The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

gommtrcial Saltl. NEXT WEEK MONDAY On account of whom it may concern. On MONDAY next, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, - at the Brokers' office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 150 Tons PALM OIL, saved from the wreck of the Garrow.—For further par ticulars apply-to J. H. RAYNER & CO., Brokers. On account of whom it may concern. On Ilorrps.v next, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, Exchange-place, 2 Casks Fine Salerno Brown TARTAR, HARPIN & CO., Brokers. Apply to THURSDAY On THUMDAY next, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 7, Oldhall-street, 12 Chests INDIGO, just landed, ex Advance, from Madras ; on show, No. 8, Albert Warehouses.—For particulars apply to GLADSTONE & SERJEANTSON, Brokers. FRIDAY. On FRIDAY next, the 14th inst., at Twelve o'clock at Noon, in the Brokers' Office Yards, South End Brunswick Quayi 1732 First Quality Yellow PINE DEALS, ex Pedestrian 3502 Second Do. Do. DITTO, from St. John 3173 Third Do. Do DITTO, N. 8., 4308 St. John Spruce DEAL ENDS, 137 Logs Yellow PINE, 3768 feet, 5583 Yellow Pine DEALS,} ex Fury, from Bathurst, N. 8., 1225 Spruce DITTO, 3036 Yellow Pine DITTO, ex Ellen Maria, from St. John, N.B. 1473 Whitewood DEALS and BATTENS, 1 ex Norden, 450 Do. DITTO ENDS, j from Breock, 3324 Pitch Pine PLANKS, ex Goliah, from Ship Island, U.S., 64 Pitch Pine MASTS, ex California, from Ship Island, U.S., 4 Yellow Pine MASTS, ex Closina, from Quebec, 4 Red Pine SPAR PIECES 1 24 HECMATAC KNEES, ex Scotland, from Quebec , 540 Dressed ASTI OARS, ex Harvest, from Baltimore, 570 Do DITTO, ex Capitol, from Do , 879 Do.. DITTO, ex Annapolis, from Do., 2300 HICKORY BILLETS, ex Houghton, 281 East India TEAK BOARDS, ex Matilda, 4 Logs Havana CEDAR, ex Ripple, 265 Logs PENCIL CEDAR, ex Richard Robinson. On account of the Importers. DITNCAN EWING Sc, CO., Brokers. THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION To THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. EARLY DELIVERY OF THE "NORTHERN TIMES."—Any subscriber within four miles of the Liverpoll Exchange, or at Rock-ferry, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Woodside, Oxton, Claughton, Seacombe, Egremont, or New Brighton, who does not receive his copy of the "NORTHERN Timm," by Eight o'clock will oblige the publisher by addressing a note to him at the 'office notifying the fact, in order that the cause of complaint may be investigated and removed. As our messengers commence their delivery at five o'clock on each morning, it would greatly facilitate its completion if subscribers would have letter-boxes in their doors through which the papers might be dropped, as the detention as some houses is very great at present, and causes delay and disappointment to other subscribers. It would, therefore, be an act of charity to defeat the motion for the appointment of a Select Com mittee to enquire into the propriety of violating the rights of property. Lord PALMERSTON, we feel assured, would venture to raise any man to the Peerage for his natural life who would guarantee to him that he should hear nothing more about municipal plunder for the remainder of his days. And the noble Viscount's best friends, and constant supporters, ought really to make an effort to release him from the quagmire into which Mr. LOWE has so ably led him. But what has the Royal Commission—on whose report the Vice-President of the Board of Trade says he concocted his bill for the " abolition" of tolls and town dues—said ? Are we to have the Crimean farce introduced into maritime and mercantile legislation ? Are we to have Commissioners sent out with a carte blanche, as regards cost to the public, to investigate and report, and then to have a Select Committee to sit in judgment on the production of men who, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade has stated, were eminently qualified to discharge the duties entrusted to them ? If the Government were satisfied as to the ability of the Royal Com missioners, and the impartiality of their report, what need can there be for a special tribunal to offer an opinion on their merits ? The report has been used for its purpose, and the measure founded on it would have been rejected by a large majority of the House of Commons, - if it had been suff division. It is obvious, meci to therefore, that the appoint ment of the committee, to be moved for on Monday night, is simply a clumsy attempt to get this bill remodelled, or laid aside, till some more promising opportunity of passing it presents itself. But we cannot believe that Parliament will sanction any such peddling with really great and vital ques tions. Mr. LowE has had ample time to concoct his plans of spoliation ; and his measure, after a full and fair discussion, was only saved from sudden death by a most cruel infanticide. Ho has been acquitted of all participation in the murder, and yet he seems to ask for a coroner's inquest, as if determined to satisfy himself and the public as to the actual cause of death ; and to fix the perpetration of the foul deed on the real Parliamentary assassin. Let Mr. LowE have his inquisition if he will; but let us be up and doing, and endeavour to obtain a true verdict. Let the Liverpool Corporation, and every man connected with our trade and shipping, lose no time in strengthening Sir FREDERICK TEIESIGER'S opposi tion to Mr. LowE's childish efforts, at the consum mation of a most dangerous design. LORD JOHN RUSSELL is resolved not to be wholly eclipsed among greater and lesser lights. What there is of the noble Lord, is to be seen as large as ever on the Parliamentary stage. For ethics he has thrown aside politics, and having selected National Education as his theme, does not hesitate to take out of the mouths of the oldest veterans, and youngest recruits in the cause, all they have said, or may have to say, on their favourite topic. Lord ITN RUSSELL twits Sir JOHN PAKINGTON with respect to certain discrepancies in his statistics, and yet employs his rivals figures to illustrate his own arguments. Mr, ROEBUCK reminded the noble Lord that he propounded a system of National Education thirty years ago ; while Lord PALMERSTON appeared to be remarkably anxious that Lord John should occupy himself especially with education, and not for the present, soar above " the settlement of that question which would be " alike honourable to himself and advantageous "to his country." The noble Lord, how ever, alluded to the well ascertained fact, that there were only one in eight of our population, between the ages of five and fifteen years, receiving any education at all. And after alluding to the fact, that schoolmasters and schoolmistresses who receive only Hs and 8s per week, could not be competent to inculcate useful instruction, he proceeded immediately to expound the principles embodied in the resolutions he pro posed to the House. While endeavouring to make the educational system of the country complete, he was disposed to retain all that which was now found to be work- ing well, by which means he hoped to secure to this country the advantages enjoyed by Switzer land, and the New England States, namely, that one in five of the whole population should receive a useful education at the cost of the Stote. To complete the supervision of his national system of education, the noble Lord would have a Vice-Pre sident of the Council of Education sitting in the House of Commons. He, would also add eighty sub-inspectors to the present staff, and divide England and Wales into eighty educational districts, and he would provide Roman Catholic Wesleyan, and other schools in proportion to the number of schools of the Established Church. Lord JOHN would also extend the power of the Trustees of Charities, and enable them to apply the funds they now had lying idle for the purposes of education. And in cases where parishes were found to be without sufficient means to support schools, he would confer upon them the power to levy a rate, the amount of which was to be fixed by Parliament. With regard to the readine , of the Scriptures daily in schools, if parents objected . the children were not to join in that part of the instruction. In these few lines we have all the leading features contained in Lord JOHN'S resolu tions ; but we cannot see how the public are to be rated for education, where there are half a dozen distinct sects, all of whom would be grasping after the lion's share. How could a rate be struck in Liverpool, or in any other large town without leading to inter minable agitation? Would Mr. BROWN, the Pro testant, submit to pay one sixpence towards a Roman Catholic school? or would Mr. JONES, the Romanist, contribute one fraction to the support of a heretic Seminary which was under the direction of a good Wesleyan? The only way in which any such idea could be carried out, would be to strike a rate according to the population of the district, and pay to each school a fixed sum per head, for the number of children who were provided with perfectly free and gratuitous instruction. A pre mium would then be indirectly offered to every sect to increase the number of their scholars, and we should lose sight of the weekly penny system which shuts out such a vast number of the children of the poorest classes, from the school of all re ligious sects alike. With the great bulk of the working classes " the system"andpenny free school upon ehild a r e s n a , m w o h n o s ter would, i f imposition,tli that i a thousands looked ot . system were abolished, b e sent to school, are now ' left on the streets from morning to night. We are, therefore, rejoiced to hear that Lord JOHN'S resolutions aim at the reduction, or the abolition of these school fees. It is also encouraginr, to hear that where children are taken away from school at the tender age of nine and. ten years, and sent out to work, that the employers of all girls and boys between the ages of twelve and fifteen years, will b e c ompelled to produce certificates half-yearly of EVENING EDITION ea- An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY Timms is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, contaising the Markets, together with all the News of the Day, up to the hour of going to Press. WILL POSITIVELY CLOSE ON SATURDAY NEXT. FIRST EXHIBITION of the FRENCH SCHOOL of the FINE ARTS in Liverpool, including MAD'LLE ROSA BONHETTR'S GREAT PICTURE OF "THE HORSE FAIR," Is NOW OPEN at the Liverpool Academy Rooms, 01(1 Post-office place, Church-street. Admission Is. Catalogues. 6d. Gentle men's Season Tickets, ss. Ladies' Ditto, 3s 6d.—Open from Ten till Five o'clock. The Exhibition is now onen in the Evening, from Seven to Nine o'clock. Admission, 6d. B. PRODSHAM, Secretary. kort4tru (Tinto SATURDAY, MAROH 8, 1856 MR. WILSON has documents relating to the Liverpool Custom House before him, and our local members " must allow him to know best." Such was the language employed by that right honourable gentleman in the House of Commons on Thursday, when Mr. HORSFALL ventured to ask " whether any commissioner had been sent, or was "intended to be sent to Liverpool, to inquire into ' the frequent complaints which have been made "by a large body of officers of Customs in Liver " pool, of inadequate remuneration for their " services ?" We will not, here, discuss the pro priety of noticing murmurs emanating from Government officers in any particular locality. The remuneration given in the several branches of the public service must be uniform throughout the Kingdom. And, as this is pretty much the case at present, it is difficult to conceive why the complaints of officers of Customs in Liverpool should receive more attention than those of other malcontents. But when Mr. WILSON states that more had been done for this than any other port, that the long room had been revised, i.nd the salaries of the clerks increased ; he attempts to justify a very broad assertion by limiting himself to matters which are far more interesting to a few officials, than to the merchant and general public. The Treasury has done little or nothing in the way of affording Customs facilities in Liverpool. They certainly have not done for Liverpool as much as they have for London, and the other large seaports of England. And here the injustice of the Government's attempting to take from us one of the principal sources of local revenue' by which we have been enabled to supply many national wants, assumes all its blackest tinges. On Monday next this proposed spoliation will be taken up by a Select Committee of the House of Commons, who will ‘robably be enabled ;to make out a case by which Liverpool will be deprived of a large share of the revenue she has applied to works of public utility. Should the attempt succeed, Mr. WILSON will indeed have good cause to say, that more has been done for Liverpool tfian any other place. And with Slr. Lowz's bill before him, we shall be free to admit that, if he does not " know 'best," he will be able to see as well as other people what is really desired. But it is to be hoped, however, that our local authorities, and all those who feel a real interest in the welfare of the will exert themselves to defeat the appointment of a committee which can only be designed for the purpose of seeing how a bitter pill of injustice may be gilded, and how Mr. LowE's poison can be administered without detection. It will be doing mu. 311 for Liverpool to retard her progress, and for London and the Government ports in other parts of England t o compel Liverpool to raise her dock and other corporate rates to a level with those of more favoured spots. There are court and fashionable circles in com. merce as well as in high life, and it would be a great thing to make us assimilate our dock dues to the bon ton raftliMUlla of London and Southampton. The House of Commons, however, can scarcely have for gotten all that has been said within the last month on this question.. Its members must be aware that the PREMIER only recommended the appointment of a committee to get rid of Mr. Low - es bill, and, probably, the right honourable gentleman himself, NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1856 their attendance at school, and that the expense of instruction is to be paid by the parents or employers This would, indeed, be one of the greatest boons which could be conferred on society. Some means must be adopted to bring the people to a real sense of the incalculable value of education. With the present mass of ignorance and crime, something must be done besides levying rates for lighting and watching our streets, building jails, and estab lishing reformatories, where neglected youth is to receive that training which neither his parents nor the State have secured for him. Whether the proposed measure will be considered " secular'' enough, it would be difficult to say, but what more can Protestants, Roman Catholics, and other sects, require, than schools for themselves, where, if the Scriptures are read daily, the child need not join in " that portion of the instruction." They will all share equally in the administration of the powers which the bill wi!l bestow upon district and sub inspectors ; but let our divisions of opinion on religious subjects be what they may, the time has arrived when something must be done to rescue the youth—the infancy of the country—from the consequences of parental and State neglect, as they are shown in the criminal statistics of this and every other large town in the kingdom. If, as Sir S. i NORTFICOTE observed, sufficient inducement is not held out to get children, neglected by their parents, to go to school, they must be provided in some way the least open to objection. That such thinas ro.n he done is (mite certain; but then the kIISSELL answers by stating that the expense of his borrowed system of education would be about 3,210,0001. annually, " and this," he might well add, " was small in comparison with the object which " its careful expenditure was destined to accom " plish." THE COURT. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday afternoon at Glou cester House. Prince Albert rode on horseback in the forenoon, attended by his Equerry in Waiting. His Royal Highness presided in the afternoon at a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took a drive yesterday morning in an open carriage and four. Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The company included her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the Marquis and Marchioness of Bread albane, Viscount Torrington, Viscount Gough, Lord and Lady Overstone, Colonel and Lady Catherine Harcourt, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Major-General Sir George Wetherall (Adjutant-General), and Lieutenant-Colonel Haygarth. --,......--- BOSTON ELECTION.—State of the poll at twelve o'clock yesterday :—lngram (liberal), 418 ; Adams (conserva tive), 219; majority for Ingram 199. Final close of the poll at four ,o'clock :—lngram, 521; Adams, 295. Mr• Ingram has consequently been returned by a majority of 226 votes. THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—It is announced with confidence that, notwithstanding the destruction of Covent-garden Theatre, Mr. Gye will commence the season of the Royal Italian Opera within a month from this time, with a powerful company, including Grisi, Bosio, Mario, Lablache, Tamberlik, Gardoni, and Graziani. As to the locality we cannot speak with certainty. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL LITERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING The Liverpool Cotton Mark et has been firm throughout the week, and a large business has been done, the sales reaching 64,210 bales, of which 8,540 have been taken for speculation, and 2,110 for export. Prices are a shade higher than on this day week. The sales today amount to 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 have been taken for specula- tion and export. The Liverpool Share Market has been steady all day, closing at a slight advance upon the open. ing prices :—Aberdeen, 131 131. Chester and Bir kenhead, 141 141. Caledonian, 281 29. Chester and Holyhead, 121 13. Eastern Counties, 91 94. East Lancashire, 18 181. Great Northern, 23 231. Ditto A Shares, 91 10. Great Western, 61 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 831 831. Liver pool, Crosby, and Southport, 15 151. London and North Western Stock, 991 100. Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 25 251. Ditto Preference, 111 111 Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., g- fip. Mid land Stock, 691 70. North British, 7g 71. North Staffordshire, 61 6d. South Eastern, 201 20 9-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19 191. York and North Midland, 261 261. Leeds Capital Stock, 15 1 151. Dutch Rhenish,ll - 16 1316 p Ditto New Shares, 21 2ap. Great Western of Canada, 251 25 11-16. Do New Shares, 31 31p. Great Luxembourg, 81 81(1. Of the tallow trade for the week, is reported upon in Mr. F. J. Eaton's circular as follows : Until Wedn he Londor and all this month ; on the afternoon of that day there was a small forced sale at 57s per cwt, which had the temporary effect of depressing the market, but yesterday there was an improved feeling, and at the close the prices were 57s 6d to 58s per cwt spot and month, 53s April, 62s June, and 51s per cwt buyers Oct. Dec. The halt week delivery is 542 casks, against 619 last year ; and the stock on the 3rd inst. was 23,726 casks, against 36,610 in 1855. There has been rather more doing here, but at easier prices, 67s to 583 for P.Y.C. prices, 55s 6d for fine North American, and 54s per cwt for Neapolitan. A telegraphic despatch from Semlin, by way of Vienna, announces that news from Constantinople had arrived there, to the effect that a new issue of paper money had been sanctioned to the amount of 100.000,000 piastres. The measure is stated to have created much dissatisfaction among the members of the divan. On the other hand, it will be a boon to the banking and commercial branches of foreign houses established there, who have to contend with the daily fluctuations in the rates of exchange, as it will tend to their better regulation The committee of Mexican bondholders have re ceived advices from Mexico to the 2d February ; but an expected remittance of 45,000 dollars in the hands of the British consul at Vera Cruz was not forwarded, in consequence of some difficulty in obtaining a permit to send it by the packet. Mexican affairs generally continue to be in an unsatisfactory state. The minister of finance had sent in his new tariff bill to the committee, altering the duties on imports. By telegraph from Madrid it is announced, that the commission appointed to examine the project of the new minister of finance, relative to the substitution of an indirect tax for the octroi duties, has been rejected. Accounts from Berlin state that new bank projects are increasing to such extent that the government are taking into consideration the question of putting a stop to the extraordinary issue of bank notes. 4 AMERICAN MAII.B.—The royal mail steamer Persia, sails this day for New York, with the mails, &c. Letters will be received at the General Post-office up to eight o'clock, and with fees to nine, and at the Stage till ten o'clock with additional fees. AUSTRALIAN 341 Ams„--Letters, &c., for Melbourne and the Colonies, will be received at the Post-office up to eight o'clock to-morrow (Sunday) morning, and with fees to nine o'clock. The box at the Landing-stage will be open up to ten o'clock with additional fees. The packet is the fine ship Champion of the Seas. The Royal Swedish Railway Company have given notice, under the advice of the committee of investigation, that all shares and obligations of the company are required to be left on or before Wednesday next for examination with re ference to the genuineness of the signatures. The commit tee of the Stock Exchange had a sitting yesterday respect inu the securities in question ; but, understanding that this notice was about to appear, and that another meeting of the shareholders will, probably, be called before the end of the month, they deferred, for the present, the adoption of any resolutions. CONSECRkTION OF ALL SOULS' CHURCH. — The interesting ceremony of consecrating the above church, which has just been completed, took place yesterday. There was a very large attendance of the clergy and laity present on the occa sion, most of whom took an active part in the ceremony, which was performed by the Bishop of Chester. The Rev. Dr. Hume, the incumbent of the church, read the service, and the Bishop of the diocese preached the consecration ction followed, which was liberally responded to. The church is situated in a very densely populated neighbourhood—in Eaton-street, oft Vauxhall road,—and is a very neat building. It was erected by the Messrs. Holmes. sermon THE TIPPERARY BANK.—The docket was lodged in this case on Tuesday, and the proceedings under the up Acts are to take place in the office of Master Murphy. The effects of the crash be soon made apparent, and every day the belief grows stronger that the whole weight of the responsibilities will devolve upon some half-dozen or more wealthy individuals, who had the misfortune to he shareholders in the doomed concerp. But a few days since Mr. James Sadleir was an ' object of general sympathy, as people charitably supposed that he was the victim of, rather than accessory to, his brother's frauds. The revelations in the Rolls Court on Tuesday have, however, completely turned the tide of popular feeling ; and, for years to come, Sadleir's Bank will be only remembered as one of the plague spots in the Irish social system. HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.— The archmological section of this society met on Thursday night, in St. George's-hall, Dr. Thom in the chair. Among the curiosities exhibited at the meeting were several from Mr. James Boardman, of Aigburth. Among them were a tobacco box, some buttons, a walking cane, and an umbrella —all family relics. A century ago he says the first was an indispensable pocket companion. The buttons were from his father's coat—a garment worn at an entertainment in Liverpool in honour of the christening of the Prince of 'Wales, aftervards George in 1752. The cane was that used by his father at the same period, and it was carried after the fashion in which drum-majors now do. The last article was an umbrella, one of the first shown in Liverpool, so long since as 1777. They excited the utmost wrath on the part of the hackney drivers' cra ft, as if t h ey were levelled entirely against their craft. A member stated that it was a matter of record that the first umbrella was shewn in Liver pool by a gentleman named Earle. Dr Home announced that, on Thursday next, the meeting woull he held in the Grand Jury-room, when ladies would be admitted. The paper for that evening would be a review of the discoveries at Nineveh and Babylon, and it wou ld b e illustrated by' drawings. The paper of the evening was then read by the president of the Deaf an , ' Dumb Institution. It was entitled "Anecdotes and Illustrations respecting Gore's Liverpool Directory at its first publication in 1766: by James Boardman Esq." It was exceedingly interesting as a record of Liverpool in those days. PATEN SAFETY POOP FOR SHIPS IN DISTRESS, &C. This is really the " patent age of new inventions," and amongst one that appears to claim more than passing glances at a model, is a poop, designated as above and patented by the inventor, Mr. Joseph Tucker, of Bristol. The model was exhibited on 'Change for a few days, and we have heard nautical men speak of it in terms of praise. It appears to us to answer the purpose for which it is intended, in an :admirable manner. The following is a brief description of the patent poop :—The ship has a main deck, fore and aft, in the ordinary way. The poop is built independently of the ship, of iron, of exactly the same model as the ordinary poop, except that it ends a little aforeside the rudder-head and has a bottom. Being built as far forward as the gangway, and the gangway doors hanging to it, they form two efficient rudders for steering. To secure this poop on a steamship, a thick streak of plank is carried from the paddle-box along the side, forming a continuance of the sponson. Up through this streak, large screw bolts are placed, which go through corresponding cylinders, and these being rivetted to the inside of the poop, serve as timbers. In the middle simi lar bolts are placed, which, coming up through a beam in the main deck are, like the sides, secured on deck with a long-shaped nut : those mid-ship bolts on being let go, drop into the stanchions of the lower hold, which are formed hollow. The side bolts drop overboard. A light mizen mast is stepped on deck, and made to lower down, the ordinary mizen being available for the ship, or raft. The a oN : f l o v ut a hl u da t: a g liw e ‘eaaa. o yr f fsu s te uclohfsosuan ci raft in cases of foundering must be obvious,— knowledge of it in an extremity would restore l order and confidence, the wan t o f w hi c h i s often th e cause of lifeeve everything l all deplore; s,arvf ‘ ra thend in it al4tence and comfort of all, BANE OP ENGLAND RETURNS. In Account, pursuant to the A ct 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending March 1, 1856. ISSUE DEPARTMENT, Credit. Notes issued . . £24,428,220 Government Debt Other securities 3,459,900 Gold Coin and Bullion 9,953,220 £24,428,2201 Total £24.428,220 BANKING DEPARTMENT, Debit. Credit. Proprietors' ca- Government se pta]. £14,553,000 curities ..... £11,451,006 Rest Public deposits 4,083,033 Notes 6,493,005 ther „ 13,908,279 Gold and silver coin 646,420 Seven day, and other bills.. 747,129 £37,081,193 £37,081,193 The foregoing Bank Returns show the following esults, when compared with those of the preee&ling reek :—Notes issued, increase 37,8901; bullion in )nth departments, increase 24,2481; rest, increase 103,7061; public deposits, decrease 58,5181; other leposits, decrease 84-1,0851; seven days and other Ails, increase 34,0351. On the credit side, govern nent securities have decreased 495,0001. other ;ecurities increase 311,5851 Notes unemployed, lecrease, 355,8051. Actual circulation, 18,935,216/ ; lecrease, 393,6951. Subjoined are the closing quotations of the Foreign Exchanges : Amsterdam short, 11 19 to 14. Do., 3 months, D. 24 to 12 21. Rotterdam, do. 12 2* to 12 21. Antwerp do., 25 60 to 25 67i. Brussels, do., 25 60 to 25 61. Hamburg do, 13 3 13 12. Paris, short, 25 40 to 25 474. Do , three months, 25 822 to 25 874. Marseilles, do, 25 85 to 25 90. Frankfort, do., 121 t to 121/ Vienna, do., 10 30 to 10 34. Trieste; do., 10 32 to 10 36. Peters burg, do., 36 to 36*. Madrid, do., 49a to 491. The funds opened with heaviness this morning , owing to an increased demand for money in con nexion with to-day's settlement in the scrip of the new loan. The commencement of the monthly settle ment in the consul market, also induced flatness. The decline, however, scarcely extended 8 per cent, and in the afternoon renewed firmness was shown. The closing quotations were A per cent better than those of yesterday, and stood thus to 91-a. Considering the great business of the money market, the steady creation of fresh stock and the subject of the out-standing speculation for a rise both here and in Paris, the funds may be regarded as remarkably steady. In the Stock Exchange to-day money commanded as much as 6 to 7 per cent upon government securities. In the discount market the demand continued active and the supply is scanty. At Paris to-day yesterday's recovery of per cent. in the Three per cent. Rentes was lost. Of 40,7501 in specie, taken out by the Atrato, the bulk consisted ofdoubloons for Havana in payment for sugar. The first series of colonial wool sales for this year, terminated this day. At the close the advance was equal to fifteen to twenty per cent. over the rates of last October. The Railway Share Alarket to-day was steady. All the leading stocks closed much the same as yesterday. At the close of the day the quotations were as follows :—Caledonian, 58 58/. Eastern Coun ties, 92 9a. East Lancashire, 71 72. Great Northern, 92 921. Do. A., 78 79. Great Western, 6161/. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88Z- 83k. Lon don and North Western, 99-a 992. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 25 25* Midland Stock, 691 701. South Eastern and Dover, 66466 i. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 76 77. York and 'North Midland, 52 54 THE LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS.—Tffostes Goormt, Wootton, Isle of Wight, farmer and brickmaker. HENRY G&o. PENNELL, Stoke-upon-Trent, grocer. JAMES BARKER., Bristol, builder. NEWSY ATKINSON, South Lincolnshire, miller and baker. BUTTON SENRICK., Crampton, Lincolnshire, shipowner: GEORGE BAKER, ilenry-street, Kennington lane, contractor and engineer. BXRIEENBEAD Co-crrrrY Coym.—Mr. Harden presided in this court yesterday, and disposed of upwards of eighty cam, most of which were undefended, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. --*-- PERSIA The Teheran Gazette announces that the Shah is preparing to repel, by force, any attack which an English fleet may attempt against the coasts of his Empire Troops have been sent to the provinces bor dering on the Persian G-ulph, and the lower course of the Euphrates I- RUSSIAN DESPATCHES. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING The two Imperial aides_de•camp who left St. Petersburg, on Saturday, have just arrived in this city with despatches from the Emperor to Count Orloff. THE FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING The transactions on the Bourse to-day closed at the following quotations:—Four and a half per Cents., 94f. 75c Three per Cents., 72f. 80c FRANCE. DENT.) EVE NINC The Congress has again held a sitting to-day. I have heard to-day, from the same high source from which I obtained the interesting details sent you some days back, that the last two sittings of the Congress, and especially the last one (that is that held the day before yesterday), have taken a much more favourable tournure, than those of last week. It is said, even, that Russia has given way on the Nicolaieff question, and that she is much less firm than she was about the frontiers of Bessarabia. In short, lam told that " peace has become not only possible, but probable." From another source to which, however, I do not attach the same importance, I have heard that Russia has consented to give up Kars without any other "recompense" than the abandonment of all claim to a war indemnity by Turkey. I have also heard that Count Orloff has demanded, that in consequence of the armistice, the preparations for the destruction of the Russian forts and vessels at Sebastopol, shall be suspended, and that this has been consented to by the Allies. By the Muniteur, forwarded this morning as usual, you will have already seen that the French government announces, officially, that the news of the armistice reached the Crimea on the 28th ult., and that the next day arrangements were come to between the Allies and the Russians, for a com plete suspension of hostilities. At this moment I am told that all the great dig nitaries of the court are assembled at the Tuileries in full uniform, in the expectation that the aecouelte meat of the Empress may take place this evening. Prince Jerome, the Emperor's uncle, gave a grand dinner to the Russian plenipotentiaries, Count Orloff and Baron Brunow, and he wore on the occasion the decorations of the order of St. Andrew of Russia, which were given him so far back as 1807, by Alexander I. M. Villemain, one of the great literary celebrities of France, and an ex-minister to boot, has pub lished an eloquent biography of Fox, in the course of which he more than once manifests his love of liberty. Two editors of the Figaro were yesterday sen tenced to a fortnight imprisonment, and £2O fine each, and to £lO damages for having libelled the well known theatrical critic, Jules Janin. The German papers revive the story of Marshal Pelissier having been summoned to Paris. One of them says, the English Government has demanded that its troops shall be allowed to occupy Varna, Gallipoli, and the Isle of Candia for an indefinite period, in order to see the execution of the reforms promised to the Christians. Reports of the existence of great sickness and mortality among the French troops in the Crimea are current Prince Ghika, the Ilospodar of Moldavia, has called on the Extraordinary Council of his State, to prepare a measure to ensure the liberty of the press. The Commissariat-office and staff, which, since its separation from the Treasury, have had their offices in New street, Spring-gardens, have removed to the War Depart ment in Pall-mall. _ _ A letter lately received from Florence, by Rossini, announces the death of Dochler, the pianist, of consumption, The deceased, who was only 40 years of age, was married to a Russian lady. - - DEATH OF THE ASTRONOMER VON BlELk.—The scien tific world will learn with regret the death of the celebrated astronomer Von Biela, which took place at Venice, on the 18th of February. A petition about to be presented to the House of Commons by holders of Westminster Improvement Bonds, prays that a committee of inquiry may be appointed, with the view of such relief being afford as may seem expedient. THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY.—The board of general officers, formed to inquire into the Crimean report of Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, will hold its meetings in the Great Hall of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Another case of fatal termination of experimental hanging has jest occurred at Drackley. A boy named Brown, aged 14, was trying the experiment, could not extricate himself, and was dead before he was dis covered. The Milan Gazette states from Vienna, notwithstanding the assertions to the contrary of several Piedmontese papers, that the dispute between the Austrian Cabinet and the Count of Savoy has been satisfactorily settled, and that a Sardinian Ambassador will soon be sent to Vienna. •• • ---- The indictment in the case of the Rev. Mr. Benson, the clergyman charged with solemnising matrimony between parties previously married, under the Dissenters' Marriage Act, will not be tried at the present Oxford assizes, but either in the Court of Queen's Bench, or on the civil side of the court at the next assizes. SUPPOSED INCENDIARISIC—About four o'clock OR Wed nesday morning, a fire broke out at the Canklow flour mills, near Rotherham, belonging to Messrs. Moorhouse and Hague. A very large quantity of grain in sacks and a good deal of flour was destroyed. The building and stock were insured. There is but too much reason to fear that the fire was the work of an incendiary. RAILWAYS IN PIEDMONT.—At the sitting of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies on the 28th ult., the Minister of Public Works presented a bill, demanding the approbation of the Chamber to a convention with the Victor-Emmanuel Railway Company, for the extension of the lines of Savoy and their union with the French lines. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The engi neering estimates for so much of the company's line as relates to the proposed deviation of the Crewe and Shrews bury line is £llO,OOO, and the cost of the authorised works, intended to be relinquished under the bill, £83,000, making an increased expenditure in relation to that part of the undertaking, of £27,000. On Saturday evening a grand cavalcade by torchlight took place at Troyes, with a view to collect money tfor the poor. The Car of Bacchus and the Temple of Momus formed very striking objects in the procession. The Sire de Franc-Boisy and his chaste spouse also figured in the cor tege. A considerable sum of money was raised amongst the spectators, and in the town. Task ROYAL Hum/am SOCIETY. —On the application of W. W. E. Wynne, Esq, M. P., the silver medal of th e above society has just been awarded to Lewis Jones, aged 16, son of the coxswain of the lifeboat at Barmouth, No r th Wales, for having rescued a child from drowning. The youth saw the child fall from the limy into the water, when h e immediately plunged in with his clothes on, and although the tide was full, and running strongly, he succeeded at g r e at effort, in holding the boy's head above water until a boat could put off, when both were brought to shore greatly exhausted, AUSTRALIA. ---..J.--- . 1 . .- (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MELBOURNE, November 20, 1855.—The Lightning arrived yesterday, after a passage of 80 days ; and the James Baines was allowed to remain at a►: inside the Heads, till to-morrow noon, at time she will go to sea positively. The long pa of the Lightning is mainly owing to the stovii of her false bows, when a few days out from pool, which materially impeded her sailing obliged her pumps to be kept going at intervals during the entire voyage. There is little, new or interesting, transpiring just at pr The Legislative Council met on the 23rd, t( the new Constitution proclaimed, the Gove remarks on Colonial matters in general, al] usual official twaddle current on those occo The Governor, on making his appearance door after the performance was over, WaS heartily hissed by the crowd of spectators. late election at Ballarat has created some t but little astonishment, as the result wa. , apparent to the most careless observer. Peter Lalor, one of the gentlemen e to the Legislative Council, was one insurgent leaders at Ballarat, and lost an arm attack on the Eureka Stockade, was proscribed , a a reward of )0 offered for his appreli alive or dead, which proclamation has nerer beea officially revoked; although he has been living publicly at the old residence for some time bf 1 • 01 ' he has never been molested, and the whole aff3i sink quietly into oblivioil r. J. L. Huniffrays, his coadjutor in the ret seutation, was secretary of the People's Union ' the same time, but never took any active part 111 the rebellion, viewing the matter as the bulk o f the . diggers did, as one that must be earned by / oral suasion and not by physical force—as a right to b e gained in a legal and constitutional manner, and not by useless bloodshed. He strove long a nd faithfully for the rights of the people, and thei have shown their appreciation of it by elevating him to the highest position in their gift. In hospital bazaar, held last week, for the benefit ei the Melbourne hospital, yielded between £ 4,000 and £5,000. John Thomas Smith has been elected A new Mayor of Melbourne, for the fourth time. quartz reef has been discovered at Anderson Creek, about ten miles from Melbourne. Dli rin ! the last week veins have been taken up frc " - Specimen Hill, close to the Yarrow, near r ib° lir son's station, to the third hill beyond, in 6 southerly direction, where several very rich sPe‘n mens have been found. A vein which wa s opened last week, yielded, to one fortunate 1) 0°8 : sor,fifty ounces of gold in six days; others are ( 1 ° i13 „ 1 " exceedingly well, while some are asking unh eal l; of-prices for their claims. As is the case wits most quartz reels, it is inexhaustible ; it ha already been traced for three miles, the /e l-- varying from three inches to eight inches in thiA; ness. The day of distress has gone by when the % are such rich quartz reefs, miles in extent, i n s ue ., close proximity to the city. The American ‘1)..1r Flying Arrow, of Boston, hence for Bata cifi t : was brought into port a few days since crippled condition, dismasted in a for ioll° - squall off King's Island. Fortunately, aft ing some way, she brought up about tw from shore, and rode out the gale in safety. she touched the rocks every soul must havi ished. Business is improving somewhat prices of provisions are firmer. Butter h advanced a penny. Oats, which dropped denly from Os. to 55., have gone up 61. pei and there is more enquiry. Flour still rei £4B, and no prospect of its lowering u colonial crops are in. The entire supply Ls ew e° ,4) 3 l l ~ Chilian ; of American there is not a pack first hands. Deals, slates, and general materials, are improving. Wool is co 'L' 111°' briskly from the interior; and the whole asP mercantile affairs bears a brighter any cheerful appearance. J. W. 2. THE TURKISH REFORMS A letter from Vienna of the 2nd, in the Post !laze" o - re Frankfort, says :—" By letters from Constan tinoOlc d learn that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had preseli t t e ., to note from the English Government, asking the n'r,:c-co* allow, as a guarantee for the promised reforms, th,-051 patina by English troops, for an indefinite period, of pie Gallipoli, and Candia. It was thought at Constaptio°,oo that if this question be discussed at Paris, Ro s .„ c i oppose it. Reinforcements are no longer dire" v ett Kamiesch, but on Maslak. Marshal Pelissier ha s summoned to Paris." LOSS OF THE POLYPHEMUS ADMIRALTY, Mulct' 7.—The following is the 1 ghlP officers and men who were lost when her Majestls,,6:-' Polyphemus was wrecked on the 29th January, '`;" 0 ,01 - Mr. Herbert, master; Dunam M‘Stockline, capiailloplst top ; Henry Forbes, captain forecastle ; John lieLoos• captain aft guard ; Giles Wilkes, b oa ts w ain's rnate ; din ar,' Maunder, boatswain's mate; James Hardy, ° r so ane l seaman; Stephen Longhurst, boy Ist class; Pearce, boy Ist class. The Emancipation of Brussels states that the /ly ing caulkers and carpenters of Antwerp struck on Alt)/1 last. Mdlle. Rachel has received numerous visits froraisiot. tinguished personages since her return to Pari s ' ca ise d withstanding the losses which she is said to have 611's by her visit to America, she continues the embellish°l9ife of her hotel in the Rue Trudon, on the mo st eSPell scale. I` l ° t ‘ W ELB ECK ABBEY.—Welbeck Abbey, near "%Torlolo '4, 0 tinghamshire, the residence of the Duke of Portlo- 0 e shortly to be pulled down, and a new mansio n built °fejt more elevated site in the immediate vicinity of the r house, the situation of which is low and unhealthy• a that RussrArr Srons.—The Semaphore of Marseilles sass that another batch of Russian cannon have just been h;bich at the Quai de la Joliette. Some of the gala 'ore belonged to the Russian vessels, are of unusuaL7 pe g calibre. Most of them bear the double-headeub,,il3-01 of the Czars, and many show the marks of the the Allies. , 00 - -I THE RUGELEY POISONINGS .—`Ye Midland paper) that Mr. Cheshire, the tr° aster ' Pes of , rf ,„. Rugeley, has made a communication to the S ee tiiilli .it- We understand State, with regard to a proposition made to him by '; e a t ; Palmer ; but we refrain from giving the partice'3,'ace reported to us, until they appear in an authenticate" official form. boretle WESTERN CIRCUIT—MURDER BY A Corrvicr."--;rfor t,. Jones, a transported convict, aged 46, was indie t° % a h e ; wilful murder of Charles 'William Hope, on 1 1 - o r ar. Majesty's ship Stirling Castle, in Portsmouth h a i r ob i° , ll the Bth February last. The circumstances uneere„rea• the murder was committed have very recently ititio°' The jury . found the prisoner gu il ty without any O n f u n o VP ° and the j u d g e sentenced him to death, holding eu" - of mercy. RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS.—.f. let t er from S t. Petef, i s i b c ill says : " The superior officers and commanders of r o l, l' ,Tie et t who, durinT the winter, have been on leave of ° l ' /Cs ol have now all returned to their posts, and the ensiAl°rjet'S the telegraph on the coast of the Baltic have reeeiv7,s'de; to proceed to their different stations. Th e // ,. - 0 1 1)? e i - f partment has taken all its measures in orde r c, th e the alert as soon as the enemy should In I appearance." a nt r , s , Criminal Court, Celestin THE MURDER AT H lat the -e ti , or sooNm.—mYere,st2er4u,awyas, Place d at ,lter, r igilg . •r bar to take her trial for the wilful murder of he r -- , r isov e ii Celestine Christmas, by cutting her throat. T he j bag although stated to be 34 years of age in the calenea"diinitle. the appearance of a girl of fifteen. She is of raeati.,it the tin' stature, and her countenance does not e%"',"„ iva 4 slightest appearance of ferocity. Mr. Ballantine 0 5 :: 0 "rt I° . retained to defend the prisoner) applied to the ~ u , c h 0. 16 postpone the trial. The circnnratances under w . ," ` h e bei crime was committed were most extraordinary, 0 0 .. " o scs lieved it would be more satisfactory for the P u . rl3 ll. g r ' Bodkin, if the trial were postponed to the next gesso orpow Bodkin, on the part of the prosecution, offered °,1,,, post tion to the application, and the trial wa s eonsequ n ell' ' poned to the April P2Ssine