The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-09 00:00:00

AUSTRIA,

VIENNA, MAnen 4.
Count Cavour's reply to Count Buol's note of
February 10th is considered unsatisfactory, and so
much excitement prevails in official circles that the
iplotnatic world is inclined to believe the Austrian
Legation will soon be recalled from Turin. It is
related that the French and British Cabinets have
strongly advised the Austrian Government not to
break off its diplomatic relations with Sardinia,
but the publication of the Austrian and Sardinian
notes in the Russian organ at Brussels has given
such great offence that his Majesty's Ministers
are but little inclined to listen to the well-
meant counsel of their Paris and London friends
The diplomatic correspondence between Vienna'
Paris, and London is extremely active just
now, but nothing of importance is likely
to be done by this Government in the Sardinian
affair until after the return of the Emperor. The
Volksfreund, the organ of the Ultraniontane party.
says the Emperor Francis Joseph could not with his
own hand write a letter of condolence to King
Victor Emmanuel, '' because that monarch had ne
glected to address to this court an autograph letter
announcing the death of his consort, who was nearly
related to the Emperor." The Vienna paper
adds, that an autograph notification of the death
of the Queen of Sardinia was sent to each of
the other European courts. Many of the German
papers assert that Baron Seebach lent Count
Cavour a helping hand while he was writing his
note of the 20th February ; but a person who
knows the Saxon diplomatist well, does not credit
it. It is here the fashion to speak disdainfully
of the Sardinian note, but it strikes me that
the Minister for Foreign Affairs will find it
excessively difficult to reply to it. General
von Martini, the Austrian diplomatic agent
at Naples, has recently informed his Government
that he is unable to obtain an audience of the
King. It would seem that his Majesty, who is
greatly disgusted with the present policy of the
Emperor, Francis Joseph, is resolved not to receive
any more advice from this Government. Not long
since the Prussian and Russian Ministers expressed
to King Ferdinand 11. their conviction that it
would be advantageous for the country if the dip-
lomatic relation between Naples and the Western
Powers were renewed, but the reply they received
induced them to suppose that his Majesty was not
of the same opinion

It is believed at Berne that the Royalist fugitives
at Morteau are about to mike another attempt to
obtain possession of Neufchatel, but the diplomatic
world does not share the apprehensions of the
Swiss. In fact, nothing could be more fatal to the
the Kng of Prussia's claims on Neufchatel than a
repetition of the scene which took place in Sept.,
1856. The Swiss being of opinion that prevention
is better than cure, have taken the necessary mea-
sures for protecting Neufchatel, against a coup de
main. As you were led to expect would be the
case, Denmark has declare d that she does not
acknowledge the right of the German Confedera-
tion to meddle in the affairs of Holstein ; and it
attracts attention that the first paper which was
able to give any information as to the contents of
the Danish note or the memorandum was the
Russian organ published at Brussels. Some time
since Baron de Bourqueney received leave of
absence; but he is not likely to take advantage of
it for some time to come.

Their Majesties are now at Mantua, where they
intend to remain until the morning of Friday, the
6th. In the evening of the same day they will be
at Verona. The 7th will be passed at Treviso, the
Bth at Udine, and the 9th at Gorice. The other
part of the journey (by way of Monfalcone, St.
Croce, Sessana, Laibach, and Gratz) will be
performed with great speed, but still the
Imperial travellers will hardly be able to
reach Vienna before Wednesday, the 11th.
The Grand Corso held at Milan on the
26th was a failure. Some of the high nobles
threw "coriandoil" at the passers by, and a few
foreigners followed their example, but the whole
affair was terribly flat, as the inferior nobility and
the citizens remained completely passive Their
Majesties and the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian
saw the Corso from the balcony of a palace belong-
ing to the Marquis Saporiti, a Sardinian noble of
great wealth. As soon as he heard that permission
had been given to the public to throw "coriandoli,"
M. de Saporiti went to the Emperor and placed his
palace at his disposal for Thursday and Saturday,
26th and 28th February. At the masked ball at the
Scala, on the 25th of last month, the heat was
extremely oppressive, but still the Emperor and
Empress remained in their box during an hour
and a half. Some correspondents affirm that
there never was a more magnificent masked ball at
Milan, and it is probable they speak but the truth,
for all the ladies in the boxes were in full dress,
and wore their, jewels, and between five thousand
and six thousand persons were in the other parts
of the house. The ladies in the boxes amused
themselves by dropping on the heads of the motley
crowd below little parachutes, to which papers eon.