Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1859,

THE DAY'S NEWS

There is not much news from the continent this
morning. At Paris the fete is engrossing the entire
attention of the citizens. The correspondence in
the London papers contains hurried accounts of
the grand military spectacle of Sunday, and they
concur in describing it as the most brilliant
pageant Paris ever beheld. The Moniteur states
that the Emperor had pardoned, on the occasion
of the fete, 1,827 persons sentenced _for various
crimes. We wonder how many of them were
for political offences against the State.
While the French are engrossed with the fete,
the news from Italy is gloomy in the extreme.
The tidings of the Red Republic having been
proclaimed at Parma, are not noticed by any of
the Paris papers, and, therefore, it is far from
generally known. In political circles, it has,
however, produced the greatest sensation, and all
are unanimous in the opinion that, should these
dismal tidings be confirmed, the cause of Italian
liberty has received a mortal blow.

The people of the Roman Legations, as well as
their rulers, seem to be less sanguine in their
hopes for the ultimate success of their cause than
the Modenese population, and their intrepid
Dictator, Parini.

The Zurich Conference has suspended its
sittings, the Austrian and Sardinian plenipoten-
tiaries having resisted all the attempts of Baron
de Bourqueney to bring them together. It is
believed, says ti
French and S

fresh instructions. The question of the Duch
and that of the Confederation, are knotty you

The re.

storation, of the Dukes of Tuscany and Modena

presents greater difficulties. Count Itc

Lon is said to offer smal

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chances of the banished Sovereigns, whose posit
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tion was rendered worse by the prudence and
moderation observed in Central Italy. It will
probably occur to some, to suspect a connexion
between the Parma rising and the Reiset mission.
Should the movement extend to Modena and
Tuscany it might be held to afford a pretext for
the interference and restoration, from which the
French Government has hitherto seemed to recoil.
General Garibaldi has accepted the chief com-
mand of all the forces of Central Italy.
The recent article in the Pays, which stated
that the French army can at any moment invade
England, has had the effect of paralysing com-
mercial operations in France. The mercantile
world now requires to be assured that the French
and English alliance will be firmly maintained,
and that there is no danger of war being renewed
in Italy, and they wait to see what regime is
reserved for Central Italy.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times states
that the King of Prussia is reduced to such a state
of weakness, that his life appears to be a question
of hours, not days. All the Princes and Ministers
have been summoned in anticipation of his end.
Count Arese has arrived at Turin. An amnesty
for small offences has been published.
The trial of Dr. Smethurst, for murder, com-
menced yesterday de novo.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of
Australasia, yesterday, an annual dividend, at
the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, was declared.
The Southampton has arrived in the Downs,
from Melbourne, with gold valued at £llB,OOO.
The Globe states that Mr. W. D. Christie,
Minister to the Argentine Confederation, is
appointed to the Brazils, on the resignation of
Mr. Forbes, who was lately transferred to that
Embassy by the late Government.
Mr. Cobbet has been addressing his constituents
at Chadderton, near Oldham. In the course of
his remarks he defended the course he had taken
in Parliament, and more particularly dwelt upon
the support he had given to the Derby Reform
Bill. Without subscribing to that measure in its
entirety, still he felt that if it had been allowed
to go into Committee such amendments would have
been made as to have rendered it upon the whole
satisfactory. He gave his warm approval to that
clause which rendered it incumbent upon free-
holders in boroughs to vote for the places

which their freeholds were situated ; and he an-
nounced that if in the Reform Bill, which would
be brought forward next year, no such proposi-

tion was included, be would himself move a

resolution in favour of an alteration of the present
system, which ha considered a great injustice to
the counties, and a departure from the principles
of the Constitution.

The -Wakefield Election will not take place until
the re-assembling of Parliament; and the decision
of the Rouse of Commons, in favour of a commis-
Bien try inquire into the facts of the late election,