The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-21 00:00:00

entitled an act to provide for the management and im-
provement of the harbour of Montreal, and the deepening
of the ship channel.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING

I am happy to state that the serious difference
between Mexico and Spain presents, at the moment
I write, a fair chance of a pacific arrangement. It
is not often ono can: approve the foreign or domes-
tic policy of the Spanish G:wernment, but on the
present occasion the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
the Marquis Pidal, has evinced much moderation
and good sense. ' He has been zealously seconded
by Marshal Serrano, who has also had the benefit
of the judicious counsel of the English Ambassador
in Paris, and the excellent spirit of the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Walewski. As
I mentioned in my letter of Friday, Marskal Ser-
rano had on that day a long interview
with M. Lafragua, the new Envoy of Mexico to
the Court of Queen Isabella; but whose departure
from Paris has been delayed, the Spanish Govern-
ment having required satisfaction for the assassi-
nationnof its subjects as an indispensable condition
to his reception. General Serrano had previously
several conversations with M. Lafragua, but
until receiving further instructions from Madrid
he did not feel justified in making or accepting
any formal Proposition. In the interview yesterday
General Serrano repeated, in a more positive
manner, the assurance that his Government was
still animated by a sincere and earnest desire to
ing this unpleasant affair to a pacific conclusion.
What they asked from Mexico was nothing
unreasonable=-nothing hut what moderate and
impartial men would require. They do not insist
upon the Mexican - Government attempting
impossibilities. They ask for the arrest and
punishment of such of the assassins as can be laid
hold of. If, as may be alleged, some of these
criminals have succeeded in making their
escape, and taken refuge in parts of the terri-
tory which are inaccessible to the officers -of the
Government, the tierras calientes or the Cordilleras
for instance, they will make every allowance for
the difficulty of capture'or pursuit, and they only
require an assurance that some reasonable satis-
faction shall be granted previous to the Envoy
being received as the official representative of the
Mexican Government. The French and English
Governments were most anxious that the difference
should be arranged without an appeal to arms, and
they considered that the Mexican Government
could not well refuse such moderate terms;

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, APRIL 17.

The relations between the Vienna and St. Peter-
sburg cabinets are most unsatisfactory, as Prince
Gortschakoff loses no opportunity of displaying
his intense dislike to Austria and the Austrians.
As you are aware; Count'Esterhazy, the Austrian
minister at the Court of Russia, is likely to
receive a prolonged. leave of absence, and the
Oesterreichische Zeitung to day tells the Viennese tir.o
Magyar magnate is about to leave St. Petersburg,
"In order that he may be in Hungary while
their Majesties are there." In reality it is of little
consequence whether Count Esterhazy is at Vienna
or at St. Petersburg, "for he has hardly more society
in the Russian 'capital than he would have if he
were residing in Tobolak, or in any other Siberian
town." As my informant could net have intended to
insinuate that Count Esterhazy had been " cut" by
the Russians, it must be supposed that they have
treated him with such icy coldness, that he has
altogether withdrawn from their society.

DENMARK.

HAMBURG, APRIL 18.

The Danish parliamentary party is master of the
situation. Baron de Scheele „ retires from the
political area. M. Andrae, President of the
Council, has received instructions from the King
to form a ministry.

COPENHAGEN, SATURDAY EVENING

The Dagbladet :announces in an extraordinary
supplement, that a rescript from the King, dated
this day, charges the President of ..the Council,
Audrae, with the task of reconstituting the ministry,
and placing the two. portfolios left vacant by M.
Scheele's resignation. It is also probable that if
M. Andrae declines this mission, M. Rail, the
Minister of State, will be charged with it. M.
Scheele retires completely from political life, and
has consequently resigned his seat in the Supreme
Council.

SPAIN.