Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-25 00:00:00

THE CONVICT MANSELL.

Yesterday, the Jedge gave the decision in the long
pending question of the convict Mansell. The record of
the Court below was not altered, and the prisoner was
conveyed back to Maidstone, to undergo his sentence.

TRIAL FOR LIBEL AGAINST THE DAILY NEWS.

In the action, Jones v. the Daily News, for an alleged
libel, in which the damages were laid at £2,0004 the jury
yesterday awarded the plaintiff £l5O.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWCASTLE RA.CES..YESTERDAY.

FREE HANDIAP.
Imperieuse.... 1 I Minnie.... 2 I Manganese.. 3

Ten ran.

GRAND STAND STALES.
Sauuterer 1 I Echo . 2 I Intereidono..... 3

Six ran- W,tl in a canter.

NORTHUVREVALAND PLATE.
ITnderhand

LATEST BETTING.

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
Even on the Field
4 to 1 agst Mongrel
5 .. 1 .. ILIdI3 hand
7 ... 1 Van!al
10 .. 1 E 1 lliikiin
12 ... 1 King of SJotiand
20 .. 1 P,Lutomime

BIBURY RACES.-YESTERDAY.

MATCH.
Flying Eagli,hmau beat Kiibride.
SWEF PSTAKES.
Bar One

BIBURY STAKES.
Turk I I Ritaha 2 I Van Eyck „3

Six ran.

HANDICAP.

Lady Conyngbam...l I Scii),)lieflocv....2 I Barbarity... 3
Nine ran.

AltßlVED.—Alembic, Brother to Homily, Beeswax colt,
Rose of Cashmere, Wild ffoney, and Pomona.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

The result of the Paris eections which I trans-
mitted last night by telegraph is pretty much as I
anticipated : two or three of the opposition candi-
dates have obtained a triumph in Paris. I say two
or three, as, in consequence of not having obtained
the absolute majority—that is, one-half plus one of
the total votes —General Cavaignac will have to go
through a new election, His majority, relatively to
his opponent, M. Thibaut, is only 237. In the
second election he will not be required to
have the absolute, but merely the relative,
majority. As to his success on this second
essay, opinion is divided. Some believe that
he will still be the elected ; others, on the
contrary, affirm that every one that would have
voted for him has voted, that his list will con-
sequently not be swelled by any additional names,
and that such electors as were too indolent or
too much occupied to come to the poll will, when
compelled to appear, vote for his opponent. The
second election will commence in fifteen days.
The fifth and sixth are the arrondissements where
the other Opposition candidates, M. Carnot and
M. Goudchaux, have obtained each a considerable
majority. In the last mentioned division, the
Government candidate was M. Perret, a man, by all
accounts, generally and deservedly popular. Yet,
in spite of his great influence among the working
classes, the fact of his being the Government can-
didate sufficed to defeat him• M. Perret, it seems,
has suffered from the effects of excessive zeal
on the part of his friends. Independently of
the ordinary placards announcing the name of the
candidate, another one appeared for some days, in
which five or six working men strongly recom-
mended to their fellow operatives to elect M.
Perret, on the ground of his being the friend of
the industrious. Nothing can be more suspicious
than a Parisian ; so earnest a recommendation was
pronounced to be the work of the police, and it
cost M. Perret at least 1,000 votes. The hasty
sketch I gave you yesterday of the arrondissments,
particularly the 3rd and 6th, will probably
have prepared you for the result. The bourgeois
of the 3rd has given its lesson to the Government,
and the operatives of the 6th have not forgotten
1848.

M. de Laboulaye, whose name the Journal des
Debats puts forward with, I have no doubt, the
best intentions, has met with the fate he deserves.
The representative of the juste milieu, of moderate
opinions, equally removed from Absolute or from
Revolutionary doctrines, stands in the returns
mid-way between the candidate of the former
and the organ of the latter. The Government
candidate has 1,070 votes ; the Debats Parliamen-
tary representative, 4,676 ; and the Democratic,
1,682.
Poor M. Garnier Pages, has been left in a pitiable
condition. Certainly the " Ancients" have no
cause to glory in their champion. The " Young"
adversary, whom he treated with such sans facon,
and with whom his difference grew to downright
personal hostility, may console himself for his own
defeat in the fourth arrondissement, and for the
triumph of the Government candidate, when he
sees his elder brother Democrat 4,000 votes below
him. As to the question of taking the oaths to the
Emperor I can say nothing ; it would be only a waste
of precious time to repeat the many opinions ex-
pressed on that point. One thing, however, I can
affirm is, the deep mortification felt by the authorities
at the result. Each now tries to transfer the blame
from his own shoulders to those of his friend or
colleage. The Prefect of Police will not admit that
the fault is his; any one that wishes may take the
responsibility, but he will not. You-hear low mur-
murs of satisfaction on the part of shopkeepers
without number, who are suspected of revenging
themselves for their wives and daughters being so
often forgotten when balls and other entertain-
ments were given at the Hotel de Ville. For-
merly there was a certain number of tickets
issued so the mayors of the arrondissements
on these important occasions. Since Mr.
for, I believe, Baron) Haussmann has swayed
the sceptre of the Prefecture the invitations
have become less liberal—" fine by degrees, and
beautifully less." Then, again, we have complaints,
not merely of M. Haussmann's " department,"
but also of his circulars. Your Parisian bourgeois,
though. a terrible philosopher, and professing the
greatest indifference on such matters, is one of the
most susceptible of beings. As a Radical he looks
down upon them as unworthy of occupying a serious
mind, but he never will forgive a real or fancied
slight. Then, again, the circulars of the Minister
of the Interior are criticised with much bitterness.
" M Billault," it was said in several polling-booths
yesterday—" M. Billault has forced the country to
decide—and we have decided. We hope he is
satisfied." The Democrats of Paris state with
satisfaction that they have gained a majority of
10.000 votes over the government in the eight
circumscriptions within the walls, and that it is
the two circumscriptions extra notros that made
up the government majority.
As I write, a private despatch from Lille, just
received, announces a majority of 7,000 votes in
favour of the opposition candidate (Jules Braun)
in that city. A despatch, also private, states that,
at Bordeaux, M. Cure, the opposition candidate,
has also been elected. Another, that Dr. Henon
(opposition) has been elected at Lyons, and a
rumour (though not generally credited) that Jules
Favre (opposition) has also triumphed.
The following returns have been received
Lisieux.—M. Amedee .Rene, government candi-
date, was returned by a majority of 13,000 votes,
out of 17.000 voters.

Marseilles.—Edrnond Canaple, Government can-
didate.

Aix —M. Rigaud, Government candidate.
Doubs.—The Duke of Corregliano against the
Count de Montalembert.

Gironde.—M. Annan against M. David.
Somme.—All the Government candidates, except
M. Delamarre.
Tarn-et-Garonne.—M. Belmontel.
Rhone.—All the Government candidates, except
M. Cabias.

Hautes-Pyrenees.—M. Achille Jubinal.
Gers.—Granier de Cassagnac.
Loiret.—Duke de Tarente and Nogent Saint-
Laurens.

The Pays, ministerial journal, says that the
result of the elections surpasses all the hopes of
the friends of the Empire. Out of 200 elections
known at present in Paris the united Opposition
have not returned more than six or eight of their
candidates, including those in Paris.
The Pays adds, that even in Paris the elections
have a particular signification. The real contest
was in the third circumscription, where all the
Opposition force was concentrated, and there Gen.
Cavaignac only polled 10,345 votes, 4,123 less than
in the year 1852.

Admiral Hamelin has commanded that the frigate
Alceste shall be prepared for sea at Brest, to convey
an admiral to Rio Janeiro, to relieve Admiral la
Roque de Chaufray, who commands the French
naval force at that port and in the Plata.
It having been observed that the French Consuls
and Consular agents abroad are not sufficiently
instructed with respect to the population and
commerce of the countries in which they ere
stationed, orders have been sent to them that every
two years they shall make a tour to the extent
comprised in the exequatur granted by the power
to which they are accredited.
At the conclusion of the conference held at St.
Cloud, to examine the claims of the representa
tivea of the seaports in the question of the Trans-
atlantic steam Packet Company, the Minister of
Public Works charged two engineers to make
reports as to the mouths of the rivers Loire and
Gironde. These reports will enable the Council
of State to give a definite answer to the delegates
from the cities of Nantes and Bourdeaux.
A. latter from Algiers of the 15th inst. announces
that the Russian Admiral Behrens, who anchored
in that port in the frigate Viborg, has been invited
by Marshal Randon to visit him at his camp at
Souk-al-Arba.

It is not true, as reported by several journals,

that Prince Vogorides, the Kaimakan of Moldavia,
has been dismissed by the Ottoman Porte.

The engineer Appointed to execute the works at
the mouth of the Danube, having been sent to
France to purchase the machinery required for the.
purpose, was received in a private audience by the
Emperor yesterday, to whom ho 6titbmitted the
plang which have been adopted. His Majesty
took a warn' interest in this communication.

It may be recollected that some time since the
Grand Cordon of the Iron Crown was given by the
Austrian Government to Prince Vogorides, the
Kalmakan of Moldavia. M de Bourqueney had a
communication with Count Buol on that occasion.
The conference was conducted most courteously
by each statesman. Count Buol explained that the
favour granted to Prince Vogorides could not be
considered as a particular demonstration, inas-
much as several Wallachian and Moldavian
Boyards had received the same mark of distinction
for their exertions in maintaining order in the
Danubian provinces during the Austrian occupa-
tion.

The French Government has received de-
spatches from the Indian Seas, which announce
that the persecutions to which the Christians have
been for some years subject in the Empire of
Anuam, in place of diminishing, are increas-
ing. The official journal of the French estab-
lishments in India contains, in its number of
the Ist May, two letters communicated by
the Apostolic Mission at Pondicherry, and which
are written—one by Mon signeur Gautier,
Bishop of Emmaus, Vicar-Apostolic of Southern
Tonquin, the other by Monsigneur Sohier, Bishop
of Gadare, coadjutor of Northern Cochin China,
which draw a terrific pioture of the treatment which
the Christians suffer at present in those countries.
These facts assume a greater importance in con-
sequence of the events which are preparing in
China. In the year 1787 Gya-Long, the Sovereign
of that country, made a grant to the French Go-
vernment of the town and magnificent bay of
Tourane in return for the assistance afforded him
by 20 French officers who assisted him in tho
conquest of Tonquin. Three of the French officers,
MM. Dayat, Chaigneau, and Vannier, were created
Mandarins of the first class ; and the others
received important military commands.. Unfortu-
nately, Gya-Long died, and his successor, Mignes-
Mau repudiated the policy of his father, and com-
menced a persecution against the Christians.
The French officers returned to France in 1823.
Since that period no European nation has been able
to establish relations with the Government of the
Empire of Anuam, and even lately M. de Moutigny,
sent by the Emperor Louis Napoleon. failed in his
mission to Cochin China, though he succeeded
with the King of Siam. _

It is rumoured that, in consequence of the dis-
covery of a plot connected, more or less, with the
present election movement, four Italians have
been arrested. The plot is, if we can depend on
report, of a most serious nature. Papers and fire-
arms are said to have been found on the prisoners.

The following despatch has been received :

MARSEILLES, JUNE 22.

Advices from Egypt to the 13th state that the harvest
will be exceedingly abundant. In Persia, the Prime Mi-
nister of the shah wanted to have his Majesty's brother-
in-law executed, for being suspected of having kept up a
correspondence with the English during the war. The
French Embassy obtained a commutation of the punish-
ment, on the ground that such a condemnation would
violate the treaty lately ratified. The Blidah steamer has
been lost at the month of the Ebro, passengers saved.

ITALY.

TURIN, JUNE 20.
To-day we have intelligence of another address
to the Pope, which is to be presented to him on

his arrival at Ferrara.

The citizens of Ferrara,

profiting by the example of Bologna, resolved on
making known their grievances to the heal of the
State during his visit to their town if possible, and
to that effect have presented an address to their

Gonfaloniere, which, for boldness of language and
distinctness in pointing out the evils complained of,
is superior to that drawn up by the BoloLtnese.
The address bears the signatures of 40 of the most
influential citizens of the place, fifteen of whom
are munieipal councillors. On its first being read
to the Gonfaloniere he made no observation either
of approval or dissent; but in about an hour after
he again met the deputation that had presented it
to him, and told them he could not undertake the
charge assigned him. The deputation, however,
persisted, and in the end succeeded in persuading
the Gonfaloniere that it was his duty to comply
with the request of his fellow citizens. The address
runs as follows :
Excelleney,—When the Supreme Pontiff determined on
visiting the provinces of his own States, no doubt was en-
tertained that the principal cause of this journey was love
and solicitude for his own subjects, and the noble aim of
substantially ameliorating their destiny. Strong in this
conviction, we do not think we shall offend the majesty of
the Prince by opening to him our mind, and showing him
the wants of the country, but, on the contrary, give him
indisputable proof of the faith we pl,,ce in his good inten-
tions, and in the love of good that pervades his paternal
heart.
The internal condition of these provinces is vory far
from satisfactory, and, to the eye of those who govern us
even, the permanent discord which exists between the
tendencies of the rulers and the honest and liberal aspira-
tions of the people, which is the natural consequence of
the spirit of the age and of civiliza'ion, cannot have
escaped notice. Great are the abuses committed in the
name of the Sovereign. The legislation is imperfect; the
ecclesiastical element preponderates ; and arbitrary mea-
sures falsify and annul the spirit of good laws, as proved
by the unexeeuted law of the year 1830, on the formation
of the municipalities.
Wise and liberal reforms sheltered from every misin-
terpretation and restriction, are, in our view, the only valid
means of putting an end to such evils, and it will be easy
to the lofty and benignant mind of the Supreme Pontiff to
perceive, among all those which are possible, what reforms
are to be made for the sake of the public good.
Confident that your Excellency, being fully persuaded
of the opportuneness of this our step, will warmly and
humbly express our seatiments to the Sovereign,
We have the honour, &c.,
Ferrara, June 6, 1837.
I understand the reception of Cavaliere Bon•
compagni, the Sardinian Eovoy, by the Pope at
Bologna was markedly courteous on the part of
His Holiness, and the conversation was strictly of
a complimentary nature, both parties carefully
avoiding any allusion to the estrangement be-
tween the Governments of Romc and Sardinia

The interview took place in thepresence of Cardinal
Corsi, Archbishop of Pisa, and Cardinal Vannicelli,
Archbishop of Ferrara.
During his short stay in Bologna all the principal
inhabitants left cards on Cavaliere Boncompagni;
in testimony of their respect for the Government
he represents there ; and it is said that the demon-
stration of sympathy would have been still more
openly and unequivocally displayed by the leaders
of society, if they had. not feared that by doing so
they might have led their humbler. fellow-citizens
into such a display of feeling as the .police or
Austrian authorities could have laid hold of to
impose fresh restrictive measures.

The success of the CoUrt of Rome in prevailing
on the King of Naples to make concessions to the
Chuch equal to, if not greater than, those granted
by Austria is beginning to show its natural conse-
quences at Florence. The Ultramontane party
there, having obtained permission from the Grand
Duke to publish a political newspaper iu spite of the
previous refusal of the ministers, has, of course, de.
rived hopes of effecting a Concordat, notwithstand-
ing the eontinued opposition of M. Bald asseroni and
part of the Ministry. Hitherto, the Grand Duke
has been restrained from destroying the glory of
his country—the Leopoldine laws by the better
judgment of his Ministers, supported sometimes,
it was believed, by the counsel of his brother-
in-law, the King of Naples ; and, now that
his Imperial Highness has given clear evi-
dence of his intention to favour the Church of

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the independence of his government to the Court
of Rome.

The Criminal Court of Parma has just acquitted
the political prisoners handed over to it for trial by
the " mixed" military tribunal on the raising of the
state of siege According to the evidence elicited
in the course of the present trial, both from credible
witnesses and from the prisoners themselves, the
moat atrocious means appear to have been resorted
to by the military entutg in order to obtain con-
demning evidence against the accused, The horror
excited in the country by the positive proof of such
infamous proceedings is, of course, very great. par-
ticalarly when it is remembered how many persons
who, perhaps, were as innocent as those now
acquitted, were executed by sentence of a court-
martial, and that the very men now set at liberty
would probably hive suffered death had the state
of siege been continued only a few short weeks
longer. _ _ . _ _ _

The British squad ron,undereommand of Admiral
Lord Lyons, which anchored in the port of Cagliari
the other day. left there again on the 19th, and
is expected at Spezzia about the 26th, whence,
after a few days, it will probably come to Genoa,
having in the meantime taken a look at other parts
.tf the coast of Italy. From Genoa it is expected
Lord Lyons will come to Turin, to pay his respects
to the King of Sardinia, and visit General Della
'garment, with whom he served in the last war.
His squadron at presecit consists of the Royal
Albert, Conqueror, Centurion, and Brunswick, screw
ships of the line ; Curigoa, steam frigate; Ariel,
steam corvette ; and Osprey and Wanderer, steam
gunboats _ _

The Italia del Popolo, of Genoa states, on the
authority of persons coming from Naples, which
it says is confirmed by private correspondence, that
another attack has been made on the life of the
King of Naples, at Gaeta, on the 11th inst., and
that his Majesty was slightly wounded. This re-
port has been repeated here to-day by all the papers
of Turin, but evidently received by them with great
suspicion, as they carefully quote the source of
their information

A. letter from Rome of the 16th inst., informs us
that on the preceding day, during the procession
of the Holy Sacrament to the church of St. John of
Lateran, an accident occurred which had nearly
produced painful results. The procession was quietly
passing the magnificent Piazza of St. John of La-
teran, when a coachman endeavoured to approach
too near with his carriage ; the spectators attempted
to prevent him, the coachman whipped his horses,
and the draitoons on duty then interfered. This
produced a panic. the women and children screamed,
and everybody began to fly without reason. The
only person who remained at his post was Cardinal
Patrizi, who carried the Holy Sacrament. Fortu-
nately, there was no serious injury to be regretted
There were four persons slightly bruised, and there
were a multitude of hats, canes, and ladies' head-
dresses damaged. The writer adds that, as yet,
the Pope's stay at Bologna has not been signa-
lized by any remarkable event. Cardinals Berard?
and Borromeo have not failed to inform Cardinal
Antonelli of the slightest incident which occurred
during the Pope's journey. Cardinal Antonelli
remains fixed at the Palace of Monte Cavallo,
where a private telegraphic correspondence
is established. Cardinal Antonelli is likewise
in constant communication by telegraph with his
brother, Count Angelo Antonelli, who is at present
in Paris, and who keeps him informed
with respect to French politics. The Cardinal is
said to mistrust the French Government, and fol-
lows French politics with great attention. The
Cardinal, notwithstanding his numerous occupa-
tions, does not neglect his personal interests. He
has lately purchased the splendid palace which
belonged to the late Duchess of Saxony, with the
handsome villa attached, situate on the Quirnal,
and opposite the Pope's Palace. Several of the
foreign Ambassadors had left Rome -on leave of
absence. It is known that the Pope will be absent
for another month, and the Diplomatic body are
taking advantage of the Pope's journey to escape
the great heat now about to set in.