Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

various objects will then be explained. The pending
one is the present state of Italy ; and, a solution,will
be proposed, calculated to command the support of
-the madority,_on_aceount of its liberal character.
We are told that orders havp been given for dig-
arming the ships at Brest, and what was called the
ocean spuadron has ceased to exist.
The Emperor Alexander reviewed the Russian fleet
at Cronstadt on the 17th ult. The fleet, consisted of
twenty-one men-of-war and frigates, chiefly steamers,
and a number of gun-boats. -
The Provisional Executors of Bologna have issued
proposals for a loan of 10,000,000 francs, which has
been taken up by the Banks of Leghorn. -
The Vienna papers continue to be full of invec-
tives against Prussia, and the Berlin papers repay
them in the same coin. The unreserved way in which
the Prussian Government has made public the whole
of the diploniatic transactions during the war, so
far as it was engaged in them itself, seems not to have
removed the suspicion from. Austria, that it has
been wilfully betrayed by its , Federal allies.
It , seems that the Austrians pretend to the
knowledge of some secret transactions, from
which the veil has yet to be removed. • People
all over Germany begin to show anxiety about these
mysterious hints, and most of the German journals
throw out a challenge to those of Vienna, to say
plainly what they mean.
We report at some length a case that is not without
interest in this neighbourhood, that came'before the
Vice-Chancellor's Court the day before- yesterday;
being a motion for an injunction to restrain the
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company from,
interfering with, or preventing; the making of a
railway, under powers supposed to be conferred by
one of the sections of that company's act. Mr.
Hughes, the plaintiff, is the owner of large estates
in Flint and Denbigh shires, through some portions
of which the Chester and Holyhead Railway runs ;
and he was proceeding to make a railway through
his own land, underneath the Chester and Holyhead
Railway, when the company forcibly prevented him
from doing it. The court, it will be seen; ruled that
he had no right to make such a railway; and that,
therefore, he ought not to have the injunction prayed
for, which was consequently refused.
In another portion of to-day's paper will be found
an ample report of a case before the County Magis-
trates, yesterday, which has created some excitement,
as well as from the nature of the outrage itself, as
from the position in society of the party who com-
mitted it. The gentleman, a member of the Stock
Exchange of Liverpool, under excited feelings,
created by an annoyance to his wife, with whom he
was walking at the time, inflicted so severe a pun-
ishment upon the boy ho had occasioned it, that
for a time it was feared it had endangered his: life.
The cake was remitted for trial at the Kirkelale
Sessions, and the defendant released on bail.
There was rather a long meeting of the Town
Council yesterday, a full report of which we' have
given ; but there was nothing of very exciting in-
terest, if we except an altercation that arose between
two of the members, one of whom very indiscreetly
charged the other with some preyosterous proceedures
respecting a local bill in Parliament, and who was
answered in a manner, not only to scatter his charges
to the Wind, but to make hinself 'appear somewhat
ridiculous

Yesterday it was decided by the Bury Election
Committee that Mr-Frederick Peet was duly returned,
M.P. for that borough at the late general election.
It has also been decided that Mr. Lee and Mr._
Buxton were duly elected for Maidstone at the last
general election. The inquiry into the Hull and-
Preston contests has begun, and. the Bridgewater
petition has been withdrawn. The committees of
the Limerick, Huddersfield; and. North Leicester