The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-26 00:00:00

Fusionist leader kept the contents of the
letter to himself till the month of Novem-
ber last, when he communicated them to
a well-known Legitimist, and requested him to
bring them to the knowledge of the Count de
Chambord. Two sentences only were extracted
and sent to the head of the house of Bourbon.
The Count was hurt at a communication being
made to him in such a form ; he replied that he
regarded it as a non avenue, and that he should still
consider that matters remained unchanged. In
the meantime occurred the death of M. de Salvandy,
which gave occasion for the letter of the Count de
Chambord to M. Pageot, in which, it may be
remembered, the assurance was repeated of the
political reconciliation remaining established
between the elder and younger branch of
the Bourbon family. The Orleanists were thrown
into great confusion at the protest of the Duke
of Nemours, and they insisted that a categorical
explanation should be demanded. The Duke of
Nemours consequently addressed a letter to the
Count de.Chambord, to which the Count replied.
The Duke's letter I am not acquainted with ; but
a friend has sent me from London a copy of the
reply of the Count de Chambord. It is as
follows :

My Cousin,—l have read your letter with deep
regret and sorrow. I was pleased to think that we had
u-derstood in the same manner the reconciliation
effected between us now four years ago. That re-
establishment o! our political and family relations, while
it was gratifyieg to my heart, se.-med to my judgment
a pledge of salvation for France, and on,-a of the firmest
guarantees of her future. In order to justify row hope, in
order to render our union at the same time efficacious
and worthy, there were wanting only two things,
which yet were very easy—to remain, on your part as on
mine, ((pally convinced of the nec2ssity of our union, and
to maintain a confidence equally solid in our mutual
sentiments. I have not doubted your devotedness to the
principle of monarchy ; and no one can call in question
my attachment to France, my respect for her glory, my
good wishes for ber greatness and her liberty; and my
sympathetic gratitude is given to those who have at every
period done for her what is good, useful, and great. I
have never ceased to think, I have always said, I have
always believed, and still believe, in the impropriety of re-
gulating, before the moment comes when Providence shall
impose on us that duty, questions which the interests and
the wishes of our country shall resolve. It is not while we
are far from France, and without France, that people can
dispose of her. Ido not the less preserve my profound
conviction that it is in the union of our house, and in
the common efforts of all the defenders of monarchical
institutions, that France will one day be saved, and her
saddest trials have not weakened my faith.

lIENar.

The Fusionists are exceedingly irritated at such
correspondence between the families, and the
quarrel about a white or parti-coloured piece of silk
or bunting is something ludicrous, and shows the
hollowness of the pretended reconciliation between
the families. The princes seem to forget that the
bear has first to be caught before one can sell his
skin.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MARCH 22.

The recall of the Austrian Charge d'Affaires from
Turin has been managed in a most undignified
way, and the "inspired" leaders in the Ost•Deutsche
Post are calculated to excite in the minds of the
public a suspicion that the Imperial Cabinet feels
it would have been better policy had it altogether
ignored the unseemly language of the Sardinian
press. Instead of simply and briefly informing the
public that the Austrian Government has ordered
Count Pear to quit his post at Turin and to return
to Vienna, the non-official organ tells a long
" rigmarole" story about the care which has been
taken " to deprive the measure of any character
that could be prejudicial to the cause of peace."
That Austria has
.just taken one of those half
measures for which she is renowned is evident
from the following. The Post says :

We are informed that Count Paar has neither been
instructed to demand his passports nor to notify to the
Sardinian Cabinet that the diplomatic relations between
the two Governments have been broken off. The Austrian
Charge d'Affaires will take leave of Count Cavour in the
way that is usual when a diplomatist is about to undertake
a journey. If he is not able positively to say when he
shall return, it is in consequence of circumstances over
which the Count C tvour, and not be, has con'rol. The
road to a more friendly policy will always be left open by
Austria.

As is almost always the case in articles the
materials for which aro supplied by the Foreign
office, mention is made of the interruption of
the diplomatic relations. The Austrian writer
says :

England and France endeavour to obtain froM Naples
concessions in matters connected with the internal adminis-
tration of the country; Austria has displayed snore
moderation, and she has besides been careful not to
employ any offensive form towards Sardinia, from whom
she demands nothing but loyalty.
_ _

Beth questions have both sides, and justice re-
quires that a few words should now be said in ex-
cuse of the policy of the Sardinian Government.
The violent attacks made on the Emperor of Austria
by the Turin press are greatly to be deplored, but
the hostility of Count Cavour and his colleagues to
Austria cannot excite the astonishment of those
persons who recollect the tone in which the organs of
the Austrian press were accustomed to speak of the
government and institutions of Sardinia before that
kingdom became the ally of the Western Powers.
Up to that time Sardinia was the party attacke.l
but since she fought side by side with England
and France in the Crimea, her press has carried
on an offensive instead of a defensive war against
Austria. When the Vienna papers question the
right of Sardinia to arm and strengthen the forti-
fications of Alessendria they make themselves
supremely ridiculous, for• it is a notorious fact that
the Austrian fortresses of Mantua, Verona, and
Peschiera are now nearly twice as strong as they
were in the year 1848. As to the Austrian fortress
of Piacenza, on the territory of the Duke of Parma,
very considerable sums of money have recently,
been expended in strengthening its works.
On the lath, Count Gyulai, the new Commander
of the Second or Austro Italian Army, went to
Venice, where he was received by the military
authorities with great ceremony. The Field.
Marshal paraded that part of the garrison which
was not on duty on the Place of St. Mark, and by
so doing he attained a double end. He showed
the inhabitants of the city that the garrison was a
powerful one, and introduced himself to the troops
as their commander in•chief. It is remarked
at Venice that the silver zwanziger is beginning to
be a rare coin. A great deal of foreign gold is in
circulation, and more particularly French, Pied-
moutese, and Roman coins. When their Majesties
went to Venice several millions of zwanzigers were
coined in the " Zecca" (the Mint at Venice is so
called, but not one of them is now to be seen.
It seems that they were bought up by the
money changers, and exported to Sardinia and
France, from which countries gold was sent back
in exchange.

It is stated that orders have been received to discontinue
the surveys about to be made of the two or three vessels
engaged to convey troops to China. The impression is
consequently entertained that, instead of troops being
despatched direct from England, troops will be removed
to that destination from Persia.

THE BREAK DOWN OF THE MADRID.—It iS expected
that the government will have to pay the expense of
sending on the Peninsular mails when the Madrid was
wrecked in consequence of the Board of Trade acquitting
the commander. The mail packet companies it appears
are not liable to such extra expenses when their steamers
are damaged at sea through no fault of the mail companies'
servants. When the Candia broke down through an
unavoidable accident in the Mediterranean a few months
since, the expense to the government of bringing her mails
home through France was nearly 41,000.
A letter from Smyrna gives a few details concerning
the loss of the Roscoe, already known by telegraph. An
Austrian steamer having arrived with intelligence that a
vessel, laden with coal, was on fire near Ghediz, the
admiral despatched the Brandon, steamer, to her assist-
ance. She proved to be the English brig Roscoe, which
was on shore, and burning furiously, in consequence of
the inflammable nature of the cargo, and the wind blow-
ing fresh at the time. The crew, nineteen in number, had
got into three boats, and been able to save some of their
property. Just after the arrival of the steamer, the brig,
having burned to the water's edge, filled and went down.
The crew were afterwards taken oil board the Brandon,
and conveyed to Smyrna. ,