Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARTB FRANCE.
' Friday Evening.—The gloom, which
the first tidings of Lord Cowley's pacific mission
had partially dispelled, has returned with, if
possible,
greater intensity than before. I men-
tioned at the time that except at the Bourse, but
slender hopes were entertained of the success of
1118 understanding. Confidence is catching, as well
its alarm,of the and yesterday the sanguine anticipations
speculators were shared in by many
of the public, who it must be said are in
br-
a.ris regular moutons de Punurge, and will
blindly
follow whatever impulse is given them.
But the respite has been a short oue, and the war
nightmare weighs upon Paris to-day as heavily as
I.ver• Although the French papers are prohibited
• El noticing the armaments going on in the
B°llol and elsewhere, the foreign journals that
Mention them are not excluded. With the ex-
ception of the shipping, iron, and saltpetre trades,
the whole of the business population of France
`et/iltinues dead against the war, and were
the Government wise, it would pause before
it forfeited the popularity it has won
among those classes by developing the
c..Oluniercial prosperity of the country, by plunging
he country into a war which all agree in pro-
11,cing uncalled for and unjust. It is sted by
Ivord that the Austrian Government is not
".`Bl3osed to make any concessions, and that the
representatives of Prussia and England, having
offered their mediation, received a reply that
" Allies were wanted, not mediators." The truth
of this seems doubtful. The position of Austria is
,enTharrassing, and any acceptable conditions would
De readily received at Vienna were the Cabinet
11°t couvmeed that France is determined'on war.
The Patrie ventures to intimate that England
.18 bound to support France in her interference
iit Italy; which is unequivocally condemned
,L.,7 the great majority. of the French nation.
e British Cabinet's efforts to conciliate two con-
;eding parties cannot tby any stretch of logic be
neld as a pledge to support the aggressor. More-
over, it is known that the mission of Lord Cowley
las. absolutely extra-official, and is undertaken by
11.11 solely to enlighten Austria as to the deter-
mination of France to go to war on the smallest
semblance of a pretext.
The Continental correspondence is not calculated
s° sustain the pacific hopes which have prevailed
ce the announcement of Lord Cowley's mission.
th 1.6 Paris correspondent of the Herald says
rialr,e has been no suspension of the formidable
otkary preparations now going on in every part
r ranee. On the very day that Lord Cowley's
mission was notified, all the colonels of the
bat
regiments, at Paris, received notice
b.,,,at every regiment was to be augmented
.14 two 'batteries each of six guns. There
the twenty regiments of Artillery, besides
The, crack artillery corps of the Imperial Guard.
c gloom which the first tidings of Lord
pacific mission had partially. dispelled,
~ts returned with greater intensity than before.
e general impression in Paris is, that Lord
"viey has gone to Vienna solely to enlighten
itlAustria as to the determination of France to go to
want, en the smallest semblance of a pretext.
The Paris correspondent of the Times writes,
inch in the same strain. At Marseilles the circus
arti" of military stores and provisions for the
Ca.:l:v is greater than during any period of the
rune" war. They are making biscuits night
I.lld day. The accounts from other parts of
li raneevigour speak of the armaments going on with the
arlie .

ITALY.
In announcing, by telegraph, that the soldiers
pn rlough, belonging to regiments in Italy, have
been called in, the Vienna correspondent.of the
21.7-nes says, the truth is that the army in Italy is
to be placed on a war footing.
MILAN, Feb. 24.
At the bal masque, of •yesterday, demonstrations
'of the people had been prevented.
A disturbance among the students of the public
school and gymnasium, of San Alessandro, has
taken place.
A farmer, near Pavia, who had denounced some
refugees, has been clandestinely assassinated. Tha
fermentation is increasing,