Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

[BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

FRANCE.

Earl Cowley has left Paris for London, having
been summoned it is said to receive the last in-
structions of the, British Cabinet respecting- the
Congress. •
The iron-plated steam-frigate Normandie is ex-
pected to be launched at Cherbourg in March.
The keels of two large transports for conveyance
of horses are about to be laid down. They are
to have steam screws and are each to be capable
of accommodating 300 horses and as many men.

SPAIN.

The opposition journals of Madrid violent&
attack the. Government for the concessions
acoorded to England in the Morocco affaii.

PARIS, Nov. 23.

12.10 p.m.—Rentes have risen nearly per
cent., on a rumour that Lord Cowley had returned
with a favourable answer, and the Times of this
morning contains a friendly article.

3.30 p.m.—The Market has been rather ani-
mated, but prices have rebounded. Rentes closed
70.05, an advance of y since yesterday.

MOROCCO.

According to the latest accounts from Morocco
Mr. Drummond Hay, the English Consul-General,
was remaining at Tangier, and was having fre-
quent conferences with the Moorish Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The fact is now officially announced in Paris,
that in the space of twenty days that the cam-
paign in Morocco lasted, one-fifth of the expedi-
tionary corps perished from disease.

author of works
.on India, died at his seat in
Surrey on Sunday.

The following appeared in a portion of our im-
pression of yesterday :

FRANCE.

PARIS, Wednesday.
Prince Metternich- has remitted to Count
Walewski the letters from the Austrian Govern-
ment addressed to the Foreign Powers, inviting
them to take part in the Congress. These invi-
tations will be delivered by the French couriers
conveying similar invitations from the French
Government.

Count Bourtales, Prussian Ambassador at Paris,
has arrived here, and has visited their Imperial
Majesties at Compeigne. It is stated that his
Excellency is instructed to .give to the French
Government authentic explanations of the late
interview between the Prince Regent of Prussia
and Emperor of Russia.
Lord Cowley, it is said, intends to pay a short
visit to London.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's
ship Tasmanian, from the West Indies, passed
Hurst Castle at 11.40 a.m.
IMPORTANT INCREASE OF THE ARMY.

The Times, in its military intelligence, says it
is understood that the Government have decided
on adding a second battalion to each of the regi-
ments up to and including the 35th Regiment,
by which an increase equivalent to 11 regiments
will be obtained. The necessary arrangements
are now in progress at the Horse Guards.

CENTRAL. ITALY.
[REUTEW , IBLI3GRAJK.] •
PARIS, Wednesday.
The Moniteur, of this morning, publishes the
following- statement :—" The French Govern-
ment, believing that the delegation of the regency
of Central Italy. to M. Buoncompagni would pre-
judice the question which will be, submitted to
the approaching congress, had looked to' the
adoption of the above measure with regret. This
impression is now modified by the explanations
given by the Government of. Sardinia, which de-
clares the maintenance of public order was the
sole object and only aim of the above delegation
to M. Buoncompagni, and that the concentration
in-his hands of the Governments of Central Italy
had in no manner the character of a virtual
regency." With reference to this question the
article concludes by reminding the public that
the Monitettr is the only political organ of the
Government. •
The Moniteur likewise contains a decree to
insure the execution of that clause of the treaty
of Zurich wherein the giving up of the Austrian
vessels captured during the late war, but not yet
adjudged as prizes, is stipulated.
The Post expresses its belief that on the regency
question the Sardinian Government might, with
a little more prudence and statesmanship, have
avoided lowering its dignity, and causelessly
endangering the interest§ of Italy.

WEST INDIA MAIL.
The screw-steamer Tasmanian is now five days
overdue from the West Indies. It is surmised
that she may have been detained at St. Thomas,
awaiting the arrival of one of the intercolonial
steamers.