The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-09 00:00:00

Ten DAT, the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's office Exchange-chambers, 1900 Barrels American TAR; . . ..... lately landed ex Hope, and lying in Grecn and Taylor's Warehouse, Luton-street.—For further particulars apply to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. On account of whom It may concern On WEDNESDAY next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock. at the Brokers' office, Victoria-buildings, Hackin's-hey, 269 liallrts Alpaca t WOOL, 41 Ballots Sheep ex Magellan, damaged by sea water.—Apply to PERKINS & ROBINSON, Wool Brokers. T.Zfanttli g, winhes to increase its connecti .namone the large Shipping Houses in idvert o 1, as their buyer of Manchester goods; and to houses of undoubted respectability, largo and liberal credits will be given. —Address A. 97,- Post office, Manchester. DA ILY GOVERNFSS.—A Lady who t eaches' English, Frertat, (acquired on the Continent), and Music, wishes to meet with an er.gagereent, Ur a few hours in the day, after the Midsummer vacs ion. The advertiser has had many years' experience in tuition, and can give the most satisfactory references—Address, E. R., Northern Times office. WANTED, a SOLICITOR, for a First-class Tailoring and Out— fitting Establishment —A liberal salary and commission will Ise given. to a competent man, who has a good connection with captains, and the shipping gene ally —Ad 'ress by letter (Z. R.), at the Northern Times office, stating qualifications and where last eta ployed. TO THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOHEMIAN GLASS GLASS AND CHINA TRADE, in want of an experienced SALESMAN. — The advertiser having just returned from an engage ment. in New York. is open to an immeilate. engagement Any gentleman in want of an waist tnt, by add; easing a note to Mr. Pope, care of mr. C. Witimer, Northern Times office, or to the address of the advertiser, Mr. J. rope, 14, Leycester.atreet, will meet with prompt attention. Co be Ed. BEECH BANK, LISCA RD, CHESHIRE.—TO be LET, a goad Family HOUSE, litely occupied by G. H. Crump, Esq. Rent, 460 pei annum.—Apply t - r. B. Hughes, 18, Exchange-alley North. IWO be LET, in 80, tle, a very large HALL, well adapted for a Meeting House, Club Room, or any other such purpose, being at the present time uccutied as a Piave of Worship, with seats and everything complete.—Apply to Mr. Parsons, Mersey Hotel. Bootle. On Sale. TO be SOLD, a Chariot BROUGHAM and a strong MARE, the property of a gentleman who has left the neighbourhood.—Apply to Mr. Rigg, Surgeon Woolton. COB PONY. PEIZETON, and HARNESS.—FOR SALE, a Bright Bay Cob-like GELDING, 6 years, 133 bands, war ranted sound. quiet, and clever in harness, and equal to great weight in saddle. Also, the PHIETON and HARNESS.-6. Upper Newington (two doors from Renshaw-street), private house. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOUSE-, I HOUSES ! ! LAND I LAND!!—ON SALE, in large or small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price from about 4'loo to 4'6',ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire offices. for the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Chambers (one door from Market-square) Market-street, Birken head. nrrrtai :72atts. THIS DAY. Tuts DAT, the 9th instant, at a quarter to Eleven o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 11, Temple-court, 297 Cases Messina LEMONS, ex Italian; 115 Boxes Palermo DITTO, ex Calpe ; 300 Bags Barcelona NUTS, ex Estrella; 300 Bags New Brazil DITTO, ex Princess Royal; 10 Bundles Yaro BASKETS. HOUGHTON & LEVY. Brokers. T 0-1%1 0 TI Tt 0 W TO-MORROW, the 10th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, :.t the Commercial ealeroom, Temple-court, 403 Foxes Short Boneless Middles } American BACON. 2oS Do. Long Do. just landed ex Peter Maxwell; 293 Boxes Camberland-cut American BACON, Just 'aaded ex Carratic.—Apply to Messrs. Fielden, Brothers and Co., Merchants, or to WILLIAM GARDNER & CO., Brokers To-Moßßow, the I th instant, at Half past One o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court, 500 Roxes hoice Cumberland-cut American BACON, ram landir g •a William Chamberlain, from Philadelohia.—Apply to Mrssra. Richardson. Spence and Co., Merchants, or to WILLIAM GARDNER & CO., Brokers. To-mOII.ROW, the I , lth instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Co mercial rateroom, Temple-court, 2Cg Fir.ins Prime Can-dian BUTrIR, h A:re•ican. screw steamer, m Montreal.—Apply to LI . 1%1 GARDNER & CO., Brokers o'clock, at the On account f whom it may concern TO-MORROW, the 10th instant. at Flalf-oist I the Broker "s Office, 10, Brunswick-street About 2000 Barrels Slightly Stained FLOUR, ex Westmoreland, from Philadelphia; About 1,000 Bushels 1V H RAT, ex Osterwald and New Orleans.—Apply to WILLIAM PARKE, B oker. On account of whom It may concern apTo-xtozaowi the 10th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Comm«rcial Saleroom, Tem? , le-court, JO boxes American BACON ax City of Baltimore.—Apply to MARQUIS, BAXTER & CO., Brokers. WEDNESDAY. R.' NODDER, HATTER, .81, CHURCH-STREET, Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW:STYLES fur the Season are NOW READY for Inspection. EVENING EDITION t An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY IMEn is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, Mining the Markets, together with all the News of the my, up to the hour of going to Press. Ttta ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1856 ON Friday we directed the attention of the readers of the NORTHERN TIMES to the havoc caused in France by the recent inundations, and we ventured, at the same time, to suggest the propriety of the public's taking steps towards affording some relief to the sufferers by that calamity. That any such work of Christian charity, or earnest of our sincerity towards a great and allied nation, should be left to our lowly and feeble advocacy, must appear strange to those who have watched the movements of the two countries for the last two years and a-half. We have enter tained the French Court, Imperial statesmen, Generals, and all those who ranked as the repre sentatives of France, with becoming attention and enthusiasm. And now that an opportunity presents itself, when we may, nay, are called on to show our regard and respect for her people, there is no responce made to the calls of humanity Politics cannot surely be suffered to enter into such matters. Diplomacy would not forbid us doing a generous act, or dilcharging a sacred duty. Be this as it may, we should do for the people of France, what they would do f 7,1. 119 ITer sons have stood by us in a deluge 1.1 e should help them to repair the rava & ,6 of the waters of their rivers. Those who had had nothing more than a traditional idea of the universal flood, the Ark, and the desolation the retiring waters left after them, had all the terrors felt at the world's destruction, brought home to them by the inundation of their towns, villages, and homestead s. Wives, in a frenzy of despair, were seen to throw themselves into the turbulent streams after their husbands, mothers to throw their infants from windows to bystanders, as they were about to fall with the walls of their dwellings, which buried them in their ruins ; whilst hundreds are known to have been washed out of their beds, and swept away by the torrents, never to be seen or probably heard of again. The survivors have not only to mourn over these afflictions. With their friends, of whom they hare thus suddenly been bereft, their houses, furniture, cattle, sheep, and growing crops, have disappeared, or have been destroyed. The destruction was so wide spread that it was found necessary to throw open the churches and other public buildings to receive the houseless, and have immediate recourse to Government aid to preserve thousands from death by starvation. Such a scene of devastation has not, in fact, been witnessed in any part of Europe for many generations. And yet England offers no aid to the sufferers ! If we must be commercial in all we do, think, and say, we need not be at a loss in Liverpool for sound mercantile grounds on which to sanctify an appeal to our Merchant Princes •n behalf of that particular portion of France red in this instance Lyons is essentially a manufacturing town, and its looms consume a large share of our cotton. , ktd , rtlong the whole course of the Rhone our coals and iron are largely used. Orleans and Tours are good markets for our manufactures. We might say more on this subject, but we forbear in considera tion of the generous French nation. If further Sordid inducements be wanted to set the philan trophy of the rich Burgesses of Liverpool in to say that France is " one accusers THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. it will be on Saturday next. The culprit may save his life by proving that COOK did not die of poison, and failing in this, an ignominous death on the scaffold will lose none of its punishment over, there are two sides to the question of public safety. Suppose PALMER should be hanged on Saturday next, that after his execution his innocence should be proved by the same weight of " moral" evidence which has been used to establish his guilt, what excuse will the adminis trators of the law have to offer to GOD and man? Again, suppose PALMER is put to death without further enquiry, and we admit the principle in criminal law, that the presence of poison in a body I\fore- is not necessary—that it is sufficient for the pur pose of securing a conviction, that the symptoms at and after the time of death were similar to those in a case in which poison had been used, what man would be sale, who was found at the bed side of a friend at the moment of his demise ? PALMER'S case will be resorted to as a precedent, to justify proceedings against any man who may be ever so remotely connected with another, so long as the symptoms resemble the sufferings that poison would produce. Setting aside, therefore, all thoughts of the magnitude of the crimes alleged against PALMER—passing over all prejudices as the best and holiest mode of punishing murder, leaving out of sight the question of guilt or innocence in any individual case,—we call on the public to ponder well over the change the acceptation of the new principle relied on inCoox's case will bring about— the door which the sanctioning of such a precedent will throw open for the prosecution and conviction of those who may not have the same means PALMER had of defending their lives against their THE ITALIAN QUESTION Christian world, which, despite protest and prayer, has remained, by one " providence" or another, at his mercy ever since. Seven years ago he went there with his army " against his will," but he is there with his army still, just as he is at Athens and Constantinople, and likely to continue there. And so also it happens that while anxiously, nay, piously, disclaiming all views of dynastic aggrandizement or foreign conquest—presenting himself as the very Joseph of political continency—he permits, strangely enough, his cousins, the Murats, to expect at his hands a new Neapolitan kingdom, while the Italians, just as strangely, are allowed to get it into their beads that he is to bestow on them a Republi can nationality. By an adroitness, which carries into diplomacy the whole art of legerdemain, he stands well with parties the most conflicting, making himself the stay of every project, con servative or revolutionary, and the friend of every principle, Socialist or Jesuitic. While the Imperial oppressor of Lombardy is his very good brother and dearest ally, and the Pope the godfather of his son, all through Italy the popular mind is personating him as the saviour of her liberties, and the restorer of her nationality. The " juggling fiend" of Macbeth might usefully go to him for lessons, if only to deceive " hopes" as well as ears. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) What means this 'quickening recurrence to the Italian question ? How happens it that statesmen in their policies, if not their treaties, politicians in their harangues, and every class of public writers, as though bitten by some political tarantula of the country, are all dancing to the tune of an Italian revolution ? Is the " Niobe of the nations," then, on the eve of some new career of eventualities ? Are we in another 1847? And is the second, but true '4B of revived nationalities already looming up to eyes learned in that " mystical lore" which enables men to descry " coming events" in the shadows they project ? It would seem so. The whole peninsula is in agitation. From the Alps to the lowest point of the Abruzzi the spirit of change sits brooding over the land, we will not say " dove-like," for over the incubation lower clouds and shadows which pre elude more than a conjecture on its true character. But whatever may be the value of the phe nomenon, it is felt to be alarming by those best fitted to adjudge its importance. Austria tells the tale of her anxiety in her pro mise of taking up herself that role of reform which, in the hands of her subjects, she has so long made the equivalent of exile and imprison ment. Perplexed equally by the state of public opinion, and the counsels of an ally, whose faith lessness just now must be her trust in the want of any other—for Russia may soon show, on Italian ground perhaps, that she has not been sold for nothing—she enters, or thinks of entering, on ne.v paths of government with no higher en couragement than the conviction that the old ones are grown unsafe. The Papal government, the echo of Austrian fears in the proportion that it has been the partner ufAutrian policies, shakes with sympathetic weak ness as it hears the first blast of the approaching hurricane. Unable to be consistent, and unwilling to appear the contrary, it becomes a house divided against itself the moment it is visited by a doubt on the infallibility of the repressive system, and, taking refuge in that old resource of conscious weakness—the doing its work by contradictory halves, seeks to compensate the follies of force on one side by the follies of weakness on the other— the system of systems for coaxing the timidity of sedition into the full-blown glories of revolution. The Sardinian Government, ambitious by the very necessity of its position, yet unsafe whether it be popular liberty or princely despotism which triumphs, is so divided between Italian Sove reignty, the aim of some of its members, and Italian nationality, the object of the rest, that it agitates, and is agitated without any distinct ♦iews of policy or its means, and shrinking from nothing so much as a decided act, is like the cat in the pan, intensely greedy of the rich morsel before it, yet for ever " letting I dare not wait or I would." In fact, throughout all this land of the Syllas and the Caesars, nobody seems to make show of manhood but one whose fellowship might be disdained by brutes, the miscreant, at the head of the Italian Lazzeroni, and who, with all his faults, or rather by them, stands forth in this crisis as in the last, " every inch a king," in the resoluteness with which he clings to the high-handed ferocity which had been once before his safety. Happily, whatever be the results—and we suppose it is not given to man to foresee all the consequences of this royal re-entry on the cycle of revolutions—we may feel certain that they will not rest so wholly in the hands of Louis Napoleon, as he probably surmises. The most astute of di plomatists, will count for little in the coming day of restored nationalities, unless assured of the sympathies of the secret societies ; and even Imperial heads, aspiring to be the custodians of Italian independence, may well be troubled, as, looking homewards, they hear the pregnant enquiry —Buis custodiet custodes Who shall keep the keepers? The classic land, it is true, groans under the load of its armed men, for the most part foreign to the soil, but it has its ven geance in the fact, that the armies of Austria, France, and Sardinia menace each other, at least as much as they menace filo inhabitants, and that the first hostile clash of their arms may be re echoed in countries as enslaved, if not as unhappy, where the oppressor is not the stranger, nor the conqueror an alien. But though this aspect of concession or resist ance, whatever it be, is but a symptom of the impatience of public opinion and the im mirli?nce of the crisis, we confess we should study it with more satisfaction had " our foreign corresponaents" initiated us a little further into the secret causes of the movement, or the ends to which it is conducting us. The writing is on . the wall, flaming out the passing of the present thing ; but, as we can neither recog nise the hand, nor are told who shall " possess the kingdom," we ask ourselves in an anxiety proportioned to our ignorance, for whose benefit these unfortunate States are again lending them selves to the risks of revolution ? For fifteen cen turies Italy has been the house of the proverb, burned ever and anon to roast the eggs, now of foreign, now of domestic usurpers ; and, if we may continue Sancho-Panza's style of illustration, it would be quite as well to know, if the people who are now beating the bush will be those to catch the hare. All we can see is, that if the Italians are excited and agitated to the last excess short of actual insurrection, it is impossible to conceive anybody in a cooler condition for turning their activity to profit than the present occupant of the Tuilleries Though nobody of late has more successfully taken up that decent position in political, which Mr. Joseph Surface has long olcupied in dramatic society, he is charged by those who know him best with a sly liking for the great Machiavellian practice of withdrawing his neighbour's attention from himself, by occupying it on troubles of their own. He has certainly given in his life more than one practical proof that Italy is not as indifferent to him as his language would let Europe suppose. The chosen scene of his earliest buccaneering exploit now a quarter of a century since—his very first act as President of the French Republic, was to possess himself of the sister Republic's capital—the capital of the Apply to THE COURT. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick 'William of Prussia, honoured the Royal Italian Opera, Lyceum, with their presence on Thursday evening. Prince Albert rode on horseback on Friday with the Prince of Wales, attended by Captain the lion. D. de Ros. Prince Frederick William of Prussia, attended by Captain de Heinz, Colonel Francis Seymour, and Dr. Wegner, inspected the Victoria Tower, in the Houses of Lords and Commons on Friday morning. The Regent of Baden, attended by Colonel Baron Stutter, and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, went on Friday to Millwall, to view the large steam vessel building there. Her Majesty and the Prince, the Princess Royal, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, took a drive in an open landau and four. The Queen and _Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, went in state, at half-past ten o'clock, on Friday night, to the full dress ball, at the Hanover Square Rooms, for the benefit of the Royal Academy of Music. The royal party occupied seven of the Queen's carriages, and was escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards. SATURDAY.—His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Baden quitted the palace early this morning for Scotland, attended by the gentlemen of his household. The Prince Regent and his household were conveyed in two of the royal carriages from the palace to the Eastern Counties Railway station at Shoreditch, from whence the royal party proceeded in the first instance to Cambridge, for the purpose of viewing the colleges and halls of that University. From Cambridge the Prince travelled northwards this afternoon. His royal highness is expected to spend several days on his tour, and will rejoin her Majesty and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle, i n order to be present at the Ascot races. Her Majesty acid his Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback at ten o'clock this forenoon, attended by the maid of honour in waiting, and also by General Bouverie and Captain de Ros. The Prince of Wales also rode out on horseback to-day, attended by Mr. Gibbs. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia walked out this morning. The prince entered the National Gallery, in Trafalgar Square, and, after viewing the collection of pictures, returned to Bucking ham Palace. The Queen went for a drive with the Princess Royal in an open carriage and four, accompanied in the carriage by the maid of honour in waiting. The equerries attended on horseback, Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, left the palace about nine o'clock for the Haymarket Theatre, accompanied by the Princess Royal, to witness the performance of "The Evil Genius," and also the Spanish dancers. CABINET COUNCIL.—On Friday a cabinet was sum moned to meet at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. Soon after the time appointed, the Duke of Argyll, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, Mr. Baines, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Labouchere, Sir Charles Wood, and Lord Stanley of Alderley, assembled, but were not joined by Lord Palmerston and the Chancellor of the Exchequer until past three o'clock. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU TION, 9, ROSE HILL.—New patients entered on the books last week, viz.:—June 7th : Relieved at the institution, 182 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 74 ; cases of prevail ing epidemic, 0. Total 256. Visitors, Mr. E. Watts and Mr. T. Kirk. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Jos. Kitchen, Esq. COMMITTAL FOR MANSLAUGHTRR.—SUSaII Donlan, who had been remanded on a charge of having caused the death of James Connor, in Frederick-street, was brought up on Saturday before Mr. Mansfield, for final examina tion, The flies of this case appeared a few days ago in our paper. There was no new evidence in the case, and the woman was fully committed for trial at the assizes. CLAYTON B.ALC—An unbroken series of triumphs, extending over some weeks, terminated on Saturday last at this elegant Temple of the Muses, and if Miss Emma Stanley takes with her but a little of the delightful recol lecions she leaves behind her, " Cousin George's" project for pumping the " Atl an tic dry," may be accomplished before the eventual gratification c m fade. We have care. fully watched the conduct and management of this institu tion, and are delighted to perceive how quickly en appreciation of its new equipment, its admirable adaptation to the widest circle of refined artistic display, has been manifested by a succession of anditories of the highest classes of the town and neighbourhood. The spirited manager may be congratulated upon the splendid inaugu ration of this unique combination of theatre, concert, and drawing-room (tor such it is) by the lady above named, and the public equally so, in the announced appearance of Mr> Cotton in his " Night with Nelson," exhibiting in it, as he does; the united qualities of voice, taste, and science, which graced an Incledon and a Braham, with colloquial elegance in the delivery of anecdote, incident, and introductory remark, for the rich variety of those nautic lyrics which (no offence to our gallant "red jackets") have so long, so nobly demonstrated the proud fact, that " Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls:' Mr. Cotton brings with him a reputation based, no less upon the enthusiastic applause which has uniformly attended him, than the warm expres sion of approval from parties whose voice is judgment, and whose praise is fame. We must repeat our admiration (in common with those best of judges, the ladies) of the tasteful elegance of the edifice, as well as the exemplary decorum and social order imiyersally exhibited Within its walls. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING The tone of the Cotton Market has undergone no change. The sales to-day amount to 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 have been taken for speculation and export; prices remaining as quoted yesterday. The Liverpool Share Market opened with a firm tone, and throughout the day gradually gained in strength, finally closing firmly, at the following quotations :—Aberdeen, 13 134. Chester and Birkenhead, 154 16. Caledonian, 306 30g. Chester and Holyhead, 161- 164. Eastern Coun ties, 104 104. East Lancashire, 194 194. Great Northern, 234 24. Ditto A; 94 94. Great Western, 61 614. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 924 924. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport, 174174, London and North Western Stock, 1014 102 k. Man chester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 294 294 Ditto Pref., 114 114. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 4 4p. Mid land Stock, 784 784. North British, 84 9. North Staffordshiie, 6 51d. South Eastern and Dover, 21 7-16 214 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 204 20, 7-16. York and North Midland, 294 294. Leeds Capital Stock, 174 174. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 14 14p. Dutch Rhenish, 14 lip. Great Western of Canada, 254 254, Ditto New Shares, 24 3p. Great Luxembourg, 84 84d. ✓ The ease in the Money Market continues to increase, and we learn from London to-day that some of the Joint Stock Banks have notified that the rate of interest allowed for money on call is reduced to three per cent. The imports of the 'precious metal during the week have been large, viz , the America, from the United States, with 154,9401.; the Madrid, from the Peninsula, with 1,0301; the Solent, from the West Indies, and the Pacific, with 723,4641; the Hermann, from the United States, with 20,0001; the Fantome, from Australia, with 84,0001; the Atlantic, from the United States, with 42,334/, making a total of about 1,025,7681. The exports have comprised the Indus, with 499.6891. to the East Indies and China; the Magdalena, to the West Indies, with 6,0001, besides gold and silver bars to Hamburg and Belgium, through the London Custom House, value about 35,6001, making a total of 531,2891. These are exclusive of withdrawals from the Bank of England by private hands, the particulars of which are not known. Yesterday the gold brought by the Fantome (84,0001.) :was taken into the Bank of England. We quote the following report of the London Stock Market for the week, from the circular of Mr. W. Avens:— All our markets have been adversely affected • by the unsettled state of our re'ations with ..the United States; but the Money Market least of all. Government, Railway, and general Securities have fallen in value, temporarily, it is believed, from this cause; but money has retained the com parative cheapness which was produced last week by the reduction in the rates of discount, and we cannot perceive the slightest abatement of confidence in the commercial and financial prospects of the future. The " fourth" of the month, which is usually a test of the soundness of the market, and also of mercantile opinion, passed over with more ease that usual ; there was very little pressure, although the Bills falling due were heavier than had been generally anticipated. In reference to the political difficul ties with the United. States, a good deal of anxiety has bees prevailing, from apprehensions that our Minister has been dismissed from Washington, in consequence of the misunder standing on the recruitment question, and also from a fear that unforeseen circumstances might precipitate a collision upon the Central American dispute. To a certain extent these fears are still operative ; but the advices from New York, which come down to the 24th ult., are almost wholly of a favourable tendency, and as the greatest mode ration is shown by our own government,• as well as by parliament in the present state of the question, and as Lord Palmerston has expressed an opinion in his place in Parliament, that peace will be preserved, there are strong reasons for believing that, in a short time, a good under standing will be restored between the two countries. The French Minister at Washington, and the French Govern ment at Paris, are understood to be exerting themselves with this object ; and as all parties profess to be moved by a desire for peace, it is believed that all difficulties will be arranged in the course of a few weeks. Opinion on this subject is fairly represented by the state of the Money Market. Any real expectation of hostilities with the United States would have been accompanied with tighter rates and restricted accommodation ; as it is, we have satisfaction in reporting neither one nor the other, but rather that rates are easy with a supply more than equal to the demand. The general rates in Lombard-street are 41 per cent.; and on the Stock Exchange notwithstanding the occurrence of the Con sol Setttement, the rates have not exceeded 4,1 and 5 per cent. Rail way Companies are now only offering 4 per cent. Con sols have been affected by the American questions, but not so much as might have been anticipated; they have also suffered from a large failure in Paris, and again from the fears for the harvest, created by the inundations in the south of France. But not withstanding these. adverse influences, quotations have been steady, and there has always, more or less, been a tendency after each decline, to a reaction. The closing price last night was 951- to 1, for the loth July, with the dividend. The decline during the week• has been very moderate considering the nature of the contingencies just described. The Scrip of the New Loan closed last night at 2 to ipm. Railway Shares, under the same influences as Consols, have also declined, but not to the same extent. Fine weather, favourable traffics, and the con tinued disnosition on the part of the public to invest in these securities, have all contributed to maintain their relative value. The decline, in short, is more nominal than real, and it may, under present circumstances, be recovered at any moment. Foreign Securities are all lower than last week. Foreign Railways, especially French, have slightly declined ; and of course the Canadian and American descriptions generally have suffered the most in this respect. All the other markets have presented much the same aspect. Exchequer Bills have improved to Bs. pm. Lord Palmerston having stated in the House of Commons last night that he had good reason for hoping that the pending differences between the United States will be amicably terminated ; and that, as yet, no confirmation had been received of the alleged dismissal of Mr. Crampton from Washington, all the London markets opened firmly this morning. Consols, which are now quoted for the first time ex-dividend, opened at 931 to 94 for the account, which, with the dividend, is equivalent to 958 tol ; and finally left off at 938 to 94. Rail ways generally were the turn better, and there was somewhat more dispo:iition to invest in them than has been apparent for the last day or two.. The other markets were also improving, though not to any material extent. Money remains easy, and with scarcely any demand. The Asia, which is due from the United States on Monday, is looked for with the greatest possible interest. The intelligence she brings will, unquestionably, produce considerable effect upon the prices of public securities. The balance of opinion is, that it will be of a favourable character, even though it may turn out that Mr. Crampton has been requested to withdraw from Wash• ington. _ The closing prices for shares were : Caledonian, 61 61. i. Eastern Counties, 10 104-. East Lancashire, 78 80. Great Northern, OP ; 96. Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western, 61 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 931 931. London and North Western, 102 k 1021. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 291 29/. Midland Stock, 781 781. North British, 35 36. South Eastern and Dover, 7 711 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 81 82. York and North Midland, 58.1 581. Advices from Breslau relative to the German wool markets report an increasing amount of busi ness, as the period approaches when the clip of the season arrives in the market. In that city there is a larger assemblage than has been known for many years of buyers from France, Holland, and England. Already some large parcels of Silesian wool, in grease, of the new shearing, has come to market, and changed hands at 88 to 95 rixthalers per quintal best kinds, and 75 to 88 ditto for inferior. The growers of fine wools to he delivered scoured, are obtaining from 110 to 125 rixthalers per quintal, which is an improvement on the ruling prices of last year, ranging from 8 to 12 r. d. per quintal. Reports from the principal wool-growing establishments continue to state that the washing and shearing progresses favourably, and the result of the season is likely to be above the average. At Berlin the contracts for the season have included nearly onp half the wool expected from the principal establishments in Prussia. The prices given for delivery in July and August are, upon an average, 12 per cent. higher than they were last season. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Week ending June 7, 1856.—Admitted : In-patients, 45 ; out-patients, 6 ; casuals during week, 12. Discharged : In-patients cured, 13 ; relieved, and at own request, 10 ; made out-patients, 4 ; irregular, 1 ; dead, 4 ; remain in the house, 171. House visitors : W. H. Moss, and Williara Gregson, Esqrs. Physician and surgeon for ensuing week ; Dr. Turnbull and Mr. Long. House surgeon : Mr. G. B. Halford. Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster. Chaplain : Rev. H, J, Garrod, 8..& Robert Ijutshisou, treasurer motion, it must suffice " of our best customers," and ought to be sustained when the misfortunes of her people are not of their own seekinv, Our Paris correspondent leads us to infer that something in the shape of relief is looked for from this good old Borough, and it is earnestly to be hoped, that the natural anticipation of so near a neighbour and so valuable a friend, will not be disappointed. As for Liverpool's waiting for - London, and all England, to take the lead on sub jects in which the whole community are concerned, is an idea which cannot be too soon exploded. We can afford to pay for the leading of our esteemed Metropolitan brethren. It is purely a question of pounds, shillings, and pence, whether Liverpool shall be made to appear to have the biggest and clearest head and the purest heart. The contents of our commercial purse counts up to 46,000,000/ an nually, with a population of 400,000 persons only to support. Compare these figures with those of Lon don, and the world will see which of the two great rivals ought to take precedence of the other, in works such as those we now venture to advocate. The wants of the suffering French provinces are, however, immediate, and without waiting to be led by the nose, or shamed into the discharge of an obvious duty, the public will expect to hear that subscription lists have been opened for the relief of those, among the French people, who have just been left destitute by the visitation of GOD. Since the above was written, we learn that the French Consul in our town (as will be seen from his announce in our advertising columns) has invited his fellow-countrymen to forward to him their subscriptions in aid of the fund for relieving the unfortunate sufferers from this sad disaster. As the day and hour appointed to put the con vict Palmer to death approaches, public opinion becomes stronger and more divided. The awful and eternal responsibility of taking away life, when there is the smallest semblance of doubt as to the guilt of an offender, weighs, in this instance, with peculiar gravity, on the minds of those who are the strenuous supporters of capital punishment, whilst the philanthropists, who form moral and religious convictions, are opposed to the extreme penalty of the law in any case, are so appalled at the crimes with which PALMER stands charged. that they appear to doubt the force of their reasoning, and shrink from giving expres sion, in his individual case, to those arguments which they use against the punishment of death under any and all circumstances. Amongst the great masses—we here speak advisedly, as we have been at some pains to ascertain their views—the opinion is, that PALMER is a vagabond, and that although his guilt has not been proved either in law or in fact, that society will lose nothing by his being put to death—a dangerous and untenable doctrine, to which we will advert anon. While these several opinions engross the peoples mind, allusion is universally made to the course pursued by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL with regard to the medical witnesses brought up for the defence, and that sub sequently followed by the JUDGE in summing up. Doctor LETELERBY, whose testimony had been relied on by the Crown for years, whose practical skill and unblemished character were thought all sufficient to justify the execution of other crimi nals, and to obtain a respite for two persons charged with similar crimes, was on this occasion not treated with the respect which he commanded during years of semi-official life. With respect to the summing up, the novel feature which has excited the most general animad verson, is the fact that the JUDGE did not go through the evidence as it came before the bench. The evidence, which the JUDGE style " commenced with the examination of Coon and PALMER'S visit to Shrewsbury, and what took place at the Raven-hotel—the summing up with a dis tinct reference to a subject—forgery—not before the court and the charge to the jury, with a review of the pecuniary difficulties of a man who had been living for years by the most disreputable practices of the turf—betting without adequate means to pay losses. These degressions, from the established line of procedure, have created a wide-spread sym pathy for the accused and sentenced man, and coupled with the conflicting character of the medical and chemical evidence brought forward, there are thousands in this district, who, although they do not feel satisfied of PALMER'S innocence, and would hang him and every other man found guilty of murder, are desirous of seeing a respite granted, in order to give time to clear up all those points of his case which are manifestly open to doubt, and fit subjects for further and closer investigation. The few short minutes in which the jury arrived at a verdict, after a ten days' trial, is another matter which has excited universal attention. All those who have waded through the daily reports of the trial, as they appeared in an abridged form in the newspapers, and those who have seen the evidence as printed in extenso, in two ponderous volumes, cannot help expressing their amazement at the ready manner in which the jurymen must have prepared their notes to have enabled them to decide on PALMER'S guilt within a couple of hours. We have devoted ten days to the study of those voluminous reports, and yet we are wholly inca pable of offering the most vague opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner ; and we are not prepared to admit that those who were in court and heard the entire case, were at all likely to be enabled to form a more hasty judgment than those who read the arguments for and against, on a question of life and death. But without pretend ing to set up our humble abilities against those of the jury, and without wishing to impugn the dis interestedness and correctness of their verdict, we may observe that we are not singular in our mental weakness. Lord CAMPBELL seems to have shared the inability we feel and confess, for the learned Lord's sum ming up reads more like an allegory than a careful resume of the evidence adduced on both sides, and his charge to the Jury a sort of hieroglyphical picture which commences with the portrait of a swindler before the murderer, and the specific crime of which he is accused are brought promi nently forward. These are the principal phases in PALMER'S case, which have led to the change which has taken place in the public mind, in favour of an extension of time, to allow the medical men and chemists employed on,the trial to reconcile their many wide differences, not as to matters of theory, but as to matters of fact. By respiting the prisoner for one month, nothing can be lost to the safety of society. Death will be as terrible, and the work of the laws retribution as full of justice on the 14th of July, as LATEST INT ELLIGEN THE INUNDATIONS IN FR -c , vNi PARIS, SUNDAY i'll"" A despatch informs us that the riversi Loiret, and their tributary s treams a rc atr falling most perceptably. The saroe desp mentions that the basins of the Saone 8 1 Rhone will speedily settle to their usuil ordinary s fr ta instan t L Letters om Bordeaux, of the sth in, that the Garoune has overflowed in mar* . I ) ; The Emperor arrived at St.. Cloud la' . _ night • THE PRINCIPALITIES.-THE E 01.1141 COMMISSION. Advices from Marseilles, of yes terdaY , 11 ,1; intelligence from Constantinople to th e Eu the 29th ult. From them we leap that tbeasso Commissioner had produced 'to h e s bou n d commissions appointed to arrange th in Bessarabia, instructions rece i v ed by 11 , ni 1 his Government directing him to retire try(' deliberations. The Russian Commi s 7 i°lle fal ever, still remained at Galatz, waiting inst;mctions. --- ha d b Modker Pacha, Prince of Stou rzds, admitted to take part in the conclave. , Marshall Pelissier was to leave Ka n ' the c , 15th instant, and would be succeeded in many by General M'Mahon THE BRAZILIAN MA SOUTHAMPTON, J"Poit, The steamship Tamar, with the Brazilinoresr has April 30 arrived. Her dates are, Buenli,T 1 5 ; pril 30 ; Rio Janeiro, May 15; Bahia , , "'", 2 7. Pernambuco, May 20 ; and St. Vincent, Ml o o in The Tamar brings 125 passengers, oicleo specie, diamonds to the value of a cargo A of the usual character. „ T alen t ' At Rio Jo • neiro the yellow fever was P ng . and only a bare amount of business was 0 ,, ° "• At Pernambuco Exchange was at 2s 31 !' • £52,000, be INDIA & AUSTRAL TRIESTE, Su''' sri lig The Steamer Australia arrived hero to day b 5 left Alexandria on the 3rd June. i fi nd 09 The India mail had arrived at that P. ;vole ° l ate , •t , g a y to fro leave on the sth instant, bringing m Calcutta to May 4, and from 13 01311-391 , t :1 1 Y ° 12. There is also news from Melbourne b) Aoci Ceylon to the 28th Mareii.-- , gov - Trade in India was dull but there Was l' t.et I ° s demand for shipping, and the cott on mal active. c lea ° Exchange at Bombay at 2s. 1 0 t° ~ and a 4. ' 3 2s- I,d. The money market was tight. .ses At Melbourne, the price of gold had 70005 £3 I.Bs 6d per ounce, and Exchange on I° at 2 per cent. premium. o° s The coinage at the New Sauth w ales l to t " carried on at a loss of 14 per eel' ' colony. The shipments from Melbourne ounce ~ week ending March 28, included 60,827 sto gold, and £lO,OOO in specie by the Meolil dOld OUn CeS C iil lr bound for Bristol, and 45,672 with £llO,OOO in specie by the G eore , 0 shall, bound for London. The al n° lo t the shipments which had been 1113 t ili England during five wee ks is no less 337,000 ounces of gold, and £350,000 thane` The t gold fields are yielding more largelY a the rate of nearly £20,000,000 sterlillif annum. The produce of the first three 111°11,.i0 1856 was nearly that of the corresponding Pe" o 111 a 1855. Trade at Melbourne continues steadY i , 61 - o f I balance is in favour of the colony, the vaiti- io o exports for five weeks being X 1,917,000 LIP amount of £1,400,000 in imports. wo The prices of all the. necessar i e s of lif e 15 0 0 rate, and the want of labourers beisg Ito co felt, emigrants from England are invi ted -° , out. In New South. Wales as well as in the P t , 1 9 1* of Victoria, it appears that the atteinPt s `, 0% -e the constitutional system of r esponsib le t ge ment into working order, have not, in instance, been very successful. FRANCE• (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-' able news from Orlean P ns of Blois, Amboise, In consequence ravo of the receipt of vierY ' ll , l ne , Di the inundations s AR of IS th , Fe ktai.1::::::0111:4040;11,..,, in that city, and in the I le 'por c. ing tow ror,though et he only returned from LYeus il%-pres4 south and Tours, the sand tlie serda set off this morning bY , e 1 i t Il e train for Orleans. The telegraph tel us 6cil of arrived there at ten minutes past elevens sti „,eed e ' t passing an hour in visiting the disasters, pro one, to Blois, where he arrived at a quarter Ps'j told, The Emperoryesterday, is not only terribly cut 11P. 3 . s os sed , you by the sight of what he W lt o n il e• 11 , 6 but h e greatly knocked up by the fett",,,ti;e/Y. underwent; was and yet he deemed it in3Pel necessary fo set off for Orleans. e the til i Heartrending as are the accounts 0. - u p dations in the papers , they do not cool° 1 fio those of eye witnesses, or private letters. eyed' assured, that not only was water to be se cn b t he t where,that further than the eye could rea c t . r iee' in it were floating the dead bodies ° o ses , women, and children; and of horsesstio of and sheep, together with vast qualitli R id s ' household furniture and effects of 141 ,' ~,bed iii „. Here trees and there, too, were to be seen Pel-woraoi ,or on the roofs of houses, wretchead the',ll, withlittle children clustering roan 'PO and in theird danger of perishing from hunge r v'l ' damage done by the inundations are ince , bie oi and have not yet met any person cii ,, P ‘ Ol i t i• forming even an approximative esinot„tu: fee t o But judge what it must be When the r - le a l P . Orleans thus speaks of it in a public aPP e b eeo charity :—The valley of the titres the eroPs ravaged are e for an extent of 100 kilotnetyes. i.ri.),, the lost, many houses have been destroYe(ViJ:Dattt waters, a numerous population is iastr tv m resources, without habitation, and Zvi th is do o not en i t sof cultivation ! And, remember, t ' i l io 1116 rielude the damage done at Lyol3s. or cool' southern departments, nor in the coun`Flietel4; prised between Toura and Rouen. /a th e - ea fori ll it t i stated, authoritatively, that the sues sheet u not less than 100 French leagu es it it 15 fearedSb"ripti""re pouring in apace, Pt it v ocs that they will be but as a drop il, , L ll . l c, of compared to the misery to be relieved. ' il l 1 cce t , l' France has given 100,000 fr, (4,000/ ), t ' sol ll4. Mobilier has given the um Baron, _lOl,l same s , _ - Na po child 40,000 fr ( 600/ ) Prince Jerome 10,0001 r Prince . ' l, . ' General*(lo ~ Napoleon 5,000 fr. , big al . .5 , Sir W. Williams, of Kars' ate . o t 10' de camp have p have arrived in Paris, and are 0 1 0 amongst the English. hs v The juryuibition 04 of the agricultural eloJ Avi o/ 1, , announced their to•daY, afr-tbe',. awards of prizes them our countrymen have obtained sever 10,;‘ Colonel Tui Townley has got one for Durlils 0,,1P: and Mr. one for his Sussex and Devons.,,lW(43 t,°, ~.. Mr. Perry for Herefords, Mr. .1°4,,1Y '`' Ares, Mr. Kirkwood and Sir J. y T re i s, and Mr. M'Combe for Angusses. The Bourse has The heavy rains which caused so val ye l sterda and the day before, have ccaseu'ilelgitlf hear from a good source, that the .-'.: detc l Government is apprehensive that France l' ot c oil mined to pick a quarrel with it, and t hat, tiro iois, tent with the press difficulty, it proposes franc' oilhicthe early payment of the 40,000,000 ~0 5t o as the u _w • •11 Belgium has long owed, French intervention on her behalf, iti 183(j i, 00 ii' . The Journal des Debats makes this reinarli,,olisl American question;—"We must do th e ,eratit'l government the justice of sayings that tnoofter all and dignity are entirely on its side. ll ' vi ol 6 however, in both countries, there is ne t a Or ` I sense who does not consider the idea of : ;,f . t ji madness ; but the electoral necessities -unite' present Cabinet and President Pierce, of the 0. 00 pro , V o States, h may lead them to a dopt l°!- 1 vt 4 would, render a rupture inevitab. l ' o ll] A at e " e t G e at .n( ,k City 0 4 ,:, 11 010 1 4; 41111 Sara: eB Y tl ! , te G - e - 2 tois,, di l) - e 7 i 'i an op prat t Th:.. l 4Y i'"Ps r er oc tt % O ft be an to r 4t t he S. etin, -a t4 h; , v e to ultti4( thn est fr; m rti 'aer, oho] 111,„.11.'t t o "' e r it it s either t me o th p to . ,! a uit th e , 411( to th 15re0 Ri ta n 4 ett tatn and an d aid ').oc c ola otte h r i 8 t; ;Far ( i e ~he A rtl, a. , Il tder th e We A, w eeN gi Iths- I.l l ltlas e ' A,. 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