The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

r~r FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, FRANCE (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. This being All Saints' day, is one of the great holidays of the French people. The Bourse, and almost all the shops, are consequently closed.; the People, taking advantage of the fine weather, have agent the day in sauntering about the Boulevards, and the Bois de Boulogne, and, above all, in visit ing th e cemeteries ; and, as I write, they are rush ing in crowds to the theatres. The visit to the c emeteries is one of those peculiar French sights in which strangers to the French delight. The 'custom is, for the families that have lost members recently to visit their tombs, deck them with flowers or wreaths of immortelles, and pray over them for the souls of the departed. That there is a good lea' of theatrical display in these visits to the dead, cannot be denied ; but there is, also, as many a tear-bedewed face, testifying of real earnest fe elings. At the tombs of Arnaud, Marrast, the Wife of Raspail, and. other Republican notabilities, so me manifestations of a political character were m ade, but they were confined to the depositing of whole Wreath s . ao The crow d s i n t h e cemeter i es, d uring the day, were immense ;—in Pere Le Chaise, at 'nee time, it was necessary to close the gates, to prev ent further admissio n . But th ere was no dist urbance. 1404 such a day as this politics and news are but t , ti e regarded. The split between E ng l an d an d ' ra nee however, a good deal talked of, but the gen eral opinion is that it w ill come to nothing serious, The Legitimist papers continuo to assail England with great bitterness, and one of them, tile Gazette de France, laments that in 1840, when War was imminent on the Egyptian question, a Certain French Admiral, whor l it names, was not allowed to do what he sflia was perfectly easy— destroy the English fleet, and force a passage up the Thames to Low.ion / But these Legitimist Papers, it must be, remembered, are organs of a i.early defunct 'political party, and p ossess b u t li mited circulation. wThe constitutionne/ says that the English and ench leiAtions left Naples on Tue s d a y l as t, an d ,e to embark yesterday (F r id a y, th e 31 st u l t. ) , Civita Vecchia, for France. Seditious placards have within the last few days again been stuck up on the walls. lam told that t hey are printed, and that this fact excites the :teeuliar attention of the police, as, from the raconian legislation on the pres s i n thi s teteuntry they had not thought it p oss ibl e th a t any ing at atall could be printed with ou t th e i r know. ledge. They are making most ac ti ve e ff orts to cli aenver the quarter from which the pl acar d s eal anated. pllle marriage of the celebrated editor of the rp e sse, Emile de Gira r di n , t o th e C ountess de *lef enbach, has been celebrated. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. t i The news of to-day is interesting. First of all, 47 g o vernment has received the ne ws ( as th e st ars , will tell you) that th e m i n i stry at Con c, c :anople has been overthrown, and that a new t' l , presided over by Reschid P ac h a , h as b een *°rtned. Thus our ambassador has triumphed : v er France and Russia (R esc hid P ac h a being ,-1 " . ardent supporter of the E ng li s h all i ance), V 43 co nsequen tly, T ur k ey w il l j oin England I 11c1 Austria in insisting on th e strict interpretation of the treaty of Paris —in other : th is, that the fo r m e r sh a ll con ti nue to occupy , bi 3lack Sea with her fleet, the latter the Dann- Prin c i pa liti es w i t h h er army. This check to . eh re neh influence has, as you will suppose, greatly 1 2 0 Yed people in high pleclis here. te its. Marseilles despatch announces (as also the th e will tell you) th e arr i va l at Marseilles of e " English an d F rench Legations. They both th ante in the same `Aeamer. At Naples, the depar ,V of the legations caused an immense sensation, t i o u- t he govern -.lent adopted extraordi nary precau ps, but or= was not disturbed. til ov r° o lll Toulon, we learn th a t th e fl ee t s h a d not 04 ", but that it was taking on b oar d ammun i t i on • provisions for six months. sh A ccounts from Constantinople to th e 23 r d, say at the English advice boat, the Vulture, bad been hat to the Isle of Serpents; also, that the English th a t sent an ultimatum to the Shah of Persia, but vat the latter showed little disposition to yield. 11 ,,e English Indian squadron was about to sail obi embark troops. The Persians, however, had g ,oo 4 o ined a triumph over th e Affghans, and taken it s them prisoners. The Porte had adjourned / 01 _ eeision r e l a ti ve t o th e cu tti ng t h roug h of the ' l c:Ms of Suez. k it h e com merc i a l reports o f t h e week record one 41")ortant fact, namely, that th e bill s w hi c h f e ll due 4 e 31st, all have been, generally speaking, well crisis Trade, however, continues calm, but no N tir ' . 3 is feared between thi s and the end of the To_ll action was yesterday brought b e f ore t h e l ir unnal of Commerce, by MM. Lopez and Co., ti o e cover £6OO (English money), from the French e a 3'Cl' s, for the destruction by fire, in Liverpool, of r d which they had insured to Marseilles, but R ro -tribunal rejected their claim on the technical ae eo 4ll ,c l that a fire in docks was not a sea risk, Il r a ulng to the policy of insurance. or t ii„e C onstitutionne/ gives an account of an extra near Mannheim, in Germany. A 4 q ti e n 'icturnalist, and a Prussian officer, got into 'Pok," l : - t'el about politics. The Prussian officer Rp os c ontemptuously of the French G overnmen t ; du e l ° l anguage was employed on both sides, and a vvith W as resolved on. B o th a d versar i es f i red the / ; 311 t hitting each other. That did not satisfy r ee eb r assian, and he. i ns i s t e d on th e d ue l b e i ng taa ll '''ed ) and to make it mortal called the French- Ir kw a coward. It was resolved that they should t he lots for two pistols, one to be loaded, AlEt ee °ther not, and that they should be ki 11 , (4 close to each other, so as to fire pttii blank. The Prussian raised his pistol, and s ae e ti l the trigger, but it did not go off—it was the 4 at was not loaded. The Frenchman next 'napped h• i tr i las E G„ , 18 Plata, but it flashed in the pan. The e to then, in order not, as he said, to owe his pqlni 40 generosity of his adversary, insisted on I read g With swords. The result was, that the the filler received two wounds, one in the arm, in the breast; the latter was mortal, and dead. a'is tfly 4 4 - (te Madrid lett ers rece i ve d t o -d ay , t h ere are he " ‘ l ve , items likely to interest your rea d ers . I )st h i 'irst is that the Spanish Government has '%•t' et ed its Ambassador in this city, General ltt " 0 kek to complain to the French Cabinet of the „ e acli e ° l l its members, which are made by the I'ati ee ß Parisian journals. The second is, that in 110 4a ti ence of the dearness of food, the Govern rate 'as resolved on establishing sixteen bake ee 0 ' Madrid, to sell bread below the regular telegraph desatch says that the Duke de has been nominated Minister in Russia. ---.-.-.41.-.--- AUSTRIA. Vl,attipllsib.l4A, Oct 28.—The Ministerial Correspondenz ' ' o 4.en a second denzenti to the statement of the (4'tationne/, Pa s, and Patrie, that the p P ri o n r e t i e_ , D hli& tic ia the evacuation of the Danubian na l e' and intends to close the Dardanelles. .A_s vr e -aye already been informed, the Turkish Ittlovivetntnent has insinuated that it should like to Of M I Witt. e n its English and Austrian allies think t•P wir a • athPt 41 1 wtog their forces, but up . to yesterday e 1. this Government had received no notice, t : ere t tr r b °lll Baron Prokesch in Constantinople, 1 ,1,141 0 - (1 ' P,ittoe Callimaki in Vienna, that the Porte 17 0 4i iti% - tile evacuation of the Danubian .Princi -o°l ~,i As has been said, this Cabinet is - 0 v "". n • d with, and if the t ot e , ot t o be trifle .. I l le Aanould now demand the withdrawal of Ittil `-xilEitrian troops from Moldavia and 1,,,,.. Et . e10,, , . 8 wish Oh , 6 '4 , .it. will will be immediately complied •olit• ~, lt k ler wlll be left to settle the Bessarabian tirem, cniestion With Russia as it best can. The 1 1. eliab u i rr. ,--. (-/orrespondent has received the following :tit eQ i" infortnation as to the cause of the pre tf?oii-j.„°'tleso between the French and Austrian tal Coi l -,.e„..._nts. While at Moscow, M. de Morny wrote ,i7iit ttili‘ Walewski that it was high time to think t. t i 'l h' nt e evacuation of the Danubian Principalities, f Alla i t „eel that it might be well to address a note ,°rFO,,I,La ou the subject. The French Minister `ipe;e,ign Affairs t ooktadvice of his friend, and t hilei n e ued a note Vien e na bi it was so very 'NAV ' t hat it wounded Count Buol and his Ina /taster. The British Cabinet, which at once THE NORTHERN TIMES. ---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. remarked that M. de Morny and Count Walewski were playing the game of Russia, instructed Sir H. Seymour to inform the Vienna Cabinet that it was no reason why the Danubian Principalities should immediately be evacuated. As the Porte expressed itself to the same effect, Count Buol replied to Count Walewski that the occupation of the two p:•ovinces would be prolonged until the nes sarabian frontier question was definitively settled. The consequence of this straight forward declaration was a coolness on the part of France, and a second note, which was as sharp, if not sharper, than its immediate predecessor. Baron Hubner was directed to address himself directly to the Emperor on the subject of the prolongation of the occupation of the Princi palities, "and Lord Cowley has received in structions from his Government to inform his Majesty that an attempt is being made to make France the tool of Russia." It may be observed that the Vienna diplomatists profess to be at a loss to understand the present policy of the French Government, but some persons who know the Emperor Napoleon well, presunie that he is relapsing into " his former idle habits." • RUSSIA St Petersburg advices mention the following important decree of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, published in the Handelszeitung, in relation to the Custom-house passes for vessels leaving the ports of St. Petersburg and Cronstadt:—" By virtue of a decision of the Minister of Finance, the Depart ment of the Foreign-office for the Affairs of Com merce and Custom Dues in St. Petersburg and Cronstadt, make known to all concerned that captains of ships departing thence during the season of the navigation may receive their pass certificates, either as formerly at the Custom-house office at St. Petersburg or Cronstadt, provided, however, they produce a certificate from the Custom house authorities of this city that neither difficulties to their departure, nor on the part of those to whom the ships shall be addressed, shall exist. These attestations may, according to the wishes of the captains or owners of the goods laden in the vessels, be demanded by means of the telegraph, under the condition, however, that the amount of the cost for the requisition and ful filment of the request be paid by those persons making them." the foregoing may be intelligible to your readers, it must be stated that only one Bolgrad (Tabak) was marked on the map used by the Paris Conference. The Bolgrad in question lies to the north of the Lake of Yalpuck, and touches on the Valley of Trajan, but the Bolgrad claimed by the Russians is a new town, close to the Lake of Yelpuck, and about five kilometres to the south of the Valley of Trajan. The allies, including France, insist that the frontier shall run to the south of the ancient Bolgrad (Tabak), but the Russians refuse to cede New Bo!grad, and propose to form the new frontier by means of a dam or dike (gigue), which they will construct at their own expense, between the villages of Chichme Varonita and Impontzita. Such was the exact state of affairs a month since, and there is no reason to suppose that the French Government has since discovered that the southern Bolgrad, the chief town of the Bulgarian colonies, is a place of little importance. From day to day it becomes more evident that Russia is inclined to " shirk " her engagements, and England and Austria will therefore do well to maintain their positions in the Black Sea and the Danubian Principalities until the Bessarbian frontier question is definitively settled. THE INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.-- The Peru has arrived with the heavy portion of the India mail. She left Alexandria on the 21st ult. ; Malta, the 25th ; and Gibraltar the 20th. She has 73 pas sengers, amongst whom are Colonel Thompson, from Calcutta, after an absence of forty years from England; Major Hennah, from Madras; Captain Moulgarin, from Bombay; and Colonel Farren, of the 47th. The last named gentleman landed in the Crimea in 1854, and was one of the last to leave. Captain Evans, of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's service, also came home He took out the Alma from Southampton to Calcutta in 78 days. Amongst the cargo of the Pera is specie to the value of 11,4001 sterling: The Tar tarus was at Alexandria; the Duke of - Wellington, Ibraila, Conqueror, Wanderer, Coquette, Swallow, Recruit, Oberon, Chicken, Cracker, Sauey, Wye, and Shearwatet at Malta, and the Curlew at Gibraltar. The Sultana, Lord Colville, arrived at Cadiz, with all well. About fifty miles S.W. of the Start Point, on the 7th inst., the Pera passed a waterspout, a very uncommon occurrence at this time of the year. Heavy rains had fallen at Malta a week after the earthquake ; many of the tanks have two years' supply in them. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan had been in collision with a French merchant brig. About . sixteen miles of the railway from Cairo to Suez, across the desert, was completed. Twelve thousand Egyp tians were working on it. The Pera had made the voyage from Alexandria, including stoppages at Malta and Gibraltar, in eleven days and fourteen hours. ♦ THE WEST IN DIES. We yesterday gave a short epitome of the news by the West India Mail arrived at Southampton, as received by telegraph. We have since received full details, and annex a summary from the Jcimaica Herald : There is nothing whatever astir in parliamentary circles. The new Governor, whom everybody now expects to be Captain Darling, has not yet arrived —indeed we know not whether he will not be in London cotemporaneously with the arrival there of the present packet, The temporary adminis trator of the Government is Major-General Bell, ' who, it seems, is anxious to avoid the responsibi lities which generally attend the calling together of the people's representatives, The Legislature will not meet before the month of November next, and after assembling, only those measures which are imperatively required will be dealt with. to prevent those disasters which would result frem a lapse of revenue. When these essential enactments are disposed of, the legis lature will be prorouged until the arrival of Governor Darling, who, it is expected, will receive the honours of Knighthood, before proceeding to the scene of his new achniuibtration. One of the city morning papers has offered some very sensible reflections on the coming session. " As all public measures," says the writer, "proposed by the Executive Committee are, in the spirit of the Con stitution, supposed to be those of the Governor, and are offered to the Legislature on his responsi bility, any unwillingness (supposing such to exist) on the part of General Bell to apply himself to the very anxious duty of considering the political and domestic economy of the island, with a view to the propounding or sanctioning of such measures of social, financial, or political reform, as the exigencies of the period may require, is readily comprehen sible. Still there are some few measures of material importance which must come before the Assembly under executive sanction. One of these is the Import Duties Bill, which will expire on the 31st of December next. We have not heard, nor is it likely that the fact should transpire, whether any change in the tariff established by the act Of 1545, is contemplated by the executive. We very much doubt, for our part, the policy, in the present de pressed state of our import tr a d e , of materially increasing the duties in the principal articles of consumption. Brandy might, perhaps ; bear an additional two shillings a gallon, so as to bring the duty up to eight shillings, which it bore under the old tariff. We have always been an advocate for taxing beef and pork 20e a barrel, instead of 10s —a reduction which has neither brought an additional barrel into consumption, or afforded the consumer the thousandth part of an ounce more for his threepence; but neither flour, rice, meal, butter, lard, soap, nor candles, could with advantage, be tated at a higher rate than at present ; without very seriously restricting imports. There is reason to believe that the import business, during the whole of the present year, has been a very precarious one, and we believe there are few large import houses who have not suffered heavy losses. So preciatiotis indeed has been this description Of business, that importations from the United States have been very inac tive for some time past, and it is fortunate for the Chancellor of the Exchequer that this period of inaction has supervened towards the close of a rather active year—active in the way of duty-paid clearances. We believe the estimate of revenue from the import duties was put down at 120,000/, and it is probable that that sum will be realised either wholly, or within a very trifling amount. If the state of local trade, however, continues as it is at present, it will be very questionable whether a similar result, even at the present rate of duties, can be expected in 1857. It is no secret that the present conditions of local credit are extremely unsatisfactory. Importers of American produce must either sell wholesale at a loss, or retain their cargoes for the retail trade, which is at this moment, probably, the most precarious business in the world. There have been some serious failures of late, well calculated to break down all credit in the country, and if the state of trade resolves into this—that merchants must import with the only alternative of selling either at a loss or without profit; or of forcing a retail trade with individuals who are unworthy of credit, the result must speedily be that imports will cease ; and, with the cessation of imports, the principrl source of revenue must fail. It is to be hoped, therefore, that no attempt will be made to increase the duties on any articles of general consumption, so long, at least, as the present depression in trade exists. Looking to the improving prospects of our agricultural inter ests, upon which, after all, the entire welfare of the community must be considered exclusively to rest, we may hope that, with an improving production, trade also may so revive as to enable the financial member of the executive committee to look with certainty on the results of this most important source of annual supply. It is rumoured that one of the measures which will bo submitted to the Legislature during the approaching session, by the executive committee, will be a bill to grant a salary to the Governor of the island. It will be remembered that on Sir Henry Barkly assuming the govern ment, the British Government guaranteed him a salary of £3,500 per annum for three years, which was paid up t o t h e t i me of his removal for Vi ctoria. 1 he government, will not, it is said, pay this salary to Governor D ar li ng, and has sent out instructions to the Lieutena n t G overnor, to call on the loca l legislature to make provision for Governor Darling and his successors. Whether the assembly will grant the salary or not, it is hard for us to state, but we doubt that such will bo tho case. The general opinion is, that the mother country should continue to pay our Governors. During several days last week, the civilians and a portion of the black soldiers stationed at Port Royal were engaged in sharp encounters. One night the picquet guard attacked a man with their bayonets, and inflicted several wounds on his arm, after which they dragged him into the guard room and confined him. The next evening several of these men being on leave, commenced the hostilities of the preceding night —some went into a shop kept by a Mr. Sanguinetti, and after insulting his family and himself, knocked out some of his teeth with the butts of their guns. In several parts of the town houses were assailed with brick bats, hurled by the hands of these in furiated men. The soldiers were armed with sticks, the heads of which bore iron ; while on their persons they concealed bayonets, and other offensive weapons. Many houses had to be closed, in consequence of the riotous conduct of the assailants —several persons had to rush into the church while the Rev. Mr. Turner was holding service, in order• to shelter themselves from the brick bats and other missiles. None of the police could be found, and not a magistrate would venture out for the purpose of restoring order. The First West India Regiment now stationed in Spanish Town, will, in a few weeks hence leave that town for Up-Park Camp, and then the and West India Regiment now at the last named place will proceed to Spanish Town. We have also heard that it is likely the Ist will in a short time leave Jamaica for Demerara, and that the 2nd, now stationed there, will return to this island, and occupy the garrison at Up-Park Camp. We regret to learn that yellow fever has exhibited itself at Newcastle, where it has been fatal in several cases. Some of the parties attacked by the disease had never been in the lowlands from the date of their arrival at the bar racks. This cfact somewhat deranges the the ories which have confined the influences of this tropical disease within certain degrees of alti tude, It may be, however, that the fever was con veyed to those who did not leave the heights, by such of their comrades as came into the city, and returned with the malady. There had been some serious cases also at Up Park camp,—one of the fatal ones being, we regret to say, that of Serjeant Major Arnold, 3rd West India Regiment. This non - commissioned officer was greatly esteemed by Lieutenant Colonel D'Arcy, and the officers of his regiment, by whom his loss is much lamented. According to the request of Colonel D'Arcy, the new road leading to the camp, in which the deceased took great interest, will be called the Arnold Road, in respect to his memory. From private letters from the parish of St. Ann's, we are pleased to learn that the promises of the approaching crop are most encouraging. The cane fields in all parts of-the island have been greatly refreshed by recent rains ; and those on the south side of the island, as well as on the north side, are looking fresh and green. Our coffee planting friends are also on the look out for a tremendous crop, and it is earnestly to be hoped that their expectations may not be disappointed. We regret that the Pimento crop will not answer the planters' expectation this year. SOUTH AMERICA. By the West India mail, we have later intelli gence from Chili and Peru. The anniversary of Chilian independence was to be celebrated with extraordinary rejoicings on the 18th of Sept., on which day Valparaiso would be lighted with gas for the first time, and a national industrial exhibition was to be opened. It was expected that the new President Montt would install a new cabinet. Congress had approved the contract for establishing a railroad from Con cepcion to Talcahuano, an additional grant of 8,000 dols for public instructien, and the treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation with the United States of North America. The Copiapo miners, alarmed by the decline in the prices of copper experienced in the British markets, have petitioned Government to suspend the duties imposed on the exportation of this article, so as to enable them tn meet the crisis which threatens it. The Copiapo Railroad has lowered 5e on its rates of carriage per quintal of copper. An official document states, that the Chilian Minister to Paris has taken steps towards the establishment of a steam communication through the straits of Magellan, according to the instructions transmitted to him on the subject. A maritime expedition has been fitted out to ascertain the existence of navigable channels leading from the Gulf of Huaitecas to the Straits of Magellan. Bolivia is for the time tranquil. From Peru nothing new reaches us respecting the progress of the revolu tion. The Lima Heraldo has ceased to be published, owing to the fact that no liberty was accorded to the press by President Castilla, and the Conzercio merely issues such articles as suit the existing government. Wo learn, however, from private sources, that the country is in a very inse cure and unsettled state. Ecuador appears peaceful. CANADA. The Legislative Council Elections have partially terminitted, and without any sweeping preponder ance for or against the Ministry. The Most pro minent individual returned, so far, is Mr. Van koughnet, President of the Executive Council, whose forced absence from Parliament has been for several months a Stinging theme with the opposition. They blamed hini for shirking the Parliamentary ordeal, and at the same time laughed at him for his inability to obtain a seat in the lower house. He now goes to the upper house from the Rideau division, elected without any attempt at a contest. The political world is singularly quiet, the fruitful topics of internal improvement and foreign transit appearing to be more than ever engrossing. The efforts of the Hon. John Young, Sir Allan McNab, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Merritt, and other influential Canadians, on a visit to London to pro cure some postal appropriation for the support of the St. Lawrence steamers, are recorded in every paper that we tak e up . W e w i s h we cou ld a dd that they were likely to prove successful; but an established line, brilliant passages, shortened com munications, a frequented route, and obvious and manifold advantages following in its train, do not constitute the strongest sort of claim for an Impe rial subsidy. Meanwhile, great are to be the rejoicings in Montreal, on occasion of the opening of the Grand Trunk Railroad between that city and Toronto. The liberal sum of three thousand pounds had been raised in the former, for the cele bration of the event on a scale commensurate with its importance. • PORTUGAL. Our Lisbon advices are to the 29th ult. From them we learn that the proposal made by Mr. T. Rumball, C.E., to create a company for the forma tion of a g rav i ng d oc k , b u ildi ng yar d , and patent slip—in fact, a commercial arsenal on the banks of the Tagus —meets great opposition among the iron founders and parties engaged in trades likely to be affected by such an institution. On the 28th the Central Peninsular railway was opened to traffic. By invitation of the directors, the King, ministers, foreign diplomatists, and a large body of noblemen and gentlemen, made the passage of the line as far as Caregado in two trains, the one devoted to the court party, and the other to the rest of the guests. The line and the engines were solemnly blessed by his Eminence the Cardinal Patriarch before the start, At Care gado refreshments were provided, but I cannot congratulate the management on the liberality of their arrangements. On returning to Lisbon, the engine conveying the King and the diplomatic body burst two tubes, and another had to be pro vided, and this proving not up to the mark, the carriages were despatched in two divisions, which caused great delay, and gave rise to much displea. sure on the part of his Majesty. MORTALITY FROM CHLOROFORM.-It appears that the mortality in the London hospitals has increased since the introduction of etherisation from 21 to 34 per cent., or to vary the expression, instead of amputation being fatal in a less proportion than one in four of those operated upon, it now proves fatal to one in three. Is not so enormous . a sacrifice of life t oo hi g h a p r i ce t o b e p a id for alisesthesp, even granting that this cannot be otherwise obtained with perfect safety Is life to be held as nothing when compared to pain ?--Afeclical Times. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The usual monthly meeting of the council was held yesterday—Charles Holland, Esq., the president, in the chaia. After the routine proceedings, a report was brought up from the dock arrangements and export committee, on the subject of sheds on the dock quays, adopted and ordered that a cony be sent to the Dock Committee. Among the c?m munications was a letter from the Treasury, on the subject of bonds given on the export of warlike stores ; the sub• stance of which appeared in our columns on the 16th ult. ; also one from the Board of Trade, enclosing the following copy of a despatch from Mr. Campbell, H.M. Consul at Lagos, on the subject of the extension of commerce with Africa ; and asking for any observation the chamber might wish to make relative to it. It was resolved that, with a view to afford every information to, and to elicit the opinion of the commercial public, on a question which, in the opinion of this council, is of great importance, the document should be published in the local papers. PRUSSIA AND THE DIET A telegraphic despatch from Frankfort, dated the Ist instant, states that, in its sitting on Thurs day last, the German Diet was occupied with the question of Neufchatel, brought forward by Prussia. The question was referred to a committee formed of the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony, Baden, and Darm stadt, which to-day declared itself in favour of the Prussian propositions. ITALY The Official Gazette of Verona, of the 30th ult., mentions that Field-Marshal Count Radezky had received a deputation to solicit his patronage for a projected railway between Padua and Bologna, via Ferrara. The deputation was well received, and its members are impressed with the belief that the line will receive the sanction of the authorities. The Risorgimento, of the 30th ult., has the follow ing :—" Several chests filled with arms, addressed to Leghorn, have been seized at Avenza. The whole of the officers of the Customs have recently, by order of the Government, been incorporated with the troops of the line ; great numbers complain of the arrangement, and demand their discharge. On the 6th several young men xvho had belonged to the British Italian Legion were arrested at Friz zano, to which place they had had the imprudence to return. What will Lord Normanby, who appears to be on such excellent terms with the Duke of Modena, say to this ?" _.__ SPAIN Madrid .journals to the 29th ha ve b een rece i ved. M. Luiz Gonzales Bravo is spoken of as likely to fill the position of Minister in the new Depart ment for the Colonies, the creation of which is expected to be officially announced next week. Count de Benkendorff took leave of her Majesty on the 27th. The Russian Court has expressed great satisfaction at the renewal of its diplomatic and personal relations with Spain, and the present occupant of the Spanish throne. Official com plaints against the press of foreign countries appear to be quite common just now. This time it is the French journals that have given offence, and, if what one of the Spanish papers says be correct, the fact of the press of a country being under the absolute control of a Government, has its troublesome side as well as its advantages, THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, Nov. I.—We learn from the Danish capital that the Hanovarian Minister resident at the Hanse Towns, Mr. Hanbury, had arrived there, in all probability with instructions and full powers to make final arrangements with that Government relative to the abolition of the Sound Dues. Accounts from Stockholm up to the 28th Oct. mention that, on the previous day, the neit railway from Malmo to Lund was tried for the first time by a locomotive, guided by. the builder, Mr. Beyer, of Manchester, and two English engineers, with three carriages and a luggage van, taking its departure from Malmo, at twelve o'clock amid the cheers of the assembled multitude, and returning by three o'clock again to Malmo. We learn also from Christiania up to the 28th ult., that the Nor wegian Guard, composed of 100 men, Jagers, left last Saturday by the steam corvette Princess Louisa for Gottenburg, thence to be conveyed via the canal to the Swedish capital. HOLLAND. There has been a political crisis in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. In the Royal speech the Government had announced that it proposed that certain modifications shonld be made in the Constitution, to bring it into harmony with the legislation of the German Confederation, of which Luxemburg is a member. In its reply to the Royal speech, the Chamber protested against any change in the fundamental laws of the duchy. This address of the Chamber, when presented to Prince Henry of the Netherlands, who governs the duchy in the name of his brother, the King of Holland, met with a reply tantamount to a declaration that he declined to receive it. The Prince declared formally " that he protested against the insidious tenor of the address ; for never had the House of Orange sought to suppress the liberty of the people over which it ruled, nor to subject them to a rule contrary to their customs and inclinations." When the deputation charged to present the address returned with the Prince's answer, the Chamber immediately adopted, by 27 votes against 12, a resolution to the effect that the responsible Government no longer enjoyed its confidence. So the matter rests for the present. THE BOLGRAD DIFFICULTY. A Vienna correspond en t, wr i t i ng on the 28th ult., supplies the follo w i ng authentic news from the Bessarabian frontier :—" Towards the end of the month of September , th e C ommissaries of Russia, Turkey, Austria, France, and England held a sitting at a place called Komrat, and, as usual, the representatives of fhe first mentioned Power asserted that the Bolgrad meant by Count Orloff and Baron Brunnow was that which is close to the Lake of Yalpuck. Messrs. de Verrayon and de Stackelberg , the two Commissaries for Russia, endeavoured to call off the"attention important question their co ll eagues f rom th e most question (that concern i ng B o lgrad) by talking at great length about some mistakes made by the allies respecting the two rivers Yalpuck and Yalpoujek. Th e representatives of the Allied Powers, however, were not misled, for they at once declared that their Governments would not quarrel with Russia about the territory lying between Yalpuck and the Yalpoujek, but would positively insist on the new Bolgrad, the chief place of the Bulgarian colonies in Bessarabia, being ceded to Moldavia. In order that [COPY.] " Consulate, Lagos, July 14, 1856. " My Lord,—ln Mr. Consular Hutchinson's narrative of the Niger, Tchadda, and Binue exploration, made in the t'lelad steamer, occurs, page 254, the following ob servation But if the Government do not step in, to put an end to the lawlessness of the . Felatahs, all ideas of a successful trade with the Niger, Tchadda, and Binue countries may be given up.' Having had extensive com mercial and frequent personal interec:urse with the three large sections of the tribe of Foulahs, who have at various epochs during the last two centuries emigrated from Massina, near to Timbuctoo, and taken possession of the countries they now inhabit and rule over, viz., the country called Bonndoo, situate at the head of the Gambia river,—that called Footah Torn, situate on the left bank of the Senegal,—and that called Footah Tallon, situate at the head or sources of the rivers Nunez and Pongo,— I beg, with every respect, my lord, to submit my opinion that any representation or appeal to the Felatah (Foulab) chiefs and people to abandon their cruel predatory expe ditions against the Pagan inhabitants of the Soudan countries would be of no avail, unless at the same time commercial operations were commenced for legitimate trade at points accessible to these troublesome and for midable people ; and that it could at the same time be explained to them that the countries ravaged by their fanatical energy possessed various articles of European value, for which the commercial establishments were ready to give in exchange those articles of European manufac turers they (the Felatahs) are in want of, and which they highly prize. It must be remembered that the accounts of Clapperton, Lander, &c., represent a numerous portion of the Felatah tribe inhabiting Soudan as a peaceful, pastoral, and agricul tural people; and if a large and mischievous portion of the tribe have been for mere than 30 years past the great feeders of the former extensive slave trade in the Bights of Benin and Biafra, it was because they really found no other com merce existing in Soudan but that in slaves; the compara tively small quantities of ivory carried from the countries of Soudan by the Moorish traders of Tripoli, Tunis, &c., on the backs of camels across the desert, and representing but a minute portion of the valuable commerce the v Ist interior regions of Africa are capable of yielding. To develop this large neglected commerce of the interior, the power of steam and the highways of the Niger, the Tchadda, and their tributaries, must be made available. " The influences which generated the virulent fever that attacked the Niger expedition, under Capt. Trotter, and which caused its failure, are now known ; and the result of the last expedition up the Niger and Tchadda, in the Fleaid, proses that those influences, fatal to health and life, can be avoided. " These offer now, but few and trifling obstacles to the profitable employment of capital in those parts of the river Niger and Tchadda which, while affording some security to property, are yet within reach of the Felatah and other interior people; and should some enterprising merchants be willing to embark in a commerce offering every prospect Of success, and her Majesty's Government be induced to support such enterprise by its countenance and influence, in sending a representative to treat with the relatah chiefs, and to point out to them the advantages of occupying themselves with peaceful and legitimate trade, instead of their predatory excursions against the unoffending Pagan tribes, I beg leave, my lord, to tender myself for such service. Experience has proved that the Mahometan Foulas, in all those centuries before mentioned, of which they dispossessed the original occupiers, have, after a time, settled down to the peaceful pursuits of lawful commerce ; those of Boondoo have long since felt the influence, and enjoyed the benefits of legitimate com merce with the settlements on the Gambia ; those of Footah Toro have had the advantage and reaped the profits of an extensive commerce with the French settlements on the Senegal ; and those of Footah Sullon have shown how highly they esteem a free commercial intercourse with Sierra Leone, and with the commercial establishments of the English and other merchants at Tbybrandy, on the Rio and Nunez, and at the Rio Pongo, and other points accessible to their enterprise; gradually, in all the countries above named, they have abandoned marauding parties; as the chiefs, the leaders of them, become rich, they felt no incli nation to risk themselves again in slave hunts, for such is really their warfare, and preferred the more safe and peace-. ful gains arising from legitimate commerce with the white man.— I have, &c, (Signed) B. CAMPBELL, Consul." Mr. Heath, gave notice of the following motion, to be brought forward at the next meeting : " That this chamber, having in view the interests of commerce, accords its hearty approval to the declaration of the Paris Congress, April 16th, 1856, concerning maritime war, viz. : " 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. "2. The neutral Sag covers enemy's goods, except con traband of war. " 3. Neutral goods, except contraband of ware, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. "4. Blockade in order to be binding must be effective ; that is, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy." " That it also approves the additional proposition which the government of the United States has made the condition of its adherence to the declaration of the Paris Congress, viz.:— '' That the private property of the subjects or citizens of a belligerent on the high seas shall be exempted from seizure by public armed vessels of the other belligerent, except it be contraband." PRESENTATION OF THE LORD MAYOR ELECT TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR. At eleven o'clock yesterday, according to custom, the Lord Mayor elect of the city of London was presented to the Lord Chancellor for her Majesty's approval. The Lord Mayor elect was introduced to the Lord Chancellor at his mansion in Upper Brook street, Grosvenor square. The Recorder in a brief address, set forth the services that the worthy alderman had performed in his various offices of com mon couneilMani and deputy of the Tower Ward, for which he was elected alderman on the death of Alderman Lucas, as also his services as magistrate of the City of London. The learned Recorder also entered into a brief statement of the success of the commercial pursuits of the Lord Mayor elect, which had raised him to the proud position of being chosen Lord Mayor of the first city of the world. The Lord Chancellor in elpressing on the part of her I.lajesty her approval of the choice of the Livery, congratulated the Lord Mayor elect on his elevation. The Lord Mayor elect, Recorder, Sheriffs, and other civic functionaries, then withdrew. THE CONVICT ROBSON. Within half an hour of sentence having been pro nouncLd this unhappy man, striplied of his ordinary habili ments and clothed in a convict's dress, became the associate of half a dozen other transports. The callous indifference to his position which Robson exhibited during his trial was carried out to the last moment, While the jury were de liberating, it was remarked that, instead of looking towards them, the prisoner employed himself scribbling upon a sheet of foolscap paper. The sheet was afterwards handed round the bar, and upon it were the following observations :—" If I am found guilty upon this charge, I will not plead again, but take my chance. Johnson has completely sold me—Henry Johnson, of Birmingham." In one comer of the sheet the convict sketched a very good like ness of his brother-in-law, having thus engaged himself while Mr. Justice Erle was passing sentence upon him. Even this extraordinary conduct will scarcely be matter of surprise, when it is stated that, after having decamped from Mr. Wasson, the accountant of the Crystal Palace, at his own residence, on the 17th September , Ro bson drove direct to a famous West-end tavern, which he was then in the habit of frequenting, and ordered dinn er for himself and a lady who join e d hint during the a fternoon. The dinner consisted of fish, curry, and a brace of partridges ; and while it was being served, Robson, addressing the waiter, said, "I am sorry Mr. has sent me curry, for I never eat it. Pray tell him to remember this when I dine here again." That very night the unhappy maca left land, a fugitive from justice. AS MANTLES and JACKETS afo, so , very generally Worn this Season, J. MAC LENNAN, 36, CHURCH -STREET. (OPPOSITE PARKER-STREET), Has ma,be arra , gernents to have a Case of Paris MANTLES . and JACKETS, in Velvets, Reversible Cl3ths, and all the other Fashionable Materials, delivered Every Week for the next Two Months; therefore. those Ladles desirous of having the F as hi ons as soon as . they make their appearan ce In Paris, co m bi ned with moderation In prices, are respect fully solicited to inspect the Stock. JUST RECEIVED, f rom Lon d on Two a Cases contain the extraord n. lug, about 700 MANTLES, commencing arily Low Price o f 4 5. I I d . each. t SHAWL AND MANTLE WAREHOUSE. OPPOSITE PARKER STREET. THE FACTORY RIOT AT BRADFORD On Saturday afternoon, at the West Riding Magistrates' Court, Bradford, seven women and two men were placed at the bar, charged with having been concerned, with some 2,000 others, in the destructive attack upon Mr. C. F. Taylor's mill at Baildon, near Bradford (previously published). Th e prisoners' names are William Smith, weaver ; John Lee, mason's labourer ; Ann Grimshaw, Priscilla Blake, Mary Horne, Jane Macdonald, Mary Ann Oddy, Mary Myers, and Mary Jagger, weavers. There were many local manufacturers present, and the court was crowded by several hundreds of factory operatives. The magistrates (Mr. L. W. Wickham and Mr. C. Hardy) con sidered it their duty to make a severe example of the prin cipal rioters apprehended, in the hope that it would deter others from such outrageous conduct hereafter. The pri soners were sentenced as follows :—William Smith, Ann Grimshaw, and John Lee, three months' hard labour in Wakefield House of Correction; Mary Myers, one month's hard labour ; the women Blake, Horne, Oddy, and Mac donald, seven days' imprisonment with hard labour ; and Mary Jagger was ordered to find sureties to keep the peace. OPENING OF TERM. Yesterday being the first day of Michaelmas term, the Lord Mayor elect, attended by the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Recorder, and other civic functionaries were received by the Lord Chancellor at his private residence in Upper Brook-street. The Lord Mayor elect was introduced to his lordship by the Recorder, who, in a suitable address, passed in review the career of Alderman Finnis. The Lord Chancellor congratulated the citizens upon the election they made, and announced that he had the authority of her Majesty that the choica met with her entire approval. _ The civil party having partaken of refreshment, then withdrew. LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TA TTERSALL'S.—Lesr NIGHT , WORCESTER PLYING HANDICAP. 5 to 1 agst New Brighton 5 ... 1 ... Ella 5 ... 1 ... Madame Clicquot LIVERPOOL HANDICAP. sto I agst Malacca 6 ... 1 ... December DERBY. 20 to 1 agst M.D. 33 ... 1 ... Colonist 40 ... 1 ... Glenmasson ARRIVALS AT WORCESTER. Prince of Orange, Jack Sheppard, Fanny Wynne, Cossy, Garland, Madame Glicquot, Hopeless Star, Lough :Bawn, Prince's Mixture, New Brighton, Annet Lyle, Littl e Charley, Want age , Littl e Gerard, Octavia, Welham, Typhon, Odd Trick, Betsey B, Stork, Giantess, Chow, Ella, Flacrow, Ida, Tower, Primrose, Poodle, Homily, and Affghan. The oldest general in France, and even (as some say) in Europe, Baron Despeaux, is just dead. He entered the army in 1778, and was made general of division in 1794. A postal convention has been concluded between Spain and Great Britain. The postage on letters between the two countries is to be sixpence. Letters must be prepaid, no matter in which country they are posted, and each nation will retain the postage it receives, as there are to be no accounts between the two kingdoms. The British postage alone on a letter by mail packet, to or from Spain, at present is 2s. 2d. Miss Philbrik, a lady residing in Piscataquis county, having been annoyed by bears, set a trap for them. Th e morning after the trap was set it had aisappeared, and a trail was observed showing which way it had gone. Miss Philbrick procured her rifle and started in pursuit, and was not long in overtaking bruin with all his paraphernalia. A shot from the rifle soon terminated his existence, and Miss Philbrick had the satisfaction of receiving a good price for the " pelt," in addition to the bounty allowed by the State. ARRIVAL OF AN ALLIOATOR.--One of the passengers which left Southampton for London by the 11:30 ant. train on Saturday week was a live alligator, nearly fifteen feet long. It came to this country in a West Indian packet from Greytown. It was conveyed to town in a canoe half filled with water, partly covered with boarding. The canoe was fastened upon a railway truck. The alliga tor was directed to the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. It had not baen fed for some time, and kept opening its gigantic mouth as if it scented prey not far off. It was as big round as a man's body. The French papers state that in the vineyards near Bordeaux, the hop.: et Arat ontortrainca Aoul tho est.aLu ur the vines, have not been in general realised, as in very many localities the return has been less than was expeeted. In fact, the Bordeaux country has given but a small yield. In Lower Medoc the result is a little better than that of 1855 ; the quality is superior, the wine having both colour and body. In Upper Medoe the failure is general. In the Blayais the quality is good, but the yield is small. Both in the neigh. bourhood of Lyons and Bordeaux, the result is less than the appearance of the growing vines promised. Accounts from Rostow, on the river Doi, mention that, notwithstanding the constant daily arrival of supplies, the orders for the shipment of wheat and linseed from abroad cannot be effected. Prices are consequently on the rise, and are still higher at Taganrog, where freights have risen equally high, from vessels not being able to reach that port through the strong contrary winds that prevail against them. The inland productions of almost every kind are very much in demand at St. Petersburg, too, and prices are on the rise. The demand for tallow is particu larly great, and in the course of last week a parcel of 125,000 pounds changed bands at 150 to 151 roubles ass. At present, as much as 155 roubles are demanded for this article. SINGULAR MODE OF DEATH —A child, one year and seven months old, the son of a labourer named Porter, re., siding at Much Birch, near Hereford, came by his death in a singular manner. The child had been playing with a knife in his hand, and it is supposed that on seeing a sheep which was running about, the poor little fellow ran away, and in doing so fell upon the knife, which the mother on taking him up found sticking in his throat. When the knife wa% removed the blood flowed (as the poor woman described it) "like a pot boiling." Mr. John Morris, sur geon, of Heref or d, was sen t f or , b ut h e f oun d th a t t h e carotid artery was severed, and that nothing could save the child's life. An inquest was held on Thursday. and the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. THE MONEY PANIC IN FRANCE.—The disquietude felt by the Bank of Francs on the state of its metallic reserve has compelled it during the last two years to have recourse to steps which may have added to rather than remedied the evil. The purchases of gold and silver bullion for the account of the Bank were insufficient to keep its coffers full. According as the gold of London, Amsterdam, Ham burg, and Brussels found its way, after a considerable premium, to the Bank coffers, it was immediately drained off by the reimbursement of its notes at par in the metal so purchased, and which the Mint had transformed into pieces of twenty, ten, and five francs. In this operation the Bank incurred three kinds of loss, 'namely, the compara tively high premium paid for its gold and silver, the interest during the transport from foreign countries and its deposit at the Mint, and the expense attending the coining, without speaking of its un productive displacement and its withdrawal from circulation, all which, of course, increased the apparent deficiency. The operation is said to have been at first effected by the withdrawal from the Bank of its own gold and silver, the melting, and then selling it back to the same establish ment in the shape of bars. By way of prevention i was stipulated that in future no bars should be receive except such as had been refined out of France. was not difficult to elude the new stipulations ; and its coin was delivered to it in bars refined _in foreign Another stipulation was introduced, in virtue of WA bullion was to be purchased that was not refined and that did not bear a stamp of old date. The converted into bars as before, exchanged for bars required, and again presented to the Bank i ncre ased the expense, in addition to the prerd paid by that establishment. TEETII.—TiIOSe important component human frame, are the most generally n ev , loss or the decay of teeth, ma y he try the:ills that afflict our nature. the teeth and the stomach is mu citie s . 'eh no abro ad, coin wag of t he date AU this for bars /6itif the ,Aeeted,ons o and to the Ay traced many o. . - c'Ameetion between .1. More intimate than and it has been recently ..tiority, that many diseases gan'sed state of the stomach, of bad teeth, or the want .s opinion we held long before en in t iter(esetnitnigstts, of reatise, D b lke by the et, o Messrs.t_iiri .1b and th e consequences. The want of -its m as ti cat i on, and, without that, intiu ,eeplaints will follow. There are two other -4, although they are not so paramount as the AY' Are nearly as desirable to he remedied—pro (if we may call ....tut apv)earance and articulation. We were induced to scientificallyts t i c sk i il . adopted Their us as remarkable f ray a visit to the Messrs. Gabriel's studio, t, it so,) and what struck , are the means the best we have observed, yet, because founded on the principles are a t r h e e fundamental knowledge of the teeth, their nature and l i "w de h fec ich ts o th f e n y atu h re av b e y us e, without which nothing can be done in the way of a • r emedy or cure. Th e models are easily explained, and, from the success whi c h has attended their practice, as I 1 tes tified by numerous certificates, the Messrs. Gabriel appear to have filled up a vaeum that long existed in one of the most important branches, both of physiology and physi °gn°nl doubt thousands who are at this moment labouring under diseases of the stomach, from bad teeth, or the want of artificial dents, would gladly remedy the defect, if they were aware of the cause. A visit to Messrs. ariel's would en lighten many who are at this moment in G darkness garding, the plaint all u d e d to ; f or, without good teeth, we cannot com have good health, nor personal appearance. Art mu assist nature in this resp ec t as in all o th ers, and we st believe Messrs. Gabriel to have obtained a high place in that art. so essential to comfort and health, appears at a cursory gla nef ascertained, on the best an 4 originating from a disor are clearly the effect of good ones. Th reading a small but Gabriel, the err the loss of tee' teethpreve; merable ce points, a , first, tt tie V a , C°ae r o f 0 1( r.feic 4 1 °' Cb h°l o- of io .1 0 1,,