Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
VENICE, Feb. 6, (via AUSTRIA).
The commander of the army has announced, that in
,
iTture all crimes committed against the armed force of
" state, within the districts of Venice and Trieste,
will be judged by military council.

It is reported in Paris that the Duke of Montebello 1
146 had a warm discussion with Prince Gortschakoff, at
8 '
„,t. Petersburgh, on the subject of the annexation of
Savoy to France, to which Russia is opposed.
The Herald's Paris correspondent asserts that orders
nave been sent to Marshal Valliant to occupy Tuscany
with a portion of the 60,000 men under his command,
and that the Marshal's headquarters will be transferred
from Milan to Florence. • The alleged cause of the
movement is an apprehension of an invasion of the
marches by the forces of the King. of Naples ; but the
meter affirms that the real object is to prevent the an-
nexation of Tuscany to Piedmont, on account of the
Sardinian Cabinet opposing the annexation of Savoy
to
France.

THE SAVOY QUESTION.
Referring to last night's debate, the Times says it comes
to Emperor
that if the Napoleon will seize upon
savoy and Nice, he must. It is a mean thing to do ;
but
it is not worth while to make it the cause of an
•rllco
The war.
efferent
-Daily News represents the Emperor's conduct in
a
uerent light. The Emperor tells us he would be
~erY glad to have Savoy, if he could have it honestly, but
Tat he does not think it worth stealing. He says, he
"es not believe his having it would do us any harm;
and Lord Granville, last night, speaking in the name
of the British Government, confessed that he did not
see
—ow we should be any the worse for it, always pro-
,"ied the liberal and enlightened law of international
Policy were not violated by the manner of the change,

MAIL NEWS.
The Pacific Steam Company, of Liverpool, have had
the period of their charter extended for 21 years. The
annual steaming distance of the company, now amount-
ing to 170,000, to be immediately extended to more
than 300,000.
An arrangement has been concluded with the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company for accelerating three or
four days the arrival at Southampton of the homeward
steamers from the West Indies, thereby allowing replies
to matters to be sent by the outward packets.

THE COMMERCIAL TREATY.
The Times says the details which have just appeared
in the Independence simply confirm the various state-
ments contained in, the city articles during the past
fortnight. They still leave it uncertain whether the
reduction of the French duty on iron is to apply to
manufactured descriptions, or only-to pig iron. In the
former case, the advantage will be considerable, while in
the latter, it will scarcely be felt. As machinery is
included, however, the supposition is that the reduction
will be general.
The Morning Star has no hesitation in saying that
when the statement of Mr. Gladstone is made and the
text of the treaty is published, it will be found that the
Independence Beige gives a very imperfect, if not an
inaccurate, account of the commercial arrangements
concluded between England and France.
The Star calls upon the mercantile classes to use their
influence in preventing a ministerial defeat in the Com-
mons on the commercial treaty, predicting, as a conse-
quence of its being rejected, a rupture with France, an
increase of our defensive expenditure to £30,000,000,
and an income-tax, not of 6d. or 9d. merely, but of 2s.
or 3s. in the pound.
The Times, to-day, confines its objections to' the
arrangements with France being effected by means of a
treaty. All the reductions of duty comprised -in
the commercial treaty on both sides, are benefits, and
will work, may be, even more beneficially than we can
now estimate. Again, though it may not appear much
of an advantage to our manufacturers, that France
should enjoy cheap iron and coal, though a great ad-
vantage to herself, yet it will be a great security for
peace that she should become dependant on us for the
regular supply of such important articles.

The General Iron Screw Collier Company are to
receive a dividend of £1 per share out of the profits of
the last half-year.
Previous to the success of the Spaniards at Tetuan,
on the 4th inst., their total losses during the campaign
were estimated at 7,000 or 8,000, besides men crippled
by wounds er broken dow-n by disease.