The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The Grand Duke Constantine is expected at
Toulon on the2Oth. or .21st. .He will proceed at
once- to -Marseilles on board of the Reine Hortense,
an.l review the fleet and examine the docks and
arsenals. The next day he will proceed to Lyons,
_but will not, I believe, stop there any time; he will
pass the night at Chalons cur Saone. He intends
to inspect with -much attention the well known
foundries of the Creasol (Saone et Loire). He will
be here about the end of the month, and will take up
his Litt-tilers at Fontainebleau, where great prepa-
ratiOna are making to receive him and his suite.
General Todtleben has presented the Emperor
of the French with a copy, magnificently bound,
of his journal of the siege of Sebastopol, kept by
- hiinielf dily by day. This most interesting diary
• is written in Russian, with a French translation in
page. The Minister of Marine had a brilliant
_reception last night, at which numerous Russian '
officers were present.. :
The Committee of Defence, which is composed

of military men of liiol rank; on the question of
the projected lines of railroad is Russia being
brought before it, have, I am assured, expressed
the opinjon that these lines of communication are
of a decidedly stragetic character, and that by the
facilities they afford, from 85,000 to 100,000 men

could be transported from various points of the
empire to Kaffa in eight days.. The cancessionriof
these lines was obtained by M. de Morny. .
_

General Bourbaki, who served in the Crimean
war,• and who ,was .wounled at the battle of the
Alma and at the Malakhoff has been appointed
to the command of a ,division at Constantine.
General MacMahon, who had an audience of the
Emperor yesterday, left Paris, this , morning to
take the command of a division of the army in
Algeria. The division will take part in -the expe-
dition against the Ka,byles, which is,to commence
on the 10th of May.. In military circles some
importance appears to be attached to this expe-
- .dition, as, if successful, tending to consolidate or
perhaps extend the French power in Africa. It
will, at all events, give occupation to a large body
of the army, which, it may not be politic to have
idle.
A few more arrests were, it is said, made yester-
- Clay and the day before. I have not noticed the
various stories, some of them extravagant enough,
which have been current about these arrests. It is
hardly necessary to say that secret societies never
wholly disappear in France. They may be more or
less quiet—more or less-dangerous--more or less
withdrawn from the public eye, but they do not
cease to exist, and their influence is. never wholly
unfelt. When a certain time elapses, and when a
'movement is observable, the authorities think it
useful to lay their bands on a few dozens. To do

this it is necessary to entice them out of their
hiding places, as rats are coaxed out of their holes.
In the meantime
.the traps are prepared, and as
the conspirators become visible or tangible, they
are caught when least aware of their danger. The
rateatchers .in the present instance have been
rather successful, though it is probable that at least
one third of the arrested are agents of the secret
police. I believe these arrests to be nothing more
' than one of these sweepings which take place every
now and then. The principal charge against the
persons now in custody is for conspiring with. a
view to an attempt on the person of the Emperor.
M. Treilhard is the magistrate who is charged
with investigating the offences of which they are

accused. -
The court martial appointed to try two officers
of one of the regiments of the Paris garrison, and a
sergeant, on the charge of having caused the death
of a woman known as the Belle Bourbon, met to
day. The officers, one a lieutenant and the other
a sub-lieutenant of the same regiinent. are brothers
and natives of Corsica. The circumstances of the
case are very atrocious. The three prisoners are
accused allaying committed violence on the unfor-
tunate) woman, in the barracks, consecutively, and
the injuries inflicted on her occasioned her death
The prisoners are tried, consequently on two
heinous charges. The victim of their brutality
Was young, and the mother of a family. The case
excited much sensation in the quarter of Paris
where it took place.

RUSSIA.

BERLIN APRIL 14

Although I have already, on a fOrmer occasion,
informed you Of the change made at the Russian
ports of the Baltic, Iyith reference to the production
of receipts for the Sou,:d Dues, it may be ns well,
in the interest of the Baltic trade, to give you the
text of the Imperial order hztely issued on the
subject :
New Quarantine Regulations for Vessels c 3 in! from the

Sound, and entering Russian Ports in the Baltic.
' The Minister of the Interior informed the Minister of
Finance, under date of March 8, that his Majesty, the
Emperor, on the representation of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, with regard to the necessity; in consequence of the
abolition of the Sound Dues, of issuing fresh quarantine
regulations for vessels coming through the Sound to our
ports in the Baltic, has been graciously pleased?. in
accordance with the resolution of the Committee of
Ministers, on the 19th of February, of this year, to com-
mand ,:

1. In future neither receipts for the payment of Sound
Dues nor Danish quarantine certificates'are to be required
of vessels as indispensable to their admission into our
Baltic parts.
2. It is to be made incumbent on all captains of vessels
entering the said ports with cargo to provide themselves
at the port where they take in their cargo with certificates
attested by our consular agents as to the satisfactory.
sanatory state of the neighbourhood whence they come,
.or else procure for themselves quarantine certificates in
such French, English, Dutch, or .Norwegian ports as they
may be obliged to put in to: with the proviso always,
that these documents be attested by our consular agents ;
awl that

3. These regulations are to remain in force only for the
term of this year, should the state of the public health
during that period remain as satisfactory as it is at pre-
sent.

' A good many accidents have occurred at Sebas-
topol and the neighbourhood from the unexpected
bursting of shells, which have been extracted from
the earth, into which they had plunged short of
the Russian position; the duty of bursting which
these projectiles seem to have omitted on falling
into the soft pound of the earthworks, they
.oppear to have been over ready to fulfil now that
they are no longer wanted. In consequence of
those accidents it had been forbidden to bring any
of these inopportune guests into the town, and the
local authorities have appointed- a proper person to
collect all the old twice `cast iron outside the town,
and strict orders have been given that any other
person finding any shot, shell, or other spent ball,
shall not meddle with it.

Tenders for the conveyance of large quantities of
iron from the Ural foundries, for the use of the
es'4,:ipbuilding works at Nicolaieff, have been adver-
tisei for in the latter town. The iron consists of
lighter and heavier articles--rocs and plates, or on
the other band, anchors, Sze., and the. total weight
amounts tb -228,438p00d5. The iron works deliver
the 'goods at'Dubowka, on-the \Volga (but how they
get them thither is not explained), and :the con-
tractors for the transport are to remove them
thence by land to a place called Kalatschinslr, and
thence down the Don and through the Sea of Azof,
along tbe.coast of the Black Sea, up the 'Bug, to

News has been received in St. Petersburg of the
new Bessarabian frontiefhaving been marked out
on the 15th of March, .and the ceded territory
having been evacuated on the 19th. These events
bad been followed also by the retirement of the
English fleet from the Black Sea on the 29th.
Since the last-mentioned expedition of the Rus-
sians on the left wing of their Caucasian position
in the direction of the , Great Tschetschna, there
WriS a second undertaken on the 9th of February,
for the purpose of keeping open the clearing they
bad commenced making 'on the former.- occasion
Through the forest towards the Aul Hortun On
this occasion also, Schamyl ordered his people to
obstruct the Russians ; in consequence, much
Yuman life was sacrificed in a variety of skirmishes,