Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-09 00:00:00

presumed successor as Minister of State will be M.
Walewski. M. Walewski is not hard to be pleased ;
Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Minister, of Foreign
Affairs, or Minister of State,' Admiral, General of
Division, or Colossus of Rhodes, if need be—all
come the same to him. Every man is the best judge
of his own merits, and M. Walewski has, very
probably, 'no small opinion of his capacity. As
Minister of State, he would probably accompany
the Emperor in his campaign. M. Walewski will,
no doubt, throw into the shade the Duke of Bassano,
who used to accompany the first Napoleon. It is to
be hoped that what is said about M. de Persigny
being the successor of M. Walewski at the Foreign-
office, is true. The choice would be excellent
in many respects. M. de Persigny, besides being
a thoroughly honourable man, of unimpeached and
unimpeachable integrity, is a friend to England
and the English alliance, and he would be accepted
as, in some sort, the guarantee that there will
be no immediate disruption. I omitted to men-
tion that M. de Royer has been also spoken
of as President of the Court of Cessation. M.
de Morny demanded the dismissal of. M. Rouher,
whom he cordially dislikes, as the condition to his
acceptance. This the Emperor, who knows, I sup-
pose, the cause of the dislike, refused. M. Pietri,
former Prefect of Police, and who was also spoken
of for the Interior, required the extrusion of M.
Hausseman from the Prefecture of the Seine as his
sine qua non. This also, we are told, the Emperor
refused. These arrangements may yet be changed.
The exact day of the Emperor's departure is not
known, even if it be yet fixed. Prince Napoleon's
baggage is packing up, and people say his Highness
leaves on Sunday, others not till the 20th, but pro-
bably before the Emperor. It is said among naval
people that Admiral Bonet Villanniez had been ap-
pointed to.the command of a fleet for landing troops
and besieging towns on the coast of Italy; but that
the command has been suppressed, and the fleet not
formed. The principal Secretary to the Minister of
Marine is appointed Commissary-General of Marine
at Toulon. All the officers in the French Imperial
navy on leave of absence, to the rank of commander.,
included, have been recalled, and all the marines
whose period of service is about to expire, are to
remain with their regiments. There have been so
many orders given to the manufacturers of St.
Etienne for rifled cannon that the workmen ,are
forced to remain part of the night at work. Colonel
Cadogan goes as military Attache to the English
Embassy at Turin during the war. A bureau his:.
torique is added to the office of the Emperor's
Secretary. The persons employed in it will draw up
a narrative of the events expected to pass in Italy,
which will serve as materials for the history of the
war. His Majesty has constituted his cabinet for the
army, having named M. Charles 'Robert, Master- of
Requests of the second-class-to the Council of State,
the chief of his cabinet; M. Lemarie, senior auditor
of the . Council, First Attache; and M. Pikri,
nepheW- of the-late Prefect of Police, Second Attaché.
It may -be remembered that, • under the• First
Empire junior members of the Council of State were
similarly appointed. The Emperor and Empress were
present yesterday_ at a solemn mass, in the Chapel
of the Tuilerieg, in memory of the 38th anniversary
of the death of Napoleon In conseqUence of the
present political situation, the annual gathering of
old soldiers at the foot of the statue of Napoleon I.
in the Place Vendome was unusually numerous
yesterday.