The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

7 LII an t s-- WANTED, a respectable YOUTH. as an APPRENTICE in a Merchant's o ffi ce.—Address, with specimen of hand writing, WANTF:D, a c, had exr erk ompetent JUDGE of COTTON. One who hss nce in a Cotton Breker's Saleroom. Reference to be oiven.—Address D 71. Mercury office. from IRst em TER CO s M ion ei in I iv lON HOU 'create its I f long and fir, 'onnecti inamonz the eater o I, as their buyer of Mai •espectability, large and liberal S A. 97, Post• office, Al anchester. and to houses of undou will be given.—A: WANTED. a SOLICITOR, for a First-class Tailoring and Out fitting Establishment.—A libe , al salary and commission will --4een to a competent man, who has a good connection with shipping generally —Address by letter (Z. R.), limes office, stating qualifications and where last captains, and the at the Northe em ploy Co be /vet. TO LET, a well furnished COTTAGE, No. 2on the Terrace, Water oo —Ap , ily at No. 4. SOUT HPO tia _ suited for any business. — TO he LET_ ;- '0 be LET, a el all StIOP at th, ands mely fitted, Northern Times office. If the Exchange, a DOUBLE OFFICE, xturel may be talcen at a valuetk.n. Rent .:€35 ner annum.—Address C 4. Northern Times office . rrO be I 1 Meetit at the pr a very la-ge HALL. well adapted for a Room, cr any other such purpose, being ccupied as a Pla, e of Worship, with seats ar ktir coat plete.—Arply to Mr. Parsons, Mersey Hotel. Bootl On Salt. —FOR SALE, a Hand -pet GELI)I G, 13i hands, R year., no to weight in raddle. Price 19 COB PONY, PAXTON, and HART 1N and HARNESS, Is guineas.— Smish (priv 6. Upper Newingto BIRKENHEAD. HOUSE ! *!—ON SALE. in large or vanainv in priceprm about LAND I LAN DI , iusly sit eshire and Laneasbi £lOO to 4' Property Cii y post. Ches le and Letting of Land and Houses. Market-cross iaor from Market square) I%larket-street. Birken. Ch mbirs T HI DAY On awn the II TIIIS DAY, iom it may concert , ne o'clock, at the Pahlie _ Eachae ge-bui , dines. A Large Quanti'y of very va uahle Damag , d MANtivACTUB.ED GOODS. covsist'ng of WOO! LENS. LINENS, CARPETING, BLANKETS. LINEN THREAD, Printed and Mtn CALICOES, STUFF GOODS, FIABERDASEIEItY, HARDWARE. &c., being part of the targ , , saved from the wreck of the ship Racer, bound hence to New York; lying at the sheds for wrecked goods, north east side of Print's Dock.—An ly to Messrs. A. Taylor & Co., Mar th,nts. or to PERCIVAL, CAMPBELL & CO. r. to the Underwriters' Association es of Wrecked Goods per same ship ta be followed by other TO-MORROW To-moitßow, the 12th instant, Office. 11. welve o'clock, at tt 307 Barre's C+ RRANT . 191 Do. DI 170, ex Euphrates, ex Albania^. rokers' Apnly to .s Turkey EIM11t! PIGS. ex Karnak. HOUGHTON & LEVY, Brokers. FRIDAY, ext, the 13th instant. st Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office. 8. Lancas' or-buildings. Tithebarn-street, Awnt 15 Ton 4 PIAS,AVA, ex Bahima, fr m Bal On FRIDAY next, the 13t Quay 1170 1 instant, at Eleven o'clock, on the sr Side Bran.wick D_ck, es Sawn PITCH PINE, DITTO. z the C ) Do. Hewn ) Pieces PLANE 3, 4.5, and 6 inches thick. rornia, from Ship bland, U.S , Merchants o: io ODDI JL..11 V . HATTER )., Brokers, lying in Albert Dock kra,bouse, 4 and 5 SILL & MEUGENM. Brokers. 81, CHUR' ~H-STREET, TO CORRESPONDENTS have received the co unication bearing t ectfolly to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver s NEW STYLES far the Season are NOW READY initials Ml the sub, t of the postponement of the concert Tessrs. Cramer, Beale and Co., for the auguratinn of the New Concert Room, in St. George's all, bur the writer's non-compliance with our standing lie, requiring the name (in confidence) of such corres- ponaen6, prevents its publication EVENING I -DITION a Edit of the NOILTHRRN DAILY 7 the Markets, t 7 ' with all the News of the hour of itio to P ii hp SUE'CBIPT ['WO ( INF, A S 'I , IIIIU IVEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1856 THE public will have seen by our report of rday that M Dues Corn LOWE was still " hup•stairs, g the duties of Chairman of the Town the time tile e, and having spent the whole of lapsed since the Easter recess evidence against the corporate rights of Liverpool, commenced to hear what the Town in bearit Council have to say in their defence, and what valid objections they can raise to the proposed transfer of the Borough income to the Government Board of Trade. Our ordinary patience, we must confess, fails us when we come to the recital of such absurdities The title of Liverpool to Town Dues, is similar to that of every other land, where they are levied. This is town in En a matter of history which every man, who aspires to the rank of law-maker, or breaker, is supposed to know something about, before he leaves school. The Royal gran manorial rights—with their and rates—of Lancashire, differ only in name from those of the other counties of England. And where the annals of the country at large do not supply the information, of which re in quest, they may be found in the blue boons of the House of Commons, our law reports, and the several Acts Mr. Lov, and his Committee a of Parl lment r ating to the Borough, without putting the Liverpool Rate-payers to the expens( of appearing at St. Stephens to explain what Mr. LOWE could get at by a little industry, and to defend rights, h as a member of th .overnment he is sworn to protect 3riuTTLEwoRTH's evidence was simply a ill the historical records which I.tors do but to r aad from b THE up the interest of money borrowed on those Tolls and Dues, with the sanction of Parlia- nient. Cutting off the Town Dues income, will be g the Poor-rates within the fiscal Imperial g recapitulation Air_ T nothing t ment i the library set s, which of Parlia- s they are to our Town Councillors. Is it not then unpardonable th e should be put to the witnesses to Lon iv honourable room of the object of the Com ling a host of n to read our mother members sitting in an " hup-stairs' gue to a House of Commons? If tlic mittee shipow z ied to as to confer any substantial boon on the 1 merchant, 'cc should then be puz- know what was meant by attacking public property for the benefit of individuals or a class, But when nothing of the sort is thought of, and the ned is the centralisation of local Revenues in the hand and tc pf Government servants it this and other towns to the last sh )le, v. ling of expense really cannot at all understand what legislation is coming to. The _.,,gent who have not the moral courage and political power to protect property from attacks, whether frn— ' the walls Govern or WI of Parliament, and would sanction tl ance of pre-meditated appear- t rid of a troub )liation merely to for a ssion ain the confidence and support of tilos, on such violations of prix ffice, as little short of d rrant able, 'king away local revs ants of the Merse3 Dues to the I iy Passing Tolls and Town )ard of Trade, and fresh Borough rates at the same time to make qual to doubli limits of the owners, who a a-year for Poor-rates, Borough. Those large warehouse now• paying as much as 1,500/ will have to contribute 3,000/ Shopkeepers paying from 1001. to 1501., will have to pay from 2001. to 300/. per annum, and the smaller traders who pay from 10/. to 201,, will have to find from 20/. to 40/. The remedy suggested for this, is to make the Dock Estate pay Poor- rates! This would throw the entire burden of the proposed change on the shipowner and mer- chant, who are still to pay passing Tolls and Town Dues to the Board of Trade. Have he Shipowners' Association and the Chamber of Commerce urged this view of the case in the rig quarter? Are the merchants of Liverpool, indivi dually and collectively, alive to the consequences of allowing Mr and his patrons in the Cabinet, to have it all the eir own way ? If this barE faced attempt at centralisation be suffered to suc- teed, the noney value of property, as affected by taxation, will be one-eighth less than it is to day llow those great bulwarks of our Constitution— ment and rights of property— listurbed, and what security shall we h e for the The liberties, and substance of the subject? London Times ca a barely afford a paragraph to give publicity to the truth and justice of our cause but it can devote whole columns of leading articles to disguising, by falsehood, the centralisation designs of the PALMERSTON Cabinet, and Mr. LOWE'S crafty misapplication of truth. Against this combination of influences, Liverpool must unite as one man, and without the loss of anbther moment of time. The public mind must now be fairly nauseated by the licentious tittle-tattle respecting PALMER which has appeared in the daily and weekly jour nals, from the hour that convict was apprehended up to the present moment. But the day is fast approaching when that condemned man is to lie, and the communi ty, for whose safety his lite is to be taken away, will have incurred the respon - sibility of an act done in their name That his sentence will be legally carried into execution there can be no doubt. Yet, when blood is concerned, we have a higher code of laws to consider than the statute book of the realm. PALMER'S case is one of an entirely new and exceptional character—it is one for which our criminal records furnish no parallel—it makes us acquainted with questions never before raised in a prosecution or defence— f a ne NORTHERN TIMES.-- quent trial, or on further research into chemical science, that which is at present nothing more than an asset n, should be upset, and proved to be fallacious. And we must say that those who do not try ito relieve themselves from such a frightful hazard, by challenging enquiry before it is too late, are not the sensitive and fearless spirits which men of really towering scientific mind and medical attainments have been in all ages. And for the sake of timid witnesses, who have not rebutted the evi dence of their brethern in pharmacy, or satis fied the public doubts as to which is right; we would crave a short respite with greater importu• nity then for the man who is doomed to die on the scaffold. A little less apathy, and a trifle more professional chivalry on the part of those medical men, on whose disputed evidence the verdict has been obtained, would be esteemed a public virtue, at this is the critical moment, when we might say of such an effort—virius sui mirabiles amores ex- citar6t era of crime ction whien 1 justice in this instance heal expe -legal al follows the murderer has Science confesses itself con. bility—the national horror or and honourable feeling at the e cl—m( —learning— h-minded pious thought of standing between a murderer and justice, are all appalled, suspended, or divided on this ever-memorable trial Had the convict been arraigned for the murder of COOK alone—had no other charge been preferred against him—had h a been a man of steady habits and general good character, the moral certainty is that he would have been acquitted. The use made of his antecedents by the public prosecutor and the Judge proves this ; and here we arrive at the most dangerous feature in the whole —namely, that a man whose previous charac be held to be ter was otherwise bad, should able of committing and guilty of murder to prevent the possibility of our motives or lan- guage being misconstrued, it is necessary to premise that we are still unable to offer an opinion as to PALMER'S guilt or innocence ; and all we contend for is that the execution of the convict's sentence should be deferred for a moderate space of time, that something like a reconciliation of the conflicting facts brought forward on the prisoner's trial may be established. We do not Pretend to disguise our convictions. We are ed to capital punishment on high moral and religious grounds ! And we would ask an abominably wicked, weak, and erring world, to pause before they take away the life of a fellow creature while there remains a shadow of doubt about his guilt. We have already said that there is no necessity for hurrying this wretched mortal out of the world. .Lrespite of it month, if he should prove to be really guilty, will only add to his mental and bodily sufferings ; and if the present doubts, which belong to his peculiar case, thicken mean while, he may again be put on his trial for the murder of his wife There will be abundant opportunities of ascer taining the supremacy of the law, if he should be dealt with as innocent of the murder of Coox ; and should his guilt in any case, be established on any one charge, we must say, notwithstanding our convictions with respect to the • punishment of death, that if ever a man ought to have died on the scaffold, PALMER is that man. But it does appear strange that he should be hanged on the strength of a modern and disputed theory in pharmaceu tical science. In ANNE PALMER'S case, death is attributed to a well-known poison—antimony. And the opinion pronounced by the medical men, employed to analyse the stomach of the deceased, was, that "it was saturated with antimony." Here the poison was found, and we get rid of the new theory of " perfect absorption," and the dangerous doctrine of " analogous symptoms would be laid aside, for the " actual of a life-destroying drug in and leath." time of &nd, taking the whole of this most body at linary. case, from beginning to end, into consideration, we do not see how the HOME SECRETARY can well refuse to grant the' respite sought at his hands. There is not the remotest chance of the prisoner escaping. if he be really guilty ; and where further investigation into the chemical uncertainties brought to light on his trial, is as essential to the future safety of society as the execution of the convict, the accused ought, in accordance with every Englishman's love of the sacred principles of "justice in " mercy," to have the benefit of a short respite. We allow no peddling sentimentalities to in- RUC'ence. CORONER'S INQUESTS. —Yesterday, the coroner held the following inquests. On the body of S :rah Ellison, 33 years of age, an account of whose death appeared in our paper of yesterday. The jury returned a verdict of found drowned.—On the body, of Joseph Whitehead, 23 years of age, who was a fireman on board the steamship City of Baltimore, and who died in the Northern Hospital on Sunday, under the circumstances detailed in our paper of yesterday. Verdict. accidental death.—On the body of John Boyd, who resided at No. 30, Davenport -street. It was stated in our paper of yesterday, in reference to this case, that there was a piece of raw meat found in the throat of deceased, and it was supposed the man was suffocated. From the evidence, however, of Surgeon Gilmore, who made a post mortern examination of the body, it appeared that deceased died from disease brought on by excessive drinking, and ho was of opicion that the piece of beef alluded to, was never in the man's mouth at all. (The deceased's wife persisted in saying it was.) The jury found that death was caused by excessive drinking. —On the body of William Williams, who died suddenly. On enquiry it was found that death was caused by asthma, brought on by excessive drinking. Verdict accordingly. —On the body of a boy named Christopher Carroll, one _ rihi eh ha ve a l rea dy been of the lads belonging to the Kirkdale Industrial School, anddeee aswhodeceased was and iti some llte other clays boyscalled theagr agreed "sailor's n e n l a ss. '' away The and "taken away in error." On the author of the theory of get a " perfect absorption"and" analogous, symptoms" the death of WILLIAM PALMER will rest if at any subse- ship, but it was not in consequence of bad treatment t a h n el w h e a n d t a i g n re t e o d todo so. The boys were on the canal bathe, when the boy was unfortunately , drowned. Verdict accidental death. __ i ,„ ' tluence our opinions in such awfully solemn matters. We do not claim for ourselves the purity of a jury, or the wisdom of a judge. We have opposed the punishment of death, in instances where the culprits were taken from the humblest, 1 poorest, and most ignorant ranks of society I have nothing, therefore, to excuse ourselves of in this instance, beyond a desire to see the guilt of a man placed beyond a doubt, before his life is taken away. Wo know that within the last fifty years, fifty hum in beings have been hanged, whose innocence was proved )1- after execution ; and we say to those gentlemen who gave the scientific evidence on PALMER'S trial— Ifro and settle the contliming facts you have sworn ife to the fift —it brings us on the verge The God- like certainty of THE COURT. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr and Lord Charles Fitzroy, visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Monday, at Gloucester House. Prince Albert and Prince Frederick William of Prussia went on Monday morning to the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich. Royal Highnesses left Buckingham Palace in two carriages and four, at a quarter past nine o'clock, and returned at a quarter past two o'clock in the afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and Prince William Frederick of Prussia, took a drive in the afternoon, in an open landau and four, and visited the Exhibition of American Plants, at Cremorne Gardens. In the evening, the Queen, the Prince Consort, the Princess Royal, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, honoured the performance of Madame Ristori, ir. the tragedy of "Medea," at the Lyceum, with their presence. Their SERIOVS ILLUEIB OF THE DUKE' OF RUTLAND. —We regret to learn that the Duke of Rutland is seriously ill at Belvoir Castle. The Duke's health for some months piss his been very dflicate, requiring the greatest care, but about ten days since a decided change for the worse took place, and his grace has since been in a state calcu lated to cause the deepest anxiety. The Marquis of Granby, M.P., Lord John Manners, M.P., and Lord George Manners, M.P., have been in constant attend ance on their reverad parent. THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE.—The Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Montagu Villiers, reeently appointed Bishop of Carlisle, will take his seat in the House of Lords, in consequence of the death of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol The new Bishop of Gloucester will not be entitled to a seat until another vacancy occurs. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY.—lntelli gence reached London on Monday of the death of the Countess of Shrewsbury, which event took place in Paris rather suddenly on the 6th inst. Her ladyship had been suffering for some time from an internal disorder, but was recently much better in health, so that the intelligence of her death is most unexpected to her friends. Lady Shrewsbury was a zealous adherent of the Roman Catholic faith, with which the name of her own family and of her late husband are so closely identified; and she was well known for her extensive charities both here and on the continent. Manuraciz IN HIGH LIFE.—Lord Forester's marriage with Lady Melbonrne was solemnised yesterday morning at St. John's Church, Paddington. The Hon. and Rev. Orlando Forester officiated and the marriage, was strictly private COUNTY COURT.—His Honour disposed of 120 cases yesterday. They were nearly all undefended. FREEMASONRY. —We understand that the Earl of Elles mere, who was appointed grand master for the province of East Lancashire in the year 1846, has recently tendered his rcsigrn ion, and that Stephen Blair, Esq., wh - o has so ably filled the office of deputy P. G. M., has been appointed in the place of the noble earl. Brother Blair's appointment has given great satisfaction to the masonic body - through out the province ; and it is expected that the next annual neeting, at which Brother Biair will be duly installeJ, will Id in Manchester, abaut the end of July next, when a 3eeting is anticipated from the hove circumstance, and also that a scheme is under can ideration for establishing a local fund of benevolence in this important province. very large FATAL ACCIDENT.—A melancholy c'rcurnstance occurred about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, to Wil liam Liversage, aged fourteen years, a fine intelligent youth, only son of Mr. Liversage, of Waterloo, Great Crosby, of the firm of Liversage and Tyrer, brewers, Bur lington Street, Liverpool. The unfortunate youth was fishing in a pit in a field near his father's house, and while sitting on the bank, he was observed by John Mawdsley, a lad of nine years' of age, to fall into the water, owing, as it is supposed, to having been seized with a fir, to which be had been for some time subjct. The lad Mawdsley met with Mr. James Rimmer, publican, close at hand, and informed him of the occurrence. Mr. Rimmer immediately got assistance, and with a drag succeeded in recovering the body in about twenty minutes, which he conveyed to his own hmse, the Liver Inn, Waterloo. Mrsirs. May and Adams, surgeons, were promptly in attendance, but their efforts were unavailing as life was extinct. The parents are plunged into the greatest distress by the melancholy occurrence. SUICIDE —An irqnest was held on Monday last, at the house of Mr. John Routledge, Toxteth-park, before C. E Duffield, Esq., coroner, on the body of Margaret Lindsay, aged thirty-eight years, wife of David Lindsay, groom to J. W. Cropper, E q., of Dingle-bank, who was found drowned in a pit of water in Ullett-lane, Toxteth-park, on the ith instant. It appears deceased had been drinking for about a week, and since Thursday last had been in a desponding state of mind, and had frequently threatened to destroy herself. Her husband bad directed his son, a little boy, to watch her; and through his instrumentality she was twice, during the day, disturbed when about to throw herself into a pit in Parliament-fields. About half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, she was suddenly missed from the house, and on immediate search being made, her bonnet and shawl were found by Henry Bowen, of Liverpool, floating on the water of the same pit to which she had been on the two previous occasions in the morning. Assistance was procured, and the body was taken out of the water quite eeld, and conveyed to the Brookhouse public•house, Toxteth-park : The jury returned a verdict of " temporary insanity, arising from recent intemperance." &oxen Bosco's PERFORMANCE.—Fame had said a good deal of this gentleman's " magic performance," and although that good dame is famous for her propensity to addition, yet, in the present instance, she seems not to have outqepped the bounds of reason in reference to the Signor. We have seen a good deal of many clever performers in this line, and it will not be detracting from the merits of Bosco to say that he equals many of those, and, in some instances, su , p s=es them. There is much ease and gracefulness about his per'ormances ; and, although we are aware that deception is before us, yet we are pleased that the deception is so perfect. There are many tricks and sleight-of-hand introduced that are new ; and, amongst these, the " Punch trick" bids fair to rival that of the well known " gun trick." The bait, and, apparently, the most open handed exploit we ever sax, is the annihilation of a lady's scarf, but in a few seconds alter, the article is produced ' safe and sound," out of a bottle held by a perfect stranger. There are so many and so zoo./ things to be witnessed at this pretty theatre of the Q iPen's Hall, that we find our space will not allow us more thaq to glance at them to day. One feeure,which showed h)w much the Signor was appreciated at such an early period of his visit to our town, was, that the house was crowded last I.:.ght by a brilliant LIVERPOOL, ET ARIL AN D COMM ERCIAL LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING The Liverpool Cotton Market continues very quiet, and today the business done does not exceed 3,000 bales, th 3 whole of which have been taken by the trade. There has been rather less firmness in prices. The amount of business done in the Liverpool Share Market has been small, and the tone has been quiet, closing steadily, however, at the follow ing quotations : Aberdeen, 13 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 15.1 16. Caledonian, 301 308, Chester and Holyhead, 161 161. Eastern Coun ties, 10 3.1610, 1 ,. East Lancashire, 191 198 Great Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 91 91. Great Western, 61612. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 924 928. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport; 17117 k, London and North Western Stock, 1021 1021. Man.. Chester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 291 29a Ditto Pref., 11 a 111. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 2 ap. Mid land Stock. 78a 781. North British, 8 15.16 9 1 16. North Staffordshire, 6 54d. South Eastern and Dover, 214 21.1 York, Newcastle, and BPI'. wick, 204 204. York and North Midland, 291 294. Leeds Capital Stock, 174. 171. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 14 lb. Dutch Rhenish, lb. Great Western of Canada, 24 251 Ditto New Shares, 4 3p. Great Luxembourg, 818$d. , A very quiet tone prevailed in the Manchester Goods Market this - morning, and to effect sales in either Goods or Yarns lOwer prices had to be submitted to. Comparative statement of the exports of Wheat, Flour, and Indian Corn, from the ports of the United States, to• May 27, New York date, and latest dates from all.other ports :. ...... - Flour. Wheat. To British ports, ) 1,7 8 11 1 , 8 7 . 13 66 Q 8, r 3 8 4 . 8 1853-1864 .. 787 570 Continental 2.499,283 To British por's, 860,746 18551856.... _ _ Continental 275,715 944,063 ...515,584 635,815 670,000 .08,000 275,000 Total... 1,496,561 790,584 Less shipped in) 1855-1856 than L C- 1,002,722 in 1853-1854.. 1 ...153,479 58,000 More shipped in same periods. Accounts from Bordeaux, to the 6th inst , state that at the public sales there 100 bales of Peruvian wool realised from 116 f to .1971 per 50 kilos ; 250 bales of Buenos Ayres from 116 f to 261 f, and 36 bales of the new clip from 1481 to 1531. In sugar there was a good business done, and prices show a tendency to advance, at 54f to 551 per 100 kilos For spirits the market was generally flat, with prices firm, at 140 f ner hectolitre for Armagnac ; 150 f per do. for Languedoc, 114 f per do. for beet-, root, and from 80f to 90f for Tafia. In wines the sales are still limited, on account of the supplies being small. Accounts from Holland state that a public con vention has just been concluded, which allows the admission of Austrian consuls into the Dutch colonial possessions ; and an additional convention to the treaty with Sardinia in June, 1851, which allows to the ships and subjects of the two high contracting parties an equal facility to trade with their ports, and along their coasts,,which is not granted to other nations, This convention, how ever, excepts the Dutch colonies in the East Indies, the trade with which Sardinia enjoys in common with all other friendly powers. The advices from St. Petersburg to the 31st May state that nothing definite has transpired relative to the government contracting a new loan ; nor on the subject of founding Credit Mobilier establish ments in the great commercial cities of the empire. As in all such measures the government are said to act with extreme prudence and caution it is probable that nothing will be done until the return of the Emperor from Riga and Revel to St. Petersburgh, when some important financial step will be taken. Meanwhile the Minister of Finance receives a crowd of appli cations from foreign parties to establish com panies and banks such as hitherto have not existed. In all such cases it is thought that the Emperor will consent to a portion of the capitals required being open to foreign subscription, and upon this condition two great banking establish ments will be formed at Moscow and St. Peters burg, as these cities are considered the centres of commerce and manufacture's throughout the empire. Up to the close of May there were very few Russian capitalists who seemed inclined to enter largely into banking transactions, and there is little doubt that the greater portion of the capital to be thus invested will come from foreign countries. The meeting of the South Eastern Company, held to-day, was for the consideration of the bill in Parliament for making an extension of the West-End and Crystal Palace line from Bromley and Farnborough to St. Mary Crag, and for working the said line by the South Eastern Company ; and also power to raise under the act of 1855 further sums not exceeding 253 0001. (being the remnant of 500,0001.) by the issue of new preference shares not exceeding 5 per cent. After some discussion the acts were agreed to. The annexed are the closing quotations of the Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 171 to 11 191. Do., three months, 12 to 121. Rotterdam, do , 12 to 121. Antwerp, do., 25 60 to 25 65. Brussels, do., 25 60 to 25 65. Hamburg, do., 13 101 to 13 101. Paris, short 25 35 to 25 421-. Do , three months, 25 70 to 25 75. Marseilles, do., 25 70 to 25 75. Frankfort, do , 1201 to 1201. Vienna, do , 10 18 to 10 24 Trieste, do., 10 19 to 10 22. Petersburg, do., 371 to 371. Madrid, do., 491 to 49:. The Funds, to clay, experienced a reaction. After opening steady, the Market closed per cent. lower than yesterday, the final quotations being 99. 1-16 to 94 3-16 The unsatisfactory state of financial affairs in Paris, and the uncertainty still hanging over our relations with America, tend to check the rapid rise which would otherwise ,have resulted from the progressive improvement in the money market. The preparations for the payment of 1,000,000 f. on the new loan on Thursday next, seem to have little influence on the Money Market, which remains easy. In the Stock Exchange, loans wero obtainable on Stock at 4to 5 per cent. The Paris Bourse continues decidedly weak, any movement in the direction of a rally has been quickly counteracted by a renewal of sales, chiefly on account of weak speculative holders. The Railway Share Market to day was rather flatter, following the movement in Consols. The Price of Railway Shares stood thus at the close : Caledonian, 61/ 611. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10 3-16. East Lancashire, 78a 791. Great Northern, 95 951. Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western, 611 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 92i 931, London and North Western, 1021 104 -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29 291. Midland Stock, 781 781. North British, 35 361, South Eastern and Dover, 711 721. YorkNeweastle, and Berwick, 82 83. York and North Midlawl, 581 59. APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.— A protest against the third reading of the Appellate Juris diction bill has been entered upon the journals of the House of Lords by the Marquis of Clanricarde, on the grounds (I.) ghat pecuniary payment to members of the house nominated by the Crown for deliberating and voting in Parliament, is an innovation calculated to impair the independence, dignity, and character of the House of Lords. (2.) Because, to enact the admission to Parlia ment of peers for life, and to confine that admission to the sole case of remedying the inefficiency or consulting the ease of hereditary peers, is unjust, impolitic, and impos sible, (3.) Because the bill wholly fails to establish such a Supreme Court of Appeal as the opinion and the require ments of the couoiry demand. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. —On Monday night a public meeting was held at the London Tavern, convened by the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Capital Punishment, for the purpose of adopting a petition 'to the House of Commons in support of Mr. Ewart's motion in Parliament on that subject. Edward Web ster, Esq., barrister-at-law, was voted to the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, said they had lately had an extraordinary trial, and whether a righteous verdict had been delivered the intelligent public must determine. It was impossible, however, acc or di ng to chemical laws; to say that Cook was murdered. He contended that capital punishment was contrary to the law of God, did not prevent or diminish murder, bat tended to increase it, and was unworthy of a civilised country. The Rev, Henry Christmas moved a resolution condemning capital punishments as unchristian, demoralising, and ineffec tive. Mr. llii•hards seconded the reiolution, which was carried with two dissentients. A resolution against private executions was also agreed to, WEDNESDAY. inundations in this ( 1 His return to Paris strict FRANCE. The waters, according to ceived this morning, siding, and as the LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH EMPEROR NANT-ES, DYE SDA.Y His Majesty the Emperor has just arrived hei to visit the scenes of devastation cause 'd by th Majesty leaves again to-morrow on hi THE FRENCH FUNDS PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING At the close of business today on the Bourse the Funds were thus quoted :—Four and a Half per Cents, 93f 75c; Three per Cents, 71f 50c. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY. EVENING The French government, I tun assured, has received information, -that though the English government says nothing on the subject, it is making very extensive preparations to be ready to pay its respects to the United States, in the event of war being declared. T. The Emperor again left Paris this morning, by express train, for Chartres, whence he is to proceed to Angers, which has also suffered dreadfully from the inundations the accounts re- are everywhere sub- weather appears, a t last, to have turned to " set fah, indulge the hope that we shall have no more disasters. The provincial papers are naturally still filled with details of the fearful damage caused by the inundations, and it is impossible to read them without pain. The Moniteur says that the Emperor had intended to order that the money destined for the fetes on the occasion of the baptism of his son, should be given to the victims of the inundations, but that he finds that - the preparations are too far advanced to admit of . this being done, and, consequently, that the fetes will take place as usual, In thus deciding, his Majesty has not, I think, shoWn his customary sagacity; for, though it be true that the fetes will do good to a large class of. Parisian tradesmen, it is equally true that they will seem recklessly extravagant in : presence of the disaster under which the provinces are groaning. Prince NapoleOn is to set out for Norway imme diately after the baptism of the Imperial Prince, and is to be received there by the Viceroy. The Bourse has again declined to-day. The Princess Stephanie of Baden arrived yesterday, to attend the baptism of the Imperial Prince. The Cardinal Legate, whose arrival at Marseilles I mentioned yesterday, is expected every moment. As I write, some high official dignitaries are waiting at the Lyons Railway station to receive him. . we may In those parts of France which have escaped, the inundations, .the •appearance of the crops is represented to be magnificent. Persons interested in Algeria are rubbing their hands with delight at the idea of a war between England and the United States, as the effect of it, they think, could not fail to be a vast development in the cultivation of cotton. A Marseilles despatch gives news from Constan tinople to the 29th ult., that the English in the Grin it is stated, deeompo- The French, on contrary,. ma. flat hal Pel sier was their principal malady sition of the blood five of their hospi leave on the' 15th Jun.. The French troops wero being sent off rapidly ; and only. 2,500- Sardinians remained. The Russian member of the cont.; mission, charged to settle the question relative to the Principalities, had refused to serve. with Prince Stourdza. The Madrid panel's v h have arrived this a conspiracy for the morning, make knowr assassination of the Queen, had heen discovered some of the persons con cerned in it had been arrested, but not the chief concoctor of it, a man named Marquez, of the national gnarl. The- conspirators proposed, it seems, to shoot the Queen, as - she_ was going to or returning from the theatre; and the fatal shot was to be fired by a workman, named Fuentes. This man, hoWever, made revelations. The chief mover in the conspiracy was a Carlist. in that capital THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE The Journal de l'lndre et Loire, of Saturday, gives the following description of Tours on that day : The Rue Royal presents the appearance of a canal, and boats are plying on it incessantly,-carrying relief to the unfortunate inhabitants who either would not or could not quit their houses. The Mail is like a torrent, and - all sorts of things brought down by the Loire and the Cher are floating about it. The ornamental trees on it have been torn up. The rail Way station, the centre of the commercial activity of the town, is still surrounded with water, as high as the windows. In the garden of the Prefecture opposite nothing is to be seen but the tops of the trees ; the walls of the' garden are thrown down. The Rues de Paris, de Bordeaux, and du Rempart, built on the old ramparts of the city are under water. At every step we take we see the ravages of the waters, and from the Route de Grammont we perceive in all their horror the effects of the catastrophe in the adjacent country. As far as the eye can reach there is water. The inundations were not able to surmount the obstaCle caused by the Route de BordeauX, but they rose to a great height, and they were strewed with articles of furniture, clothing, • and woodwork. The Pont de l'Areheveque threatens to fall in ; the viaduct of the railway to Nantes, beaten with great fury by the waters, has been thrown down. Wherever the eye rests, it sees farms sub merged, houses that cannot be inhabited for a long time to come, even if they can ever be inhabited again, and on the heights thousands of victims grouped , together without shelter and without food. Even the dark and ' narrow streets of the old city, occupied by the lower classes, have not escaped. From the Rue Borgne to the commune of La Riche, from the Champ de Mars to the Mail, and from the Place d'Aumont to . Saint Sauveur, is an immense lake, reaching in height to the first story of the houses.' Such is the state of our city after five days of mortal anxiety and indescribable calamities ! The accounts from Saumur of the ravages com mitted by the Loire and the Authion are even more distressing than those previously received. The pupils of the cavalry school of that place gave a fine example of courage and devotedness. They plunged into the water with their horses, they saved many invalids and infirm persons - from certain death, and compelled the inhabitants to leave their dwellings. The clergy likewise dis played considerable energy, and effected much in combating the strange determination of the people to remain in their houses. A young curate swam to a man who was clinging to a tree, and succeeded in landing him in Safety. From Lvous we learn that as the waters recede numerous bodies are discovered, all in a state of decomposition. Workmen are employed in build• ing wooden huts on the Place St. Pothin for the reception of the persons who are without homes. The dikeetors of the Mediterranean railway have placed a number of railway carriages at the disposal of the authorities for the temporary accommodation of the houseless When the Emperor came to Lyons he gave I,ooof. to be di vided among the engine drivers and other employes of the train. That sum•has been generously given by these men to the subscription opened at Lyons for the sufferers. A lettef from Arles states that the extent of the country inundated in that neigh bourhood is at least twenty leagues. Although the waters are going gradually down, guns are Will frequently heard in different parts round, as signals of distress from the inhabitants of the inundated houses. Boats are moving about in all directions to render assistance.' _______--1.- -------- t T IP TURNOY• , e ived 3 , i ttt t Letters from Constantinople re . ' eat f e rn 3 t L ) 1 . on the 7th instant, speak of 3 f i l io s ubi i : c ir io 11 prevailing among the Turks on the '. l,l l leit workmen, employed at Price's Pa'ent . CandleanConipanv, Hata Humaioun. At Podgorizza a lil .(), THE CRYSTA f, p. s 1 111 p al 1 , burnt two Catholic churche , \rov te si o kLACR. —Nine hundred i eighty have signed a memorial Christians ; at Niselti, hav ` ¢; . Palace, ••• praying to the direct , rs of the Cry st al- Christians, in order to sseng ..th them to make . Saturday shilling continual they me et 1" ' 13611° nellei. tileillsell:oclittift as on that day they and the a d a y ; outrages , . frora factories get a half holiday. workmen of several other and pillaged' a caravan coining teen Turks wero killed. A S Ia 2 • a " FOREIGN INTELLIGEN CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINAT QUEEN OF SPAIN. —mills of the 4th re The Madrid ci e serve n cause( .on bad bee eovery of a conspiracy to assasz,..- The following are some d etails of the a." . by the " r A man named Rendendo garquezielab a secret society three months ago, an carpenter was drawn into it. It ' Ej e ; ,pi resolved to kill the Queen, this I°l 3l ' 'yi designated by lot to do the deed, a nd lw , s that if he fired on her Majesty a s tun piastres should be given to him, an d i t II failed to do so he should be certainly Pn ~, On the 28t1111.iriL by his fellow conspirators. moment at which the carriage of t he At the Asturious approached the Clilli del , , r , a p igoi J ai young man named Fuentes drew h vel . lted him from discharging pocket, but a police agent seized his arM oo ino intPrrogated. he made l own the fit 6l ,,' ul --,lnnd e l ‘ l ' the weay. related. Just atter his arrest Iter%-koff went to the_ palace, ou pre text of Inc—iili.;lf tions ,respecting the consp iracY• &lit I‘T ° d - el ). ~ t b been found in any house of the Marquez is a native of Ahnsdene.rn!l'ioo vines of Ciudad Real. His politi ca ' °I-in ter' id d e_ 11 ..„: always been Carlist. lie is a man, and has been imprinned for ), 0 1 ttl the following are some detni by the The military Pr( acion were taken on the 26th ult i mo , on 0 %) pri the visit of the Queen to . the Theatre T a i and which . have given rise to a good, 1 - , 1 tb versation, were, i-t appears, causeu ,10 covery of a plot to destroy the Que en in the 'i f Arenal, near the Galli de la Duda , 8 s 11 , °I. ver' was . returning . from the theatre. The.r)„°s d prev io ,.oo received the information on the means of an anonymous letter sent till newb ae wards made plea r e noe c nd o n . s tt p hb i ea r t a c y 2 at . ) nt ho o n i 0 " n post. Some suggestions were giv -- I t P The govcreolo9 t oo lattelli t . $' a nd it ls precautions. What is yher curi°ll9 tbe the anonymous letter was written n bY ea is i ' man who was to have fired on the -. lle ar , II pistol. He is a young married wor13;;;ns; f F l uentes. It results from his deol'lrl''' ore m who, those of other persons who have bee t ', c itit and 'o like him, belong to the lover that the chief of the conspiracy 1%145,1511A:13'4 the national guard, named Bendonui,); hi'',, ll well known in the capital. This MO, h¢s u escaped capture, though it is sail' ;,, e rs secreted at Madrid. Amongst his r ll 'illac e, found written permissions to enter the p ea t by to the Queen; he, it ar a lo: r p s ' o :i b t t iC:, Ti tcr ; y pretending that he was P ng3l disclosures respecting dark Queen PORTUGAL. d a te of o f tO' Intelligence from Lisbon o f the 5 inst., states that the Min isterial public on the. preceding g°n cial t, people by surprise. In the orditlarY,.s,'ou House of Peers, the Saldanha Cab ine, ' - 0 1 0 counted upon a m ,jority of four or ns' te d of the different financial plans COO° as till j u st set Fontes in London and Paris; but fl bills relating to a new loan were b ei _ i lig pot from the Lower House, the Governy--vrovi tamed that eight Peers from diferen" ;1 1 6 11 and the' Azores, who had no t been itife' for years, had been.induced to collie , ' oppose the bills in question , and.- submitted to the King the nee""*- 9 of ,ome new Peers in order to pass tlleo:r51 which his Majesty declined to the F took a very prudent course in y e, of new Peers for bills which involve tile.„o,-% - 0 100,000 of additional toati events, until the people have had an ° P i P atio expressing their wishes in the neW e ' - Chamber of Deputies, which would take place this year. The Ministeria' be considered virtually ended by aboVe Ifor the instalment of a new cabin',,, presidency of M. Julio Gomes-da S'l who is a safe man, and will b e ref. Inance Wllte,: to -.4 A 1 :land as the minis the first decree which had appro t !' nal taxes out-. of state two do payable in London upon Portuguese ITALY. Letters from Milan state that „stn,,effia Government has resolved to erect tilvtlopel a Venetian a Provinces into a kingdom ° i f _ ' t ile n to place a prince of Italian birtnrome Duke of Tuscany. who is also an .Autri%sti( —on the throne. To this detern3lbroti itsCabinethaving anxiety to neutralise the gr r A n tllo lv e Piedmont. read in the Independence :-- aI7 ea f the reforms d2manded from we receive concur in characterising e' co l' the .seviiviteil.: Governments by France and Anstrui -0(30,` tnost remarkable fact in our It.i'llle the ' intelligence that the evacuation (1 " woe States by the French and Austrian, commence on the Ist of October ne!;jB3 to The report that Count Cavour ime; teu' another visit to Paris is contradie We have advices f P ro li n ____--4"—_ be d g" t to t . n g isee Bth instant. lg li BSSerllAiti The previous day hilvin 1130't anniversary members of the late Kings death , " ss i9 , ' thetime with the addition of the ErnPverchafl°,,ta' Russia, assembled, as is their,woot, ili.' ~ r elle.• burg,and devoted the day to retieme_t der exercises, and pious recollections of al v e ao , It is expected that the Empress o , f , ii i " . ii the bring her visit to this Court to an 013 ' - , instant. fe lP Advice tlie f i from Tilsit show that liiirg ft, arrived s there at four o'clock in the te r °l r e nli ti , 4th i 1 .• nst , and passed on at once, ti' v te ,„," i °O r 'll l4 minutes sta, to Taurore 1. The ',`.'7,,liest.W; 00 visit t y indications of an int'ention 01 r-rrotinc`fe, whichvery soon ; for, on leaving tbe•giael)c him last the 3rd Lancers had been e%erciso Monda, he said to tiler°, e on t men of my regiment; we shall soon see "'~ I,Cv Ct ~~ ntU Sir John Acton, the stepson (101:::1<cieUtgl?: arrived at at Baden on ThursdaY ments for his Lordship, who is e%VeL5t veteol the 10th on his way to St for Sir J o i n I R n ? it is understood, will Pr°eq•s Vre to the t the us shioatneleaopfittahleinEitncigvliaslicenilisiloti: readiness to receive its future °cote° again Warsaw, which RUSSIA . letter.,;, Hamburg News publishes a dolt Emperor c o o fntitaitriisssiait steocoannd assPseecialii b t l u y e °, Il i by the nobles .a. on May 28, the day follow", ,eotttP expressed given by the nobility. Tile. ', to t . pressed by the Emperor wera similaro del menacehimselfpower to this effect "Be it 10'0111110 01 wssheen7intilsudiaedee, sba:37:cel? 1-11 and w ill do so " received ees INSURRECTION. IN ptli lilt r t a l Vi 9 ' /. .. 5 i i t fl 'o l'i .-----•'--- relietor slutpphoarst.declared tivlrn. via f T ro r n i l est A e l , e s X t fl a l i l : r :i a la t i 0tA131`4.• ' 0t A insurrection.d v i _ , longer lecognise the rule of the Su Ls I Governor of the Hedjaz holds out fiittlY, without The m • I el ° t t 1 ' ontteur Grec protests tha ~osce hostile f ee li n g towards the Western r . ell hopes a new constitution will be gtv country. a o Dr, kt,