Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-07 00:00:00

Tin ;NORTHERN- TIMES, THURSDAY; JULY 7, 1859

province being consequently menaced by Garibaldi,
it intends to propose to the Diet, in virtue of the
treaty of Vienna, which required the German States
to guarantee each others German territory, to send
a German army into the Tyrol. The Invalide
Russe discusses the possible' completion of the war.
"Prussia," it says, ." has called out an, army -of
300,000 men, which will be reinforced by a Federal
Contingency of 150,000 men, and it is with such an
enormous display of force that she proposes to offer
mediation to France, to hasten the conclusion of a
peace. But such an armed mediation constitutes
a kind of ultimatum. Is not France entitled
to reply that the conditions of peace ought to be pro-
posed by all the great powers conjointly, and not by
Prussia alone, and that such an -armed mediation
made by a single power is equivalent to a declaration

The, Invalide Russe adds, " But when to
maintain the Aiistrain possessions in Italy, a German
army of half a million men shall be put in motion to
attack France, can .the -Palmerston-Russell Cabinet
remain indifferent spectators of a new e9nflagaration ?"
The English ministry will most certainly not allow
the new war to begin, without first exhausting all

of war ?

the practices of persuasion
The case of Swynfen v. Lord. Chelmsford has con'-
eluded by a verdict for the defendant on all counts.

At the meeting of the West. Deby Guardians
yesterday, no business.: of any importance_ was trans-
acted. The charges which Mr. Smith promised to
make against the master and officers of the house
were not proceeded with.

The mono

htp meeting of the Town. Council was

held yesterda

k long disci

ion took place upon
letter in the Mercury, charging Mr. John Stewart
and the Finance Committee, of which he is Chair-
man, with discourtesy to a deputation headed by
Mr. J. R. Jeffery. Mr. Jeffery and Mr. Stitt sup-
ported the charge against the -Ccitatnittee; Mr.
Mr. Earle, and Mr. Hohne defended it.

Steains

le resignation of Mr. Bally, the corporate auditor,
was accented. Mr. Jeffery raised a question as to
the propriety of Mr. Stewart, Chairman of the
Finance Committee, acting as arbitrator on behalf
of the Mersey Dock Board, in reference to the
valuation of land on the Birkenhead side, -in which
the Corporation have an interest. Mr. Stewart
not being present, nothing
.definite came of the
ie Health Committee's proceedings
Mr. Earle proposed that the registration of common
lodging-houses be transferred to the police. - The
question was postponed for a month's consideration.
At four o'clock the Council adjourned to Monday,
having only got through the proceedings of the
Finance, Watch, and Health Committees.

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overrun Piedmont—another day it seems equally
clear that they will stand upon the defensive. One
day. the Anstrians retire across the Mincio as if they
meant to rely upon the famous quadrilateral—the
next day they advance in 'full force to fight:a-great
pitched battle. The youthful rashness, and head-
strong pride of FRANCIS JOSEPH are well known

the prudence and sagacity of the veteran HESS are
not less notorious. Two such men conducting a
campaign would naturally produce the results which
have been witnessed. It is a significant fact that as
soon as the battle of Solferino was won, the Austrian
Emperor resolved to return to Vienna ; and it is to
be hoped that his generals will now be left unfettered
to conduct the campaign as they think best,"—hoped,
at any' rate, for the interests of Itumanity, since it is

obviqus that the conflict has been made all the more
sanguinary by the bad generalship of the Austrians
that has hitherto characterised almost all their

operations

• And now, therefore, one cannot but await with
anxiety the next act of the bloody drama. General
HESS is in full command of the Austrian army.
allied invaders have pursued him to Verona
under the walls of that ancient city will probably
be. fought an engagement that may be decisive of
the campaign. :Russia and England are both, it
evident, urging a termination of -.the conflict

We know' what is doing at home
latest arrivals from St. Petersburg

such a remonstrance as the following

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kustria,
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She

notwithstanding the forces of which six

disposes,_ ought to think seriously of peace
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invaded Piedmont, and hoped. to crush her before the
arrival of the French; but she has not succeeded.

and has had to fall back to the Mincio. She hoped
to have allies, and the allies have made default. • She
is, however, still endeavouring to obtain the support
of Gertnany'Und Pirussia. As to us, for the sake of
hunianity, we sincerely desire that she may not
succeed, because 'in acquiring powerful allies she
might at the' same time array against her still
more powerful enemies. In that case, Europe would
be inundated with blood, and for nothing else than
to preserve Lombardy to Austria, though that
province can never more belong to her morally.",
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'For the sake of humanity and of peace,- one would
fain concur in such a conclusion as this. But we
doubt its reasonableness notwithstanding, —we
almost doubt, indeed, its policy. The moral and
political effect of Lotis NAPOLEON'S success in so
outrageous an invasion as, in the face.of treaties he
had to set at nought, his march into Italy un-
doubtedly was, can never be one conducive to the
permanent peace of Europe.

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