Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Marseilles steamer from Constantinople
brings letters from that capital up to the 30th ult.,
Which confirm the accounts of the step taken by M.
de Thouvenal, with the tacit support of the Minis-
ters of Prussia, Sardinia, and Russia. It appears
that a note, identical in sense, was communicated
by each of the four Ministers to the Porte ; and
that it was after their reception Reschid Pacha
gave in his resignation. It appeal 4 that Engtand
and Austria have stood firmly by the Porte in its
difficulties. The Trieste steamer, which was to
have left on the Ist, will furnish us With additional
and more accurate particulars of this unfortunate
crisis.

The Austrian Correspondence publishes a telegra-
phic despatch (rota Constantinople of the sth,
according to which M. de Thouvenal had hauled
down his flag on the refusal of the Sultan to recall
the Caimacans, and had manifested the intention
of embarking for France in a few days. The Sultan
,has declared that he will address himself to the
Emperor Napoleon by writing. It was hoped that
a satisfactory arrangement would, nevertheless, be
.concluded.

According to private letters received at Bremen
by the last mail from Hong Kong, the Americans
haveoccupied the island of Formosa on the Chi-
nese coast. The important step could not well
have occurred without its becoming known to the
British authorities in Hong Kong, and we may
therefore consider the information as incorrect.
From the salubrity and the great advantages of
Formosa it would be highly -desirable that that
island should be converted into a British station ;
such is probaby its destiny.
The trial of the three Italians has ter-
minated. The same absence of public interest
Was manifested. Tibaldi appeared paler and more
.anxious than yesterday; the same remark may be
applied to Grilli. Bartolotti exhibited, on the
other hand, the same indifference. The Procureur
General commenced his case by denouncing
Campanella, Massarenti, Tibaldi, Grilli, and
,Bartolotti as the active instruments of the plot,
while he attributed the organization of the
-same to Ledru Rollin and Mazzini. M. Das-
merat, the counsel for Tibaldi, asserted, in
favour of his client, that nothing had been
proved by the prosecution, that certain great
shadows been raised beyond the frontiers, but
that his salient knew nothing of them, and was in-
nocent of the conspiracy. Grilli's counsel, M. Lacan,
then -rose, and maintained that his client had
aecepted money for the purpose of assassinating
the Emperor, but that he had never for one
moment really entertained any criminal idea ; that
he had, moreover, never carried a weapon about him
when in the streets. M. Lecanu, the counsel for
Bartolotti, engaged in the same line of defence,
and maintained the innocence of the . latter.
The proceedings were tame beyond description.
The opinion of the public is that nothing in the
evidence has tended to incriminate Ledru Rollin,
and that the authorities have committed an error in
accusing him formally of complicity in the last plot.
The evidence given by Gerana, respecting the in-
- tended assassin Koelsch, cannot be said to belong
-to the present case ; and in England that evidence
would probably not have been accepted. The
complicity of the Italians in London, including
Mazzini, appears less dubious.