Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-17 00:00:00

FUNDS

PARIS, Wednesday.-1 27 p.m

heavy, with a further decline of pe

now 67 60,

Rentes opened
T cent.; and are

2 16 p.m. : The Bourse is very inanimate,

speculators being in a state of expectation ; Rentes
67 65. 3 34 p.m.: The Bourse closes very flat ;
Rentes 67 45 both for money and account, being
per cent. below yesterday's closing prices. Lom-
bardo-Venetian and Austrian railway shares sf.
lower.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 16.—An Imperial decree,
dated March 10th, prohibits the exportation of
horses from Russia and the Kingdom of Poland by

the European frontiers

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BERNE

SWITZERLAND.
March 16

—Masses of conscripts. from

Lombardy are passing from Valtelaine through the
canton prisons into Piedmont. The Austrian
authorities have transported all the public treasures,
records, and public registers to Sondrio, chief town of
the Valtelaine.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PORTUGAL.

The screw-steamer Braganza arrived here last
evening from Oporto, which port she left on the 12th
instant. The news is hot of the slightest importance.
The Braganza experienced the most severe weather,
the wind being from the S.W., afterwards changing
to N.N.W. The captain (Loudon) says that he never
experienced more severe weather. He was obliged
to throw twenty head of cattle overboard, and when
the vessel arrived in the Salisbury Dock last night,
there were ten head of cattle lying dead.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Tuesday, 6 p.m.—The Emperor Napoleon
has been favoured by fortune in
,a manner, almost
without parallel in history. He has achieved glory
of many kinds ; he was elected under most adverse
circumstances to the Presidency of the French
Republic : he succeeded beyond the expectations of
his most devoted adherents in the coup d'etat; he was
elected by a large majority President for ten years ;
he was elevated to the purple by 7,500,000
voters •, he became the ally of England ; he
received the visit of England's Queen ; his gallant
army won new laurels in the Crimea, and blended
his name with victory; but there still remains a
glory to which none has approached—he has de-
throned the Sphynx ! When I say this, I take it
for granted that the articles which are of late so
frequent in the Moniteur are 9f his Majesty's inspi-
ration—if not actual composition—that the theme
is his, though the arrangement of the notes is
by others. We ought to be grateful that no
obligation is imposed on the readers of these enig-
mas other than to read them ; it makes one's flesh
creep to think what would happen if those who read
had to explain them under some such penalty as that
imposed on the traveller, who failed to unriddle the
" leading articles" of the mysterious creature who
kept watch on the road to Thebes.
One of these enigmas is presented to us in the
Moniteur of to-day. The composition is by M. de
La,guerronniere ; the inspirer it is superfluous to
name. One motive for its publication is probably
to neutralize the effect of the article of the sth,
which was the work of a different and an inferior
hand. If there was any intention of restoring
calm in the public mind, diminishing alarm, re-
establishing security, or restoring confidence, I fear
much the labour has been in vain. It is not
merely from the fall in the public funds which
followed the publication of tile article, but from the
diversity of manner in which it is interpreted by
men of impartiality, judgment, and pacific disposi-
tion. Amon.. most of the banking and commercial
people it is looked upon as nothing less than prelimi-
nary to entering on a campaign; and this, in spite
of the pacific character of the first paragraph of
the article. By the'German Ministers at this Court
the article is pronounced as well put together, but
" perfidious," and intended to exculpate the French
Government by trying to make the public believe
that it is Germany that menaces France, instead.
'of the Imperial Government menacing Ger-
many. They have no doubt that it will
produce a bad effect among the German people.
A few look at it in a more favourable light, but
they are very few. It is avowed by those who are
in the secret that the intention was to show that
firmness and resolution, instead of hesitation, were
the basis of the Imperial policy. How far success is
obtained you may judge; but the misfortune is
that, where there is one paragraph, or even one
sentence, of a nature to inspire hope, it is soon
neutralised by others of an opposite tendency.
People have reached that state of doubt and mistrust
they set so little value on these official effusions—
that I believe the plainest, most direct, and straight-
forward declarations would find them as suspicious
and incredulous as ever.
Lord Cowley has not yet arrived. He is expected
to-morrow, or the day after. I need hardly say with
what impatience.