The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

Bund, a paper that is published in Berne, and notoriously
an organ of the Radical party, contort and misrepresent
the facts in a number of instances. As wia be easily
understood, their refutation is not a task that we can
undertake. It will suffice for us to designate them in
general as entirely incorrect.

The National Zdtung comes to the assistance o
the official organ:—

The organs of the Prussian Government are prevented
from entering into any circumstantial explanation of all the
facts, inasmuch as the latter was by no means officially
privy to the recent negotiations with the Swiss Envoys in
Paris, and abides firmly by the position it has taken up, to
enter into negociati'ns only after the liberation of the
prisoners. The Swiss press has thus enjoyed the advantage
of being the first to publish its own version of those pro-
ceedings, without being exposed for some time to any
official contradictions from the other side, &c.

A letter in the Frankfurter Journal of to day,
from its correspondent in Berne, contains the
French note of the sth inst., the text of which con-
futes all that has been so freely Famed of the
Emperor Louis Napoleon having undertaken and
pledged himself that the King of Prussia should
renounce his sovereignty of NeuchatPl as soon as
the prisoners were liberated. It simply says that
the Emperor " prend rengagement de faire tous ses
efforts," to bring about an arrangement in confor-
mity to the wishes of Switzerland after the prisoners
have been liberated.

Immediately after the commencement of the
new year the weather suddenly changed from
almost spring like mildness to Russian severity;
and this winter the Berliners have taken to the
pleasures of skating secundum artem, and in a
regular and systematic style. In the large court
yard of a house hitherto dedicated only to the
developement of the youthful minds of the future.
belles of Berlin, a sheet of ice has been formed by
flooding it during the frost, and here instruction in
this graceful pastime is given to all applicants of the
gentler sex. Not only do the river, the canal, and
the lakes in the Thiergarten offer a gratuitous
opportunity for the practice of the " outside
edge," the " spread eagle." and other chefs-d'oeuvre
of the skating art, but the proprietor of Kroll's
Gardens has also converted the whole area of his
grounds, which would not otherwise be visited at
this temperature, into a sheet of ice, broken
only by the trees and beds of flowers, from
the cups of which, after dusk, tiny jets of
gas come forth and aid in the larger display
of the general gas illumination. The ladies
have special accommodation provided for putting
on and taking off their skates in a room provided
for the occasion, whence they can step at once out
upon the ice. The gas illumination, the musical
accompaniment of a good orchestra to the merry
ringing of the skate, and the ample attendance,
constitute this attempt a decided success. This,
too, would not have been possible without that
most benevolent institution, the new Berlin
Waterworks

Some eighty odd sailors of our nation passed
through here at the end of last week, on their
return to England from Cronstadt, where in some
instances their ships are icebound, and in others
have been wrecked by the action of the ice. They
had entrusted themselves to the guidance of a ship
captain, who undertook to frank them to London for
10/a head as far as the mere expense of locomotion
was concerned, eatables and drinkables being ex-
cluded from the bargain. While here 47 of them
took it into their heads to indulge in some enter-
tainment which they intended should be at their
contractor's expense, and on his refusing to come
forward with the needful,the host complained to the
polio, who laid an embargo on their passports. The
captain of this self indulgent crew, finding himself
and his other charges detained here by this unex-
pected misadventure, found it at length expedient
to discharge the reckoning and get his interesting
charges out of pawn.
A distinguished British subject, as we have all
hitherto ~upposed, is just now staying in Berlin,
and permitting the inhabitants to view his unusual
proportions for a consideration—Mr. Murphy,
generally known as the Irish Giant. It appears,
however, that Hamburg lays claim to the honour
of his nativity, and maintains that he was born in
that thriving rapublic, and rejoices in the name of
Morfee.