The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Neuchatel question has lost much of its
Interest from the conviction that it is virtually-
settled—that a private understanding exists be-
;een the Emperor of the French and the King of
tre l Prussia to that effect, and that, if diplomatic action
employed, it is rather to save the amour
YkT)Pre of the King than anything else. The
I°tltederation having obtained in reality what it
/ealired may freely make a sacrifice of appearances.
""as for some time doubtful where the Confer-
the would be held, but I hear that London is
t„e 1)1aoe agreed upon. It is fitting that it should
~'B°• Paris has been the seat of two Congresses,
Anne will be that of another when the Danubian
tPalities come to be organised. It was in
1171,1011 that the first Congress on Neuchatel was
was there that the protocol of the 24th
goes' 1802, was signed•—and it is there that the
listi"1"°11 should be, and probably will be, definitively
ettl. The Congress will he composed of the
r'seot •
The ot the parties to the Protocol.
retie D,IY addil'ion will be the Minister of the Hel-
tlo Switzerland, I believe, has
tnye.rroa7ient diplomatic agent accredited to the
i
4sll Government, as it has in Paris. I should
11.1)::'e surprised if the Confederation now saw the
ihe estY of having one there as well as here.
I ti„,, Neuchatel prisoners have arrived at Besangon.
t,,nerstand they have demanded permission to
4;;,,e to Paris on parole until the question be
iht"ed, as Paris is a more agreeable residence
rii, the principal town of the Doubs.
ke,e Grand Duke Constantine and the Grand
rift:less are expected here about the middle of
ls month.
CouT appeal of Verger from the sentence of the
eqr,:' of Assize ';vas received this day by the Pro-
at G-enera-i at the Court of Cassation. It was
eelice.,,hao_aed over to MM. Roverchon and Thier-
tor,;;lt'lYocates attached to the same court, whose
ease: la this week to examine appeals in criminal
its It is believed that the court will pronounce
ecision on Thursday.
fatbearge,r appeared less dejected yesterday. His
prn 'laving obtained permission to see him,
ittellted himself at 4 o'clock at the Conciergerie,
the was admitted. The interview took place in
see presence of the director of the prison, and both
to i,'"T‘ecl lunch affected. The father was the first
eak " Your business," he said, " has cost me
it„,'-ettt deal of trouble. I have had to go about to
dat many places for you. So you are condemned
eath
haves," was the reply, "but all is not yet over;
ape—re4,q)pealed, and, moreover, I have addressed
overl:Po to the Emperor. No, no ; all is not yet

bey the ~sremained for some time together.
When
fir
moment came to separate, Verger said, in a
tAll N'oice,—emy father, be calm, be calm."
fro 4,4 O'clock orders were given for his removal
Roqu 'Lle prison of the Conciergerie to that of the
At half-past 4 a crowd of persons as-
ItTbien in the court to see the prisoner pass.
coe door oopened nciergerie in the direction of the
roduthertr and a keeper passed carrying
arm a large bundle containing Verger's
hiB feB. Some minutes after a man appeared :
Rr ace was pale and emaciated, and he wore the
fo-oyiellory he p rison dress. It was Verger;
the
tu dejected and sad, and those who saw
-en Viet at the Court of Assize could scarcely
lencognise him. He crossed the small interior
foiuirt witlaout speaking, and moved forward,
of the, by his keepers, to the old entrance
dr
Conciergerie. There the prison van was
ep,neocretaelded b
concealed utpHe ascended the carriage, which
yhira from all eyes, and the vehicle,
af the Roquette.
gendarmes, moved off to the prison
A Copy of the indictment was presented to Ver-
evnios in itand signed us to the trial, and he made several
(:og ell:re pel;io
it with his initials, L.
vl%; Among other alterations he struck out the
setting forth that the exclamation he used on
.11kin
g the rchbishop was "A bas los deeses ?"
I_`l ins sted A
that it w as ".4 bas les Genovefains!"
Genovefains are the chaplains of Ste. Gene-
In another place where the copying clerk
the blunder of spelling autel (altar) hotel,
nlari.?l' corrected the mistake and wrote in the
• 1'1,4 Ane" (ass !)
T 1,9 e are assured," says the Assemblee Nationale,
16-oat the brother of Verger went on Friday to
d;,..'enciergerie with an artist, and requested the
-c tor •
1)0,6, the prison to allow him to have the
Vas -•"1t of the assassin taken. The permission
• Justly refused, on which he cried out that
ere the portrait of the Archbishop was sold
be
-IS'where he could not understand why he should
,retused to sell that of his brother !"
is said that M. Ledru Rollin has published an
Mdree
th Bor manifesto, as it is called, on the subject
idea e approaching elections. He deprecates the
1,4 of keeping away from the ballot box, and
r 1,1; 4,res that if only one single revolutionary candi-
i-ipe °e successful, it will be something gained.
410 'ava nothing, I believe, about the oath. The
;:itelur has the following:—
dit The Prince Imperial has been for the last two
I-Ifs-r 14m
-trim! under a slight catarrhal fever.
tlier'MPerial Highness was better last evening
riesse,,ia nothing in his state to cause any uneasi-
olte illness of the child, which was severe for
Parent "'mg, occasioned much uneasiness to the
Operas and the Emperor's absence from the
hiitp last night, where he was expected, is attri-
Too to that cause.
tie d inatZl'ew, on the occasion of the anniversary of
bra to of Louis XVI.; four masses will be ce!e-
St. Rono"rtElit,caEt 3,t,
10,
Expiatory Chapel, in the Rue d'Anjou
1L and noon.
'f• ile 12th
of the
MARSEILLES, JAN. 19
59thregiments of the line, forming
g and
arrison of Toulon, have received orders
hold themselves in readiness to embark for
i'_lgeria, where, it is said, they are to be employed
lite approaching campaign against the Kabyles•
I„_l‘,'o other infantry regiments are under orders to
"Inforce the army in Algeria.
I,,,The splendid steam frigate Isly sailed from
tq-tillon on the 17th inst , on a cruise, with orders
I,Neh at Naples.
11,,`W0 steam packets from Constantinople, the
sevthkhene and the Niel, arrived on Saturday, both
b ertil days behindhand, in consequence of the
is°lstet ous state of the weather. The intelligence
alr„llßht by them is less recent than what we have
`ady received via Trieste.

-e -
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. IN LOM
BARDY.

VIENNA, JAN. 18,
Yet. 4.
rtr,ri -Lerday afternoon the Stadtholder of Lombardy
beio(),,titleed by electric telegraph that the officers
'
tli-ging to the garrison of Milan, the clergy, and
resn-lyil authorities bad been permitted to pay their
ttv4e,ets to his Majesty on the preceding day. Be.
lver„ the hours of one and two many ladies of rank
Theft, ipresented to the Empress. In the evening
tc):snilvla.lesties went to the Scala Theatre. In the
"t tib—ng of the 17th (yesterday) the Emperor called
C'et;te Palaces occupied by the Stadtholder and the
var:1,;111 Congregation, and afterwards inspected
111,,;,'" public establishments. At two o'clock
Pxe-Ael, was a grand parade. The people give an
the-“etr.
reception to their Majesties whenever
'licLapPear in public. The authorities at Milan
Pqnhn'eir utmost to secure a good reception for the
fieerer. and their exertions have been success
l't)ty, N 0 great confidence can be placed in official
11,0)1111ications on such a subject, but the
lo,tiiellr of the Milanese must have been per-
satisfactory, for the Emperor yesterday
ti,jertned the Archduchess Sophia by electric
ticQgtl'aPil that the reception given to himself and
;"',lnPress was extremely good. According to
rqu,'iltermant, who obtained his intelligence at the
head, their Majesties were so well pleased
~thttl Scala and its audience that they remained

until the ballet was over, although the Empress was
slightly indisposed. For the information of persons
who are curious in such matters, it may be stated
that the opera given was II Trovatorc, and the ballet
illanon Lescaut. Prince Thurn and Taxi•, whose
illness was announced about a fortnight since,
is dead. The complaint of which the Grand
Steward of the Empress died was typhus fever,
brought on, it is said, by his having remained too
long in the cold, damp churches of Venice. We
have not yet received any detailed account of the
festivities which are to take place during the short
sojourn of their Majesties at Milan, but it is known
that several of the great Lombard nobles intend to
give fetes in their honour. The Duke Giulio de
Melzi, who has a magnificent palace at Milan, gives
a grand ball on the 24th instant, at which their
Majesties will be present. It is probable that the
illustrious travellers will go to Florence at the end
of this month, and pats a week there, but no posi-
tive information has yet reached me on the subject.
It is still related that the Emperor will meet the
Pope at Loretto, and it is not unlikely that such
will be the case, as so celebrated a shrine must
have an irresistible attraction fcr so dutiful a son
of the church as his Majesty: The Augsburg Gazette
has received some interesting and evidently
authentic information from Milan, relative to the
sequestrated property of the emigrants. Not only
will every description of property be returned to
the rightful owners., but also all the revenues and
interests of the same. That the emigrants may have
no cause whatever to complain. His Majesty has
also ordered that the outlay for the management of
the property, during the absence of the owners—
which amounts to 560,000 silver florins—shall be
paid by the State. It has been said in some of the
foreign papers that ladies belonging to good families
are still imprisoned for political offences, but the
statement is incorrect. One female was in prison,
and her name was contained in the list of 70 persons
who were pardoned by the Emperor on the 2nd of
December, 1856. The conspiracy at Mantua, of
which mention was made in a letter written about a
week since, was discovered towards the end of 1852,
and the plan was " to bring about a general insur-
rection, and to make an attempt on the life of His
Majesty." The persons who were charged to examine
into the insurrection which took place at Milan on
the 6th of February, 1853, were of opinion that the
disturbers of the public peace had no regular plan
of action, and no exactly defined political object in
view. They got up a " row," and endeavoured to
take the authorities by surprise, but failed in the
attempt. After the amnesty had been granted at
Venice there were 44 political offenders left in the
prisons of Lombardy and Venice, but 32 of them
have since been pardoned. There are still, how-
ever, many persons confined in the prisons and
fortresses of the other Austrian provinces, who
were tried and condemned for political offences
committed in Lombardy and Venice.
The Cardinal Archbishops of Prague and Olmutz
are gone with the Prince• Bishop of Breslau to
Berlin, in order, if possible, to make some arrange-
ment relative to their respective sees. The Breslau
diocese extends from the Baltic far into Austrian-
Silesia, and the sees of the two Austrian Arch-
bishops comprise in them a part of the Prussian
territory.

The first General Assembly of the Credit Bank
will be held on the 2nd of March. The want of
" buoyancy" on 'Change is as great as ever.

PRUSSIX.

BERLIN, JAN. 19.

Yesterday evening, although Sunday, the Staats
Anzeiger published a number containing a list of
the names of all those who had that day received an
Order, together with a short account of the cere-
monies connected with the Ordensfest. Though the
list contains the names of upwards of 800 indi-
viduals made happy and more loyal than ever on
this occasion, there is only one among them that
will have any interest for your readers. Of the ac-
count of the proceedings, however, I may as well
give you a few details. Of these 800 favoured
individuals it must not be supposed, that all have
received high and valuable Orders ; that would
hardly be true of a fifth or sixth part of them ; the
rest have had allotted to them the lower classes of
the less distinguished orders. chiefly as a dis-
tinction for exemplary civil services—in the same
wholesale way as after the Crimean campaign
medals and clasps were distributed for military
service.

Among the names of the four noblemen who re-
ceived the investiture of the order of the Black
Eagle on this occasion is that of Baron von Man-
teuffel ; the order itself was, however, conferred
on him last March on occasion of the Treaty of
Peace being concluded at Paris, and the additional
distinction conferred on him yesterday appears to
have consisted in the chain or collar of the order and
probably formed the expression of his Royal Mas-
ter's great satisfaction at the pacific conclusion
of the Neuchatel difficulty, for the only complication
which in any degree endangered the preservation of
peace was the detention and the threatened trial
of the Royalist prisoners Last March Baron Man-
teuffel, in Paris, informed his Majesty that the la-
bours of the Conference had arrived at'a satisfactory
termination as regarded their agreeing to a draft for
the treaty of peace, which was to he signed in due
form in a few days; hereupon the King determined
to confer on his faithful Minister this, the highest
Order in Prussia ; and that the latter might be
enabled to wear it on the occasion of the solemn.
signing of the document the insignia were sent off
to him without delay by a special courier ; and
furthermore, with the intention that his new honour
might be duly mentioned with his other titles and
dignities in the preamble of the treaty, the agreeable
intelligence was forwarded to him at once by tele-
graph. The courier arrived in admirable time with
the insignia, but the telegraphic despatch, though so
much more rapid in its passage, came too late for
its purpose—the preamble had been metallo-
graphed many days in advance ; and thus, in spite
of the King's good will and intentions towards
his Minister, posterity will probably remain igno-
rant of the highly interesting fact, that the repre-
sentative of Prussia at the Paris Conferences was
at that time even in possession of the Order of the
Black Eagle.