The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

TERRIBLE INCIDENT AT MILAN.

The following comes in a private letter from
Milan :--

MILAN, FEB 10.

A terrible event occurred a few days since at Mantua.
A young man hissed a prima-donna in one of the theatres.
An Austrian officer called in a commissary of police to
silence the malcontent. The latter, in receiving a warning
from the formidable functionary, thought the safest thing
he could do was to get out of tha way, and he quietly left
the theatre. But the officer, following him, insu:ted him,
and proposed to fight. A meeting was arranged for the day
after the morrow, but in the meanwhile the relatives of the
young tan applied to the miaary commander of Mantua,
and begged him not to permit a repetition of the scandal
which occurred two months ago, when an officer nearly
killed a Lombard citizen. The commandant in consequence
of this request sent the challenger out of the town. But
yesterday an Austrian captain, a friend :of the officer who
had been sent away, happening to meet the young Italian
in.a cafe, rushed upon him in a paroxysm of fury, accused
him of being the cause of his friend's banishment, and
drawing his sword cut his head clean off at one blow.
This news rapidly spread through the town, and caused
immense agitation. Groups were speedily formed in the
streets, the shops were closed, the troops were called out,
and marched up and down the town all night• A little
more and the state of siege and martial law would have
been proclaimed.

AFFAIRS OF NAPLES

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

On Saturday was issued the correspondence
relating to the affairs of Naples, extending from
May 19 to November 15, last year. The return
embraces 47 communications. On May 19, last
year, Lord Clarendon wrote to Sir W. Temple, at
Naples, setting forth the grounds on which her
Majesty's Government recommended the' Govern—
tnent of the Two Sicilies to grant a general amnesty,
and to adopt an improved administrative system.
Sir Wm. Temple acknowledges the receipt of this
despatch, and communicates they result of his
interview with the Neapolitan minister. The
report of M. Brennier, the French representative,
who acted with Sir William, is also given. Then
follows a memorandum received from friends of
political prisoners by Sir William Temple, relating
their sufferings, and communicated to the Neapo-
litan Government.. Sir William Temple sends also
reports of the trials at the grand Criminal Court,
and the representations made from time to time by
M. Carafa to the English and French governments
with the results.
Between July 31 and Oct. 27, the correspond-
ence from Naples to our government is conducted
by Mr. Petre. The letters of this gentlemen
include observations on the political state of the
kingdom, the results of the trials, the sufferings of
Poerio and others, the facts connected with the
rupture of the diplomatic relations, and the de-
parture of the French and English representatives
from the capital. Mr. Petre, in a special despatch,
expresses his grateful sense of the perfect cordiality
and frankness which he has met with from Baron.
Brennier, who receives accordingly the acknow-
ledgment of her Majesty's government.
The subjoined is the despatch with which the
c:..rrespondence commences:
No. 1.
THE HAUL OF CLARENDON TO Silt WILLIAM TEMPLE..
Foreign office, May 19, 1856
Sir,—The 22nd protocol of the Conferences lately held
at Paris, which has been pnblished, will have proved to the
Neapolitan Genernment the anxiety felt by the Congress in
regard to the present state of the Italian peninsula.
This anxiety, and a profound conviction of the eminent
danger with which Italy is threatened, can alone justify her
Majesty's Government in deviating from that principle of
which t'aey are the first to recognise the importance—that
no foreign Power has a rTgbt to interfere in the Internal af-
fairs of another State; and the Government of the King of
the Two Sicilies may be assured that, in offering advice for
the regulation of its internal affairs, the Government of her
Majesty is actuated by friendly feelings, and the persuasion
MARSEILLES, Fee. 12. that not only the stability of the Sicilian monarchy, but
Accounts from Naples, of the 11th, announce the creation
the general peace of Europe, will be endangered by a per-
of a free port, and that a complete revision of the Customs severance in that system' of internal administration which
laws had been resolved on by King Ferdinand. . now exists in the NeapolitaudominionS.
The Neapolitan government cannot be unmindful of the
It has been stated that the Minister 0r State, M.
threatening aspect of affairs in Sicily, where the slightest
Fould, was recently charged by .the Emperor to in • accident may at any moment rouse into action the ill-
quire into the wants of the population of some of suppressed feelingsnctif
btli,yonedwhich
people. It must
feelingelbeson
cannot
awareo
the southern departments, both as regards food and that there is a poi
work. After fulfilling his mission in the depart- with safety be represae'l, and that a system of rigour may.
ments of the Landes and the Hautes Pyrenees, he fail to be effective at the very ra )mmtt, when the results
was taken ill at Tarbes, and was unable to proceed sought to be attained by it would be most essential for the
to the Haute Garonne and the Gers, which he had security of the existing dynasty.
also been charged to visit. In consequence he r
then, in a true spirit of friendship that her
Ma%sits;'s Government would recommend the
summoned the Prefects of those department's to of the Two Sicilies to enter upon a new course of internal Government
him at Tarbes. The Prefects gave him a full policy, to endeavour by a general amnesty to rally round
account of the situation of the respective popula the throne those who have been alienated from it by
tions, and he afterwards, in the name of the systematic distrust, and in too many cases by unmerited
Emperor, presented one with 6,000 f. and the other persecution, and to inspire all persons, irrespective of
their political opinions, with confidence that justice will
with 8,000, for the relief of the moat necessitous be duly administered, and that their personal liberty and
families. their property will be respected.
Accounts from Senegal to the 10th ult. have The attention.of.Eerope is now directed towards Italy
arrived,- In the Cayor and Lower Senegal nothing as the quarter from Waetle3; m)ra than from any other, the
of interest had occurred, The villagers of the Wale general peace now happily res'ored is likely again to be
were quiet, the Moors were no longer menacing, disturbed. The Powers of Europe feel that they have a
and the King of the Trareas was in the interior of right to employ all the means at their disposal to avert a
the desert, nearly ruined, although not subjected. calamity so grievous as the renewal of war, and the means
In Upper Senegal, on the contrary, Bete; one of the they may decide on adopting for that purpose will be justified
principal chiefs of Al Haji, had descended into the by necessity.
Fouta from the upper country, to seek for rein- Her Majesty's government indulge a hope that the Nea-
forcements for the cause of the Prophet. He had politan government will take into their consideration
been well received by the Bakiria and by the whether it would not be prudent,
,frankly and at once, to
adopt a new system which would relieve Europe from
people of the Fouta, and they were sending him
anxiety, and improve the relations of Naples with foreign
reinforcements. A bridge had been established Powers. Its 'present system is a barrier to the friendly
between St. Louis and Guet D'Nar, and two relations between Great Britain and Naples, which her
batteries were to be established on the banks, and Majesty'seapoligotvaeurnment anxiously desire to re-establish ; and
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a floating battery at the bar of the river. Accord- the governmeut may be assured that those

TRIESTE, FEB. 12.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 6th state that fresh
despatches from Teheran recommend Feruk Khan to make
peace with England.
A reinforcement of 700 men has arrived from Bombay in
the Persian Gulf.

An Engli'h corps d'arinee has arrived in Cabul, and is
marching with the troops of Dost Mahommed on Herat.
The Russians are concentrating troops on the banks of
the Caspian.
The railway from Smyrna to Aidin will be commenced
in six weeks.
The anniversary of the landing of the French occupa-
tion was celebrated at Nauplia by a Te Deum, and a ball
afterwards, at which the French Admiral and officers
were present.
FEB. 13.

Accounts from Hong Knng, of the 30th, state that
Commissioners were expected there in February, who
were to be sent by the Emperor of China to arrange the
differences relative to Canton.

Governor Yeh had been degraded, and the Emperor
had promised a pardon to the rebels.
The Chinese at Hong Kmg had, it was said, formed a
plan of burning the place, but the English were on their
guard against their project.

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. It.

The ukase relative to the concession of the railways
has at length appeared. It concedes to a company com-
posed of Russian and foreign bankers the lines already
known, with, in addition, an embranchment on Konigsberg,
in order to place them in direct communication with the
European lines. The concession is for 85 years, and the
works are to be executed in 10 years. A board of directors
is to be formed at St. Petersburg, and, in addition, a
committee of nine members is to be established at Paris.
The capital is to be 275,000,000 roubles; the shares are
to be of 500 f, and to be negotiated at St. Petersburg,
Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin.• The first series
of 600,000 shares has been taken by the founders. The
Government is to have the right of repurchasing the con
cession in 20 years.