The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-18 00:00:00

tIONIIIIMII2 "[IT A be given to - a captains, and em played alartfar: lOUSEMAID.—AppIy square. with Stem pty, by letter, t at 21, Oarord-s!reet, plan as CLERK. One who has been nie in t Address I , '2B Mercury offi'.e ED, a Good Strong PON !ady to Price not to exceed :0: For ai Northern Times office P A RTNER WANTED.---71 1 ( DINGLE. HOUS MO be LET, i Meeting Ho at the present tim TO be LET COTTON an I Carlto There is A: Apply to T rip 0 b .11.. COL Co be Let. Ir. S. Wa LET, a semi-detached HOUS r oms. baths, a attached), suitable S. P., 50. Northern cotton trade om 14 tl 15 hands high. r drive, with good action, TED. a SOLICITOR, for a First-class Tailoring and Out ug Establishment. —A liberal salary and commission will npetent man, who has a good connection with nag generally —Ad' ress by letter (Z. R.), stating qualifications and where last Advertiser, possessed of some sin( ss, is desirous of forming a tal and experience 38H1P with a gentleman (either an American or English- about equal means, and being ruately acquainted ard c and the Chartering of SI Address U. S Northern slf Acres of L 4 PHIS a Jamaic onversant with American Ship Brokerage, lips to the Unified States and elsewhere.— Times office. Deny-squari 11'O be LET. Fur! IL. Family RES 1 D c mtaining gool dint gantry, ten view, apply D J :0 Mr. S. Waterhou WALLASEY with four parlour, t bedrooms detached fror hed, a semi detached 4, Derby Lte at Aig o Mr. S. Waterbouse, 4, oni, libra: LE C, a C door; tw ll stable, nose box, t, and a ly to Mr. S. Witerhouse, 4, JOWETT, large garden.—For particulars Derby-square. ma, eleven bedrooms, dri receptic MANSION, situate at St. Michael's Hamlet Z 0 be LET contains four rooms, bath, water closets, butler's pantry, and large kite three, stalled stable, !nose box, coach-house, piggeries, and gardener's cottage, in enclosed yard; pleasur, grounds, k tchen garden and conservatory.—For cards to view and further particulars apply to Mr. S. Waterhouse, 4. Derby-square. ASecond-h , nl Cottage PIANO-FORTE (3 forfeited pledge), to be SOLD Chew, at 11. J. Syred's, Pawnbroker, Park-lane. A Good SALESMAN WANTED. OVi SALE, a very handsome BLACK li&RE, a cal ital hack , steady in harness, and carries a lady.—Al ply to W. C. 13, Post-office, Liverpoql. A IGBURTH.— TO BE SOLD OR LET, a detached VILLA, C ,ntalns three pitting rooms, four bpdrooms, three attic., bath, and w.ter-closet. There is a well-stocked garden, of about half an tars and orders to view, apply to ➢ir. S. Water- acre.—For house. 4. O be SOLD, with early posiesa'on, a capital o-stalled stable. It .ption rooms and nu . n emus beirooms, and the rda to view and further particulars may be had 4. Derhy.sq,,are ) cf, the STOCK-IN-TRADE and FIXTURES, and INTEREST therein. of a SADDLER' ars' standing. Good connection in a leading pp )rtnni ty for a, ne desirous of pply at 186. Si fished, a It D LL A, with good garden, green house, coach The house contains thrte entertaining rooms, 'easing room, bath, and water closet, &c. For rs to view apply to Mr. S. Waterhan SMITHDOWN-LANE.- now prepared to SF,L and for Interments in tha abov For scale of charges apply , t the office of the Reglstra etery ; or to the Clerk to the Board, at the Public Offic . Toateth P,rk. 4, Derby- PARK CEM —The Burial A.' RFIELD.—T 0 be SO '.D. i wo first.class modern-built RESI . table tenant gust next, the other is let Each house contains three edrooms, two dressing-rooms, bath, water s.—For further particulars apply to Mr. S. Wat . 111. DDRESS HOUS ccellent kit ()use, 4 De . PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOUSES I LAND! LANDII—ON SALE, in large or y situated, and ranying in price from about 00.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire ar. Can he had .le and Let 3 free by pos see, Market-cross ing of Land and H larket square) Market-street. Birken ik TRIS DAY, th 14 AS Ick. at th ITSHRY whom It may concern , at Twelv now landing ex Marianne, Princes apply to Tuts DAY, partial] 13 Bases Eggrian COT TO 9.—APoJ; 'SA . MUE t of Liv ticulars 3., Brokers Broker 100 Bales COi'TON PICKINGS TO-MORRGW, r o-m o R R 0 e o'cloc'<, at tb from Cotton damaged by fire, Orleans ; lsing in Anderson's, Prange, Merchants, or to he : Brokers' all faults, ea Kinston, from New Argyle-street.—Apply to Telo and SAMUEL BULLEY, Broker. FRIDAY On Faint'? Golding and has unt of whoa it may concern. 20th instant. at Half-past One o'clock, at s Saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, 800 Quarters White and Yellow Indian CORN, ex Exchange, from Havannah. —For particulars apply t') .1. St M. HAR'NETT, Brokers. On account of whom it may concern On FRIDAY next, the 20th instant, at 14lf-past One o'clock, at Golding and Nash's Saleroom, Corn Exchange, Branswick-street, About 2500 Bags Chill FLOUR, ex Pelican, from Valparaiso.—For particulars apply to Messrs. Graham, Kelly and Co., Merchants, or to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. NEXT WEEK TUESDAY On TUESDAY next. the 24th instant, and following days. at Four o'cloel , , at tha Brolserat Saleroom, Hackin's-Ley, 250 Bales Fast India. 104 Do. Entre R' ' IA - 343L5, 1500 1-0. Apply to On TUESDAY next 1330 Bales 945 Do. n, Egyptian, Oporto, 161 othe PERKINS & ROBINON, Wool Brokers Atherta 24th instant. at Four o'clock, at the Brokers 1).1e-street, It India WOW.. Far owl', the 27th instant, at Four o'clock, Spon'sh Frontier, Egyptian, } WOOLS. L. and Chili. 2000 Bales 'ae•, Rze . ar , ply to HUGHES gz RONALD, Wool Brokers. ODDER HATTER :-STREET, 81, CHURCH etfolly to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver- NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY EVENING EDITION An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, the Markets, together' with all the f going to Press ES 18 I News of t, E C SCRIPHON TO. THE NOR " 1 O GUINEAS PER ANNUM THERb Iflortiorn firm WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1856 THE fever of domestic excitement, caused by the alleged poisoning case, and the instinctive horror of a war with America, having the public will probably b e a l lowed tc little serious attention to matters in which tY Constitutional 1 interests, are at which th until it is for arid then they bsided nciples, awl large pecuniary stake. War is an abomination as those which the hold to be all-suffiei gland will not sanction cm by an armed outrag a small con ) such compromise stesmen of the present day freedom has but as it is cut down it interne nd an attempt to h in :haust vill or be viewed as th dying have n( Natio for but rational pro imnent of well regulated hopes of prosperity. And those who oppose themselves to these moderate and natural aspirations, will find and the a THE their desi'gns untenable, and their names covered with universal odium. Nor are those institutions which constitute the bulwarks of the liberties which civilised countries possess, to be tampered with for mere personal and party purposes, with impunity, no matt statesman 'Who may self-government, r how Es .,..at the prestige of the lead the onslaught. Local nd the rights of property, are ommi t ourselves to positive lawlessness, if we allow either one or the other to be questioned, much less openly violated. The Imperial Parliament has a right to alter and amend the organisation and administration of our laws and institutions, when it is deemed neces- sary to give them a wider basis, and a larger development to both the letter and spirit of the GQnstit he subject ition, batwve deny their right to take from any one of the immunities which the Constitution of the realm confers upon him and his children. Once admit the per contra doctrine and we abandon that which gis safety to all, for a eave every county tle for their own , to maim that glorious fixity of which gives protec- dangerous system which would I town, and vi rights If we suff( istitutional principles tion to the life and property of -every British subject to be subverted for poses of party the temporary pur- and nepotism, of any other denommatio taxed to annihilation, Yorksl last degree of feudal vengeanc we may live to see Lancashire ire persecuted to th and Middlesex ind probably Buckinghamshire, pardoned and pampered as the favourites of those in power. England is not prepared for such a change.. No central Government can give that protection to life aid property, that development to local resources, and that attention to local wants, which municipal and local bodies now afford. No govern ment board can administer parish revenues and other localincomes, as economically and justly as a number of men residing on the spot, and sharing the burden of their own acts, as the guardians of their neighbours' pockets. And yet the PALMER STON Cabinet set up Mr. 1 . 40wE, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, as an infallible authority, who is to convince us to the contrary ; and the Rate-payers of Liverpool have been put to some thousands of pounds expense, to defend their lawful income from the grasp of the plausible innovator, who repudiates all idea of compensation for work done ! The persons who read the reports of the pro= ceedings of Mr. LowE's Towns' Dues Committee must be amazed at their National School character. The Town Clerk of Liverpool, instead of being left at home to mind the more legitimate duties of his office, is compelled to appear before the Committee in the capacity of an historical preceptor The Cabinet and Parliament are fully aware that this sea-port town has a right to levy dues on shipping and goods, as well as every other and Corporate town in the three kingdoms, and without asking if that right is guaranteed to them, with the rights of property in general, by the Constitution ; they carry on the solemn and costly farce of enquiring into its origin, knowing full well that we have enjoyed the income they covet for centuries. lf such an investigation is necessary, Mr. LOWE must have been perfectly ignorant of the subject on which he asked the House of Commons to legislate when he introduced his Passing Tolls and Towns' Dues Bill. He made a two or three hour speech on that occasion, and surely all he uttered was not bosh . The House could not have .doubted the correct ness of the right honourable gentleman's state ment. Mr. LOWE, then, can never forgive Lord PALMERSTON for sending him " hup stairs" fora whole Session, even if the Corporate towns of s attempts at atralisation and disregard of vested It would be ridiculous, however, to think of calling this a local question. Mr. LowE's Commit tee is meant as a direct attack on the municipal revenues of the entire country. And if the advocates of centralisation can only get one set of Rate-payers to oppose another, as'those of Man chester have unwisely done, at the biddin agitators who will go to Parliament every session plea or other, the object of those who find they cannot retain office except by increas ing patronage, will be speedily accomplished, and every Corporation and parish will have their Government assessors, tax collectors, over soers, inspectors, and all the other officials, in the places of those who are now selected from the locality to which they belong. The Govern ment are only holding Liverpool up by the ears just now, but Manchester, and every other town circumstanced as she is,may rest assured that they will be collared in their turn. Boards and Com missions have been organised in London for the management of poorhouses, education, trade, shipping, and everything else in which the public are concerned ; and these boards must have work, and the handling of rates, given to them, or they must be broken up. The Government must either extend or curtail their patronage, and this is the Ministerial necessity with which we have to con tend. Such expensive bodies when called into existence must have something found for them to do, and if we do not resist the centralisation scheme, the magnitude of which their numbers betray, there will not be a trace of local self government left in the land in another session or two. The advent of a general election is the time to discuss such a subject, and we promise Mr. LowE that the Rate-payers of Kidderminster, with their 495 registered voters, shall be made fully acquainted with his particular views with re gard to self-government long before he is again compelled to appear on the hustings ; and we do not despair of making the Cabinet feel the in fluence which the voice of Liverpool has in the manufacturing districts, whose best interests have been assailed to repair the backslidings of a cor porate administration, which the House of Com mons has failed to reform. som THE Government have not yet opened the tenders which have been sent in for the convey. ance of the mails to Australia by steamships. The authorities are waiting, probably, to hear from the colonies on the subject before they make up their minds as to what ought to be done fo'r the trader and merchant at home. We have repeatedly urged on the public the peculiar advantages which Liver- pool possesses as a mail and passenger station, but with what effect remains to be seen by the solution about to be made. If we should lose the conveyance of letters, our ships wilt still retain th carriage of bullion, as few will like to trust tons of gold to anythir short of an army on the 0 land Route, to sa y no thi ng o f the immense transit Of the West Indian steam line w say nothing until we know for a certainty ti to have the contract beyond remit I Mr WILSON and the Post-office authorities that there arc blue books in existence which they ought to read before they pledge the country to what the commercial classes will find the best, if not the shortest route. The fate that awaits the Liverpool NORTHERN TIMES.--- traders is a matter di' very trivial import to this town. We need. care little about the mails, seeing that our large steam passengers' ships command the largest i cargoes and highest freights. We feel more for the ' Bank of England, ,and the bullion producers in the { colonies, than we do for ourselves. Millionares may go overland, or any other way they please, but the solid passenger and goods traffic will settle down in the expeditious, known, and safe channel in spite of all obstacles. If the Mer sey gets the contract, well and good. If not, we know what remains to be done ; and it would be well for those whose tenders are accepted, to remember that Liverpool has not the slightest idea of abandoning her vantage grounds. We must have an Australian steamship line, let who may have the Government bags. Those who know the exact value of the traffic will be the first to taste the sweets of an opposition such as Liverpool is capable of offering. The trade between the two regions in question dates from, and is addressed to the north, and its specific gravity will mark out the true line Only raise the ball that we ee it fall and remove all doubts as it ought to tak to the course heavy weights take. When we speak of the traffic between England and Australia, the success which has already attended Liverpool must not be overlooked. And what will, the traffic be five or ten years hence ? We have all seen what the Pacific silver and California gold freights have done for the West Indian steamers, as far as profits are concerned, but we have yet to learn what difference they have made in their punctuality. If Liverpool had a line of ocean steamships running to Chagres, and from Panama to Australia, and vice versa, they might relieve the West Indian boats of their Cali. fornia cargoes, and with the Australian gold, they would make a very respectable appearance, in ad dition to quick and safe passages. Such enter prises are, by far, too inviting to be long over• looked, and the greater the success which attends others, the sooner will our merchants be moved. At present, we believe, the pro mise of a Government contract, and the certainty that it would not be given to this port, if it could be avoided, has kept our enterprising capitalists quiet; but another year will scarcely have passed over before we shall see the Liverpool and Australian steamships commanding the great bulk of the bullion and passenger freights between the two countries. The trade is a young and growing one, and we can compete with any line, the Government may select. We can do the whole distance in 45 days, and this has to be beiten. It has never been done by any other route ; and although we hear of the " shortest lines," we are not told' of the rocks, shoals, and hurricanes which have to be encoun- tered along almost unknown shores for nine months out of the twelve. Liverpool can beat, everything that has been done as yet, as the Par liamentary reports clearly show. Therefore, we have no reason to despair, even if the contracts should be given against us. The first six months will prove to the mercantile world what the steamers of other places can do, and how far we shall be in advance of the Continent and America in the receipt of our commercial advices. But there is an abun dance of room for a line of Australian packets, totally irrespective of all the Government may do in the way of contracts. If they pay due, regard to the mutual importance of a quick transit of bullion, they will *never give the mail bounty to the Overland Route. If they bestow it on the West India line we can guess what the result will be, and they will be doing a grievous wrong if they give the work to any Melbourne parties, or persons whose pretensions to the management of such heavy undertakings have not undergone the severe test Liverpool has in ocean steamship management. The public seek the performance of a great maritime duty, and experience points to the Mersey as the quarter in which it can best be done. THE exhibition which took place at Stafford on Saturday, must make the most devoted advocates of the punishment of death blush again at the depravity of the age. The profound disgust the Press and people of this country give vent to when they hear of men, women, and children being present at bull fights, bear beating, badger drawing, and the like cruel and brutal amuse ments, must henceforth expose us to the contempt and ridicule of Christendom. Every householder who had a doorway, window, or roof, which corn "manded a view of the scaffold from which a fellow creature was about to be launched into eternity, found hosts of occupants for the accommodation they could afford. And the Magistrates of the town thought it necessary to caution WOMEN and the youth of both sexes not to appear in the crowd. But all would not do. The depraved female taste of our times, was stronger than Magisterial regard for personal safety, and public decency. Women, girls, and boys were there, and long will the revolting spectacle they beheld haunt their minds, and supply a topic for an evening's discourse. Fortunately, the wretched being whose death struggles they - went to witness died without a visible effort to retain life, nor did he make a confes sion, to take from the medical witnesses examined on his trial the solemn responsibility which rests upon them to prove the truth of their scientific allegations. WILLIAM PALMER'S death on the gallows has satisfied the ends of justice, assuming his guilt to be established. As the murderer has been executed, it may not be thought necessary to direct any further examination of the body of the murdered man. Comes remains may not be submitted to further chemical analysis. Yielding to such a desire on tie part of the public would probably be considered as an admission of a doubt as to the propriety of putting PALMER to death. But all this will not remove the general anxiety as to the new doctrines laid down in our Criminal Courts, and the universal alarm which must be felt at the thoughts of poisons being sold openly in shops which cannot be discovered in 'the body after death. Such a proposition has been declared too monstrous for belief; but since a man has actually been hanged on that dictum, it will henceforth enjoy the sanctity of a precedent, and there really is no safety for life where the symptoms, immediately before and after the death of another, may resemble those of poisoning. We may have legs to fear in this country from the promulgation of such medical dogmas ; but wa must remember that the trial of WILLIAM PALMER has been spread over the whole civilised world, and there is no knowing what use may be made of them in those parts of the world where trial by jury is not known, and where it is a mere mockery. It is due, not only to England, but to every other nation • whO are capable of understanding th e questions, that all the doubts about them should be cleared up, and without delay. Professor ROGERS, whose letter appeared in the London Times of Friday, says :—" I cannot conceive an LIVERPOOL, WEDNE " opinion more dangerous to public safety " than that a fatal dose of poison can be "so nicely adjusted as to escape discovery " after death." And after describing the results of his experiments, and the process he adopted, he adds : " The results of these experi- " ments, but without a description of the process " employed, were forwarded by myself and Mr. " GIRDWOOD for the consideration of Sir GEORGE GREY, as we were of opinion that if SonN PARSONS COOK' was poisoned by strychnine, no " matter how small the fatal dose, its presence " could even now be clearly demonstrated if the tissues " of his body were subjected to the same mode of " analysis. I cannot conclude this letter with. " out expressing my opinion that, of all known " poisons, there is not one more readily detected " than strychnine, consequently no death ought " to be attributed to its agency unless its presence "be clearly demonstrated." Now, if this were a matter of ordinary importance we should not think it worth while to reprint even these short extracts from Professor ROGERS' letter. But the public must bear in mind that it is one of life and death which must be cleared up, let who may suffer in reputation or conscience by the issue of a furthc investigation WILLIAM PALMER'S case needs no further discus sion, and his name will only be mixed up with the enquiry for the purposes of evasion, or the defence of the individuals whose professional character may be at stake. We can ask for no more decided recognition of the truth of Dr. TAYLOR'S theory than the execution of the man against whom he gave his evidence, and it remains for the scientific gentlemen examined for the defence, and Messrs. ROGERS and GIRD. WOOD, to prove to the world that what they have advanced leaves no suspicion behind it, in a ease of murder. If those whose assertions now stand condemned, in the eyes of all who believe WILLIAM PALMER guilty of the murder of JOHN PARSONS COOK, can successfully rebut the new doctrines advanced by the prosecution, they will find that they are on a short road to universal fame. There never was a case known which caused so much anxiety, consternation, and disgust, in the public mind. The diabolical character and number of the charges brought against the prisoner ; the extraordinary nature and length of the investiga tion before the CORONER, and the trial at the Old Bailey ; the conflict of opinion as to the sentence and execution, have given to this huge tragedy an appalling interest, which will long outlive the generation which has participated in them. We can only say, for ourselves, that we hope PALMER was not guilty ; that those who say he was, according to the teaching of science, will prove it, that the Legislature may, forthwith, pass some law, declaring the vending of poisons, without Govern ment authority, an offence which shall be punish able by transportation for life. Something must be done before more lives are destroyed, by drugs which are not discoverable in a human being after death; and it is to be hoped the Government will look to it, before we are again put to the pain of recording such national degredations, as those which were witnessed at Stafford on Saturday. THE COURT The Queen went on Monday morning to the camp at Aldershott. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, left Bucking ham Palace at twenty minutes before ten o'clock accompanied by the Regent of Baden and Prin4 Frederick William of Prussia. The royal party occu pied five of the Queen's carriages, and was escorted by a party of the 3rd Light Dragoons to the private station at Vauxhall. Her Majesty travelled by a special train on the South Western Rail way to Farnborough. Mr. Crampton, late British minister to the United States of America, arrived in London on Monday, and had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon. Mr. Crampton also paid a visit to Viscount Palmerston. INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.—DONATIONS BY HER MAJESTY AND FRINCH ALBERT.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have been graciously pleased to testify their sympathy for the unfortunate sufferers by the late inundations in France by f)rwarding to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor the munificent donations of one thousand and five hundred pounds respectively, in aid of the fund now raising at the Mansion-house for their relief. s COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION..-Mr. Pellew Artbur,who was elected Masters' Exhibitioner last year, is in the first class at Trinity College, Cambridge; and Mr. William Jones has obtained a Greek Testament prize in the same examination. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday, the coroner held an inquest on the body of the man Thomas Crooks, who died from the effects of drinking a large quantity of rum, as detailed in yesterday's paper. The , jury returned a verdi c t of " Died from excessive drinking.' STREET ROBBERY.--On Monday night, as Mr. W. D. Farley, of Renshaw -street, was ,proceeding to his house in Park-road, he was attacked by three ruffians who knocked him down, ill-treated him, and robbed hi m o f a considerable sum of money. The villians got away before assistance came to Mr. Farley. _ THE Boys' OWN JOURNAL.—Under this title, a new candidate for popular favour eppeared, for the first time, on Saturday last, and promises to be a welcome weekly visitor to the rising generation. It is neatly got up, and the selections combine useful information, with narratives, which will generate a taste for reading and study. The .Thys' Own Journal cannot fail to command a wide-spread circulation. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INPIRMARY.—Week ending June 14, 1856.—Admitted : In-patients, 39 ; out-patients, 3 ; casuals during week, 10. Discharged : In-patients cured, 19 ; relieved, and at own request, -14 ; made out-patients, 3 ; irregular, 0 ; dead, 3 ; remain in the house, 171. House visitors : W. H. Moss, and William Gregson, Esqrs. Physician and surgeon for ensuing week : Dr. Vose and Mr. Halton. House surgeon : Mr. G. B. Halford. Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster. Chaplain : Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Robert Hutchison, treasurer • BIRKENHEAD BONDHOLDERS.—A meeting of Birkenhead bondholders was summoned by advertisement to meet a gentleman, merely describing himself as a bondholder, at the Wellington Hotel, Dale Street, last night. The adver tisement bore no signature, and was addressed to such bondholders as felt dissatisfied with the present position of affairs. Six o'clock was the hour appointed. The gentle man who invited the meeting, and who came from London attended with another. Reporters from the Northern Times, Mercury, and Daily Post, attended and waited until long after the hour appointed, but up to th e ti me o f t h e i r withdrawing no other individual had wade his appearance. CLAYTON HALL.—MR. OKEY'S ENTERTAINMENT.— Would you like to visit Paris? Y es, vast l y, i f t i me per mitted. Thenit will only cost you two hours at the Clayton Hall, where, with Mr. Oakey, you cart have an agreeable bird's-eye view of that Metropolis as can be imagined. He will introduce you into all sorts of genteel society, and, as for the " manners and customs" of the gay and polite Parisians, you glean as much in these two hours as you could, by observation, learn in as many years. The sketches are lively, natural and interesting—the taus • trations excellent and instructive. Mr. Okey is an accom plished gentleman, and gives a faithful picture of all things he takes in hand. On the whole the entertainmentis truly interesting, and Cannot fail to be attractive to the public l'usATitE ROYAL—Bosco.—Bosco has changed quarters from the Queen's llall to the Theatre Royal. The house is better calculated for his operations, but if it were larger, it would be filled with admiring audiences. The Signor seems to improve in the mystic art as he " gets along," and well it is for him that he lives at this period of the world, for, had he existed a couple of hundred years ago, any man might have purchased the fee simple of his lite for a half penny—as he would surely have been devoured by fire as an imp from the lower regions—when old ladies were burnt for witches, and old gentlemen for necromanc,:rs. Fortu nately, the Signor is amongst enlightened people, and never were a people more delighted with any performanc e th an that which he affords the public. A quarto vol ume , wpu ld not contain a detailed accouLt of his amusing tricks and feats in the sable art; he appears capable of doing an ythi ng ; but we cannot put on paper a description of his wonderful performance—it must be seen. DAY. ETAY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING The Ministerial explanation touching the American difficulties has been the chief topic of conversation on change to-day, and has• afforded very general satisfaction to the trading classes gAnerally. In the Cotton Market there has been less desire to speculate, and the demand in con sequence wss more moderate. The sales amount to 5,000 bales, of which 4,500 were taken by the trade. _ . . The Liverpool Share Market opened with a very buoyant feeling, and after fluctuating a little in the course of the day, finally closed very firm at the highest quotations of the day, at the following prices :-Aberdeen, 13 134. Chester and Birkenhead, 15/ 154. Caledonian, 314 314. Chester and Holyhead, 161 164. Eastern Counties ; 101 104. East Lancashire, 194 204. Great Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 94 94. Great Western, 624 63. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock , 944 941. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 174 171. London and North Western Stock, ma 104. Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 301 304 Ditto Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 1 ay. Midland Stock, 801 801. North British, 9 91, North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern and Dover, 21 15-16 22. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21 211. York and North Midland, 294 291. Leeds Capital Stock, 184 IS4. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 14 lap. Dutch Rhenish, 1 9-16 1 1146 p. Great Western of Canada, 264 26a. Ditto New Shares, 34 34p. Great Luxembourg, 84 81d. The Liverpool Corn Market has been firm in tone to-day, and prices were rather higher, but although there was a good attendance, only a small business was done, buyers confining their opera tions to the supply of immediate wants only. The Manchester Goods Market, though firm, has not been very active. Higher prices were generally demanded for both goods and yarns. The following is a statement of the Traffic Receipts of the Great Western Railway of Cannda, by passenger and goods trains, for the week ending the 30th of May, 1856, and for the corresponding period last year:-Week ending 30th May, 1856, total receipts, £10,423 lOs 5d ; week ending Ist: June, 1855, total receipts, £7,535 lls 7d ; increase, £2,887 18s 10d. Aggregate gross receipts from the commencement of the current half-year to date, £205,280 lls 9d sterling; do. for the corresponding period last year, £144,745 59 2d, do. Accounts from the Continental silk-producing districts continue to state that the cocoons have suffered in consequence of the recent unfavourable weather. At Valence the prices range from 6f. 50c. to 7f. 25c. per kilogramme for cocoons, ac cording to quality. At Romans the grain of the silk is not so good as it was last year. At Avignon, the produce of the season is expected not to exceed one-third of the ordinary yield. In consequence of this scarcity, the cocoons, though of inferior quality, maintain high prices. Bargains have been closed at sf. 75c. and 6f per kilogramme. Advices from Warsaw to the 12th instant state that the annual fairs for the sale of wools had commenced, and that an unusually large number of the provincial wool growers had arrived with heavily laden vehicles, There was every appear ance of a busy fair, on account of the result of those held at Breslau and Cracow, when prices ruled high. It is calculated that the prices at Warsaw this season will exceed those of pre vious years, from 1.0 to 15 thalers per quintal ; and that the produce will be greater than last season. Letters from Madrid, to the 12th instant, state that the surveying and construction of railways proceed with rapidity throughout the kingdom, and that the Cortes had approved of a new project, which concedes to the Spanish Credit Mobilier Society the right of constructing a line from Dueg nos to Alar. Accounts from Germany state that the Committee of Finance in the Secon(t. Chamber iof Hanover, on the occasion of considering their postal budget in connection with the Germanic Diet, drew up a report, announcing their intention of introducing a uniform system of commercial legislation on weights, measures, and money The annexed are the closing quotations of the Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 18 to 11 181. Do., three months, 12 124 to 12 121. Rotterdam, do , 12 121 to 12 121. Antwerp, do., 25 621 to 25 671. Brussels, do., 25 621 to 25 671, Hamburg, do.; 13 10 to 13 104. Paris, short 25 324 to 25 424. Do., three months, to 25 75. Marseilles, do., 25 70 to 25 75 Frankfort, do , 120 a to 1207. Vienna, do., 10 17 to 10 20. Trieste, do., 10 18 to 10 21. Petersburg, do., 378 to 371. Madrid, do., 494 to 49 . The Ministerial statements made last night with reference to the American question have been received with great satisfaction, but exercised no influence upon the funds, which had already ad vanced 2 per cent. yesterday. owing to the antici pation that the American Minister at this Court would not be dismissed. The final quotations were 944 to 951-. Active speculations for higher prices are checked by the gloom which still hangs over the French Bourse. The speculative mania which has lately attained so serious a develop ment in that city is at length met by a sovere check, in consequence of the positive inability of the market to sustain the constant calls made upon it, and the weight of the vast mass of secu rities lately created. Money continues in good demand in most quarters, but with a fair supply. In the Stock Exchange , the current rate is still about 5 per cent for short loans. The Railway Share Market to-day was very buoyant, and retained an improving tendency to the close, and a general advance in prices was established. The closing quotations of Railway Shares stood as follows : Caledonian, 624 624. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 59 61. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10 3 16. East Lancashire, 791 801. ,Great Northern, 951 96. Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western 63 631. Lancashire ,and Yorkshire, 944 944. London and North Western, 1034 103 g. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 304 301. Midland Stock, 80 804. North British, 86 37, South Eastern and Dover, 724 73. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 821 831. York and North Midland, 59 594. 25 70 THE CRIMEA. We have received advices from Sebastopol to the date of June 3. The only news is the record of the departure of the army regiment by regiment. Lord Gough has not yet arrived in the Crimea. The Rifle Brigade, Ist battalion,' commanded by Lord A. Russell, should have embarked on the 3rd June in the Apollo, which will be towed by "the Medusa, but it was found that the troop ship was not in a fit state to receive troops, and the embarkation was deferred till June . 4. The Gre nadiers embarked on the 3rd, amid the cheers of - their comrades. From Constantinople we learn that the staff of the Turkish contingent has arrived from Kertch, General Evans and General Dickson among them. There are now only 3,000 or 4,000 Turks there. The rest have already left, as likewise most of_ the artillery and stores. • The 71st is to remain last, to give over the town to the Russians. The latter have drawn a strict cordon round the place, in order to prevent the inhabitants from coming in. The emigration fury has seized the Kertch Tartars, as well as their brethren of Eupatoria and Baidar ; several thousands have already been shipped off to Baltshik. It would have been desirable that some kind of preparation had been made for these poor people, for they are said to be in great misery on the inhospitable shores of Bulgaria. SPAIN DeSpatches from Madrid, of the 15th instant, informs us that the government accepts the mediation. of France in the difference with Mexico. This day the proposition brought forward by the Democratical . deputies against Marshal O'Donnell is to be discussed. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Esperc Furth tateq, from Lombardy, that the Austrians are actively preparing for warin Italy, and that at Mantua, Milan, Verona, and Pavia, the fortifications are being pushed on with great activity. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE the rail 1, A despatch, dated Marseilles, June the announces that the passenger servic e on way from Topscon to Avignon had been rikoP ene and the traffic is as complete as before the /null' dations. with The Rhone was ebbing, but slow l y and THE SARDINIAN MINISTRY• Advices, dated Turin, Jane 14th, contain the ' intelligence that the arrangement by whic h Ae tli ci e' Departments of War and Marine wer e to be diviu. and that General Della Marmora wa s to tak e t War Portfolio, and General Durand() tha t of th n do Marine, have not been completed. Gen. Pn ran leaves the Ministry and retires t o the cunt?: the General Serra is to be placed at the head of tnee Marine FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND ENT PARIS, MONDAY EVOING.I The festivities, yesterday, p as sed O ff esceed ieg l e well, and, notwithstanding the immense reillti til a te r 0 consis they attracted, without accident. They of gratuitous performances in the theatres, P ub i g pantomimes, and military spectacles, the sen din d up of balloons containing bon-bons, fireworks, arl_f an iment s ; illuminations, and all the usual accomP public fetes in this country. The fireworks We ry very brilliant, and the illumin,ations we re ve i l. tasteful and elegant. In the gardb.li s of the T . u nu. eries, and in the Champs Elyoeo.9' the l a nd minations were in variegated laink " ' 11 1 of were perfectly fairy like. One P(344/" .tee gb. them was exactly the same as o — t h, displayed at Versailles, on the occasion °I ; 0 visit of the Queen of England, last ye ar ' t he Emperor and Empress, accompanied laden" Cardinal Legate, the Grand Duchess of Dauess, Prince Oscar of Sweden, the Duke and Deehe of Hamilton, and a number of other per:301330:0 distinction, witnessed the - fireworks from a 174 '1 0 on the balcony of the Ministry of Marine , e . tor Place de la Concorde. This morning the 31.°7/.l;er announces, that the Emperor has caused 811;0 medals, worth 50c. each, commemorative ef the baptism, to be distributed to all the children e f is , Paris schools, and to the soldiers and noll' ec)raln 000 sioned officers of the garrison of Paris (a b o ut 12 0, 0 meaals will be necessary, and the expense ef se ine h will be £2,400); also, that the Prefect of th he e 6°ooo has given a bag of bonbons to each of t' children of the Primary Commercial Sehn ele. s s The value of the diadem which the Bet„0. wore on Saturday at the baptism, and at the-LA" 5 de Ville, was not less than 15,0 00,000 franc s (£600,000). of . The traders and householders, en the line procession on Saturday, reaped an ab utt- m harvest, by letting places at their windows. much as 2001. aryl 300 f. (XlO or £l2) wer e fr g e of given for a place at a window. Even p ersen- ot t wealth did not hesitate to let their roaln e - balconies tel de There is to be a grand ball at the IP ' or Ville to night, and a grand dinner in a dn y ! two. What money spent in amusement and I ° - t io The Independance of Brussels states that : Empress is already in an " interesting situation But this assertion requires confirmation. It is said that M. de Lamartine in tends the' present to the victims of the inundations° 05 amount received in subscriptions to s hiß were Familier de Literature, which subscrip tion made by the public expressly to relieve hiln I a his pecuniary difficulties. The amoun t is nes.he £50,000, but large deductions will have to 11 made for expenses of advertising, Srm. °f 110 W The Paris papers and public continue to - 0.1.01 the progress of the Anglo-American di fficulty marked interest, but neither in what i s said is there anything to add to what I have p re, written ° viously communicated to you. Bou r se An improvement has taken place on the 33°11-t.,, today. It was caused by a financi al establioL`e ment having advanced 15,000,000fr5. to facilittit the railway liquidation. The bill for doing away with the prohibitiene °( tive duties, and replacing them the French tariff by Po t° the which was presented a few days RV t° :d Legislative Body by the Government, bile cc : 11 , 1 8 %4 great terror to the protectionist and prohibitiniect party in this country, inasmuch as it is een si " e- in a new step towards that awful bugbentfleb, French i eyes—freesquiteh trade. That i t is 13 :0 true, and that the fri e ' a step of liberal commercial policy have eonsequentil nt be reason to be gratified with it eueni.,—,,nor denied ; but, after all, the bill adopts sue" - — w ill mously high protective duties, that ont th e y e Y e of t t i o o n o amount to actual prohibitions — th ose goods, for example, are equal to a protection° dia per cent. With such protection, French tra „ o rkt the pr. , sn a and manufacturing interests have, for f at least, little eel fear from foreign con3Petit,ine is foreigners ha ittle to expect. Besides, ' t his a dopte d no chanee.at all that the bill will be year. , ra ye Letters received in this city state that b o f differences, threatening to lead to a ruPt ti ,., re oe u diplomatic relations, had broken out he'''' Sweden and Denmark. re c ord Italian letters and journals continue to tele , agitation in most of the Italian States. I rb i e be en graph says that considerable sensation had t ing caused at Turin, by the King having , in medals to his troops from the Crimea, eg lre s t of intere tbeo his conviction that "if the honour and the country should oblige him to confide t ° fe nd the national flag, they would know how withde evi rit n it always and everywhere, and to cover glory," d overi r Madrid advices say that the Spanish Li - a o ut ment is making the most active efforts to Be ll a o ne a fleet to Mexico, and to make it an iroPosibs:t has but, according to a telegraphic despat eb ' 1 t o. distribussed accepted the mediation of France in the dispu ___.,.... . hag j e , h " THE Loss OF TEETH.—A neat little bochute ow, issued from the press, on the subject of the loss of t l e ts with . _ and on the best means of restorin them. useful information, this work commands at Re p a ttenti on which the practical knowledgeof its authors, Itteneet'ee Gabriel, the celebrated dentists of this town, is a g. tie. lit the hands of every f t u a r h i e ts in accuracy. This concise and familiar treatise ought one who quire the art . 1 a dentist. To sufferers from dentoal mmaaylarlea, we 1°31411 recommend the work to tbeir attentive perusal. ~. Ott EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF I[ORSE-STEALTSu"-,-",1e.. Monday afternoon a person attired as a carter walk° d e' into the stables of Messrs. Ba Gartsherrw! where servants, carters, and waggoners were all busily e t r e ployed at their respective duties, and after marching the throng be selected one of the finest 'lnnis in the tellablei animal su he rubbed it c ' arefudy down with a wisp of stravt,lbe, covered it with a rug which was ]Ting at hall, d ' we vent taking with him a bunch of hay under his arm, 'a r" - foal Rl_ halter give the gpICIO/1 no douht, he coolly led the horse by a to . stables, and requesting one of the bystanders _, B i f him a lift on the horse, mounted in " hot haste," all" it 0 by magic disappeared from the gaze of the speetator:e,oll, one knew where. Up till the present moment no tr ta u; the daring delinquent has been discovered. Tbe I)rse so ld been got in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, having Woo. e• to a party there for, £l4, being only one-third of its v Le s , o Meanwhile, however, the fellow escapes detection. ---6 flow Herald.