The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

TH E NORTHERN ;1.,
I I vrePPOOL, TUESDAY.

traitor, and may expect from us a chastisement as prompt
as terrible. You hear ! Obey.
The Matidaiin Governor, TCHYN-TOO.
Done at Whampoa, the ?Ail day of the 12th Moon.

A letter, dated Touranne, in Cochin China, of the
7th. of December; states that the King Tsu-Duc is
persecuting with increasing severity his Christian
subjects. The: 600,000 Christians of the empire,
the 14 French bisliopb, " arid the numerous
missionaries are looking to France for protection.
Even the idolators rejoice at the arrival of a French
ship in tha roads of Touranne. Mgr. Pellerin had
succeeded, after having incurred great danger, in
gaining.a refuge on board the French ship of war
Capricieuse.
A letter from Jassy, in Moldavia, of the 21st
February, published in the Etoile du Danube, an-
nounces that on the same day or tho following, the
foreign troops were to commence the evacuation of
the province. Captain Broemsen, an aide-de camp
of the Governor General of New Russia,-arrived at
Jassy, to inform the Kaimakan that the boundary
line of the new frontier had been Completely settled
and that the Moldavian G-overnthent might take
possession of the territory ceded to it. There had
been an allegorical print circulated in private circles
at Jassy which caused much amusement. It repre-
sents Moldavia kne :ging before a warrior armed with
a lance,on the pennon of which is inscribed the Word
Union." The position of the Warrior resembles
that of Saint George slaying the dragon, but in the
satirical print the dragOrt is replaced by a crocodile
rising front a marsh. and holding in his mouth small
banners on which are inscribed " Eights of the
country," " Liberty of the Press," " Navigation
of the S .i.uth and the Pruth," " National sank,"
" Civil List," " National Academy.' Under the
allegorical amphibious animal is • written " The
Caiman."'

Prince Danielo of Montenegro, accompanied by
his family, 12 officers or functionaries of his
Government, and a suite of attendants, arrived on
Friday at T. J,,ons by the express train from Mar-
seilles, The Prince occupied a coupe and his suite
first class carriages. tie landed at Marseilles on
Thursday from Nice. His departure from Cet-
tinye, the capital of Montenegro, was announced
in The Times. The Prince is not more than 30
years of age ; he is under the middle size, his face
round, auburn hair, and his whiskers trimmed in
the hnglish fashion. He wears an Oriental
costume, with a Russian cap. The Princess is
attired in the French mode, and wears a quantity
of diamond rings on her fingers. The officers and
functionaries wear Damascus poniards in their
girdles, together with richly mounted pistols and
small curved sabres. The Prince stopped but an
hour at the Lyons terminus. He visited it in all
its details, giving his area to the princess. They
afterwards dined at the Itket. He remained
covered during the repast, but his officers were
bareheaded retaining their arms. The cortege left
Lyons at eight in the afternoon and arrived in
Paris at seven yesterday morning. Their arrival,
which was expected, attracted an immense crowd.
Prince Danielo was received at the terminus by
a secretary, who conducted him in a caleche,
drawn by two horses, to the hotel prepared for
him.

At the sitting of the Council of State yesterday,
held at the Tuileries; the Emperor proposed that,
in consequence of the difficulties attending the
questions before it, a special commission should be
names to prepare a d4lnitive project of a tax on
personal. property. of which the basis should be an
impost on the profits of all joint-stock companies.
The design of a duty on the transfer of shares has
been abandoned, as also the proposed measure
of preventing all Bourse operations by coulissier-s
or out-door stockbrokers. In the course of the
discussion on these points several members of the
Council gave proof of much talent, and, still more
strange, of some independence. Among these
exceptional characters. M. de Parrieu and M. de
Vutry are mentioned. The war estimates were
also discussed at the same sitting, and the Council
succeeded in introducing a saving of 10 000,000 f in
addition to the reduction previously effected in the
same department.
There are symptoms of a strong opposition in the,
.senate on the Malakhoff pension. The objections,
as I stated on a former occasion, are not to the
grant of money, which amounts to 100,000 f., but
to its transmission to the male descendants. This
transmission is looked upon by the Senate as the
establishment of a majorat, and consequently as an
infraction of the Constitution, which recognises
the equ•tlity of citizens before the law It is very
doubtful whether.the Senate will eventually throw
out the bill, but as it did on some former occasion
show some little animation, such a result is not
impossible. As to the grant itself to the Duke of
Malakhoff (Marshal Pelissier) the senators are
unanimous.

• Marshal Randon, Governor General of Algeria,
whose arrival in Paris has bees already announced,
had an audience of the Emperor this morning. _

The Conference on the Neufchatel question held
a second sitting yesterday at the Foreign office,
which lasted till 7 o'clock. M. de Hatzfeld, the Prus-
sian Minister, was admitted, as he is said to have
expressed himself in terms generally conciliatory.
Dr. Kern has not yet attended the Conference, but
he will probably be introduced at the next meeting,
which will take place to morrow or Tuesday. After
getting through a fair day's work the members
dined with their President, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs. The business of the Conference will, it is
thought, be brought to a close ill the course of the
week.

The following despatches have been received :
BERNE, MARCh 6.
_ _

. The Swiss confederation will be represented at the
conferences of Paris by Dr. Kern, accredited as Minister
Plenipotentiary. The doctor has received new powers.
The Federal Council reci guises his zeal and perseverance
as well as the the talent of which he gave proofs during
the negociations.

MADRID, MARCH 6.

The Budget has been well resolved by the.public.
The news from Rome is very good. The nuncio of his
Holiness is shortly to arrive, in order to regulate the
affairs still pending. M. Mon left this day for Rome.
MARSEILLES, MARCH 7.
•

A wealthy Greek shipowner has been tried before
the police court of this city on a charge of swind-
ling. It appears that some short time since the
accused insured one of his ships called the Trois
Scours, said to be on her way from Scala Nova to
Marseilles, for a sum of 230,000 f. A few days
subsequently it was announced that the Trois
Soeurs had gone ashore at Tchesme. The under-
writers having conceived some suspicion, made
further enquiries, and discovered that the owner
bad received a telegraphic despatch previous to
his having effected the insurance announcing the
loss of the Trois Soeurs. The Qourt sentenced the
accused' to imprisonment for 'three years and a
fine of 3,000 f., and interdiction from civil rights
during 10 years. The police-court of Paris
gave judgment yesterday in. the case •of
the Directors of the Company of the Docks
Napoleon and of M. Arthur Berryer, Govern-
ment Commissioner, accused of abuse of con-
fidence, by fraudulently appropriating to themselves
the funds of the Company. M. Orsi was acquitted ;
M. Cusin was sentenced to imprisonment for three
years and to pay a fine of 5,000 f.; Arthur Berryer,
imprisonment for two years and a fine of 5,000 f. ;
Legendre, imprisonment for one year and 5,000 f.
fine ; . Duchesne de Vere,. imprisonment for six
months and a fine of 2,000 f.; and, by a further
judgment, they were sentenced to refund the sums
fraudulently appropriated.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MARCH 6.

The subjoined official news from Milan goes far
to prove that the new Governor General of the
Lombardo Venetian Kingdom is to have neither a
civil nor a military Adlatus. Baron von Kubeck,
who some years since was Austrian Charge d'Affaires
in London, has been appointed director of the Arch-
ducal Chanoellerie, which is composed of Count
von Valmarana as counsellor, and of Baron du
Pont and M. Alber von Glanstatten as secretaries
The names of the persons who have received orders
while His Majesty has been in Italy fill a couple of
columns of the Milan- Gazette, but no mention is
made of Count Thun, the civil Adlatus of Marshal
Radetzsky. As you have already been informed,

Count Thun is a philo Russian, and it is possible
that ho has recently somewhat too openly displayed
his kindly feelings towards the Russian colony at
Nice, which, during the last three months, has
neglected no OptiOrttmity of displaying its dislike
to Austria and its sympathy for Sardinia. When
the Grand Duke Oonstantine *as on his *ay to
Nice, a fa* days since, he made a considerable detour
in order to avoid passing through. Milan while the
Emperor was there.

The principal orders distributed by the Emperor
during hia sojourn. in Italy were the Golden
Pleede to Count Joseph d'Archinto, the first
class of the Iron Crown to the Archbishop of Milan,
to Counts Ca"telbarco, Pappafava, Cittadella,Vigo
darzere, and to the Marquis of Busca. The second
class of the Iron Crown was given to the Bishops,
of Brescia, Verona, and Vicenza, to the Archbishop
of the Mechitarists (Armenians) at Venice, to the
Duke of MelAi, and, to Count Albani, the Podesta
of Bergamo. The knight's dross of the Order of
St. Leopold *ea Presented to the Chevalier von
Valeta, to M. , von Lackenbacher, a counsellor in
the Home Department, and to M. von Martinez.
the Director of the Police at Milan. A great
many other persons received the crosses of the
orders of Francis Joseph ,and of, the, third Class
of the Irpn Crown. Count Fennroli. Count
Renato Borromeo, Count Scotti, the Duke
of San Pietro, ',Count Orti-Manara, and M. von
Sebregondi were made Privy Councillors. The
Duke of Litta and the Marquises D'Adda and
Carossa, received the title of Imperial Chamber
lains. About an holtr before their Majesties left i
Milan all the persons who had been presented to
them were assembled in the state apartments of
the palace. After having bowed to the assembly,
the Emperor expressed to the above-mentioned
Baron Kubeck his satisfaction that adminiArative
matters were progressing favourably. His Majesty
then observed that his sojourn at Milan had pro
duced an agreeable imPressiOn on him. The
Empress; who spoke to the same effect, seemed
sorry to quit a city in which she had been so
extremely well received. The Trieste Zeitung
learns that the powers granted to the Archduke
Ferdinand Maximilian are very nearly
the same as those given by the Empress Maria
Theresa to her third son when he was made
Goiernor General of Lombardy. The Archduke
Ferdinand held the reigns of goverment twenty
one years, and during that time the population of
the Lombard kingdom increased one-third. The
claims of the house of Austria on Mo lena date
from the above mentie,ned Archduke Ferdinand,
who in 1771 married Maria Beatrice of Este, and
became the heir of his father in law. On the Ist
of March Marshal Radetzsky took leave of " his
children" in an Order of the Day. The veteran
thanked the army for its confidence in him and
its attaarrnent -to his person, praised it for its
discipline, devotedness, and bravery, and finished
his address with the words, " May God bless His
gracious Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph."
In one or two of my more recent letters my con-
fidence in the prudence.and foresight of the Impe.
rial Government has been expressed, but that con-
fidence has been somewhat shaken within the last
few hours. Another note has been despatched to
Turin, and the end of the matter will probably be
that Count Pear, the Austrian Charge d'Affairs,will
soon be. recalled from his post. That the Sardi-
nian press does all in its power to, keep alive a feel-
ing of dissatisfaction and disaffection in Lombardy
is a fact which no one can deny, but it would
perhaps have been better policy if Austria had
demanded the bons offices of the British and French
Governments in a matter of such extreme delicacy.
As soon as Count Pear quits his post, Count Stack-
(
elberg, the Russian Minister, will have things en-
tirely his own way. and, as a matter of ceu I7se, the
tattacks on Austria will be more fierce than even-
In order to put an end to all-disputes as to whether
1 Austria condoled with the King of Sardinia when
I that monarch lost so _many of
,his nearest and
dearest relatives, some perfectly authentic in-
formation will now be given. Towards the end of
February, 1855, the Marquis of Cantono officially
communicated to the Austrian Minister for Foreign
Affairs the demise of the Qacen of Sardinia, and
ion or about the 7th of March the Emperor - gave
orders to his Minister to ekpress Iris sorrow for
the heavy loSs which King Victor Emmanuel had
sustained-

Before his Majesty left Milan ho gave orders
that a suitable pedestal should be made for the
statue of Napoleon, which is in the Academy of
Fine Arts. When the pedestal is finished the
statue is to be plaeed in the Giardini Publiei.
(public gardens) of tile city. It was related that
M. Bianchi, the person who was wounded by the
officers at Mantua, died three days after the attack
had been made on him, but reliable information has
been received here that he was better some days
later.

finds the phraseology diffuse and excessively diplo_
matie in both notes, but, seeing that the object of
Austria was to representthe Sardinian Government
as the accomplice of agitators, and thereby dis-
credit it, the Gazetta eiel Popolo acknowledges that
the aim of Count Cavour's answer was directed to
Paris and London and St. Petersburg, and there-
fore it Was little energetic, and gave useless particu.
lars on the journalism here.
The Antonia, as the representative of the clerical
tparty, expresses itself satisfied that Count Cavour
lifit3 declared himself in unison with the Austrian
on the desirableness of preserving peace
The Emperor and Empress of Austria were
'expected at Mantua yesterday. The Grand Duke
and Duchess of Tuscany; with their two eldest
eons, had left Florence on the 2nd for
..Mantua, to
meet their Imperial Majesties. Baron Bach left
Milan on the 3rd for Vienna.
Mlle. Piccolomini left Turin this morning on her
way to her anfious friends in London.
The inhabitants of Modena, Reggio, and other
towns in the Duchy of Modena, who had subscribed
fo the guns for AleSsaneHa, finding that the official
Gazette of their government asserted that these
subscriptions had been collected in the cafes of
Genoa, and other parts of Piedmont have been col-
lecting further sums for the same purpose, which
they intend forwarding in a few days to Turin.

SPAIN

MADRID, MAltca 3.

To the agitation that prevailed last week in
Ministerial circles a calm has succeeded and the
Cabinet, may perhaps remain, as now constituted,
until the Cortes assemble, unless, iu the interim,
some Palace manoeuvre should bring about its com-
plete overthrow. When the Cortes meet, Senor
13arzanallana is expected to fall, crushed under the
weight of his budget. Some are of opinion that his
will not be the first exit, and that Senor Nocedal
will, not survive the elections. This Minister is
very unpopular, and has few friends either at Court
or in Council. It is only in Spain that such a
person could have attained to his present elevated
position, to which he has worked his way by sheer
impudence and intrigue, profiting by a lucky
moment to slip into a- patchwork Ministry.
So long. as the Palace seemed disposed to risk a
coup'detat (a reform of the Constitution in an absn-
lutist sense), and while Nocedal was considered
favourable to tha project, he had the support of the
King and his Camarillo,. It has, however, been
doubted whether he was sincere in his adherence to
Absolutist views, and whether his apparent adop-
tion of them was not the consequence of a secret
understanding between himself and Narvarei. At
any rate, siuce the Queen has been frightened into
abandoning her anti constitutional schemes, his
importance has diminished, and his tenure of office
is considered much less secure. The Queen is
said to have lately taken opportunities of assuring
various persons (among others Senor Rios Rosas,
who returned last week to Madrid) of her deter-
mination to govern constitutionally. Itnfor-
tunately no weight 'can be attached to such
assurances, proceeding from that quarter. The
conviction of this was never more. general, and
royalty is just now in very bad odour in the once
loyal capital of Spain. As of old, immiinerable
scandalous stories are circulated concerning
the private life of the Court, but to these
little attention is paid, the subject-having become
stale. In Espartero's time, the popularity of his
Government was in some degree reflected on•the
Palace ; when the Queen went abroad she was
respectlally received, and even cheered. Now it is
rare indeed that a hand or hat moves on her
appearance. When she goes to the theatre the
performance is no more suspended that the Royal
March may be played upon her entrance; the
orchestra having been once or twice checked
when commencing it by the disapprobation
and hissing of the audience. And it is quite
startling to hear the cool and confident manner in
which her abdication or deposition is spoken of,
as an event that must come to pass, and which is
only a question of time. .The fruit is ripe, people
sayanslaltbough it still hangs in apparent secu-
rity on the Tree, any day may witness its fall.
This might he produced by a single act of impru-
dence. Had the much talked of journey to the
south taken place, many believe that the Queen
would never have returned to Madrid. They
think that the coup cl'etat would have been
attempted, would have failed, and that she would
have embarked at Valencia, or some other port.
Such is the contempt and odium into which the
present dynasty has fallen that, if its reigning
representative once left Spain, there would be little
chance of her recall. Foreign interference, or mili-
tary force, might again place her on the throne,
but the national voice would assuredly never be
raised either to invite or to welcome her
-baok'to The country that has suffered so much
for her sake and under her reign. This state
of public feeling is to be attributed mainly to
the profound and general conviction of the insin-
cerity and perfidy of all that proceeds from the
Palace, and of the utter incompatibility of the order
of things now existing there with, any good and set-
tled Government. There is scarcely a Statesman
- of mark in Spain who has held office for any time
who has not had reason to complain of Royal
dissimulation and treachery ; who has not had
his plans thwarted, and his honour, and perhaps
his safety jeopardized, by the manoeuvres of
Royal camarillas. The system is' not new ; ex-
amples of it have been continual; from Olozaga
to 'Espartero and O'Donnell how many might
there not be enumerated ? By this unworthy
course Royalty has alienated its best friends and
steadiest supporters, converting some of them into
downright enemies, others into indifferent and con-

temptuous observers of the course of events, who
would not stir hand or foot to save the throne of
Queen Isabella if to-morrow it tottered. In
short, things have come to such a pass that the
question in most people's minds seems to be, not
whether the present Sovereign is to be retained,
but what is to be put in her place. Could a
satisfactory answer be given to this last enquiry,
it would probably soon appear that with respect
to the previous one men's minds are fully made up.

IMMEDIATE DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA.

On Saturday Major-general Breton, commander-in-
chief of the south-west district, received orders to prepare
the three regiments of the line now on duty in Portsmouth
garrison. These troops are the 23rd, 82nd, and 90th. A
fourth regiment is also ordered for embarkation, believed
to be the 93rd Highlanders. These corps will be sent out
in their full strength, about 1,067 each, of all ranks, not
including officers. Thus about 4,500 troops will embark
at Portsmouth in a few days for the seat of war in the
celestial empire. The ships commissioned to take out the
above regiments. and the Marineg, who received orders a
day or two previously, will add a reinforeemtnt of 2,200
seamen and marines.

RETIREMENT OF THE SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Times, after stating that the Speaker of the House
of Commons will now finally retire from an office which
he:has filled for eighteen years, with ability and satisfac-
tion, considers the question of who ought to succeed him.
It says Mr. Walpole, Mr. Fitzroy, and Mr. Stuart
Wortley are in the field, and, no doubt, they are all of
them good men, but after some remarks on their merits,
who appears to admit that the subject is somewhat pre-
mature, though one of greatimportance and delicacy.

The Times, in a leading article, says that Lord J. Russell
will retire from London upon Tavistock.
The Advertiser says, that the health of the Duchess of
Kent is of such a nature as to cause alarm.
A deputation of dealers in foreign wines and 'spirits in
London and its suburbs had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing street, upon the subject of extending
to dealers in spirits, who are not lidensed victuallers, the
privilege of selling spirits by the single bottle, as being a
great public convenience, would lead to increased revenue,
and prevent the infringement of the law which at present
prevails. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Oliveira,
M.P., and consisted of the following merchants and
traders :—Messrs. J. G. Masson, Hedge, Butler, Pepler,
John Blockey, Blewett, R. M. Phillips, Rose, Brothers,
Kohler,' Robert Wood, Archbutt, Hancock, Felton,
Richard Gunter, J, li; Nam and George Getters