The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-28 00:00:00

- 28th instant, at a Quarter to Eleven o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 11, Temple-court, Half-Chests Aveiro ORANGES. ^• Baskets Do. CH ESNUTS, ex 125 Boxes Messina Bitter ORANGES, 200 Cases Do. LESSON) ex Euphrates, 150 D-). Do. DITTO, MO Bags Brazil NUTS, ex Princess Royal, 50 Do. Turkey FILBERTS, ex Thessalia, 30 50 Bags Commercial Baia THIS DAY, This DAY, th Apply to THIS DAY, the 28th 680 Box, Apply to ex Rosina Claypole. HOUGHTON & LEVY, Brokers stant, at Eleve. Commercial saleroom, Temple-court, it Michael ORANGES. ex Azores Packet, French RUSSET APPLES, 1111 A L.,,11• On accou, THIS DAY, LI at the Brokers Bales may concern instant, ac One o'c ,ffice, 2, Chape -3 s-Do. }Surat COTTON, it Quant of Partly damage ti d by sea a wat P er, ex ICKINGS Magna Charta, and Tempest, from Bombay. —For further particulars apply to CAMP/Le:LC & PRESTON, Brokers. T O-M 0 R OW, To-moaßow instant, at Half-past 0 ,ommerc al saleroom, Temple &bout 3000 Boxes American CHEESE, and Grainger, Bank-chambers, Cook. WK• GARDNER & CO., Brokers. y to Mesurs. Triinm On account of whom it may concern. TO.MORROW, the 29th instant, at Ha.f-past One o'clock, at the Commercial sa eroom, Temple-court, s French YORK Will. GARDNER & CO., Brokers. •Mossow, the 29th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Commercial saleroom, Temple-court, 6 Tierces American,. PIGS' HEADS, in dry salt, DJ. VI I TO, 7 H hds ex Arcie, from N ARDNER Brokers, C I3II WZDtESDA eY from KINGs COTTON, WEDNESDAY On account mit may concern ;Otht instani, at Twelve o'clock About 'Bo Bales Damage y of Wet PIC arieston.—For particulars apply to L UCti WORTH tk ItaTHBoNE, Brokers . Exchange-buildings On WEDNESDAY next, the :oth instant, at the Broker's offLe, 3, Chapel-street, 6 Bales SAFFLOWER, 4 Do, Persau Yellow BERRIES, 2 Casks ANNATTO, 2 Do. Scotch ALUM. Apply to k LEX. S. MACRAE, Broker, On WEDNESDAY next, the 30th instant, at One o'clock, roe Brokers' office, Exchange-buildings, Galton-street.—Apply to On WEDNESDAY next. Brokers .55 Bales COTTON, ea water, ex Alikon, from New Orleans ; lying in & H. LITTLEDALE & CO., Brokers, damaged Tobin's, 30th instant, at. One o'clock, ffice, 1, Oldhall-street, About 140 Bales COT lON, sea damaged, ex Undine, from Charleston ; lying in Williams's warehouse, Brook street.—Apply to CUNNINGHAM & HINSHAW, Brokers. On hair. BONE PHOSPHATES, in Crust or Pulverised; BIRD ISLAND and MEXICAN GUANO, for Analysis, &c. Apply to ARNOTT, BROTHERS, Liver-chambers, Tithebarn-street TO EXPORTERS. VINEGAR. PICKLES, SAUCES, JAMS, &c., Prepared expressly fur Exportation, EVERY & CO., 35, South John-street. Always on Sale, by THB ANNUAL SUBS Clt IPTIO N TO THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES Is TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. EVENING EDITION or An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, containing the Markets, together with all the News of the Day, up " 7 • q to Press, E4e kortljtru Mutts MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1856 TAE commercial news brought from Australia by the Champion of Seas is, on the whole, exceed ingly encouraging. The export trade of Melbourne was active, and shows an excess over imports, from the Ist of January to the 20th of October, of The production of gold showed a 1,908,513 steady pr ogressive increase ; population was also rapidly pouring in to develop° its inexhaustible supplies, and nearly every species of labour was in demand, at remunerative wages. All this we should have thought sufficient to have secured our system of Colonial government from all reproach, and to have left the Colonists nothing more to desire. But political wrongs appeared to be the alloy which belongs to the material greatness and happiness of nations. When mankind have nothing to ask beyond the honest administration of public affairs, and something bordering on a respect for the laws under which they live, and public decorum, some mortal, apeing the tyrant, and abusing the trust reposed in him, appears on the stage to destroy the harmony of society, and fill the public mind with discontent and disgust. Amidst the bustle of clearing large bullion freights, and shipping millions of pounds of wool and other produce, the people of Victoria were called upon to attend public meetings for the purpose of adopting addresses to Her MAJESTY, complaining of the arbitrary conduct of Sir HENRY Fox YOUNG, the Governor of Van Dieman's Land, whose proceedings in a case of alleged peculation in the convict ';department of that Colony, we have already noticed. It would bo impossible, as we before observed to enter into the merits of the charge at this ' distance. We can merely deal with the fact that the subject was thought of sufficient importance to justify some of the leading members of the Colonial Legislature bringing it before the House of Assembly, that the majority of that body demanded an investigation into the conduct of the head of the convict department, and that the enquiry was refused, and the Assembly most unceremoniously prorogued by the Governor. That such conduct should produce great excitement throughout the Australian Colonies is by no means surprising. The meeting held in Melbourne was presided over by the chief magistrate, and the resolutions passed. at that meetin g are a true reflex of the opinions entertained in this country on such subjects. They commence by statinn, that the claim asserted by th e Legislative Council to compel the attendance of witnesses to be examined before select committees of that body, i s i nd i s pensable to the due exercise of one of the most important functions of a Legislature. They next assert that suddenly proroguing the Council for suppressing e nqu i ry i nto the purpose of forcibly the " conduct of certain officers of the convict " department of the Colony charged with the " grossest malversation of their respective offices,'' and the unprecedented mode of prorogation adopted by the Governor in going into the Council at a late hour of the night, in the midst of a debate, without the usual formal notice, was an abuse of the powers confided to him by her most gracious MAJfesTv,which is calculated to bring her name and authority into contempt, and which would, if suc cessful, be utterly destructive to the independence of the legislature. The meeting further recorded their sympathy with the Tasmanian council, in what they call a conflict with an arbitrary and irresponsible executive, and tendered to them the assurance of " cordial support, in maintaining That Sir HENRY YOUNG has been recalled is pro bable enough ; but will the charges brought against those whom his conduct was likely to screen be passed over in silence? In the resolutions adopted at a public meeting held at Glamorgan, in Tasmania, it is broadly stated " that the proceed " ings of his Excellency the Governor, and " the Executive Couucil, since the last meeting "of the Legislative Assembly have been " rash hasty, and unconstitutional, in thwart " ing the endeavours of the select committee " in the investigation of the convict department " for the gross neglect charged against it, even to normous loss of life." What this enormous loss _ s we cannot understand. It is not Sir HENRY YOUNG has added of life me possible that bloodshed to his rash. hasty, and unconstitutional conduct. Me cannot have made war against the Colonists for merely insisting on their civil rights . Can it be that through the mal-administration of the convict department that the lives of the unfortunate criminals have been sacri _ Mr. LOWE, the member for Kid derminster, will probably give Parliament some ficed ? information on these most important topics )lICHER responsibl se conduct of men appointed to such onerous he became Colonial Secretary situations, befc The country must, therefore, look to Parliament for explanation and redress in the present instance. With a lore such "rash, hasty, and unconst the Governor of Tasmania, spread over our Coloni should soon have a ivholc circle of " wars of independence" on our hands, and might be very glad to accept Mr. GLADSTONE'S policy, as the future of our invaluable Colonial Empire. IT would be impossible for the Ministry to meet Parliament without some grand naypes, and it is hoped that peace negotiations will prove triumfo. Let who will shuffle and cut, England must deal fairly with the whole question. She must neither be guided by dynastic influences nor by fanaticism. She must not yield to Austrian threats, Prussian frowns, or German interests. If Europe desires peace, and if we would restore the world's tranquillity on a solid basis, we mustisecure to all nations the enjoyment of those rights and privileges we seek for ourselves. The re-building of the fortifications of Bomarsund would not be a menace to this country alone. Their re-construction would be undertaken for the sole purpose of coercing Denmark and Sweden, and tyrannising over the world's commerce in the Baltic. Such military and naval works would only be engaged in for despotic purposes, and if we suffer them to be prosecuted by the CZAR, the next generation may witness the banishment of consular agents from the Russian ports of the Baltic, as well as those of the Euxine, and the Sea of Azoff. That Great Britain should have submitted to Muscovite dictation on such subjects for such a length of time, is really unpardonable. Our trade with the Russian ports of the Black Sea has amounted to some millions annually, and yet we have only been allowed four Consuls in those seas, to watch over the interests of the British subjects engaged in it. Had such a national grievance been generally known, it is more than probable, it would have led to a war between the two countries long since. We had a Consul at Odessa, Ismail, Kertch, and Taganrog, but in the whole of the vast Russian empire, we had but nineteen Co nsu l ar agents; while, in the comparatively small states of Sardinia, we had . _ eighteen ; Norway, twenty-two ; Portugal, thirty one : the Two Sicfiies, thirty ; and Turkey, fifty two. If these numbers go for anything, they show the hostility with which absolute Powers view the presence of those whose business it is to watch over our commerce. In Austria, we have only four Consuls, and in Prussia, eight. We :may have far too many of these agents in other countries, such as Portugal; but, still, there exists no positive objection on the part of Constitutional Govern ments to our looking diligently after our trade. Now, in negotiating peace, the Allies should secure to themselves the right of establishing Con sulates in any portion of the Russian dominions they may think proper. We would not demand this simply for ourselves, but in the " inviolate their right to inquire into abuses, " affecting the welfare of the colony, and thereby " maintain the rights and liberties of the people " whom they represent." Similar meetings have been held in other parts of Australia, and we shall be curious to see how her Majesty will receive their addresses, and what course her advisers will pur sue in the matter. EuroT with regard to our Allies—the Sur (El:Hans and Turks—how are we to treat them in a final adjustment of peace? A three years' war will leave Turkey in a prostrate condition, with fully 10,000,0001. of debt, and Sardinia, with a twelve months' alliance with the Western Powers , fully 2,000,0001. debt and minus the flower of her army. And in all we have heard respecting the Austrian propositions, we have not been able to detect cne word about the restoration of the Prin cipalities to their lawful Sovereign, the SULTAN ; nor has FRANCIS JOSEPH given Europe any assurance that he will not, on any pretext, fall upon Piedmont in :he interest of Rome, in accor dance with the spirit of the Concordat obtained from the Holy See. As the war is one specially directed against lawless aggression the peace which succeeds it should place a well-defined limit to the pretensions and war-fermenting encroachments of Austria as well as Russia. One of the chief objects for which England took up arms was to preserve the sovereignty of the Otto. man dominions : and what will the world say to the perfidy of the Western Powers if they allow Austria to continue her military occupation of the richest portion of the Turkish territory, and leave Sardinia to the mercy of the malice and fanaticism of Vienna? Such a line of policy cannot be pursued with impunity. It would throw us back among those rocks and shoals, which a war, vigorously prosecuted, would have swept away by placing in our hands the means of exacting from other States those terms which we know to be essential to the future peace and well-being of Europe. If any portion of Italy should again be internally convulsed, or assailed from without, who once i ss failed 3/ im will p retend to say that the Continent will not be s e p e r e h e a e 1 to Ita m l ore in a bl aze ? Austria ' s views with regard y , a r i 1 by y r to ev ethose politicalof Russia means i n Turkey. h to gain ascendency at Rome, but she has now the propaganda on her side, and • - is hailed as a guardian angel whose assistance, with sword d be invoked at any moment and fire, may a gainst the P OPE ' S lieges and he re ti ca l Pi edmont. But, looking at the wide field of jealousies and difficulties which th e war dormanthas up, we have little confidence in the durabilb r it oken any peace that may be brought 11 ,1 37 ,, u t f as a simple matte r o f mutual accommoda tion. Every nation in Europe has hoped to gain something by the present conflict, and great will be their consternation when they find peace has been concluded where the contest ought to have commenced. That negotiations will take place now appears certain ; and should no miscarriage befal the CZAR in his own capital some sort of an understanding may be come to in which it is pro bable that England will be mulcted a second time of the whole cost of a war which is European in its objects. But the national voice of this country ought to protest most solemnly against an armistice of three months being granted for any such purpose. What can there be in the Austrian propositions, which half-a-dozen honest and sincere men could not discuss in one and twenty days ? After the tragical bloodshed we have witnessed, are we to have a three months' interlude, to make the world laugh at our innocent credulity ? Is not Russia obtaining money on her bonds in illamburg, and through her Dutch agents, in every other capital in Europe ? She can want nothing more than time, to enable her to prolong the contest ; and, in three months, she could make entirely new dispositions of her troops, and fortify all those points now left open to invasion. The length of time which it is said Russia seeks for negotiation, is the surest sign she has yet given, that she intends to play the knave. Still, the bare whisper of the restoration of peace,will be a grand ministerial card for the open ing of the Session. To commence the memorable 1856, with a bloodless triumph, will paralyse the tongue of the peace-man ; and, opening a conference to discuss terms which ought to have been enforced at the cannon's mouth will, it is hoped, leave those who were for war little to say Politically, such to influence public opinion intrigues frequently succeed ; but morally ; they invariably fail. The country in three months suspense will suffer greater injury than if we were to have all the battles and losses of 1854-5 to endure. The public mind will be kept in that state of incessant excitement which leaves England open to the grossest plundering by all those who know how to t e advantage of o market E very gambler in the shape of a millionaire will be ready to seize upon the national uneasiness, and we repeat that we shall lose more by a three months' suspension of hostilities than by a whole year's determined prosecution of the war in the field. NORTHERN TIMES.—LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JANUARY aB, MS& THE COURT WINDSOR, JAN. 25.—The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princess Vic toria Gauromma of Coorg, drove out this morning in an open carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, General la Marmora, and Captain Drummond, R.N. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred rode out on horseback, attended by Mr. Gibbs. General la Marmora, commanding the Sardinian Contingent of the allied armies, was invested by her Majesty, on Thursday, in the Royal Closet, with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Bath. SATURDAY, JAN. 26.—The Indian Princess of Coorg , who had been the guest of the Queen during the last few days, took leave of her Majesty this morning, and quitted the castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge took leave of the Queen and Prince to-day, and returned to the metropolis. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert promenaded in the fore noon within the Home-park. Gen. la Marmora, G.C.8., the commander of the Sardinian army in the Crimea. quitted the castle this day, and proceeded to London. On Wednesday next, her Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, will leave the castle for Buckingham palace, where the Queen will hold a privy council for the purpose of settling the speech from the throne on the opening of parliament. At the council her Majesty will appoint the high sheriffs for the Eng lish and Welsh counties for the present year. On Thursday the Queen will go in state to the House of Peers, for the purpose of opening the sessions of parlia ment; and after performing the august ceremony, her Majesty, with Prince Albert, and the ladies and gentle men-in-waiting, are expected to leave Buckingham palace the same afternoon, and return to Windsor castle. We learn from Constantinople, that Omar Pasha was expected to arrive in that city on the 14th instant. -0 , COLONIAL BENCII.—W. Carpenter Rowe, Esq., Q.C., of the Western Circuit, and the Parliamentary Bar, is appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon. ROYAL RECOGNITION OF MECHANICAL GENIUS.-0n Sa turday, Captain Francis Pettit Smith received a letter from the First Lord of the Admiralty, communicating the gratifying intelligence that on the recommendation of Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty had been pleased t o confer upon him a life pension of £2OO per annum, in consideration of the ser vices he had rendered his coun try, as the first proposer and fitter of the screw to the mercantile marine and fleet of Great Britain. Tna LATE Mn. DYCE Somnße's Nirim..—On Saturday in the Prerogative Court, Sir I. Dodson delivered judge_ ment in the case of Dyce Sombre against Troop Solarol and Princep and the East India Company, touching the validity of the will of the deceased gentleman. The learned judge pronounced against the valiidity of the will and codicil, and condemned the executors and the East India Company in the costs. Administration was decreed to Mrs. D. Sombre. CABINET COUNCIL.--At two o'clock on Saturday, the Cabinet Ministers assembled at the Foreign Office, Downing-street —summonses having been issued on Thursday last. Lord Panmure was well enough to he present. The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Clarendon, Sir G. Lewis, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Baines, Lord Granville, Sir G. Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right lion H. Labouchere also attended, L ird Lansdowne was absent, the noble marquis having left London for two or three days. The ministers re mained on deliberation until near six o'clock. The Marquis d'Azeglio, his Sardinian Majesty's Minister to the British Court, pail a visit to Lord Clarendon at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, after the breaking up of the Cabinet Council. THE PEACE NEGOCIATIONS.-Although the Govern ments of France and England have not as yet received from Austria the formal proposals, upon which alone official action can he taken, it is not premature to an nounce that the Earl of Clarendon will assist at the Conferences—which will be held at Paris —as Plenipo tentiary upon the part of the Queen of Great Britain. The French Emperor proposed to the English Govern ment that London should be the place; the English Government fixed on Paris, and expressed a hop e that no objection would be made. This choice has been acquiesced in by Russia. The Russian Government has fixed on M. Bruno' as its representative at the Confer ences. No intimation has been made to Prussia that her acceptance of the Austrian Proposals is a sine qua non to her admission to the Conferences. Prussia will be left in the same inglorious loneliness in which her own choice has placed her. Count Buol is spoken of as the Austrian Plenipotentiary. Massimo d'Azeglio is named as the representative of Piedmont. ---•••--- INQu}:sTs.—On Saturday the borough coroner held an investigation into the cause of the deaths of the tbllowing, persons :—Charles H. Webb, the captain of th e b arge St. Lawrence. The deceased met his death under very suspicious circumstances. He arrived at this port from New York on the preceding Monday, but just prior his ship came in collision with another vessel. An action was commenced, but afterwards settled by the defendant Paying upwards of 501. This, it would appear, preyed much up on hi s m i nd, and in a f i t o f d espondency, he swa llowed a large dose of laudanum, which cau se d hi s death. Verdict, that he took the poison while in a fit of a Tirity. Also on the body of a child named H enry las"e , who se parents res id e i n Gl enva l e - street. While left for a f ew m i nutes, h e set fi re to hi s c l othes, and died from the injuries. Verdict—Accidental death. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING. There has been less activity in the Liverpool L Cotton Market to-day, and, with only a moderate demand, there has been a falling off in the amount of business done. The total sales are only 6,000 bales, including 1,000 taken for speculation and export. Prices continue very firm. The Liverpool Share Market opened at an ad vance of per cent. upon yesterday's closing prices, in consequence of the announcement of the prospect of an immediate signing of preliminaries of peace, and the improvement Continued to the close, prices leaving off upwards of one per cent. better than yesterday, and the tone firm :—Aberdeen, 111 12. Chester and Birken head, 131 131. Caledonian, 281 281. Chester and Holyhead, 121 131. Eastern Counties, 8 13-16 8 15-16. East Lancashire, 18# 183. Great Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 91 10:. Great Western, 561 571. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock 801804. Liverpool, Crosby: and Southport, 141- 15. London and North Western Stock, 081981. Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 25 251. Ditto Preference, 131 131. Ditto New 6 per cent Pref., 1 I.p. Midland Stock, 681 69. North British, 7 11-16 7 13-16. North Staffordshire, 74 71d. South Eastern and Dover, 18 5-16 181. York, New castle, and Berwick, 18,1 181. York and North Mid land, 241 241. Leeds Capital Stock, 131141. Dutch Rhenish, x all 4p. Ditto New Shares, 2 3.16 21p: Great Western of Canada, 251 264. Ditto New Shares, 31 31p. Great Luxembourg, 81 83d. The steamer Arago has arrived at Southampton, with dates from Ne,v York to the 12th instant. She has brought only 15,000 dollars in specie. There has been no important change in the New York Money market, and Exchange on London was still dull at 108. 1 ,. The Cottom 'market was firm. Wheat was inactive, and Pork in moderate demand. Freights to Liverpool were steady at full rates. The Overland Mail has arrived at Trieste, with dates from Bombay to the 2nd of January. Trade was quiet, and Money market tight - and unsettled. Calcutta on London was quoted at -Bths, and at Bombay at 2s 21d. de imports of specie during the week have been y the:Tagus (s.), from the Mediterranean, 2125/ ; the Champion of the Seas, from Melbourne, 124,000 ounces of gold, or 496,0001; the Ravensbourne (s.), from Antwerp, 30 eases of bullion ; the Baron Osy (s.), from Antwerp, 15 cases of bullion. The exports have been by the Euxine (s.). for India and China, 255,641/, of which 20,690/ was in gold, and 234,9511 in silver; divided as follows, gold to Alexandria, 17,600/, Ceylon, 2990/, Madras, 1001; silver to Bombay 200,251/, Madras 25,6001, and Calcutta 9,100/. . . Exchange at The following is the official return of the exports of the precious metals from the port of London for the week ending January, 17th, 1856 :—Gold coin to Boulogne, 156 ounces; Gold bars to Ham burgh, 150 ozs. Total Gold, 306 ozs. Siver Coin to Belgium, 176,000 ounces; ditto to Rotterdam, 40,000 ozs ; ditto to Boulgne, 400 ozs. Total silver, 216,400 ozs. The South Adelaide papers received by the Champion of the Seas, furnish the official revenue returns for the year ending the 30th of September. The ordinary revenue shows a decrease of 10,2041. on the quarter, and of 31,452/. on the year. - The Land Fund Revenue shows a decrease of 53,8301 on the quarter, and of 128,383/. on the year. The total falling off in the revenue is 64,0341. on the quarter, and 159,8351 on the year. The Adelaide Register, in noticing the above fact, says:— ' It will be important to ascertain the elements of this very heavy deficit. In regard to the ordinary Revenue, the chief falling off is in the Customs; the receipts from this source being £27,300 against X 44,179 for the corresponding quar ter of the year before, and £137,425 against £177,418 for the two years respectively. The total deficit upon Customs is £16,879 on the quarter, and £39,993 on the year. This heavy amount is partly redeemed by as increase of £7,844 during the year from miscellaneous receipts. The falling off in our Customs is partly due to the diminished imports, and partly to the diminished means of consumption conse quent upon the failure of the last harvest and the tightness of the money market. The proceeds of the Government land sales for the quarter ending September 30th last k amounted to £63,841 against £118,978 for the correspond ing quarter of the year before. Comparing the two years, we find that the year ending September 30, 1854, realized £373,009, and 1855, ending at the corresponding period, only £249,860. The falling off is thus"shown to be£55,137 upon the quarter, and £123,148 upcn the year. This is most certainly due to the failure of the harvest, the result have been to preclude many of our farmers from attending the land sales, and greatly to check competition amongst those who were present. We have little doubt that the returns this time next year will present a far different result. Turning to Expenditure we perceive that the ordinary dis bursements of the the. Government have decreased by £13,850 on the quarter, and have increased by £56,785 on the year. The.greater part of this increase upon the establishments (including Civil List), the entries under this head being £137,991 for the year ending Sept. 30th, 1854, and £174,413 for the year ending September 30th 1855. The rest of the excess, under Ordinary Ex penditure, consists chiefly of about £21,000 expended on public works over and above the amount expended on similar objects in 1854. The decrease upon the quarter is also found under the same head. The Land Fund Ex penditure shows a net increase of £35,376 on the quarter, and , of £88,563 on the year, for the details of which amounts we refer to the official tables elsewhere printed in extenso. We are glad to find that the remittances to the Land and Emigration Commissioners in England show a smaller amount for the present year than for the past. The home guardians of our colonial purse have ample funds for a long time to come, as a glance at the balances will show. Let them spend the money cautiously, for it will be long before they have their coffers similarly replenished. We have received advices from New Zealand to the 22nd of September. A public meeting had been . held at Auckland of persons interested in the cultivation of flax, and its preparation for the market, at which a commission was appointed to inquire into the causes of the failures which have attended on preparing New Zealand flax for manu facturing purposes. The meeting expressed their determination to proceed in the matter until suc cess should crown their efforts. The commercial operations of the island are reported to be in a languid condition ; but the flour market was firm, with prospects of an advance. The prospectus of a new Joint Stock Bank in London has been issued. It is to be called the Western Bank of London. It is intended that it shall be incorporated by Royal charter, with a capital of £400,000, with power to increase to £1,000.000. The number of shares are to be 4000 of £lOO each. Most of the directors are well known public characters, and they look for support to their intended establishment from the fact that the joint-stock banks now in existence in London have been highly successful, and have paid a large per-tentage to the shareholders. The London Wine Company have issued their prospectus, from which it appears that the capital is to be 50,0001, in 5000 shares of 101 each. The company is formed under the Limited Liability Act, and, the directors confidently entertain the belief that a dividend of 10 to 15 per cent. will be realised from the first year's :operations. A gentle man of well-known experience in the wine trade will conduct the business of the company. An extensive connection with the army, navy, and the colonies is exected at once to be established. In the Mincing Lane markets this week there has been increased firmness for most articles. The increased demand for sugar, which was noticed last week, has continued, and a further advance of ls. to ls. 6cl. per cwt. has been established. The sales have been large. In the refined markets, also, there has been a good inquiry, and the business transaction has increased. The coffee market has exhibited more firmness, and the public sales have been numerops, while prices have tended upwards. In cocoa, rum, rice, and saltpetre, the dealings have been very limited, and in the case of the lat ter, a decline in price has occurred. Pepper has continued in good demand at full prices, but in pimento very little business has been transacted. Cloves have been cheaper, but no change has been reported in mace and nutmegs. The following are the Gazette average prices of Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Jan. 22nd, 18 50, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the West Indies 26s 10fd per cwt. Alauritius ~ East Indies 0 0 If Average price of the three fl foregoing descriptions 0 0 If Mr. William Avens, in his weekly report of the London Stock and Share Market, writes : The change which I noticed in my last as having come over the market in consequence of the expectations of peace, owing to Russia having accepted the terms required by the Allies as a basis for negotiation, has been con- firmed: and I have to report a fey — active businest to au di3scriptions of stock and securities. 'The demand which hag this arisen is to a great extent from the public for investment ;d the ,rapld advance of Thursday "reek has been, on the whole, steadily maintained, With a ten dency to further improvement. At the game time one prominent feature of the market has been' a peculiar sensibility to rumours and impressions affecting the good faith of Russia and Austria. Any circumstances, how ever unimportant, of a character to throw suspicion upon the ulterior designs of those powers in so urgently press ing for negotiations, would immediately cause a disastrous fall in prices, and destroy the growing hopes now so widely entertained. At present, therefore, much caution is visible in making engagements; still nothing has yet occnred to justify doubts of the conclusion of peace in a, few months. The next intelligence ldoked for, is the signing of the pre liminaried of peace,.and the declaration of an armistice. These fortis can scarcely be concluded before the Ist of February, and in the meantime their effect upon the market has been partially " discounted ; " but operators for the rise are now ldoking to the , queen's spedch at the opening of parliament oil Thursday next, as likely to contain some definite expressions, not only on these points, but on the prospect of a safe and durable peace. The language of the speech must, however, be interpreted mainly by the explanations of ministers in the debate on the addreas the _same evening. About that period we may anticipate a gdod deal of speculative movement. Consols, which opened last Saturday at 891 to a and closed at 891 to 90, after having been: done at 901, closed yesterday at 901 to 1. There has only been one or two occasions during the week when they have been so low as 89/. The range of fluctuation has been confined to per cent. Comparative steadiness, therefore, has been a chief feature in the business of the week; but, on the whole, transactions have not been so numerous as were expected. Stock has been sold by the Government within the last few days, and it has been found that the public haVe been purchasers at about 90. Many parties, how ever; are disposed to think this price too high, even though peace be made, having regard to the commercial' value of money and the probable necessities of the government. Railway Shares have been e*ceedingly firm all the week, and most of the heavy stocks have greatly improved. In Midlands, the advance up to Thursday was 21 per cent. upon the prices this day week ; on London and North Western 2i; on Lancashire and Yorkshire! 11; and on Great Western 1# per cent. The average has thus been equal to nearly 2 per cent., which, with the 2 per cent. realised last week, made a rise of between 3/. and 41. within the last eight or ten days, tut a reaction equal to per cent. occurred yesterday, owing to the sales, and the market is now weak. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have all advanced, but they are not attracting eery much attention in the predent State of the market. The money market was easy in the early part of the week, though ,without any abatement in the rates; but on Thursday and yes terday it was excessivey tightti particularly on the Stock Exchange. Yesterday as much as 7 per Bent Naas paid for loans on government security for short periods, This was owing partly to the preparations for the settlement newt week of the railway account which is heavy, and to the payment yesterday of the final instalment and premium of the Turkish loan. The aggregate was 651,2501. The demand at the Bank and in Lombard -street, has been con siderable for the last day or two, and accommodation has hardly been so liberally afforded. The Funds to-day exactly recovered yesterday's fall of I per cent, Consols, which closed last night at 901 to .4', opened this morning at 901 to t, and they immediately showed an improving tendency, gradually advancing, until at the close the quota tions were 911 exactly, after having been buyers at 914. The improvement was owing to the increased certainty of the preliminaries of peace being almost immediately signed and an ar mistice concluded. This conviction was strengthened by an announcement that Paris has been fixed upon as the capital where the pacifica tion is to be negotiated, 'and the appointment of Baron Brunow as the Russian Plenipotentiary. The selection of Paris is regarded as conclusive as to peace; and the nomination of Baron Brunow as a clear proof of the sincerity of the pacific dis position of Russia. The Paris Three per Cents. have again advanced, and the tone on the Bourse is extremely good, owing to the strong b e li e f that peace will b e arrived at by the Plenipoten tiaries of the respective Powers in the Conference about to be held in that capital. The imports of the Precious Metals this week have been about 516,0001. The exports have been limited. The Railway Share Market to-day was decidedly buoyant, and prices closed at the following quotations :—Caledonian, 561 57. Eastern Counties, 8! 8. East a Lan cashire, 73s 744. Great Northern, 95 96. Ditto A, 80 801. Great Western, 56f1 561. Lanca shire and Yorkshire, 801 801. London and North Western, 98t, 08f . Nlanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 241 251. Midland Stock, 681 691. North British, 301 31. South Eastern and Dover, 60t 61.1. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 73 74 York and North Midland, 484 49 TRADE REPORT..--.SATURDAY. COTTON : The Cotton market to day has been rather quicker, the demand has been moderate, the supply sufficient, and ro prices a firm . The sale s , i nc l u di ng 3 50 Pernambuca, 6 0 to 6°d ; 30 Maranham, 51d ; 100 Egyptian, 6to bid 300 Surat, 31d to 5d ; are reported 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 are on speculation and for export. PIG IRON : There has been a fair amount of business done to day, and the sale of about 1,000 tons is reported. The market closed for warrants at 75s 6d, cash, and 76s Gd for three months open. SuumAc : 420 bags sold at lis 91. TARTARS : 60 casks, about 20 tons, Lisbon Yellow changed hands at 1063, for export ; 110 s refused for Cream ; 115 s is about the price. Rospr : The sales comprise 500 barrels Common American at 4s 3d. PALM OIL : The market is dull at £43 to £43 108. TALLOW : The market is heavy at 58s to 58s 4d. The deliveries are reported at 227 casks. *BRIMSTONE : 20 tons 2nds have been sold at £5 12s 6d, and 12 tons lsts at £5 15s. NITRATE OF SODA : No sales. * LOGWOOD : £6 17s 6d was refused for 60 tons Honduras. OLIVE OIL : The business has been confined to 5 tons Lisbon at £5l. ROMAN VITRIAL : ►Some small sales at 36s 6d. TARTARIC ACID : Strong buyers at is 51c1; about 10 tons offering at Is 61. ARG - OLS : Firm ANNATTO easy at 10d to 10id THE OVERLAND MAIL The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste, on Saturday, January 26th, at 1.45 a.m., from Alexan dria, which she left on the 20th. The India and China mails reached Alexandria on the 19th of January, with dates from Calcutta to the 22d of December; Bombay, 2d of January ; Shanghai, Bth of December ; Canton, 12th of December ; and Hong Kong, 16th of December. Bills have been passed for turning the Son thal country into a non-regulation province. The kingdom of Oude is to be sequestered, and the administration entrusted to General Outram. Trade in India was quiet ; the money market was tight and unsettled. Exchange at Calcutta, 2s 5;11 ; at Bombay, 2s 21(1. The rebellion still continues in the interior of China, and paralyses trade. Another extensive fire had occurred at Canton. Trade in Canton had been brisker. Exchange at Canton, 4s. 1011. ; at Hong Kong, 4s. 91d.; at Shanghai, 6s. 9id. The American Commodore Abbott is dead. Lord Canning left Suez on the 13th of January for Bombay. The English steamer, with the London mail of the 10th of January, arrived at Alexandria on the 20th of January, and was to leave again on the 22nd. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITUTION, 9, Rose-hill.—New Patients entered on the books last week, January 26, viz. :—Relieved at the institution. 162 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 60 ; total, 222. Visitors : R. P. Manger and G.:11 . . Garratt, Esqrs. ; lion. Sec. and Treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq. THE ROYAL CHARTER.—This splendid ship, which left this port under the command of Captain Boyce, on the 18th instant, on her first voyage to Melbourne, has, we regret to find, been compelled to put into Ply mouth sound, on Saturday morn i ng, under stress of weather, with topsides leaky, and other damages. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE —The first attempt at supplying a fortnightly mail to Australia by means of the clipper ships between Liverpool and Melbourne, has not been very encouraging. The Ben Nevis had not arrived at Melbourne when the White Swan left, though she had been out ninety-one days. News from England to the 21st of June, however, had been received by the Defence, a cargo ship, which sailed from Liverpool one day after the Ben Nevis.---Adelaide Observer, Sept. 29. The Peace Party's Soiree this evening at Manchester will not be attended, it is expected, by Mr. Cobden. The prin cipal speakers will be the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M. P., Mr. J. Bright, M. P., General Th om p son, Mr. Heywood, M. F. M r . W. Brown, M. P., and Mr. Crook, M. P., have also accepted invitations t o b e present. Nearly a thousand tickets are said to have been sold. CHARGE or Ansox.—At the Ashton Borough Sessions on Friday, Thomas Moore, a tailor and draper, carrying on buiness in Old-street in that town, was fully committed for trial at the ensuing assizes, on a charge of having wilfully set fire to his premises with intent to defraud the Manchester Fire Assurance Company. An application to admit the accused to bail was made to, and refused by the magistrates. ■~ .1 THE SABBATH DEFENCE MOVEINIENT. No. 11, (ntalil A CORRESPONTrENT.) In our former communication we Ltisposed of the arguments brought forward at the moeting in St. George's-hall. Let us now go more ,!;horoughly iuto the Sunday question, and endeavour to meet the sincere and honest objections raised E mainst the measure by persons who, speaking the iortial views of no special class, are well worthy of - our respectful attention. Every Christian and right-minded person will' agree that the governing and well-educated classes are responsible, before God and man, for the hap piness, and, in so far as lies in their power, for the morality of the less prosperous members of the community in which they live. Not only are - we thus morally responsible, but we prove that we so consider ourselves by the expense we go to for the maintenance,. for the health, for the education, and for the protection of our poorer neighborrrra—' every poor-house, i'every hospital, every ragged school, every prison is a practical acknowledge ment of that responsibility. Such being the case, how can we meet statistic% like the following, unless we are doing all we cart to repeal the false legislation, and to check the mistaken zeal, which are the encouragement, if not the cause of the misery we see around us ? Painful as it must be to any one interested in the welfare of his town, to bring forward these figures, if we would honestly sift the questions they must be looked steadily in the face. There are in Liverpool only 70,000 to 80,000 men, women and children who ever enter a place of worship ! There are 154 places of religious worship in Liverpool, containing habitually 50,000 unoccupied There are 1,452 paces in this town where spirits or ale are sold ! Of the 70,000 to 80,000 persons who go to the; church or chapel,more than one quarter are school children. The small number of people who go to church or chapel may be accounted for in some slight measure, (we speak the truth, severe though It may be), by the peculiar tone of acrimony which pervades the pulpits of this, perhaps more than any other town—a spirit of severe and unchristian criticism, characterises the popular preachers of Liverpool, (of course, with some exceptions to, them all praise*), and while they fill their churches with , an audience who go to " listen to somethi n g spicy'' the first time, and afterwards from the fascination of that peculiar style of oratory, many rendered in different, and more utterly disgusted, withdraw' and the numbers of those who go to church or chapel is sensibly diminished. But still 150,000 adult men and. women never enter a place of religious worship ! This is the fact with which we must grapple. It is not denied by any of the speakers at the St. George' Hall meeting, but the orators on that platfornt seem determined that if the 150,000 persons will not spend their evenings in church, at all events they shall not spend them any where else, always excepting the publieohouse. Sermons, on Sunday night, to well dresses persons, at evening service, pointing out the sacredness of the Sabbath to those who always hold it sacred, and the necessity of Church-going to those who are never absent from Divine wor ship, are of no use,—while the spirit vault, with its glaring gaslight, the beerhouse with. its quiet taproom, stand invitingly open every ten yard along our streets, and are crowded to excess by our less educated population. And here we must emphatically state that we are not teetotallers that we are not in favour ot the introduction of the liquor law which hag already proved a failure in Maine ; that we believe the spirit and beer,sellers are as honest, and quite as respectable as any class of tradesmen in thiS city, and we are sure that they would, as a body, agree with the views we are advocating. We are ' opposed to any laws interfering with the freedom` of any member of this community, in buying, a in selling anything, at any hour it may suit him; because we believe such prohibitory laws to V/ false in principle, and we know they have prove() impossible in practice. If we hold that excessive drinking is the curse of this country, and the bane of its pepulation that drunkenness leads to almost eveTy crime thaD is committed, and to nearly all the poverty of our fellow citizens, we also hold that we cannot, by law, prevent people drinking immoderately' if they are determined to do so, °. r .. punish those, who, in the free exercise of their trade, supply the unnecessary drink; but we etV I , put down this evil by giving the people higher aua nobler tastes, a more agreeable and cheaper mode of spending their evenings, and, above all, amuse.", ments to which their wives and children can accompany them. Holding these views, every peoples ' par k w ith its band of music, every botanical garden with its,, beauteous flowers, every museum with its interest" ing collections, every large hall with its cheap, but good oratorio, are steps in the right direction. On Sundays, especially, do we advocate the opening of as many of these places of recreation as possible. After a hard week of toil, the relaxa" tion would be physically, and still 'more morally' most beneficial. The inducement- to econor4 in the pleasure of seeing his family around hinl in respectable attire, in the afternoon stroll in his own park, or in the visit to St. George's-hall Oratorio, would be great to the working man; and the economical change from the selfish enjoyment of Sunday afternoon at the spirit vault door, or in the taproom club, would soon enable . many .fara' ilies, now debarred from attending divine service by their want of suitable clothes, to spend the) Sunday morning in worshipping their God. _ _ * The venerable archdeacon who so lately passed awe from among us, beloved by every fellow-townsman, wall one of those whose sermons were no discredit to his read Christianity. MILITIA APPOINTMENT.--The London Gazette, oe Friday, contains the following :--sth regiment of Roy' Lancashire Militia, Henry Kirwan Robinson, late Lieut.-, 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Weld, resigned; Jan. 19. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R. M. CANADA, FROM BosTO AND HALIFAX.—From Boston —Messrs Roy, Dixon, %' Jackson, A. L. M on k, P . Garneau, C. Creniazie, N. „ Hill, T. E. Robinson, E. J. Heyer, Thompson, E. Burstall, P. A. Carasco, G. L. Wood , J. Hewett, R. Galt, D. Gilmour and friend, J. Firth, Hon. J. S. Wortley, Messrs. A. F. Weld, H. A. Mason, Chalmers, J. Anderson, W. H. Rockliffe, Captain Wm' Davidson, Messrs. P. Tracy and child, C. Webster ar l daughter, W. Somerville, J. Christopher, M. Ring; P. Osbeck, L. Connell, L. Boye, Lady, lino servant, A. Greene, A. Freeman, J. Aug'o H. Nathan, Edmondstone, R. Smith, W. Koch, 1, E. Ene lish, A. A. Nevins, W. W. Bourguin, Carson, 13. ' Foster, J. M`Douzall, D. M‘Dougall, A. Swan' Y. S. Evans, A. Sellers, G. Hill, J. H. Hardy' D. C. Hickey, F. Reser, R. Wilks T. Martin, L. Shi r l ey and lady, J. Morris, Mrs. J. P. 1111 den. From Halifax—Messrs. Campbell, Ick, G or da, Mourillian, and Wel s h ; Serjeant Turnbull, wife and Or DARING BURGLARY AT BIRKENHEAD, LAST NIGH ROBBERY or £lOO.—A most daring and successfl burglary w as committed at an early hour last evening, 9 the house of Captain iAngell, No. 7, Price-street, Birkell: head. About half-past six Captain Angell and his vill a left their house and went across the street to evening service at the Wesleyan (Brunswick) Chapel, leaving. servant girl and a daughter, about seven years of age, charge of the house. The servant states that about seve' o'clock, while sitting in the f ront parlour with the litt le girl, some men (she does not know whether four or flc!., ) got over the yard wall b eh i nd the house, and entered v.; the back kitchen do or , Which she had forgotten to faste n inside, One m an came into the parlour, and holding +1 ; large dagger o ver h er and the child, threatened them vir' violence if th ey moved or spoke. He had a foreign , accent, and t h e upper part of his face was blacked' He kept them in this state of terror for about half an hoar , she supposes, having tied them together in a silk handke r ; chief to prevent either of them getting out of the room, ci t to the front window. During this time the other men wen up stairs and ransac k e d t h e house. At last all the olea went out again by the back door, and having released selves, the servants alarmed the neighbours, and the lift girl went across to th e c h ape l to inform her parents of vita had happened. On searching the house, it was discover` ev , that eighteen large s il ver spoons, and about half a do z d, smaller ones, to be stolen, and from Captain Angell's 10 6 room there was about £lOO taken. The money was il l o and £lO Bank of England notes, two old guineas, an ; r 0 number of sovereigns and foreign gold coins. The burgl io had also broken into Mrs. Angell's sister's box, but as 1 0 latter lady had been spending the day in Liverpool it 0 . not known whether any valuable property had been taP from it.