The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

fue kort MONDAY, THE CHIN( lOR 0 mounced his intent statement on the ern Trittn 5, 1856 F . the EXCHEQUER has an a of making his financial 1 instant. The mercantile classes of the North were becoming more than usually anxious to know the actual .condition of the Imperial Exchequer, and the amount which will be required by a Peace Cabinet to carry on the Gbvernment. We commenced the fiscal year with a military and naval force equal to any world-wide emergency. The se..ond day of the third year of war saw Great Britain with an army of 670,000 men, a fleet of 3;)0 sail ready for the Baltic, and 100 sail for the Black Sea. Such displays of overwhelming strength may be ascribed to our concentration and not to our numbers—to the economical management of our resources in peace, more than to our patriotism and loyalty—to our steady progress in commerce and enlightenment, than to any inordinate, love of freedom or lofty appreciation of the blessings of Constitutional rights. Our 1 h sense the first off. of justice is but of what the laws and usage of trade determination to protect the weak against the murderous sword of the strong is an instinct borrowed from an indus trial age,, in which honest toil has had to struggle against incalculable odds, and to resist the inno, vations of avaric with little ,hort of to bel R.' NODDER, Begs respectfu or Inspection \ITILLMEI GUID Booksel liL~iiYil s NEW STYLES for D inform the Nubility as Season an TATTER 81, CHURCH-STREET, nd Gentry of Liver- NOW READY 'S RAILWAY AND STEAMBOAT MAY-PRICE TWOPENCE. John-street, and by all Souti STATIONERY, SOLD BY VILLMER CHAR WHOLESALE STATI 0 N E ft AND PRINTER, 19, SOIJIII JOHN-STREET, LIVERPOOL. nOTIE attention of Merchants, Brokers, Trades. men, and others, is respectfully drawn to the fol. owing list of Casa PRICES for_ LETTER PAPER Per Ream. For 3 Reams s. d. e s. d. , 6 0 0 17 6 Superfine large thin Cr Blue Wove Ditto ditto Y , Bank Post (Towgood's) for F low Wov CoirespondenC Ditto French, extra thin FOOLSCAP OR Thin-Blue Laid Yellow Wove. Thick Yellow Wov erfine Large C Ditto Ditto -U NOTE LETTER, CO Ha t-hound 410 leaves, 6s; 480 do, o' every description, 113 13.1 t style, on the short€ Orders from t 1 WHOLESALE I 19, SOUTH JOHN-S To-moult: w, the 611 Braces office, 7, E. 2470 Blrrels nowlauding ex Hype, Dock.—For further pa On aoo TO-MORROW, the at Goldin; and N wick-street, 500 Barrels. TURPENTINE, rom New York, in the Huskisson tictilars apply to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker whom it may concern. lf-past One o'clock, sh's saleroom, Corn Exchange, Bruns- h instant, at About 500 Qnarters Damaged Indian CORN, ex 4rie, from Ntw York. - --For further particulars apply J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. 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Apply to On WEDN A.Y nex t thA Prniter, stant, at Twelve o'clock, at the ange-chambers, Tithebaru-street, TAR, and the advance of the usurper, The superhuman power facility shown in the raising of the mighty hosts Nwhich we prepared to let loose on our enemies by hind and sea, is to be attributed wholly to the aptitude of a mercantile nation for stupendous undertatings, in which illimitable, supplies of nearly all the commodities of ordinary consumption, and the conveyance of millions of tons of stores, and hundreds of thousands of men, to a distant part of the world, were required on a moment's notice. The comparative ease with which the money was supplied to meet all dema.nds, is, although the last not the least wonderful phase we need_ notice, dates from that c easeless activity, clear foresight, and well-directed enterprise, which has not only anticipated the growth of the human - family, but which has gone on stimulating the production of every foreign country, and by own power of adding to increasing - its ommon stock of man's A, or rather rsal civilisation, and short- t, enerAe necessaries and comfo: forced, into exis despite all pol fixlineies comings. Tr resolute, re frua,al. and thoughtful of future; and a In boast of these as ru! ing attr must be triulUP' s military despots gaudy plumes, and their who waste t peoples substance and lives in childish parades of swords and bayonets. Bee hives have nothing to fear from the world's boost of armed men, and there is no rest for knights in armour, or troopers in cherry pants in the neighbourhood of an ant hill. Nature supplies this great moral in her adjustment of the balance of power, and while Great Britain fosters her industry, and continues raising and collecting from the earth, mountains of its richest products, we shall have nothing to fear from Europe's envy or the world's malice. Let trade, industry and property be wisely taxed— avoid exhausting our present and well-ascertained iant strength on dreams of future dan ger—keep the drones of our population from devouring the honey of our bees—forbid the heavy foot of taxation crushing the labours of our ants, and allow us to wait another forty years for an enemy, and then see whether there is anything fabulous, in comparing the husbanded industry of a nation to a bee hive, or the toil and vengeance of a commercial people to a hill of ants. ,ources of If it was meant that we were to have war, the time to strike a blow for the repose of mankind was when we had our army of 670,000 men, and a fleet of 450 sail ready for sea. If we are to have peace, the moment has arrived when we must ex ercise, with the most unmistakeable earnestness the strength from which we draw these dreaded arma ments. If this cannot be done with safety, the fact implies a condition of things on the Continent, and threatens this country with dangers which must force on Great Britain the adoption of a very different foreign policy to that which she is now pursuing, and a prompt revision of the money market and taxation. The army and navy estimates for this year may be set down, in round numbers, at 58,000,0001. This sum may be found at the close of the financial year to be more than 6,000,0001. below • the actual expenditure, as we witnessed at the end of the last quarter of 1855. We anticipate no reduction in these portions of the public expenditure. On the contrary, we believe that peace will not become a social blessing before it has assumed some of the worst features of a political affliction. The CHANCELLOR of the .EXCEIEQUER . very candidly confessed on Friday, that c.‘ it was impossible to calculate the amount of " ways and means necessary for the service of the " year until the estimates had been laid before the House in a complete form, and the "amended estimates, since the peace was " signed, has occupied more time than " I had anticipated." From this it will be seen that the estimates which have been granted by Parliament were incomplete, and cannot be relied on for any financial purpose. We must, therefore, wait for the " amended" and perfect balance sheet, before we can ascertain whether the military and naval charges on the State are to be five millions above or below the gross total of the sums already votedby the House of Commons ! That more can be saved, or asked for over the 58,000,000/. now placed to the credit of the PALMERSTON Cabinet is beyond all question And if we should be so fortunate to 5,000,0001. by peace, where is the balance to come from? Last year the expenditure amounted to towards which the ordinary sources of Revenue only supplied 65,567,0001., Loans 15,993,0001., Exchequer Bills 6,977,0001., leav ing a deficiency of 2,208,000/. to be made Deficiency Bills. Now, if we esti mate the gross expenditure of the current year at 95,000,0001., after all possible deductions have been made, and add 5,000,0001. for the improvement of trade, to the total income of 1855, we shall still have 20,000,0001. to supply, of which 5,000,000/. only has been raised on loan. Being compelled to draw on the money market for the balance this year, will continue that intolerable monetary pres sure, which the public have been led to believe the restoration of peace would have removed ; and if 00,000,0001., or even 70,003,0001., is to be the expenditure for 1856-7, where shall we find the honey of this busy hive ? Some prodigals are talking largely of gratuities to militia officers, who have not, seen a shot fired, and the danger of dis banding our large militia force, amounting to no less than 127,000 men, who cost the country about 37/. lOs per head annually, for pay alone. Add to these, 14,500 men of the Volun teer Corps, who cost us a like sum per head, with a regular army of 420,000 men—a fleet of 90,020,000/ up by 300 sail in commission, and what, we ask, is to become of the industry of 27,000,000 people ? The Cabinet have recently shown their Parliamentary strength on their war policy; but the House of Commons must look closely to their votes on financial subjects, as the public expect to hear of sweeping and immediate retrenchments in every department of the State service, and for a Ministerial Budget which will bring home to all classes something more than the empty name of peace. The time selected by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, for the opening of his Budget, will be a day of trial for the Cabinet. On its issue depends the duration of the present House, and the popularity of our representatives with the commercial classes, at the next general electiop. The people cannot pay 90,000,0001. of taxation, nor go on borrowing money at usury, on the fair name of posterity—which, to our mind, means the property and institutions of the present generation, which they hope to see handed down, intact, to their children, and their children for THE 513ATHEEll Tiik.M.—LiviuspottLl MONDAY, MAY 6, MA. silencing the newspaper -Press. Yet England is not ready to submit to Snell dictation or privations. France may attack the modern literary power of other countries—may take up arms against slavery —may engage in war with Orleanist, Bourbonist, and German dynasties and Editors, but our course is not to the East or West in such exploits. Let the French intermeddle if they will with the domestic rights and institutions—let them assail the Flee Press of other countries, and destroy the bulwarks of modern civilisation ; but Great Britain must take no part in a crusade, which must lead to bloody and revolting tragedies. With the Pope as a guest, and orthodox Russia as an ally, Protestant and Constitutional Europe would be left at the mercy of a combination of despots and the true BUONAPARTIST sons of France. If the United States are the doomed of slaveholders, there is a fascination about their " Star-spangled Banner," which rational mortals would rather not see put to the test even in a war against the Negro's bondage. All France cannot be trusted in the Channel with the Republican flag of the West. Her BIIONAPARTISTS may be led, but surely they will never suffer themselves to be dragged into their own destruction, as a party pledged to im perishable principles which bear their author's revered name? Proud France will neither play the part of a bigot nor a tyrant. She has nothing, as a nation, to fear from the world's criticism, and cannot, with safety to her independence, be shut out from the free discussion of European questions. Alarmists cannot guide the destinies of great States, whose irresistible power can be traced to their supe rior intelligence and love of Constitutional free dom. How can the immortal name of NAPOLEON suffer from the scribbling of Belgian Editors, or the lustre of France be tarnished by paltry sar casms? Such ideas are positively contemptible. Belgium may be the seat of revolutionary intrigue ; but who ever heard of a dynasty being founded and consolidated, without encountering both slan der and conspiracies ? In the common walks of every-day life men meet with such things, and no Prince who holds the reins of power, need hope to escape them. And, as great men have never been known to fail by passing by trifles, it is to be hoped that the Imperial rulers of Europe will not furnish us with an ill-timed precedent. Moderation and wise government gave France a seventeen years' peace, and following the same course now, will make a NAPOLEON the idol of her people and the admiration of the world; depart from them, and who will pretend to foresee the result? Our notions of revolutionary wars would be speedily eclipsed by events which would disgrace our common manhood. Whether the real object of Count WALEWSKI'S speech, at the breaking up of the Congress on the Bth ultimo, was to fill the public mind of Great Britain with such subjects of consternation, a very short time must prove. We have been unusually slow in noticing it, thinking it might be destined to share the fate of the Russian Emperor's oration, which has been declared a "base fabrication." If such a construction could be put on the words ascribed to the French Minister, the people of this country would have more cause to be satisfied ; but we fear the whole episode is but too true. The Parisian Government betrays great weakness in coupling its own existence with the maintenance of law and order in the Papal States and other countries, which are described as being in an "abnormal condition." The guardianship of Italy and King BOMBA may be safely left to France and Austria, by the rest of Europe. According to Count WALEWSKT, it has already become " most " desirable, in the interest of the equilibrium of " Europe, that the French forces should be enabled " safely to evacuate the Roman States." And at the end of another year or two, that which is now most desirable" will have become quite indispen sable. But whether in the meantime it will be possible to induce the rulers of the Italian Penin sula to adopt well-considered acts of clemency to conciliate their subjects, instead of pursuing that merciless system of persecution " which, instead " of restraining the enemies of order, has for its " effect to weaken the governments that have acted " upon it, and to augment the number of the parti sans of democracy;" or whether the Government of the two Sicilies will be convinced within any reasonable period of " the wrong course it is pur " suing," aro all speculations of which time alone can decide the value. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVRNItiII There has been no change in the tone of the' Cotton Market, and only a small business has ' been done, but in consequence of the more limited supply offering prices are unchanged. The total sales are 6,000 bales; which include 1,500 taken for speculation and export. The Liverpool Share Market opened rather buoyantly this morning, and cantinued strong throughout the day, closing firm at the quotations : Aberdeen, 12143. Chester and Birkenhead, 1.5 i 151, Caledonian, 29 13-16 29 15-16. Chester and Holy head, 151 16. Eastern Counties, 91- 10. East Lanca. shire, 19 191. Great Northern, 231 23k; ditto .A. 9191. Great Western, 61 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 884 881. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport; 16,1 17k. London and North Western Stock, 100 k 1001. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 281 287,r Ditto Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref , 7-16 9-16 p. Midland Stock, 74 74k. North British, 82- 81 . . North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern, 211 21 5-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191. l9a. York and North Midland, 274 271. Leeds Capital Stock, 151 151. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 2 2kp. Dutch Rhenish 11 1 5-1.6 p. Great Western of Canada, 261 26,'-,. Ditto New Shares, 3 7-16 3 9-16 p. Ditto 2nd issue. 3 746 3 9-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 7 1-16 6 1546 d. The importations of the precious metals, during the week, have been about 271,960/, comprising 72,0001. from Port Philip, by the Beemah ; 186,2751. from the West Indies and the Pacific by the 1\14,!. dulena ; 90,600/. from the United States, by the Asia ; 3.415/. from the Peninsula, by the Tagus : and 10,0001. from Africa, by the Retriever. The exports have been 643,2021. to the East Indies and China, by the Ara; 12,26/ to the Peninsula, by the Sultan; and 25,072 ounces of gold and silver coin and bars to Belgium, via the London Custom House, value 15,3331., making a total of 671,3581. The continental exchanges have been firm during the week, but remittances of gold to Paris have been made for the purchase of silver for the East Indies and China. The several vessels which have sailed from Port Phillip for England will bring altogether 146,330 ounces of gold, or a total value of 580,000/. In addition, further supplies are expected from America, while those from the West Indies are steadily increasing. Now that the war has ceased, some definite effect will be produced by these arrivals, but the great impediment to returning ease is the enormous efflux of specie to the Indian Presidencies and China. The following is the Official Return of the Exports of the Precious Metals from London for the week ending 25th April :—Gold coin to Ham burg, 1,940 ounces ;to Belgium, 65 do. Total gold, 2,005 ounces. Silver coin to Belgium, 1,300 ounces; silver to Hamburg, 147,907 do.; silver bars to Hamburg, 20,349 do. Total silver, 169,556 ounces. The quotation of gold at Paris is about five per mille premium, and the Exchange on London at short 25'374, making gold about 0.32 per cent dearer in London than in Paris. The price of gold at Hamburg is 4263 per mark, and the Exchange on London at short ].3.7, making gold 0.64 per cent dearer in London than in Ham burg. The following are the Gazette average prices of Muscovado Sugar for the week ending April 29th, 1856, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon, on the importation thereof into great Britain : From the West Indies, 27s 3d per cwt ; Mauritius, 27s Old do. ; East Indies, 30s 3d do.; average twice of the three foregoing descriptions, 27s lld do. Mr. W. Aven gives the following as the weekly report of the London Stock and Share Market : The expectation of the announcement of a new loan, and a considerable demand for money arising from the preparations ?to take up the commercial acceptances, which fall due to-day to a heavy amount, have greatly tightened the market for several days past. The pres sure, consequently, has been severelly felt ; the rates in Lombard-street have advanced to the bank minimum ; and the bank itself has had renewed applications for dis counts, a class of business in which for the fortnight previous it had been doing little or nothing. On the Stock Exchange the Railway and Foreign Settlements, though the account was comparatively light, caused a considerable demand for money. Rates, therefore, have been higher; and they may be quoted at from 61 to 71 per cent. The approach of the Consol Settlement has also led to much additional pressure. Consols which fell last week to the extent of I per cent have been comparatively stationary in the present. Last Saturday they closed at 921 to having previously been firm at 923 to I. The fall was occasioned by rumours concerning the loan, and by anticipations of a ministerial crisis. These circumstances also unsettled the market on Monday, and a further decline took place to 92. But on the loan rumours partially subsiding, and upon its being known that Lord Palrnerst on had succeeded in re-uniting his friends upon the Kars question, thus avoiding a ministerial crisis, the market became stronger, though quotations did not materially improve until the close on Tuesday, when they recovered to 921 to There is, however, an indisposition to contract engagements of im portance under present circumstances. Railway shares were lower on Monday, and there was something like a general depression in prices; but on Tuesday they im proved all round, though business was partially suspended by the progress of the settlement. The traffics are so far, pretty good. French lines are steady. Great Western i of Canada are firm and improving, owing to an increase n the:last weekly return of traffic amounting to nearly 50001. The market now looks healthy, although the highest quo tations of the week have not been maintained in all cases. Foreign Securities have fallen in about the same propor tion as consols, and there is no business doing in them. Joint stock banks and miscellaneous shares are languid. The return of the bank of England for the week ending the 26th April is again unfavourable. The bullion has decreased 4152,602, and the reserve is 462,217 lower. The position of the bank in both these respects is so much worse ; but as a large amount of specie has been sent in during the last seven or eight days, and as bills are now rapidly running off, the next return will probably show an important improvement in these essential items. The government deposits have been increased £1,049,318 by the payment of the final loan instalment; bet on the other hand the private deposits have deereased £87,ti120 in consequence of the more profitable employment which can be found for money out of doors. The financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be made on Monday, the 19th inst. In the case of Belgium, however, there is no mistaking the tone and temper of the French Cabinet. After alluding to. the attacks made upon France and her Government by that most dreaded of all instruments of regal power, the Press, Count WALEWSKI " protested that the sincere desire of the "Emperor was to maintain the best relations with " Belgium, and he hastened to add, that his " Majesty's government had every reason to be " satisfied with the Cabinet of Brussels, which had " done its best to mitigate a state of things which "it was not, in its power to change, because the " laws of Belgium did not empower it to repress " the excesses of the press, nor to take the initiative " of a reform which had become absolutely indis " pensable." Adding to this protest an invitation to the representatives of the great Powers to give an opinion on the liberty of the Press, a. 3 by law established, in Belgium, placed Lords CLAREN DON and COWLEY in an awkward dilemma. The Belgians enjoy a Constitution, and under that Constitution the Press is tolerated, and to tell Belgium that she will be made to " understand that " it is imperatively necessary to modify her legisla " tion, which is not compatible with the fulfilment "by her government of the first of international " duties," is a doctrine to which England's repre sentatives would hardly have ventured to subscribe. The same logic might be very speedily applied to this country, and our government told in equally dictatorial language, that they cannot discharge the first of international duties unless they modify the Constitutional legislation of Parliament. But let us :hope that Count WALEWSKI'S speech is not a prologue to a European tragedy or a French farce, as the world is not in the best temper for an attempt at either one or the other. To-day the demand for money on commercial account has continued, and in most cases extreme rates are still required ; but the acceptances falling due to-day are, on the whole, understood to have been well met. On the Stock Exchange there has been no particular demand, notwithstanding the approach of the consol settlement. A small im portation of gold from the west of Africa has arrived, amounting to about 10,2001. Consols have improved 1 per cent. notwithstanding the unfavour able nature of the Bank return. They opened at 921 to 4, the closing price of last night; and upon some rather heavy purchases they advanced to 921 to 4, at which they finally left off. The aggregate of business was small, but the market had a healthy look. In Railway Shares the tone at the opening was dull and weak; but it subsequently improved 'end closed firm. Foreign lines are good. Paris and Lyons have improved ; and Belgian descrip tions are well supported. Canadian and Indian are also, well maintained. The French Three per Cents upon the Paris Bourse, at two o'clock, were better than yesterday, the quotation for account being 751'. 25e. The closing prices of Railway Shares stood as follows :—Caledonian, 501 60. Eastern Counties, 94 10. East Lancashire, 76 78. Great Northern, 954. Do. A, 78 80. Great Western, 611 614. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 884 881. London and North Western, 1001 100 a. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 284. Midland Stock, 731 74. North British, 341 35. South Eastern and Dover, 701 711. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 773 78. York and North Midland, 554 551 Lord Cowley, her Majesty's ambassador at the court of the Emperor of the French, arrived in London yester day from Paris. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY, WEEK ENDING MAY 3rd, 1856.—Admitted : In-patient., 46 ; out-patients, 7 ; casuals during the week, 19. Discharged : In-patients cured, 33 : relieved and at own request, 14 ; made out-ratior,ts, 9 ; irregular, 4; dead 1 ; remain in the house, 164. House visitors : Chas. Langton and Laurence Peel, Esqrs, Physi cian and surgcol for ensninz week . Dr. Voae and Mr. Hulton, House surgeon : Mr. G. B. Halford. Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster. Chaplain : Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Treasurer, Robert Hutchison. STABBING.—CharIes Brown, a black man, was charged on Saturday before the magistrates with having stabbed a Swedish sailor, named George Brown. From the evidence of the prosecutor, and police constable No 3 , it appeared that the complainant was passing along Sparliug-street, when he was attracted by a noise, or row, at a dancing house, and on going to see what it was he was knocked down ; he got up and ran away, hut was followed by some one who struck him on the back of the head with some sharp instrument, knocked him down, and cat him. The officer came up and arrested the prisoner whom he saw strike the blow. The wound was a jagged incised one, three inches long, and a quarter of an inch deep, but it was riot considered to be of a dangerous description. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CoRRESONDEN T. ) PARIS, FRIDAY VENTNG. What occupies attention in the higher political circles is the forthcoming pamphlet on the treaty of peace, which, as I have already told you, is " inspired," as the Froneh say, by no less a per sonage than the Emperor. It will, lam assured, labour to show that the treaty is peculiarly favour able to France, and not by any means a triumph for Russia, as Le or(1, of Brussels, and the Russian organs, have been proclaiming. It will also speak favourably of the English alliance, and will ascribe to England the honour of having been the first to propose that the Peace Congress should be held in Paris. Its author will take the title of " Tin Ancien Diplomate." It will most likely be published on Sunday or Monday. The liquidation on the Bourse to day has passed of very favourably. In consequence of the holiday yesterday, only three of the morning papers have appeared to day, and they contain not a line of news. It is alleged that the Government is about to purchase the Exhibition Palace in the Champs Elysees, from the private company which built, it. The Government ! This is the great nursing mother to which all Frenchmen look to in all their straits, and it seems, now a days, a generally admitted fact, that when a commercial company makes a bad speculation, the government must rush to its aid. In consequence of the conclusion of peace, Marshal Pelissier has been deprived of the privi lege conferred on him, as commander-in-chief of the army in the East, and of nominating officers, and of granting the cross of the legion of honour, and the military medal. The St. Petersburg letters bring the report of a discourse, or sermon, delivered by the Patriarch of Moscow, and which is curious, as showing the manner in which the clergy of Russia are required to speak of the war. It claims the victory for Russia almost everywhere—at Kars, in the White Sea, and in the Baltic, and says that she did not even abandon Sebastopol, until it was a heap of ruins. It, however, displays much bitterness towards England, and not a little towards Austria. The St. Petersburg letters also attach great im portance to the fact that, though the militia is offi cially dissolved, all means, open and secret, are to be employed to keep the men in the ranks. Does this indicate an intention on the part of Russia to renew the contest on the first favourable opportu nity, or at least, as soon as sho shall be able to separate France from England ? A telegraphic despatch announces that, on the 26th ult , the Gulf of Riga was re-opened for navi gation, that a Swedish steamer had arrived with a cargo of salt, and that eighty other vessels were in view of the port. The Patrie of this evening publishes details of the defeat of Walker's forces by General llora, of Costa Rica, communicated to it probably by the Costa Rica Legislative in this city. As you will have details on the subject it may be stated that, according to the account in the Patrie, Gen. Mora, on the 20th March, attacked Walker's forces, who were 400 strong, at a place called Hacienda de Santa Rosa, where they were entrenched and after a volley of musketry followed by an attack with the bayonet, defeated them com pletely. All that were not killed, it is asserted, were so hotly pursued that they were sure to be captured. Walker's men were commanded by Colonel Schlesinger, and are represented to have been the best of his forces. The action lasted a quarter of an hour. The affair was announced to the people of Costa Rica in pompous proclama tions, and they were solemnly assured therein, that henceforth " the prestige of the North 'American rifle is destroyed. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING This being AscensiCinipv is regarded as a grand holiday by the Parisians. The public offices and the Bourse have been closed, and business has been suspended. The churching, or, as the French call it, the Relevailles, of the Empress has taken place to day, in the private apartments in the Tuileries, according to the pompous ceremonial drawn up by the Emperor. The Empress is, however, still so weak that she had to remain seated all the time in an arm chair. The Bishop of Nancy, the first chaplain of the Emperor, officiated, and his Majesty was present. I am assured that a pamphlet (anonimous) on the treaty of peace, will be published to-morrow, and that it will set forth the real opinions of the Government on this important question. The Bourse shows a tendency to rise at present; and, on dit, that great efforts are being made to influence it, so as to enable Count do Morey to wind up his affairs with eclat. Count de Chamborg (the King of France by legitimate descent), has, I hear, just been cast in an action brought by the government against him, to recover an immense forest at Vassy, in the department of the Hartes Marne, which he has always regarded as his own, and of which he has received the revenues. The consequence is that he will not only have to restore the forest, but will have to pay about £120,000. It is believed that this heavy reimbursement will almost ruin him. There have been steeple-chases to-day, at La Marche, and a famous English horse, named General Evans, was killed in taking a jump. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES The answer of Lord Clarendon on the part of the gieen's government to the despatch of Mr. Marcy, dated the 28th December last, in which he announced that Mr. Crampton had become an unacceptable repre sentative of her Britanic Majesty at Wa , hingtoii, and requested his recall, was amongst the papers presented to Parliament on Friday night. The Daily News comments upon the subject :—" That which Mr. Crampton did was done openly and frankly. He announced to the Cabinet of Washington, that the Queen's Government would be glad to receive recruits in Halifax for a foreign legion. For months and months he explained all his plans to Mr. Marcy, and showed him Lord Clarendon's instructions on no account to run any risk of infringing the law of the United States. He remained in the most Confidential communication with Mr. Marcy on the subject; and, as soon as it became apparent that the United States Government were averse to the scheme, it was abandoned, and the depot at Halifax was broken up. To ask, under such circumstances, for the recall of Mr. Crampton, is really to invite the English Cabinet to disgrace itself, for the amusement and gratification of the government of Washington ; but we trust that the good sense of the American people will see the matter in this light." ages to come EUROPE is becoming remarkably puerile. Eng land has thrown off the pucelage of long-cherished veracity, and has adopted the wild dreamings of pseudo-political prophets. The Continent does not exhibit that placid and uniform aspect, which, with a tolerable sameness of governmental rule, and perfect identity of intention, was generally anticipated. The British Isles are progressing in everything, but political rationality : , We have arrived at a period in which great fundamental principles go for literally nothing; and to talk of MAGNA CHARTS and Constitutional rights, exposes the subject to the slander of the hireling portion of the Press, and the worst imputations of the professing liberal and ardent politician. Cen tralisation on the Continent and at home is the order of the day. It would be invidious at this moment to name the foreign capital which is to be the pivot of the new State organisation of the Old World. Formerly it was the high and sacred pH_ vilege of the British Peers and Commons to direct the policy and review the acts of our Cabinet. But now these mighty functions are assigned to a European commission, armed with plenary powers, to make Great Britain an acting party in secret compacts, of which the Imperial Parliament know nothing. until they are revealed by the bribery and corruption of a foreign printing-office ! All this may be very right in the eyes of the lovers of novelty ; and those who would timidly surrender the substance of a bright and glorious nati and independent existence, for the shado at and enlightened friendship ; but the people his country must look on their fallen condition in tli mtinental Europe may have been in want of a dictator---may be satisfied with secret commission legislating for all nations, and may be prepared for the suppression of public discussion by es of the world; with deep and bitter salineg. ---~- CABINET COUNCIL.-At three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the ministers met in council, agreeably to a summons issued on Friday evening. The Prime Minister arrived at the Foreign Office soon after three o'clock, and was followed by Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, and Sir Charles Wood ; the other members of the cabinet had previously assembled, hav ing been summoned for two o'clock. The Earl of Clarendon joined his colleagues rather late, having been detained by his official duties at Buckingham Palace, in presenting Baron Brunow (the Russian Minister) to the Queen. The council brake up soon after five o'clock, most of the ministers being engaged to dine with the members of the Royal Academy in Trafalgar square. THE PEACE. The following is the address which the Earl of Ellesmere will move in the House of Lords to night:— That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, to assure her that, while we should have deemed it our duty cheerfully to afford the fullest support, if it had unfortunately been found necessary to continue the war, we have learned with joy and satisfaction, that ber Majesty has been enabled to re-establish peace on condi tions so honcurable, and which so fully accomplish the great objects for which the war was undertaken. To express to her Majesty the great satisfaction which we feel, that while those alliances, which have so materially contributed to the vigorous and successful prosecution of the war have been equally effective in the consolida tion of peace, the powers which have not taken any active part in the war, have combined with the belligerents, and have given, by their sanction and accession, addi tional firmness to the arrangements by which the repose of Europe is in future to be protected from disturbance. To state to her Majesty that we rejoice that, notwith standing the great exertions which the late war rendered necessary, the resources of the empire remain unim paired. To express a hope that the peace now con cluded may, under the favour of Divine Providence, long continue to shed its blessings over Europe ; and that harmony among governments, and friendly inter course among nations, may steadily promote the progress of civilisation, and secure the welfare and happiness of mankind. The address will be seconded by Lord Stanley `?FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon an acciden t happened in Great 'Toward-street to a child, named John Fearon, two years, who was run over and killed by a lorry belonging to John Wilkinson, 65, Navlor-street, driven by a person, named John Armstrong, who is at present in custody on a charge of neglect in not taking proper care of his vehicle PummoTroNs.—The following notifications rpprared in the Gazette of Friday evening ;.-4111, or Doke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infant; y) Royal I.9licashire Militia—E❑sign Mark Quayle to t o Lieutentaat from the 22nd day . of March last, via, Betham, appointed Paymaster; William Selby Fraser Taunton, Gent., jun., to be Ensign from the 4th day of April, vice Quayle, promoted. Epows.k!MO 'lll LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, The steamer Washington has arrived here today from New York, with dates to the 19th ult., ancl ) the usual mail for England and the continent. Th e: advices are four days later than those previouslY, received, and from them we learn that the steamer: Baltic, from Liverpool, had arrived out at No v York. The news of the Went of General Walker had been received, but the pz2blished accounts contain nothing beyond what appeared in the NORTHERN TIMES of Friday last. The e;Nllnercial advices are of much the same character as ;hose received by the last mail. The Money Market WAS rather more stringent, but still the supply of eaPl . tal was pretty nearly equal to the demand, and the rates of interest without material change. r r le '', demand for Exchange on London was limited, Oa' the quotations remained without alteration. The re ' was a fair amount of business doing in the Cotton Market, and prices were firm. The market for Breadstuffs presented no new feature. The de mand for freight was limited, and the rates 111 consequence were barely so firm. PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY• The Peninsular and Oriental Steam-ship Com pany's steamer Madrid has just arrived with t ll° . , usual Peninsular mails, and has also brought passengers, and £4,800 in specie. Her dates ar e ' from Gibraltar to the 23rd, Cadiz the 24th, Lisl o ' the 29th, and Vigo the 30th ult. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS• The Peninsular Steam-ship Company's steame r Pera has arrived with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian mails, bringing 109 passengers, and dates from Alexandria to the 2 114 " Malta the 24th, and Gibraltar the 29th ult. THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA The London Gazette of Friday night, in a 811 P; plement issued on Saturday, publishes an of:6 001 despatch received by Lord Panmure from Gene lll Sir W. J. Codrington, dated Sebastopol, April 19 ' This despatch narrates the visit of General Ludt° . to the camp of the allies, and the review of th e armies subsequently, the details of which have already appeared in the correspondence of our owa Crimean correspondent. THE DUCHY OF PARMA. The Grand Duchess of Parma has lent after giving the exercise of full civil autholity to to` Austrian General commanding the troops PRUSSIA Despatches from Berlin, dated yesterclarr mention that the speech from the throne, on at e occasion of closing the chambers, urges much °II the part taken by Prussia, from which the peace , °C) much desired, has been hastened. The King ,has conferred the order of the 3319°1 Eagle, on his Majesty the Emperor of the Fseacb' --..-...-..--. BELGIUM Advices from Brussels state that the Ealg ii ' lj government will have to give explanations of what l was stated in the Belgian press of the B th of APrl on the subject of the Peace Congress in Paris. RUSSIA HA MBURGH, SATunDAI.• An Imperial manifesto, published at St Peter s; burg, announces that the coronation of til t Emperor will take place at Moscow, in Aug° The ice in the Neva is breaking up. f War , General Soubazet is gazetted Mintster °- ati and Prince Gortschakoff Minister of F°re'v Affairs, with M. Tolsti as his adjunct. The, treaty of peace is published. AUSTRIA A letter from Vienna of the 27th ult., in the r u 0 . 1 Ampt Gazette says :—Prince Petrulla, the Ne°P.tt, litan Ambassador, had a long conferenc e Count Buol yesterday, and afterwards bad a pri°ate audience of the Emperor. We learn that a n°te shortly to be sent to Naples, in which his Me~e e. will be recommended, conformably t o an arr °l3 o3 ' ment entered into at Paris, to effect such . re f° A as are rendered necessary by c i rcum stance °. ot . similar note will be sent to the Papal ge verne r a. It is said that these documents will be cev- Ilte 'miliea by autograph letters addressed 1310 Emperor to the King of Naples and the Pope' DENMARK Prince Christian of Denmark has receives ; 7 * i s it the Emperor of the French an invitation t ° t Paris, which he has accepted, and will set °ll his journey about the middle of next month. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAU 114 1,7:01 0 TION, 9, ROSE HILL.—New patients entered on the o w col , last week, vi z.:—May 3rd : Relieved at the instrt ~,a i l- 163 163 ; relieve d at their own dwellings, 66 Leases of P r m e 0 4 ing epid em ic, 0. Total 229. Visitors, Mr. E. W.,,,'' r o ma t E M s r q ..T. Kir k . Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph J' l " TOP admitted a F M MONTHLY REPORT :—EYE AND E&R INFIRgArtVi N t ° lo 9 l 3° ''' : i O n llN tli T e .P na LE o A n S t A h NT f .— A Ey .l e department : New t iib ea for and who have received a spurrigic3a9l4a;ssPi:ttaineacets d p e r ic : p t r ii tr e month of April, 1,758. Ear department : __,rol r Paden dojos scribed for and who have received surical assistance sq•, Ja month of April, 508. Surgeon s : Hugh hn Poole, Esq., the N e ill,. taw Lang o tel l'oett - Dr. R. Hibbert Taylor. lissi9gsci. surgeon : Dr. Nevins. Treasurer : William OMAR PACHA AND HIS WIVES.—A letter from %/e v e- , a re nople, in the Se,nahphore, of Marseilles, earl ' — ',l ° ,f the already aware that Omar Pacha quitted his ecntneTsche: army of Asia to come and marry a daughter of Hopi,: e biet ex-governor of Trebisond, and who oramander"'`' et of the troops which were defeated at eNezib hY.3labfell3rhe Ali, Viceroy of Egypt, in the last y ear of the reign °..„0.. Sultan Mahmoud. Omar Pacha wa s also to g ive ic op r e b o , riage one of his own daughters to a son of Efeflz ' a d bis Everything was arranged, when Hafiz Pacha refus.eu to consent, ad and sent back to Omar Pacha the gifts WIC The l h presented, according to custom, to his betrothe. c 0,.. atter had declared that she never would, of hel lowilcus d ! 3 ent marry a Croatian renegade. Hafiz Pacha °Fobs himself on tbe score of the previous conduct of 0 0 . 8. A.,. bad relative to his wives. The abuse which the Which be made of polygamy, and the carelessness with "';,. i . the treated his several wives, appeared a sufficient r eason_ u we r repugnance which Hafiz Pacha felt to behold his da l/ f g A o ve treated as a concubine. Omar Pacha, feeling hie del who, wounded, referred the matter direct to the Sulta n ' looking only at the fact of the promise the marriage should take place. The order was formal'iobt Hafiz Pacha was compelled to yield, but as he had s6,;ar to oppose the marriage of his son to the daughter of _. O Pacha, he broke off the engagement which had beet' ' contracted. given, oTdereq tahrtlidt