Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-20 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN QUESTION.

The Morning Post has received the following despatch,
dated Paris, Tuesday night, 9.50 p.m.:—Three distinct
instruments will be signed at Zurich. The treaty • b -
tween France and Sardinia will be signed in the course
of a day or two. A tripartite treaty will be signed
subsequently.
The Times states that the terms of the treaty of
Zurich are almost identical with those agreed to at Vil-
lafranca, and that the peace seems to settle no one of the
questions :which disquiet:ltaly and Europe.
The Post says that, assuming its information to be
correct, the further proposals concerning the questions
left open, which it is intended to submit to the approval
of a European Congress, are of such a nature that the
diplomatists at Zurich have only heaped up the materials
of fresh difficulties. England can and will take no part
in any congress of which the first principle be
not the full, free, and unreserved recognition of
the rights of Romagna and Tuscany, no less than of
the Modenese and Parmesan States to self-government.
The first cannon shot fired to force on the Romagnole,
Modenese, and Tuscan people any other ruler than the
Italian Prince in whom they so fondly put their trust,
will be the signal of a conflict as deadly as the one just
brought to a close.

THE LOSS OF THE ALMA.
The official report to the Board of Trade of•the loss
of the-Alma certifies that it arose from the faults of the
chief-officer, from not paying attention to the locality,
and in not hauling the ship up soon enough to avoid
danger.
ILLEGAL ARREST.
M. Colin, one of the French exiles expelled from
Jersey in 1855, recently returned to the island without
permission, and was arrested. The case was brought
before the Police Court, and taken to the Royal Court,
which decided that M. Colin should be discharged on
the ground that the constable had no legal order for his
arrest.

The Bombay mail is expected in London, via Mar-
seilles, about Friday next.
The mail which has arrived from New Granada has
brought no letters from the interior, owing to the con-
tinuance of a revolutionary movement.
GALLANT CONDUCT OF A CRIMEAN HERO.—On SatUF-
day night, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, a
man fell into the Liffey from the steps at Aston's-
quay, near Carlisle-bridge. Although hundreds of
persons were attracted to the spot to witness the
perilous state of the drowning man, there were none
courageous enough to offer the required assistance, un-
til at length Police-constable William Kelly, 64 C,
who was on duty at the time, hastened to the rescue,
when, divesting himself of his boots and clothes, he
plunged into the water, and succeeded in bringing
the man to the steps, from whence he was con-
veyed in a car, in a seemingly lifeless state, to Jervis-
street Hospital, when, under the skilful appliances of
Dr. Daly, the man revived and was able to tell his name
and give his address, which are as follows :—James
Byrne, aged twenty-five, trade a plumber, Aughrim-
street, Stoneybatter. William Kelly was late a private
of the 21st Regiment of Fusiliers, received a medal and
four clasps, bearing the respective names of " Alma,"
" Balaklava," " Sebastopol," and "lukermann." This
gallant soldier is only thirty years of age, and bears the
mark of a wound received in his left arm while in the
trenches before Sebastopol. If this fearless and heroic
I act, and during the darkness of the night, does not
_advance Kelly in the police lorce,. it is to be hoped the
11111111/TIC Society may award him the usuid medal in
I Well east,s,—k.cmilder6's Lublin Yews-Letter.