The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-09 00:00:00

THE " SECRET TREATY."

Notwithstanding Lord Palmerston's emphatic
disclaimer of any knowledge of a Secret Treaty
between Austria and France, relative to the Italian
States, the Press hints at approaching disclosures,
and affirms its belief that Mr. Disraeli is literally
and substantially correct.
The Constitutionnel has the following observations
on Mr. Disraeli's assertion :
" The Queen's ministers were only explicit on
one single point—the pretended secret treaty by
which the Western Powers were asserted to have
guaranteed to Austria her Italian provinces—.
that is a last year's fable revived by Mr. Disraeli'
to adorn his speech with some oratorical effects ;
but it is only a fable. The truth is, that in
conformity with its policy of peace and modera-
tion, France informed Austria, during the war, that
it was not her intention to seek to make conquests
in any part of Europe, and that consequently
France would not disturb Austria in her Italian
possessions. But this seems to us a widely dif-
ferent thing from the language attributed to the
Emperor's government by Mr. Disraeli. Between
not attacking a power and engaging to defend it—
between not desiring to appropriate its possessions
and undertaking to guarantee them in their inte-
grity, there is the width of an abyss"

A letter from Alexandria of the 24th lilt states
that intelligence has been received there of the
death of King Theodore, who nat long since pro-
claimed himself independent in the districts to the
south of Egypt. He is said to have succumbed to
an attack of cholera,

A letter from Genoa of the 2cl says The
Russian squadron is increasing here. After the
Polkan came the `Viborg, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Behran. The arrival of the Polkan caused
.• • • • ocvt-mu. uays,
typhus "fever having broken out very violently on
board her.',

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OF SOLDIERS.

Richmond Hill, 2nd Feb. 1857.
My Dear Sir,—As I see what occurred at my
interview with yourself and the gentlemen who
accompanied you is very incorrectly stated in the
Times of this day, and in other papers which I
have seen, I write to prevent mistakes or misap-
prehension.
We perfectly agree that the billeting of soldiers
is a great hardship on the publicans of Liverpool.
Although scenes of great immorality take place
in some beer houses and public houses, yet others
are most respectably conducted.
I told youit was not my intention to initiate any-
thing in the House of Commons on the subject.
Having moved for, and obtained, a Committee to
inquire into the licensing s 3 stem, and the manage-
ment of beerhouses and publichouses ; and the
evidence taken, and the report of the committee
being now before Sir George Grey, I consider 1
have done my duty; whether the Government
do anything in the matter I cannot say.
I promised to let you know if I heard, anything
on the subject, but I gave no opinion how I should
vote, if a bill were introduced ; this must depend
upon the bill. But as the press leaves it to be
inferred that I acquisced in all your views, it might
be supposed that I did so if I was silent.
I think there is great room for imnrovment and
amendment in the mode of granting licenses, and
it would be disingenuous if I concealed this,
although you differ with me.—Yours, &e.,
Wm. BROWN.

To Henry Danson, Esq.,
Cook-street, Liverpool.

DOUBLE MURDER AT WAL WORTH.

Mrs. Bacon has, it is said, actually acknowledged that on
the day her mother-in-law dined with them, she, by direction
of her husband, mixed arsenic with the old woman's broth;
and further, she said that afterwards her husband mixed more
of the same poison with her medicine, before handing it to his
mother, and this mixture she also drank. These disclosures
the unfortunate woman made when told by a female relative
in attendance on her, that the body of her mother—in-law was
about to be exhumed for the purpose of being examined, and
when she had finished the frightful revelation, she said, " This
will take a great weight from off my mind." The magistracy
of Stamford are now also making up for former laxity by
exerting themselves to the utmost, and it was only a few days
ago that the chief clerk to the bench there wrote to the chief
clerk at the Lambeth police-court, to request, in the event of
Bacon's discharge from the very serious accusation against
him in the County of Surrey, that he would cause information
to be taken against him on the charge of poisoning his mother,
so that he might at once be forwarded to Stamford. Inspector
Young and the officers engaged with him have been at much,
trouble in making the necessary inquiries respecting informai
tion that had re iched them that Bacon had insured the live*,
of his children in some burial society, and had received the
money since their deaths ; but the officers have not been able
to trace the rumour to any authentic source. Mrs. Bacon
has confessed to her female friends that she is enceinte.

The subscription in aid of the fund in course of collection
for the relief of the sufferers by the loss of the Violet
now reaches over 52,000; and we (Dover Chronicle) be-
lieve the committee have decided to divide it among the
widows and dependant children of the unfortunate crew in
certain propor ions, according to the rank held by the de-
ceased in the Mail Company's service.
DEATH OF R. PEEL, E Q,, OF BURTON-UPON-THENT.
—We are very sorry to have to record the death of that re—
spected gentlt man, R. J. Peel, Esq., who, after a short
illness of a week, died at his residence in Burton Extra, on
Monday last. Mr. Peel was the oldest son of the late John
Peel, Esq., of Burton, and of the Pastures, who was colonel
of the Burton volunteers at the time of the French revolu-
tionary war. Mr. Peel was a nephew of the first Sir Robert
Peel, and therefore, a cousin of Sir Robert the great states-
man. It is well known, the Peels established cotton mills
here about a century ago; these mills, after the death of
his father Colonel Peel, Mr. Peel, in conjunction with Ma.
cousin, the late Mr. John Peel, continued to carry on until
the year 1841, when the trade in Burton was finally-
abandoned,—Staffordshire .dclverister,