The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

WANT .ev • eillantrtr. from the country, about cdn watt at tab,e.—Apply AYOUNG LA DY whn has jitsr returned from Franc e , w h ere s h e Te sioed for some time, wish!s an engagement as DAILY or VD ...NT GOVERNESS ; She Is rul 7 cam!). tent to teach all the usual Branches of B. gltsh, wi th Music and Fr e nch.—A pp ly Dy l e tter, addressed N. 1, Northern T i mes office. 24 amd 26, BOLD-STREET. 11 . 0 SIERY BUMMER W E A R, 3fANDFACTIIRED WITH lieltZpVLOl:l3 REGARD QtrALITY AND FORM. DRAWERS, CNDER VIESTS, ke., SILL COTTON, GAUZE, AND :ME RINO P. L. 3IACTAGGA.RT (17e --g—gtit)tru Tiinto THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1856 THE DAY'S NEWS Mr. Justice Willes made % considerable inroad into "The black calendar" yesterday, sitting until nine o'clock, and getting through some of its heaviest eases. The sensitiveness which the jury in two instances showed in reference to a verdict of Wilful Murder would be held by some to have passed all reasonable limit, but it indicates the impression produced on the public mind by the undistin,guishiag rigidity with which Sir George Grey has of late been restricting the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. It is to this almost unexampled severity that we must attribute the fact which these assizes have demonstrated, that the " Manslaughtera " of Liverpool are worse than some of the wilful murders of other places. Sir Charles Napier has returned ; and, as we foresaw, has " given his good account " of Cron stadt. Here it is :—" If 50 sail of the line, and " 50,000 men in steamers, were to attempt an " attack, it might just possibly succeed, provided " they did not sink ships between Menschikoff and " Cronslott, and our ships did not take the ground " in going in. It would be necessary for the leading " ships to anchor against the batteries. Those " following should go in and break the boom. If " they succeeded, we would probably everpower the `• fleet, and the steamers would land the troops on " the sea wall. If we failed in breaking the boom, " there would be great confusion, and there is no " knowing what would happen. It would also be " necessary to have a strong reserve to take the " place of the ships against the batteries, " if they failed in silencing them, which is more " than probable. If all went right, Cronstadt " would be taken; and if all went wrong the fleet " would be lost. No one, I think, except The Times, " would have tried Cronstadt. They said it was "not necessary to see how one was to get out ; it "was only necesary to get in. I have shown that " the North Passage is double—l may say triple— ' holed, and four new batteries built ; so that passage is sealed. There are no guns on the North Wall; ' but outside there are redoubts well armed. On `the south side, between Risbank and the main land, there are two new batteries, which render "it unassailable, and the passage up towards " Peterhoff is holed also. On the ramparts there " are about 120 guns, many of them pointing seaward. The carriages are not in good order. Fort Menschikoff is now fitted with platforms "like a ship's decks, with 82-pounders, where the " seamen are exercised in the winter. It is well " ventilated, having no guns on the sides or rear. " On the shore, inside Peter the Great, there is a ' , heavy earthen redoubt, which points to the sea. " There are redoubts all over the island, and on "the western part of it a new fortification is begun, " right across, and between it and the town a chain "of redoubts. The line wall is of small stones, " like Bomarsund, which could be easily knocked "down. There is a ditch, but no glacis. I forgot " to say that the screw line of-battle ship has 830 men, excluding engineers and stokers." The Philadelphia steamer City of Baltimore arrived with one day's later news than we had by the Persia. She brings 296 passengers. The Indus, with the India and China Mails , arrived last night at Southampton. Among her passengers are the Queen of Oude and suite. At the time of going to press we had not been put in possession of her news, but their substance has been anticipated by the electric telegraph, via Marseilles. Our foreign news is extremely scanty, and centres on Naples, The continued pertinacity of its King is to be followed by the withdrawal of the French and English Ambassadors. It would seem that Russian diplomacy is entering on a new course, its Nestor, Count Nesselrode, amusing himself at present in a tour through Switzerland. At Geneva, he is supposed to have met with Lord John Russell, on his travels also. The French, who have now left Constantinople, begiu to talk of evacuating Athens, the last news from which is, that the lazaretto, the buildings at the customs port, and all the merchandise they contained were destroyed by fire. In Spain the people, complaining of dearth, are destroying in some provinces whatever food they have. At Buendia 200 cart-loads of corn were destroyed in this way; at Anjudar, more than 8,000 olive trees were wilfuliy destroyed ; at Cordova, a farm house of the Marquis Benamej was burnt down, and other damage done. The palace belonging to him in the city was also burnt down. At Lucena the Hotel de Ville was burnt down, and the mayor seriously wounded ; at Seville, it was all the authorities could do to prevent the gas works from being set on fire. At Jaen, 200 olive trees and 400 almond trees were destroyed ; in many other places similar outrages have been committed. Another of the singularities educed by the dearth, is the offer of the Spanish capitalist, Senor Salamanca, to con tract to supply the city of Madrid for six years, with bread, at the price of nine cuertos the pound, the price actually paid at this moment being seventeen cuertos; but he stipulates that he shall have a monopoly of baking bread for the city during that time. The government has declined to accept this extraordinary, if not dangerous, proposal. It turns out that the " Frightful case of Seduc " tion" we published yesterday, from the Globe of the preceding evening, was only a frightful case of hoax practised upon the treasurer of that journal. It would seem that the penny-a-liners are begin ning, like the poets, to recur to their imaginations for their facts—and as it is certain that neither editors nor the public are the parties who profit by the innovation, it is almost unnecessary to express our regret at the occurrence of such mistakes. One of the most terrible things in the way of boiler explosions occurred yesterday at Hampton Hill, near Bury. The bleach works in which it took place were destroyed, ten persons killed or buried in the ruins, and about twenty more or less injured. A very fearful fire occurred at Shaw's•alley, near the Custom House, as we were preparing to go to press this morning; it resulted, we regret to say, in the loss of six lives. As the great diplomatic plot develops itself in its varied phases, the British public find increased interest in the perusal of our foreign intelligence. They see France doomed to reactionary move ments, sanctioned and promoted by the London Times in the name of this nation and their public Press—they find Austria calling out all her military reserves—ltaly selected as the European battle field, and tremendous King BOMBA hurling defiance at the combined strength of the advocates of suspected they humanity, truth, and justice. We might give Spain, whose wan ' t and starvation have been, as we anism," a very long would, designated " republic m, of diplomatic Prom possess no interest lament 'place in this grand criticalh moment, and t n h d i Ywork. Russian affairs at this Muscovy will probably corona tions and fetes until she is called on with conspicuous part which has, nc, on a to play the assigned to her in the promised drama, been the sudden and growing complexities; Whuthwhat engrossing the popular mind of this country art lead to, it is quite impossible to . divine.lNl The poverty and chronic miseries of the Continent, defeat all the efforts of the wisest heads and most generous hearts, in their attempts to keep the surface of society smooth. There is no disguising the fact, that there is an amount of wretchedness in the heart of many Continental com munities, which must be removed in some way or other, before there can be a prolonged season of tranquility in Europe. The pressure of increased numbers of mouths on the supply of food, and the pressure of taxation on the available means of every State, have left us exposed to the worst dangers to be apprehended from the teachings of professional demagogues. We do not say this to justify the wholesale arrests and massacres we have witnessel on the Conti nent within the last few years and months, but to try to awaken the Governments around us to a sense of the real cause of the evils which have beset them. Give France, or any other country, a sound , social, status, and you will always find the political atmosphere cool and pure. Give the masses an independence for their industry, and they will care little for what is called " liberty" in politics. It would be impossible to agitate, and make the bosom of a " well to-do" Europe rise convulsively, like the waters of the ocean when moved by an earthquake. The mind of a civilised nation cannot be torn away from profitable pursuits ; and unless these can be found for the millions, all governments, no matter what we may be pleased to call them, must, inevit ably, prove powerless. Our tranquility at home, and the contentment which happily reigns in Belgium and some other foreign countries, date directly from the success which has attended the wisdom of their respective legislatures, in pro viding for the social amelioration of the great masses of their people. In England, our modern legislation has been pre-eminently successful. The changes we have made in our economic system are open to the world. We have found Free Trade a panacea in seasons of famine and war. Foreigners may doubt this, when they look over the speeches of our Man chester Free Traders, and scrutinise our three last financial budgets ; but, notwithstanding, they may find that the war has made an addition of 18,333,9271. to our National Debt, and has left us with an increase of 14,643,4831. in taxation, we may remind them that property and income contributes considerably more to the Imperial Exchequer than the interest of the addition made to our debt and the increase of taxes, both put together. We have certainly been impolitic enough to diverge a little from the direct line of commercial freedom and industrial . emancipa• tion ; but the letting loose of corn alone, that for which Manchester politicians clamour most, if not solely, has kept our industry in motion, and the barque of State fully manned and steady. It has been found.a lever of sufficient power to raise the masses to a better social condition, to place at the disposal of the government an amount of bullion revenue unprecedented in the history of the world, and to sustain the merchant and trader against all the losses of war, and the protracted operation of compound interest and usury of the most oppressive character. These are a few of the benefits we have derived from partial Free Trade, and, after years of trial in Great Britain, may not other Powers venture to test its efficacy in their hourof need ? Our condition was desperate,our fiscal obligations were terrific, and our industrial and commercial stakes incalculable when we made the experiment. We had our agitators, secret combi nations, clubs, and every other species of moral and political abortion to contend with ; but Free Trade vanquished commercial stagnation, agrarian outra , e, and the threatening want of employment ! —and those Continental States whose difficulties are pregnant with danger, had better follow our example in material matters, than adopt the coun sel of Utopian diplomacy. We can give no better advice to our neighbours in the name of this great mercantile country ; and, if it should not be accepted, we hope we may not be called on to record in the columns of the NORTHERN Truss the terrible incidents which belong to a career of visionary reaction. ea bt Ed. To HOLESALE DRUGGISTS and OTHERg.—TO be LET, f or a Term of Years, the MILLS, WAREHOUSE, OFFICES, &c., in Wood-street, lately occupied by Messrs. Edney & Raines, as wholesale druggis,s, including the Engine and Machinery, now ready for work. The Premises, which are very commodious, will be Let together or separately, and immediate possession can be siven.—For further particulars apply to Mr. George S. Sanderson, 13, James-street, Liverpool. en atr. FOR SALE, a Smell PONY : a b eau tiful animal; quiet and free from vice —Apply at Walton's Livery Stables. KENTLEDGE.—A lam and well-assorted Stock always on hand, Also, BALLAST (Pie IRON. It ILLIAM F. SIM & CO., Sweeting-street. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. ROUSES LAND! LAND I I—ON SALE, in large or small lots. variously situated, and ranging in price hem about 0100 to 6 ',l,oo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can he had wads and free by post. Cheshire &Sees, for the Sale ard Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Climbers (one door from Market-square) Market-street. Birken head. er{ WFBSYL , T.—TO be 301. D or LET. a newly-erected DWEL IT LING HOU'E, with suitab . • OUTRUILDING.I. irtuate at Gwastad Bridge, ab 'tit eight miles from Chester. and about three nitre fro n Gre-tord arid Wrexham St .• ions, on the Chester and Shrewsbury Railway. The house is built of stone, and is *unwed on an eminence in the banks of the ft'ver Alyn. commanding a beautiful v , ew of the Valley of Gwersyllt. It contains three enter taining rooms. and nine b miror,ma ant dressing room.. with stables, coact house. and proper offices , nd conven cocci There are about ten sir res of LA vD which would be sold with the house.—For tor ther particulars apply to Mr T. M. Penson, Architect, Ches+er ; or to Messrs. Diincans, z•quaiey, and Blackmore, 1. Exchange-Uri:et West, Liverpool. THIS DAY. Tam DAY, the 21st Instant, at Griffith, Sons and Paletborpe's Office, arielsode buildings, Chapel-stre.st, 200 Sales American Repack■ and samples 60 Bales • avrginned Surat COTTON. 18 Baia Seim ken Ditto Applrto GRIFFITH, SONS & PALETHORPE, Brokers. TO-MORROW On account of whom it may concern To- at onaow .he 22nd instant at One o'el , ck, at the Brokers' (Mk-, 17, Exchange-buildiurrs, 81 Riles COT I ON. dam .ired by sea water. ex 't. Patrick, from Mobile.—For particulars apply to Melly, Romlily and Co., Merchants, or to DUCKWORTH & RATFIBONF, B•okers. To-Kowtow, the 22nd instant, at TwAve o'clock, at the Brnkprs' Office, 17, Olehal-Street, 20TnsBmhe II MP, r5OO Rags NIGERSRKD, 500 Blgs I.Ivt4FEE), all faults, 150 Pap SURSEESFED, 100 Bags GUNGELLYSEED. For particulars app y !o. LLADSTONE & SERJEANTSON. Brokers. To-monsow, 22nd irstant. at Half-past One o'clock. at Golding and Nash's salero ,, rn, Corn Exchan e, Brunswica-street, About 1000 Quarters Turkish BARLEY, now lam - Unsex eth, from Constantinople; lying in the King's Docx.—apply to Messrs. Whittle', Lenox and Co., merchants, or to JOHN TOMLINSON & SON, Brokers. On .ceount of whom it may concern. TO-MORROW, the 22nd instant, at Gobilk and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exch a- ge. Bruns. t reet, shout 2623 Barrels FLOUR, ex sundry vessels from New York.—For pa' ticulars apply to I J. &M. HA RNE FT, Brokers, On account of whom it may concern. To-moattow, the 22nd instant. at Half-past One o'clock, at Golding and Na.h'e saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, About 556 ilirrels Ohio FLOUR, About 113 - Barrels ex S,moet Crowed, „ 49 „ ex Webster, 162 „ ex Emerald, 70 „ ex City of Mobile, From New Orleans. 76 „ ex Acad.an, „ 12 „ ix Caravan, , 74 „ ex R . L. Lane, For further particulars apply to ILLIAM BLAIN & SONS, Broken. NEXT WEEK, TUESDAY, On account of whom it may concern OnTunsnay next the 26th inst., at Half-p.it One o'clock. at Golding and Nash's sale , (tom, Corn Exchange, Firunswia-street, About f$ Barre•e Ohio Sour FLOUR, ert Daniel Webster, from Nee. York•—For further particulars apply to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. On account of whom it may concern. On TUISDAT next, the 23th 'net bt Hal..p4st or-e o'vinck. at Golding a-d-Nasit's eßlerapm. Corn Exchange Firunovick.strget, About 1376 Sacks Spa ish FL .1.7 a, ex Victory. from Requj iaa.—For further particulars apply to J. & H R ETC. Broken. THURSDAY On THUABDAY. the 2•lth instant, at Twe:ye o'clock, at the Broker.' Office, 17, Old hall-street, 15 Chests Bengal INDIGO, just landed ex S'a Hone.—For pArticulars apply to Messrs. Thom.. son, Finlay and Co., Merchants, or to GLAD 'TONE & SERJEANTSON, Broken. 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Copies of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES can be sent through the rost by affixing a penny postage stamp on the envelope, or three copies can be sent in one cover for t e same cost. The NORTHERN TIMES is registered for transmission to foreign countries. D J. NODDER, 11, • HATTER, al. CHURCH-STREET. Begs respectfully to Inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW SrYLES for the Season are NOW READY or Inspection. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. THE COURT. OSBORNE, August 19th.—The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds yesterday. Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipp3 had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Tuesday for Oshorne, on a visit to the Queen. Despatches were sent on Tuesday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and the Australian Colonies, and also to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. TERRIFIC FIRE THIS MORNING SIX LIVES LOST A dreadful fire took place in Shaw's-alley about two o clock this morning. It began in a bakehouse in the lower part of the building, and quickly communicated to the other parts. The alarm was speedily given by an old man who lodged in the basement, and was able to escape in good time. The upper part of the house was let to different families, and amongst them were a school master, residing on the top fluor, and a person named Fagan, who sells books near the Custom - house, wi , h his wife and three children, all of whom, it is feared perished in the conflagration When the destructive element had been subdued, by the energetic exertions of the firemen and police, aided by several of the spectators, a dilligent search was made, and the bodies of three of the unfortunate sufferers recovered. The exertions of the Fire Brigade, under Mr. Hewitt, and of the West of England Firemen, were, as usual , beyond praise. THE 'WEATHER changed again yesterday. Up to four o'clock it was dry with a briAk wind. At that hour rain beenn to fall, and continued heavy for some time. The foundation stone of a new lighthouse for Dartmouth Harbour was laid on Tuesday. The site is at Castle, or St. George's gre, u, at the entrance of the harbour, and near to the site occupied by the former lighthouse. STOPPING A PRIZE FIGHT.-On Tuesday afternoon, information was received by Mr. Inspector Bruce, of the Woolwich division of police, that some 200 persons of the lowest stamp, from London, had assembled at Abbey wood, for the purpose of witnessing a prize fight. He immediately proceeded to the spot, and found a ring formed, and the combatants about to commence opera tions. With the assis•ance of eight mounted constables the mob WaS dispersed, and the would-be combatants took the up-train for London. RomE.—lt is predicted that the ensuing season at Rome will be a very full one, and especially productive of Rus•iin magnatf , s with long p ,rses and colossal fourgons, crowding in the suite of their Empress, who is expected there about the middle of October, and will tike up her residence at the Feoli Palace, formerly belonging to the Capracican family, in the Corso. Preparations are being actively made, under the superin tendence of the architect Carnevali, for the reception of her Imperial Majesty, and for the establishment of the Russian embassy. The palace architect is busy at the Vatican, providing the Pope's apartments with a m ore suitable ingress, in the form of a flight of marble stairs, besides other restorations and improvements. THE EMBASsir TO Moscow.—What lends a peculiar splendour to Earl Granville's Embassy ( ~a ys a st. Petersburg letter), is the number of distinguished persons who accompany it, the arrival of any one of whom at St. Petersburg, even unofficially, would have made at all times a considerable sensation. Sir Robert and Lady Peel are much commented upon, on account of the late Sir Robert's fame, tariff, political ex periments, and personal fate; while the eldest sons of two of our wealthiest Dukes—in short, such personages as the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Far! of Dalkeith, Lord Ward, the Hon. F. Le veson and Lmy Margaret Gower, flash like stars into this o Ptilenee-adoring world. Their large and nritchless sbeen seen, and have conquered ; these things have all gone on to Moscow. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVF.RPOOL. WEDNESDAY EVENING The Liverpool Cotton Market remains without change. To-day a limited business has been done at the quotations of Friday, the sales amounting to 6,000 bales, 1,500 of which have been taken for speculation and export. As regards the supply of American Cotton, a correspondent writes : Stocks held in American ports Bth August, 1855 Estimated quantity on the Dian tatlon and river - landings kept back by rerson of means of transit not being available 2:0 000 Do. 150,000 E-timated quantity held by the Trade in this country Stock on band in Lhero,ol 17th August, 1855 ... .... 384 000 Dec. 15. 1856..664,000 Quantity at sea .. 986,000 860 000 From the above it would appear that the deficiency in supply is equal to 126,000 bales, or about four weeks' con sumption; but, what is more important, is the fact that last year we had 400,000 bales to draw from America against 113,000 now, it being admitted that the country is drained of her re ources, and that spinners then held 100,000 bales more than at present. This market, there fore, is the only one from which the trade can obtain their supplies until the new cotton begins to arrive in quantity. Our stock certainly exceeds by 280,000 bales that held at corresponding date last year—but of what description is the bulk thereof?—certainly not such as is in everyday request—and this will be more apparent as it diminishes. It may be argued—and purchasers may make a mountain out of it—that our holdings are sufficiently large to meet requirements until the new cotton comes in, but it must be borne in mind that early receipts of new cotton invariably are sharply contested for by Spanish, French, and domestic orders ; and, to induce a large import into this country, must call for a corresponding price, and above what we imagine the English importer will be inclined to give. In regard to the probable extent of next s. , ason's crop, the advices are of a favourable character, but it is admitted that it is late two and three weeks, and new cotton having already appeared at New Orleans, is no indication of an early yield in quantity. Supposing, however, such to be the case, what quantity could possibly reach us, even if available for shipment at the present time, during this year. Last season there was received into Liverpool, about 180,000 bales of new cotton by the let of January; we venture to predict that the receipts this year will not exceed 50,000, and if so, what stock will remain on hand, and what must be the price to encourage augmentations ? The largest crop ever made, was the season of 1852-3, that reached 3 263,000 bales. Most people are calculating on a yield the present (or rather next) season, of 3,500,000 bales • and even, it realised, how much in excess will this be for the world's requirements ? All answer—none. What, then, is to be the effect of any contingency which should curtiil the supply—and the plant has yet to pass through the most critical period of its growth to maturity? What, also, is to be the effect of a good harvest, and continued large importations of the precious metals ? Are these, and the large fields of enterprise open by the late war, to pass unheeded in the scale of our calculations ? If they do on this side, we can answer for it they will not be lost sight of in America; and it would be well for those engaged in the trade, to attach more importance to the subject, than at present seems to engross their attention. This season (up to the Ist of September next,) will probably show a crop of 3,500,000; but we draw from last growth, of 2,847,000 that held over (say 250,000) towards making up the same, and which, properly speaking, belonged to the previous yield. The Liverpool Share Market opened steadily, and prices were maintained throughout the day, closing at the following quotations:— Aberdeen, 131 131 Chester and Birkenhead, 151 16. Caledonian, 2SI 284 Chester and Holy head, 17 171. Eastern Counties, 91 91. East Lancashire, 21 xd 21*. Great Northern. 244 241, Ditto A, 101 10 8 . Great We s t ern , 64 1 , 65. Lan cashire and Yorkshire Stock, 98Z- 984 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 188 18k. London and North Western, 1071 1074. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 341 34g. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref 11-16 13-16 p. Ditto Pref., 124 124. Mid land Stock, 84 846. North British, Ok xn 91. North Staffordshire, 41 xd 44d. South Eastern and Dover, 22? 22 9-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21 214 York and North Midland, 296 30. Leeds Capital Stock, 18 181. Buffalo and Lake Huron, '4 fp. Dutch Rhenish, 21 2kp. Great Western of Canada, 25R 25 7-16. Ditto New Shares, 4-, 21p. Great Luxembourg, 9 93d. The Stock Market retains the quiet character it has now maintained for some days past, with little business done. The Three per Cents for the Account closed at 93 5-16 95 7-16. There has been great dullness in Foreign Securities. The list of the day's sales are : Brazilian Old Five per Cents. (Small Bonds), 10 . 24; Buenos Ayres, 85 to 83; Peruvian Four-and-a Half per Cents , 8l3; ditto, Dollar Bonds, 614; Portu guese Three per Cents., 1853, 461 ; Russian Four• and-a-Half per Cents., 981; Sardinian Five per Cents., for 29th August, 921 ; Spanish Old Three per Cents, for account, 44i to 1; do. New Deferred Three per Cents., for account, 241 to -2,-; Turkish Six per Cents., for account, 104. The ship Walmer Castle, whose arrival from Melbourne we announced yesterday, brings 43,000 oz. of gold on freight, worth about 172,0001. The arrival of the Kent, from the same port, with a large amount of gold on freight, is now looked fo r . _ _ The exact amount of specie and bullion shipped on board the Pera, which left Southampton for Alexandria yesterday, is 516,5801, of which 15,9501 is in gold, and 500,6301 silver. The destination of. these supplies is as follows, viz :—For AlexandriPt, gold, 9,9501; for Aden, silver, 3,5521; for BombrAy, silver, 220,1951; for Ceylon, gold, 6,0001; for M a d ras , gold, 1,5701, and Silver , 4,9501; and for Calcutta, 270,3631. Very little business has been done in Railway Shares, and in general at the old pr i ces. We subjoin the closing prices:—Caledonian, 574. Eastern Counties, 91 98. East Lancashire, 83 85. Great Northern, 98 99. Do. A, 861 874. Great Western, 641 651. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 988 981. London and North Western, 1071 1076. Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 344 35. Mid land Stock, 844 84g. North British, 36 37. South Eastern and Dover, 754 76. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 84 85. York and North Midland, 604. ACCIDENT AT CRICKET.—The Maidstone Gazette says, that while a labourer named Buckland, was playing at cricket in a field at Rocky-hill, the ball came with much violence against his arm and broke it in two places. THE TOWN, for some days past, has been very full of strangers, brought by excursion trains from all parts of the country. 'Jibe number of visitors, too, has been augmented by the number of persons attending the assizes as witnesses, &c. Yesterday, the crowds through town, and about the docks, were considerably more than usual. QUICK DitsPATcH.- 1 .4s an instance of the admirable arrangements adopted by the Cunard Company, for afford ing every requisite for sea connected with this line, we may mention that, on Wednesday last, no less than six teen hundred tons of coal were shipped on board of the Persia, in the Huskisson duck, in the incredible short space of thirty-two hours PASSENGERS EY THE ATLANTIC STEADIERS.—According to a return just issued, and madd up to the Ist of August, it appears that the New York and B )stun steamers brought to this port, during the preceding four months, 6,273 passengers. This is the passage of persons in pursuit of busine , s or pleasure, and not emigration, proving how greatly trava increases with th e f ac ili t i es f or en j oy i ng i t. SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.— WEEKLY REPORT, Amausr 20th, 1856. patients :—Discharged : cured, 24 ; relieved, 0; at own request, 0 ; irregular, 2. Dead, 1 ; entered, 31 ; under treatment, .53. Out patients: cured, 70 ; entered, 63 ; under treatment, 48. Treasurer, James Houghton, Esq. Visitors, B. Platt, Esq., and T. Rogers, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry, B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr. Cameron, and Dr. Petrie. House surgeons, Mr. E. C. Garland, and Mr. William Townsend. ME , ANCEMLY ACCIDENT.—Thomas Pounder, a pilot, left Hartlepool harbour in search of vessels, on Monday morning, in his coble, accompanied by his two sons, J and Robert. The father was put on a cvedith vess,-1, near to the stone buoy, leaving the sons in the coble. Shortly afterwards the coble was observed from the shore to capsise, and a signal was immediately given to some other cobles at a distance. which az once set sail, and were so at near to the seat of the accident, but both men had disappeared. The eldest (John) was married, and has left a widow and child ; the other was about 17 years of age. - Tux SMOl{.l3 IsrmsANce.—Yesterday Mr. Brancker, who keeps a yard and stabling for horses in Sheridan-street, was sommone - I, at the suit of Inspector Wignal, before Mr. Mansfield under the smoke nuisance act. Mr. M 'Gowan appeared for the Health Committee, and Mr. Brancker defended himself. Mr. MiClawin stated the case, from which it appeared that the defendant's premises were in Sheridan -street, and adjoining those of Mr. Jackson in Roscommon street. There was a chimney in Mr. Braneker's yard, the chimney being attached to the place where he had an engine and furnace, and this chimney was lower than some adjoining houses, and by the smoke which came from it the greatest nuisance was presented to Mr. Jackson's house, where be had resided upwards of 30 years, and if the nuisance was not abated that gentleman would have to leave his house. In sup iort of the case, Mr. Jackson, his servant, Inspectors Wignall and Higgins, were examined, and were ably cross•ex mired by Mr. Brancker. He produced five wiLnesses to rebut the statement made for the prosecution, and, after hearing the evidence on both sides, Mr. Mansffeld said the re was no d ou b t that the smoke was a nuisance, and imposed a fine of £5, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. NAPLES PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING It is asserted that France and England have addressed an ultimatum to the government of the Two Sicilies, and that in the event of a refusal to comply with their demands theii; representatives are immediately to quit Naples. The demands are stated to comprise a general amnesty and adminis. trative and judicial reform. The same letter adds that the King had consented to some concessions, but they have not appeared sufficient to the representatives of France and England, who have nevertheless referred the matter to their Courts. A Hamburg journal says :—" The Austrian Cabinet has confirmed the mission entrusted to Baron de Hubner to the Court of Naples, and it is said that fresh instructions have been sent him, which will enable that diplomatist to act with energy. The Vienna Cabinet anticipates good results, as it is hoped that the Austrian diplomatist will exercise considerable influence over the mind of the monarch." SPAIN. Six of the Madrid journals have been suppressed by the authorities. THE BLACK SEA The Russian Embassy at Paris has just been officially informed of the re-establishment of Quarantine on the coast of the Black Sea and the Saa of Azoff. DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH FROM CONSTANTINOPLE PARIS, WEDNESDAY. A telegraphic despatch of the 18th, announces that the last detachment of the French in the East had left Constantinople, and that General Pariset, the Commanding Military Commandant, embarked on the 18th with his staff. THE DANUBE. A steamer, belonging to the French Danubian Steam Navigation Company, has been lost in one of the Rapids of the river after she had got through the pass called the Iron Gates. Crew saved. THE DUKEDOM OF MALAKOFF. Before conferring the title of Duke of Malakoff on Marshal Pelissier, the Court of Russia was consulted, and the reply of the Emperor, trans mitted to Paris by telegraph, being favourable, the decree appeared in the Moniteur. THE FRENCH COURT PARIS, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 1 he Emperor and Empress and Imperial Prince have arrived to-day at Biarritz. RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 19 Count de Morny has delivered to his Majesty Alexander the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. THE FRENCH FUNDS PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING The Three per Cents closed today at 70f. 85c. :FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENTNet Reports that the long expected insurrection in Naples has at last commenced, have again been cur rent to day, but I am creditably informed that the government has received no confirmation of them, and that there is therefore good reason to believe them unfounded. Nor has the government re ceived any confirmation of another rumour which has been current, that the King of Naples contem- plates abdication in favour of his son, and of allowing the latter to establish a constitu tion—nothing of the kind is considered at all likely. Touching Italian affairs, I may mention that it is well known in high political circles here that Austria, in the expectation that they will sopn become so complicated as to call for the intervention of the sword, is gradually, though silently, increasing the effective of her army, by recalling soldiers on furlough, &c. Some of the German papers mention the fact of the increase of the army, but erroneously ascribe it to the war of difficulties arising with Russia with respect to the execution of the treaty of peace. - Cam informed that the Madrid letters, mentioned yesterday, were in error in supposing that Marshal Canrobert •is to replace M. de Turgot as French Ambassador in that capital. The latter, after taking the waters of Dar, is to return to his post. The Russian journal of Brussels, the Nord, gives a flaming account of the reception of Count de Moray, the French Ambassador. Apartments were prepared for him in the Imperial palace of Peterhoff—he was very shortly after his arrival received with marked kindness by the Emperor and Empress—he was invited to a ball at the palace on the next evening, where he danced with the Empress and the Grand Duchess Constantine—he was entertained at a grand official dinner, &c. &c. The Indus has arrived at Marseilles to-day with Constantinople news to the 11th. It was reported that Russia had demanded 16,000/. sterling from France for the damage done to the Palace of the Russian embassy, by its transformation into a Russian hospital; but here (in Paris) this is not credited. Russia had notified the accession of the Czar, not to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as in duty bound, but to the Grand Vizier. This piece of information had created much sensa tion. The fact of Russia having notified that she was ready to give up Kars is con firmed. The English squadron was to remain in the Black Sea to September. Deplor able accounts had arrived from Persia—there was a murrain in the cattle, and a malady in the vines. The French Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Prince leave Paris this evening for Biarritz. Th 9 Bourse has been bad to day, owing to the general stagnation in business, and the uneasi• ness felt about Italy, &c. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING The Indus, Captain Broom, has arrived, bringing the India and China Mails, with one hundred and fifty passengers. Among these are the Queen of Oude and suite, with the exception of one of its members who died at Gibraltar. Her dates are — Alexandria, August 6 ; Malta, August 10 ; and Gibraltar, August 16. AMERICA. ONE DAY'S LATER NEWS ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE The Philadelphia Steamship Company's steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, arrived in the Mersey yesterday afternoon, from Philadelphia, after an excellent passage of twelve days nineteen hours, bringing adviees from New York one day, and from Philadelphia two days, later than those received by the Persia. She has also brought 296 paaßengers We learn from Washington, under date of the 6th. that on that day the President communieate4 to the senate a reply to the resolution eal it information relative to the recent affairs in Sari Francisco, together with the correspondence upon the subject. A letter from the Governor of Cali fornia asks the President for 3,000 stand of muskets or rifles, with fifty rounds of ammunition, two mortars, 300 shells, and two guns of large calibre, with their animnnition and appliances, promisi4 that they shall be paid for or returned. He like , ' ise asks the use of the military and naval forces of the United States to suppress the insurrection. The President, conceiving there was insuperable ob stacles to the action demanded, referred the subject to the Attorney-General, of whose decision he approves. Mr. Cushing, in his opinion, argues that there is no evidence in the government statements, or other authentic infor mation, that in what has occurred at San Francisco there was committed, or threatened any act of resistance or obstruction to the Constitution, laws, or official authority of the United States. The President is only to be moved to action by the Legislature of the State in which the insurrection exists, or by the Executive, only when such Legis lature cannot be convened, and when imminent or extreme public disaster can he averted only by such interposition of the Federal Government. He says the whole constitutional power of Cali fornia has not been exerted, and it does not appear that the Governor took any steps to convene the Legislature, although that remedy might have been adopted, and had its effectual application to the existing evils long before any such remedy could be demanded from the President. The New York Stock Market, on the 6th, was very animated, but prices were scarcely so strong as on the preceding day. Money continued easy, but in active demand. NEW YORK MARKETS.—Auct. 6. FLOUR, &c. : There is leas export enquiry for flour, while we notice a better demand for the local and eastern trade, in eluding a fair enquiry for the British provinces, Receipts moderate, and the market without important change. Sales, 11,000 brls, at 5 dole 95c to 6 dols 15c for common to choice superfine State, 6 dole 25c to 6 dole 60c for extra do, 6 dols to 6 dole 40c for common to choice superfine Indiana, lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio, 6 dols 70c to 7 dole 50c for extra do, 7 dole to 7 dole 374 c for new extra Michigan, 8 dole to 8 dole 50c for do Ohio, and 8 dole 50c to 9 dols for Gen nesse°. The market closing quiet, and the tendency rather in favour of buyers. In Canadian there is not a great deal doing and the market is without important change—sales 650 brls at 6 dols 15c to 7 dole 75c for common superfine to choice extra. Rye flour is scarce and firmly held at previous quota tions. Corn meal is very scarce and in brisk demand at better prices ; sales 200 brls Jersey at 3 dols 75c. Brandywine is nominal at 4 dole 25c, and puncheons at 17 dols. GRAIN : For wheat there is a falling off in the e xport demand, and the market is 3c to 5c lower. Holders generally seem pretty anxious to realise. Sales 4,000 bushels at 1 dollar 65c to 1 dol7oc for new red Southern; 1 dol 800 to 1 dol 85c for white ditto; 1 dol 54c to 1 dol 56c for Milwankie Club ; 1 del 72c for new red Illinois ; 1 dol 823 for white ditto, and 1 del 75c to 1 del 82c for prime and very handsome 'white Canadian. Rye is scarce, and sound parcels very firmly held ; sales 6,00 0 bushels at 64/c for unsound, and 86c for prime North ern. Corn has again advanced with a brisk demand; sales 63.000 bushels mixed Western at 58c to 68c, for hot, and 65c to 67 is for common to good parcels ; closing buoyan t • In oats there is only a limited business doing at 41c to 44c Pr State Western and Canadian. _ . AsHEs : Sales 30 brls at 6 dols .50e for pots, and 7 dols 75° for pearls. Corms : The market is without change, and the transac.. Con.' are only to a very limiterl evrewnt. PROVISIONS : The pork market is firm f or p r i me; dland rn moderate—sale, 650 Ws at 20 dole to 20 dole 121 c for meFs, and 18 dole 121 c to 18 dole 25c for prime. Beef unchange d —sales 2.50 brie at 7 dole to 7 dole 37ic for country prime 8 dols 25c to 9 dole 50c for mess ; and 8 doll 75c to 11 dole for repacked mess. Prime mess beef and beef hams rennin as la.t noticed, Cut meats a shade firmer with small sales at 9c for shoulders, and 9c for hams. Lard a shade firmer; sal es 250 brls at 124 c to 121,e. Butter and cheese without change to notice. MOLASSEQ : The market continues firm ; 40 hhds Muscovad o sold at 44c to 45c. SUGAR : Sales 200. hhds Cuba, 81 to 81. Refined is i° limited supply and firmly held. FREIGHTS : Easier to Liverpool. Engriaements 25 , 00 0 bushels corn and wheat, at SZ-d in bulk, and 61d to 7d in bags, with only a small parcel at the higher rate., which is ~0/ above the market. To Bremen, 1,000 brls flour at 2s 71a* To Bremen. 1,000 brls rosin at ls, and some cotton 81• barque to Constantinople with flour, was taken up at about 1 a ° 50c per brl, with rum and other goods at proportionate rat e t A brig, 237 tons, from Machias to th e W es t ern Isles,vvi` lumber, at 11 dols, and a ba r que f rom Si c il y t o t hi s poet at 2,000 dohs. TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE Yesterday, at Hampton Hill, about two miles from BOP, a terrific boiler explosion took pl ace a t th e bl eac h wor ks °' Messrs. Warburton and Holker, attended by a considerab le destruction of property, and melancholy loss of life. it appears that, in those works, two boilers are high pressure, and the other low pressure, each of sixty horse power, hav e, for some time, been in use night and day. The latter 1 0°/ not been thought in good condition for the last twelv e months, and a new boil& has been got ready, and was t ° replace it on Monday next. The necessity of the substitte tion may be judged from the fact that, so lately as Tuesda9o the men had to cease working, in order that some relo i , r ; might be made, from its having widely yi e lded to the pressure of the steam ; yet, it is affirmed, notwithstand ing this fact, and that it was originally intended to blow ° steam at 351bs. pressure to the square inch, the pressure h a !, been frequently up to 6011 m—the pressure, indeed, that I' supposed to have produced the accident. The effects of the explosion, which took place at six o'clock yesterday morait i g ° were, indeed, terrific. The noise was heard at more the° mile distant. The masses of iron and timber, upheav e ° from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet in the air, w er enormous ; the whole mass of dye houses completely 1 3 1 °' ° , 13 ,, down and demolished ; the calicoes and other combusti b '; material took fire; and about ten persons, in one way another, were either killed or buried in the ruins, and al ol twenty more or less seriously injured. BANKRUPTCY COURT, LONDON.—YEsTERDAI. In re WILLIAM EYSTON YOUNG.—The balance sheet i t ° the case of thi s bankrupt, described as of Sun-O tir t ; Cornhill; Cross-street, M anc h ester; an d D a l e -sue% Liverpool, ship and insurance b r A cer , un d erwr it e r, iiiee# merchant, has been filed by Messrs. Harding and Pe„.., r il and commences June 24th, 1849, and ends Aro, 15th, 1856, and shews—Dr.--To creditors unsectic e i ; £38,072 6zl; do. fully secured, £8,873 143 " to do. partially secured, £2,121 13 ; do. salaries 00 be paid in full, £3BO 183 2d ; liabilities t a bills (E 58,465 4s 8d), of watch £24,110 on l y are ex pec e e r g to be claimed against the est a t e , r i s k s on underwr't it (about £62,000), in respect o f w hi c h bankrupt e stinle,,, te o that about £lO,OOO l osses may b e proved against roLl'o, estate ; brokerage p ro fit s, £ 60,728 9s 2d ; pro-11°0A &c., for underwriting, £121,060 Os 9d. Cr.—By g 0 debts, £22,538 6 s ; d ou b tful, £11.672 19s od ; prooe'd, given up to official assignee, £13,335 ; interest if l9 o wad Messrs. in teak, £2 , o oo. —(The b ankrupt had joined eog Messrs. Syars, W a l ter and Co., for the purchase Of trate which was ship ped per Commodore, b ut was never " t'e heard of; the teak, however, was insured, and bankrego share would be about this amount); consignments, •C 9 'bf liabilities, as per contra , £34,11 0 ; property held 11 f creditors, fully secured, £9,294 15s 4.i ; ditto Per 6 48; secured, £ll5 ; trade expenses—interest, £3,428 ; law, X B, O domestic and personal, £9,927 ;, losses (sundries), £ 2 , 1 93 3 103 3d ; bad debts. £1,494 4s 4d ;on underwriting £ l ' o re 7s id; total, £141,757 is Bd. Amongst the crediter,',. 9 66 Messrs. Adamson and Co., Aberdeen, for freight, Xl it too 8s; Green and Co., Blackwell, £1,979 ; Green, e u b os £1,022; John Hay, Sunderland, for balance of Pl i ooP Walmer Castle, £4,321 13s; Palmer, d ,S 3 ' money, ship Dent, and Co., £21,865; James Miller, Q ieee's r °, 3 60 6 ; John's Wood, £2,199; Geo. Leslie, Aberdeen, l'' 0 00; Cooper & Ayes, Leadenhall- s t., (cash, March, '56) X, I ; 5c 1 ; ; Chaplin and Horne, railway carriage, £1,354 1'„ 1, 76. 7 Pickford and Co., ditto, M arc h an d Apr il , 1 856, 14s 5d ; Taylor , Potter, and C o ., Li ver p oo l, £578• tad meeting for the last examination is fixed for the September next.