The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-27 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY,

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 25.—APPOINTMENTS.—Captains R.
L. Warren (1839), and H. B. Kellett (1842), have been
granted good service pensions, vice Captains Nias and
Drake, promoted.

MALTA, FFB. 20.

Her Majesty's ship Retribution left, with the Grinder in
tow, on the 12th. Her Majesty's ship Recruit left, with
Mr. Warrington, the Vice Consul, for Tripoli.
On the 13th, her Majesty's ship Osprey arrived from
Naples, and on the 21st, the Wanderer leaves for Naples.
Her Majesty's ship Gladiator, for the coast of Syria,
left on the 18th, five officers of the 71st taking passage in
her to see the Holy Land.
On the 16th, her Majesty's ship Centaur arrived from
Corfu and Athens.

Her Majesty's ships Cressy and Majestic are ordered
home ; they will take the 91st Regiment 'from Athens to
Corfu, and then proceed to England ; and the Anglo-
French occupation of Greece will immediately cease.
Her Majesty's ships Shearwater and Hasty have been
employed in bringing the 31st from Gozo, which takes
the place of the 48th at St. George's Bay, for Minie prac-
tice; the 48th moving to the huts at Port des Bombes,
and part of the Malta Fenetbles going to Gozo.
On the 18th, Mr. Appleton, paymaster of her Majesty's
shin Centaur, died at the Naval Hospital.
The trial of Captain Garsten, 28th, is concluded, but
the sentence is not known.

Her Miijesty's ship Recruit has returned from Tunis.
On the 20th the whole of the troops in Malta were
reviewed by Sir J. Pennefather. About 9,000 men were on
the field. They went through the various evolutions in '1
excellent order, and the " charge " up the glacis over-
looking the Quarantine Harbour was most exciting—both
men and officers seemed to enjoy it. The garrison is in
most efficient order, and very healthy.
THE GUARDS —On Monday and Tuesday next the
following changes of quarters of the Foot Guards will take
place :—The 2nd Battalion of Coldstream Guards, which
have been doing duty at Windsor Castle since July last,
will march from the Sheet-street Barracks, under com-
mand of Col. Cocks, for Wellington Barracks, London.
The 3rd Battalion of Grenadier Guards, under the com-
mand of Captain C. Alexander, will march from the
Wellington Barracks to relieve the Coldstreams at
Windsor; and the Ist Battalion of Coldstreams will leave
the Tower for the camp at Aldershott, under the command
of Colonel Lord F. Paulet. Dr. Skelton, battalion
surgeon of the Coldstream Guards, is lying dangerously
ill at the Sheet street Barracks, Windsor.
DEATH OF A VETERAN.—In the list of names of officers
and men of the army and navy to whom the decoration of
the Victoria Cross has been awarded is the name of John
Taylor, captain of the forecastle. This man, who was
rated as a supernumerary boatswain on 'the books of the
Fisguard, died at his residence yesterday, a few hours
after receiving information that the honour had been
conferred on him. The deceased, who was much esteemed
for his unassuming manners, had previously received
medals for the Kaffir and Burmese wars, the Sebastopol
medal with all the clasps, the French Legion of Honour
and the medal for meritorious conduct. The Victoria
Cross was awarded to the deceased for having conveyed
a wounded soldier from the trenches before Sebastopol at
the imminent risk of his own life.

EXTENSIVE FIRE, AND .?NARROW ESCAPE OF

SIX PERSONS.

Early yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. Wahleman, military cap maker,
Leman street, London, and in a short time the house was
in flames. At that period there were six persons in the
kitchen, and to get them out appeared an impossibility, as
the iron grating in the street prevented them ; and the
upper floors of the house, as well as the staircase being
completely on fire, cut off all means of retreat ir. those
quarters. Information was quickly despatched to the
Royal Society Fire Escape Station, but during the brief
interval ere the escape came, Mr. Inspector Weakford and
a body of police of the II division, succeeded in forcing up
the iron grating and breaking in the windows, and thus
rescued the inmates, just as the heat was melting the
leaden pipes and gutter plates in front of the premises,
which was dropping in a molten state upon those engaged
in saving the lives of the occupants. After some hours'
hard labour, the fire was completely extinguished, but not
until the premises of Mr. Woldeman and all they contained
were destroyed, and serious damage done to those
adjoining. The principal sufferers are insured in the
County Fire Office.

ACCIDENT TO EARL FITZFIARDINGE —A very pain-
ful feeling has been created in Cheltenham by a
report that Earl Fitzhardinge met with an accident
on Wednesday, in the neighbourhood of Berkeley
Castle.; No particulars of the accident could be
ascertained beyond this, that a telegraphic mes-
sage had been received from the Castle, stating
that the noble earl had been thrown from his horse,
and was lying in an insensible state, but, pending
the arrival of medical assistance, it could not be
ascertained whether any bones were broken, or
whether the noble earl had sustained a concussion
of the brain, or any internal injuries which were
likely to be of a serious character. It was feared,
however, by his friends that, considering the noble
earl's advanced age, and the weak state of health
in which he had been for some time past, that any
accident of this nature must be a serious occur-
rence ; and, accordingly, the most gloomy reports
were circu!ated, and numerous were the enquiries
made as to the precise nature of the injuries the
noble earl had sustained.—Cheltenham ,Examiner,
of yesterday.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRAM CE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

I believe that Colonel Ouseley has not yet left
Paris, but his departure is said to be fixed for this
evening or to-morrow. On the Persian question I
can only add that, as if am infonned, the articles of
the proposed convention with England, specify that
the latter Power shall henceforth be treated as the
most favoured nation, that is, as Russia, with respect
to commercial advantages ; and, moreover, that she
shall have a right to found an establishment in the
Isle of Karrak and another in Ormuz. These condi-
tions Would appear to be independent of the evacua-
tion of Herat by the Persians, and the abandonment
of Bushire by the English, The English Govern-
ment had demanded the right to appoint a Consul at
Balfrush, a port of the Mazanderan on the Caspian
Sea, but the Persian Envoy alleged that the exist-
ing treaties with Russia contain a clause prohibiting
I foreign diplomatic agents from residing on the
shoren of that sea,.and no other foreign Power has
an agent there. But she may enjoy the right of
having Consuls on several specified points in the
interior of Persia, and on the shore of the Persian
-Gulf. If the conditions to be submitted to. the
English Government be accepted, Feriik Khan will
probably go.to London, merely for the ratification
of the treaty between us and Persia; -
Colonel Ouseley has been presented to the Eni•
peror, who had a conversation with him on British

India.
The following letter from Jassy, dated the-13th
inst., gives some details relative to the convocation
of the Divans in the Danubian provinces.
The firman for the convocation of the Divans ad hoc has
not yet arrived here, but in the mean time the Kaimakans
are taking their precautions to render the expression of
the wishes of the future Assembly more than illusory„
Already is the list of Government candidates prepared,
and their emissaries are at work through the country.
Several Ministers who wish to figure in the Divans have
announced their retirement from the Cabinet. They are
MM. Istrati, who proposes to present himself as .a candi
date for the district of Faltsi ; Vogorides, who will solicit
the votes of the electors of Teccuci ; and Gregorio Balch,
who would wishto be Deputy of Roman. The first only is
said to have any chance of success. The Government is
much occupied with the election of the deputies of the class
of peasants: They wish to exercise over these deputies the
double pressure ofgovernment and proprietor. Orders have
been given to the Government agents in the districts to
choose none as electors in the second degree but the
peasants living in the villages belonging to proprietors who
are opposed to the Union of the provinces. According to the
firman the electoral lists are to be examined by committees
composed exclusively of Government agents, and, among
others; of administrators of 'districts, of judges, and of the
presidents of municipal councils. These who prepared
that article were not forgetful that all those persons are
functionaries appointed by the Government, and liable to
be dismissed at pleasure, and that consequently the
electors are completely at their mercy. According to the
organic regulation those lists were examined by the
electors themselves ; now it is the contrary, and the firman
pretends, moreover, that the Government is not in any
way to interfere in the elections. Tee Kaima.kans are
actively emplo'yed ill choosing sure agents to compose
the committees charged with correctiug the lists. The
presidents of the municipal councils have been long since
well chosen, but among the judges there are some of
Prince Ghika's appointment, and consequently holding
unionist opinions, The judges of the Ist and end sections
of the tribunal of Jassy have been dismissed. The fol-
lowing is another instance of the interference of the
Government :—M. N. Millon is one of the largest landed
proprietors in Moldavia. Attached to Prince Ghika by
family ties, he had declared publicly in favour of the .
union of the provinces. He had a chance of having a seat
in the Divan ad hoc. M. Istrati, Minister of Public
'Works, received a report from the director of the telegraph
that M. Millon was in correspondence with a French
lady at present residing in Constantinople. The Austrian
director of the telegraph tells his chief, moreveri that M.
Milton signs his despatches with the name of a church in
Jassy called " Deuce A. prosecution was commenced
against M. Millon at the suit of a Greek monk, the Prior
of the church, accusing him of having used his name. A
Cabinet Council was immediately assembled, and it was,
resolved that M. Millon should be tried. The commis-
sioners appointed to receive the portion of Bessarabia
ceded to Moldavia will leave to-morrow. They are MM.
Gregorio Croupenski, John Canta (son of the Minister of
the Interior), and Lascar Mihalaki, late administrator
during the Russian occupation. Monsignor MeletiuS
Istrati, Bishop of Houche, is charged with the spiritual
part. I have just been informed that the President of the
Tribunal of Piatra has been dismissed. The Kaimakan
of Moldavia left this place yesterday, to visit the principal
towns in his government.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FEB 23

In diplomatic circles it is related that Prussia
positively insists on the Paris Conference taking
the London Protocol of May, 1852, as its point d 6
depart in the Neufchatel affair. The Swiss are
infinitely less sanguine than they were a few weeks
since, and some of the ultra-Radicals begin to
fancy that the Confederation has been " bam-
boozled" by France. It is also rumoured that
Prussia objects to Switzerland being represented
in the Conference, but the assurance has to-day
been given me that Dr. Kern, as the Plenipoten-
tiary of the Federal Government, is to have a seat
and voice in it. Some days ago the Swiss Pro
fessor Denzler had an audience of the King of
Prussia, who received him with the greatest possible
kindness ; but when he applied for admittance a
second time, his Majesty refused to see him
Neither the Vienna nor Berlin papers now make
any mention of the Holstein Lauenburg domain
question, and the reason of this silence is, that the
German publicists are unwilling to acknowledge
that Denmark can beard Austria and Prussia with
impunity. Count Bille-Brahe has recently informed
this Government that the Danish Cabinet does not
recognise the right of the German Powers to meddle
in the internal affairs of Denmark, and you may,
therefore, before the world is many months older,
expect to hear that the venerable Bund has begun
to think that it might, perhaps, be right to send
" troops of execution" into the Duchy of Holstein.
The breach between Austria and Sardinia is daily
becoming wider, and a complete interruption of
diplomatic relations between the two Powers is
likely to ensue, if the British and French Govern-
ments do not speedily intervene as mediators.

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 20.

The new frontier treaty with Franco, which is to
be submitted to the approaching Cortes, is becoming
a topic of discussion in the newspapers and in
certain circles here. This is rather premature; since,
in order to argue upon the subject, we should first
be made acquainted with the text of the treaty, and
have opportunity to study the ground by means of
plans, which may hereafter bo published, but to
which as yet but few persons have had access. The
chief allegation made by those who pretend to a
knowledge of what has been done, is that, however
fairly Spain may have been treated with respect to
the value of the ground allotted to either country,
France has found means to secure strategical
positions which she should not have been allowed
to obtain. This is coupled with the question of
the proposed line of railway by the Aldudes and
Pampeluna, to which your Paris correspondent
recently called attention. Independently of the
disadvantage which the selection of that line
would be to the ports on the north coast of Spain,
the obvious and immense advantage it would give
to France, in case of an invasion of this country,
strikes every one, and the mere existence of the
project rouses suspicion and excites uneasiness.
There are not a few persons here, some of whom
are among the most intelligent in this country,
and including members of the most opposite
political parties, who are persuaded that the
present ruler of France has designs upon
Spain, and that the placing of one of his family
upon the throne is included among his deep
and perhaps remote calculations and schemes for
the future. This notion will be received with
incredulity in England; I give it only as a rather
widely-spread belief here. The policy of the French
Emperor with regard to Spain may be explained
without attributing to him such dangerous views.
In England he has won too high a character for
prudence and moderation for it to be believed that
he would allow dynastic ambition to lead him so far
from the safe road. At the same time it is pretty
evident that he aspires to guide Spanish affairs to a
curtain extent.