The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-11 00:00:00

. • Etantriariat Jiales. of Indian Corn they are limited, and of other . ... - --- - articles moderate, for the past three days. NEXT WEEK. ARRIVALS AND EXPORTS —__ -- From the 7th to the 9th August, 1860, inclusive. On Monday next, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale -street, . : • `4 I z es a 100 Casks CASTOR OIL. -•— '' a *g Flour. .4 I 148 Bags Bombay SALTPETRE. INTO ?' XI o I=l a, AC) 0 r -- Apply to BROWNE, HUNTER, & CO., Brokers. LIYERPOOL, ---..".-- ----- ..---- ---''' -..-... —..--. FROX Qrs, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Lods Sk s. Brls. 1re1and...... 20 ... ';.5 ... .. ... 73 On account of whom it may concern. On Monday next, the 13th instant, at One o'clock. at the Coastwise . 20 ... 360 ... ... ... ... ::: ••• Canada,&c. 2307 ... .. . . 3500 Brokers' O ff ice. Victoria-buildings, Mackin's-hey, U. States... 13321 ... .. ... ::: 10 . 91 •.:: ••. 11389 300 Ballots PERUVIAN WOOL, ex Perpetua, damaged by sea water. Apply to Messrs. Gibbs, Europe &c. 4953 .. 1900 205 2120 -. 56 Egypt ' 3205 .. ... 1485 3 .- 4.. : : •. : . •• • •• • Bright, and Co., Merchants; or INTO PERKINS & ROBINSON, Wool Brokers. RUNCORN_ .. ... 385 ... .. ... ... ... ... On account of whom it may concern. On Monday next, the 13th instant, at One o'clock , at the Total 23826 .. 2670 1690 84 1091 72 2120 14925 EXPORTS TO ------ - -- ---...--,- -- ---- -- -"----- Brokers' Office, Rumford-street, 66 Bales and a Quantity of Loose COTTON , For. Parts. 20 100 . . safed from the Neptune, from New Orleans, stranded near • Ireland . . 2100 13 762 420 Wexford; liring on the quay, north end Prince's Dock. Apply Coastwise to HOLLINSHEAD, TETLEY, & CO., Brokers. -------_ ---- On Monday next, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court, 298 Boxes Palermo LEMONS, Ex Venetian (s)• 827 Boxes Palermo S LEMO N, 124 Cases DITTO, Ex Rhone (s). SOO Bundles Lisbon ONIONS, 50 Boxes , DITTO, , SO 5 , Ex Cora Linn (s). • 17s Trunks Port ONIONS, SO Boxes Lisbon DITTO, 9 Baskets „ DITTO, 150 Boxes „ TOMATOES, 70 Bags Messina NUTS, 20 Bundles Faro BASKETS. JAMES ADAM, SON, & CO., Brokers. Zte Vrethisious Bark& . In the Provision Market, during the week, with a continued pressure to sell Beef, over 800 tierces have been placed, a portion of which, it is said, went under 40s per 304 lbs. The demand for Pork was quiet, without material change in value. Fur Bacon, there was a small retail en quiry, but with the light stock there was no pres sure to sell, hence quotations are unchanged. Hams were neglected. Shoulders brought full prices. Lard was quiet, and the sales for the week did not reach 50 tons. Cheese sold freely, and the stock does not accumulate; as the season advances the quality is improving, and the range of prices is consequently higher. Fine Butter realised more money, but inferior was difficult to sell. Beef Pork Bacon Hams Lard Cheese fIUVRTS. Tres. Brle. Cwts. Cwts. Tons. Boxes. For past week from 1 65... . 252... 63 .. . 9105 • • ••• ' ' America From Ist October 50336 10837 110298 10509...5200...172712 Same date last season 31619 25727...24908...3393...2585... 54092 For past *week from t 20 other places From Ist October 463...6045... 3088... 122... 796... 8152 game date last season 1211... 126... 207... 238... 539... 4729 lie Oil 5,05 au Oils Varkt, In the Liverpool Oil Seeds and Oils market, during the week, the prices of all kinds of Seed continued to improve ; the demand was more active, and the imports are increasing. Bombay Linseed to-day was worth 52s 3d to 52s 9d, according to bags and quality ; a small lot of white and brown yesterday realised 535. Good Bengal was worth 51s to 51s 6d. Fine Guzerat Rapeseed realised 68s 3d, but little offering ; brown Bombay Rape was worth about 58s. Lin seed Oil was in rather better demand, and cannot now be purchased under 28s 6d in town casks. Brown Rape Oil was worth £4l lOs to £42. Of Linseed Cake the consumption was increasing rapidly ; and first-class Liverpool-made Cake was worth fully £9 10s. More enquiry for Rape Cake for feeding; the value was £5 per ton. The transactions of the week were as follows : Offered for Sale-785 bags Bombay Linseed, 1,236 bags Bombay Rapeseed, 679 bags Danubian do., and 160 bags Mathieseed. Sales reported.-4,095 bags Bengal Linseed, at 49s to 49s 6d per quarter, e. f. and i. ; 1,600 bags ditto, on the spot, at 50s 6d to 51s per quarter ; 1,570 bags 3,500 pockets Bombay ditto, at 52s to 52s 9d per quarter ordinary quality, and 53s mixed in double bags; 200 bags Bombay Rapeseed, at 57s per quarter; 1,300 pockets Guzerat ditto, at 67s 6d to 68s 3d per quarter ; and 160 bags Mathie seed, at 7s per cwt. Sales advertised for next week. 600 bags Bombay Linseed. • Imports this week-8,229 bags Bengal Linseed, 9,280 bags Bombay ditto, 700 pockets Bombay ditto, and 1,200 bags Bombay Rapeseed. FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—SaIes to-day, about 200 bags Bombay Linseed, at 52s 6d ex quay and in London ; about 1,000 bags lying in Liverpool, at .535. Ztt(t iirther Park& ( F,.0„4 A. F. 4 D. Afackay',s .ifonthly Circular.) Pine Timber : Since the date of our last the arrivals have been large and rapid, almost beyond precedent. Sales of Quebec timber have been numerous, and several cargoes have changed owners, prices ranging from 13d for 50 feet to 18d and upwards for very choice wood of large average, common being very difficult to dispose of. Board timber from Quebec has been sold by auction some weeks ago in small lots, at 2s ld and upwards per foot. St. John : In this article little has been done, good quality is worth 6d per foot over the average girth. Red Pine In this the amount of business done has been unimportant. Oak : Several parcels from Quebec have arrived since the date of our last circular. On the 20th ult. a prime lot, consisting of 114 logs averaging 8.; feet, realised by auction 2s 21d per foot. Besides these a number of small lots with cargo were sold by private treaty at lower rates, all de pending upon the quality. Elm and Ash : Elm of 45 feet average has been sold by auction at 19fd per foot ; small averages are very unsaleable. Ash, fresh and of large average, has realised from 15d to 16d; small averages about 14d per foot. N.B. and N.S. Pine and Spruce Deals : About the middle of the last month several sales of Spruce Deals took place by auction, prices rang ing from £8 16s to £8 17s Bd. Within the last few days £9 have been realised by private treaty for first, second, and third quality. Other kinds have been disposed of at proportionate rates. Pine Deals, unless of good quality with little sap, meet with small demand, and prices have been, on the average, lower than those given for Spruce. Pur chasers from the interior have been fully stocked by the auction sales, and are not at present in clined to buy, unless at prices similar to those at which they have lately been supplied. Quebec Deals : Of these several parcels have been sold by auction since our last. Pine, first quality, dry floated, realised £l6; second quality brought from £ll for dry floated to £ll 12s 6d for bright ; and third floated £9 per standard. Spruce, second quality, brought from £8 12s 6d to £8 17s 6d per standard. Hardwood : Birch from Quebec has been sold by auction in lots, at from 20d to 22id per foot for 16 inch average. Nova Scotian sold at about 19d per foot, the quality being very good. Pitch Pine : The sales have been on private terms. Greenheart : In this article no sales are reported. East Indian Teak : No sales. Baltic Timber : From the pressure of Canadian this wood at present is neglected. gaits of freigtt. Outward freights to India and China are firmer, and an improving demand for tonnage is giving the rates an upward tendency, particularly for salt to Calcutta, 43s 6d having been paid for two ships with consignment. Homewards the busi ness is quite nominal, and our quotations cannot be exceeded. West Indian and Brazilian freights are exhausted, and vessels can now only be placed at very low rates. Mediterranean and Pacific trades are unaltered and inactive. Freights to U. S. ports are without quotable change from last Week. ~.-...- RAILS---BRISTOL CHANNEL. To Galveston 2ss. and 5 per cent. To Mobile .............(nominal) To New York ............ do. 18s. ed. To New Orleans ...... ... cio. 10. Od. and 5 p er cent. (Florida) do. fia. ed. and 5 p er cent. 6d. T o Savannah .. .................... 229 'and 5 per cent. T o Havannah (small cargo) •••3095: min To To PPoernrtsanmdinoutah ...... (no al) To Alexandria ...................... 25 To d. s. d. To ~ d. a. d. 16 0 ... 0 0 Trieste ..„, COAL : MX LIVERPOOL OR BIRKENHEAD. 15 0 ... 0 0 Trebizonde Malta .. 14 0 ... 15 0 Sin g r ) „, e . .......... 16 0 ... 0 0 Corfu Smyrna l6 0 ... 0 0 Ragusa ........... 18 0 ... .0 0 19 0 . 0 0 ;alma Gibraltar Ir. 0 17 0 Leghorn._ nom. 15 0 ... 0 0 Naples ......nom. , ••• ,_ , Athens ... .. l6 0 0 0 Rhodes ............ 16 0 • - 4 . ! i ,u Havanne.h... • 0 0 Cardenas ..... ••• 16 0 • 17 0 Rio Janeiro ...... 25 () ... liante 'Video Buenos Ayres ••• 32 6 ... 35 0 Cape of G. Hope 32 6 ... 0 0 Constantip.ople.. 15 0 ... 16 0 Pernambuco 2B 0 ... 29 0 Saloniea i6 0 ~, 0 0 Galveston Rails.. nominal. 4.leUnd 4a •••••• . 1 . 7 9, 7 ,..0 o , Apply to On account of whom it may concern. Ca Tuesday next, Gold 14th ingtant, at Half-past One o'clock, at IL 11. ing's Saleroom, Corn Exchange, A Quantity of Taganrog Ghirka WHEAT, damaged by the late fire in the Stanley Dock warehouses. For further particulars apply to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers. On Wednesday next, the 15th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office. Exchange-court, 197 Bags BORATE OF LIME, em John Norman, from Iquique. Apply. to Robert Curwen, Esq., merchant; or to SAMUEL DOWNES, Broker. On account of P. M. Dove and John Semple, Esqrs., trustees for whom it may concern. On w e d nes dav next, the 15th instant, at Two o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 5, Rumford-street, • A Large Quantity of Loose American COTTON, saved from the late fire in Stanley Dock warehouse, and now "lying in the Dock yard, opposite. Apply to H. JNO. WEBSTER, Broker. On Thursday next, the 16th instant. at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, ;400 Pieces East India TANNED LEATHER, 1 Bale SHEEP SKINS, 4 Bales GOAT SKINS. BROWNE, HUNTER, & CO., Brokers. Apply to COMMERC LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING. Zbe Cotton Rtarket. In the Liverpool Cotton Market, during the past week, less favourable accounts of the growing crop having strengthened the feeling previously I formed, that the present currency was fully as low as circumstances warranted, caused a rally. Large operations for speculation, together with a good business for the trade and export, having relieved holders, less disposition to accept late rates was apparent, and with a less abundant supply, an advance of Id per lb. on the middling and better and id per lb. on the lower classes of American was established. Brazil and Egyptian were the shade dearer. Surat was in moderate demand and very firm. The weekly sales amount to 82,360 bales, of which 21,560 were on specula tion and 10,740 for export. This week Price paid Cur Prices Description. this week mid. fair. Stock. Import Sales --,- . -- -__ -- - 620 Sea Island... s.}d e 17 12. d 14 6 4 59 15610 Upland ; ? i 1 1036220 i 11450 _Mobile . 5668 ' 42590 New Orleans 2 8 6 7 6647 - 2510 Brazil 6l 97f 7 30780 576 1370 Egyptian 7 12 7f 8 41490 150 West India 3 7 7 490 1824 8060 East India.. 2 43} 4 94790 - -- -- - -- 29574 82360 Total Total 1203770 Ztie Colonial Prat= cgarket. The Liverpool Colonial Produce Market to-day was without change. Sugar : The market was steady, with a fair de mand and no change in prices; 85 hhds. Jamaica were reported at 40s to 41s, 36 hhds. grainy Demerara at 45s 3d, 3,000 bags Bengal at 44s for Date and 45s 6d for yellow Cossipore, 3,500 mats clayed Manilla (to arrive) at 38s 6d, and 2,500 bags Pernams and Paraiba at 24s 3d to 25s 9d per cwt. Molasses : Nothing was done. Ruin: 60 puncheons Demerara were reported at recent rates. Coffee : The sales were confined to 15 tierces and 35 barrels and bags Jamaica, without change in prices. Rice: We have no sales to notice, the Necransie advertised for sale not being offered, but 1,000 tons for arrival were sold at 10s 6d per cwt. Saltpetre : 300 bags were reported at 40s 6d for Sl,And 41s per cwt. for 71 per cent. refraction. Pepper : 240 bags black Singapore were sold at 4d per lb. Linseed: 8.50 bags Bombay changed hands at L2s 6d per qr. from the quay. ZiAn 51Tare Rtartet. The Liverpool Share Market during the past week, notwithstanding the unfavourable nature of the weather, has been remarkably well sup ported, and stock proved scarce, the holders having offered it very sparingly. Dovers and Canadian Stocks have been particularly good. To-day the market was very flat, and it closed weak at the quotations. The transactions in ,eluded—Birkenhead, 81, & ; Lancashire and York shire, 1091,1 ; London and North-Western, 1031 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 43 ; Midland, 1281, y, 9, I; South-Eastern, 261-, !, 4, j, 15-16, 7; Buffalo and Lake Huron, 51 ; Dutch Rhenish, 3;d; Grand Trunk of Canada, 7; ; Great Western of Canada, 121 ; Blackburn Purchase, tp. The Share Market closed to-day at the following prices : Sales after 3 o'clock. Railways. Closing Prices. Birkenhead &Cheshire Jn. 801 —81 t Caledonian stern Counties Great Northern llB 120 Great Westerns Lancashire & Yorkshire . lO9/ 110 lost London & North Westernlo3± 1031 1031 Ditto I r shares 6 — Manchester, Shef., & Lin 421 id 43 421 3 Midland Stock l2Bl 1291 North British. North Staffordshire -16 3 3-16 d Nortii Eastern—Berwick .1001 101 Do. York and N. Midland 85 851 Do. Leeds Northern .... 551 56 South Eastern . ... 26 15-16 27_26 16-16 Oxford, W. &Wo iverhptn 461 —47 Dutch Rhenish Great Luxembourg Grand Trunk of Canada. 71 7 Gt. W. of Canada l2 6-16 12 7-16 Ditto new shares 8d Buffalo and Lake Huron 63-16 55-16 Great Ship Thames & Mersey M. Co — ip gte Corn Rtarktt. In the Liverpool Corn Market to-day no stimulus though the day was thoroughly was imparted , wet. We had a tolerable attendance of the trade, and a fair business was transacted in Wheat at full prices for all good qualities, but secondary descrip tions were neglected, an-1 ordinary American might be bought some what cheaper from the quay. Beans quite supported Tuesday's prices. Oats and Oatmeal were in moderate consumptive re quest, at full rates. Indian Corn was held firmly, and the turn in favour of sellers, but the business done was somewhat limited in extent. —There is no improvement to note in the character of the weather, which continues cold and harsh, with heavy rains each day during the week ; but judging from the apathetic state of the trade, these adverse circumstances do not appes: to excite serious alarm, the fear of scarcity being coun t e racted by _ su pp lies of foreign grainsuffi cient to meet our present wants : it remains to be seen whether those can be kept up in sufficient quantity to meet the requirements of the future. The provincial market s re p ort a firm but not active trade in Wheat at previous rates, and on the spot we have had it moderate amount of ness transacted without change in value ; a more active demand has been experienced for Flour, in some cases at 6d. per sack A clvance. With Increasing reports of disease in the potp,to crop, Indian Corn is more firmly held, and prices ,t4e turn dearer. The Gazette returns of Wheat ,for -the week ended 4th instant are 1:i,46.3 quarters. The supplies of Wheat and Flo u r continue large; 29574 GENERAL FREIGHTS. s. d. a. a Liverpool to Aden 4O 0 to 0 0 ~ Hong Kong Ditto from Wales 57 6to 0 0 Chusan 7O francs ~ Ceylon : Iron 35 0t037 6 ~ Bombay : Coals 3O oto3l 0 Iron from the Clyde Suez 52 6 to 0 0 IP , Sydney or t £3 ss. register ton. ' Melbourne j „ Singapore l Gale ~ 32 6 to 0 - 0 9/ Shanghai 55 oto 0 0 Ditto from Wales 6O oto 0 0 „ Calcutta: Salt without consignment 40 oto4l 0 Ditto with ditto 43 oto 0 0 „ Calcutta : Iron, Engines, ficc. - 4O oto 0 0 Ditto, Coals Ascension, from Wales Kurrachee, from Wales 34 0 to 35 0 Fernando Po, from Wales Callao, from Wales 35 0 to 0 0 ~ Valparaiso direct, from Wales 32 6to 0 0 /I Woosung 75 Francs. Liverpool to Madras Iron Sze. 405., Clyde 455., Chusan, 55.. Do. Coals 355. Od. Do. from Wales 375. Liverpool to Valparaiso for orders, to discharge there or at a Port not North of Callao 30s. Od. small ships. Liverpool to New York, Coals, full cargoes, 12s. Ed. and 5 per ' cent. „ Moulmain 80e. to 825. 6d., Teak to U.K. Akyab, option of Rangoon, Bassein, or Moulmain, to U. K. 625. 6d., or option of Continent, 655. Calcutta to Liverpool or London, 625. 6d.; ditto on the round, £5 with option of London. Guano from Chißchas to U. K. or Continent, 60s. Bombay to Liverpool or London, 455. to 475. 6d. Rangoon to Liverpool or London, 755. Earth Oil. IllVire are indebted to Messrs. Taylor, Tipper, and Co., for the following rates of freight to the United States:— --- Boston. New York. Philadelphia. s. d. B. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Pig Iron, Bars, i 0 o ...12 6 10 0...11 0 0 0...15 0 Rails, &c. Chemicals and 12 6,.. 0 0 11 6...12 6 15 0... 0 0 Fine Iron Salt . ... .......... 0 0...12 6 10 0...12 C nominal. Dry Goods lO 0...15 0 10 0...17 6 0 • 0...20 0 Hardware Earthenware 0 0... 5 6 4 6... 5 0 0 0... 8 0 Passengers £4 lOs Od £4 5s to £4 10s £4 5s to £4 lOs Gross. Gross. I Gross. Baltimore. Charleston. New Orleans. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Pig Iron, Bars, 0 0...15 0 15 0... 0 0 8 0...10 0 Rails, &c Chemicals and 0 0...15 0 0 0...17 6 0 0...10 0 nominal. nominal. 6 0... 7 0 Dry Goads 2O 0... 0 0 0 0...20 0 20 0... 0 0 Salt Iron .... is Hardwat e 2O 0... 0 0 0 0 ..20 0 20 o._ 0 0 Earthenware 0 0... 8 0 0 0... 6 6 5 0... 0 0 Passengers £s Os £5 Os. £5 10s. to £6 Nominal. Gross. Gross. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. In the LONDON STOCK MARKET to-day the announcement made in the House of Commons last night by the Secretary of State for India, that £3,000,000 more is to be raised for the service of the Indian Government, confirmed the un favourable tendency of the funds. A fresh decline of per cent. took place in Consols. The Funds closed at the following prices : Consols Money „ Account Exchequer Bills Bank Stock Three per Cents 93-1 Next Account The following appeared in our later editions of yesterday : This has been settling-day in the English funds, and the tendency of the market has been towards heaviness. The applications for the new Sardinian loan are expected to amount to four times the total allotted.— Times. The funds were again flatter. Owing partly to the weather, and partly to the arrangements for the adjust ment of the account, funds have declined I per cent. The demand for money at the discount-offices at the Bank was only moderate. In the absence of supplies from abroad, the sum of £22,000 in bar gold was with drawn from the Bank. There is no particular change to notice in the market for American securities during the past week.—Daily News. I The following is the usual Bank of England Aceouut for the week ending Wednesday : ISSUE DEPARTMENT. DEBIT. 2 I CREDIT. £ Notes issued 29,309,205 1 Government Debt.. 11,015,100 Other Securities .... 3,459,900 Gold Coin and other Bullion.. 14 , 834 , 205 £29,309,205 BANKING D DEBIT. Propriepor'sCapital 14,553,000 Rest 3,513,130 Public Deposits 4,823,222 Other Deposits 14,003,230 Seven day and other Bills 14,142 :7: - .£37,606,774 X 29, 309,205 lEPARTMENT. CREDIT. Govt. Securities 9,804,273 Other Securities 19,483,347 Notes ' 7,601,815 Gold 4ud Silver Coin 717,339 L 37,606,774 In the LONDON RAILWAY SHARE MARKET to day there was very little business done. British Railway Stocks were dull, though showing little change in prices. Of Canadian descriptions rather more were offered. The market closed at the following prices : Ambergate, Not., & East. Junction 6; 7 Caledonians Dutch Rhenish Eastern Counties East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow . . . Great Northern A. Great Westerns Great Western of Canada . . Grand Trunk of Canada 73 • • • Great Southern & Western . . . 114 16 Lancashire & Yorkshire . . . . .1091 10 Lombardo-Venetian London & North-Western . . . 103 1 London & South-Western . . Leeds Northern 54 4 71 Manchester, Sheff., & Lincolnshire 434 _Lt Midland Stock North British South-Eastern & Dover . . . York, Newcastle, & Berwick . York & North Midland . . . The following appeared in our later editions of yesterday : The railway market was firm at the commencement but became flatter in the afternoon.—Times. The demand for Canadian and American railway securities continues very hopeful, expectations being entertained of the effect of the good harvest in those countries.—Daily News. The following are the rates of Foreign Ex. changes : 11 14i to 11 15 11 16 to 11 171 11 161 to 11 17 25 30 to 25 35 ~.. 25 30 to 25 35 .... 13 51 to 13 61 25 10 to 25 15 25 35 to 25 40 ~.. 25 35 to 25 40 .... 1171 to 1171 13 0 to 13 3 13 0 to 13 3 .... 341 to 341 ... 491 to 491 The LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKET to day continued firm. Amsterdam, shorts Do., three months Rotterdam, do Antwerp, do. Brussels, do Hamburg, do Faris, short Do., three months .... •••• Marseilles, do Frankfort, do Vienna, do Trieste, do Petersburg, do Madrid. do Sugar : Prices were steady, and there was a ready sale ; 219 bags, 23 tierces, and 168 bales Barbadoes were chiefly sold at 36s 6d to 37s 6d for brown and 38s to 43s 6d for low to fine yellow; 61 hhds. crystallised Demerara sold at 42s to 46s ; 61 and 99 bales Grenada sold at 36s 6d to 39s 6d ; 1,419 bags Bengal were mostly sold, Gurpattah date at 43s 6d to 44s 6d, and good yellow Bally at 45s to 45s 6d ; 1,156 bags grocery Madras were sold, low to fine yellow at 38s to 435. Coffee: The market was firm ; 950 bags Native Ceylon were sold at 61s 6d and a lot at 62s for good brown, garblings 52s 6d. Tea : The gales were flat ; 3,952 packages were partly sold without material change. Rice : The market was firm, and business was checked by the high prices required ; 100 tons fine white Bengal were sold at 15s, and 50 tons middling at 14s 6d. Saltpetre : Prices were firm, but no sales reported. Hemp : The demand was dull. Pepper : The market was firm. In the LONDON COLONIAL WOOL SALES to-day there was no change noticeable in the value of any kind. The biddings continued very active, and foreign dealers showed more disposition to operate. The LONDON TALLOW MARKER was steady to day, at the following prices :—On the spot, 52s 6d ; last three months, 52s ; January to March, 52s 6d to 52s 9d. In the BOROUGH HOP MARKET to-day the demand for all kinds of Hops continue steady, at fully the late advance in the quotations. The accounts from the plantations are very unfavour able, and the duty is still called £BO,OOO. The LONDON CORN MARKET. —Weather dry s ince Wednesday: Supplies of foreig n gra in fair. No change in any a article of the tr a d e s i nce Monday, except that Maize is a shade easier off Coast. PROVINCIAL, &c., MARKETS, YESTERDAY. MANCHESTER SHARE. Midlands, 1291 I ; Londons, 103: Great Western s, 72 k, GLASGOW IRON.—Market quiet. No. 1,50 s Gd to 50s 9d; Warrants, 51s 100 to 625; No. 3, as 3d to 50s 6d. MANCHESTER TRADE. Notwithstanding the very natural apprehensions caused b y the continuan ce of unseasonable weather there has been rather mo re doing in yarns since Tuesday, and the market is firmer to-day. Also more regularity in the price of cloth since Tuesday, and some descriptions are firmer. CORN MARKETS. WAKEFIELD : Fine fresh Wheat in fair demand, and rather dearer. N ot much doing in other sorts. Spring Corn fully as dear.— CORK New. Oats, 14s 4d.—DuBLIN : Weather has : turned to heavy rain. - No home grain to quote. Foreign Wheat in greatly latt rates.ag demand, and Corn i anda slight quantity : no change in prices. Fl our — sa le good, but no advance obtained. ihttedadin ad vance obtained over NEWS OF THE DAY. The morning sitting of the House of Commons, yes terday, was occnpiod with a di.scussion on the Committee of Supply. In the evening, Mr. .Bright again raised the question of the paper duty. He said that the effect of the existing state .of things was to place the paper makers between two fires—the grievinces of the excise regulations and the withdrawal of protection. He charged Lord Palmerston with a want of proper spirit in standing tamely by and allowing the House of Lords to ride roughshod over the traditional pri vileges of the House of Commons, pointing out to his lordship various methods by which he might yet defeat the vote of the Upper House, to which Lord Palinerston replied that the advice tendered by Mr. Bright was both too late in point of time, and impracticable in execution. Lord John Russell stated, in answer to a question relative to the Syrian massacre, that - he had reason to believe, from information just received, that they would speedily be at an end. The Emperor of the French, like the snake, seems to fascinate his victims. He is an excellent nurse, and knows the proper time to administer the sugar-plum ; crafty in his policy, he will no doubt, in the plenitude of his power, yet force his friend Mr. Cobden to accept the Legion of Honour; and to please the " Great Millionaire," with whou;t he is so • often seen in company, he might be induced, for a "consideration," to instal him as the "Bing of Jerusalem." Mr. Cobden, of course, expects some remuneration for deceiving his country. "Time," with its wonder-working power, will alone disclose the motives of the friendship existing at the present moment between the Emperor of the French and Baron Rothschild. Notwithstanding the alarming rumours of more Mahomedan risings, and fresh massacres of the Chris trians in Syria, the fact is becoming generally admitted that the worst is past, and that order has been re-estab lislied in the disturbed districts by the Turkish autho rities. Preparations, however, are still carried on with the greatest activity at Toulon and Marseilles, and in a few days the first French troops will lave landed oil the • THE DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1860. , Sopping 4uttilignut. Wind yesterday, W.S.W. ; at Holyhead, S.W., fine breeze. 'VED. • Aug. 9. Looehristy Express, White Rio Bento 'Aug. 10. Peter Marcy, Thompson, Perekop, Pope Bombay New Orleans Ruben Quebec 'Nina (es), Aran Bilboa Jeune Henri, Mayon ...Nantes Nettuna, Depont Matanzas I Helena, Welp .. Rangoon OFF THE PORT. United States, Constitution, Caledonian, Arabian, Ariel, Wasp, AAA: Floating Light, Ann F. Schmidt, and Crimea. SAILED. Aug. 8. I Aug. 10. Win Lord, jun Boston Morena, Hannah ...Richibucto Aug. 9. E C Scranton, Morgan, Mercur, Bottcher Pernau New York Annette !loge, Engel, Norskov Kelvin; Belyon ...St John, NB Ursa Minor, Bernstrom, Ocean Wave, Cochran, Quebec Hammerfest I Niagara, Lawrence, New York Cagliari Theron, Leeds Corfu FOREIGN PORTS. . Washington Irving, Durrant, hence at Galle Euphrates (ss), Reed, and Willard, Mitchell, both hence at Trieste Aurora, Emmew . ...... Christina (ss), Mansfield, from Alexandria, and Marathon sBl, from Smyrna, at Malta, and both sailed for Liverpool W E Ruth, Caffiero, hence at Naples Mceander (ss), Leslie, hence at Naples, and left for Palermo Cairo (as), Bates, hence at Genoa Cintra (ss), Lloyd, hence at Oporto Glory, Kamp, hence at Pernau Olivia, hence at Pilau Sirene, Thiesen, hence at Hamburg Brevinde Knuth, hence at Svindberg Elide, Jansen, hence at Copeehagen Speculante, Milstrun, hence at Neustadt Mark That, Drury, hence at Cuxhaven Rival, Kelly, from Callao at Brouwershaven Eclipse, and Clara, both hence atHammerfest SPOKEN Arracan, Batavia for Falmouth, May 31, 34 S 26 E Alcyone, Sourabaya for Amsterdam, May 51, 34 5, 26 E Adriatic, Bombay for Liverpool, June 1, 34 5, 26 E Alberdina, Batavia for Rotterdam, June 3, 34 S, 24 E Gym Castle, Bombay for Liverpool, June 7,35 S, 21 N Argyle, Bombay for London, June 9, 36 S, 18 E Duke of Roxburgh, Bombay for London, June 24, 22 S, 3 E Jenny Jones, Colombo for London, June 29, 16 5, 6 W City of Canton, bound south, July 9, 3 N, 23 W Alura, London for Sydney,. July 10, 5 N,24 W A barque, 3rd pendant, 6,109, bound south, July 31, 10 N, 24W Primula, hence for Singapore, July 15, 11 N, 24 W Notre Dame, Swansea for Galle, July 14, 10 N, 24 W Walcharen. Newcastle for Singapore. July 14, 10 N, 24 W Moro Castle, bound west, Aug 3, 47 N, 27 W Twilight, bound up Channel, off Tuskar, all per Perekop. Southampton, London for New York, July 74, 42 N, 30 W, per Sarah Horne. Atalanta (of Boston), bound south, July 12, 29 N, 32 W Altona, Princetown for Amsterdam,'July 31, 46 N, 19 W, per Lady Franklin. Velocity, Bombay for London, June 23, 36 S, 17 E Sandelle, Oporto for Rio Janeiro, July 17, 10 N, 24 W Queen of the East, June 16, 35 5, f 4 E Traveller, Ceylon for London, July 11, 3 S, 19 W Erang, line, bound south, July 17, 13 N, 26 W Zanzibar, Arica for London, July 31, 45 N, 30 W Minna, Bence for Matanzas, July 14, 29 N, 71 W Sisters, Callao for Queenstown, 12 N, 52 W Edwin Flye, Cardiff for Singapore, June 18, 2 N, 30 W Guide, from Boston, June 19, 3 N, 31 W Duchess of Lancaster, hence for Valparaiso, July 31, twenty miles north of Scilly OUTPOSTS Maid of the Mill, and Louise, from Marseilles ; D C Pierce, from Ibrail ; and Meridian, from Matanzas, all at Falmouth Thetis, from Quebec at Silloth Tiptree, Pinel, fioni Kurrachee at Giavesend GREENOCK, August 10.—Arrived: Claribel, from Demerara; allot Fish, Havana ; Bermuda, New York. Sailed : Cuthbert, for Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, August 10.--Arrived Elize, from St John, NB ; Victor, Berdianski ; Frew, New York ; Ellen Sophia, Buenos Ayres ; Luzon, Savannah ; East Indian, Mazatlan. Sailed : Tonino, , and Niemen (es), for LondoiK; Sireua, Cardiff. MARITIME EXTRACTS. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 10. GIBRALTAR, July 26: The Sans Souci, from Sulina for the United Kingdom, which put in here July 23, has her cargo heated ; a survey has been held, and she will discharge part of JUST PUBLISHED, NEW EDITION. (May be had gratis on application, or free by post for three stamps). THE TEETH.—Messrs. 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Under no circumstances can communications be inserted net accompanied by the author's real name and address, which are required, not necessarily for publication, but as a guar antee of good faith: HIGH WATER, THIS DAY, AT LIVERPOOL. Hour. Height. MonzitNa 4h. 53m. j lift. SM. EVENING - -sh. iOni. s lift. 4in. .Ghent Syrian coast. The Times congratulates the French empire on the honourable mission which has devolved upon her army, and hopes that the Emperor's soldiers will duly execute their task of restraining violence and wrong in those neglected provinces of the Turkish • empire. An almost incredible loss of life and amount of suffer ng which Christendom has hardly yet realised to the full are not the only losses which have followed from the Syrian outrages. Letters from Constantinople, just received, acquaint us that numerous trading establish ments at Beyrout, engaged in the culture and spinning of silk, and also a great many similar establishments in the Lebanon, which had attained a high degree of pros perity within the last few years, have been irretrievably ruined beyond all hope of recovery. Judging from the energetic manner in which the newly arrived Turkish functionaries are punishing the guilty, and doing their best to recover the property belonging to the Christians, carried off by them, the expedition, on its arrival, will find its labours considerably lightened, so far as Damascus is concerned. The letter of our Paris correspondent, to .which we direct attention, contains copious and interesting details respecting the departure of the first portion of the French expedition to Syria. Recent accounts from Belgrade do not lessen the gravity of the intelligence which has reached us of the disturbances which have broken out in that frontier town, between the Christian inhabitants and the Turks. Prince Milosch has been recalled to his capital, but the European, consuls assisted by the Turkish Pasha and the Servian police have in the meantime succeeded in arresting the progress of the disturbances. The later despatches from Candia announce that the situation of affairs in that island was somewhat ameliorated. The murderers of Mavroyenni, who were arrested at Betimo, are about to be tried, and the family of the deceased will be indemnified. The Zenobia was still in the roads, and on the 28th lilt. the governor had received reinforcements, which had been despatched to his aid from Constantinople. The same account mentions the death of the English Consul, Mr. Barbour. The preface to M. Clarigny's pamphlet, just pub lished at Paris, states, that it was originally written by order of the Government, and not for publication ; but that, in consequence of misstatements on our side of the Channel, it has been thought advisable to give it pub licity. The following is the statement it makes of the strength of the French and English navies. The strength of the English fleet, says the author, is taken from the Navy List of the Ist of July, 1860. The effective strength of the French fleet on the Ist of August, 1860, is given. Only the ships afloat are put down; those on the stocks are not- mentioned. The comparison would have been complete and to the pur pose if these last had been enumerated : Ships afloat. Steam fleet : French. English Steam liners . . . . . . . 35 .. 63 Steam frigates . . . . . . 38 . . 41 Smaller vessels, including transports, • • which are riot dghting ships . . 195 . . 388 268 492 Ships of the line .. .. 8 .. 30 Frigates . .. 27 .. 63 Inferior vessels .. 89 106 Since the return of the Emperor to Vienna from Tapplitz new embarrassments of a very serious character have transpired to assail the Government. The spirit of exclusiye•nationality in Ilungary has driven matters to such a pitch in Austria that the greatest prudence on the part of the ministry is indispensable to prevent the violent disruption of several large territorial districts of the Austrian monarchy. It seems that we are not even yet done with the Pope's Irish Brigade. According to a despatch from Genoa, dated Monday last, "The Irish Catholics have endeavoured to set fire to the steamer Liverpool, recently purchased by Garibaldi, but that they did riot succeed in the attempt." If we are to credit a letter from Vienna, dated the 6th instant, it appears that in consequence of negotia tions which took place during the course of last month between the courts of Vienna and of Rome, those soldiers who remained faithful to the Duke of Modena after the insurrection in that Duchy, entered into the service of the Pope, and were placed under the command of General Lamoriciere. The sums necessary for the support of the Modenese troops in Italy, figure in the war budget of Austria for a million of florins, a circumstance which has provoked very lively criticisms on the part of the members of the new council of the empire. This circumstance will also explain the anxiety of the Imperial Goyernment to have this item in the budget smoothed over. A telegram states that. Garibaldi is still at Messina ; but that he feels himself strong enough to dispense with any further offers of volunteer aid, in the carrying out of his projects. By the Calcutta, China, Australian, Bombay, and Mauritius mails, which arrived at Southampton on Thursday last, we have dates from Alexandria to the 28th July; Malta, 31st; and Gibraltar, to the 4th inst. The export trade at Mogadore was reported very brisk, but business in the import market exceedingly dull ; the recent arrivals from England, including the steamer Amazon, with cotton goods, had completely glutted the market. The accounts from Saffi are to the 19th. The exportation of grain at that date was prohibited. Re presentations on the subject were made to the Em peror, who refused to accede to the wishes of the exporters ; and on this account there was but little doing in that business. Garbansos were plentiful in the market. On arrival at Mazagan, the governor of that town ordered the embarkation on board the Marocain, of._ 471 boxes specie ; the value is said to amount to 1,200,000 francs. The commissioner sent in charge of the money, Haggi Ahmet Habouba, took ill upon the passage and died. The Moorish consul at Gibraltar had directed the body to be placed in a shell, that it may be sent to Tangier for interment. In consequenee of this sudden death, the Marocain was refused pratique at Gibraltar. General Echague took his departure from Cadiz on the 28th ult., in the screw frigate Blanca, for Porto Rico, of which island he has been appointed captain general. Patent ice machines have been introduced into Mel bourne. Large crystal slabs are being turned out as rapidly as can be desired. The town of Dover has been thrown into consterna tion by an appalling accident, which occurred on Thurs day evening last. While the Artillery Volunteer Corps were engaged in gun practice at Archcliff Fort one of the guns burst, scattering its fragments in all It is believed that the accident arose from a defect in the gun and not from its being imperfectly loaded, as the ball discharged . from it reached within a few yards of its proper range, which would not have been the case had there been any defect in the ramming of the charge. No event has occurred in Dover for many years which has . cast such profound sadness over the town. The following is a list,.so far as can at present be ascertained, of the killed and wounded :—filled : Lieut. G. T. Thompson, coroner of the borough, - havingbeen blown . into the trench. Ser geant Monger, fatally injured, and expired after being conveyed to the Military Hospital. Wounded : Mr. Harris, a nephew of Captain Wollaston, and not connected with the corps, was conveyed to the Military Hospital, dangerously wounded ; gunner Boulding, ankle dislocated ; gunner Hadlow, finger blown off. Gunner Gilfillan, arm broken. Trumpeter Tucker, blown into the trench, but not severely hart. The whole of the injured men, Gilfillan excepted, werg blown into the trench, 30 feet deep, by the violence of the explosion. Mr. Monger is a tobacconist, Hadlow, a painter, and Mr. Gilfillan, a tailor. The investigations of the policewith regard to the Frome murder are still being continued. They are sanguine as to the result. A strict watch is still kept over the inmates of the house, from whom the police are unable to elicit anything further in addition to what has already appeared, respecting tb.is dark transaction The missing bedgown has not. been f oun d, a lth oug h the most searching investigation has a ga i n b een ma d e by the police of all the inmates of the 'Louse, and of the persons in the locality likely to afford some information on the matter. So minute . has been the search, that last week the police applied to the Home Secretary for an order to exhume the body of the murdered child, thinking the uightdress might have been secreted in the coffin with the body, as it was not interred until the Saturday following the Tuesday when the nightgown , was first missed: The order was granted, but nothing but the usual habiliments of death were seen in the coffin. • Queenstown is at present full of gaiety, and it is likely to continue so for a short time longer, as the fleet will not leave there for the next ten days. Upwards of £5,000 have already been drawn from the bank for the pay of the various crews since the arrival of the fleet at that port. The screw-steamship 'Majestic, is about now at Ply mouth, completing her stores. Mr. Justice Keating, and Mr. Baron Channell, in the early part of the week, paid a visit to the Impregnable, the flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief, now lying at that port. The result of the Sligo borough election seems to have taken all parties by surprise. At the eleventh hour all the speculations of fractional majorities and neck-and neck contests were rudely scattered to the winds by the sudden resignation or flight of Mr. Tenison, the Whig candidate, thus leaving the field in the almost undispu ted possession of his Conservative opponent. The event makes no change in the relative position of parties in the House of Commons, save that Lord Derby has gained a smart adherent in Mr. Macdonagh, the clever nisi pries lawyer, who, unless he greatly disappoints the expectations of his friends, is likely to prove an acqui sition to the ranks of her Majesty's opposition. Clover is in abundance, for the rain is plentiful. Many kind of crops are, however, not succeeding well. Grapes rot; seeds will not ' grow; gourds cast their fruit ; cucumbers gum and curl up ; the earlier flowers of tomatoes, which usually yield the best, drop off with out setting; French beans make but little progress, and show a yellow sickly foliage ; the more tender straw berries set imperfectly ; peach and nectarine trees in many instances died after blessomirig, and the survivors seem inclined to follow them. Trees that never before dropped their fruit have done so almost entirely. To crown all, grapes are shanking. Ills like those can only be owing to the condition of the soil as regards tem perature, or to that of the atmosphere, or both com bined. The recent grand display of volunteers at Edinburgh has called forth the approbation of all the metropolitan and provincial journals. " ' Edina, Scotia's darling seat,' has just shone forth in a blaze of martial glory. The English rose has mated with the Scotch thistle, and is decidedly proud of her consort. The two nations have one Sovereign, one Parliament, one empire, one interest. They live like husband and wife, with occa sional bickerings, no doubt, as will occur in the best regulated families, but with a positive abyss of love and admiration underneath it all." SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, . 1860. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. IN proportion to the public sense of the duty of insuring life and property against the casualties affecting both will be the anxiety to select an establishment transacting such business whose calculations are just and well founded, and whose management is conducted by men whose experi ence and character are guarantees for carefulness and prudence in the practical administration of its affairs. The insurers' next consideration must be directed to the actual progress and develop ment of the institution he may have selected as trustworthy, and in which he may have" risked the safety of much of his property, and to a great extent the future comfort and happiness of those that are dearer to his heart than his own exist ence. Apart from and in addition to the indivi dual interests of insurers, the welfare of society at large is deeply involved in the wise conduct of the various insurance offices which solicit the confi dence and patronage of the general public. If it were necessary to illustrate this fact we might remind the readers of many and widespread calamities which have unfortunately arisen from misplaced confidence in bubbles which, in burst ing, have desolated happy homes, and thrown helpless upon the cold charity of the law gentle women and children who lived in the lap of plenty ;—explosions which have buried men of intelligence and enterprise in the gloom of the Bankruptcy Court, or in the Trophonian caves of lunacy, whereinto those who enter never more send forth the jocund laugh of health and reason. Much, very much, that appertains to the welfare of the individual and of the general body politic, depends upon the solidity and prosperity of our Fire and Life Insurance Companies. The great difficulty experienced by the non professional mathematician or actuary—and that means the great body of general readers, and men of ordinary capacity—is to know how to form an impartial judgment on this question for them selves. Few feel disposed, or competent to enter into the details of an actuary's quinquennial report ; and most men are, now-a-days, well aware that certifications of pretended investi gations, by professional accountants, have been too often found appended to the books, balance sheets, and reports of the most fraudulently con ducted concerns. There is some truth in the enigma that " nothing is so deceptive as figures ;" and those who have had most experience, and the best opportunities of judging, know most fully the truth of this apparent contradiction in terms. There are few things easier than to make out a seemingly fair balance-sheet, and a report showing a profit, whether it has or has not really been realised, and to obtain a certification of its accuracy from some one whose professional capabilities may not have been questioned. The suspicion and anxiety of the public, therefore, in this respect, are well founded and healthy. The proper manner of meeting and resolving this difficulty, lies in the publication of the fullest details, under the sanction of known men, who have something at stake to be • sacrificed in the event of their un faithfulness, and whose known position renders it beyond probability that they can have much temptation to yield to any paltry considerations of pecuniary reward. If PERCY M. DOVE, F. S.S., F.1.A., the actuary of the Royal Insurance Com pany, be not such a man, there is none of that calibre to be found in the world;. and if the unhesitating disclosures and unusually ample details of a company's experience and business transactions now made to the public in that actuary's report do not secure an ample reward' by engendering in the mind of every reader entire confidence in the stability of the Royal Insurance Company, we know of no com 7 pany worthy of the slightest trust. Theqe, how. : ever, are so full and minute, so capable of being checked by hundreds and thousands of people, and rest upon such undoubted authority, that we believe assurers will select the Royal Insurance Company; which has exercised such unprecedented and unreserved frankness with the public, as one of those institutions (without prejudice to certain others,) which deserve their unlimited confidence, and a corresponding increase of public patronage and support. Indeed, there seems every reason to believe, judging impartially from the facts and data already published, that when the next five yearly report is published, the Royal Insurance Company will be found to be unsurpassed by more than two or three, if it be by any assurance institution in the kingdom. The signs of such a probable extension of business are already dis cernable, as it has been the satisfactory announce ment ' of each succeeding year for a lengthened period, that the new policies, in the interv a l between one meeting and another, have exceeded those of any former like period. Such is the re_ cord again made this year. In the last year, we learn from the high auth orit y we have named, sure upwards of of f a thousandnearly half - a - million, the large s t were issr i ed, f or a number and for the largest. amount, in any one year, since,the commencement of the company's business. Without entering further into details ancient or modern, even we are led to believe, frOm the same source, that Royal, has larger elements of prosperity, t n h o e m assurance ostsupc ' eceoem4:: company, ' compared with the career fullrdme degree rreexeßt extent, or clf tishemore likely to find these developed into a t7apnadn sion, th at will ere lon,g, beyond the anticipation Share holder and, the Assured.heuefit both the od, One of the happiest discoveries of modern times t o o f a successful anyve very y f former is the fact that the business of Insurance may b.e safely carried on with the greated public benefits, and at the same time with large profits to pro prietors of stock in the various rival establish ments which seek to cultivate the goodwill of assurers. Hence the unworthy discussions promoted and sustained by those who are known to have an unequally divided feeling between these several interests. It may interest brokers and jobbers and small pettifogging people to get up disputes, and to simulate distrust to serve special ends and interests ; and it may matter little to the general public to prevent such displays as being upon the whole calculated to effect a healthy ventilation ; but the character of such encounters should be fully understood by the public as unworthy of serious consideration on the part of intelligent and earnest men. In so far as the Royal Insurance Company is concerned, doubtless such discussions are most profitable, as tending to make still more manifest and prominent the sound basis upon which the business has been established, and the safe and stable manner in which the superstructure has been raised. Next to impressing the public with a conviction of the duty of insuring life and property, we feel it our privilege to have an opportunity of recommending a safe and sound office—such as the Royal Insurance Company, and we trust that in doing so it will not be sup posed that we have—for we really have not, any interest whatever beyond that of the general good ; neither do we in any measure wish to depreciate other institutions of equal security when, on the present occasion, and with reference to the meet ing of yesterday, we give without fear, love, or favour, an unqualified word of confidence in and commendation to a native institution—the Royal Insurance Company. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Friday, August 10, 1860. A propos of the visit which it is said Queen Victoria is to pay to Germany next. month, I observe that it is stated by a correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, that her Majesty will be accom panied on her journey by Lord John Russell, but that the Queen will not go to Berlin, but to Coburg, where she is to meet the Princess Frederick William. Her Majesty's sojourn at the residence of her Royal relative will be of con siderable duration. The Prince Imperial left Paris this afternoon for the camp at Chalons, in charge of his gouver nante and Adjutant-General Rollin. The child was received with Imperial honours at the railway station, and several of the directors accompanied the train as far as the camp. This is certainly an early introduction to the habits of camp life. Prince William of Baden, who is somewhat older than than the Imperial Prince, has been the guest of the Emperor in the camp since Wednesday, and has been invited by his Majesty to remain some time longer, in order to be present at the manoeu vres which are about to take place at Chalons on a large scale. General d'Hautpoul takes out with him the in signia of the grade of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, which has been conferred by the Emperor on Abd-el-Kader. General d'Haut poul has been promoted to the rank of General of Division. Accounts from Toulon state that the steel plated (cuirassee) vessel La Gloire was taken into the roads on Saturday last, and brought alongside the wharf, for the purpose of taking a full complement of coal on board. The first departures of the expedition commenced, it seems, from this port on the previous Sunday morning. The steam transport Finisterc got up her steam at nine o'clock that morning, and was ready to start at midday, for Oran, where she was to take on board four hundred mules for the use of the commissariat. The Yonne steamed to Algiers the same evening to take up a battery of mountain artillery. The Mogador the Asmodeus and the Ceres, conveyed direct to Beyrout, in all, 1,600 men and 65 horses, besides a large quantity of materiel and ammunition of all kinds. There have been several extensive shipments of men and horses made subsequently. A letter from Rome mentions that Colonel de Pimodan, recently promoted to the rank of General of Brigade in the Pontifical army, has been appointed to the command of the corps of observation established on the ,Tuscan frontier, and General Lamoriciere seems likely soon to have an opportunity of at length fleshing his sword in a fresh Italian struggle. General Goyon will probably not be sorry to have escaped from a position which was fully as remarkable for the embarrassment in which it surrounded him as for the opportunities it afforded him of displaying his generalship. Garibaldi's arrival at Naples has not yet been telegraphed ; indeed, it is even said that he has not yet been able to make arrangements for taking a final leave of Sicily, but I see it stated in a letter from Naples, dated not later than Saturday last, that the walls of Naples are covered with placards announcing that his arrival is " imminent," and calling the citizens to arms. The police have torn down the placards, which is now considered an extraordinary cir cumstance, for everything, in other respects, looks as if the monarchy had disappeared. In many of the houses, also, quantities of paving stones have been collected, to be used for barri cades when the day of struggle comes; and it is even asserted that notices have been put up at the corners of the streets, announcing the departure of a steamer for Palermo, and inviting the patriots to go by it, to join the army of Garibaldi! General Clary had arrived in Naples. The anniversary of the birthday of the Queen Mother, who had returned to Gaeta, passed over without any disturbance, but with no demonstrations of respect. The King has collected his troops in the camp near the city, and is putting them through manoeuvres which frequently last the greater part of the night. The spirit of insur rectionary effervescence is betraying itself in vari ous ways On Thursday last, a crowd of people presented themselves in front of one of the barracks, and called out " Viva Garibaldi !" and on the officer on guard ordering them to cease, they replied by knocking him down. He then ordered the men to fire in the Ail' to frighten the insurgents, but they attacked him again, and ultimately he ardered them to be fired on, by which one, of their number was killed. The National Guard is installed in several of the religious houses. Up to this time it has behaved tolerably steadily, and has been thanked by the King for its conduct in protecting some soldiers assailed by the canaille. You will have seen, from the summary, which has been prepared from the Cologne Gazette, of the reply which has been made by P ru ssia to the proposal of F rance to give the representative of Spain a seat at the council board of the great powers, that Prussia, in con senting to this request, has suggested the intro duction of Sweden to the meetings of this assembly, as a Protestant counterbalance to the ultramontane ethos of the Cabinet of Her Most Catholic Majesty. This suggestion deprives of a considerable portion of credit the rumour that, at the recent interview hetween the sovereigns of Denmarkpro and Sweden, a ject of IVA aWance had been agreed to between Denmark and Sweden, having for its object, according to the Nord, the formation of a Scandinavian coalition against Germany. It i s not likely that if any such leaning had keen ma nifested on the part of Sweden to, support Den markilolstein pre di lections, in its Schleswig k atve made any s uc h Prussia would proposal in her behalf. Moreover, the Swedish Press is una nimous in pronouncing against any such under standing or agreement. According to the Swabian Mercury, there remains no longer any doubt, that a meeting at Warsaw, towards the end of the present month, has been definitely nrmuged between the Prince Regent and the Czar. I t i s doubted, however, whether the Emperor of Austria and the other Princes of Germany will be present on the Occa sion, as was also at one time supposed would be the case. The Emperor seems likely to have his hands quite full at home for some time to come, as by the latest accounts from Vienna, the demands of the Hungarians for a restoration of their rights, are being pursued with the most deter mined pertinacity ; so much so, that the Only hope of f 4l --e Aus,trian Government being able to give these demands the go-by, rests on the Success of the efforts which it is at present Making on a most extensive scale, and at ki, consi derable expenditure of money, to excite the Ser- FRANCE. The Presse having expressed an opinion that ' the subscription for the Christians in the East will prove, like many others in France, a com parative failure, the Constitutionnel, in the course of an article declaring that it differs from its con temporary, says it is our bounden duty, under present circumstances, to offer to Syria at least what England gave us in 1856. The English have spontaneously contributed an important part of the result. This liberality of England to foreign misfortunes is an example which ought never to be forgotten. SYRIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 9.. [OFFICIAL.] Advices from Damascus of the 4th inst. report that city quite quiet, and that perfect order is established. Upwards of 400 persons, accused of complicity in the massacres, have been arrested. In a day or two all principal persons compromised will be in the hands of the authorities. An extraordinary court has been opened for the trial of the accused, and those condemned will be immediately executed. Troops behave very well. A great part of the pillaged property has been recovered. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Aug. ilk The Austrian Government intended, as soon as the principle of intervention in Syria had been agreed upon at the conference, to dispatch a battalion of Tyrolean Chasseurs to Aleppo by t h e Kaiser.. The Porte, however, having officially assured the Austrian Cabinet that, according to. the latest information received, Fnad Pasha_ had guaranteed to pacify Syria without the aid of foreign troops, the protocol was abandoned. According to a communication from Vienna, in the Cologne Gaze*, active negotiations are going on between the courts of Vienna and Rome an the subject of the eventuality of an invasion of the . Pontifical States by Garibaldi. The Duke of Modena has promised to unite, in that case, his. troops to the Papal arms, vians and Croats in the Slave districts, against the Magyars and their adherents. M. Rohure, who, in his capacity of Minister, pro ton., of Agriculture and Commerce, has pre sided at all the sittings of the Superior Council of Commerce, has just given in his resignation. An order has been received in this city, from Garibaldi, ordering a thousand Zonave uni forms to be forwarded to his head-quarters. At the Bourse, yesterday, there were—to borrow the saying of a French colaborateur of mine—terrible gaps visible in the ranks of the speculators. There is an almost total absence of transactions of any kind, either for the fall or . the rise. Prices, however, maintained their firm ness in every instance where a sale was effected. THE NEW IMPERIAL DECREE RELATIVE TO THE IMPORTATION QF RAW WOOL INTO FRANCE. We have translated, for the benefit of such of our readers as are interested in the wool trade, the following circular on the above subject, which appeared in the Moniteui• of 'Wednesday last : MINISTRY OF FINANCE. According to the terms of the law of the sth May last, wool in the raw state (les laines du cru) from the countries of Europe, imported in French bottoms, or by land carriage, is admitted free of duty. The question has been raised, whether the noils or waste of wool (les dechets), which are subject to the same regime as the wool itself, ought also to participate in the exemption, when such dechets are declared to have accrued from the wool of European fleeces. The primitive origin of these dechets, that is to say,—whether they be European or not,—not being capable of being ascertained with certainty, it has been asked, if there be any reason why these dechets ought not to enjoy this immunity from taxation. It is to be remarked, that the greatest portion of these dechets which are im ported, accrue from out of the working of the wool of European fleeces; and that in refusing to admit the same, without duty, certain productions might be subjected to duty which ought .for the most part be exempted. It is further urged that a strict ( restrictive) interpretation _would: be. dontraiSrto . the spirit of the law Of the sth May, which was passed with a view to faCilitate the ,sUpplies of our trade, and which was far from being. intended" _ to except from the benefit Of _its firaiisitak'ali accessory production, whilst the principal product was permitted to collie - in free. Wherefore, on these considerations, =His Excellency th e Minister of Finance has,.._my.proposition,- and with the concurrence of hie eolleakues in the d e p ar t men t s .of agriculture and•Of conimerce; decided- that,-on and after the= ifith.of this month the , decheti of wool which follow the 'reginielatplicable to wool en masse, shall, 'when imported. froin the countries of Europe in French bottoms, or by land•caniage, enjoy this exemption froni i duty i 'without the importers being called upon to declare the origin of these productions. I invite the directors of.cus toms to commu n i ca t e t h ese regu l at i ons to •the services of customs and of commerce. - • • Le Conseil d'Etat, (Signed), Director -General DE POMADE. LATEST NEWS. (BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) SICILY. MESSINA, Aug. t 3. Garibaldi has not yet left for the mainland, but still continues his preparations. A letter from Messina states that the volunteers who go to join Garibaldi are so numerous as to cause him embarrassment, and he has requested that no more may be sent at present. NAPLES. A correspondent at Naples writes on the 4th : Appeals to arms have been publicly posted up, The Reactionary party, whose headquarteTeare a 4 Gaeta, hesitates in presence of the attitude of the country, and is alarme d at the very populacr., which was formerly its in,strument. The Court, however, spares no 14148 to excite the zeal of the populace, and of the inf er i or classes ,f citizens in its favour. DENMARK AND SWEDEN, The recent interviews of the Kings of Den• mark and Sweden give rise to a report that the two Scandinavian kingdoms intended to form an alliance against Germany. The Swedish press, however, combats the idea of any aggressive policy, and the Swedish people are represented to be decidedly opposed to anything of the kind. NORWA Y. The coronation of the King and Queen of Norway took place on the sth instant, in tha cathedral at Drontheim. RUSSIA AND ITALY. The Opinione Nationale says that despatches have been recently received in Paris, announcing that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, in consequence of the 'meeting at Tceplitz, and the present aspect of affairs in the East, has completely changed its policy, and is now ,drawing nearer to France, more especially in regard to the Italian question ; and that this change will shortly be manifested by an open abandonment of the cause of the King of Naples, and by the cessation of any sort of pro test or reserve in his favour. GAZETTE NEWS. FOREIGN OFFICE, August 7.—M. Jules Carron is appointed Consul for France at Edinburgh. A notice issued by the Portuguese Board of health declares the port of Malaga to be con sidered free from cholera morbus. The following appeared in our later editions of yesterday :--, BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, August 10. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France Eke poty Eimo..