The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

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Copies of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES can be sent through the post by affixing a penny postage stamp on the envelope, or three copies can be sent in one cover for the same cost. The NORTHERN TIMES i 3 registered for transmission to foreign countries. Etc SO.tatiitrn firm SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1856 THE DAY'S NEWS. The Persia will sail this afternoon for New York with the mails for the United States, passengers, and cargo. Letters require to be posted in Liver pool before 11 a.m., with late fees to noon, and at the Receiving-house on the Landing Stage to 1 p.m. A mail will also be made up this afternoon for St. John's, Newfoundland, Halifax (United States), and Portland (United States), to be sent by the Khersouese, Capt. Charles Powell, a new steamer of 2,300 tons, lately employed in the Government Transport Service. Letters must be posted before one p.m., and with late fees until 1.30 p.m. The Canada trade and navigation returns, to be found in another column, show the singular fact that both. exports and imports have fallen off both at Quebec and Montreal. The four foreign forgers of Bank of England notes, were tried yesterday, and sentenced to six Year s ' Penal servitude. Four persona, charged w ith stealing £3 OO worth of paper fr om barges' in the Thames, on the 26th ult., were arrested yesterday, and committed for trial. Mr. Ewart, a portrait painter, who had long lived in extreme poverty, committed suicide yesterday, with a razor, in his lodgings, in Gray's Inn Lane, London. Here is one o f t h e tragedies which are everaahnd aholocaust—to nauosnt—dotoinig silent ra menu peaceable a homage.—the homa s g of photography, evid ence of a deity more unsparing than Juggernaut,—Society. We give elsewhere 9, tale . which offers f rom Madras the reverse s ide of the incident with which Tat Tyl er i mmortalise d Kent. The slayer in India was the tax gatherer, the slain the unfortu nate contributor. Fortunately the contrast was faithful to the end, and the quiet appeal to law won a justice in the one case whi c h th e res ort to arms failed to secure in the other. The small provoca tion, however, under which this fiscal crime was committed, suggests tears that the authorities are more prodigal of their violence to the poor natives than our European notions would think either decent or politic. The Wesleyan Conference have prohibited all dancing, on pain of excommunication. They have given a more modified judgment on the smoking of tobacco by ministers, but seem disposed to look upon its use as a disqualification for the ministry. The jury closed their laborious enquiry into the MI antei. • ------ WANTED, OFFICES and SAT.F.ROOM in Temple.caurt, or the i mmedi 4te neigia)ourtiond. A good light indispensAble. Appl, by letter, addressed A. 13., Northern Times. Co be at. rip° WHO I.ESALIt DRUGGISTS and OTHER4.—TO be LF.T, for a Term of Years, the MILLS, WAREHOUSE, OFFICES, Am., in Wood-street, lately occupied by Messrs. Edney & Raines, as wholesale druggists, including the Engine and Machinery, now ready for work. The Premises, which are very commodious, will be Let together or separately, and immediate possession can be it iven.—For further particulars apply to Mr. George S. Sanderson, 13, James-street, Liverpool. en *air. FOR SALE, a Small PONY : a beautiful animal; quiet and free from vice —Apply at Walton's Livery Stables. K E.—A large a n d we ll- ass orted Stock always on hand Also, BALLAST (Pie IRON. ILLIAM F. SIM & CO., Sweeting-street. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, - BIRKENHEAD. HOUSES! HOUSES . l 1 LAND i LAND! !—ON SALE, In large or small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price from , about XlOO to afffi ~ 000.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire slices, for the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Chamber's (one door from Market-square) (Market-street, Birken head. conlmerrtal NEXT WEEK. TIJE SDAY, On account of whom it may concern On TI7BSO AY next the 26th inst., at Half-past One o'clock. at Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, About 685 Barrels Ohio Sour FLOUR, _ ---- --- --- , ex Daniel Webster, from New York. — For further particulars apply to .1. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. On account of whom it may concern. On TtnESIDAT next, the 25th inst., at Half-past One o'clock, at Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchange. Brunswick-street, About 1376 Sacks Spanish FLOUR, Si Victory, from Requijada.—For further particulars apply to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. On account of whom it may concern On TVESDAYn.xt, the 26th inst., at Half-past One o'clo-k, at Golding and Nash's sal.room, Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, About 9054 Bushels Red American WHEAT, . . sx Samuel Dunning, from New York.—For further particulars apply to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. On TUKSDAY next, the 26th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Commercial saleroom, Temple-court, 400 Firkins GREASE BUTTER, 28 Casks GREASE. WILLIAM & JOSEPH WHITE, Brokers, Exchange-street East. ►pply to R J. NODDER, HATTER, I 81, CHURCH-STREET, Bega respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW_STYLES for the Season are NOW READY far Inspection. T HE GENTLEMEN'S SHIRT WAREHOUSE, 24 and 26, BOLD-STREET. P. L. MACTAGGART, SHIRT MERCHANT II ANITFACTURER. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. late fatal colliery explosion in South Wales on Thursday evening, with the following important statement made by the foreman :—" Seventeen of " the jury are of opinion that the explosion in the " coal pit at Cymmer, which occurred on the 15th " July, whereby Thomas Lewis and 113 other men " lost their lives, was caused by the negligenee of " Jabez Thomas, the manager, Rowland Rowlands, " the overman, and Morgan Rowlands, David " Jones, and William Thomas, the firemen. They, " therefore, find a verdict against those persons of " Manslaughter.' " It will be remembered that 114 persons perished by this " negligence." The Times gives a long account of the ascent of Mount Ararat, . the sacred mountain, by five Englishmen, The natives expressed their wonder ment at the foreigners, doing what had never before been done by man. The prospect which the summit commanded, over a boundless raßge of territories, under a magnificent sunrise, is described as glorious. A very important convocation, called the Native Reformatory Union, formed on the model of the Association of Science, has been held the last three days, at Bristol, under the general chairman• ship of Lord Stanley. The whole question of penal reform and punishment won a thorough con . sideration in the various sections of the union, and the information already given, and the sugges tions made form an almost unequalled contribu_ tion to social well being. Among many statements peculiarly important, the following extract from a letter of Mr. Dunne, the chief constable of Newcastle-on-Tyne, is still a thing of mark : " Perhaps I may be permitted to say that I know, " from my own personal knowledge and observa " tion, that since parental responsibility has been " enforced in this district, under the directions of " the Secretary of State, the number of juvenile " criminals in the custody of the police have " decreased by one half. I know that many of the " parents who heretofore were in the habit of " sending their children into the streets for the " purposes of stealing, begging, and plunder, have " quite discontinued that practice, and several of " the children so used and brought up as thieves " and mendicants, are now at some of the free " schools of the town; other's of them are at work, " and thereby obtain an honest livelihood ; and so " far as I can ascertain, they seem to be thoroughly " altered, and appear likely to become good and " honest members of society." It appears, from the published correspondence, that the Governors of our North American and West India colonies have been proposing to the Government, but in vain, the entire abolition of Customs duties upon the products of Canada and the West Indies. The objections are of the usual red-tape character. The determination expressed by the American government, through Mr. Marcy, to maintain the system of privateering in all its integrity, in oppo sition to the propositions made by the conference of Paris, is producing much discussion. It is, however, alleged that there is this much reason in Mr. Marcy's position—that either all the non contraband merchandise of a belligerent nation should be exempt from seizure; or all should be open to it, from all parties—the private citizen, no less than the government ; for otherwise, nations that are but governments, would have in their extensive organisations, an enormous advantage over nations that are little more than popular aggregations. An Trish journal maliciously affirms, that the argument which finally determined Lord Palmer ston—at the risk of a rather menacing election—to give Mr. John O'Connel the appointment of the Hanaper clerkship was—the latter's well-timed, assurance that " no man could be better fitted for a place in which there was nothing to do than " himself." His lordship laughed, and, laughing, found his powers of resistance gone. Nine houses in the County of Meath were entered the other day, and about sixty persons turned out on the road. The eviction was a matter of landlord convenience, the tenants not being in arrears, and having offered, indeed, to continuo their tenancies at increased rents. Such are the preludes of those tales of assassination which, in the tenant's answer with the indiscriminating echo— " duties," the landlord's not less indisseminating cry of " rights." The appeal of Prussia to England for the sup. pression of the Riff Pirates will, of course, meet with a favourable response—France probably con tributing a ship or two for so wholesome a work. English forbearance must indeed be little short of miraculous, so long to have per. mitted the existence of a piratical community, almost under the very guns of Gibraltar. The sub-committee of the Birkenhead Commis - sioners are said to have resolved on permitting no Sunday bands in their park. The Wellington memorial is to be inaugurated at Manchester on or about the 30th inst. Sir Harry Smith and the Bishop of Manchester are among the celebrities who will be present. A person named Vere Dawson Hunt, lately an officer in the County Dublin Militia, is before the Dublin Police Court, under charges of pledging his landlady's property, and obtaining monies under false pretences. Our Foreign News to-day is of little interest. The details from Lisbon show forty or fifty pri soners to have been taken. In Paris, arrests con tinue, the grounds of which are sinister statements as to the health of the Emperor. On Wednesday a magnificent international dinner was given by the medical profession of Paris, to the English, French, Turkish, and Sardinian Legion, engaged in the late war. The other items will be found in an other column, IT is difficult to understand how the practices of the Superior Courts of Law, of these realms, could have brought them into the universal disrepute which is now attached to their names. Chancery, once the seat of godly conscience, envolves all who approach it, in search of justice, in want and beggary, and those men who undertake the administration of its affairs in a most censurable notoriety. The consistorial tribunals of the land are declaimed against with equal vehemence, and strange things are broadly cited by those who have been injured in reputation and fortune by some of their latest decisions. The House of Lords, as a Court of Appeal, participates in the general out cry against St ar Ch am b er procee dings and Carna rilla decisions. The tribunal, from whicih n public ajuryotin have, of i truth, lost all faith in the wisdom, every legal honest and true men are excluded. It is of freely admitted that there a re many instances in which precedence of law, and th a t the us e ages of must take of Chancery require years of study, and profound judgment, in order to give them the force of law, :and t to ren der them strictly just to all parties. ans wer to this, it is urged that a jury of twelve reasonable and disinterested man are quite as capable of arriving at a sound and just verdict, in matters relating to the disposal of the p r operty of widows, orphans, a n d lunatics, and to make decrees affecting personal and real estate, and the character of those whose conduct is impugned in an Ecclesiastical Court, under the direction of a judge, as they are in a case where the life of a fellow creature is placed in their hands. The present system of dealing with the property interests of society is based on a palpable and contemptible fiction, for which we are indebted to the craft of lawyers, and the past ignorance of the community. It is perfectly monstrous to think that the property of the citizen can be swept into the Court of Chancery by any set of desperate knaves, for an indefinite number of years, while all the parties beneficially interested in the issue are left to starve, and find a premature grave in misery and degradation. No want of knowledge of the principles of equity can justify the possibility of such things occurring in this age. Chancery victims are to be found in far greater numbers in 1856 than they were in 17:"25, a period well deserving of being remembered by those who are responsible for the administration of justice. Thus far the glaring acts of cruelty and oppression which have been perpetrated on equity suitors, and persons who have been openly robbed of their estates behind their backs, have been mixed up with politics and faction interests. But such questions have no connection whatever with politics, except, indeed, that our Chancellors and Ecclesiastical Judges are all the devotees of some particular party ; but beyond this they cannot be given a shade even of a political complexion. The man who would tolerate an abuse of justice in any Court, would be a law less Conservative, a dangerous Whig, and a vile Radical. We have, therefore, to look at the workings of the, closed or non-jury Courts purely in a social light, and to ask ourselves how much longer the complaints brought before the public by those who have been wronged in these Halls of Justice can pass unnoticed ? We will not give any man who sits behind a curtain to decide in the absence of the public—i e , a jury—credit for being wholly above worldly influences, until it is proved that he is so. We will swallow nothing which is not made as savory as the records of truth and justice can make it, when we know there are many million's worth of property between a judge's finger and thumb. It is a wonder that JOHN SADLEIR was not high in equity, and that JAMES SADLEIR was not an ecclesiastical judge. If one had presided over the cause of STUBBER V. WOLFE, and TOMMEY V. WHITE, and the other over the TALBOT divorce trial, the fiction we are asked to accept as common sense, would have suited their purposes admirably. But these three notorious oases are quite sufficient to show that there is no safety for the peace, happiness, respec tablility, and property of any family or individual in the three kingdoms, while juries are not suffered to hear and give a final decision where the rights and interests of the subject are concerned. For upwards of forty long years was one unfortunate Chancery victim imprisoned in the Queen's Bench, where he died a short time since—for nearly thirty years have the heirs to the STUBBER estates been falsely personated and robbed in Chancery, and they are still without redress. The Misses ELIZABETH and ANN SIIEARWOOD, of Sheffield, have just been released from prison, after fourteen years' confinement, which they were doomed to endure because they would not give up the title deeds to their property, that the Court of Chancery might deal with them as it liked. Mr. HENRY TOIIIIEY, who claims property worth 150,0001., and who obtained a decree in the House of Lords in his favour, but which has since been illegally and unconstitutionally reversed, is inmate in a model lodging-house. Poor MI'S. TALBOT, in the bloom of life, is pining away in Bedlam, after having been treated with the most brutal personal violence in her own house, and has been divorced. from her husband and child upon the evidence of a convicted felon, on whose testimony the Ecclesiastical Court gave its decree, but who was not produced at the bar of the House of Lords. A thousand other cases might be added to this list, but how long, we ask, will the veil of politics be able to cover the mass of iniquity which these un•English and arbitary Courts are inflicting on the country? Mrs. TALBOT'S case is an outrage against public law and morality, which never can be forgotten or pardoned. If the wretched woman had been an Hindoo, she could not have been treated worse than she has been by those around her hearth, and the authorities who ought to have pro tected her when she was brought before them as a raving maniac. This was not done. The cruelties she had met with seemed to call forth the worst enormities of injustice. And we should very much like to know what our law reformers propose to demand as a safeguard to society in similar cases, and with regard to Chancery and Ecclesiastical suits and the highest Court of Appeal? The TALBOT divorce business we hold in reserve as one of the most complete illustrations of the frightful law, affecting chastity, under which we live. The other causes we have cited belong to a different category, which we shall refer to when ever the Legislature may make further futile attempts to stifle popular discontent, by merely making changes in the practice instead of reform ing the constitution of our superior seats of corruption or ignorance, one or other of which they assuredly are, if we are to judge by their decisions. Royal Charter. It proved so on her last return from Mel bourne, when she brought home all the gold which was then in the colony for shipment, being the largest amount that any single ship has hitherto conveyed ; while, at the same time, she was so entirely full of passengers, that her berths might all have been let twice over. The success of the Liverpool and Australian traders is now, we repeat it, certain, and we heartily congratulate thew on the favourable issue of an undertaking so vast and so pregnant with good to the colonies of Australia. THE COURT. OSBORNE, AUGUST 21.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will arrive, to day, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Majesty held a Privy Council at half past one o'clock, which was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Mr. Secretary Labouchere (officiating as Lord President in the absence of Earl Granville), the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Privy Seal Viscount Palmerston, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse ; and Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain . At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from the 7th of October to, it was understood, the 13th of November. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. General Sir John Burgoyne arrived yesterday, on a visit. After the Council, the Ministers returned to London, with the exception of Viscount Palmerston, who remains at Osborne. GENERAL SIR WILLIAM OODRINGTON is spoken of as likely to succeed to the command of the 54th Regiment. MISS NIGHTINGALE has declined a proposed public demonstration by the people of Birmingham. She is still at her home in Derbyshire, and it is said that the first visit she will make will be paid to Her Majesty. GEN. SIR COLIN CAMPBELL will most probably be appointed Inspector-General of Infantry, as successor to the Duke of Cambridge, who was placed in this newly created office a short time ago. S - cmparr DEATH.—Yesterday morning, about haif-past nine, a man, named John Ellison, a labourer, aged 62 years, who was a patient in the sick ward of the West Derby Union, was found dead in bed. THE WEATHER still continues most favourable for the country. Yesterday was very fine, with a brisk bracing wind, so much desired for harvest purposes, and there is every appearance of fine weather, which for another fort night will see the harvest completely gathered in. WHERE WAS THE SCHOOLMASTER ?-At what college was Mr. —, of road, educated ? The question is asked for the following reason : A certificate, of which the under written is a verbatim copy, was received yesterday by Mr. Blake, the active and intelligent beadle of the Coroner's Court—" This is to cartify that Mrs. Cook received from me Sum medicine for her child Emma Cook aged nine Mouth She died this morning august 21 1856 Efect of Teathing." What College of Examiners passed this gen tleman ? ILLEGAL PLEDGING.—A day or two ago, there appeared in onr police reports, the case of a wretched female named M'Gonikle, who was committed for pledging some slop trowsers which were given her to make. On that occasion Mr. Clough made a statement to the effect, that the poor woman got only threepence a pair for making the trowsers; and this statement being proved correct, some benevolent gentlemen have spoken to Mr. Clough, and expressed their intention to do something for the wretched creature, who is at present in jail on the charge of illegal pledging. TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION.—NINE LIVES LOST.— Yesterday, an inquest took place at the Red Lien Inn, Blackford Bridge, on the bodies of the nine unfortunate persons killed by the dreadful explosion which occurred at Hampson-mill, near Bury. Several others of the sufferers are dangerously injured, and one was not expected to survive the previous night ; but, at the time when the inquest took place, no deaths had occurred later than the previous Wednesday. The jury, after viewing the bodies, visited the scene of the accident, accompanied by the corcncr, and an engineer, John Holker, Esq,. instructed by Mr. Thomas Baldwin, civil engineer, Bury, to make an inspection of the premises. One of the victims, John Whittaker, aged 24, was proceeding on the public footpath near the premises, along with two other persons, when the accident happened, and all three were buried amidst the falling ruins. The manner in which the discovery of the bodies was made was most singular. The other bodies of the sufferers having been identified, the inquest was adjourned. THE. LAWFULNESS OF DANCING.—At the last sitting of the Conference the Rev. Isaac Keeling brought forward a resolution of the London district meeting respecting the growing custom of dancing, and other worldly amusement closely allied to it. Mr. Keeling proposed that the rule prohibiting dancing should he made clearer and more stringent. Dr. Bunting said it was high time for the Methodist Conference to give a certain sound on the matter. In London there were dancing parties in the houses of some of their members. Be remembered how 20 years ago in Manchester, they had to exercise disci pline on dancing Methodists, and they lost some of them in consequence, but such members who patronised dancing were better lost than found. The Rev. T. Pugh said he lamented to say that the evil was a growing one. Card playing, too, was practised as well as dancing in some Methodist families. The Rev. P• 31'0watt said they ❑eeded no discussion—they were all of one mind—the practice of dancing was not in harmony with religion. The Rev. J. Scott said that as the evil was chiefly among the younger members of Methodist families, he hoped they would, with great affection as well as firmness, enforce the rule, so as not to lose their hold on young people. The Conference finally resolved to improve the wording of the rule in question. THE REMAINS OF THE LATE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. — The remains of this young nobleman, who died at Lisbon, an account of which appeared in our paper a day or two since, arrived in Liverpool on Thursday, having been brought from Lisbon in the Minho steamer. The case containing the body was conveyed to Radley's Hotel, and thence to Alton Towers, the family seat of the ancient family of Shrewsbury, previous to interment in the vaults where so many of the noble name repose. Messrs. Wool right and Chidson, of Bold-street, are the undertakers engaged to arrange the funeral, and workmen, from London, sent by the Duke of Norfolk, are actively engaged in putting the chapel in mourning for the reception of the body on its arrival. The Enke of Norfolk arrived at the Towers on Tuesday evening. On Monday afternoon Lord Talbot, of Ingegre Hall, proceeded to Alton Towers, ac companied by two solicitors, and formally demanded possession, alleging that he (Lord Talbot) is the legal heir to the titles and estates. His lordship was informed that the trustees under the will of the late earl had taken pos session, and he was accordingly refused permission into the house. THE NEW LINE OF STEAMERS TO AMERICA.--Every day adds to the enterprise of Liverpool industry and exertion. To-day, the splendid steamer Khersonese, the precursor of a new line of steamers to Canada and the United States, sails for St. John's, N.F., Halifax, and Portland. This fine and commodious steamer has every berth filled, and the passengers are all most respectable. She has caused con siderable attraction for some days past, and the managers, Messrs. Sabel and Cortis, were obliged to refuse a number of passengers who wished to go out with her, but who came too late to be accommodated. Besides having all her berths full, she has an ample cargo of valuable goods. It is intended, by the company, to sail vessels on this line every fortnight, and there can be no doubt the line will prove a very valuable one, as it is in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway, and will carry passengers to St. John's, Halifax, Portland, Boston, New York, Montreal, Quebec, &c. The importance of this line with Liverpool is therefore obvious. We have seen the bill of fare for steerage pas sengers in this magnificent vessel, and it cannot be surpassed. Messrs. Sabel and Cortis have shown every attention in this, as in their other American vessels, and no doubt, as observed ; the line will be productive to all concerned, at the same time it will be of great advantage to the public. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--TlO neighbourhood of Barnsley has obtained an unenviable notoriety for the number of highway robberies and other outrages committed therein. The most recent event of the kind, was investigated on Tuesday last before two of the West Riding magistrates (Mr. T. Taylor, and the Rev. W. Wordsworth), at the courthouse, Barnsley, when two men, named Benjamin Batty and William Brown, both of Dodworth, near Barnsley, were charged with stopping John Beaumont on the highway, near the Stafford colliery, and robbing him of a 450 promissory note, and *1 103 in cash. The prose. cutor is a cattle dealer at Saddleworth, in the West Riding, and is 83 years of age. According to his state ment, he was proceeding, about half-past nine o'clock, on the night of the 12th inst., along a road leading from Dodworth to Stainborough, and he was attacked by two men, who rushed out of the hedgebottom at the side of the road, threw him down, filled his mouth and eyes with dirt, and after using him in a rough manner, robbed him o f th e promissory note, and the money mentioned above. He was positive as to the identity o f t h e prisoners, the moonlight at the time of the robbery having enabled him to see them. Some witnesses gave evidence to show that the prisoners were near the place shortly before the robbery and outrage were perpetrated. The magistrates committed both the prisoners 'for trial at' the next gaol delivery for the county of York. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA. The vexed question of Steam Navigation to Australia is solved at last, The Royal Charter's voyage has proved to demonstration that the principles on which she was con structed are sound, and the success of the Liverpool and Australian N„vigation Company certain. During her unprecedented passage to Melbourne, of only 59 days, the Royal Charter tested the use of her auxiliary screw in a manner the most satisfactory. Although it was by her canvass alone that she made her extraordinary run of 358 knots in one day, it was her steam power that enabled her to pass through the region of calms and light airs, and to arrive at Melbourne twelve days before her sailing rival, the Kent, which left Plymouth six hours before her. But it was her return voyage, which, though considerably longer, really affords the greatest triumph of the new principle. For fourteen days she experienced constant calms and adverse winds, in which no sailing vessel could have made any progress whatever. She spoke a French ship, from Senegal, out fifty days, for twenty of which she had been becalmed; and while the Royal Charter arrived in the Mersey on the 12th of August, the Walmer Castle, which is one of the fastest ships out of London, and which sailed seven days previously, was only telegraphed off Plymouth on the 19th, making a difference in the passage of more than fifteen days between port and port. The successful result of this experimental voyage will, no doubt, be the immediate taking up of any remaining shares that may be still in the hands of this enterprising company, and the completion of a line of steam clippers, such as has been so long and urgently required, The line once completed will, in the absence of a more rapid one, draw to itself the passengers, the bullion, and the merchandise, which pass between England and Australia. The overland route with its expensive and troublesome transhipments — the sailing clipper with its variable and uncertain passages, will be exchanged for the safe and rapid voyages of ships like the MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, LIYF,RPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING, The unseasonable weather . 'which continues to be experienced checks commercial confidence, and operates prejudicially upon the Cotton Market, the trade being thereby deterred from buying anything in excess of their immediate requirements. Prices, however, continue, as of late, to be upon the whole firmly supported, holders feeling satisfied, from ;the very small stocks held in the States, and from the relatively high scale of prices ruling there, that the supplies to this country will, for some months to come, be almost wholly suspended. We can notice no definite change consequently from the prices of Friday last in any description, though occasionally buyers have had a slight advantage in the medium and lower qualities of American cotton. The sales of the week amount to 47,320 bales, 35,150 of which have been taken by the trade, 2,340 for speculation and 9,830 for export. The market is without change to-day—sales, 6,000 to 7,000 bales, 1,000 being for speculation and export. The Committee's quota tions to-day for fair cotton are the same as last week; viz :—Bowed 6:d., Mobile 60., and Orleans 7d. per lb. There has been a firm feeling in the Liverpool Share Market, and a fair amount of business has been done at the following quotations : Aberdeen, 138 132. Chester and Birkenhead, 152 162. Caledonian, 28 5-16 28 7-16. Chester and Holyhead, 17 171. Eastern Counties, 9 11-16 91. East Lancashire, 202 xd 21. Great Northern, 241 241. Ditto A, 101 102. Great Western, 651 66. Lan cashire and Yorkshire Stock, 981 981. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 181 182. London and North Western, 1071 1071 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 342 34k. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref 11-16 13-16 p. Ditto Pref., 122 121. Mid land Stock, 842 841. North British, 92 xn 91. North Staffordshire, 41 xd 41d. South Eastern and Dover, 22 9-16 221. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21 3-16 211. York and North Midland, 291 30. Leeds Capital Stock, 18 181. Buffalo and Lake Huron, t tp. Dutch Rhenish, 21 22p. Great Western of Canada, 25i. 25 7-16. Ditto New Shares, 2 11-16 2 13-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 9 9-16 91d. A good business has been done in the Corn Market to-day, and prices, generally, have shown an upward movement. Wheat was from 2d to 3d per bushel dearer, whilst flour was held for extreme rates. _ _ We quote the following report of the Tallow Market from the circular of Mr. F. J. Eaton : " Tallow is in fair request, sales of P. Y. C. have been made at 53s 6d to 54s 6d per cwt, and 100 pipes S. American at 55s per cwt. The London market is rather higher on the spot, with few sellers under 53s 9d per cwt; for the last three months 51s 3d to 51s 6d per cwt is the exact price. The half-week delivery is 940 casks, against 1,324 cask in 1855 ; and the stock on the 18th inst. was 10,641 casks, against 40,424 casks last year. Letters from Berlin state that the question of the Sound dues is again approaching the proba bility of a solution. It appears that Herr Bluhme, the president of the commission, has had an interview with Mr. Buchannan, the English minister at Copenhagen, on the subject, and obtained a satisfactory answer to the proposals of Denmark for capitalizing the dues The British diplomatist, also, on his recent return from London to his post, in passing through Berlin, had a conference with Baron Manteuffel on the subject, which was also satisfactory to the views of Prussia and Denmark. The dividend proposed by the directors of the Southampton Dock Company for the halfyear ending 80th of June is at the rate of 4 per cent, or one-half per cent more than was divided in the same period last year. According to the report, the gross revenue increased 1,5951 9s 4d, compared with the corresponding half year in 1855. The accom modation of the docks has been increased, and several improvements have been effected since the last meeting. Business has been commenced by the Ottoman Bank at Constantinople and Galatz, and branches will soon be opened at Smyrna and Beyrout. A further call of Si per share has been announced. The tendency of the Funds to-day has been upwards, ana a fair nusmess has been clone. Consols for account closed at 951 95:. In the Foreign Stock Market prices have ruled steady, although but a small amount of business has been transacted. Equador New Consolidated are 14*. Grenada Active, 20. Mexican, 221 Portuguese 3 per Cents. are 461- Sardinian are rather lower, being quoted 92. Turkish Bonds have slightly advanced, the 6. per Cents. being 1034 1031 ; and the 4 per Cents. 104 to 1041. Dutch 2* per Cents. are 641, Joint Stock Bank Shares are quiet. British North American, 68. London and County, 341. Ottoman Bank, 10 to 101; and Unity Mutual, 48i. Miscellaneous have been dealt in to some extent at about previous prices. Canada Governments Six per Cents. 114/. North of Europe Steam, 131 South Australian Land, 36 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 71 to 71*. The Railway Share Market has followed the Funds in their improvement, and a fair business was done in several of the principal lines. The following are the closing quotations : Caledonian, 57 571. Eastern Counties, 9a 91. East Lancashire, 831 844 Great Northern, 98 981. Do. A, 85/ 861. Great Western, 651 651. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 98a 981. London and North Western, 107: 107 i. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 341 341. Midland Stock, 841 841. North British, 361 37k. South Eastern and Dover, 75/ 751. York, New castle, and Berwick, 84/ 85*. York and North Midland, 591 601. The Foreign and Colonial Lines are exceedingly dull, at barely previous rates. Great Western of Canada, 251. Namur and Liege, 9/ 91. Rigas, 18 1 prem. The following were the last quotations of Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 16 to 11. 17. Do., three months, 11 19 to 11 191 Rotterdam, do., 11 19 to 11 191. Antwerp, do., 25 421 to 25 521. Brussels, do., 25 421 to 25 521. Hamburg, do., 13 71 to 13 8. Paris, short, 25 25 to 25 321. Do., three months, 25 55 to 25 621, Marseilles, do., 25 571 to 25 65 Frankfort, .lo , 1191 to 120. Vienna, do., 10 18 to 1.0 21. Trieste, do., 10 19 to 10 23. Petersburg, do., 37g. Madrid, do., 491 to 491. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending August 15, 1856. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Debit. Notes issued .. £26,279,730 Credit. Government Debt Other securities 3,459,900 Gold Coin and Bullion 126,279,730 Total .. £26,279,730 BANKING D: :PARTMENT Debit. Proprietors' ca pital Rest . 3,458,690 Public deposits 4,668,218 Other „ 10,566,407 Seven day, and other bills.. 891,412 Credit. Government se- curities £12.010,078 Other securities 15,270,195 Notes 6,200,560 Gold and silver coin £34,131,727 Total . 234,131,727 The foregoing Bank. Returns show the following results when compared with those of the preced ing week:—Notes issued, decrease, 27,8601; bullion in both departments, decrease, 33,3211; res t , in crease, 1,9041; public deposits, increase, 383,1101; other deposits, increase, 412,6031; seven days' and other bills; decrease, 6,2511; on the credit side, government securities remain the same; other securities, have increased 791,2671. Notes unem ployed, increase, 5,500/, Actual circulation, 20,079,1701; decrease, 33,4201. BURIED TREASURR AT SEBASTOPOL.—The French have had a great miss at Sebastopol. They were in charge of the church there for some months, and never found any treasure : it was supposed to be earned away. But this being against the old traditional custom of Russia, it was thought strange, and once it was hinted some English soldiers had got hold of it. Such, however, was not the case. When the Russians came back they dug a hole and found it all safe near the altar. It was composed of gold plate and diamonds for the head gear of the priests and its supposed value is from £2Q,000 to £30,000. This will be no pleasant satisfaction to the Zouaves, wh o h a d b een . sleeping in it, I believe, for som e ti me and never found it out. it was valued by a man well conversant with such artioles, and he makes it also what I state. The priests were in such joy that they were not afraid to show it to any one, and we all had a peep at it before it was taken away elsewhere with a guard of honour, all singing at ita restoration, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE Intelligence has been received at Paris that Holland refuses to accede to the principle of Inter national Arbitration, recommended by the Powers signature to the Treaty of Paris The Dutch government fortifies its refusal, by appealing to similar refusals from Belgium and Sweden. THE DEARTH IN SPAIN The apprehension of scarcity has overwhelmed all political questions in Spain. The government is indefatigable in its endeavours to avert the dreaded evil. Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria, was expected to reach Madrid to-day, and the marriage with tho Infanta would take place immediately- THE HANOVERIAN CHAMBERS The difference between the Hanoverian Cham bers and the Government, does not afford any symptoms of accommodation. The Chambers will probably be prorogued about the end of the present month. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. This is another very dull day as regards news; there are none of any general interest stirring, but I give you what there are. The sons, sons-in-law, and grandchildren of the late King, Louis Philippe, yesterday, brought an action before the civil tribunal, against a person named Valette, to get from him three volumes of manuscript, which, it appears, were stolen fron3 , the Tuilleries or Neuilly, in the revolution of 1848. The manuscript consisted of a continuation, by the King, of a work originally published a long , time ago, called " History of the Bourbon Family? The late king formed the project of bringing down the history of his house from the year 1733, where the work left it, to his own times; but though he made considerable progress in it, he was obliged, owing to his election to the throne in 1830, to abandon it. Vallete having clearly no right to the manuscripts, was condemned to give them u p to the agent of the Orleans family. He had advertised them for sale, and not content with that, had offered, by letter, to sell them to the Duke d'Aumale, one of the late king's sons. It may be of some interest to such of your' readers as are engaged in the shipping trade with America, to be informed, that a decree in the' Moniteur, this morning, allows mules to be imported into the French West Indian Islands, at 15 francs a head in French vessels, and 30 francs in foreign Two strange articles, in the semi•official Con stitutionnel, have made a great sensation, because nobody can understand exactly what they mean• They are written by M. Granier de Cassagnac, and th e professed object of them is to prove that the great Socrates, though he believed himself to be in' communication with a demon, was not mad, as late medical writer has asserted. What, people ask, can such a subject have to do in a great' daily newspaper organ of a government? And' why should Granier de Cassagnac, of all men—ho who is believed never to write, except under the' irk a p ipation of tho Emperor —lzaro into such a queer discussion ? In default of being able to give a reasonable answer to these questions , some people say that the articles have been written to prepare the people for the announce ment that the Emperor is affected with occasional hallucinations, in which he thinks he hears mysterious voices, but that he is no more react than Socrates was with his demon ! A St. Petersburg despatch says that Count do Morny had, in the name of the French Emperor , presented the Czar with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Madrid letters say that the government 12 0 ' postponed the municipal elections, which, by lay' ,. ought to have taken place early in September, t ° ' an indefinite period. They also speak of a projec° being a foot for establishing lines of step.raet s to ply between Spain and Cuba, and other parts of America. NAPLE A letter from Naples of the 11th inst. in the Correspondaxce Italione, says :—" Our diplomatiet 4 are very active in their endeavours to prevail oa the King to give satisfacticn to the Western Powers.. The representatives of the . Pope and of the Grand Duke of Tuscany earnestly support the demands of Austria. Count dell'Aquila and Colin, Trapani, brother of the . King, have been applied to and entreated to represent to his Majesty the danger of his position. The accounts from the provinces are satisfactory There, as well as in the capital, the people are calm, but •resolute• It is said that the last reports, received frot the intendants of Cosenza, Reggio, and other provinces of the kingdom, have produced con" siderable alarm. at . Court. Orders have been , given to concentrate the Swi ss t roops i n a n d about Naples. The government is also said to entertain serious apprehensions for the tranqui l ' lityof Sicily." The Univers thus questions the authenticity of a document published by the Cologne Gazette, an d : re-produced by the 'Paris and London journals: , puporting to be an an a ly s i s o f th e note addressed by the King of Naples t o th e W es t ern C a bi nets . , " The journals publish a n ana l ys i s o f t h e not!: which is said to have been despatched by the N lO l of Naples to the Western P owers . France. au'A England not having addressed to the Neapol/ 4 ,a0 Government an identical note, it is scarcely; pro; bable that the r e ply o f t h e Neapolitaat Cabinet would be the same for both government. to suspect it s correctness ; we -will More: us over, the analyti ca l f orm of this dokurtnent caus e : wait before we pu b l i sh it for prc,ofs N' therefore' y hich Int a i show th a t th e communication of the CAI"- Gazette merits couildence." THE RIFF PIRATES A letter from Berlin, of the 18th, in the peril: says :—" Conformably to the orders of his Moles t) ; the president of the council yesterday sent , 0 despatch to London, in which he applied for the support . of the English government in an expe, 6 , tion which Prussia intended sending against t't o pirates of . the Riff. The Prussian government. 1 0 to pass unpunished, the less disposed to allow • the late act of aggress.% that, in 1852, merchant vessels were surprised and pillaged ° , O some Prussl ° ' o , the same coast. Prince Adalbert is expected " arrive at Berlin this week." THE DANUBE The inhabitants of the Danubian Principalit ie :' according to despatches which have reached Par g are about to organise national p e titi ons , praY ni ' ll o the great Powers to propose their union. German papers are beginning to throw out lien e that Austria will withdraw her opposition to t.P tix union, but this is not lik e l y to b e t h e cas e w i , l o Turkey. The Corresp on d ence P russ i enne state s t o the members of th e European Commission oft t oo Danube will meet im me di ately after the conclusl to of the labours of the commission which i 9 ,0 30 determine the questio n o f t h e f ront i er line. vet Permanent Com m i ss i on o f the Danu b e is 13°'4.' appointed.