The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

AUSTPIA.

VIENNA, MARCII 27.
Count Paar and his secretary quitted the Sar-
dinian capital yesterday, Thursday, the 26th, and
the Marquis of Cantono intends to leave Vienna •
for Turin in a day or two. The Austrian Govern-
ment affects to attach no importance to the diplos
matic rupture with Sardinia, and the Ost Deutsche
Post and the Oesterreichische Zeitung are at great
pains to show that no evil consequences can
possibly arise from it, but still the measure is not
to the taste of the pubiic.
In my letter of the 23rd inst. it was stated, on
the authority of the Militar Zeitung-1. That the
trigonometrical survey of the Danubian Princi-
palities was finished. 2. That Austria was not
likely to let any other Power have the maps ; and,
3. That a regular system of fortified positions was
being introduced into Gallicia. An officer of very
high rank and standing yesterday remarked in
my presence that all three of the statements of the
Militar Zeitung were erroneous. Only two thirds
of the Danubian Principalities have been surveyed.
Austria is bound by treaty to communicate to
the Porte the results of the labours of her officers,
as Turkey pays a certain sum—about one fourth
I believe—of the expense of the trigonometrical
admeasureruents and of the mapping. The only
fortifications now making in Gallicia are those at
Cracow. During the war the citadel of Lemberg
was strengthened, and four small redoubts built.
It was yesterday rumoured on 'change that a trico
loured flag had been hoisted at Venice during the
preceding night, but the authorities here know
nothing of the matter. Some time since the Croats
at Fiume hoisted their national flag (white, green,
and red), on the eve of a national festival, but some
one climbed up the staff during the night, hauled
down the Croatian tricolour, and substituted a
slack yellow flag instead of it. In the morning
the Croats wished to make ataother change, ling
they found the flag staff so greasy that they were
obliged to leave the Austrian flag flying.
Travellers inform me that one can now travel
quite as agreeably in. Austria as in any other part
of Germany. Indeed, the ch.iages in the passport
system give equal satisfaction to ail parties ; the
public are no longer needlessly en toyed, and
the police authorities are no loeg er over worked.

a continuous rail frog Paris to the foot of the Alps
at St. Jean de Maurienne ; the second is the eXteri
sion of the Turin and Novara Railway to the
Ticino, tit the Bridge of Buffalora 2, • and the third a
branch from Alessandria end Novi to the Parmesan
frontier at Stradalla, but in neither of the two
latter cases is there any sign of corresponding
energy on the other side of the frontier unfortu-
nately. The Lombard papers, indeed, boast
that Milan and Venice will this year, after
the works having been fourteen years in
hand, he placed in communication by rail
and the Messaggiere di Modena announces that
the International Commission for the Central
Italian Railway had terminated its conferences on
the 14th, and appt.oyed the plans for the trunk
from Piacenza to Bologna, but neither the Austrian
nor Parma Government set ni anxious to hasten a
junction with the west, and if report speaks true
it is the same counsel which influences both
those Cabinets on this matter. Even the ROMCE4
Journal has been much occupied lately in publish-
ing the details of railway concessions granted
by His Holiness, so that there is an apparent
prospect at least of considerable activity in public
works throughotit the Italian Peninsula for some
time to come, and as that is tolerably certain to
bring a number of our countrymen into the field
in all manner *of capacities, I wish to point out
to you, as I dare say has often been done before,
though it can hardly be too much insisted on until
remedied, the great want of some provision for
British subjects who may from any cause except
shipwreck become destitute in a foreign country.
Every other European nation, I believe, except our
own, has entered into international conventions,
whereby its distressed subjects can be relieved and
forwarded to their own country, and the expenses
charged to their Government, but England, strange
to say, with the most migratory population on
the face of the globe, has always held aloof from
any.areangeinents of this kind, and merely allows
her Consuls a limited power to provide transport
for distressed British seamen. All other classes of
distressed British subjects are left to private charity
which must always be very precarious. Where
there is a Legation or a Consulate the English
officials area generally the first to contribute
for such eases, and it often proves a heavy tax on
their already taxed incomes to meet the numerous
demands on them; but it may happen, and does
happen, that English workmen get into difficulties
freni accident, or sickness, or want of employ-
ment, in parts where there are neither English
officials nor English residents, and where the
people of the country regard a foreign Workman
with anything but feelings of compassion, and
the consequence is, that very humiliating and
scandalous scenes take place, such as certainly
neither the people nor government of England would
knowingly permit. But is it right that distressed
British workmen should be left to priVate charity
in anv case, any more than distressed .British sea-
men ? Are they not all equally engaged in develop-
ing British commerce? In the present state of
society the evil I complain of is a rapidly growing
one, and possibly things have so much altered
since last the subject was seriously considered that
it will only be necessary for you to call the attention
of Government to it to ensure its redress. At all
events I hope you will not lose sight of it now that
the rail Way fever is breaking out again in all parts
of the world.
His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Prussia is
expected 'here to morrow from Nice.
King Victor Emanuel will leave for Nice on
Tuesday next, the 31st, passing over the Col di
Tenda. Last night was the last of the carnival
season for the Royal Opera, When an extraordinary
representation was given for the poor of Turin by
the artists of the theatre, and the house was illu-
minated " a giorno." His Majesty was present for
a short time, and was, as usual, warmly greeted by

the audience.
M. Mon, Envoy Extraordinary, Rs., from the
Court of Madrid to the Holy See, is at preset at
Turin, on his way to Borne.
Rustem Bey, the new Turkish Charge d'Affaires
at thio Court Lao avrix•od
succeeds Musurus Bey, who it is said, is to be
employed at home -in a department about to be
created for securing the administration of recent
reforms: - •
The Chamber of Deputies voted today, by 103
votes against 2, the concession of two pieces of
railway—one between Geneva •and the Valais
Railway, passing through Thonon, Evian, and St.
Gingolph, in the province of Chablais, in Upper
Savoy ; and the other from Arona, on the Lago
Maggiore, to Domodossola or Crenola, at the foot
of the Simplon, and its eventual extension to join
the Swiss Railway of the Valley of the Rhone.
The Chamber afterwards commenced the dis•
mission of a Bill for the better regulation of the
Jewish religion in the Sardinian States.