Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI

We have dates from Port au Prince to the 9th
of January. They report an engagement to have
taken place between the imperial troops and the
insurgents. The Emperor had made tin unsuc-
cessful call for volupteers, and •his forces were
reduced to about three thousand men. A revolu-
tionary movement was each moment expected in

the capital.
•
From Jeremie and Aux Cayes our dates are to
the 16th.. No revolt had yet taken place, but a
rising was each moment expected. In the latter
city the wild inhabitants of the Mount de la7Hotte
had made their appearance, defying the imperial
go vernment.
From Gonaives—the birthplace of the rebellion
—our advices are to the 12th. General Geffrard
was within a short distance of the army from
Port au Prince, and his forces, already large, were
each moment increasing in number, while the
roads leading from the north were represented as
crowded with ',Jana of half-armed men, all
directing their steps to join the revolutionary
army.
We have also received news from Cape, Haytien
to the 14th, which completes the circle—this being
the only one of the five principal cities. and open.
ports of the empire that remained to, be heard
from. The Cape has gone somewhat beyond the
southern cities, and loudly proclaims the republic.
She now moves hand in hand with. Gonaives,
and is said to have sent two thousand, troops. to
aid in the revolution. Her example is followed by
the interior cities of Dondon, Limbe, Plaisance,
and others.
The result. of. the approaching campaign can
hardly be questioned, and for a few years Hayti
will be a republic. General Fabre Geffrard is
already named President, and undoubtedly will be
so ; but Soulouque is still supreme at Port-au-
Prince, the capital, and is undoubtedly a man 'of
very great energy and decision of character. His
troops may be diminished by desertion and' now
number but three thousand men—but they are
represented as the best disciplined and best armed
soldiers in the island, and in general much better
provided for than the insurgents. Many of the .
officers are devotedly attached to the Einperor•
and his cause ; and the whole body of counts,.
dukes, barons, chevaliers and good-for-noughts .
whatever, they may think:of their sovereign,. find
life and death wrapped up in his came. Some of
these self-constituted nobility, thinking that
Geffrard's party will succeed, are of course making
arrangements to turni up head foremost in the
new state of things. Perhaps the rank and file of
the three thousand remain with, the Emperor
merely from good. training and want of oppor
tunity to join the insurgents.. Still, the old
man will have the means of giving more than
one battle if he remains firm himself.. Should,
however, the present inactive cities of the south
loin the revolt, it is supposed. that his. sable Ina-
' ;testy will not even attempt to. recover his tottering
throne ; but having celebrated:mass, as is his royal
pleasure befeve taking any celebrated step, he will
abandon the Queen of the Antilles, and make his ,
way to some, foreign covntry. Batt where
an ov ? Are
New Yorkers disposed to give the ex-king a-
tion ;
,
or shall the first of the bkucks delight the
heart of the enthusiastically ideal modern Athens ?
Are the Athenians prepared. to: get up an agitation
on this. point Whea. in powcv,.England and France
deemed it politic to, flatten. The flattery
may
vd powerwithai: theitdhenostorereig to the p
dent Geffrard. If so, Faustin may find favour
Person and win'
bbee,'ltlr transferred stfiee n
neither in one country nor the other. What,
only in his own
cent to serve where.
tcloiue ,triys
Pleafitidt oashibme,
waipup:oret tolnys,
once he has reigned, the day that Soulouque is
deposed may, inaugurate a counter revolution,
winch, growing month by month, may in a few
yaneaarsdresuketosretohitmheiwr itfhonnt
he offices and dignities.
the baud
of faithful earls
A former government
l
that of .Geffrard lasted but a few months ;
all this as it may b e equally short lived. Be
days the flight may,of it
the issafe. to predict that in a fe,-,k
Emperor and the es ab
meat oxvp lA*
11 10. v be made. IFAQWII.

SECOND EDITION-.

NORTHERN Trmßs OFFICE, MONDAY, y A. 24

THE PEACE AND WAR QUESTION.
Lord Cowley, the Ambassador from Her Majesty, at
the Court of the Emperor Napoleon, arrived in London
on Saturday, from Paris, whence he had been summoned
by the cabinet. The Times, after making the above
announcement, says the accounts from the Continent are
by no means re-assuring, but adds that Lord Cowley has
most probably come over to receive instructions as Pleni-
potentiary at the Paris Conferences on the Danubian
question.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says the
tactics of the Government are to blow alternately
hot and cold on the question of peace or war. There
however, not a mement's relaxation in the French
the
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prep:triatiareOdn for p
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provincial
afo3nointa.innamisganthtehire ignusetsrtuicotniono;

A circular despatch issued by the Prussian Government
dwells upon the hope that peace will not be interrupted.
It atlutlefir. to the joint efforts of Prussia and England to
maintain it. It expresses its conviction that Austria will
lend a willing hand to diplomatic solution of the
difficulties resulting from the state of affairs in Central
Italy. Prugsia says the circular, while reserving her
action as a Eitnipean Power, will nevertheless fulfil her
duties as a member of the German Confederation.