Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

ARRESTS AT GENOA.

The Piedmontese Gazette of the 4th states that
the number of persons arrested at Genoa is fifty-
two, including thirty-two Piedmontse subjects—
viz ,' twenty-three Genoese, six natives of La
Spezia, one of G-hiavari, one of Alessandria and
one of Mortara. The remaining twentycomprise one
Frenchman, five Parm ese, seven Lombards, six from
Romagna, and one from Modena. Forty-two belong
to various trades, two are servants, and there are
besides two landowners, a journalist, a secretary, a
clerk, and two students. To these particulars the
Opinione of Turin adds the fdllowing :—" On the
Ist several armed men were discovered concealed
in a coach-house. They had been there since the
preceding day, but had not dared to stir, having
learnt that the authorities were on the alert.
Mazzini has certainly been at Genoa, and was
seen at Albano about the 30th ult, Miss
White, an English lady, who, according to the
Armenia of Turin, had been ordered away from
Genoa, is still there." The Cattoheo of Genoa states
that several arrests have been made among
the Piedmontese navy ; that the surgeon of the
regiment of Savoy stationed at Genoa has corn-
mitteed suicide by taking poison ; and that there
has been an attempt at disturbance at La Spezia.
A supplement to the Italia e Popolo the Mazzi-
nian journal published at Genoa, and whose
chief editor has been arrested, was seized on the
3rd. On the subject of Mazzini the Gazetta del
Popolo of Turin says—" It is stated that Mazzini
was concealed at Genoa, and that he was to appear
at the head of a Praetorian guard as soon as the
attempt had succeeded ; he was then to have
established a provisional government in the ducal
palace. He is said, however, to have been much
astonished on being informed of the small number
of persons prepared for the movement; while be
had been told that several thousands were ready.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

The triumph, by—on an average—more than
1,000 votes each, of all three of the opposition can-
didates at the second elections for Paris, has as
much surprised the victors as it has disappointed
the government. Yesterday afternoon the issue
of the struggle was considered most doubtful,
the republican committee, knowing the im-
mense influence that was brought to bear
against them, were resigned to defeat ; but
the most sanguine did not venture to hope
for the election of more than two out of the three
of their men. Paris has given its " lesson to
government." Out of the eight seats allotted by
the Constitution to intramural Paris, five are
now filled by opposition members. Even includ-
ing the banlieue as part of the city, one-half of
the entire population has pronounced for the
republicans. The names of Cavaignac, Carnot,
Goudchaux, 011ivier, and Darimon—elected by
the rich quarters of the Banque and the Boule-
vards, the traders and manufacturers of the Rues
Montmartre, St. Denis, and the corresponding
faubourgs, and the bourgeoisie and the opera-
tives of the quarters of the Temple, Faubourgh St
Antoine, and Faubourg St. Marc mu—protest loudly
against the opinion that Paris is resigned to the
loss of political liberty. The victory has been
achieved in spite of a serious division among the
leaders of a democratic party, which at one time
threatened to make the movement abortive
—in spite of the objections of many liberals
to vote for men who they assume will be deterred
by the oath from taking their seats—in spite of
the entire influence of the executive power con-
centrated at these second elections upon the three
circumscriptions of Paris alone—in spite of alarm-
ing and furious articles of the government press de-
nouncing the opposition candidates and their sup-
porters asrebels and socialists, notwithstanding the
entire absence of public meetings and electionering
speeches to excite the population—and notwith-
standing the degree of apathy necessarily result-
ing from the consciousness that no immediate
practical result was to he expected from success
Who shall say now, when English journalists
express their doubts as they are wont to do, at long
intervals, and with moderation and reserve, whether
the present despotic system is calculateci t9_ 10kat

long in France—that they meddle with matters
of which they know nothing, and insult France
by criticising institutions with which Frenchmen
are content? Hereafter when the Emperor takes
his drive in the capital it will be impossible for the
accounts of his enthusiastic reception in the
Moniieur to chase from his mind this thought—
that at least every other man he sees has voted
against him, and that a vast proportion of the others
are functionaries, government purveyors, de-
pendents, or emploges, whose support is only to be
relied upon so far as their immediate pecuniary in-
terests are concerned. So far as I can hear, how-
ever, there is not the least intention of accepting the
lesson. The task of governing Paris by the
votes of the ignorant masses of the peasantry
will be persevered in with new ardour, and it
is more than probable that the press, whose
short saturnalia of liberty has produced such
an unlooked-for result, will be subjected to new
restrictions.

The Estafette has received a warning for an
article of yesterday, and has not appeared this
evening. lam not sure whether the warning is
not a third one, which may be accompanied with
suspension.

You will remember that simultaneously with the
second elections in the departments there were to be
three others in the departments—namely, in the
Maine and Loire, Somme and Mayenne. No
complete or positive news of the results have been
received. I hear it said that M. Delamarre, the
editor of the Patrie, who was the government can-
didate in the Somme, has been thrown out in
favour of M de Morgan, and I think the news
probable. In the town of Angers (Maine and
Loire) M. Bordillon, the opposition candidate,
polled 4,222 votes against 1,700, given to M. Dubois,
the government candidate.

The government evening papers cannot find a
word to say about the issue of the Paris elections.
The Presse asks what the Constitationne/ and
Patrie now think of the tactics which they have
so obstinately pursued, of giving a sinister sig-
nification to the opposition candidatures. Will
they now respect the constitutionally elected
representatives of universal suffrage whom they
yesterday insulted.
The Courrier de Paris says :
The electoral period has thus terminated by a result
completely at variance with the fears or hopes of the
abstentioais,s. The partisans of universal suffrage have
reason to rejoice at the calm with which this solemn
demonstration has been accomplished. The agitation,
scarcely perceptible, has been legal, regular pacific, and
the population of Paris has, by its dignified attitude,
worthily responded to the slanders of its habitual ac-
cusers.