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It will ever earnestly support cur venerable Constitution in its <essential principles, while humbl more, in their political effic nition— complex ag to adapt them more and .ey, to the altered circumstanc grown necessities of the times. a Mercantile and Skipping journal NORTH IMES will 'continue to be regninrly supplied with. the earliest and most reliable intelligence from all parts of the world, so as to make it in some degree worthy to circulate a extensively as possible in sc portant a commercial community as tlic Liverpool Political and General Information will inva riably be derived from =questionable sources; and our greatest care will always be bestowed in reporting fully and faithfully all public pro ceedings, and recording carefully and impartially all the occurrences of the day which are of public interest in consequence of the greatly extended conned which, through :its Neu secured to TH relations, in' he respective positions of party, in the different functions of legislation , tend to promote a healthy foaling thrOughout public sections, and to complete that teres atque rotundus style of 'man which is the moralist's dream of perfection furnish the opportunity of fresh angles of sight, of diversified and wider fields of .observation open the' mind to all sorts of impressions, and correct that exclusiveness of view which is generated both by a too constant possession of power, and a too long continuance in opposition. They inodify that blind subservience to party, , which turns opinion into a stalking,-horse and a pretence, and 'teach politicians that when leaders become vacillating or faithless, when organizations become weak or corrupt, prin ciple alone contains a source of strength for future ss, not necessary for contests, and affords a reasonable hope ,of final Above all, they confer upon all but the weakest or the basest minds, that power of sympathy which comprehends within the range of its judgm2nt and its affections, every branch of the —every interest which claims recog -nay, every eccentricity, without which, the system of a free country would lose its distinctiveness, and even give tokens of deca,y. Parties in opposition perform fOr ,each other the functions of the monitor at an Egyptian feast. They Iwarn each other, when in power, to " remember their latter end.," and thus cure that spirit of exultation which tends to confuse the sense of personal respon sibility, and to cut the moorings from the vessel of I the State A great party lives up©u its traditions; but in a constant career of prosperity those traditions would degenerate into personal attachments, instead of living expressions of a formula. Reduced to moral ition, -through stagnancy and a want .of oppor- tunity to •throw off its peccant humours, an un- chequered sunshine of pow a• breeds in its sluggish members a vitality indeed, but the loathsome vitality of corruption: It is the characteristic of political parties, as of the human body, to be beset with peculiar tendencies of disease, whose only preventive or cure consists in counter-inflammation. The State-physician is system of moderate and honest antagonism, fostering and providing a stock of remedies, which alternately check and invigorate a Constitutional Ciovernment No wise and ,prudent friend of the Enzlish ever political designation choose to, call himself, will begrudge the Conserva tives, or their leaders, the mutual congratulations of this day.. A sad time will it be for England, when a great power in the State has sunk so low as to despair of its prospects in Opposition. If it be a sign of dangerous weakness, and a sure prelude to general decay, when the executive abnegates its functions, it is as sure a token of disease in the body-politic, when the Opposition finds its occupation gone, 'and can perform no office in the State. A Parliamentary Government, without the modifications of party, would stiffen into the most uncontrollable and the most inefficient of all tyrannies. In a lon, by wi lie may dead level of democracy nothing flourishes, nothing es. 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SAT DAILY t changes in factitious and accidental rropnetary, has been NORTHERN DAILY TI➢IES. and the largely increased circulation of he most - hieh is resulting theref valuable for the insertion of every description of Public Announcement, • which will be received. on very reasonable terms ilartfrent ?DAY. TUL Y 16„ 1.059 THE DAY'S NEWS In the Houses of Commons and Lords last night, ..no business of the least importance was transacted. We give a full report of the proceedings in both houses. We would direct ow the report in another column 'eaders attention to The Paris 31o2ziteter of yesterday contradicts .a statement made in the Augsburg;Gazette, tothe effect that the reason that the Emperor Napoleon was se eager for peace, was that an incurable malady had broken out in the French Army. According to the Vienna correspondence received :this morning the Emperor of Austria left Verona for Vienna on Thurs day evening. The despatch of reirforcements and ammunition for Italy has been stop9ud in. Austria, and the French Miniter of War has coenter manded the dep.artare of any more troops for the late seat of war ; and we are further informed that the French corps d'armee have commenced their countermarch. The other continental news is . not of any ma t er i a l i mportance. We may pre mise that the Vienna journals arc already specu lating on the results for England of the relation es tablished between France and Austria. An order of the day was published at Verona on the I2th, which says that Austria commenced the war for the main- tenance of sacred treaties, relying on the devotedness of the people and the bravery of her army, and on her natural allies. Not having found allies, Austria - yields to an unfortunate political situation. The :Emperor heartily thanked the people as well as the army, " who have again shown that their Emperor may confidently rely en their devotedness, if any new struggle should arise." According to a letter m the Times, from Rome, dated the 7th instant, the Pope had sent an autograph letter to the Emperor Napoleon, Ftatin g that he was determined to demand from the Roman Catholic power s an armed intervention. An interesting and important case came before the Bankruptcy „__ , ay. A bankruptcy docket was struck against Mary Todd and William Waddell Todd some time ago, but two creditors pntitiOned that the adjudication of bankruptcy made againSt them might be annulled. Mr. Commissioner Perry- de livered judgment yesterday, and as he considered that the proceedings in bankruptcy were concerted with the banki—upts, and without the , intention of ,doing more than obtaining .for them a discharge from their debts, and not with an honest desire of benefit ing their several creditors, he therefore dismissed the yestere petition. Yesterday, at the police-court, the enquiry into the alleged murder at New Calabar, on board the ship Faith, was resumed 'before Mr. Mansfield. Several witnesses were examined, and the accused, John Macintyre, was committed:S:3r trial on a .charge of •maaslaughter.. -Akease 'of -attempted: raurder 'm Leeds will "befound frill` - reported in another column. The miscreant,' who • attempted the murder, after-' wards tried to 'cut hi 4 throat. Neither of the parties is expected to survive. Tins evening, according to announcement, the Conservative, party celebrate the defeat of the late ministry by a`banquetttiven to its chiefs. We can- noVsay that the , directors of the fete would approve so •apparently paradoxical a translation of their motive ; but, seriously, we are anxious to do both them heir leaders honour Successes are sometimes disasters ; as at Solferino. Retreats are sometimes glorious; as at Corunna. The Libyan giant of the haeknied. sehocilltext, gained strength from his falls. the State,it will not lose heart at parliamentary reverses, . cause scorns the petty obstructions of an hour, and even derives -strength from its vicissitudes and valuable 'esson is learnt in adversity ; 'if nothing A new more than t' -to appreciate motives, to make allowances, to give sway to, more extended sym- pathies, to find a point of attachment - With all men, hen in prosperity We all need the lesson. Statesmen, party leaders, parliamentary spokesmen, mob orictors, journalists, periodical ,writers, domestic politicians; we all need animat Speaking not as party writers, but as impartial spectators, filled with the loftiest hopes for the State, and the strong t faith in eur Institutions, we believe that the Conservatives have reason to con- gratulate their chiefs this .day. They are, as a party stronger than at any time since the days of Peel They have a more definite object before them, and better understood tie to bind them together, than at any time since a Cabinet revolution broke up and dissipated their power The core sharply defined an aspect conflicting advocacies have assumed, the more .unmistakably have their traditions come to the surface, and enunciated to the party a system and a faith. Th is such, that for the first time during ten years scarcely any Vioderate man can be found, of any side, • who denies that the Conservatives have a great work before 'them. If the reJ ;cut developements of 'mate importance and necessity of a distinctively Constitutional party, no one will deny that to the Conservatives it must belong to shadow forth and consolidate the organisation No moderate man will deny that the of an active, and energetic counterpoise, Scarcely any one will ques tion that the section of the Liberal •, represented by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, has shown itself too ready to acknowledge its claims, and to concede to its perseverance and its clamour. Such men will, one day, have reason to rejoice that they have been saved from themselves. that there Was an order of men whose traditions instinctively led them to fix and embody that Conservative sentiment which really animates all sections of the State not hopelessly committed to an incipient spirit of revolu tion. There are crises, in ti poplar Government when the controlling power., of unofficial influence performs loftier functions than the Executive. We believe one such crisis is at hand. We believe the com- ing campaign —not this session, and, perhaps, not this year —will sift many opinions and disturb many allegianCes ; and, we believe,'the•existence of a strong Conservative Opposition is an augury of stability to the British Constitution. It is not mere politics in which the working classes of this country are really interested, so much as it is those philanthropic principles,.and the practical sys tem, founded upon them, which belong to our com mon humanity ; would men but give heed to them in their everyday intercourse with one another. They are the principles of universal goodwill—of a desire to serve one another—a wish and an aim to advance the general happiness. As the poet has well pro claimed,— 111 mankind's concerned in charity —meaning by this, that we have all a deep concern in the benevolence, tenderness, kindness, compassion which may be summed up in that one word, and without' which, in Christian ethicS more especially, all our doings are nothing' worth. Our humbler brethren have the strongest claim upon us for its exercise towards them. The dependent position of the toiling masses of,the people constitutes them the very classes who are especially 'entitled to our more benevolent care and concern'; yet, alas! how often has it not been, that in the, cold and heartless world in which, day by day, they have lived and moved, they have nothing to cheer, but rather everything to depress them. Take the case of the factory operatives, some twenty years ago. How indifferent used to be their very employers, ,as to their condition under their employment ; how little did they care about what they or their children suffered thereby, so long as the mills in which they toiled and slaved, and were not lmfrequently mangled and attenuated, turned out profitable in their operations. Nay, worse than this, how active and how bitter was the ani mosity of the millowncrs against those who sought to ameliorate their condition—how determinedly they opposed, and how constantly they threw the most formidable obstacles in the way of every endeavour to effect so humane and beneficent an object. But they did so, in the end, in vain. God defended the right. The struggle was a long and a severe one. It was the mammon of unrighteousness against the sacred rights of humanity; and those rights at length triumphed, and that .humanity was *indicated. But politics didn't do it. The change which has come over the spirit of the nnrighteous.mammon on this very subject of factory labour, has been remarkably exemplified within the last few days. The very law for the protection of their workers, which the mill owners opposed so strenuously, they appear now amongst the most anxious to have strictly enforced. Several of them accompanied a deputation of the Lancashire opera tives to the Home Office, when Mr. Bazley, one of the members for Manchester, in introducing them, said, that he was glad to find that their object, was not to seek for new legislation, but simply to ask the Home Secretary to afford the means of more efficient inspection, in order to put down violations of the law, which .no doubt prevailed in many of the out districts. So far as that was concerned, he added, he fully concurred with the views of the deputation, and hoped that the Home Secretary would give his attention to what would be said on the subject. Nor was this all; for one hon. gentleman took occasion to testify to the happy effects of the legislation which the manufacturers, used to think so obnoxious and so mischievous in its influence upon the relations of master and , workman. Never, he declared, was there a time at which such a good feeling existed between master and man, and he believed that a large number of the employers of labour were anxious that the provisions of the present hill should be strictly observed by all concerned. ' There was a slight difference of opinion among the deputation on the subject of further legislation. But the general impression seemed to be, that if the present laws were strictly enforced, it would answer every good purpose. One of the deputation, however, said that as regarded the violations of the law, he con- sidered it his duty strongly to impress upon the mind of the Home Secretary that they 'were on the increase, and he believed chiefly owing to the want of proper inspection It is not, however, into the question itself of more efficient inspection that we would now enter. We trust that the subject will be carefully considered by the Government, and that the factory hands will soon have cause to appreciate more than ever the law in all its fulness and force. Our only object at present is to point to the happier state of things that now exists, through such legislation, among a most numer ous and important body of the industrious classes; and to remind them that this great practical improvement which they have-experienced was not accomplished by means of politics, but rather in spite of them; for it had to contend, for a long time against the opposi lion of some of our most popular politicians. NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. NOTES OF THE WEEK The Royal Agricultural Society's Show this week g, like most of the previous meetings, been a great The attendance on the principal day was upwards of 20,000. The show appropriated about 23 acres of the race-course at Warwick, so that, not withstanding the in crowd, there was no in convenient pressure, although more than one half of the space was occupied by the implements, which Were about 4000 in number. We understand that the general impression has been extremely favorable to the continued progress of Agricultural improve ment in every department of the great national inte rest which was there represented.. success The consumers of cotton at Manchester, and else where, are extremely anxious that our Government should accept the offer of the King of the Cannibal Islands, to transfer to Queen Victoria the sovereignty of the two or three hundred islands which form the Fejee Group, on condition of his being furnished with sufficient funds to meet a demand, made upon him by the American Consul, in liquidation of cer tain American claims. This interest of our Man chester friends arises from the fact of these islands The resources of the islands for that great staple product are said ,to be immense. There are other reasons why England should have a station in that hemisphere ; but were cotton the only one, it would, we think, be quite sufficient to justify the acceptance of this Feejee Majesty's offer. Power's Statue of the Greek Slave has just had its value: tested in the market of art. It was sold by auction, in London, a few days since, and brought as much as 1,800 guineas. The purchaser was ;his Grace the Duke of Cleveland. This statue, which is doubt less well known to all our readers, is considexad one of the most celebrated works of sculpture of the day, and if the artist, Hiiam Powers, had done nothing else, it would, of itself, immortalise him. The banquet to , the late Premier and his admirable lieUtenant, at the Merchant Tailors' Hall this evening, is a well-merited Compliment, indeed, to those excellent ex- Ministers of State. We believe that her Majesty has been much delighted to hear of it. And well she might ; for never during her whole reign have the arduous duties of her Government been so efficiently performed as they were by the late Administration. We wish that Liverpool would follow the example of London in this matter, as soon as Par liament rises. Amidst all the squabbling in the Houge of Commons this week about the Galway Contract Committee, we think that Liverpool was too much forgotten. This port, from its po sition and its resources, has a claim to be considered in such an affair, which appears to have been overlooked. One, at least, of our borough members ought to have been put on the committee. One of the members for Manchester is upon it ; and Liverpool has quite as great an interest in the question, although in another way. One cannot wonder at Lord Palmerston wishing to get Mr. Cobden out of the way, and perhaps Canada is about as far off as he could reasonably expect to have him transported to. But he must make up his mind to lose the colony, if one with Mr. Cobden's ideas of government is to have its destinies in his hands. Should the Yankees take a fancy—which they do already indeed—to practice a little of their annexation system in that direction, of course Governor- General Cobden could never think of calling out her Ma jesty's troops to resist them—his conscience wouldn't let him. Being one of your peace-at-any-price gentlemen, he would never think of war, even against Yankee filibusters, for any such purpose as that of preventing their annexing a territory in which to carry out those political principles he himself has so much at heart. THE (EDIPUS OF THE ITALIAN DIFFICULTY.— _ Christian and Philanthropist must hail with joy, the cessa tion of war, from whatever motives it may have sprung. Besides arousing the malevolent passions of man against nmn, and educing the worst feelings of our nature, by the suppression of our better sympathies, it is a retrocession in our civilisation, and the inventive powers of this highly cultivated age, are exercised in endeavours to discover means for the destruction of the human race, with a Cain-like hatred, in lieu of applying its genius for the advancement of knowledge, useful to our common humanity, the increase of social happiness, and commercial prosperity. The conflict which has been raging between the Allied Armies of Franee and Sardinia against Austria has sud denly and abruptly ceased. , It is but reasonable that we should enquire, how so blessed a termination of the horrors of war has been brought about. We might attribute the most unselfish and magnanimous sentiments to Napoleon 111., did examination into his antecedents admit of it. In the midst of a victorious career, an Army flushed with con quest, animated by a love of glory, and the admiration of its nation, the conqueror makes advances of peace. After driving from the plains of Lombardy ,into the famous quadilateral fortresses on the other side of the Mincio, the Austrian army; the self-imposed " regenerator" of Italy, without having fulfilled his task of clearing Italy of the Austrian, from the Alps to the Adriatic, pauses ; why has he done so, and left his work unfinished? Is it because his victories have cost him so much of life and treasure, that it was prudent in him to make a compromise, or that pestilence as well as the sword are doing fell work to his armed host ? Perhaps, toe, he has 'his hands full at home, this loving son of the Papal Church has aroused the jealousy of the priesthood, and it will require all his sagacity to allay the agitation which he has provoked by his alliance with Victor Emma nuel. Bourienne tells us his uncle used to say, when he was unable to accomplish the secret purposes and schemes he had in view, ‘! the pear is not ripe yet ;" he not only patiently waited for its maturity, but never failed to let the opportunity escape him when it arrived of plucking it.' It may be, therefore, that Louis Napoleon has abruptly con cluded a peace only as a suspension of some scheme which he has formed in his own mind. Ile has but taken an instalment of some grand plan, which he has proposed to himself. It is impossible to fathom and divine the mind and intent of one so subtle, so unscrupulous, and so taciturn. It was said of his uncle that he spoke sometimes, but this man never speaks at all ; it is consequently impossible to read, as has been well expressed by the leading journal of the press, " what is brewing in the head of this silent man ;" when reflecting upon his character, imitating as he studi ously does, with photographic exactness, the policy and character even of his uncle, we have good grounds for being suspicious of his apparent and assumed moderation. The power and practice of dissimulation were great and frequent in Buonaparte, and are so in Louis Napoleon. When Bernadotte thought that he had removed- the dislike of the Emperor, from the kind reception he gave him, previous to his .departure for Sweden, related' with satisfaction to Bourienne, the warm pressure of his hand by Napoleon. Buonaparte, he remarked to his courtiers, that he had treated the Prince Royal like a child, and was only sorry "he had not sent Bernadotte to Vincennes to finish his study of the Swedish language." This is only a parallel in dissimulation to Louis Napoleon's professed champion; ship of liberty. So long as the expression of the will of the French nation, he exercises his own inflexible will and despotism among them, it is well enough, but when that will is extended into countries beyond his own, he is to be :Watched and guarded against, as a person not to be relied upon. Experience has taught us that he tramples under foot anything that obstructs his way to self glory and aggrandisement : oaths, treaties solemn protestations, are all treated with supreme contempt and unscrupulous disregard. The sohltion of the Italian difficulties by the establishment of a confederation (if it be perfected) without consulting other powers, is assuming to himself the self-arrogated office of " arbiter —".sic volo, sic jubeo" are with him convertible do not believe that it was f rom any love of gentium " liberty that he undertook to liberate Italy in conjunction with Victor Emmanuel, but for self-preservation from the arm of the assassin, his personal safety was endangered so long as his vow, registered in the Carbonari club, remained unfulfilled, haunted by the manes of Orisini, he has imper fectly done what he has undertaken, and has given satis faction, we are convinced, to no party ; neither to the re presentatives of revived "nationalities " or to Victor Em manuel his ally, whose appetite hath stomach for much more than the plains ,of Lombardy. Italy has been de scribed by Lord Palmerston as a geographical fact. Will this proposed confederation give it political existence ? The cavalier manner in which Louis Napoleon has treated his ally, must be very galling to the proud and ancient house of Savoy, which holds a traditional saying, that it is to ap propriate the kingdom of Italy to itself—piecemeal, as a man consumes, leaf by leaf, an antichoke. ---~---- DEATH On the 14th instant, suddenly, at the residence of her son, Wat inough-dreet, Everton, aged 65, Ann, relict of the late Mr. John Balshaw., formerly of Ormskirk. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.--AMALGAMA TION WITH THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—A special general meeting of proprietors in the East Lancashire Railway . Company was held a t t 1,0 nary Station -- Thursd 1 3r, for thepurpose of considering the bill for amal gamating that undertaking with the Lancashire and York shire ' Company, which has passed through the committee of the Lords : Mr. T. Dug dale, c hairman of the Company, presided; the attendance was small. Mr, Grundy, the law-clerk, read the preamble of the bill and the catchwords ; after which the chairman moved, and Mr. Blacklock seconded, the approval of the bill, with the usual power to the Directors. A shareholder asked what better chance there was of the bill passing t hi s session than there was last session, w h en i t failed. t ' The Chairman said there was much less opposition. The public generally were now satisfied that the amalgamation would be for their benefit ; and ail the existing opposition was on the part of railway or canal companies. The motion was unanimously agreed to ; and ihe proceedings terrainatal LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. On Wednesday evening H.M.'s steamer Vivid arrived in the Mersey With the Royal Commissioners on Lights. Admirals Hamilton and Ryder, and S. R. Graves, Esq., of this town, were on board. They inspected the various lights connected with the approaches to our port, and were yesterday engaged in taking evidence. The masters of vessels of the Cunard and other companies were examined, as well as several of the steam-tug and pilot masters. The Vivid left yesterday (Friday) afternoon for the North of Ireland and. Scotland, and we understand will go round both coasts. TOXTETH BOARD OF HEALTH. Yesterday, an annual meeting of the rate-payers of the rural district of Toxteth Park was held in the public offices, Park-road, for the pur pose of electing Commissioners of Health. Mr. John Rogers occupied the chair. , The following gentlemen were elected :—Mr. Timothy Jevons, J. R. Darsie, Geo. Walker, John Hargreaves, and J. 0. Strafford. The meeting then separated. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.---The numerous and changing attractions at this excellent place of amusement continue nightly to draw large numbers of pleasure-seekers, and the enterprising proprietor continues unabated in his endeavour to gain public patronage. Great success has• crowned the performances of the talented Vaudeville Company. Throughout the week there has been changes of perform ance, and last night was played the little comedy of " Time tries all," which was warmly applauded. In connection with these Gardens, a great treat is in store for the public. On Monday, the 25th inst.; and during the remainder of the week, a grand flower and poultry . show, and Parisian fancy fair, will be held, under distinguished patronage, and which, we have no doubt, will draw immense crowds. CORONER'S COURT. Yesterday, before John Wybergh, jun., Esq., deputy coroner, an inquest was held on the body of a man named Henry Truth, a seaman on board the An to Saxon, now in Wellington Dock. The deceased met his death under the following circumstances. On Wednesday morning last, he was engaged aloft, and was depending upon a piece of old "lead line." The line broke, and the deceased fell about fourteen feet to the deck, and his head caught the iron shackle of the anchor, breaking his skull, and inflicting a large wound across the•right ear. The de ceased died on Thursday morning, at eight o'clock. It ap peared that a boatswain had cautioned the deceased from using the ," lead line," as it was not, he considered, suffi ciently strong enough to support his weight. The deceased, however, used the rope, notwithstanding the caution. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," but they considered that blame was attachable to the boatswain for allowing the deceased to use the rope. NEW - PATENTS.—The following 13ritish patents (amongst others) have been sealed during the week ending the 12th instant :—J. T. Forster, of Kensington, " Improvements in bed berths, applicable for bunks,, hammocks, cots, and other fixed and moveable sleeping places." Mr. Oliver, of Shad well, " Improvements in boats and in the mode of propelling them." John Peter Booth, of Cork, " Improvements in ventilating ships." D. E. Hughes, of New. York, "An improved mode of insulating electrical conducting wires." Dana L. Banks, Kensington, "A method of constructing a travelling suspension rail or road way, applicable among other uses as a bridge and lifting agent." John Grist, Old for, Middlesex, " Improvements in machinery for cutting and shaping staves and heads for casks, and of manufacture of casks." Ebenezer Partridge, Stowerbridge, "An Im provement in the manufacture of pipe' boxes for cart and waggon axles."—Communicated from the Patent Offices, 4, Clayton-square. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER THE PERSIA FROM NEW YORK.-Mr. B. Piffel, Mr. R. J. Turnbull, Mr. and Mrs. Neil and Son, Mrs. Nevin, Mrs. Foley and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 'S. S. Swarey and son, three children, and servant •, Miss Harris, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Field, two children, and nurse ; The Missses Almayrs, Mr. and Mrs. Henriques, Miss Emily Henriques Miss Eliza Henriques, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Brooks, Mr. H. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Owe n J ones , M r . Th omas Primrose, Mr. Buckman, Mr. C. Stachelin, Mr. Schalthess and Mrs. Warley, Mr. John Mayne ; Dr. T. W. Toley, Mr. Willing, Mr. J. Y. Echevema, Mr. De Almagros Mr. F. J. Hilton,. Mr. F. Berger, Mr. M. Renf r ew, Colonel W. Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. W. M. Gayland, an d M rs . Froule vante, Governor and Mrs. Hebert, Mr. T. Hackis, Mr. J. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Stitte, Miss Dallas, Miss Van derment, Mr. W. H. Ross, Hon.. John Robinson, Mr. G.A. Wilcox, Mr. D. H. Wilcox, Mr. Henry Williams, Mr. E. Reilly and child, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Chapman, Mr. James Gilmour, Mr. G. J. Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Arnold, five children, and nurse ; Mr. Alexander Duncan and man servant, Mr. M. Arriza, General Comonfort, Mr. and Mrs. Jromy Van Wast, Mr. Irvin.. Van Wast, Mr. Arnis Van Wast, Miss S. M. Ethsin ? Mr. 0. Grossbeck, Mr. Rhodes, Mrs. Angie,Mrs. John A. Green, Miss Jemima Green, Madame Fe lime, Mrs. Everett, Mr. Charles Overy, Mr. F. Agard, Mr. S. Collins, Mr. C. F. Holladay, Mr. Daniel S. Taylor, Colonel D. D. Mitchell, Mr. W. Renshaw, Rev. M. Anderson, Mr. Thomas R. Price, Mr. Archer Anderton, Mr. J. F. Broadwright, Mr. R: R. .Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Noel, Mr. and Mrs. George Eustis, and servant, Miss F. Temple, Miss Ken nedy, Mr. and Mrs. George M'Henry, Mr. R. M'Dowell, Mr. James Mayne, Mr. 0. B. Graham, Mr. Francis Wood, Mrs. H. Habbitt, Mrs. George H.' Hazlehurst, Mrs. Thomas Selvin, Miss Murray, Mr. James R, Mr. James P. Cabanni, Mr. G. Sthramer, Mr. G. H. Hazlehurst, Mr. L. L. Butler, Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. D. D. M‘Voy„Mr. Thomas Slevin, Mr. H. - B. Blanchard, Mr. A. Dubue, Mr. J. de Zulueta, four children and servant, Mr. John Nicholson, Mr. E. 0. Hornby, Mr. H. S. Ravenshaw, Mr. P. D. Martinez, Mr. J. G. Delgade ' Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Otis, Mr. H. F. Goyri, Mr. A. F. Perry, Count de Aleza, Mr. James Stine, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Stewart, Miss Stewart, Mrs. Blucke, Mr. Wm. Muir, child and servant, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mason, Mr. A. R. Trotter, Mr. John B. Moore, Mr. J. A. Pick e , Mr. Geo. J. Plant, Mr. J. Jardine, Mr., H. W. Allen, Dr. J. S. Coleman, Dr. Paul F. Eve, Mr. S. A. Smith, Mr. J. Hale, Mr. F. Ashworth, Mr. A. Ashworth, Mrs. Eve and daughter, Miss McEwen, Captain and Mrs. Alex. Brothon and two daughters, Mrs. M. 0. H. Norton, M rs . J . P . Benjamin, Miss Clara Norton, Mrs. I. W. Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. H. Schieffelin, Mr. F. S. Hoeberg, Mr. F. Hinkelman, Hon. S. Benardsley, Hon. W. Peckham, Mr. J u lli en an d child, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey, Miss EMS, Miss Dorsey, Mr. E. Johnson, Sir Geo. Bonham, Mr. Jas. Ridgely, Mr. Chas. Ridgely, Mr. E. A. Toole, Mr. M. Joseph, Mr. J. Grippett, Mr. Job 'Groesbeck, Hon. John Van Buren, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Shelby, Mr. R Gillott, Mr. A. Gillott, Mr. E. Ridley, Dr. J. P. Powell, Mr. M. Jackson, Mrs. John Ridley, child and servant, Mr. H: E. Johnson, Mr. T. W. Robinson, Mr. John A. Turnele, Mr. Luorey, manservant, and Mr. C. W. Butt. Total, 227. Specie, 753,750,02 dols. THE LATEST NEWS. THE PEACE We have received the following telegram from our own correspondent : VIENNA, Thursday Evening. The Emperor left Verona for Vienna at three this morning. Count Rechberg arrived here at eleven a.m. Peace must be considered concluded, as neither ammunition nor reinforcements are now sent to Italy.—The Times ( Second Edition). (BY ✓ TELEGRAM THROUGH MR. REUTER'S OFFICE.) PARIS, Friday, July 15. The Moniteur of to-day contains theefolloing DESENZANO, July 11.—The Augsburger Allge meine Zeitung alleges that the cause of the armistice is the existence of a dangerous malady in the French army ; but to this we can give a formal denial. The sanitary condition of the French army is excellent, and exceeds even the hopes which could have been entertained, from the fatigue and heat which it had to endure. The Moniteur also contains the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compaired with the June ac- count Decreased Cash.. .. Bills discounted not yet due Advances.. Current accounts .. Treasury balance .. 11 1-5 millions 27 3-5 Increased Bank notes 63 1-7 millions LONDON GAZETTE, BANKRUPTS Thomas Isaac James Sloper, Church-street, Marylebonc oilman. Henry Oppenheim, Old-street Road, St. Luke's, timber merchant and auctioneer. Thomas Robert Dawson, Colchester, tailor and draper. Alfred Bower Blankami, Fenehurcli-street, merchant. BANKRUPTCY COURT BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY IN RE TODD AND TODD.—These bankrupts Were corn ana commission merchants in Newry, and more recently in Liver pool. This was a petition by two creditors of the bankrupt that the adjudication of bankruptcy made against thou might be annulled. The petition was heard on TuesdaY• Mr. John Yates, junior, appeared in support of the petition- Mr. Jenkins for the assig,nees, and Mr. Martin for the bank rupts. His honour delivered the following judgement yes terday :-- This petition, which was opened by Mr. Yates, the solicitor for the penitioners, Messrs. Browne and Ogle and Mr. Gordon, prayed that the petition for adjudication of bankuptcyagaivast the bankrupts. Mary Todd and William Waddell Todd, might be dismissed and the adjudication annulled, with costs on the following grounds—First, that it was a petition pre sented by consent and collusion with the petitioning credi tor, and that there were no assets to distribute ; second, that it was for an object foreign to the bankrupt laws, being in tended to relieve the bankrupts from an execution at the suit of Messrs. Browne and Ogle, two of the petitioners, and not to benefit general creditors, among whom there was nothing to divide ; third, that it was presented in fraud of the 17 and 18 Vie.; c. 119, s. 20, which requires a trader, if petitioning himself, before adjudication of bankruptcy, to make it appear to the satisfaction of the court that his avail able estate is sufficient to produce the sum of £l5O-at the least ; fourth, that it was a bankruptcy originating in the sole purpose of defeating an action ; and fifth, that the whole affair from the commencement to its termination, went to show a simple fraud. It appears by the evidence that on the 3rd of January last, Messrs. Brown and Ogle commenced an action against the bankrupts to recover $ a debt of £39 16s 11d., to which action the defendants pleaded, and notice of trial for the late LiverpOol assizes was served ; that on the 15th of March, the bankrupts, by their attorney, Mr. Jenkins obtained a judges order to stay all further proceedings in the action upon payment of the debt and costs, on the 10th of April there next; that on the Bth of April a petition for . adjudication of bankruptcy was presented by Joseph, Todd, who is a son of Mary Todd, and brother of William Waddell Todd,' on a claim for a balance •of wages accruing from 1852 to August, 1857. The act of bankruptcy was an assignment, for the benefit of creditors, bearing date the 11th day of March last, that is, four days before the judge's order was obtained, as if to provide against - the consequences of the possible refusal of that order- The concert is not denied, though it appears that Mrs. Todd had, in the first instance, objected to being made a bankrupt, wishing her son to settle with Messrs. Brown and Ogle. It is contended, however, and the law ik so, that by reason only of concert no petition for adjudica tion of bankruptcy can be dismissed: Bit the case of a parte Caldcott, 4 Dracon, 264, is an authority for the p sition that where concert existed, and the object of the fiat was to serve the bankrupt's own purposes, and not to bene fit his creditors, as where there there are litele or. no assets to divide (in that case the assets were only £180) the fiat will be annulled. In ex parte Gaitskell, 3 Dracon, the fiat had been sued out to defeat a judgment creditor, and the as' assets did not exceed £lO. Sir G. Rose there said,' "It is quite obvious that this fiat is taken out for no earthly purposebut to give the bankrupt his certificate, and to deprive the peti tioners of :the fruits of their judgment. There has been an abuse of the process of the court ; the fiat must there fore be cancelled, notwithstanding the sufficiency of the usual requisites." In ex parte, SmallcoMbe in the -matter of Smallcombe ' 7 Jurist, 708, which was among the' cases cited by Mr. Yates,says, ates the chief judge " The docket was stria by the bankrupt's attorney, who' has Stated' that he considered that the bankrupt was an honest man, and that he issued this fiat to prevent the bankrupt from being sent to prison." An admission that the petition was pre sented to save the parties from gaol was - made' by Mr. Jenkins, he being the attorney of the bankrupts in the matter of the action. In ex parte Smallcombe the fiat was set aside. So, in ex party Norton, in the matter of Wood and N or t on , 8 " Jurist,'' 965, a fiat, which had issued against the partners in - order to set aside a deed of arrangement between them and their creditors, was cancelled, as being obtained for an object foreign to the purposes of a fiat. Also, in ex parte Feitte and. Sands, in the matter of Wollaston, the Fonblanque's cases referred to by Mr. Yates, where the bankrupt has traded at the. Cape of Good Hope, and became an, insolvent there, under the insolvent law of the Cape, in the year 1847, afterwards, the bankrupt having , long ceased to trade, a petition was presented in this country on the 21st January, 1852, Mr. Commissioner Gmilburn annulled the adjudication. He said—" The' bank' g rapt was insolvent at the Cape, according to the law of of that colony , and all his estate became vested, under the , . sequestration,' in the proper officer and trustees. He has not traded since that tune„ and a declaration of insolvency (which was an act of bankruptcy in that case,) cannot be no act of bankruptcy when filed by a person who is not 9. trader under the statute. The adjudication does not seen to have been for the benefit of creditors, but for releaiing the bankrupt, against whom an action had been brought... The amount of assets is, not to' be considered as a general r ule: but when they are not sufficient to make a dividend, 0 in the present case, where the debts amount to mall thousands, that fact ought to weigh with the Court to show the inte n ti on o f th e position for adju dication." The reasoning in this case is in favour of an nulling the adjudication in the present case, though the decision rested mainly upon another ground, viz., the want of a valid act of bankruptcy. M r . Yates adverted to this case for another reason —viz., that the bankrupts' trade had been carried - on while they were living in Ireland, from which they have been absent for more than a twelvemonth- Their debts, while in Ireland, appear by the balance sheet to be, to unsecured creditors, £1268 Os. Bd. ; to creditors holding security over and above the securities, £2001; and their liabilities about £2780 ; making £8539, or thereabouts, of obligations, to meet which their is a possible sum of £4O of debts to be collected. In opposition to the 'petition no' affidavits were filed ; but Mr. Joseph Todd's examination was taken, princip a lly f or th e pur p ose o f p rov i ng th a t an o ffer had been made by a Dr. Johnson of £155 for certain s hares in the Newry Navigation, in respect of which, s i n ce the' bankrupts were last before the court, a vesting order had been granted, in consequence of the shares remaing 'regis tered in the name of William Waddell Todd, and also for the sake of showing the nature of Mr. Gordon's claim' a°ainst the,bankrupts, which was as a party liable upon s , bill of £450, which he had accepted for the accommodation of the bankrupts. Mr. Jenkins, as solicitor for Mr- Joseph Todd, the assignee, argued that Messrs. Brown and Ogle were not entitled to any consideration on the part of the court. As solicitors to the bankrupts' family, they had brought an action against the bankrupts, the fruits of which they were desirous of obtaining 11 the present petition. That as to the charge of concert- aild nNoewy assets, N a th vi a g t at f i a o il a e , d, w f h or ich the it a w ss a e s ts shares p w r e o r v e ed ten wouid in the' £155, and there was no evidence of main fid es i n th e pre sentation of the petition. Mr. Martin, as so li c i tor f or t h e bankrupts, contended that Mr. Gord on h a d no locus stan di as petitioner, for when a surety, w hi c h was h i s case, pays produce part of the debt, and not in satisfaction of the whole, he has no right of proof, and more especially when the security, as it did here, remained in the hands of the creditor, and therefore could not be a party to such a petition as the pre sent ; that concert was not of itself sufficient to warrant the annulling of an adjudication ; that admitting concert, he denied that there would be no assets, for there were shares for which £155 had beeh offered. Now, with regard to the objection to Mr. Gordon as petitioner, that he is not in a condition to prove his debt, it is a fact established by the evidence of the assignee that he has paid £lOO for the bankrupts in part of a bill on which he had become liable for them. To that extent, therefore, he. is a party aggrieved by the adjudication of bankrupt, and as such, is entitled to be heard on the question of annulling the adjudication. As to the shares in the Newry Naviga tion, independently of the fact that they are not in, any way shOwn to be the joint property of the bankrupt,. the rights to them, or to the value of 'them, is subject to a decision in a court of law, and therefore they can not be treated as available property ready to be _pro duced within the meaning of tha 17th and 18th Victoria, chapter 119 s. 20, which requires the amount of £l5O to be shown before adjudication. Looking also to other parts of the case, we find that the same solicitor has been employed in the two characters of solicitor for the petitioning creditor and solicitor for the bankrupts, which is a very material feature in the case, as bearing upon the question whether' these proceedings were instituted for the mere purpose of clearing the bankrupts of their liabilities ; and we find lira a witness to the deed constituting the act of bankruptcy, executed four days before he obtains the judge's order staying proceedings in the action. Upon the whole, I can not but consider that these proceedings in bankruptcy were, as the petition alleges them to be, concerted with the bankrupts, and without the intention of doing more than obtaining for them a discharge from their debts, and not with an honest desire of benefiting their several creditors and I am therefore called upon to dismiss the petition of adjudication founded upon it, and to direct that Mr. Joseph Todd, the petitioning creditor and assignee, and Mrs. Todd. and Mr. Waddell' Todd do pay to the present petitioners their cost of this petition, to be taxed in the regular course. Mr. Martin said as this decision was of consequence to his clients, he had consulted with . Mr. Jenkins, and had determined to appeal. He would therefore ask the court to fix the amount of deposit.—His Honour fixed £25 for the bankrupt, and the same for the assignee. Saturday, July 16, 1859.