The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
While the chances continue in Favour of Paris as
the Seat of the Conferences on the Neufchatel ques-
tion, I believe that no decision has been come to
either on that point or on the day the Conferences
will open. I fear that Swiss affairs have not ad-
vanced materially since I last alluded to the subject.
Unfortunately promises were made by over sanguine
persons that the question would be settled in a fort-
/light or three weeks, and those promises have not
been realised, and I am not sure they will be realised
within the time specified. There is little chance of
Neufchatel being again submitted to the authority of
Prussia, whatever turn things may take, but there
is a good deal to do before they are definitively
settled Dr. Kern will remain as Plenipotentiary
on behalf of the Helvetic Confederation, bitt there
is no foundation for the report mentioned in the
Belgian. papers that he takes the place of Colonel
Barmann as Resident Envoy.
The French Government will, it is said, defray
file whole expense of the sojourn of the Persian
4-mbeesador here, so that if Feruk Khan does not
13.10 away with him a high idea of the hospitality
f' this country it will not be the fault of the
e Peror. A new Bishopric of Teheran, partibus
t' conrse, is to be instituted for the benefit of the
ArlA,:inian Roman Catholic subjects of the Shah.
he Pays publishes accounts from the interior of
'Pel'6ibt, which announce that the Governor of Can-
`tlahar had Visited Mourad Mirza, thlrrei ommander
in Chief of the Persian army at Furrair on the 14th
;for Peoemher. This fact, together with the departure
Teheran of the Envoys of the Afghan tribes,
is regarded by the Pays as a complete proof that
the entire of Affghanistau is favourable to the
:Shah. And, further, that this position counter-
balances the loss of Bushire, and renders the chances
of peace more probable, as it will permit the Per.
elan Government to make concessions.
The Duke of Montebello, a el-decant Orleanist, is
t3Poken of as the probable successor of M. do
orny at St. Petersburg, whenever favourable
('lreunastances allow of that eminent statesman
returning to Paris. Some months, however, will
:Probably elapse before that event takes place.
The Count de Chambord's letter to M. Pugeot a
few weeks ago, in which he alludes to the fusion,
as an accomplished fact, has, it seems, called forth
A letter from the Orleans Princes denying that the
1"41. fusion means anything- more than 'a family
'reconciliation, and that it must not be understood
-111,a Political sense, as no such fusion exists.
The marriage of the daughter of the distin-
-711 ished writer, M. Villemain, with the son of M.
large, who was attorney general to the Court of
'Angers, and deputy for the Maine et Loire under
ofllis Philippe, took place this day at the Church
St. Germain des Pres. The ceremony was
attended by all who are most eminent in science,
.‘tbterature, and the arts in Paris, out of respect for
Ile father of the lady.
The following despatches have been received :
" TRIESTE, FEB. 2.
Accounts from Athens, to the 25th ult., state
that the financial instructions of the protecting
owers.have been cominunicated to King Otho.
bainisterial modification was expected."
" Kin " VERONA, JAN. 31.
g Louis of Bavaria as ust arrived. e leaves to for Milan. h
Cardinal Viale Prlelia
"Is ill, at Bologna, -of consumption."
_ The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
gtorieratiOns of the beet root sugar manufactories for
ofe
eseason of 1856. Daring that time the number
tabliehments at work was 282, being nine more
than 4-. in the corresponding peeled of 1855. The
Luoiglr''aty of sugar manufao
eecl ing nisei:se:4l'tired was 53,979,866
being. 2,609 t!,62 more than in the pre-
,