Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

AMERICA. RIOTING AND LOSS OF LIFE IN WASHINGTON. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. The British and North American Royal Mail steamer, Niagara, arrived here yesterday afternoon , with four days later news, 152 passengers, and $1,220,108 in specie on freight. The news to hand is of rather an interesting description. The following is an ample summary of the same : The Washington municipal election took place on the Ist inst , and was marked by scenes of riot and bloodshed, consequent upon the advent of a party of the Baltimore " Plug-Uglies, who inter fered to prevent the Irish from voting. The marines were ordered out to assist in preserving the peace, and a desperate collision occurred, in which six or eight persons were killed outright, and from twenty to thirty were wounded. The following particulars of the affair, from a Washing ton correspondent, will be read with interest : Our city, to-day, has been the scene of the most intense excitement, riot, and bloodshed. A gang of organised rowdies, some fifty in number, called the " Plug Uglies," arrived here this morning from Baltimore, for the pur pose of defeating the democratic ticket and keeping citizens from the polls. They divided their forces, and part of them made a demonstration at the first precinct of of the 4th Ward, and another at the 2nd Ward polls. At the latter place their interference soon caused a row, and some fifteen or twenty shots were fired. A young man, named John Ougeley was shot in the knee. The citizens of this ward then turned ont with arms and drove the rioters off. At this time a desperate row had com menced at the first precinct of the 4th Ward, the " Plugs" being reinforced by the " Rip-Raps" and " Chunkers" of this city. A terrible attack was made on the anti-know nothing voters, with pistols, bowie-knives, and stones, and they were driven from the polls. R. B. Owen, one of the Commissioners, had his hand shattered by a pistol shot. A. Kioffer received a spent ball in the forehead. An Irishman was dreadfully beaten, so that his features can not be recognized ; and several others received 'slight pistol shot wounds. Captain Goddard of the police, had a strong force on the ground, but was driven back. The Plug Uglies repaired to the engine house of the Anacostia company, near the Navy Yard, procured a small cannon or swivel, and marched to the battle ground. They were passed by two companies of the U. marines, under Captain Tyler, also marching to the scene of riot, who were hailed with hoots and yells. The Plug Uglies drew up with their cannon in front of the Market-house, on K street, fronting Seventh street. The marines formed on Seventh-street. The Mayor addressed the crowd, and ordered it to disperse. Word was sent to him that if the marines didn't leave the ground, a difficulty would take place. An order was then given to charge, and the marine took the cannon amid a volley of pistol shots from the Plug Uglies. The marines returned from the fire, principally directed to the north-west corner of the market-house. Five men were killed and seven wounded. Mr. Alston, a grocer, was shot dead. Thomas Wills, of Maryland, was mortally wounded. A coloured man, unknown, was shot dead. P. P. Yell was shot badly in the leg. Colonel Williams, of the I and-office, was shot in the arm. Colonel Deems, of the Land-office was mortally wounded. An old man, name unknown, was shot through the head and fell dead. An Irishman, name unknown, was mortally wounded in the abdomen. The cannon was captured, and the marines then marched to the City Hall. The stores were all closed on Seventh-street, for six squares. Twenty or thirty of the Plug Uglies escaped on the 3, p.m. train for Baltimore, and quiet was restored. It was then rumoured that the Plug Uglies had telegraphed to their chief to send reinforcements, when Colonel Cooper, the Adjutant-General, telegraphed for the flying artillery at Fort McHenry. The marines marched to the station to receive the Plug Uglies, when it was ascertained that fifty had started, but none had arrived owing to want of finances. The marines returned, and will remain under guard all night. The city is now quiet. The licraguan sympathisers, in New York, seem to exhibit a remarkable apathy in view of the late closing events at Rivas, in which their admired friend and chief took so melancholy a part. " We had expected to see them already," says the New York Times, " if not fired up with indignation, eagerly passing round the hat for material aid, at least holding a great mass meeting in the Park or Constitution Hall, Canal-street, to denounce the Central American allies, and appointing a committee to make stupendous preparations for the reception of General Walker, when he arrives in New York. But we hear nothing of such a movemment, and cannot learn that any steps will be taken in this direc tion, exceptto honour General Henningsen with a serenade this evening. Colonel Titus has remained in private quarters since he landed from the Illinois, and the story is that he will soon depart for the South. General Wheat will visit North Carolina for a week, and on returning intends to apply for admission to the bar, and settle him:. self down to the practice of law. The several officers eef the Nicaraguan Army now in this city, are ready to join Walker's proposed new expedition against the Central American States, but having seen the elephant, declare their unwillingness to stir a peg, unless provided liberally with funds." Governor Walker, of Kansas, arrived at Le- Compton on the 25th May. "He makes no speeches to the Squatters, but gives them wine and whiskey paid for by the City Government," so says a letter in aNe ,v York paper. General Lane had been arrested for assault and battery, with intent to kill an old officer Another correspondent says : Governor Walker arrived iu Leeompton yesterday (May 27th). He was received very quietly. He read his inaugural. It was a long paper, and declares that the territorial laws shall be enforced. It criticises the action of the Free State men, and declares that the position taken shall be maintained by the whole force of the governments The Locompton correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat says the apportionment will disfranchise one-half of Kansas, and that only twenty out of forty counties will be represented in the Conven tion. Some counties, where no census has been taken, are allowed a representation on the list of voters on the old election books, and other counties have written to acting Governor Stanton for election precincts. He replied that he could do nothing, there being no law to supply the omission. A card has been published, signed by sixty-two prominent persons, urging the State Legislature to re-assemble on the oth of June and complete the State organization. The President had appointed Jos. A Wright, of Indiana, minister to Berlin, in place of Mr. Vroom, recalled at his own request; Henry C. Murphy, of N. Y., minister to the Netherlands, vice Belmont, recalled at his own request ; Wm. A. Richardson, of 111., governor of Nebraska, vice Izard ; Isaac R. Diller, of 111., consul at Bremen, vice Hilderbrand ; Wm. Thompson, of N. Y , consul to Southampton, vice Croskey ; Gabriel G. Fleurot, of N. Y , consul to Bordeaux to fill an existing vacancy. Major M'Culloch had again emphatically de clined the governorship of Utah. A selection would, however, positively be made in a few days, when the. s vacant judgeships i n th a t t err it o ry wo uld be filled, and other measures adopted, with a view to the effective orgp.nisation of the administrative machinery. From th e l a t e N ew Y or k pap ers we g l ean t h e following miscellaneous intelligence. The Slavery discussions in the new School Assembly, at Cleveland, were continued with considerable acrimony. At the s ession of the 30th ult., of which we receive full aceounts, the report f rom th e Synod of Mississipi was made thestrike occasion of a sha r p debate. It was moved to Slaver', uuattthat portion of the report which related to siderat'ion of after debat e the , motion prevailed. The con members of 1 3. 1 : Report o n Sl avery wa s then resumed, and s Assembl y grew personal Two substitute to each other. acted upon. A for the report were put in, but were not fines the positionPaorr signed by Dr. Rose and others, de etlhe southern Church on Slavery. Major Giles Po r t has been found by a (:) in Co mmand of Fort Brown, Texas, the prejudice of go Da co urt-martial guilty of " conduct to drunkenness, and rder and military discipline by service ; but the sentenced President, to be dismissed from the and forty years of honourable s ervice, consideration of his age service, has mitigated the sentence to suspension f rom n The mystery of the Newbe a r tr k and p a y for ono year. murder.. which seemed so near solution, was again overclo - uoted by the appearance of the last supposed victim, Mrs. B row instead of being murdered, proved tont alias Ashbell, who, this city, whence she went t o Novo) e yesterdayrg alive and well in gave her testi mon y. Th e jury returned a verdict odeath at the hands of some person or persons unknown and recommended the Governor to offer a reward for the detection of the murderer. . _ A dreadful tragedy had occurred at Weedsport, Ca) uga county, in this State. An Irishman killed his brother-in law, who had come to remonstrate against the ill usage of his mother-in-law, and while the deed was being committed, the woman lay dying in the same room, the paramour of the murderer being also present Governor Gardner, Massachusets, has refused to remove Judge Loring, of Anthony Burns notoriety, as requested by the Legislature. A movement is being made in Massachusetts in favour of Hon. N. P. Banks for the next Governor of that State. The New York authority had at last waked up to the necessity of offering a reward for the discovery of the murderer of Doctor Bur►lell. After waiting more than three months to give the perpetrator of the foul deed abundant time to escape, and to remove all vestiges of everything that could lead to his detection, the Board of Aldermen passed a resolution that a reward of two thousand dollars should be offered for the arrest of the murderer The Board of Councilmen will, of course, concur, and if the Governor should offer a similar or larger reward, it might lead to a solution of the mystery in which the Burdell tragedy is still in volved. New Orleans papers state that refreshing rain have visited nearly every part of Texas, excepting Gonzales and Guadeloupe, where the drought still prevails. The wheat crops are excellent, and the other crops promise an abundant harvest. The Leavenworth Herald learns from a person who left Salt Lake on the 12th ult., that great ex citement existed among the Mormons, and many outrages were committed by them. Brigham Young was driving all the Gentiles away. Judge Stiles, the U.S. Marshal, and the Surveyor General, with their families, together with a large nember of emigrants, had already left, and others were hur rying away. We have late intelligence from New Brunswick. The Heal Quarters of the 27th says the Conserva tive administration closed its career yesterday by tendering their reignations en masse. His Excel lency was pleased to accept of their resignations, and sent for Mr. Fisher to form a new government. This morning Mr. Fisher took passage in the steamer for St. John, in order to make the necessary arrangements, and to ascertain who are to be his colleagues. It is said that the leading Liber&s will hold a caucus meeting in Sr. John, and there settle how the spoils shall be divided. St. John is now the seat of government temporarily, as it will be permanently if the Radicals remain in office one year. The New Brunswieker says that after a very dry spell, which has retarded the growing crops and parched the grass throughout the country, they were visited with copious showers, much to the gratifica tion of the farmer. The Head Quarters says that everything is parched with the drouth, and fires of the most destructive nature have been raging in the woods, and have in several instances reached the settlements, destroying three dwellings and other valuable property. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 2. MONETARY AFFAIRS—Since the last advices of 26th ult., there has been less activity. Prices with but few exoeptions are higher by several per cent., and the market is better sustained by purchases made by outside operators, than for several months past. The growing abundance of money, and the more cheering news from Europe, received during the week, caused an unusual firmness. At the close, however, prices are weak. The trans actions in shares have been smaller than usual. The most active stocks have been Erie, Cleveland. and Pittsburg, New York Central, Cleveland and Toledo and Reading, all of which have advanced in price. Michigan Southern Shares, both guarantee - I and old stock, and the shares of the 'Galena and Chicago R. R., have decline 1. Money continues to grow more abundant. Call loans 6to 7 per ;cent. Paper 8 to 11, according to class and length. DE COPPET & CO. Exchange on London has improved, and closed at 1091. _\ ra COTTON. extra brands. Wheat is heavy and lower ; the sales are, white Canadian, mostly at 1 dol 65c to 1 dol 86c, but including some sm.ll parcels retailed out at 1 dol 87e to 1 dol 90.; ; Milwaukee cluh at 1 dol 51e to 1 dol 52; and Chicago spring at 1 dol 47c. Indian Corn is heavy, with sales at 1 dol for mixei Western ; 1 dol to 1 dol 3c for yell iv/ &wham, closing at the inside price, and 1 dol 2e to 1 dol 4c for white Southern, the latter an extreme rate. Hors : There is a continuance of the firm feeling among the trade already referred to, and the b utter quali ties are either very scarce or are not off red ; we learn that within the past fortnight some 600 or 700 bales were taken privately, mostly on speculation at 10 to 11 cents, aad to-day, a sale of 200 bales prime quality Western is reported at 12c , cash, which latter, if correctly stated, shows an advance of 1 cent _ . IRON : Scotch Pig is dull at 33 dols. to 34 dols., 4 MOH. OILS : Crude whsle oil is quiet but firm at 70 cents. Crude sperm oil is quoted at 1 d.o' 30 cents to 1 dol 35 cents, which may be regarded as nominal rates. For manufactured o la there is a limited demand at 83 cents. to 85 cents for bleached whale, and 1 dol 45 cents to 1 55 cents for sperm. Linseed oil is quiet at 79 cents to 80 cents. PaOVrSIONS : Pork is unset'led awl lower sales at 23 d-ls 82z cents to 23 dols 85 cents for mess, and 19 dole 30 cents to 19 dole 40 cents for prime. Beef is firm and irt fair request, with sales at 14 dols to 15 dole for country mesa, 12 dols to 12 dole 50 cents for railroad mess, and 16 dols 50 cents to 17 dole fa. repacked Western. Prime mess beef and beef hams are quiet. Bacon is scarce and prices are nominal. Cut mews are firm, at 11 dole to 111 dols for hams, and 10 cents for shoulders Lard steady at 111 dols to 14a Batter is heave and dull. Cheese is also heavy and price are very irregular. FRE.GHTS—To Liverpool, 12 tons oil lOs ; 500 bales Cot ton 3s per bale ; 100 bales Sea Island at id per lb ; 30 000 st sves, part at 21s; 1.00) bets Tar is 31; 500 brls Flour at 6d; 500 bags 74.61 To London, 500 tons Oil-cake 12s 6d to 15s; 300 brls Rosin is 7id Tobacco was taken for Palermo at 8 dole. A bark was chartered to to load at Bic for Hull at 97e 6d. BY TELEG RAPH. NEW Yo ex, Jane 2.6 r M —Ashes steady, pot 7 871, pearl 725t0 7 37i. Cotton dull and heavy, quotations nomi nal. Flour 10 to 15e lower, sales 7 000 brls, corn to strait State 6 60 to 6 75, Upper Lak-r 6 60 to 6 90, corn to good Ohio extra 7 15 to 7 50, extra Genesse 7 75 to 10 ; Southern 15 to 9 01 lower on low grades, sales 2.400 brls mixed to good 7 30 to 7 70, fancy and extra 7 75 to 0 ; Canadian 10 to 15. lower, sales 600 brls, superfine 660 to 6 80, extra 7 50 to 8 60 Wheat 2to 3c lower. Oats lower and dull, 60 to 65 and 66 to 68 Corn Ito 1 !,c haver. sales 23,000 bushels, mixed 98 nominal, white 98 to 101, yellow 98 to 1 d il. Pork cllses firm, sales 1,200 brls, mess 23 80 to 23 921, prime 19 25 to 19 35. Beef firm, sales 350 brls, country mess 14 to 15, repacked Chicago 16 50 to 17. Lard firm, 260 brls, 144 to 144. Whiskey lower 354 to S. Leather dull and heavy. Fish steady, 1,300 ells St. George's dry cod 4 374. Mackerel quiet, but firm. Coffee dull and heavy, sales 500 bags, Rio 114, Java 15i, Maracaibo 12?„ Sugar dull and nominal, sales 200 hhd. muse 101 7 melado 7c Molasses dull, sales 100 hhds, P R 67, muse 63. Linseed nil quiet at 79 to 80, whale batter, sales brls 71; Spirits turneniine qui et at 51c cash; rosin quiet, hut firm at 1 874 to 1 90. aides heavy and lower, sales 25,000. B. A 30 Western 21. Iron lower, sales 200 tons Scotch 31, 6 mss. Lead dull and heavy Rice active, sales 700 tee, 468 to 525 Tallow, small sales at 11c. Hemp quiet but stea'ly, sales 200 bales Jute 113 dole six mos. Freight to Liverpool firmer, cotton 3s, flour 61, grain . 2;d. Stocks firmer but rather inactive ; N. Y. Central 85i ; Reading 801 ; Harlem, 10; Erie, 36 ; Michigan Southern, THE STEAM-SHIP CANADIAN ASHORE IN THE ST. LAWRENCE. QUEBEC, June I.—The screw steamship Canadian, from Liverpool for this port, went ashore on the Pillars, forty miles below this city, at one o'clock this morning. The extent of the damage to her is unknown. The provincial steam-tug Napoleon been sent to her asistance. BRAZILS AND THE RIVER PLATA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) S UTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Royal 'Mail Company's Steamship Teviot, Capt. James Moir, with the usual mails, arrived this day at 9 o'clock a.m. During the voyage homewards the Teviot experienced fresh N.H. trades as far as Tenerifle, and fair weather on- The accounts per Arabia were not as favourable as had been expected, and a feeling of disappointment was the natural consequence; buyers kept aloof, and though holders so far are firm, cotton cannot be sold at the quotations, which are renewed from last week and which must be considered as entirely nominal. The sales since 25th May to last evening have only been 4,000 bales, the market closing with a heavy dull feeling. The clear ances have been for Liverpool, 1,476 bales ; Havre, 754: Hamburg, 123. Total, 2 353. Bantams, CROP, &c.—The total receipts at the ports amount to 2,840,000 bales, against 3,360,000 to the cor responding period last year, showing a deficit of 520,000 bales. Next week this deficit will be increased to 536,000. We have had, for several weeks at the South, very full rivers ; all the upper streams have been navigable aff ing opporamities for any remaining cotton to be brought to the ports, and yet the receipts continue to fall off until they ore reduced, as advised by telegraph, to a total of 10,000 bales per week. I consider this fully proves the assertions mamt iined in this circular during the entire season, that the receipts, induced by tempting prices and free navigation, were being hurried to market more rapidly than in any former year. The probable actual receipts at the ports during the remainder of the season will not exceed 60,000 bales, and if I add 30,000 for corrections, difference in interior stocks, &c, the figures for crop would be a total of 2,940,000 bales. At any rate, it seems almost certain that the total will not vary much from 2,950,000 bales, from which, for practical use, must be deducted 15,000 bales burnt, already counted in receipts, and a considerable amount lost at sea. In relation to the growing crop we continue to receive gloomy accounts ; it is everywhere fully four weeks later than an average, and very strong letters are daily received from the South as to the impossibility of making an average crop. Ne doubt can possibly exist that the start for the new crop has been bad, and that an early or a monster crop is entirely out of the question ; but to give any esti mate in figures of what may be grown is mere guess-work, so much must necessarily depend upon the character of the weather during the summer and autumn, and the period of frost. Naw ORLCANS, May 30 : Receipts for the week 4,000 bales against 10,500 bales same week last year. Pales for the week 12,000 bales ; market firm at 14e for mid dling. Export for the week to Liverpool 3,000 bales Stock on hard 114,F000 bales. The °receipts at thiaport are 230,500 bales less than to the same date last year, and the total deficit by our table of date amounted to 524,000 bales. Freights to Liverpool 5 16d, ver dull. Exchange on London 10 Per cent. Montrx, May 30 : Receipts for the week 750 bales against 2,937 bales same week last year. Middling l 3 to 13-ie per lb ; market firm. COTTON IN Taaasrru—Has also partaken of the dull feeling, and I have only two sales to report, both made yesterday, amounting to about 1,000 bales at a decline from previous prices ; buyers do not offer enough, and holders generally prefer letting interest go forward rather than sell at a loss in this market. The quantity on hand is reduced to a few thousand bales. The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous four years : wards. The Teviot brings mails from the following places with their respective dates affixed :—Buenos Ayres, May sth ; Monte Video . 6th - Rio do Ja neiro, 15th ; Bahia: .19th • Pernambuco, 22nd ; St. Vincent, 31st ; Tedeare, June 4th ; Madeira, 6th ; Lisbon, 9th. The total number of passengers brought,* the Teviot was 101, amongst whom are : Mr. Brownell, lady. and chill, Mr. and Mrs. Fair and Miss Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. DrPbble and Mr. Carduv, Mr. Rudge and party, General Comte de Vauder Meere, Mr. Ilobilliard and Mr. Moorsoo, the Rev. A. D. D'Orsey, Mr. Davies, Mr. Johnson, Miss James, and Miss du Cue. The Teviot brings on freight specie value 2301, diamonds value 87,9521, and cargo of tapioca, ipecacuanha, cochineal, and sundries. The following were the"stations of H.M ships : At Mont eVideo, &c., Marajo and Harrier; atßuenes Ay res,lndefatigable and Rifleman; at Rio de Janiero, the Madagascar and Spy; the Retribution sailed for Valparaiso, May 12; the President sailed for England, May 12 ; the Sirene sailed on a cruise, May 13th ; the French frigate, Potirsuivante, and the steamer Terrare, and the American frigate St. Lawrence, were also of Rio. At St. Vincent was her Majesty's gun-boat, Firm, for China. The sqUadron 'was off the island. The steamer wts detained at Buenos Ayres by the British Minister, to bring home the result of the 'elections for Governor of the Province. The votes were as follows:—Alsina, 35; Peira, 18; Slavallot, 7. Alsina had declined his nomination, and tendered his renunciation to the General Assembly, on the ground of strong personal opposition to him, but the renunciation was negatived by 44 to 11, and his acceptance was looked upon as certain. In the Argentine Provinces the revolution in the Rosa Rio had been put down by the governor of Sante Fe, and a temporary arrangement had been come to with Urquiza. At Monte Video business was at a standstill. The fever had made great ravages, but was hoped to have subsided. The New Brazilian Chambers opened on the 3rd of May. It was doubted whether the new ministry would be able to sustain itself. Yellow fever was daily diminishing. The steamer Golden Met - 3e arrived at Bahia from Southampton on the 19th May. The steamer Teutonia, from Hamburg and Southampton, was to leave Rio on the 17th. The screw steamer Hydaspes,. from Southamp ton, arrived at Lisbon on the 9th June. The French steamer Bresil had put back to Rio With damaged machinery. The Genoa, Bard inian steamer, arrived at Pernam_ buco, from Europe, May 22. The Victor Emmanuel, from Rio, for Genoa, arrived at Lisbon, June 9. From Lisbon we learn that the King of Portuga' had announced his intention to get married. It is believed that the intended Queen of Portugal is a daughter of the King of Bavaria ; others assert that the royal choice has fallen on a Saxon Princess whom his Majesty saw at Dresden. It is believed that the concordat with the people will be rejected by the Cortez. Receipts at thePortsi2 840,000,3,360,000,2,479,00012, 6 7 5,000. 3,117,000 Exports toG Britain 1,278 000 1,643,0001,272,000 1,272,000 1,508,000 " Fra , ce ' 364,000 447,000 3e9,00f, 266,000 389,000 " other F. Ports 361,0001 461,000 232,609 274,000 309 000 Total Exports 12,006,009,2,551,00011 E 93,000,1 812,000;2 206,000 Stock on hand 1 294,050, 350,000 i 202,000 492,0001 372,000 .Of which during the past week, included in the ab love : Receipts at the Ports 18,0001 30,000 ; 45,000 35, 090 13,000 Exports to G. Britain 3 2 , 000 49.00 29,000' 61,000 33 , 000 ~ France. .. 6,0001 4,000, 12,000 5 , 00 10,000 " other For. Pts.\ 3,000: 11.000 12.000 18 . 000 8,000 Total Exnorts. .... 41,000 6t 000; 63,003: 84,• - ;00 51,000 - - - - • SllMMARY.—Receipts : Decrease at the ports, compared with last year, 520,000 bales ; compared with 1853, 277,000 Exports : Decrease to Great Britain, 365,000, compared with 1853, 230,000 bales ; decrease to France, 83,000, com pared with 1853, 25,000 ; decrease to other foreign ports, 97,000; increase compared with 1853,55,000 bales. BaBADSTUFFEI : The market for State and Western Flour is heavy and dull , and prices are in favour of the buyer ; the stock i s light, however, and holders are not disposed to make any material concession, although we make a slight reduct ion in our outside quotations. The sales are at 6 dole 75c to 6 dole 85c for common to good State ; 7 dole to 7 dols 10c for extra State ; 6 dols 75c to 6 dols 950 for common to good Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, lowa, &c., and 7 dole to 8 dole 60c for extra do. Best brands of Genesee and St. Lows fatally brands are selling in a small way at 10 dole 50e. Southern Flour is heavy and dull with sales at 7 dols 50a to 7 dole 75c for mixed to good brands of Baltimore, Alexandria, Georgetown, Fredericks burg, &c., and 7 dols 85c to 9 dole for favourite, fancy, and extra brands do ; 9 dole for extra Petersburg, 8 dole for Brandywine, 8 dole to 8 25 c for R ichmond country, and 8 dole 50c to 9 dole 25c for Richmond city. Canadian flour is heavy, with sales of 500 brls at 6 dole 75c to 6 dole 90c for superfine, and 7 dole 15c to 8 dole 75c for the range of far advanced)—we do not look forward to a very large crop for our next season ; it is said that our growers have planted extensively.—Oar entree during the month have been 88,385 bags from date to date, or equal to 6,313 tons ; our shipments at the same time have been 6,975 tons, and the stocks on hand are estimeted as above stated. Cot tons : Have been steady and prices have varied but little, MOO to 75650 being the prices paid, the entries during the month have been 3,216 baga. Paraiba and Maceio's Sales of former to some extent have taken place at from 78600 to Bs9oo, and of latter at 78800 to 75700 per arro ba, and all f.o.b. Hides : Some excitement has prevai ed, and as high as 300 rs par lb has been offered for a large lot and refused, when the highest prices paid h eve been 335 to 355 rs for small parcels, we hol no stock for sale. Rum : There has been little or no fluctuation in prices, and pur chases have been made on arrival to the market Freights : Owing to the great scarcity of vessels the rates advanced considera9y, and seven vessels were taken up, viz , three for the Channel at 501 and 5 per cent per ton, one for Genoa for part cargo at 601 and 5 per cent per ton, and two for Paraiba and Maccia, to load ballast here at 25[ and 30[ and 5 per cent, and part cargo ootton at t per lb ; during the last few days arri vals have been abundant, and we look to lower rates being submitted to, especially for Cotton, as little or nothing is held on hand for shipment. Exchange : Transactions to the extent of about £120,000 have taken place at from 27- 4 1 ,d to 28d 60 and 90 days sight, money is very scarce at these rates. Discounts : The Bank rate has continued at 10 per cent per annum, and money out-of-doors is not abundant. Beef Je , ked : Our market is well stocked and the arrivals during the month have been 23,301 arrobas from Rio Grande, retailing at from 55400 to 6sooo per arroba, and for what is left of Buenos Ayrrs at 45600 to 55200 per arroba. Butter: The dot/land-has been very li mited although p , ices Bono t give way.' Irish continues to 630 to 680 rs porb 1 and French at 550 rest per lb; receipts of former have been 450 fl , kins and of latter 2 134 ditto, including what has arrived within the last few days. Codfish : The only arrivals during the month have baen 2,691 drums, and the present stock has been reduced to a few hundred drums, retailing for inferior to better qualities at from 105 to 145000 per drum. Flour continues to pour in, and we estimate our stock to-day at 20,000 barrels, retailing at for ordinary to good brands 165000 to 275000 per barrel. We have had 2,551 barrels from the South, and 6,544 barrels touched here proeceded Southward, fin ling no paying marke t. Many that have stopped here have been ware housed for retail by the importfrrs. We consider the stock extremely heavy, and we are told that large receipts are expected daily. Wines : The demand is limited, and ab rut 2,000 pipes arelheld in second hands, exclusive of about 500 pipes fronal Portugal in first hands ; the cargo of the Amelia, of 148 pipes, from the Straits, sold at 265$ per pipe. BLIIIA, May 18 ExcnaNaa sustained itself at 28d until the other day, when the government ewe into the market and negotiated about L. £25 000 at 27 3/4d, at which rate it closes flat. SUGAR : The sudden stir at advancing prices, mentioned in our last number, has subsided, and s,-les during the past week were unimportant, although prices have sustained themselves at our former quotations of 35300 to 35350 for browns and 4i per arroba for whites, in cases at which, exchange 27/3/41, sugars stand in 30s 9d to 31s 2d and 378 21 per cwt f cm on board, exclusive of freight. Some of the holders demand 35400 and 4sloo, while purchasers are making efforts to reduce prices to 35200 and 35900 per arr. For sugar in bags, and picked qualities 50 rs. to 100 re. more has been granted. CorroN : The sales effected during the past week were for home consumption ; exporters still keep out of the market, principally for want of opportunity to ship, and holders are beginning to be anxious to realize. Stocks on hand are small. Our quotations of 75600 to 75400 per arr are nominal; and at these prices, exchange 27 3/4, cotton costs 7 54d to 7,551 per lb. free on board, freight excluded. CorFEE : Our crop is at an end, and we have had no supplies during the past week; quotations are nominal, 45600 to 45800 per arr. for Bahias, at which, exchange 27 3/4, it stands in 453 101 to 473 9 1 par cwt. free on board, without freig`tt. HIDES are dull of sale and prices flat at quotation ; at 400 rs. for dry and 360 rs. uerlb. for dry salted they would c st about 12 29d and 11.79 d per lb. free on board without freight ; Exchange 27.314 d. Fazionrs : No charters have transpired and our quota tions are nomi al. The Shooting Star is on the berth for London and has engaged at 52s 6d per ton. Rio Jammu°, May 14. XCHANON : The total amount negotiated upon London for this conveyance has been generally at 272 60 and 90 days, at which quotation remains firm. Dlscourrs : The bank has raised its rate of discount 9 per cent. CAFFZE : The sales since the sailing of the Avon amount to 222,000 bags, that is, from 14th to 30th April, 168,000 bags. Arrivals have been moderate on account of the continual rains, and receipts do not much exceed 200.000 baize in the thirty one days since our last. Our quotations are entirely nominal, for nothing has been done in this article since 7th inst. Fazionrs to Liverpool and London steady at 40s. BUENOS ATREE, May 4 The British Packet, says that " So far as' foreign or commercial matters are concerned, we calla extract much consolation from the present lowering aspect of political parties." Exchange 748. per doubloon. • MELBOURNE. A correspondent of the Glasgow Daily Mail sends she editor the following— The colony of Victoria comprehends an area of 55,000,000 of acres. About 2,2u0,000 acres of this quan tity have been sold, and of that 115,000 some odd hundred acres are under culture. To this cultivation some people ascribe a change in our climate, for no longer have we those long exhausting droughts of which you have heard so much ; still in summer we have the same fierce sun, and the same terrible north winds passing over the burning deserts of the interior, while in winter we obtain rains descending in great fury, at a temperature which produces ice, of the thickness of half-a-crown when the rain abates. Would you know the qu tlity of our heat, let any one go into a calico printer's stove, with the thermometer at 117 deg, and with a stream of hot air of that temperature playing against his body, and then set him to hard labour. I speak not of the sun blazing over his head—l leave that to your fancy. Then as to the winter—it is not the cold we complain of so much, but the altuost ceaseless shower of rain for two or three months together, tumbling in drops the circum terence of threepenny piece. True we have many days of matchless beauty, but from all this you will see how much a labouring man's time is cut up. Nor is this all. The Government estimates for this year provides for the immi gration of 26,000 more people. Where are they to be housed? There are not one hundred houses in Mel bourne or neighbourhood to be let. Then let them take to tents, some say. Consider, I pray you, the frightful mortality which overtook so many immigrants some three ye ars ego, and who were compelled to adopt this wretched mode of lodging. 1 quote from the words of Mr. William Birkmyre, a most able and accomplished chemist (acknowledged to he one of the first assayers in the world—boroar to Paisley that produces so many able men)—" My belief is that that calamity arose from these immigrants living in tents exposed to all the variations of the weather, and other causes incidental t ) immigration, under such circumstanets." I pass from this branch of the subject, and ask you to read the speech of Captain Clark, Surveyor-General, in speaking of railways. He says, " One contractor offers to furnish from 15,000 to 20,000 men for Government works." He speaks also of the rapidity with which the vast blue stone piles of the Parliamentary h )uses have been got up. Does that look like wanting more people here, except for a purpose lam unwilling to understand—to lower wages? There are hundreds of every grade going idle, who will be forced to go to the gold fields. This is the reason why wages apparently keep high, and as these fields receive more labourers we export more gold ; but remember that the average produce there realises only what is equal to ordinary wages, for toil and privations that your Airdrie colliers know nothing of. D,) you ask me, " What about your harvests, which will be lost for want of labour ?" I answer, It is quite rue ; but no man in his senses will undertake, in a country like this, to go a great distance for a fortnight's work. and then be turned adrift. This, then, is your gold colony. Not the place of so little hope COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. either to the working classes as to mercantile men, ex- PERNAMBUCO, MAY 22. ceptimr those of large capital, fit always to take advantage SUGARS. —During this month considerable excitement of needy importers and glutted markets. Hero let. has prevailed in this article, and large purchases have been me remind you that the population of Victoria is not much made; immediately on the arrival of this boat from South- mere than that of Glasgow, yet what cargoes of goods ampton, purchasers began to flock into the market and e.: , me here, and what shoals of eager merchants ready to 25900 to 28950 were paid for Channels : but as the stocks sell them off, by commission, auction, or any way I Turn became scarce the prices gradually advanced and our in; from the gloomy picture, that our fair lands are near l y quotation to-day is from 3SIOO to 35200 per aroba and all lying dormant, aad that there are few producers save no stocks whatever for sale, the better kinds also have been the gold diegers, I think it well to uotics an effort made in great demand at 35300 to 35450.—1 n white Sugar not by Mr. A. K. Smith, C.E. (a name standing in deservedly Po much done and our stock for:sale "from somenos toads high repute in this part of the world, although some of (goad)" is about 30,000 bags, the stock of all your Galashiels readers may remember him as once a kinds for shipment we estimate at about 90,000 tointrolueogood colouialbricks. We think this bags or 0,430 tons.—Paraiba and Maceio's.— effort to be one in the right direction, tending to supply 000 our 15,000 bags of former have been , p urchased at . own necessities at a cheaper rate (the price is £5 per 1, few ‘ s v e n m d o re from practical a home. etial from 38300 to 38500, full prices paid, and of latter about here) and of as good a qualitya s s es y s o e u d a ca 10,00 bags at 3 5 400 to 3 5 550 do. , a ll free on board, we now It were well if this country possessed consider the crops almost at an end, the winter rains having men like Mr. Smith. We could then spare you a host of commenced to set in, and our Engenhos having almost ex- poets, fiddlers, ria.sers, and mountebanks, while working haustsd their stocks ; unless the rains become more men, and mercantile m e n too, would get their own, and a abundant (which is Generally doubted, the season being SQ stop would be Tut'. to that grumbling tblt overspreads the whole community. There are many things in my haste I have forgotten to state. Such as you ask me, " What is the labour market ?" A labour market is a number of shops or bothies in different parts of the town, sceh as your register offices for services at home. The manor woman who gets you a place gets a fee, and so on. High prices ere always quoted for labour, of course; and he that puffs best has the best chance of doing a trade. If he wants, far example, one farm-servant, he advertises for to - enty. Again I caution your readers not to be misled by tho. - 3e is advertisements in the Argus nor by the opinion of any paper in Melbaurne. In stating all this Ido not pretend to set myself up as an aTharity. I only write you (as thousands here will sal-) what is unfortunately too true, and what many private letters Bent home will corroborate. I send you a box containing four bricks of the manufacture I refer to, that you may show them to the Glasgow makers. The price here is £5 per 1000. You must be aware what a large quantity of bricks are sent here from home, and you will now be able to seee whether ;yy remarks are correct. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The lists of opposition candidates are still in conflict with each other. Several of the names in both belong to men of eminence in the party, so that one does not well know whom to prefer— " Who shall decide when. doctors disagree ?" I mentioned yesterday that one section of the Democratic leaders protested against the list adopted at the same lime by the Rupbliati &ecic and the Orleanist Debats. The list put forth by the first-mentioned was incomplete yesterday. It is now, I understand, filled up in the following manner:—Garnier Pages, I. Itlmaud„Tulcs Bas tide, Jules Simon, and Eugene Pelletan. Thus the Siecle candidates have to contend not only against the Government nominees, but also to encounter competitors in their own party. This division of interests will not be regretted by the Government. _ _ _ The election movement seems to extend itself. In the fablourgs plactrds described as of a " seditious tendency," are found on the walls in the morning. and so frequently that, I am assured, it has been thought necessary to organist; a nightly service of police, in plain clothes, for the purpose of catching the posters of the olTansive proclama tions. A. circular from a well.known leader of the ultra-Democratic party, urging, the electors not to vote, has been for some days circulating at Lyons e w n el e v w e and other places. So far as one can judge at p O r p e rosi nt Lo it n icsatlil believedates will that about he ele e tteed to n 01. Chamber. The Constitutionnel published the following list of Government candidates for the city of Paris :- Ist Electorial Division, M. Guyard Delalain. 2d .. M. Devinck. 3rd .. M. Germain Thibaut. 4th • • M. Vavin. sth .. M. Monnin Japy. 6th • • M. Perrot. 7th • • M. Lanquetur. Bth . • M Fouche Lepelletin. 9th .. M. Kcenigswarter. 10th ' • M. Veron. The Moniteur publishes several important de crees. One raises the following gentlemen to the dignity of senator :—M. Boulay (de la Meurihe), President of Section in the Council of State; M. Favre, Mayor of Nantes, lately deputy ; Baron Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine ; the Marquis de Laroche-Lambert ; M. Le Roy, Prefect of the Seine-Inferienre; M. Mallet, Vice-President of the Council-General of the Ponts-et-Chaussees ; M. de Mesonan, lately deputy ; General de Montreal and Niel ; and M. Pietri, Prefect of Police. Another Imperial Decree appoints Count de Germiny, Governor of the Credit Foncier, to be Governor of the Bank of France in the room of Count d'Argont whose resignation has been accepted, and who, by another decree, is named Honorary Governor of the Bank of France. _ _ Count de Germiny, who has just been nominated to the high office of Governor of the Bank of France, is descended from an ancient family of Normandy: His father, after having filled several high State employments, was peer of France under the Restoration and under Louis Philippe. As to the son, he commenced his political career as Prefect of the Seine-et-Marne, and was shortly after returned to the Chamber of Deputies by the electors of Melun. He afterwards, on marrying the daughter of M. Hutnann, minister of finance, loft th.o I.B:Qlativ. body, or►d anturail n thn only of financial matters. He was then appointed to the office of receiver general at Melun ; and after wards ,to a similar office in the Seine Inferieure. In 1848 he was named minister of finance ; he did not remain long in the position, and the Emperor, when the Credit-Fonder was re-constituted, placed him at the head of the institution. The Emperor has commissioned Colonel Fave one of his orderly officers, to visit the camp at Chalons sur Marne, and to give an account of the works commanded to be executed by the engineer department. The Pays announces the death of M Fontnnier, the French Consul at Civita Vecchia. The sittings of the Commission named to regu late the appointment of French Consuls to the RusSian ports in the Black Sea have been resumed at the Foreign-office under the direction of M. de Lesseps, chief of the commercial department. The Consuls are not to be named until after the Con ference which is to take place respecting the clauses of the Treaty of Paris. The Moniteur publishes the official returns of the import and export trade of France during the last year, with the. comparison of the two preceding. The total amount of the imports for 1856 in round numbers was 2,564 millions, being an increase of 468 millions ovor those of the year 1855, and of 692 millions over 1854. The items which show the greatest increase over 1855 are corn, 181 millions ; French colonial sugar, 15 ; oleaginous seeds, 5 ; raw wool, 60 ; raw cotton, 25 ; rice 17 ; raw and spun silk, 63 ; gold and silver, 74; sundries, 91 millions. Those which show the greatest falling off are foreign sugar, 8 millions ; coffee, 2 ; coal, 4 ; olive oil, 5 ; rough castings, bar iron, and other metals, 4; and indigo, 3 millions. The exports in 1856 ,amounted to 2,375 millions, being an increase of 338 millions over those of 18 5 5, and of 634 over 1854. The items which show the greatest improve ment as compared with 1855 are wine and spirits, 60 millions; books, engravings, and music, 4; millinery, 2 ; paper, 2 ; prepared skins and gloves, 30; unbleached and dyed silk, 10; refined sugar, 10 ; woollen, silk, and cotton wove goods, 119 ; gold and silver, 2 millions. Those articles which show the greatest decrease are, works in iron and other metals, 8 ; cattle, 2; and dye stuffs, 3 millions. RUSSIA. BERLIN, JUNE 11 The small crumbs of information that cne can pick up, now that the high-placed and the well-in formed have all left the capital, are very scanty ; the post seems the only source of intelligence left, From this sole fountain, then, I derive the follow. ing :-1, from St. Petersburg that there is an almost certainty that the Emperor Alexander will have a meeting with the Emperor Louis Napoleon either at Wildbad or Stuttgard in the, early part of July ; 2, from Potsdam, that it is more than probable that the King of Prussia will join his sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, and her son, the reigning Em peror, at Wildbad, early in July, and bring them both home with him to Sans-Souci ; and 3, from Paris, that, although as yet no fixed and unalterable travelling arrangements have been made by the Emperor for a visit to Germany within the next month, there remains little doubt of his having a meeting there, if in any way possible, with the Emperor of Russia. As these three statements coincide very closely with what I have announced to you several times of late, I presume they may be looked upon as pretty nearly correct, as far as the present time is concerned. It turns out now, that Admiral Count . Putiatin, whose departure for Kiachta was mentioned some little time back, is really gone on a mission to the Chinese Court at Pekin, and must by this time have already arrived there. The frigate Olivuzzi, which left Nicolaieff, last autumn, and is now daily expected in St. Petersburg, has already forwarded home letterS,Which she took in at Hong Kong about the beginning of February ; in tho previous November she bad performed her mission, which consisted in exchatigint: - the nitifi.atious of the Russian treaty with Japan, which took place a Simod3. On this occasion the OliNnlzzl. stayed some weeks at Simoda, (hiring which time the guns of the Diana, that had been wrecked there and which were kept there for the Russians were made a present of to the Japanese During part ofJanunry the frigate was stationed near Hong Kong, and some of her °fillers happened to be on shore at the time of the grand arsenic conspiracy there, and were among the sufferers from it The report the captain of the vessel has sent in about the state of thius in Canton is sail to be couched in very re=oreed te-.-ms, but gives the realer to understand that the Cainese ou this occazi .Jll. will h e aid e to o ff; !k • a memo steadfast defence, than on former occasions ITALY. TURIN, June 9. This day the P, , pe is expected to arrive at Bologna, t.nd it is to ho hoped that he has better weather for the o...easion than :we have in Turin to day, for it is raining here now hat d enough to de stroy all the pleasure of travelling, and completely ruin the eine of any concerted pageant, arid the thermometer, Ivhioh marked about 80 deg of Faren heit yesterday morning in the shade, is 20 deg. lower this morning The preparations for the offi cial decoration of the city of B )logni. will east, it is said, about 150,000 scudi, and this outlay, as I men tioned an a. fortn,nr occasion, his been male solely on the responsibility of the Mayor or Senators of the town, and it appears that the Senatore assumed the responsibility of expending largely the mania. pal fun:fs without consuhing the Council at t.h© ex press desire of Cardinal Antonelii, who hearing that the Municipal Councils Of the Romagna intended taking steps for addressing the Pope during his so journ among them, gave particular instructions that tit'y should on no account be assembled at this time of year. His Eminence might possibly have thought it better the proprietory of the Romagna should not be disturbed in their agricultural pursuits at this season, and that they would be better employed among their silkworms than appearing prematurely in the chrysalis state of holiday attire ; but more probably he hoped, by thus preventing the assem bly of those bodies which are supposed to represent the inhabitants of the various communes, he should be able to nip in the bud the preparatives for a legal remonstrance to the Pontiff in person. There is no doubt that several membei•s - of the Municipal Council of Bologna had intended taking advantage of this visit to present to his Holiness such aremon stranee against tia! misgovernment of the country as the last year forwarded to Rome on t h e same subjeat,and it is more than Fobable that the example of the capital of the Legations would have been followed by mAny other towns. As it is, finding their Municipal Ciuu2il was prevented from formally meeting and passing resolutions, as intended, and that the Senatore will be the only civie officer who will be allowed the privilege of approaching the Sovereign on any matters of more serious business than to kiss hio toe, the Bolognese, includ- jug the wealthiest inhabitants of the town, the largest proprietors of the province, the principal merchants and bankers, have signed an address to His Holiness which is to be con signed" to the Senatore for presentation. This address, as far as I have been able to learn, is of course couched in the mos', respectful language towards His Holiness himself, but while guardedly moderate in tone and demands, it boldly exposes the sores for which it solicits im mediate remedy. It sets forth the evils of mal administration, peculation, and corruption in the Government, and the non-execution of laws, and without going so far as to ',suggest, as the President of the French Republic did, "seoularil sation and the Code Napoleon," it humbly begs the Sovereign Pontiff to cause strict inquiry and the necessary reforms in all departments of Government, and that ha will be pleased to enforce the execution of those laws which now exist in his dominions (laws which, moreover, have elicited the admiration of the Count de Ray neval), and it points to the absolute necessity for organizing a 'leave army, and dispensing with foreign intervention, in fact, it has been drawn up with so mueh moderation, and is so reason able in its denaancl,ahat it has bean signed—by men who are notorious for their attachment to the Papacy as a temporal power, and it is to be hoped for his own sake as for that of his order, his Holiness may be able to profit. by this appeal to his justice. King Victor Ernat muel, having received official communication of the death of the 'Duchess of Gloucester. has ordered that the Sard'nian Court should go into mourning for fourteen days. The King and Queen of Saxony have left Stressa for Genoa and Florence. The news of the silk crop has been tolerably favourat le the last few days, but at present it is im • possible to anticipate what may be the effect of this suddn change of temperature, or whether it is general or only partial. SWITZERLAND. Wo learn by telegraph from Berne, under date of the 11th instant, that the National Council of Switzerland, after examining the report of the Committee, had unanimously decreed the ratifica tion of the treaty for the settlement of the Neufcha tel question. The offi .131 text of the treaty is as follows: Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Prussia consents to re nounce for himself, his heirs, and successors, the sovereign rights which Art. 23 of the treaty concluded at Vienna on the 9th of June, 1815, attributes to him over the principal ity of Neufchatel and the county of Valangin. Art. 2. The State of Neufchatel, dependant henceforth upon itself, will continue to form part of the Swiss Confede ration in the same manner as the other cantons, and con formably to Art. 75 of the above-cited treaty. Art. 3. The Swiss Confederation will defray all the ex penses resulting frotia the events of September, 1856. The canton of Neufchatel cannot be called upon to contribute towards the payment except as in the same measure as any other canton and at the pro rata of its money contingent. Art. 4. The expenses which are at the charge of the canton of Neuchatel are to be shared by all the inhabitants according to the principle of just proportion, without being by any exceptional tax or by any other manner, exclusively or chiefly made to fall upon a class or category of families or of individuals. Art. 5. An entire and full amnesty will be granted for all political or military offences or misdeeds connected with late events, and in favour of all the Neufchatelese, Swiss, or strangers, and especially in favour of the militia men, who, by crossing into a foreign land, escaped the obligation of taking arms:' No action, criminal or correc tional, or for damages, can be instituted either by the canton of Neufchatel or by any corporation or person whatsoever against those who took part either directly or indirectly in the events of September. The amnesty will extend equally to all political offences, or offences of the press anterior to the events of September. Art. 6. The revenues of the Church property, which in 1848 were annexed to the State, cannot be employed other wise than as originally intende4. Art. 7. The capital and the revenues of charitable in stitutions, of institutions of public utility, as also the fortune left by the will of Baron de Pary to the bourgtoise of Neufchatel shall be religiously respected ; they shall be kept up according to the intentions of the founders and to the acts which instituted those foundations; and can never be employedteBiro.nifslphfooes exchanged,rs ipabrnleeys. present T h t other ei but tkiex the original they were intended. orparl ratifica t ions sooner at Paris. treatyratified, ncha s a h tnr a ge ll a3toy b f e orfattwifie canttyi oonan t o n e and the In faith of which the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done at Paris, the 26th of May, 1857. KERN. COWLEY. HUBNER. C. M. DE HATZFELFT. A. WALEWSKI. COUNT KISSELTFF. OUTLAWING JAMES F ADLEIR.—Oa Tuesday the Sub sheriff held a County Court, for the purpose of declaring James Sadleir, late of Clonacody, an outlaw, on his failing to appear when called on, By direction of Mr. Fitzgerald, the crier called Sadleir's name five times, with a loud voice, in court, after which he announced that a County Court would be held every fourth Tuesday hence, until November next, for ttIQ sure purpose,—Tipperary Free Frees THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MON DAY, JUNE 15, 1857.