The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FEB. 10.

A fevv days since you learnt from me that the. Emperor
had informed the Archduchess Sophia that he was so well
pleased with the results of his journey that he was
resolved to give Baron Bach some striking proof of his
satisfaction. His Majesty has lost no time in putting his
design into execution, for the electric telegraph yesterday
informed the official world that the Minister of the
Interior had received the Gpand Cross of St. Stephen,
which is the highest civil order in Austria. The posses-
sors of the Grand Cross of St. Stephen have the right to
request the Sovereign to raise them to the rank of Counts
of :the Empire. Nothing positive as to the return of the
Emperor and his three Ministers,is yet known here.
On the 2nd a grand dinner was given by the Emperor
in honour of the King of Bavaria: 140 guests, were pre
•sent, and among them were many of the first Lombard
nobles. In the evening the Emperor'- and his ItoYal.
guest went to the Scala, and were well received ; but
when the Empress, at a later hour, entered the box, the
cheering of the audience was as vehement as it was
prolonged, It may be remarked that the Emperor and
the King 'of Bavaria speak Italian porfectiy well ; but
her Majesty, who knows English as well as if ,she had
been born and educated on the other side of the Channel,

speaks both French and Italian* but indifferently. In a
former letter it was observed that this Government en.
deavours to force the German language on its eon-German
subjects; and the Aagsbary Gazette has received a letter
, from the Italian Tyrol which fully confirms my statement.
Tho'Minister of Public Instruction has issued orders that
Gernian is to be the language used in tuition in the higher
classes of the gymnasia' schools of Trento and.Roveredo:
which are quite as much Italian towns as Vicenza or
Verona. In future .the students from the Italian Tyrol
will not be allowed to undergo their examinations for their
doctor's degree at the• University of Innsbruck in the.
Italian language. • It would not be advisable to express
Stich an opinion here, but it strikes tee that the sooner the
idea of Germanising the Empire is relinquished the better
it will be for all partied. There is a very great similarity
bet Ween fldSian , mid Polish, but stili. 1!::2 endeavours of
the Emperor 11/4tieholas I.e force the -Poles to ij:Z.7l and
ispeak' the 'Russian language failed. Can it then' .6:
expected that the Italians, Magyars, and SclaVes will
ever adopt: a, language:. which .has . not the least re-
semblance to their own ? Austria is a polyglot Empire,
and it is laboui it vain. to atteo:pt to make anything else
of it. ' The Italians in this city have held a meeting, and
propose to, present an address of thanks to the Emperor '
on his return from his journey. His Majesty has par-
doned
ti felons who were in the houses ot correction at
Milan, Brescia, eumo; and Pavia ;• but it produces an:j
Ixtremely unfavourable impression on, the sensitive j
talian, to see that political offonders • and can:Pilau-,
briminals are pladed on the same level. Twentpfeureof ,
• the inhabitants of the, iiiiistied of Garola, Pathetic:, and j
Cremeneano, who offered opposition to some gendarmes -I
on the 6th of July,- 1555, have been liberated hs order or I
the Emperor. ,By the wording of the despatch it is to be 1
seen that the unfortunate men in ciaection were; after
having been in prison during more than eighteen months, .
still under. examination.. The Ministerial Oestarreisehe
reorrespondenz thus announces the evacuation of Parma :,
Onthe 6th of February the Austrians garrison .battalion
wentto PiadenZa. _Oa the 3rd it filed off, before the
DuchesS. • The; officers; 'after havinghad a' farewell
audience, dined at the Palace, where there was a ball in
the evening. Several of the officers received orders."
A correspondent of the Coas writes from Rome, that the
Pope fainted and fell' on the door when the despatch
announcing the murder of the Archbishop of Paris was
read to him. The intelligenro of the murderous attempt
on the Archbishop of Matera produced an " indescribably
painful impression" on His Holiness, who is said to be an
extremely nervous man.
• On the sth.llaron Hubner called on Count Walewski,
and in plain terms told hire that he considered the note
in the Moniteur relative to the Danubian Principalities
extrertielrinopPortune: It is said that , Baron de Boar-.
4ueneyslias given explanations here -but; if so, he has not
succeeded ih smoothing the ruffiel plumes of the Austrian
eagle, The language used in official 'circles is, that the
French Government has behaved very like a judge who;
after having expressed his own opinion as to the guilt -or
innocenee,of aprisoner, should charge the jury to give a
dispassionate. verdict. It here occurs to me that letters
have been received in this city from the Bessarabian
&miller, in whiehit is said that there are such vast masses
of Snow on the ground that the *frontlet line can hardly-be
• completed (with the' plough) before the end a April or
the beginning of May; Things are nearly, if not quite, as
bad' in .Moldavia and Wallachia ; and some tradesmen
who hays just arrived from BucliarestlApeak of 20 degrees
ofmold according to It-arnui.'s scale,. which is equivalent
to 13 00 of Fahrenheit. The Commissioners of the Danu-
bian Principalities seem to fancy that they shall net meet
at Bucharest so soon as is expected by the diplomatists ot
Europe, for some of them have to coma from Constant?
notale. . ' . .

The Papal See. strongly urges the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany to conclude a Coacordat. and reliable tows has been,
received hero that it is the question of dismissing M.
Baldasseroni and appointing Prince Cersini, Who is an
Vitiarnrintanist, Minister-President in his stead. Yi the
proposed: change should be made, a Concordat like the
Austrian would, in all probability, be speedily concluded
with `Rome. Slme of the Berlin correspondents write
that the emperor Alexander will visit the Emperor Napo-
lennitt Mareh or.in April.
- The Protestanti In. Central Germany affirm that the
hierarchy is resolved. if possible to introluce the form of
confession proposed at the Dresden Ccinfereneo. The
form proposed is said to be :-1. Announcemetti Of inten-
tion to confess. 2. Private confession on Saturday in the
sacristy. 3. Absolution by the con!'e3sor, who is to place
his hands on the head of the person who has confessed
his sins, and to say declare you free from all your
sins" '(id?, spreche.Dieh frei, ledig and los von alien Deinen
Sunden). The first trial is to be made in Saxony, Hesse
Cassel, and Mecklenharg-Schwerin; but your Protestant
readers need not fear. that it will succeed.

TI-18 BALTIC,.

HAMBURG, PEg 11.

• A rapid thaw hating commenced yesterday, and, the
authorities having assisted the operation by causing the
masses of ice to be broken no between this place. Alto a.
pun, Pieumuhlen, active preparations are in progress uy
the steamers in' port to forca the navigation. The Planet
(screw steamer), from London,: has arrived, and the
Germania (steamer) has made her way down, both of
these rival shipS having had to remain close to each other,
near Altona, for some hours, while trying to make a
passage up and down. In a day Or two more the naviga-
tion will have become less difficult for all classes of
steamers, and soon even for sailing shipS.
Copenhagen accounts are only up to the 7th inst,
leaving two mails doe. The Diet. was busy with home
affairs, and there has been nothing of any political interest
.to: mention. The Loan Bank, established about three
years rack, with -a capital of 800.000 thalers his
increased its capital to 1,000,000, having succeeded well
in its operations by paying 10 per cent, to the share:
holders. , , _ •..

A railway is to be laid
,down from.tbe centre of the city,
and 'to be conducted to the Royal Palace ofFriedrichsbarg,
the favourite resort of pleasure for the inhabitants of
Copenhagen generally.
The gas and water works are repOrted as prOgressing
with great activity.
The recently established steam cooking apparatus, on
the principle, and according to the model of the one in
Ilanover, is performing wonders for - the benefit of the
poorer classes of people in the capital.. During the month
of January no less less than 19,500 portions were sent to
families in the city, .and in the saloon of the kitchen
14,368 were consumed.
_

The intelligence from St. Petersburg up to the 4th inst.
mentions that the Minister' of the Interior had laid his re•
port of the general state of the empire before the Emperor,
who added'on the margin the remark :—" 1 haveread the
report with great Satisfaction; and especially the frank
and open manner of its exposition pleases me." From the
report it appears that, during the years of the last war,
738,935 men were called under arms-36 i,912 for the
national militia and the. artillery, and 372,053 for the re-
gular army. The sum contributed towards the necessities
of war had been 6,300,000 silver roubles. The amount of
money exchanged in various articles at the Fair of Nijni-
Noveorod last year has, been 69.593,760 roubles of silver-
-5,808,965 more than the year 1855.

SARDINIA.

A despatch- from Turin, dated llth inst., says,:—" The
bill on the reorganisation of the superior administration
of public instruction has been adopted by a majority of 75
to 55."