The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-01 00:00:00

S del. TO-MORROW o-monstovs, the 2nd Instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 11, ,Exchange-buildings, 25 Bales COTTON WOOL, all faults. WM. CLARE & SONS, To- sto Rao e 2nd instant, at Twel k, at the ,e-buildings 7i Tons SAPANWOOI from Bombay.—For iLADSTONE & SERJE now landing, e x Alna; Lra apply to gTSON, Brokers FRIDAY On account of whom it may concern On. FRIDAY next, the 4th January, at - Half--past One o'clock, at Messrs. Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brunswick.street, About 900 Barrels Damaged FLOUR, ez Constitution, from New York.—For particu Rodocanachi, Sons 14t Co., Merchants, or to J. & M. HARNETT, Brokers Lars apply to Messrs, On FRIDAY next, the 4th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 16, Fxchange-buildings. 2824 Barrels American TAR, now landing ex Black Swan, from New York —For further par ticulars apply to Messrs. Maclean, Maris & Co., M.rehants, or to J. H. RAYNER & CO., Brokers. On FRIDAY' nest, the 4th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at S. Dutton & Nephedi's office, 14. Exchange-build,ngs, 75 Tons Tampico FIISTIC, . . . landing, ea iris, from Tampico, in Georie's Dock.—Apply to S. DUTTON & NEPHEW, Brokers 's saler Apply to 15th instant, an ,m, Atherton-b❑ Apply to 100 Bale, East I HUGHES Apply to 00l Brokers !owing days, gs, Dale-street, Dther WOOLS. RONALD, Woel Brokers. o TUESDAY. the 15th instant, and following days, at Browne. Hunter & Co.'s office, 2, Dale-st, eet, 1500 Bales Fast India WOOL. BROWNE, HUNTER & CO., Brokers , Ou Ad,. TO EXPORTERS, VINEGAR, PICKLES, SAUCES JAMS, &c., Prepared Always on Sale, by xpressly for _ EVE I:.Y & CO., 35, South John-street xportation. CHEESE DR EXPORT. NORTH WILTSHIRE, TRUCKLE always in Stock, and Apply to and Other CHEESE Lrefully packed, CLIBBORN & THOMAS, 35, North John-street, IEI YRE'S 114 Ticket. Prize. r Yr. q NEW Mr White Mr S Cox , Mr Hy Ri, 9.. Mr T lialener 118.. 85...A1r C YEAR'S TREAT, 1855, DRAWN AT LEECE INN 153.. 9.. Mr Charlea O'Briei 155.. 82.. Mr Oliver William 157.. 2.. Mr Jno Hall ~'-buildi. 151.. Mr. Jno Lewis 7.. Mrs 3,l`Millan 81... Mr Jos Towns, 64... Mr R Brown ize. Name. . Mr Sandon . Mrs Ellen Molymu Tahana Smith as Knowles 4.. Mr M •ge Camlck Mr B Lawson 31.. Mr Bei Mns Ein*he3 Mr Lee - 10.. Mr Gardhan 12.. Mr T Franklin 9C. Mr James Davis 63.. Mrs Ann Worbuck Mr Thomas Smith Mr Thomas Unwin 0.. 72.. Mrs Baker 5.. 35.. Mr Jas Parr 4.. 33.. Mr Henry Smith Z.. 56.. Master Thos Birch 7.. 79.. Mr Thos Rigby D.. 93.. Mr DOI_ 97, lagennis r Jno Parker Jno Davies 80.. Bob the Groom 13.. Mr Henry Holmes 47.. Mr Williams 51..5 Mr Mulholland , )..Mr Griffin 0.. Mr Eaton 8.. Mr J Masa 12.. 53.. Mr Fowler 26.. 59.. Mr Wm Russell 27.. 22.. Mrs Carter 30.. 71.. Mr Jno Tindall 39.. 62.. Mr Sundial (?) 44.. 96..' 4 r Sweep Mr Rd_Charnock Owens 074.. .Mr George Smith 088.. _2 ..Mr James Clark Patterson atrick Bu ke 16.. Mr Clark 5.. Mr Jno Jones 3.. Mr. Haghar Mr Jno Hewitt 262.. 17.. 51r T He 263.. 43.. Mrs T lirthrington 321.. 54.. 11h. J Hargreaves 325.. 3r..Mr Todd 326.. 6g.. Mr W Harrison 28.. Mr d r Parker Mr James Webster Mr John Kickenson Mr Langle: 100.. Mr Joseph - Cashen 36.. Mr Robert Chatham Mr C Cashel R.. Mx Ante 94.. Mr 556.. 18.. Mr James Haslefon 561.. 46.. Mr William Male 583.. 84.. Mr Wicks Mr ,Thomas Dowling Mr Thomas Dixson illr J M r Thomas Meado' M r Thomas Brown the production of L SUBSCRI E ALBERT, D CATTLE SHOW, vises fulfilled in 1855, of Lincolnshire, and al IARKE r their highest ID, a bupply has enced whic s bound to his pa TREAT The cond LI to a coat TION TO TO CASUAL PURCHASERS eoown. On the whole, de 8000 act of u!, it is hoped, NORTHERI) Apply o with t In furt resources of Norfolk localities ebrated for ti ave bee or any of equal Eyre, grateful f the public. *ho! the mans BY PRIN( IT THE. SMITHFIEL NOTICE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES." On and after THIS DAY, the Ist of January, the Price of t to casua purchasers, advanced to 7 IA LF- PENCI No chang 8 math Subscrip tion, which 11 cont s Od per annum, tor which sum the paper is d( the residenbe of Subscribers, within Five Miles'of the Liver poo mornir lanua xchange, by Eight 'clock every !RIM TUESDA THE old year clos excited as'it wa the Emp UARY 1, 1856 with the pnblica ESE, AN LEADENHALI i putation atronage, I 7 PEtmPil attentio NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.-LIVERPOOL be an incalculable blessing to mankind, we have always admitted; but, in the absence of any prospect of attaining this great and holy object, we, with every other honest and indeperident journal in the land, have endeavoured to rouse the loyal, patriotic, and determined warlike spirit of the nation, that we might not see our native land surprised by a wily enemy, or our war resources xliausted by the•imbeeility of our own rulers, or the treachery of professing friends. We put it to the - -British= public - at large whether their - Press was not right in all this ? France, or rather reactionary France, thinks not, and heaps on the public organs of England a bitter rebuke. The pamphlet commences with these words :-- According as the probabilities of a pacific solu tion assume greater consistency, certain organs of the English press are endeavouring, by irritating articles, to endanger the effect of sage resolutions, and of the calm attitude of the Allied In misrepresenting the form and rch.aracter of a document which it is the duty of the " official parties to keep secret, a risk is run of offending " the Power which Europe has applied to for concess " sions, when the interest of all is to facilitate the led on. It si " Governments " succe: ling now t ss to suppose that any states an behold, otherwise t in with the deepest We have in judgment on imputing to, the British Press the dishonesty of purpose, and the most unwar rantable political depravity. We can, happily, afford to bear these charges as two years experience of war has shown the public that all the Press has recorded has proved but too true, andiall it has predicted has come to , pass. We h ave witnessed an immense sacrifice of life, and a "pro fuse expenditure of treasure ; and is it because the popular organs of this country have not suggested the meeting of a Congress of crowned, heads, to adjust what is, in its essence, a struggle between Constitutional freedom and despotic rule, that we are to be exposed to the wrathful scribbling of Parisian censors, or French pamphleteers ? That the Emperor Napoleon wrote, or evenfsanctioned, the publication of the brochure in question we can not believe. He is not the man to indulge in the vulgarities of unscrupulous political historians, and to ' remind England of disasters which befel her in the management of " I, lonies in a past century, and in an age when the punilc -"aq less enlightened, and the popular voice had scarcely in the Imperial Council. S o much for the auL.,„_ of England's condemnation. We will now pass in review the principles and plans propounded in this anonymous production. Having alluded to the awkward circumstances hich preceded the presont close alliance between France and England, the nameless writer contends that the Allies have a right to proclaim, that in present a sacrifice incompatible with the making a , Russia cannot decline in pub .. .ary, she must eem of Europe, price upon it export. Each weekly packet from the United States must, also, bring a large bullion freight. Both Australia and America have become the pro ducers of that metal wdlibut which our politicA econotiikts*Atend we vaiiti - ot exist, while they boast that' the system , V they have laid down to obtain, and retain a large 'supply of bullion in this country, is the most perfect' piece of machinery human ingenuity could have invented. Those who extol the laws which regulate the influx and efflux of gold, throw aside altogether the natural laws of supply and demand andi takg 'gold but clf the category of commodities. They selected it as the arbitrary standard of value when it was the scarcest of all metals ; and when its production rfrOm pirres and regions difficult of access was rendered impossible,.by the low price placed upon it. Having first deprived the people of this country of the use of that.paper which had done so much for all classes in war, for industrial and peaceable purposes, they next endeavoured to retard the importation of bullion by the low Mint price placed upon it. Whether there was any well defined political object in such a course is a question into which Ivo need the triumphs gained by arbi a failed in checking the mercantile, and the social advance lie working, classes s enough for us to bear in mind the fact that gold can be no longer considered the scarcest of metals, and that we are no longer tied down to the quantity which _the world possessed in 1819, when it was selected as the standard of price, and the basis of our money power. As a standard, even with a costly war tending to give it a high artificial value, we find it quoted in the bullion market at 775. 9d. for bars, and 76s- 3d. per ounce for coin, while the Bank of England are compelled to give 775. 9d. for all gold taken to them of standard fineness. And while the State is bound to return through the Mint 775• 100. per ounce in coin, reducing American eagles to bars of standard fineness at 765. 3d. per ounce, and sending them to the Mint to be re-coined into Legal Tender of the value of 775. 101 d., would be by no means an unprofitable business. But that there must be a heavy loss incurred somewhere in the course of these operations is self-evident; and is the State to be at the expense of supporting a standard price, which is positively against this coun try and in favour of all others ? With regard to the basis of our circulation, and the true extent of our money power, we can now boast of a supeificial of fifties of miles in California, and of hundreas v. —.:1" Of the richest gold fields i n Australia. Our means or a',T nmun i cat i on with those countries are iilimitable ; anct time required for the transit of gold both from America and the Antipodes may be calculated within a few hours and days. The 'production of that precious metal in both of these prolific regions goes on increasing steadily from month to month. How comes it, then, that with all these great advantages giving consistency and vitality to our money laws, and sanctifying, as if by a miracle, the wildest and most besotted theories of the bullion ist, our Banks have the cool temerity to say that that which they call money is scarce, to demand six and seven per cont. for bills having not more than 95 days to run, and to contract the accommodation required to sustain the trade and industry of the community, at a moment when the defence and safety of the Empire demand that both profits and wages should be maintained ? Do they doubt the existence of inexhaustible supplies of gold in California and Australia ? Do they question our power of producing exchangeable commodities to give for gold, or the certainity of our means of transit? Or ea,n it be they Suspect that the practical operation of our bullion laws will fail in securing us the lion's share of the metallic trea sure produced in-our C,)lonies and America ? No such ideas can enter the noddles of the most rampant advocates Of the present usurious rates of interest. We have entered on a ry of P. icres b new era, EEL, JONES LOYD, and all the L(31( to the days of ADAM SMITH ;o for nothing If we require a metallic reserve in our Banks of 100,000,0001., if there be any truth in the prevailing monetary doctrines, and any" reason in the advocates of the law as it now stands, the accu mulation of that sum must take place within a miraculously short space of time ; and the present rates of interest demanded for money can only be looked upon as a monster Banking shave. There are those who contend that if,our present system does not keep gold in the country; as long as we abide by it there is no principle by which other states can keep large accumulations of bullion from us, that the evils we now complain of are purely momentary, and that great as the depreciation in the value of our national substance may be, still it cannot be avoided. The fool BRUTUS could scarcely have d•ivised a more ingenious defence to appease the wrath of a suffering and exasperated multitude. Between the Ist January and the 18th of July, 1852, a period of six months and a half, We saw the bunion reserves of the Bank of England increase 4,675,0001., or from 17,557,0001. to 22,232,0001. Again, from April 5 to June 14, 1855, just two months and nine days, we witnessed another increase of 2,982,0001: or from. 15,079,000/. to 18,061,0001. In three years, or rather from 1:851to 1854, the Bank of England were large buyers of gold, a subject to which we will call the attention of our readers at an early date, as the Bank's transactions at those periods, shew that there is no difficulty in obtain ing as much as 15,000,000 i. of bullion • within a year, as i they did in 1852, when it suits the Directors' views to enter the bullion market as buyers. In a word, there can-be no real Want of bullion felt in this country, after the gold discoveries that have taken place. 04r present commercial, embarrassments, and industrial miseries, date, altogether, from a vain attempt to force 'on this country, principles which are not only at variance with sound theories, but which have been totally overthrown by an entirely new condition of things. PEEL'S object was to give us the command, by law, )f a sufficient stock of bullion, at a fixed maximum ; whereas, that metal can now be produced limit, at one-sixth of the price he placed It is, in ,fact. our Mint standard, and not the law of demand and . supply, which keeps up its value without and until the laws of 1819 and 1844 are repealed, we shall never escape those anomalies from which we are; now suffering. If we wait foy gold to I repeal the Bank Charter Act, by the increase in the 'natural Iprogress of production, we should like to know what remedy our great - - money oracles will piopose, or, what excuse they will make to the commercial and industrial classes; 3 now enduring ? Tessure is daily, and it is time they should be and perhaps prepare he elf fora not distant future and precious alliances Such is the lan guage of diplomatic speculation, in which so many statesmen have become bankrupt and lost their putatio Despotism cannot desire, or seek, alliances , edom. We may unite Ins by canals, and, destroy the time and space . . which separate Contin s from Continents by the electric spark, and by steam; but we will never get the purity of Russian despotism to mingle with, or . - seek a close amalgamation with, the poison of Constitutional liberty. But then says the In that situation, the duty of Parisian scribc swan is to seek out under what " and in what circumstances, the acquiescence -Of te Tb • • • I bes'; be reconciled with the dignity on wain. 11 .Tned peace, will find in his enemies of the day before nothing else than brothers." This lave s., second speculation is based upon a misconception which i 10 auota e the ( " POA )verned he Author contributed to detach frog gium and the Rhenish ita na in these ma been no common xcept in the fact that England remained passive when Lours PHILLIPPE sent a French army into Belgium to establish its ind that she would not, after the Vienna, second the policy of France the I on the Rhine. !independence I Congress of \ IBut the climax of our author's hallucinations is that five five great Powers have governed Europe Congress of Vienna. Throughout since the civilisation the popular voice must govern, and in all those parts of Europe where education and refinement have penetrated, the popular vo i ce does, In our Colonies 9f North America, aided by the arms of France,—as the writer we are reviewing very ungraciously reminds us,—it overthrew the Sove reignity of Great Britain ; and it is the Con titutional voice the arms of _England, Europe that will aided conquer Russia, restore permanently the peace of the world, and secure to the rational progress of man kind its inheritance, and lawful dominior If we could suffer our memory to be confounded as to the past, and our vision to be dirnned with !respect to the future, so as to believe it possible that any. five Powers, each enjoying different degrees of enlightenment, with totally dissimilar wants, views, • -- :^ns. separated by foaming gulfs of and swelling oceans of prejudices, the spots living by human plunder and desolation,. would bend theiitieciks to one uniform Men - sure of the fi sacred and common. yoke, we should to subscribe to the doctrine pro pounded by the silly Parisian; and to believe gress ads, in composed of Crown h which these five discordant Powers would exerci predominant influence, would lead to a solution less chimefical than a long record of facts makes reality appear. As for the Western Powers seeking " concessions" from Russia, we must confess we can scarcely understand the ambiguity of the ex- pression Are are not surely seeking from au enemy more than, is just under the circumstances, or more than we can enforce by arms. Without wishing, however, to give more importance to th© contradictory rubbish, and unwarrantable asser tions, this Bourbon production contains, we shall return to it, if it be only to show how far " the " will of PETER the GREAT has been accom " plished." THE return and fixed currents of ;old ar TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1856, MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING There has been no change of importance in the tone of the Cotton Market to-day, and but a moderate business has been done, at steady prices. The sales amount to 7000 bales, and include 1000 taken for speculation, and export. The accounts brought by the America, advise unusually large receipts at the ports, viz., 143,000 bales for the week ending the 19th December, and considerable exports also to this country, viz., 62,000 bales. The latest telegraphic advices from the South report, however; a rise in prices ; middling being quoted at New Orleans on the 19th, at 9 cents, which with Id freight, is equal to 58d to 6d per lb. laid down here. From the Annual statement of the Cotton trade made up to-day, we leant the following : That the aggregate Import of :the past year has been 2,278.145 Bales, against 2,172, 730 last year. The import into 1 iverpool has been 2 ,142,739 Bales, of which 1,608,607 have been American, 134,442 Brazil, 111,846 Egyptian, 279,859 Surat and 7,985 Sundries; against 2,065,887 bales last year, 1,634,200 of which were American,' 107,332 Brazil, 78,942 Egyptian, 237,189 Surat, and 8,234 sundries. The Exports have been 316,900 bales, of which 120,650 have been American, 188,600 Surat, and 7,650 sun d r i es ; against 316,330 bales last year, 137 , 480 being American. 168,550 Surat, and 10,300 sundries._ The quanta 2,101,2. 40,410 30,350 b 29.350 last year), 1,400 Surats (the total amount being 5 360 bales aza'nst 3,960 last year), and of 560 Brazil and Egyptian. The Stocks of the Kingdom amount to 486,470 bales against 626,450 last year. Those of this port, as determined by the actual returns of to-day, are 428,810 bales, or 34,700 bales more than the previous weekly estimates. As, however, a discrepancy more or less consi derable, and this in augmentation of the previous weekly statements, was—because of the immense speculative business which has been transacted—coinmonly looked for, we are inclined to think that the moderation of this differ ence will be regarded. with feelings rather of satisfaction than otherwise, and that its effects on the market will be unimportant. The Stock comprises 231,880 bales American, 62,900 Brazil, 48,290 Egyptian, 82,370 Surat, and 3,370 Sundries ; against 551,340 bales last year, of which 295,720 were American, 47,520 Brazil, 55,830 Egyptian, 148,750 Surat, and 3;520 Sundries. The Liverpool Share Market has been very quiet to-day with rather a tendency to giv6 way, with the exception of Great Western of Canada Shares, and Dutch Rhenish, which are again in great request, particularly the latter at an advance of 5s to 7s 6d per share upon Saturday's prices; there are buyers of the new Shares at 1/ premium upon the price at which they are issued, but they are not offered. Aberdeen, 11/ 114. Chester and Birkenhead, 13/ 134. Caledonian, 27 278. Chester and Holyhead, 114 11t. Eastern Counties, 8 13-16 8 15 , 16. East Lancashire, 17,1 174. Great Northern, 22 224. Ditto A, 9 5-16 9 7-16. Great Western, 524 524. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 77 774. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 141- 141. London and North Western Stock, 944 944. Manchester, Shef field arid Lincoln, 23/ 234. Ditto Preference, 13 131. Ditto New 6 per cent Pref., 7-16 4p. Midland Stock, 6.644. North British, 74 71. North Staf fordshire, 84 84d. South Eastern, 17/ 17 3-16. York, Nownastle, and Berwick, 164 16,4. York and North Midland, 22- 1 -, 220. Dutch Rhenish, Great Western of Canada, 254 257,-. Ditto New Shares, 3 34p.. • Great Luxembourg, 104 94 d. The departure of vessels for Australia during the past month have been : to Melbourne four, vessels, or an aggregate of 4341 tons, carrying 528 passengers, and to Sydney one vessel of 861 tons, carrying 18 passengers". For the quarter, the following is the return, compared with the last quarter . ending 1854. ,t - Qur. ending Sep. 30, 1855. Qur. ending Dec. 31, 1854. Vessels. Tonnage. Passengers. Vessels, Tonnage. Passengers. 33 37435 4783 46 40726 9159 The follmying may be quoted as the present rates of freight from this port—to Sydney, 40s to 455; Melbourne, 40s to 50s' to the Bay, and 50s to 60s to the Wharf ; Geelong Wharf, 50s to 60s; Adelaide, 40s to 455. We have received the annual statement of the business done in the sale of ships at-this port during the last year, made up by Messrs Curry & Co.,' and also one published by Messrs. Tonge & Co. 4 - Fronk the former we titintp As if to compensate for some disadvantages, circum stances of great interest and permanent benefit to the shipbuilder and shipowner have arisen, which have contributed in no small degree to produce the result we have here to record. When the measure of admitting foreign ships to British registration free of duty was before the country, it met with the strongest oppoqitim from parties who urged that we slould be, inund a t e d w i tti tonnage from the innumerFtble building stations in the United States of America, from the Baltic, and elsewhere, which with Rritiah ond , , coming' into comnetitic would Of the been pia( , on this mark of our plantation ships less business has been done. With the Baltic ( We have had sev 1 cnmm sions from Bremen, Lubec, &c., and, notwithstanding thest ships have much to recommend them both as to model and material, yet the prices looked for remove all fear of com petition from this qtarter. These facts tell what the repeal of the navigation laws has not done. We now desire to explain to you what the new navigation act has done. Following the policy of this country, the united kingdom of Sweden and Norway has removed entirely the duty upon British and plantation ships purchased for, their market, and the merchants of these countries finding they can pur chase cheaper here than elsewhere, have become our valuable and respected customers. The amount of tonnage we have sold this year for Scandinavian account is very considerable, and nothing can be more satisfactory than our transactions in this new market. Of the business done, we ouoto the following from Messrs. Tonge & Co.'s Circular:— The number of Ships that have changed hands in Liver pool in the`year is 280, equal to 135,000 tons, of which 80 are . Tßritish, equal to 21,498 tons ; against 730, equal to 380,000 tons, in 1854. The number of new Colonial Ves sels that have come into Liverpool, and been registered, is 102, equal to 70,911 tons; against 123, equal to 128,994 tons, in 1854, showing a decrease in tonnage of 58,083 tons on the previous year. The number of new British Vessels that have been registered in the port of Liverpool this year is 84, equal to 37,072 tons. The number of Foreign Vessels that have changed' hands in the year, and been registered in Liverpool, is 23, equal to 17,835 tons; against 55, equal to 36,665 tons, in 1854, showing a decrease of 18,830 tons. The number of Steamers registered in Liver pool is 45, equal - 0'18,455 tons, against 40, equal 'td 14,830 tons, in 1854, showing an increase of 3625 tons in 1855. Total number of Vessels registered in Liverpool this year 435, equal to 216,432 tons. Mr. Thomas Thorburn, of Glasgow. has just issued the following annual report of the Scotch Iron trade:— The year about to close, though a year of oscillations, adds another mob of prosperity, to the Iron Trade., - Under the agency and stimulus of war, combined with the exten sion of railways, gas, and water works abroad, the exports and home ,consumption of Pig Iron amount to the large quantity of 847,000 tons—exceeding the production by fully 20,000 tons—and are almost equal to the highest of any preceding year. ' The stocks' have consequently undergone a farther reduction, and are now only 98,000 tons against 4.50,000 tons three years ago. Extensive transactions were •made during the year in Pig Iron, at from 55s to 82s 6d; in rails, £7 10s to £8 15s; in bars. £7 15s to £ 9 lOs ; i n cast iron pipes, £5 to £ 6 15s; railway chairs, £4 15s to £5 stillth e foundries, generaly i and activem el e a a b n l d e well employed. Although the price s an d re. quirements have been such as to stimulate the producti on , iron7s 6d w p or e k r s, ton. continue And it is only 55,000 tons greater than in 1854, and the scarcity of the raw material wi I prevent many of the thirty-four furnaces at present out of blast from being put in operation in 1856. Owing to the peculiar adaptation of Scotch Pig Iron for fotindry and forge purposes, the s phere of its con sumption is rapidly extending, and it is penetrating quarters never reached before. Whilst the bf neftcial coisequences which must ultimately accrue to the Iron trade from the recent modification of the French import duties, and from the liberal movement of the Spanish government, in regard to the importation of British Iron into that country, have • not as yet been experienced. Viewing the position of this important branch of our local and national industry in all its bearings—while the great alternative of peace or war continues to tremble in the balance—the prospects of the ensuing year are of a very cheering description. The steamer America which arrived here this F rom Boston, has brought 308,149 dollars lit h.r or lir • morning increase of loans from the lowest p o i nt h as b e en 1,500,000 d o ll ars , the specie in th e mean time hav ing increased 750,000 dollars. In d epos i ts there is an apparent falling off from last week of 1,200,000 dollars, but there has been in fact an increase of nearly 700,000 dollars in consequence of the de creased amount of Exchange at the Clearing -house. The comparison with last week is as annexed : Loans and Dis. Specie. Circulation. Deposits. Dols. Dols. Dols. Dols. 93 189,808 11,844 625 7,861.741 78.060 , 110 93,800,018 11,584,075 7,701,052 76 82,,517 Dec. a Dec. 15 610,235 Increase. Decr , ase... 260,550 160,689 Hitherto the importation of iron into Sweden has been interdicted ; a royal ordonnance dated the 27th instant, lies, however, annulled that decree, and now permits the entry of foreign iron into the Swedish .territory. - This is considered an important m e a sure b y th e ne i g hbouring St a t es, and it is likely t o b e o f a d vantage t o this country. The same ordonnance declares that Swedish iron may be freely exported. _ _ !,239,593 Accounts from 'Holland state that at a Cabinet Council held on the 27th instant, it was unani• mously agreed to, that the various measures for the regulation of the provincial imposts, should be adopted, as framed by the House of Representa tives ;'also, that the measures modifying the law of 1822, relative to distillation from grain. should ieclinn 8 8i 88 -16. Sales of Stock al quo r cent., the f - - . active. The settlemerits affecting our relations with Prussia, coupled with the warlike tone adopted by the Emperor of the French, in his address to the Imperial Guards, have also tended to weaken the market. A similar effect has been produced at Paris. In the Discount Market to-day there was a good demand. In the Stock Exchange the de mand for money was very active, and the rates have risen from 6 to 7 per cent. upon Government Stocks. The demand was partly in _anticipation of the instalment of 10 per cent. falling due to morrow (Tuesday) .on the Turkish 5,000,000/. loan: At Paris to-day, the Three per Cent. Relates expe rienced a fall of - about - per cent. The Corn Market to-day was very heavy; English Wheat, though offered at a reduction of 2s to 3s on last Monday's rates, was not All cleared off. The Rail way Share Market was fairly supported notwith standing the heaviness of Consols. The closing quo tions stood as follows:—Caledonian, 541. Eastern Counties, 8 13-16 15-16. East Lancashire, 67 68. Great Northern, 88 89. Great Western, 521 53. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 761 77. Leeds Northern, 11.-2 12. London and North Western, 94k 94 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire, 231 24. Midland Stock, 636 64. North British, 29 30.. South Eastern and Dover, 571 584. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 67 68. York and North Midland, 44 LATES INTELLIGENCJ SECOND EDITION, RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURG, MONDAY The Emperor has ordered the issue of anew procla mation to the peasants resident on the Crown domains, calling on them to raise a second 'corps of sharpshooters to bear the name of the Imperial family, and to defend Holy Russia against the enemies of the Orthodox faith. An Imperial ukase orders a new coinage of copper to the amount of 3,000,000 silver roubles,• to be commenced as soon as the issue formerly ordered shall have been completed. :7HE FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, MONDAY EVENING, The final close of the transactions to-day presented th( following quotations :—Four and — i-lialf per c'ents, 91f 75c. ; Three per Cents., 64f. 25c. AMERICA. (mum oturOwiv CORRESPONDENT.) . SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 3L The Union steam-ship, which left New York December 15, has just arrived: Her news has been anticipated. We learn from the Journal de Constantinople, that the Mr. Russell, Special Correspondent of the remarks of Times in the East, reflecting upon the conduct of English soldiery, had so excited the indigo I he not f PEACE CoNGE invite our readers to nest Sundfo' PAMPHLET.--Azai Paris oor a explanation of th rued pamphlet, m the subject of the Congress at Paris. The accuracy witl which our correspondent conveys his intelligence, derive( from sources of unquestionable reliability, convinces us o the fact, that 'the Emperor of the French had no mor( participation in thd authorship of the brochure, than we ha( in the command of the French troops, returned from th( Crimea, on the occasion of their splendid reception in Pari( on Saturday last. Again has our Paris correspondent displayed the possession of unrivalled resources, that, at least, enables us to present to the public information from the French capital, which has outstripped our leviathian competitors of the metropolis. nd parentage of the now far ♦ DISASTER AT SEA.—The General Parkhill, here from Charleston, reports that she rescued the captain and crew of the William Hitchcock, from Savannah for Havre, with a cargo of cotton. The cotton ship, it appears, was struck by lightning on the 19th December, and set fire to. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—The inquest on the body of the female, named Edwards (reported in our paper of yester day), was resumed, and, from the medical evidence, it ap peared that death was caused by disease of the heart. Verdict accordingly. NEw YEAR'S HILA.RITIES.—Last evening Mr. Robert Storer, fruit merchant, Temple-court, entertained all his principal attaches, as well as a very numerous assemblage of his private friends, to a sumptuous supper, at the Liverpool =Arms, Grenville South. Mr. Storer presented a generous entertainment of roast beef, plum-pudding, and the accompaniments, to the general body of servants attached to his various establishments. On this occasion Mr. W. Appleton, surgeon, occupied the chair, and Mr. Taylor, sugar merchant, officiated as vice. A more har monious New Year's E ve cou ld not possibly be spent. The infant with year well-deservedawnas invocation inaugurated. complimentsto whose es c t u h t ce e ede e se x sn p tt r eh e re s t s ai i ni o nf n 4e cup and song circulat e d freely, and each speak er was e t to health t u h l o e u r a s e n s i ip THOMAS -STREET INFAIIT RAGGED SCHOOL. The ad vantages which have accrued, and the benefits which have been conferred upon the humblest and most destitute classes of the community by the institution of ragged schools, have long since been admitted to be a great fact, and hence it is painful and disheartening to find that such institutions are permitted to languish for want of means in any locality; the more so in a district in which squalid want and fearful ignorance prevail, though surrounded by wealth and independence. For the past two years, at a surprisingly small outlay, an immense amount of good. has been effected by the efforts of those connected with the Thomas -street Infant Ragged School. We find from the reports presented :to the subscribers, that at Christ mas, 1855, there were in attendance at the schools no less than 112 infants, most of whom are the children of widows, with large families, struggling, with slight parochial aid, and inhabiting the thickly populated district iying between South Castle-street and Bold-street. The school is open daily, so that the children are kept out of the street the entire day, and at noon receive a meal prepared for them in the school-house i and after a . few mouths training the improvement of the littlestudents, both in appearance and conduct, is most satisfactory; in short, the little ones are rescued from scenes of destitution and depravity, and where, in many instances, fearful depravity has given. place to strict notions of morality. Besides the daily in struction, there are kept up two Sabbath schools—one for infants, and the other for edler boys and girls resident in the neighbourhood. ,With,the beneficial results that have been accomplished, and which may be made patent to all who may ehnn.-- nsufdcieney of means. The We have advices from Berlin dated the 30th uIW They inform us that for the previous two days the has been more prevalent that Russ'a will mana.:;e defeat the Austrian propositions. It is believed this be effected by admitting the principle of the neutralisa t ! of the Black Sea, and finding objections to the deta' Russia, it is hinted, even hopes that the objections come from Turkey, and that she may th us b e save d I reproach of breaking off the negociations. The accoll' received here state that the internal condition f sia increases in wretchedness. Property and are insecure, and articles of importation are becorni of the greatest scarcity and dearness • As there no sale for their corn abroad, large proprict i are neglecting to sow their land, and a famine is 10 14 far as the result. We understand frdra the same sou! of information, that large depots of troops are b e , i formed on the coast of the Baltic, by the Russl authorities. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDA Y EVENINO The sole talk of the day is the Emperor's speech, and military demonstration of yesterday. The former universally considered tres belliqueut : and the declarat' that " France has- an interest in having a numerous e ll , inured to war, rea d y t o march wherever required, " is t! to be an intimation that the principal scene of hostilig next spring will be nearer home than the Crimea. 1 , speech most effectu a lly pu t s an end to all the rumours t " have been current at different times, as to the EIBP, e , v being personally f avoura bl e to peace • it Bnvi that he is on the contrary not only ' disposed I continue the war, but to continue it on a grander se g The popular demon s t ra ti on o f yesterday, in honour of 1i Crimean troops, is al so cons id ere d , pol i t i cally speaking, t , „' the Parisian popul a ti on are o f a much more warlike d i st sition than had been imagined. I believe I can give you the real, true, and autbe history about the pamphlet on the necessity of a Conf r to pacify Europe, which crea t e d such publicity a . fte days ago. The auth or i s , as you have been farmed, a M. Duveyrier, formerly a politl e rl writer. This gentleman is a friend of M. Mocqut i 1 the Emperor's private secretary, and when , 0 had written the pa m phl e t h e. asked him to ascertain publication of it would be disagreeable fo the Empe r M. Mocquart s h ewe d it t o hi s Majesty, and the EuiPe' o returned it with the contemptous remark, "I can't pre, the man from publishing ,it if he chooses ;" fin d so was published ; and M. Duveyrier, from vanity, gave °.,) that 'the Emp eror b a d seen it"—.an assertion naturally led to the belief that his Majesty had ei t " written, it or caused it to be written. The French Government, like the English one,i l notified the rai s i ng o f th e bl oc k ade of the Russian por ts the Baltic. A despatch from M arse ill es of to day announces th° arrival of Constantinople news to the 20th. M. Musur ll , s r , to be nominated Tu r ki s h am b assador at London. Aduil Lyons had resigned his com man d to Admiral Freer; and was about to come to Paris, Omar Pael l a 1/1 aped on-the theL PARTS, 'SATURDAY EVENING' . I have seen many grand, inaonsint:eorsotleprinrinblepasrpa::;l: in this city, but never one so aptenwdhidicahnhdaavoemfoouvgin:ainst:: which has taken place this day—the solemn entrance 113 0 ' nearly every 11 0 4 0 Paris, C P r a i r m i s Crimea.' f r tTo severalodo speak ho font more hoil; correctly,oto4i tmheenoccasion, on the Boulevards, from the Plate de la Bastille to the the Place Vendome, s;g ian flo; kindk h ° , l ;t. wies 7. eard, French Rue de la Pai yriglish or PrepWol _wean victories also c l u mf 9 , B l Logs: At the Theatre de la r f o 'f; was a triumphal arch, with the names names or the—Orin inquerors of Seh o i very elegant triu m ph a l arch AN w as an i mri n'll o wttn the names " AIiTITO ' , " Inkermann,” " Trakti r ," " Balaklava" "Bomersnn 4.11,rej0, "Sweaborg," and other pl aces at which the A 1! armies have won renow n , pa i nt d on them. The National guard, and the troops of the' garrisj, were, besides, employed, to add eclat to the occasion, LI! lining both sides of the Boulevards, from the Column of th Bastille to the Place Vendome. But it was not the dgcol e l tion of the houses, no r th e t r i umphal archts, nor t v immense mass of varied uniforms, and glittering b a y o neill sl which formed the great feature of the proceedings,- it 1 0 , the people. In one dense crowd they spread from kt. Place Vendome to the' Bastille T—a crowd s o d ense, that, id' was impossible to force one's way th roug h it. They fill every window of every h ouse; t h ey occupied every noel and cranny from whi c h a v i ew could be obtained; the , swarmed on the very roo f s . The regiments whi c h were paraded were the 20th, the' 39th, the 50th, and 97th, of the line : the Chasseurs ' Zouaves, the V o l t i geurs (two regiments), the Artillerfl I the Engineer s , th e G renadiers (two regiments), and the: gendarmes of th e I mper i a l G uard. They were drawn oP at about eleven o'clock in the Place de la Bastille,- 11 in the very uniforms and kits with which they ca rne from the C r i mea ,— an d each re , ;iment with it s woun de at its head.. The Emperor, in the midst of a splendid cortege' reached the place shortly • after twelve. On the whole line b e was rece i ve d witt enthusiastic shows, the troops and National guards presenting arms the drill beating, and th e t rum p e t s soun di ng. 'His Majesty passe d the troops in re v i ew , an d h e d el i vered in a loud voice, and in his usual effective manner, the speech which has been transmitted to you by express. When he had concluded' I the generals who were in attendance on him, and who we re, a numerous body, waved their hats, the other officer° branished their swords, and the troops raised a thundering cry of " Vive l'Emp ereur !" Then commenced the filing off of the troops, amidst the charging of trumpets, and thumping of drums. After the Emperor and his cortege had passed, came the pupils o f the Polytechnic school, and of the Military school of Saint Cr'' • who have thepleasureof figuring on such occasions, And then r came the Crimean heroes. Oh, if you had heard the immense' shouts of" Vive la ligne!"• " Vivo la Gerdes," which rent the air as the regiments paper! ; if you had seen t h e people i at the windows. wa v i ng t h e i r , hats and handk erchiefs, and clapping their hands; if you bad seen the intense curiositi to get near the poor soldiers, who wore their dirty capst their dingy uniforms, and well- use d k napsacks, and wile carried even the blankets which formed their only covering, in the dismal C r i mean winter; if you had seen the pride and exultation which was manifested at the sunburnt weather beaten faces, and at their jaunty devil-may-care bearing; if you had seen the profound sympathy which was manifested towards the wounded —some with arms lopped off, others with their faces bandaged, others with frightful scars; if you had seen the thrill of emotion which ran through the crowd at sight of the ragged i flags of the regiments, some of them blackened with gua , ` powder, and some riddled with balls; if you had seen tears streaming down the cheeks'of women, and glistening in the eyes of men, you wo u ld never have forgotten it ! The troops filed off b e f ore t he in the a balcony of th e R otel of t h e was obser ve d that her Majesty `) sight was grand, full of emotion--it was stddi me, Arrive d Minister t n t pi l i sr e teesrs P,olfa who c j e u wassVti e c e n s. d e o a m t el e dt , seemed much affected, and waved her handkerchief ince4santiv. General Canrobert was with tt- • , cription " To the C topol ;" and r r the Place de is 13 recogn Genera O . troops, and on being ) also were r t, Blar 1 Ole r, and enik , nel Francis Some HE WAR. FRANCE Despatches from Marseilles, dated December 30, annOt the arrival of the Lycurge, with advices from the Cri to the 20th ultimo. They contain no fresh intellige The eagle despatch, however, states, that the Caradoc, Admiral'tir Edmund Lyons, had arrived at C.nstantiao and also, that the steamer European, with 1,200 troops board, had reached from the Crimea. AUSTRIA. Under Sunday's date, we learn that, on the prey' Friday, Count Buol communicated the terms of peac( Prince Gortschakoff. By the cession of so much of territory of Bessarabia as is necessary to secure to all nati the free navi g ation of the Danube, is meant the cessio that part of Bessarabia which-lies between the fortress Chotyn on the north, the Salt Lake Sisyk on the so t and the Pruth on the west. Three weeks from the day delivery is the time allowed for consideration. The fo going is authentic. RUSSIA. We have received the St. Petersburg journals of the December. The Invalid e R usse p u bli s h e s th e following date of th e B t h ( 20 , h) of December, Aide-de-camp Genf Prince Gortschakoff h !si On the 4th ' t the followin- Vivian not aett peace, an ,oration of and enduring basis, would j CRIMEAN CommANDERs.—We have received intelligence that General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, brother of the present and son of the late Lord Abinger, has arrived at Malta, on his return to England, from the Crimea. wing the depositary of the Each month the Austra. Tian packet must continue to bring its half million pounds of this lading article of Colonial last retti smaller and a larger inerea was anticipated, 'le former being about 609,000 about 260,000 dollars, and the latte, dollars. The expansion of loans appears to have been quite general, and the Banks appear to have entered upon another career of expaniion. The seen to Plaude a.rily. t „ 6 .; i ii i i a , n . t i r ne i r i e n a l t iensa t t b_ the wliole CitYWas : ( r i c . l er . A A g l r l ant night o t : _ ~ --,s of all articles of consumption: and further, y the 'withdrawal of the supply of ” broken meat" hereto- money was made to each soldier, and each hastened to fore granted by the Exchange club. We trust this brief spend it at the cafes and public-bouses. In every ca fe detail of facts will have the effect of re-animating the groups might b e teen collected round the Crimean warriors► 1 dormant feeling of philanthropy, and that we shall hear who "fought their battles over again," and drank potations I that these schools have been restored to their full sphere so deep, that they woull have, scandalised the temperance of action and utility. society.