The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

GWERSYL►.T.—TO be SOLD or LET, a newly-erected DWEL LING HOUSE, with suitable OUTBUILDINGS, situate at Gwastad Bridge, about eight miles from Chester, and about three miles from Gresford and Wrexham Stations. on the Chester and Shrewsbury Railway. The house is built of stone, and is situated on an eminence on the banks of the River Alyn, commanding a beautiful ♦iew of the Valley of Gwersyllt. It contains three enter taining rooms, and nine bedrooms and dressing rooms, with stables, coach house, and proper offices and conveniences. There are about ten acres of LAND. which would be sold with the house.—For fur ther particulars apply to Mr. T. M. Pennon, Architect, Chewer; or to Messrs. Duncans, Squarey, and Blackmore, 1. Exchange-street West, Liverpool. R J. NEXT WEEK NIOND AY the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock at noon quay west side Brunawick Dock, 40 tons, averaring 151 inches calliper, alitv NPRUCE 109.311 super. f 246 84f .. 112,700 .. 183.932 .. ODDI DITTO, DITTO, ly to inform '647 STYLES T HE rokers, Queen's Dock 81,.0 EIURCH-STREET, le Nobility and Gentry of Liver r the Season are NOW READY ENTLEMEN'S SHIRT WAREHOUSE, 24 and 26, BOLD-STREET SIIIR MACTAGGART ME R ( HANT MANUFACTURER NORTHER DAILY S NOW TO SUBSCRIBERS TIMES DT ADVANCE 38/ PER ANNUM Attention is respectfully drawn to the above announce , and parties living within four miles of the Liverpool Exchange, who desire the latest news from all parts of the World upon their breakfast tables every morning, should, to prevent disappointment, send their names and addresses to the Oflice, 19 John street, Liverpool, South Copies of a EJERN DAILY TIMES can be sent through the post b 1 affixing a penny postage stamp on the envelope, or three copies can be sent in one cover The NORTHERN TIMES is registered and that she will withhold from the QUEEN, and her reactionary leaders, that support, without which, neither the throne of ISA BELLA, or her dastardly ministry, who have dared, for their personal ends to risk the peace of the Continent, cannot stand for one month. The true element of destruction in the present butchery appears to have been the millions of francs said to have been advanced to the Spanish Government by a certain Credit Mobilier establishment. Whether the money lent will reach its destina- tion, in the present condition of Spain, is a doubt which remains to be removed. Meanwhile France has published a sort of programme of her future policy towards Spain, and as it is important at this critical juncture, we give it at length :—"lf the new Government in Spain succeeds in maintain Inarttat. ANTED, a Nurse Alai, a NURSE GIRL, ALADY having a few h ENGAGEMENT —Address C. - G., Pod-offs ASTUDENT (in hi cheater, wishes t Medical Man, to months of August and .7 reterences can be give to be 3Ut. rv, a good General gIERVANT, where field Villa, Mayfield-road, ust be a good Sempatress. at her disposal, wishes for an GOVERNESS; her acquire and drawing ,st references Birkenhead .), at the Medical Schools of Man. nto an ENGAGEMENT with a a Practice, during ti-e The her next /the Autumn recess, " —Apply A. 8., Northern most satiptac Times office, July Ist, 1856 APARTMENTS FURNISHF.D.—A DRAWING-ROOM and PARLOUR, with one or two BEDROOMS, to be LE!', toge ther or separate.—Apply at 3 1, Mason-street, Edgehill TO be LET us WAREHOUSE, wi - h Counting House' ,te at the bottom of School-lane usiness.—Apply at 77, Lord-street and suitable for any Wholesale TO be I. hed, a SITTING-ROOM and BEDROOM. tit in Lilierland, a few minutes' walk from ;tition.—ooolv at the Litherland Post-office. Sea-view H .ake, 0 arooms, kitchens, &c., wit d coach —Apply on the premises, or t fic'urer. n g- street CHUPCH-ROAD, S from the beginninj At'ORTEL—TO be LET welt-furnished HOUSE, coo t bed and two d easing rooms, garden.—For pariicalars, address C. R., Northern 7 PARKGATE.- •• containing HOLD HOUSES d HOUSE, opposite the Dee, two tier's panty .30 l flower and .en papered ani painted inside, ply t, Mr. Johnson, 14, Duke- Also, TO be SOLD, two FREE- nil 0 W H 0 LESALE D RUG r, I STS and OTHERS.—TO be LET, for a Term of Years, the MILLS. WAREHOUSE, OFFICES, &c.. in Wood-street, lately occupied by Messrs. Edney & Raines, as wholesale druggists, including the Engine and Machinery, now ready for work. The Premises, which are very commodious, will be Let together or separately, and immediate possession can be Riven.—For further particulars apply to Mr. George S. Sanderson, 13, James-street, Liverpool. ON SALE.— price. —A On *ate. :t, at aver R, LED WARD & CO., 12, Rumford-place, KENTLEDGE.—A large and well Also, BALLAST (Pi r IRON ILLIAM F. SIM & CO., Sweeting-street MATHE moderate •assorted Stock always on hand. ALight, Handy DOUBLE GUN, in Oak Case, with POWDER FLASK, and SHOT BAG, to be SOLD, a Bargain. It was made for a Youth who is ill, a•+d wishes to dispose of it.—Apply to Mr. T. Earl's, Yorkshire House. Oldhall.street. rrOXTETII PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN-LANE.— NOTICE.—The Burial Board are now prepared to SELL GROUND for Graves and Vaults, and for Interments in the above Cemetery. For scale of charges apply s•t the office of the Registrar, at the Cemetery; or to the Clerk to the Board, at the Public Office, Park-place, Toxteth Park. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. FIOUSE,I HOUSES!! LAND! LAND!!—ON SALE, in large or small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price from abo• £lOO to £6o,ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire offices, for the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Chambers (one door from Market-square) Market-street. Birken head. To-mart For part ex Say a T O-M 0 R R 0 W. account of whom it may concern. tans, at Half-past One o'clock. at Golding 1, Corn Exchange, Brunstaick-street, 00 Bays Chilian FLOUR, HEAT, ex R. Battersby, irom Calcutta. J. Sr M. HARNETT, Brokers. past One o'clock, at the Brokers' , Brunswick street, anal FLOUR, 3 GOLDING & NASH, Broker. and Nash's Salercen 900 Bags On SI O DAY next, 26Q T ogs BIRCH, 2 . 38 Va Pieces s LATH FA RNW 0 ?INF DEALS, .4 MICE SCANTLING, OARDS for the same cost nsmission to foreign countries TO CORRESPONDENTS is with his name, nor has he given .o=sas'►sa has not any Proof a-i; ~ l ,Yl~ xort trn THURSDAY , TULY 24, 1856 And what licentiousness of merciless soldier, ne? Have the old )t one, and the sanguinar, The policy of England ienouneed, as a matter o and other writers like would ra disguise spread Constitutional absolute pow( themselves to that order of thing s whit as hope that Gre atitutional part: sne has c first etlbrts of the Continental reactionists lded in a noon-day massacre. The accounts f the most brutal and unpardon " Since the rising at Paris, in says our informants of blood in the streets." to give new life to the irtiers, or breal to a monster" of tly bought the vices of the is Spain, Le blackest despotism, under any ever the face of Europe, than 3rnment, or Monarchs without tribes will accommodate _ . thi n g which promise a return to h they most revere. But let t Britain will not desert the Con reated on the Peninsula, as Atornin, THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. is authoriti ere. if France will, of tours he Progressites gain the day and by chance the present QUEEN is required to abdicate in favour of the Princess of AUSTRIA, and ESPARTERO is appointed Regent, still France will not interfere, and only will invade Spain in case the Duchess de MONTPENSIER be declared aeir, or that a Republic should be " proclaimed." The " If's " employed in this memorable paragraph, are of extraordinary Shakspearian importance ‘. If the new Govern " went iu Spain succeeds," and "if the Progress " ites gain the day," and this and that is done, France will not interfere. But who can dream of O'DONNELL'S and the Court's success in an attempt to subvert the Constitution which France ani England have guaranteed to the Spaniards The Progressites must triumph ultimately. Even O'DONNELL, in the heat of his savage attack upon the people of the capital, held out the olive branch to the national party. He appeals lustily, and like a victor, trembling at the enormity of his success, and calls on the good sense and patriotism of those whose lives he assailed, to support him in his tyranny. This will not do. The reactionary movement of Spain has for its sole object, the restoration of all the Church and State abomi nations of FERDINAND'S reign. It aims at reducing Spain to that appalling condition in which we behold Italy. If she be suffered to collapse, and to return to the horrors of absolute rule, her territory will again be occupied by foreign troops. Her civil tribunals will be filled by military inquisitors, and her criminal courts handed back to a no less unrelenting enemy to Constitutional Government. Her people would be ground down to the dust, by an unblush ing Camarilla, and the substance of the nation would be wasted and devoured by an unbridled court, and a debased aristocracy. The ghost of FERDINAND would be in the midst of these revels, and make much of the 'spirit of our times. But there is surely something better in store for betrayed and unhappy Spain, than a return to that mental, bodily, political, civil and religious prostration, from which the arms of France and England have so recently raised her. It will take more than the reactionary adven turer, O'DONNELL, to hurl her backward another cen tury behind all the rest of that same Europe she once led in arms, literature, art, and science. Her blood may be shed, as it has been for the last fifty years by designing and wicked counsellors, but so great a people—so chivalrous a race--must yet regain that status which nature has marked them for, and stand erect by the side of those nations she has so often confronted on the field of battle, and led on to the triumphs of civilisation. We cannot despair of seeing her emancipated from the thraldom of political intrigue, and freed from ence of lawless hypocrites, who are but early to play the part of hirelings, first to the foreigner, and then to the native disturbers of country's neace, while a true Spaniard remains on the soil that gave him birth. The Spanish citizen has tasted the sweets of the civil and religious toleration—he knows what Constitutional Freedom, rational and possible progress really mean, and the people who rejected DON CARLOS, with all his fanatical facinations and liberal professions in politics, will assuredly over throw O'DONNELL and his Court ; and what will Lord PALMERSTON do if the QUEEN should be com pelled to abdicate her throne, if the young PRINCESS should not be chosen as her successor, and ESPAR TERO should not be appointed Regent, and France should interfere? IN our article of Saturday, on the reduction of the duties on wines, we promised to return to that !;X.CFIEQITER'S speech in which we find " protection" associated with drunkenness. When Legislators talk for a considerable time on such subjects, they generally become more or less groggy. They roll about, and multiply the length of their journey by care fully measuring and re-measuring the width of the road they have to travel. We do not mean to say by this, that Sir CORNEWALL LEwis was the " worse for liquor," but he certainly did show that the public morals, health, and happiness of this country are most flagrantly sacrificed for revenue The right honourable baronet told us that if the weaker, and, consequently, less intoxicating wines of the Continent were admitted at a low duty, the retention of the present duties on spirits and beer would operate as a 0 protection" to the less destructive beverages. This would be no objection to raise to a reduction of our wine tariff. On the contrary, we want those who will drink to use that which is the least injurious to themselves and to society. A gill of pure wine is the equivalent of a quart of the best beer. The former would not make a man drunk and disorderly. The latter does ; there- fore it is obviously the duty of the Legis- lature to adjust the imposts on wine, so that üblic may obtain weaker and wholesome irink at the same price as beet No one can pretend to say that the English people would not use wine generally, until the experiment has been tried. Nor is it good logic to assert that a high rate of duty on spirits would act as a " protection" to the less destructive beverages; for it brings us at once to this conelu• sion, that the high duties levied on tea, coffee, nd sugar, are a " protection" to drunken_ It is true we derive, according to the CHANCELLOR of the Esc QUER'S showing, only 1 0,418,0001. from the above necessaries of life, while the fermented liquors produce a revenue of 23 ,062,0001. annually. But how much further, we will ask, could " protection" to the consumption of spirits and beer be carried ? Get within fifty per cent. of the equalisation of duties on fermented and unfermented articles, and mark the falling ff in the consumption of the latter. Let it abroad that beer is as cheap as tea, rum as economical as cocoa, and that coffee is dearer than gin, and there will be an end of the increasing demand for the beverages virtually pro hibited. There is here something more, it will be observed, than a mere question of revenue to be considered, in the discussion of this subject. once get We will not say that those who appear wholly to disregard the cause of temperance, in legislating for revenue, would intentionally raise the duties on the necessaries of life, to protect those commodities which fill the land with drunk. enuess and crime; but that such is the practical effect of their measures is admitted by them selves. According to the admission of Sir CORNE" WALL LEWIS, with regard to the reduction of duty on wine, if those charged on tea, coffee, and sugar were lowered, the result would be, that the high duties on spirits and beer would protect the con sumption of those articles. This is the important admission to which we directed special attention on Saturday. It places the whole matter in an entirely new light, and one which is not likely to be forgotten, either in or out of Parliament. When drunkenness and crime are reduced to mere questions of revenue, we think we shall be justified in announcing the advent of Free Trade, in the " weaker wines of the Continent," and in tea, coffee, and sugar. " Protection" would have no friends in such a movement ; and once the actual cost the country is put to, for the repression of offences committed through drinking, is carefully balanced with the cost incurred for the promotion of order and sobriety, the public will be found ready to make up the difference from another source It must not be said of Great Britiin that she cannot command fiscal means for legitimate purposes. Our industry is too great, our labour too valuable, our genius too diversified, our national pride too exalted, and our resources, active and dormant, too vast, to admit of even a whisper of our inability, or indisposition, to do whatever is necessary to sustain the honour and well-being of the State. The great problems of this age do not differ from those which have gone before them. Time brings its work—its changes,—and the query is, how to do it—how to effect them with the least injury and greatest advantage to the common weal. The difficulties of the British Exchequer to-day, are trifling to what they have been at former periods. We have a heavy debt hanging over us ; but we have stupendous means to meet our obligations. Our power to pay may be seriously cramped by our conventional and party crochets, but there the substance is, and all the people ask is that taxation may be spread over it wisely and equally. The poor man can do but little. The rich are always ready to discharge their duty to the State ; and when our fiscal burdens are so arranged as not to bear too heavily on the working man's necessaries, as a " protection" to the source of his degradation, and the increase of crime, we shall have reached an era of peace, contentment, and growing morality, which will relieve the Imperial Exchequer of one of its most threaten. in g exigencies. THE COURT. OSBORNE, July 22.—The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince and Princess of Prussia, drove to Carisbrook Castle, yesterday afternoon. Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, arrivel on a visit to her Majesty. THE CANDACE.—From Ptymouth we learn that the Royal African mail steamer Candace arrived there from this port in fifty hours, after experiencing thick weather, which led to detention, and interfered with her progress during the passage, The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Thomas Dennison, Knight, R.E., Captain - General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the colony of New South Wales, and of Rear-Admiral Charles Elliot, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island of Trinidad, to be Knights Commanders of the Most ll^nour able Order of the Bath. THE SCREW STEAMER ZEBRA.—lntelligence has reached from Falmouth, stating that the screw steamer Zebra, while on her passage from Havre to this port, was stranded at, six o'clock on Tuesday morning, during a dense fog, on the Lizard Point. We are happy to add that the passengers and crew have been landed in safety. Every exertion is being made to save the cargo, but the success of those efforts is question lble as the ship is full of water. RAILWAY REFORM ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of the friends of this movement was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Mr. Matins in the chair. It was decided, after an able address from the chairman, to prepare a memorial to both Houses of Parliament, for the purpose of insuring enactments for enforcing uniformity of railway accounts ; to subject the votes of proprietors to the forty-first clause of the New Joint Stock Act, which requires the shareholders to have had stock in their possession, before voting at any meeting. Further, to give two-thirds, or three-fifths, of the shareholders at those public meetings power to call in a public auditor, where the half yearly accounts of the directors shall have been rejected, and to give the same majority of shareholders the privilege of turning out any director whom they may consider to have misconducted himself. Many of the shareholders present said that the chairman and his brother committeemen were entitled to the thanks of the whole railway world, for having, by their exertions and ability, procured the reduc tion of the proxy stamp of two shillings and sixpence to one shilling. The greatest unanimity prevailed, and a strong determination was expressed to pursue the movement with vigour. ST. GEORGE'S HALL CONCERT-Room.— It will be seen by an advertisement in another column, that the inaugura tion concert will take place in the concert-room of St. George's Hall, under the direction of Messrs. Cramer, Beale and Co., on Friday the sth of September. The chief vocalists will be Madame Alboni, Clara Novello, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. J. L. Hatton. DISSOLUTIONS or PARTNERSHIP. —G. Artingstall and W. R. Dell, Latchford, Cheshire, wireworkers. R. Lakin, and S. W. Sextan, Manchester, woodbenders. J. Radcliffe and J. Winchester, Liverpool, tailors. J. W. Flamank and M. B. H. Williams, Liverpool, garancine manufacturers. J. Feeny and T. Kay, Liverpool, shipatore dealers. H. Maden and J. White, Manchester, commission agents. W. Ellison and W. Eddison, Bradford, Yorkshire, land agents. SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—WEEKLY REPORT. JULY 23rd, 1856.—1 n patients :—Discharged : cured, 14; relieved, 1; at own request, 2 ; irregular, 0. Dead, 0 ; entered, 20 ; under treatment, 60. Out patients : cured, 44; entered, 40 ; under treatment, 35. Treasurer, James Houghton, Esq. Visitors, James Ingram, Esq., and James Houghton, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry, B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr. Cameron, and Mr. Minshall. House surgeons, Mr. E. C. Garland, and Mr. William Townsend. THE CHARGE OF MURDER AT TRANMERE.-011 Wednes day, Hugh Parry, who has been for some time in the custody of the police on the charge of having been instrumental in causing the death of his sister, Mrs. Mary Jane Lomax, was again brought up before Mr. Bryant, the presiding magistrate at the Birkenhead po ice court. Mr. B-ethertnn appeared to watch the case on behalf of the accused. In answer to the magistrate, police constable Davis said he had no evidence to offer in addition to that given before the coroner. (This evidence was published at full length in this journal at the time of the inquest) The magistrate ordered Parry to be discharged from custody. LAUNCH OF A SPLENDID IRON SCREW STEAMER.—It was only on Friday that we gave a full account of the launch of the largest oak-built vessel ever constructed in Belfast, and to day we have the pleasure of recording the launch of, we believe, the largest iron steamer ever built here, which took place yesterday morning, from Queen's Island. At five minutes to eleven o'clock " daggers" were knocked away, and the naming ceremony was performed by Miss Spence, sister-in-law to the builder, whilst the vessel glided beautifully into the river. She is called the Circassian, and presents a very fine appearance. The length of the keel and fore-rake is about 256 feet, the breadth of the beam is 391 feet, and the depth of the hold 23 feet. The tonnage is nearly 2,000 register. She will be fitted up with engines of 350 horse power, from the establishment of the well known engineers, Messrs. Randolph, Elder and Co., of the Clyde ' who constructed the engines of the Khersonese. Messrs. Taylor, Johnson, and Alexander, of Dublin and Liverpool, are the proprietors of this flue steamer. They purpose employing her, we understand, in the Australian mail packet line.—Belfast News Letter. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING There has been no change in the tone of the Cotton Market to-day, and prices remain the same as on Friday. The sales amount to 7,000 bales, and include 1,000 taken for speculation and export. The following is a statement of Cotton at sea per New York list, 9th July:— NEW ORLEANS. Cambridge Alfred Storer .. , ... 1276 St. Patrick ..... 'outhrn Belle 2788 Roger Stewart D •shaway. Alice Counce. Australia Crest of the Wave .. 1908 Connecticut Northern Chief 3879 Charlemagne . 1642 Montmorency Taniscot Squando Wallatta Richd. Alsop. Thorwarlsden ~ . .. 236(, Rock Light . East Indian Mont Blanc ...... , ... 844 S. Crowel Normandy.... .. .... 3792 New World Commodore ... .. .. 2618 America .. Silas Greenman 153 (, Liverpool Revenue. ➢IOBILE 22,675 Arabella Metoaka ........ Spark the Ocean 2314 Ohio .... .... 2352 3021 1499 SAVANNAH. - Mary and Adeline ... 2403 56,993 CHARLESTON. TOTALS. Hartford ..... ..... 1619 New Orleans Harkaway. Alesto .......... .. . 14671 Savannah 2,403 Luconia. Ocean Queen Astorio . 1620, New York .... 11,373 1 101,776 The following is a comparative statement of the receipts and stocks of American cotton :- 1856. 1855. Total receipts crop .. 3,520,000 .. 2,847,339 Received to 9th July .. 3,443,000 .. 2,666,833 Yet to receive 77.000 .. 179.500 Stock in U.S. ports . 157,000 .. 240,000 Do planters' handsSep 1 .. . .. 250,000 At sea to Liverpool Stock in L'pool July 18 632,760 .. 432,000 Stock in spinners'hands 70,000 .. 120,000 Total stock 1,038,536 .. 1,301,500 ...263,000 bales. Decrease Throwing out of the calculation the quantity held back last year in the interior by planters, we have actually less available supply than at this time last yeak. The Liverpool Share Market opened with a buoyant tone this morning, and improved during the day, but towards the close prices were barely sustained. The closing quotations were as follows :—Aberdeen, 141 141. Chester and Birkenhead, 16! 17. Caledonian, 30$- 30:. Chester and Holyhead, 17-1 17Z. Eastern Counties ; 10: 10j. East Lancashire, 214 211. Great Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 9: 9i. Great Western, 62: 63. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 98 98/. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 181 19. London and North Western Stock, 1081 1081. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 341 34 1 Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 13-16 15-16 p. Ditto Pref., 12 11-16 12 13-16. Midland Stock, 84 841. North British, 91 9:- North Staffordshire, 41 41d. South Eastern and Dover, 22 5-16 22 7-16. York, New castle, and Berwick, 21 15-16 22. York and North Midland, 311 31:. Leeds Capital Stock, 18 18/ Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4 ip. Dutch Rhenish, 2: 3p. Great Western of Canada, 26 26i. Ditto New Shares, 3 1-16 31p. Great Luxembourg, 91 91d.. The following is a statement of traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway of Canada by pas senger and goods trains for the week ending 4th July, 1856 :—Week ending 4th July, 1856, total receipts, 9,8581. I9s 10d ; per mile per week, 34/. 16s. Week ending 6th July, 1855, total receipts, 6,816/. 3d ; per mile per week, 281. Os. Increase:— Total receipts, 3,0491. 19s 7d; per mile per week, 61. 10s. Aggregate gross receipts from the com mencement of current half-year to date, 256,601/. 13s ld ; for the corresponding period last year, 181,2321. 6s 10d—all sterling. Letters from Vienna mention that two agents, representing some English capitalists, had passed through that city, on their way to Pesth and Semlin, with a view to establish a steam navigation com pany on the Danube, so as to combine the interests of Austrian and English capitalists. Accounts from Palermo to the 3rd inst., state that the government has formally declared that the exportation of wheat from that state will be interdicted after the 25th of the current month. The French budget of revenue and expenditure for the year 1857 has been published. The ordin ary expenses are calculated at 1,698,904,664 francs' and the receipts at 1, 7 09,874,512 francs, thus showing an excess in favour of the latter, amount ing to 10,969,848 francs. _ According to a telegraphic despatch received from St. Petersburg, the Russian tariff has just been altered. Raw sugar is to be admitted at 3 roubles, and refined at 5 roubles per pood. A pood is about 361 b English, the calculation being 63 poods to a ton English. The Committee of Spanish American Bondhold ers have issued a long statement relative to the assignment of the Custom duties at New Granada, in payment of the interest upon the Government debt, held by English capitalists, which explains the agreement of the 15th January, 1855. It is mentioned that twelve dividends are now overdue, of which the bondholders are only receiving pay ment of six, by the last agreement concluded in London with the agents of the New Granadian government, in taking the Peruvian Bonds at par, although they stand only at about 60 per cent. With a view to render the customs duties more productive, and to discourage contraband trade, the committee's agents proceed to recommend, in as delicate a manner as they can, that an agent of the bondholders should be appointed to, act with an officer of the government in examining strictly the manifests of every ship arriving in the ports of the republic. They declare their belief that, if this step were adopted, the revenue would quickly be doubled and even tripled. As the debt carries a progressive rate of interest, this measure is urged the more earnestly. The language of the memorial is care fully worded with a view to avoid offending the sensitiveness of the authorities, but the whole document is suggestive of the utter corruption which prevails in the administration of the state. An instalment of 20 per cent, amounting to 1,00),0001 is due to-day on the loan of 5,000,0001. This has produced very little increase in the gene ral demand for money, the event, as usual, having been previously provided for by most parties. There now remain only two instalments to be paid, and the entire amount will have been subscribed on the 18th of September. An account is printed to-day with the parliamen tary pavers, of the public income and expenditure for the year ending the 30th of June last. The total income was 70,233,7781, and the expenditure 91,803,1811. The expenditure includes 28,319,1731 on account of permanent debt, 1,727,7151 charged on Consolidated Fund, and 61,756,2921 for supply services. The leading items of expenditure are— army, 21,551,2421; navy, 17,813,9951; ordnance, 8,378,5821; which, with the addition of a vote of 3,000,0001 for the Russian war,' renders the total war expenditure of the year about 50 millions. The balance in the exchequer amounted on the 30th of June, 1855, to 3,882,6101, and on the 30th of June, 1856, to 3,922.334/ The success which has so far attended the operations of the National Discount Company is likely to induce further joint stock competition in this class of business. The particulars are published of 91 bonds, repre senting 30,0001., of the Turkish Six per Cent. 3,000,0001. loan, which have been drawn for redemption, and are to be paid off at par on the 10th October. The sinking fund commences this year, a nd amounts to 1 per cent. per ann um on t h e total loan. Interest on the portion of the loan redeemed will also henceforth be applicable to the same purpose. Th e Hertford and Ware Bank,under the manage ment of Samuel Adams and Company, suspended payment yesterday. This was a bank of issue authorised to the amount of 23,6351, but the circulation latterly has 'been reduced to about 13,5001. The statement of liabilities and assets has not yet been published. The meeting of the Great Luxembourg Company, called for the 19th inst. at Brussels, not having been sufficiently attended, another special meeting is convened for the 4th August, in the same city, to decide upon the measures necessary to be taken with respect to the cession or to the execution of the Grand Junction lines. The decision of this meeting will be final. The Funds are firmer to-day, and have attained a rise of per cent, chiefly owing to the fine weather. Consols are quoted 951 to 95 7 :- for money, and 95Z to 96, at which they stood at the close of the day. In the Stock Exchange the forthcoming dividend of the Midland Railway Company is rumoured to be at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. The bar silver brought in by the Tyne was sold yesterday for India, at the price previously current, viz., 5s ltd per ounze standard. There were no dollars by this vessel. The Railway Share Market continues to show a steady appearance, and prices in one or two instances have slightly improved. We annex the closing quotations as follows :—Caledonian, 60i 61. Eastern Counties,lo7 10i East Lanca shire, 80 88. Great Northern, 97,-1 97t. A, 77 78. Great Western, 62a 62k. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 971 98 London and North Western, 108 k 108 . Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 341 35 Midland Stock, 83Z- 841. South Eastern and Dover, 744 74. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 87+ 884. York and North Midla.md, 62 63,f CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday the deputy coroner held the following inquests. On the body of Mary Curtis, aged 58, who died in the Royal Infirmary, in consequence of injuries received by her on the 4th inst., by her clothes catching fire. Verdict accidental death.—On the body of the child John 'Parton, who was accidentally killed in the street by a cart. Verdict accidental death. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.—YESTERDAY,-- BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON,—In re JAQUES AND SELIG.—This was a petition filed by Mr. G. Baby. of Birmingham, one of the assignees,for the removal of the other assignee, on the ground of his objection, contrary to the wishes of the general body of creditors, to apply the assets in hand in the prosecution of a suit to set aside a deed given by the bankrupt Jaques to Mr. R. J. Jordon, of Liverpool, as a security for a sum of £BOO. Mr. Etty ap peared in support of the petition, and Mr. John Yates, jun., to oppose it on behalf of Mr. Francis Thurlock, of Liverpool, whose removal, as assignee, it sought. On invest'gation the petition was found to be somewhat defective, but it being made clear by Mr. Etty that the general body of creditors were in favour of the prosecution of the suit at the expense of the estate, Mr. Thurlock consented to withdraw voluntarily from the assigneeship. His resignation was accepted, and the court made an order for another choice. RURAL EXCURSIONS.—The intensely hot weather which at present prevails invites the denizens of our crowded town to seek recreation and repose in those suburban retreats which surround us on all sides. For ourselves we succeeded in discovering a spot which for quiet relaxation cannot be surpassed. This is the Railway Hotel at Sutton, midway between Birkenhead and Chester. A garden tastefully laid out, with cool arbours and ponds full of fish, the florist and disciple of Walton and Cotton may find ample sources of recreation and amusement. To quiet pic-nic parties, and indeed to all who seek true rural felicity apart from the interruptions which crowded places of resort usually present, we cannot too strongly recommend a trip to the Sutton Railway Hotel, where the host and hcstess, Mr. and Mrs. Broad, vie with each other in supplying the wants and contributing to the comforts of their visitors. The connoisseur of good living will find the cuisine of this hostelry perfect, and the beverages of every class in the highest condition and quality. MADAME GoLnsminT.—On Monday Jenny Lind and child embarked at Dover on board the Royal Mail packet Queen, for Calais. The caravan for Mecca took its departure from Damascus on the 16th June. It is composed of 3,350 individuals. A letter from Algiers states that Mr. Brett is at present in Algeria, making the necessary arrangements for laying down the electric wire between Cagliari and Bona. THE ABINGDON MIIRDER.—We understand that Maria Tarrant, convicted at Abingdon of the murder of her infant child, and whose execution at Reading was fixed for Monday next, has been reprieved. The Tartare, steam advice boat, arrived at Cagliari on the 19th from Algiers, being placed at the orders of the English engineers who are to lay down the submarine telegraph between Sardinia and the coast of Aftica. The marriage of a deaf and dumb couple was celebrated a few days since at Ulm. The government had at first refused permission, but it was eventually granted on the director of the deaf and dumb establishment at Gemund declaring that the state of the parents would have no influence on any children that might be born to them. The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received through the Secrerary of State for Foreign A flairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, announcing that the duties on the importation of cotton chintzes and prints into Shanghae, have been reduced to 5 per cent ad valorem. ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.-Mr. Henry Rumsey Forster, to whose direc tion the active operations of this society have been entrusted during the past three years, has withdrawn from all further connection with it. Mr. Forster is a candidate for the office of chief constable of the county of Buckingham, under the Police (Counties and Boroughs) Act. SUNDAY BANDS.—Sixty-two ministers of religion in Manchester and Salford had an interview on Monday with the Mayor of Manchester, and presentel a memorial against Sunday bands in the public parks of that city. Ninety-six names were attached, representing ministers of the °hutch of England, Wesleyan Methodists, Wesleyan Association, Primitive Methodists, Baptists, Independents, Presbyterians, United Presbyterians, Free Church of Scotland, and of the Methodist New Connexion. SIR CHARLES NAPIER.—A correspondent of Le Nord writes from Copenhagen on the 16th :—" Admiral Sir Charles Napier arrived the other day at Tonning, n by an English steamer. Although travelling simply as a tourist, his arrival was saluted by ten volleys of cannon, and the commander of the fort went himself to pay all the honours reserved for travellers of distinction. The English admiral then left for Flensbourgh by railway, and found a considerable crowd assembled to greet him. It is stated that he intends leaving for St. Petersburg by the first steamer." CONFLAGRATION AT PERA.—Advices from Constanti nople, mention that on Saturday, the 12th instant, the town of Pera was put in commotion by the cries of fire, and before two hours had passed six wooden houses in one of the narrowest streets were burnt down, in spite of the speedy assistance which English, French, and Turkish engines rendered. The fire was only stopped by the storehouses on each side. While the fire lasted, the plate of Major Brett, who lives in the same street, but was that day in the country, was stolen. The prac tice is on these occasions to remove as much as possible from the neighbouring houses. This was done in Major Brett's house, and when the things were taken back again, the plate chest had disappeared, together with that officer's Indian medals. THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOTT---The army at Aidershott has within the last few days assumed very considerable proportions, and the next review by her Majesty, which it is believed will take place next Monday, will probably include a larger number of troops than has been brought together in England for some time. Besides some cavalry and artillery detachments, the following regiments of in fantry are now in the camp—Grenadier Guards (Ist bat.), 4th (King's Own). 7th Fusiliers, 18th Royal Irish, 19th Regiment, 20th Regiment, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment, 38th, 41st, 44th, 49th, 83th Connaught Rangers, 93rd Highlanders, 95th, and Rifle Brigade. The total number of men on the ground can be little short of 16,000, and from the list just given, it will be seen that some of the most distill, guished infantry corps, whose historic fame has been well sustained in the Crimean Second and Light Divisions, are now within an hour's distance of the metropolis. There was a grand field day on Tuesday, preparatory to the expected review by the Queen. ADMIRALTY INSPECTION.—On Tuesday morning at an early hour, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiral P. Richards, C. 8., Admiral H. Eden, Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.B.' Surveyor of the Navy, and Col. Green, paid an official visit of inspection to Chatham dockyard. Their lordships arrived in the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam yacht, on Monday evening, and after remaining on board all night, pro -teeded to inspect the ships now in course in con struction, and the site for the large new steam basin. They first examined the Racoon, 20, one of the new class of screw corvettes just laid down on the same slip as that from which the Cadmus, 21, was launched. They also inspected the Hero, 90 (building) ; the Irresistible, 80, intended t o b e fitted with the screw propeller ; the Mars, 80, in dock, preparing for sea; the Charybdis, 21,, screw corvette, commenced in March last, and laid down on the same slip as that from which the Severn, 50, sailing frigate ; was recently launched. They also inspected the Hood, 90 (building), and the Calypso, 28, in dock. After which, their lordships spent some time in examining the Renown, 91, the largest vessel ever con structed at Chatham Dockyard, and which is ordered to be launched early next year. Their lordships next inspected the large new stone slip, and expressed their admiration at its tine proportions. Orders were given for a large vessel to be laid down on this slip immediately. After leaving the dockyard their lordships inspected the Royal Marines at their barracks, and also Melville Hos pital. embarking on board the Black Eagle, which landed them at the railway pier, their lordships returning to the Admiralty by railway. FRANCE. (EROINI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING From the language of the semi-official press, and from what is said in political circles, the French government is evidently disposed to take rather a favourable view than otherwise, of the coup d'etat o f O'Donnell, now that it has succeeded. No wonder ! For it was against the parliament and against liberty —hateful things in the eyes of the presen t rulers of France, and " a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." Some of the details of the sanguinary conflict at Madrid excite positive horror. It is said, for example, that the troops of the line showed nn quarter to the National Guard, and that one batta lion of that guard in particular was all but extermi nated. According to the Moniteur, , the insurrection at Barcelona, of which the telegraph will have in formed you, has resulted in the complete triumph of the royal troops. Many families, we learn from another source, had fled to Marseilles. A Marseilles despatch, after announcing a new rise of lf. in the price of wheat, in spite of new arrivals, says that the Indus had arrived, with letters from Constantinople to the 14th, but the only event of interest they mention is, that Genera t Codrington had visited Odessa, and been very coldly received. The Princess Marguerite, of Saxony, has been affianced to the Archduke Charles Louis, second brother to the Emperor of Austria. P.S.—On dit that the French government knew perfectly well that the coup d'et'zt of O'Donnell was contemplated. It appears, from Madrid letters, that, after its success was assured, the French ambassador hastened to congratulate him on it. But the affair is not over yet. BELGIUM. THE FETES AT BRUSSELS. (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BRUSSELS, TUESDAY EVENING After the despatch of my letter last evening, the King and royal family were entertained at a splendid banquet given by the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives. This was followed by public concerts, and by a serenade given to his Majesty. There were also fetes gratis atVauxhall and gratuitous performances at some of the theatres. Vast crowds filled the streets until a late hour at night, and afterwards thronged the beer-shops and public-houses, which are innumerable here. What enormous quantities of beer must have been tippled ! To-day there have been more public concerts, and a grand review of the National Guard of the city and neighbourhood, of the troops of the gar rison, and of deputations of every rejment of the army. The review was passed by the King, and his Majesty was accompanied by his two sons—the Duke de Brabant, and the Count de Flandres. He was followed by a brilliant staff, amongst whom I noticed Lord Westmoreland and another English officer, also some German officers. The appearance of the troops and the National Guard was very fine; that of the former more so than I should have expected. Unfor tunately, the pleasure of the sight was marred by a tremendous shower of rain, which fell as the troops were filing off before his Majesty in front of the royal palace. The greatest enthusiasm was manifested for tho King at the review, by the National Guard, the troops, and the spectators. His Majesty is evi dently beloved by his subjects. THE STATE OF SPAIN A despatch from St. Sebastian, under Monda)'s date, shows the probability that the whole of Spain will very soon be submissive to the new govern ment. It is likely enough that General Falcon, finding that he has no support to expect from. Catalonia or the northern provinces, will come to. terms. Letters of the 18th from Logrono represent that town as having the appearance of a camp, the National Guards being all under arms, and having been joined by those of Navarrete, Najera, and some other place. General Gurrea had just arrived there to take the command, but we know already that those preparations had had no result, and that troops had entered Logrono, unresisted. When Falcon learns this, aid that on all hands O'Donnell is in the ascendant, he will probably give in, stipulatiThz, perhaps, for the restoration of his rank and honom s, and impunity for those who have stood by him in his preparations for resistance. There are reports of his troops having abandoned him, but nothing positive is known from Saragossa; and the telegraph is still interrupted there, which shows that the authority of the Madrid Government is not yet recognised in the place. There is no confirmation of the statement that 85 members of the Cortes had assembled at Saragossa. At Madrid some arrests have been made, including that of Senor Madoz. As it is not probable that O'Donnell will allow Marshal Narvaez to return, it has been conjectured that he may perhaps offer him the Paris embassy. at once to conciliate him and to keep him out of the way. General Espartero was still at Madrid, and intended to proceed to Arganda, a small town five leagues distant from the capital. The Paris Moniteur of Tuesday has the following despatch from Barcelona, dated Saturday last:— At five o'clock yesterday evening a movement took place at Barcelona. The general in command here instantly sent his troops against the rebels, who dispersed themselves immediately, and en trenched themselves in the manufacturing quarter of the town, to the west of Rambia. By eleven o'clock they had erected fourteen barricades. At midnight the chief of these were_carried by assault; the others were not defended. This morning tranquillity seemed to be restored, but one battalion of troops and several companies of the National Guard declared for the rebels. An order of the general immediately commanded them to dissolve themselves and lay down their arms within one hour. The disarmament was effected without resistance. At eleven o'clock to-day new barricades were formed in the place of the Prado. By noon they were forced, in performing which General Bansols was wounded. The musketry firing still continues, but the advantage everywhere remains with the troops. The insurgents now occupy in tha town only the terraces of some of the houses. The devotion which has been shown by the troops is admirable. M. Valentia Ferraz ceased to be Inspector, General of the National Guards of Spain, and his functions were conferred, pro tempore, on M. Rios; Rosas, Minister of the Interior. By a royal decree, General Prim (Count of Reuss), was removed from the government of Granada, the Queen declaring► herself satisfied with his services, of which her Majesty intends again to avail herself on his return from France. A journal, says the Epoca, found it strange that the English Minister, Lord Howden, did not appear at the Palace during'the last events. The fact is not at all extraordinary, Lord Howden having been for some time absent from Madrid. The Representative of the British Legation, Mr. Ottway, during the absence of the Ambassador, hastened to the Palace the moment the insurrec tion commenced. The casualties of the troops are estimated at between 40 and 50 killed, and 150 wounded. The losses of the insurgents were not yet known. One _of the battalions of the military which suffered most, the lst battalion o f A rt i llery, ha d 45 mon hors de combat. The R oyal troops engaged con sisted of 13 battalions, with t pieces of artillery, in all about 16,000 men. The cavalry, compos-d of 2,000 men, was employed outside the gates in keeping up the communications between the three corps into which the Royal forces were divided. Nineteen thousand muskets, and a considerable quantity of pistols, sabres, lances, &c., had beerm surrendered by the National Guard s an d inhabit ants of Mad r id. The 57.000,000 o f reels forwarde d from France by the Spani s h C redit Mobilier Company to the Government had arrived at Madrid, and were deposited in the Court of the Palace during the insurrection. On the 17th, the Queen distributed 30,000 cigars to the troops of the garrison of Madrid. On the same day, the French Ambassador paid a visit to the palace to congratulate the Queen and O'Don nell. The assemblage of more than six persons in the streets. of Madrid is forbidden. It is said 12,000 men and two batteries of artillery, under General Dulce, have been ordered to march upon Saragossa, to put down the insurgents.