The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-21 00:00:00

Commercial Saltt. r 0-MORROW On account of whom it may concern TO -MORROW, the 22nd inst., at Half-past One o'clock, Commercial saleroom, Temple-court. About 161 Boxes Long Middles American BACON, y sea water, ex Emerald Isle, from New York.— TRIMMER & GRAINGER, Brokers, Bank Chambers, Cook-street. damage Apply to On account of whom it may concern sow, the 22nd inst., at Half-past One o'clock, the Commercial saleroom, Temple-court, About 560 Boxes Long Middles American BACON, damaged by sea water, ex Westpoint, from New York.-- Apply to TRIMME II & GRAINGER, Brokers, Bank Chambers, Cook-street. To-mon TO-MORILONI at th tlui 22nd instant, at Half-past One o'clock, Commercial saleroom, Temple-court, can CHEESE. 500 Boxei just landed ex A. Z., from New York.—Apply to Messrs Rathbone Brothers, & Co., Merchants, or to • WM. GARDNER & CO., Brokers. TO-MORROW, the 22nd instant, at Half-past One o'clock, t the Commercial saleroom, Temple-court, )0 Boxes American BACON, WM. GARDNER & CO., Brokers. Apply to WOOL SALE. On account of whom it may concern On THURSDAY next, the 24th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 13, North Sohn street, 130 Bales Peruvian Sheep's WOOL, ex sundry ships, all faults, 170 Bales Sundries. 300 Bales. For catalogues and particulars apply to LAW & WYLIE, Brokers. SATURDAY On SATURDAY next, the WOOL SALES. 9 6th instant, at the Brokers' leroom; 10, North John-street, 1000 Bales East India 640 Bales Pernvian (washed, fine fleece, and WOOL Merino), 260 Bales Egyptian, Italian, Sfax, &c., 1800 Bales. Apply to ABRAM GARTSIDE & CO.. Tira of Brokers On account of whom it may concern. On SATURDAY next, the 26th instant, at One o'clock, at the Broker's office, About 600 Bales COTTON, all faults, being part of the cargo of the Mobile, from Mobile, and Islay; lying on the north end of the Prince's Dock Quay.— Apply to Edward Bates, Esq., Merchant, or to H. JNO. WEBSTER, Broker, 5, Rumford-street. WOOL SALE To-Moßßow, the 22nd instant, at Four o'clock, at the Brokers' saleroom, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, 2330 Bales East India, 95 Do. Australian, Spanish, and Portugal, WOOL. 210 Do. Buenos Ayres, Cordova, Smyrna, Douske' 2635 Bales On FRIDAY, the 25th instant, at Four o'clock, ;s East India WOOL. 2000 Bal 4635 I For catalogues &c., apply to HUGHES & RONALD, Wool Brokers. On account of whom it may concern. To•MORROw, the 22nd instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Broker's office, 10, Brunswick-street, 200 Sacks BRAN, 100 Packs SHARPS, 100 Barrels FLOUR. WILLIAM PARKE, Broker. WEDNESDAY. Apply to TIMBER SALES TO TIMBER MERCHANTS, MACHINE MAKERS, SHIPBUILDERS, CABINET MAKERS, RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND COACH BUILDERS, &c., On WEDNESDAY next, the 23rd instant, at Twelve o'clock, in the Honduras Sheds, 232 Logs Honduras MAHOGANY, ex Cadet, 219 Logs Honduras MAHOGANY, ex H. M. Apply to John Carmichael, Esq., Merchant. 203 Logs and Curls Honduras MAHOGANY, ex Hope, 15 Logs CEDAR: Apply to Messrs. Hyde, Hodes & Co., Merchants. 151 Logs Honduras MAHOGANY, ex sundry vessels, 65 Logs SATINWOOD, ex Agnes, from Porto Rico. Apply to Messrs. Partridge & Co., Merchants. 29 Logs FURNITURE WOOD, ex Guatamala Packet. Apply to John Carmichael, Esq., Merchant. 320 Logs City St. Domingo MAHOGANY, ex Anglesea. Apply Co Messrs. Ft;mmel and Bossi, Merchants. 7700 Planks Bahia ROSEWOOD, ex sundry vessels, 450 Planks Rio ROSEWOOD, ex sundry vessels, 300 Planks ZEBRAWOOD. HOLME & SLATER, Timber Brokers and Measurers, 7, Water street. Liverpool, and 3, Canning-street, Birkenhead. THURSDAY TO TIMBER MERCHANTS, CABINET-MAKERS, JOINERS, COACH-MAKERS, RAILWAY CAR RIAGE BUILDERS, and OTHERS. On THURSDAY next, the 24th instant, at the Timber Yard, corner of Colquitt-street and Seel-street, by order of Mr. Hollingsworth, The whole of the large and well-seasoned STOCK of MAHOGANY, consisting of hand, rail, chair, and other planks, as well as boards of all thicknesses and varieties, veneers, &c., railway carriage and coach panels, baywood planks and oards •' also, a large stock of St. John's pine planks and boards, about 2600 deal planks and boards, quantities of dry birch planks and boards, &c., &c. The •ausawn stock contains 12 'logs of Honduras Mahogany, 3 oak logs, suitable for boards, St. John's pine and birch a rosewood and zebrawood planks, mahogany —For further particulars and cats lons, selont'orl veneer flitches, &c s apply on the premises, or to HOLME & SLATER, Timber Measurers and Brokers, 7, Water-street, Liverpool, and. Canning-street, Birkenhead. en bait. TO SHIPPERS TO THE WEST COAST. FINE BLEACHED WAX, AND STEARINE WAX, SPERMACETI AND STEARINE CANDLES, Suitable for the West Coast, and other markets. Apply to FRANCIS J. EATON, 7, Exchnnze-chambers. Thp J. NODDER, HATTER, 81, CHURCH-STREET, Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY for Inspection. Eiy,e 1304trn 4rittieo MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1856 IF any special argument in favour of an imme diate and sweeping Parliamentary Reform is wanted, it may be found in the fact, that there is a select Municipal Spoliation Committee sitting at this moment under the same roof with the representatives of the property—vested and con stitutional rights of the subject. When the rights of property are aisailed by the legislature, the reform of that body becomes a simple matter of justice—the urgency of the case demanding prompt and vigorous action. The port and town of Liver pool have been pitched upon by" particular desire," to illustrate the social anomalies and abomina tion of a system just as we , said they would be. The Committee commenced, their enquiry by calling on Manchester as an appr over, w ho will continue to blast the fair fame o f the Merse y , as a matter of course, and will end with inflicting on Liverpool a heavy blow and great discouragement, as a natural sequence. We have, however, lost nothing by the honour conferred upon us by being made to take precedence of all the rotten and intolerable municipalities of Great Britain. There are some sights too revolting for our public executioner, and by some singular contrariety in the weakness of corrupt nature ; there are false witnesses who cannot smother truth r and prevent its escaping their lips, even when they know it must demolish the fabric of their evidence, and secure to their victim a restoration to freedom and civil rights. Such metaphors, when sustained by analogous circumstances, assume a complexion of reality, which robs satire of its bitterness ; and to give our , simile all, the gravity of truth, we will take Mr. HERON'S testimony before the Common's Com mittee on Town's Dues. That gentleman was sent to London' to bind and scourge Liverpool. ' The Committee did not want him to disclose facts which would, in these enlightened times, render any further enquiry into the - riaatter under discussion a solemn mockery and a public outrage. Yet Mr. HERON, after years of practice in legally burking Liverpool, could not for the life of him silence or put truth to death. The recollection of the but cheries of fact in which he had 'played the leading part overpowered his love of perversion, and he was obliged, on the scaffold raised for the extermination of public morality, to confess that, " there is a return, which was made in 1854, that will show that the dues are claimed, first by prescription ; secondly, by royal charter ; anti, " thirdly, by purchase from the crown. In 1628, " Charles I. conveyed the manor of Liverpool to the " corporation of London for a sum of about 7001. ; `` the property was afterwards conveyed from the " corporation of London to that of Liverpool, through a lease from the Molyneux family, an - ces- " tors:Jo the present Earl of Sefton. In 1833 it was " decided in the case of the Mayor and Corporation i` of Liverpool v. Bowden, which was an .` action brought to try the rights of the ' corporation, that the title of the corporation of Liverpool was good in law and equity, " and since then their right had not been disputed." Here the Committee ought to have decided that and that they Manchester had no 'us stand; themselves have no such unconstitutional power vested in them as to deprive the subject of those rights of property which one of the superior courts of law had declared " was good in law and " equity:7 Parliament does not respect such titles, what becomes of the stability and value of property within its jurisdiction? Who will venture to pur chase lands with no better title than prescription, royal charter, or purchase from the Crown ? According to the Manchester doctrine, the greater the income derived through time from such rights the stronger the plea for their demolition ! It was not until they became worth having, in our case, that our neighbours thought it advisable to get them taken away, and they commence by recount ing the growth of our trade as if it were a disgrace to be industrious, and measure the expansions of our commerce as if to make a Committee of the House of Commons believe it is a crime to be thrifty and rich. Mr. HERON told the Committee that, "in " 1700 the population of Liverpool was 5,714 ; in " 1831, it was 165,000; and was now very little " short of 350,000. In 1753, the Dock Dues of " Liverpool were 2,0341. 16s. 2d., in 1803 they " were 28,0271. l 35. 4cl. ; in 1833 they were 182,9801. " 16s. 4d. ; in 1851 they were 235,527/. 2s. 6d. " The Parliamentary Committee that sat on the " Dock Dues last year, proved that the Dock " Dues were nearly 380,0001. In 1731, the Town " Dues were 6481. 116 s. 3d. ; in 1801 they were 19,728/. 3s. sd. ; in 1833 they were 47,007/. 14s " 2d. ; in 1847 they were nearly 100,0001. ; in " 1855 they were nearly 150,0001.; of which sum, " 125,000/. found its way into the coffers of the " Corporation of Liverpool." This statement of the nation's • progress ought to have called forth from the tribunal to which it was ad dressed three hearty cheers for Liverpool, and " one cheer more" for the Mersey. A parental Government can never hear too much of the-growth of those who intrust them with' the management of their temporal affairs. We will therefore supply what Mr. HERON has intentionally withheld from Parliament and the Cabinet. Mr. HERON has shown our progression in Dock Dues from 1753 to 1851, and in Town Dues from 1731 to 1855. The figures are almost too disheartening for a Town Clerk to contemplate while his hands are kept within his own breeches pockets. Still he must hear us talk of gorgeous revenues which he can never finger. ; and as he is the author of his own torments, we will ask him to reflect, for one moment, on the startling fact, that as the Town Dues increased from 6481. to 19,7281., between the years 1731 and 1831, the tonnage of the port of Liverpool also increased from 45,073 to 459,720 tons, and from 1833, when the Dues amounted to 47,0071., to 1847, when they. were "nearly" 100,0001., our, shipping had increased from 1,609,020 to about 3,300,000 tons, which in 1855, when the Dues reached 125,0001., had grown to upwards of 4,000,000 tons ! It is not Mr. HERON'S business to make out a case for Liverpool, if he can help it, but we simply ask him to prove that our Town and Dock Dues have kept pace with the ratio of increase which has taken place in the tonnage of this port, and the commercial prosperity of the northern counties? Taking that gentleman's own figures, it will be seen that for our Town and Dock income, amounting to 505,0001., we can show over 4,000,000 tons of shipping annually. To endanger any portion of this vast amount of trade, by tampering with its foundation, would be one of the most impolitic and iniquitous acts ever attempted by any legislative body. All the money we have received from Town Dues has been applied to legitimate purposes. Even Mr. HERON admits that " shipping could be " benefitted but to a very limited extent by those " Dues." And yet Manchester complains that these Dues are not applied to shipping purposes, and asks to have them transfered to the Board of Trade, that they may be applied, with the exception of a promised saving of 50,0001. per annum, to ship ping uses. Manchester men also talk largely about the hardship of paying ordinary borough expenses out of this source of income. But have we not as much right to employ money derived from a world-wide commerce to corporate purposes, as the council of Manchester has to charge the poor working artizan one shilling per thousand feet more for his gas than the wealthy manu facturer pays, and apply the proceeds to making parks, gardens, and wide streets for the rich ? Turn, again, to the Corporation of London, with its "population of 128,000 !persons," and princely revenue of 1,000,0001. per annum, which includes town dues and shipping tolls, as well as those of corn, cattle, meat and fish markets, which are not only applied to the support of prisons, police, repairing streets, and other strictly corporate purposes, but " from which," we are told, " Metropolitan improvements in Coventry street, " Longaere, New Oxford-street, Southwark, Spital " fields, — and ,Clerkenwell, have been effected," Has Manchester no trade with London and the Thames, which is unmercifully taxed to create a corporate revenue ? Has Mr. HERON no statistics to bring against Metropolitan Town Dues col lectors. Dock-joh.bers,*nd Corporate prodigality ? A B r o e ro t u he gh ri o g n h l t y s , t o h f a p t r m op a e n r e t h y e i to te. r lo ,s e v e violated m i n a y thisb be, gratified ? Manchester shares largely in the benefit of every improvement made in Liverpool ; and if her agitators are not satisfied With .their bargain, it would be better for the House of Commons to recommend them to take their trade - Where they can obtain better accommodation for less money, than to encourage a spirit of spoliation in the country, of which no man living can see the end._ TIE 14011THERN TIMES.-LIVIIIRPOOL, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1866 MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, LITERPOOL, SAtlllthAY EVENING The Liverpool Cotton' Marit continues very active and firm. To-day the /sales reach 15,000 bales, and include 7,000 taken for speculation and export„ Prices, ave still an upward tendency. The Liverpool Share Market has been firm to day, but the amount of business done has not been large. Prices closed steady at the following quo tations :—Aberdeen, 1:1 131. Chester and Birken head, 151 16. Caledonia.n, 30a 30.1. Chester and Holyhead, 161 161. Eastern Connties, 10 1-16 10 3-16. - East Lancashire, 19f1- 19a. Great Northern, 23± 231. Ditto A, (4",. 10k. Great Western, 641 65 Lancashire -and Yorkshire ; -- Stock, 89k - 891. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 17 171. London and North Western. Stock, 101,4 1011. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 298 291. Ditto Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent.. Pref, 2 in. Midland Stock, 75 758. North British, 8 13-16 Bi. North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern and Dover, 22 . 22 1-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191 191. York and North Midland, 28± 28±. Leeds Capital Stock, 15.7 i 16. Buffalo'and Lake Huron, 2 1-16 2 3-16 p. Dutch Rhenish, 11 lip. Great Western of Canada, 20 2(3 Ditto New Shares, 3 37 1 p. Ditto 2nd issue,:3l :34p, Great Luxem bourg,,7l 71d. . . We quote , the following report of the 'London Stock and Share Market from the circular of Mr. William Avens • The payment of the April dividends has thrown a large amount of money into the market, with a view to obtain active employment at the profitable rates which have so long been current ; and consequently there has been more ease in obtaining commercial discounts and short advances upon public securities, than has been the case for some But though it is probable that in the present S 3 than £4,000,600 have thus been put into line pa circulation, of which £2,000,000 have been, or may be applied to re-investments or placed at call with the Banks and Discount houses, no abatement in current rates can be .reported. In this respect there is no change for the better ; and apprehensions are felt in some quarters that there may be a renewal of pressure upon the termination of the dividend payments. The opinion that the present condition of ease is only temporary, is founded upon several obvious considerations. One is, the continued overflow of coin to the East, which absorbs not less than £lOO,OOO per week ; another is the demand. for Specie from India and China, which cannot be expected to abate under present circum stances ; another the moderate imports of specie compared with our wants; another, the pre parations for meeting the final instalment of five millions loan, and the payment on account of the Exchequer bills funding operation, which will absorb £1,050,000 out of the market; and lastly, the probable necessities of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to enable him to balance the receipts and expenditure of the present financial year. Against these considerations there is nothing of a very tangible character upon which reliance can be placed ; consequently the prospects of co❑tinued ease are not, for the present, very promising. Trade, however, is good and extending both at home and abroad, ; and as there is a strong spirit of legitimate enterprise abroad as well as an equally strong speculative tendency, the banks and discount houses are discriminating the purposes, as well as the terms, for which advances are required. The imports of specie during the week, amount to nearly £500,000. The exports to about £lOO,OOO, but they will be much larger next week. Advices have been received to the effect that £262,086 in gold, was shipped from Melbourne in January. This amount is now nearly due. All the exchanges are favourable to the return of gold to this country from the-Continent. Public securities have been rather drooping, but on Wednesday they shewed symptoms of recovery. On Saturday consols closed at 937 ; to 2 for the May account, from which they gradually declined upon sales, to 93,1 to -1-„ at which they opened on Wednesday. From this point they improved to 93 7-16 to 9-16, principally in consequence of a large purchase by an influential house and they have remained at 93a to since. The comparative ease of the Money Market upon the price of consols is neutralised by the recent and prospec tive creation of stock, and by the sending out of specie. The Railway Market was dull in the early part of the week in con sequence of the arrangement of the settlement having absorbed the attention of dealers. The account, which proved rather heavy, passed off well ; but one party was unable to meet his engagements. He had operated for the fall - both iu Consols and R,ailway Stock. The market has since shown more animation, and prices have tended upwards: The French lines are all higher, particularly Paris and Lyons and Great Central of 'France; but there was a alight, reaction yesterday., Foreign securities have generally been firm, though business is languid. Turkish and Mex ican have been principally dealt in. Joint Stock Banks and miscellaneous shares have not been very active; and prices generally are much the same as last week. The Weekly Bank Return published last night is unfav ourable. The bullion, notwithstanding large imports has increased only £41,552, and the entire stock in both departments . amounts but to £19,098,667. It is now £8 000,000 less than in June last. The reserve has fallen off £523,723 ; and the whole amount of notes and coin in the till is only £4,573,577. The bank, however, has been making large temporary advances to the Government, which have diminished this fund; but, on the other hand, it has received back private loans and advances to the amount of £2,917,192. tinder those - circumstances, it is not pro-. bable that the anticipated equalisation in the rates of discount on long'and short bills can be `Made next week, or for two or three - weeks to come. The - circulation, including bank post bills, is now £20,819,050, against £20,201,830 last week. - To-day the general demand for money has rather increased, and owing to preparations to meet the loan instalment next. Thursday, the applications at the bank are likely to be numer ous. The commercial demand remains steady ; and, on the whole, the Lombard-street houses are freely extending their discounts. The market is not perceptibly affected by the diminishing reserve in the bank, because good bills are readily taken elsewhere ; but the subject is beginning to attract considerable notice. Consols have been steady all day with scarcely a single movement. The attitude of the market is that of expectancy. Every body is looking on, waiting for some event, either finan cial for political, [to give a stimulus to business. The opening quotation was 938 to 4- for money, and 93: to 4 for the account; and these were also the closing prices. In the English Railway Market there is but little change since yesterday. Edin • burgh and Perth have declined 10s. upon sales; Great Westerns are ss. lower. On the other hand Lancashire and Yorkshire and Sheffields are firm. The Continental lines are suffering a reaction after the late advance. Paris and Lyons are 55., and Eastern of France 10s. lower than yesterday. Sambre and Meuse have fluctuated between ln and 141, and close at 131 to 14k. Luxembourgs close at 6'4 to 7k. Riga and Dunaburg I-, to 11 pm. Lombardo-Venetian 61 to tpm. Italian junction to I pm. Colonial Railways main tain firm prices. All the Indian and Canadian lines are still in good demand. The former area to Z- higher. . Foreign Securities have been totally neglected. Scarcely a transaction is recorded in any, and prices are unchanged. Mexican close at 2.21 to 23. Joint stock banks have been dealt in to a moderate extent. London and County, 344 to 35 ; Ottomans, 11, 2 pm.; Bank of Egypt, 11 to pm. The Charter of 'the Unity Bank was received from the Board of Trade this morning, and business will commence on the Ist of May, or earlier if possible. Miscellaneous shares are dull, with not much doing in them. Netherland Lands 4 -2- pm The French Three per Cents opened on the Paris Bourse this morning at 74f 45c; at the close they came 74f 70c for Account; The Ftiltoli, - from New York with half million dollars in specie for Franca was Off Cowes at noon. She brings news from Mexico that it was reported' at Puebla that the government had suppressed the revolutions. Telegraphic advices from Spain state that the Madrid Gazette has published the items of the budget for the present year, and the service for the first six months of 1857. The total expendi thre is estimated at 2,198,517,280 reals, and the receipts at 2,202,591,988 reals. It is also announced Credit Banks have that beenthe operationseeneiderah considerably of e h t e h e e k e d N ehwy the interdict of the French Government, which prohibits the nego tiation of such stocks on the, Paris Bourse. The consequence has been that all the shares sent for sale to Paris have been returned, and caused , a considerable decline in the quotations. On the- Madrid Bolsa the Spanish Funds are steady, at previous quotations. Accounts from Prussia state the effect of the interdict being rescinded upon the exportation of grain from the Russian markets since there-estab lishment of peace, is beginning to be felt upon the" Russian cash markets, especially in the Baltic provinces. It has been remarked, also, that the trade with Russia is likely to affect seriously the commercial relations between the North German and Scandinavian States; and that already grain ha.s fallen considerably in the Swedish and Danish markets. At-Dantzic the markets for wheat, which used. to be very active upon the approach of the opening of navigation, is this year exceedingly dull, and quotations are nominal, while rye con tinned; tg fall in priPe. FRANCE. ERODI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING, Of political news of infportanee there is a dearth to-day, The Debats publisles a long article about the'treaty-of peae, in which it giVes, with affected diplomatic reserve, certain details professifu.i, to be important, but which are not new. Thus, it says that the additions to the treaty will be two in number—one relative to the number of small vessels to be kept by Russia and Turkey in the 131'ack Sea ; - the other relative to the Aland Islands. But I told you the same long ago. - - Before this letter can he printed, Lord Clarendon will have arrived in London. Count Cavour, the Italian Plenipotentiary, left yesterday, it is said, for London. Count Buol, the Austrian; set out for Vienna - this morning, and Baron de Manteuffel, the Prussian, left in the course of the. day. Count Orloff, the Russian, still remains ; but, as I told you several days back, he is going to Italy. His ostensible destination will not, however, it appears, be Naples, as at first stated, but Pisa. The evening papers quote the statement of the Morning Post, that three Commissioners are to bo nominated by the governments, to settle the details about the navigation of the Danube, the Princi palities, and the Christian populations of Turkey. I mention the quotation, just to be able to call attention to the fact, that the Morning Post, though it is notoriously the semi-official organ of the French Government in England, and as such has better sources of • information than. - any of its London cotemporaries, was still not better informed in this important matter than I was, for I sent you the same news two or three days back. It is said that a strong diplomatic pressure is to he exercised by England, France, Russia, and even Prussia and other German governments, (Austria, of course, excepted,) on the Pope and the King of Naples, in order to induce them to modify their tyranny, and even to change the forms of their governments. On chit also, that Lord Normanby, our Minister at Florence, is to go to Rome as Eng lish representative—not, however, of course, in an official character, our laws forbidding official rela tions with Rome. A considerable change in the personnel of French diplomacy is about to take place. Some sensation has been caused in official circles, by the arrest ,of an advocate named, I believe, Rorea, on the charge, as I am told, of having offered a bribe of £16,000 (400,000 fr.) to a high functionary, on condition of his obtaining for him a concession of street cabs, which in Paris are a monopoly. Another person, whose name need not be mentioned, was, I am told, arrested at the same time, but released. Committees have been formed in all the arron dissements of Paris and in the immediate suburbs, for raising subscriptions for making an " offering" to the Empress. In the parts of the town chiefly occupied by the lower classes, the subscriptions are limited from one to five sous, but they do not, on dit, flow in very rapidly. I am assured by a manufacturer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, who employs 100 workmen, that when the collectors presented themselves in his workshops, every man peremptorily refused to contribute even a sou. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING . The Moniteur sent you this morning contains, as you will have seen, an article announcing the formal conclusion of the Congress, that the treaty of peace will be ratified by the end of the month, and that the protocols will, be published at the same time, &c. I told you yesterday, that the Moniteur would contain this announcement, and, singular to relate, the official journal makes it known in almost the very terms I used. It is very rare for a newspaper correspondent to be so well in formed as to anticipate even the official announce ments of the great official organ of the French Government. I doubt not that the readers of the NORTHERN TIMES will duly appreciate the fact, as a new proof of the zeal displayed in their service. I learn to-day from an excellent source, that all difficulty with respect to the occupation of the Danubian 'Principalities by the Austrians may be eensidered at an end. Austria, I am assured, has entered into positive engagements with England and France to withdraw her troops from the Prin. cipalities, and to begin doing so as soon as they shall commence removing theirs from Turkey ; nay, even she has promised to effect her removal with all possible despatch, so that it will be accomplished before the Allies have terminated theirs. I am again assured, and on good authority, that a new Congress is decidedly to be announced at no very distant interval, to take into consideration the Polish and Italian questions, and the situation of Europe generally. To this. Congress all the European powers will be convoked, and its deci sions will form a new international compact in Europe, destined to replace the treaties of Vienna, of 1815, which have been violated in all manner of ways. I recollect, months ago, having told you that the summoning of such a Congress was a very favourite hobby of the, Emperor, and that, as he had set his mind on it, he would effect it. You see, then, that in this matter also. I was well informed. The Patrie of this evening confirms what I said yesterday, as to the Congress having referred the regulation of the questions relative to the naviga tion of the Danube, the future government of the Principalities, and the state of the Christian populations of Turkey, to special commissions. A Berlin despatch says that the Emperor of Russia has ratified the treaty of peace ; also, that he had left for Moscow, and that his coronation had been fixed for the 30th August. The expense of this ceremony is estimated at upwards of £500,000 sterling ! The Legislative Body has been occupied in discussing the bill on the Customs, presented by the government; but nobody pays any attention to what it says or does, as it possesses no real power, and even its deliberations are not allowed to be printed in the newspapers until revised (and altered) by the government. The Customs' Bill was, of course, passed as presented by the govern 7 ment ; it is of a rather liberal character. The _Revue de Paris has received - ; ; ‘ warning " to-day, for an article by M. Ronchaud,. attacking the late historians of Cfesarthat is M. Troplorg and others, who, to flatter the present Emperor, have been preaching up that tyrant. Baron de Manteuffel, the Prussian Plenipoten tiary, positively leaves Paris to-morrow. The English mails of yesterday, due this morn ing, had not arrived up to a late hour. The society of literary men (Gen des Lettres) held a grand meeting to-day, to receive a report on the awards made to competitors for the pecuniary prizes offered by Dr. Veronos. From Hamburg we learn. that it had been officially denied ,there that the, Russian govern ment intends to make a new loan. Accounts from Constantinople to the 7th have arrived at Marseilles to-day. The English had begun sending off their siege artillery, and the Sultan had attended a review of the English troops on the plain of Haidar Pacha. Aali Pacha is to go to London to present Prince Albert with the order of Medjidie. Disturbances of a grave character, caused by the concessions to the Christians, had broken out at Sivas and Koniah, but the govern ment wqs determined to repress them with energy. The differences between England and Persia were not settled. The Turkish Ambassador at Teheran had resigned. oriT THE COURT The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday next at Buckingham Palace. Tier Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, visited the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, in Pall-mall, on Friday morning. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort left Buckingham Palice in the afternoon for the Camp at Aldershott. The royal party quitted, the palace at three o'clock, and proceeded to the private station at Vauxhall, and.left by a special train for Farnborough, on the South Western Railway. BUCKINGIIAM PALACE, Saturday.—After the review of the troops: at Aldershott this morning, the Queei and Prince*Albert partook of luncheon in the 'royal pavilion, and afterwards droye to Farnborough, where a special train of the London and South Western Railway was in readiness, which conveyed , the Queen and the royal party to Vauxhall, from whence they proceeded in their car riages, escorted by light dragoons, to Buckingham Palace, which they reached at half-past six o'clock. Her Majesty had a dinner party this evening. The distin guished party comprised her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Count Cavolr, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, Lord and Lady Granville, the Countess of Desart, Lady F juir ur Hoyu.rd, Earl efpuEliatn, and Colonel Munro. -- THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (FROM Opt OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SEBASTOPOL, APRIL f Todfij the great news arrived, and," peace" was ptonounced by -the 'cannon's louevoice .a fait aceompli. Perhaps one of the most surprising,inci dents,that have markedthis, the strangest war in the romance of history, his been the announce ment of its termination. How would the armies, (that ages ago made this their battle field,) spring -with-amaze-from-their-hidden _graves.,_ could they know that the treaty of peace, signed in Paris on the 30th of March, was formally proclaimed here on the,nd - of But we live in times when the lightning is our postman, steam( out coachfrian, - and the sun our portrait-painter, , and, therefore, npthing surprises us. At two o clock to-day crowds might be seen asSembling on the hill, that some call Coagbeare's, and others Telegraph . Hill, to hear the official announcement of the news. This hill is situated behind the Guard's camp, and Oierrooks the 'plain 'of Balakla.ia, part of the valley of the Tchernaya, taking in also the IVlackenzie heights and the range of hills above the Belbeek. It is the same ground as that on which the grand review of the whole army was held—and, as I have before said, commands a view Balaklava harbour on the one ,hand, and Sebastopol on the other, one Of the Most beautiful in this,. part. of the Crimea. On this hill were drawn up four batteries of the hOrse artillery, and at two P.M. a salute . of .101 `guns awoke the echoes of the surrounding mountains, to the news of pettee . .. The salute was taken up by the Sardinians, and....the_Ereach.,. posted along 'the neighbouring heights, and lastly by the Russians from their grand, and there was moral in the spot itself, that where within a month back an army was Proudly received in readiness for another cam paign, __the cannon's roar should tell, not of a new era of battle and .bloodshed, but that for all those thousands " their occupation was gone." The horse artillery looked in remarkably good condition. This has been our only excitement ofelate, and therefore that inex haustible subject—the weather—has suffered. Since I last wrote, for a whole week we have had cutting north-east winds, and colder weather than at any time during the winter. APRIL 3rtn.—:Never praise the Crimean climate. On rising this. morni rrc [Ann& everything frozen to the most disagreeable state of obduracy; a north east wind cruelly finding out your tenderest parts, and snow and sleet coming down from the muddiest and, dirtiest of skies. Now, a man without any very strong poetic tendencies, might on the 3rd of April reasonably expect to see some signs of spring; he might' call to mind what he remembers to have read about " genial spring," " April showers, soft and beautiful," "warbling birds," &c., &c., and begin to think about stowing away his winter coats. Let that man come- to- the Crimea, and he will consider all that Thompson ever wrote a bitter satire on the credulity of mankind. Gallant Crimean heroes looking, out on this spring morning from between their many blankets, decidedly, heard the wind say, " As you were," and retained their positions, in happy ignorance of-the burlesque on. the seasons acted outside. They certainly.thoughtany "early worms" out such a morning would not be worth the catching. Other unfortunates, however, there were whOrn duty summoned forth, and among them was the whole of the unfortunate Third Division. It seems Sir W. Eyre, commanding the Third Division, thought the day ' a most desirable one for a grand divisional pic-nic at Baidar, a march of about eighteen miles, over a very hilly country. At 8.30 a.m., therefore, the whole division marched out, with their tents, &e., prepared' to bivouac at . Baidar for, the night. But they did not get over half the distance, and their return was a minature resemblance of the retreat from Moscow. But the *results are too serious for the ludicrous to have any place. Until after dark the men came home by twos and threes, dispirited, and almost dead with fatigue. Several dropped on the road, and were taken to various hospitals. Two men were taken into the hospital of 13th Regiment, and died there during APRIL 4TH.—Great indignation is expressed at the voluntary exposure of the Third Division to such hardships in the march of yesterday. One officer and eighteen privates have died in different hospi tals during last night, of fatigue and exposure to the cold. Had it been the opening of a new cam. paign, such a march could only have been reckoned among the stern necessities of war, hut it does seem an unnecessary trifling with the lives of his soldiers, for Sir William Eyre to take them out on such a day, and for which he will doubtless be called to account. The wintry weather still con tinues ; snow on the ground ; a nor'-easter pain fully reminding you of the existence of your nasal organ: The French advertise a steeple-chase for the 10th instant. INTENDED MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS MARY OF CAMBRIDGE.—Paris, Friday Night.—A. despatch from Stockholm announces that Prince Oscar, the second son of the King of Sweden, ; leaves Stockholm for London, in the middle of May, for his betrothal] with the Princess Mary of Cambridge. CABINET COUNCIL.—The Cabinet Ministers met in Coun cil on Saturday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. The Duke of Argyle, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Lord Panmure, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Mr. Baines, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Harrowby, attended. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY. —The meeting of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp ton Railway Company on the Ist of May will be only held pro forma, and will be immediately adjourned to the fol lowing day. NEW MODE OE LEVYING A CHURCH-RAM—A vestry meeting was held at Lancaster last week for the purpose of levying a church-rate, amounting to £l,OOO, for the repairs of the church. The rate was made and agreed to by the Dissenters present, on the express agreement that the rate should be levied upon and paid by the church-going people. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU TION, 9, ROSE-HlLL.—Week ending April 19,—New patients entered on the books last week, viz—Relieved at the institution, 161 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 66 ; cases of prevailing epidemic, 0 ; total, 227. Visitors, Mr. E. Watts, Mr. T. Kirk. Hon. Sec. and treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, E-q. A small but elegant monument, by Stephens of Worcester, has lately been erected in the chancel of Feckenham Church, to the memory of Russell Haywood, Esq., by the officers of "his regiment (the 82nd), as a token of their regard. Lieut. Haywood died, after a very short illness, last year, at Liverpool, where his regiment had arrived, previously to embarkation for the Crimea. He was the younger, son of Francis Haywood, Esq., of this town. THE Loss OF THE BOOMERANG. Two sailors were brought up on Saturday before Mr. Mansfield on the fol lowing charge :—lt 'appeared that when the Boomerang was lost, the vessel that relieved the crew had taken as much luggage as could be got from the sinking ship. Amongst this was a trunk containing some valuable pro perty belonging to one 'of the officers of the ill-fated vessel. The owner of the property returned to the ship, when the vessel that had the rest of the crew on board parted from the wreck, and it was supposed the people who stood by the Boomerang had been lost, and the two prisoners, acting on this supposition, when they went ashore made free with the conents of the trunk. The owner was fortunately saved, and he . now came forward to prosecute the prisoners for stealing his property. The prisoners were remanded to this day. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. CANADA, FROM BOS TON, via HALIFAX TO LIVERPOOL :—Dr. G. C. Shattuck, lady, and daughter, Mrs. Brune, Mrs. H. Dove and daughter, Miss H. G. Smith, Miss E. H. Smith, Professor Pancoasti, lady, and two sons, Mr. A. E. Bochelder and lady, Messrs. Bruckner, G. Hamilton, R. G. Corning, and E. Bohu, Lieut. Williams, Mr. F. Ferris, Mr. DeViles, lady, and two children, Mr. A. Johnson, lady, and child, Messrs. J. Smith, G. B. Grealorax, and S. Bradford, Capt. D. Knight, Messrs. J. A. Lane, J. M‘Donald, E. Gooderham, and W. Gooderham, Rev. W. Butler, lady, two children, and servant, Messrs. R. Crossley, J. Bes sett, and W. Williams, Mrs. Burgh and child, Mrs. F. Pearson, Messrs. Heatherington, T. Murray. J. Ronalds, S. H. Budd, J. M. Grant, and F. Crampton and lady, Mrs. J Geelan, Messrs. Jonas, R. Barlow, S. A. Howes, and G. W. Brown, Mrs. Parks and daughter, Miss Aiken head, Mrs. Moore and infant, Messrs. C. Hepplehall, S. Agazzi, and T. K. Matterson, Mrs. R. Harenden and child, Mrs. B. Olson, Mr. R. Gowenlock and lady. Messrs. J. Pierri, D. Davidson, T. Seugram, T. Brown, T. Smith, and G. A. Lewis, Mrs. N. Winslow and child, Messrs. W. Stevens and H. Dean, Dr. Craske, Messrs. H. Crookcs, C. G. Swift, and A. Veallon, Captain Hardy and lady, Lieutenants Wells and Bland, Messrs. Morrissey, J. Pengelly, and J. Farms. • ,•, L&TEST INTELLIGENCE. THE RUSSIAN ARP they REDUCTION OF Ai despatch from Berlin, dated Sati oq that :intelligence b- from-st. -Petersburg, announcin se, the Russian army is p peace foo MI Mill trthat - thirtirovp Crimea will henceforth form two armio , l9/ the command of Prince Gortschaliedd -other_under._Gemeral Luders. --~-- RETIREMENT OF. COUNT NESSELIM- • HAMBURG , SI The semi-official Dresden journal copfi news of the retirement of Count the Russian foreign office. He is _- by Prince Gortschaltoff, recently Russian am p dor at. he court of Vienna. Count Nesselrede will still retain the title, office of Arch-chancellor of the Empire. ,rt'f Nesselr siicceett AUSTRIA AND THE CONCOIWAI file police autlio Of Vie n 6ft,. have te' f Shan city to pub:. concerning the proceedings of the held there. nor 11 s, now b procluel rvatia hill s may "PI foreign journals on th COUNT MONTALEMBERT ON FErii'- 1 OF ELECTION: aDAY Evl4lll'_,;'c 7s — Leqislatify - 1 - n the sitting -- of - the - ttorp of Mint Montalembert , made an important sPe f t on the subject of the recent decision of the Con.9g, Cassation, with respect to the liberty of distributivag election bulletins. Immediately on rising, he s W ho interrupted by the President, Count de Morny , '''. a enquired.whether se disputed the election :" f o r Count Montalembert replied that he did 0°,;,10t he admitted that the rules of the house (111 e ly give him a right to make any. ebullition. 13e 133-I t i l e wished to express an opinion with regard to election law, Coll o° The President said he would authorise , i der Montalembert to make his observations, bu t t o il the express reserve • that the government s' not be obliged to answer them.' tho Count MoritaleMbert began by saying that eat incontestible strength of the present gove r ,, - lied Was above all the extraordinary . sanction s till recceived.from universal suffrage, but it wa g "' o ft essential that the persistence of this symP atil li the part_ of universal suffrage should be del3l°be striae& now. In what manner could fly domOnstrated? Why, by elections, aru.,l Oe by elections for the Corps LegislatzT• to d declared' that_ if he.. were a violent la p cen t factious man of oppositian he would' c" his hand in' secret delight at the given by the CoUrt of Cessation. He w"ld that the aid Government. might obtain many such t 1 etiti;:and that it might vigorously act upo n i ni , e t and that they might lock up in'Prison of an electoral bulletin. He would hope an", ' t . lll , l t all this, because he was thoroughly convince"„ieo such a course of conduct could not fail to r e J d to the spirit of opposition, where it existed, `. l e iti. raise it up where ,it was dead ; abut as a gooc'. zen he wished to give the Government w°ll, ll -4 that the very word " election " implied chole(c', choice meant that one candidate might be pre' el _ to to another. It was the' right of the c his choice of universal sl existed he clesi l it hpriestly acted upon. He infinitely prefer the institutions of the first Erni when the 'Senate named the Corps Legislatif e-oo deceitful system of universal suffracre et eluded by calling for an alteration of the A l ' this momentous subject. , make preparation for great admirer lona as it no but as THE ASSASSINATION IN RUPEIZI The unfortunate man Rouelli still lives, and, contrTj,...l l o the opinion of all the medical officers of the hospit 3 t saw him shortly after his admission, there now aPP I- . 3 be some hope that his life may be saved. Up to this the patient has taken nothing but gentle stimulat . but the most promising feature in the case i abdominal inflamrnaion has not increased. It stated that Rouelli is a man of seme educatio superior to the station he hac lately been filling street. It is a fact that he was brought up . 55 aca uv- Imperial college at Milan, and that for some tun e b In •a' employed in. one of the municipal offices at Ger steted to have been a man• of v"ry quiet habi general favourite amongst his associates. The assassin Foschini is still at large. As early ble after the deposition of Rouelli had been t Thursday night, Inspector Parke, of the C division, by th constable, proceeded to the lodgings lately nee t V i r d- No. 4 ed, at the house of an It a li an residing' ' l ' ' l ' gar-lane, Holborn. It is scarcely recessar nothing had been heard of him there, and u p to ti A lt ur - A moment he has eluded the vigilance of the officers car only a young man, Foschini seems already to ha l he Os for himself a terrible notoriety. Three compelled to leave his native city, Lugo, in the PaP,, ces ion• on account of his violent conduct on more than one t ie d on fears ag ° s ta tes? 'While in Italy he was engaged in a manufactory n' t ;`,,, was first cousin at Aviano ; and on arriving in En ! gla p il o u n ' - i rY se, employed in some ironworks at Neweas--- attar on sn which place he left after having made a violent atta he Italian fellow workman. Since his arrival in Lo manly has been employed at Messrs. Bernaux's env el li up t° factory, in Lambeth, and h ere h e was eng a g e Thursday last. . _d n ot (LATEST PARTICULARS.) Up to a late hour on Saturday night / the Pol ice 13 ..s g eoi° 3 s o u f cceeded in arresting Foschini ; but they are in 1313 :bicli certain information respecting his movement w ill o f would tot be prudent to state publicly', wr"% e n - r d l v • 1; doubt result in' his capture in the course of yes', `" -- 7 ,0 1 3 ,7 is a most remarkable circumstance that Fosc , i t.. bu tn e- 11 w e t been enabled, even for the last two days to rrri ° :esP ec i; attempts of the police to effect h . captur ' d to Rouelli and the' other suffererssfrom the-Itel"" eba t 0 10 made upon them, we are happy to be able to stAt e : are progressing as favourably as could be expecte'''. FEARFUL CONFLAGRATION IN GLEI ILLINOIS. (From the Galen; Advertiser, April 1 ') p t°s4 THIRTY-TWO BUILDINGS DESTROYED-ESTIAIATE,writCO 300,000 DOLLARS-ST. MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC 1,4CC1 A IN RUINS—COURIER ee OFFICE . At thr o'clock yesterday morning CONSUMER our city Was Ci r D l:Ct by the most disastrous conflagra,tion-that has ev e ' r od occurred here, and one which will long be reraernbe_4 with sorrow, not only by those who have suffered the !f t , of their property, but by all who witnessed its t he effects and can feel for the mist mule of othrs. - I ‘" i 0 whom we have watched for years, toiling with carefulne_ll in the prosecution of their business, saw the d fruit e their labour swept aw a y as by a single breath, fle the}'ac. are left again to com mence the" world anew, with tr w e cumulated load of dis coura g ement upon them. Airll,,`"oge, comp ass i ona t e them, we app eal to their sturdy ee:: i ii . e • to sustain and arm th em anew for the struggle °logo Life is a warfare with difficulties, and he who meets, ~ most manfully is the gr eatest hero. To our knovvw this is the fourth or fifth time so me of the su ff erers I), _, t o fire have been burnt out within few yars. 3fost u: oi l sufferers were among our mosta worthy,e induslri°ll'o the enterprising citizens as will be seen by a reference t list below. ci crenerce- The fire was first disc overed in the stable in ,-,°-----,„,., of street, near Washing ton, owned by Mr. 0. liraiLs'lie Chicago. In a few minutes it was all in a hli ze. f the portion of the bloc k in which it was situated, north 'a , 1 1 3 , De Soto House, was of the most combustible roatell'ect and in a very short space of film) it was in a sieg ic s All of flame, defying all hope of victory by the buildings in that block north of Packard 14 ..ce store, bounded by Main, Washington, and Connisie: 415 streets, like one mighty candle, lit up the whole ,_ l l„' 3 ,.:ti ' )l l with a most terrific glare. The fire crossed Wasei",,eea street in a northward direction, and burnt all the'W °- 0 . buildings south of L. S. Felt's old brick store , Ile v `% .t e i ct pied by J. Coatsworth and Son. . It crossed Ala" — re 4 westward, and bu r nt all that fine brick block of stoutil human elf,irt•co.,6 and offices north of Dr. Weirich's new buadino an d s° , r of Bergman and Co.'s cabinet warcrooms, witl7 the e"“:,,ci Lion of the building on the north corner' of gai n ":, J. . ‘ n Washington-streets. It then crossed Bunch-street,lli4 burnt the residence of D. A. Barrows, the next southward, and lastly, in that direction, the Cat-- church, where it was finally subdt4d. that large, Such was the fury of the tempest of fire, " fle I cinders were. carried a mile or more from the see'" ° t immediate conflagration, so as to endanger buildivg,;Xit that distance. We hear of several building,,s tha t ca-0 fire on the hill, but which were extinguished. d'veholio Mr. Greene, M.P. for Lancaster, has witbin the Pa; hen - days, signified his intention to retire from p arliamee lu gh it dissolves. He has been a representati ve of the belows for upwards of thirty years. The political creed h e is that of the . • • • --