Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN

AUSTRIA.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
With the Cortes scattered and the press fettered,
intrigue reigns paramount in Spain, and the fate of •
a Ministry depends on the breath of a palace favou VIENNA, SEPT. 1.
rite. Letters from Madrid up to the 30th August The Ministerial Oesterr ichische Correspondenz
give curious sketches of the present state of things dm makes known to the world that the
Moldavian elections were annulled by the Porte,
there. The favourite of the day, at variance with
axtiathhe request of all the parties to the treaty of
Narvaez, does his utmost to overthrow the Ministry,
which has disappointed him in the affair of the waste
lands at Barcelona. A complication of causes has On' the 27th 30
of August, Prince Kallimachi, the Turkish
Ambassador at this Court, made known to the Govern-
hithherto prevented his attaining his end. After meet of his Majesty the Emperor, that the Sublime
Porte, having noted (ake nehmend) the communicetions
much hesitation the Cabinet consented to send an roerdceeirvsedthfronnitheViennet and London Cabinets, issued
invitation to the Duchess of Rianzares to repair to the Moldavian elections should be an -
Madrid. Maria Christina replied by a private letter milled, anda that
new ones eh :old take place in fifteen
to her daughter, in which she said that-she should days from the time of the receipt of the orders relating
have the greatest pleasure in being with her at the thereto.
period of her accouchement, but that she neither Similar communications have also been made to those
could nor would go to Spain while the Duke of Governments whose representatives, in consequence of the
Valencia was at the head of the government. This recent difference, had broken off their diplomatic relations
reply, coming in aid to the Palace intrigues before- with the Porte.
The latest intelligence from the Turkish capital is, that
mentioned, might well have determined the fall of the representatives of the States above allsded to hare re-
the ministry, but for two reasons. One of these
newed their diplomatic relations with the Porte, and
is, that, among the various ministries proposed,
hoisted their flags at their respective residences.' I
one only would be disposed to accept power from -
The Moldavian Secretary of State ad interim has
the hands of its present dispenser. Their friends say
published in the official paper the following article
on the subject of certain confidential letters which,
motives of decorum and dignity ; others pretend
because they believe about a fortnight slime, figured in the columns of
that they hold aloof only
that power thus acquired would be but of short almost all the leading organs of the press :
duration. Whatever the reas tre Cortina, O'Den Several newspapers have published letters relating to
null, and Bravo Murillo (the last named is now in the Principality of M ildavia, which were s.:fa?en from the
Paris) show no anxiety to assume the reins Kaimakan, Prince C maky-Vogorides, and not lost by
of Government under present circumstances. him, as the peteoas who received them asserted The con-
The only combination whose members would tents and texts of thelettersin question were greatlyaltered
not be deterred by such scruples or doubts is one in the publication; and the undersigned Secretary ~f State
ad interent has therefore been instructed by his Excellency
devised by the King arid agreeable to the fa- Priece Kaimakan, formally to deny the authenticity of
vourite. It includes Senor Nocedal as President
persons,
phrases which were invented by a small party that
of the council. Gonzales Bravo, Mayanys, and
others of about the same standing as regards i does not hesitate to calumniate most respectable persou,
n order to make them hostile to the Kaimakan.
antecedents and respectability. The inventors of
A. PHOTIUS,
Secretary this notable Cabinet are afraid, however, to cerry
of State ad_interenz.
out their project, seeing well the scandal it would
occasion—for it has got wind, and the comments Many persons still deny that the Russian Go-
and sneers it has excited startle even those best vernment is concentrating a corps d'armee in the
accustomed to the license of speech -the Madrilenos south-west of the kingdom of Poland, but it is a
allow themselves on such topics. positive fact that large bodies of cavalry have re-
The second reason why Queen Christina is not cetiy marched from Lublin and Radom towards
likely to go to Spain is simply that her daughter, the Austrian frontiers. Ott the 2011 of last month
whatever her professions, does not wish it. All powerful detachments of Restiara artillery also
Quden Isa.bella's demonstrations in a contrary sense entered Czenstochan and K,elcie, which last
are mere grimaces, wherewith she deceives Chris- place is close to Cracow. It is not, however, probe-
tine and threatens Narvacz —a double game, ble that Russia meditates any breach of the peace.
deceiving all, setting all at vat iatice, and enabling Her object is to keep Austria in check, and to
her to act accordiug to her own fancy alone. prevent her interfering too much in the affairs of
Strange as it may seem that she should not wish the Danubian Principalities. It is extremely
to see her mother, there appears little doubt of the difficulty to obtain any positive information as to
fact. Her reasons are various; she does the state ,of public feeling in the provinces, but it
not wish to resume the leading strings in is credibly related that the Nationalities begin to
which Maria Christina formerly held her, but lift their voices again. At the end of 1851 a
prefers going alone, and thinks herself quitehle h Cabinet Rescript" was sent by his Majesty to
to do so. She does not like the sort of rival Prince Sohwarzenburg, who was then Minister-
court her mother held (and would doubtless President, ordering him and his colleagues to
again hold) at her mansion in the Calle de las establish certain " organic instiutions" without
Itejas. Finally, she fears lest the mother's unpopu- any delay (ohne ails Verzogerung ). Among
larity should augment the daughter's discredit. the organic institutions mentioned in the
One reason more there is—as the daughter still Imperial Rescript are those which concern
persists in her mad .project of absolutism, while the municipalities and communes, and the
the mother is about to publish a manifesto, in estetes (representation) of the various provinces,
which she will present herself as a sort of champion but six ' years have now elapsed, and little more
of o liberty. This forms a otive of has been done in the matter than to revive the
politicalconstituti divisionnal between th e two Queens which Lombardo-Venetian congregations. The Rungs-
before did not exist. rians complain that so little has been done for their
This appears to be the present political situation nationality, and the Bohemians grumble because,
in Madrid. One more curious feature is to be nothing at all has been done for them. It was
noted. The unlucky Progresistae, finding them- generally believed that the Emperor would sacrifice
selves all abroad, without either leaders or army, the walls of the inner city for the benefit of its
have actually, in despair of a chief, turned their 1 inhabitants,who are necessitated to pay ridiculously
eyes towards Queen Christina, whom they so lately 1 high prices for their shops and apartments, but in-
desired to bring to judgment and severely punish. formation has reached me that some of the senior
Their present wayward bent is no secret, incredible military authorities are opposed to the plan. Tney
though it may appear. The question is discussed declare the ramparts to be a necessary defence
openly in their newspapers, and the Peninsula, cgaisst any popular inovement,that may arise in the
a very Progresista journal, constitutes itself the suburbs, but theyounger geneeation of engineers are
champion and defender of the Princess for whom of opinion that detached forts in a commanding
a year or two ago, its present writers and sun- position would answer the purpose infinitely better.
porters could not find epithets suffisientlyexpres- On the 20th August a case was tried here the
sive of their contempt and detestation. details of which are carefully kept front the know-
It is stated that the interview between the Em- ledgad of the great public. A somnambulist, a
perors of France and Russia will take place about woman belonging to the tower classes, of societe,
the 27th inst., most probably at Stuttgardt, and was arrested on the charge of having given offence
that Count Walewski and Prince Gortsehakoff will "to a Church recognised by the State." When in
be present at it. The Empress is expected to join a state of real or pretended " clairvoydince," the
her husband, on the 20th September, at the camp of woman ridiculed the dogma of the Immaculate
Chalons, tied to proceed thence with him to Ger- Conception, declared the worship of the Holy Vir-
many. Prince Napoleon is on the point of leaving gin and the saints to be idolatry, and urged the per-
Paris for the Pyrenees. The Emperor of Russia sons around her to remove from their rooms all
will leave St. Petersburg, it is said, to morrow, images of seints. The Roman Catholic clergy would
will visit Warsaw, Berlin, Darmstadt,
offender, but the public prosecutor proposed that and thence fain have had an example made of such a dangerous
proceed to Stuttgardt. Ho too will be accompanied I
by his Empress. the woman should be examined by the physicians
The French Government has instructed its Re- of the lunatic asylum before sentence was passed
presentatives in foreign countries to disavow the by the Court. The report returned by the medical
itTuratist proclamations which have been distri- men was such that any further judicial proceedings
bated. These proclamations, however, have pre- were quite out of the question. The following
duped no Effect in the kingdom of the Two Shrikes. statement of what not long since occurred near
The Minister of Marine has received despatches Graz, the capital of the province of Styria, will
from Hongkong to the 12th July. They announce serve to show how Protestants are now treated in
that Admiral Guerin had despatched two ships of Aus ria by the It )man Catholic priesthood. Last
war to protect M. de Montigny, the French consul November a Prussian, with his wife and two
at Shanghai, whose person had been threatened. chiliren, emigrated to Croatia. As the poor people
A letter from Turin s oaks of a considerable did not get on well in Croatia, they resolved to
improvement in the relations between the govern-
return to their native place, Hiracirberg,in Prussian-
ments of Piedmont and Rome. Silesia. On their way back the woman fell ill and
The Minster of the Interior has addressed a died. The corpse was conveyed for interment to
circular to the Prefects, instructing them to recoro- Kirchdorf, near Bruck, but the parish priest re-
mend the establishment of asylums for invalid fused to permit it to be laid on the bier in the
operatives throughout their districts. charnel-house, the deceased being a Protestant.
The Prefect of Police has commanded a general The body was eventually deposited in a barn be-
inspection to be made, in pursuance of the law, on longing to an innkeeper. On the Bth of December
unhealthy habitations. the widower requested the sexton to dig a grave for
The King of Sardinia returned to Chambery on his deceased wife outside the 'walls of the Catholic
the Ist inst., from Culoz, and thence he pro- churchyard. The man commenced operations,
ceeded to Aix, where, on the 2nd, he laid the first but tee priest again interfered, and refused to
stone of a new thermal establishment. Pis Majesty allow him to prepare a grave for a heretic. The
was received with warm acclamations by the end of the matter was, that the affileted husband
inhabitants of Ais, and by a number of strangers was obliged to dig the grave himself. On the
assembled there for the occasion. The national 9th of December the Prussian and his two chit-
uard were drawn up in :treat force within the town, dren left Kirchdorf. The innkeeper of the place
and performed a sham fight with the troops from was so indignant at what had occurred that he
Chambery. One of the corner stones of the build- gave a piece of land to the Protestant community
ins has been hewn from a fragment exploded the far a cemetery, and a wine merchant near Graz
day before at the Mont Canis tunnel. On the had an iron crucifix with a stone pedestal put up
morning of the 2nd inst , the English present at at the head of the poor woman's grave, with the
iVx, presented the following address to King following inscription -.—d• Here lies Juliana Wache,
of Hirschberg, iu Prussian-Silesia. This was
Victor Emmanuel.
Sire—The subjects of Her Majesty Qneen Victoria, erected to her memory by Joseph Pottinger, a
"
whom God preserve, sojourners at Aix, avail themselves Catholic." On the nth of April the Protestant
of your Majesty's visit to this beautiful province of your burial ground was consecrated by au Evangelical
dominions to offer the warm expression of their cordial pastor, but . on the 18th of July, the Roman
and respectful homage. Cato i i priest, desecrated it by pulling down the
On so auspicious an occasion, when Italy is to be
iron crucifix. An appeal has been made to the
wedded by a link unknown in past history to the great
Stadholder of the province, but no servant of the
communities of the West, 'when iron supplies the wand to State can now with safety venture to censure the
open a new "golden era," we should be alike wanting to
conduct of a servant of the Church.
ourselves and to cur country were e e to refrain from ex-
At the Statistical Congress, which met yester-
pressing our general joy of the present, and from acclaim-
day, 20 States were represented. England,
ing the great future which awaits the conques's of industry
France, Russia, Belgium, Turkey, &o, sent dele-
and peace.
The number of our countrymen thatresort to the baths gates, but Prussia was not represented. Some
of Aix augmment from year to year. The reputation of feir speeches were made in French and German,
these health giving thermes, upheld by an -unbroken but the whole affair was extremely tedious, as the
tradition from the time of the Romans, is even now on the Minister of Commerce, who acted as President,
increaser, from the countless cures, many of which are always made his communications in two lan-
wrought, as it were, daily, under our own eyes. guages—French and German. Several Ministers
Hitherto two serious obstacles were opposed to the un- notables were present, and among the
limited diffusion of the benefits of these waters—distance rest Count Buol, who chanced to leave the hall
and other
and the imperfect means and appliances of an establishment Russ ,
unsuited ro the wants of a more refined age. Your Majesty just as the ian delegate began to speak.
now remedies these defects by laying the ceremonial The Northern Bee will perhaps consider this an
stone for the tubular bridge of Cu'oz this day, and that of intentional slight to Russia, but such was not the
the new thermal establishment of Aix to-morrow. The case. The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs
latter, under the guidance of attainments of the highest had an appointment, and quitted the assembly in
order in the engineer and the architect, cannot fail to order to keep it. A. castle plague, the Milz-brand
prove one of the first of its kind in the world. (mortification of the spleen), has made its appear-
The ceremonies of these three successive days (for ever antic at Rozmital, in Bohemia. Fifteen of the
memorable in these valleys,) at which, in testimony of
cattle attacked have died, and a person who was so
the interest felt by France, an Imperial Prince assists - . -
, Impudent as to eat some of their flesh has fallen
are labours of a kind to shed lustre on an entire reign,
dangerously
and are alike honourable for the sage, straightforward - ill. The Cocaglio-Bergamo-Treviso
Reilroad will be opened by the Governor-General
minister that conceived, and for the King zealous for his •
of the Loinbardo-Venetian kingdon on the 7th inst.
people's good, that executes them.
Sire, this is not the first time that the applause of our the Archduchess
The King of • Belgium, who is on his way to Lora-
fellow- countrymen has followed the wise measures of your bardy to see his daughter,
Majesty's Government. Our most fervent prayer now is, Charlotte, quitted Baden, in the duchy of the
that your Majesty's reign may he greatly prolonged, 'same name, on the 26th August.
so that by the firm and sustained action of a generons, The cholera is at St. Petersburg. Oat the 22d

The Deutscha Allgemeine Zeit mg publishes a letter
from Damascus, dated August sth, in which it is
stated that the son of an English merchant there,
named Whyte, whose fortune is estimated at
£2,000,000, had at his own expense raised and
equipped a corps of 30 Europeans, with whom he
had the day before set off to join the British forces
in the Fast Indies aa a volunteer, together with his
" faowing.' The course they had taken was in
the first instance to Beyrout, to embark there for
Egypt, and to proceed thence to the East Indies.
The nniform in which these volunteers have been
clo•hed is very similar to that of our Rides. They
have, however, been armed with the fowling-pieces
they were accastomed to at home, and also carry
yatagans. Mr. Whyte's Adjutant and Quarter-
master is a Mr. Finn, a relation of the English
CQnsui of that name at Jerusalem. He is de-
sciibed as having formerly served 12' years as a
Company's officer in Bengal, and as a man of
middle age and of athletic stature. Attached to
this little expedition is a Swiss surgeon of the
name of Buchmann, who lately served as asaiatant-
surgeon with our army in the Crimea. With the
exception of the above, the force has been raised
exclusively from the working Glasser, and consists
of twenty-one Britons, six Italians, two Frenchmen,
and two Greeks; and these modern Paladins trust
to reach the seat of action early in this month.
In the middle of last week the Prince of Wales
left Kenigswinter, on the- banks of the Rhine,
where his stay, which was originally fixed for one
month. has been prolonged to nearly two, and
proceeded up the Rhine. On the 27th August the
Prince visited awl inspected the fortress of Elifen-
breitstein, and the Kaiser Alexander outworks,
accompanied by Sir W. Codrington and his suite.
On this occasion the commander of the fortress, as
also the Ober-president of the P►•ovince of Maine-
land, paid their respects to his Royal Highness ;
hitherto, during his stay at Kenigswinter, the
Prince's incognito, as Baron Rtmfre,w, has been
strictly observed, and in compliance with a wish
expressed by our own Court the various authorities
of the neighbouring places had refrained from
paying him any unnecessary marks of attention.
Early in the morning of the 28:h the Prince left
Coblentz for Mayence and Frankfort-, whence he
started the following day for Heidelberg and
Switzerland.
The unusually long continuance of hot dry
weather is causing some singular freaks of nature
in these parts by producing second crops of blos-
soms, fruit, and fl ewers, where, according to the
ordinary course of 'economical nature, one his
hitherto been thought sufficient. On the other
hand, the want of water is making itself felt
most ir.•juiieusly in various commercial and
domestic relations. Vessels run aground in
the rivers, and remain there by dozens, where
formerly they navigated at their ease. The go-
verement advertises for tenders for wood,
and gets no offers on account of the constantly
increasing difficulty of transporting it by water.
Every post brings in fresh intelligence of con-
siderable conflagrations caused by the unusual
combustibility of all igneous materials, and in
some places the local authorities have found it
necessary to prohibit the use of the public pumps
for any other purposes than the supply of water
for drinking and culinary purposes.

SAVED BY THE SEPOYS.—An officer writes from Agra:—
" Three Sepoys caught hold of me, and said they would
try and save me. They threw off my hat, tore off my
trousers and the 'remaining boot, covered me as well as
they conid with my hone cloth, which my groom
hal brought along with us, and patting me between the
two, the third walked in front, and what between knock-
ing up one man's mu,,ket whose bayonet was just at my
back, and declaring that I was one of their wives, we got
through all the sentries and crossed the river. They then
wanted me to make the best of my way off, saying that
the chances were ten to one that my wife was killed by
that time, bat I told them plainly that I would not try to
escape without her. After a great deal of persuading
they took me down the banks of the river (the opposite
side of which was regularly lined with sentries, to prevent
escape) till we came opposite our house, where they set
me down, and one man said, " Now I will go and bring
your wife to you if she is alive ;" so off he went, and
after about twenty minutes of the most agonising suspense
dear M-- and I met again.
THE IRON AND COAL Tot s.--The condition of the
iron trade of this district continues good, and a steady
business is being done. The prices, except in a few
instances, are fully maintained, and although, through the
heat of the weather, the forges and mills are not actively
employed, in consequence of which the stocks of pig iron
are increasing, yet the pike does not give way to any
extent, the present quotation being £4 2s. 6c1., which is
somewhat under the mark when compared with the price
of bars, and having in view the high price of labour and
mwerials. The price of Scotch pig iron a3ntiaues seffi-
eiently high to prevent anything like competition with
Staffordshire, and tends to confirm the idea pretty generally
entertained amongst the trade that pig masters may be
enabled during the course of the year to command an
advance, unless some unforseen circumstances occur to
check the buoyancy which at pres'snt exists. The chain-
makers at Cradley, near Dudley, have, up to the present
time,,had very great difficulty in sending off their goods:
but as Lord Ward has a branch railroad fr m the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, connecting itself with
the It-iund o.lk station, and extending to his lordship's
collieries at the "Salt Wells" in the neighbourhood of
Cradley, some arrangement is about being made which will
very much facilitate the transit of goods from the district
above referred to on to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton line, and from thence to all parts of the
kingdom. The coal tra:le exhibits signs of improvement,
on acconnt of parties being desirous of getting in the
autumn supplies to carry them through the winter. Stone:
The yield of the district firmly maintains i's price, and
may be quoted at 18s. per ten.-117olvarhanVon Chronicle.
'rim SOCIAL CONDITION OF AUSTItALIA.—The Bishop
of Melbourne in writing to his brother, says :—The
progress which has been made during the last 12 inoaths
in all the comforts of life has quite answered my previous
expectations. Large and substantial dwelling houses have
been built, and good shops of every kind have been multi-
plied. Close and open carriages, with handsome and well-
groomed horses, both private and for hire, are now numer-
ous; stage coaches (American built), with four or six (!)
horses, run to all our goldfields; and innumerable omni-
buses and smaller vehicles ply between the different parts
of Melbourne and its suburb.. A railway is opened to
St. Kilda, and that from Geelong to Melbourne is finished
as for as Williamstown, and will be iu use within a week
or two. There is also a continually increasing number of
intelligent members of the legal and other professions. At
the same time there is a vast amount of vies and profligacy
both in Meib iurne and in the country ; and I tear that the
infix of Chinese has added another element of moral
corruption to those which previously existed amongst us.
We have various charitable institutions, such as hospitals,
benevolent asylums, and orphan asylums, which are sup-
ported partly by voluntary contributions and partly by
grants from the public revenue. We are just now endea-
vouring to establish a refuge far fallen women, who will
be maintained without any assistance from the Government.
Some ladies also are endeavouring to found a "home "
for female servants and others. Tho public library is an
institution for the establishment and seccess of which Mel-
bourne is chiefly indebte4 to one of our oldest colonists,
Mr: Justice Barry, INI2A has watched over it from the
beginning, and will continue to do so with an unceasing
assiduity. There is a good collection of use,fal books. The
portion of the building which is already erected is well
fitted for its object, and every evening it is filled with a
large number of quiet readers. All persons are admissable,
but cleanliness is strictly enforced. Al.ogether the library
is one of the most pleasing features of Melbourne. Theatres
and places of arausemeut have of late greatly increased.
They are now upon a large scale, and very numerously
attended. I fear that they tend to increase greatly the
vices of drnekenness and prostitution, and so to demoralise
the people. Cricketing prevails in the proper season. I
have obsetvee, with pleasure in the course of an afternoon's
walk three or four games going on in different places.
Hortieulteere is now carried on to a considerable extent,
and Victoria promises, as I always anticipated, to vie with
any of the neighbouring colonies in flowers and fruits; the
prefeision of the former and the abundance and size of the
lat',,er, when carefully cultivated, are such as you Crap
scarcely believe.