Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-25 00:00:00

THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Thursday, March 24th.—According to
reliable intelligence, Austria has under conditions of
no very considerable importance given its consent
to the proposal of a congress. ' •

TURKEY.

TRIESTE, Thursday, March 24th.—The Austrian
Lloyd's steamer just arrived, brings advices from
Constantinople to the 19th instant. 12 battalions of
infantry, 1 regiment of cavalry, and 80 guns have
been despatched to Shumla. A second Corps d'Armee
will be shortly sent to Sophia. The commanders of
the Corps d'Armee in Romelie and Anatolia have
been summoned to this place.
A commission composed of the principal persons
from Bosnia, and the Herrogobena has arrived here
in order to discuss necessary Reform.

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THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The Wellesley has arrived off Portland from Ben-
gal, with 153 invalids, and has brought nine days'
later news from the Cape of Good Hope.
The Clarence has arrived off the Isle of ' Wight
from St. Helena, with a large number of passengers,
in eighty-four days.

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THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

MARSEILLES, ThurSday.—The royal mail steamer
Wye has arrived here this thoi

The European and Australian mail stean
company's steamer Oneida, with the mails from
Australia, arrived at Suez on the night of the 15th
inst.

a-ship

She. has brought advices from Sydney to the 2nd,
and from Melbourne to the sth of February.

The Oneida has also brought gold valued at
£76,285, and 114 passengers, of whom 38 are chil-

The Oneida left Aden on the 9th of March, and
Galle on the 28th of February. She left Suez again
on the 16th of March, with the outward mails for

Australia,

The steamers Ea
leave Suez for England

.opean and Australasian would

FRANCE.

PARIS, Thursday.—lt is asserted that Prince
Napoleon will represent France at the proposed
Congress, and also that all the Italian princes will
be represented. Nothing certain is yet known as to
the acceptance of Austria, but the general belief is
that she will also give her advance to the proposal
of a Congress.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, Thursday, 11.45 a.m.—Rentes commenced
on the Boulevards at 69, fell to 68.80, and are now

68.95

1.15 p.m.—The Bourse opens very firm. Rentes
-1 per cent. higher than yesterday's closing, being
quoted 69.
3.26 p.m.—Rentes are at the closing of the Bourse
69.20 for both money and account, which is a rise of
per. cent since yesterday.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Wednesday, 6 p.m.—l think it right to
notice a- rumour afloat for the last few days, but for
the purpose of expressing my disbelief in it. It is
to the effect that another private circular has been
recently sent from the Ministry of the interior
to the prefects of departments, instructing
them to cause the newspapers under their
control to prepare the public mind for the
probability of a declaration of war, I repeat I
attach little or no credit to the rumour, because the
date attributed to the circular (seven or eight days
ago) coincides with that on which the French
Government must have known a good deal about:
the result of Lord. Cowley's mission. It is .not to be
believed that the Minister would have taken such a
step at the very moment matters were assuming a
pacific turn.
Another fact equally strange, which I mention on
account of the source from which it is said to emanate,
is, that,--notwithstanding the warlike sentiments
attributed to Prince Napoleon, His Imperial High
ness has very recently written to Turin exhorting
M. Cavour to calm the• effervescence of the Pied-
montese,and recommending a pacific solution instead
of an appeal to arms. Yet I should not be
much surprised if this were true, the Em-
peror having adhered to the proposal for a
Congress ; and, as I presume that adhesion to
be sincre, he could hardly do otherwise than tran-
quillize the feeling which has been aroused in Pied-
mont, and thus prevent any untoward incident from
disturbing the present arrangement—such, for
instance, as the affair of Sinope in the early part of
the war with Russia. The news of M. Cavour's
resignation is every moment expected here, though
it is rumoured that the French Government wishes
Piedmont to be represented at the Congress. In the
note of the Moniteur announcing the acceptance by
France of the proposition of Russia no mention
whatever is made of Piedmont.

The official note in the Moniteur announcing the
proposal of
.Russia to convoke a Congress for the

aiscussion of the Italian question is commented on
by the Paris papers.
The Patrie considers that the meeting of a Con-
gress would represent a great success for French
policy.