The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-04 00:00:00

telantm. WANTED. a STABLE, in the neirrhbouthood of Low FM or Egerton.—Address S. 'T.. 16, Northern Times office. NVANTE AL) a respectable Sharp Youth, as ERRAND BOY.— before ten o'clock in the morning, to Mr. John Jacob, Church-street WANTED, a SERVANT OF ALL WORK, in a small family, None but Protestants need apply. Good references required, - . A. 8., Mr. Fores, chemist, Market-street, Birkenhead WANTED, a SOLICITOR, for a First-class Tailoring and Out fitting Establishment.—A liberal salary and commission will be given to a competent man, who has a good connection with captains, and the shipping generally.—Address by letter (Z. R.), at the Northern Times office, stating qualifications and where last em ployed ASTUDENT (in his last year), at the Medical Schools o f Man. cheater, wishes to enter Into an ENGAGEMENT with a Medical Man, to as.ist, or take charge of a Practice, during tt e months of August and September next (the +tutumn recess). The tory references can be given. —Apply A. 8., Northern July Ist, 1858. most sai X imes office, Co bt Ed. G - ROVE PARK —A FURNISHED HOUSE to be LET, at a moderate Rent, for six or twelve months. —Address H. 2, Northern Times office: or two or three months, a HOUSE, con thig_room. five bedrooms, kitchen. Wine cellar. scullery, water-closet, &c. Situate within five minutes' walk of %filler's Bridge Station, Boot Te. Rent £2 per week.—Appli cation :by letter, with address in full, to M. P., Northern Times TO be LET, Furnished rawing-room, din TO DRAPERS and GROCERS. —A HOUSE and SHOP to be LE T, with immediate possession. in one of the most popular towns in North Wales. doing a first-ra , e business, and an old es t a bli s hment, of 18 years' standing. The prr.prietor retiring from the trade. The E stock T can be reducPcl le required. For further par . .. N are, aPP a good HOUSE, opposite the Dee, food cellars, utler's pantry, two drroms, with tool flower and The house has been fresh papered and painted ) Mr. Johnson, 13, Duke-street ; or Jones )LD HOU3ES in Park-strPet pARKGATE.- TO be I -fining two kitc' parlours. o kitchen gal drawing-neon inside and ont.—App and Son. Noston. Also. TO be SOLD. two FR TWHOLESALE DRUGGISTS an d OTHERR.—TO be LF.T, for IL a Term of Years, the MILLS, WAREHOUSE, OFFICES, Sic., in Wood-street, lately occupied by Messrs. Edney & Raines, as wholesale druggists, including the Engine and Machinery, now °remises, which are very commodious, will tely, and immediate possession can be lars apply to Mr. George S. Sanderson, eroool. ready f be Let or work oven.—For further pahic 13, James-street, —TO be LET, furnished, on the 25th of June, erate rental, for two, six, or twelve months, YEW ,Sea Bank Road, Southport. The cottage contains lining-roam, and five bedrooms. Has been recently mmands a delightful view of the sea. To a six tenant, liberal terms will be offered, and any alterations or improvements made that may be desired: or the house will be let unfurnished to any party who will take the furni ture, or a portion of it, at a valuation. Water aad gas in the house. For terms and further particulars apply to Mr. Hargreave, London .Southport. Q OUTHPORT LI at a mod , ' TREE VILLA drawin- fnrnished. and or twelve months' tenan en :-► alr. KENTLEDGE.—A large and well Also, BALLAST (Ptr) IRON ILLIAM F. SIM & CO., Sweeting-street -assorted Stock always on hand JUST Received, per " Niagara," No. 28 o f FRANK LESLIE'S AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, Price Sixpence. Also, a variety of other AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.—ON SALE, at the Northern Times office. ON SALE. in Oxton, Cheshire, upon liberal terms, ELIGIBLE BUILDING LAND, commanding sp endid views, and suitable for the erection of first-class Villas. The unexpired lease is for 83 barges.—Apply to Mrs. Atherton, 18, years, free from all Great George-square, TOXTWTH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN.LANE.— NOTICE.—The Burial Board are now prepared to SELL GROUND for Graves and Vaults. and for Interments in the above Cemetery. For scale of charges apply f t the office of the Registrar, at the Cemetery ; or to the Clerk to the Board, at the Public Office, Park-place, Torteth Park. PONY PH/ETON, PONY DOG - CART , 2 S ets PONY HARNESS, and a Russian BAGATELLE BOARD, the property of a per son leaving the town. Fhteton has turn-over hind seat, is low, light, fashionable, and easy—price 17 guineas. Dog-Cart carries four is, as is the Phaeton, in perfect conditi , n, very light—price 10 guineas. Harness 2 and 3 guineas. Bagatelle Board 15s —Apply at Private House, 6, Upper Newington, Liverpool AD 40USES PRIEST. BIRKENHEAD. HOUSEi I LAND! LANDII—ON SALE, in large or -4 tuated, and ranging in price trrm about ElOO to ,Ileo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheghire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can he had aTatis and free by post. Cheshire offices, for the Sale ard Letting of Land and Houses. Market-cross Chambers (one door from Market-square) Market-street. Birken head. ti•il I CSC THIS DAY whom it may cancer Tars DAY, the 4th it Brokers' stint, at Half-p.st One o'cloek, at the office, 14, Fenwick-street, 350 Barr•ls FLOUR . ow d'scharging in the Bramley- LANE & RIGBY, Brokers. Moore Dock NEXT WEEK TUESDAY On TUBSDA On accou-t of whom it may cencern. xt. the Bth instant at Half past One o'clock, 50 Quarters Mazigan I S D CAN CORN. J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. 11,0 J. NODDER, -Ct• Begs respectfully )ol that his NEW ANNUA DAILY TIMES lATTER, Nobility and Gentry of Liver iTYLES for the Season are NOW READY 81, CHURCH-STREET, to inform TO THE. NORTHERN s TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1856 WHAT is to be done with the Birkenhead Docks ? This is indeed an important commercial question. To the locality in which they are situated it is paramount to all other considerations, and to the mercantile community at large it is almost as important. With a very slight increase to British commerce, the Mersey will require a much larger amount of clod accommodation than we have at present, and Birkenhead must participate in this increased demand for docks before any other por tion of the river. Her central position and other natural advantages, totally irrespective of her rail way facilities, command a preference to the North shore. Small local prejudices may for a while retard the work of common sense ; but the steady growth of trrde will swamp all minor interests by its immensity. Those who have watched carefully the progress of the trade of Liverpool can see, we repeat, very clearly, that the day is not far off wheri we shall be constrained to seek shelter for shipping on the Cheshire side. But are these the matters which were brought under the notice of Parliament ? Nothing of the kind. There was a great engineer. ing—a monster professional battle to be fought. Rival dock projectors and wordy barristers their bows and speeches before a committee, and to renew a contest of which every member of the House of Commons k, and the Birkenhead Dock Committee preferred delaying a great and neces sary work to having the old story of dock making thoroughly all oser again. What, then, remains to be done under the cir- cumstances ? The Liverpool pock Committee would not be justified in allowing Mr. HARTLEY to proceed with his plans, while there is an act in force to make the Birkenhead Trust follow out Mr. RENDEeS design. Pursuing such a course would be scarcely pardonable in the eyes of a future Parliamentary Committee, and it is not likely that it will be attempted. The Dock authorities might be secure in carrying on the work as sanctioned by the Legislature when they purchased the estate. The emergency of the case would be a sufficient answer to any objection which could be raised hereafter. But, then, what is to become of Mr. HARTLEY'S plans ? Will the committee compel Mr. HARTLEY to carry out the designs of his rival ? The whole difficulty in the way of proceeding with the completion of the Birkenhead Docks seems to rest on this one point. And it is rather too bad that while both sides of the river have their engineers, that trade is not to have the increased shipping facilities which will assuredly be required before those in question can be brought into full operation. As for charging the Liverpool Dock Committee now with a desire to keep Birkenhead in the back ground, the idea is simply ridiculous. The rapid extension of trade has often pressed them sorely, and the screw will overtake them again ere long The space on the banks of the Mersey applicable to docks has its limit, and when the whole of it has been brought into use, there will still be traffic enough on our northern coast to support half a dozen Liverpools. It is only a question of time as to When Birkenhead must be treated with tender solicitude—when her docks must be made, and her legitimate share of the trade of our port passed into its proper channel. This moment of auspicious compulsion is, we are inclined to think, nearer at hand than the good folk of Birkenhead, or the Dock Committee believe. Be this as it may, we cannot credit the statements made at the meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners on Tuesday, with regard to undertaking works not sanctioned by Parliament. The chairman who presided at the meeting stated, that he " understood the Corporation were " about to do all the inner works, and as much of " the exterior works as would be applicable to any plan " that might be hereafter adopted, and that for that " purpose, in a short time, the contracts and ten " ders would be prepared. Now, this system of anticipating the consent of Parliament to works of such magnitude, is one which the Corporation ought to set its face against in the most solemn manner. Executing works which " would be appli " cable to any plan that might be hereafter " adopted !" Why, was there ever such a thing heard of before ? Anything the Dock Committee do which is not authorised, will be undertaken at their peril. They were ordered in the Act of 1855, to go to Parliament this year for powers to complete the docks. But instead of complying with this portion of the Birkenhead Dock Act of last session, they went forth with an entirely new scheme, or revival of effete crochets, and their Bill was thrown out, without giving them time to go into the " merits " of their old prcjects re-hashed. And if they should persist in carrying those plans forward, relying on their being applicable to any plan which may be hereafter adopted what will the next Committee they appear before say to them ? They can, with some show of consistency, follow up Mr. RENDEL'S plan, and if they attempt to run any further risk the Council should, at once, set their veto upon any such novel and dangerous proposal. Meanwhile it remains for the Chairman of the Birkenhead meeting to explain the mean ing of his observations with regard to the works about to be undertaken, as it appears the Corporation intend to carry out Mr. RENDEL'S plan. Tun creditor interest is paramount in Parlia ment. Debt is now treated of as unmitigated fraud, and we have the debtor all but in irons . This might do very well in a land where all men were rogues, and if the ledgers of a commercial country had not a debit and credit side. It appears to be a necessary sequence, that where all traders are creditors all must be debtors. There is scarcely a man engaged in any commercial pursuit who is not in debt. It would be impossible to carry on the business of this mercantile country in the absence of what is called " trust." The superstructure of our social exist- ence has been raised on mutual confidence, and if we judge from the general appearance of England at the present moment, we think that the faith we have placed in one another has not been very grossly abused. To keep engagements is the great struggle of business life. The successful man passes on from year to year without observa tion, and the amount of his liabilities are never The unfortunate known, nor is it necessary were to make THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. speculator—the over-sanguine or incautious, con• stitute the great bulk of debtors in the true rsc tlu fit]. really the men who could get any amount of credit on their good name, and who are the honest defaulters. Til elQa ore There are hosts of others who get into debt in what is thought a less legitimate way, and others who have no means of paying anybody. These two classes of debtors constitute only a wretchedly small fractional part of the immense debtor interest. That there is such an interest, and that it ought to be protected no one will pretend to deny. Our bankruptcy laws were originally formed for the protection of the trade defaulter, and the Insol- vent Act for the . relief of all debtors. The exis- tence of these statutes proves that the debtor interest was recognised, and treated with earnest solicitude by a former Legislature. Our civil jurisprudence had scarcely assumed a constitu tional and intelligible shape, when the Bankrupt and Insolvent Courts were established. Previ ously debt was often used for the purest purposes of prosecution, and we can all remember seeing the little boxes on prison doors, and baskets hanging from the windows of gaols, with the me morable appeal—" Remember the Poor Debtor." Men known to be wealthy were not unfrequently the recipients of the bounty bestowed on the sup posed mendicant. Incarcerated by a single creditor, and robbed by his nearest friend, the debtor was cruelly plundered, and the others whom he ought to have paid were openly swindled. Bankruptcy and Insolvency have removed the possibility of such things being done in these days. The Chancery victim alone is left for life in prison without a chance of a re lease, or redress for his sufferings. If the debtor will not submit an account of his deal ings to his creditors. they can compel him to do so, cr send him to a felon's prison. If, when he has accounted for all his acts, if fraud can be proved against him, he can be dealt with as a criminal. If men contract debts which they have no means of paying, and obtain goods under false pretences, they can be indicted, and punished summarily, or sent for trial by a jury. And with these means of making those who have property disgorge all they possess, of punishing the fraudu- lent debtor and swindler, the creditor interest are not satisfied. They must make debtors' prisons what the abode of felons ought to be, and they take from the debtor who they cannot punish with all the doors the law leaves open to them, all those little comforts and indulgences which would render the breaking down of an honest man less painful to his friends and less agonising to himself. This is carrying paltry persecution to its greatest limit. It is making England too Continental for Englishmen. It is giving the prosperous man too much power over the unfortunate tradesman and thoughtless spendthrift. The man who is not indictable for his acts cannot be guilty of offence against his creditors, and as a simple debtor he ought to be treated as an innocent subject. These were the ideas enter tained by the popularity-seeking Whigs only a very few years ago. We remember certain Ministers now in office talking largely about the propriety of ab o li s hi ng arrest for debt — the folly of locking men up because they were in difficulties—the wickedness of sending the unfor tunate to gaol—and all that professional liberalism which sounds so well in an electioneering ballad. A score years, or so, mattes a wonderful change in the general character of our political carols. We either have a cataclysm of purity in those compositions, or a frightful mixture of falsified pledges and.forgotton vows. We are glad, however, to find the legislature are about to discuss a bill which will give the creditor interest the power of enforcing judgments obtained in any competent court in England, Ireland, or Scotland, by means of execution, in all parts of the United Kingdom. And our readers will all agree with Mr. HADFIELD in saying that it is quite right to do away with the existing distinctions where there are but " one sovereign and one government " Let the creditor have all he can ask in justice for his protection, and let the debtor be treated as an honest man deserves, and punished for fraud when it is proved, as the law directs. At present he neither enjoys the immunities of honesty nor the penalties directed against cheating. THE COURT Prince Albert presided on Wednesday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission of the Patriotic Fund. His Royal Highness arrived at the Palace of Westminster at three o'clock, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. The meeting broke up at a quarter past six o'clock. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald, took a drive in an open landau and four on Wednesday afternoon. The Countess de Neuilly, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, the Prince and Princess de Joinville, and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, visited the King of the Belgians at Buckingham Palace. The King of the 'Belgians visited the Duchess of Kent at Clarence-house, St. James's. His Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Charlotte of Belgium and the Count of Flanders, paid visits to the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess of Cambridge in the afternoon, at their respective residences. Her Majesty, on Wednesday night, gave a state concert at Buckingham Palace, and, for the first time, in the new ball and concert room, a spacious orchestra, rising from the floor to the organ gallery, having been built for the orchestra. A party of near 500 were invited, comprising the Royal Family, the Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, and Charges d'Affaires, and a large party of the nobility. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Royal, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the Count of Flanders, the Duchess of Kent, Prince Oscar of Sweden, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, entered the ball and concert room about ten o'clock. The Queen wore a dress of white silk, with three flounces brocaded in roses and gold, trimmed with gold blonde. The jewels worn by her Majesty on her head consisted of opals and diamonds. The Duchess of Kent wore a dress of white brocaded silk trimmed with blonde. Her Royal Highness's head dress was formed of gold blonde, with ornaments of amethysts and diamonds and ostrich feathers. The Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of white glace silk with three skirts richly embroidered with white bugles and chenille' each skirt edged with chenille fringe. The necklace and stomacher of diamonds and emeralds. Her Royal High ness wore a tiara of pearls and diamonds with lilac feathers. The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a double skirt white tulle dress, with reversed bouillonnes from top to bottom, over a rich glace white silk petticoat, trimmed with bows and loops of pink ribbon, the body ornamented with blonde and pink bows, each bow having a diamond star in the centre. The necklace was diamonds. The Princess wore round her head a wreath of pink and white moss rosebuds, with diamond stars intermingled. The Princess Royal wore a dress of white crepe lisse over a petticoat of white silk, trimmed with bows of satin ribbon. The head dress was composed of pink roses. The general company followed her Majesty and the royal party into the ball and concert room. The gentle men appeared in full dress, and the members of orders of knighthood wore their respective insignia. Directly after the entrance of the Queen the concert commenced. The orchestra, of nearly 120 performers, comprised her Ma jesty's private band, with several of the leading instru mentalists from the Philharmonic Society, the Royal Italian Opera, and her Majesty's Theatre. uThe chorus of sixty voices was selected from the Royal Italian Opera, the ladies of the Royal Academy of Music, and the Sacred Harmonic Society. The orchestra was conducted by Mr . Anderson director of her Majesty's private band ; Mr. W. G. dusins, the organist of her Majesty's private chapel, presiding at the organ. ARMY PROMOTIONS.—Major-General Sir Richard Eng land and Major-General Sir Colin Campbell are about to be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Gcneral in the Army. MINING COMPANY OF IRELAND.—Yesterday, at the half-yearly meeting of this company, held in Dublin, a dividend for the half-year, a the rate of ten per cent per annum,lfree of income tax, was declared. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF ST. GERMAINS.—We regret to announce the death of the Countess of St Germains, which took place on Wednesday at Dover. street. Her ladyship was the daughter of the last Marquis Cornwallis by his wife, the sister of the last Duke of Gordon. THE ENTRY OF THE GUARDS INTO LONDON.—We can positively state that, up to the present time, no definite arrangements have been made for the entry of the Guards into London. The final arrangements cannot be completed until the Scots Fusilier Guards shall have arrived at Aldershott. The ships conveying the brigade , left Gibraltar on the 24th ult., and up to the time of our going to press, they had not arrived at Portsmouth. It is expected that in about two days after their arrival at that port, will be the period fixed for their re-entry. NEW ZEALAND.--A. despatch (from Plymouth, Wednes day, July 2nd, informs us that the William and Jane, Captain Hunter, which left Canterbury, New Zealand, on the 27th of March, is off that port, bound to London. She has on board 1,100 bales of wool, being the first cargo from Canterbury. The General Assembly was to meet on the 3rd of May. The Provincial Council was sitting at Canterbury, where the new settlement is progressing most favourably ; the wheat crops and all the cereals had been gathered, and were most abundant; the crops of potatoes had failed in consequence of the heavy rains. Flour, £3O per ton ; beef, 5d per lb ; and mutton 4d to 5d per lb, wholesale. APPREHENSIONS OF ANOTHER KAFFIR WAR.—The South African Commercial Advertiser, of the 24th of April, gives alarming intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope. In the Council on the 23rd, messages were received from his excellency the Governor, transmitting a correspondence which had taken place between the President of the Free State and Moshesh, great chief of the Basutos, with regard to the boundary line. The President of the Free State expressed his fears that a bloody war was impending between the Free State and the Basutos. He expressed his belief that a great combination was being formed between the Kaffir chiefs against the Europeans. The President a'so stated that he was about to expel a number of Zulus who had squatted on the farms of inhabitants of the State, who were becoming very troublesome by their thefts, and who threatened to cut off all communication with Natal. The Governor informed the council that on receiving this information, and on account of the alarming rumours which had reached him from the frontier of this colony, he had sent to Mauritius], requesting the imme diate assistance of one regiment of her Majesty's troops. The government of the colony has to deal with a financial difficulty, the revenue during the last two years having fallen below the expenditure of .€66,000. FIRE AT HAIJSBIIRG'S EXTENSIVE ESTABLISHMENT.—A little before three o'clock yesterday morning, a fire was d'scovered in the jewellers' workshop attached to Mr. Hausburg's premises, in Church -street, which, at first, presented an alarming appearance, but through the activity and prompt assistance of the West of England firemen, who run their engine down by hand, it was extinguished in about half an hour, but not until con siderable damage was done, but the precise amount cannot be sated. The building is insured in the West of England and Norwich Union offices, and the stock in the same, and many others. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A little boy, about fourteen years of age, whose name is at present unknown, but who, it is supposed, from an invoice found on him, was an errand boy in the employment of Mr. Britton, druggist, of the Old Hay-market, was, yesterday evening, killed in Old Hall street. He was drawing a handcart, and, as is the custom, was holding on by a lorry to help himself along. The lorry suddenly stopped, and be was unfortunately crushed between the two vehicles. He was at once taken to the Northern Hospital, but he almost immediately died. No blame wa s attributable to the driver of the lorry. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING There has again been a very active Cotton Market, and with a liberal supply, a large busi ness has been done, the sales reaching 10,000 bales, 3,000 of which have been taken for specula tion and export. Prices remain steady. The Liverpool Share Market continues strong, and a good business has been done at full rates, the quotations closing as under :—Aberdeen, 152 16. Chester and Birkenhead, 171 118. Cale donian, 311 31',1-. Chester and Holyhead, 17k 17k. Eastern Counties, 10 13-16 10 15-16. East Lancashire, 224 22/. Great Northern. 24 241,. Ditto A, 91 10. Great Western, 63k 641. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 981 99. Liver pool, Crosby, and Southport, 188 18k. London and North Western Stock, 109 k 1101. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 35,1 354 New 6 per cent. Pref., Hp. Ditto Preference, 121 12/. Midland Stock, 85 85k. North British, 9 15-16 10. North Staffordshire, 5} sd. South Eastern and Dover, 23 1-16 23k York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 22 7-16 22k. York and North Midland, 32k 32k. Leeds Capital Stock, 191 19k. Buffalo and Lake Huron, Lip. Dutch Rhenish, 2 13.16 2 15-16 p. Great Western of Canada, 261 261. Ditto New Shares, 31 33p. Great Luxembourg, 8a 82d. The tone of the Manchester Goods Market has been very buoyant to day, and a more extensive business has been done than for some time past. Prices for both goods and yarns show a gradually upward tendency. Advices from the French wool markets report a rather dull business in consequence of the wools of this year's clip not coming to market earlier. At Bourges, the clip of this year having been kept back by the bad weather, the wools have not arrived so abundantly from the wool growers as they did last season, and consequently sales have not been active. Buyers do not exhibit much anxiety to purchase. Prices at the close of the fair on the 28th June remained without variation, at the same quotations with which it opened, viz., if to if 15c per half kilo. At Chalon-sur-Marne the market closed on Saturday at the same prices obtained last year, being'2f 500 to 2f 80c. per half kilo for fine washed wools, and a superior lot brought from 2f 90e to 3f. At Chartres about 430 waggon loads arrived on the fair ground on Saturday, but the day passed over without any sales being effected ; and it was understood that none would take placq until Monday. The ruling quotations were ;—For wool in grease, Ist quality 2f 40c per kilo, 2nd ditto 2f 20c, and 3rd ditto 2f ; lambs' wool, Ist quality 3f 50c, 2nd ditto 3f 20c, and 3rd ditto 2f 80c. Contrary to an opinion entertained in many quarters, the Bank of England Directors have adjourned their Board meeting without making any change in the minimum rate of discount, but this has caused no serious disappointment, since it is well understood that although the reduction has not been effected today, it cannot be delayed much longer, supposing of course monetary affairs remain in their present favourable condition. It is expected that in the course of the present week half a million sterling of gold will be received from Constantinople. The remittances to India and China by the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer, which is to leave Southampton to-morrow, is believed to be heavy, namely, about 600,0001 or 700,0001. At the termination of business Consols were quoted 951 96. The following were the closing quotations of Railway Shares :—Caledonian, 621 63 Eastern Counties, 102. 102,. East Lancashire, 88 89. Great Northern, 961 961 Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western, 631 63a. Lancashire and York shire, 9ma 9z,- London and North Western, 1091 110. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35i 351. Midland Stock, 842 85.' North British, 40 401. South Eastern and Dover, 761 77. York, Newcastle. and Berwick, 89 90. York and North Midland, 64165. The Railway Traffic Returns for the past week, as compared with those of the same period last year, show the following results : _. ENGLISH LINES Bristol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead .. Deeside Great Northern a. cat. Wcatet it 1856. ' Corresponding week last year. 47,290 .... £7,017 ... 266 .. . 283 ... ... Kendal and Windermere Lancashire , and Yorkshire .... • Llanelly 458 . .. 366 London and North Western.. London and South Western London and Brighton Manchester, Sheffield, &c. Manchester and S. Junction Midland Newport, Abergavenny, kc 1,237 ..... 785 North London North British North Stafford North Devon ..... Oxford, Worcester, &c 4,008 .... 3,496 Shrewsbury and Hereford 1,276 .... 1,166 Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester South Eastern South Devon - Shropshire Union .. ....... .... 1,046 .... 882 Taff Vale - West Cornwall West Hartlepool 2,842 ..... 2,679 Whitehaven Junction 401 .... 375 IRISH LINES. Belfast and Ballymena Cork and Blackrock . Dundalk and Enniskillen Londonderry and Enniskillen Londonderry and Coleraine Waterford and Limerick SCOTCH LINES. Aberdeen. Caledonian Dundee and Arbroath 580 .... 549 Edinburgh and Glasgow Glasgow and South Western....... 6,108 ..... 6,287 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL, Antwerp and Rotterdam . Grand Trunk of Canada.. ... Great Western of Canada .. Great Luxembourg Lierre and Turnhout.— .... Northern of France 989 881 10 4 ,6 6 16 0 8 77 8 7 17 7 4, 6 1 2_ 5 4 9 8 8 3 38,095 .... 37,098 BODY FOUND.—Yesterday the body of a boatman, named Joseph Hermitage, was found in the river, opposite the Clarence-dock. He was drowned off the bar, about a fortnight ago, whilst out in a boat with two other men, who were also lost, on speculation. One of the other bodies has been washed ashore at Parkgate. An inquest will be held on the body to-day. AUSTRALIAN MAlLs.—The Australian royal mail ship, Morning Light (Black Ball Line), will be despatched for Melbourne en Sunday, with the semi-monthly Australian mails. The box at the Liverpool post-office will remain open for letters until eight a.m. on that day, until half past eight with the late fee of id, until nine with a fee of 3d, and on the landing-stage until ten, with a fee of is. ROBBERY AT THE MANCHESTER POST-OFFICE. A rob bery of somewhat serious, awl also mysterious character, has recenly been committed in the post-office, Brown Street. The money received at the money order office in King Street is each evening conveyed to the post office, and there locked up in a safe by one of the officials, who gives a receipt for the ascertained amount. This was done on Saturday night last, but, on Monday morning, it was discovered that the bag, containing about 300 sovereigns, had disappeared. How the safe was opened, as well as other circumstances connected with the robbery, have for the last few days been the subject of anxious enquiry by the principal of the establishment. TILE IMPERIAL BIRTH.—The following is a translation of two letters from the Emperor and Empress of France, received by Mons. Charles de Farjnn, professor of the French language, and of mathematics, in this town, on the occasion of the birth of a prince :—" Palace of the Tuileries, 28th March, 1856 . —Monsieur,—The Emperor has received the verses you have addressed to him on the occasion of the birth of his Highness the Prince Imperial. His Majesty has ordered that his thanks should be sent to you for the expression of the kind sentiments which they contain. In obedience to his commands, have great pleasure in communicating the above to you. Receive, Monsieur, the assurance of my highest esteem.—ALEXANDER DE DALMAR, Chiet of the Cabinet of the Emperor. To Monsieur Charles de Fargon, Professor of the French language, 27, Mount pleasant, Liverpool."—" Palais Royal, 25:h April, 1856. Secretary's Apartments for the commands of her Majesty the Empress.—Sir,— The Secretary for the commands of her Majesty the Empress has transmitted to me the verses you have composed on the occasion of the birth of his Highness the Prince Imperial. After the order which I have received from her Majesty, I hasten to thank you, in the name of her Majesty, for the kind sentiment of your poetry. Receive, sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.—COßßEAU DE SAINT ALBIN." The above letter is very complimentary to a young man, residing amongst us, who has also received a flattering acknowledg. ment to an address presented to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on the occasion of his visit to Liverpool. —Advertisement. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE KING OF NAPLES, A letter from Paris asserts that should the King of Naples transmit an unfavourable reply to the joint remonstrance of France and Great Britain, a combined fleet will immediately appear before his Majesty's capital. ♦ SPAIN Advices dated Madrid, the tad inst., state that the origin of the movements and disorders in the provinces is still enveloped in mystery. In Castelle all is now in a state of perfect tran quillity. The Civil Governor of Valladolid has been dismissed from his post by the Government. THE FRENCH FUNDS PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. On the Bourse to-day, at the close of business, the Three per Cents were quoted at 72f 20c. PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 3 The Peninsular and Oriental company's steam ship Madrid, has just arrived with the Peninsular mails. The Madrid brings 65 passengers, four packages specie, (value not stated,) and a full cargo. Her dates are—Gibraltar, June 24 ; Cadiz, June 25; Lisbon, June 29 ; and Vigo and Oporto, June 30. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, M. Baudin, whose nomination as Charge d'Af faires at St. Petersburg was announced to you some days back, has this day left for his post. Count de Rayneval, the French Ambassador at Rome, has this day arrived here to confer with his govern ment on the lamentable position of affairs in the Papal States. Apropos of Rome, I read in a Mar seilles paper that the Pope is about to proclaim an amnesty, and to adopt some important reforms. The responsibility of this assertion I must, how ever, leave to your cotemporary. The session of the Legislative Body has been brought to a close this day. The Princes of the Orleans family have, I am informed, written to their friends in this city to complain bitterly of the Duchess d'Orleans, their sister•in-law, for having made her son the Count de Paris write a letter repudiating the fusion of their political cause with that of the Count de Chambord. The fine weather we have had recently appears to have done an immensity of good to the crops, and the government, I am told, has ascertained that if it only continue a reasonable time, the harvest will be above the usual average, so that the damage done by the inundations will not be so severely felt. The Boitrse has been better to-day, the Threes having risen 60e. for time and 50e. for cash on the closing prices of yesterday, and most other securities having progressed in proportion. The cause is that the monthly settlement went off, on the whole, better than had been expected, that the Bank of France will, most likely, to-morrow reduce its discount to 4-t per cent., and that the telegraphs announce a rise in the funds at London. On Monday I told you that M. Fould and Marshal Vaillant were to replace the Ministers of Finance and Public Instruction during their absence. To-day the Moniteur announces that yesterday the Emperor signed the decrees nomina• ting them. Thus, then, lam informed of what the Cabinet meant to do, a day before the arrange went was submitted to the sanction and signature of the Emperor ! The King of the Belgians has given £BOO to the victims of the inundations. The Moniteur says that the Emperor, on arriving at Nancy last evening on his way to Plombieres, was received with enthusiasm by the population, though no official reception was, given to him. It is said that conferences between Russia, France, and England, for making some definitive settlement about Greece, are about to be held in London. In addition to the disorganised state of that unfortunate country, the accession to the throne is an object of difficulty. Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria, the present king's brother, who was designated as his successor, being reluctant to embrace the Greek religion, which the Greeks insist on, some other prince will have to be chosen. In case the state of Greece should, as is expected, continue to require military intervention, it is in tended, I hear, to cause the intervention to be made by Russia, France, and England, jointly, wherever practicable. The King of Greece, who is at present at Vienna, is expected here in September, on his return to his own country; but, notwithstanding assertions to the contrary, made in some continental papers, it is not likely, I am told, that he will visit England—he hates our country too much. AMERICAN MAILS.—The Niagara sails to-morrow morning for Boston with the mails. The box at the Liverpool post office closes at nine o'clock, but with late fees letters will be received until ten o'clock, and on the landing.stage until eleven o'clock. REDAN MASSY.—An interesting ceremony took place on Monday in the Fellow's Common-room, Trinity College, Dublin, the occasion being the presentation of a sword to Lieutenant Dunham Massey, of the 19th regiment, by his fellow students of the Irish University. OPEN AIR PREACHING.—In compliance with a respectful request addressed to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, D D., by 239 of the workmen employed at Messrs Milner's Phcenix Iron Safe Works, the rev. divine has consented to preach in the open air on Sunday next the 6th instant, at Windsor, in the immediate vicinity of the Works. . THE HEALTH OF THE TOWNSHIP OP SEA.COMBE.At the meeting of the Wallasey Local Board of Health, held last night, Mr. Odell drew the attention of its members to the fact that there was at the present time seventeen persons, married and single, all living in one house, which the inspector of nuisances had not reported. FlRE.—Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, an alarm was given of a fire having broken out in a cotton kiln, belonging to Mr. Gaskell, and situate in Fleet-street. The engine of the West of England, ani Mr. Hewett and the fire brigade, were quickly on the spot, and by dint of great exertions succeeded in extinguishing the fire, which at first had an alarming aspect. The extent of the damage conse quent upon the conflagration is estimated at about £2OO. We have not heard the cause to which the outbreak is attributed. ART TREASURES EXHIBITION, 1857.—0 n Wednesday a deputation from the executive committee had the honour of an interview with his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, the chairman, explained to the prince the details of the approved design for the exhibition building. Lord Overstone, a member of the general council, was also present, es were the Mayor of Manchester, Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Stern, Mr. Heron, and Mr. John C. Deane, the general commissioner. His royal highness, in the course- of a lengthened interview, made some valuable suggestions to the deputation, and expressed his cordial approval of the project, which has now assumed a national importance. Tits WORKING CLAssys.—The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes had its anniver sary meeting on Monday, at the Freemason's Tavern, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury, The committee, according to the report, in their recent en• deavours to make fit for human dwellings the houses in the courts, lanes, and alleys of London, had been making experiments in Wild court, Drury-lane ; Clark's-build ings, St. Giles's ; and Tyndall's-buildings, Gray's-inn lane, which they had so thoroughly cleansed and purified that only 13 deaths in the year had occurred in 195 families and 1,417 people. The society's receipts from December, 1854, to December, 1855, had been £10,821 19s 6d, of which there wgs remaining a balance of £666 12s Bd. Model lodging houses have been, or are about to be, erected in Paris, on the Boulevard Mazas ; in Boston, Unite] States ; in Hobart Town, Tasmania ; and in Gottenburg, Sweden ; while similar societies have lately been formed in Marylebone, Hampstead, Worces ter, Norwich, Lambeth, and Bath, and there is every probability of the long contemplated labourers' houses in the city being constructed before the termination of another twelve months. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THIIRSDAY. Their Lordships met this afternoon at, five o'clock. REFOIIMATORY, &O , SCIIOOLS. The Reformatory and Industrial Schools Bill was read a third time. The BISHOP of OXFORD proposed to add a clause, leav ing it discretionary with a committing magistrate to determine whether or not it was fitting that a juvenile offender should be sent to prison as a preliminary to his being sent to the Reformatory School. The house divided, when the numbers were : For the clause 53 Against it 17 Majority 36 The Bill was then passed. DIVORCE, &C., LilV AMENDMENT BILL. On the report of the Amendment to the Divorce an I Matrimonial Causes Bill being brought up, The BISHOP of OXFORD moved the omission of all th ,- -! clauses which facilitate the obtaining of divorces a yin. culo matrimonu. After some discussion, in which the LORD CHANCELLOR defended the Bill, their lordships divided. For the amendment 70 Against it Majority The report was then agreed to The Drainage (Private Advance) Act Amendment Bill went through committee. _ The AnnUities Redemption Bill was read a third time and passed. The Cambridge University Bill was read a second time. The report of Amendments to the Grand Juries Bill was received. The Stock-in-Trade Exemption Bill was read a third time and passed. The Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) Bill went through committee. The Small Debts' Imprisonment Act Amendment (Scot land) Bill was read a second time. Their Lordships adjourned at half-past eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. G. M. BUTT presented a petition from the medical officers of various unions in Leicestershire, compla , ning of their grievances. A large number of peti ions to the same effect were presented from different parts of the country. Sir G. PECRELL presented petitions from Gosport, Aylesbury, and other places, against the Poor Law Amendment Bill. POOR LAW AMENDMENT (NO. 2)_BILL, On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Sir G. PECFIELL opposed the bill. He had hoped the contention and strife on this subject had ceased with the discussions of 1844 and 1845. The bill had been brought in without notice, and attempts made to read it a second time at unreasonable hours, but the measure was so unpalatable to the House, that eventually it had to he withdrawn, and reintroduced in an amended form. Ho objected to the compulsory clauses repealing the 22nd Geo. 11., and abolishing the Gilbert unions. There was also another objectionable proviiion which limited the publicity of the rules and orders of the Poor Law Board, and confined them to the clerks of the peace, instead of their being sent to the clerks of petty sessions. The bill also provided that each parish should keep a fire engine, a somewhat odd provision to introduce into a measure for the relief of the poor, while it contained many other objectionable provisions, such as those relating to the chargeability of wayfares, and the creation of new audi torships, which removed the appointment from the guardians to the Poor Law Board, and placed the accounts for watching and lighting in parishes under these poor law auditors. The hon. and gallant member, who went at great length into the details of the bill, con cluded by moving, as an amendment, that it be read a second time upon this day six months. Lord GALWAY seconded the amendment, and appealel to the Vice-President of the Poor Law Board to with draw the measure for the session. Mr. BOUVERIE contended that extra parochial places should come under the Poor Law Act, and asked the House to allow him to pass so much of the measure as. carried out that object. Sir JOAN TROLLOPE approved of such a limitation of the scope of the measure. A conversation followed which continued till te l e minutes to four o'clock, when, in accordance with the. standing, orders, the debate was adjourned. The sitting was then suspended. At six o'clock the House resumed its sitting. THE EAST INDIA. DIRECTORS' DONATION. In reply to Mr. OTWAY, Mr. V. SMITH stated that the sum contributed by the East India Company for the relief of th, sufferers by the inundations in France would be charged on the revenue, subject to the sanction of the Board of Control. The board were at liberty to expend any sum short of 4'600, without the consent of Parliament. THE ROYAL MILITARY COLEGES On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. PEEL, in answer to Mr. Rim!, said that the sum of £75 each, voted for the education of sons of civilians at the Royal Military College, was for three-quarters of a year, and the annual cost, therefore, was not as had been inferred £75, but £lOO. RULES OF ARMY PROMOTION. In answer to Captain VERNON, Mr. PEEL said there was no rule by which a subaltern, when he became captain, should be rewarded by a step of brevet rank, and this was the case as regarded the line as well as the scientific corps. THE AMERICAN MINISTER. In answer to Mr. BAILLIE, Lord PALMERSTON said, that Mr. Dallas had power to negotiate with her Majesty's Government for the settle ment of the Central American question, which the , Government had been led to believe was not possessed by Mr. Buchanan. After some further discussion, the House went into committee of SUPPLY The remaining civil service estimates and the militia estimates, which conclude the votes of supply for the year, were agreed to. WILLS, &C., BILL The motion for going into committee on the Wills and Administration Bill gave rise to some discussion, which resulted in:the postponement of the committee till Tuesday next. calTaca BUILDING COMMISSION BILL. The motion for going into committee ou the Church Building Commission Bill, Mr. 14ADFIELD opposed the motion, and expressed his' intention to take the sense of the House upon it. On a division, the numbers appeared— For going into committee 159 Against it. Majority .. 150 The bill then went through committee. The Militia Ballots Suspension Bill also went through. committee. The Metropolis Local Management Act Amendment (No. 2) Bill, and the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, were read a third time and passed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at one o'clock. Forty Greek pirates is said to have seized a govern- ment vessel near the Island of Seaphos. The President of the Corps Legislatif, at the end of the meeting on Wednesday, declared the close of the session. The session closed with cries of Vive l'Empereur. The Corps Legislatiflhas voted, by 185 agai ns t 3 6, the „ law for the dotation of the daughters of Lo u i s :Philli ppe The Customs' Law is postponed to next session. A journal of Genoa published a memorandum, ad•-• dressed by the Liberals of Rome to the Sardinian, Cabinet, some time before the meeting of the Paris. Congress. It is of great length, moderate in tone, and; contains an ample expose of the Legations, with a stronn. conclusion in favour of their secularisation. CORK HARBOUR REGATTA.-.-YaChtS not exceeding 50 tons, prize £6O. Mosquito, 60 tons, A. J. Young, owner„ R.S.A.G.Y C. ; Vigilant, 30 tons, J. C. Atkins, Cork,, owner, R.C.Y.C.; Foam, 26 tons, Major Longfield, Cork, in consequence, won by the owner, R.C.Y.C., arrived as follows :--Mosquito, five hours, fifty-four fifty-seven ,rn GRminutes,E A T minutes,thirty yf ucrEtys. SOMBRE" m e v c eß o Ra seconds.nds; c F ox CAUSE.—The :fierTehhe beingo j u (la s gl mo fifty_‘ev judgment allowed six minutes, twenty-one seconds ; Vigilant, fie hours, for tonnage, this race was, a F p o p a e m al ; s Voifgitlhaent,usaesctond. India Company of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the Prinsep v. the Hon. Mary Ann Dyce Sombre, from Pre rogative Court of Canterbury • was given on Tuesday last. The conclusion of the decree is as follows :—" We are of and henry Thohy opinion that when Mr. Dyce Sombre executed this will, and when he executed the codicil, he was of unsound mind, and, consequently, that the acts so done by hint were null and void ; therefore we advise her Majesty to. affirm the judgment of the learned judge of the Preroga tive Court, pronouncing against the validity of theso instruments. There remains, however, another question, of great importance with respect to the costs of the suit. We have decided humbly to advise her Majesty to vary , the decree below with respect to costs; to give no costs. against the appellants, but to allow them out of the estato• one set of costs only between Mr. Priusep and the Els'. India Company, including tfp costs of this appeal. wi t i, respect to the respondents they will each have their own costs out of their share of the property. RAILWAY LITIGATION. —'TIE LONDON AND NORTH . WESTERN. —The pending litigation between the West London Railway Company and the London and North . ti s Western Railway Comp a ny has been brought t o a closerby the publication of the award of Mr. H aw k s h aw, arbitrator appointed between the two companies. Thefollowingfro thedate aretheof the t e r : ---A rental o f £ l,BOO per annual na ward to be p a id b y the London and North-Western Railway Company to th e West Loncen Railway Company damages in the actions brought by the West London Railway Company against the London paid ; damages since c ommencement of actions, and North-Western Railway C ompany for breaches er the covenants in th e lease, £2,820, less £445 16s 2 share of tolls up t o commencement of rental, Os 3 d—a consider a bl e p ort i on of the costs 1 in by the West L on d on R ailway Company in the litigation with the Lond on an d N orth-Western Company, the al arbitration to be paid by th e l atter ) company. icande4,u6a6irondroy ; edo