The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-01 00:00:00

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Acquaint Applicatil the Hono h September, b utiful animal; quiet and FOR ! fre . _ ,t Walton's Livery Stables •assorted Stock always on hand, KENTLEDGE.—A large and well Also, BALLAST (Piz) IRON WILLIAM F 804 & CO., Sweeting-street PONY, BASKET CARRIAGE, and HARNESS.—Sea-side or Nursery PONY EQUIPAGE—Price 25 guineas—admirably adapted for ladies and children. Pony 5 years, sound, and quiet for a lady to ride or drive. Basket carries two persons and two chil dren, has 4 wheels all in perfect condition.—Apply to Mr. E. Smith, 6, Upper Newington, Liverpool. - • ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOUSES I HOUSES I I LAND I LAND! I —ON SALE, in large or small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price from about 4'loo to £6/,ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire offices, for the Sale and Letting of Land and ouses, M ark t-crss Chambers (one door from Market-square) M H arket-stret, Birken head. at alts. TO-MORROW TO-MORROW, the 2nd instant, Broker's Office s 1 ast One o'clock, at the 4, Brunswick-street, lio FLOUR, all faults, Apply to To.Moaßow and Nash's baler, ER, Broker, f-past On am, Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, at goo Rushes WH EAT, . Sonthamp'on, from New York.—For further pa , tieulars apply to J. Re M. HARNETT, Brok,rs. NOTICE. The CONSIGNEES of (0 in triangle) 44 Bales COTTON, ex Albert Gallatin. from New Orleans, are respectfully informed that the above are Warehoused at their risk and expense.—Apply to B. &W W. PEARCE & CO., Brunswick -street. TENPENCE will buy FIVE QUIRES of SUPERFINE CREAM LAID NOTE PAPER, at CHARLES WILLMER'S WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE, 19, SOUTR JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL COPY YOUR LETTERS-NO MACHINE WANTDE LETTER BOOKS CHEAPER THAN EVER COPYING BOOKS, containing FIVE HUNDRED Leaves, half-bouni, paged, and indexed, which require no Machine, are sold at FOUR SHILLINGS EACH, CHARLES WILLMER, WHOLESALE STATIONER, 19, SOUTH JOHN STRE ET, LIVERPOOL. CUSTOM -HOUSE PAPER, SEVEN SHILLINGS per Ream, at CHARLES WILLMER'S WHOLESAI STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, TH JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL, close of last session to which the magistrates refused to continu( 2-ship Asia arrived here trait of Venus, nanuta 2' advi serVl( this country. perfecting those bills' which it may be determined to introduce as proposals of the Government. It is a practical application to the legislative business of government of those principles of improvement which his lordEhip has carried into effect in the executive branches of his administration. No doubt the good effect of the proceeding will be evident when the propositions for the session are announced. Mr. Disraeli's functions, as critic and censor, will be even more difficult of satisfactory fulfilment next year than he found them at the The elevation of the Right Hon. E. Strutt to the peerage has given the greatest satisfaction to the inhabitants of Derby, but more particularly to the members of the Derby Mechanics' Institution, of which his Lordship is the president. On Thurs day a deputation from that body waited upon Lord Belper at Kingston-hail, when they presented him with an address of congratulation on the honour conferred upon him by the Crown. His Lordship acknowledged most warmly the compliment which had been paid him, and assured the deputation of the continued interest which he took in the furtherance and objects of the institution, and of his willingness to continue his connection with it. The rilice of Stafford, after making proper in qui_ ries in the metropolis and elsewhere, have just apprehended a man who, under the name of Wm. Allen, has resided at a public-house in that town, 3, and where Allen has carried on the busines of " auctioneer" and agent. On Allen's arrest he was identified as the notorious " Sidney Jones, alias ' Alfred Jones, alias Edward Saxby, alias John Wilson." An extract from the monthly report of the London Association for the Protection of Trade, July 3t, 1854, details the swindling and fraudulent transactions of Jones, who has been, at various times since July, 1847, a wine and spirit merchant, grocer, furnishing ironmonger, auctioneer, agent, orange merchant, confectioner, &c., &c., carrying on his operations and imposing on tradesmen in numberless places, in conjunction with assn• ciates. On searching his house a quantity of me moranda and letters were found; also a " directory," in which the names of tradesmen from whom he had received goods were struck out, evidently for the purpose of ensuring him from making a second application. His orders were written on a bill head, on which were printed the words, " There is an omnibus to and from every train"—a statement entirely devoid of truth, so far as the Plumbers' Arms is concerned, and evidently intended to create an impression as to the respectability of the house. A large quantity of goods were removed from the prisoner's house to the police office, amongst which are several boxes of cigars, obtained from different firms in Manchester, three barrels of ale from Warock, two large casks of British wines, &c. He stands remanded. The intelligence from Paris does not contain any items of importance. According to a tele graph despatch from Constantinople, received at Marseilles, we learn that the Russian com mission for the regulation of the frontiers of Asia, has arrived at Tiflis. The Constantinople journals confirm the news of the demolition of the fortress and five barracks at Ismail by the thirteen Russian battalions. The fort of Kilea is blown up. Ad miral Lyons will leave the Bosphorus after the evacuation of the territories occupied by the Russians. Rear-Admiral Stewart goes to Amapa, and will cruise in the Euxine without any definite object. esterda, material, the from New York to the 20th ultimo inclusive. The Presidential cam paign was the great topic of discussion, but nothing new had taken place thereon, and according to all appearance Fremont's chances of election were in the ascendant. Business affairs were quiet but steady. From Canada and the British American provinces we have not any intelligence of moment. By tne Overland Mail we learn, that Esa Khan, whose opposition to the Persians, both in the field and subsequently in the city, has succeeded in expelling the enemy from Herat; and further, that having thus rid himself of the incubus of a hostile army, he took thought of his situation, and, deeming the relief his party was experiencing to 11 likelihood but a temporary respite, he lespatched pressing messages to Dost Mahomed at Candahar, offering to place the city in his hands if he would bring or send an armed force sufficient to occupy and defend it. The news from China is not of an encouraging character, anarchy and con fusion still prevails, and further panics are expected at both Shanghae and Canton. The treaty between the United States, Great Britain, and Honduras, we are informed, has been duly signed, and all disputes respecting the Central American question settled. The West India Mail arrived at Southampton yesterday. Our special telegraphic despatch gives the leading features of the news, from which it will be perceived that Mexico is still convulsed by the internal struggles of her competing statesmen. WHEN Apelles was requested to paint the por- " Beauty's queen, the world's sole wonderment," he immediately set out on a tour in search of a being still more perfect and angelic. We learn from this that the ancients were not easily pleased in matters which concerned their pleasures only, and it would not be difficult to show that in these modern days we are still more captious and hard to please than the people of ALEXANDER'S time. Lord STANLEY and the agriculturists axe amongst the most irreconcileable. The noble lord tells us that there are 77,000,000 acres of land in the United Kingdom, of which three-fifths were under culti vation, one fifth is not cultivatable by nature, and the other one-fifth might be rendered productive but is not. Lord STANLEY is not satisfied with the result of his laborious investigations. He would fain see every acre teeming with abundance. He would like to see every rocky mountain a rich pas ture, and the haunts of the eagle so many lofty His lordship is not at all singular in We believe that trade, commerce, soldiering the militia and police and the endless variety of other pursuits which present themselves to the masses in so many inviting aspects, are absorbing by far too rapidly the labour required to keep up a fair supply of the common, or rather agricultural, necessaries of life ; and hence the high prices that are now ruling in our markets may be ac counted for in a great degree. It would be useless, therefore, to talk of reclaim. ing our waste land ; and Lord STANLEY does not direct public attention to the subject, to encourage the opening up of new soil, but to induce us to make the most of that which is already in use. This is reasonable enough. But then the noble lord goes on to state that " all experienced agri culturists say that there is yet room for the ex -liture of 100,000,0001. sterling in drainage in Agricultural experience certainly .a best of this argument, as far as " room" is concerned, provided it keeps looking forward, and does not venture to cast an eye behind it, towards THE NORTHERN TINE ..-LIVERPOOL, that huge mountain of parchment, which; under the odious name of mortgages or encum brances, is bearing directly on the fee-simple, or less substantial territorial interests. Looking a-bead all is clear—all is room. But half a yard behind the landlord's heels stands a pyramid of 400,000,0001. of mortgage debt. We do not wish to startle Lord STANLEY or any other nobleman who would lend a helping land in a good cause, still, when we are asked for so large a sum as 100,000,000/. for any particular purpose, we are bound to enquire into the character of the security offered to the lender. In the first place, the philosophy of the day tends more in the direction of clearing off old scores, than adding to the accumulation of centuries. When we speak of " the debtor interest," we have a merciful eye turned towards the landed interest. We are not so blind in matters connected with political economy, as not to see where the greatest amount of settled and immoveable indebtedness rests, or so ,vicious in our politics as to desire to elevate one class of the community, by doing irreparable injury to another. The land is the heaviest debtor, and machinery comes next in the cate gory of mortgage liabilites. What further use, then, is it possible to make of the land now open to us ? Who is to supply the security ? and who is to lend the cash ? Making an addition of twenty five per cent. to the sum already advanced and sunk on the sixty per cent. of land now under cultivation, would be a very serious affair. The dividends on the 100 000,0001. could only be paid in one, of two ways, namely, by an advance in the prices of agricultural produce, or by the increased produc tiveness of the soil on which the money is to be expended, and in either case there are many con tingencies to be considered, while augmenting the imbargoes on the land would require a furthe r advance on the present average of rents. The public as consumers, and the farmers as tenants, will be best able to discuss the advantages of this phase of the proposal. The Bullionist must also be consulted on the subject. He has to find the foreign commodity— gold—on which we are left to depend for the improvement of the land from which we are to receive our daily bread. He must have a bullion rate of interest for his money, and a first charge on the land. He can find abundant employment for his yellow metal in trade at a fabulous discount, and he will ask something more than landowners have been in the habit of paying. Where corn rents are asked he will dMaland a corn interest. But what is there in the present condition of things to justify a belief that corn will be dear, or that the average of the last three years can be maintained. The absorption of labour by the army, navy, militia, and police, may cause many thousands of acres of land to be thrown out of cultivation. If Ireland should be wise enough to keep her labourers at home hence forth, the cultivation of the soil may be still more restricted. One and all of these things may keep up the average price of corn, but this will not add to the value of land. The only resource left open to our territorial lords is the prolific field of taxa- If they can repeal taxes affecting their pro perty, to the extent of 10,000,0001. or 20,000,600/., and at the same time release a proportionate amount of labour from Aldershott and the other camps in the United Kingdom, they may be able to expend 100,000,0001. in the drainage of the soil in ten or five years, but in the abnormal state in which we are now as regards the supply of raw listribution of labour, the pressure of taxation, and the anomalous and threatening eon dition'of the money market, it is useless to talk of 100,000,0001. for permanent agricultural improve ments, unless the landlords are ready to advance it from their idle cash balances at their bankers, or to take it from the army, navy, or militia estimates. If this cannot be done, we must rest satisfied with three-fifths only of our surface under cultivation for another quarter of a century. MOND MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. The Cotton Market on Saturday was steady ; holders supplied the market sparingly, and full rates were obtained. The transactions reached 15,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters took 8,000. The steam-ship Asia, which entered the Mersey yesterday afternoon, reports the market there as being rather firm, and, in consequence of the tenor of last advises from this country, had enabled sellers to obtain better prices. During the week, the imports of specie com prised two barrels, ninety-two bags. and twenty two cases, from Antwerp ; 138,7001. from America ; besides thirteen packages, amount•unknown, from Antwerp. The exports have been confined chiefly to private shipments to France, of which no accounts can be obtained, and shipments through the London Custom-house to the Continent to the amount of about 49 5001. There has not been much business going for ward in our Railway Stock and Share Market, at the same time prices generally are well sustained, and on Saturday the market closed with a firm feeling, as follows :—Caledonian, 511 Eastern Counties, 91 4,-. East Lancashire, 821 831. Great Northern, 96 97. Ditto A., 851 861. Great Western, 641 641 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 981. London and North Western,lo4l 105, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 341 34k. North British, 391. South Eastern and Dover, 731, 731. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 811 821. York and North Midland, 571 581. The Market for Public Securities presented a very dull feeling on Saturday, the fineness, of the weather having induced many of the members of the House to absent themselves from the City. Scarcely any business was transacted in this or any other description of investment, and the varia tion in prices, therefore, was insignificant. Consols for money were almost nominal at 95 to 95,1 for transfer, and at 951 t for account, September 10th. There was no alteration after hours. The New Three per Cents. were 951- to 96, the Reduced 951, and the Thirty Years' Annuities, 1885, 184 Ex _ _ . chequer Bills were is higher, viz., lls to 15s prem., and India Bonds were 15s prem. We quote the following from the circular of Mr. Avens, of London : The Money Market has been moderately active during the week, but it has not been adversely affected either by the un settled state of the weather, the advance in the price of corn, or the constancy of the demand in order to carry on the in creasing commercial operations of the country. Rates con tinue nominally at! the Bank minimum of 41 per cent, but the mass of transactions in Lombard-street are effected at 4 and 4 per cent. The supplies are ample, so much so that some establishments complain of not being able to find em ployment for their surplus funds. We do not, however, expect any reduction of terms until a later period in the year, probably about October, as the demand for gold from the Continent, which still continues, must necessarily com pel the directors of the Bank of England to protect their bullion as much as possible through the medium of the exchanges. At the same time, if the harvest proves abun dant, as it is likely to bP, and we should be enabled to arrest the outflow of bullion by the ordinary course of trade, as it is not improbable, the competition for bills between Lombard-street and the Bank will practically lower the rates, although they may, in the exercise of a cautions policy, be apparently maintained. So far as we can read the indications of the market, assuming that the harvest turns out well, and that the Continental demand for gold will abate, we see no reason for doubting that money may be somewhat cheaper even before October. However, much depends upon the two considerations here assumed. The railway and foreign settlements just con cluded, have induced rather a better demand upon the stock exchange, but not enough to create inconvenience ; and the enquiry was temporarily stimulated also by preparations to pay the instalment of £500,000 due on Thursday upon the loan. The imports of specie during the week amount to little more than £lOO,OOO, all from the United States. The exports are probably about as much. Several vessels, with pld on board, are now dne from Australia. With respect to the Continental demand for gold, very little more has trans pired as to its actual causes; but there is reason to believe that the regular purchases by the Bank of France are partially suspended for the present, and that the bulk of the operations during the last fortnight, have been in payment, by this mans, for silver bought on English account for India and China. There is still a considerable quantity of silver in the London market unsold, waiting the determination of price. The price is now at its maximum, and the offers are not equal to the expectations of the holders. This, with further large arrivals expected from South America by the next three or four packets. may possibly check the Continental purchases for a time, and so diminish the outflow of gold upon that account. Meanwhile, we believe that India and China, though still absorbing a large amount, will, in a few months, require less, as the orders for silk sent to China are pretty nearly paid for, while a more favourable state of the exchanges with India is not yet hopeless. On the whole, therefore, we believe that the demand upon this country for the precious metals is growing weaker ; and though we cannot expect it, under present circumstances, to disappear altogether, there are rational grounds for anticipating that it will have less effect for the future upon the value of money, and the state of credit here, than it has had for some time past. The Mining Market is daily assuming a firmer tone, and there is great activity in shares. One or two important improvements early in the week created a demand for shares in two or three mines, and consequently a rise in value took place, especially in East Tolgus, shares in which have now reached 75. South Frances shares have been in request at a further advance, and few sellers to be found. In Grenville, which is the adjoining mine, an important improvement has been reported, and shares arose to this mine promises ere long to assume an importantposition. Great Alfreds remain firm. Basset, 285 ; Wheal \Vrey, 8 to 8 ; • Mary Ann, 35 to 36, and several transactions in them ; Gonamena, 26 to 26i ; 'South Caradon, 280 to 290 ; Buller, 280 to 290, and rather more enquired for ; Devon Consols, 395 to 400 ; Porkellis, 10 to 11; South Frances, 365 ; East Basset, 42 ; Alfred Consols, I ; West Providence, 184 to 19 ; South Tolgus, 130 ; Sort ridge Consols, 21,- to 24; Clijah and Wentworth, 13i ; Great Alfred, 4,1; North Frances, 104 ; West Frances, 15. The announcement is made of the opening of a new line of screw steamers between London and the west coast of Africa. The Ida, of 637 tons register, beitag the first vessel of this line, is adver tised to leave the West India docks on the 15th of September, for Goree, Bathurst, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Cape Coast' Castle, Accra, Lagos, Bonny, Old Calabar, Cameroons, and Fernanda Po. Other vessels are to be despatched at least once a month. Amongst the circumstances which have encouraged the formation of this enterprise is the removal of the African Mail Company's ves sels to Liverpool. In consequence of an alteration in the arrange ments for despatching from Marseilles the French mail packets on the Egyptian line, the mails from Alexandria. intended to be forwarded by those packets, will, in future, be made up in London on the morning and evening of every alternate Tuesday, calculating from Tuesday the 19th inst. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have received orders from the government to take out the lantern, light apparatus, and iron-work of the tower intended for a light-house at Cerigo. A. return has .just been printed, describing the changes made in foreign tariffs since the date of the similar return issued in August, 1855. The countries by which alterations have been made are Sweden, France, Austria, Rome, Mexico, and Peru. The Swedish changes consist in allowing the im portation at fixed rates of duty of certain articles previously prohibited—namely, pig and ballast iron, and silk, cotton, woollen, and linen manufac tures, and in granting entire freedom for bread stuffs, certain kinds of fish, butter and cheese, oils, tallow, rice, cattle, and swine. The French changes apply to 36 branches of production, the principal being sugar, timber, iron, machinery agricultural implements, and skins. With some wholly unim portant qualifications a reduction has been effected in every instance. In sugar it amounts to between 9 and 10 per cent., and molasses, which were pro hibited, have been rendered free. Some descrip tions of timber, if imported in French vessels, are also set free, and in others there is a reduction ranging from 994 to 24 per cent. according to flag. In various sorts Of iron manufactures 'he reduction ranges from 60 to 11 per cent. In machinery it ranges from 384 to 11 per cent., and in agricultural implements it averages about 15 per cent. The Austrian reductions have been in cocoa ' coffee, drugs, sugar, fish, oil, wine, lead, and iron ' and li n en, woollen, and cotton yarn, an d they aver age about 25 per cent. The Roman States have adopted in several cases a large increase, steel, copper, haberdashery, and lace being among the number. The articles in which there have been reductions include certain kinds of linen, woollen and cotton manufactures, glass, wood, china, lead, tin, iron, skins, aromatic oil s , salted meats, and several kinds of chymicals. In many cases the reduction is equal to 50 per cent., but is virtually of little i mportance, the sum still levied being THE PRICE OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is NOW TO SUBS IN ADVANCE 38/ PElt ANNUM* 4 ttention is respectfully drawn to the above announce thin four miles of the ment, and parties inifoot 710717 A fro 1 part. s to the Office, 19, South znies and add John-street, Liverpool. Copies of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES can be sent through the post by a f fixing a penny postage stamp on the envelope, or three copies can be sent in one cover for the same cost. The NORTHERN TIMES is registered for transmission to foreign countries R • NODDER, ;41, CHURCH-STREET, ty and Gentry of Liver- NOW READY NE* STYLES De r the Season are MONDAY, SEPTEMBERI, 1856 ♦ THE DAYS NEWS Politics at present give way to matters of a more local and commercial character, and no matter how anxious we may be for the re•assembling of Parlia ment, the completion of the harvest seems to be the great and prominent topic of the day. The movements of the barometer are watched with much anxiety, and the " rogues in grain" are not idle as to the future range of prices of wheat, oats, and flour. Alluding to this topic, our cotemporary, the Bankers' Circular says :—" We learn from several quarters that the effect of the recent storms has already proved highly injurious, and that the damage done to the outstanding crops will be very serious. But the uncertain condition of the weather has kept the market in a state of great suspension, and although sales could not have been effected yesterday without submitting to a reduction of 2s or 3s per quarter, there was no actual change, as both buyers and sellers were anxious to feel more certainty as to the probable range in prices, which cannot yet be estimated with any degree of accuracy. The opinion which gene rally obtains credit amongst persons well able to judge of such matters is, that the present high prices cannot long be maintained : and that even should the quality of our crops be injured by unfavourable weather, the imports of foreign grain will prove sufficient to reduce the general average price considerably below what it has been during the lest two years " The invitation addressed by the Premier to the Parliamentary heads of departments, and the chief supporters of Government in the House of Com mons, with respect to the measures of legislation they may propose to bring forward next sess likely to produce important and useful result What may be called the constructive portion of the cork o f legislation is not well done in Parliament. r cession afforded ample proof of the fact. The th regard to the more important acc omplished by the select coin- reports of some of those committees no doubt very useful measures will be elaborated for nest session. The careful and early consideration which it is intended by Lord Palmerston shall be given to the preparation of such measures as are to be introduced with the sanc tion and support of Government, will ensure their completeness and fitness to effect the several improvements contemplated. It will be a guarantee aaainst crude legislation upon important and tend to the economising of valuable time Yesterday's Observer, referring to this matter, says " Lord Palmerston's proposal is, that all such ' , e heads of the several departments _aent may desire to introduce, shall be prepared and submitted to a committee of ministers before the close of the year, so that suf. 1 - , ct given for fully considering and mitte measures as tt in the Governr subjects icient time may Begs respectful pool that HATTER, THE COURT HOLTROOD, Saturday, August 30.—About a quarter to nine o'clock this morning her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the junior princesses, left the palace for Balmoral, attended by the suite, and where the Royal party were expected to arrive about seven o'clock this evening. Yesterday afternoon the Queen and his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took a long drive in an open carriage and four, and visited several of the most impor tant objects of interest in the neighbourhood. inoluding Hawthorne Den and Rosslin Castle, not returning to Holyrood until the evening was considerably advanced. Her Majesty and the Prince, with the princesses, alighted at Rosslin Castle, and spent a considerable time in the grounds, over which they were conducted by M r . Drummond, the Earl of Clarendon, and the ladies in waiting accompanied the Queen in another carriage and four. Prince Alfred, and the two younger princesses, spent the afternoon in the city itself, and went over all the most interesting portions of the town. The Queen and the Prince, with the Royal family, and attended by the whole suite, drove through the town and round the Queen's drive, in the morning. The royal cortege con sisted of three carriages and four, and the equerries in waiting on horseback. Lieut. Cowell was in attendance on Prince Alfred in his visit through the city in the after noon. The Duke of Buccleu ch, and the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, have had the honour of dining with her Majesty. INAUGURATIO N OF THE WELLINGTON STATUE AT MANCHESTER. The Wellington Statue was inaugurated on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of twenty thousand spectators. The statue is a companion to the Peel statue, and both are placed in front of the Manchester Infirmary, which is erected on the finest site in Manchester. The Mayor of Manchester, th Bishop of Manchester, Lieut. General Sir Harry Smith, the Executive Committee, the 7th Regiment of Dragoon , the 25th Regiment, or Queen's own Bor derers assisted at the ceremony. For a wonder, in Manchester, the weather was favourable. Previous to the ceremony, luncheon was partaken of at the Town Hall, King-street, and the procession having been joined, wended its way up Cross-street and along Market-street, and thence into the Infirmary gates up to the veiled statue , Mr. Alderman Barnes, having addressed those assembled to witness the ceremony, the Mayor of Manchester commanded that the statue be unveiled, in order that the vast multitude might see it. The band of the 25th Regiment then played the national anthem. The fountains in front of the infir mary sent up their refreshing columns of the limped stream, and amidst the plaudits of the assemblage the Wellington statue was unveiled. The Bishop of Manchester and Sir Harry Smith having made a few remarks appropriate to the occasion, the ceremony was brought to a close by three cheers for her Majesty, and three for the Mayor. RBTURN OF LORD P A LIVIERsTON TO TOWN. - Viscount Palmerston returned to town on Saturday from attending the funeral of his late brother the Hon. Sir William Temple, who was interred in the family vault at Romsey, roadlands. near B 1 THE DANumaN P RI NCIPALITIES. —The hon. Henry E. J. Stanley, Secretary of Legation at Athens, and formerly attached to the British Embassy at Constanti nople, and Mr. Greville Richard Vernon, of the Foreign Office, accompany Sir Henry Bulwer in his mission to represent Great Britain in the settlement of the consti tution of the Danubian Principalities. ff. high enough to operate as a prohibition. The Mexican alterations extend over a great number of goods, including cotton, linen, silk and woollen manufactures, as well as ironmongery, cutlery, saddlery, arms, timber, wines, provisions, glass, and a large quantity of miscellaneous articles. With few exceptions they involve considerable reduc tions, although in each case they still leave the duties exceedingly high. In Peru, also, the changes have been numerous, and in a majority of instances they have consisted of a substitution of specific for ad valorem rates. On sheet iron and salted fish there has been an increase of 233 per cent, but several articles have been set free, including many that are used in shipbuilding. THE WEATHER.—Again we have to record fine weather, which has continued now for some days past, and there is every indication of its continuance; and, " weatherwise people" say the month of September will be peculiarly fine and favourable for late harvest operations. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening, Mrs. Catherine Scott, aged 64 years, the wife of a gentleman residing at Ossett, near Wakefield, was coming, with her son, from on board the Isle of Man boat, she fell into the gut between the George's and Prince's Basins, and was so much injured that she died in the Northern Hospital on Saturday. The poor lady was near-sighted, and the melancholy affair was purely aecidental. THE CONVICT BRACKEN. — The sentence of death passed upon Andrew Bracken, at the last Liverpool Assizes, for the murder of a man named Bates, has been commuted to tran sportation for life. The prisoner, who was in a state of frenzy from intoxication, attacked the deceased, whom he casually encountered, in a violent but unpremeditated man ner. and inflicted upon him, by kicking him upon the head, I injuries ot• so serious a character as to result in death. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER Dixon and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Schronder, child and nurse, Mrs. Bryer and two children, Miss Hardisty, Miss Ryle, Miss Weir, Mr. H. C. Du Bois, Mr. Sehwarty, Mr. Passavant, Mr. Sutton, Mr. McLeod, Mr. Hodges, Rev. T. S. Reynolds, Mr. Wyes, Mr. Fuidmann, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. Rosenthal, Mr. Dawson, Mr. C. Cetes, Mr. B. Curtis, Mr. Arnold, Mr. J. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Copper and infant, Mr. T. G. W. Tincke, Mr. Mailly, Mr. C. Feltman, Mr. A. Petrie, Mr. R. W. Standly, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Dowling, Mr. Betts, Mrs. Clowes and child, Miss M. Smirat, Mr. C. S. Whisler, Mr. P. F. Lelr, Mr. Ruge, Mr. H. Deane, Mr. Lawrence. Ar.a.sor's WAX-WORK EXHIBITION, TEUTONIC-HALL, LIME-STREET, LIVERPOOL. — DOVE, THE MURDERER.—The only correct likeness of this criminal is to be seen at the above exhibition, and is placed by the side of Palmer. Both these poisoners are fall-length, and are acknowledged by all to be perfect likenesses. They are surrounded by upwards of 100 wax figures, large as life; together with 500 statues, busts, casts of heads, &c.. &c. ; also a great [number of Stereoscopic and other views. The proprietor begs to state that the likeness of Dove and Palmer are most positively the only true ones taken. Palmer was modelled by Mr. George Ewing, of London, during his trial at the Old Bailey; and a sketch of Dove was taken by Mr. John Storey, of York, and afterwards modelled expressly for Mr. Allsop, by Mr. William Leland, of Liverpool. Open from ten, a.m., till ten, p.m. Admission, Sixpence. A quadrille band in attendance. Observe the name of Allsop's Wax work on the two lamps over the entrance. FREEMASONRY. — A few of the brethren residing in Lither land and its neighbourhood, desirous that the mystic tie should be more widely distributed, deemed it advisable to form a lodge in that rural village. An application was accordingly made to the Grand Lodge, who immediately granted their warrant for a lodge to be held in Litherland, under the title of the Sefton Lodge, No. 980, and therein appointed Brother P.M. Samuel P. Brabner to be the first master, Brother Charles Turmeau to be the first senior warden, and Brother J. A. Grealy to be first junior warden. In pursuance of this warrant, the first meeting was held at the Litherland Hotel, on Tuesday, the 19th ult. The lodge was opened by the Provincial Grand Secretary, when the W.M. was duly installed by the P.G. Treasurer, in the absence (through indisposition) of the D.P.G.M. The W.M. then appointed his officers, and the brethren elected Brother Henry Lyon to be treasurer for the ensuing year. After initiating an unusual number of members, the brethren retired to a banquet supplied by Brother Morrish, of the Merchants' Dining-rooms, Tithebarn• street, Liverpool. After the usual loyal and masonic toasts the lodge was closed, and the brethren separated at an early hour. Amongst the visitors present we noticed the following grand officers :—Brother Jos. Walmsley, P.P,G.J.W., Brother Wylie, P G.S., Brother Kilpin, P.G D.W., Brother Jeffery, P.G.5.8., Brother Samuel Hess, P.G.J.D., and Brother Horatio Gambell, P.G.P. Brothers Armstrong, Hother ington, Ludlow, and Haswell, considerably added to the pleasures of the evening by their harmony. SALARIES OF PROVINCIAL POSTMASTERS.—The salaries of postmasters in Vnsl•srui And W2locz fnr tha ritrront. year amount to £52,407 ; in Ireland, to £ 10,000; and in Scotland, to i'8,160.--Civil Service Gazeve. • - THE NATIONAL GALLERY--Orders have been issued by the authorities that the National Gallery, and the English portion of the Gallery at Marlborough House, will be closed for the annual six weeks' vacation on the 11th instant. The gallery will be re-opened on Monday, the 27th of October. LABOUR IN Russla.—A. letter from Odessa of the 10th ultimo, in the Bourse Gazette, says :—The Tartars of Sim pheropol and the neighbourhood refuse to work for land owners, or exact such high wages that it is impossible to grant them. The crops are consequently perishing in the fields for want of reapers. INCOME TAX OF £lOO AND UPWARDS.—A. very common practice exists in London for the collectors or some other parties, to charge is 4d a pound on such incomes. To all those acquainted with the subject this will appear at once to be an imposition, but in consequence of the doubts expressed upon the subject a letter was addressed to the Inland Revenue authorities, to which Mr. Keogh, their legal adviser, has returned the following answer :—" I beg leave to acquaint you that where the total income of a person from every source amounts to -elOO, but not to £l5O a year, the income tax ch irgeable is at the rate ef 11 Id in the pound." The public will, therefore, be upon their guard and to to care they are not imposed upon. It ought to be mentioned that collectors have an interestin overcharges. SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—Three fishermen at Asnieres discovered, the day before yesterday, an ancient canoe buried beneath a sandbank in the river. From its form it is supposed that it was used by the Normans in their in vasion of Paris. It is an immense trunk of oak, about eighty feet long, hollowed out, and capable of holding sixty men. It is well known that the Normans, in addition to their large wickerwork boats, had other very long ones for purposes of war, formed of hard wood, and it is supposed that this is one of them. It has been brought on shore, and lies on the beach opposite the Beat Club House. There is a striking resemblance between this bark of the pirates of the ninth century and the skiffs of the modern river yacht men.— Galignani. DISASTERS AT SEA.—The screw steamer Koh-i-Noor, Captain Butler, from Liverpool to St. Petersburg, has been wrecked near Helensborg. Crew saved.—The ship China, off and bound to London, from Manilla, with sugar, hemp, and tobacco, was wrecked on a reef two miles from the most southern of the Thousand Island, near Batavia, 29th June. Crew saved.—The Ben Aron, from London to Shanghaei, was totally wrecked in a typhoon off Hui-taw point, about twenty miles from Amoy. She had been previously struck by lightning, and her compass is said to have been deranged thereby. Master, officers, and crew saved ; master's wife and several passengers were drowned ; the greater part of her cargo washed on shore, and con_ veyed into the interior by the natives.—The Sir Robert Peel, of Nantes, with 300 piculs of pepper on board, dragged her anchors during :an earthquake on the west coast of Sumatra, went on shore, and became a wreck. Crew saved. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The Royal Household—A chaplaincy in oadinary to the Queen has become vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Cooper. The Foreign Department—The consul-generalship of Odessa, and the consul-generalship of Warsaw, are vacant, as well as several consulships and vice-consulships in the Russian empire. Coast Guard— Lieut. C. Hawkey has been appointed to command the Dingle station. Customs—Mr. A. M. D'Arcy, extra clerk, has been appointed clerk in the Examiner's office, London ; Mr. W. Thompson has been promoted from inspector of gaugers to landing surveyor at Liverpool ; Mr. F. Wilkinson has been promoted from second to first class searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. C. Stower has been promoted from third to second class searcher at Liverpool; Mr. J. Bennett has been promoted from fourth to third class searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. R. W. Swayne has been pro moted from filth to fourth class searcher at Liverpool; Mr. W. Findly, clerk, Montrose, has been promoted to be second clerk at Dundee. Ireland-11r. T. M. H. Jones has been appointed a cadet in the constabulary after a competitive examination.—Civil Service Gazette. SENDING MEDICINE BY RAILWAY —On Saturday, in the Brompton County Court, Mr. Wells, a surgeon, of Lisson grove, sued the Great Western Railway Company for the sum of £2. being the alleged value of two bottles of medicine and two boxes of pills. It appeared that the plaintiff had sent a box of medicine, containing the box of pills, down to Bristol, to a lady who was his patient. The box was broken, and the plaintiff demanded £2. The railway company paid into court, and submitted that this was sufficient to cover the value of the medicine. The plaintiff was examined as to the contents of the bottles, and stated that they contained, amongst other things, some extract of taraxicane, and some nitric nsuriatie acid in a con centrated fjrm. Both of these drugs were expensive, Mr. Bradly, who appeared for the plaintiff, submitted that the box had been broken wilfully by the railway porters, and that the consequences of such conduct might have been most serious to Mr, W6ll's patient. Mr. Collard, for the railway company, contended that it was absurd to suppose the railway porters would h a ve wilfully broken a box of physic, and as for the damage sustained by the patient, it' j was tht as likely that the patient had met with a lucky escape in not taking the medicine. For his own part he would not like to give the amount claimed for two gallons of the plaintiff's mixture and a ton weight of his pills. The judge (Mr. A.dOlphus) was of opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the wholq, I amount claimed, I LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. Great alarm begins to be felt at the disappear' 0 ance of the silver coin. A regular trade a ppears t o be carried on in its exportation , and the Pr° varies according to circumstances. An efacitif return states that the present price for a beg °I,. 200 franc pieces of Charles X. is 1,010 francs . . 8 bag of 200 five franc pieces of Napoleon or VIII XVIII. fetches 1,020 francs. RUSSIA. Russia persists in not giving up Bolgrad, th e grounds her refusal on the 20th article of peace treaty. TURKEY Letters from Constantinople, of the 22nd in B tsP :' affirm that the Ottoman Government was orga n/ ing an expedition against Montenegro. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENOG'eo I have reason to believe that all that has be 09 said about England, France, Prussia , and e:cof Russia joining in sending an expedition to gortlw to chastise the pirates of the Riff for their ra ce d outrage on a body of Prussians, is unfounded; g icr , that all that will be done will be, to employ did, matic negotiations with the Emperor of Mor ° , o 3 for the purpose of obtaining redress for pas t ' ; for preventing future outrages. What I now comes from an excellent source. ra g e According to an official return, the a Te og price of wheat in France, for the month e°l".tfe, the 28th of this month, was 32fr 63c the heetcult); which was 87c less than in the preceding 10 , 13 0 0 this decline is not so large as was to have 'Ol expected, from, on the one hand the great e t ot that have been taken to make people believe 00 the harvest is not so bad after all, and °P i " other from the vast quantities of corn that let'' been imported. At a meeting of corn clei' sp os held a few days back at Dijon, it was stated ti ot the harvest may be divided into three part r : o t o f of the south_west and south being had-- -tP O I3 O the centre being very ordinary—and that a t o west and the north being very good. Thus, °II 0 0 whole, it would appear that the harvest is reverse of abundant ie.- , efe° You are aware that the Government giv, otter possible encouragement to the cultivation of L l° t io/ in Algeria. In 1852, it was decreed that 0 0 0 and the following year, as also in 1853 so d t o. the Government should purchase all the e° „„a from planters, at a price fixed in advance, the two following years should allow prenli 4l:6 oo l exports. But the Minister of War, 10. o ist i report to the Emperor, states that th e o°l°ltilf are not yet sufficiently alvanced in their e ll 0f ; tion to accept the system of premiums on 013 / and, accordingly, an Imperial decree enec tej ', in the years 1857 and 1858 the cotton 01) purchased by Government as heretofore. t The Moniteur once more announces t /3 %t0 evaeua,tluu of Tuikcy by th e Frc..lx completed. This has been another bad day f o r the — O ll ll especially for railways. It would appea r til d class of security, at one time so popular, a ll , fo ic ° to speak so advantageous, is getting out 00, The fact is, that the great trunk lines have 0° at that stage at which it is nece.sary to 11 branches far and wide, and as exper ieli :" ,t proved in England, the more embranebt developed, the less are the receipts per 11d 01; In direct contradiction to what was sta te $ O l days back, most of the Berlin paP ell . ao 4 positively that Russia refuses to give uP 600 1 ; as required by the allies, for the reeti 6ei t te f t i the Bessarabian frontier. By the stric t ' O - 13, 61 the Treaty of Peace, she has the right to 1 ; 1 01 11 : f i place, but she has no such right by and, besides, it was she who, by her plans, led the Congress into error on the 13- 1,11 5 ) It is said that all differences betwee ll , and Parma are arranged, and that the ty tries are better friends than ever. WEST INDIA MAI te,, ye pSOUTHAMPTON, " The steamer La Plata has arrived W it- tr A 0 i Indian Mail. She brings one hundr ed t six passengers, and 3,182,00 0 dollar s # O3 l l 60,000 of which are for the dividend ° ' eta l l millions five hundred thousand on ° account The dates brought by the La Plata pico, Aug. 4; Demerara and Trinidi w ' r to oe ti Jamaica and Barbadoes, Aug. 11 ; s l ' Aug. 14 ; and St. Thomas, Aug. 18 ' o r brings the following dates from the P i l ls ? paraiso, July 16; Islay, July 22; an d 27. r A At Jamaica the yellow fever was ve t; otfA which caused business to be exce eding l y 0 1 f f Demerara advices state that a k ii3 00/0 piller has appeared in the colony i ll Isifi bers, and is rapidly destroying s li a ti) vegetation ; even the grass is devour ° 3 0 0 fi and the foliage of trees and plants s oott o el when they attack it, leaving nothing 11) o dd stems stems and branches. They have also a t on the canes, and had, consequently , °r e) uneasiness on account of their devag tli oi fof From Valparaiso there is a rumour t a to ) Echeniqui was fitting out a vessel tv i ifr purpose of invading Peru. , ii of e l( Mexican accounts are to the s ` -- '' Another movement had been mad ° ° ft"' 01 a V I against the government of C U B A vo t r, movement commenced with about Pefvo. men, and were instigated and B ' l , f l° o 4 i , the clergy, and Vidaurri, it was O l e 1 :0J, / ' at the head of the insurrection. 1 1/ 1 . 0 6 0e g l : it was supposed, would be easily suil f p. /,'' was opposed by the mans of the PI De 6 V hensions of a ministerial crisis b ti to t tained from the resignation of she ad 104 the Minister of Justice ; but all : 0 13°0 1 p e aceably, and Mantes has withdri',. At . ei,, tion. The Extraordinary reniarks:"; 0 1 i sent moment the Liberal party is 131° ,.itY 0 1/ at any former time, while , the poP tlit : o ci /id f dent Comonfort is extending dailY' " o f t' l l, o that strength in the good o pinio n i never, heretofore, possessed 1 1 s i roP /o ° lf decessors." The sales of ati l tv o o ° progressing steadily and prospe r° o pt posed that the Government will revenue from this source.