New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-24

From the advices by the Emeu, which left Havre on
the Goth of December and arrived at New York on
the 18th inst, extract the following intelligence
Geographic dispatch from London, dated Decem-
ber %, says: ..-f. Wy
The Morning Post shows to-day, very gloomily,
that the mediation Of England between Switzerland
and Prussia will be fruitless.' ,. .5....-.
From other sources, however, the indications are
rather more favorable for peace.
The Patrae says g In England, the agitation
against the iGeome tax makes fresh progress. From
Dublin it has extended to Hudderield, Rochester,
Chattenham, Plymouth, Davenport and Stonehouse.
The principal authorities in the greater pa OF these
towns in favor of the abolition OF the tax which
they consider unjust and ty1annlcal" ,g--. .l ~.
The Constitutional announces that in all pEobabill
ty the Conference Of the Plenipotentaries woald be
held Oh Monday December 80, at the hotel OF the
Minister for Foreign Affairs. 20 :.
1t is stated in Paris letter in the EndncipateR, of
Brussels that the French Government has sent GER
tain number of pardons TO political offenders in French
Guiana. ..I5.. og-s
In regard to the Swiss and Prussion difficulty,
late Berlin paper says: ..r --5
We have to make some rectifcation in what was
mentioned relative to the late Conference held by
the representatives of foreign powers. The meeting
took place. not at the residence of the French Minis
ter but at that Of MI Fay, the American Diplomatic
Agent. NJ StHmpfi was not present at the Confer.
ence, but the English and American Ministers acted
as intermediates between the diplomatls.s and the
Federal Council, and throughout they eyinced the
greatest kindness towards Switzerland.
A telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin December
o. says:
The Diet has received from the Emperor Napoleon
| a proposition Of arrangement. ' 30 I
| Popular enthusiasm is very great. e ..-H
| The Swiss Confederation is organizing for the de.
fence of its territory An appeal has been addressed
to the Swiss women for service in the hospitals.
| ,r..sr -r The Paris Conferences. a.7I .-Ia
am able to inform you that final instructions have
| now been dispatched from the Government here to
our Ambassador at Paris relative to the conferences
Il is said to have been agreed amongst powers that
the sittings shall not exceed four in number. The
only two questions that will be discussedthat of Boil
grad and the Isle of Serpents-will be decided, as
already mentioned either for against Russia by the
majority Of plenpoentiaries present. The opposition
of England and Austria, in accord with Turkey
against the union of the Danubian Principalties re-
mains unshaken. Never will any power wrest con
cessons this subject from Austria Her great com
mercial and political interests will be constantly op
posed to all the dreams of the union of these two
tries This question cannot even form the object @
deliberations in the Congress- and it the eventually
of the annexation should be by chance raised, thu
Austrian Plenpotentiary has been enjolned to with
draw rather than to furnish by his presence any pre-
text for the introduction of the discussion of that
ton in one of the four sttings of the Congress
Liberty of the Press III Sweden.
The liberty Of the Press has Just achieved triumph
in Sweden. The four Chambers of the Diet have
unanimously rejected bill of last session, whicl
from the constitution and places in the rank
ordinary laws that which guarantees the liberty o
the Press. In the Chamber of Mobiles, one Of tn
Ministers, NJ de Grippenstadt, made sort of apolog
for presenting the bill, saying 8 Ministers are rner
and as such are liable to commit errors9 The rele
ton took place almost without discussion, in th
Chamber Of the Clergy and Of the Bourgeose.
the Chamber of Peasants fifty members spoke again
the measure. The last speaker in concluding, said
lhe liberty of the Press is the tongue OF the natio
and the wish now is to cut it out. Will you allo
: that to be done?' NO no! thousand times NJ
God preserve us from it y was the cry of all tt
t Others The President then declared the discussit
to be closed, and at once proclaimed the rejection
f. the bill. 4 . ... . . .-5. .r-,-.. ..s.-.r-.