanded permission to march 31,000
troops through Hanover to the Rhine, between the
Ist and sth of July. From the same authority we are
informed that the guard should remain at Berlin and
Potsdam. Six regiments of cavalry and infantry
should be cantoned in the province of Brandenburg.
Three corps d'armee will take up positions bet ween
the lower and the central Rhine ; two other corps
d'armee will be stationed upon the upper Rhine and
the river Maine. One of these corps will proceed
to its destination through Silesia, Saxony, and
Bavaria. The departure of the troops will take place
about the Ist of July. The Cologne Gazette complains
of the vague manner in which the semi-official journals
of Berlin speak of the policy of Prussia, and says the
question is simply this : Have we professed any
interest whatever in reconquering Lombardy for
Austria, and in imposing the odious yoke of foreign
dominations anew on the Italians ?

The Paris

correspondent of the Times remarks that it
certainly is not for the interest of Prussia, or
Germany, that Austria should be too much
weakened ; and therefore Prussia is likely to take
energetic steps to ward off a catastrophe which
would be all but inevitable, if Austria, while at war
with France, had at the same time to encounter her
insurgent provinces. The basis of the mediations,
which, it is said,Prussia will propose to the belligerent
Powers, are—That Lombardy shall become an inde-
pendent State ; Venetia be governed by an Austrian
Archduke; and an energetic application shall be made
to France and Austria to bring about an armistice.
The Daily News thinks a great battle in Italy may

not be so imminent as is generally expected. The
Allies will probably wait until a combined attack
can be executed, in ivhicri Prince Napoleon,' and7the
force to be landed on the Venetian coast, can take a

•
part. The Times speaks in most disparaging terms of
the military system of Austria. It is a giant which
has collapsed : discipline, physical strength, the

-everything

commissariat, the strategy, the transport—
has failed in the hour of trial. 'This hu

3 army

consists of an immense crowd of raw lads;without

training, without skill, without stamina
Daily News, in noticing the visit of the King
of the BelgianS, :reinfirk's that' 116' can sdtisfaCtorily
reply to the question, whether the treaty, of ,Vienna
can lose a clause or two without distarbing:the
equilibrium or Europe ; or had that treaty remained
intact, there would have been no kingdom of Belgium.
The limes, in reply to the Journal des Debuts,
says that Perrin is au islet reek, utterly incapable of
exercising any power over the passage of the sea in
which it lies, and that no steps Whatever have been
taken to fortify it.

proba-
bly The Globe says that Viscount Sydney will
be the new Chamberlain.

On the re-assenabling of Parliament, Lord viviai
will ask the Under Secretary of State for 'Parr
the intentions of her Majesty's Government with
respect to volunteer corps, whether
:they adopt the
views of the late Administration, or whether they are
disposed to supply a sufficient quantity of arms for
practice purposes. Lord,Brougham has given notice
that on July 1.4 he will ,ask a question as to the
truth of a proposed reduction in the navy estimates.
The city of London election- is—frxed for Monday
next.

Yesterday, at the Police-court, Mr. John Godfrey,

a well-known attorney, was the complainant, in an
assault case. From the evidence it would appear
that Mr. Godfrey is the trustee and attorney to a
Mrs. Youd, residing in Seymour-street. On Monday
evening last, he paid a friendly visit to Mrs. Youd,
and her sister-in-law, and Mrs. Reynard ; on going
into the house he found two men in the lobby, who
had taken lodgings in the house. He looked hard
at them, told them he did not like their appearance,
that he knew one of them, that he was a dishonest
and immoral man, and that he was not fit to be left
in a house with lone women. He then ordered
them off ; but instead of doing so, one of
them caught him by the throat, and almost strangled
him, while the other belabored him on the head and
about the face ; the result being that Mr. Godfrey
was seriously injured, receiving cuts on his head and
face, and his fainting in the arms of the fair sister-
in-law. The men then went away, and a warrant
was obtained by Mr. Godfrey. One of them, who
gave his name as Louis Redlish, was apprehended,
and Mr, Godfrey prosecuted yesterday. Mr. Bluck
defended the prisoner, and the case was dismissed.
At the weekly meeting of the Dock Board yester-
day some discussion took place as to the working of
the line of dock telegraph—whether under the
management of the board, or by letting it to a private
company. The marine committee recommended the
latter course, reserving a priority for messages in
the board's service. The question was finally referred
back to that committee (by whom it was introduced)
to report as to the terms and conditions upon which
they would recommend the letting of the line to

private parties,
We are sorry to learn that, on the arrival of the
City of Baltimore at Queenstown, yesterday, on her
way to New York, that one of the three blades of
her screw was found broken. The Captain deter-
mined at once to return to Liverpool, and landed the
mails and passengers. The energy and enterprise
of the owners may be seen from the fact that, they
at once made arrangements to despatch a boat to
take her place, and the Vigo proceeds this evening,
after a short notice of some dozen hours,

THE NORTHERN TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1859

lightened artlessness as that.

the well-drilled army of the Empire, and thelibry

in every step of it, with the same plotting duplicity
which was employed in laying the train for the

present lawless enterprise, and veiled with the same
solemn professions and the same profound dissimu-
lation. We have to do with one who professes to

mean—and who, it is quite possible, may mean
well to us, but who is the master of vast means of

aggression, and is utterly free from the bond which

• ...v.LA •••
can alone produce security bet ween nation and nation,
as between man. and man." •

* Saturday Review

RAPID INTERCHANGE OF COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA.
—The Liverpool, Quebec, and Montreal Ocean Steam-ship
Company's screw steamer North Briton left this port on the
Est ixistant. .Her advices arrived in New York, via Father
Point, on-the Ijtla, and the eft which her news had upau
the American markets waa telegraphed the same afternoan,
and sent OA IgArd the now steam-ship liengftrini which

the standard of , revolt once raised there, under
similar auspices. Were a deliver of the French
people from their oppression, but to go into their
midst with an army of two hundred thousand men
at his back, and promise them liberty, to say
nothing of more substantial spoils, as the French
despot is doing in Italy, there cannot be a ques-
tion that his progress would be quite as great an
ovation as Louis NAPOLEON'S is described to be
The Italians are formally declaring, we see, that
they offer their welcome to the French Emperor as
" a testimony of their respectful sympathy,"—and
that they offer it " in the name of all the victims of
Austrian tyranny, and of the proscribed." And
what wou?d be easier, than to go and do likewise in
France ? What might not be offered by a powerful
invader, with " deliverance from oppression " on his
banners, " in the name of all the victims of
Napoleonic tyranny "—and in vindication of all that
innocent blood which filled the gutters of the streets
of Paris at the horrible Napoleonic coup-d'etat by
which " the Empire " was re-established ?
We can sympathise warmly, we repeat, with the
unhappy Italians ; and it is our heart's desire and
prayer that they may be free, and that their national
happiness and prosperity may be secured. But we
have no hope of any such happy consummation at
the hands of the present invaders, with whatever
fair speeches they may have gone among them.
Only too much reason is there to fear, that it will
have to be said of this, as it has had to be said of so
many other revolts, that " whatever temporary
relief may be gained, must be followed by infinitely
worse revulsions, the principle of conflict having
once been introduced ; when subjects are driven to
redress their own grievances, and consequently are
familiarised to a licentiousness of complaint and
impatience, under which no Government can remain
stable ; when the ruling power is exasperated and
hardened by opposition ; when the collision between
the insurgent and the Sovereign lets loose upon
society all the horrors and passions of civil discord ;
when mutual suspicion and distrust is infused into
every relation of life ; when foreign interference is
invited to assist the contest, and take advantage of
its issue ; when ail fixed rule and order are cast aside
in the appointment of Governors, and their desig-
nation is now openly left to the decision of the
sword; when brute violence is thus made the law of
the nation, and before it has swept away ancient
institutions, honoured classes, all that is permanent,
and peaceful, and sacred ; and the State becomes a
wreck, and the land is defiled with blood ;"—when
such, we say, is too apt to be the career of a nation
under the influences of revolt, what so likely as that
the triumphant foreign despot should take possession
of such a country, and henceforth rule its people
with his rod of iron ? And who, in such a case, can
say, that the last state of that 'nation is not worse
than the first ?
We know it may be said,—indeed it is, we observe,
being said already,--that Louis NAPOLEON has
declared his intentions to be very different from such
as are involved in apprehensions like these. Look,
they say, at his Milan proclamation ? Does he not,
in that manifesto, demonstrate a most public-spirited
and disinterested course of action ? Is it not there
made quite clear, that his first and sole design is to
liberate the Italians—not to give them merely a
change of masters ? Does he not evidently feel for
their present oppression, and breathe forth the most
ardent desire to set them free
But was it likely, let us ask, in sober seriousness,
that he would tell them he was come to Italy in any
other capacity than as its deliverer? Is it ever the
policy of such schemers to declare their proud pur-
poses ? Look at the treacherous adventurer's ante-
cedents. "Did he," as we see it pertinently asked.—
" Did he swear to the citizens of the French Republic,
on being elected President, that he would make a
coup d'etat, clap the Assembly into prison vans,
establish himself as despot, and shoot down or
transport to Cayenne every person who did not
appear gratified at that arrangement ? Did he even
swear that his intentions were at that moment
uncertain; and that there was no saying what he
might do if circumstances proved favourable and
opportunity offered ? Or did he swear to them over

and over again to maintain their laws and liberties
inviolate to the last drop of his blood ? If there

are men who mistake their epoch, he is not one of
them.' Who can charge the Loins QUATORZE of
Compiegne with mistaking his epoch ? Who can
charge with mistaking his epoch a Sovereign who
has restored to France, after thirty years of Consti-
tutional government, the reyinze of lettres de cachet

and the Bastille ?" No, indeed,—Louis NAPOLEON

is not exposed to the suspicion of any such unen-

His are the sins, not

of si»zplicity, but of duplicity.
But, it may be asked again, what has England to
do with all thiS-? - We will allow the able and
independent contemporary already quoted to answer
the question for us ; which he does most conclusively
when he declares, that whatever_may be the grounds
for supposing there are no ulterior views of conquest,
or of aggrandisement, on his part, yet, "at the same
time, all the facts tally equally well with the sup-
position that the scheme is, having'avenged Moscow
•., : _ .

with the help of England; next to avenge Leipsie
with the help of Russia, and then—with perhaps the
same help--to turn round and avenge Waterloo.
We are not. of opinion," our contemporary adds,
" that such a scheme would be a hopeful one. We

are of opinion that its projector would prove to have
mistaken his epoch,' and that he would speedily
find the difference bet Ween the European nations of
1793 and the European nations of 1859

—between

crusaders of the Repßblic —and between himself and

the First Consul. But one thing is certain—that, if
such a scheme is entertained, it will be conducted,

arrived in Liverpool on the night of the 20th inst. Such a
quick intercommunication, between the old and new worlds
is a performance hitherto unparalleled, and is equally credit-
able to the company, 'represented here by Messrs. Allen
Brothers.

DUBLIN, Thursday.—The evening Freeman contains a
telegram from its private correspondent, confirming the
announcement of the appointment of the Right Hon. M.
Brady as Lord Chancellor for Ireland, and stating that
Lord Proby, son of the Earl of Carysford, and one of the
members for the County of Wicklow, has been appointed
Treasurer of the Household.

Ausrusaa....---Three vessels arrived from the Australian
colonies, yesterday, with gold, viz
At Liverpool—
Annie Wilson, with
Shalimar
In the Downs—
Owen Glendower

ozs.
5,338
24,390

35,500

65,228

Valued at
..... ..... £260,912 .
The Annie Wilson sailed from Melbourne on the 18th of
March, and the Shalimar on the 26th. The former brings,
in addition to the gold, 279 bales of wool, and the Shalimar
137 bales.

THE STEAM-SIIIP GMT OP BA LTIMOItE.—We are renjiested
to state, for the information of the large number of shippers
and friends of passengers by this steamer, that on her
arrival at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, after a fine run
of twenty-one and-a-half hours from. Liverpool, one of the
three blades of her fan was found to be broken, though it
was perfect when in graving duck here last week. Under
these circumstances, it was considered most prudent not to
proceed, and she left for Liverpool again last night, where a
spare screw is made, and will be put on in about two days.
Immediately on the news being received, the company's
steamer Vigo was prepared, and leaves this morning at
daylight (the earliest moment she can get out of dock), to
take up the passengers at Queenstown, whence she will sail
with them for New York direct on Saturday.