The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-27 00:00:00

Ulantell. WANTED, a Good Strong PONY, from 14 to 15 hands high. Must be quiet, and steady to ride or drive, with good action, and modezately fast. Price not to exceed .4'20. For address, see Reference List, Northern Times office. ABROAD. —WANTED, a SITUATIO N abroad (is not particular to what part of the world) by a young centleman, aged 2). who can gave re ferences of undoubted respectability, and security if re quired.—Address, S. 56, Northern Times office. 'WANTED, by an experienced young person who ape Ace French, a SITUATION as Barmaid or Book-keeper In a Srst-^lass llotel:or Refreshment Rooms. Unexcepti,nab'e rierences will be given.—Address, M. W., Northern Times office. AN - ANTED, a SITUATION be a young gentleman aged 20, in a Merchant's or Broker's Office, as shipping, Collecting, or Invoice Clerk. Can give references of .undoubted res ec'ability, and security V required. —Address, B. 9, Nor here Times office. WANTED. au ACTIVX YOUNG MAN, of good address, who has been accustomed to the KEEPING and COLLECTION of ACCOUNTS. Skutt write a good hand. One who has a lc , ow ledge of the PRINTING and STATIONERY Business preferred.— Address. in applicant's own hand writing, to A. C. G., Northern 2 1 4 mes office - -WANTED. a SOLICITOR, for a First-class Tailoring and Out fitting Establishment.—A liberal salary and commission will be given to a competent man, who has a good connection with captains, and the shipping generally.—Address by letter (Z. R.), at the Northern Times office, stating qualifications and where last em oloyed. liFiattinionp AGENTLFM AN, of good education and a pp earance, age 25, having Wei) , acquired a competency, has sold his army com mission end wishes to Form an Alliance with a YOUNG LADY, fr , m 17 to 22 years of sae, and of a similar position in society. Highest referencP and the strictest confidence and delicicy may be rrl ed upon.—Address A. T., No. 1, Northern Times office. o be ?Let. rll , O DRAPERS a , d GROCERS. —A HOUSE and SHOP to be I E r, with immediate possession. in one of the most popular towns in North Wales, doing a first-ra'e business, and an old establishment, of 18 years' standing. The proprietor retiring from the trade. The stock can he reduced it required. For further par • titulars, apply E. T.. Northern Times office. SOUTHPORT. —TO be LET, furnished , on the 25th of June, at a moderate renal, for two, six, or twelve months, YEW TREE VILLA, Sea Bank Road, Southport. The cottage contains drawing-room, dining-roam, and five bedrooms. Has been recently furnished, and commands a delightful view of the sea. To"ft s's or twelve months' tenant, libert , l terms will be offered, and any alterations or improvements made that may be desired: or the house will be let unfurnished to any party who will take the furni ture, or a portion of it, at a veluaticn. Water aad gas in the house. For terms and further particulars apply to Mr. Hargreave, London street, Southport. en Site. ..............,....m.... AVariety c f A idERMAN NEWSPAPERS. rece'ved per Baltic , on SALE, at the Northern Times office. TORTFTH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHD OWN-LANE.— NOTII E.—The Burial Board are now prepared to SELL GROUND for Gravesend Vaults, and for Interments in the above Cemetery. For scale of charges apply - t the office of the Registrar, at the Cemetery ; or to the Clerk to the Board, at the Public Office, Park.place, Toateth P .rk. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST. BIRKENHEAD. HOUSEi I HOUSES!! LAND I LAND It —ON SALE, in large or small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price tram about .WlOO to £6',ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheihire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can he had gratis and free by post. Cheshire offices, for the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Chimbers (one door from Market-square) Market-street. Birken head. c.attz THIS DAY ETU'S DAY, the 27th instant, at Four o'clock, at the Cotton Saleroom, Exch .nge-buildings, 160 Bales Entre Rios I 50 Bales East India W OOL. 210 Bales. Landing ex Ferris and Patriarch.—Apply to • PERKINS & ROBINSON, Wool Brokers THIS DAY. the 27th instant, at Four o'clock, at the Brokers' . Saleroom, Atherton- t mildings, Dale-street, 15gg Bales 'East India, 224 Bales Buenos Ayres and Entre Rios, 70 Bags Spanish and Lisbon, 481 Ballots Peruvian and Chill. 24 Bales Cape and Sydney. WOOL. 153 Bales Turkey, Russia, Barbary, &e., 98 Bags Iceland, • 67 Bags Mohair, P 1 Bags Sundries, ;7;d Rale.. Also. 3' Bales, and about 1070 SHEEP SKINS, with Wool 0n.73 Apply to HUGHES & RONALD. Wool Broke , s. . THIS DAY, the 27th 1 sstant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 8, Lancaster-buildings, • 1500 Bags Airacan RICE, SILL 8z MEUGENS, Brokers. ez Tantivy.—Apply to p .....b.:4%,)• NODDER, HATTER, 81, CHURCH-STREET, • Begs respectfully to inform the - Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY rdp its•pOot;or• '6B ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is ,TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. ffinttlittn fitrtr.s ra t TO FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1856. LIVERPOOL is 'certainly the most unpopular town in the three kingdoms, both in Parliament and in Downing-st cot. This being the largest trading port in the Empire, we are most deeply affected by the . Sound Dues—these are to be capitalised. As the greatest commercial emporium, we are more directly interested in the question of steam communication with Australia ; but, notwithstand ing that two Liverpool houses tendered for the conveyance - of the mails, the contract was given to a Glasgow firm. Then comes the attack upon our corporate property, sanctioned by the PALMER. ETON Cabinei; and the rescue of its mendacious authors from a complete and ignominous defeat by the PREMIER himself, who, to save a toady adherent, did not scruple to put the country at large, as well as the Ratepayers of this town, to many thousands of pounds of . expense, in defence of long-established rights of property. The PALMERSTON Whigs and Kidderminster non- descripts, are, no doubt, delighted to have an opportunity of punishing their Parliamentary foes in this Borough, but they have no right to mulct, their friends. And what shall we say of the Oppo sitiOn, who would suffer their Corporate allies to be fleeced of their lawful estate? Mr. HORSFALL has done good service on the Town Dues. Committee. Greater tact might have accomplished more ; but our Tory representative did his best while he was able to attend to his Parliamentary duties. We say this much in that spirit of fairness which, we trust, will always be found a leading characteristic of the NORTHERN TIMES ; and we deeply regret the heavy affliction which has deprived Mr. HORSFALL'S constituents of his services, when Mr. SHIITTLEWORTH was left to combat a hostile phalanx, who, to gain a most unenviable notoriety, seem to have thrown aside all Parliamentary etiquette. But we cannot understand why Mr. LOWE is so anxious to bind us to a 'definition Of what is called the " Lordship of Liverpool." There is nothing more easy to be understood. The boundaries of the ancient and Parliamentary Borough are perfectly intelligible to those who really wish for correct information, as the Ratepayers within the limits of the ancient Lordship or Borough will find out, if the Town Thies are transferred to the Board of Trade. Wherever the - Corporation can lay a rate inland, they have a right to levy Town Dues; and if that source of income be taken from them, they will be compelled to. raise funds by a tax within the old Corporate limits, to pay the interest of the Town Dues debt. Mr. LowE knows this as well as any merchant or householder in the town. The Vice-President of the Board of Trade has gained nothing, however, by an assumption of ignorance. Mr. SHIITTLEWORTH has given Mr. LowE all the information he can ask as regards the boundaries laid down in our title-deeds; and having adopted the fight of usage, as first contended for by the late Mr. FosTER when Town-clerk, Mr. SHIITTLEWORTH has left nothing for Mr. Lows or Mr. MILNER GIBSON to desire. When we have the Committee's report, alluding to this branch of the enquiry before us, we have every reason to believe that we shall find the ancient boundaries and usages have been adhered to, without showing the slightest attempt at innovation in any direction. Town Dues and Port charges have never been demanded beyond the legal limits of the Lordships and Port of Liverpool. Mr. FosTER, when speaking on this THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FBI DAY. .®.® MffiLEVl.AtiaNG4PMn==,....l subject, named several distant places where he had been called upon to hold coroner's inquests, those places being held to be within the limits of the Port of Liverpool, and if the discharge of such duties was forced on the Corporation as a right, there can be no disputing their title to the exercise of all other corporate powers over those localities. But the Committee's having devoted three whole days to the question of boundaries shows that they find their ground untenable with respect to our right to levy Dues, and that they now seek to make out a case against the Corporation by proving that they have made those charges beyond the specified boundaries of the Lordships and Port. In this they will fail, as they have in everything else they have attempted thus far. For we may rest assured that, if the Corporation had gone in any instance, beyond their lawful jurisdiction, their encroach' ents would have been met by the cry,—suum cuique, and law or main force resorted to to decide the issue What then is Mr ,OWE driving at? Does he think that he can command sufficient power in the Imperial Parliament to subvert all written and prescriptive titles to the property of these realms ? The squatter annihilator was not sufficiently suc cessful at the Antipodes, when grappling with a monster abuse and land jobbery in a valuable Colony, to justify a belief that he will succeed in outraging a public virtue, and subverting all vested rights at home. Mr. LowE can look back - stone to his present position, with great satisfaction, no doubt; but his future appears to be chequered and cloudy enough. The British nations loathe a dastardly pretext, petty tricks, and attempts at snivelling deception. The man who really has a boon to bestow on trade must' always be welcome in a commercial country. But the man who tells a people he has an incalculable benefit to confer on them, iu order to get them to surrender the time honoured privileges of self-government, when he really has nothing but additional cost and trouble to bestow on the great interests he says be desires to conserve, condescends to a most lamentable and upon his past career as the stepping lost atatus. Such men may be necessary as beacons, not to lead us, but to show who we ought to avoid—to keep alive that spirit of national con tempt and disgust, which have always overtaken the public men of this country, who have departed from honest and straightforward dealing with an enlightened and far-seeing community. THE COURT MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING There was a good demand at the Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, and the supply liberal. The sales haVe been large—at firm prices—viz., 12,000 bales, of which 5,000 were for speculation and export. A large business has been done in the Man chester Cotton Market to-day, at an advance of ad per lb, on Tuesday's rates The Liverpool Share Market to-day opened firm, and continued so up to the close, but only a very moderate basiness doing. The following are the closing prices :—Aberdeen, 14 141. Chester and Birkenhead, 171 171. Caledonian, 311 311. Chester and Holyhead, 161 14 Eastern Counties, 108 11. East Lancashire, 20 . 1 21. Great Northern, 24 24k. Ditto A, 91 10. Great Western, 61 611 Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 961 961. Liver pool, Crosby, and Southport, 18 181. London art c North Western Stock, 104/ 1051. Manchester Sheffield,'and Lincoln, 331 331. Ditto Preference llf, 12. New 6 per cent. Pref., 8 1-p. Midlanc Stock, 82 821. North British, 91 Norti Staffordshire, 6 sid. South Eastern and Dover 221 221. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21 211. York and North Midland, 301 301. Leed Capital Stock, 191 191. Buffalo and Lake Huror 1 7-16 19-16 p. Dutch Rhenish, 2 21p. Great Western of Canada, 26 261. Ditto New Shares 3 3-16 3 5-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 8/ 81d. The opinion generally expressed in the Cit 3 yesterday afternoon, that the Bank of England Directors, at their meeting to-day, would make a change in the minimum rate of discount, has proved correct—a reduction of Q per cent. having been announced. Some parties went so far as to assert that an alteration of one per cent. would be resolved upon, but this could scarcely be thought probable; still it must be admitted, considering the favourable prospects of the money market, that the present rate, viz., 44 per cent., is cot likely to be long maintained, The effect of the measure adopted to day will be productive of great benefit to all branches of business. The following return of the value of the total exports of the United Kingdom and the United States, in the year 1855 ; also of the value of the exports from the United Kingdom to the United States, and from the United States to the United Kingdom, in the year 1855, was issued yesterday : —Total exports from the United Kingdom (exclu sive of specie and bullion), year 1855, 116,701,0451; total exports from the United States (including 11,718,1961 of specie and bullion), year to 30th June, 1855, 57,324,3431; total exports from the United Kingdom to the United States (exclusive of specie and bullion), year 1855, 18,064,7631 (15 per cent of total exports.) Total exports from the United States to the United Kingdo(including 9,970,4191 of specie and bullion), year to 30th June, 1855, 29,081,8471. (50 per cent of total exports). • The funds remained very strong. The immediate result of the Bank measure was a temporary de cline of a per cent, sales being pressed as usual in realisation of profits. The final quotations were 94 13-16-04 15-16. In the Discount Market, money to day was abundant, and general ease pre vails. At Paris to day, the Bourse was better, and the Three • per cent. Rentes closed to / per cent higher than yesterday. In Railway Shares the final quotations were Caledonian, 62i 62k. Eastern Counties, 101 IOZ,-. East Lancashire, 83 85. Great Northern, 951 96k. Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western, 621 62g. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 961 961. London and North Western, 1041 1041-. Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 331 332. Midland Stock, 82 821 North British, 371; 381. South Eastern and Dover, 73/. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 85/ 86/. York and North Midland, 614 The Railway Traffic Returns for the past week, as compared with those of the same period last year, show the following results : 1856. Corresponding 1 ENGLISH LINES. week last year. Bristol and Exeter Blyth and Tyne Chester and Holyhead Doeside Great Northern Great Western Kendal and Windermere Llanelly .. 371 .... 336 Lancashire and Yorkshire 24,007 .... 21,506 London and North Western.. London and South Western London and Brighton Manchester, Sheffield, &c. Manchester and S. Junction .... Midland Newport, Abergavenny, kc 983 ..... North Eastern North London North Stafford North Devon Oxford, Worcester, &c 4,009 .... Shrewsbury and Birmingham .... 1,789 Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury and Hereford 1,212 South Eastern • .. 26,651 South Yorkshire South Devon Shropshire Union .. ....... Taff Vale West Hartlepool West Cornwall IRISH LINES Belfast and Ballymena Cork and Bandon ... Dundalk and Enniskillen Ulster Waterford and Limerick Waterford and Kilkenny SCOTCH LINES 796 34,633 2,196 6,430 1,457 2,663 1,200 19,637 1,805 Aberdeen — Caledonian Dundee and Arbroath .... Edinburgh and Glasgow .... 5,221 .... Glasgow and South Western....... 6,058 ..... Great North of Scotland .. 908 " .... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Grand Trunk of Canada.. • 4,514 .... Great Western of Canada Great Luxembourg. 636 .... Northern of France Norwegian .. ...... .. .• •• • . Ontario and Simone Sambre and Meuse 1,247 ..... West Flanders BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS 215 280 1,209 868 215 3,431 11,667 4,945 6,205 770 37,874 '589 2,006 1,395 2,908 Yesterday morning the monthly returns of the Board of Trade for the month ending 31st May last were issued. From the returns it appears that the total value of the exports has amounted to 8,733,3001. against 8,049,2461. in the same month last year, being an increase of 684,0541. The increase has principally been in beer, ale, gloves, haber dashery and millinery, hardwares and cutlery, saddlery and harness, metals, silk and silk manu factures, stationery, refined sugar, and woollen and worsted yarn. For the fiveX3r.tais ending with ' May 31, 1856, th , , , , , freiurns for all articles were 43,307,329/ a. '0,7, - npared with 34,943,7271. in 1855, and 40,425,6891 in 1854: In the retarn of imports we find, contrasting the months of May, 1855, and May, 1856, as regards the quantities entered for home consump tion, a large decrease in cocoa, a slight decrease in coffee, the consumption of spirit about the same, a large increase in sugar, a decrease in tea, and a very slight decrease in wine. From the present returns it appears that the vessels employed in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom shows a falling off of 76,760 tons for those outwards, and an augmentation of 34,391 tons for those entered inwards for the month as compared with the like period of last year. INctuEsT.- 7 -The borough coroner, P. F. Currie, Esq., held an incrust yesterday on the body of Mr. John Aititen Henderson, aged 36, an architect, who died suddenly, at the Victoria Hotel, Islington Flags, on the night of last Tues day. It appeared that the deceased, who was for a long time under medical treatment at Dumfries, for disease of. the lungs, arrived at the hotel late on Tuesday night, in a very exhausted state, and that he was found by the land. lord lying on the floor dead in the morning. A verdict in accordance with these facts was returned. THE HARVEST.—The late rains have done an immense amount of benefit to our crops—so the agriculturists state— and that an abundant yield may be expected, should the weather continue as it has done for the last few days. If we need any better proof of the fulfilment of the prophecy of the agriculturists themselves, we need only refer to the immense number of Irish labourers who daily arrive by the steamboats, and who take various routes to assist in getting in the grain. Within the last few days no fewer than five hundred have landed on this side of the Mersey, while nearly an equal number have landed at Birkenhead. OVERLAND ,MAIL. ----r TRIESTE, Thursday.—The steamer America arrived this morning with the Alexandria Mail. ALEXANDRIA, June 20th.—The India and China mails leave here to-morrow, with advices from Cif.- cutta to May 17th ; Bombay, 27th ; Hong Kong, 10th; Shanghai, 2nd; and Manilla, 6th. The Santhals are again unquiet. An insurrec is on foot. Exchange at Bombay 2s. 1-1-(1. Freights have risen. Cotton market active. Sugar held at high prices FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING Two other speculators have been " executed" on the Bourse to-day, owing to their inability to meet their engagements,—one of them for somewhere about £lO,OOO. These new disasters added to the many that have recently taken place, and to the very embarrassed state of the market, caused great discouragement amongst the frequenters of the Bourse, and led to a heavy fall in all kinds of securities. The Threes have left off at 50c. lower for cash than they were yesterday, the Credit Mobilier 201. lower, the Orleans Railway 151., the Lyons Railway 12if, the Mediterranean 15f., the Northern 71f., and so on. The liquidation, at the end of this month, is looked forward to with appre hension, and many of the more prudent specula tors have determined on realising their losses rather than again pay exorbitant rates for conti- nuation. The present extraordinary low price of the Three per Cents—between 70f. and 71f.—have attracted the serious attention of the English capitalists to that stock; and, it is alleged, that orders to purchase largely have been sent by them to Paris. This may be only a " bruit de Bourse," intended to raise the drooping market, but it is clear that when English Threes are at 95, capi talists cannot be far wrong if they buy into the French Threes at 71. The Legislative Body has authorised the city of Paris to borrow 50,000,000 f. (£2,000,000.) The government, I am told, receives every day news from Italy of an alarming kind. The Emperor has addressed a letter to Ponsard, the well-known dramatic poet, praising him for having in his comedy called the Bourse, which for some time past has been performed at the Odeon Theatre with great success—courageously branded the " fatal passion" for Stock Exchange gamb ling which at present characterises the French. His Majesty seems to regret that it was his government, which from political considerations gave the greatest encouragement to this passion. There is a talk that the Emperor in the course of his visit to Plombieres will go into Switzerland, for the purpose of having an interview at some frontier town with the Emperor of Austria. But the thing is not generally credited. It• is, however, certain that, as I told you some time back, the relations between France and Austria become more and more intimate. It is even said that Russia has taken offence at them. It is alleged, too, that France carries deference for Austria so far, that, to oblige her, she has, contrary to the wishes both of England and Russia, undertaken to oppose the union of the Danubian Principalities, to which she was recently favourable. A Madrid despatch, announces that rinta have taken place at Valladolid, Palencia, and Rioseco owing to the dearness of food ; but that they had been put down by the strong hand. At Valladolid the insurgents, who were captured, had been handed over to the tender mercies of courts martial. A Berlin letter asserts that, by the intervention of Russia, Denmark has made concessions in the Sound dues question, and that it is, consequently in a fair way of settlement. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ~~ ~~...® IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. 1 pissamommommimmeemeas mamwmg -- science, and the religious liberty of all denominations of Christians. REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON, In answer to Mr. Ilankey, Sir G. GREY said that considering the late period of the s egsion, it was not his intention to proceed further with the bill for the reform of the corporation of the city of London THE LEVEE. The Queen held a levee on Wednesday afternoon in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and the Prince Conant arrived from Buckingham Palace soon after two o'clock, escorted by a party of the Life Guards. Prince Oscar of Sweden, Prince Frederick William_ of Prussia, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Elward of Saxe Weimar, were present, and were conducted to the Queen by the Vice Chamberlain. Major-General Sir William M. G. Cole brooke, C. 8., had an audience, and returned to her Majesty the Riband and Badge of a Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Order of the Bath worn by the late Lieutenant-General Sir John Hunter Littler. The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne-roam, accompanied by Prince Oscar, Prince Frederick William, and the Duke of Cambridge, and attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes; the Duchess of A tholl, Lady in Waiting, and the usual officers of the State. The Queen wore a train of pink satin, covered with English lace, and trimmed with bows of pink and white satin ribbon. The pettiuuut was white satin, covered with lace, and trimmed with white satin bows. Her Majesty's head-dress was com posed of diamonds. The Foreign Ministers were introduced, when *many presentations to the Queen took place. We observe that the name of Mr. Dallas, the American minister, is not amongst those present in the diplomatic circle. Among the addresses of congratulation presented to the Queen, on the restoration of peace, wera the follow ing :—Mr. Perry, mayor of Wolverhampton, Mr. Gatis, alderman ; Mr. Wright, town councillor ; Mr. Walker, town clerk ; and the Right Hon. Charles Villiers, from the corporation of Wolverhampton. Messrs. Perry, Gatis, Wright, and Walker were presented by Sir G. Grey. Mr. Buckley, mayor of Ashton-under-Lyne, and Mr. Alderman Higinbottom, from the corporation of Ashton-under-Lyne. The Mayor and Mr. Higinbottom were presented by Sir G. Grey. The following were among the presentations which took place, the names having been previously left at the Lord Chamberlain's office, and submitted for her Majesty's approval :—Mr. Alderman Barnes, of Manchester, presented by the Earl of Ellesmere, on his appointment as a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire; Mr. W. L. Drinkwater, on ap pointment as first Deemster of the Isle of Man, by Sir Geo. Grey ; and Mr. H, Fleetwood, by Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, bart. The Queen and Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace after the levee. Prince Albert presided on Wed nesday at a meeting of the Council of Cornwall. The Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Frederick William of Prussia, rode out on horseback, attended by Baron Moltke and Captain the Hon. D. De Ros. In the evening her Majesty had a dinner party, which • comprised the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Oscar of Sweden, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Marquis of Aber corn, Earl Spencer, Viscount Palmerston, Admiral Lord Lyons, Admiral the Hon. Sir R. S. Dundas, and Mr. Arthur C. Magenis, her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Sweden. s_ rte= THE EARL OF DERBY AND THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. —On Wednesday evening the Right Hon, the Lord Mayor entertained ;the Earl of Derby and the leaders of the conservative party in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion House. Many ladies also were of the company, and the repast, as well as the decorations of the hall, were magnificent. LIVERPOOL DOCK AMMT COMMISSIONERS.—At the Town Hall. on the 25th instant, the following named gentlemen were chosen commissioners for auditing, &c., the accounts of receipts and disbursements of the trustees of the Liver. pool docks for the ensuing year :—Messrs. John Gordon, Henry Dawson, David Rae, James Brebner, Jas. Williams, George Kendal, John Alexander Black, Charles Tricks Bowring. The commissioners afterwards appointed Mr. John Gordon, chairman ; Mr. Henry Dawson, vice-chair man ; and Mr. H. B. Hornby their accountant. THE RAILWAY STRIKE.—We understand, that upon information being given to the goods manager of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, that it was the intention of the employees on that line to strike, they were, upon his arrival in town, called together, and upon the discontents being requested to withdraw from those who were con tented, only two complied to the request. Hence it is, that all the men, except the two mentioned, returned to their employment, thus showing that the great majority did not sympathise with the men formerly belonging to the London and North Western Company, who, at present, have not succeeded in ob'aining their ends, and are still unemployed. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—On Wednesday last, Thomas Handy, under butler to J. Naylor, Esq., of Liscard, was charged before Neilson, Esq., with stealing a quantity of tea belonging to his master. It appeared that a variety of articles had been missed from the store-room at various times, and on the previous night the house-keeper had heard a noise in the storeroom, upon which she immediately fastened the door, but while she was giving the alarm, the thief. succeeded in making his escape. Subsequently, however, a quantity of tea was found in the prisoner's bed room, and identified as that stolen from the storeroom. The prisoner was committed to take his trial for the felony. _ . NEW Music,—Our indefatigable music publishers, . Hime and Co, have just added two gems to the many already issued by them to their patrons. The that is a ballad song, entitled " No ray to me the sunshin:3 lands," by Mr. Howard Paul, whose histrionic celebrity is revealed by the musical taste displayed in the little ballad before us. The second is a duet, " When falls refreshing dew o'er summer flowers," the words by our county laureate, Charles Swain, and the music by Mr. George Hargreaves. • The latter presents an excellent proof that musical and poetical talent are endegenous to our county. Both these produc tions form a pleasing addition to the repertoire of our musical friends, and cannot fail to become popular in all fashionable coteries. Messrs RUSSIA. The Constitutionel publishes a letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 18th inst, which states that the Emperor Alexander, after his return from Riga and Revel, has taken up his residence in the palace of Tsarskoe Selo. Grand military fetes will take place at the coronation, at which 150,000 men will be assembled. Lord Wode hquse, the English ambassador extraordinary, arrived on the 17th by the Prussian Eagle steamer from Constradt. Tie had been pre ceded by Mr.. Acton, son-in-law of Lord Granville, who is to represent England at the coronation of the Emperor Alexander, It is said that his lord ship during his stay at Moscow will give several magnificent fetes. The disasters of the inunda tions of France, and the conduct of the Emperor Napoleon in going himself to convey assistance and consolation to the sufferers, have produced much sensation in the Russian capital. The French residents at St. Petersburg have opened subscrip tions for the sufferers, to which the Russian Government has contributed. TURKEY Constantinople, letters to the 16th have arrived. It is now confidently asserted that there is not a word of truth in the reports of troubles at the arsenal, of the numerous arrests in Constanti nople, and the discovery of stores of gunpowder and arms in the houses of the most in fluential Ulemas. An affair which made a great deal of noise about a young boy represented to have been a son of the French vice consal at Tenados having been barbarously mur dered by the Turkish population, is thus explained. A lad of fifteen, who was in fact the son, not of the French, but of the Austrian consular agent, was riding, on horseback through the principal street of Tenedos on one of the days of Bairam, when there was a great crowd of holiday makers. He was unable to manage his horse, and the animal knocked down and trod upon a little girl'five years old. The mother, who saw the accident, fainted away, and the father rushed upon the young Austrian and stabbed him in two places with a sword. But the wounds were so slight that the lad was about again at the end of three days. The little girl remains in a precarious state. It appears to be true that a Greek sailor was murdered. by a Tunisian officer, about a fortnight ago, but the murderer has been arrested, and will be tried by court martial. STATE OF ITALY. We learn from letters dated Milan, the 21st inst., that a movement on a large scale, indeed, on the whole line of the Italian Peninsula, is in course of preparation. This. movemen t is attributed to Mazzinian agency, in order to anticipate another movement of a more constitutional character. The Mazzinian party fear, no doubt, that Italy will be taken out of their hands, if the moderate leaders, who look up to Sardinia for the liberation of their country, act before them ; and they seem deter mined to strike a blow at once in their usual fashion. Copies of incendiary proclamations, ex citing to pillage and assassination, are circulated throughout Italy. Letters from Naples describe the King as more determined each day to decline the counsels of the Western Powers, and refuse the reforms demanded from him as the only chance of saving his States from v i o l en t commotion. He has become more morose and less communicative, acid will not listen to any advice. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at five o'clock, GRAND JURIES SILL Lord CAMPBELL, in moving the second reading of the Grand Juries Bill, explained that its object was to change the mode of swearing witnesses who had to give evidence before grand juries. At present the mode was for the crier to administer the oath in open court while the business of the court was proceeding, and much con fusion often resulted from it; but by this bill the oath would be administered by the foreman of the grand jury hl their own room. After a brief discussion, the bill was read a second DIVORCE, &C., BILL, On the motion for going into committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, Loed LYNDIIURST brought up the report of the select committee on the subject, and explained the recommenda tions contained in it. The noble and learned lord said that the committee were unanimous in the opinion that there should be a special court to try divorce and matrimonial cases, and that an alteration should be made in the existing law, to allow a woman who had become divorced from her husband, on account of cruelty or adultery, to hold property which previously belonged to her, and to give her the right to sue and be sued. A discussion ensued, after which the bill went through committee. The Sardinian Loan Bill, the Seamen's Savings Banks Bill, and the Industrial and Provident Societies' Bill, went through committee. Their lordships rose at five minutes to eight o'clock HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIURSDAY The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINES4. The following bills were read a third time and passed Dawson's Estate; Dunblanc, Donne, and Callander Rail way ; Ingham's Estate ; Perth, Almond Valley, and Mt.:Owen Railway; and Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. POSTAL COMIUNICATION WITH. AUSTRALIA. Sir J. PAKINGTON asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether her 'Majesty's Government had completed ar rangements for postal communication between England and Australia, and, if so, what was the nature of the arrangements ? Mr. Wiasos said the right hon. baronet had put a num ber of questions, from time to time, relative to the postal arrangements to be agreed on between this country and Australia. It was a matter of no small difficulty to ar range a service of such great importance to give satisfac• tion to this country, and also the colonies. There were many interests to be consulted, and recollecting the many failures in former experiments, it was necessary that the arrangements now made should not only be of a satisfac tory nature as regarded the colonies, but such as would partake of a permanent character. After great con sideration and invitations for tenders, the object of which was to test all the routes by which Aus tralia may be reached in the shortest time, the result of which was the Government in this country, and those who represented the colonies here, decided that the best way to reach Australia was overland to Suez, through the Red Sea—(hear) —round Point de Galle and Cape Louis and Melbourne. The treasury then authorised the Board of Admiralty to issue notices for tenders for that route, and four had been sent in. One tender proposed to carry the mails for a comparatively small sum of money, but there was this disadvantage accompanying it, that the vessels for the service were not ready, and the Government would have to wait twelve months for their building, and three months after that, before they could be on the station. That proposal, with the uncertainty'of the company being formed, and consi dering the urgency of the case, the Government declined to accept. The next tender was of a similar character, and the government would have to wait for the building of the vessels. The third offer was from a very powerful company, capable of carrying out the service, who had in their possession a sufficient number of vessels, and of the requisite size, but they proposed as a condition, that the service should not commence until their vessels were disengaged from the transport service, which would not be for some months, and they refused to be bound by the conditions for completing the voyage within the given time laid down by the Government, and the Government consequently declined to accept their offer. The fourth tender was, by a considerable sum of money, the largest in amount, but it contemplated the immediate commencement of the service with vessels recently built. The company were willing to accept the contract, subject to the penalties for the non-completion of the voyages within a certain period, and they also undertook, for the same sum, to commence the service from Southampton (although the Government only re quired it from Suez) and take letters and passengers direct to the Australian colonies. (Hear, hear.) That appeared to the Government an important advantage, because if the service were only from Suez to Australia it might occasionally happen that the Australian mail would arrive too late at Suez to meet the home Indian mail, and in that case there would be a delay of a fort night at Suez until the mail arrived there. Upon com munication with the Secretary for the Colonies, acted as the representative of the Australian Colonies in this matter, and as they were willing to pay half the amount of any contracts entered into for the conveyance of the mails, the Treasury could not hesitate to pay a sufficient amount of money to secure this great advant age for the colony. The company who undertook this service were strangers to the Government, but ,t enquiries had been made as to their responsibility, the result of which was that the government were per fectly_satistied as to the ability of the company in point of capital, knowledge, energy, and business-like habits, to carry out the contract. (Hear, hear.) The first vessel was to be ready for survey in August, depart from this country direct for Melbourne, round the Cape of Good Hope in October, take up her station in Suez in January, followed by a second in November, a third in December, and a fourth in January, and so on so as to keep up a regular communication with the Australian colonies. The vessels were to be of 2,200 tons burthen, 500 horse power, and fitted with powerful screws. Everything had been done that was possible to ensure punctuality, speed, and to give entire satisfaction to the colonies. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said the answer of the honourable gentleman was perfectly satisfactory, and asked if mea sures had been taken to ensure the vessels would not be less than 2,000 tons each, and whether any stipulation had been made for the amount of speed to be maintained throughout, and the maximum period of time the voyage was to occupy between Southampton and Melbourne. Mr. WiLsoN said the vessels were not to be less than 2,000 tons burthen, but two vessels of 1,800 tons each would be used temporarily for the first two or three voyages, by which time others of a larger tonnage would be provided to take their place. The voyage was to be accomplished in fifty days, and the penalties for delay were £5O the first day, increasing £5O per day for every day's delay after. Sir J. PAKINGTON : What is the duration of the con tract ? Mr. WILSON : Five years. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS (SCOTLAND) TESTS The House went into committee on this subject, when a resolution was agreed to on which to found a bill. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND) BILL The House went into committee on this bill, the con sideration of the first nine clauses of which, occupied the morning sitting. The House resumed shortly after six o'clock. IRISH EDUCATION.-TuE QUEEN'S ANSWER TO 'HIE ADDRESS , Lord DRUMLANRIG, as Vice-Chamberlain of the House nold, appeared at the bar with her Majesty's answer to the address recently agreed to by the House on the subject of National Education in Ireland. The answer was ordered to be brought up, and was read by the Clerk at the table as follows : "I fully recognise the duty of extending as widely as possible the blossings of education in Ireland, and your wishes and recommendations will always receive the consideration justly due to them. "It affords the the greatest satisfaction to know that experience has proved that the extension of the system of National Education in Ireland has greatly promoted this important object " It is my earnest desire to see that system upheld and strengthened by a strict adherence to those rules which, by excluding all compulsory religious teaching, have hitherto secured parental authority, the rights of con- WILLS, &C., BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Wills and Administrations Bill, and explained that its object was to remove the necessity for more than one tribunal's decision in will cases. He proposed, therefore, to abolish all resort to the eccleslastcal courts in such cases, and to constitute a court to dischai'.ge the functions both of a court of law and equity. He ;1160 proposed to establish a testamentary office in London granting probates of wills, and fifty - two b ranch offices ;.2 rural districts of England and Wales, and to give compens to proctors whose vocation would be lost by the provisiou.4 of the measure. Sir F. KELLY approved of the measure, and referred to the case of llyce Sombre as illustrative of the evils of the• present law in regard to wills, and stated his opinion that if this bill had been is operation in MO, that case would not have occupied so many months as it had now taken years to decide. GRAHAM would not oppose the second read ing of this bill, but objected to the establishm9nt of a court, similar to the Court of Chancery, to act side by side with that court, and to take away some of its most Sir JAM important functions Mr. COLLIER approved of the measure. Mr. MALINS objected to many of the details of the mea sure, and suggested that the object might have been gained by providing that the ecclesiastical courts, when any question arose as to the valid it y of a will, depending upon mental capacity or other circumstances, should have power to send the matter to a court of law. He expressed a hope that the bill would not be pressed in the preseNt session. After some comments from Mr. J. G. Phillimore bill was read a second time. The Registration of Voters (Scotland) Bill was read m third time and passed. The Drainage (Ireland) Bill went through committee. The Cambridge University Bill was read a third time and passed. THE MAYNOOTH COLLEGE BILL Mr. SPOONER, in consequence of the opposition offered` to the Maynooth College. Bill on the previous evening, withdrew it for the session. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned shortly before two o'clock. GALLANTRY OF A GALLANT VETERAN.—It iS said that Lord Gough is of opinion that English women who were in the Crimea previous to the armistice or end of Febru ary, ought to be decorated with the Crimean ribbon solely. In India, Lord Gough states, four English ladies were decorated, amongst them Lady Gough, who is very proud of her Maharajpore bronzed star, and likewise of the oue given her by the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. THE NEW COMMANDANT AT WOOLWICH.—A banquet worthy the occasion is in course of preparation at Wool wich, to be given by the officers of the Royal Artillery,. to Major-General Sir William Williams, of Kars, who is appointed to the post of Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, in the room of Major-General Whinyates, who has resigned. The formal installation of General Williams will take place on the 4th of July. the day fol lowing his reception at dinner. RUSSIAN CRIMEAN MEDALS.—The Emperor Alexander. in imitation of France and England, has just iastituted. a Crimean medal, to be given to all those who took part in the defence of Sebastopol. It will be in gold for officers, and in silver for privates. It will have, on one side, the words, • ro the eternal memo r y of the immortal defence of Sebastopol," and on the other, " By their Majesties Nicholas, of eternal memory, and Alexander II." THE RUSSIAN CABINET.—After the various changes which have taken place in the Russian Ministry. it may be satisfactory to know the names of the persons who havo lately entered it :—Count Orloff, President of the Council; Prince Gortschakoff, Minister of Foreign: Affairs ; Prince Serge of Lanskoi, Interior ; General Count Adlerberg, Minister of the Emperor's Household ; Baron de Lieven, Quartermaster general of the Staff ; and G neral Annenkoff, Controller of the Empire. Tne departments of Marine, Finance, Justice, Pubiic Instruc tion, and the Post Office remain as they were. APPREHENSION OF THE DUCHESS or PARMA BY AUS• TRIANS.—A gentleman who has just reached Paris, from Parma, informs me that the Gra nd Duchess, who was attempting to leave Parma, was taken prisoner by the Austrian military authoritiLs , a nd obliged to retilY ll to her capital. On offering some remonstrance, she was to l d that as the government of Parma had called in Austtian fro '13 13 , was necessary that the sovereign should remain to coo).* tenance their acts. BANKERS' CUVQUES.—The new Act to amend the law relating to draughts on bankers was issued on "Wednesday- The preamble states that doubts have arisen as to the obligations of bankers with respect to cross-written draughts, and that it would conduce to the ease of com merce, the security of property, and the prevention of crime, if drawers or holders of draughts on bankers, payable to bearer or to order on demand, were enabled effectually to direct the payment of the same to be made only to or through some banker. Therefore it is enacted that a draught crossed with a banker's name is to be payable only to or through some banker. The Act is now in fore( success. ALARMING FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, a fire raged on the exten sive premises of Mr. J. Dodsworth, printer, 15, Crown street, Finsbury. The inmates were alarmed, when Mr. Dodsworth rushed up stairs, and wrapped his two chil dren, aged six years and four years, in blankets, and brought them through the dense body of smoke ; but he was scorched and nearly suffocated, and his own lite would have been sacrificed, if he had not been helped out by the police. After great exertions the fire was sub dued, but not until the composing rooms, press rooms , and warehouse were entirely burnt out, and the upper part of the house considerably damaged. Bonn's BANxnurTcY.—Yesterday in the court of bankruptcy, Mr. Commissioner Fane gave judgmant on the question of certificate to Mr. Mark Boyd. His Honour went into a very elabora t e and broad exposi tion of the in tricate affairs which the bankrupt had had with his brother. Benjamin Boyd, and considered that a great hardship and cruel oppression had been inflicted on the bankrupt to require him to go back into accounts extending over fifteen ye as. With regard to the different charges, they were frivolous and unfounded. His Honour concluded by de claring the bankrupt entitled to an immedi ite certificate of the first class, and expressed a strong hope for his future -- The bankrupt was warmly greeted by many gen tlemeu present. MONUMENT TO WALLACE.-01.11' Scottish cotemporarie a contain long accounts of the meeting held on Tuesday at Stirling, to take measures for erecting a national monu ment to Wallace. The day was fine, and was observed as a holiday in the neighbourho od, and the numbers present were variously estimated at from 10,000 to 20,000 persons. Lord Elgin presided, and in the course of his speech he said—" If time permitted, I would undertake to show that it is to the successful struggle carried on under Bruce and Wallace that it is owing that the union between Scotland and England has been not only honourable to tho former country but profitable to the latter. I think the comparison of the results which have a ttended the con and nec tion between England and Scotland and England Ireland, will go very far to show how little a nation gains which succeeds in forcing its own foreign institutions, foreign laws, and foreign religion, on a reluctant and high-spirited people. (Cheering.) Oh, gentlemen, I fear, I greatly fear. that we have not yet read that most valuable but most painful lesson to its close, for, rely on it, that if ever a collision takes place between these two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race which dwell on the opposite shores of th e broad Atlantic, that calamity , the most grievous that can befal either country, will - be attributable to the humiliations which in bygone times England has sought to impose on Ireland. (Hear, hear.) I believe. therefore, that if the whole truth were to be told in this matte we might show that England owes to Wallace an . d Bruce r, a debt of obligation only secand to that which is due to them by Scotland. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FEMALE IN A POLICE Yesterday, Ann Mack, a tall , fine looking young woman, of dissipated appearance, was brought before with A'Beckett, at the Southwar k Police-court, charged vvith committing damage at a coffee house in High-street , Southwark ; also with attempting to commit .suicste id when confined in the cell s at the rear of the police - Ca tion. The prisoner , w ho has been known to the po l ic e o , a long time as a drunkard, went into the Saint George coffee house, High-street, Southwark, and commenced creating a disturbance and annoying the customers. She was told to go out, when she seized up several curs and saucers and broke them. She was eventha at ejected and taken into custody, and placed in a cell t the Stones End police station, with other femai pri soners. During the time she was in confinemesnutoisdhee. was discovered to have attempted to comomoit suicide. was at Police-constable 99 M said, that he. was placed .in a the police station, and he saw the out that the e cell with other females. About ttPthrerirre morning he heard some of trmleadiately went to the prisoner was in a fit. ca o li c d •t b noise, an qui e ack the seat, making a .gurgling cell, and on opening it he n . efounmd the prisoner lying on her neck, which he cut, and thi face. He perceived that she had a small handker chief tied tightly round room, where she so .n Mr. A'Beckett asked her what she had to say recovered.answer to that portion of the charge ? She replied brought her the reserve that she wawaunk, and not aware what she was about. She did not hto commit suicide. Mr. A'Beckett told her that drunkenness was the cause of all, and to prevent her making another attempt on her life he should commit her to prison. 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