New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-01-31
N'oHeign Items.
The Liverpool Post Of the 10th inst. say

The Liverpool Post of the 10th inst. says:
| private dispatch was received yesterday in
| Liverpool, conveying intelligence part of which
cannot be believed, and the rest of which will re-
quire explicit confirmation It is to the effect that
the Bank of France is about to suspend cash pay
ments, and that NJ. Mres, the fnancier and con-
tractor for the Turkish loan, has already stopped
for is 600 600 francs. The former part of the
story. in itself incredible, is discountenanced by
the fact that monetary matters were easier in Lon
don yesterday, although the Stock Exchange set
Ting of to-day had, by anticipation, perceptible
influence on the market. M Mres is not in good
odor, and queer stories have been prevalent re-
specting him; but he is SO we'll befriended that
things must be at strange pass if he has been al
lowed to succumb. We mention these runors
simply because they are too important to be pass
ed over; but we have received no confirmation of
them, and we know of nothing which disposes US
to pnt faith in them.
The Paris correspondent of the London Post
says:
Several continental journals have lately an
nounced that Piedmont would assuredly commence
hostilities against Austria in the spring Permit
me to state the real views of the Cabinet of King
Victor Emanuel Count Cavour, who inspires the
policy of Italy, desires, on the contrary to avoid
war If it were possible to come to an arrange
ment for uniting Venetia to the new kingdom of
Italy, there is every disposition en- the part of the
King of Italy and his advisers to renew friendly
lations with Austria. Francis Joseph himself is
daily approaching the policy of Victor Emanuel in
theory. Each sovereign holds, or appears to hold,
the same views, and diplomatists are asking, why
should not crowned heads shake hands and govern
for the good of the people? The Russian Ambas-
sador at Paris has received instructions to employ
every effort in his power to persuade the Emperor
to continue his protection of King Francis at
iGaeta. This originates in a debt of gratitude the
Gar Alexander owes the Bourbon for the aid the
late Ferdinand II, of the Two Scilies, Gaccorded to
Nicholas during the Crimean war. 1t results,
therefore, that sort Of compromise has been ar
ranged, The French feet is to leave Gaeta after
period only. Now the Russian version of the state
Of affairs is, that France will continue indefinitely
to protect the King On the other hand, the Cab
met of Turin rests under a conviction that Napo
leon III will ere long completely abandon the
Bourbon TO his fate, after going through the form
of an arnistice.
The Vienna correspondent of the London Times
says:
The fermcnt in Russian Poland is so great that
we may, perhaps, have Polish question to discuss
in the spring.
According to the Augsburg Gazette, the Austrian
forces in Yenetia consist Of 1873 600 infantry, 50
batteries of field artillery, 10000 of the corps of
engineers and 5000 cavalry. These figures do not
include the garrisons in the forts and the men in
the navy. As reserve, there IS 900 soldiers in
the neighborhoed of Trieste, and along the coasts
Of fsthria and Damatia, their headquarters being
Trieste, and 1000 men in styria, lllyria and Ca
rnthia headquarters, Gratz
private dispatch from Glasgow, via Queens
town, on the 18th, reports the arrival of the John
Fyfe az Greenock and also great destruction to
shipping from ice.
The Official Wurtemhurg Gazette says that the
military forces of Prussia are disposed along the
Rhine and in Westphalia; that prompt change of
position would suffice to put the whole army in
line. The German federal army is completely
equipped, and could present itself TO the enemy
| with very little delay.