Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-30 00:00:00

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Talleyrand Perigora has been appointed Ambassador
of France at Naples. It was reported at Paris, on
Friday, that M. Benedetta, the director of the
political department in the French foreign office, ,
has been appointed to an extraordinary mission to
the German Confederation. The siege fleet, ready to
sail from Toulon, is composed of thirty-two vessels
and gunboats. The French minister of marine has
ordered two additional ships of the line, and two
frigates, to be prepared immediately for sea. Portugal
is officially declared her neutrality in the present
Telegrams received last night give some
details of the movements of Garibaldi.
It would seem he has thoroughly beaten the Austrians
so far, and that he was received with enthusiasm in
Como. The Emperor of the French has come to the
conclusion that coals shall be a contraband article.
England, it is reported from Paris, is willing to
renew diplomatic relations with Naples on the
understandiig that France does so likewise. The
Provisional Government of Tuscany has not been
recognised by the English, Russian, Prussian,
and Turkish representatives, and they are said
to have hauled down their respective flags.
A. letter from Alessandria says that when the

carriages containing the Austrian officers taken
prisoners at Montebello passed before a group of the
French Imperial Guard, the men ranged themselves
in a row, and took off their shakos. A decree of
the Empress Regent, just issued, enacts that in
virtue of the law recently adopted, and of a bull of
the Pope, the Episcopal See of Rennes shall be

into an archbishopric; and another decree, signed by
the Emperor, and dated from The general Imperial
Headquarters at Alessandria, 'appoints the present
Bishop of Rennes to ibe the um archbishop.
There arc several items of domestic news of rather

The Coroner's inquest on the

at Ledbury, has been brought
returning a verdict of " wilful

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be drawn upon any consideration whatever. There
is to be no soldiering, even to protect our hearfns
and our homes. Our brave defenders we;old all
have to be disbanded. Not that there
rmuld be
"Their bruised arms hung up f
-or monuments,"
because " the winter of our discontent " had been
" made glorious summer -11 but because it had been
resolved to resist no more—because, under a
fanatical antipathy to resistance, we were thenceforth
to expose ourselves to the rude and insolent assaults of
every invader whom our defenceless condition might
invite to our shores.

Now the madness of such a policy is self-evident.
And yet some of our contemporaries do not hesi-
tate to advocate something very much like it at the
present conjuncture. In the spirit of such a policy,
for instance, they oppose the Rifle Corps movement.
Our usually able and impartial Liberal contemporary,
the Star is doing this. " The whole country," it
sarcastically declares, "is licensed to play at soldiers.
Our martial ardour is aroused, and the War-Office
has given it an official sanction. Every county
will become the hotbed of untapped heroes, and
every bowling-green will resound with the deadly
crack of the regulation rifle—a costly. and a
dangerous toy, that will kill at half a mile, is to be
entrusted to the unchecked hands of amateur
warriors. The target will be aimed at, but the
pot-boy will be shot, or some ruminating cow
that is peacefully grazing in an adjoining field
will be suddenly sent to its final doom without
used lan

of the preliminary ceremonials of the slaughter-
e. Whole acres of land will be marked off

THE NORTHERN TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1859

the flames in a short times The damage done is consi-
derable.