The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-22 00:00:00

Manta:l. lIT ANTFD, rw-nty-five Trns of CONTRACTORS' RAILS, in yl V go* d condition, wei..hing about 50 lbs. per yard. —Apply by letter. stating partic,ilars and price, to John Laird, Bi,lienhead. WAN ED, a Small HO UsE, or PART of a L ,rge House, with ',hies for oue or two horses. coach-house and yard, in a quiet. retired .itu,tion, eor ten minutes' walk from Lime-street.— A .dress, D. P., Norther:t limes office. Co be iLet. .J 0 be LET, a spacious Bonded VAULT. Old Ropery, Renwick street.— At-ply at No. 7, Brunswick-buildings. en Sale. FOE SALE, a Swill PONY: a beau'iful animal; quiet and free from vice —Apply at Walton's Livery Stables. KE NTLE DG E.—A large and well-assorted Stock always on hand. Also, BALLAST (Piz I RON. ILLIAM F. SIM & CO., Sweeting-street. 7*lo CrOSE AN ACCOUNT.—TO be SOLD. Four excellent I DWELLING HOUSES, In Wellington-terrace, all in good order, and let to very good tenants. Rental 'l4B. Price 2000 guinea,. —Apply to Ite. Joseph Kitchen. Fachance-court. TO CONSUMERS OF IRON IN CHESHIRE.—NOW OPEN, 1 the IRON WAREHOUSE, MORYETEI DOCK, BIRKENHEAD. with a Complete Assortment of BAR, HOOP, and SHEE f IRON, Also, BOILER PLATES, ANGLE and RIVET I F. RO", of the best qualities. R. 0. I.DWARD. ONSAI.E, in Oxton, Cheshire, upon Liberal Terms ELIGIBLE BUILDING LAND, commanding splendid views, suitable for the Frectioo of Flrst-clAss VILLAS. The unexpired Lease is for 88 ye , rs, free from all rent charges, or Testrietions.—Apply to Mrs. Arkert.,n. No. 18. Great Geotge-squar., Liverpool. S -- CHOLA4TIC.—TO be SOLD , the immediate TRANSFER of a CLASSICAL and COMMERCIAL DAY SCHOOL—estab lishPd tin years--tighly reputed, and yielding a clear annual Inc ,me of 160. For GOODWILL and SCHOOL FURNITURE, a modera e sum required. Also, a LA. , 'IES' SCHOOL, in a r,s ,, ecutbie locality, will a good conneztio They may be put, chased separately or conjointly.—Address C. T. M., Northern Times Office. D KESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOU iE3 I HOUSES I! LAND I LAN D I I—ON SALE, In large or small lots. variously situated, and ranging In price trom about €lOO to .€6 ~000.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire offices, tor the Sale AA Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross Chambers (one door from Market-square) Market-street, Birken head. 1 1-1 E 8 EAC H, AIG I'H.—TO be SOLD or LET, that capital I FAMILY RESIDENCE, recently enlarged and improved, with pleasure grounds, hothou , e, and well stocked kitchen garden. It conta ns a dinin c room, large and lofty drawing room, commanding a fine view of the river, ant--room, brealf tat room, nine best be t rooms, two dressing rooms, servant's room, bathroom, and good domestic • ffi:es, coach-house, tour-stalled htable, loose box, harness room and cottage adj dning. Immediate possession may be had.— Apply to Mr. Edmondson, at Messrs. Moss and Co.'s Bank, 4, Dale. street, or to Mr. S. Waterhouse. 4. Derby-square. dommercial T O-M ORR 0 W. On account of whom it may concern. To monaow, the 23rd instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at Golding and Naah's sa eroom, Corn Exchange. Brunsw ck-street, About 700 Sacks and Bags Spanish FLOUR. About 100 Barrels FLOUR. For further particulars apply to J. & M HARNETT, Brokers. To-mouttow. the 23rd instant, at Twelve o'clock. at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 23 Bagels TAPIOCA, now landing ex Emperor, from Bahia.—For further particulars apply ft, FRANCIS J. EATON. Broker. To-mounovr, the 23rd instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court, 240 Tierce. Old Prime MESS BEE 4', ea Antartic, and Stephen Cro JOH MARQUIS 4 Applit to & CO.. Brokers. To-moszow, the 23rd instant, at Twelve o'clock, 1354 Boxes of Fine New Eteme Turkey FIGS, 383 i-Drumst Fine New Eleme TurkeyFlGS, 384 i Drums first arrival this seas•n, ex Teneriffe. from Smyrna.—Apply to Whittall, Lenox and Co., Merchants, or t O o THMAS PARRY. Broker. To-moaaow, the 23rd instant, at the Broker's Office, 14, Brunswick-street, 65 Barrels FLOUR, ex Albert Gallatin ; and 1200 Loads RICE MEAL. ROBERT PROCTER, Broker. Apply to WEDNESDAY. Gn WEDNESDAY next, the 24:h instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the brokers' Office Apsley-buildinga, Oldhall-steeet, 572 Bags SALTPETRE, 7 Tens REDWOOD, just landed ex Rob,rt Pu!sfo.d, from Calcutta.—Apply to Messrs. ahatnas and John Brock:ebank, Nfe,chints , or to JEwF.R •ON & A Yr,012. Rrnirer.. THURSDAY. On Tangs!)Av next, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Offi-e. Aps;ey-buildings, Oldhall-street, 1000 Pockets Bengal It lc E, just landed ex Robert ulaford, from Calcutta.—Apply to Messrs. Thomas and John B tockleb ink. chants ; or to JEFFERSON & TAYLOR, Brokers. FRI.v A. r. OD FRIDAY next, the 26th Instant, at Ter lye o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, Ansley-buildings, 011 hall-street, 535 Bales JUTE, ex Robert Pulsford, from Calcutta; on show in Warehouse, Rum. ford-street.—Apply to Messrs. Thomas and John Brockl , bArtk Me , ehants ; or to JEFFERSON & TAYLOR, Brokers. - - r rt -liv PENCE will buy FIVE QUIRES J 1 I I_ l l of SUPERFINE CREAM LAID NOTE PAPER, at CHARLES WILLMER'S WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE, 19, SOUTH JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL. CUSTOM -HOUSE PAPER, SEVEN LINGS per Ream, at CHAIti,ES• WILL MEE'S WHOI.RiALE STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, 19, SuIJTH JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL. IJOPY YOUR LE rTERS-NO MACHINE WANTED LETTER BOOKS CITE PE% THAN EVER. COPYING BOOKS, cuut4ining FIVE HUNDRED Leaves, half-bound, paged, and indexed, which require no Machine, are sold at FOUR SHILLINGS EACII, BY CHARLES WILLMER, WHOLESALE STATIONER, 19, SOUTH JoHN STREET, LIVERPOOL. D J. NODDER, HATTER, 81, CHURCH.STREET, Pegs respectfully to inform the Nubility and Gentry of Liver- Real that his NEW orYLts for the Season are NOW READY tir Inspection. Elje art liern fTimeo MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1856, THE DAY'S NEWS. The steam-ship Niagara arrived here yesterday, shortly after noon, hut she does not bring any political intelligence of moment. Great exertions were being made by the respective partizans of Mr. Buchanan and Colonel Fremont to secure their election to the Presidential chair. Affairs in Kansas do not improve ; on the contrary, matters in that quarter were assuming a more serious and alarming aspect every day, and by many, there were apprehensions lest the matter would ultimately tend to an erruption between the Southern and Northern States. It will be observed, from the interesting letter of our Special Correspondent at New York, that the Pro-Slavery party had taken possession of all the routes of travel into Kansas, and prevented immigration at the point of the bayonet. Further dissatisfaction was expressed at the conduct of the Federal Government. Accordingly, we find that the Governor of Wisconsin has called an extra session of the State Legislature, to provide measures for the protection of such of its citizens as have emigrated thereto. This the Governor says is rendered necessary, inasmuch as President Pierce and his c olleagues wilfully neglect t o d o so. A s a sor t of exculpation, the Government at Washington had üblished at length, in the government organ, a the doings of the P ro -Sl avery party in story of risag , together with their official directions, and deavour to show that they have acted throughout e trying contest in an honourable and patriotic anner. We regret to observe that a terrific fire ad taken place at Philadelphia, and that a number of human beings perished in the flames. Th e new steam-ship Adriatic, belonging to the Collins line, has been appointed to set out on her maiclen voyage to Liverpool on Saturday, the 11th October. But prior to that date she is to make a trip to Boston, the leading merchants of that city having presented the owners with a memorial requesting the honour of the visit. If we are to credit the statements in the New York papers respecting the steaming powers and sailing qualities of the Adriatic, she will perform nautical wonders, and traverse the waters of the mighty and the trackless deep with a rapidity far beyond anything ever achieved by any other steam-ship afloat. The news from the Continent is of the usual character. Affairs in Naples do not improve. Indeed, they seem to be approaching a crisis any thing but desirable—but one which must cause some decisive notion to be taken by France, Great Britain, and Austria. His Majesty of Naples is obstinate, but that obstinacy must yield. His cruelty and treachery are bye-words in Europe, and have passed beyond all endurance, He is a doomed and dangerous man, and Europe has no right to share the bitter fruits of his folly, his obstinacy, and cruelty combined. We are not obliged to counte nance his aggressions when he despises our advice ; and, in the necessary absence of diplomatic support, Lord Lyons, and the blue jackets of England, may prove, as they have done before, the best negocia lion after all. Connected with this subject, we may observe that the French force to be sent with our squadron to the Bay of Naples, will consist of two line-of-battle ships and a corresponding number of frigates. The letter from Naples respecting the corporal punishment inflicted, by express order of the King, on political prisoners at Procida, has been reproduced by the Patrie (Paris). The repro duction of such a document, in a French Govern ment paper, is not without serious significance; as an indication of the course which that Government has resolved to adopt. It is the first shot fired by the French press, and confirms the fact that the Neapolitan question is not going smoothly, as it was recently hoped that it would do, and that Franceand England are determined not to leave their remonstrances without effect. From St. Petersburg we have advices stating that the Emperor of Russia had granted charters to three steam navigation companies—one in the Black Sea will ply between all the important ports of the Mediterranean, Black, and Ariatic seas. The Czar has been dis tributing his military and other honours to the Count de Morny. Much has been said and made of the clemency displayed by the Emperor in the amnesty extended in his manifesto to poli tical offenders. We would be far from desiring to deprecate the merit of this act. Pardon for a political offence is rare enough in Russia — in some other continental states as well, for that matter—and should be, perhaps, valued the more. When we look a little closely at this act of grace, however, we see that but a few of the unknown multitudes who languish in the mines and penal settlements of Siberia are likely to bene fit much by it. But a small proportion of the prisoners inculcated in the plots of 1820, and the Polish revolution of 1831, to which events the amnesty extends (so far only as concerns the prisoners—not refugees) can be still surviving the miseries of chat weary exile. Those, and other prisoners of the same kind, are divided into three classes, two of which are to receive a mitigation of punishment, and one only is to be fully pardoned. So far as it goes, however, it indicates some relaxation of the hitherto inflexible severity of the Russian Govern ment, and encourages a hope that a milder system is really about to be inaugurated. By way of Berlin, we have ad vices which state that the changes in the Russian Ministry go on continuously. Only two of the functionaries of the Czar Nicholas of the highest order now hold their posts. Adjutant-general Katenin, high in the war office, and an ultra of the old Russian party, has been appointed Governor-general of Orenburgh, which is looßect on as exile. The Uzar has given Prince Adalbert of Prussia the colonelcy of the Ist brigade of Horse Artillery. Our accounts from Copenhagen represent that France is earnestly negociating for the session of a settlement in Iceland. Denmark is setting a high price on the concession, and has just sent out a steam frigate of 30 guns to put her establish ments on the island in the best order. From Constantinople we learn that four battalions of the Guards had set out to join the expedition against Montenegro. Sefa Paella, who is at the head of 30,000 men, has issued a proclamation, calling on all the Circassians to fight the Russians with energy. We have frequently heard the complaints of the high priced journals against the cheap papers of the country, alleging that their news was pilfered, and used without even the courtesy of an acknowledgment. It, however, happens that these murmuring scribes are guilty of the very conduct which they condemn in others. On Friday last, we published a lengthened and verbatim report of the speeches delivered at the banquet, given on board the Great Tasmania, and find that a London evening cotemporary thinks fit to publish fully more than three columns of our report without acknowledging the source of the information. This is too bad, and reminds us of the old adage, "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones." The domestic occurrences of the day are inter esting. The unfortunate shareholders of the Royal British Bank held a meeting on Saturday, to ascertain how they could best extricate themselves from the serious difficulties in which they are placed. The statements put forth reveal a state of things truly alarming. The conduct of the direc tors appears to be of the most reprehensible character, and to merit the just indignation of both shareholders and depositors. We give, in another column, a report of the proceedings at the London Tavern on Saturday. We observe that the bank had been losers by the failure of Mr. Edward Oliver. The Marchioness of Londonderry has been feasting her tenantry on the County Antrim estates, and has delivered one of these sensible and well-meant speeches which render her somewhat conspicuous as an owner of the soil. Her address to the miners in Durham some short time ago, was the subject of general eulogium. Iltir Ladyship's oration at Carnlough on Thursday, is equally commendable. It contains sentiments of the purest philanthrophy, and the advice imparted, if adopted, will do much to im prove the character and condition of those to whom it was addressed. Our new's columns this morning contain an account of a calamitous collision in the Channel, causing the total loss of the Imogene, and a valuable cargo of goods. London has been the scene of another terrific fire. A corres pondent at, the Perch Rock Battery, sends us a scrap of paper purporting to be from the passen gers per the Amsterdam, and endorsed," off the Cape of Good Hope, thirty days out, capital passage: , It is without date, was enclosed in a common porter bottle, and floated in with the tide on Saturday morning, near the Perch Rock Battery, New Brighton. When picked up, the cork arid top part of the neck was gone. We fear the thing is Only some hoax, got up without any specific object. DIREFUL alarm h • serzed.iVinting.house square. The scribes of that locality see indications of organic prostration threatening on all sides. They admit that theirgreat stagnation in business, while they loa d s columns with figures, to show that we are exportingve: l 7 ,l.l r largely. Th e y prove most conclusively that 1 very largely. sold more to foreigners this year, than we l and to establish ano t he r fact, w h i ch seems i, 5 . 1 5 3 ; Jaighly satisfactory to the writer , the subjoined THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. figures are employed, showing the stocks on hand on the first of the present month, and at the same period of the two preceding years : STOCKS. Articles. Sep. 1. 1856. Sep 1.1855. Sep.l. 1854. Cotton, in U. K., bales 799,000.... 637,700.... 988 550 Sugar. tons lO7 000.... 87 000.... Isg.lioo Tea lbs Indigo, in London, chests 25 637.... 19.434.... 27.75* Hine, tons. Sbk, hales.. ..... ..... Coffee. tons.. Sa' tpetre, tons . 5,337.... 7,700. 8,051 Hides, N 0...... 9O 100.... 90.09 1.... 150 00 , ) Tallow, casks 8450.... 35,568.... 31,903 Cocoanut 011, ton 5.... Rum, punc eons. . 26,795.... 24,619.... 16 631 Pepper, black, tons ... ...... 1,919.... 1,335.... 1,398 .. . Now, these returns do prove most clearly, that, with the exception of silk, coffee, saltpetre, tallow, and cocoanut oil, our supplies are larger than :hey were this time last year. But what was the commercial 1855? Was it not a year of scarcity in cotton, sugar, indigo, rice, silk, coffee, and bides, and a year of usury, high prices, and panic ? Was not 1854 a year of great •mercantile embar rassment and general depression, when we had incomparably larger stocks of cotton, sugar, indigo, silk, coffee, saltpetre, hides, and tallow, than we had on the first of this month? The figures we have extracted from the columns of our cotemporary will best answer these import ant interrogations. We are in a far worse plight with regard to stocks than we were in either 1854 or '55 ; and yet the London Times says :—" The " opinion entertained regarding the favourable " character of the financial position of the country at the present moment appears to require only one additional fact for its confirmation." We have given the " confirmation" above, and now we shall give the preceding facts. The first assump tion propounded is, that the increased yield of gold will only render the settlement of new regions _ _ more attractive, and disturb the relations of debtor and creditor, by turning the scale in favour of the former in an extraordinary degree. There is nothing new in this announcement to the readers of the NORTHERN TIMES. We have repeatedly, within the last three years, stated that this would be the inevitable result of the augmented produc tion of bullion. But the enlightened commentator goes on to prove his case in a still more luminous strain :—" As the value of gold depends entirely " on its scarcity, no addition to the quantity held " will be attended by any corresponding addition " to the worth of the total ; that is to say, if the " world possesses one hundred millions of gold " to-day, and another hundred millions are dis- " covered to-morrow, it will find itself no richer, " because gold, in relation to other articles, having " thus become twice as plentiful, it will then require " two sovereigns to purchase the amount of goods that " in the first instance might have been obtained for one " sovereign." Knowing the vital import of such changes in our economic system, W 3 have endeavoured, week after week, for more than two years and a half, to keep this subject before the public, in the hope of inducing the commercial community to consider it well before it was taken up as a party or ministerial question. We have incessantly pointed out the extreme dander of allowing the subject to sleep too long. The London Times, in its usual spirit of self-contradiction, after stating that when gold becomes depreciated seventy-five per cent, or when it would take two sovereigns to purchase as much as one does now, the purchaser would obtain as say to the gold, mon goes as on he d o l.(' in di u se ch ove f r o y r o h f is :—" A person g' with 5001. a year, if he could obtain now no more "than was procurable for the same money half a "century back, would be in a disagreeable posi " tion, and it is an effect of this kind that the " holders of fixed incomes must henceforth be " expected gradually to experience." This is the random way in which our " leading" writers prepare the world for what has been constantly poured into the counting-houses of Liverpool and the North day after day for years. Staleness, however, robs truth of none of its force. And we are glad to see our cotemporary finds that gold having ceased to be the scarcest commodity, and conse quently liable to fluctuate in value as much as any other commodity, is no longer a safe and reliable basis for our national currency. It will be neces sary, nevertheless, to pay strict attention to the remedy proposed to relieve the Empire from its present organic derangement. in adopting a new currency scheme, we must see that the debtor interest—landed proprietors, manufacturers, mine owners, shipowners, and muni• cipalities, whose property is heavily mortgaged. and all who contribute towards the payment of the National Debt—are not sacrificed by the per petration of another national fraud similar to that of 1819. We must take care that those who have always been on the side of that phantom, called " The Creditor Interest," do not gull us into pay ing two sovereigns in reality for the same quantity of breadstuffs and other necessaries of life we can now purchase for one. The London Times has recently proposed a debased coinage for the ills of France, and it may probably suggest something of the same sort for England. It will resort to any folly before it will say to the Whigs, " Your " love of usury, your alliance with convertibility,and " the sham of I promise to pay gold on demand,' "have brought incalculable misery and dangers "on your country. And you must forthwith " abandon all your twaddle—remove the mint " standard of value, find some means of supplying " the money and labour markets with a sufficiency "of legal tender, and let gold come into and " leave the country as every other commodity does." Our cotemporary must adopt this course at last. It is impossible to keep up 880,000,000/. of stock against its own specific gravity. It will fall, like the column of mercury, when the political and organic horizono are overcast with clouds. There is no Bullifying the Stock Market, or inflating tr ide by having recourse to fallacious hopes. The country has been relying on an hypothesis which is about to brand its authors with the infamy of dishonesty or the disgrace of ignorance ; and we would have all who are inter ested in the future of money, to beware of the false doctrines promulgated by one, and the dangerous remedies proposed by the other, while we say to the merchant, look carefully to the returns of our stocks of produce on hand, and take the exports' statistics of the Board of Trade as a vague approximation to the truth. It would be well, also, for the trader to remember that, while " the amount of gold held by the " various banks of the world has never, perhaps, " been equal to a twentieth part of that in circula " tion," and the quantity held by the Bank of England may be less than a twentieth of the aggregate amount of bullion held by our other banks, still we are called upon to pay a rate of discount, and to contract our trade and employ ment in proportion to the stock of metal lying in the vaults of that one bank. These are matters which ought not to be forgotten when the self evident object of the trade-puffing movement is to seep things active, when the heart of the nation is nearly without blood, and its brain has become congested. The London Times has shown just enough to encourage speculation in pertain deseriptions of produce, but it has not adduced one' figure to prove that it would be prudent to embark in the large expansion of corn merce required to meet the excessive pres sure of taXation. -On the contrary, it applauds the existing state of the Money market, because it " deters" men from embarking too largely in trade and foreign bubbles, such as Russian rail ways, and Credit Mobilier scheming. And while we dare not attempt to engage in those pursuits which contribute most to the Exchequer, it con gratulates the country on the position of its financial affairs! This is all very fine, but the truth is, that the beginning of the end of our whole monetary and banking system has overtaken us . Our bullion nostrums have broken down in an age of gold, and the amazement and confusion of its advocates are so great, that they will say anything, and know not what to think. TO-DAY the world's Free Trade Congress will meet at Brussels, and the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has escaped from the horns of a dilemma by the course they have taken. They have sent a deputation to that important Conference without restricting them to any opinions, or any particular course. They are, in fact, to repro s.Tit the corn mercial views and interests of Liverpool. But to go beynnd this would ho obstrusive awl impolitic, and will not be attempted. The Congress will have something else to engage their attention, besides discussing the political objections which might be raised to defeat the material changes they hope to effect. They have to collate facts and disseminate the unadorned truth ; and if they were to exclude the Free Trade growth of the port atad town of Liverpool from their illustration of the good that partially unrestricted commercial intercourse has done for us, and has yet to achieve for other arge seats of population and trade, they would fail :o make the desired impression on surrounding Liverpool, according to our political nations. prophets, was the first place which was marked for desolation by the hand of the Free Trader• It was predicted that the besotted stupidity of our merchants, and the unpardonable ignorance of the working classes who clamoured for a cheap loaf, was to have stopped up the mouth of the Mersey long before this. There were not a few who ventured to assert that the State would be left without a revenue, and the millions without employment. The Tories opposed it, because they did not understand it, the Whigs kept aloof from it, as they could not see how it would effect their family and party compacts, and the Chartists denounced it because they had forgotten to include it in the " five points." And the same fate awaits the Free Trade movement on the Continent. Every little huckster who has a monoply in the manufacture and sale of a few balls of cobblers wax, cakes of pipe-clay, or half-a -dozen yards of tape, every man who owns a score of spindles, or one poultry plough-share. The con sternation of these selfish mortals, will be seized upon by public spouters of every denomination, who will make immense political capital of their fears. In almost every country there is a numer_ ous class of people' who seem to have an instinctive dread of being benefitted in any way. The world is full of beings who look for a certain measure of. misery in life, and are only surprised when they find that it has not been filled quite as soon as they had promised themselves. It is impossible to help such creatures. They have no spirit of emulation or sense of gratitutle to work upon. They can only mourn over what has not come to pass, and cannot be made to understand that there is any possible good in store for man kind. Millions cf people of this deplorable stamp aro to be found on the Continent, and the cause of Free Trade will never be supported in any of its States unless the rulers of Europe can be con vinced that it will remove their pecuniary wants, and carry them over their political dangers. And what hope is there even in any direction for Free Trade in cotton bales, and other equally bulky commodities, where there is no liberty of transit for a band-box or carpet bag ? The police of France, Austria, and Russia, must be consulted before their respective governments dare venture on thinking of entering on any line of policy which would increase the intercourse between the Freo Traders of Liverpool, the Radical operatives of Manchester, and the Democrats of Birmingham. They would require to know the political opinions of each of our shippers, and to be perfectly satis fied that our manufacturers were no friends to fraternity and equality. In what direction, then, are we to look for Free Trailers on the Conti nent? Will not the Brussels Conference have to make supporters for their cause? They must go forth as our Anti-Corn Law agitators did, and proclaim the truth in every hamlet, town, and city. They must publish reports of their proceedings, tracts, and set the whole machinery we employed at work. Those who wish to see the social condi tion of their country advanced, will readily believe that we enjoy the incalculable benefits which have followed our partial adoption of Free Trade. Industrious and hopeful Europe will listen to them, but political, bigotted, and tyrannical Powers will hear them with wrath and trembling. Still this does not make it a political question with England. It can only become so when the average price of wheat returns to 60s. instead of being 735• per quarter, and a certain number of noisy people begin to discuss the dangers of the cause and effect. When the Tories begin to quake for their rents, and the Whigs undertake the incubation of their fears, then, indeed, the Chamber of Commerce would be unwise to interfere prominently in the discussion. But while all is going on swim mingly against usury, the worst evils of war, and every other species of odds, they could not send a man to the Congress who could say too much in favour of Free Trade, even in our modified accep tation of the phrase. The results obtained by its operation have completely demolished the accuracy of the theoretical conclusions arrived at by both its advocates and its opponents, and all we can under take to do, in order to convince others that there reallyss some good in it, is to invite all those who are sceptical on the subject, to come to Liverpool and judge for themselves. It is not necessary we should enter into the whys and wherefores, to account for our not being better or worse off. We need only put into their hands the statistics of the port, and tell them that the population of the Borough does not amount to 400,000 souls. whole of the factory opera tives em p lo y ed at the sheds of Messrs. Whalley and Hardman, at Kirkham, near Preston, STRIKE OF FACTORY OPER ATIVES AT KIRKRAM.—Th e struck work on Thursday for an advance of wages. Th e and state to their employers that they a r e w been for some time past, paying tnem at the hnraoatned'osafenoodnmehpalaav n ie d nt a half per cent less than is now paid by t h e P res t on manufacturers, and that the material they hare to work up is of an inferior quality, consequently they are utterly unable to earn ample compensation for their labour. During the week the operatives have held several meetings, and ultimately came to the conclusion to ask an advance of a half per cent. On Wednesd a y m orn i ng a d eputat i on o f the employes waited upon the above named gentlemen. to whom they stated their gri e v ance , b u t, a ft er an attentive hearing, their app'ication was refused, and the df potation told that, if the men did not resume work the following day, the mill would be eksed for a month. The men, however, refused to follow their employment, and the mill has sinus been standing, MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL During the past week business in all departments has been quiet, but on the whole satisfactory. The Cotton Market here was tame on Saturday, but prices were maintained with steadiness. The sales reached 8,000 bales, speculators and ex porters taking 2,000 bales. Our advices by the steam ship Niagara, which arrived here yesterday, speak less favourably of the growing crop, some estimates going so far as to say that the total crop will be 20,000 bales less than last year. Full details will be found in another part of this day's pub lication. At the Liverpool Share Market, on Saturday, there was a moderate amount of business transacted, but the general tone of the market was decidedly weaker, and prices suffered a slight decline. The transncions consisted of—Chester and Birkenhead, ; Caledonian, 27 ; Eastern Counties, 9 3-16 ; Grt at Northern, A, 101 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 971, 7, 61. ; London Stock, 103, 1,3; Manches ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 321, 1; Midland, 79, B, 9, 81,1-; North Eastern, 20; do, u. N. E., pur chasers, 3 d. ; Dovers, 7 5 3 - ; Great Western of Canada, 23Z, 1; do. new, 1 9-16 p. ; Luxembourg Constituted, 11; Pacific Stcarn Company, 35. The closing prices were as follows :—Aberdeen, 131 131 Chester and Birkenhead, 151 151. Caledo nian, 26Z- 27. Chester and Holyhead, 161- 161. Eastern Counties, 91 9,t. East Lancashire, 201201. Great Northern, 2,1 2 3 7,?,- Do. A, 101 101, I",irr at Western, 6 611. Lancashire and York shire Stock, 961- tAii. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 181 18g. London and North Western Stock, 103 1031 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 321 321 Midland Stock, 781- 781 North British, 9 11-16 91. North Staffordshire, 5-1- sd. South Eastern and Dover, 214 21. i. York. Newcastle, and Berwick, 19-7, 7 20*. York and North Midland, 281 281. Leeds Capital Stock, 17a 17i Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1-16 d 1.16 p Dutch Rhenish, 2 1-16 2 3-16 p Great Western of Canada, 231231. Ditto New Shares, 11 p. Great Luxem- . . bourn, 11 101 d. The Money Market remains in much the same state as previously reported. The supply of avail able accommodation is slightly increased, and some of the banks and discount houses exhibit a disposition to keen their quotations a fraction below those of the Bank parlour. Mr. Wm. Avens' weekly review of the Money, Stock, and Share markets, contains the following : The condition of the Money Market which from the various anomalies that it presented, occasioned much doubt and perplexity laEt week, is now beginning to be better understood, and we have a partial return of confi dence in the future. The continued demand for gold from the Contin,nt, and the regular absorption of silver by India and China were the two most obvious causes of the general uneasiness which then prevailed. But our position in these respects, as well as the probabilities of a safe mei profitable internal and foreign trade, have been thoroughly investigated; and as it is found to be perfectly sound, giving no cause for anxiety whatever, while there is a reasonable probability that the departure of specie from our shores is to some extent incidental and temporary, we have now to report a return to a better state of feeling. Indeed, the great anviety of the week was not for our specie or our trade, except indirectly, but for the rate of discou , t. Every day brought forth rumours of more or less confidence, that the Bank Directors would advance the rates from 4i to 5 per cent at their meeting on Thursday, but they made no change. The same reports have, how ever, revived to-day. In the meantime the market, prac tically, suffered a good deal of pressure ; first, from the natural desire of all parties to be prepared for the worst in the event of an advance ; .and next, from a prepon derance of applications for advances in connection with the payment of the final loan instalment of £1,000,000, which was completed on Thursday. Mainly from these causes, the rates in Lombard-street have been maintained at the Bank minimum, and in some cases higher terms have been required; and, as a necessary consequence, the Bulk itself has received a vast amount of applications. The better aspect of the Money Market caused in the early part of the week an advance in Consols to the extent of fully 20s since Saturday ; but, owing to the news from Naples, and to the demand for money, a great part of the improvement has since been lost. Business is not yet active, but occasionally it has been of a more animated character than we have seen during the last four or five weeks. Railway Shares, which last week were suffering from a little panic, have partially recovered ; and we have now a good steady business doing in them. The traffics continue good, and public confidence in the value of these securities as invest ments is appal tlialy increasing. There have been some fluctuations in Foreign Securities, particularly Old Turks; but all descriptions have rallied, but the market is inactive. Joint stock banks are, on the whole, steady ; but most of the new undertakings are lower. It will take a long time to renew the confidence of the public in some of these establishments. On Saturday there was a renewed heaviness in the market for Public securities, a further decline of I- per cent having produced a continuance of speculative sales. The Bank of England returns had rather an adverse influence, and the quotations have a further slightly downward tendency. Con sols were 941!, and 941 for Money, and the Account prices have been 94! and 941 1, at which they closed, and remained "after hours." Exchequer Bills were 13s to 26s premium, and the Bonds 99a 1. East India Stock was dealt in at 229 and 230 From the commencement of business on Mon day morning up to its termination on Saturday evening, the fluctuations in the Funds were as follows :—ln the Three per Cent. Consols from 931 to 941, Exchequer Bills have ranged from 16s to 12s premium, East India Bonds from 14s to 17s prem., Consols for Account have been at 938 to 95 The arrivals of the precious metals during the past week have been small, having amounted to about 410,370/, comprising 166,3701 from the Pacific by the Atrato, 88 0001 from Melbourne by the Joseph Tarratt, 136.000/ from New York by the Africa, 17,500kfrom Antwerp, chiefly in silver, and 2,5001 from Oporto. The exports have also been on rather a limited scale, and have been confined chiefly to silver to the East Indies. They have been 435,2351 to the East Indies by the Colombo, 17,6851 to the Peninsula by the Madrid, and 38.1001 in silver to Belgium and Havre through the Lon don Custom House, making a total of 491,0201, besides shipments to France by private hands, the particulars. of which are not made public. At the London Stock Exchange on Saturday there has been a decline in the prices of most of the English shares, and in several instances they were to - 1 per cent. lower. Caledonian, however, have been tolerably firm, viz , ,3, 1 to 54, and Great Northern have slightly improved. In the Mid land Shares there have been several dealings at prices Ito below those current on Fri day. Sambre and Meuse advanced and most of the Foreign Shares were dull, but steady. Great Western of Canada were active, and, on the whole, firmer than previously. The other colonial undertakings remained inactive. The closing prices were as follows :—Caledonian, 26S 27f. Eastern Counties, 9 1 Great Western, 61 S. Great Western of Canada, 231 2. New Do., 1 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 961 7. London and North Western, 103 S. Midland, 781 9. South Eastern, 21H. South Western, 52! 53. York and North Midland, 28S S. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33 S. North Staffords, 5- 1 5. The foreign and colonial produce markets of Liverpool and London have been steady during the week, and they closed on Saturday with firm• ness. Sugar has been taken freely, both for export and home use, and prices have slightly advanced, Plantation Ceylon coffee, as well as most other kinds, has been in good request at full rates. Cocoa has risen is to 2s per cwt., and tea has ruled dull at former currencies. The market for rum continues firm. Saltpetre has risen 6d per cwt., and spices have been rather dull. The interim' kinds of rice have been enquired for, and at 3J per cwt. advance. Tallow ruled heavy in the early part of the week, but the market closed with a trifling im provement. Our accounts from the manufacturing dis tricts state that trade during the past week has not been quite so brisk. At Bradford a numerous attend ance of buyers had been noticed, and a large busi ness was done at rather improved rates for both yarns and piece goods. The foreign trade was rather quiet, the principal business doing having been in fancy goods for the German market. At Manchester, business was rather flat, especially for goods suitable for the India markets ; there had been a steady demand for cloths for the Russian trade, and long cloths and T cloths for the Levant met a ready sale. The market, generally, how ever, was considered quiet. At Leicester the hosiery trade was very brisk, and in the fancy branches a good business has been done for the winter demand, and a healthy tone was expected to prevail for some time. At the proceedings at the meeting of the share holders in the Royal British Bank, held on satur day, some of the most startling facts were elicited, and the losses are certainly the most remarkable ever thistained by a banking establishment, show ing, as they do, a great want of judgment and a degree of carelessness on the part of the directors . _ r n: which are highly reprehensible. The vote e' d sure passed upon them was of a most humiliau description, and will, it is sincerely hoped , flet a o ti warning to those who hold the responsib le situ of directors in other joint stock cornnanien' of meeting was much excited, as the vari ous itern-tho the accounts were given by Mr. J. E. Colerri n % to eminent accountant, whose labours in brin tii l,i' tb e light the many circumstances connected Wi causes of the failure have been immense. been The holders of Crystal Palace shares 0 11 0 , l ot somewhat alarmed by the discovery of a fnul uti o n , °r *ssua of shares, or some other irregularities eged nected with the circulation of two or three oot transfers, representing, it is stated, between 1° : bat and 80,0001. There are several rumours ag ed " they require confirmation. ;fl th The accounts received from Paris con the the official return of the Customs' revenue "2-04 t, month of August, which amounted to l4,o7`n,itil being a decrease of 3,972 696 f., as compare" eeipts the corresponding month of last year. The' etirear of the first eight months of the presen; amounted to 114..592,5251., being 24 671, 68 ;' oog than in the corresponding period of 1855. Pitjave the articles which during the eight menthsmfee; shown the principal falling off, are, 'iooiso 6,004,074 f.; raw wool, 4,516,662 f.; foreign nia; sugar, 15 848 6171. ; potable liquors, 1.1-4'3. ipen olive oil, 400,3521. Those articles which Iv o': rglf ; the most improved receipts are, corn, 1 ,29 ,' tto,°' French colonial sugar, 1,129,4481.; ra w , o "6o l ' ; 889,0891.; cud, 503,4411 ; bar iron, 'l' sesame seed, 190,3561. ° ,4 n tll 9 A By private letters from Oporto, we 1 really good wines are fast decreasing. S te t . - 0 - rslS exporters are looking seriously about themt plies; large quantities have chanced lia 49 Old Tawney wines are now worth 280 mitre is q i 4ei° to £63) per pipe ; brandy, to fortify, 300 n'y°" (equal to £67 10s) per pipe. This will gi o ve i some idea of the state of things here. Th e ~ ,Ti o rcev i commences this week, but there is n.l wine, B : o 3 , to make, and what is made will be of ti w inferior description. THE COURT. BALMORA L Sept. 19.—Her Majesty an d his I' 7 Highness Prince Albert, with the Princess 841;0 younger princesses, and Prince Alfred, were clikflie shout the grounds of the castle this morning' t it° Right Hon. Sir George Grey his arrived in 0° , 69 0 4 ' to the Earl of Clarendon, as Secretary of State iill te f se t ante on the Queen. Prince Edward of SO ° 1 1 0 . took leave of her Majesty yesterd and preeeeu-: to visit to Mr. and Lady Agnes Duff, at their reside:-eilr the Highlands. Her Majesty, with the vet `vi honoured Mrs. Farquharson of Invercauld ,vitb yesterday. The Marchioness of Ely is expectedafi I ( IL Balmoral shortly, and her ladyship will be W e " ° : 7 her ; duties as Lady in Waiting to the ° 1 Duchess of Wellington, who will arrive the begi° 4 next week. , ept. 18.—His Royal Highness the oil' BALMORAL S of Orange, attended by Colonel de Casembraot l l e° (lee moral yesterday morning. The Earl of elijitjts departed for Taymouth Castle. The Queen tin;sdol° Prince Consort walked out y esterday. Highnessdtbe Prince Edward of Saxe Weialar, e n i ° i le sport of deer stalking. The royal dinner POI b il ss evening Kent, her Serene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe Schillinfurst, his Serene High Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lady Augustus ° race' Lord James Murray. A t MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. ---On the 12t11 iti.,,5,410 married, at the English Embassy in Paris, the th i Saldanha, Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chia °oft): Portuguese army, a peer of the realm, and gi lig t , ) o o , k i ° Golden Fleece, to Charlotto Binns, relict of P h . , Esq., of Ware Park, Jamaica. ' lt is said that nuptials ag of Lord Raglan and Lady Georgianllige-rP; be solemnised early in November. The DOrer Raglan, and the Bon. Misses Somerset, hale Frankfort. It,. 4.00 tired TUE MINISTERS.—Lord and Lady Palroers fif Leonards for the season on Thu rsdav, an d Cambridge House, Piccadilly. The Premier i s 1 , 1 0: 1 0 1 member of the Cabinet in town, and is pors uil ! wonted industry, a searching enquiry into all t ' - , 1 17 1 0 , of the public service.—lt is remarkable that o' to e t 0' principal Secretaries of State are at this. I,l' Scotland, where the Sovereign, and consequent% it of Government, is located. Sir George Grel l ,. s r, il 6' ance on the Queen at Balmoral. The Earl 0 1 " ' Ji ro is at Taymouth, on a visit to the Marquis O re : fr ;i l Lord Panmure is at Brechin, his ovn resi de ' ee ; /r „ P Labouchere is at Dunrobin, on a visit to t'" nor Sutherland. /V/ WHAT STENOGRAPHERS CAN, AND CANS°'rt 801' weekly cotemporary,the Liverpool Journal,in l° ' Tes ° ,o , issue, alluding to the grand banquet on board tb e : 0 0, on Thursday last, apologises for the non pobliestl°oolll Train's remarkable and clever speech, or. the gr the reporters connected with that establishme nt ` cf : r ' e si w g to the task of following Mr. Train in his rapid t r o p e ' journey ings in India and on the Continent of IP, f ° l o l o are glad to say that the readers of the NonTll ol4 , 14 . not deprived of the opportunity of perusing oco' question. We gave it in its entireity, an d 0 1 1,, almost unparelled ; and, although Mr. Tl.ain pilY it cr defeated the powers of the stenograp;tem of the - 1014 and journal, he found his match in the, r eporte r° 4 be fiY; this paper. We are sorry that our cotempor o ', ot, , to admit the inefazieney Vit3 own repor t A it l to make an excuse both imp otent and unfoon'A' cast reflections not only upon his own rep le 0.11,j the gentlemen belonging to uther journals . : o rof ir i r , practice to notice tbe defects of our coirore should we have done se on the present occoten pre for the gratuitous insinuation contained in th'e ' allusion to the report in question. 4 Ili COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL—Loss or Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, t be : - 0 0 4F 1 Captain Williams, front this port for Perhani-ilk 0 ,bsf el i intc. by the screw steamer Falcon, bound -° O O :0 0 ) b Liverpool. The steamer struck the Imog ene 1 1 . f, df , k ow, and must have cut her down to the 111 p C j e is -. 0 the fore compartment of the Imogene was inlnt:a -with water, and had the vessel, not been 11 '', g ot l it a t f l li tight compartments she must have sunk i36 :io ol4v il li i on i board. The steamer did not stop her e" 0 8(1 tme after the collision took place. A s the s l e d /I , o l' Imogene, the captain of the latter vessel 1114 h . . 0 IV) requested eink her to lay by him, as he thougilt;,l ; this the steamer did for two 100' " 0 (1: 0 1 . 4i' l itwas evident, in spite of the utmost 0069:00,4/.09 Williams and his crew, that the Imogene t 11 ;o 1 s erke io e l f and having, at this time, the main coinP full of water, they were obliged to ahead ° II :44 boats and take refuge on board the steam er ' . b 11 0 1 ; 0 _ 1 11 scarcely done, when the Imogene went de l° hest; scarcely This vessel had a most valuable cargo b°- c o io to be worth not less than £30,000, and a man of great experience and judgment. °li ( e i o°' new, , having been built by Messrs. c a to /or) port, about eighteen months since, for Bowring and Co., by whom she was owned . ;t i ll er , g i bi r an accident happening, with no severe We il " 00° - b e moonlight night, ought, in our opinion, 0 O f : 0/0 v ;i l LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. NI gyp. LEITCH, FItOM BOSTON 10 ILV,',IFAIt. • . Mr. R. Trotter and lady, Miss Trotte"ol-• 41 M'd.ime Bencir, Mdlle. f ,C: f i` l l l 6 servant, Mr. C W. Richards, Mr. p, JrO 4 4 W John Arrowstnith, Mr. P. Rowland. Wit% S. R. Scott, Mr. E. fangs, Sir. G. r , • g!'• 4, Captain Smith, Mr. J.. Williams J. Addams, Mr. S. Addams, J7 - 01) 1 `dif,teS i ' ' son, Miss 13sett, Mr ladll,4 fl °- ( 1 (lac, Mr. S. 114,ker, Mr. vz, Vernon,, l3,ro,a• 0 9. g ol'Z' Mr..l. Coatican and: hay , le 1 John Hall, Mr. M. 0 . 1- •hran, IV.l' G. Lang, Mr. Joseph u ' e.(l ; P114 4" 1 1 ., P M. Baninh,..oger and hob. l°°l Schiller and lad Mrs ioro 0 1 .0 ,j lady and child, 3 1% ' 17‘ soil all' °11(1C°1113‘11t11 Captainßurgess, Brenton, Mr... Ar i t a re l e t r i: L l: l u b L 'l4lart. **4ll Nicholas Mosher,:and, r c aptain Dag. strict investigation.