The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-30 00:00:00

ask or grievances to be redressed. No one who
is acquainted with the new Governor General's
character doubts that he will do all in his power to
increase the prosperity of the Lombardo Venetian
kingdom, and to satisfy the reasonable wishes of
its inhabitants, but his task will be an onerous and
ungr,....eful one, for his powers are very limited, and
the Lombards and Venetians require concessions
which the Imperial Government neither can nor
will grant. If rationally governed the Austro-
Italians will probably remain quiet, but nothing will
ever reconcile them to their political position. . .

Persons who have been board the Novarra state
that the arrangements which have been made for
the accommodation of the scientific part of the in-
tended expedition round the world are most judi• •
cious. On deck there is' a very roomy saloon
and another between the decks. On the outside
of the' stern of the vessel there is a kind of
gallery, which •in calm weather is likely to be a
favourite place of resort. The ship's artillery has
been removed, and the gun Iroom fitted up as a
study, in which is a large and well-assorted collec•
lion of books, and the best maps and ehOrts that
could ha procured for love or money. As the men
of science are Germans, it is almost superfluous to
remark that smoking in the study will not he pro-
hibited. The mathematical instruments, &c., are
by the best makers, and some of them are presents
received from English, French, and German cele-
brities The crew, which consists of 200 men, was
chosen from among 400 volunteers, and there will
be a band composed of twelve men on board, as
music is supposed to be necessary to the well-
being- of the fellow•countrymen of Mozart and
Haydn.
After the Swiss-army was ditiiid-e-cl;The- great
bulk of the nation appeared well content to leave
the settlement of the Neufchatel question to the
diplOmatists, but recently considerable excitement
has manifested itself in some of the cantons, and
popular opinion again presses somewhat heavily on
the Federal Council. The Democratic party is in-
dignant at the " tricitiness"of Prussia, and it has
so little confidence in its own Government that it
insists on the National Assembly being convoked,
when it is the question of the acceptance or rejec-
tion of the proposals of the Paris Conference. A
professional politician, who is probably well in-
formed of what is passing in Berlin and Berne, is
of opinion that King Frederick William IV. will
not object to a little " gentle pressure" (douce
violence) being employed, as it will enable him to
make concessions to the Swiss without any sacrifice
of dignity. It will, however, be seen that the Swiss
will strongly object to the payment of such a large
sum as a million of francs, for they are as 'great
worshippers of the golden calf as any people in
Europe. •
The Triest Zeitung learns from Bucharest that
the more moderate politicians in Wallachia and
Moldavia sincerely lament that the Union question
was not settled during the Paris Conferences.
The politicial excitement is . still very great in
Wallachia, although the ultra-Liberal party has
made some slight concessions to the more moderate
Unionists. The " Middle Party," as it is called, only
desires the union because it fancies it would
be a 'means of changing the suzerainete of
the Porte into a simple Protectorate, which, accord-
ing to the sense of the capitulations or treaties, it
ought to be. If there is over much political agita- •
tion at Bucharest, there is too little at Jassy, for
ail freedom of discussion has been rendered im-
possible by the recent ordinances of the Kaimacan
Vogorides. On the 15th inst. Baron Talleyrand,
the - French Commissioner, went to the capital
of Moldavia to see what was doing there, and the
representative of Sardinia followed him on the 16th.
Of Sir Henry Bulwer nothing more is known to me
than that one of his messengers, not long since
reached Giurgeyo just after the fast boat had gone
up the river. An employee of the Danubian Steam
Navigation Company states. that the unfortunate
bearer of the despatches for her Majesty's Govern-
ment had to, wait nearly a week before another
vessel went up the stream.
The Minister of the Interior and his agents in
Hungary are doing all in their. power to ensure a
goad roooptiou for their Majesties. The moral spur
is vigorously applied to inactive or unwilling con-
munities, and those which display a readiness to
open their purses are strongly recommended to
prove their loyalty by the size and magnificence of
their triumphal arches, obelisks, &e. his related
that when the commercial bank of Pesth proposed to
contribute 6,00011 towards some charitable founda-
tion, to be named after the Empress, the offer was
accepted by Baron Augusz, the Vice President of
the Stalthalterei, but with the remark, that there
was no reason why the establishment should not
contribute something towards the preparations
which were being made for the reception of their
Majesties. Although the old Conservative nobles
are still sulky, they will go to Pesth, and drive after
the state carriage, instead of riding near it, in their
splendid costumes. The Emperor kindly received
a deputation of the Helvetic Confession (Calvinists)
which, a few days since, waited on him to request
that he would permit a General Synod of the Pro-
testants to meet in Hungary, but he gave no positive
answer.

We learn from Lemberg that, on the 15th of this
month, the murrain (Loser Durre) was in 68 places
in Galicia. Of 22,152 head of cattle, kept in 104
farms, 1,073 animals had been seized by the plague,
of which 676 had died, 157 had been knocked on
the head, and S 5 had recovered. 155 are still under
treatm, nt.

In a work published some few years ago, Mr.
Urquhart stated that Dr. Spitzer, who was physi-
cian in ordinary to the Sultan, had been ignomini-
ously dismissed from Constantinople, because he
had conspired against his Imperial benefactor and
endeavoured "to poison him. You will be able
to judge of the .correctness of Mr. Urquhart's state-
ment when you learn that the gentleman accused
was, on leaving Constantinople, made a councillor
of the Ottoman Embassy in this city. He has now
received a summons from the Porte, and is to leave
for the Turkish capital tomorrow. Prince Daniel
will arrive here tomorrow, on his way back to
Montenegro. An erroneous statement relative to a
picture by Paul Veronese has recently found its .vay
into the newspapers,and it is therefore necessary
to say a few words on the subject. Caint Pisani,
of Venice, has not been lined by the Austrian
Government for selling his picture, and that for
the following very simple reason :—Every
Austrian subject has a right to sell his works
of art, but the State has by a law a " Vorkaufs-
Reeht," which means that it has a right to
purchase a picture or statue for the price which
any one else has offered to give for it. If the
State declines to take advantage of its right, no
Minister has any legal right to prohibit the
exportation of n. work of art. Dr. Philipps, the
Professor of Ecclesiastical History at this
University, who is one of the most able leaders of
the Jesuit or Ultramontane Party, is now at Berlin.
A great chain is being formed by the Jesuits
throughout Europe, and Dr. Philipps is probably
now endeavouring to unite the link between Berlin
and Vienna. M. von Hacklander, the well-known
military writer, who has worn out many a pen
in the service of the house of Austria, has just
received the third class of the Order of the Iron
Crown.

It is now alternately snowing and raining, and
the thermometer which three days ago was at
74.75 in the shade is now at 30.50. The sudden
changes in the temperature have given to Vienna
the well deserved repu-ation of being one of the
most unhealthy cities in Europe.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Al,nu, 1.8

There is just now a perfect dearth of news from
all quarters. I have nothing fresh to report you
since my last of the 25th inst.
After having enjoyed ten days or a fortnight of
be•lutiful swing weather, in which the trees and
the grass commenced the resumption of their ver-
dure and foliage, we are again visited with wintry
cold, snow, hail, and east wind. The same change
is reported to have taken place in the weather in
St. Petersburg, where Easter, whiehfalls with them