The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

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NEXT WEEK MONDAY On MoNnA.Y next, the 24th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 33, Tithebarn-street, 45 Tons CATTLE BONES, ex Christian, from Sligo. —Apply to Messrs. Trimmer and Grainger, or to ISAAC HAD WEN, Jux. & CO., Brokers, EVENING EDITION, air An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, containing the Markets, together with all the News of the Day, up to the hour of going to Press. E4e zurnso FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1856 WHILE we are anticipating a monetary and financial crisis in England, in Paris the cry is, it !it comes ! What ! another bugbear as we England is peace-sick, and France has taken the fever. " There is nothing like being in " the fashion," as the Irish tenant, with only one shoe, said when he met his landlord without a comes are alive. crown to his hat ; meaning, we suppose, that neither could walk very far on certain extremities. May this prove the case with the two great Western Allies. May their difficultie3, if they are to have any, differ as widely as the link of fashion which the shoeless Irishman saw between his own condi tion and that of his landlord's. The variety will sooth the sufferers, even if their diseases should prove fatal. But what is the matter with France ? Are her wolves eating up the lambs, and will her Bears devour the Bulls,after the manner of the Trinobantes who still infest the neighbourhood of Capel-court ? There must be a stop put to such The Emperor NAPOLEON has the remedy. Keep Bulls and Bears at home, and do not let them go abroad to employ their leisure hours in enterprise, or their spare cash in trade, or in any other way in foreign speculations, that they may eat each other up, and be done with them at once arid for ever ! There is something in this recipe, but we should be sorry to be compelled to administer the dose. An innocent Bear might, with a certain enormities degree of affection, ask one what harm his simple mirth could do where there are so many horned animals, ready to gore him and make him disgorge all his gains? Here fan3y the Bull's coming at one in a frenzy of just indignation, and demanding one's right to interfere where there is really a good system of finance which has proved equal to all emergencies, in existence ! Before a body could well reply to such an interrogation he might lespatched in search of a lost meteor find bums in the neighbourhood of Tim Pleiades, or some other of his high acquaintances. But to be serious. What does it all mean ? A financial crisis in France—a country that buys its gold in the cheapest market and sells it in the dearest. Stop all the foreign enterprise of the French people, while their very existence depends attainment of one foreign com modity—gold I In this Tyrian Isle we may murder eloquence, and tell the admirers of Cato that they are blockheads, but how the Press of any civilised country could attempt any thing half so suicidal, as to give publicity to such rub bish we cannot understand. Can the French Government be afraid that the gold of France on the would go to pay for the construction of a railway from St. Petersburg toiNicolaief or Sebastopol? e feel anxious to know how long it would take to lay out such a project, and. complete it, and then to see how it could be made to pay a dividend of one farthing on a 1,0001. share. Is Russia going to add the high office of Swindler-general, to that of general Butcher? Is she to wait for the construction of railways before she completes her aggressive designs, on the nations of Eastern Europe ? Here we feel disposed to ask iu the language of a well-known spouse—" Is that you " talking Mr. Caudle ? " With railroads Russia would conquer Europe ? Just so ! and pay dividends out of the profits of war? That's it ! France, we think, might be left entirely to its own discretion, where advantages and losses are so equally divided. Nine-tenths of what we hear on such public topics would be a disgrace to the good sense and common understanding of a parish schoolroom. Our Allies have no money to lend and are the most cautious dealers in stocks. And while their national bank goes on buying go l d at a nominal loss, to keep down the rates of di count. sustain industry, and preserve the credit of the merchant, there can be no real financial crisis in France. The return of peace may kill a few " Stags," and knock over some " Ducks" on the Bourse, but what of that ? There is doubt less a great dcal of hoarding going on among the French people, especially in the p rovinces, but those feelings of uneasiness from which this evil dates, will disappear once the question of peace or war is decided. If the contest is to be continued the French nation will, to a man, aid the Exchequer as they have always done. If we are to have peace, returning confidence will bring the specie with it into more active circulation. What France did in 1854 and 1856 she will do again this year. Her trade and revenue go on increasing steadily, and although she may have large deficiencies to ood, they are trifles co m p are d to those of this country make and while her commerce is exposed to no interruption, there is no danger to be appre hended beyond the sudden collapse of a few over inflated Stock Exchange balloons. The Emperor NAPOLEON may, however, think it right to check the speculations of the French in foreign enterprises; but it will not be done without timely notice—for if such a step were taken hastily, it would prove the ruin of thousands• luterfeiing with the free action of money, and a people's desire -grow rich, has too often proved the worst of national calamities. Loins PHILLIPPE knew this, and ]y let speculators go on, but played with, and 3 hands of the monied classes and stock- into th jobbers and there are not a few stories told abot I the almost fabulous wealth he realised by his successful operations — first as a Bull, and next as a Bear. It is quite true that such things are highly dishonourable ; but when subjects will play at balls, their rulers will have a game at bowls ; and since this has long been reduced to a trade, with its Guilds to give it bye-laws, and to keep rascally jobbers within something like the pale o f honesty, it would be hard to dislover what more can be done. If the object be to get rid of these gamblers altogether, we really do not see a shorter cut than allowing, and even encouraging them, to invest their last farthing inßussian, Austrian , and Prussian rail; ways! Russian railway shares would be our "fancy' for such a purpose. The Imperial line from St. Petersburg to Sebastopol via Moscow, Warsaw, Nicolaief, and Odessa, would get rid of as many enterprising French capitalists, as a Isle of Man . Grand Trunk Line, capital 20,000,0001, " all paid up," and fully incorporated—liability unlimited. As for the use Russia, or any other military and half civilised country can make of railroads in war, France may safely leave that branch of the subject for the amusement of Napoleon IV., and a remote posterity. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, MARCH 111, 18569 THE COURT WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The dinner party yesterday included His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Baroness de Speth, Major General the Honourable Charles and Mrs. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Sir George Couper, Colonel de Moerkerke, Captain Prisse, Doctor R.cken, and Mr. Glover. The Queen and Prince Consort walked in the grounds adjoin ing the castle this morning. Prince Arthur and the younger Princesses drove out in an open carriage. A cabinet council was held, on Wednesday afternoon a t the Foreign Office. The ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. The council sat two hours and a quartet.. ;Viscount Palmerston left town after the cabinet council for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. NAVAL PaomovoNs.—Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Chads, K.C.8., has been appointed to the command of the Cork station, vice Admiral Sir George R. Sartorius promoted. It appears from official returns that the number of per sons in France belonging to the Roman Catholic religion is 35,931,032, Calvanists, 480,507, Lutherans, 267,825, Jews, 73,975, and other creeds, 30,000. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.—The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley have left town for Knowsley, for the parliamentary recess. Lord Stanley for the present is staying in town. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone have left Carlton-house-terrace for Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, to pass the holidays with Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart. FlRE.—About four o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the extensive bakery, occupied by Messrs. Bales and Carter, near the Canning Dock. The fire brigade from Temple court, under the superintendance of Mr. Hewitt, was quickly on the spot, and their indefatigable exertions succeeded in extinguishing the flames before any material damage had taken place. Some few months since these premises were visited by a similar calamity, when the damage was much heavier. The premises were insured. THE SELF MUTILATION CASE.—On Wednesday at the Lambeth Police Court, Lucy Constable, who has been in custody for upwards of a fortnight on a charge of wilfully inflicting a wound upon her throat and hand, under circum stances already reported, was brought up for final examina tion. Sergeant Coppin informed the magistrate that he had no more evidence to offer, and the prisoner was ordered to be discharged. She seemed delighted at being restored to liberty, and hurried out of the dock to join her friends, who were present for the purpose of taking her back to Tunbridge, to which she belongs. FlRE.—Last night, about half-past nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the shop and premises occupied by Mr. Parkinson, druggist, Scotland road. On the alarm being given, the reel from the Athol-street station was the first to reach the scene, and by its active operation, the fire was extinguished. The entire contents of the shop were, however, wholly destroyed ; and a female, while endeavour ing to escape by a ladder from an upper window, unhappily, fell to the ground and was severely injured. Major Greig and a numerous body of the police rendered efficient service. The origin of the fire is attributed to the overheating a stove, which caused .a portion of the counter to ignite, and thus set fire to the stock. We understand that Mr. Parkin son is insured with the Atlas Company. _ _ CORONER'S INQUESTS. —Yesterday, the borough coroner held the following inquests : On the body of John Murray, aged 45, a man who used to hawk goods about town. He suffered from a bad cough from some time pas`, and used to complain. On Tuesday night he died very suddenly, at his lodgings in Kitchen-street. Verdict, died by the vista tion of God.—On the body of John Armstrong Scott, a porter, aged 41. Dec engaged at work, in a wareho was consu nd whilst a Dun d. YE Tuesday, he sud reet, on di.d by own ar visitation of God William Griffiths, the nor of the town dONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING There has been no improvement in the tone of the Cotton Market to-day, and only a limited busi ness has been done. The total sales since Friday last have been 31,850 bales, of which 2,400 have been taken on speculation, and 1,660 for export. Prices are about one-eighth of a penny per pound lower than on Friday last. The Liverpool Share Market opened this morn ing with a steady feeling, and gradually hardened during the day, and finally closed with prices at tln highest point of the day as follows Aberdeen, 13 131. Chester and Birken head, 151, 152. Caledonian, 30k 30k. Chester and Holyhead, 13i 14. Eastern Counties, 9-a- 91. East Lancashire, 181 7 181. Great Northern, 23 231. Do. A. 91 10. Great Western, 62 621. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 841 844. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 154 16, London and North Western Stock, 1001 1001 Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 261 26a. Ditto Preference, 111 11-a. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., a gip. Midland Stock, 711 718. North British, 71 78. North Staffordshire, 61 58d. South Eastern, 20 9-16 20k. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 194 10k. York and North Midland, 27a 271 Leeds Capital Stock, 151 16. Dutch Rhenish, 13-16 Bcl. Ditto New tisares, 24 21,-p. Great Westein of Canada, 25; 25a. Ditto New Shares, 22- 24p Ditto 2nd issue, 2,1 24p. Great Luxembourg, 74 71d. The London papers to-day have published Australian news of the 15th of December, but these advices are not later than those published in the NOeTHERN l'imEs of the 15th inst , and which we received via New York. They, however, con tained some additional facts, not noticed by the American papers, which will be found in another Mr. F. J. Eaton in his circular gives the following report of the Tallow Market : There'has been a complete panic in the London market, owing to forced sales of a large quantity of speculative tallow, and prices have declined daily until yesterday afternoon, when buyers came out at 47s 6d to 4Ss per cwt for present delivery, both for consumption and export, and the market closes with a better feeling. Stock, 17th inst., 22,652 casks, against 35,532 last year, and half-week delivery 500 casks, against 713 last year, and prices exactly the same. Little or nothing doing here this week, and the quotations must be considered as quite nominal. The following is a statement of traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway of Canada, by passenger and goods trains for the week ending 29th February, 1856 ; and for the corresponding period last year :-29th Feb., 1856—total receipts, 10,6751 7s 10d ; 2d March, 1855—d0 , 5,52419 s 4d. Increase, 5,1701 11s 6d. Aggregate gross receipts from the commencement of the current half-year to above date, 37,0061 5s 10d ; do. for the corres ponding period last year, 21,3061.5 s ld.; all sterling. Letteis from Vienna state that the Austrian government intend taking measures for the regu lation of the navigation on the Lower Danube, and for clearing the deposits which bar the entrances to the river. For the latter purpose they have purchased a steamer at Constantinople to deepen the bar at the Sulina mouth. It is said also that a vessel of war with a detachment of marines will be stationed there, to maintain order at the port, and that a port captain will be appointed. The Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company also intend carrying their steam service down to the Sulina mouth, and are at present constructing five steam-tugs for transporting grain and merchandise from the Upper to the Lower Danube. During the past year this com pany had 80 steam vessels and eight tug boats of a total of 10,026 horse power, besides 268 lighter and other transport boats, measuring 9,000 tons. The total, therefore, is considerable, and at the present time the company employ in this trade 112 steamers of 11,391 horse power,'and 405 iron and other boats, the whole giving an aggregate of 120,000 tons. To these also may be added 49 other boats used for carrying coal and other purposes. Letters from Frankfort mention, that in cense .cixtence of the number of Joint Stock Industrial Associations formed throughout Germany there has been a great influx of capital on the Bourse for investment in the different projects. Every day also brings into the city numbers of speculators and capitalists from the surrounding States, attracted by the mania for stocks recently created, the Bourse has, therefore, been unusually crowded. In consequence of this the Chamber of Com merce have charged an entrance fee varying from 10 florins to 21 florins, and none to have admission without a card. The rate of Exchange on London is now 1201 ; the 5 per Cent Metallics are firm at 84,1; and the 4.1 per Cents at 768, with a fair amount of business doing. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's vessel, which is to leave Southampton to-day for India, China, &u., has 411,0201. specie on board, chiefly for Bombay and Calcutta. The Railway Traffic Returns for the past week, as compared with those of the same period last year, show the following results ENGLISH LINES Bristol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead Lan cast t WPgtor £5,548 4,830 237 .5,600 24,028 20,684 155 Corresponding week last year. ... £5,368 4,334 . • . 196 4,800 21,501 19,679 128 Great Northern Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton .. London and South Western London and North Western Manchester, Sheffield, &c... Manchester and S. Junction Midland Newport, Abergavenny, , *c North London Oxford, Worcester, &c Shrewsbury and Hereford South Eastern . South Devon Shropshire Union .. South Yorkshire .... Taff Vale Wes, Cornwall West Hartlepool Whitehaven Junction .... IRISH LINES. Belfast and Ballymena Cork and Bandon Cork and Blackrock Dublin and Wicklow -- 340 153 Dundalk and Enniskillen Waterford and Limerick Waterford and Klkenny SCOTCH LINES. 20,655 10,290 13,416 52,320 8,610 679 27,869 939 18,247 9,710 11,695 51,299 8,370 587 27,197 574 2,034 .... 1,044 .... 14,360 .... 2,249 .... 626 12.584 2,025 710 1,631 Aberdeen .. Caledonian Dundee and .A.rbr.iath 523 ... 425 Edinlanrgh and Glasgow.. ...... .... 5,140 .... 4,535 Glasgow and South Western....... 5,683 .... 5,176 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Sambre and Meuse 1,207 ..... 1,102 Grand Trunk of Canada. Great Western The English Stock Market to-day was very quiet, but investments continue to preponderate. The closing quotations were the highest of the day, and per cent. above those of yesterday. The final quotations for the day were 92a to 921. In the Stock Exchange Money continues easy, but a good demand for accommodation is ex perienced in commercial channels. At Paris to-day the Three per Cent Rentes closed at a fall of t-ths to per cent since yesterday. This unfavourable movement is chiefly attributed to the excessive outstanding speculation for higher prices on the Bourse. The amount of specie and bullion brought in by the Tyne from the West Indies, &c., is stated at about 140,0001. of which about 100,0001. is believed to be in gold. The Railway Share Market was very quiet during the morning, but a number of Stocks experienced an improvement in the afternoon. The closing quotations stood as follows :—Caledonian, 601 ; 61*. Eastern Counties, 9.1 911. East Lancashire, 731 741. Great Northern, 931 94. Do. A., 79 80. Great Western, 621 63. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 84 841. London and Nord' Webtern, 102 10:4 Manchester ; Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 26 261. Midland Stock 710 718. North British, 31 311. South Eastern and Dover, 66* 661 York Newcastle, and Berwick, 76-1 77k. York and North Midland, 554 551. AUSTRALIAN MAILS. —The " Shalimar" will take out the next mail for Australia. Letters will be received at the Post Office up to half-past six o'clock, and to half-past seven with fees ; and at the Landing Stage to half-past eight with late fees, on Sunday morning next. THE AMERICAN Mans.—'the American mails will be dispatched to-morrow for New York, per the R.M.S. " Asia." L e tt ers will be received at the General P.tst Office up to seven o'clock, and with fees to eight. At the box on the 6iiisti up to nine o'clock, morning ) with late fees. rope, when a in a ror effects Lek him on the f the itjuries, It was a-e, who d purely an accidental case, and the jury found accordinztv•— On the body of Edward Jones, 45 years of _ the Northern Hospital, from the effects of wounds suL.. on his throat by himself, with a knife, whilst labouring under the effects of drink, as stated in our paper of yester- day The jury found a verdict accordingly.-0a the body of a sailor named Frederick Rosenberg, who died in the Southern Hospital. The deceased had been working on board a ship, and it appeared that he fell into the hold, and to the hospital, where he died of the injuries. was take Verdict, accidental death. " DOING THE GREEN ONES." —Four boys, amongst whom was one named Austin Baker, were charged, yesterday, before Mr. Mansfield, with stealing some hens. The most remarkable feature in the case was this. Baker, who seemed to be about twelve years of age, was a smart intelli eent lad. In the first place, he stole a nice faney " chucky," which he sold for a fancy price to a woman who took a fancy to it. Same time after the lad returned, stole the hen again, and actually resold it to the same woman, as a beautiful match for the one he had already disposed of to her ! Thinking a good trade might be done on the capital of this fancy hen, he purloined it a third time, and was in the act of disposing of it again to the same woman, when the original owner claimed the "bird." The boy was given into custody, while the wom an w h om he bad duped con soled herself with the idea that she had got two real prizes, but regretted that she had not a third, and then she could have shown off in " good style " at the next exhibition. Thus pleasing herself, she went to feed her s• bargains," when, to her utter consternation and unspeakable horror, she found the birds had flown. It was some time before she could be made sensible of the real state of the case, and when she was convinced of how the affair stood, she exclaimed" that boy is a genius, or ought to be one." He was ordered to be twice whipped, to be imprisoned three months, and then to be sent to a reformatory. This sort of discipline will probably cure him of his foul propensities. DEATH Or AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—On Friday week were consigned to their final resting place, in the church yard of Beightley, the mortal remains of one of the most eccentric persons that ever lived, a man who volun tarily went to bed in good health, and remained there fur a period of 49 years. Ile went by the cognomen of " Old Threeclaps " in the neighbourhood, but his real name was William Sharp, and he lived at a place called Worlds, not very far from Braithwaite, in the parish of Keighley. He was the son of a small farmer, and from an early age never showed much inclination to steady work. When 30 years of age he took to his bed and the room which he never lett till carried thence on the day of his funeral. The c iuse of this extraordinary conduct it is difficult to ascertain with any degree of certainty, but the principal reason seems to have been a matrimonial disappointment. The wedding day was fixed. This singular character, then a young and, doubtless, ardent lover, accompanied by a friend, wended his way down to the parish church, and there patiently awaited the arrival of the bride-elect. But the bride never came. The father of the damsel sternly and steadily refused his consent. This, combined, it may have been, with other grievances, ima ginary or real, preyed heavily upon a mind certainly not endowed with more than average intellect, and bearing un mistakeable traces of hereditary singularity ; and the result was that the young man consigned himself to a small room, hi h the resolution remainder he o f kepthis ost un fl b measuring ab out 9f t . i n every direction, with the determi nthaetinbulannte spending At the time o f hi s death his window m had never been n ch e la w ; n l e y. opened for 38 years. During the whole period of this self-imposed confinement he never had any serious illness, the only case of indisposition those connected with him can remember being a slight loss of appetite, caused apparently by indigestion, for two or thr ee d a y s . He certainly, physi cally at least, did credit to his fo o d ; f or , though arrived at 79, his flesh was firm, fair, and un eve with flit, and the estimate of his weight As a matter of c)urse, the this eccentric being, and was ushered into his den he • - •ee eedelethes. About a the long ap wricklA was 2401b5., or thereabouts, ide to s, whenever a strap: at elv buried his his limbs became partially benumbed, so that he could not take his food in his accustomed manner. Fr3m this attack he seemed to rally, and not until the evening before his death were any apprehensions entertaind that the attack would prove ultimately fatal,—Doncaster Gazette. THE WEST INDIA MAILS By the Royal Mail Company's steam ship Tyne (the arrival of which at Southampton we announced yesterday), we have received our usual files and advices. The dates of sailing are, Panama, Feb 23rd ; Jamaica, 27th ; Demerara, 9th and 26th : Trinidad, 26th ; Barba does, 28th ; St. Lucia, 27th; Antigua, 28th and 29th ; Grenada, 26th; Porto Rico, March 2nd ; Dominica, Feb. 22th ; St- Thomas, March 3rd. The Tyne brings 47 passengers, and on freight specie valued at 717,318 dollars, and a cargo of 178 serons of cochineal, 5 serons of indigo, 32 bales of sarsaparilla, 2 packages of vanilla, and a general cargo. The Plata arrived out at St. Thomas's on the 2nd inst. Between the sth and 16th March the Tyne experienced strong gales, with very heavy sea and rain, but all the remainder of the voyage moderate weather. Owing to the West India mail packet Parana getting to St. Thomas late on her last voyage to the West Indies, some of the intercolonial steamers could not return to St. Thomas before the period hed elapsed for the Parana to leave the latter island for England ; and the consequence was that she did not bring home all the regular mails from the Spanish Main, British Guiana, and the Windward Islands. A double mail from Demerara, Trinidad, and other important places in the West Indies has been brought by the Tyne. The Island of Jarna;ca was healthy, with the exception of cold and intermittent fever. Great preparations were making for the opening of an industrial exhibition in March. We regret to per ceive an announcement of the death of C. C. Jones, Esq., of the Colonial Bank, St. Kitts. The outward packet, with the first February mails, did not arrive at Kingston until the 25th, being three days late. The bills for promoting education and sanitary reform, sent up from the Assembly, had been rejected by the Legislative Council by a majority of six to two. According to the Kingston Morning Journal, the accounts of Mining operation at Charing Cross, belonging to the Jamaica Wheal Company, are exceedingly favourable, and justify sanguine hopes of ultimate success. Exchange on London, 90 days, I . per cent. prem. The barque Cambrian and brig Naiad of London, the barque Glengariff and brigantine St. Lawrance of Liverpool, the brig Garland of Dublin, and the barque Trelawny of Glasgow, had arrived at the port of Kingston. From British Guiana we have accounts of serious organised disturbances which had broken out in Berbice, and for the suppression of which a military force had been despatched by the Go• vernor. The riots, which had their deeper causes in the jealousy of race, were excited by the ravings of a fanatic named Orr, a creole of the colony, whom some of our readers may !remember under the name of the " Angel Gabriel," as having cnused riots, by similar means, in Greenock last year. An ordinance had been passed authorising the Governor to enrol and call out the militia. The steamer Tyne had been despatched to Barba does for additional troops. Serious disturbances have taken place at Queenstown and the other parts of Essequibo, the Arabian coast,.and on the islands of Leguan and Wakepaam. The weather during the fortnight had continued very dry, with only an occasional passing shovier. The estates were greatly in want of water, and the growth of the sugar cane was retarded by the long continued drought. The work on the estates was almost entirely suspended, in consequence of the disturbances throughout the colony. The exports from this colony during the fortnight were very small. Sugar, 603 hogsheads, 58 tierces, 179 bar rels; rum, 278 puncheons, 71 hogsheads, 46 barrels; molasses, 214 puncheons, 7 barrels ; rice, 600 bags; charcoal, 100 barrels ; greenheart timber, 225 logs. There was a complete stagnation of trade amongst the merchants. At Porto Rico the cholera had nearly disappeared, but ships from that island were still un:ler quaran tine. The other islands were healthy. Intelligence from Jacmel has been received to the 28th ult. The Emperor Soulouque had returned to Port-au-Prince with his army after having passed a few clays at Cape Haytian to review his troops, after the ineffectual attempt to unite the two pertions of the island under one flag. One of the Jacmel regiments returned on the 28th. All was quiet in Port-au-Prince, and it was hoped that business would soon recover from the stagnation into which it had been thrown by the late events. It was reported that the French and British consuls would take immediate steps to bring about, if pos sible, some amicable arrangement between the Haytians and the Spanish side of the island. The refusal of the Flaytian soldiers to fight against the Dominicans proves clearly that the people wish for a peaceful solution of the question. The following ships of the Royal Navy were left at Port Royal, Feb. 27th, at 7 p.m. :—Termagant, Commodore Kellett; Malacca, Imaum, Argus, Hermes, Espeigle. Communicated with Boenawen, Rear-Admiral Fanshawe, February 27th, running into Port l=oyal, ten miles distant. At St. Thomas, March 3rd, .lI.M, surveying vessel Scorpion. Letters from Stockholm state that the mixed c-Anmission charged to prepare the bases of a customs union between the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway have just pre sented an international bill on the subject. Sir Joshua Rowe, K.C.8., who for upwards of twenty years has been Chief Justice of Jamaica, and who, amid the most exciting party contests, has prese r ved the regard and esteem of colonists of every Class, is about to retire from the bench. An international address from the inhabitants of Taunton, Somerset, to those of Taunton, New England, deprecating any war between this country and America, has received the signatures of the bailiffs of the borough, the ministers of religion of all denominations, and many of the inhabitants. SUPPOSED Loss OF AN INDIAMAN.—OR Wednesday advices were received at Lloyd's, by the Commander, Dohrman, master, which arrived off Deal from Porto Rico, bound to Hamburg, that on the 18th of February she fell in with the Indiaman Earl of Shaftesbury, Adamson, master, bouud from London to Calcutta, in lat. 48 N. lon. 16 West, in a very depressed state, having encountered a heavy gale on the 16th instant. The Commander remained in company for two days, when the vessels were separated by a heavy gale from the S. W., and no more was seen of the Earl of Shaftesbury. MAUNDA.Y THURSDAY. —Yesterday the ceremony of distributing the ancient and royal charities took place at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. This year the recipients amounted to 37, the number corresponding with her Majesty's age. A procession, consisting of a Yeoman Usher and 12 Yeomen of the Guard (one carrying the alms), her Majesty's sub-almoner, the secretary and yeoman, the assistant, and the choristers having been formed, and the clergy and officers having taken their respective seats, the service commenced. After the first ;anthem, £1 15s. was distributed to each woman. To each man shoes and stockings. The second anthem was then sung, and at its termination woollen and linen clothes were distributed. After this ceremony had concluded the third anthem was given, and then the purses c eataining the Maunday money were distributed to each recipient. Two prayers, composed for the occasion, having been read, the ceremony con cluded. The Bishop of Oxford, High Almoner, having to attend for the Bishop of London at the Confirmation of the Princess Royal, the Sub-Almoner, Dr, Jelf, officiated for his Grace. There was a very full attendance of the clergy, and also of the nobility and gentry on the occasion. LIFE AT BARCELONA.—The Barcelona papers contain accounts of two strange crimes just committed in that city. A toreador, named Sevilla, got into a quarrel with a butcher of the Plaza de San Miguel, and struck him in the face, after which he took to flight. The next morning he walked slowly before the butcher's shop, and the butcher's wife seeing him cried out, that if ever he dared present himself before her again, she would make him repent his insult to her husband. After a while, the toreador returned, and said tauntingly, " You see, my fine lady, that I am not afraid of you! " The woman, making no reply, seized one of the huge knives which Spanish butchers use, and which are nearly as sharp as a razor, and with one blow, skilfully applied, cut his left arm completely off. She was immediately arrested, and as she was being conveyed to prison, exclaimed re. peatedly, " I care not what is done to me, as long as my husband is avenged ! " Before the emotion caused by this affair had subsided, the second crime was perpe trated. A. young man of twenty, and a girl of sixteen, after walking arm-in-arm, in the Calle de Capel lanes, proceeded to the Plaza da Calenque, where they faced each other as if about to separate. After an animated but apparently not angry conversation, the girl suddenly drew a poignard from her pocket, and stabbed her companion in the breast. The young man fell, covered with blood and fainting into the arms of a labouring man who happened to be passing at the moment, and the girl took to flight, and could not afterwards be discovered. The man was conveyed into a druggist's shop, and there the medical man ascertained that the dagger was poisoned. Means were immediately employed to counteract the effect of the p.ison, and the w,,und, when dressed, was declared, although serious, not mortal. The young man refuses to divulge the cause of the quarrel. LATEST INTELLIG? ENCE. GENERAL AMNESTY IN FRANCE PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING, The Moniteur of this day states that the Em peror renews the offer made at the inauguration of the Empire, and that the birth of an Imperial Prince presents an occasion for the authorisation to return to France to all who shall declare that they submit loyally to the Government the nation has chosen. The Siecle calls attention to the fact that the numerous pardons announced in the Moniteur, on the occasion of the birth of a Prince, do not ex tend to any political offences. ho was employ Ile was en a of machinery ca .d he died RUSSIA, A despatch from Berlin, dated the 19th instant, mentions that letters received from St. Petersburg state that, after the conclusion of peace, con ferences will be held for the purpose of discussing and examining projects of reform, in regard to commercial regulations. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING The great talk of the day is, naturally, about the very remarkable speeches delivered yesterday by the Emperor, to the Plenipotentiaries of the Con gress, the Senate, the Legislative Body, and the Council of State, in reply to the congratulations on the birth of the Imperial Frince. These speeches, forwarded to you this morning, will reach you before this letter. I may content myself by saying that, even those persons who doubted most strongly of peace, doubt no longer now that his son is born, " at a moment at which an era of general recon ciliation is announced to Europe," and that the child is "consecrated in his cradle by the peace which is being prepared." I must also draw your attention to the passage in the speech, to the Council of State, in which the prospect of the " peaceable reign of a prudent liberty ' is opened out to Frenchmen. Although peace seems certain, I am assured that Lord Clarendon is not altogether satisfied with the terms on which, in spite of his firmness, he has been brought to consent to it, and that he expects they will encounter great opposition. But his defence will be that in presence of the marked, " cordial understanding " between France and Russia he could not hold out for too much. Sardinia, too, I hear, is greatly vexed at the turn matters have taken, and it is alleged that Turkey is not over pleased. Even Austria is represented to be dissatisfied, not with the peace, but with the arrangement that has been come to about the Danubian Principalities —such arrange ments not being at all advantageous to her interests. And apropos of Austria, I hear a curious thing said—it is, that Count Buol, her principal negotiator, has allowed himself to be betrayed into speaking of the French Emperor in no very respectful terms, in more than one great Legitimist salon, and that this has come to the ears of his Majesty. The thing seems improbable, I confess, but it is positively asserted to be true. The Constitutionnel publishes to-day one of its soi disant Vienna letters, but which are really semi official, and it confirms what I was able to tell you some days back, that it was on the express invitation of Austria that Prussia was admitted to the Congress, and that as a party to the treaty of 1841 she will be allowed a voice in the settlement of the third point of the conditions accepted by Russia. The Empress, the Imperial child, and the Prince Jerome, are all going on well. It is quite true, as I told you on Sunday, that the deliverance of her Majesty was a very painful affair : indeed at one moment her life was seriously in danger, and the child was in danger of being suffocated. Forceps, it appears, had to be employed, and they have left some marks on the child'S face. I am told that only seven members of the Institute went up to the Emperor yesterday to pay their respects on the birth of his son. This fact shows that that learned and illustrious body has not become one whit more reconciled to the Imperial regime than it was. 1 he newspapers announce that Admiral Penaud, commander of the Baltic fleet, has left for Brest. The Bourse has again declined to-day From Berlin we learn that the yoimg Prince Frederick William had formally demanded of the King, his uncle, permission to marry the Princess Royal of England, and that his Majesty had granted it, in presence of the royal hinny and the court. Thus, the marriage of the very youthful couple may he considered as definitively resolved on ! Accounts from Constantinople, to the 10th, say that the weather was detestable; that the Armenians and Greeks had protested against the batti-hamoun ; and that the French had sent off 1,860 Russian prisoners to Odessa, to be exchanged. THE NAPOLEON DYNASTY IMPORTANT SPEECHES OF THE EMPEROR The Moniteur of Wednesday contains in full, the reports of the Emperor's interviews with the Senate, and other august bodies, of which, yesterday, only telegraphic sumtuarieg were accessible— THE EMPEROR'S REPLY TO THE SENATE, " Monsieur the President of the Senate,—The Senate hat. I shared my joy, on hearing that Heaven had given me a son and you have hailed a fortunate event—the coming into the world of a child of France. It is intentionally that I use this expression. In fact, the Emperor Napoleon, my uncle, who had applied to the new system created by the revolu tion, all that the old regime contained that was great and noble, resumed this a n cient d enom i na ti on o f Children of France. In fact, gentlemen, when an heir is born, who is destined to perpetuate a national system, that child i s not merely the scion of a family, but he is, in truth, algo the son of the entire country—and this name points out to 11 . 114 his duties. If that was true under the old monarchy, whic h represented more exclusively the privileged classes, lo w much more justly is it so no w , w h en th e S overe i gn is the choice of the nation, the first citizen of the country, an d the representative of the interests of all ? I thank you for the wishes you form for this Child of France and for the Empress." REPLY TO THE LEGISLATIVE CORPS. " Monsieur the President of the Legislative Corps,--I have been deeply moved by the manifestation of your sentiment s at the birth of the son whom Providence has deigned to vouchsafe to me. You have saluted, in him, the hope we love to indulge respecting the perpetuity of a s 3 s'etn th at we regard as the surest guarantee for the general interest 4 of the country. But the unanimous acclamations that sur round his cradle, do not prevent my reflecting on the destv i flies of those who were born b ot h i n t h e same p l ace nu", under analogous circum s t ances . If I h ope that h i s l o t will be more fortunate, it is because, in the first place, more confidinc , in Providence, I cannot doubt its protection , when I see it raising up anew, by a concurrenc e of extraordinary circumstances, all that it thought fit to humble forty years ago, as if its intention had been to mak e old, by martyrdom and misfortune, a new dynasty proceeding from the ranks of the people. Then history has its teaching! which I shall not forget. It says to me on the one bane , that we must not abuse fortune, and on the other that a dynasty must remain faithful to its origin, and exclit sively occupy itself with the popular interests for which it had been created. Thi s c hi l d, consecrated in his cra dle by the peace now being prepared, by the blessing of the Divine and Holy Father, intelligence was conveyed 11 electricity one hour after his birth. Lastly, by the acclama tions of the French people, whom the Emperor so muc h loved, this child, I say, will be worthy, I hope, of the destinies which await him. I th an k you, gentlemen, f o r the wishes you form for him and for the Empress." REPLY TO THE COUNCIL OF STATE. " Monsieur the President of the Council of State,— Th . Council of State, intimate of the Sovereign and his g overn.: meat, initiated into all his p ro j ec t s , an d associated w ith al l his acts, would feel, I am well persuaded, a lively partieiPs; tion, both in the happiness of th e present, and the h o pe ei the future. Gentlemen, none can labour beyond yourselves to consolidate that future. St rong i n the great traditions of the Council of State of th e fi rst empire, you will dab(); rate the laws which in consecrating the great principles 0r the revolution, pacify th e country , consol i date its po wer, subdue party spirit, and p re p are t h e peacea b le re i gn Of wise liberty. I rely up on y our i n t e lli gence and the patriot ism of which you have hitherto given me so many proofs, !° facilitate to the child just b orn th e accomp li shmen t O f 1"" future destinies." These words of the Emperor were received with unani°l - acclamations. THE FRENCH EMPRESS AND THE INFANT PRINCE. The bulletin received yesterd a y morn i ng from P ar i s s tate that her Majesty is progressing most satisfactorily. • 1 A numerous body of th e d e b r i s o f t h e old Impane l Guard went to the Tuileries on Wednesday, to offer * bouquet to the Empress, and to present their homage to the Imperial Infant. Notre Dame will present an imposing spectacle on Sande' next. The Emperor and members of the chief bodies of the state go in pomp to the cathedral to hear Te Deum in Cele bration of the recent birth. _ It is calculated, from statistical tables, that the numb er of children born in Fran c e on M arc h 16, to all of whom the Emperor and the Empress have promised to be godfather and godmother, must be about 2,500. Every one of then children, whose families may be willing to accept it, will lam told, receive a present of 3,000 fr. It is intend ed that all the boys shall be christ ene d Louis Eugene, and the girls Eugenie Louise. The proportion of boys to girls born in France is about 45 to 43. A Paris correspondent of Le Nord says that " the cor respondents of a certain illustrated English journal ha" been making the most strenuous efforts to obtain portrait of the Imperial Prince and his aurae for their next num ber. If the said portraits are not nearer the original than those which have been given of the pl en ip o t en ti aries, the English public will be sadly mystified." 9 Addresses of congratulation to the Emperor continue tf pour in. The following is from the Imperial Court 0 Paris : " Sire,— The Imperial Court of Paris brin g s to the foot of the Throne its congratulations a n d it s j o y. Providence, in responding to the prayers of the Emperor, gives to the pre.; sent the security of the future. The Imperial dynast , ' i d strengthened. France may henceforth repose tranquil 3 ,, a 8 confident under the g rea t name o f N apo l eon . May tu august child, the o b ject o f so muc h l ove for all tru l y Frell e b hearts, grow up in the virtues which have made his race to force and glory of the country." That from the Municipal Council of Lyons is as f°l lows : " Sire,—Providenee, which so visibly protects g, s ti s r t Majesty, has just conferred on you a favour the 10 %, grateful to your hea r t, an d th e most precious to Fra nc :, Of all the cities of th e emp i re, Lyons is perhaps the Dg which owes the most to your glorious dynasty. ur it, nearly a century it has never been completelY exe it, from civil disturbances, except when under its shield• therefore, accepts as a blessin g f rom H eaven, everYtilti r r r that consolidates and perp e t ua t es th e power of Yu e , august family. Permit us, s i re , t o b e t h e f a i t hful inl. nd preters of the sentiments of th e p eop l e o f L yons , in leY l 7 at your feet, and at those of the Empress, the most 1 10 congratulations, and the assurance of the most reef , " devotion." The Municipal Council of B or d eaux thus exP- - reseet4 itself baud : " Sire,—Your Majesty h as save d F rance. You gud directed her strength to war d s i n d ustry, commerce, to the arts—you have just added by war a noble ge`Thi your crown of glory, and the wisdom of y ou r po ticp ha a removing old national prejudices, will have re.establ i iv 74 the balance of power in E uro p e . P rov id ence , in if von your Majesty a son, rewards you for all the goat , ,f t u. have effected. Accept, Sir e , th e respect f u l COtigr°oo lations of the Municipal Council of Bordeaux. God, pia protects France, and who gu id es you so visibly„' the w listen to our desires. and will gu id e t hi s c hild rot t.. glorious path opened by his f a th er . Af ter h av ing e i ti u ce tuted the joy and pride of hi s augus t mot h er, the god Imperial will continue .your labour of civilization dill progress. He will bear, like you, Sire, a name which fi t, never perish. We are, with the m os t pro f oun d resr o ur Sire, the most humble and ob e di ent servan t s of 7 Majesty." ial Similar addresses have been presented by the IL 3 lt l r, courts of Pau, Metz, Dijon, B esancon , C aen, MontP? lc ipal Poitiers, Toulouse, and Bou rges; a l so b y the rnen:tiersi councils of Versailles, Met z , T ou l ouse, Amiens, F'3„l,,tbe Bourges, and Avignon; by th e C onse il d'Amiraute '1.4000. Marine Prefet, and the p ersons emp l oyed in the nial„f the department of Brest ; by th e C onsu l t i ng C omm ittee v Colonies ; and by the clergy of the see of Verdun. The Austrian Garette states, from Kalish and BrodY i ' il l el 4- the joy caused by the hopes of p eace i s un i versa l aut: 6 - hroughout Russia, especially among the peasarAry• fS° The Marquis of Trevalzio has just died at M'la v "d has left one of the richest private libraries in Italy, magnificent The Ba Board n collection ec Trade tio nassented of having medals. to the retur n o f gtesm per share out of the c a pit a l o f t h e General Screeetable Shipping Company, th e sum i n quest i on will be revel by the shareholders on Wednesday or Thursday He at ' s O r. A society has just b een f orme d i n Edinburgh for tb ile art pose of promoting th e p rac ti ce an d i mpro v e ment n ft d to b e of photography. Sir David Brewster has consents W orYd its president. There is to be an exhibition o f the of the members once a year. „ a nt t e , The great Imperial f oun d r y h a d b een c l ose d, Pu rs ", a firin, an order from St. Petersburg. This circumstanc e call het the impression, that Russia intended to abandon naval establishments in the Black Sea. ff 125° h ry The population on the coasts of the Sea of M ° de Commercial the news of an armistice with the greatest , a n • Commercial became st mated, and articles h a d been good prices. At Taganrog all the houses illumi na te To o A correspondent of Galignani writes :—" ; Neu which is now a very common complaint among iscl`esr'ed, is be at.ributed to a part of the head being so uneveeets• consequence of the extreme smallness of the h n ori ole fashion which is not at all suited to such a cold end ° exceedinglioid climate as that of France." „ i s T DEPARTURE OF Mit. B UCHANAN , THE AMERI.,-. g loo. ° TER.—Mr. Buchanan, the American minister , WI to th e _ duced hi s successor , the Honourable Mr. palls diplomatic circle, will take his departure for Paris, :Nberet, ter will remain for about three weeks. The ex-M 1 u° f Aver, return to England for a few days, and sail from oth of pool for America by the packet of the 1 6 th or April. numberSeve of Seven ri s es is ts te , rs th u r f ee ch o a f rit wh , o h m ave ar n e rri L ve a d za a r t i st i‘ s i or e f a e e l i e l l r e f ; on their way to Constantinople, where the tlP hus we ars th e he m i s sion raging. One of the priests has a wooden leg; cross of the Legion of Honour, and was formerly a ary in India. f Of MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials d Oa; Lor 's sister of the present Duke of Bedford, with „, rq ui 0 , Rachel Russell, youngest daughter of the late , P a ll , jain o e r Wandesford Butler, brother of the late 1. the cast' Ormonde, will be solemnised the drat week 10 ing month, THE BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC. Captain Watson's advance squadron left Kiel on the sth inst.. and were off Moen Head on the following morning ; but, as the wind blew hard from the east, Capt. Watson determined on not wasting coal by forcing the squadron against it. Her Majesty's ships Pylades, 21, Captain D'Eyncourt ; Sampson, 6, Captain Hand; Falcon, 17, Commander Pullen ; and Harrier, 17, Com mander Derriman, had anchored under Moen Head the night before, and were compelled to get under way when the wind shifted. On the Imperieuse, 51, Captain Watson, C. 8., meeting these ships, they all steamed to the northward, and anchored north-west of the Falsterbo Light house, where they remained until the wind abated, which it did in about three hours after they anchored, when they all left, and steering to the eastward, passed Bornholme on Friday morning, reaching the south end of Oeland about noon, off which they passed through large fields of loose ice: continuing on, they passed the south end of Gothland at midnight, arrived at Faro on Saturday morning at nine, and found the inner harbour completely frozen over, and great quantities of loose ice in the outer. On the 12th the Euryalus, 51, Captain Ramsey, C. 8., joined them, last from Kiel ; she arrived in a snow storm, and anchored near the Imperieuse, and though only about two hundred yards from her, Captain Ramsey was nearly half an hour in cutting his way through the ice in one of his boats to report his arrival. The squa dron would weigh in a day or two, and cruise further. THE MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—The anniversary festival of this excellent institution was held on Tuesday evening at the London Tavern, under the presi dency of Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. The subscriptions of the evening, we are pleased to say, presented tho largest amount ever received at the society's anniversary, being upwards of £1,900. THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.--Traffic Statement, week ending March lb :—Total number of omnibuses at work, 374 ; average number running daily throughout the week, 364; total receipts, 6,2311 3s 8d; average per omnibus for seven days, 1712 s 4d. THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—The committee for managing the Sussex Memorial Fund have decided upon having erected on the new wing of the Royal Free Hos pital in Gray's Inn-road, a colossal statue of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as a mark of respeot to his memory. The statue is to be executed in stone, by Mr. John Thomas, at his studio in Paddington. THE LATE DUEL AT BERLIN.—The Zeit of Berlin pub lishes a letter from the Procureur of the King, who states that when he heard of the duel, he informed the King. His Majesty at once pronounced himself strongly against the duel, and ordered the Procureur to collect in all haste the materials that could throw light upon the affair, and bring about an understanding satisfactory to all parties. The Procureur obeyed the orders of the King without a moment's loss of time and with the greatest zeal, and at the wish of his Majesty made a journey into Silesi a on . the night of the 6th of March, order to take the neces sary depositions of a person implicated. Although the Procureur had informed M. de Ilinkeldey of his depar ture, and of the object of his journey, the latter showed a fatal eagerness to proceed with the arrangement for the duel, and surrounded his proceedings with a secrecy so absolute that all the efforts made to prevent the denoue ment were fruitless. M. de Ilinkuldey hid his design from his family and from all around Mtn. An employee of the police is the only person who appears to have been fully acquainted with the projected duel, and of the hour at which it would take plug.