Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-11 00:00:00

'Wednesday, Janiimy 11, 1860.

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18Avconld only be modified with theleonsent of
the.other Great Powers.

PABis,l4;axa. 10.

The.Prench Legislative Session it is said,
Open on the sth February.

Later accounts' from Paris state that Marshal
Canrobert _is not going to Rome as-successor to
Due .de "Granimont, but is chargedOto carry to
the Papal Government, propositions which, if
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rejected, would be followed by an arder for the
evacuation .of Rome by the French-troops. That
step, it is remarliedovould only be a confirmation
of one _given eight ,or ten months-ago, and the
execution of which %was even commenced.

Le.Nord says that the army of occupation at
Rome, if moved, would go to reinforce that in
Central_ Italy.

conduct-of the Cabinet of Viensfrowthieroccision is not
merely Entails serious .dangers on the peace
and on Ausia.lierselE By breaking. her word Austria
tears up-the prielimitaries of Vilinfranca and the treaty
of Zurich, and: in her turn .frees ?France from the en-
gagements entered into by_ the Emperor Napoleen
respecting thcrettoration of •the faspossessed* Dukes
and their reserved rights.

THE EARL OF CLARENDON ON THE
• NOLUNTEER RIFLE- MOVEMENT.

At a meeting • at Watford,. last evening, the Earl-cif
Clarendon moved the first resolution. He said the
promptitude in establishing Taw teer corps, although as
yet only in its • infancy, had 'traduced a very salutary
effect -through Europe. "It •was the most complete
scheme thattnad been devised-to,secure peace, and place
us beyond ,'the recurrence of unmanly panics, of which
Englishmen should be ashamed. To see a danger, 'to be
frightened, and, yet to do nothing to avert it, was worthy
only of a nation of old women. To see it and shut: heir
eyes to is, was pusillanimous.; but to look the danger
steadily in the face was -the part of freemen and
patriots, and worthy the people of England.
The only power from which danger could be expected
was France ; and although the Emperor Napoleon
considered war with England as likely to be dangerous
to himself, yet, if he had been killed in Italy he was
brave, and continually exposed himself. How did they
know that the next Government would continue to
entertain the same friendly sentiments ? There were
tertain.friends of peace who -said that his preparations
were so totally uncalled for and unnecessary, as
we shrild always have full notice of any medi-
tated invasion, and should such an emergency arise
England 'would rise as one man. The lessen taught
the Emperor Napoleon by the-Crimean war was, that
France ought to be able, at a given time'of a given day,
to carry the precise amount of forces required to any
given-point, and he :determined that, in future, France
should not be without the means of transporting 50,000
men, and he recently sent out 100,000 men in an extra-
ordinary short spaoe of time to commence a
.gigantic
war. He was betraying no confidence, as the opinions of
the Emperor were well known. Now, it would be utter
imbecility on the part of the French Government, if
they allowed 48 hours to elapse, after a declaration of
war, without taking decisive steps, and he would ask
them if those 48 hours would not be spent in confusion
here. The rising of the people of England_would be
like lbe rising of a flock of sheep : without arms,
without discipline, and totally unprepared, they would
be bat brave men rushing to certain destruction ; but
when they were properly organised and equipped, an
invasion would be impossible. No effort should be spared
to attain this end.