The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The French arid Turkish ninisters at Teheran
have received instruction", to support England in
the present difference with Persia. The former, in
Particular, has, I understand, been charged by his
Government to urge on the Shah the necessity of
I.:!ttqying the treaty which has been negociated in
rarts, and the draft of which has been submitted
") the English Government, an otherwise to co
Prate to the utmost of his power towards the
!satisfactory solution of the question. If Russian
Influence be not uppermost when the treaty is
received at Teheran it will be ratified ; if otherwise,
the chances are, as I have already mentioned,
against us. In the meantime it is stated that an
armistice has been agreed on between the officers
eelmnanding the British troops in Persia and the
Persian forces. The armistice will be in force for
three months, and will date from the Ist of March.
Three
months would be about the time for the
treaty to reach Teheran, and an answer to be
received.

Having alluded to the convention said to have
been concluded between Russia and Persia on the
has
of January, I may again notice the fact, which
not been denied, of the visit •of a general of
engineers, accompanied by other officers of the
same arm, to the country about Mount Ararat and
the pass of Bayazid, and of their having examined
and
taken plans of it, no doubt with a view to the
erection of forts. The object as averred, was simple
CUriosity, or harmless study of topography—as
harmless, no doubt, as the archologieal visit of
the Russian officers to Athens before the war broke
nut, when King Otho was ordered to be ready.
It is announced in the Patrie that the Russian
_.,Government has recently despatched a memoran-
dum to the Russian diplomatic agents in foreign
ek,""2ntries, in which the union of the Danubian
provinces !4 said to be as natural as it is desirable,
11icsmuch as the population of the two principali-
ties are the same by descent, by religion, and by
language, and that their union cannot by any
means be prejudidial to European interests.
A letter has been redeived in Paris to-day an-
nouncing that the steam sloop Moreau, 04 board
Which M. de Montigny, charged with a mission to
Cochin China, had taken his passage, and for
Whose safety serious apprehensions were enter-
tained, had anchored on the 7th January at
Manilla, in the Philippine Islands. It was
expected that the Moreau would arrive by the
15th of February at Tourane, where M. de
Montigny was to land, and proceed thence to the
capital of Cochin China.
The following despatches have been received :
TRIESTE, FEB. 26.
Intelligence from Cnstantinople has been received to
the 20th, The commission for organising the Turkish
gendarmery has been nominated.
The English fleet was still at Bujukdere.
Two officials had been arrested at Constantinople for being
concerned in a considerable robbery from the treasury of the
Sultan.
The Hungarian, Mehemet Bey, had accepted a high
,command among the Circassians ; and 400 Poles, who had
belonged to the Legion had left fur Cite issia. The 11,:ssian
aetilla in the Caspian Sea was, it was said, to land 2,500
Inen at Astrabad.
Letters from Athens to the 21st announce that a Greek
student was found concealed, with arms on his person, in
sing Otho's Cabinet, and arrested. He was declared to be
Insane.
Advises from Bombay to the 2nd state that Mr. Murray
bad arrived at Bushire, and that the English were estab-
lishing their head quarters at Btssora.
MARSEILLES, FEB. 26.
News has been received from Palermo to the 21st.
The official journal of Sicily states that Spinnoza, second
leader in Bentivegla's movement, and several other fugitives,
had been arrested by the assistance of the peasants.
Letters from Naples to the 23rd state that the utmost
tranquility prevailed there.

TURIN, FEB. 26,
The Grand Duke Constantine arrived here today. _ _

COPENHAGEN, F 1173. 26.
The Flive Posen states that the Conference relative to
the Bound Dues has only held the one sitting. Dinmark
tnaeds 35,000,000 of rixdollars for the redemption of the
dues, and consents that a small part shall be paid imme-
diately, and the remainder in 40 instalments ; all the Powers
to Pay an equal interest.
,The Neufchatel affair is not improving, and, from
what we. can learn, all the parties concerned are in
LI 'very c`td humour with each other. The Emperor
Napoleon cannot but feel mortified at being duped
by the King of Prussia,
Who seldom say
. . . whose word o man relies on ;
s a ,fpoloish thing, and never does a wise
One
His Imperial Majesty fends he has gone too far
In lecturing the poor Swiss, as lie took the liberty
of doing when he thought he bad the King of
Prussia, all to himself, and in pledging himself to
the Swiss that all would be right. He finds now
that all is not right. Then the King of Prussia
!I3 angry that Dr. Kern should have proclaimed
In all the " cabarets" of the Confederation that
the Emperor of the French showed him his pri
'late and confidential letters, in which the de-
-B,,ndant of the Great Frederick was understood to
pledge his word that if the prisoners were set free
'enunciation would follow. These effusions were of
course most amicable, and not a little sentimental,
.841 they bore the impress (so at all events we are
told) of being composed in those moments when
the royal heart is most expansive. Then, again,
'a.e Federal Government is annoyed that the hopes
It held out to the Cantons are not yet realized ;
the Cantons are indignant that they are not
realized, and feel that they have been duped ;
and poor Dr. Kern, conecious of having acted
with much indiscretion, and of meriting
the charges of overweening vanity, if not of
Bore serious faults, is worried to death by re
Pjoachea, to some of which he has certainly laid
himself open. Russia has not named her Pleni-
Vetentiary ; until that is done no day can be fixed
ar the opening of the Conferences, and people
Here begin to suspect that there is an understand
lrig on this point between Berlin and St.
Petersburg. The King is also vexed that the
In
'°Yalists should, before they were liberated, have
signed a declaration that, on their restoration
their country, they would abide by
the laws of the Canton of Neufchatel ;
and, as might Le expected, his Majesty
Profits by every circumstance to avoid
fulfilling his promise—or what was entirely under-
stood as a promise.. The Emperor of the French
is ?lineal to blame in this affair ; the moment the
Prisoners were liberated he should, without any
_lelay, have summoned the King of Prussia to keep
word. He showed bad taste and no small
Ingratitude towards the Swiss in the beginning;
tile best way of redeeming his error was to have
??Innelled his prevaricating " brother" to perform
111 part of the implied bargain.
The Commander Carafe, Neapolitan minister for
;43reige affairs, has addressed a circular to all the
diplomatic agents of the King of the Two Sicilies
In foreign countries, directing them " to contradict,
eY all means in their power, the facts falsely
Announced in foreign journals, that torture is
Inflicted on political prisoners confined in the
prisons of Naples. Signor Carafa, in his circular,
tPl3eals to the Ministers of Foreign Powers resid-
ing at Naples, to prove the falsehood 9f those
"Ports."
A report has been current throughout Savoy that
'pother Verger had assassinated the Archbishop of
enoa. The fact is not so, but it is true that the
Prelate has received several anonymous letters,
threatening him with death. The writer of these
fetters is a degraded monk, who has since been
4rrested for other Misdeeds.
The Minister of War at Turin has offered a
\yard of £4O) to the inventor of the best musket
for infantry eoldiers. The muskets are to be
:-lelivered at the War Office, with a ticket indicat-
-14,1 the name and address of then ender. If he be
fei,Aeigner, ho must indicate a
E'Present bim• i‘eou t Turin to
. It is announced that au agricultural commission
Is about to be appointed to devise a plan for in-
creasing the breed of cattle in France. The pre-
Tots throughout the departments have long
'eraanded such an inquiry, in order to check the