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

THE NORTHERN gEF,POOI,I FRI DAY.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

The bill relative to the pension to the Duke
of Malakhoff was carried unanimously in the
Legislative Chambers. There were 226 mem-
bers present.
The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 71 f. 10c,

FOREIGN INTELLIG,NCE

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The defeat of the English Ministry in the House
of Commons, which- was known here at an early
hour this morning, is the principal topic of the
moment, and various conjectures are made as to
the course Lord Palmerston will take. The Minis-
terial evening journal, Le Pays, makes the follow-
ing remarks

We Emit ourselves to pointing to the inconvenience of
an immediate dissolution at a period when the Budget
is not yet voted • Flow has the Palmerston Ministry
fallen on the Chinese question ? This it is not pcssible
for us t., examine until all the speeches for or against
have passed under oar eyes. We cannot consider
as sufficiently explanatory all that has been said
on the character of the lorcha on boaid of which
the Chinese had arrested a number of persons, and
by so doing violated the British flag. The debate
in the House will, no doubt, disclose to us the particular
point on which Lord Palmerston, in spite of his personal
ability, found himself so weak before Parliament. Besides
we must not exaggerate the meaning of what has just oc-
curred. The check experienced by the Cabinet has nothing
surprising if we reflect that for two years Lord Palmerston
governed with a majority swelled, according to circum-
stances, by such or such an addition, but, in point
of fact, with a minority. In fact, the House of
Commons is only made up of minorities. The Tory
party, broken by Sir Robert Peel, is now in two
fractions—the Conservatives properly so called, and the
Peelites—forming two minorities. The Whigs more nu-
merous, are equally broken up into fractions since Lord
Juhn Russell separated from Lord-Palmerston. The Man-
chester Radicals, the Peace Party, &c., are but impereep-
tible fractions. The unity of parties can only be effec'el
by the reconciliation of Conservatives with Peelites, and by
the transformation of the Whig Party, which was not long
ago abandoned by Lord John Russell on the question of
Reform.
Again the Pays observes :

Is the country more decided than the parliament ? Has
it ideas more fixed, or a plan to c irry out ? In that case
the elections may have a precise signification. If the
contrary, they would merely result in displacing some votes
in one sense or the other, and prolonging the state of tran-
sition of which the consequences, partially veiled during
the war, now appear, and constitute for Great Britain the
difficulties of peace.

It is said here that, in consequence of the last
news from China, the French fleet in those seas
under the command of Admirals Guerin and Gigault
de Genouilly, will be reinforced by three ships 01
the line.

A private letter from St. Petersburg announces
that it was known in that city by special courier
that the Governor of Russian Siberia had
'despatched a columia of troops towards Kiakhta,
on the frontiers of China. his added, that this
measure has been adopted in accord with the
Court of Pekin.

The meeting of the Conferences on the Neuf-
chatel question is now no longer distant, though as
yet no precise date is`fixed. The intelligence com-
municated yesterday with reference to the growing
willingness of the King of Prussia to' agree to
certain concessions is confirmed. Whether he
will persevere in that disposition it is difficult
to say. The Swiss, on their_ side, will be expected
to make concessions, so that by this simultaneous
movement towards each other the ground of
difference will be narrowed, With respect
to the Plenipotentiaries, I have to say that Dr.
Kerru will represent the Confederation, and
not Colonel Barmann, as soon as it ahall be

decided whether a Swiss Plenipotentiary will be
admitted. The Conference will consist of the
representatives of the powers who were parties to
the protocol of 1852, including Prussia. It was at
first said that both Prussia and Switzerlan I would
be excluded, but the present arrangement is as I
have just stated.
The Grand Duko Constantine of Russia sailed
from Genoa for Nice on the 28th ult., on board the
Russian corvette- Viborg.-
Count Cavour left Turin, on the 2d instant for

Genoa, to attend the experiments to be made with
the machine invented by MM. Somoiller, Gratolini,
and Grandi, for piercing the Alps. The previous
experiments had completely succeeded, but. Count
Cavour wiShed to he an eve witness of them.

The Roman Official Journal of the 25th ult.,
publishes the decree of the Congregation of the
Index, prohibiting a number of works, and among
them those of the celebrated theologian Antonio
Gunther, of Vienna.
The Pere Ainanthon, Prior of the Convent of
Dominicans in Paris, has been appointed Bishop
of Ispahan. He will leave at the end of the month,
accompanied by several monks of his order, and of
some sisters of the third order of St. Dominic.

It appears that the government will oppose M.
Ferdinand Barrot's proposition, that the resolu-
tions of the Councils General of Departments be
sublnitted to the Senate, as contrary to the
initiative of the Emperor or his Minister.s
Yesterday a solemn mass in music was celebrated
in the church of the Madeleine to the memory of
Jacques Coeur, the illustrious silversmith to Charles
VII., and now dead exactly 400 years. A consi
derable number of persons attended this religious
solemnity, which was got up by the Society of
Inventors and Manufacturing Artists. The cere-
mony attracted the attendance of the most eminent
men in trade, manufactures, and literature. A.
select number of artists, under the direc-
tion of M. Pasdeloup, executed admirably
the great_ 4‘ Requiem" of Mozart. -The organ
was played by NI. Lefebure Wely. After
the Gospel, the Abbe Duquesnay, rector of
S t.Laurent,recapitulated, in an eloquent discourse,
the principal events in the life of Jacques Coeur,
the founder of French commerce, who was so
devoted to his country and his King. The preacher,
taking advantage of his subject, spoke at sonic
length and with much animation on the moral
influence which commerce, manufactures, and the
arts deservedly exercise on the condition of human
society. He sanctified, it may be said, industrial
labour and commerce, by demonstrating that
both spring from the Deity himself, and
that man, as his image, is at the same time the
creator, when, by enriching the world with the
wonders of inventive genius, he does not convert
them into the instruments of an egotistical and
corrupting sensuality, but applies himself, on the
contrary, to render the force of capital and of
labour serviceable to the moral and intellectual, as
well as the material, development of the greatest
number. This scientific exulanation of the princi•
ples of Christianity, delivered from the pulpit in
such eloquent language, produced a profound sen-
sation on the assembly.
The following despatches have been received :
KONIGSBERG, MARCH
3.
The last accounts from Teheran by way of Russia state
that the Shah had ratified the treaty of commerce concluded
at Constantinople between Ferule Khan and the representa-
tive of the United States of America. The rumour is,
that it autboriz:s the latter Power to establish a diplomatic
mission at Teheran, and consulates at Teheran, Tauris, and
Bushire. Citizens of the 'United States, as regards their
commerce, are to be treated the same as those of the most
favoured nations. An Austrian Agent, Colonel Schindlo-
ker, had arrived at Teheran to negotiate a similar treaty,

TURIN, Miami 3.
The Aldan Gazette announces that the Emperor of Austria
has given orders to have the statue of Napoleon 1., by
Canova, placed in the 136%,/ public gardens of that city.