Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, AVG. 10.

According to the Vienna correspondent of the Gazette
de Cologne, Her Majesty the Empress is again pregnant,
but I have not yet heard from any reliable private autho-
rity that such is really the case. The Emperor is now in
Oedenberg, the capital of a Hungarian county of the same
name, on the other side of the Danube. Such great
depression prevails in Hungary that His Majesty is not
likely to meet with such a good reception as he did three
months ago. The Hungarians were over sanguine, and
expected concessions from the Emperor which he was
unable to make. The great increase in the paper circula-
tion (10,000,000 fl in one month) has produced an unfa-
vourable impression here and the more so as it is sus-
pected that the notes were issued to oblige some half-dozen
of the leading banking firms. There is such a dearth of
hands in Hungary that the labourers who assisted in get-
ting in the harvest earned about 3s a day and their board.
Within the last day or two there have been three or four
slight thunder showers, which have cleared the air and
brought the thermometer down to 78. On Friday the
lightning struck the house in which Sir H. Seymour lives
at Hit zing, but, fortunately, it did no more harm than to
run down the conductor and expend its force on a pump.
• HALF-PAST 5 o'CLocK.

According to an official despatch, the Emperor reached
Oedenburg in the evening of the Bth. The Archduke
Ferdinand Maximilian and the Archduchess Charlotte
arrived at Trieste at 4in the afternoon of the Bth. Their
Imperial Highnesses visited the famous
_grotto of Adels-
berg while on their way to Trieste.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aua 8.

The Porte has resolved to strengthen the fortifications
of Widdin, as it did those of Silistria and Rustchuk
during the winter and spring. The fortifications of
Widdin are to be armed with 200 new guns, which the
Danubian Steam Navigation Company has undertaken to
bring from Constantinople. It is creditably related that
a further reduction of the Russian army will take place
directly after the grand mancelvres at Kransnoe-Szelo.
The cavalry regiments have already been considerably
reduced, and all tne reserves have been dismissed, ex_
cepting the cadres of the regiments. It is believed that
the third battalion of the Guard and Grenadier re
giments, and the third and fourth battalions of the
regiments of the line will be reduced to " ske_
letons," and the men placed on the reserve
list. The Emperor of Russia has sanctioned the plan of
General Katenin for establishing a separate staff of
eighteen persons. whose duty it shall be to look after the
fortresses which have been recently formed in the steppe
" far securing the frontiers and the great commercial road
leading to Central Asia." General Katenin, as you are
probably aware, is Governor-General of Orenburg, and
the successor of Count PeroWsky. For the furtherance
and development of the trade with Asia, the Siberian,
Orenburg, and Astrachan merchants of the second and
third guilds are to have the same privileges as those of
the first—that is, they are to be allowed to do wholseale
business.