The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-05 00:00:00

KENTLEDGE.—A Also, BALLAST jUST Rfreeivei AMERICAN ON SALE. in oxt'n BUILDING LAN! TOXT T _TH PA RK en .assorted Stock always on hap d I.TANI F. 41M & CO., Sweeting-str€ et 28 of FRA' K LESLIE'S N WsPAPF. '. Price Sixpence. AN NEWSPAPERS.—ON SALE, pon liberal terms, tLIGIBLE g pp endtd views, and hexpired !easy is for S —Apply to Mrs. Atherton, 'METER SMITHDOWN '-LANE.- __—The Burial Board are now prepared to SELL r GTaves and Vaults. and for InTerments in th- above tir scale of charges apply -t the offi,e of the Registrar, 'Tv: or to the Clerk to the Board, at the Public Office, NOTI , E GROUND ace, Toiteth P irk TONY pridEToN. PONY DOG-CART, 2 Sett PONY HARNESS, and a Russian BAGATELLE BOARD, the pronerty of a per von l v.mr ;he town. Phaeton has turn-over hind seat. it Inw, en light, fashionable, and easy—price 17 gninens. Do'-Cart carries four is, as is the Pheet - m, in perfect conditi .0. very lisht—prire 10 g Anew. Harness 2 and 3 vuineas. Bagatelle Boa - d 15s —Apply at Private House. 6. Upp.r Newington, Liverpool. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOU 4 Es I HOUSES!! LAND! LANDI!—ON SALE. in lame or small lots. variously situated, and ranaing in price tr , •m about .reloo to .4'6 '.ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can he had a- ails 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. commtrcial %T.altg. NEXT WEEK MONDAY On 111ownAv next, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, Colonial buildings. Dale-street, 10 Tons GREEN BBONY, 5 Tons FUSTIC, now landing ex Garland, King's Dock.—F, pa•ticulars apply to BUSHBY & CO., Br ken. TUESDAY On a , •cou- t of whom it may cencern On TVESDAT next, the Bth instant at Half past One o'clock, ;oldingand Ntqh'q Stlerooet, Corn Exchange, Rru 'wick •street, shout 750 Quarters Maz tgan I v DIAN CORN. J. & 91. HAR.vb"TT. Rrokert. Por part' ei Want M. WANTED, a respectab'e Sharp Youth, as ERRAND BOY. — ore ten o'clock In the morning, to Mr. John Jatob, WANTED. a SOLICI roR, for a First - c lass Tailoring and Out fitting Establishment. —A liberal salary and commission will competent man, who has a good connection with and the shipping generally.—Ad ress by letter (Z. It.), at the Northern Times office, stating qualifications and where last be given to a cap • ---- ASTUDENT On his last year), at the Medical Schools of Man chester, wishes to enter into an ENGAGEMENT w!th a Medical Man, to as.is., or take charge of a Practice, during tF e •hs o f August and ere September next (the utumn recess). The '<factory retnces can be given.—Apply A. is., Northern most sa Times ornce. July let, 1855 Co bt EEL ands a del gh p ARKGATF TO he LET, a giod HOUSE, oppasi`e the Dee, containing two kitchen., goo 4 ceilan, butler's ranter, two drawing-r, n, nine bedr. ozna, will goo I flower an To ,-•E. pßwy,ffor,n nou4R4 in Pirk-or,bt TO WHOf , ESAGE DR[ a Term ses, wt very o gy.ther or separate ,rushed, on t BOUT -. six, or tw Ire months Road, S:.uthpnrt. The ro,taze Has been recent) ber 7 dl terms w rnished to any a valuati( n. Water a .d gas in the hoti , e. iculars apply to M house has been fresh paperei and painted t) Mr. Johnson, 14, Duke-street; or Jones iSTS and 0 UHER 4 .—TO be LF.T,for ears, the MILLS, WAREHOUSE. OFFIC ES, lately occupied by Messrs. Edney Lk [la nes, a. *he Engine and Machinery. now nod ous, will ly, and immediate possession can be ra apply to Mr. George S. Sanderson, y who will take the furni: London- —TO be LET ;ea Ban DAY next, the B , h instant. at G riding and N4sh's Saleroom, On TVESDA ext the Bth inotant Rroker'4 Offiee,l4. Rrunswick•street, IWO sacks RICE SIIUDEi. OBER i' PROCTER, Broker. n TVICADAY 7' ext. the Bth Brokers' Office. Ci bow IRniiing ex Cit lb'etrarticulara apply so 93E VI r rnnrn TT Brocklebank, Al T%Peg res BTh instant Brok rs' Offi 81, CHURCH-STREET. Fachanze, Brun.nick-street, 2000 Barrels Superfine sweet B dtimore FLOUR, ed ex Ann F:. Hooper from Baltinvve ; and I'oo Barrels Superfine Sweet Extra States FLOUR. ed ex Albion md. Berkimin Adams. from New York TOMILIVSON Az CO., Brokers. at Flalf.past One o'clock, scant, a' Twelve o'clock, at the Da'e-street, from Calcutta. 1-‘ the Albeir Dock.— BU , EIBY Pc CO.. Rrokers. A Twelve o'clock, at the VD %LE & CO., Broker. DO Bales J 2000 Bales JUTE erchantF, or to T. & H. r.ITT NODDER 4ATTER ly to inform the Nobility and Gentry of (Ayer at his NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY rTrotl To THE NORTHERN TIMES is TWO GUINEA.S m ANNUM. T HIES ANNLTA DAILI Ebt _WhittErn finn JULY 5, 1856 Tit interview about to take place between the tmperor NAPOL FRANCIS JOSEPH of Austria and al e small fry of German royally, is an The consumer is to be at the expense of taking his meter down to be inspected, and putting it up again whether right or wrong. with her German satellites is not surely to be Then, again, one per cent. is to be allowed on opposed by the Orleanists, and their cry for both sides for irregularities, which it is not Constitutional Monarchy. France is far from improbable the Company will take to themselves. contented with her loss of nationality, and look- Still, all the Council propose to do is purely ing abroad for balms for her internal sores, will officious. Consumers are not bound to go to the not, it is to be feared, work the salutary change Corporate Inspector. They can call in any Gas required. A. nation of 36,000,000 of highly Engineer they please to test the meter, quality of enlightened people cannot exist without free the gas, and pressure, as at present. And the discussion. Some unaccountable and magical same legal remedies will be open to them when the agency has enabled the French to do so thus meter is not correct, or the quality of the gas is far, but good sense a n d moderation must have not equal to the Parliamentary standard estab their day presently. If they are not allowed to lished for the Borough. The Gas Inspector's speak out, passion and lawlessness will assuredly office may consequently be looked upon as a overpower them. And so far-seeing a politician comfortable sinecure, in which some lucky hanger• as the Emperor NAPOLEON can hardly be on will spend two or three years in majestic ease, looking to Austria for council and succour in while the only consolation we shall receive from such a crisis. The political dogmas of Vienna Bolton, Sunderland, and those towns which are would be even less acceptable to the rest of lighted for twenty-five and thirty-five per cent. Europe than they would probably be to the less, is " serve you right." But there is a French• FRANCIS JOSEPH cannot keep up a hope of deliverance before us which it political state of siege in France any more would be premature to mention at this than he can in the Papal dominions. France moment, but which must secure us what we seek, must 'ere long witness the return of moderation namely—honest competition. Mr. BELOE'S elabo and progress. event which may help to bring about many s, in addition to those now The union of France and Austria rate statement has shown the Company's weak And the Corporation, having found it necessary to appoint a Meter Inspector, on behalf of the public, will be quite sufficient to convince the Legislature of the expediency of allowing a competing Company to be established. A new Company must, in fact, spring out of the difficul- When that clay dawns upon the Tuileries, Austria will he the enemy of the French, and FIIANCIS JOSEPH the deadly foe of those who advocate the restoration of Constitutional Mon- S uch a Power, assuming her to be in any thing like a healthy state, can be of no assistance t' France in her great and glorious career. She repudiates all the ideas of modern civilisation, and resists with her utmost might the advance of social and political amelioration. She has wedded herself to spiritual intolerance, that she may, by point working on the remaining embers of sectarian passions and prejudices, accomplish the con solidation of that civil and religious des which all right-minded men, and re so than the French, loath. She denies having any interests in common with potism none mo ~eat and enlightened nations of the earth, and a close union between the Bonapartists or Orleanists with Austria, if it should not prove impracticable, Will end in disappointment, if not in the reall irreparable misfortunes and disgrace. Broken , and living solely down in finance, vuY by a Credit Mobilierinstitution,which,like every other Austrian monetary scheme, is doomed to be a wretched delusion, and she must be sustained by large sub sidies from those who accept her Pigmy aid. alliance of France and Austria need not, therefore, cause Great Britain the slightest uneasiness. We know FaA.Ncts JOSEPH'S accumulating weak ness too well in this country to feel any concern ties of the old one. Liverpool is little more than half lighted now and when the Rate-payers and private consumers are determined to have cheap gas, they must go somewhere else for a supply, and then we shall obtain relief, and not until then. Mr. BELOE'S " Report" shows very clearly that we must take all the Gas Directors say for granted, and that our Borough officials do not hesitate to pronounce very decided opinions in opposition to those of the public, on very imperfect data, and very inadequate personal knowledge of the subject of which they , gross negligence in order to mainta ventu r e t o t rea t. Mr. BELoE, for example, —,,,,,. It did not appe tr th tt any is formation was says he has `, •,, satisfied himself that " various given te the jury a , to what they wera to undet stand by gross negligence. If they had been told that gross negli items on the Company's accounts, " were ge nce was an absence of that ordinary care which under " fairly charged to capital and revenue respec " Lively;' whereas he t e ll s us i n a foregoing part of his the circumstances a prudent man oaght to have taken, the direction as to the def,ree of negligence might not have been objectionable. They thotht the rule of law recited " report" that he has nothi ng to say to m eters, the by all the authorities was that in a case like the present;the measures through which tl supplied to the consumers f l o e r passes, and that it is needless for quantity of gas - money expended illuminating power of gas which m h e inl an t s o t n h of light from which the GAnpany derive their (foods remained under the charge and protection of the inn keeper, so as to make him liable as fur a breach of duty, unless the negligence of the guest occasioned the loss in ( e )ti eeth qualitye such a way that the loss would not have happened if the guest haa used the ordinary eae which a prudent man might reas)nub'y be expect( d to have taken under the large circumstances. The court considered on these grounds that revenue. The capital of the shareholders i s t h e di rec tion in the present case could not be supported, employed in the manufacture of light, and we i and that the rule for a new trial should be made absolute. The see ind question was, that there must b European troubl the Lapis, THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. about the result of the royal interview at Plom. bieres ; except that it may lead to counter movements of a like character, and so help to keep alive that political anxiety which is now, and at all times, so prejudicial to trade. In this way England may be severely injured, and the foreign potentates who heap unnecessary difficulties upon us by such means, will find, sooner or later, tint our sympathy goes with peace and commerce, and that our poli tical support cannot be continued where these desiderata are treated as matters of secondary im port. If the BONAPARTISTS apprehend dynastic troubles, Austria is the last country that ought to be called in, for the reasons we have explained ; and if the object be to keep up a war agitation, in a season of peace, we need scarcely allude more pointedly to the effect it will have on the popular commercial Europe. No dynagtv can exist for any length of time where industrial 'pros does not reign, and we would rather have mind of peritT ,oONAPARTI3TS say that France was fully employed and contented, than that all the Conti• tlin 11 ental Powers were the friends and allies of their F m peror Tile ORLEANISTS rely on a Political cry which has many charms in French and we cannot recommend a better antidote to internal discord, than a cheer. ful roundelay of stirring industry. France adores that' which makes England what she is, and let no diplomatic coquetting with Austria, in her miseries, mar the social prosperity of her children Profitable employment must be found for the millions of French. War, and the rumours of war, sure precursors of insufferable trials ; and are the another half century must pass away before one half of Europe remains pasgive, and the other give The little a unanimous assent to their inflictions diplomatic ruses of the day are almost too con temptible to excite the disgust of the people of any enlightened country; but should they eventu a condition of things which will press with force on the leading States of Christendom, authors must be prepared to meet a crisis, in whi ate in equal ch perfect internal union cannot be relied upon. If we are not to have peace, the next war will be no compromise. The Power which compels another to draw the sword, will assuredly be made to pay the cost of her temerity. Conven_ tional bloodshed, in which nations are to bear the expense of defending the rights of civilisation, is wholly out of fashion. Whoever causes the expenditure of hundreds of millions of an unoffend ing people's hard-earned treasure, will be made to re-pay every sixpence. This is nothing more than common equity, to which no valid objection can be raised; and let the diplomatists who are so busy at the present moment, take it for granted, that the public voice of Great Britain is unanimously in its favour. We want peace, and it is not too much to ask those who will have war, to pay for their savage pastime. THE Gas Question has all ended in smoke, as far as the Corporation are concerned, They are to give us what thay are pleased to call a " Meter " Inspector," and the Borough Engineer is to test the quality of the gas supplied to the public. Lord PALMERSTON might well say that " all But to " public measures are compromises give us a stone when we ask for bread, is carrying the doctrine too far, and making us pay dearly for our square-set, is altogether beyond a joke. The appointment of such an officer, however, proves the correctness of our repeated allegations with respect to the extraordinary deceptive powers of the conjuring box, and the quality of gas for which the consumer is required to pay a high monopoly price. The Town Council have found that what we havo said was right, but the relief they propose will not reach one-third of the grievances complained of by consumers. If we get honestly constructed meters, and gas of th illuminating power specified in the company's act, two great points will have been gained. But what becomes of the all paramount questions of pressure, cost of manufacture, expenses of general management, leakage, the power of Sing increased consumption, extending to the dwellings of the labouring classes, nd growing as Liverpool is growing? The . . suppl Corporation have created an officer whose decisions in all cases of dispute respeoting meters and over charges are to be final and beyond appeal. There are fees to be charged for inspecting meters, but no penalties enforced when the gas measure is found to be false defy any man to tell whether sums can be fairly charged to the capital account unless he knows the quality of the article produced ; and this is an important point for the consumers to consider, as they are made to pay 10 per cent. interest on " the " various sums" so charged. In dealing with matters of revenue, it is also that the quantity made should be compared with the quantity consumed, in order to see what has been lost in distribution, and that the public have not paid for more gas according to the meter returns, than the company have manu factured. The Recorder will, doubtless, see the necessity of pursuing such a course, and the Corporation will probably ask Mr. BELOE for some further information on the subject of the Gas necessary Company's capital and revenue accounts, as they are both vastly important to the consumers. It is useless, however, to think of hoodwinking Liver o long as the Press have the honesty and manliness to grapple with the doings of gas mono polists. We originated the discussion in the columns of the NORTHERN' TIMES, and we will continue it without fear or favour, until Liverpool light at the cheapest rate. The ()thing that is unreasonable. obtains the bes consumer al s for Give him an honest measure, fair pressure, and good gas, at a price which will leave a fair commer cial dividend on capital, and he will be satisfied ; but until he obtains those things he will not, and should not, rest contented. And while the Council are in an instructive mood, it would be well if they were to instruct Mr. BELOE to revise his history of " the actual state and condition of the company" in question. As for the Corporate Gas Committee they have gone " black out," and we fear there would have been a frightful explosion if it had not been for the opening of the back door. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVEISING The Liverpool Cotton Market throughout the past week has been uniformly strong and animated, the further reduction from 5 to 4! per cent which has taken place in the value of money, and the fine weather Which has set in, having diffused a general feeling of confidence. The sales of the week amount to 81,720 bats, 62 970 of which have been tak( n by the trade, 15,180 for speculation, and 3 ; 570 for export. The above quotations shew an advance on those of Friday last of 1-16 d to id per lb in the current qualities of American descriptions—all other kinds command full rates. The sales to-day are estimated at 7,000 bales, 2,000 being for specu lation and export—the Market closes with a rather quieter feeling than has. prevailed for the last day or two The C'ommittee's quotations to day for fair Cotton are as follows, viz. :—Bowed, 6d ; Mobile, 6tl ; and Orleans, 7d per lb. The Liverpool Share Market opened tamely this morning, and continued flat throughout the I day, cloSinft at the following quotations :—Aber deen, 1.51 151, Chester and Birkenhead, 171 171. Caledonian, 31 31*. Chester and Holyhead, 17* 17:. Eastern Counties ; HI 10 7-16. East Lanca shire, 22 22* Great Northern, 24 241. Ditto A, 91 ; 10. Great Western, 63 631 Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 98g- 981 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 14. 18*. London and North Western Stock, 1094 1091. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln. 351 35*. New 6 per cent. Pref , in. Ditto Preference, 12 12a. Midland Stock, B.la. 811. North British, 91- 98. North Staffordshire. 51- Si. South Eastern and Dover, 221 22i York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 22* 221. York and North Midland, 32,1 32*. Leeds Capital Stock, 19 19*. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1* lb. Dutch Rhenish, 21 2 13-16 p. Great Western of Canada, 26* 26 7-16. Ditto , ,New Shares, 3* 31p. Great Luxem- bourg, 8H Byd.• The Corn Trade continues heavy; and the amount of business done to-day has been small, and lower prices generally had to be accepted. Flour was from 6(1 to Is per b.u•rel, and wheat from ld to 2d per bushel lower. Tallow still continues in good request, and large sales are again reported in P. Y. C. at 47s 9d to 48s 6d on the spot, 48s 3d for Aug. and Sep., and 48s 62 per cwt. Oct. and Dec delivery ; 150 hhds North American sold at 47s 6d to 49s ; and a few lots South American at 45s to 48s per cwt as in quality. The London market is again higher, the closing value yesterday being 48s per cwt spot, and 48s 6d to 48s 9d per cwt for the end of the year. The half-week delivery is 1,201 casks, against 775 casks last year; and the present stock 17,859 casks, against 46,097 casks in 1855. The receipts at the Custom-house at Havre for the month of June amounted to 3,941,952 f., show ing a diminution of 164.029 f. compared with the same month last year, Large cargoes of American wheat and flour continue to arrive at that port, and prices are firm at 90f. per 200 kilos for wheat and 44f. 75c. per barrel for flour. The market for sugar is likewise firm with a tendency to advance, on account of the recent advices from the colonies reporting a greater demand for export than was calculated on ; but the local demand in France is not equal to the supply, in consequence of the increased number of sugar factories. Further intelligence from Copenhagen relative to the question of the Sound Dues announce positively that no convention has been entered into by Denmark and the United States to prolong the treaty of 1826. The negotiations pending between the two countries are simply held in abeyance until the result of the conference between the powers interested is known. Meanwhile there is a tacit understanding that matters will remain in statu quo until that time. It is understood, also, that Denmark will in no way yield to the United States any privilege withheld from other nations. Ad vices from Lisbon to the 24th June state that the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies have adopt ed, and the Chamber of Peers sanctioned, the two following measures presented by the new Ministry: —First, the approval of the budget of revenue and expenditure fog the ensuing year, which is based upon the economic principles of last year's budget; and, second, to admit all cereals free of duty after the Ist of this month into the kingdom of Portugal. There has been a quiet market for Colonial produce this week, purchases having chiefly been confined to immediate wants. Prices, however, have generally been well csupportecl. In csugar tho transastions have been moderate, and prices have been rather firmer. Coff.•e has been more freely offered, still previous rates have been maintained. Tea ruled steady early in the week, but it has since been somewhat weaker. Rice is heavy. Spices have been dull, and rum has been bought freely, at firm rates. Tallow has tended upwards, but the market has exhibited a quiet appearance. The amount of specie o❑ board the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's vessel Euxine, which leaves Southampton to-day for India and China is much larger than usual, viz., 810,3221. chiefly in silver, for China. The committee of Bombay and Baroda share holders recently appointed, among whom is Mr. W. 0. Dimond, of the Exchange, for the purpose of arranging the dispute between the Bombay and ißaroda Railway Company and the Hon. East India Company, are to have an interview with the authorities in Leadenhall-street to-morrow, when it is supposed the preliminaries of an arrangement of the difficulty will be settled,. Australian Banking Shares are at full prices, especially those of the Australasia Company, which are 1/. to 1/. lOs better. Canada Land have risen 1/. to 21. Other miscellaneous shares are in request, at previous values. We annex the last quotations of the Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 18 to 11 181. Do., three months, 12 18 to 12 181. Rotterdam, do , 12 18 to 12 181. Antwerp, do., 25 55 to 25 60. Brussels, do., 25 55 to 25 60. Hamburg, do., 13 9to 13 91. Paris, short, 25 271 to 25 35. Do., three months, 25 621 to 25 671. Marseilles, do., 25 621 to 25 671 Frankfort, do , 120 to 120 i. Vienna, do., 10 16 to 10 20. Trieste, do , 10 17 to 10 22. Petersburg, .do., 371 to 37k. Madrid, do., 4 9 to 49. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending June 27, 1856. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Debit. Credit. Notes issued £26,903,970 Government Debt Other securities 3,459,900 Gold Coin and Bullion 12,428,970 £26,903,970 1 Total .. .. £26,903,970 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Debit. Credit. Proprietors' ca- Government se pital Rest Public deposits 5,704,570 Notes 7,388,715 Other „ 9,810,045 Gold and silver Seven day, and coin other bills 644,738 797,546 £34,113,616 £34,113,616 The foregoing Bank Returns show the following results when compared with those of the preced ing week : —Notes isF.ued, increase, 666,0301.; bullion in both departments, increase, 655,7431. ; rest, increase, 17,4541. ; public deposits, increase, 1,572,4601.; other deposits, decrease, 792,629/. ; seven days' and other bills, increase, 57,9171. On the credit side, government securities have increased 801 ; other securities, increase, 392,0741 Notes unemployed. increase. 473 3351. Actual circulation, 19,515 2551.; increase, 192,6951. stantinople Consuls were quoted at the close of the day's business at 95 1 1-, to 951. The following are the closing prices of Railway Shares :—Caledonian, 621 621. Eastern Counties, 10?,- 101. East Lancashire, 87 88. Great Northern, 951. Ditto A, 78 79, Great Western, 631. Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 981 981. London and North Western, 109 1091. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 341 351. - Midland Stock, 841 84*. North British, 391. South Eastern and Dover, 751 751. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 871 881. York and North Midland, 631 64. LOSS OF THE AMERICAN BRIG COLUMBIA. —OR the night of the 17th of June, the brig Columbia, whi!e steering an E course, was run into by the burg l e Vic toria of LirerpoA, and immediately sink. The whole of the crew saved and conveyed to Lisbon in the Victoria. The night was dark and there was no look-out en board the brig. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EAST Despatches from Trieste, of the date of yester day, mention the receipt of news from Constanti nople to the 28th. Marshal Pelissier was to be entertained on his journey from the Crimea to the French capital, at a banquet given by the Grand Vizier. The same source of intelligence informs us that Yeni is in a state of insurrection, and it is stated that the government have presented a request to the Pasha. of Egypt to grant the protection of his troops to the newly-appointed governor.. It is also stated that Selim Paella, hereditary Prince of Circassia, has refused to retire to Con- THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING At the termination of business on the Bourse today, the Four and a Half per Cents. closed at 93f. 75c.; the Three per Cents. at 71f. 80c. FRANCE. (FRO:11 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING, The Emperor reached Plombieres yesterday afternoon at five o'clock. It begins to be doubtful whether the Empress will go to Bairritz or any other distant place this summer, owing to her reluctance to separate from her child, and owing to physicians not thinking it desirable to make him take a long journey. _ _ _ In the Legislative Body, yesterday, the bill for authorising the Emperor to grant pensions to emi nent functionaries was adopted, though a committee to whom it was referred reported that it ought to be rejected. This was the first time that a committee ever, under the present regime, has dared to propose the rejection of a government bill, and the report in which it did so was remarkable for the energy of its language. This is a sign of the times, which is not without importance ; it indicates a reawaken. ing of public opinion, and perhaps also a demand will be made at no distant day for a certain degree of political liberty. In the Legislative Body, too, two other acts of hostility to the Government have been done—one the throwing over to next year of a bill for turning into a law certain decrees of the Emperor, for reducing duties on various imports; the other the indifinite postponement of the bill for abolishing prescription in the French tariffs It had been expected that the bank of France would have reduced its rate of interest to-day, but it has determined not to do so for at least another FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. MORE WARLIKE OPERATIONS BY RUSSIA- The Hamburg News publishes a letter from Tre bizond dated the 10:h ultimo, from which we make' the following extract Russian corps of 40,000' men has been sent against Scliamyl. The Turks have abandoned all the fortresses of the Asiatic coast and completely destroyed that of Shefketil _The Russians have as yet only occupied Redoubt Kale; they dare not occupy the other points at present, the populations of Abasia and Circassia having sworn 'that no Russian shall touch their territory so long as there is a Circassian alive. The whole population is under arms. The Naib of Anapa has been obliged to mike his escape to avoid being murdered by them. The Turkish fleet has carried off the cannon of the forts of the Asiatic-, coast. There are will five battalions and two , detachments of artillery at Trebizond. There are 10 000 men expected from Erzeroum ; all our troops are to proceel to Constantinople. Mustapha Pasha is still at Batoum with two battalions and a war brig. . - A let or from Warsaw, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—The paper = have spoken several times of the reconstruction of Sebastopol, but as yet all that the Russians have done has been to clear away the rubbish ; and the plan of the rebuilding of the town. which is to be laid before the Emperor and the Minister of war, is not yet finished. The troops are returning hut slowly from the Crimea. The disarming of Poland is insignificant as yet, but the corps in the Baltic provinces is being disbanded. THE COURT The Lord Chancellor had an audience of the Queen I on Thursday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Prince Consort rode on horseback in the forenoon, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Prince of Wales, attended by Mr. Gibbs, visited the Zoological gardens in the Regent's park. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, took a drive in an open landau and four in the afternoon. Prince Albert pre sided on Thursday evening at the annual dinner of the Grenadier Guards, of which regiment his Royal High ness is colonel. The dinner took place at the London Tavern. The Duchess of Kent dined with her Majesty. The Queen, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and the Count of Flanders, honoured the Royal Italian Opera, Lyceum, with her presence. The King of the Belgians visited the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—It is not improbable that the prorogation of Parliament will take place on Thursday, the 24th instant, the Ministerial whitebait dinner, in all likelihood, taking place on Saturday, the 19th. RETURN OF GENERAL GOUGH.—General Viscount Gough, G.C.8., has arrived in town from his mission to the Crimea, where the gallant veteran was delegated by her Majesty to invest the French Marshal and Generals with the Order of the Bath. Tna CRIMEAN STAFF. —The officers who have lately held commands in the Crimea will immediately be placed in similar positions on the staff at home. Five of them have been already appointed to the command of brigades at Aldershott, and several district staff appointments will shortly be vacated, to which other Crimean officers will, in all probability, be named. T. n Doti., 0, Wll. ~11.03 xr,r. 7 . m" IklnTrtox-oizz. We hive reason to anticipate that the general wish regarding the entry of the Guards will be complied with, and that those troops will march from the Waterloo station to Buckingham Palace. The inhabitants of the metropolis will thus have every opportunity of doing h. , nour to the Guards, notwithstanding the attempt of the Quartermaster General to make the demonstration one of litt'e more than suburban proportions. The Fusilier Guards having arrived, the ceremony will probably take place on an early day next week. Tun TowN DUE;.—T;Ie labours of Mr. Lowe's select committee on local charges on shipping, met a most ignoble termination on Thursday last. On that day the committee assembled to devise the course forfuture opera tion. The hon. and learned member fur Newcastle, Mr. Headlam, presented and prepared the adoption of a report in favour of our Town Dues, the evidence with respect to which, has been closed on both sides. A dis- cussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. Cobden (who by the way has been absent from the committee for some time,) obj , cted to any report being made to the House in the present stage of the investigation ; in other words, he urged that the enquiry into the cases of all other places sought to be affected, should be gone into before any report was made. On this, the chairman, promoter and prosecutor (Mr. Lowe), moved as an amendment upon Mr. Headlam's proposition, that the committee should simply report the evidence which had been taken, and ❑othing more. On a vote being taken, the com mittee were equally divided, namely, eight gip each side, when the chairman gave the casting vote in favour of his own amendment, which was accordingly carried. The result, therefore, is that the matter stands where it began; and when it is remembered that the committee was constituted by the right hon. gentleman himself, without opposition or contest, that he himself proposed to go no further this session than with the case of Liver pool, it is no idle boast to say that the position of affairs on Thursday, enable us to congratulate Mr. Lowe upon his virtual discomfiture and signal defeat. Should he again venture upon an attack next session, he may rest assured he will be met with undiminished vigour and determination by those who have the rights of property to protect against assailants, however high their position, or plausible their expressed intentions. LAW IN TELLIGENCB. —LIABILITY OF INNRETP SR& —III the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday judgment was given, after lull argument, in the case of " Cashill versus Wright," which was an action brought to recover damages for the loss of a watch and some sovereigns, supposed to be stolen from hie room in the defendant's ion, where be was a guest. In defence, certain acts of the plaintiff were set up, to show that he had been negligent, and had occasioned or contributed to the loss. At the trial before the Recorder of M arehcster, the jury were direc'ed that the defence failed unless they found that the plaintiff had been guilty 0C gross neglect. A rule for a new trial was afterwards obtained on the ground of misdirection. Mr. Justice Erie now delivered judgment. Two questions were raised before the court. It was said first by the counsel for the plaintiff that the particular acts imputed to the plaetiff were of such a nature as not to amount to negligence, and that the Recorder shoul l have direetA the jury that there was no negligence. If the court were satisff d that there was no evidence of negligence, the rule ought to be discharged ; )at they could not say there was not some negligence on ch the opinion of the jury ought to have been taken. the alleged misdirection in saying week The Nord, a Brussels paper, says, on the authority of a St. Petersburg letter, that the coronation of the Czar will probably take place on the 31st of August, or the 7th of September. THE MARTEN PIC CURES. —The chief d'ccurres of Martin, the great master of he "limner's art," still continue on exhibition at the gallery, Old Post-office-place, and those who have not yet availed themselves of this, the last .. _ . opportunity, of contemplating the extraordinary effects of this excellent artist, ought not to delay embn.cing it. The collection remains open for a few dais longer, and the public spirit which has induced Mr. Isaac to p esent to the public, merits, indeed ought to command, their most ex- teneive patronage. D BEERY OF £2OO IN AN OMNIBUS.—An extensive gang of extremely clever swell-mobsmen at present infest the omnibuses of the town, and travellers, especially ladies, should be on their guard. Several robberies have taken place during the past week, of which the following were the most s.rious. Yesterday afternoon, a lady named Burgess, who lives in Texteth•park, was alighting from the Mill-street 'bus, when she folud that her pocket had been entirely cut awny during the journey. It contained £2OO in notes and gold. On Thursday afternoon a number of ladies were proceeding by the Edge-lane 'bus to the flower show. A fashionaltly dressed youth, who had a cloak thrown over his arm, asked what the fare was, as soon as the 'bus had reached Clayton-square, paid the sixpence demanded and got out. The vehicle had only proceeded a few yards when one of the ladies missed her purse, which cent fined several pounds, and which was safe in her pocket a moment before. The 'bus was again stopped, but the young " g nt" had vanished. LIVERPOOL PILOTS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The animal festival of this society, which has for its object the relief of sick members, widows, &c., took place on Tuesday last, at Mrs. M ty's Lamb Hotel, Wavertree. The day was spent in the utmost harmony and good feeling. The amusements were bowls, quoits, &c., and a fine band of music enlivened the assembly. At four o'clock, a sumptuous banquet, of the most recherche kind, comprising the finest delicacies of the season. was ',placed on the table in Mrs. May's best style. After the cloth was drawn, appropriate toasts added to the harmony of the evening, and speeches made consonant with the benevolent objects of the association. It may be stated that the monthly meetings of the society are generally held at Mr. Whiteman's New Brunswick Hotel, Clayton-square, whose health was toasted with applause, as one of the guests of the party. The chair was ably filled by Mr. Hugh Wood ward, one of the oldest pilots of the port, and Mr. Thomas Richards, secretary to the society, had the best enconiums 'or his attention to its interests. The worthy hostess was tlso most heartily received, and lauded for the handsome manner in which she had provided the entertainment for the association. The day, fortunately, was particularly fine, and the party retired at a seasonable hour, after a day of the most rational enjoyment. DISEMBODIMENT OF THE 3HD ROYAL LANCASHIRE MILITIA. —At about eleven o'clock in the forenoon of , Thursday, the members of the 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia, one company of which has recently returned from active service at Gibraltar, assembled on the Preston Marsh, under the command of Colonel John Wilson Patten, M P. ; Lieut.- Colonel Mathias, Major Cross, and a full compliment of officers, for the purpose of being reviewed by Major-General Sir Harry Smith, previously to being disembodied. After the regiment had been put through a variety of evolutions, the gallant general proceeded to address them, and, in the course of a brief speech, he alluded to the voluntary service they had rendered to the country by foreign service in the Mediterranean. He complimented them on their soldier like bearing and precision, and told them that no county militia had contributed more to the defence of this nation than had the 3rd Larcashire militia. He concluded by saying—You are now about to be disembodied, and it must be a pride to you, when returning to your homes, to know that you have received such high military encornituns as have been passed upon you, an , 1 with a happy concientiousness of having gloriously done your duty in the service of your Queen and country ; and lam proud to have to express to you my noblest thanks for such services, I thank you, Colon,' Wilson Patten, fur the services you have rendered in bringing the regiment to such a state of perfection, and I a lso thank the officers under your command for their united services. Three cheers hiving been heartily given fir the gallant Colonel, the regiment reformed and returned to their barrack. ALLEGED POISONING AT BOLTON. —MIS. M'Mullen, the daughter of a respec able tracksman, and wife of a flour dealer in Moor-lane, Bolton, ha; been apprehended on suspicion of poisoning her husband, who died on Wednesday morning. Toe deceased, Daniel AP M ullen, was taken ill nine or ten days ago, and attended by Mr. Dorrian, surgeon, who, on watching the symptoms attentively, became con vinced f d m eta,Astihnriee rdm:itpatient e h eern‘y a iliga, t t hewn h wona i totsf s hl (te) i iecu ) imn a u(ni icsn e na i cibt i l, patient became oyetpvroc.oae convinced po o virn n laieant e nha c ied l eile . inn. ide otek H an aaop took eirdlditi:t a i tyanat p snhl o sactie r sosi ttmtpmi assistance, that o vei the natural discharges to Mr. H. H. Watson, analytical e n i officec a t e she hwithonceil l r. f a: i r t i t s e , d havingsuperintendent ivryoest esesan.itwdh o t aeA f oist p phwpf o oeuoa l wr i srs c ned e ohie . sbrihsntseoabwdri Mrs. anteenetr:dnoe s faflr o uds( m )rn jmnoeiifst.Aihteileoredredw.asdsmemeil Simpson, sfn c ptgst i l tal l bsnr e :t d ,,acdrh ‘ g. ' given powders,quietness." p, n srno s g dn S d a h os t o e as e . Mr. Simpson has the police, containing 3 grains of tartarised antimony, and always sold with strict itiinctions that the quantity examination is to take place by Mr. Darrian and Dr. Chad wick, io presence of Mr. Botwe, who attends on behalf of the accused ; and it is understood that the contents of the stomach will be analysed by Mr Watson. An inquest will be held. The motive assigned for the perpetration of the alleged crime is the obtaining payment of a policy of assur ance for £lOO, effected eighteen months ago, in the Prince of Wales insurance Office, on the j',int lives of the deceased and his wife, the money being payable on the death of either of them. PRUSSIA In the Journal des Debats we read the following letter, dated Berlin, the 30th ult. :—The visit of the Prince of Prussia, brother of the King, to England, is now a settled affair. The Prince, accompanied by the Princess, his wife, will in the first place proceed to Aix-la-Chapelle, where they will be joined by their daughter the Princess: Louisa. They will take their departure thence next week for London. The Prince of Prussia is charged. by the King with an invitation to Qaeen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal to visit Berlin. They will accept the invitation, and it is arranged that in September next her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and their eldest daughter will be present in the Prussian capital, at the celebra tion of the marriage of the Princess Louisa with the Prince Regent of Baden. AUSTRIA. In the Cologne Gazette, of the 28th ultimo, we read the following, in a letter from Vienna, dated. the 26th ultimo :—" M. de Bourquency, the French ambassador, was received yesterday by the Emperor at a private audience, and handed to his Majesty an autograph letter from his sovereign. It is that the communication in question relates to the intended interview between the two monarchs." The same letter adds :—" Count Paul Esterhazy, who is to represent Austria at the Russian coronation, is making for that ceremony the most magnificent preparations. In addition to the crowd of servants and carriages covered with gold and silver, it is in particular the Prince's own costume which excites astonishment. It is corn pletely covered with precious stones, estimated at seven millions of florins. In the buckle or ornament in which the plume of his hat is fixed is a diamond worth 300,000 florins. SPAN, The Madrid journals of the 20th ultimo have resn•hed in due course. The Gazette publishes a despatch from the captain-general of Estramadura announcing that,. after a bullfight at Badajoz on the 21th, some bands of disorderly persons burned down the octroi offices at the barriers, but committed no. other excesses. Twenty members of the band& were arrested, but though the military were. kept ready to act it was not found necessary to employ thorn_ The Novidades announces that at Valladolid seven other incendiaries have been shot. Both there and at Palencia arrests were continuing, and the courts martial were in full activity. The number of prisoners remaining to be tried at Valladolid was seventy. At Seville there had been conflicts be tween the gipsies and some of the lower chzsses, and in the course of them two men were killed, and several were wounded. The provincial depu tation of Madrid had presented an address to the Queen, denouncing the recent insurrections, and professing its devotedness to the throne. Troops in the neighbourhood of Madrid had received orders to approach still closer to the capital ; there were between 12,000 and 13,000 men in the province. The Epoca says that during the last two months very large purchases of wheat were made by strangers in La Mancha and La Castile, and were paid for with ready money: This caused an advance in pries, and the advance made the people apprehend a scarcity, though the crops were everywhere abundant, and though there were large stores on hand. In the Cortes, on the 28th, the Minister of Public Works said that the government did not think it necessary to bring in a bill for increasing its power to suppress insurrections, those it possesses being amply sufficient. NAPLES Intelligence from the Neapolitan States to the date of the 26th ult. is before us. From it We learn that his Neapolitan Majesty has defied the Western Powers, and riding in his saddle runs a tilt against the political prisoners, by way of showing his utter disregard of all advice. The political trials are again postponed to July 4. On the 27th of that month one year will have elapsed since the prisoners were arrested. Twelve months of punishment for men presumed by the law to be as yet innocent! No one dreams, of course, of their liberation; they are brought out , not to be tried, but to be condemned. A disturb ance took place in the Borgo Loreto last Monday, which has created some little talk—a species of revolution of Amazons in favour of a favourite priest. Not to enter into details, Campagna and his myrmidons were com pelled to present themselves, but recoiled be fore the attack. The military were sent for, but they were not granted. Finally, a party of sixty gendarmes came down, but they durst not inter fere, so the Amazons held possession the whole day, and it was not until after nightfall that 18 of the women and the rector were arrested. There was nothing political about the emeute, except that the rector was well known, and was therefore somewhat obnoxious to the authorities as a. Liberal. The rector of the College of the Jesuits, Padre de Rosa, has been remove d , f or h av i ng i ntro d uce d bodily flagellation among the pupils as a religious discipline. He was sent for to Roane. This fact has given rise to a number of strange reports. HANOVER. The second chamber of Hanover adopted, in its sitting of the 30th June, a proposition in favour of a reform of the Germanic Confederation. The Minister of the Interior himself acknowledged the The no utility of a federal court, but expressed an appre hension that its establishment would lead to end less ex . -minister . Von der Horst thought ground for fear on that head, and quoted the opinion expressed by the complications. there was ministers Stein, Gagers, and Munster, who, as long since as 1815, con sidered the erecti on o f suc h a court as perfectly .compatible with the federal organisation. A motion in favour of the re-esta blishment of the German fleet was also being sup ported by the Minister of the Interior himself. THE APPROACHING RACES.—The Earl of Derby leaves town early in the ensuing week for Knowsley, in order to receive a distinguished circle of sporting friends during the Liverpool race meeting,