The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

THE COURT.

' WINDSOR; WIRDNEI6kY, Fern. 11.—The Queen and
Prince Albert walked in the Home Park this morninr.—
The Prince.afterwerds rode out on horseback, accompanied
by the Prince of Wales. The Princess Alien rode' in the
riding house. Prince Arthur end the youngest Princesses
took a carriage drive. All the visiting. company left the
Castle in the forenoon, namely, .the Duke of Wellington,
the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl of Wes.mereleed,
General Sir Rob3rt and Lady. Gar liner, and Colonel Francis
Seymour, CB. Lady Chur .hill has succeeded the Duchess
Of Wellington as Lady in Waiting to the Q
WINDSOR, THURSDAY, FRB. 12.—Her Royal Highness'
the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal, their Serene Highnesses the Princess of Hnterdohe'
lAngenburgh, and the Princess Feodore, the Prince of
Leiningen,' and the Princess Amalie Of liohenlohe
lifigfistst, Colonel the Hen, C. B. Phipps, Sir George
Copper, and Mr.,'Gibbs dined with her Majesty at Windsor'
'Castle on Wedn,esda'y evening. Yesterday afternoon, at
ten mbutem pest Oro) o'clock., her Majesty the Qneen,,and
his ;11(;yal Highness the Prince left Windsor Castle, accom-
panied by their flighnesses•the Prince of Wales; the
Princess Royal the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and. the. Princesses Helena and Louisa, and.
ettencied by; Lady Churchill, Lady* Caroline Barrington,
Hon. Caroller) Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord
Clmoys; Colonel the Hon: C.. B. Phipps, Sir Edward
Bowo`er, Major General the lion. C. Grey, Lieut, Colonel
Porso..by, and Mr. • Gibbs. Her Majesty travelled by a
special train on the Great Western Railway to Paddington,
where the royal party entered seven of the Queen's carriages,
and, escorted by a pasty of Light Dragoons, proceeded to
Buckingham Palace, where the Queen arrived 'at five
minutes past four o'clock. Her Majesty and the. Prince
were received by Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Alfred Paget,
and Major General Wylde.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

• PARIS, THURSDAY EVENINS..
. .
The remarks of Lord Lyodhtirst on the article in ,the
Moniteur some days ago, and ,the admiseion of Lord Ola.
rendon that he read it with surprise, have revived the
interest with whiCh it 'was originally regarded in this city.
The document'wtis a clear and indefensible violation of
the engagement agreed to when the organisation of the
Danubian, Principalities was admitted iii Congress. It
'was understood and plainly e*pressed that the population
of those provinces shouldbe called upon to freely set forth
their wants and wishes, uninfluenced' by any of the
Powers; and one ofthe objectioneto the continued presence
of an Austrian army was the impossibility of the Moldo
Wallachians exercising this .admitted. right while foreign,
traeps occupied tteir.cv.rr,itery...T.Trider.such.eiieumatanees
hew On we explain the article of the elloeiteur The
union of the Principalities may or may not be followed by
advantages:to them. This is as yet a mere matter of specu-
lation; :bat so 'far 'de 'can be aseertained,.their union is
chiefly, if tidtexelnsively.advticated by the..revolutionary
tefugees of 1640; there is •no-evidende to' show that it is
the wish of the mass of the people., The Union, would, in
fact, be greatly to.the benefit of Russia,: who would have
under her, control the foreign Prince whose authority only
Would be accepted by the Boyards.
,4propes of .Russia,
the' Nord of Brussels, I perceive,
gives net eoritradition to
the statement of one of your contemporaries, that that'
rower had cpascd,to press the union, and that the change
was owing to the influence of M. Kisseleff, the Russian
Atnbassador at this Court. Whether Russia has really
modified het Views in that tespet, .1 cannot say; but
de affirm that.M. Kisseleff's opinion is that the union is
impossible, except :with a 'foreign Prince; and even
difficult with a foreign.' Prince ; and ' that a
foreign Sovereign in the Principalities would be an act
centrary to the treaty of Pavia, by which thedotegrity of
the Ottoman empire has been consolidated, and the
slizerainete of the Sultan in the • Danubian Provinces
pidelairned. Such was M. Xiaseleff's epressed opinion
pal later tlifth eight of ten, days ago; and such, I have
Little doubt, it is at preekt.
4evannet- be-denied that the Emperor Napoleon" who
has .already given proofs of the practical ability *hitch
alone t consolidates governments of recent institution,
seizes all occasions, even those which present but a slight
connection with, the' interests'of his authority at home, of
lertnifestitig a tendency- towards certain theories of the
revolutionary party, • with a ' view, doubtless, to win its
sympathy. and lead it to expect, with his aid, the future
success of its political views. Such a game—for I believe it
to be no More than, a game-is not, fraught with the great
Internal dangors which seine Would suppose, for we must
take into account the means of ,repreeeion which are at his
disposal, and the solidity-of the army. These tactics,
howeVer, are so far inconvenient that they are not suffi-
ciently unde:'stood in Europe,' particularlY when applied
to a tviestion relating to foeelem policy.' Those-who are
unateettaieted- with the real motives of the imperial
policy would he Leda° believe th it an intimate alit tnce is
desired with Russia, and UM!' an unfriendly feeling really,
exists towards England for not having withdrawn her
fleet from the Black Sea.. There are some who believe
the contrary, though appearances are such as even
to' deceive the Ministers. of the Emperor, who,
perhaps, anr.vos himself at their credulity. By
this ma .agement of the revolutionists, who imitate th)
tzvtids Of the Eo.Vilists'all79l. 'and urge on an alliance
with a despotic power, Louis Napoleon may, it is 'true,
disarm therr hatred to himself, and, mitigate their gene!
ratty aggressive spirit, but on the other hand he runs the
risk of.gilathiallY Idsing the tortfidence of Europe. The
article in the Moniteur on, the- Danubian Provinces, the
hostile conduct of the Consul-General of France in Wal-
lachia to the Governe ent Instituted by the Porte, the
efforts of lg. Thouvenel at Constantinople to obtain the
10Sertion in. the Firingt of Convpaation of clauses favour_
'able to th'a theorie ef the Reutnan titopieta; the adva,neis
made to all the fallen ilospodars, the language of the
joueoals, whielne under official inspiration;
reproduce all the arguments.which the Wallachian exiles
have so ingeniously put forth in a vast number of publica-
tions, in orler to prove; not that they are capable of
forming an indepon:lent nation, but that: they have been
so fthenerly—.a fact disproved by history, for - the two
provinces hare never been united ; all this demonstrate?,
not that France believes in the possibility or utility of the
union, but that the Erieperar merely means to flatter, and
no doubt to baffle, the revolutionary spirit. Such a policy
may be wry clover, but, like everything human, there are
limits to it. If there were not, it would fail in its main
object, and would be anything but advantageous to France
herself. It is well to remember that:political Machiavel-
lism is somewhat out of date. The practice of tub prt
has not always been successful, 'arid of late years has been
less so than ever. kis unworthy of the Chief of a great
nation, and it alienates friends without 'conciliating
enemies.

A. letter from St, Petersburg of:the 4th, in the Constitu
says—" An alit Tonal bond is about to connect
Count deliorny with Russia.' ITe is on the eve of pi-iv-
chasing, in .the name of his v,:ir6; a seignorial estate
belonging to the Sevlosicy family, situate about 12 miles
Pohl St. Petersburg. In addition to 2,500 peasants it
possesses 'large hot houses and extensive orangeries." The
same letter' says—" Tho weather continues very severe.
Yesterday evening the thermorneter on the Neva stood at
27 degrees below zero Centigrade (al.- out 17.4 F. below).
The ice on the river is more than -3 feet in thickness.
Notwithstanding the cold the weather is very fine. The
Emperor avails himself of it to amuse himself with bear
hunting, which is his favourite sport.''
lily private letters from .IVadrid are of the 7th instant.
.They state that the people seem to forget the present in
Caldulations of the future, •anapf what may, be the upshot
or th 6 CorteS. The Progesistasshave little hope of cutting'
a figure in Pailiament; but they think. this is a good
opportunity for organising their party—an operation of
which, in truth, it was greatly in need. They are, there-
fore, ,setting themselves about it, and the leaders express
themselves satisfied with the spirit of their troops. The
two points, of the .moment (and important they are in
their contingencies) among those who deviate sometimes,
into a little serious reflection, are the direction of the
Northern Railroad where it. is. to touch France, and the
projects of France in Africa. With respect to the first,
the French Government is making a strenuous effort—
almpst a formal exigency—that the railroad should not
take its natural route by San Sebastian, but should pass •
by Pampeluna and Alduides, where the frontier-is quite
close. The objections are ostensibly made by the Chamber
of Commerce at. Bayonne, as if of a purely commercial
nature, but the real opposition emanates from Paris, not
only for the purpose of arriving directly upon a town so
strong as the capital of Navarre, but also to prevent, in a
military and strategic point of view, the posts of San
Sebastian and Passages on the border of a railroad being
held by a: maritime power-- inimical to 'France. This
would seem to be a deep laid plan, and it concerns
England quite as much as it does Spain. There will, in
all probbaility, be a cry inthe Cortes against this new line,
which is also much more difficult and expensive, the
estimate from St. Jean Pied de Porte to Bayonne being
three times as much as, from Irun to: the same point. , It,
moreover, coincides with other objections about the
Alduides, in which locality, by the new treaty which has
been signed, • but not ratified, • between Spain and
France, the French frontier has been virtually extended
beyond its.naturat limits, by a:clause letting permanently
to Fiance for a certain sum a long line of • pasturages on
the southern slope of the Pyrenees, extending towards'
Pampeluna, and traversed by the projected railway. These
facts and coincidences do not pass unnoticed or uncom.
mented upon.
With regard to Africa, all the reports, from the Spanish
authorities on the Barbary coast, such as Ceuta, el Penon,.
and Melilla, speak of a widely extended plan and prepara-
tion by France for attacking Morocco at some future
period, establishing even now a base of operations for that
purpose whenever the favourable opportunity may arrive,
either. in a military point of view in Africa or a political
one in Europe. I have reason to know that the Spanish
Government is not at all easy in mind about the journey
of the Queen. Two things equally embarrassing are feared
by General Narvaez—either a .democratical rising in

Madrid, or an absolutist declaration at Seville, if, indeed,
with Cadiz behind, and some devoted battalions around,
,the two Maj 'sties should think themselves strong enough

'to attempt such a thing.
1.; A-telegraphic despatch from Madrid two or three days
ago announced that. M. Gonzales Bravo's departure for his
post:in London was put off "in -consequence of illness."
A letter, of the 7th, from Madrid, states at that date he was
On the point of starting. None of the uninitiated public
ever thought he would realty go to London, but he has
informed his friends that he intends to be back to Madrid
on the Ist of May, so that he will not long enjoy the
popularity and respect he will doubtless meet with in
England. He is sent to London for having persuaded the
Queen to send for Narvaez ; at least so be is reported to
have said, though it does not necessarily follow that it is
t rue. .