The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

Yiticrp,a,alctanrartr TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1853. THE WEEK. THE excitement of the Election having passed over, the talk of the town has naturally turned on the various incidents of the contest. The rumours about a petition were strengthened by a statement of the notorious Mr. COPPOCK before the Select Com mittee on Elections, that he had instructions to prepare one, but the impotent threat has been laughed at by every sensible man as too absurd for If any inquiry into corrupt practices were needed, the Radicals would be the only party whose conduct would suffer from inves tigation. The analysis of the poll, which we have serious refutation given in another column, will show that so far from Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE having injured the position of the Conservatives, almost the whole of the votes he received were splits with Sir E. PERRY; and some are of opinion that his presence as a candidate eased the Conservative majority, by exciting many to come forward who might otherwise have refrained from voting. It will be seen by the Parliamentary report, that both our new Members have taken part in the dis cussion of the Ministerial Merchant Shipping Bill. We do not agree with them in their support of the clause which legalises the employment of foreign seamen in British ships, for reasons which we have stated more at length in a leading article ; but we give them credit for sincerity, and for fairly repre senting the general feelings of the great body of We quite coincide with them in their support of the clause continuing the right of the royal navy to payment for salvage services, as we believe that its abrogation would be a serious injury to the merchant service, by destroying the incentive to officers and seamen in the royal navy to hazard their lives for the rescue of merchant shipowners. vessels in danger, Now that more leisure is afforded for matters of purely local interest, it is hoped that some attention will lie given to the various schemes which have been submitted for improvements in our means of The town continues to extend in importance and population, and as the traffic increases more commodious thoroughfares are required for circulation. Some additional interest is given to this subject by the exhibition of a mo 'el of Liverpool as it existed two hundred years ago. communication Much has been said about the rapid growth of towns in the New World, but let any one survey this model, wherein green fields mark the site of Lord-street, and a pool where the Custom-house now while Oldhall-street was bounded by hedges, and they will admit that Liverpool presents as g an instance of rapidity of growth as any thing which America can show. The increase is fully as rapid as ever, and is likely to be still so, owing to the vast trade opened with Australia, and the establishment of new lines of steam communication with the west coast of Africa, the Brazils, and the Isthmus of Panama, all pro mising still greater trade to our port, and rendering necessary increased facilities for the traffic of our The weather during the week has been partially wet and stormy, and some damage has been done to the crops of hay, of wiAielt a large quantity has been cut and not carried. The cornfiPlds are looking very promising ; and should the next few weeks be dry and sunny, we may anticipate an early and pro ductive harvest. Some complaints are made as to the re-appearance of the disease in the potato crop, but as yet it is only partial, and the markets are fairly supplied. The Liverpool races attracted, as usual, a goodly attendance of sporting characters on the course at Aintree; but the contest for the cup, on Thursday, which was the great event of the meeting, was sadly shorn of its honours by the unpropitious state of the weather; the rain falling heavily during the day, and rendering it difficult to decide whether land or water had the pre-eminence. The exhibition of models of new American ships, at the Exchange News-room, has excited much in terest, as showing the great attention which our transatlantic competitors are paying to the important quality of speed in sailing vessels. The Flying Cloud and the Sovereign of the Seas have gained a reputation for fast qualities which must stimulate our ship-builders to renewed efforts at improvement in this respect; but the model of a ship now build ing at New York, of the extraordinary capacity of 5,000 tons, is more admired for its symmetry than the above-mentioned. FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE.—The arrests at the Optcra Comique still excite public curiosity. The plot has been connected with the attempt at the Hippodrome, and indeed the chief actors are implicated in both. Four days after the affair at the Opera men were posted on the road to St. Cloud with the same object, and were taken into custody. Arrests have taken place to the number, it is said, of a hundred, and those last arrested are lodged in the prison of Mazas. The chief conspirators are mostly Belgians, and so determined were they in their proceedings, that they had even provided an ambulance, &c., for the wounded. Had they succeeded in their attempt on the Emperor, the cry of Aux armes would have been raised, barricades thrown up, all public functionaries put to death, and, in short, a reign of terror and the Red Re public thoroughly established. The Emperor and Empress purpose to leave for the Pyrenees on the 20th inst. Queen Christina arrived in Paris on Wednesday. Her Majesty is accompanied by the Due de Rianzares, as well as by a portion of her family, and brings a numerous retinue. SPAIN.—The Ministry are again in the midst of a crisis. Gen. Lersundi has, it is said, tendered his resig nation. The Espana of the 7th says that an understanding has been come to between the Spanish and French authorities as to the boundary line between the two countries near Navarre, and consequently the troops which were stationed on both sides the fro►,tier to defend the respective rights of both countries, have revel-rod orders to return to their former quarters. PORTUGAL.—The parliamentary session at Lisbon has been prolonged to the 20th inst., and the Deputies are working double time to get through the Budget. ITALY.—Letters from Florence state that it was again rumoured that the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany in tended to abdicate in favour of his son. The marriage of the latter with a daughter of the King of Naples was con sidered to have been a preparatory step towards that re solution. DENMARK. —The Asiatic cholera has re-appeared in Copenhagen, where cases of it have existed, proving ra pidly fatal, ever since the middle of June. From that period the disease has been slowly but steadily increasing ; and the official return for the Bth of the present month states that on that day there were 51 new cases and 18 deaths. From the first appearance of the disease there have been registered in all 270 attacks and 142 deaths, so that this formidable pestilence, which for several month s has been lingering in St. Petersburgh, has now approached to within less than 500 miles of the coast of Norfolk. AUSTRIA.—The young Emperor is much vexed at the course taken by Russia. He had written an autograph note to the Czar, which has been little heeded. Austria continues to cgncentrate her troops on the frontier of Bosnia. From Peterwardein, the largest garrison town in the neighbourhood of the frontier, the Austrians a are descending the Danube, and going u p the o ne, in or d er t o t a k e up some position on the frontier itself. RUSSIA. —Prince Gortschakoff has issued a proclama tion to the people of Moldavia, announcing the occupa tion of those territories by Russia, asserting the desire of the Czar to avoid an aggressive war on Turkey, and call ing on the Moldavians to keep to their agricultural labours and commercial speculations, to be obedient to the laws under which they live, and to look tranquilly to the future. A circular despatch from the court of Russia to the European Powers has been published, dated St. Peters burgh, June 20th (July 2nd), 1853. After recapitulating the contents of the circular of May 30th, and the ultimatum proposed to Turkey, the despatch proceeds to commcnt on the refusal of it by Turkey, as well as on the conduct of Prance and England:— The despatch goes on to protest that the intentions of Russia are pacific, that she does not wish to seduce the subjects of the Porte from their allegiance. The term s on which the occupation is to cease are thus expressed : " From the moment when Turkey shall have accorded us the satisfaction which is our due, and when, at the same time, the pressure which the attitude of the two ma ritime Powers produces upon us shall cease, our troops shall return within the frontiers of Russia." The despatch next declares that no oppression ehall be ex.' THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1853. ercised towards the inhabitants of the provinces occupied by the Russian troops ; and argues at great length that the refusal of the Porte is a virtual annulling of all its obliga tions previously recognised as to its conduct towards its subjects of the Greek religion. The idea of a political Protectorate on the part of Russia is altogether disclaimed as a misapprehension, and the assertion is repeated that Russia desires nothing more than the recognition de novo of the ancient Status of the Greek Churches in Turkey. TURKEY.—A great Mussulman movement is going on among the masses. The price of arms in the Bezestan has risen enormously, and the military preparations on the part of Turkey have far exceeded all anticipation. It seems as if the huge slumbering empire was about to shake off her rusty shackles, and make a gigantic effort to resist foreign invasion. As time presses, this warlike Mussulman feeling grows in intensity, and as fresh offers of assistance in men, arms, and money, come pouring in from remote corners of the empire, it becomes more and more doubtful how far the peaceful counsels of foreign ambassadors will influence the Turkish Cabinet. At Caesarea, where 20,000 students for the office of the priesthood are assembled, war is preached from every mosque. and the students parade the streets with banners, crying, " War with the Russians ! and death to the Giaour !" and the reports of the different Consuls in the interior speak of the same zeal and enthusiasm for the cause of Islam. A private telegraphic despatch from Marseilles of the 16th gives us Constantinople news of the sth instant. A certain degree of apprehension prevailed at Con stantinople. Excited as the Turks and the Greeks are by the late political events, it was feared lest the two parties might commit deplorable excesses. The news of the passage of the Pruth had just reached the capital. The Russian army in Wallachia and Moldavia is stated to muster 50,000 men. The ambassadors of France and England have pre vailed upon the government of Greece to put a stop to their naval armaments. The fleets of Great Britain and France arc still in the Bay of Besika. A letter, dated Jassy, 4th July, says :—" It will take the Russian troops eight days to cross the Pruth. The majority of those troops are proceeding by forced marches to the Danube. At this date there are 30,000 Russians actually in Moldavia." By the recent accounts from Constantinople, it appears that Lord Redcliffe had ordered Colonel Neale, and M. Delacour had ordered Messrs. Barthelemy and Longue ville, to repair to Turnova, in the neighbourhood of the Russians. French officers are prohibited from leaving their ships, as orders to enter the Dardanelles might be expected every moment. Lord Carlisle had arrived, but we do not bear that his visit was at all connected with any diplomatic mission. The preparations for war continue to be prosecuted with the same vigour as ever, and conferences are taking place between the representatives of the four great Powers. The Porte has publicly notified that no foreign trading ships shall be allowed to enter the Bosphorus during the night, the object being to avoid anything like surprise. The following account of the state of the Danube, learnt from Sulina ' and published in the Trieste Zeitung, is important. It begins by stating that more than 500 ves sels are waithig to get out at sea :—" The condition of the mouth of the river becomes worse and worse, as number less fragments of wrecks aro lying under water. In cases of shipwreck the authorities are extremely negligent, and there would be much greater loss of life if it were not for the exertions of humane private persons." Accounts from Bucharest state that Omer Pacha con tinued for more than two hours in his cabinet with the Turkish General, Nieeokoitschiski, sent by Prince Gorts chikoff to the Turkish quartier-general at Schumla. Two hundred of Omer Paella's staff were present at the inter view. At its termination the Turkish commander sent off two Tartars to Constantinople with despatches. General Niepokoitschiaki left the same day under a Turkish escort. SMYRNA.—Great excitement has been occasioned at Smyrna by the fatal result of disturbances, ar i s i ng f rom the conduct of the Austrian consul there. A certain Captain Costa, who had accompanied the Hungarian demagogue Kossuth to America, recently returned to Smyrna unknown to the governor of the p rov i nce , Ali Pasha. On the 22d, whilst enjoying himself in the cafe " British and Smyrna Club," on the Marina, M. Costa was suddenly set upon by a dozen boatmen, and hurried off to the Austrian brig-of-war Hussar, lying in the roads. The arrest was ordered by the A us t r i an C onsu l, and roused not only indignation among the inhabitants, but on the part of the Turkish Governor, who acted with considerable energy on the occasion. On the 23d the American corvette St. Louis arrived from Athens, and, as Costa had been in the United States, her commander, accompanied by the United States Consul, repaired on board, hoping to claim Costa as a naturalised A m e r i ca n ; but, in an interview, he , with some firmness, proclaimed himself a Hungarian. On the 23d three officers from the Hussar, one a midshipman, the Baron Hackelberg, landed at the club, and almost immediately were set upon by some 15 refugees ; resistance was impossible. One of the officers succeeded in making his escape ; a second was grossly ill-treated ; while the young Baron received a severe stab with a stiletto, and immediately, in the hope of escaping, plunged into the sea. He, however, sunk— whether from loss of blood or some other cause can never be known, for his corpse was, after several hours, rPcoverLd from the water. The excitement produced by this second event was even greater than that occasioned by the arrest of Martin Costa, and it will be seen s mutual case of offence has occurred. The affair haa, however, been satisfactorily arranged. The new governor of Smyrna has been displaced by the Porte, and the re fugees delivered up to justice. Meanwhile Austria dis i claims the conduct of her Consul, who is re-called. THE WEST INDIES.—By the Royal Mail steam-ship Orinoco, which arrived at Southampton, on Sunday night, we have intelligence from Jamaica to the 27th ultimo. Affairs up to the departure of the packet remained in the same unsettled state. No steps towards reconciliation had been taken by the Council or the Assembly; all public business had been brought to a standstill, and the treasury continued closed against all claimants. In con sequence of the want of immediate funds to meet the expenses of the Penitentiary, a considerable number of convicts had been discharged ! The yellow fever had not abated its ravages among the shipping at Kingston, and some fatal cases had occurred on shore. The subject of copper mining continued to attract great attention, and confidence is felt, that the mineral wealth of the island will ultimately justify very high expectations. The differences between Peru and Bolivia have reached such a point as to bid fair for actual war. The question between France and Ecuador has been settled. Chili is going on quietly and prosperously. Barbadoes on the 28th of Juno was healthy throughout —the young crop more luxuriant than had been seen for many years. 36,000 hogsheads of sugar had been shipped, 2,000 or 3,000 more ready to be shipped, and about 1,000 to be made. Ships were wanted to take away the molasses and sugar. _ _ _ _ During the last month refreshing rains have fallen in British Guiana, and the cane cultivation has quite re covered the late severe drought. Trade is very dull, and provisions scarce and dear. WESTERN AFRICA.—By the African Steam Navi gation Company's mail-packet Hope, Captain Bowen, which reached Plymouth on Wednesday, we have advices from Fernando Po to the 31st of May ; Lagos, 4th of June ; Accra, 6th ; Cape Coast Castle, 7th ; Monrovia, 11th ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst and Goree, on the 19th ; Teneriffe, 4th of July ; and Madeira, 6th of July. At Old Calabar there had been an alarm of an outbreak at Lagos, but the alarm was over when the Hope left. Trade was very much improved, and it is averred that this old slave station will become, if properly watched, a place of considerable export. No pilots were to be obtained at Bonny and Old Calabar, and the Hope was compelled to send in her boats. At Cape Coast Castle, the excitement consequent on the late Ashantee invasion having quite subsided, the na tives under British protection had resumed their usual occupations, being generally engaged in preparing and planting their farms. Twenty-six Asbantees had arr►ved, and 600 others, all traders, were reported en route, so that the fear of further hostilities with this warlike people may be considered at rest for the present, nor is it likely, after the check they have received, that another act of fumes sion will be attempted for some time to come. An officer and party of men from the Gold Coast corps are stationed at the interior frontier for the purpose of protecting the Ashantee traders, and presenting any collision between those people and the allied British tribes. The present year has been unusually unhealthy ; the wet seasonset in early in May,and mach rain has already fallen. Governor Hill, having suffered from repeatea attache or fever and from his late exertions, returned in the Hopo to Europe for the recovery of his health. The palm oil trade throughout the coast was brisk. It was a most fortunate circumstance that the palaver with the Ashantee3 was arranged in time to permit the people attending to their plantations, otherwise a famine during the coming year must have been the consequence. As it is, there is every reason to be thanfiful for the peace able termination of an untoward squabble which threat ened the settlements with the horrors of war and famine. The Rev. William Cornewall, the colonial chaplain of the Gold Coast, expired on board the Hope on the 27th of June, seven days before reaching Teneriffe. The rev. gentleman was an invalid when he embarked. Freights nominal. Exchange closed firm at 291., discounts 8 to 10 per cent. the Ist of September last, ascompared_Nvith the previous three Receipts at the ports 3,172,000 2,963,000 2,274,000 1,998,000 Exports to Great Britain 1,617,000 1,577,000 1,294,000 925,000 ~ France „ other for. ports 329,000 330,000 240,000 159,000 Total exports 2,339,060 2,319,000 1,826,000 1,344.000 Stock on hand Of which during the past week, included in the above : 1833 1852 1851 1850 Receipts at the ports Exports to Great Britain 22,000 17,000 20,000 28,000 France „ other for. ports 4,000 5,000 5,000 2,000 Total exports 30,000 23,000 25,000 30,000 From which it will be seen that the excess in receipts now amounts to 209,000 bales. The increase in exports to Great Britain is 40,000; decrease to France, 1,000; other foreign ports, 1,000. Total increase in exports, 40,000 bales. BKEADSTUFFS.—The flour market exhibited much firm ness during the greater part of last week, and full prices were obtained. On. Saturday, however, there was some anxiety to press sales, the 4th being a close holiday, and the quotations reported on the 23th ult. could not be readily obtained. Prime qualities of wheat are scarce and in demand, whilst inferior sorts are comparatively neg lected. Indian corn is firm and in good demand. PKOVISIONS. — Pork is without alteration ; mess S'ls 50e., and prime -B'l2 75c. The sales of beef have been moerate. Canada butter is dull, at 10c. to 14c. ; Ohio, 10c. to 15c. ; New York, 14c. to 18c. ; Orange county is in demand, at 20c. to 2211. IRON.—The market for iron has a heavy aspect. 50 tons of Scotch pig have been sold at $27 to $29 50c., six months. FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool the current rates are—for cotton, 5-32 d. per lb. ; flour, is. 7Ad. to ls. 9d. per barrel, the lower rate only at the close. Grain in bulk sd. per bushel. To London—flour, ls. 101 d. to 2s. per barrel. To Havre—cotton, Sc. per lb. HAVANA, JUNE 29.—Our market continues dull. Sugar is very abundant, and shipping is still scarce. Prices are almost nominal. It is the general opinion that sales will not be made at the present rates, and that only the abun dance of produce and want of tonnage cause the present stagnation. Freights are £3 to £3 lls. Gd. for Cowes and North Sea ; Baltic, £3 to £3 ss. ; Mediterranean, £3 to £3 10s. ; Great Britain, £3 to £3 10s. ; Hamburg, £3 to £3 10s. Exchange is dull. London, 10 tom premium; Paris, 2 to 21 discount. NEW ORLEANS, JULY I.—Sales of cotton to-day have been 2,000 bales at firm prices ; middling, 10ic. per lb. Sales for the week, 15,000 bales; stock on hand, 70,000 bales. The increased receipts at this port, 219,000 bales, and at all the southern ports, 209,000 bales. MonmE, JULY 2.—The sales of cotton for the week have been 16,000 bales. Receipts, 300 bales; exports, 100; stock on hand, 22,000 bales. Middling, 10c. per lb. CHARLESTON, JULY 2.—Sales of the week of cotton, 2,962 hales, at Sic. to 11ic. Freights :—The two vessels loading for Liverpool have completed their cargoes at id. for square bags cotton. There is nothing up for Havre. SAVANNAH, JULY 2.—Sales of cotton of the week only 603 bales ; market so languid and unsettled that it is impossible to obtain accurate quotations ; we, however, set down middling fair at 10ic. to 11c. Sales 225 bales Sea Ireland at 35c. to 45c. In foreign freights no demand. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. THE KING OF BAVARIA, during his visit to Rome, re ceived from the Pope a rare relic, declared to be a small piece of the robe of the Virgin Mary, set in a valuable gold frame. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.—The 38th anniversary was celebrated, on the 18th ult., at Amsterdam, by a parade and display of flags on the public buildings. In England it passed nearly unnoticed. THE JESUITS.—The election of the general of the Jesuits took place at Rome on the 2d of July. The new general is Father Becks, provincial of the province of Austria, and a Belgian by birth. A ROMISH CONVICT.—An American correspondent of the Tablet mentions, " that the notorious Leahy, soi disant monk of La Trappe, who has for some years past been gulling the Protestant public as an ' anti-Popery' lecturer, has been convicted of murder in Wisconsin, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life." AUSTRIA.—The prospects of an average good harvest are daily confirmed by advices from all parts of the em pire, but especially from Hungary, where the crops pro mise great abundance. Fruit is also very plentiful this summer in Austria. The weather has been exceedingly hot for some days past. The late inundations in several parts of the empire have fortunately done no great harm. The waters in the rivers have returned to their usual level. FEMALE REBELS.—The court-martial at Pesth has sentenced the Countess Blanche Tekely to ten years', and Miss Clara Lovei, a governess, to fifteen years' imprison. ment. The thirteen months during which a certain Eliza Bernvallner, a chambermaid, was under examination, is considered a sufficient punishment for her. The crime of which these three women, " and others whose trials are still pending," were accused, is "an attempt to cause the violent separation of Hungary from the Empire, to secure its independence, and to bring about and further a new revolution." ANOTHER ROMISH CONVERT.—Dr. Achilli appears likely to gain further notoriety in America, by the founda tion of a new sect, or rather as the reviver of the errors and extravagances of Swedenborg. Our authority for this statement, the Record, remarks :—" It is a melan choly conclusion to his career, that a priest who professes to hare come out of the Church of Rome, as a Protestant, should take up a belief in the doctrines of a madman who fancied himself a prophet, and declared that he had him self seen Luther amongst the lost spirits condemned to darkness for having taught the doctrine of justification by faith." ,SPENDING MONEY IN MES.JsUUENE. — ia compliance with the custom, an affianced couple went into a draper's stores, the lady to receive a present at the hands of the gentleman. lie selected a shawl, such as could be sold in London at four guineas, for which was asked £5. The fair one hinted that she would like a better ; upon which the draper showed one worth about five guineas, but he named £25 as its price. The trick succeeded—the gen tleman handed him a £5O note to receive change ; when the draper, adroitly comprehending the character of his customer, easily prevailed upon him to take another £25 shawl instead of money I A MUSICAL BRIGAND.—A man named Marino Gam betia, an accomplice of the bandit, Pietro Spina, now in prison at Nice, has just been arrested. He was formerly a gondolier at Venice, but soon rose to be a singer at the theatre of the Fenice, owing to his fine voice. He com mitted several petty thefts there, left the situation, got acquainted with a band of thieves, and ultimately joined the band of Pietro Spina. At length his fine voice be trayed him, and he was arrested by the police at Cueno while serenading his mistress, whose treacherous maid was in the pay of the authorities. THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES.—A complete revo lution is about to take place in the manufacture of gloves. Two inhabitants of Grenoble invented, about the same time, a machine for sewing gloves ; but, instead of com peting with each other, they agreed to unite the advan tages of each invention. One found means to sew me chanically the fingers of gloves ; while the other, after sewing the remainder of the glove, was compelled to em ploy operatives to sew the fingers. The inventors, by combining the two machines, have produced one which sews gloves perfectly. This discovery has produced a great sensation at Grenoble, where the manufacturers were not able to supply the demand for want of a suffi cient number of operatives. DEATH OF AN AMERICAN RAPPER.—The Massachu setts Gazette states that Miss Nancy Sherman, who died on the 15th May, starved herself to death. She belonged to the American Rappers, and had beers what is called a " medium," for pretended spiritual communications, until she became quite insane. About a month before her death she attempted to hang herself, but was prevented. She then announced that the spirits had forbidden her eating any more, and for three weeks she studiously ab stained from partaking of any food, living on water alone, although at times so tortured by the pangs of hunger as to writhe in agony. The last week was passed in fearful alternations from convulsions to momentary consciousness, with constant relapses, until death finally put an end to her sufferings. HOW LITERARY MEN ARE PATRONISED BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. — Theodore S. Fay, Minister resident in Switzerland, is a native of the City of New York. He became early connected with literary pursuits, and was associated with Morris and Willis in the old New York Mirror, a waekly paper. He was secretary of Le gation to Prussia, under the late Henry Wheaton, and has been continued under his successors at the Court of Berlin. He married a daughter of the late Barent Garde nier, a di,tinguished federal lawyer. member of Congress, and ? cutoi iu hib tiwe, some forty years since. To please the literary class still further, the President has appointed to consulships two other authors, viz : Hawthorne of Mas sachusetts (General Pierce's biographer,) and Donald G. Mitchell, formerly of Norwich, Connecticut, but for soma years a resident in New York—better known as Ik Marvel. He is said to be writing, or contemplating, a work on Italy, and goes to Venice, where there is not much official business for a consul. Mitchell is thirty-one years of age, and is but little, if at all known in politics.—New York Herald. LORD ELLESMERE IN AMERICA. - In the New York Herald, under the heading " The English Nobility on the Wing," we find the following letter, dated " Bagg's Hotel, Utica, June 21" :—" The Earl of Ellesmere and suite arrived at this house last evening, at 8 o'clock, in the express train, for New York. The noble Lord looked fatigued and ill ; he wore his left arm in a sling, and appeared to be suffering from his late attack of the gout. The Countess appeared well, and her beautiful daughters attracted much attention, but they seemed not to relish this specimen of an hotel. It does not certainly compare favourably with their country inns in Old England. A side from the usual excitement of new-comers, the arrival of the noble party created no attention whatever. The people seemed as if live Lords were around' in these diggins' every day. One of the boys from the Leander attracted more notice among the other boys, by the gold lace and crown on his cap, than all the rest of the pa r ty put together. I was amused with a specimen of Yankee dom in the railway station when the train came in. He was a plain countryman, about 40 years of age. He was sitting on a pile of three or four trunks, with his back against a post, and his straw hat in his lap. I thought him a good subject to astonish, and said—' Do you see that party coming along ?" Wal,' said he what of 'em ?' ' That is the Earl of Ellesmere, just arrived to attend the Crystal Palace Exhibition.' The what ?' he inquired. Lord Ellesmere, a British nobleman.' Then, he's an Englishman,' he replied, very quietly ; he's got a good deal to see 'afore he gits home again ;' and in a moment he added, ' Guess he'll put up at Bagg's Hotel, over night. Wal, that's the way these places live.' It was amusing to see how unconcerned the presence of a live lord found and left him. The arriving and departing trains kept up an eternal clatter at this house throughout the night. When there were no buligines (as Burton says) to bellow forth, the cats wawled, and the gay larks of the early morning hours sang their jovial songs,. which were not subdued by the open windows. Oh ! for a quiet night once more ! I have not had three hours' consecutive sleep in a week ! Trenton Falls is rapidly filling up. Lord Ellesmere's party go over there this morning, and expect to reach Niagara on Friday. From the brief conversation held with his Lordship some days ago, he appeared to be a remarkably sensible, moderate man, and one who can see through the peculiarities of the people—whatever real goccitherq is in our institutions and our Ofiracru." IRELAND. THE GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT of Mr. John Robt. Godley to the important office of Chief Commissioner for the Collection of the Irish Income-tax is regarded as the best that could be made. AT THE MONAGHAN ASSIZES, the jury in the case of the murder of Mr. Bateson have been discharged, unable to agree to a verdict, after forty-one hours' confinement, during which they were allowed nothing but fire, light, and water. REPRESENTATION OF CORK (ClTY).—There will pro bably be a hot contest for the seat vacated by the ap pointment of Mr. Serjeant Murphy to the commissioner ship of the London Insolvent Court. Col. Chatterton will, no doubt, be a candidate. SERGEANT MURPHY'S LAST.—Procuring himself a Commissionership of Insolvency. The wags say the Coalition have thus introduced the " potato disease" into the Courts of Law. Gilbert A Beckett must now feel that his own joke is capped, and that his only resource is to turn beadle or Baptist minister.—The Press. MODERN PATRIOTISM.—The Marquis of Hertford has taken a house, now building in the Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, for a railway club, at the rent of £1,140 per annum. The Marquis, who draws £BO,OOO per annum out of Ulster, is said never to have been in Ireland but once in the course of his life. HARVEST PROSPERITY.—Our accounts are still more satisfactory, as regards the crops of all kinds, and we are passing through the critical time, without any cause for alarm respecting the potato, which is described in almost all the reports as sound and vigorous in growth.—Dublin Evening Post. SUICIDE OF A CONVICT.—On Thursday, at the Lime rick Assizes, on Baron Greene calling on the prisoner John Mulligan, convicted the day before of the murder of his illegitimate child, the gaoler stated that the pri soner had just committed suicide by hanging himself with a handkerchief. SUICIDE OF MRS. BOYER.—An inquest was held on Friday on the body of a woman who had made a charge of murdering her husband against the convict Kirwan, now under the mitigated sentence of transportation for the murder of his own wife. It appeared that the body of Mrs Boyer had been found in a quarry hole, but, as no evidence was adduced to satisfy the jury she committed suicide, they brought in a verdict that the body was found in a quarry hole on the 7th inst. ENCAMPMENT.—In consequence of its not being possi ble to bring together with convenience a sufficient num ber of regiments to form another division to succeed the one now being encamped at Chobham Common, it is probable that troops will be concentrated in Ireland, and the Curragh of Kildare has been mentioned as the place likely to be selected for the third encampment for this year. THE DARGAN TESTIMONIAL.—At a meeting of noble men and gentlemen held in Dublin, on Thursday, it was determined to present a testimonial to Mr. Dargan for the great benefits conferred by him on the industrial population of Ireland, not only for the vast amount of employment he has given, but also in the lesson he has so successfully taught. The first two subscribers are Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester, and Dr. Hayden, of Dublin, each for the respectable sum of £lOO. SCARCITY OF LABOURERS.-0 wing to the large num ber of Trish labourers who have proceeded to England within the last month, fears are beginning to be expressed that there will not be a sufficiency of hands to gather in the harvest in this country. The Roscommon Journal says :—Not less than £lOO per day is paid at the post office in this town, in small sums, seat by our labourers who went to England, in order to take over their wives and children. Heretofore, our poor people went for the harvest time, and returned when the season was over; but the scarcity of labourers in England, caused by emi gration, compels the manufacturers, not only to employ Irishwomen, but their children likewise. These will never return to Ireland. THE Exonus.—The flight from the west shows no sign of abatement. The Galway Packet says,—" Thinned and exhausted as the population has been for some months past, the rush of emigration seems still unabated. The twelve o'clock train on Monday bore away a crowd of emigrants. A number of their female friends and relatives occupied an eminence above the railway, and their plain tive cries resounded like the wail of a monster funeral. Day after day similar scenes are repeated, so that they now seem to be matters of course." The same authority further adds, " For some weeks past a large proportion of our labouring population have been led by the inducement of higher wages to emigrate to England. They are, of course, too willing to exchange the shilling or 14d. a-day which is generally paid here, for the prospect of 4s. or ss. a-day in England. Their departure is not a temporary one, like that of labourers in former years, who proceeded for a few weeks to cut down the harvest and returned with savings sufficient to pay the rent of the cabin or conacre ; but they will probably remain as much ex patriated from this country as the more opulent of their class who emigrate to America." EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION TRIAL.—At the Lime rick assizes, Jeremiah Hodges Mulcahy, about 45 years of age, was indicted for having allured and carried away Christiana Jackson, a young lady under 17 years of age, contrary to the wishes of her guardian. It appeared that the traverser, who is a widower, was drawing-master at a seminary for young ladies in Limerick, up to March last, when the mistress gave up business; and it was whilst attending that establishment that he became acquainted with Miss Jackson, who was a boarder at the school, and youngest child of the late Mr. Francis Jackson, who died in 1847, and under whose will she was entitled to £2,500. Toward. the end of March Miss Jackson went to reside at Mr. Jones's house, and it was intended that she should remain there until arrangements were made to send her to a finishing school in England, where she was to reside for a couple of years. During this time Miss Jackson was in the habit of coming into Limerick almost daily with Mr. Jones in his carriage, for the ostensible purpose of getting new clothes made to take with her to England, where it was intended she should go on the 18th of April however, on the 15th, having come into town about three o'clock, she appointed to meet Mr. Jones at his office at four o'clock to return home with him, but instead of doing so she went to the traverser's residence, and left with him for Dublin by train, and subsequently proceeded via Glasgow to Gretna Green, where they were married on the 20th. They arrived in Limerick about the Ist of May, and, shortly after, the traverser wrote to Mr. G.Jackson, and told him he was married to his sister, and required that ho should at once pay him £5OO, stating that if he did so he would consent that the balance of his wife's fortune (£2,000) should be settled upon her. Mr. Jackson, however, commenced proceedings against him. Mrs. Mulcahy, a very pretty young woman, was called as a witness. She deposed that sh 3 was but sixteen years Of age last Christmas-day. She said that she went with the traverser of her own free will, and so far from his inducing her to elope with him she was the person who first sug gested it, and proposed matrimony, when she found she was about to be sent to England for two or three years against Ler wish.—The jury were locked up, hut being unable to agree, they were discharged without giving a verdict. ALBONI.—It is stated that the Italian Count Pepoli was married in Paris, a few days since, to Mdlle. Alboni, the vocalist, who has just returned from the United States. THE PACIFIC.—Report has added another candidate for the chief command in the Pacific, about to be re linquished by Rear-Admiral Moresby, C.B. It is said that Rear-Admiral Price is now the favourite.—Morning Herald. THE BAKERE.—Though the best wheat in London at present is three per cent. cheaper than it is in Paris, and though the first flour is three per cent. cheaper, the best 41b. loaf in London is 23 per cent. dearer than in Paris. s PARLIAMENTARY ofCOmm on s h P a A R s Parliamentary papers should be supplied to literary and o e mechanics' institutions. They recommend a supply on a PAPERS. — ted A o s n el t e h e e tcom question mit teeofthe Huwhether moderate scale at first. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. A meeting of shareholders was held on Friday, in London, when a resolution was passed condemning the policy of the directors, and earnestly recommending the share holders to entrust their proxies to the committee ap pointed to watch the interests of the railway. AN AMERICAN HUSBAND.—Mrs. Sophi a D o d ge , o f Lafayette, Indiana, thus cautions the public against her faithless spouse:—" He is a villain, having stolen near two hundred dollars from me when he left. He is a brute, having been repeatedly proved unfaithful to his wife. He is too lazy to work, too vulgar to be decent, too much addicted to stealing to be honest. Said Dr. Loran Dodge was at last accounts in Indianapolis, and expected soon to leave for Cincinnatti, where he u ill attempt to pass off for a gentleman Dv long as the money lie has stolen from me lasts." DRINKING A PINT AND A HALF OF BRANDT.—OD Thursday evening, a man named Luke Lettall got into the bar of the Horton Arms public-house, Failsworth, and when discovered was in a state of perfect insensibilty, but holding in his hand a bottle, out of which he had drank nearly a pint and a half of brandy. The beast was not restored to anything like consciousness for several hours ; it being at first thought that he would lose his life. He was handed over to the police ; and on Friday morning, on being brought up at the New Bailey, he was committed to hard labour for a month.—Manchester' Guardian. SHOCKING MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN IN BIRMING HAM, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS. —A murder, under peculiarly shocking circumstances, was perpetrated in this town on Thursday night, or early on Friday morning last. About ten weeks ago, a woman named Ann Brookes, with two children, male twins about two years old, took lodgings in the house of Thomas Ro berts, Eyre-street, near the Reservoir. From her remarks it was rscertained that she had been cohabiting with a hawker in Leicestershire, the father of the two children, but that some time ago he deserted her, and she was re duced to beggary. On Thursday evening the children had some milk given them by the mother, and were put to rest, she herself retiring at the usual time. During the night Roberts heard her moving about the room, and about six o'clock she came down stairs and left the house, proceed ing first to a neighbour's house to assist in washing, and then absenting herself in some place at present unknown. Ten o'clock having arrived without the mother returning, Mrs. Roberts went up stairs to look at the children, whom she found apparently in a deep sleep. She therefore re turned, but mentioning to some of the neighbours that their feet were quite cold, suspicion was excited ; the chil dren were again examined, when it was found that they were dead. In the course of a short time Brookes returned, intoxicated, and taking no notice of the persons in the house she sat down, but soon fell from the chair to the floor. On the death of the children being mentioned, the unhappy woman started up, and ran in the direction of the neighbouring canal, but was overtaken, and brought back. Medical assistance was obtained, and it being evi dent that Brookes was labouring under the influence of poison, the stomach pump was successfully applied. She i c s o t u e r fe i n s 3 g e d p o a t n s t h h oe them,l, d aftera shortchildren, t m b e y s a n d e mi n was rillnessplacede na removal v aa i l ns to ou custody oe a nd t ear t na h f e eur S oo a u n s sp d i Sandpit t s f, wr P hm o e l ra i c es e st - ho s t e a n ti en c o oe n ws , s r b t ae u tm t e n e e sr r under charge of the police. The wretdhed woman is pro gterretzianczciftviohuerarbslayn. it y NN . Le v u i n r d n e , r in s g ta h n a d ni th c at o ;lx l 4ts are en - ALLEGED MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS. Captain John Wright Chapman, of the ship Cleopatra , appeared at the Liverpool Police-court, on Friday, to answer a charge of having caused the death of Joseph White, on the 21 Oct. last. Sir George Stephen, bar rister, instructed by Mr. Oven, appeared for the pro secution ; and Mr. Aspinall, instructed by Mr. Forshapr, for the defence. To give some idea of the case, Sit George Stephen might state that the crew were obliged to put the captain in irons, and divert the vessel from her course under charge of the first mate. They reached Barbadoes, where the captain was enabled to turn the tables upon the crew, and charged them before the autho rities with mutiny, and several of them were punished. He discharged them all, and shipped a fresh crew, and then proceeded on to Bonny, his previous destination . While at Bonny, the alleged manslaughter and aggra vated assault was committed. Mr. Mansfield accepted bail for Captain Chapman's appearance on Saturday, himself in £2OO, and two sureties of £lOO each. On Saturday the investigation was resumed, when it appeared from the evidence of William Duncan, th e carpenter of the Cleopatra, that the vessel sailed from Liverpool for Bonny Rivr on the 16th of August, 195 2 ' with a crew of twenty-one men, including the master (the defendant) and the mate. On the Ist of October, in lat. 13 N. lon. 20 W., the Cleopatra fell in w ith a vessel, commanded by Captain Harrison, called the Vicar, of Bray. The two captains visited each other severs° times, a boy named White being engaged in rowing the boat of the Cleopatra from ship to ship. On the nigh t of the 2nd October, when it was very dark and squall Y 1 the boat, in which White was placed, was 'wale.. close up to the Cleopatra, in a most dangerou s position. It was capsized once, but righted again' and White still continued in it. This was pointed out to the defendant : but, with an oath, he refused to make the rope holding the boat slacker, or to let any one el interfere with it. The result was, that the bo a t capsize, once more, and the boy White was drowned, no effor t being made to find his body. Shortly after this the crew seized the captain, kept him in irons in his ovi o cabin every night, and, under the direction of the first mate, navigated the vessel to Barbadoes. Here the caP' tain, by means of a doctor who boarded the Cleopatra, communicated with the authorities on shore, and the whole of the crew were taken into c ust o dy. They sh' with the exception of the complainant, were tried for piracy and mutiny, and sentenced to terms of imprisma• meat varying from one to three years. No definite charge, was here made against the ca pt a i n , an d h e was no t t r io or taken into custody for the alleged murder of white. At Barbadoes he shipped another crew, and sailed agai° for Bonny River, the complainant going with him. 00 reaching the coast of Africa the captain and the corn' plainant quarrelled, the latter stating that he was Or fined by the defendant on a marsh on shore, in irons, fo r a fortnight, and only allowed half a pound of yam and some palm oil per day. He returned to England i° another vessel, first signing a document on board the Cleopatra forfeiting his wages if the defendant would re' lease him. After being here a fortnight, he communi' cated with the police, by whom the captain was taken into custody. At the end of this witness's examination, a discuseil arose between the opposing counsel and Mr. Mansfield as to whether the latter could entertain the charge. gr' Mansfield finally stated that, as the question appeared t° have been fully investigated by the highest court in liar' badoes, he was not justified in interfering in it. The captain was then discharged, and left the room, but bel was immediately arrested on a charge of manslaughte r ; which, after a further discussion, it was arranged shout° be investigated yesterday morning. #lO The charge of manslaughter against the captain of Cleopatra was investigated yesterday, before Mr. Man g ' field. Sir George Stephen appeared for the prosecuticn ig and Mr. Aspinall for the prisoner, both the learned ge ll i tlemen being instructed respectively by Mr. Owen, an Mr. Forshaw, solicitors, as in the charge of murder. The first witness examined was— William Cuddy said he was mate on board the Cleo' patra. On the 18th of November last, he shipped him' self at Barbadoes, and arrived at Bonny on the Ist ( .1 February last. Knew a man on board named Dav id Armstrong. He was steward. Recollected the 10th, ° May last, when they were under the lee of St. Thomas e ' On that day Armstrong was flogged with a rope sent °,.; Captain Chapman. Did not know why he was flogge ° a but witness heard the captain tell him to stand up, a. ° he was unable. He endeavoured to stand, but fell age?' Armstrong had complained to the crew that dep t of illness, but witness did not know before the that he was ill. On Armstrong falling, the captain or" dered the carpenter to heave a bottle of water on hi° 3 .; and that was repeated, after which he was sent to ill' berth. Witness saw Armstrong at night in his be rth ' He was then sick. Armstrong soiled his bedding; and it was found in a filthy state next morning. 5 a .,,, ° after that he was turned out of his berth. Did not see Ik::1 strong for the next two days. That was on the 1 2 tnd, May, when he was brought up out of the forecastle• The was helped up by two men, who lifted him out. t s t, forecastle is a small hatchway just before the fore_m; as When he was brought up out of the forecastle, medical laid on deck. Could not say whether he had aed ny ra untilatt n dhaen cdied,e durin gwhich the s t a w b o o d u a t y a s . q an the captain he was brought up. Whilst he was on deck . t t ly d imme e poured spirits down his throat, and he die v Armstrong' afterwards. Once before the 10th of --a was punished on deck for capsizing then struck with the fist. He had before been struck with the fist. On one occasion saw him struck on the upper lip. Never heard him make any complaint of the conduct of the captain. ua n rt e er re o n i By Mr. MANSFIELD.—Armstrong was a coloured man• By Mr. ASPINALL—I' do not know whether Armstrong was beaten for trading with the natives. He was a dirty man. I believe he was turned out of the forecastle, be' cause the crew would not have him he was so dirty. A some paint. He Naas Andrew Moody called.—l am a sailmaker. I shiePe' on board the Cleopatra on the 15th of November at ne t ; badoes, and proceeded with her to Bonny. I knew am ° , on adictci; named David Armstrong. I recollect the 18th of Abl i f when we were under the lee of St. Thomas. The cap asked the mate where he was. The mate replied that was sick, on which the captain said " Go, and bring bl t ,°'a Armstrong was sent aft to the captain. The e2otain a sk him what was to do with him. Arnast,ong's trowse'" were down, and the captain asked hire co draw them te l ; or he would make him. Armstrong said he was not e°,, to draw them up he was so weak. The captain then too ' a bit of line and struck him. Armstrong then fell dosc'i on the captain, and the captain then went on the pooP of called for the carpenter, and told him to bring a bucket water and throw over that man. Subsequently the eaP t „. B o % t o ld the carpenter to go and repeat it. Armstr," remained on the deck until late in the everu m .'" when a man named M'Quillam carried him into the f° r ' i a castle. He remained there until next morning, Wile,, d man named Tom Gracie went into the forecastle , :s found that Armstrong had soiled his bed. Gracie, t o pe him to come up and shift himself. Armstrong saw,,y9 was so weak that he could not. During the two t"'" WI I between the 10th and the 12th, Armstrong had food , he could not eat it. On the morning of the 11th Gt ° ol took Armstrong up to the door of the forecastle , °, 1 ,8 complained to the captain that he was a nuisance to 1;51 forecastle. The Captain said if he was a nuisance be tio 04 not go into the forecastle any more. Armstrong WO asked the captain where he was to go. The OP" 0 told him to go into a cask. Armstrong remaine d n til deck all day. I saw nothing more of Armstrong ° i al the 12th, when the mate told us to get some canvass " ti p, sew him up. Armstrong was then dead. I sewed hit°,oo and he was thrown overboard. On former occast'",o Armstrong was often struck by the captain. I saw t be flog him in the hold on many occasions. 00 Cross-examined by Mr. ASPINALL : Armstrong bd not a dirty man until after he was ill. i always the *l f6 him greatdifficulty,rte told that eh and was skulking, k as i only eg by and getting hold Armstrong of r , ' d ti o 4 am not skulki ng , l am s i c k." I b e li ev e he was VI sick, from what I saw mys e lf. because, in a convell° go with him on the 10th, he said to me, " When Y °° ~b 0 home remember me to my friends, for I am afraid I never live to see my friends again." Sir GEORGE STEPHEN said this was the case. be Mr. ASPINALL then addressed the magistrates 013 half of the prisoner, contending that no case of ° A O slaughter had been made out. With regard to the be 00 of water being thrown on the deceased, it seemed tbe,,,,ls if captain thought the deceased was skulking, but in t"0 0 appeared he was mistaken. When the decease d ,00 found to be really ill, the captain took the course w o any other man would have done, and this was 91 1 ° OP spirits haying been given to the deceased. The fa t t o the tl wddlteehcnsaeec C ataeeesmvpet whatever ode a r dltrideot rebut Il dsuau i tt, g pi tot h phhto t eers l i tici a thtu v rhawe e erag h ttcemb e h e aawe n trnag , htse t o o r el s sa o od m r tb e eod extent, 0 i h nt a bt r ee l ef e :c i bt a ro , did not answer, and the man died ; but there was 11 ,i ° ef' andon IL I - 00+1 offered, of . Sir GEORGE STEPHEN again commencing to the court, if Mr. ASPINALL said that he had no right of ref",i'oier s o Sir GEORGE STEPHEN contended that his learnel". bt rig af was wrong. He (Mr. Aspinall) had, in fact, 0 0 j appear there at all, and could only be regarded as te ,se present by courtesy, as the present step was ex Pa r 0. 4e1 the magistrates had no alternative but to send thiel, 0 upon the evidence adduced, for the decision of a l n . r , Some conversation having taken place betv/ e " magistrates and the learned counsel, oAd dt' Sir GEORGE STEPHEN was allowed to proc—je 0-0 urged that a case for committal had been fully 10 Del ° l O If the spirits had been administered even two daltt 13 0 0 0 the deceased died, Mr. Aspinall's statement 0 , ,i4 0 10 amounted to something, but it was not done um': 0 5 the moment of death, when the deceased, in fo e " articulo mortis. , Arc • 0 Mr. MANSFIELD, in giving the magistrates :detl. o , said the truth of the witnesses' statements was and therefore the magistrates must take it upon I; ee tte i of, After remarking that the captain had evidently ilk,,ej taken in supposing that the deceased was oOt Betts reo Mansfield said it appeared that after he became ,elll,t that he was ill he took the same course that a‘e'i tin man would have done ; and although it would sf,t p he acted with some degree of harshness, he dig,' C ooro there was sufficient evidence of the captain 'tberely having caused the deceased's death. He mu st be discharged. lhooc A Hros u meos T : fLt n oiovr E lve A s oTAwratyaN,esos time,rNu n A NATURE.—when, I i until —IVh e n , on the u, . - °-a e f r A tel ' : OINTMENT f orn :—......... it , h fli 1 „ 11 0 0 ,, e first o ß f a k i l e r e o p a i d n , g t h p e ae ß e e w d i o t u h i n t i s i e g laol Icthey o o p m p o e d t i v a e l l i n o: d i e g st s h, i o d eA n y e ph t o f b ai n dv e T t no C ,,,: ti l i c:l l :::: r , s P e t; LENT REMEDY FOR ABSCESSES AND OLD . i : docla",4l Thomas Edwards, a labourer in Portsmouth ears be received a severe hurt in his thigh, about four Y . f oul I , by a piece of timber falling on him. An the .t elo.j r ao. c in consequence of the injury, which defied tbe Pell'ron°llP' nent surgeons to heal,and hewas consequentlY P y, a b incurable, and put on the superannuation list Ti ez i e s ! 0 sion. Being now at liberty to try other e,,'.; 15 , li a l t i l , commenced using Holloway's Ointment .na A . -_,: ‘ , l i esP have so effectually cured him that he enjO.ya v ' — iitikl ii 83 Well able to work as any man. BRAZIL AND THE RIVER PLATE. By the Royal Mail Steam-ship Tay, Captain Revett, which reached Southampton on Wednesday, we have the Brazil and Rio La Plata mails, and dates from Buenos Ayres June 2 ; Montevideo, 5 ; Rio de Janeiro, 14 ; Bahia, 18 ; and Pernambuco, 21. From Buenos Ayres we learn that the army of General Urquiza had neither advanced nor retreated. Blockade by the squadron was constituted, and this rendered pro visions gradually scarcer. In fact, to starve the city now seems to be his object. One letter says:—The besiegers decidedly lose ground, and Urquiza, with his Gauchos and the old cutthroats of Rosas, neither dares to make an assault, nor will they await a general action when General Paz is ready, as we think he will soon be, to go out and attack them. The sally would probably have taken place on the night of the 27th and the morning of the 28th ult., had not a heavy rain unfortunately interrupted the opera tions, and rendered the roads unfit for the purpose for several days. The weather has since been fine, and we are now in expectatio n o f a decisiv e movement. At Rio business in general had been in a state of great parelig^tion in consequ ence of a severe pressure in the money market, arising . from an over extension of business. First-rate bills had with difficulty been done at 10 per cent. A project of the Minister of Finance, to allow the banks to place in t circulationedsecu ri t their ies, re p d a e e p m e r aeb c trr u liaee r nr r w e sciae n tcdh c t y iinod a nea g es a lfii i hxn n aee s dd been t; 6s -6i ,e 3 ff deposits of undoubted time, extremely wa s under shipments during the monthbellies, Freights to limited,di cus s i oann.d p I r nc 9cs6o e xe the English Channel 70 2 . to 7 5 a r ti d ve co ; ld irei ß gh u t s s in d e e ss . clining. Fever was very prevalent, in At i imports pßoarbt Bahia e s w d e u a l t l h ; e s r u w g a s r s - v m e a r y r k w e t t the natives suffering as much as foreigners. In coffee the sup fi pl in y f a r t o 2 in terior had been trifling. Exchange was from dis counts 9 to 12 per cent. At Pernambuco the supply of sugar w to the conti nue d p reva l enc e of ra in prices ceedingly high ; the exports showed an excess c tons over the last crop the next crop PrO l4l §" "- aCslimbaitded rtlleodwinxg lh e . 0f 18,000 INDIA OVERLAND MAIL. Intelligence has been received by overland mail from Calcutta to the 3rd of June, and Bombay 30th of May. The final interview between the Burmese Envoys and the British Commissioner took place at Prome on the 7th of May. The Burmese tried to put off giving a definite an swer, and asked for a second period of 30 days for deli beration. This was refused them. They were told that they must give a categorical answer at once; but, it is stated that, to induce them to give a favourable reply, the British Commissioner offered to remove the proposed frontier line still further to the southward. Such con cessions however were of no avail. On being pressed for a definite answer, the Burmese Envoys refused explicitly to sign away a single rood of the Burmese dominions on any consideration. On this they were given twenty-four hours to reconsider their answer, or to quit the territory occupied by our troops, and they did so depart within ten hours. It is stated that the Burmese Envoys did not evince any anxiety to bring matters to an accommodation. Immediately after the departure of the Burmese Envoy the Medusa and two gunboats were sent up from Promo to Meaday, to strengthen our advanced post Caere, and to blockade the river, with a view of preventing the transit of rice from the lower provinces to the capital. It is not yet certainly known what steps will be taken in consequence of the breaking off of those negotiations. General Godwin is understood to be in favour of an im mediate advance on Ava, but he has written to the G)vernor-General for instructions. India west of the Ganges is quiet, even the hill tribes in the far north-west have been pretty orderly of late. The Nizim has acceded to the demand of our govern ment for the assignment of territory yielding 36 lacs of revenue yearly, to be held for him, but in payment of the contingent and the liquidation of his debt. THE REBELLION IN CHINA, We have advices to the 14th of May. The following account of Sir G. Bonham's expedition to the seat of the rebellion is contained in a private letter published in the North China Herald:— " Hermes returned to this port on the sth inst., Sir G. Bonham having been in communication with many of the insurgent chiefs, both in the vicinity of Nankin and Chin kiang-foo. Mr. Meadows was within the walls of the former city, and reports it in a state of ruin, while the whole district is filled with anarchy and confusion. Nan kin is held by the rebel forces, who are strongly defend ing it ; they are also in possession of Chinkiang ; the whole line of river between the two cities is in a very complete state of defence, and they are said to be awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from the south, when they will proceed on their way to Pekin. " The information gained regarding the character of the insurgents and their objects seems to be of a most curious and interesting nature. A very correct translation of the Bible is freely circulated among them, and a zeal amount ing to fanaticism is leading them on to attempt the de struction of the whole Tartar race, whilst strictly moral duties are not only prescribed, but enforced and practised." Another authority says, " The insurgents are Christians of the Protestant form of worship, and anti-idolaters of the strictest order. They acknowledge but One God, the Heavenly Father, the All-wise, Allpowerful, and Omni present Creator of the world ; with him, Jesus Christ, as toe Saviour of mankind ; and also the Holy Spirit, as the last of the Three Persons of the Trinity. Their chief on earth is a person known as ' Tae• ping-wang, the Prince of Peace,' to whom a kind of divine origin and mission is ascribed. Far, however, from claiming adoration, he for bids in an edict the application to himself of the terms Supreme,' Holy,' and others, hitherto constantly assumed by the Emperors of China, but which he declines receiving on the ground that they are due to God alone. Their moral code the insurgents call the ' Heavenly Rules,' which on examination proved to be the Ten Com mandments. The observance of these is strictly enforced by the leaders of the movement, chiefly Kwang-tung and Kwang-se men, who are not merely formal professors of a religious system, but practical and spiritual Christians, deeply influenced by the belief that God is always with them. The hardships they have suffered, and the dangers they have incurred, are punishments and trials of their Heavenly Father; the successes they have achieved are instances of His grace." AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA By the British and North American royal mail steam ship Niagara, Captain Leitch, we have advices from New York to the sth, and Boston to the 6th instant. The Niagara sailed from Boston at 0.10 p.m. on the 6th. On the ith, at 4.20 a.m., passed the steamer Ame rica, hence for Boston ; and, at 11.40 p.m., arrived at Halifax. After a detention of 2 hours and 40 minutes, she again proceeded to sea. On the 9th, at 0.40 p.m., she passed a large two.masted steamer steering westward, probably the Atlantic, hence for New York. The Niagara came "north about," made Tory Island at 4.20 a.m. on Saturday, and arrived in the Mersey at 5 a.m. on Sunday. The Niagara brought a small quantity of specie on freight, and the following PASSENGERS.—From Boston : Mr. Woodville and lady, Miss Hodgkinson, Miss Levis, Mr. Daniel and lady, Mr. N. Hawthorne, lady, three children, and two servants, Hon. J. S. M`Donald (speaker, Canadian Parliament), Mr. Wilson and lady, Mr. E. Train anti lady, Rev. Mr. Dernard and lady, Mr. A. Ansell and lady, Mr. H. Mer rell and lady, Mrs. Shears, Mts. Shaw, Rev. R. Peden and dau7liter, Mr. Doyle, lady, infant, two children, and nurse, Captain Chisero and lady, Mrs. Chevellier and two children, Mrs. Peard and infant, Mr. Haselton and bro ther, Mr. Vylison and son, Mr. Canio and son, Rev. T. T. Bonen and lady, Mr. J. H. Lacy and lady, Mr. Raabe land lady. Mr. Fox and lady, Miss M. S. Scott, Mr. Horne, lady, and son, Miss Horne, Master Herscowff, Mr. G. A. Holt and lady, Messrs. W. Mattice, F. B. Dean, J. B. Cross, C. B. Richardson, S. K. Lyman, S. M'lntosh, W. D. Ticknor, W. S. Catherwood, A. Gilman, A. Short, E. Train, jun., H. E. Dodge, Spring, W. G. Ilodgkinson, T. B. Anderson, W. Silsbee,W. F. Fevenny, W. F. Reynolds, May, Tayllur, Boulanger, Flient, Gir van, S. B. Dean, Talfourd, A. W. Wright, W. M'Arthur, A. Fabery, W. F. Gluble, J. Plummer, S. S. Lewis, T. C. Watkins, J. Cook, Psefeld, T. A. Rees, E. Paris, Pa checo, G. One, Gresa, Inglis, Schefeler, F. Slathe, E. Bennett, J. Casberqu, F. Sayare, B. Stainsby, A. G. Fin lay, W. F. Franklin, S. Fraser, W. Laird, J. H. Peters, Kerscowir, Woods, J. Giles, J. S. Cakford, Hutchinson, G. Gamble, Mr. Popper and lady. From Halifax : Col. Inyor and lady, Mr. and Miss Inyor, four children and two servants, Mrs. Cordengley and child, Dr. M'Cawley, Messrs. Lawton, Bell, Thomson, Symonds, Morrison, M`Lauchlin, Mingirvis, R. Anderson, Cummings, Weir, Parsons, Little. The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Harrison, hence, arrived at New York, at 630 a.m., on the 30th ult. The screw-steamer Glasgow arrived at New York, from the Clyde, on the 2d instant. _ _ The screw-steamer Lady Eglinton arrived at Quebec on tho 29Th ult. in 13 days, having stopped seven hours at St. John's to land mails. She was hailed with the great est enthusiasm by the Canadians. _ _ The anniversary of the independence of the United States had been duly celebrated. In New York a severe fight had occurred between the Ancient Order of Hiber nians and the police. In the New York Supreme Court, on the 29th ult., Francisco de P. Falconel applied for an attachment against Albert G. Slow, the granter of land, generally known as the " Sloo grant." The attachment was issued. The Crystal Palace was to be opened on the 15th instant. Amongst the six persons killed on the Ist by the explosion of the boiler of the steamer New World were John Reid and James Porter, both of Scotland, and John Donnelly and Jobn J. Monks, of Ireland. A most terrific hail-storm had caused considerable damage at New York. During its continuance the newly-erected frame of an observatory fell in, killing three men. The same storm had occasioned damage in other parts of the country. A letter from Oswego, of the sth, mentions the destruction by fire of Fitzhugh and Littlejohn's grain mills. At Annapolis, on the 4th, a fearful riot occurred between some of the citizens and the passengers on board the steamer Powhattan. The inhabitants fired into the boat as she was leaving the wharf, badly wounding several of the passengers, one, it was feared, fatally. It is mentioned in the New York papers that three masted schooners are coming more into vogue instead of full-rigged ships. The Pacific Steam-ship Company had decided to send its three steamers now building direct to Australia, where they will take their places on the new line between Australia and Panama instead of on the San Francisco route. Mcx/co.—Advices from the city of Mexico to the 18th ult. state that Santa Anna's birthday had been celebrated b wc.6 yo.co r . Ti.. h over... of Zlva clic* L.O been arrested, but the charge against him had not transpired. Measures were being taken to strengthen the government of Yucatan against the Indians, and artillery had been ordered up from Tobasco. CUBA.—Advises from Havana are to the 29th ult. The construction of the projected railway between Trinidad and Sancti Spiritus was about to be commenced. In the former city 8280,000 worth of shares in the enterprise were sold in the course of eight days. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. . NEW YORK, JULY 5. MONEY.—The stock market continues dull, but ge nerally the tone is firmer. The little increased activity in money, noticed for the past two days, has entirely sub sided, and the supply of money in the street considerably in excess of the wants. Call loans were freely made at 5 to 7 per cent. Exchange on England in limited demand at 109} to 1091 per cent. Bills on France, sf. 15 to sf. 151. COTTON.—The sales on Saturday, the 2d, were 1,500 bales at full rates, including strict middling and good middling Uplands at llke., and middling fair at llic., rates rather above those paid early in the week. There is a good inquiry for home use and export, and a firm feeling on the part of sellers, who, under the favourable prospect of the growing crop, sell reluctantly. Atlantic Other Gulf Ports. Florida. Ports. Inferior .... nom. nom. nom. Low to good ord. Low to good mid. 10 —II 10 —ll 104 Ili Mid fair to fair 114 112 114 112 12 —l3 (From TV. P. Wright's Circular, of July 5.) holders T his amarketre indisposed ttoo submitma intainto re any firm d u stand, n from the quotations, as given on the 29th ultimo. The trans r reduction d an trans actions have only been to a moderate extent, amounting to 9,000 bales, of which the chief part has been for ex port to Great Britain, and embrace one or two cargoes from the South, in transit. Tne Southern markets are well sustained, and, though the business has been limited, prices have not given away. The accounts as to the prospect of the growing crop are still far from favourable, and from many parts of the Atlantic States, Alabama and Florida, the complaints have, during the past week, assumed a more positive character. Want of rain and a general backwardness of the plant, are the points most dwelt upon. We have now arrived at the season when the state of the weather for the next mouth or six weeks, taken in connexion with the condition of the plant, at this time, is most critical for this important crop. Seasonable weather, alternate rain and sunshine, will do much to repair the injury already sustained ; too much of one or the other would materially curtail the production. The weather, therefore, will be closely watched by those interested. The following is a statereeet of the movement ill cotton since