Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-22 00:00:00

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MONDAY,

AUGUST

THE DAY'S NEWS

The letter of Louis Blanc

n the London papers,
ante, has caused all
our metropolitan contemporaries to be seized in
Paris. Even the Morning Chronicle, which at
all times has had free entry into France, has
been stopped, from something unpalatable having
found insertion in its columns. The new decree
on the press is the chief topic of interest in Paris ;
but the general impression it has produced is,
that it must be taken more as a promise than as
a boon. The law is not altered, but its retrospec-
tive operation merely temporarily suspended.
The papers are merely placed in the position
they held on the day the decree was promulgated,
before any avertissement had been inflicted; but
the power to inflict them has been retained ; and,
as a Paris correspondent remarks, "as long as
that decree is not abrogated, -it is vain to hope
that the French press will be bold enough freely
to discuss the events of the day."
It is stated by the Paris correspondent of the
Times that there is an appearance of increased
cordiality in the relations between the English
and French Governments. He is assured that
very warm congratulations have been addressed
on the part of Queen Victoria to the Emperor, on
the occasion of the amnesty.

The Piedmontese Goverriment is behaving very
strangely, considering its liberal confessions. A pro-
secution has been instituted against a Genoa paper,

Il Cattolico, and pending the trial, M
Victor Emmanuel 's Home Secretary, has sus-
pended its publication. As a correspondent says,
" Such conduct is characteristic—Ratazzi pro-
fesses to be an ultra-Liberal—and it is always
your patriots and Liberals who are the greatest
tyrants when in power. It is the same thing all
over the world."
From Genoa we learn that Prince Poniatowsky
has arrived there on his way to Florence. The
object of his mission is said to be to induce the
Tuscans to submit and receive the Archduke. It
is perhaps this mission which has given rise to a
report that M. Reiset has not shown sufficient
firmness in his negotiations with the Tuscan Go-
vernment. At any rate, it is stated that he had
allowed himself to be a little carried away by the
movement around him, and that Poniatowsky
goes to assume a firmer attitude on behalf of the
French Government.
In the National Assembly of Modena the Mar-
quis Fontanelli has presented a proposal declaring
the forfeiture of the Austrian dynasty to the
duchy, and the banishment for ever from the
state of every prince of the House of Hapsburg-
Lorraine. The propositions are to be considered.
Meanwhile the Italian States are preparing ener-
getically for their own defence, and are uniting
together in order to offer a vigorous resistance to
the hordes of Germans who have been enlisted at
Verona beneath the banners of the deposed
princes of Modena and Tuscany. The total force
at the command of these States, including the
contingents furnished by Parma am
amount to 40,000 men.
It is said that the Duchess of Parma has re-
ceived very favourable assurances from Zurich,
and that she will be restored to her former posi-
tion, she undertaking to grant a constitution on.
a liberal basis, and to adhere to the Italian Con-
federation.
Prussia has concluded a .league with the Han-
seatic Towns for the fortification of the seaboard
of Northern Germany.
A defensive league, it appears, has been formed
in Central Italy.
Count Collorado has publicly expressed his be-
lief " that our work of peace will be crowned witl

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success."
Madame Mario (late Miss Jessie White) and
her husband have been arrested at Bologna.
The Belgian Chambers have, by a majority of
fifteen, decided to proceed with the fortifications
of Antwerp.
There is four days' later news to hand from the
United States, by the arrival of the Europa at
this port. The forthcoming presidential election
was beginning to attract general attention, and
there were some four or five candidates in the
field. Two of them had issued what may be
called manifestoes. One of them is from Senator
Douglas, on the African slave trade. Ile con-
demns its resumption, and contends that it is by
the expressed wishes of the States in the Union
that no further importation of slaves should take
place. General Houston had been elected gover-
nor of Texas. From the accounts received by
this arrival it may now be fairly calculated that
the crops throughout the entire country are safe.
The prospects in every quarter are most auspici-
ous ; an abundant harvest has blessed the labour
of the husbandman.
Another tragedy has been enacted. A woman,
named Martha Lewis, drowned her two children
in a pond, near Finedon, Northamptonshire, on
Wednesday last. She has been committed on the
charge of wilful murder.
The builders' strike continues. The men are
hopeful and resolute, and many of them avow
themselves ready to endure temporary privations,
in the hope that they may thus obtain what they
look upon as a permanent advantage and as a