The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-02 00:00:00

♦NTED, a SOLICI FOR, 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 employed. VI anttli. W— ANTED to Hire or Purchase, an easy BATH CHAIR, suitable for an invalid Lady.—Apply, per post, P. 6, Goree Piazzas. viTANTED, APARTMENT'.—One or two Sitting-rooms and four Bedrooms, in a farm-house, anywhere about Hale, Woolton, Broadgrees, or Gateacre.—Address, Box G. 43, Post-office. AYOUNG Married Man, of good business habits, requires a per manent Situation as BOOKKEEPER, or otherwise, in a respectable mercantile firm. Good references.—Address 'l'. K. S., Northern Times office. WANTED, as HOUSEMAID, in a Gentleman's Family in Liverpool, a respectable woman, and who (as the family is small) will be required to do the plain sewing and clear-starching. Apply by letter, G. W.. Northern Times office. CARTAGE. —A party commencing iu the above business would be glad to treat with a few goods' houses for their cartage, the advertiser being well acquainted with wharves and railways.— Address C. A. P., Northern Times office. AMANCHESTER CO \IMISSION HOUSE, of long and first rate standing, wishes to increase its connection among the large Shipping Houses in r iverpo )1, as their buyer of Manchester goods; and to houses of undoubted respectability, largo and liberal credits will be given. —Address A. 97, Post- office, Manchester. Co be ;Let. fir 0 be LET, a Double OFFICE on the second fl )or, N 0.7, Castle ' street. Rent, Including all rates and charges, 36.—Apply to Webb and Runt. SEA -BATHING.—To be LEI, FURNISHED, for two or three months, a detached VI LA, containing three sitting-rooms nine bedrooms, large garden, &c.—Apply to Mr. Johnson, Post-office, outhport. AIGIBURTH.—To be SOLD or LET, a capital Family HOUSE in FulWood-park, conLtioin r nine bedrooms and two dressing rooms, &c., with pleasure-ground, gardens, coach-house, stabling, gardener's cottage, &c. Halt the purchase-nrmey might remain at 4} per cent.—Enquire of Mr A yres, Eldon Chambers. Q 0 UTH POR T. —TO be, LET, a wed-furnis*ed HOUSE, 1.3 delightfully s'tuated i i , h. best part of Lord-street, about five minutes' walk from the Hiilway Stations, and may be entered upon early in June. The House will not be Let for a shorter time than four months, and may be had on very liberal terms for one, two, or more years.—For particulars apply to Mr. Grigg, Bedford house, Southport. N.B.—lt is particularly requested that no one will apply who Intends taking In visitors. en sBalt. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOUSE, I HOUSES ! I LAND LAND ! I —ON SALE, in large or small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price from about eloo to 4'6 P,ooo.—See H. P, Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire &Aces, for the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Chambers (one door from Market-square) Market-street, Birken head. Apply to troinwerctal salts. THIS DAY Tun DAT, the 2nd instant, at a Quarter before Eleven o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 11, Temple-court, 280 Cases Messina LEMONS, ex Corinthian, 200 Do. Palermo DITTO, ex Celpe, 500 Bags New Brazil NUTS, ex Princess Royal, 120 Do. Old DITTO, ex Minho, 500 Do. Barcelona NUTS, ex Estrella, 10 Bundles FARO BASKETS. HOUGHTON & LEVY, Brokers. T 0-M 0 R R 0 W. On account of whom it may concern. Tamosaow, `the 3d June, at Half-past One o'clock. at Golding and Nash's saleroom. Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, 780 Packs English Manufactured (Seconds) FLOUR, 400 Do. Do. Do. (Thirds) DITTO. 500 Sacks RICE SHUDES, 140 Do. Damaged WHEAT. For particulars apply to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. TO-MORROW, the 3rd June, at the Brokers' office, Brunswick-street, About 2700 Quarters of partially heated Indian CORN. For further particulars apply to Richardson, Brothers and Co., Merchants, or to GOLDING & NASH, Brokers. 1255 Sacks Stored in Poole's Warehouse, Barton-street 887 „ /I Holme's „ Rack Goree. 2450 „ lIP Earle's , to 5 and 6, Lancelot's-hey. 700 ff . Hodgson's „ Dundee -street. On account of whom it may :cone •rn To-Moaaow, the 3rd instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the ... . Broker's offiee. 10, Brunswick-street, About 2410 Bushels Galatz WHEAT, ex Spring; lying in George's Dock.—Apply to WILLIAM PARKE, Broker. RJ. NODDER, • HATTER, 91, CHURCH-STREET, Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW SYYLES for the Season are NOW READY for Inspection. 1000 BUSINESS ADDRESS CARDS, I 12s 6d Printed in the Beet Style for BY CHARLES WILLMER, GENERAL PRINTER, NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, 19, SOUTH JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL. 1000 POSTING BILLS PRINTED FOR 50s. BY CHARLES WILLMER, GENERAL PRINTER, NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, 19, SOUTH JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL. Ih 'JIVE QUIRES Superfine NOTE PAPER for ONE SHILLING. Sold by CHARLES WILLICIR, olesale Stationer, 19, South John-street, Liverpool. EVENING EDITION ar An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMIZS is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, tontaining the Markets, together with all the News of the Day, up to the hour of going to Press. THS ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NORTH ERA\ DAILY TIMES is TWO GUINEAS REP. ArriNvm. Squrttitni Tint MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1856 WHEN we are told that our petty and despicable disputes with the United States assume month by month " a more serious, a more anxious, a more " threatening'aspect," it is high time the mercantile community should take some steps to ward off impending dangers. A war with America must be nothing short of a diplomatic crusade against three-fourths of the ocean traffic and trade of the world, and that England should take the lead in such movements must be the amazement of every civilised nation. If blood should be shed between this country and the States, we shall have provoked it and its consequences. The British Cabinet and the "leading" London journal will be alone to blame for all the miseries it will bring on the old and New World. The despatches of the Palmerston Government are explanatory, condescending, full of contrition for the past, but dogged, waspish, obstinate, and replete with swagger and evasion when treating of the future. Lord CLARENDON, by lamenting all that has occurred, and apologising for any errors that our represen tatives in the States may have committed, admits, ex cathedra, that more or less wrong has been com mitted; and when asked to remove Mr. CRAMPTON from a friendly State, where he has rendered himself personally objectionable to its govern ment, our FOREIGN SECRETARY raises a question as to the respectability of those who say they were employed by him or his subordinates as recruiting crimps! Such conduct as this ill becomes a great nation like England. If Mr. CRAMPTON was innocent of the charges brought against him, no apology was necessary. If, on the other hand, we found it just and desir able to make a sufficient verbal atonement for his acts, we subscribed to the charges of guilt brought against him, and can have nothing more to say. It is not at all likely that Mr. CRAMPTON would have men of unbl em i s h e d reputat i on an d high position to act as recruiting sergeants, who were to go from one grog shop to another to beat up for volunteers. Men of very slender means, character, and prospects, are generally employed on such errands. Conse quently, the charge brought by the American Government against Mr. CRAMPTON is supported by about the same weight of evidence as the com manding o ffi cer of any recruiting district could bring forward to rebut any charge brought against him. It is by no means a novel doctrine to endeavour to prove a man's innocence , by attackin g the previous character of the witnesses brought forward for the prosecution. But this practice originated at the Old Bailey, and to that court it ought to be confined. It cannot be admitted, with s afety, into the higher walks of diplomacy ; and we hope, henceforth, to h ear Mr. CRAMPTON'S accusers spoken of as recruiting crimps. Every- THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. ?thing elsntsamNbe atid of them may be taken for granted. The fact is; we have admitted Mr. CRAMPTON'S guilt, and he ought to have been recalled long since. He is not the man that ought to have been selected for such an important post. He had not male one-half of his retreat good on the recruiting question, before we find the veracity of the allegations contained in his official despatches brought before the American Senate, and declared by a number of gentlemen who had heard our Representative repudiate in the most unqualified terms, the very expressions he has since used, with regard to Central America. Mr. CRAMPTON, when writing to his government on the 31st March last, says : " Mr. CLAYTON has on various occasons since, in " conversation with me, stated that he considered " Ruatan a British possession as much as Jamaica "or any other British West India Island." In answer to this assertion, Mr. CLAYTON called wit nesses to prove that he had said nothing of the sort, and read to the Senate a letter of Mr. CRAMPTON'S, dated the 12th of Janu ary, 1851, in which our Minister says :—" The " dependencies of British Honduras are, in my " opinion, distinctly enumerated in the treaty of " 1786." The New York papers in commenting on these prevarications say :—" Mr. CLAYTON'S expose "in the Senate of the falsehood of CRAMPTON'S " official letter of the 31st of March last, was corn- " pletely overwhelming. Of the genuineness of " CRAMPTON'S letter, there is no doubt, for it is " published in the official Blue Book, a copy "of which we have examined. There can be " no doubt here that CRAMPTON stands convicted of ` a glaring and positive falsehood." How will Lord CLARENDON meet these most serious charges? The FOREIGN SECRETARY has already, we are told , forwarded a despatch " declining to re-call Mr. " CRAMPTON, or to yield on the Central American " question." The policy of the British Govern ment has, no doubt, been faithfully shadowed forth by the London Times in its repeatedly expressed wish to refer the whole matter to arbi tration. But what is there for arbitors to consider ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL has declared that we do not lay claim to any rights of sovereignty whatever in Central America ; and Mr. CRAMPTON has stated, in the name of this country, that the dependencies of British Honduras are distinctly enumerated in the teaty of 1786 ! Surely, then, we do not want another International Congress to interpret the plain English employed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL in his despatches, or to read treaties which it appears Mr. CRAMPTON can understand ! It is a positive insult to the States to ask them to adopt any such course. They have recognised the independence of the American citizens in Nicaragua, as they did in the case of Texas; and as the PRESIDENT has intimated that his Cabinet will enforce the observance of the neutrality law, any interference on the part of foreign countries between the belligerents at Greytown will set the world once more in a blaze. We hope Mr. CRAMPTON has foreseen all this, and advised his Government in due time of the dangers which were impending over his country. In another place we give the intelligence brought by the steamship America' which is of the most. momentous character. THE Bank of England, in reducing the mini►num rate of discount to five per cent., has committed a grievous banking and commercial wrong, to accom plish a dubious political object. The Bank Directors have no such discretion vested in them by their constituents, or the supporters of the Charter Act, as that they have just exercised. When they hold only a certain amount of bullion, or when gold is likely to leave the country by means of a great expansion of trade, or a return to a state of war, the law laid down for their govern ment limits them to raising the rate of interest, making money scarce and dear, and causing a " fall generally in the prices of all commodities, to " bring back gold." When the gentlemen in the Bank parlour depart from this well defined line of action, they become innovators, and adopt the course which " senseless currency and banking " reformers would pursue." The nominal reduction previously made in the rates of discount had the desired and ordinary effect it is true. The seven per cent. minimum caused the gold to run away from us with unpre cedented rapidity. Out of many millions of gold received within the last two years, the Bank could only catch a few stray thousands now and again. But the inoperative reduction from 6 and 7 to a uniform rate of 6 per cent, had the opposite effect. In the very first week of its trial it led to an increase of 740,2601. in the Bank's bullion reserve, and an increase of 945,2851. in the unem ployed notes ! This incouraging fact is nothing more than we have led our readers to anticipate from a sane and re-assuring line of bankin g policy. Delivering bullion from the grasp of "protection" has had just the same effect upon gold that the removal of high prohibitive duties has had upon commerce. As a commodity the yellow metal has partially regained its freedom of action, and has returned with greater readiness to the source of supply. But who ever heard of the Banks Directory's venturing to lower, even in name, the rates of discount while they had 19,331,9151. of notes in circulation, and only 9,938,8751. of gold in their coffers ! Was there ever such a profanation of the Bullionist's philosophy and law ? The spirit of hererolito weakness must surely be reigning in the forum of Threadneedle-street. Casting aside both theory and practice in such stupendous matters will never do for " Mercator,'' TOORE, Sir CORNWALL LEWIS, WILSON, and all the other great and little people who love to write and talk about banking and currency. The Lon don Times will be outrageous at such a sur. render of great principles in obedience to popular clamour. Fancy the Banks attempting to encour . age "over-trading, over-production, and specula " tion " with only 9,938,8751. of gold in their vaults ! Such " reckless buoyancy," and at such a moment, is really monstrous. Why, as far as the possession of bullion goes, we have only 1,626,8751. more of the precious metal than we had on the memorable and ever to be lamented 25th of October, 1847, when the Bank's minimum rate of discount was 8 per cent. Such things as commercial rates of discount would be bad enough for money jobbers if we had DO old war taxation to provide for, and no fresh scenes of bloodshed to appre hend ; but, with these things bearing upon, and before us, the conduct of the Bank Di rectors must appear positively suicidal in the eyes of Bullionists and usury mongers. It will be useless to talk to them of political necessities or formal diplomatic designs. What have they to say to Whigs being charged with being the earliest advocates and present defenders of extortionate rates of interest for money ? or the obvious propriety of allowing England to feel her legs before war with the Anglo-Saxon race in the IV ew World is proclaimed ? The Bullionist scribes who declare th© Bank to be right in their presen t course, can only do so on political grounds, and consequently, we cannot be at a loss to know what they mean. That low rates of discount will add to the Bank's ‘. capital," both in the increase of their gold, and unemployed notes, is certain; and it only remains to be seen whether the concession so long denied to trade and com merce, has now been made to favour the domestic and foreign poliey of any particular school of politicians. We have spoken of the reductions which have been made, as merely nominal changes, so far as the trader is concerned, and we must leave those who require legitimate accommodation to decide how far we are right by their daily experi ence of the actual state of the money market. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING There was an active enquiry for Cotton to-day, and a large business was done, the sales reaching 10,000 bales, 3,000 of which were taken for specu lation. Prices were firm, and the market steady. The Liverpool Share Market has been quiet, and the transactions have not been large. Prices were barely so good, and closed as under : Aberdeen, 131 13 1 1. Chester and Birkenhead, 151 16. Caledonian, 34 308. Chester and Holyhead, 15416. Eastern Counties ; 101 101. East Lanca shire, 198 20. Great Northern. 231 241. Ditto A, 99 101. Great Western, 601 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 924 93. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport, 171 171. London and North Western Stock, 1021 1021. Manchester Sheffield, and Lin coln, 29! 29 Ditto Pref., 11!?-, 111. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., a 4p. Midland Stock, 781 79. North British, 81 9. North Staffordshire, 6 skd. South Eastern and Dover, 218 211. York, New castle, and Berwick, 201- 204. York and North Midland, 291 291. Leeds Capital Stock, 174175. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1 lip. Dutch Rhenish, 1 7-18 1 9-10 p. Great Western of Canada, 251 261. Ditto New Shares, 3 31p. Great Luxem bourg, 8 1-16 Bd. The !latest advices from the Marseilles grain market report a steady state of business, with a slight recovery in wheat. Galatz wheat is 44f per hectolitre, ioumelia ditto 33f 50c , Salonica do. 40f to 40f 50e, and white Spanish 45f. Rye was not - Id prices were not o muell in leg firm. Oats were sou r at -2, 22f for Brittany barley was in demand at improved rates report a dull state in the grain ma siderable difficult reduction, so es to induce )m Gal itinue to d con bug sales, un shippers to b S at a the freights are low Accounts from St. Petersburg to the 2nd instant state that the Grain Market continued active, and there was an advance in prices. Wheat of the best quality was in demand at 30 roubles 50 kopecks to 32r. per tschetwert; rye 22r. 75k., and linseed was sought after and sold for 20r. 75k. assig. The demand for Tallow has not diminished, and fine qualities for candles, to be delivered immediately, have been sold at 134 silver roubles per berkowitz, and contracts for August have been concluded at 133 roubles. The price of tallow is thus advancing, and speculators for the fall have not succeeded. They, however, continue their efforts to lower the rates of hemp, but the Russian holders of stock maintain the former rates with firmness. The imports of the precious metals this week are again codsiderable, being not much less than the large arrivals last week, while the exports are com paratively insignificant. The items are as follows : From New York, per Persia, 1,431,365 dols ; from Port Philip, per Stebonheath, 61,959 ounces of gold; from Sydney, per Light of the Age, gold valued at 80,000/ ; from Port Philip, per Rox burgh Castle, 39,776 ozs. of gold ; from Sydney, per La Hogue, gold valued at 100,0001 ; and from Philadelphia, per City of Baltimore, 2,000,000 doll; making a total of about 1,273,2941. The exports for the week comprise 2,2231., ex Sultan, for the Peninsula, besides some large withdrawls from the bank. The official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last is as follows :—Gold coin, Hamburg 325 oz. ; bars, Belgium, 2,000 oz. Silver coin—Hamburg, 2001. ; Belgium, 12,400 oz. ; bars, Belgium, 4,060 oz ; Hamburg, 1,000 oz ; Hurbury, 73,200 oz In London this morning Consols opened for money, and the 4th of June at 041 to 8, and they declined to 944-, sellers ; but they afterwards recovered and left off at 944 to a. For the 10th July they opened at 958 to 1, and closed at a decline of I. The scrip of the new loan closed at 2 p.m. The depression it) the early part of the day was caused, not so much by the American difficulty, as by some extensive sales on French account; and by a strong rumour that a new loan will be announced by France in a day or two Railway Shares have nearly all drooped, but the market closed tolerably steady, considering the state of feeling upon the American question. The other markets present no particu lar features. They are lower, but close steady. The French Three per Cents on the Paris Bourse at noon were 8 lower than yesterday. In reference to the feverish state of the market, Mr. W. Avens in his circular says : All our markets have again been depressed to a great extent, from the same cause which has hitherto neutralized the tendency to improvement created by a reduction in the rate of discount, namely the embarrassments with the United States. At the present moment the downward movement does not seem likely to be arrested, as it is anticipated that the packet due to-morrow may bring intelligence of an un favourable character. But, on mature consideration, it appears in the highest degree probable that the existing alarm or rather uneasiness, is greatly exaggerated. In the first place, the alleged recognition of Walker by the United States Go vernment is stated on no reliable authority, and it may turn out wholly unfounded ; and in the next, whatever the rolitical partizans of the President may do to push the Republic into a reluctant war with this country, the commercial element in the States will shortly be roused into action on the side of peace, and it will overbear at Washingt m the inadequate reasons assigned fora rupture if they should be really prt seed at the decisive moment. In short, considering the enormous interests which, es yet, has not been heard in the United States on the peaceful side of the question, there need be no serious apprehensions of a hostile contest, while there is every reason to anticipate that the present state of things must cause both parties to hasten a solution. Indeed, some thing like a report is abroad that this is nearer the case than is generally expected, for Lord Clarendon did not offer to meet ➢7ir. Marcy upon it, half way across the Atlantic without creating an impression that some proposal is under official consideration to appoint ministers on both sides, with full powers to effect an amicable arrangement. At all events, it is satisfactory to know that there is a peace party in the United States Cabinet, and that they are sure to be supported by the strongest interests in both countries. From such considerations as these it is fairly deducible that the existing movement here, in relation to the price of public Securities, is not justified by facts or probabilities, and that there must be a reaction, although the market may remain sensitive a few days longer. In the Mincing-lane markets, during the past week, very little business has been transacted. No public sales having taken place on either Wednes day or Thursday, when the markets were closed. Sugar, however, has been in fair demand, and an advance to a slight extent was supported. Coffee has ruled steady, but the business transacted in this article has been very limited. The stock in London, at the close of last week, amounted to 7,954 tons, against 6,920 tons at the corresponding period of 1855. In rum a good business has been done. Rice has also met a fair demand, and cotton and tallow have been exceedingly quiet. The public sales of colonial wool have shown no important variation in the value of the various qualities. The following are the Gazette average prices of Muscovado sugar, for the week ending May 27th, 1856, exclusive of custom's duties payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the West Indies, 28s 3d per cwt ; from the Mauritius, 28s 10d per cwt; from the East Indies, 31s 10id per cwt. Average price of the three foregoing descriptions, 28s 6d per cwt. MILITIA APPOINTMENTS.—The Gazette of Friday evening publishes the following : —3rd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—Ensign Henry Powys to be Lieu tenant, vice Earle; Ensign James Clarke Hicks to be lieutenant; Ensign Edmund Cunliffe to be lieutenant; William Style Doria, gent., to be ensign. STRIKE ON THE LONDON AND NORTFI WESTERN RAIL WAY.—On Saturday a serious strike of the porters, num bering above 200, took place at the Waterloo station of the London and North Western railway, which threatened rerious derangement to the heavy traffic of that station. The strike arose out of the recent appointment of traffic manager, and a dislike to the superintendents of one of the departments. After a parley, the obnoxious individuals were removed, and other regulations agreed to as to pay and labour. An emeute, on the part of the large establish ment of clerks, is also expected, in consequence of the g - eat dissatisfaction felt at the reductions of salaries, which has been proposed to many of the old hands, as well as young men of the establishment, under a threat of bringing hands from the cheap districts, SUDDEN AND ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.--011 Friday night, a sailor named George Hope, who lived in a co ur t o ff Redcress-street, died under the following circumstances : He had been drinking very freely for some days past, and on that evening he called for a pint of gin in a public house in Mercer-court. The landlady supplied it to him in a jug, thinking he was going to take it to his lodgings, but he took it up, and before he could be prevented, drank off nearly the whole. He was carried to bed, and died about nine o'clock, although medical aid had been sent for in the meantime.—The body of James Green, the master of a flit, was picked up on Saturday. In had been in the water about a month.—John Harkness, a person employed about the docks, was accidentally drowned on Saturday. Inquests will be held in the above cases this day. LA.TEST INTELLIGENCE. AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL. Our telegraphic despatches announce that the Agricultural Exhibition of. Stock and Implements opened yesterday, with great eclat, in the Champs Ely3ees, as mentioned in the letter of Friday's date from our own Parisian correspondent. The details, even curt as they are, present matter of interest to the general reader. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENTNO The important news brought from America to Liverpool, by the City of Baltimore, is the great subject of conversation in political circles to-dsy. The belief seems to be that the recognition of Walker by the United States will lead to the most serious complications on the part of the States, not only with England, but with other European powers. The Post )rm which has )een mu e Government THE COURT Her Majesty will hold a drawing-room on Friday, the 20th of June, and a leYee on Wednesday, the 2jth of June. The Duchess of Kent and Prince Ernest of Leiningen, dined with the Queen on Thursday. Prince Albert rode on horseback with the Prince of Wales on Friday morning, attended by Captain Du Plat, and visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester house. The Regent of Baden, attended by Colonel Baron Seutter, the Honourable Mortimer West, Baron de Gemmingen, and Dr. Ullman, inspected Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Lords and Commons, and the Senior United Service Club, on Friday morning. His Royal Highness visited the Zoological Gardens hi the Regent's Park in the afternoon. Prince Frederick William of Prussia, attended by Lieut.-General Baron Schreckenstein, went on Friday afternoon to the Prussian Legation on Carlton Terrace, where his Royal Highness received the diplomatic corps. The Queen took a drive in the afternoon, accom panied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, in an open landau and four. Prince Albert rode on horseback, accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorff. The equerries in waiting attended on horseback. Her Majesty gave a concert in the evening at Buck ingham Palace, at which the following assisted : Madame Goldschmidt, Madame Novello, Madame Bosio, Madame Viardot. Mdlle. Didiee, Mr. Sims Reeves, Signor Gardoni, Signor Ronceni, Herr Formes, and Mr. Weiss. The royal personages, the foreign ministers, and a large party of the nobility were present, the invitations amounting to about 400. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort entered the grand saloon (which was prepared for the concert), accompanied by the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Princess Mary, the Regent of Baden, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the Duke of Cam bridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Count Alexander Mensdorff, and the Maharajah Duleep Singh, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting. The general company assembled in the picture gallery followed her Majesty and the royal circle into the saloon. The concert commenced about ten o'clock. Saturday, May 31.—His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Baden, and the whole of the gentlemen in the suite both of his royal highness and Prince Frederick of Prussia, left the palace in three of the Queen's car riages and four, about twenty minutes before twelve o'clock this day, to pay a visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. To-day was the day appointed for the ceremony of laying the foundation stone, by Prince Albert, of the Strangers' Home for the natives of India, Arabia, Africa, China, Malacca, and the Mozambique. His royal high ness left the palace at a quarter past three o'clock, attended by the gentlemen of his suite. The prince appeared with the riband and star of the most noble Order of the Garter, the isignia of which were also worn by Lord Abercorn, the Groom of the Stole to his royal highness. Prince Albert drove to the site of the new building, near Limehouse Church, and, after laying the stone, returned to the palace. This evening, at twenty minutes before . nine o'clock, the Queen went to honour the performance of Verdi's " Rigoletto," at the Royal Italian Opera, with her pre sence. Her Majesty was accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highaess the Prince Regent of Baden, his Royal Highness Prince Frederick of Prussia, Count Mensdorff, and the Duchess of Athol. CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses were issued on Thurs. day evening for the meeting of the council on Saturday afternoon at . the Foreign Office. At three o'clock the fol lowing Ministers assembled : rhe E irl of Harrowby, Mr. Baines, Mr. Vernon Smith, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Claren,lon, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl Granville, Mr. Labouchere, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Alexander, Earl of Kintore, to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Kincardine, in the room of James Earl of Southesk, resigned.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Chisholm Anstey, E q ., her Majesty's Attorney-General for Hong Kong, to be a member of the Legislative Council of that colony.— Mr. Labouchere has appointed the Hon. Harry Caven dish Grey to be his Private Secretary at the Colonial Office, in the room of Lord Sandon, elected M. P. for the borough of Lichfield. STRYCHNINE has been tried, within the last few ays, on a farm in Cheshire, for the purpose of destroying mice. About ten minutes after the poison was taken, the mice suddenly fell down, struggling with their limbs. This was succeeded by a violent throbbing of the heart, when death ensued. Afterwards, the bodies of the mice became so stiff, that it was almost impossible to bend them. THE ROYAL AMPHITHEITRE.—OR Saturday, Mr. W. R. Copeland, lessee of this house, attended before the magis trates in order to renew the license for that establishment. The following justices were present :—His Worship the Mayor, Messrs. Aldermen Holme, Turner, and Mr. William Earle. Mr. Anderton, one of the clerks, read the memorial, and, there being no opposition, the license was at once granted. THE PRINCESS ROYAL STEAMER.—This splendid vessel is lying in such a critical position that little or no hopes are entertained of saving her. At low water there are six feet of water in her compartments. A portion of the cargo has already reached the city. Lighters are still alongside taking off the remainder of the cargo, and hopes are entertained of saving the whole. She lies on a rock at Laggan Point, about three miles from Corsewall Light. Before the recent repairs, which cost £7,000, were made, the vessel was fully insured ; but, as no addition had been made to the policy to meet that sum, it will be lost to the owners. We are glad to learn that no blame whatever can be attached to the commander, Captain M`Chlery, who was on deck at the time the vessel struck. Since the above was written, we learn that the owners of the Princess Royal have abandoned her to the underwriters as she now lies at Laggan Point. North British Mail. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. AMERICA, rnom BOSTON TO LIVERPOOL, VIA HALIFAX.—Mr. J. E. Bur. leigh and lady, Lieut. Acton and lady, Mrs. A. L. Paean, Mrs. C. A. Lauting, Mrs. F. Moore and child, Mrs. D. F. Hutchins, child, infant, and servant, Mr. Gco. Warren, Mr. E. R. K imball, Mr. G. B. Upton and lady, Miss Mary Upton, Messrs. Leith Phayes and son, Harrison Milard, W. H. Sargent, H. Hooman, lady, child, and nurse, D. A. Chaffrar, Marinot Jose Lang and son, G. D. Howell, Mrs. Lelong, Mr. P. Danaples, Mr. J. M. Fennent, Mr. B. K. Kirth, Dr S. G. Burnett, Messrs. G. L. Pason, H. Deant, J. Ritson, Captain Robertson, Lieut. Mac Donald, R.A., Mrs. Smith, two children, and servant, Mrs. C. Muggridge, Miss Mary Westbee, Mr. C. Nick. erman and lady, Mr. Froderrax and lady, Mr. F. Tanermot, Mrs. Safton, two children, and nurse; Messrs. Lewis Pident, Ogliaston, Tipton, Christie, J. R. Funley, P. Millard, A. Assolant, R. C. Murphe, J. de La Quamtand, Pontond, P. Graves and lady, Hugh M`Calls, A. Garcia, Glaser, Donaldson, J. Maria, J. W. Seymour ; Lady Bannerman : Messrs. C. R. Cornwell, C. H. Tolme, J. Partage, T. Melendey and friend, T. L. Aveit; Mrs. Evans; Messrs. M. A. Woodward, W. H. Colin, W. H. Amley and lady, James Lawton ; Miss H. Sullivan ; Mr. W. Quiran, Mr. Bowman, lady, and three children, Mr. Parkinson, lady, and son, Miss Mary Welsh, Mr. G. Hewitt, Mrs. Miikey and child, Mrs. C. J. Almegren, Captain J. Attridge, Master E. Kane, Rev. John MiGr3gor ; Messrs. P. Allen, R. W. Fan, Brushfield ; Mr. Dellar, wife, and son, Mr. J. B. Helter and lady; Messrs. M. L. Hiller, F. Karstnes, A. tirolen, F. Blassen, J. Hill, Thomas Ward, Harden, J. M 'Dana, A. M‘Gregor ; Mrs. Gray, nurse, and two children, Captain Gonties, Mrs. Gonties, Miss Gonties and two children, Mr. Goodier, Captain Gill, Mr. Alexander Sim, Mr. Joseph Hall— Total, 133. will, from the Ist June r boxes open an hour latei have ;losed at I t the railways at seven T 11 PA .ias postponed, f present, its idea of taking measures for preventing Ins from unduly assuming titles, and the aris pens,, tocratic "De " before their names—a thing very common in France. Such measures would give rise to a good deal of ill feeling against the Govern ment and would be advantageous only to its greatest enemies, the old aristocracy. Serious complaints have frequently been made by the captains of commercial vessels, especially English and American, of the absolute inefficiency of what are called the courtiers maritimes to get through the work cast upon them, whereby the foreign shipping interest, being obliged to employ their services, are subjected to the greatest incon veniance and delay. These courtiers are only nine in number,—the same as they were in 1776,—and only four of them speak English ! The Govern ment, it is said, in compliance with the earnest prayers of English and American captains, is about to increase their numbers. I am informed that the Count de Morny has refused to accept the title of duke or prince which the Emperor wished to confer on him, previous to his departure for St. Petersburg, also that he has declined to accept the dotation which his Majesty offered. The Count told the Emperor that he is quite content with his present name, his political position, and his private fortune. The preparations for the opening of the agricul tural and cattle exhibition on Sunday are nearly completed. The exhibition takes place in the vast building in the Champs Elysees, in which the exhibition of last summer was held. The Tran sept is laid out as an English garden, and contains some fine specimens of flowers, trees, and shrubs On the ground floor are exhibited English, French, Scotch, Dutch, Swiss, German, and Hungarian oxen and cows. In the upper galleries are small agricultural instruments, models of farm buildings, specimens of agricultural produc tions of France, and all foreign countries. Outside are sheds containing oxen, sheep, swine, and poultry ; also agricultural instruments and machines. The British portions of the Exhibition arc very fine, and those of British implements in particular are truly splendid; but of oxen, cows, and sheep, the most curious are from Hungary_ Many of the attendants on the live stock are peasants—Hungarian, Swiss, Tyrolien, Scotch, English, and Irish—and all wear their peculiar national costumes—many of which are very picturesque. The weather here continues extraordinarily unfavourable. We have not yet had anything like seasonable spring weather, but have been con stantly afflicted with a chilly temperature winds, and almost incessant rain. Today the temperature is as cold as in November, and rain has been pouring down ly all day Vegetabl 3 are consequently very dear, and great apprehension is felt as to the futui )pears, from a report pres fled to the legi lative body, that the war h the burden of paying rente, amounting to nearly £3,000,000 a year (71,709,380 f) imposed upon France Most of the papers reproduce, not without affectation, this extract from a Russian letter, in the Corriere of Vienna :—" A great number of troops - are now on the march towards the countries bathed by the Indus and the Ganges." This assertion is, however, so extraordinary and in credible, that I suspect the Corriere makes some gross misprint. Russia, at all events, is too pru dent to draw on herself the ill will of England by even appearing to menace her Indian possessions. As to her being able to menace them seriously, the idea is absurd. Madrid letters say positively that Spain will make war on Mexico if the government of that republic does not satisfy her demands. Spain, it appears, has a budget of grievances against Mexico, the most important of which is her refusal to fulfil an engagement to pay the claims of a number of Spaniards. A letter from the Hague says that the Dutch Government has been invited to adhere to the resolutions of the Peace Congress about abolishing piracy, &c., and that it will not hesitate to do so. The political object of the visit of the Emperor Alexander to Berlin is, it is said, to make a mani festation destined to counteract the effect produced by the treaty of the 15th April. P.S.—Just at the moment of closing my letter, I receive the information from an excellent source, that the government here is greatly irritated at the recognition of Walker by the United States. THE LATE HORTICULTURAL SHow.--.Owing to a clerical error in making out the list of prizes awarded at the exhi bition recently held at the Botanic Gardens, the first prize for strawberries was stated to have been allotted to Martindale, Esq., whereas it should have been to Harold Littledale, Esq. ; George Smith, gardener. LAW INTBLLIGENCE.—Before the Lords Justices an im portant appeal came on from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart. The matter originally pres en t e d t o th e court below was raised ex parte the incumbent of the perpetual curacy of Guilden Sutton, in Cheshire, and the Rector of St. Bridget's Chester, in re the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. Mr. Dart appeared in this appeal on behalf of the company. It appeared that in 1851 the company purchased for £320 an acre and a half of land, to which the perpetual curate and rector were jointly entitled. The venders petitioned for the investment of the money, and that the dividends might be paid to them, the company having paid it into court. The costs of the petition were paid by the company, who also discharged the expense of a power of attorney fer the ven dors to thei r L on d on b an k ers t o rec eive the dividends. In 1854 the curate died, and his successor procured a fresh power of attorney for the reception of his share of the divi dends, and, the company refusing to pay the costs of it, the Vice-Chancellor ordered them to do so, and they appealed. The learned counsel argued that the Lands Clauses Con solidation act did not apply to such a case; and, secondly, that the question ought to have been brought before the court by petition, and not by summons.—Mr. Charles Hall appeared in support of the Vice-Ch ance ll or ' s d ec i s i on . Their lordships considered the order of the Vice-Chancellor correct, and dismissed the appeal with coats, ; ,4 , i 1 . - . 'v- , FOREIGN INTELLIGEIN PRUSSIA By advices dated Berlin, the 2 8th informed that a storm disturbed the W I which distinguished the sittings of chamber of Meiningen repres entatives.. istry brought forward a r nessage es,P in t i house to give its assent to the publ,le,a,„- federal law for the " prevention anu of abuses of the press." To this the e demurred, saying that it saw n o re hurry in the matter, in small statc great powers like Prussia and Aus hitherto abstained from adopting, .° events from publishing, this restrict l i e d I Thereupon the Minister rep ing the pretext for refusal to be (knavish or malicious). Upon this It. bers rose, and demanded that the elltu°°: be forthwith called to order, offensive expression ; but in lieu of OW°, offender declared that ministers were , servient to the chamber, and so the 110. mined to appeal to the sovereign. The settled, howevee, next day, by a queer The retraest, the minister retracted, and the house a s the measure Stutgard journals announce that ethe —...ht 'uttem - burg has nt a C :ryes a Emperor Napoleon, for I in the imp -.--.-..-' liablY in tcre . _. On ti th ultimo, a ion took p 1 Greek ween the king :sion ot IP and the Porte for we may rely u pon th affair Greek Minister it,. .... the government, the zeal 12) - f its officif"' courage of its troops, have actually reduce,`l\ of brandage so far as they have aeL li tid within the Greek territory itself, an d abolished cles it altogether but for the ebs"; of a different . sovereignty places in the„ ss n il t:' r , difficulty, of the brigands across thecoil difficulty, which the Minister poeticrJfable to . that which the Greek hero in t• 1 1 . 0 - .10 rienced when he found the monster vi,l rho was wrestling renewing his pernici°usl is I every time he approached his native Soil, tO removed by the convention lately cg re a e i 5 0( Turkey.. The engagements are reciPrniier this common_ object. The soldiers of e i .,* - u rsc, ma advance beyond the frontier, in rao persons . whether foreigners or nativesA,a7solc belong crime in the state to which . elong; but they are prohibited freo;tbeP, bited place, and they must not conic 1109 to ss' occupied by the military of the state ?toils they have penetrated. With these restr,l.° ot iel definite . limit, as to distance from the terr a assigned assigned for their right to traverse tile t ," c - h of of the state neighbouring their own; 'lO l 9 contracting . parties engages to expo , of its c e minals, but deserters from the artrtY hour, though it does not engage to deliver to their own sovereign Greeks may be tir punished, when apprehended in Greece'hfi°; as committed by them in Turkey • bu t n ov- 1 fo r pla . in . ed by the minister is no ' i rt the iert principle having been recodnisecl fusi on commercial treaty. One or ° two expressed their apprehensions of c°, ll ( - 4 .'" r eel. conflict . arising from the mixture eL tb' Turkish troops, and Greek and Tar10.5",,,,r( on the . border, and patriotically, d.ts3r`o, the article relative to the 'est - J i115° 4 40 they regarded as equivalent to the e 5 „,-it of deserters ; but the prevailing s'01:1 of the Chamber was that of calgilrjei the . Government upon having a dopte a 3 , 0 (1 so decidedly in the interests of civilisati°llls,:i .order, and having thereby given prectiltbo this early period, to the declaration °`, " t he w hioa r o f powers in the treaty of peace, by man Empire is recognised as a Ille ll !, b t e . European family of nations. The Pre",• incorporate the treaty, was passed by votes against two. TURKEY Advices, dated Constantinople, the 23 ,1 that the Princes Vogorides and Vin Armenians Dadian and Mihram BeY , t", e „ Stephen Bey, and the Hebrew Hat ore, time being a seat and voice in the ged,J the excitement at Serajewo, the cap the build in conseqi has been .ng or .-- , ox Kursohid ---,-- HE WEST RN AFRICAN C°l steam sloop the ii.M F. Meechan, we have n crews with neral wa FridaY 1 On __,,,ri viousp!evailed among the European', - rains. Several heavy exerienced. Her Majesty's brig F il l, f ''' expected to leave for England on the 20 5 . ' ,131 1 she d is leaky. Outside Sierra Leone til e i , l Wi t typhootlelP'ol.; complimentary met the French frigate Zelie, geino-voio message from the ne wlY ' Commodore at Goree. A diet 5 On the 9th of May, off Cape - V er ; i'd'i ll 'i ll large was nearly run into at faun raie. black screw-steamer, ship rigged, white des, t ' s t tr t fl o.ci o , b top, going down the north -ea ound for Australia. In the Chtu. 7 l a rd ~I) t' observed two Dutch frigates, lion le v - ,eno ll x apparently from a long voyage, The-L:000g" th o e n s su a l lo a m t a S n ie d r e r r a . Leone comes bor ne Pa _ _. - Souw - AMERICA..—The steamer Herman arrived at gouty- flea'l yesterday from New York, but she brill .° :b. ar, dates having been anticipated by the Edirlatt r ° ini Glasgow, and the news by which - we published last. kin d l i TEUTONIC HALL. —On Friday last. bi til t % w or.. the proprietors, the children of the VT e st Der of 0 0 ' were permitted to view the splendid diorama, Doe ; Route, now exhibiting at the Teutonic halit lit , s ot cleanlyinducedUpwards appearance, with their rf e el li from r. ad ; d 0° 13 ! d The officials dan teachers, who accompall.e repl:e A{ c s idy a fter the thanks of the party ; and Mr. CassidY oa t I had given him great pleasure to afford area tor debar ° who, from their position, were , r 0 amusements. ~, git fr': MESSENGERS OE THE DISTRICT 13A,----r 0 Mr. Henry Ayres, late assistant messenger missioner Stevenson's Court, has bon a vacant messengership, in connection with Mt Perry's Court. On the death of Mr. PaY. l !fi u Perry named Mr. Ayres to discharge e th . lii and at the same time strongly recotnniendead, to the Lord Chancellor. The reconowob, learned C immissioner, we are happy t ° 8837' 11 m on, and we feel assured that there is not . profession in Live r pool, whose busin ess lies 10i , o Bankruptcy Courts, who will not a pp rove : two appointment to the office, and rejoi ce at hie . ,n po l . ' 0( C( COLLIERY EXP L OSIONS.—TWELV E /AV°. 'fess gence has reached Bristol of a destructic ~f tbe fire-damp at the Ynsdavid m ine, One "oval collieries owned by the Governor and Co,, per Miners in England, at Cwniavon, The cause of the explosion can only andcol% at about ten o'clock in the morning, fratin msOetTlnewsihxotywoerresex%v,eonrktyinhganadbso viie,ergeroa u t i d : r b : cee - a r c that an explosion had taken place. "' ° l o .l , immediately descended the shaft, and `„ scene of catastrophe was the vein' 1 7 working in which, twelve in number, w e re,,, DEATH AND BURIAL OF A BALARLAVA week one of the horses who had been 01°r at the " fatal charge" breathed his last g He had been for a previous fortnight stiff' effects of former " hardships though all "means and appliances try had been tried, it was in vain. Liquids u to the costliest kind had be en admstete the affectionate care (and in this case we do the words) could do was not withheld by tb rode this trusty quadruped on the memos, the kind permission of a gentleman resider, town, the remains were interred in a field 13, and, to the honour of the soldier whom the 11;' 0 .,,_ carried sh ed t safely ears ove over h t r h o e u , li v t e h t e e rpaenits of that feaffil..ted in as be was ` grave orepared for him, ' and of the (