The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

TUfIIN, APRIL I.
The circular of Count Buol or the 16th of last
month, by which he recalledlhe Austrian Legation
from this Court, has now been republished by all
the papers here, but as yet without comment on
their part. It would seem that the spirit of this
document had become so well known long befori
the publication of the text that. all arbineht was
exhausted, or otherwise it difficult to account for
such unusual silence, particularly at a moment when
the press is mitering from a most ruinous dearth of
political hews. it is certain that the withdrawal of the
AUstriau Legation had been so long expected here,
that when actually carried into execution, it
caused neither surprise no ekeitement. Nor intek•
nella.tions have been addressed to Ministers in
Parliament on the sul jest=the newspaper's
accepted it As a matter of course after the diPlO-
math) correspondence of the previous inonili;-Latid
the public received the intelligence With indiffer-
ence. The affair has given rise to much more
controversy in other countries than it has here,
and I believe that if it were not for the continued
menacing tone of the official and semi official
Austrian papers the Piedmontess would soon
cease to think of it ; but naturally those
mysterious threats of the Austrian press
RS to the ulterior tteas6 res that the
mighty empire of Austria may be forced
to adopt towards this pigmy kingdom tend to
rouse feelings which Count Burl professes to
desire should be calmed. With all this, however,
there is no excitement on the subject in Piedmont,
where peopit are able to judge of the true state of
the case by the aid of a free press; but such is not
the case in other Italian States, where the Austrian
view is the only one allowed free circulation. The
Vienna Cabinet having committed a great politi-
cal blunder, it is thought necessary that the
journals of the empire should represent it
as deter Mined to proceed against the Sardinian '
Government with firmness and vigour, &c ,
and this is precisely the style of language calcu-
lated to inflame the imagination of all the hot
heads in Italy, and ensure the repetition of such
acts as your Vienna correspondent reports to
have occurred at Venice'on the 23rd of last month,
The military authorities in Lombardy would
naturally be very glad of an excuse for martial law
being declared, as it would place the government of
the country virtually in their hands again, and
probably a blockade of the Piedmontese frontier
might be very much to the taste of General Gyulai;
but one can hardly suppose that it is by such
means that the Vienna Government hopes to make
loyal subjects of the Lombardo Venetians, and yet
both its acts of late years and at the present time
justify the conclusion that such events are not
improbable.
The King of Sardinia returned to his Palace of
Pollenzo last night from Nice.
The Senate met to-day and passed a Bill for the
establishment of tribunals of commerce in various
towns of the kingdom.
The Minister. of the Interior presented a Bill
(sent up from the Chamber of Deputies) for
organizing the administration and economy of the
Jewish religion.

The Chamber of Deputies votta. yesterday,
three new Professorships for the University of
Turin—of French Literature, Geography and
Statistics, and of the Philosophy of History ; and
to day an extraordinary expenditUre to be added
to the Budgets of 1857 and 1858 for the valuation
of property in the terra firma States.
The Giornale di Roma publishes 'an edict making
very important reductions in the Customs' tariff of

the Roman States. The import duty on manu-
factured articles of coarse silk, linen, cotton,
woollen, hair, leather, is reduced from between 30

to 70 per cent. On wearing apparel and articles
of fashion it is reduced 50 per cent; on linen or
woollen thread, 38 per cent; palm oil, 50 per cent ;
common soap, 40 per cent; felt for paper mills, 50
per cent; books bound in pasteboard, covered
with cloth or coloured cotton, 40 per cent.
The export duty on coarse silk, carried and
combed, is reduced two thirds ; on woollen rags,
four fifths ; on wool obtained from rags, 1 bajocco
per 100 lb ; while the export duty on bones is
doubled.

The Postmaster General of Sardinia has recently
issued a new regulation with regard to letters
posted here for foreign countries, which deserves
to be made known abroad, because it is well worthy
of imitation.. It is this : If a letter for any country,
having a postal communication with Sardinia, is
posted here with an insufficient quantity of stamps,
it is only marked as chargeable for the deficiency,
and not for the whole postage. The argument
upon which this change is founded is, that insuf-
ficiency of pre payment by stamps is the effect of
accident, and it is not right to visit the sin of
omission on the part of the writer on his innocent
correspondent by exacting more than the' original
shortcoming.

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 3.

The precautions against the expected Carlist
attempt continue. Small columns of infantry and
cavalry have been put in motion in Catalonia, and
also in the northern district of Castile, in the direc-
tion of the provinces of Alava and La Rioja.
As was to be expected, the Duke of Alba has
been elected deputy for Madrid by a large majority
over the Progresista candidate.

The King is convalescent.
A decree in to day's Gazette orders that the
sixteen battalions of infantry of the line in the
island of Cuba shall be formed into eight regiments
of two battalions each. The three battalions of
light infantry are to retain their separate organisa,
Lion, and the two regiments of cavalry are to be
composed each of four squadrons.
Another decree authorises the Provincial Depu-
tation of Madrid to contract a loan of 6,000,000
reals, to be applied to the construction and
improvement of the roads.
There were no transactions quoted at the Bolsa
to day.