Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-18 00:00:00

and to allow Prince Napoleon the sum of 800,000
francs for his marriage expenses, and cost of establish-
ment, and to fix the jointure of the Princess Clotilda._
A Paris letter, written on Wednesday evening,
thus sums up the position of the war question :
" The opinion that France, Piedmont, Russia,
and Austria have given up all hopes of a pacific
settlement of the Italian question, and have made
up their minds to fight it out, is now almost
universally entertained. This opinion is more than
borne out by. the gigantic military preparations
now making by France and Austria. Some
time since I informed you that the whole of, the
artillery of the army of Lyons had been placed
on a war footing. I now learn that the whole of
that corps d' armee has received orders to be put
on pied de guerre, and that the equipages de cam-
pagne e., baggage waggons) belonging
to it, have been ordered to be got in
readiness without delay. The Imperial
Guard in garrison at Versailles expect that
they will soon receive marching orders, it being
expected.that the Emperor will personally take
the command. Without attaching too much im-
portance to barrack or mess-room gossip, I may
observe that though the army is under the strictest
discipline, its hopes of active employment andrapid
promotion—that is the hope of all the non-commis-
sioned officers, and officers under field rank, who have
their way to make—have been raised so high by
the words addressed by the Emperor to the officers
who paid their respects at the Tuileries on New
Year's Day, and the preparations that have since
taken place, that it is not likely his Majesty would,
by disappointing his most trusty supporters, wil-
lingly run the risk of forfeiting the popularity he
has enjoyed at their hands.

The-latest accounts from Sardinia state that the
government has determined to make the attempt
to drive out the Austrians, with the view of con-
stituting for itself a kingdom strong enough to
resist Austria on the one hand, and, if need be,
France on the other. It is added that the king-

dom will embrace Venice, and, at least :twelve
millions of subjects.
From Berlin we learn that at the sitting of the
Prussian Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, a minis-
terial project relating to civil marriages was
brought in, and which proposes the abolition of
certain obstacles to marriage, and the introduction
of prescribed forms for divorce.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News states
that the army of Lyons has been placed on a war
footing.
The news which we published in our first
edition yesterday, and which was amplified in our
second edition, tend to show that the rebellion in
India may be said to have been entirely subdued.

The iroceedings of the Dock Board will be
found interesting, as reported to-day at some
length. Two plans, executed by the engineer,
were submitted for consideration. They were in
reference to dock extension. One for the accom-
modation of the carrying and timber trades, at the
north of the Canada dock, and the other
at the south-east of the Huskisson dock, for
the accommodation of the steam trade. The
cost of the proposed works was estimated at
a total of 213,956/. The plans were allowed to be
on the table till next week, when they will again
be brought on for consideration. Mr. Smith, at
the conclusion of a long speech against the rating
of the docks, moved a resolution, the effect of which
was the suspension of the standing orders, that
three other gentlemen might be added to the par-
liamentary committee for the purpose of opposing
the bill now before Parliament, which had for its
object the rating of the docks. A long discussion
ensued, and as some reflection was cast upon the
parliamentary committee by several speakers, the
committee defended themselves from the impu-
tations, and the motion of Mr. Smith was ulti-
mately withdrawn, the board expressing their
confidence in the present committee.
At a meeting of the Toxteth Board of
Guardians held yesterday, which we report
elsewhere, a discussion of considerable length
took place as to the relative merits of Homoeopa-
thy, and Allopathy, several of the guardians
being in favour of the former mode of treat-
ment. The guardians are about to advertise
for two medical officers in the room of Drs. Barrett
and Whittle, who are rather indignant at being
obliged to resign office, as will be seen by their
letters to the board.

A meeting was held yesterday evening, in the
Royal Rock Ferry Hotel, at which the local act
of parliament of 1858, for the improvement of the
township was adopted, and which has been under
consideration since December last.

At the Police Court yesterday, there was -a case
that will prove interesting to boarding-house
keepers. A person named Weeks was charged
under a section of the Merchant Shipping Act, for
inducing a sailor to leave a ship, after he had
signed articles. The ground of the indictment
was two-fold. First, the defendant-had received
the advance note of the man, and got cash for it,
and then he induced him to desert that ship, so as
to get another advance note and higher wages in
a second vessel. The act of Parliament is very
stringent on this point, for a mere attempt even
to induce a sailor to leave a ship, after he has
signed articles, is visited with a penalty of '.£lo.
Mr. Cobb, who appeared for the prosection, called
witnesses who proved the case beyond doubt, and
a penalty of £lO was inflicted. This should be a
warning to all persons not to interfere with sailors
after they have signed articles.
The report of the medical officers of health,
read yesterday at the meeting of the Health
Committee, showed an improvement in the state of
the public health.

The late disastrous failures at Orleans are said to extend
to no less than 12,000,000 francs.

M. de Lesseps left Paris, on Tuesday, for Alexandria,
for the express purpose of commencing the Suez Canal.

The article for which La Presse has received a warning
is precisely of the same tenor as those which it has been
publishing the last six weeks, and the general supposition
is that the measure was taken on the representations of
the Austrian Ambassador.

The Globe understands that Mr. Samuel Warren, M.P.
for Medhurst, has been appointed to Mastership in Lunacy,
vacated by Mr. Higgins; Mr. Unthank, of the Northern
Circuit, has been appointed to the Mastership in Court of
Queen's Bench, in place of the late Mr. Bunce ; and
Captain Francis Howard Vyse, late of the Blues, has
been appointed Consul at Jedda, in Japan.

An Admiralty despatch states that her Majesty's ship
Orion, supposed to have been lost, arrived safely at Bare-
haven on the 14th.

MARYLEBONE ELECTION.—CoI. Romilly, formerly
M.P. for Canterbury, has issued an address as candidate
for Marylebone. He is an advocate for the ballot.
THE HIGGINS' AFFAIR. —The Post gives the upshot of
the Higgins' affair. Mr. Higgins returns to his former
post of Registrar in Bankruptcy, Mr. Scott to his office
of Principal Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, and Mr.
Phillips loses the appointment which he has held for a
week of Principal Secretary. It is remarked that the
Lord Chancellor's son-in-law now finds himself without
either the two thousand pounds a-year which was to
remunerate his services as a Master in Lunacy, or the
thousand pounds a-year of his registrarship in Bank-
ruptcy.
CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION.—Abstract of the Honour
Lists in the recent Cambridge Examination of " Students
not Members of the University" :