Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

With the Po

RANCE ;

We cannot come out of with advantage or honour.
131 that masterly review of the present position of
Italian affairs, taken and expressed by the honourable

keniber for Hors

'ham, we entirely agree, when he

allow the people of Italy to settle their bwn
—and that is the doctrine which both my
noble friend (Lord ELCHO) and I have ever held in

afrai

this Rouse, :sPecia

,lly in the course of this present

I believe that Italy, having no

.easons fc

itation or discontent, would

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131.°c'eed in. peace and order to establish the founda-
lit.

rnment

OTES OF THE DAY

It is still

;d that Parliament may be prorogued on

rdaY; and preparations would appear to have been
during the present week to realise that expectation.
Rouse of Lords has had a Wednesday sitting, in order.

of the other House, the

"''sines of which has been so far advanced as to leave
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dc/th. jog, we believe, undone that it is essential to dispose of
:ring the present session. No very satisfactory review of
I,u' legislation, upon the whole, since the meeting of Par-
kment in February last, can possibly be taken. The
ili
111terroption to the progress of business' which, it is now
ore titan .ever evident, was occasioned by what may be
a faction fight, has inflicted no slight injury upon
Mme of the most important interests of the country, since
"reral questions affecting those interests have had to be
either slurred over, or. put aside entirely ; and all this, in

very

order- that a party, impatient for the resumption of office,
might be thrust upon the country by the displacement of a
Ministry, in whose hands the honour and security of the
kingdom were much more safe than they now are. Time,
however, works wonders ; and time alone is wanting to
create a revulsion of feeling, which will return to power a

mservative Administration, and place it upon a mor

stable basis than evc

The Times.asseiti, with no timidlrshafe df audacity, that

the change that is taking place in our foreign policy, "is

this alteration in the moral pressure .of, .our diplomacy
14.ttion

comes from the peop'

speaking at Lord-Derby's in

recent decisions of Election Commitiees:whiCh ha

.ent, really came to no,such decision, but one which
) have confirmed Lord Derby in power ; but to in-

dulge in such mendacious assertions, now that it is.so evi-
dent the majority against Lord Derby was a fictitious
one, is really a display of unscrupulousness, which one
would scarcely have expected, even from such a quarter.
The time, however, is fast approaching, when such delusions
as are thus.sought to be kept up will bb entirely dispelled,

and the people be enabled to exert their legitimate Comm

vative influence with an effect that is not to be

Ited by

the machinations of the Liberals

THE LATEST NEWS.

AUSTRIA

TRIESTE, August 11

Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 6th inst. The Sultanlas returned friiin 'lll4
journey:- —He-has- sanctioned the double- election- of
Prince Couza, with. the con.ltions that:Ppiope Conz4
is to .come to Constantinople to J.-endey hOmage to the

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Sultan. ,
M.'do Thouvenal has, arrived here. It is confirmed
that the town of Erzerounv has been. entirely dn-
stroyed by a fresh earthquake. News from'Smyrna
of the'rith inst., nunournee.the death of the Governor-
)re the I General.

VIENNA, August 11.
The official Austrian correspondence of this even-
ing contains private intelligence; dated Parma, the
9th, stating that the Piedmontese had been driven
frdm the city. The Red Republic had been pro-
claimed. The property iiolders and the friends of
order were taking flight.

GERMANY

}IAMB URG it, August 11

To-day the citizens of Hamburgh, representing all
the parishes, voted for the modification of the 'con-
stitution proposed by the:Senate, which was adopted
by a majority of 678 against 153.

SWITZERLAND

BERNE, August 11

According to news received from Zurich M. de
Bourqueney had to-day a conference with M. des
Ambrois. At three o'clock p.m. another conference
took place between M. de Bourqueney and Count
Colloredo. Marquis de Turgot,. French Ambassador
at Berne, has issued numerous invitations for cele-
brating the fete of Napoleon on the .15th instant.
Yesterday there was no sitting of the Conference
at Zurich. At the sitting of the day before yester-
day the representative of Sardinia was not present.
Baron Meysenburg has departed for Vienna. The
Vice-President of the Confederation of Switzerland
and the Counsellor Cied.a assisted this evening at the
diplomatic banquet.

SARDINIA

August 11

Advices received from Bologna state that a decree
of the Government has convoked an assembly, to be
elected by the in'habitants, in order to express the
wishes of the population. • Several agents of Mazzini
had been arrested and expelled.
It is asserted that the Conference at Zurich
has prolonged the armistice indefinitely. The
French troops have suspended their departure, from
Italy.