Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. The Royal Mail Steamer Arabia, arrived here yesterday morning. She sailed from New York on the 10th inst., and brings 151 passengers, and 2,265,624 dollars in specie on freight. The news is four days later than that previously to hand. We subjoin an ample summary of the same. From Washington we learn that Col. Cummings has received the appointment of governor of Utah. As soon as the other appointments are settled, doubtless the arrangements for the future adminis tration of the affairs of the territory will be com pleted with as little delay as possible. The Secretary of the Treasury is of opinion that there will be a surplus of 22,000,000 dole, in the government's strong box at the end of the current fiscal year. He moreover anticipates an increase of revenue under the new tariff, which will be in operation on the Ist of July next. In view of these considerations, Secretary Cobb has already, it is stated, determined to recommend to Congress, in his report, an extension of the schedule of.articles of merchandise on which no duties shall be levied. With respect to the election riots at Washington, we have information that six persons were known to be killed, and the wounded numbered sixteen, although it is believed there are others of the vie. tiros who have not been discovered. All the killed were innocent spectators of the riot. It is said the marines were not ordered to fire on the mob, but that they did so in self defence. An indignation meeting was held, at which speeches strongly con demnatory of the Mayor were made. A'lamentable catastrophe happened in Galves ton, Texas, recently. The steamer Louisiana, having a large number of passengers on board, was destroyed by fire. Eleven persons are known to be lost. Col. Bainbridge and thirty-one others are missing. Forty-five persons were saved from the burning wreck by the steamer Galveston. A convention of delegates from railroal corpora tions and others interested in developing the re sources and promoting the prosperity of the South and South-west, and especially of Virginia and Northern Tennessee, assembled at Bristol, Tenn., -on the the 3d inst. The particular objects of the .convention were the consideration of the pro priety of appointing a special commission to visit England for the purpose of disseminating correct information in that country as to the financial condition and resources of Vir ginia, and to place prominently before com mercial men abroad the advantages of a direct trade between the Old Dominion and the Old World; likewise to induce the proprietors of the leviathan steamship Great Eastern, now in pro gress of construction, to send that vessel to Norfolk, with a view to the establishment.of a line of steamers between that port and Europe. Several interesting speeches were made, explanatory of the objects of the meeting; a series of resolutions embodying the views of the convention were adopted ; and William Willard Preston, of Virginia, was unanimously appointed as com missioner to proceed to Europe. Brigham Young is carrying things with a high Band in Utah. Accounts from great Sett Lake to the 15th of April state that great excitement pre "ailed there. The Saints had commenced the work of expelling the Gentiles. Judge Stiles, the United States Marshal, the Surveyor, and a large number*pf others had left the territory, fearing their lives were in danger. If the news is to be credited, the issue between the Mormon leaders and the government is fully made up, and General Harney and his troops will not reach Utah a.moment too soon. We have received files of the Deseret. News to the gth of April. The Territory was perfeetly quiet. Brigham Young and party left Great Salt Lake city ou the 24th of April, for an excursion to the north, expecting to be absent some four orfive weeks. The General Conference of the Latter Day saints assembled on the Cth of April to consider the affairs of the church. A large number of missionaries were despatched on proselytising missions to all parts of the world. The militia system of the territory has been re-organised, and the entire military force put in a state of efficiency. The News is jubilant of the brilliant prospects of the Saints. At the last meeting of -the New York Commis sioners of Emigration, a communication was received from the counsel of the Board, recommending the prosecution of the captain of the ship Charles Cooper, then on the voyage front Antwerp for New York, for failing; as is alleged, to furnish a sufficient supply of provisions for his pasSengers. The penalty, on conviction, is 1,000 dollars fine, and imprisonment not exceeding one year. So far this year, 64,112 emigrants have arrived at New York, against 437,282 during the same time last yoar. The Commiss;oners have a balance of 31,101 dol lars on hand. From a New York paper of the .I,th instant, we take the following paragraph : • re- A horrible tragedy occurred in First Avenue, near Twenty Second-street, on Monday morning. A woman named Eliza Shaw, was found lying in the yard attached to her dwelling, with her throat cut and body horribly mutilated. Her husband, Thomas Shaw, has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered her, and is now confined in the Eighteenth Ward station-house, until the matter has been investigated by the Coroner. In the room occupied by the prisoner and his wife, was found a large .pool of blood, and a razor covered with gore. The window sill was also daubed with blood, showing that the body had either been thrown out of the window, or deceased had jumped. out herself. A good deal of evidence was taken on Monday, but little light, however, was thrown upon the mysterious affair. The husbandof the deemed protests his innocence strongly, and gives a pretty straight account of himself. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict yesterday that deceased had been murdered by her husband. The Coronor, however, refused to receive flitch a verdict, on.the ground of its inconsistency with the facts in the case. The jury thereupon .amended -their verdict, finding that the deceased came-to her death by her throat being cut by some person unknown. The Coroner accepted the amended find ing, but declined holding the husband to answer. The matter will, however, be left to the discretion ofithe Dis trict Attorney. By way of New Orleans we have Havana dates to the 2nd instant. Our correspondent states that sixty negroes had been seized by the Government 'officers, on the south side of the island, near Sancti Spiritus. Four hundred Chinese coolies ,were landed on the 29th ult., from a vessel which lost twenty-six on the voyage. The negroes were sent to Batabanno, and General Concha had ordered an investigation; but the popular dread of the influence of the slave traders was so extensive, it was feared that testimony could uotbe had against them. There was considerable speculation going on in the Sugar market, but prices remained with - change. Freights continued very dull. We have files from Bermuda to the 26th ult., but they do not contain anything of interest. The Legislature had ordered a committee to make inquiry, and report whether, and to what extent, the agricultural, commercial, and other interets of the islands would be benetitted by a participation in the reciprocity treaty of trade. We have news from the city of Mexico to- the 16th ult. The account of the execution of Colonel Crabbe, and his party of filibusters, are confirmed. The elections, as far as heard from, were favourable to the re-election of President Comenfort. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 10. MONETARY AFFAIRS.—The ease in money, and the ability of the banks to spare the bullion, have induced the largest shipment of the season by the steamer Arabia. The engagements of gold reach nearly or quite 2,000,000 dollars, in addition to which 250,000 dollars in Mexican silver goes forward. Exchange on England closed :firm at 1091 to 4, and on Paris 5.174. A larger wonber of the bankers than usual have remitted gold by this opportu nity. Some of them, disposed 'to employ their money here at 7 per cent at call on select securities, or at f:f to 9 per cent on prime short paper, are remitting closer do account of the immediate ease of our market, and the con tinued full rates of interest on the other side. There was some calling in of demand loans to-day, preparatory to the present shipment, though not sufficient to affect the general ease of supply. The discount brokers are quoting higher rates by I to 1 per cent for paper, say 8 to 9 per cent for prime names, ninety days to four or five 'Months ; sixty-day aeesptances, 74 to 8 per cent. • CoTTow.--The Liverpool accounts have again dis appointed holders here, and it has been more difficult to make sales even at a slight reduction in price. 11, 0 are firm, however, and resist the declining te: gctenoy of the market, from a conviction that there e- - .oatB no good reason why we should be lower. I 1 ,- -Aye reduced the quotations to conform to the sales - ..nade yesterday, but they must be regarded as nomitr . : 4 since it is equally as difficult to buy as to sell any 'faroze quantity on that basis. The export for the we bas been—to Liverpool, 3,858 bales ; Bremen, 49'7. ant, ; A ntwerp, 357. Cotton in tr:ensittt is neglected, and only such sales as are prerem.-etoriv, Ordered aro made in our present dull market. It is Impossible to give quotations with any deTsrect of Correctness, all qualities being nominal. The tirlaistity here is very small, and the owners will let it go forward in preference to meeting a loss while afloat. New Orleans, June 6.—Receipts for the week, 3,700 bales ; same week last year, 7,300. Total deficit at this port, 211,000 bales. Total deficit at all the parts, 539,000. Receipts this day, 120 bales. Sales for the week ending last night, 8,500 bales ; to-day, 600 bales. Middling, 13Ic to 14c,. firm ; the lower grades easier. Export for the week—to Great Britain, 7,500 bales; to Havre, 1,750. Stock on .hand, 104,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool, 5.16 d; to Havre, ic. Exchange on London, 10 per cent. Mobile, June 6.—Receipts for the week, 1,000 bales ; same week last year, 1 834. Sales for the week, 5,000 bales. Prices have declined ic per lb. Middling, 131 c: GROWING CROP.—The accounts from the cotton growing districts are still far from satisfactory, and less progress has been made during May than people here generally ex pected, and has arisen from the fact that at New Orleans the average temperature has been materially lower than in the corresponding month last year. The plant is still everywhere very small, and blooming which ought to be general by 10th June is not expected this year before Ist July. As I have before remarked, the season has been altogether the most unfavourable one one on record, and though a fair average crop, with very propitious weather and a late frost, may yet be made, the chances are against it,. while it is quite certain the crop under any circum stances can neither he early nor large. t,-Itsccrprs, &c.—The total receipts at all the Southern ports during the week under review are only 10,000 bales, and by telegraph we learn that they will not probably reach this amount for my next week's table. The total deficit at all the ports now amounts to 536,000 bales as compared to same dates last year, and• this will go on increasing daring the remainder of the season. From the returns of the interior markets of Augusta, Hamburg, and Mown, made up to Ist June, •I find the receipts during May this year, at these points, were only 800 bales ; while during the same month last year they amounted to 5,200 bales. The stock held on Ist June in these towns was 22,900 bales, last year same time 19,700 bales. The reduc tion of stock during May this year was LOGO bales more than during May last year. • The following is a statement of the movement in cot ton since the Ist September last as compared with the previous four years 1857. 1856. 1855. 1854. Receipts at the Ports 2,850,000'3,3886,000 4504,000 2,711,000 Exports toG Britain 1,291.000 1,683,0a0 1,308,000 1,308,000 France 365,000 464,000 396,000 270,900, " other F. Ports 373,000 461,000 239,000 281,000, Total Exports 2,029,009 2,611,000 1,913,000 1,85Q,010 3,135,000 1,530,000 402,000 310,000 2,528,0Lk0 I 310,000 Stock on hand I '280,0001 320,0001 179,000 1 457,000 Of which during the past week, included in the above : Receipts at the Ports 10,000 26,000 25,0001 33,000 18,000 Exports to G. Britain 13,000 43 . 001, 36,0001 36,000 80,000 • " Prance. .. 1;000 17,030 7,030 4 000 l 3 aOO " other For: Pts.\ 9 ,000 5,000 7,000 7 000 9,009 Total Exports. .... 23,000 65,000 50,003 47,000 52,000 SllNACARY.—Receipts — Decrease at the ports, compared with last year, 536,000 bales ; compared with 1853, 285,000. Exports decrease to Great Britain, 39 - 2,000 ; compared with 1853. 247,000 - bales, Decrease to France, 99,000; compared with 1853, 37,000; decreaso to other foreign ports, 91,000 ; increase compared with 1653, 55,000 bales., W. P. WIUGHT. • B MIDST 17 FFS. :FLOUR.—State and Western.— A fair demand has existed during the week for the home and eastern trade, and with light arrivals, prices are without material change. For export oaly a little inquiry has prevailed— the present range of prices being much above* shippers' views. Common to good State, 6 dols 60c to 6 dols'Bsc per brl ; extra do., 7 dols to 7 dols 15e ; fair grades extra Ohio, 7 dots 50c to 7 dols 75c. Southern—Mixed to good brands, 7 dols 60c to 6 dols per brl; favourite and extras, 8 dols to g dots, to 10 dots. Canadian—Superfine, '6 dots 75e to 7 dole ; extras, 7 dols 2dc to 8 do's 75c. WHEAT.—White descriptions have been in moderate re quest for milling, and prices of such are nominally un changed. Of western red spring, we had yesterday a better supply in market, and sundry parcels were taken for export to great Britain, at about the quotations given below. At to day's market, no sales worthy of mention were made—the offerings being exceedingly limited. The receipts by canal, thus far, have been from Oswego; from Buffalo arrivals are expected under a week, owing to breaks in the canal. White 1.73 to 1.88 per 60 lbs. ; winter red 1.55 dols., to 1.65 ; red spring, 1.48 to 1.53. INDIAN CORN.—Prices have fluctuated during the week, closing nominally at 95 cts. per 56 lbs. for mixed western; 96 to-98c. for southern yellow ; 97c. to 1 dol. for white do. Sales of 40,000 bu. mixed western were yesterday made at 95c. for August delivery. ALFRED F. rtE LUZE. HOPS.—The demand continues moderate, but holders are firm at 9 to 12 for the range of Eastern and Western. htow.—The sales of Scotch pig are unimportant at 31 dols to 32 dols, six months, ex ship and from yard. LEAD.—We notice sales of soft German at 5 dols 37i; in bond; small sales are making at 6 dots 40c, duty paid. NAVAL STOREB.—Crude turpentine is quiet, with little or no stuck here, and the price is nominal; last sales were made at 4 dols per 280 lbs. Spirits turpentine are dull and heavy, and prices are tending downward ; the receipts have been to a fair extent during the week, and the en gagements for export have also been fair, although the clearances noted below are only btrls. Several thousand brls are on the way here from Southern ports, and are • daily expected, and the trade are holding off in the hope of being able to efiect.purchases at easier rates ; we quote the price to-day at about 49c, with but lbw buyers at that rate, and lots to arrive in ten days we understand were offered at 47e. Common rosin is firm and in good demand. Fine rosins are not plenty, and are firm at 3 dols to 7 dols 50c, according to quality. Tar is-quoted at idol 871 c to 2 dols 371 e. Onts.—Crude whale oil is firm, with sales in New Bed ford of 1,000 bbls selected to a Boston house, at 72 cents. Crude sperm is dull at 1 dol 25c. Manufactured whale is selling at 81c to 82c for spring; sperm is mostly nominal. Linseed oil is firm at the advance noticed yesterday, with farther sales of 8,000 gallons at 80c to 81c in casks and bbls. ~PRovrstoss.—Pork is 15c lower for mess, and dull for „prime ; the sales are at 23 dols 45c t 0,23 dots 50 for mess, and 19 dols-20c to 19 dols 25c for prime ; clear may be 'quoted at 25 dots 75c to 26 dole, prime mess 20 dols to 20 dole 25c. Beef is steady, with sales at l 4 dots to 15 dots for country mess, 12 dole to 12 dols: 50c for rail. road mess, and 16 dots 50c to 17 dols re-packed Western. Prime mess beef is ♦ery scarce at 29 dole to 31 dols. Beef hams are dull. Bacon is wanted, and prices are mostly nominal. Western smoked bacon is dull at 13e to 130 for sides. WooL.—The dulness in the wool trade continues, and prices may be quoted 3 to 5 cents per lb. lower on the medium and good grades of domestic fleece and pulled. We notice sales of /5 bales washed Persian at 27 cents in bond- FREIGNTS.—To Liverpool, 770 bales of cotton were taken at 33; 300 tcs. beef at 91; 100 hhds. tallow at 53 per ton ; flour at 6d. To Bremen, 50 hhds quercitron bark were taken at 20a; 10,000 staves at 12 dots. To Marseilles, 30 hhds. tobacco at 9 dols ; 100 boxes do. at 55 dots : 75,000 staves at 25. A barque was chartered from Buctouehe to Bristol Channel at 82i 6d ; a brig Wilmington to Havana with lumber at 12 dots ; a ship St. John to Liverpool, of 655. NEW ORLEANS, June B.—Sales of Cotton "to-day, 1,100 bales, at slightly cheaper rates. Middling is quoted at 131 c. Receipts to-day, 660 bales. THE NORTHEIN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1857. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 20. The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Eng land, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey met yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of signing the treaty for the frontier settle ment in Bessarabia, and for regulating the question of the Isle of Serpents and of the Delta of the Danube. The . ,ilioniteur confirms the fact that the treaty of commerce was signed between France and Russia on the 4th of the present month FRIDAY EVENING M. Haussman, the Prefect of the Seine, has, like an able commander, reserved his fire for the last moment, but he cornea out with terrible effect in this morning's 32•oniteur. The Jupiter of the Hotel de Vile hurls, when least expected,•his thunder in the form of an address to the " electors of the de partment of the Seine," M. Hausman was said to be in some disfavour lately at Court, and there were even upleasant rumours of his removal from the high post of Prefect, which his momina tion to the Senate seemed to justify; I trust such is not the case, but if there really were apprehen sions among his friends his prese'nt appeal ought to disperse them. It is true that the address of M. Haussman has failed, as far as I ear/ learn, to give the unmixed satisfaction which he may have expected. People, not of the Opposition, find it too warm and too strong. The Siede was visiteci with a warning only yesterday for attributing to its own candidates the exclusive possession of what 0 . 1. e French papers love to call th e " grea t pr i nc i p l es of 17 89"--though hardly any two of them agree in the meanid.: of the term ; and now we have M. Hausa man, the ficet authority of the department of the Seine—one who exercises absolute rule over the Salle St. Jean, the Salle des Grandes Fetes, the Salle de Danse, the . Salle du Trone, and" the other saloons and corridors which constitute the Hotel de Ville, not to speak of the statues and caryatides inside and out, committing the same offences, and informing, the eleCtors that the " deputies of another period, and another order of ideas, will expose them to agitation and uneasiness. Now, be well assured of the fact," he says, " agita tion and uneasiness recoil above all on these who work," and that " many of the candidates of the Opposition, open adversaries of the Imperial Constitution, only seek your suf frages in order openly to repudiate them." The Prefect of the Seine commits the same sin of rash judgment for which the Siecle has been punished, and it is the more inexcusable as it is committed by a public functionary, without whose consent and aid, at least so say some of his friends, the Emperor himself could not well got on. As the to the " honourable independence" attributed by Prefect to the outgoing deputies, the less said about, that the better. This passage may be a lel'e of sly scarcasm at the Lower House; but the, words quoted above have produced a very indifferent effect, and, as the Siecle has received a warning, the least that can be done is to put the Pre fect en penitence. Those who suffer most during the trying period of the elections are, beyond all doubt, the Prefects of departments. The Minister of the Interior's cir cular was meant to point out the line they were to follow, but many of them appear to be at sixes and sevens. Some gave too liberal an interpretation to it ;'others too restrictive a sense—and not a few exhibit an unnecessary excess of zeal. When they are taken too sharply to task by the Minister, why it is some comfort that they can fall upon the sub prefects and mayors—as Fag, in the Rivals, practises on the " Boy" what he himself has just received from his master. The Afoniteur, of to morrow will contain a second address from the Minister of the Interior with the view of further enlightening the electors on universal suffrage, and on the object of the movement on the part of the Opposition. It is rather vigorous and decisive in style, and is superior, as it is much longer, then M. Haussman's. It will be posted up in all the public thoroughfares at the same time that it ap pears in the Moniteur. The division of the democratic party on the choice of candidates, giving a foretaste of what would occur if it were again in power, continues as strong, and apparently as hopeless, as ever The Siecle patronizes M. de Laboulaye, of the Debats; the Debats does the same good turn for Prudhon's representative, M. Darimon ; the Presse, with a wry face, however, accepts General Cavaignao, whom it hardly pardons for having put its chief editor under lock and key, without sentence of judge, or trial by court, in 1818, while certificates of approval are accepted from M. Degoussie a decided Democrat, who, by way of proving his love of liberty, equality, and fraternity, proposed, also in 1848, to take up the ; journalists ten masse, and keep them where they give trouble no more. I spoke of attempts at reconciliation between the rival sections of the Opposition ; they lave been fruitless, and the 'only result I fear is, that they dislike and ridicule each others' candidates as bit terly as before. The Sieele has made the public merry with its sarcasm on what it calls the " Nee- CatholicisnPeof M. Jules Bestide, one of the thun derers of the defunct National, and Min ister o f some thing or other under the Marrast regime in 1848. M. 'Jules Bastide gets quite-red in the face, puts his hand on his hip, snaps his fingers, shows very plainly that he forms a verylow estimate of his brother Democrat's judgment, and begs 'very seriously that the Siecle " will not attribute to him religious or political opinions which he does not en tertain!' 'ln the meantime the Simile, the Journal des Debats and the Presse—aria junctain uno—maintain their list; the first boldly, the-second timidly, as if it trod upon eggs; the third grudgingly; while the electoral committee, whose organs are the Couzrrier de Paris, which has by a happy inspiration laid aside its name 'La Verite, ter-which it had no claim, and the Estafette, maintain theirs, give no sign of reconciliation, and take care to announce that it has no connection with the establishment over the way, viz , the Siecle Not only have both parties refused to make any sacrifice that would lead to an arrangement, or abandoned an iota of their pretensions, but they have began to use hard words towards each other. Amid outpourings of peace and fraternal love are heard reproaches, menaces, and charges of in triguing. At one moment we are led to expect disclosures of a more serious kind, and curiosity was reused by hints -about documents that would confound their opponents. The Estafette denounced the " Coalition" (the 'Sleek, Debats, and Presse) of having violated its engagements to the " Commit tee of Ancient Representatives" (13s Anciens, as they are now 'termed).; but the Siecle has not yet taken up the challenge.; while, on the other 'hand, the " Ancients" have shrunk from giving a de cided contradiction to the Siecle, who re preached them with being the orginal cause, of quarrel. The men who won the revolution of February, reinforced by the Conservative DeZats, have a batch of fifteen candidates for the ten electoral districts of Paris, five of whom—namely. .Cavaignac, Bethmont, Carnot, Goudchaux, and Lasteyrie, are accepted by both fractions of the party; the ten others are the apples of die cord. MM. Laboulaye, Darimon. Varin, 011ivier, and whoever is to take the place of Reynau, who has withdrawn, are the preferred of the Debats, the Siecle, and the Presse, while the "Ancients" meet them with MM. Jean Reynaud, Gamier Pages '(the eminent Finance Minister of the Provisional Government), Bastide, Jules Simon, and Pelletier. These lest are, in the press, only supported by the Estafette, and the ex-Verite (Courrier de Paris), but they have at their backs a score or so of democratic leader's who were most of them functionaries under the Re public. On the other hand, we have the Socialists, who apparently do not warmly approve of the policy of either M. Louis Blanc, to whose circular or pamphlet I alluded yesterday, recommends, from his distant and safe retreat, that it should be impressed on the candidates "as the con dition of the suffrages they may obtain that there should be produced in France, not merely a superficial agitation but a profound and lasting emotion. That the elected of the people shall not, on the opening of the Legislative Corps, confine themselves to the refusal of the oath, but that the refusal shall be accompanied by reasons for not taking it. Should they be interrupted the elected of the nation must insist—if menaced they ' must resist—until, brute force intervening, they are clutched (empoignes)" M. Louis Blanc anticipates a great moral effect from that proceeding, and a terrible check to the Government. If the recusants are proceeded against, why the worst that can happen is that they shall join the refugees in London. "It belongs to our friends in France," he adds, " to decide to what point it is possible to realize the proj ec t in question, and what are the precautions which should be taken to ensure its success. In any case, the difficulty would not be to gather together a sufficient number of bold men in a country where there always have been thousands of citizens ready to immolate, for the public good, or for a vigorous faith, their fortune, their repose, their family, their life. The people of France, every page of our modern annals, bear testimony to their inexhaustible devotedness, and if the leaders of the bourgeoisie wanted to be recalled to the sentiments of their duty, they need only read once more the history of their fathers." Example, they say, is better than preaching. Why does not M. Louis Blanc, who makes light of " repose, family, life," in comparison with civic duty, just make a run over to Paris incognito, and suddenly place him self at the head of the manifestation which he SP fervidly recommends ? The effect would be great, and if it were possible 'that so daring a taniPle nirit needed encouragement, then, is the ex of Custius and other ancient worthies, who gavel the noble example of self-sacrific e under circa stances nearly as hopeless. The :7 1 allusion to the leaders of the bourgeoisie" (Messieurs de la Bou:vgeoisie) is evidently a hit at the Siecle, not to spear' of the Debats ; and it is additional evidence of ths4 division of the Re publican party. All these corenaing interests and rivalries do not, I fear, promise t 2 IQ f(?; the organization of a liberal opposition in the new Legis lative Corps. They will rather add to the strength of the government, powerful as it is already. I doubt the utility, after all, of a mere demonstration, for nothing else apparently is meant by the Democratie, candidates. Whetherfor good or forbad the preraent regime is the issue of universal suffrage; on waiversal suffrage'alone the opposingcandidates pzefer to take their stand, and that by which they *nom to attain success, has already given absolute Tv:Aver to Louis Napoleon. How that power is used is another question. A great deal night not be gained by half a dozen liberals, getti..ag setting seats in the Chamber, but something would be gained, never theless, and .a the cause of liberty no trifle should be dewsed. The presence iu the legislature of a few raAionat moderate liberals, whatever difficulties thr 43 , mir y encounter, would not be totally without fruit. The creditor does not act wisely who, be cause ho cannot get pai&jt once the whole of his debt, refuses to accept any instalment. The better plan would be to present candidates who would not refuse the oath to the sovereign, elected by universal suffrage; but a demonstration like that intended will, I fear, be barren in its results. A deputation of the electors of the third arron dissement, in order to put an end to the doubt about the opposition candidates taking the oaths, called on General Cavaignac yesterday, in order to as,ertain whether it was his intention to do so. The General was rather puzzled what to reply. To answer in the negative was -to trifle with the electors ; and to answer in the affirmative he could not do without taking council of his ordinary advisers. He said that he could not give an .answer then, and asked for time to consider. A good number of the working cla;ses have been spoken to earnestly by the Prefect of Police about the elections. He requested them to reflect care fully on the vote they were about to give, and not to.forget that the consequences of their voting for the opposition would be only productive of injury to themselves by the agitation it would create. The Presse has the following : Opposition electors of the third circumscription of the department of the Bouches-du-RhOne, wishing to give a proof of their gratitude to him who was their Prefect in the difficult period of 1848 have resolved to vote for M. Emile 'Nivea., who is likewise a candidate in the fourth electoral division in Paris. M. Emile Olivier has sent them his bulletin signed. The same journal tells the following anecdote a-propos of the elections; — M. Gamier Pages signs the advertisement which in dicate his candidature by the words Candidate of the Democratic Opposition,' apparently to indicate that he is more democratic than those who call themselves simply Candidate of the Opposition.' Now the following is a copy of the letter which M Gamier Pages addressed on the 24th of February to M. de Maleiille. it is related by Daniel Stern in his History of the Revolution of February in a note to page 248 The madmen that you know have proclaimed the Republic. Prevent the Duchess of Orleans from showing herself. The moment is not propitious. Ever yours, my good friead.' M. Gamier Pages has a very short memory." _ _ _ The following despatches have been received : MARSEILLES, JUNE 18. _ _ ALGIERS, June 15.—The army is still on the territory of the Beni-Raten. The road of Tizi-Ozou is entirely terminated. Not fewer than thirteen artesian wells have been bored; that of Gheggo gives twenty litres per minute. TRIESTE,• JUNE 19. Intelligence has arrived from Constantinople to the 11th. The pretender to the Principality of Montenegro, who lived in exile in Turkey, has been assassinated. The Viceroy of Egypt has arrived at Smyrna. letters from Teheran announce the official reception, by the Shah, of General Bariatin§ki, the Russian Envoy. VIENNA, JUNE 19. The Austrian Correspondence contradicts the statement made by the French Moniteur respecting the feeling in the Danubian Principalities. According to the Austrian journal, the great majority of the Moldavian people are hostile to unionist tendencies, anti it declares that the prudent and impartiul conduct of Vogorides is generally admitted. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 13th inst., in the Nvrd, says : I can now announce to you as positive the proximate departure of the - Emperor. His Majesty will embark on the 3rd of June for Kiel, with the Empress and the Grand Dake Michael. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Gortschakeff, Ceunt Adlerberg, and Prince Dolgorouki will accompany their Majesties. From Kiel -their Majesties will proceed to Virildbtad and Kissingen, where the Em press will sojourn for some time. The Emperor is ex petted to return to St. Peter&burg in July with the Empress Mother, the Grand Duke Michael, and the Princess Cecilia of Baden. In this case the marriage of the Grand Duke will be celebrated at Peterhoff in July. TEE TRAGEDY ON BOARD THE MARTHA JANE —Th is case was mentioned in the House of Loris on Friday night by the Earl of Shiftesbury. We have heard that Mr. Tyndall, the Board of Trade solicitor in this town, has been 'instructed to prosecute in.the case on behalf of the; board. Oa Saturday the depositions in the case were read over, and a full committal was put on the prisoners. EDUCATION !—A little learning is a dangerous thing. The following is a verb. et lit. copy of a note sent to some one, who advertised for some one else—we don't know what to do in a morning paper :—" Deer Sar I hoffers my Sarviases has U as hadwirtissed inn i Kan ghet gud rafrancis Iff Rhequirred iff U giv mee a thriall i will doo the beast I cann 2 plaise U soo noo moore at preshent frown yoares affecthionately (If thee not a whisperer, we don't know what is !) Li , utenavt-Colonel Rogers, commanding the Enrolled Pensioners of this district, has received two French war medals from his Royal Highness, the Commander-in-Chief, .for presentation to two pensioners now residing in Liver pool, who particularly distinguished themselves daring the late war. Advantage is intended to be taken of the force being assembled for drill during the week commencing 22nd instant, to present them in the presence of their comrades. ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday evening Mr. Robert Clough, in-door superintendent of detective Police, met with rather a severe accident. He was passing the corner of a street in the locality of Lime-street, when some person who was in pursuit of a thief ran against him and knocked him down, his knee coming on the kerbstone, the joint was much hurt, and he will not, probably, for some days be able to leave his nom. Michael Clarey, a dock labourer, fell into the bold of a ship in the Sandon Dock on Satur day, and received a scrims wound in the head. He lies at present in the Northern Hospital. Bridges Reed, the nook of the ship Norva, had his leg broken on Saturday en the ship Monarch, in consequence of a drunken fellow named Ryan, knocking him down with a cask, which broke the limb. He is in the Northern Hospital. IRON Slur BUILDING. —Mr. John Clare's offer to cor struct vessels to go to Australia in thirty days, has excited not only great attention in this country, but likewise in our trans narine possessions. A practical engineer (Mr. Ross, of Montreal), states that after several experiments and continued research, he has constructed a working model of a vessel which will create an entire change in the system of naval architecture. A ship built on his principle, he avers, can perform the voyage to Australia in sixteen days, and will not sink. Should this plan be practically carried out, the commerce of the world would increase a hundred fold. We live, at present, in an age of wonders. Rail roads, less than a quarter of a century since, were doubted, and the existence and application of the electric telegraph was looked upon as a fable. The above statement may ap pear startling ; and we must confess that we have our doubts as to the practicability of it being carried out. The ques tion is one of great importance, and demands investiga tion ; and we trust that those who are interested in our marine will direct their attention to these improvements, as should they be found feasible, they will be another wonder of this marvellous country.—Mining Journal, 20th June, 1857. EXTRAORDINARY INVENTION.—This is decicedly the patent age for inventions. and one of the most useful and ingenious inventions we ever saw has just been patented by Mr. Levy, of Birmingham, and from its efficiency_ must come into universal use. It is called "the cork com pressor and bottle corker," and as its name imports, is for corking bottles. It is a piece of hard wood about six inches long, divided in the centre by a hinge. The cir cumference is, at the centre, about three inches, tapering down to about an inch. The lower_ part is hollow, and a piston is fitted in the upper portion above the hinge. Into the lower cavity a cork is put, the hinge is then closed. The lower portion, which is scooped out so, as to fit the top of a bottle, is laid on a bottle, the piston is then smartly tapped on the head, and it 'shoots the cork with unerring certaiitty into the neck of the bottle, and level with the top, and with more firmnese than any known operation at present in nee. The whole operation of corking a bottle of any size .14,91, ,any sized cork, does not, occupy a second of time, and IN matter how large the cork, it is compressed to fit the bottle in its operation downward, and it is utterly impossible for the bottle to be broke:, as all the pressure cotnes ort the, little machine itself. It can be carried in the pn4et, and ; is most decidedly an astonishing apparatus, TE RA.NDEL FESTIVAL. Tte glint Handel Festival has concluded worthily. The last day of the celebration was honoured by an atten dance which casts that of Monday and Wednesday into the shado. The noble choruses of "Israel in Egypt" were enjoyed on Friday by an audience of 17,292 persons. This large increase of visitors to the palace was of somewhat a sudden character. Some secret half-belief in a prolongs. tion of the festival seems to have been cherished by many persons till the positive announcement made on Friday morning in the newspapers ; and then the demand for tickets was most eager. Oa Monday nearly the whole company proceeded by early trains; but on Friday down to a few mtuutes before the Commencement of the peformanee the trains arrived at the palace heavily laden and in rapid succession. The promptitude with which the demand for enlarged accommodation was met by the railway company speaks highly for the efficiency of its staff. To say that there was no crowding of those who came at the last mo ment would not be true, and the day was one to make pressure particularly unwelcome, but we believe that the transit service was performed in the most satisfactory manner. The spectacle which the nave and transept of the place presented during the performance of the oratorio we shall not again describe. If on the previous days it was inspiring and grand, it was rendered much more so on Friday, when the company had been increased to the number of five thousand. Israel in Egypt, ,the oratorio of Friday, is a work better fitted than either of those which preceded it for performance in so vast a locality and on so enormous a scale, for it consists almost entirely of choruses of gigantic proportions, while the airs and other pieces for solo singers are so few and slight that they form an almost insignifieent proportion of the whole. This circumstance has undoubtedly been the greatest obstacle to the popularity of the oratorio, from Handel's own day nearly to the present. Though " Israel in Egypt," next to " The Messiah" is the greatest of its immortal author's works—and some critics place it even: above "The Messiah"—yet it has been among the least successful. Its history, indeed, is striking and melancholy. It was composed in the year 1738, ,begun and finished, with Handel's usual fiery rapidity, within one month, and first performed at the King's Theatre (the Italian Opera•house) on the 4th of April in that year. Jt was repeated on the 11th, and again on: the 17th, when Handel found it necessary to make it more' palatable to the :public taste by introducing into it several Italian[Opera songs having nothing to do with its subject. But this hopeful expedient did not succeed. It was; again announced, but on the day of performance Saul was substituted. It was once 'per formed in 1740; once more in 1756, after an interval of sixteen years; and for the last time during the composer's life in 1758, the year preceding his death. Six perform. ances in twenty years. It was not printed while Handel lived, nor for many years after he died. There is no reason to believe that it had a ,single performance in London from the time of Handel's death till it was revived at the Westminster Abbey Festival in 1834. On that occasion a number of airs were interpolated, though this was done with more attention to propriety than iu works of Handel's own day, for, the additional airs were selected from Handel's own, and the words were made appropriate to the subject. Since then Isaml in Egypt has become one of the stock pieces of the Sacred Harmonic, by whom It is performed in its integrity without mutilation or addition ; but it is only of late that even the Sacred Harmonic Society have ventured to do this ; for it is not above ten or twelve years since this Oratorio with airs interpolated was performed at Exeter Hall. Such, however, is now the state of public feeling with regard to Handel and his works, that a practice which so recently was thought absolutely necessary would now be deemed an act o f barbarism, and justly; for the works of great men are not to be tampered with on any ground whatever, not even if a case of real improvement could be made out. We cannot help thinking, however, though it may not be heresy to hint at such an opinion, that it might perhaps have been as well if Handel himself had constructed his work somewhat differently. Without lessening its massive grandeur, ho might perhaps have infused a little more of the elements of beauty and variety, by the introduction of some of those " sounds and sweet airs which give delight and hurt net," of which his genius was an ever-gushing fountain, and for which ample scope was given by his subject. Be that, however, as it may, we have the work as formed by , fts author, and let its form be religiously pre seived. The little piece of recitative which leads to the first chorus was distinctly uttered by Mr. Sims Reeves ; but as its character did not admit of any effort of voice, it must have been unheard by alarge portion of the audience. The chorus, " And the children of Israel sighed," one of the most pathetic of Handel's choral compositions, was beautifully sung,'and its long, mournful notes taken up by one part after another had a most impressive effect. The next chorus, descriptive of the first plague, when the waters were turned into blood, is a figure on a subject so strange and harsh in its intervals that it creates something like a feeling of horror. The treatment of this unearthly theme is a piece of consumate contrapuntal skill. The air ;which follows, AC Their land brought forth frogs," is trivial in its melody, and remarkable for a passage in the accompa niments, constantly repeated, by way of imitating the skip ping of frogs—a piece of practical mimicry which has been classed among those puerilities into which great artists fell inoarly periods of art, but has found defenders among Handel's thorough-going eulogists. Miss Dolby sang it well, but could not give it any effect. In the next chorus, descriptive of the plague of flies and lice, there is more of the same kind of imitation, the swarms of flies being described by the rapidly-iterated high notes of the violins. Beyond this, the chorus has nothing remarkable. The next, " He gave them hailstones for rain," is of a very different cha racter, and is one of Handel's most wonderful achievements in legitimate description, calling up the most vivid images by the simplest means. We almost see the " fire, mingled with hail, running along the ground." We hear the cries of tha multitude, and the shrieks of terrified females, mingling with the stern. The artist's design is appargnt to every one ; and there probably nowhere exists a more truthful and forcible piece of sound-painting. It was sung most admirably, and thuuders of applause from every corner called for and obtained its repetition. It is re. markable that some ic'eas in this chorus are taken from a serenata of the celebrated Stradella. Handel, indeed, has borrowed freely in this oratorio ; bat on whatever he bor rowed he bestowed a new value, all his own. Another cele brated specimen of Handel's power of calling up images by means of sounds is " He sent a thick darkness over all the land." It is a piece of choral recitative, in which the words are sung, or rather spoken, in unison, by all the voices of each part, as if thy farmed the single voce of some mighty individual ; while there proceed from tbo instra meats strains of harmony so smothered, undefined, and gloomy, that the idea of something dark and appalling irresistibly presents itself. This chorus is of excessive difficulty; and its execution did the highest honour to the choir: The chorus, " He rebuked the Red Sea," was one of the great features of the parfsrmance ; especially the concluding portion, which describes the destruction of the host of Pharaoh, ovorvvhelmad by the waters. Here, again, is sound-painting of the most marvellous kind. The howling of the storm, the raging of the billows, the sounds of terror and despair are all pictured by the tremendous harmonies of t„ . 4e-usician. We know of nothing in music to which t / h-d - Ohortis can be compared, save perhaps the storm 7.11r6h terminates the first part of Elijah; bat even Meartielsoba follows Handel at a vast distance. The thankiving of the Israe:ites for their deliverance concludes the first part of the oratorio, in which there are twelve consecutive choruses without the intervention of a single air. The second part is one unvarying strain of rejoicing and jubila. tion. Handel, is his original manuscript, entitled it " Moses' Song ;" and this title correctly describes it. Nothing can be grander than the commencement of this song, which also forms its conclusion, " I will sing unto the Lord, for he bath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider bath he thrown into the sea." When the choir begin, " I will sing unto the Lord`" upon a broad, simple piece of Canto Fermo, their voices seam like the exulting shout of a whole nation. It is followed by a duet for two treble voices, which has not much interest, and sounds poor and tame after the "nighty outburst which it follows, Madame Clara Novello and Madame Rulers - dorff sung it well, but without making any iw pression. The next chorus, "He is my God." is remarkable for the antique character of the fine fugue on on the words, " I will exalt him ;" which is in the ancient Dorian mode, resembling our modern key of D minor with a fiat seventh ; so that the subject of the fugue has a melody similar in character to some of oar national tunes. It is a very simple strain, but worked , up and treated with consummate contrapuntal skill. Then follows the popular duet, "The Lord is a man of war ;" a bold, bluff song, but of a samewhat vul gar and familiar cast, sung by Messrrs. Formes and Weis s with all the strength of their voices, and received with considerable applause. Mr. Sims Reeves and Madame Clara Novelle afterwards had two consecutive airs, " The enemy said," and " Thou didst blow." The first, though. really a poor song, received an encore, which it oared t) the prodigious power of voice with which Reeves shouted the concluding words, "My hand shall destroy them." The second, though a much better song, was ineffec tive; for the melody is smooth and quiet, and does not enable the singer to make any great vocal effort The duet—" Thou in Thy mercy"—though melodious and expressive, and exceedingly well sung by Miss Dolby and Reeves, was ineffective from precisely the same cause. Tim most splendid performance of the day was the grand final chorus, " Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea," which (as has been said) also begins the second part. The manner in which, before the chorus struck in, Clara Novello sang, alone, and unsupported by a single instrument, was something ananzing —the very tri umph of vocal power. Her liquid notes rang through the vast expanse with the clearness of a bell ; and what was more wonderful still, not a syllable that she utter..d was lost. But we cannot help expressing regret that she did not a-- here to Handel s grand and simple text, but male a flourish ing run up to the high C and concluded with a long shake. In doing this she descended from the sublimity of " Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron," pouring out the exulttng thanksgiving of a whole psoele, to the prosaic attitude of Madame Clara Novello, the favourite prima donna, executing a tour de force to astonish the audience in a concert-hall. Such has been the Handel Festival of 1857—a magnificent celebration, and a homage worthy of its illustrious object. It is intended as the precursor of another celebration, still more magnificent, two years hence; and we hops that the experiment which has now been made will bear good fruit in: suggesting plans for removing the defects which have made themselves apparent in the performances. NOTHING IN THE PAPER TG-DAY.—I always think a man a dolt who tells me "there is nothing in the paper to-day.'. Nothing! The newspaper is the daily history of thirty millions of people, with possessions scattered all over the world—a people whose aggregate number at home and abroad is not much less than three hundred millions. And their 'daily actions are as "nothing" to those who , skim the surface of a paper in search of a war, an insur rection, the death of a prince, or the explosion of a powder mill; and who, in one week, forget every incident which, for the moment, was a real bit of news for them. Not one person in a hundred knows how to read a newspaper. They hear a great deal about strychnine, and are tie lighted to see the portrait, or read the biography, of a . criminal; but do they turn to any chemical dictionary o r work on medical jurisprudence for accurate inform atio n, , on which to ground a calm judgment of that which excites them so much ?• To read and understand a nesvpaper, requires to take pleasure in its several details, as matters, of contemporaneous history ; and there is scarcely any single narrative—whether of politics or police, of law or war, of destitution or mortality—but is fraught with a true historical lesson, the dates and circumstances worthy to be made note of, and the outlying facts affording mat ter for many a curious literary or scientific study. LIST OF PASSENGERS BY THE B.M.S. ARABIA, FROM NEW YORK :—Mrs. S. S. Levy, two children, and nurse, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Gor lon, Mrs. E. Biddle, four children, and nurse, Mrs. Jas. D. Phyfe, two children, and nurse, Mr. C. B. Lucas and family, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Lowry, Miss Braze, Miss Glentworrh, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mathewp, child, and nurse, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brander, Baron A. Bruiningk and wife, and four children, Messrs. J. Nicholson, J. S. Mills, M. Girand, P. A. Girand, lair. Mrs. and J. B. Olivia, Gustave Olivia, Mrs. F. Olivia and servant, Miss Phelps, Miss Girand, Miss Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Bangs, Mr. and Mrs. J. Eta; Miss M'Nabb, Mrs. Brown's maid, Messrs. J. Lowery, James D. Phyfe, Edward Biddle and son, J. S. Robins, J. S. Levy, R C. Cammack and family, John Calder, C. F. Mitchell, the two Misses Murray and nurse, Mr. Henry Williams, Messrs. Irven Van Wart and son, T. Hillyard Cameron, Henry Sterns, Mr. and Mrs. Battersby and daughter, Mr. Edward Townsend, Miss Hartridge and maid ; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cheney, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Waller, Messrs. A. Courtier, S. Titus, L. D. C. Wood, Mossaisky, G. B. Cuthbert, W. Gemmel!, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Robbins, Messrs. J. H. Baldwin, A. Smith, Ahl, J. W. Casilear, Barnwell, John B. Lamar, G. Bulpin, Charles G. Hook, N. Jackson, James Robb, Rev, R. A. Helium, Mr. Bayard Milligan, Messrs. A. M'Andrew, Hugh arney, George Pocket, C. C. Ferrie, Samuel Cropper, Maxwell, Dr. J. L. Kip, Mr. Archer Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davey, Mr. and Mrs Joseph Walker', junr., Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Bates, and child, Messrs. Ramon Longoria, Eulogin Fernandez, L. Herschorn, John Edwards, Edward Rodewald, J. Townsend, T. G. Hilton, Dr. Alexander Thompson, Messrs. G. L. Taylor, H. Carter, Robert Woodside, Edwards, F. A. Reichard, W. H. Fowle, A. Lowenhelm, P. Wilson, J. S. Hasluck, Carran, W. K. Woodcock, Frederick Cyrus, Charles Roonie, C. W. Smith, Hon. John Moore, Mr. Robert Leech, Mr. C. C. Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. 3. Brown and child, Mr. and Mrs. M'Calmont, Messrs. Perrot, John C Brune,and coloured servant; Burlage, W. Deden, H. L. Williams, jun., L. Bonnermar, J. J. Friedman, J. H. Dulles, Lewis, jun., J. H. Alwood, R. A. Hoskins, P. N. Olivia, David Spence; Captain W. Gay ; Messrs. S. Boyd, E. J. Hurst, William Glenn, James Earl, B. Fitzpatrick, Miss Caroline Hopley, Miss Ellen Wrian, Mrs. Tonks, Miss Taylor, Messrs. Gibson, F. Stewart, Joseph Johnston, A. M. Crowhurst, P. Dusenbnry, H Dusenbury, J. W. Colkley, L. A. Levyns, Jannin. Tun NEW JERUSALEM . CHURCH. —The newly-ereetel, and handsome bnilding in B:dford.streot North, belonging to this congregation, was opened for public worship on yesterday. Services were performed, and sermons preached in the morning, afternoon, and evening, at which collec tions were made in aid of the building fund. This even ing a public tea meeting will take place in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, and the amount realized will be devoted to the same object. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 11.—The pretender to the Prin. cipality of Montenegro, who had taken refuge in Turkey, has been assassinated. The Journal de Constantinople has been forbidden to be transmitted by the French mail, in consequence of the opposition of that journal to the union of the Principalities. _ The MAINE-LAW MOVEMENT.—A large and imposing gathering was held in connection with the United King dom Alliance on Wednesday, on Pardshaw Crag, Cumber land. This county demonstration numbered not less than 15,000 persons, and was presided over by Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart., of Brayton, one of the Alliance vice-presi dents. The meeting was addressed by the Hon. Neal Dow, Dr. Lees, S. Pope, Esq , Alderman H arvey , J as . Si mpson , Effq., J.P., Rev. W. Patterson, and W. Slater, Esq: Pardshaw Crag is a natural amphitheatre of rock and sward, commanding extensive mountain views. From a natural pulpit on the Crag George Fox was accustomed to preach, and here it was this great meeting was held. POINTING WITH A VENGBANC& —A country barber in scribed on one of his window-panes the following an nouncement :—" What do you think, I'll shave you for nothing, and give you some drink." A traveller entered, took his seat, and submitted to the luxurious operation of an easy shave. His toilet completed, he demanded the drink, and. then " shaved and refreshed," was about to depart, and of course pay "nothing" for the services rendered. But the sly hero of the scissors and tongs had punctuated his motto expressly to delude the unwary. Our traveller was requested to read it thus : —" What ! do you think I'll shave you for nothing. and give you some drink ?" Thus a quaint communication was at once con verted into a pert question, and the literary spider caught the 8y in his artful window-trap.