The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

There is at present not the slightest doubt
the ratification of 'the Neufchatel treaty will
be voted by the Federal Assembly by a large
majority. The dissentient voices will come
chiefly from Geneva, part of Berne, and the Lower
Valley;
According to the report of Dr. Berne, Prussia
proposed to have inserted in the protocol the fol-
lowing declaration :
1. The King who attaches no importance to the payment
of the million, -renounces it, 2. The King will continue
to bear the title of Prince of Neufchatel and Count de
Valengin, 3. The King would have desired more com-
plete guarantees relative to the property of the Church and
selioous foundations than those which are contained in
_Articles 7 and 8, but he will not on that account refuse
his assent to the treaty. Dr. Kern on his side has declared
—l. The Federal Council, having given its assent to the
the stipulation of the
treaty; with payment of a million,
- cannot find in the renunciation of Prussia to that sum any
motive for withdrawing its assent. 2. As far as regards the
title, Switzerland must protest against 'any pretension

which may be raised on this foundation at any future
period.
Accounts from Neufchatel state that the Grand
Council of that canton has repeated the decree for-
bidding the Bishop of Friburg, Mgr. Marilley, in
whose see is comprised the Catholic portion of
Neufchatel, to enter the canton. The Grand
Council is convoked for Thursday next, for the
purpose of decreeing an amnesty.

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived.
The following is the reply which the Queen gave
to the deputation of the senate charged to present
her Majesty the address of that body—
Senators,—l have heard with the greatest interest the
noble sentiments of the Senate. My sole desire is to see
the nation united, prosperous, and happy. The wishes of
the Senate are mine and those of my government. I
hope that, being all united and having confidence in the
assistance of Divine Providence, we shall advance towardz
the noble object which we all desire to attain.
The committee of the Congress on the bill on
the press had commenced its deliberations. The
committee resolved that the bill should be so mo-
dified as to cause all the responsibilliy of offences
to devolve on the editor of the paper, and it was
thought it would reduce the caution money to 6,000
piastres, and the property qualification required
for an editor to the payment of taxes amounting to
200 reels, instead of 2,000, as proposed by the
government.

THE PRINCIPALITIES•

A letter from Vienna says :

According to the last accounts received from M. Lieb-
man, the Austrian member of the commission in the
Danubian Principalities, that body has felt bound to
suspend its labours until after the elections for the divans,
in consequence of the confusion which reigns there. This
step has been approved of here, as time will be obtained to
renew negotiations between the various cabinets, now
somewhat divided on the important question of the future
reorganisation of the Principalities.
The Zeit, of Berlin, in a semi-official article,
blames the arbitrary acts and proceedings of the
Turks in the Principalities, which, it declares,
render it impossible to form a
,just opinion of the
state of those provinces.