Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-16 00:00:00

MONDAY, MAY 16, 1859.

TIIE DAY': NEWS.
_t The intelligence this morning from the seat of
War does not add much to our previous knowledge
of the state of affairs in the Piedmontese territory.
The. Emperor: Nlapoleon wag visited by the King of
Sardinia, at Genoa, on Friday. That town and port
had been generally illuminated, in: consequence of
the arrival of the French Emperor, who, it is, re-
ported, received 'a very • enthusiastic Aception;! It
would afwear, from. the •PariS.cattespondence et a
London,-contemporary, that no miters- but such as
are willing to submit their MS. to the censorship of
the kb-ell& histnrique are allowed to accompany the
head-quarters of the French army. Three members
of the Press have been permitted on these terms to
follow in the Emperor's wake. • Two of them belong
to French. semi-official.ritrints, and the third. to 'a
London journal, which only differs from the Poi-
Inad Constitutiwznel in being-written in English, and
'having still fewer reatiers. Private letters, -received
in Paris, state that the French troops sttfered very
severely during flick fortti.. March froth:. Genoa to
Gavi, and that the nu:nber of straggters was im-
mense. The intemperante the men had indttlge:l in,
Morcover, wholly linlitted a great many for the hard-
ships they had 'had to Itadergo, and there were a
great many ca,es.ofdysentery and fewer ingthe camp
hospital.. By this time the whole of:the cavalry
and artillery will have ;reached their destination, and.
the French array- in Italy may be -set down withoat
evagzerationaat 1:39,00.0 men. An actirmis expected
to take place early this week. Twelve thousand
men leave Paris to-obey, for Marseilles., 'fney are:
intended toLfill up the losie.4 that Will have taken
place by the :ime they reach the seat of war, either
in action, or by Etti-;.,eae and disease. T..te Atli/rims
have completely changed their front ; their extreme
pow-:rests-on'Vereelli, and th.6irextieine lefton
Pavia. Tae French, though more ,Inunerous, occupy
a:much sin iller.apace, but they have not yet taken
an their float position. At the -Witting of the 'Lipner.
Tionse, ii• Bailin, on Friday, the money
stppl'e; de nanied by the Prussian gorernmeat
unanimoa.ty voted with many express-4ms of-
c infidenw. Alt the speakers were anti-Niiptie
an i 'in •fAvourk ef German-nationality. 'Thel-Fedral.
D:et, at their sitting at Prank tort-on-the-Maine,
01 Friday, .agreed that the garrisons of the Fedral
fartress-,shoald he • placed on a war footing% It is
stated in atfutzter exempt fecal liability tolprosecu-
ttion 'tor Ca'se news, that there is a rumour of M.
Pietri, the tezz-prefeet of pdlice, being about to be
sent-to Italyim a p articular 'f.ervice during tie w tr. '
The•effeetive,blockade whichlAAmiral de In Graviere
has gone to establish in the Adriatic will only
extend for-the nrosott to the coast of thel.ambardo-
Venetian. king 1 M. Gianier de Casair:rac says
in-the Pags that if G.Nieral Gyulai vial only do the
French ,army the lionotir to wait for its attack
'between the Piedmontese- frontier and. Aldan, peace
very soon he restored. He is persuaded that
tthe enemY!s army must* as deiermiazed as that of

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'the:French to bring the matter to a thurt end, and
'therefore he reckons upon a very sneedy denlinzent.'
The •camtraigns of alaree..te and thm only lasted a I
1 month each ; and if the , French cars only get•at 4he
' Austrinnl,,be is persuaded that the present one will
not he longer. There had b.:en, quite a panic on the
P.tris Bourse on Friday, in consequence of a report
-that there•had been a change of Miiistry in Pru,sia
—thaellerr von Arnim, who is suvosed to be very
I hostile •to France, had been • appoitited President of
the Council, and that the • :Berlin mob had insulted
the French anbaSsador. •A -notice was stuck up at
The Bourse contradicting the steement, and the
,13.ttiie asserts that there is mot the slightest
foundation for this" false news," the " authors of
which.are to be prosecuted." Al tout thirty arrests
hove been-already made. But this severity wholly'
Nik.l • to' ins-tire contidence, and there was a fall of
1 per cent. in Rente.
Aqvices•bave bee.) receive 1 of the arrival at the
'Mauritius, of the Aastialial urtil steamer Bram,
with ,dotes; from Sydney to the lAth of March. and
from Xlelboutne to the,l7th. It id presumed that
the &nen- h td met with art accident, and was conse-
quently compelled to land ,11.,r mail and passengers
at the Mauritius. The light portion of the mails
froin Australia, Calcutta, and China,-has reached
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Mameilles, and will be delivered here this afternohn.
The PL.ra, with the heavy portion, is expected at
Southampton on or about the 20th instant.
The Arabiaarrived here on Saturday, with four
days' later news from the Uait,:d States. The.
steamers Bremen and Bavaria, from Soathampton,
had ,reached New York ; the North Britain had
arrived at •Quiebec, an I the Niag wit at Boston—
both .from Liverpool. There is not much •neWy of
importance. Details of Mexican news confirm the
telegraphic accounts
.of the terrible anarchy which
prevailed. Both sides were couittin ; great ex-.
eess',!s. The excitement in Urah had somewhat
abated. .It is stated that the Nicaraguan difficulty
is ri:ltrly adjusted. L item' advices from th 2 South
Pacific inform -Us that the revolutionists in Chili
were gaining on the government. - 'The troubles
between Peru and Ecuador will, it is: stated, be_
settled without any bloodshed. The. •ports of Co-.
quimhe and 'Caldera were still closed. The steamer
Prince of Wales, belonging to the Pacific Steam
Navigation Coinpany, had been lost.
There is no domestic or 16.2.al news of the least
intere4 or importance this morning. A few ad-
ditional particulars respecting the accident at the
Westminster Palace lEotel, will be found in another
column ; also, the latest returns of the state of the
poll at the various elections. So far, the Tories
seem to have gained 40 seats, and lost 20—haing a
net gain of .20.

TILE MAINTENANCE OP PEACE.
IT is a blessed thing for England, we may depend
upon it, that she, is in a position to be neutral, at a
time when two of the Great Powers, of the Continent
are gone to war, and there is so much to contribute
to a prolonged course of hostilities,—and not only
that the country is in so favourable a position, but
that its Government is resolved, by every available
means; to maintain it. It were rather a superfluous
thing, we cannot_ but think, to call meetings for the
purpose of addressing her Majesty to abstain from
participating in the COntinental war ; because it is
evident, from all that has transpired, that her
Majesty and her Ministers are as decidedly opposed
to any such participation as it is possible to be,—
that they have used every means in their power to
prevent the war ; and that now, when, in spite of
their mediations, and their remonstrances, it has
actually broken out, they will stand aloof from it,
in dignified disapproval, and therefore in • strict
neutrality. Of the Queen herself, there is every
thing to convince her people, that she can with truth
declare,—
" 'Tis death to me, to be at enmity ;
I hate it, and desire all go: d urea's love."

Never, we believe, was the Throne of England
occupied by a Sovereign more anxious to be at
peace with all the world, than is QUEEN VICTORIA.
And most fortunate it is, that at so critical a
conjuncture as the present, she has a Government
that enters most cordially and most fully into her
own peaceful policy. Had the former Government
been still in office, the peace of England, there is
every reason to believe, would not have been worth
a twelve how's purchase. But, thank God, ive
have at present Ministry whose policy is emphati-
cally one of peace.
We entirely oonnur in the sentiment expressed
is A Memorial which,
in ono of the Metropolitan