The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-12 00:00:00

R. Begs Yespect that his NEW ST Inspection G ENTL MERCHANTS' THE ABOVE FIRST-CLASS GC men frequenting tb SHIRTS MA e materials gt DYES will be kep DEESON'S TEAM B ETWI a STEAM BETWE ‘C r ' s 8 17 1 la;ghest class (A 1 for 1 FODDER, HATTER, SICILY ILIAN. THE 'ow in poi iLIAN, at Gibraltar. Fine roods receive alongside, For terms of Freight or Pa LAMON M•LARTY, & CO., and will sail the 14th May, FOR GENOA, LEGHORN, AND NAPLES, ecording to priority of deliver er-atreet, Liverpool DINIAN will succeed AIT ILL M E,R' S RA.ILWA.Y GUIDE for MAY—I Sold by CR tftt AND STEAMBOAT 'RICE TWOPENCE. th John-street, and by all Book se RCIAL CHARLES WILLMER WHOLESALE ST A 19, SOUTH JOH . AND PRINTER, STREET, LIVERPOOL, r[IHE attention of Merchants, Brokers, Trades , is respectfully drawn to the fol n, and CASH PRI, R PAPER : Per Rea For 3 Reams, e s. d. 6 0 0 17 6 6 6 0 18 0 6 0 0 17 0 ditto Yellow Wov Batik Post (Towzoo, Ditto French, FOOLSCAP og.cusTom HOUSE PAPER Per Rea )P T.aid LOPES cite new,have Thin I said Adh Thick Ye Superfine Large Cr Ditto Ditto BI LETTER Half-boun 400 - lea all mor Zephyr, from P I Laid Foreign 7 6 caldeoce Apply to On Tnu saleroom, Templ—___ -Drums, and 200 Boxes Turkey FIGS, 100 Boxes, and 100 I-Boxes LAYERS, ex Calpe, 50 Boxes, and 15 Barrels Val. ALMONDS, ex Iris, 10 Mats Jordan SHELL ALMONDS, 1 Bag and 1 Box Sicily ALMONDS. Apply to THOMAS PARRY, Brok er , 13, North John-street. -court EVENING EDITION -gr An Et TtMts is nc Edition of t 1 N Published 'ng the Market. Day, up to the ho of going to Press THIS ANN WO C CI)/ fi , THE Great roused the for The Town Council have laid down as a fixed principle that all corporate property shall be sold by auction, and such a plain and wholeoome rule need not be departed from, simply to get buyers o f land in Great Howard -street,;or for anyother straight Building ground on growing lines of traffic, and close to docks, where many hundreds of thousands of tons of merchandise are landed and shipped annually, lose nothing by keeping for a year or two, particularly where they are to be disposed of in perpetuity, and it requires a good deal of effrontory to tell the capitalists of Liverpool that there are no purchasers forthe site of the Old Gaol to be found on the best of all terms. But it' is not enough that the matter should be brought before the Lords of the Treasury in its real characters. The Treasury will pay but little heed to methorialsi if the RatevaN s do not meet in the wards and MONDAY, ORTH ERN DAMN o' clock, ,;(fternoon, at Ti MAY 12, 1856 vs of Me NORTHERIS EAS PER ANNUM Howard-street land lavoro has fairly and will be resisted w never c in ;s were held on Sa of the best mean I defea time for a Brea le root of such procedings as those comp] . •.. - that t portion o consideration la be cc DIU St as too Finan agreed that smothered disgust of the Borough ?,e of public spirit of opposition to which the leaders principal wards attended to devise the the " recommendation" of and to secure a majority lotion on Wednesday next eties of the land jobbers have left but little mined still, if to-day and to- good account, enough the Lords of the Treasury determinedly opposed to inance Committee, and the Council, in attempting to alienate he Borough estate for an inadequate la meetings veral of the upright feeling of municipal brought meeting of the I Friday _ it was i HORNBY'S motion s h ou ld be 81, CHURCH-STREET, Nobility and Gentry of Liver. the Season are NUW READY S NEW OUTFITTING A.BLISHMENT, T, LIVERPOOL AY OP ANDERSON'S DINING ROOMS. ENT IS NOW OPtN4 a very choice selection of O V LY, suital for those Gentle- hbourhood of the Exchange, and than it has been usual to obtain ) ORDER, the fit warranted, and qual ties and d to be of eint of LADIES' 71IEST QUALITY CASTL: EN LI -ST., LIVERPOOL. IPOOL AND TRIEI 1 MONTH. first-class screw Steam-ships in Bell. Lin Hamill D TRIESTE, according to priority RTY, & CO., I .erpool QOL, ITALY , James Smith , \V. Richards. •en coisstructe pazil.y. and of tt 1 1 0 1 1 0 Yor 3 teams , 901 6 0 961 7 6 ss. per 1000, 6s. per 1000, 5 quires, or 3s 6d per ream is for 6 quires, or 3s 6d per ream COPYING BOOKS, , calf, paged and indexed, do, 7s ; 500 do, 7a 6d ; 580 do, 8e ACCOUNT BOOKS, d on the premises, in the and at prices equally low, country receive:prOMp ,Ention. WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE, SOUTH JOHN-STREET, LIVERPOOL lORROW, account of whom it may concern, he 13th instant, at Half-past One I Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchan o'clock, at Bruns- rre!s Superfine FLOUR, ex Floating e Bromley- g mirth s Maxwell, A. F. and at Half-past One o'clock, nswick-street, 40 Sacks extra quality Scotch - Shelled BARLEY. ROBERT PROCTER, Broker. THURSDAY , at the Commercial the 13th i t the B 100 Barre 40 Sacks sDAY next, the 15th in it th TOMLINSON roker's office, 14, Bru s American FLOUR, Fine SPLIT PEAS, Brokers I renewed at the adjourned meeting of the Council lon Wednesday nex This f I although there NV only one-half tit proves that ''q members when the recommendation was adopted entrusted with the managkiment of the finances of the Corporation, are in favour, or remain silent observers, of the job. And as each of these Committc command one TIIE NOIITI E.F.14 lion to firemen, who are to receive an extra suggested in the Dock shilling a v s pat Surveyor's remedy, and who, it appears, are to enter Into a contract with their employers to share the penalties of a Violation of the Smoke Now,' we will put it to the common sense of the town, if this is the way to deal with a subject of such importance to the public health. Every practical man must know that patents are granted for the appli• cation of a principle, as shown in the drawing which accompanies the inventor's specifi cation, and not for the principle itself, and that extreme caution is necessary in .dealing with the rights which are purchased at a high price by patentees. There is, moreover, a question of honesty, or public morality involved in the v iolation of a vested right, which the whole community are bound to respect. We hopes Prevention Act! therefore, to hear no more about infringing the rights of any man for the attainnleut of a national In Liverpgol we want some practical remedy for the removal of an universal nuisance; which, as Mr. GiCANTHAM admitted, at the meeting of Monday evening, had baffled him and the Corporation years ago, notwithstanding that he acted under .the instruction of his patron, Mr. WILLIANig, in all lie did. And we would simply ask Mr. GRANT/Un - and Mr. LiAl,ms whether, as practical men, they will venture to state, that leaving furnace doors open, and careful stoking, will secure the employers. of steam, both night and day, against the informations of Nuisance Inspectors, and the penalties which the law inflicts in cases of neglect ? We say, most emphatically, that such expedientS are per fectly childish, and will not answer the purpose. The fines drawn from the pockets of a few steam employers are beginning to assume really formid_ able dimensions. The Smoke Inspector has told us that the total amount of penalties inflicted since the Liverpool Health Committee had put Nuisance Act into force was only the Smoke amen boast publicly of being - able to vote in the Council Chamber, the spoliation clique will have a sweeping majority ; shake off their vassala, ;e; and make up their mind to meet their constituents next November with clean hands The course pursued by Mr. ROBERTSON :GLAD- STONE, and the other members of the Opposition , in moving amendment upon amendment, -which course they were resolved to Continue up to ght, in order to secure an adjournment, answered the purpose admirably. It forced the Finance phalanx to postpone the question, so that the ht be enabled to go on with the rest of the business on the, Council paper, which could not be disposed . of . except at the 'fArlv which the summonses wer It is to be °peg, t: ierefore, that the )ayers will .ound those who have tried restedly to put a stop to a uystein of disposing of public property, which cannot be too .ecated It is well known that the present average value of the land on which the ware . houses of Liverpool are built is 71. per square yard, !so believed that portions of the site of the Old Gaol is worth 201. a square yard for many branches of trade immediately connected with ship ping, and that an attempt should be made to hand over, in perpetuity, such a valuable property to a Railway Company for 21. 10s. is really monstrous I Under King Bo3,iA's benign sceptre such, little abuses of municipal decorum and ordinary fair dealing might be passed over in respectful silence, but such things will not surely be tolerated by the inhabitants of Liverpool. memorialiso the Council, to reject the .ebonatn6ridlitiOn of Dance Committee Let this he done, and if it fails, then let a town's meeting be called %Ay and in addition to adopting a lemolial . to the Lords of the., Treasury, let the atepayers of the Borough forward an appeal to their lordshi s, not .to entertain the. proposal of the Committe e, and praying that the Council may be made to abide by the honest principle of deal ing with corporate , estates, laid , down in their resolutions. We repeat once more, that short as the time which the Council have allowed for the consideration of so grave a matter, much v.v - ua•~aaVoll.l.l YV Nvnat the feeling of the Burgesses is; and itis sincerely to be desired, that those wards which have not moved in the affair will do so at one and convince the Finance Committee that much as they may be divided in politics, they are nevertheless alive to the necessity of enforcing frugality and honesty in the administration of the Borough property IF there be one thing more detestable than another, it is seeing the saloons of science con- vertex into badger-pits, in which a naturally timid and unobtrusiw animal is to be worried. A man's take in any scientific pursuit is second only to his ife. His reputation, time, money, and that high ambition which has made England what she is, are all thrown into the scale for the common good by the inventor, who only expects that his merit Bhall be fairly weighed in discussion, and honestly tested in practice. Lopsided 'chairmen, and biassed audiences, are the most discouraging tribunals which the science of this age has to contend with. When the Solon becomes a parti- san, he falls into the mire in which we find the poet_ when deserted by his muse. The Polytechnic Institute selected a subject for investigation on Monday evening last, on which we were prepared to hear a good deal of vapouring, namely—smoke prevention. And certainly they did run with the wind, and revel in the clouds. The gravity of reason, and the density of knowledge, which generally combine to render the atmosphere of the theatres of science somewhat pestiferous to the multitude, disappeared in this instance, in the perfect combustion of common sense, and the means resorted to for the prevention of anything like the emission of an ordinary volume of intel- ligence We went to the Institute to hear something which, we were led to believe, would be of advan tage to the public and instructive to ourselves, and caring not one single stiver who had written most, or inve rated this or the o r description of smoke prevention apparatus, or smoke consuming furnace; but we were doomed to listen for two long hours o the most ridiculous explanation, we may subv perversion and sion of the patent laws, ever heard in any enlightened assembly. Mr. M`DoNALD, who read " the paper" of the evening, assured his hearers that the smoke nuisance had ,bated by careful stoking, and the Ter (it WYE WILLIAMS claimed to t the inventor of all that is successfully done at the present moment lnd rests his pretensions on the " principles !laimed in his specification, without reference to heir application as set forth in the drawings which are enrolled with his specification, as a guide to all Mr Ilture inventors an( lo pub is at large OTEGAN defended his patent right, and pointed out the difference in his application of the princi ple for which Mr. WILLIAms contended. Mr. WILLIAMS said he used a perforated plate years ago, and that he was the first who invented an " air " distributor," which being moveable, could be used for the admission of cold air into any part of a furnace ; while Mr. O'REGAN describes his air distributors as boxes in which the ai- is heated betore it is suffered to come in contact by whirl without lessening the heat furnace, iding on the manif lission of hot and cold assailed the doctrine of leaving the furnace ing flues, boilers, and furnaces. doors open, enlarg Mr. U'REGAN and adverted, with some native warmth, to the folly of baying the question of smoke preven 3501. This may be a trifling sum in the opinion of the Committee, but it is rather too much for the manufacturers, who say they do all they are told is necessary to escape being mulcted Whether the smoke nuisance has been very visibly abated we leave the Magistrates, Town Councilmen, and the inhabitants of the Borough, to decide, as they have abundaut opportunities of personal observation. But it is high time for the Health Committee to give the public some specified instructions as to how smoke is to be prevented. Let that body issue their directions so that all steam employers may have an equal chance of avoiding the payment of fines, and their constituents an opportunity of judging whether their remedy will meet all the requirements of the penal statute they have put in force. The discussion which took place at the meeting of the Polytechnic Society was puerile in the extreme, and the Health Committee would do well to take up the investigation where the Society commenced, and on much broad , s and intelligible grounds. The legislature are resolved to put a stop to the vitiating effects of smoke, as will be seen by Lord REDESDALE'S motion in the House of Lords on Friday, for the introduction of a bill to remove exemptions contained in the present act, with respect to the consumption of smoke in the metropolis. If the London manufactures are to have no choke, we may rely on it, that those of ri v Its vaAto Ulb bruit, will not be allowed the luxury, and the Health Committee ought, really, to do some thing for the relief of their constituents, without delay. The Committee can have no patent right to protect, and as there are but two other . rivals in the field, there can be no difficulty in deciding on the superior practical merits of the two inventions, which have been in operation for a sufficient number of years to satisfy the most sceptical, and admit of a correct judgment being formed. We should like to have the opinion of the Borough, Dock, and Sanitory Engineers, who are in the pay of the Corporation, and within the reach of the Committee, on this most interest ing subject. The public aro entitled to their advice in some tangible form, when we are told by Mr. Alderman BENNETT that the prosecutions now carried on against manufacturers have recently deterred a large capitalist from engaging in trade in Liverpool. THE COURT The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted, about twelve o'clock on Thursday night, by Earl Spencer, Lord Steward, to the new Banqueting Room, where supper was served. The Royal Family, and afterwards the general company, followed her Majesty to the Banqueting Room. The Queen returned to the Ball and Concert Room, and afterwards danced in a quadrille with the Duke of Buccleuch. The Prince Consort, the Princess Royal, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, dancing in the same set. The Queen's Piper played a reel during the evening, in which members of the Scotch nobility joined. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the State Rooms about two o'clock, the band playing the National Anthem. Dancing then ceased. The Queen and Prince Albert went on Friday afternoon to honour with their presence the peace celebration fete at the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. The royal party left Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes before three o'clock, in seven carriages and four, escorted by a detach. ment of the 3rd Light Dragoons, and returned soon after six o'clock. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence in the evening. SATURDAY, May 10.—This.afternoon, at half.past two o'clock, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the whole of the royal family, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, quitted Buckingham Palace for the _Queen's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. A party of the 3rd Dragoons was on duty in front of the palace, and formed the escort of the Queen from the palace to the privatil4station at Vauxhall of the London and South Western railway. A special train was here in readiness, and her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the court, took their departure for Gosport. The statement that there is to be a review on the .29th of May at Windsor, is without foundation. It is con— sidered likely that the court will r:!:ii.tin at Osborne until Monday, the 26th instant. The Queen's real birthday (Saturday, the 24th of May), will be celebrated privately in the royal circle at Osborne. Another levee and another drawing room are expected to be held in the month of June. THE TURKISH EMBASSY. — On Tuesday, the 27th inst., her Majesty will honour his excellency, M. Musurus, t he Turkish Ambassador at the court of St. James's, with her presence at a ball, to be given at the residence of the Embassy, in Bryanston Square. THE OLD BOROUGH GAOL JOB.—As our columns first drew attention to the nefarious job proposed to be perpe trated by the lease in perpetuity of the site of the Old Boiough Gaol, we cannot but rejoice that a movement has commenced in order to evince the objntions enter tained to the project by our fellow-townbmen. With this view a meeting of the residents of St. Paul's ward is announced to be held this evening at the house of Mr• Bainberrys, 013h1ll-street, and we trust that this will prove the precursor of similar gatherings for the same object in the other wards of the borough, The Liverpool Share Mitrket opened this morn. ing with a steady feeling ; which prevailed through. out the day, prices closing at the following quota tions :—Aberdeen, 13 13k. Chester and Birken head, 151 151. Caledonian, 29 11-16 291 Chester and Holyhead, 151 16. Eastern Counties, 9 13-16 9k. East Lancashire, 19 19k. Great Northern, 23f 231. Ditto A, 98 98. Great Western, .60 61. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, - 88-' a 89. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 168 171. London and North Western Stock, 991 100. Manchester, Shef field, and Lincoln, 28k 281. Ditto Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref , 7-16 9-16 p.. Midland Stock, 741 741. North British, 83. Bi. North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern and Dover; 211 21 3-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19 5-16 19 7-10. York and North Midland, 274 28. Leeds Capital Stock, 15k 15i. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 11 qp. Dutch Rhenish, 181 3-16 p. Great Western of Canada, 261 269-16. Ditto New Shares, 3 7-16 3 9-16 p. Ditto 2nd issue, 31 3 7-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 8 3-16 8 1-16 d. Accounts from Galatz to the close of April re port the continued heaviness of the grain market since the promulgation of peace, with but a very moderate amount of business doing. The sales of wheat -had begun at Braila, where a downward movement had likewise taken place, and supplies from the higher districts were.sold at 206 to 211 paras. Rye and Barley were not enquired for, and prices were nominal. Freights were also very low, and it was difficult to get ships at the reduced rates. The Danish vessels accepted lls per quarter, and others refused that rate, but took lls3d to Ils GI. The following are the ruling quotations at Galatz and Braila at that date : Per Quarter. _. Galatz wheat Ist qua. 38s 3d to 41s 3d. Do. do. 2nd ... 29s Od ... 3Ss 3d. Braila do. lst ... 3ls 9d ... 34s 3d. Do. do. 2nd .. 24s 91 ... 30s 6d. Galatz maize Braila do It is reported that the dredging machine which has been busy at work - clearing the bar at the Sulina mouth of the Danube, under the direction a the A "of Unc, progress that there is now 11 feet (English) water at the entrance to the channel. The rates of ex change at Galatz, on London, ruled 06 to 961 paras per pound sterling, and on Paris, 3 33-40 paras per franc. Concerning the condition of the London Stock and Share Market, during the week, Mr. Aven's circular reports— The position of the bank is at this moment a subject of some anxiety. Owing to the settlement of the account, business in the Consul market has been limited, and since, the state of the money market has contributed to restrict operations. Yesterday, before the announcement of the loan, the price for the June account was 93i. When it was announced there was a decline of only 4, but subsequently there was a decline to 921 to 93, and finally closed 93 to k. The public have been purchasers for the June account, but speculative transactions have hitherto been exceed ingly limited. After this account the half-yearly dividend, payable in July, will be deducted from the current quota tions. Tie weekly traffic on the Great Western of Canada shows an increase of 4,3261. On South Western the increase is 1,2451., Great Northern 2,5061. Midland, 2,8131, and on Lancashire and Yorkshire 23281. On London and North Western there has been a decrease of 1,2021. Foreign securities are about the same as last week. 'Joint Stock Banks, and some descriptions of miscellaneous Shares, are without change, with a languid market. The statements made in the House of Commons last night, to the effect, that in the opinion of the government the transmission of gold to Constanti nople, on account of the Turkish loan, will shortly cease, and that the Commissariat expenditure will soon be considerably reduced, have produced no effect on the market. Indeed, whatever promise might be in them is counteracted by the facts that there is still 650,0001 in the bank on account of the Turkish loan, of which, under any circumstances 400,0001 must be sent to Turkey in gold, and that the British army cannot evacuate the Crimea till September. We may, therefore, expect a continued drain of gold, for some time to come, from the bank to the East, which, with the demand from other quarters, will neutralize the advantage of the imports, unless they should be far more con siderable than are now anticipated. Consols opened rather heavy at 92i to 93 for the Account' At this period the bank broker made some purchases with the apparent purpose of supporting the mar ket. His operations caused an advance to 031- to H, but the improvement was temporary, for prices receded to 934. to t, and there was no change up to the close. The actual advance on the open ing was thus I, and the market closed tolerably firm. Railways are not very well supported, and business is almost entirely suspended Great Westerns are heavy at our quotations. In othe r stocks there is but little change. Foreign Secu rities are a shade better. The whole of the 60,0001 brought by the Baltic has been purchased by the bank of. France. In the Mincing-lane markets this week there has been a fair amount of business transacted, but no general movement in values has occurred. Sugar, early in the week, was more enquired for, but since then the market has become flat, and a large portion of the quantity offered publicly has been withdrawn for want of buyers. The stock in Europe on the Ist instant of this article was larger than those of the two previous years at the sane date, viz.: 1850, 118,907; 1855, 112,066; 1854. 144,328 tons. Coffee has been taken to a fair extent, and prices have been steadily maintained. Cocoa has been purchased freely for export, in anticipation of the duty being lowered in France. In rum nothing of importance has been done, and saltpetre has ruled dull at the recent decline. Spices have been taken in small parcels only, and the quotations have mostly been in favour of buyers. Of rice there have been some large private sales at last week's values. Cotton has ruled quiet, hut steady. Tallow has undergone no material change, and tea has been inactive. The first series of the colonial wool sales this year commenced on Thursday, and it is expected that altogether about 52,000 bales will be offered. The attendance was numerous of both home and foreign buyers, and an advance of 14(1 to 21d, but averaging lb per lb, was established. In consequence of the shortness of stocks here, and on the Continent, this improvement, it is thought, will be supported. THE ScrrooLmAsTETt.—ln a shop window, no t a h undred miles from the Crescent, there is a bill or label, of which the following is a copy:— " 2. B. LETT AH OUSE N. QUOIR WITH N', The great event of the day is the discussion which took place on Wednesday, at the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, on the complaint made by France in the Peace Congress, of the manner in which some of the Belgian papers speak of the French Emperor. This discussion, though brief, has created an immense sensation, and it lids placed the French Government (as I said yesterday it would do) in a most embarrassing position ; for, in presence of the peremptory and absolute refusal of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to modify the Belgian laws on the press, in obedience to a summons from a foreign power—a repeal hailed with enthusiasm by the parliament, the press, and the people,—that government must either take strong measures to enforce its demands, or make itself ridiculous by abandoning them; for the manner in which men, high in its councils, talk to-day, one would suppose that it is firmly resolved to employ force to constrain Belgium. " Braved by a miserable little state like that—about to be inscribed by les braves Beiges— impossible ! and so they shall see !" Such, or in similar terms, is the way in which govermental people talk. The language of the semi-official papers towards Belgium is, too, very savage. The Pays goes the length of calling Belgium a " raven," its journalists " wild beasts." But this, after all, is only the anger of the moment, and for my part I cannot think that the Emperor of the French, who is a man of consummate prudence, can think of wantonly seeking a quarrel with Belgium ; for he must know that all Europe would certainly be on her side. Still, from the turn this matter has taken, it has become one of real gravity. The semi-official Patric of this evening remarks, that the Belgian government has commenced a prosecution against the Nation, for attacking the Duke de Brabant, the king's eldest son ; and it asks why it cannot also prosecute papers which make odious attacks on foreign princes. The marriage between Prince Adelbert, of Bavaria, and a daughter of Dori Francisco of Spain, uncle of the Queen of Spain, which was some time ago on the tapis, and which was broken off, owing to a difference about religion, has been definitively resolved on, and will take place before long. As Prince Adelbert is to be the future King of Greece, Russia is exceedingly irritated at his marrying a Bourbon and a Catholic, and employed all her influence to prevent the marriage. An imperial decree in the Moniteur appoints Count de Morny, President of the Legislative body, Ambassador Extraordinary in Russia. The official journal announces a fact, of which you have been informed—the departure of General Edgar Ney, aide-de-camp of the Emperor, with a reply to the notification of the accession of the Emperor Alexander. The Moniteur denounces a commercial company the " Cornpagnie Generale d'Emigration et de Colonisation" for having falsely advertised that august persons, placed on the steps of the throne, have subscribed to a large amount for its shares, and it declares that no such personage has anything to do either with that or any other company. It adds that General Ricardo, aide-de-camp of Prince Jerome has been required to resign that situation in consequence of having become a director in the company. The government has at last got M. Cuchevnl Clariguy removed from the editorship of the Constitutionnel, but the proprietors of the - paper have had to pay him an indemnity of £1,200, in our money. You see that the honour of being a semi-official organ is dearly purchased. The monthly return of the Bank of France has been published to day, and is satisfactory. Com pared with last month's, it shows an increase in the metallic reserve of £720,000 in English money, in the circulation of notes of £420,000, in advances on deposit of rentes of £980,000, and on advances on railway shares of £260,000. On the other hand, discount accommodation shows a diminution of £340,000. It is stated that the Credit Mobilier will shortly establish a Credit Mobilier at St. Petersburg, and a bank at Constantinople. , THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS.—Changes have just taken place in some of the West Indian Governments. Admiral Elliot has resigned the Governorship of Trinidad, to which office Mr. Keate, the Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada, has been promoted. Mr. Power, now Lieut -Governor of St. Lucia, is transferred to Grenada, in succession to Mr. Keate. It is intended to abolish the Governorship of St. Lucia, which will henceforth be administered by Mr. Hincks, the Governor of Barbadoes, by which measure a saving of the salary will be effected to the revenues of St. Lucia. CABINET CouriciL.—The Ministers met in council on Saturday at the unusual early hour of twelve o'clock, for the accommodation of some of the members of the Cabinet, who wished to leave London for the holidays. The Cabinet was summoned on Tuesday, and soon after twelve o'clock the following assembled at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, viz., the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Clarendon, Lord Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, Sir George Grey, Mr. Baines, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Labouchere, and Lold Stanley of Alderley. The Ministers remained in consultation until near four o'clock. Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Harrowby, and others of the ministers, afterwards left town. FOREIGN-OFFICP, MAY 6,—The Queen bas been pleased to a ppro , e of Mr. Luis Y. Sartamaria as Consul at Liver pool for the Republic of New Granada. A deputation from the justices of the city of Manchester, consisting of Alderman Sir John Potter and Alderman Neild, had an interview with Sir George, on Friday, at the Home.office. FRANCE AND THE BELGIAN PRESS' bel t° The affair between Belgium and The Cita; to assume an unpleasant aspect. The BeP give. press is not, however, the only cause of displea,.s;los It is complained that the King of the gross of Cros i hastened to give to the Czar the Grand Leopold, and made a display of it in the 13e g o o f Monite , r. It is not usual to publish the n ael t osl the recipient of such honours in the ° tit is organ of the Government when the reeiP le o t of a crowned head. Kings and subjects calla course be put on a level. On the other ha ° to declared that there was no intention of bral'oisreo the act. The Order of Leopold could not b , e „:i the to the Czar so long as he had not recognis'„itioa government of King Leopold, and that reeeg",itizal coming late was all but coincident with the 11°1., the MoreOirefirefice situation which preceded the war• decoration could not have been given with e r w ith to England and France while Russia Was a t / va 00; those powers. Now, as the Czar seeras ( ; - p olci the Belgian Order beyond measure, Nil* P i e •eyiag took the first favourable opportunity of gra', l ll ) , et his intense longing—but nothing disresPeetj, se t ' anything approaching it, was intended by ° s ow i The proceedings in the Chamber of Iler, e ,. eal eat t ves will go far to appease the uneasy es e : l ` l e ver which has pervaded the whole Belgian n at ' l l , ° ,slie d " since the speech of Count Walevvski was And assuredly such a sedative was 11,nrreseet required. It is well known tha t the, Y,atiblifl, Ministry of Belgium does not enjoy tl ie d 'ot 0 ' confidence. The remarkable report of an . n i ` r , ii sse ls the French Minister of Police on the Itch; g r f ess, which was lately published, indicates % B aal ('`,, Belgium, advocating published in the e ll ,r„1 sa 4 Bel every shade of puli, t ' e a - jatio ll ecclesiastical opinion, with an aggregat e , e ft te rla ; t l of about 40,000 copies, only two are lu--dstile (one of them being the official Monitear) 0 , 11 t boli o circulation is only 6,500. The rernainder----114deo, and anti-Catholic, conservative, moderat!',grt c;ratic, and republican—are for the Woe; % T hose' decided opposition. The Belgian Peellie'A ha prevailing sentiments are thus represente'„e of been less alarmed by the menacing lanclivtiqbeic the French minister for foreign affairs &i ll ";,' ow l 3 doubts of the firmness and good faith of al e. government. The indenciance contains a full repo t of the r interpellations relative to Count WaleWakit ° amb er Ministry in addressed to the Belgian the of m. Deputies, on the 7th of May Orts addressed three questions . to thielamdinsibs;Wd admitted that some Belgianne liberty a of the press, but denied w tha P t a wh r a s t Co unt iiral l el* h or d ts saidcould apply to the Belgian press in genra: oov concluded by putting three questions :---" t o a t "I. Whether ministers had taken any steP s ars e " known to the French government or to any goevoerogiute represented in the Paris conferences, ' the replYn h ' ar ? . t to"he accusations that had been made against her? 2. Whether any of the governments that fiati°ll protocol of the Bth of April had asked for anY , whatsoever of the Belgian constitution? :fl istri a " 3. What would be the reply of the Belgian the vhte p .f r vo o r p lit o ah s i i en ti rx o e n vrvi w s.i,e a hm s epinfuittshtteeoreeointfstFtoiotaarsettnonfr?Ar a t i he , co' 00 de l e i p silenc . e, and said— 'rS ros e j of fe"' " Gentlemen,—l have the honour to reply !n a b t e h °l' ' words to the three questions put to me by tne - .- ef ber, M. Orts. He asked me, in the first instance, -6:0114. e th r ecainet had made a reply to the French a gr t e ben c t i ll . to any of the governments represent ed e cr A grep, since the publication of the protocol of t ' a iers , the I pril? When I read that protocol in the neWslaaSts thought it my duty—though having duties of a sall h - er t perform at the time—to prepare, in case eit" otec i r French government, or any othereii government r_eptrreesati it at the congress should on forwahridhetr the d ra gif peace and the protocols to the Brussels officially of an eventual reply which mightbecomerna unicated to a: 1 . 0 0 governments forming part of the congress. I finis h :" if draught of reply four days since, and it is. readyLacapicil• were allowed to read it here, perhaps the Chan :we b - 10 ' find that it contains some of the considerations w hear;" Orts had just pointed out to our attention. (g ear ' All that is wanting to this document, a t s ure . before, has been ready for four days, is my gigro day tIPC:t idea was to present it only on the morrow of the ss '- which one of the powers re resented at thtC,47o - t e il, Paris should have thought fit to theofknowwith protocols: doyefft, ny.mr whether eosl a i : ao y dai joaonsnke asked Lh government to prop oso " None of them has made such a proposition. whe the r " The hon. member desires, finally, to kno w °I A; 01" the cabinet, in case such request should be 'n a no' d ill disposed to propose to the chamber any clo ne constitution ? 1 N - ever I " (Loud and reiterated applause)._ ,„,1 This last word (says the Independance Per L oa pronounced in a firm voice by the rainis te. :froa l was received with loud and prolonged cheeOftila the left, the centre, and from some member s - right, and was joined in by the galleries. DEMANDS OF SARDINIA ON BN C4 AND FRANCE. t Advices from Turin dated the 9th install -1a the Lions that the memorandum presented Volvo Count de Cavour and the Marquis de Villa 61° to the Chamber, shows—that Austria hsviljti/;i00 the Conferences, refused to discuss the c._ °ll ff e rs t!. of Italy, Sardinia, as the only state which °eon E barrier to revolution, demands the cc-oPerit.„,,js It ngland and France in carrying out reibri—r, ar shows that the evils of Austrian occuP at 'f, 0 13 ,' opposed to the interests of Italy and Eilr ° -fr e i t iallP contrary to treaty, humanity, and jus tice ' Ir frall e ° 6l l the memorandum calls on England I n , ci al • to unite with Sardinia in the aPPe--1° efficacious remedies. SUPPOSED NEW DIFFERENCES WIT RUSSIA, _. A ro t # a tie Ne T y he fo M r o s n t ite/ ri tr e a te n r n s o b u u n rg ce , sltvhitehdetphaertauursevine7oci ztlalres Fiench Emperor to the letters of tll 1 . 0 0 0 announcingcontaining his accession to the throne , a n o f th e t the felicitations on the birth u wel I nperial Prince—both which communicatietigorloo' presented on the 29th of April by Count , the /li t, ,Ni ooely n u r si t s e N u s r aa ipmdoaltekeoe Napoleon en toto There___ o .is another fact, however, of wI l L e- t ael l _: a full el c food , ht m eh e e b n ec t a i zr o ae n rr: oanf givingda t l h e a n t g i let ,ter.: I fitr 00 ow nof the reasons which induced France , fi ''' tie andlsth A.Aursietliv: but toP ieaurynkt conclude e o ownne n eeltselse, n 1 ey t x h e the op except treatyc the hu r: t ° r, e t . ,1 Orloff'ort zileo4 Orloff_ whose. does sign u a e t t u a r p es pea a r r t e e b a e ffi sa x t e i d sfie t d o ; t i b t e • ....17 , 10 5 0 ja ea , plenipotentiary, has not, in fact, been earn-cher ion that had been given of it was a Lion the arguments he has heard. The onlY t l ii December Austria, last of an engagement on dr part o f ‘ 7 , f . s tatera ell r t of to adopt a more vigorous policy ' ll - BP a an rise e s thes rejection by Russia of her propositions•otion ,propositionsthe were eaus e a efoc for assuming p a t s e s d u ; ra a i n u g d Z o c l e t . : o4 o s i 1 0 1 e t! had earned towards Russia? Austria kn°7„,:tboto utt. earned the intense hatred of Russia `",itiorl p with ing herself in an extraordinarily good P ° '., v er, hl' soc i France and England. To these, she trusted more than to her former fr iellt,, ion" . t finding herself on the point of complete isela'npor. t l u us . sia hostile, Prussia eagerly watching til e f s r r eog ° m nity to strike the blow, Italy burning t ° - 10 0 c any wrongs—she resolved to protect herselft wity he enemy that was nearest to her, and to hereafter be most fatal to her. Hence the rea with which she signed the treaty of the 1 - il i ; e pt a It is certain that the Treaty wa s to o° die project eu .' 0 of profound secret from all; it was inte ntto an d cussed, and signed with the same secresy on the part of England and Frit"?' the perhaps when Lord Clarendon left Parits.ng it English Government had no idea of Pr °se3 4arc li ., to Parliament with the treaty of the 30th ", or,' and the protocols. That there is sonlethl,,a fact a the Moniteur, which has th delicate t in this matter is suspected from t', of h as not gi,v ell at the the 3Oth, and the protocols, treaty i n question, nor even copied it if ° w it, first s ti English papers, in which Count Orloff to his surprise. t , of tree ( n o f The first article of the supplemental the 15th, states that the contracting parties, j ° ol d e ndenc e co o and severally, guarantee the indep given the tre at_itlio integrity of the Ottoman empire, &c. , an d ill `v ial of infraction of the stipulations of the treat)" l- „ e pt Russia will take measures as to the empl h e r s elf of their navaland military f orces . Russia by, h, to is hardly in a condition now to do any iniurllol.neo Turkey ; is there any suspicion of an 8, between Prussia and Russia, to counterbalaiL, that of England, France, and Austria? —obsero' MONDA.Y, MAN 12, 1866 LIVER!' MONETARY AND COMMERCIA LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING The Ocean Chief has arrived off the coast with 55,000 ounces of gold, and dates from Melbourne to the 25th February. Captain Forbes, we under stand, is among her passengers. The other arrivals of specie this week have been 2,520 ounces of gold from Africa, per Retriever; 4.732/. from the Penin sula, per Madrid ; 1,260 ounces of gold from Africa, per Niger; 41,788 ounces of gold from Geelong, per Thames; 141 ounces of gold from Sydney, per Ellenborough ; 14,198 ounces of gold from Geelong, per Statesman; 18,902 ounces of gold from 11.1eiL bourne, per Albatross; 512,123 dollars from New York, per Cambria; and 300,269 dollars from New York, per Baltic ; making a total of 78,809 ounces of gold, 812,422 dollars, and 4,732/. in specie, and raising the aggregate imports of the week to about 482,4521., exclusive of that by the Ocean Chief. The exports comprise -643,202/ ex Ava, chiefly in silver, for the East; 1,720/ ex Tagus for the Peninsula; and 2,390/ oz. of gold coin, 250 oz. of silver coin, and 22,432 oz. of bar silver to Hamburg, making the total ascertained exports for the week of the value of 661,0001, besides withdrawals from the Bank, and private remittances to some extent, The following is the Official Return of the Exports of the Precious Metals from the port of London, for the week ending 9th May :—Gold coin to Hamburg; 2,390 ounces; silver coin to Ham burg, 250 do.; silver bars to Hamburg, 22 ; 435 do. Total silver, 22,685 ounces. The following are the Gazette average prices of Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending May 6th, 1856, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon; on the importation thereof into Great Britain:— From the West Indies, 27s Old per cwt; from the Mauritius', 27s 8d do.: from the East Indies, 28.340 do.; average prices of the three foregoing descriptions, 27s 51d do. In the Liverpool Cotton Market to-day the demand has been rather more active, and a good business has been done, the sales reaching 8000 bales, of which 2000 were taken for speculation and export._ Prices were steady.. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. •-........--- SARDINIA A despatch from Turin, dated the 10th instant, states that Count Cavour has presented a second note on the affairs of Italy. In this note, which has been communicated to the governments of England and France, the Count states that legations under Austrian occupation usurp the powers of the Pope, and impose a con tinual state of siege, and he proposes the seculari zation of the legation for internal affairs, by which means the foreign occupation of the Reman States will be no longer necessary. THE COURTS OF RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. His Eftcellency Baron Brunnow having performed the object of his mission in delivering to Her Majesty an autograph letter from the Emperor Alexander, announcing his accession, left town on Saturday afternoon on his return to Frankfort. General the Hon. Charles Grey, equerry to the Queen, an old personal friend of Baron Brunnow, hE. 4 been charged to proceed to St. Petersburg, acd will leave this day, bearing an autograph letter from Her Majesty to the Emperor Alexander.' FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING FOREIGN INTELLIGENCr''