The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

THE WAR. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. THE intelligence transmitted by various means from the army in front of Sebastopol continues to be of the same inconclusive character with 'that which has been lately chronicled. Indefatigable industry, rewarded by-slow progress towards the desired con summation, is the characteristic of the work ; and that is from time to time varied by sharp trial of the vigilance and bravery of the besieging forces. Bold sorties on the part of the garrison have been made on different occasions, and with great determination on the part of the enemy, both against - the French and English works of approach ; but these have ended in defeat of the Russians and a further demon stration of the excellent disposition, skilful handling, and personal bravery of the Allied troops. On the nights between the 14th and 15th, and between the 16th and 17th of July, two desperate sorties were made by the Russians with a view - to drive . the French from their most advanced works in their approach to the Malakhoff; but in both instances the assault was vigorously repelled, the English artillery rendering most efficient aid in support of their Allies. The works of the besiegers now all but touch the main defences, and everything gives token that an important action against the place is immi nent. An expedition is also said to been active pre paration ; its actual destination is not annonnced, and, in the absence of positive information, rumour, as is usual in such cases, is busy in supplying conjectural intelligence as to its destination and object. Some will have it as intended for a hostile demonstration against Odessa, while others maintain that it is in tended to operate at Perekop, for the purpose of cutting off communication between Taurida and-the Crimea. In the meantime reports as to the present condition of Sebastopol represent that city as in a miserable plight. The inhabitants are driven from their houses by the shot and shell poured upon them from the English and French batteries. The public and civic officers are .all, it is understood, removed into Fort Nicholas, as has also been the greater portion of the merchandise belonging to the commercial inhabitants, and "in short," as is said in a letter from a Russian merchant still resident in Sebastopol, " the whole town has moved into Fort Nicholas." In reference to the sorties, the correspondent of the .Desily News, writing from the camp on - lif 16th of July, says : The enemy made a sortie against the advancing sap of our allies on the Malakhoff Hill on the night of the 14th and 15th instant. The attack was preceded by the usual characteristic yell of the Russians, but this cry was only raised at the mo ment of coming upon the troops covering the working parties. The night was dark, and a high wind was blowing; a sharp fire of musketry was seen to last for about half-an-hour, and then subsided; about an hour afterwards, another fusillade was noticed in the same direction, but speedily terminated. The ex planation given by the French is, that the enemy came suddenly and in great force upon the working parties before the latter bad time to make necessary arrangements to meet the attack. Hence some confusion ensued at first, and the French, not with out a severe struggle, however, had to retire to the nextcovered way. At the time of the sortie our allies were connecting some small ambuscades which they had thrown up in aline in front of their advanced trench. These being joined together, and a communication established with the trench behind, the third branch of the zigzag advancing up the Malakhoff Hill would be completed. The object of the Russsans was to arrest the pro gress of this work, and to destroy what had been already done. As soon, therefore, as the French had retired, the enemy com menced levelling the parapets, and filling up the trench. In the mean time the French, being joined by their reserves, formed again for the attack, and at a given signal rushed sud denly upon the Russians. The latter were taken unawares. A consideral number had laid aside their arms and accoutre ments, andwerebusilyengagedin shovelling down the parapets. After firing one volley, the French charged with the bayonet, and a precipitate retreat of the Russians followed. A large I quantity of arms and appointments were left in the hands of the French. The commencement of - the attack occurred between one and two o'clock, a.m. The enemy did not attempt to renew it. In the course of the night the French not only repaired the mischief done by the enemy, but extended the trench considerably. The Russian loss is stated to be very severe, compared with that of the French, numbers having fallen in the second charge. One officer and several men were taken prisoners. The French loss is reported as one officer and thirty men. JULY 17.—About 11 o'clock last night, while the batteries were in a state of temporary repose, the stillness was suddenly broken by loud shouting and bugle sounds in the direction of the Malakhoff. It was just the night for making a sortie, and the Russians had evidently taken advantage of it to make one on a large scale. The attack lasted about twenty minutes, though dropping shots of musketry, and an occasional discharge of projectiles from the batteries, continued for nearly an hour . Writing from the same plac e on th e 20th, h e sa y s : The new approaches continue to make satisfactory progress, although on our side the advance made is not so obvious to observation as that made by our Allies. Their works seem, indeed, when observed from certain points of view, to be almost in contact with the .b.ttie of tb. Mal 4, '"r` h " l "'- actual distance between them is probably not more than eighty or one hundred yards. • They have carried their trenches forward with remarkable determination and perseverance, notwithstanding the heavy direct fire of shell, grape, and musketry from the Korniloff bastion above, and an equally severe flanking fire from the batteries on either side. The French works carried forward on the right, towards the line of Russian batteries extending from the Malakhoff-hill to the west side of Careening harbour, though occupying a vast extent of ground, appear in a very secure and complete state. The enemy has not made any sortie of a serious nature since the night between the 16th and 17th instant. They probably suffered very severely on tblit occasion, for they are reported to have advanced in very considerable force, and the discharge of shells and other projectiles in the direction along which they must have retired, was terrific. Their reserves also could hardly have escaped from the incessant shower which was kept up during the attack itself. Although the contest was hotly maintained for some time, either from the advantage of position or some such cause, our Allies do not appear to have suffered so much as might have been expected on the occasion. Our casualities, both among men and officers, during the past week, have been less numerous than usual. Among the latter, however, the death of Captain Rowland Fraser, of the 42d Highlanders, has to be recorded. He was unfortunately killed by a fragment of shell on the night of the 16th instant, while on duty in the right attack. The shell struck him in the body, and his death followed almost immediately afterwards. "Under the same date, the correspondent of the Times says, in reference to the spirits of the troops, their condition, and that of the weather : To-day there has been a veritable July sun ; not a breath of air has been stirring. Over the Black Sea hangs the mist which always appears when the sun pours down his rays with more than usual power. Firing slack this morning; but towards afternoon it has increased considerably, and at the present moment there is a sharp cannonade kept up from the Malakhoff, and now and then a volley of musketry an nounces that the skirmishers are at work. We have con structed another batteryof two Lancaster guns to the left, and in advance of the 21-gun battery. Somewhat more to the left a battery of six guns had been raised to fire on the shipping, but it having been found that the position was too low for the purpose, mortars have been substituted, and the battery will, no doubt, open in a few days. The Lancasters have not yet been mounted, but will probably be in position to-morrow. The health of the men is still excellent, and their spirits do not in the least suffer by the length and wearisomeness of the siege. The summer is cool ; and as the Russians of late make very few sorties, the nights are passed without much hardship in the trenches. When formed in marching order to descend the oft-trodden ravines which lead to the batteries, there is neither despondency nor unwillingness ; the laugh and the joke accompany their steps ; their air is brisk and alert : how different from their appearance in the gloomy season of last December ! The noise of skittles is to be heard on every side, and the regimental bands, with sadly diminished num bers indeed, but still effective for amusement, give the various popular airs to which we are accustomed at home. Cathcart's hill is every evening the lounge of hundreds of idlers, who, stretched at length on the dried grass, or sitting on the piles of stones which enclose many an honoured grave, look down on the beleagured city, and watch the flashes which burst from Mamelon, Malakhoff, or Redan with a lazy indifference. Writing on the 21st, the same correspondent says :-- Amid the returning heat which has followed the stormy weather of last week, the operations of the siege are being pressed forward by the French on our rig with inde fatigable industry. There is nothing in what goes forward which can strike a stranger; stagnation seems to reign in camp and trenches; even the heavy fire of a few days since has for the most part died away ; yet every day an advance is made, and every day sees the allies nearer the crest of the Malakhoff, which it will now require all the courage and tenacity of the Russians to hold. The Malakhoff and Mame ion stand on an elevated plateau, while the ridge that joins them is itself higher than the land around. It i§ along this ridge that the French sap extends in a zigzag to within 170 yards of the hill which the Russians hold. As the incline is somewhat steep, the French working parties are already out of the reach of the Russian guns, which cannot be suffi ciently depressed to be used against them. They, therefore, can work on without danger, except from the riflemen, who hold every spot of vantage, and use their best endeavours to pick off every enemy who shows a part of his cap within their range; but, as these can be replied to by French marks men while the guns of the Mamelon are hourly thunder ing against the Russian stronghold, the advantage is clearly on the side of the French. The latter have also thrown a small battery of field-pieces at the end of their sap, which have hitherto prevented the egress and formation of Russian troops for a sortie against them. These guns entirely command the points on which the Russians are in the habit of leaving their works, and they consequently have been reduced to reply to all the advances of their enemy merely by fires of musketry from the embrasures. The day before yesterday, however, a few Russians straggled out, here and there, making their way by dodging behind clumps of earth and bushes, until they had reached about eighty yards from the parapet, when they threw th emselves on their fa ces , and began digging up earth for cover. The French seemingly did not observe the movement, and our People.not catching sight of the venturesome Mus covites until they were actually fixed in the position which they wished to attain, fancied them to be French. By this means the Russians have established rifle pits in front of the Frenc h sap, where they will do the usual amount of damage, speedily driveaniont. On the 19th, the French, unless they . be si gns of activity g the Russians on their left, observing opened a furious fire from all towards th a t part of the town. The fire, wh why as in any of the bombardments, continued for about half eav an hour, and, having apparently effected its object, ceased. On the side of the Ma. lakhoff the French have discovered the. way by wh ic h the Russsian reserves are moved into the works. It appears that two deep trenches lead to the Malakhoff , one on the side of the Red an , an d th e o th er on the side of the Little Redan, towards Careening Bay. To interrupt, at least, ' the latter means of communication, the French have esta blished a small battery, which is as yet unmasked. It will play on the covered way on the side of the Little Re dan, and to a great extent stop the Russian reserve coming up , whilst the French are assaulting - the works thems selves. To-day the Tartar inhabitants cf the villages in the plain of Baidar and along the coast eastward of Cape Aia began returning to their homes. It is not much that a Tartar generally possesses, but of the little they left behind them they will find nothing. Every cottage has been unroofed, and every thing that was worth carrying away has disappeared. Even articles that could hardly be conceived to have any attraction, such as portions of a wine-press or old - casks, have been labo riously dragged away by the Turks totheir camp. On the fruit trees there is not a vestige of anything edible. However, the their former fears to be gro un dl ess , or re - Tartars, imagining ceiving a cold welcome from the Russians who occupy the range of heights above the valley, have returned to their old homes, and-no doubt will be unmolested. Theancient Scythians could not more completely have carried their household goods with them on their wandering carts than the Crirn Tartar transports his effects on one or two creaking arabas. Long lines of these vehicles now crowd the rood which leads from the east of Baidar, Kamara, and the valley of the Tchernaya. They may be heard half-a-mile off by the incessant creaking of their wheels, on which no drop of oil ever comes. These Tartars are a race physically inferior to the Turks, and seem to be kept down by ignorance which no ray of education ever enlightens, and by poverty from which no spirit of enterprise ever raises them. As they slowly moved past, carrying their beds, cloth ink:, and cooking utensils on a miserable cart, it is evident how vain is the dream to expect any assistance from them in war, or to cherish any ideas of their - restoration when peace is gained. Concerning - the actual position of the besiegers and the besieged, in relation to each other, the following shrewd and interesting observations occur in a leading article in the Morniizy Post of Friday " It is," it says,. " the north of Sebastopol which feeds, and all along has fed the south. The passage of the Bay of Inker man is necessary to this sustained support. The Malakhoff Tower commands the passage, and dominates the whole lower town. Therefore, the capture of the Malakhoff Tower would lead in its train to the surrender, or gradual and certain oc cupation, of-the lower town—to the -sweeping of the Bay of Inkermann by the besiegers' guns—to the destruction of the navy therein imprisoned (yet active and powerful)—to the opening of the port, the breaking of the bar or stockade, and the probable-subjugation of the fire from Fort Constantine. Sebastopol would then be no more. There would indeed re main a few powerfully situated forts, which would have, however, to fight for their vivers under new and precarious conditions. For present purposes, then, we may safely con clude that the Malakhoff Tower (which commands the Redan) is Sebastopol. As the Malakhoff commands all the south, or now assailed portion of Sebastopol, so the Brancion Redoubt, or Mamelon, commands the Malakhoff. 'Now, this being so, there are two interesting particulars; first, what the Russians said about our getting the original key of this position; and, secondly, into what situation the captors have, by that and the ulterior success, been practically conducted. The Russians in the outset—having made desperate exertions to defend what was the very door of their safe,' and finding that our allies, on the night of the 22nd of May, although victorious, had retired after the first nocturnal battle—pro claimed a thanksgiving and sang a pnan, Prince Gortscha koff sent, on the strength of the same event, a very curious report to his government. It is still more curious that he has sent no report whatever (at least, none that was published) of what took place on the night following. The mere truth is that 26 Russian battalions were soundly beaten, in a whole day's fighting, by 10 battalions of French, collected from all parts of the empire (African alike and French proper); then the Russians recovered their ground, only on permission and sufferance, for a few hours, and the next evening, although largely reinforced, they lost them definitively. The Malakhoff Tower, the guns of which certainly do command the Redan, is situated on a sort of siiveau or level height, the extremity of which is now in the possession of the French, and is called the Mamelon. But at the Mamelon this height declines downward, and looks into the valley of the Tchernaya, bend ing from Inkerman towards Balaklava. And between this conquered point and the Russian ' strength,' the ground rises again ; so that, properly speaking, neither the Malakhoff Tower nor the Brandon Redoubt rules the other, although the possession of the latter by the defender impedes against the former by the assailants. The French have securely established themselves in this once formidable outpost, have advanced, by invisible and underground zig-zags, within 150 yards 4, the tower. At the mouth of the covered way they have established a battery of light guns to check sallies. The approach is sure, though slow." The following is from The Times correspondent : KAMABA, JULY 24. Omar Pasha has not yet returned from Constantinople, and the idea is more and more gaining ground that he will not again return to the Crimea. But, nevertheless, he is expected back by the soldiers with great anxiety. In the rear—for since all idea of an advance on this side has been given up we again form the rear—there is nothing new, except that some English light cavalry had been sent down to the Vale of Baidar. They are detachments of the 4th Light Dragoons, the Bth and 11th Hussars, and the 17th Lancers, and they have occupied an open place alongside an old Tartar cemetery, near the Woronzow-road, where this latter begins to ascend towards the sea. _ _ The French have moved on to Tchouliou, near the bridge leading over the Tchernaya. Here this latter river forms our boundary. It is occupied in its whole length from the spot where it comes out of its native mountains, near the village of Skelir, down to Inkermann. The only exception forms that part of it where, leaving the Valley of Baidar, it runs through a precipitous narrow gorge, which defends itself, being only, and that with considerable difficulty, accessible to pedestrians down to Tchorgoun, where it leaves this gorge. Our outposts were, until lately, everywhere on the opposite bank of the respect. The Russians had, for some time past, been seen working on the road leading up to 3lackenzie's Farm. In the begin ning it looked as if they were fortifying, but it soon became clear that, on the contrary, they were repairing the road, where it had been cut up, in order to make it inaccessible to any advancing force. Lately they have come down and re paired likewise the battery which commands the ascent of the road, and which had been destroyed by the French on the occasion of their advance to the Tchernaya. In consequence of this movement of the Russians, the French outposts retired over the bridge of Traktir. All this looks as if the Russians had some intentions to attack us, instead of waiting for our advance. On the night of Sunday and Monday we had some heavy firing in front. According to the accounts which have reached us, the French were vigourously attacked by the Russians in the Mamelon works, but repulsed the attack. The High landers are spoken of as having taken a considerable part in repelling the Russians. But you will hear all about this from your correspondent in the British camp ; I give you only the version which is afloat in the Turkish camp. Ox the 30th ult., Patrick Nelson, a mason's labourer, and another Irish labourer, named Wilkinson, were at a public house, in Buyers-green, when the former began to boast how much he could drink. Wilkinson bet him half-a-crown he could not drink twenty glasses of whiskey in an hour. They each put down half-a-crown, and the whiskey was ordered in. Deceased drunk all off in about eight minutes, and then offered to drink other twenty, but the landlady refused to bring him any more. In about half-an-hour he fell off his seat, and became speechless and insensible, and soon after died.—Durham Advertiser. TUB New POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.—Great numbers of stamped newspapers sent through the post-office have been charged postage owing to the paper not being folded so that the whole of the stamp is " exposed to- view and distinctly visible on the outside." Persons forwarding newspapers by post would do well to observe this condition of transmission. On the first day of the new arrangements thousands upon thousands of papers were cancelled at St. Martin's-le-Grand. In many instances the papers had not been folded so as to show the stamp, and in others the postage stamp put upon the unstamped paper and supplement was not enough for the weight. The excitement was so great that it actually proved fatal to the sanity of one of the most respectable news-agents in the metropolis. The general mixture of his journals, stamped with unstamped, the mistakes of his news-boys, the cries of others who came as customers, the lateness of the hour, and the impossibility of keeping his engagements with his subscribers, were too much for a mind previously harassed by domestic trouble, and in the midst of the uproar he went crazy —literally mad.—Cambridge Press. TUB TREATY wrrir SIAM.—The Times, referring to the commercial treaty just concluded through the agency of Sir John Bowring with the King of Siam, says—" We regard the conclusion of this treaty as a matter of very real and reason able congratulation. Even under the old prohibitive system the trade with Siam was by no means insignificant, and, now that it is thrown open, it bids fair to attain very considerable extension. The country produces very good sugar, rice, and woods for dyeing, so that it must have considerable purchasing power, and the accession of 6,000,000 customers cannot fail to be felt in our centres of industry at home, and add fresh ac tivity to the busy mart of Singapore. We hope that peace and harmony may long prevail between the two nations, and that our new friend and his successors, content with a free com mercial intercourse, will abstain from provoking a power which desires nothing better than to leave them in undisturbed pos session of their crown and territory. Nor in a political point of view is this treaty less agreeable. The King of Siam has, no doubt, been subjected to numerous solicitations from Rus sia and the United States of America, an d if h e h as pre f erre d our friendship to theirs it is probably because he thought us the most favourable to his independence, and the least likely to interfere with his patrimony. This Prince, had he been disposed to be troublesome, might, had he sided with Burmah, have afforded us a good -deal of annoyance, and has, by his ready acquiescence in our views, considerably diminished the chance of a fresh rupture between us and the Court of Ara." PUBLIC HORSEWHIPPING: 7 On Friday, when one of the Patrick omnibusses was starting from Argyl e - s t ree t , a gen tleman of high standingin Glasgow made his appearance at the place, and was about to step into the vehicle. Before he had time to do so, however, another gentleman who had been seated on the top, decended to the pavement in great haste, and taking from his pocket a horsewhip, commenced applying it with all his might to the back and shoulders of the other. At this unexpected salute the latter very naturally turned round, and, trying to defend himself as well as he could, ex claimed, " What do you mean, sir ? who are you ? wh a t i s the meaning of this ?" or some words to that effect. His as sailant, who seemed to be frantic with rage, replied that he knew him well enough, and again commenced to lay on the whip with great energy. The other, who remained cool and passive under his severe castigation, protested that he did not know his assailant, that he could not understand what he meant, and that there must be some mistake in the matter. The gentleman who wielded the whip replied in very strong language, branded the other as a liar, and accused him of in sulting a certain lady—handing at the same time his card. By this time some of the police interfered, a considerable crowd had assembled, and both the gentlemen were dragged or mobbed into the omnibus-office, where, amid another explo sion of anger, and a very free application of not the most courteous language, the whip was again in requisition, and laid on with great vigour. At last the parties were separated, and both proceeded to the omnibus. The gentleman first in troduced to our readers as being of distinguished celebrity, and who had submitted with singular temper to this unex pected flagellation, took his seat in the inside. The other, who is also a gentleman of standing in Glasgow, and moves in the best circles, took his seat on the top ; and so away went the omnibus, leaving the astonished spectators behind to form their own speculations. On the part of the gentleman who suffered this public assault an appeal is about to be made to legal proceedinge.--.-Glasgow Gazette. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PnA-KcE.—The official report gives the amount subscribed for the new French loan at the enormous sum of three thou sand six hundred millions of francs, £144 , ,000,000 sterling! or more than five times the amount required. The subscribers number 310,000. The subscriptions of -50 f. reach 230,000,000 f. These latter , are accepted in full.—The large force which has been -collecting at Marseilles for some time, is about to leave in - 07-steamers, chartered for the Crimea. Each vessel,will carry 600 men- The flotilla will make a trial trip before pro ceeding to the seat of war.—A smart shock of an earthquake occurred at Lyons on the 25th, and occasioned some slight damage to several houses. Letters from the provinces speak of the shock having been felt distinctly at 'Strasburg, Mul house, Metz, Grenoble, Besancon, Auxonne, and Dijon, but no -casualties are reported in any of those places.—TheEm peror and Empress reached Paris on Monday evening, having left Bordeaux at eight in the morning, and stopped at An gouteme; -Tours, and Aubrais. Their Majesties will, it is said, take up their residence at the Chateau of Villeneuve-l'Etance while awaiting the arrival of the Queen of England. The Empress-is much improved in health. SPazN.--Advices from Barcelona speak of the ruinous effects of the insurrection. Many of the influential manufacturers and opulentindividuals had , left, or were preparing to leave that city;' five hundred millions of reels have been withdrawn from circulation, and thousands of the working population had been reduced to hopeless beggary.—A despach of the 30th from Madrid states that the governors of provinces have claimed the church property confiscated by the new Jaw. Tim sales will soon-commence.—A letter of the 27th says The mar riage which it was believed had been resolved on between a daughter cf Don Francisco de Paula and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, appears to have been broken off. The Prince-sud denly quitted the Court, which is at the Escurial, to comellere, and he-is immediately to leave for Munich. It is said that he has been summoned home immediately to join, the army, but it is possible that this has been done only to cause the mar riage to fail. SWITZERLAND.—A letter in the Times thus describes- the earthquake near Mont Cervin, Switzerland :—" The impres sion given to those within this house was that some powerful agent had violently shaken the house backwards and forwards. The ceilings were cracked and portions of plaster fell, stones were thrown from the roofs of the chalets, and large blocks of rock were hurled down from the mountains." The greatest damage done by the earthquake was at Loueche (Valais) in Switzerland, where an hotel was thrown down. The persons who were in it escaped with difficulty. TIIRKEY.—A conflagration took place at Constantinople on the 17th of July, and for a time exposed the French military workshops 'to imminent danger. _ The fire began just after noon, and, favoured by the heat of the sun and an impetuous changing wind, consumed 130 houses. The buildings occupied by the French were entirely of wood, and were only saved by the incessant exertions of the pompiers, who likewise saved many of the houses of the town, which must otherwise have been destroyed. A letter from Constantinople of July 19 says: "The Sultan has ordered magnificent necklaces in brilliants to be made, as -presents for Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugenie, and saddles, also embroidered in brilliants, to be made for the Emperor, the King of Sardinia, and Prince Albert. The value of these presents will be about 2,000,000 f. Ethem Pasha, Minister of Public Works in Egypt, has arrived here. He accompanies the sister of the Viceroy, who was married to Kianil Pasha. ex-President of the Grand Council. Abbas Pasha forced thecouple to separate, but since his death they have become reconciled, and again live together." Russra.—The Russian government not having offered any difficulty about the exchange of prisoners, preparations are being made by the French commander-in-chief to liberate as many as possible from Odessa.—A private letter from St. Petersburg states that the Czar had given orders for every inch of ground to be contested at Sebastopol, and that the public buildings were to be blown up in case the allies succeed in passing the second line of defence. The same communica tion states that the army in Asia was to be considerably aug mented. GREECE.—A private letter from Athens announces that the currants appear to have escaped this year the fatal malady of the vines, which devastated them for three years consecutively. It also states that the Mavrocordato Ministry has become con solidated since the entrance of Lycurgus Crestinitis and of Zygomalas into the cabinet. These two energetic Ministers, in concert with General Kalergi and M. Mavrocordato, have succeeded in baffling, for the present, the intrigues of the Russian party, who, still headed by the Queen, make desperate efforts to overthrow the present Administration, all whose sympathies, as you are aware, are for the Western Powers. SYRIA.—A letter from Syria announces that an insurrection had broken out at Hebron, under the command of a certain Abdelrahman, and that in an encounter between his forces and those of the government upwards of 200 men of both sides had been slain. Abdelrahman, it is added, held forcible possession of Hebron ; but the government was preparing irregular troops to march against him. EGYPT.—We learn from Cairo that on the 21st of July the Austrian Archduke had arrived, and that the Viceroy of Egypt was in negotiation with the revolted Bedouins, in order to obtain money and men to serve in the Crimea. SOUTH AMERICA.—By the steamer Iberia arrived at Southampton, we learn that the Portuguese steamer Dom Pedro 11. arrived at Lisbon on the 29th ult. with dates from Rio Janeiro of July 1; Bahia, July 6; Pernambuco, July 9; St. Vincent, July 18; and Madeira, July 25.—At Rio the stock of coffee was 110,000 bags to the end of June, against 80,000 for the corresponding period of last year. Exchanges had opened dull at 271, but left off firm at 27,-1 to 271, £160,000 having been negotiated for the Dom Pedro. Dis counts 8 at the Banks, and 81 to 10 privately,—At Bahia the exchange was quoted at 271 to 28, and at Pernambuco at 27 to 27+.—The Dom Pedro spoke on the 16th July the Frwlish • g"-. l, utta for Liverpool all well, in let. 14 48, and long. 25 51 ; also, on the same day, spoke the English bark Mary Stoddart—The royal mail steamer Avon was spoken with at Bahia; she left that port on the 6th July for Rio de Janeiro.—The Portuguese steamer Donna Maria 11. left St. Vincent on the 18th for Pernambuco, and the royal mail packet Great Western left Madeira on the 17th, also bound for the Brazilian ports. WEST INDIES AND PACIFIC.—The Tyne arrived at South ampton on Friday with advises to the following dates : Vera Cruz, July 5 ; Tampico, 1 ; Havana, 11 ; Santa Martha, 9 ; Greytown, 4 ; Carthagena, 11 : Chagres, 9 ; Jamaica, 11 ; Jacmel, 13 ; Porto Rico, 15 ; Berbice, 9' • Demerara, 10 ; Tobago, 12 ; Trinidad, 13 ; Barbadoes, 14 ; Grenada, 13 ; St. Vincent's, 14 ; St. Lucia, 15 ; Martinique, 15 ' • Gnadaloupe, ;16 ; Dominica, 15 Antigua, 16 ; St. Kitt's, 16 ; St. Thomas's, 18 ; Valparaiso, June 14 ; Callao, 24 ; and Paita, 27. She brought $650,877 in specie. At St. Thomas's yellow fever was very prevalent, and the mortality was rather great. Heavy rains had fallen in Jamaica. In British Guiana the progress of. the crops had been retarded by excessive rains. At Grenada the weather was unfavourable for the crops. We learn from Chili that a company had been formed for the con struction of a railroad from Santiago to Talca. The mines of Copiapo were still improving. Rich deposits had been reached in Chanarcillo and Tres Puntas. The state of the weather was unfavourable to commerce. In commercial matters there is no change for the better to report. Freight to England £5 to £5 10s. per ton. INnia.—Bombay dates are to June 27. The rains had commenced auspiciously, and, as far as accounts inform us, the opening of the south-west monsoon had been attended by neither squall nor thunderstorm. The catherans and rob bers on the Peshawur frontier have been giving some annoy ance, sacking the villages within the frontier, burning the grain stored for the season, and carrying the inhabitants away with them. Major Edwardes, the Commissioner, with a brigade of the Punjaub Irregular Horse, under the command of Major Neville, Chamberlain, had been out endeavouring to bring to order a series of villages which for three years had refused tribute, and spurned allegiance. On the approach of our troops the rebels sued for peace, offered to pay up their arrears, and promised to be on their good conduct henceforth; and, as this was all that was desired, they were left unmo lested. Village burning is only resorted to with those who, having invaded our territories, and done all the mischief in their power, retire before and defy us. The Governor-General is still on the Neilgherries, which, he is not likely to leave till October next, and Lord Elpbinstone is at Poona. CIIINA.— Canton dates are brought down to June 8. The Overland Friend of China regards the recent reverses of the rebels as only temporary and local. The Pekin Gazette of April 20 supports this view, admitting that Woo-chang, the capital of Hoo-pih, has been taken by the rebels, and Hank'- how has again fallen into their hands. The Lieut.-Governor of Hoo-Kwang and the Prefect of the provincial city both died in the struggle. The North China Herald states that the rebels have taken the city of Kwang-sin, in the north-east part of Keang-se, and that Lew, of Shanghae notoriety, and ' Seaon-kin-tsze, are said to have raised their standard at Tung pa, situate about sixty miles to the north-west of Soo- c h ow . The Canton government, according to the last-mentioned authority, is straining every nerve to carry forward its plan of ruling the country by sanguinary force ; and, in pursuance of this, a reward of fifty dollars per head is given to the lead ingmen of villages for every man denounced as 'a disaffected.' The distress among the poorer claws at Canton has been relieved by considerable importations of rice. H.M.S. Rattler has been busy among the pirates. On the 28th of May a second pirate fleet of six boats was cestroyed, five captured vessels released, about thirty pirates killed, and four made prisoners by the boats. It was said that the headman on shore had caused five of the pirates tobe seized. They were offered to be given up on payment of a reward. Next week, however, a colonial lorcha, with seventy chests of opium on board, was captured by a fleet of pirates at St. John's, on the west coast. AUSTRALIA..—The ship Catteaux Wattell has arrived from Sydney with accounts of May 13, and is supposed to have gold on board. The dates from Melbourne, indirect, are May 10. The Boomerang, with the English mail of Feb. 5, had not arrived, being eighty-eight days out. The Essex was to leave Melbourne June 1. The import market at Sydney maintained the improvement which occurred before the last advices were despatched; but the supplies were adequate, and of building materials in excess. The Government had not raised the duties. Produce was in demand, as the exchange . in London had risen to 2 per cent. for thirty days' bills. Vat' Panama, we have also dates from Melbourne to the 10th. CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND.—A man of the name of M`Kenzie, influenced, we presume, by the "border," spirit of his ancestors, coolly " lifted" a flock of 1,000 sheep, which he drove off in a westerly direction, with the view, it is supposed, of getting into the Nelson district over the mountains. After a chase of some days the sheep were recaptured, and the tlief himself subsequently taken.—lt is confidently stated that a process has been discovered by a resident that effectively a n d cheaply prepares flax for the market. So satisfied is the li ventor of the feasibility of his plan, that he is preparing en establishment for carrying out operations on an extensive scale.—The funds of this province are most flourishing, the oc penditure for the last quarter of 1854 being but £2,100, aid the balance in hand £22,700. TITREISII LOAN &rm.—After reciting the text of the cca vention, the bill authorizes her Majesty, in conjunction will his Majesty the Emperor of the French, to guarantee the h. terest on the loan, for which purpose the Commissioners of the Treasury are authorized to issue out of the consolidaed fund of the United Kingdom such sums of money . as may at any time be required to be paid to fulfil her MNesty's gxa rantee in respect of such interest as and when it may becone payable, together with the attendant charges of management thereon, such charges in no case to exceed the rate of £lOO per million of capital on which such interest shall be so say able. Sums repaid as interest are to be carried to the Con solidated Fund, and the accounts are to be laid before Paris ment, AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. BY the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain - Nye, which arrived on Sunday morning, we have intelligence from New York to the 25th ult. The Pacific brought 175 passengers, and $900,000 in specie. On the 25th, 'at 4.30., p.m., passed the U.S. steam-ship Atlantic, going in. August 3rd, lat. 51 15, lon. 20, passed the ship Jane Black, bound west, -and, off Saltees, the ship Evangeline, bound up. On the 24th of June the steamer America, from San Fran cisco for Crescent City, with two or three companies of troops for Puget's Sound, was burnt at Crescent City. No lives were lost, and the freight for Crescent City was safely landed. On the 20th ult., the Verandah Hotel, New Orleans, was totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $lOO,OOO. The thriving village of Angels Camp in Calaveras County has been destroyed by fire. A railway train had run off the Central line at Syracuse, owing to the wilful misplacement of a rail, on the 20th, and a large number of persons had been seriously injured,though no fatal results had followed. A reward of $5,000 had been offered for the apprehension of the offender. The President had signed a treaty of commercial reciprocity between the United States and the Sandwich Islands. Claims, to the extent of $5,000,000, for idemnity, had been made against the United States Government by the sufferers by the bombardment of Greytown, a number of whom had arrived at Washington to press their demands. Another case of slave stealing had occurred at Philadelphia. A young Cuban was landing at South-street , wharf, from the brig General Taylor, attended by his slave, a Cuban negro, when they were met by a number of free negroes, who told the latter he was free. A scuffle ensued between the captain of the brig, some whites who had come, and the negroes, but the latter triumphed, and carried away their Cuban friend, who has not since been seen. Judges and jurors render the liquor law a nullity, One ex plains the act away, and the other won't convict when cases are brought into court. Actions for -illegal detention and imprisonment had been brought against Captain Cook, of the United States revenue cutter James Campbell, by the parties taken out of the Bri tish brig Buffalo, and conveyed to Boston, where they were tried and acquitted of the charge of violating the neutrality laws by enlisting men for the Crimea. The plaintiffs claim damages to the amount of $40,000. The New York Herald publishes a communication from its Washington correspondent, dated July 20, which states that the President had received an autograph letter from the Emperor of Russia, in reply to one of congratulation on his accession to the throne. The document, which alludes in highly complimentary terms to the increasing greatness of the United States, contains a paragraph to the effect that the dying admonitory advice of the late to the present Emperor conveyed an injunction to him to study the private papers, to be found in the Imperial escritoire, which he (the Emperor Nicholas) had received from the eminent men in the United -States, among whose names were to be found those of Jack eon, Clay, Webster, and others. The letter proceeds to ac knowledge the value of those papers, and expresses his Ma jesty's sense of obligation at the strong national interest mani fested by the American people in the success of the war upon which his great father had entered. It concludes by proposing the most lasting friendship between Russia and the United States. CALIFORNIA.—The Star of the West arrived at New York on the 25th ult., with a fortnight's later intelligence from Cali fornia. She had on board 303 passengers, and $1,000,000 in specie. She brought dates from the Sandwich Islands to the 6th ult. :The British storeship Rattlesnake was at Honolulu, where H.M.S. Monarch, eighty guns, had arrived from Callao, and had sailed, after a few days' stay, towards Petropaulowski. The accounts from the mines were extremely encouraging. Tunnelling and quartz crushing was being prosecuted with activity, and the newspapers teemed with flattering notices of the discovery of new and rich lodes. Gold had been discovered in large quantities in the neighbourhood of Fort Colville, said to be similar to Feather River gold, and it was stated that as much as from $l2 to $2O per day were taken out. Gold had also been discovered near the level, in the city of the Sacra mento, and many claims had been staked out. Eight men took out $197 on one day, and on another more than $BO. The gold was probably buried there by some miner in the early days of California, and never returned for, and the washing of the river eating away the banks brought it to light. The miners in some districts had refused to deposit any longer in banking houses, and preferred to bury their treasures as they ob tained them to trusting the chances of another Adams and Co. earthquake. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, 25TH JULY. MONEY.—Of monetary matters the New York Shipping List says :—" We note some signs of a revival of business, though most departments of trade are still characterised by the usual degree of apathy incident to midsummer. With a plethora of unemployed capital, and only a moderate demand for it, the money market is easy at six to seven per cent. for high grades of sixty days commercial paper, and eight to nine per cent. for fair names, short dates having the preference. Sterling exchange keeps up to the specie point, and there does not seem to be any prospect of an abatement in the shipments of coin and bullion. In exchange the business had not been large, and there was but little variation in prices. We quote Bills on London, 9i to 10-1- per cent. premium ; Paris, &c., f. 5,131 to L 5,121, sixty days, and f. 5,081, short sight; Ham burg, 361 to 36k; Bremen, 794 to 79/." COTTON.—There had been a very quiet cotton market during the three days past, the aggregate transactions proba bly not exceeding 1,000 or 1,500 bales. There were no large parcels pressing for sale, and the market closed with, if any thing, rather more tone. We continue the quotations current on Friday, with the remark that they are little better than nominal. The very limited transactions yesterday and the day 11,1,1 Ty a. l rt 5.a.78,. Iva LAMM, 1115 vus the opinion of some of the best informed of the trade that no large purchases or large sales could be effected at that quota tion, in the present condition of that market. STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS 07. COTTON. , EXports to Total Exports Stock in Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For. Ports. Hand. 1855 .. 2,715,873 1,435,117 2,104.715 127,285 1854 2,828,906 1,486,973 2,116,640 127,809 • • Increase .. .. .. Decrease 113,033 51,856 11,925 524 Messrs. J. T. Stewart and Co., of New York, in their circu lar dated July 25, say,—" The Canada's advices to the 7th in stant were received on Wednesday, the 18th, announcing a decline of fully. Id. in the week. Since then holders have found it difficult to make progress in sales as buyers have de manded zc. decline. Some sales have been effected at off, at which the market would be well supplied by consignees. The sales for the first week were 9,000 bales • for the present one we do not estimate them at over 4,000 bales, as no disposi tion is evinced by parties to operate. The Southern streams continue down, and thereare no indications of a crop exceeding 2,800,000 bales. Of the amount in the interior we are yet in doubt ; it is estimated at various figures between 100,000 and 400,000 bales beyond the actual receipts at the shipping ports by August 31, the close of our cotton year. The majority of opinions incline to the lowest figures current. We regard the prospect for the coming crop as favourable, but not stronger, as there has for the past fortnight been general complaints of too much moist weather producing too rapid a growth of the stalks, and having other attendant evils it is not necessary to name. An opinion is also gaining ground with us that the culture of corn has attracted more than usual of the force of planters. Be this as it may, it is quite certain that no parties look now for any very large product for the coming year. The cereal crops are favourably spoken of in all the States; and, as the goods markets have followed the course of cotton, and ma nufacturing stocks are rising in value, it is considered that the prospects for a large consumption have seldom been more flat tering than at present." BREADSTUFFS.—There has been somewhat of a check to the downward tendency of the prices of breadstuffs, though it seems quite evident that. prices have not yet touched bottom. New wheat from the south is arriving freely from Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. A large portion of the supplies received by the southern steamers came from Tennessee ; a section of the country that has heretofore af forded but a small surplus after supplying its own wants.—ln flour, owing to the favourable accounts from all quarters respecting the harvest, prices had declined 60c. to 624 c. per barrel since the 17th instant, and sales were not readily effected, in quantity, at our quotations. Holders, however, evinced more firmness than at the close of last week. In wheat our quotations show a large decline, and the receivers of new wheat are eager sellers. For Indian corn there was still a fair demand, and prices were a shade lower. PROVISIONS.—For pork only a limited demand had pre vailed ; the arrivals were moderate and less pressing for sale. The market for new mess had advanced 121 c. to 25c., while other kinds were firm at previous prices. For beef there was a moderate inquiry, and the buoyancy previously noticed still continued. There was no demand for prime mess at the present asking rates, and, in the absence of sales, our quota tions should be considered nominal. Lard remained buoyant at the recent advance, with a fair demand. IRON.—Scotch pig remained firm, with moderate business doing at $3O to $3l, 6 mos. English sheet and bar were steady at previous rates. Cos.L.—There was but little inquiry for foreign. We notice sales of 356 tons Newcastle gas $B, 4 mos., and 40 tons inferior Liverpool at $4,50, cash. SALT.—The market was well supplied with most descrip tions, and prices were unchanged. FRElGRTs.—Freights were inactive. We quote—To Liver pool : Cotton, -id. to 5-32 d ; corn, 21d. to 3d. ; flour, ls. ; rosin, 9d. ; turpentine, ls. 9d. to ls. ed. ; measurement goods, 10s. to 12s. 6d. ; pork, is. 3d. ; beef, ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. NEW OBLEAss, July 20.—Cotton has declined lc. under the influence of Canada's news, middling being 'quoted at Sic. to 91c. The sales to-day were 2,500 bales, and during the week 7,500 bales. Receipts of the week, 7,000 bales. Stock on hand, 45,000 bales. The total receipts of the season at this port are now 184,000 bales short of the same period last year. Flour sells at $8,25 to $8,75. Coffee : sales of the week, 3,000 bags, at Mit. for prime. Stock, 10,000 bags. Cotton freights to Liverpool firm, at 7-16 d. Sterling exchange, 91 to 01 per cent. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.—An improvement perceptible in all kinds of produce, owing to large purchases by a promi nent jobbing-house in the city. AN EXAMPLE TO MANITFACTUBERS.—We find the follow ing in the trade report of the Times under the head Notting ham. Considerable interest has been excited in consequence of the splendid edifice built during the last two years for Messrs. Adams, Page, and Co., in this town, being publicly opened. Even while trade is somewhat depressed, this firm employs upwards of 400 hands under one roof. In their new establishment, such are the arrangements made for economizing time, that it is intended to shorten the hours of labour, and devote half an hour each morning for the celebration of Divine Service, according to the rites of the Established Church, in a chapel built for the purpose, and by a duly ordained clergyman, whose further duty it will be to attend to the spiritual and material welfare of the people employed, the firm paying his stipend from their own resources. ATTEMPT TO SMUT UP PUBLIC ROADS.—The south road from Bander to Braemar passes by the enclosures . of Balmoral Castle, and on the plea of its interfering with the royal pri vacy, it is suggested that the road should be closed up. We' will not belie:re that her Alajesty has given th e s li g ht es t sanc tion to such ill -judged proposal. The th oroug hf are i s a public one, leadfug through the forest of Ballochbuie, and opening up some o'f the grandest scenery of a di s t r i c t pecu liarly rich in natural beauty ; and the idea of interdicting ten or twelve miles of roaL. l because the traveller obtained a glimpse of the lawn before Balm. , o l C4etie as he passes is utterly inde feneible,—Fife Herald. LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL. THE monthly meeting of the Council was held on Wednes day ; J. A. Tobin, Esq., Mayor, presiding. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee included a recommenda tion, in accordance with the opinion of the Town-Clerk, to increase the salary , of Mr. Linton Hughes, Deputy Town- Clerk; from £4OO to X 450 a year. The Town-Clerk (Mr. Shuttleworth), who-•had been requested to report on Mr. Hughes' application for increased remuneration, bore the strongest testimony to the zeal, assiduity, and ability with which Mr. Hughes had discharged the duties of his depart ment—duties which, he said, had considerably increased since his appointment, although his salary had hitherto remained at the same amount as had been paid to his immediate predecessor. Mr. HO6TBY moved the confirmation of the proceedings, with the exception of the increase on Mr. Hughes' salary, which, in compliance with the standing orders, should be deferred till next Council meeting. After some discussion the motion was carried unanimously. WATCH, LIGHTING, AND FIRE POLICE COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee having been read, Mr. GREGSON moved their confirmation, with the exception of the acceptance of a tender for the new lamp posts, upon which some further information was required. Mr. HODSON asked for information with reference to the case of a police-officer named Pearson, who had been charged before them with recklessly and indiscriminately causing parties to be fined, and also with receiving bribes in money and drink. He understood that there were thirty witnesses in attendance for examination, and that several of them stated, in the most emphatic terms, that they had given the officer money. If that were so, he certainly deserved instant dis missal, and he felt sure that no committee who had the interests of the town at heart would keep such a man in their employment one moment after such a charge had been substantiated. Mr. JOHNSON said he was present when the case of Police-constable Pearson, who was charged with receiving bribes and drink, was under investigation. A great number of witnesses were brought forward, none of whom could prove that he had ever received money. He admitted, however, that he had occasionally received drink • but there was no proof that he had suppressed any information in consideration of any drink that he had received. The committee, however, thought he had departed from his duty in accepting drink at all, though they did not consider that his offence was of so heinous a nature as to make it necessary that he should be dismissed from the force; but they had decided to remove him from the position which he had recently filled, and had appointed him to another duty elsewhere.—(Hear, hear!) Mr. GODFREY said he had been a member of the sub-com mittee by whom this case had been investigated : and he must say that he had never heard better evidence than that of the witnesses who had been examined. There were nearly thirty witnesses in attendance, but only ten were examined, for the committee thought, after hearing those ten, that it was unnecessary to carry on the investigation, and resolved to examine no more. Every one of those witnesses said he had given Pearson money or drink, and one or two of them stated that the officer asked for it. A return had been made to the committee, which showed that the officer had laid 606 inform ations in six months, or at the rate of 25 a-week ; and one of the complaints was that those charges were laid partially, and that when seven or eight carts were crowding a street, at one and the same time, one had been singled out, and the owner summoned and fined, while the others had been permitted to go free. He certainly thought that such a person was not fit to be in the force. Mr. RosEnTsorr said Mr. Godfrey was somewhat in error with respect to the number of informations. It appeared that the total number of informations which this officer had laid, in the time specified, had been 658 ; and of these 606 had resulted in convictions, which was a proof that the officer, who had been especially appointed to watch over and protect the public interests, by seeing that the streets were kept clear, had not only not failed, in his duty, but while discharging that duty had not laid informations against individuals upon light or insufficient grounds. Mr., MINN, without having heard anything of this case be fore he came into the room, was able to bear testimony, from his personal knowledge, to the fact that there was no case which came before the committee which was not thoroughly sifted and investigated; and he believed that if the Council interfered with the decisions of the committee, except upon very strong grounds, they would take a course which would be very detrimental to the efficiency of the police-force and the interests of the town. Mr. PARKER, Mr. HALHEAD, and Mr. BRANCKEB sup ported the decision of the committee, and the latter gentleman stated that the memorialists themselves were perfectly satis fied with that decision. Their object had been gained by the removal of the officer to another sphere of duty. Mr. Moss and Mr. HODSON each made motions in con nexion with this subject, which were found to be incompetent. Mr. GODFREY, in reply, defended the committee, and the mode in which investigations were conducted before it. At the conclusion of Mr. Godfrey's reply, the proceedings of the committee were confirmed. DOCK COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee were read, and, on the motion of Mr. C. Turner, unanimously confirmed. Mr. C. TURNER then moved that Mr. Edward Langsdale, Mr. 0. Holden, Mr. W. Mann, and Mr. James Holme, who had been balloted for to retire, be re-elected members of the Dock Committee.—Unanimously agreed to. Letters were read from Messrs. James T. Pownall and W. H. Caunt, two of the commissioners appointed by the Council to audit the dock accounts, declining to act, and tendering, their resignations. It was unanimously resolved that the re signations should be accepted; and on the motion of Mr. Chas. Turner, Mr. Robert Carlyle, of the firm of Messrs. Charles Moore and Co., andMr „ . o, Jolfnnini tr , fill Jardine, junihoef vacanciesTrafforl c Chambers, were unaninin Mr. C. TURNER then suggested that the report of the special committee appointed to conduct the necessary steps for amalgamating the Birkenhead with the Liverpool Dock Estates be read. The suggestion was agreed to, and the report was read.. It is as follows : " The special committee appointed on the 19th of May last, on the subject of the transfer to the corporation of the docks and property of the trustees of the Birkenhead docks and of the Birkenhead Dock Company, report that the bill for con firming the agreement for this transfer, which was submitted to and sanctioned by the council on the 19th of May last, re ceived the royal assent on the 23rd ult. " Your committee have kept steadily in view the instruc tions of the council with reference to the agreement for this transfer, and the bill for confirming it, and have successfully resisted the introduction into the bill of any clauses or pro visions which would have been inconsistent with those in structions. "The act confirms the agreement for transfer, and, on the delivery of bonds of the corporation of the aggregate amount of £1,143,000, vests in the corporation all the docks, lands, and buildings, and a caisson of the Birkenhead dock trustees, and all' the works, lands, and buildings, working plant and materials, office furniture, and such like effects of the Birken head Dock Company, including their Herculaneum estate. "The act is to commence and have effect from the third Wednesday after its passing, and the bonds of the corporation are to be delivered to the trustees and company, or their re spective nominees, within one month thereafter. "As stipulated in the agreement for transfer, those bonds are to be classified and bear interest as follows : "TO THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK TRUSTEES, " Ist, Bouds for £90,000 bearing interest after the rate of £4 per cent. per annum, one-half of the principal sum secured by every such bond to be payable at the end of three years, and the other half at the end of six years. " 2nd, Bonds for £301,436 bearing no interest for the first year, two per cent. per annum for the second, third, and fourth years, and three per cent. per annum for the fifth, sixth, and seventh years, and four per cent. per annum after the seventh year ; one-half of the principal sum secured by every such bond to be payable at the end of seven years, and the other half at the end of ten years. " TO THE BIRKENICEAD DOCK COMPANY. " Ist, Bonds for £BO,OOO payable at the end of three years, and bearing interest after the rate of £4 per cent. per annum. " 2nd, Bonds for £BO,OOO payable at the end of six years, and bearing interest after the rate of £4 per cent. per annum. "3rd, Bonds for £295,768 10s., payable at the end of seven years, and bearing no interest for the first year, interest after the rate of two per cent. per annum for the second, third, and fourth years, and after the rate of three per cent. per annum after the fourth year. "4th, Bonds for £295,768 10s., payable at the end of ten years, and bearing no interest for the first year, interest after the rate of two per cent. per annum for the second, third, and fourth years, three per cent. per annum for the fifth, sixth, and seventh years, and four per cent. per annum after the seventh year. "All debts due to or by the trustees or company imme diately before the commencement of the act are to be received and paid by [them respectively, and current rents are to be apportioned between them and the corporation. Officers and servants are to continue at their present salaries until removed. The undertakings of the trustees and company are amalgamated as one undertaking. " The 17th section recites the appointment of the dock com mittee, under the Liverpool Dock Act, 1851, and that it is ex pedient that the undertaking of the corporation, under this act, so far as now completed and adapted for the accommoda tion of shipping, and so, from time to time, as and when further portions thereof shall be so completed and adapted, should be managed by the Liverpool dock committee. This section then enacts that so much and such parts of the under taking, by the act vested in the corporation, as are now com pleted, or as may be hereafter completed, shall, as and when the same are adapted to the accommodation of the shipping, be managed by such committee, who shall have and exercise all such rights, powers, and authorities in relation thereto as if the same formed a part of the Liverpool dock estate. " The dock committee are to keep separate accounts of their annual receipts and expenditure in respect of the undertaking, and are to pay any surplus to the corporation. "The council are, doubtless, aware that much conflict of opinion has existed, and still exists, as to whether or not the plan now authorised for the construction of the Birkenhead docks is the best that can be devised for the general benefit of the commerce of the port. This is a subject of the greatest importance, especially when considered in connexion with the fact that those docks will now be managed by the Liverpool dock committee, as part of the dock estate. "Although, therefore, the act vests the Birkenhead under takings in the corporation, subject to the liabilities created by act of parliament, it was an object with your committee to se cure that an opportunity should be afforded for considering a point of such vital importance, and this has been effected by the limitation in various sections of the act, created by the words, `until parliament shall otherwise determine.' The com mittee of the House of Commons expressed great anxiety that the rates at Birkenhead should be assimilated to those at Li verpool, and your committee, with the concurrence of the de putation from the dock committee in London, entirely coin ciding in this view, had a clause prepared to effect this object ; but it was found that such clause could not be inserted in this bill, without infringing upon the orders of the house, and peril ling the bill. With the view of securing the completion of the Birkenhead docks in such a manner as may be found most advantageous to the commerce of the port, the committee of the House of Commons inserted the 19th and 20th sections, the first of which recites that it is expedient that the Birken head docks should, with as little delay as possible, be con structed and completed in such a manner as may render them most available for the commercial purposes of the port of Li verpool, in connection with the Live r p ool d o cks, and that the the sam B e i r r a k t e e n s le d a u faca and s, as are charges should be levied in respect of now or may be hereafter levied in respect of the Liverpool docks, And that all the said docks should be ylaced perznaner4ly 11197 the same mtrol and [AuGusT 7, 185' management, and be consolidated with, the estate of the Liverpool docks. It WO " ti,`l ll , the Coration shallith t d anhe are by the a',:., t t , alone or orp conjointly w trusteesf the to prosecute a bill in Parliament, in the ne.",,t4 taining the requisite powers of accoruPlis°l sent! The 20th section provides that, unless l'arlialu 0.4 0 wise determine, the Corpo ra tion shall, and the 1 required, immediately after the Ist of Septenah_3 teed With the construction of th e BirkeD wholly to complete the same in accordanot' I , e F sanctioned by the subsisting provisions of ,A acts, before the Ist day of September, 1858. "By the 25th section the corp or ation 2 _, , , borrow, for the purposes of the act , such strV, they may think necessary, not exceeding in of £500,000. The 20th section req uires b keep separate and distinct accounts of l f ! w ort!: and payments made by them on account 0 wise, and of principal and interest, monies, (7 0 tq , and interest thereon respectively, in referpeno eio taking under this act, and in briar 5° and of all sums received by them taking. And the 27th enacts that trustees of the Liverpool docks shall ment to become the purchasers of t being repaid, or adequately secured expended in the purchase and corn; or in relation thereto, or for the pt have become liable, and being paid expense, or loss incurred by them taking or incident thereto, with in. other terms as may be mutually agree' parliament, the corporation are refit taking, as vested in them by this at Liverpool docks, together with all thereto. " From this outline of the bill iA great importance that no time shot steps as may be considered most ad' undertaking, and your committee, they be reconstituted a special corn , for conferring with the dock comm proceedings as may be proper undc Mr. H. HoENBY moved that adopted. In doing so he congra, successful issue of this great measi have the effect of terminating all fi between the two communities, an , union of them in one municipal' the urbanity, intelligence, and jndi it was in an especial degree owing tiations had been brought to a sue hear.) It now only remained for with the Dock Committee, to ca: the duty which Parliament had had no doubt they would do it best promote the interests of the the Mersey, and also satisfy the at Birkenhead.. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE s& doing so also congratulated the Co' on the result of the difficult and had been brought to a successful ti The motion for the adoption agreed to nem. con., and the col with a view to carrying out what relation to the several matters. ST. GEOUGE'S-lIALL AND LAW The proceedings of this comm; recommendations :-1. To appoin. superintendent of the building, in the salary of £2OO per annum ; Ric at the wages of 255. per week Scully, stokers, at the wages of 23 Noble and William Handsome, as week ; and John Archer, joiner week. 2. To appoint Charles Grt Town-hall, head porter at St. G 30s. per week ; and Mrs. Green, lit £5O per annum. 3. To appoint George's-hall, at the salary of £3OO Mr. Alderman J. H. TURNER, Cl moved seriatim that the different firmed. Discussion arose on several but eventually all of them were col being in reference to the appointmi Mr. ROBERTSON GLADiTONE 01 Mr. Best as unnecessary, and co , over the organ as unjust to tho Liverpool, who, he contended, havi chase of the organ, were in reality instrument as the Town Counci moving that Mr. Best be not appoi) Mr. KITCHEN seconded the ame Mr. Preroit explained, and at recommendations of the committt Gladstone was in error as to preven' from using the organ. What was sponsible custodian of the instrumi of £lO,OOO. Mr. Alderman S. HOLM E also dl justified their recommendations. proceedings, contending that eve' secure talent in the person of an orgr been excluded from comp etit i on for . On a division there voted—Feci; Woodruff, M`Guffie, Avison• Picton, Johnson, J. B. Lle lcl i r Jo! dale, Parker, J. H. Turn er ' -F 0) • 8 Hole, and the Mayor , 1 ' meat: Messrs. D. Crosthwaite, Holt, J. Fle Kitchen, Clint , Bechwlth , Bennett; commendation of the committe e Wt Tun MA.RICETS CO m i The proceedings of this comm. • _ CI wo., days, to which Mr. Alderman Hohn , pertinent remarks. The magnitud' sity of a remedy were generally Lich come to on the subject, but the ci sider it. The Education, Gaols, and Town mittee presented their reports, we the proceedings of the Health Coin: After some sharp remarks on the croachment by the Dock Committee the Custom-house, the matter was for a report. Mr. Robert J. Brew, Mr. JoseP l Langley, were promoted from the rate-collectors, on the recommeuda' mittee. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, co' terms of the atmosphere of the roor to Wednesday next, (to-morrow), wi Council broke up at twenty minutes SHIP LAUI‘7 SEVERAL sailing and steam-vesse, in connection with this port. A ' yard of Messrs. Rennie, Johnson, a , Messrs. John Campbell and Co., of trade, was launched on Tuesday at was named the Fiery Cross, and is sionsions : —Length of keel, 165 feet rake of stern, 9 feet ; breadth of bear tonnage, old measurement, 788 tons tons burthen. She is built of Britisl At Queen's Ferry, Chester, the si ter, built for the Australian Steam . Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. are been launched on Tuesday. She wit similar to the vessels of the Royal used either as a sailing ship or both combined. Her length over forty feet ; beam, 41 feet 6 inches 6 inches ; and length of poop cabil to carry five hundred and ninety-thi decks, although, according to Govei could accommodate 635. The salon ranged on each side, is calculated fol There are 28 state-rooms, 10 feet by double berths. The ship's measurem the engine -room and the machines intended that she shall be full ship- 1 canvas as the Great Britain. Her e , of (nominally) 350 horse power, le those of the Himalaya, by Messrs. „ 0 , She possesses six water-tight conWa r ' box kelson, running the entire leng l her great additional strength, and lons of water, if used as a tank. I t ' ried on under the superintendence Bristol, the builder of the Gres, occurred in launching the ve s under her starboard side, and the entire length of the ways. , her " cradle," however, and did 11(%: night efforts were made to get her oP Wednesday, but without success, ployed in excavating a course for ll' in which her stern got imbedded, 0 1 in her ballast to a great extent. The ship Sarah Palmer, built and Co., of the Bank Quay Foundril Jones, Palmer, & Co., who Pa rc i , Charles Moore & Co., the origin J e ri ; Tuesday. Her dimensions are between perpendiculars, 225 feet , ° , O , of beam, 36 feet ; depth of bold, Trivli 1440 o.m. Her lower masts are eV' fato' what is technically called water-tight compartments, and Llas, decks. She is intended for the P,a,s;, o'clock, as the workmen were oar, ments to let her off the stocks , stance, she commenced gently ga l , having first had the orders to let her hurry to enter the Me rseY,, naming unperformed. The v essel to Liverpool and docked. ply On be W tw e e dn en es F d le y acr a shipbuilding yard of Messrs. 'l l - I °_'' is 225 feet long, 22 feet broad, 911 0 7 3 , She will be propelled by engin e . s tios , the weather was not very prof) , 4- o s o te d am ai North Lancashire Steam Navigat7 ooden ve The Cormorin, a fine w ruesda: launched at Whitehaven, on Messrs._Brocklebank. the evident satisfaction of the sl?!_ c .: Sarah 1 4 e 11113a111 On Tuesday, the -. w et& about 800 tons, was floated at be , a steamer sent round to lets launched launched in May last, and is belongs to Messrs. Leech, tended for the India and China.iiet, The steam-ship • City of i' Va ` l o a nd ' designed for the LiverPoo-- auiding was launched from the b M`Gregor, on Wednesday. CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLEr-_ in ter ms of the body that ought to be n) . 9 1 ._„ ;, and yet there is also none. NS p . ; te d , Were a little ordinary attentip,a4';',l-ise no longer find tooth-ache and other 0•111. t e l r' t _p ir- fyLL , 7 valent ; nor would our senoe.,:, . s. pr it „fa j similar disagreeable concoMT ln ` Lic h ca!;;01140/ nary to assist nature; Ana dVantag e' O f Odonto becomes pecultarlt a ttribUteg,,,d tive of those indispeusa a n bnesS, gums, in balmy fragratZre, r tradeflarri Iging the sou', 6, ,„ lin respect 01' ',,rt of at if at any Iffrie,ei. 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