Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-19 00:00:00

not be permitted to share in the privilege of
exemption from military service—a boon which the
Emperor not long ago granted to all the young
men who are pursuing their studies at a
university. None of the citizens of Padua
took part in the demonstration. Since the
arrival of Count Gyulai at Milan, very energetic
measures have been taken for the better mainte-
nance of peace and order. The Precettati, and the
natives of Milan who are without ostensible occu-
pation, are placed under strict surveillance ; and
people in the provinces, who have no means of
honestly earning their daily bread in the capital,
are sent to their homes at the expense of the State.
An Italian yesterday evening told me that Milan
had assumed a totally different appearance."
The Gazette di Verona and the Sferza (a Venice
paper) contains articles, in which, it is said, that
the Government, " being convinced of the existence
of a plan for overthrowing the existing order of
things," is firmly resolved to take all the measures
that may be necessary for maintaining peace and
order in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. The
Sferza says :
For years Sardinia has openly conspired against the
security and integrity of the other Italian States. The
Cabinet, the Parliament, the press, and the refugees
have all contributed to bring about the present state of
things, and unfortunately a small party on this side of
the Ticino has lent a willing ear to the insinuations
(Insinuutionen) received from Turin.
It appears to me that the Turin Cabinet is
playing a very hazardous game. Should Sardinia
attack Austria she is sure to be worsted, and if
she does not attack her King Victor Emmanuel
will be considered a, traitor by the Ultras,
and treated accordingly. As you must already
have learnt from another source, the Sardinian
troops have been moved forward to the frontiers.
On the 4th instant the luggage of the Archduke
Ferdinand Maximilian arrived at Trieste, but his
Imperial highness is still at Milan. A writer in
the Augsburg Gazette asserts that the Italians want
Republic rather than a united Italy, under the
sceptre of King Victoria Emmanuel, and it -can
hardly be doubted that he speaks the truth. If
Austria were to relinquish Northern Italy, the
:chances are that, in two or three years, the house
of Savoy would cease to reign in Piedmont. The
Swabian Mercury, one of the organs of the Liberal
party in Southern Germany, has just entered a
violent protest against the intervention of France
in Italy. The article istoo long for translation, but
one or two of its most remarkable passages must
beLluoted. The Swabian paper says— ,

111;re Germans have for many- Centuries known and fel
'the consequences of a •complication in Italy. They have
always been injurious to us, but it would be infinitely
worse for Germany ;if France were to have •the supremacy
in Italy instead of Austria. (Hero follows a most
irreverent remark on the folly of calling in Beelzebub
instead of Satan.) France has lost so much in public
opinion during"the last ten years, that there is no party
-in Germany which would accept his proffered assistance.
We expect the same prudent reserve on the part of the
Italian nation. We know that Naples and Rome are not
model States, but it is not known to us that the Imperial
administration in Lombardy is so bad as to require an
instantaneous change. Germany has had painful ex-
perience, and consequently she is not likely to make all
the quarrels •of Austria her own ' • 'but public opinion
agrees on one subject, and it is, that every inch of ground
Which Austria may lose in Italy will be a loss to Germany
at large.
It was the day before yesterday settled that
Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, who, in the year 1853,
was sent as Envoy Extraordinary to the Russian
Court, shall go as Minister Plenipotentiary to St.
Petersburg. The Count, an Austrian General, who
is related to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, is a
persona grata in Russia. Prince Alexander, of
Hesse-Darmstadt, 'has also been in Vienna fora few
days, and his presence here has led to a report that
something,of importance is about to take place be-
tween the Austrian and Russian Courts. The
Prince, an Austrian General, 'is the brother of the
reigning Empress of Russia, and he it was who
brought about the meeting between the Emperors
Alexander and Francis Joseph, at Weimar. It is
rumoured that the Russians are about to concen-
trate an army on their south-western frontier, or
rather on the frontiers of Austria. The Duke
of Modena, who had an interview with Count
Buol, on his arrival from F4benzweier, has returned
to Italy.

As the Porte yesterday recognised Prince
Milosch at Hospodar, the Servian question has for
the moment lost its interest. It is even affirmed
that the Sultan has promised to renew the Berat
of 1830, which made the dignity of Hospodar
hereditary in the family of Obrenovitson, but the
news appears to me to require confirmation. The
electric telegraph informs us that four of the
Corfu members of the lonian Parliament, " being
convinced that a union with Greece is entirely
out of the question," have promised Mr. Gladstone
to be satisfied with reforms.