The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-18 00:00:00

the year 1848. 'Although he never took any part
in politics, he was deprived of his ,situation by the
King of Naples, after the violation of the Constitu-
tion, and was redUced, to great .poverty. Signor
Gasparini made several applications to the Nea-
politan Government ;to be reinstated, but with-
out success. In the meantime a learned bota-
nist, from Vienna, visited Naples, and, finding
the melancholy position to which-Signor Gasparini
was reduced, promised that he would procure a
situation for him in the Lombardo Venetian pro.
winces, which he gratefully accepted. The Neapo-
litan Government however, interfered and declared
'that the King wettld ses with, displeasure one of,
his disgraced professors appointed to an official
situation by a friendly government. So the matter
rested until the late visit of the ttnperor of Austria
to his Italian. dominions, 'when his Majesty, by tin
Imperial decree, dated the 13th March, appointed
Slgnor Gaspirini Peofessor of Botany to the Uni-
versity of Pavia. When Baron Martini, the Austrian
Minister 'at Naples, announced his appointment, he
added'„ " His Majesty sends you near the frontiers
of Piedmont, for he is determined td conipete With
the king of that counry in extending education and
protecting` the arts and sciences in Italy
A letter, from Rome announces that Pius IX.
arrived at Assissiuin on the 7th inst., and that on
the day following the holy father left for Perugia.
Accounts .from Florence state that the Grand
Duke, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince and
his Prime Minister, Signor Baldasseroiii, had retired
for the previous tnree 'Weeks to Grosetto, in the
Marennes, where.he was reposing from the cares of
State. He had given• orders to his ministers not
to forward any despatches'to him Unless they were
of an urgent nature. Thera is an annual fair held
at arosseto at the Commencement of the Mouth of
May, which eoncludei with a-village ball. The
"Grand- Duke had ordered his best military band
from Florence to attend on the present occasion.
The expose des motifs of the bill presented on
Wednesday to the Legislative Body for modifying
Art 1 of the organic decree reltive to the election
of deputies, assigns the reasons which call for the
change,
The following despatches have been received—
" VIENNA, MAY 15:
"Accounts from Hong Kong to the 30th March state
that some gnglish steam vessels had arrived. No military
operations having taken place, great commercial activity
prevails, notwithstanding the efforts of the mandarhs to
prevent

" DRESDEN, BUY 14.
"Prince Napoleon arrived here to-lay at two o'clock,
and was received at the railway terminus by the
Prince Royal. His Imperial Highness proceeded at
once to the palace, and dined at three o'clock at the royal
table. It is thought that the prince will remain here two
days.

"COPENHAGEN, MAY 13, EVENING.

M. Heinzelmann having definitively refused to form part
of the Cabinet, the Ministry has been provisionally recon-
structed Withdut any new members: 31. Halt is President
of the Council; M. Ilusgraad temporarily takes the portfolio
f Holstein, and M. Nicnelsen, Minister" df the Marine,
that of Foreign Affairs ad interim"
" MADRID, MAY 14.
" M. Lafragua, the Mexican Envoy, had a conference
yesterday with M. Pidal, the Minister for Foreign Affairs.'
" The debate on the address will commence to-morrow
in the Senate:"