The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-24 00:00:00

MI a rt t ell . TO DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS.—WANTED, Two Steady Young MIN for the Dranery Wa•wick House Mill-street. TIMBER WANTED.—WANTED, BIRCH, SYCAMORE, and HORSE-CHESNUT, in the bark, from 12 to 6 inches in diameter —Apply to D. Dring, 85, Grafton-street. WANTED, a Good Strong PONY, from 14 t , 15 hands high. Must he quiet, and steady to ride er drive, with good action, and moderately fast. Price not to exceed £2O. For address, see Reference List, Northern Times office. Yir 0 BAKERS AND FLOUR DEALERS.—WANTED, a FEW THOUSANDS of Foreign FLOUR BAGS, capable of holding 2,3, or 4 bushels. To be in gocd order —Apply, with quantity, description, and price, to A. 8., Boa P. 13, Post-office, Liverpool. WAtTED, an ACTIVE YOUNG MAN , of g ood addr ess ,- who ts been accustomed to the KEEPING and COLLECTION of ACCOUNTS. M ust write a good hand. One who has a k ow ledge of the PRINTING and STATIONERY Business preferred.— Address. in applicant's own hand writing, to A. C. G., Northern times office. _ - _ WANTED. a SOLICITOR, for a First-class Tailoring and Out fitting Establishment. — A liberal salary and commission will be given to a competent man, who has a good connection with captains. and the shipping generally,—Adiress by letter (Z. R.), at the Northern Times office, stating qualifications and where last em ployed. WANTED, to Rent for Six or Twelve Months, a well furnished moderate-sized HOUSE, containing two sitting rooms, ant three or fur bedrooms, besiths servants' rooms. The advert ser tas no family, and would therefore be a desirable tenant. The heighbourho;d of Edgl ane or Fairfield p r eferred.—Apply to dr. aterhouse, 4, Derby-square. 7 5 bo LET, a well faro Waterloo.—Apply at Terrace, MIURNISHED HOUS HODS .ellent FAMILY from Seacombf well fun Morris, Estate towns in establishment, c ticulars, apr U DRAPERS a LEI ', with i North VV PARKGATE.— TO he LET, a pod HOUSE, opposi e the Dee, containing two kitchen:, good cellirs, butler's rantry. two parlours, one drawing-room, nine bedrnoma. with Roo I flower and kitchen gardens. The house has been fresh liaperea an, painted inside and out.—Apply t, Par. Johnson, it, Duke-street; or Jones and Son. Newton. A leo. TO he SOLD. two PREEFIOLEI HOUSES in Park-street. To WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS and OTHF LIL a Term of Years, the MILLS- "' • &c.. In Wood-street, lately of wholesale druggis.s, the ready for work Th- be LET, for .vAitEROUSE, OFFICES, ~.ect by Messrs. Edney & Baines, as the Engine and Machinery, now Premises, which are very commodious, will _ ..er or separately, and immediate possession can be ,ven.—For further particulars apply to My. George S. Sanderson, I, James-street, Liverpool. be Let tog, OUTHPORT.—TO be LET, furnished, on the 25th of June, tO at a moderate rental, for two, six. or twelve months, N,EW TREE VILLA, Sea Bank Road, Southport. The cottage contains drawing-room, dini3g-roam, and five bedrooms. Has been recently furnished, and commands a del:ghttul view of the sea. To a six or twelve months' tenant, liberal terms will be offered, and any alterations or improvements made that may be desired; or the house will be let unfurnished to any parry who will take the furni ture, or a portion of it, a', a valuation. Water aad gas in the house. For terms and further particulars apply to Mr. Hargreave, London street,• South port. en Slat. AVariety f AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, rece:ved per Baltic, on SALE, at the Northern Times office. KENTLE DGE.—A large and well Also, BALLAST (Pig) IRON ILLIAM F. SIM, Sweeting.street -assorted Stock always on hand ON SALE, in Oxton, Ch e shir e , u p on lib era l t erms , ELIGIBLE BUILDING LAND. commanding swendid views, and suitable 'for the erection of first-class Villas. 'the unexpired lease is for 83 7, ars, free from all rent charges.—Apply to Mrs. Atherton, 18, Great Georee- square, Liverp TOXTMTH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN-LANE.— NOTIi E.—The Burial Board are now prepared to SELL GROUND for Gravesend Vau!ts, and for Imermeets in the above Cemetery. For scale of charges apply : t the office of the Registrar, at the Cemetery; or to the Clerk to the Board, at the Public Office, Park-place, Toxteth P-rk. FOR SALE, as landed from the screw tran s , or t Alp s , an d r:ow laying near the Customs' Depot, Huskisson Dock, a quantity of TROOP F.TTINGS, MESS TABLES, SPOOLS. HORSE FITTINGS. &c. Tenders for the punhase of the same will be received at Captain B4Vib'd otce, up to Two o'clock THIS DAY, the 24th inst. Tr.4n4po , t , Iffice. Drury-lane, 23rd June,lBs6. ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOINES ! HOUSES!! LAND! LAND ! —ON SALE, in large or small lots. variously situated, and ranging in price from about .elOO to £6',ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire Property Circular. Can be had pads and free by post. Cheshire offices, for the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-c=ons Ch.mbers (one door from Market-square) Market-street. Birken head. OH SALE, by Private Trea'y, Six aThining HOUSES, freehold of inheritance, two of them to the front of Adlington-s reet (north side), and four in Elizabeth's co ,rt. Dimensions of land— In front to Adliugton-street and in breadth at the back severally . 112 fret 2 inches, deDth 45 feet. Rental .4'63 Is. Also, Four adjoining HOUSES, freehold of inheritance, two of them to the fro, .t of Cavendish- street (north side), an i two in Knowles's-alley. Dimensions of I Ind—ln front to Cavendish-street and in breadth at the back severally 27 feet, depth 42 feet. Rental ..30 —Apply to Mr. Frodaham, Folicito , , 16, South Castle-street. Liverpool. THIS DAY Postponed until THIS DAY, the! Nash's Saleroom, Corn Each About 28C0 Qus•te ex Exchamze. from Ha' James higlenry and Co., may con cerJ instant. at Golding and e, Brunswick-street, 1 Yellow Indian CORN, —For particulars apply to Mews , Merchants, J. & M. HA.RNETT, Brokers. On account of whom it may concern Tuts DAY, the 24th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at Golding and Nash's Saleroom, Corn Exchange, Bransaick-street, About 2500 Bags Chili FLOUR, 'ex yellean, from Vali ey and Co, Graham, Kell raiso.—For particulars apply to Messrs Merchants, or to J. & A 7. HARNETT. Brokers Tins DAY, the 24th instant, and following days, at Four o'clock , °kers' Saleroom, Hackln's-bey, at th,, B East Ind 250 Bales 101 Do. Entr 1500 ►o. Peruvian, Eeyptian, Oporto, and other j Apdly to PERKINS & ROBIWON. Wool Brokers TWooLs. ant at Tw ck, at the Brokers' an ge-buildi ) Pa es J TE THIS DAY, the 24th Offic ex Talavera, from C, Tan DAY, the COI cutta. in Stanley Dock.—Apply to T. & H. MIT LEDA & CO., Brokers 24th instant, at Ha '-palt One o'clock, at the tercial Saleroom. Temple-court, 390 Boxes American BACON, landing ex Sarah G. Hyde.—Apply to Messrs. Richardson, Brothers end Co., or to GEORGE BAD ENACH, Broker. Tuts DAY. the 24th instant, at Half-past Ooe o'clock, at the Commerci 1 +aleroom, Temple-court, 150 Firkins Cork Pickled BUTTE IL )RGE BADE NAGEL Broker. Apply to Tata DAY, the 24 h instant, at Hal-plat One o'clock, in the Com nercial Saleroom, TeMple-court, 460 Firkins Cork Pickled t; U TT E R, in excellent coudition.—Apply to GEORGE BADENACH, Broker. On account of whom it may concern. Tazs DAY, the t2sth i st., at 11 ilt-pAst One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, Corn Exchange.husiding s , Brunswick-street, About 4,10 Barrels Damaged Western Canal Superfine FLOUR, lying in Henderson's warehouse, Prices -street (No. 3 Room.) — Apply to GOLDING & NASH, Brokers. TO-MORROW To-moiteow, the 25th instant. at Twelve o'clock, at the Pub' c Saleroom. 100 Boxes C A SSI A, just arrived.—Apply to T. &H. LITTLEDA GE & CO., Brokers, THURSDAY Oa THIIRSO.4.Y next, the :.Gth instant, and following days, at the Broker3' 6aleruom, 10, North Joha-street, 100 Bales East India, 100 Do. fine Entre Nos and Port Philip, 300 Do. Oporto, Lisbon, Sfax, and Barbary, 50 Do. Eundri , s, 100 Sheets Laid Cheviot, }.WOOL 650 Bales About 3000 fine Entre Rios and Peruvian SHEEP SKINS. Apply to ABRAM GARTSIDE & CO.. Wool Brokers, On TnuasnAy next, the 26th inst int. at Twelve o'c;ock, at the Brokers' Office , 9000 Bags New Necransie} - RICE, 5000 Bags New Laron g now landing ex Jessie Boyle, Princes Dock.—App!y to Messrs, Taylor, Potter & Co., Merchants, or to T. & H. LITILEDALE Sr CO., Brokers. On THURSDAY next, the 26th in%tant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 25 Tons MOTHER OF PEARL. SH!LLS, now landed ex Jeffrard. A lb rt Dock.--Apply to T. & H. LITTLEDALE & CO., Brokers. apply to HATTER to inform the Nal R I D AY On FED VT next, the 27th instant. at Twelve o'clock, at the Broken' Office, Colonia:-bulldings, Dale-street, 660 Bales JUTE, Pt, from Calcutta, Albert Dock.—Por further particulars BUSHBY & CO. Brokers. On account of whom it may concern. 27th instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 23 Hhds. Barba.los SUGAR, all faults, pat lan eed, ex r.dzabeth.—Appl y to T. & H. LITTLEDALE & CO. Brokers On FRIDAY ner, the SATURDAN Bth instant, at Tvi , lve o'clock, at the r,rn Exch nge-buildlnp, 161 WOOL, ) Bales zas , India .IV6NIIIISON, Wool Broken' ' Bl, CHURCH-STREET and Gentry of Liver. NOW READY SfYLES for the Season are EVENING EDITION ling Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is now Published every Afternoon, at Three °Wet 3, toget - her' with all the .News of the TUE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES I - TWO GUINEAS rzu ANNUM. G ENTLEMEN'S SUMMER CLOTHING. P. L MACTAGGART; 24 and 26, BOLD.-STBEET. SUMMER COATS SUMMER OVERCOATS. SUMMER WATERPROOFS SUMMER DRESSING GOWNS SUMMER DRESSING COATS „AN” • /I I t EiJe 3-o.,ortlittn THE NORTHERN TIMES ND COMB LIVERPOOL ERCIAL, MONDAY EVENING, The tone of the Cotton Market has been steady to-day,And a good business has been done, the sales. reaching 9,000 bales, 3,509 of which have been taken for speculation and export. The American advices received to day report a further falling off in the receipts of 27,000 bales for the week ending the' 9th of June;, but as this compares with a small week last year, the excess over that season remains about the same. The following letter, from a private correspondent, dated New Orleans, June 7, 1856, gives some important information as to the present state and future prospects of the Cotton trade : _ I expect, before this reaches you, that your money mar ket will have improved, and that cotton would then advance. On this side stocks are reduced to 380,000 bales. Allowing that we receive 100,000 more, and that stocks at all the ports on Ist September next, amount to the same as on Ist September last year—viz., 141,000 bales, there will be shipped to all ports, between this and Ist September next, 339,000 bales, and if Great Britain takes two-thirds (hitherto she has only taken one-half, including 60,000 cleared for Great Britain, and afterwards ordered to other ports) the total export to Great Britain will amount to 1,884,000 bales. Of this, 250,000 was exhausted before Ist January, or rather received, consequently, you will have 1,634,000 bales to supply your wants from Ist January, 1856, to Ist January, 1857, without reckoning the new cotton you may receive before the close of the year, which, probably, miy be one-half less than it was last year, owing to the backwardness of the crop in omparison with the last. This will give you 32,000 bales per week, nearly. If you add to this the stock of American in Liverpool, on Ist January, it gives you 36,500 per week, without reckoning what you may receive between Ist September and Ist Jin lary. Your consumption of American this year, up to 9th May, amounts to 33,000 bales per week, which leaves you an excess of 3,500 bales per week for export, but this, as before stated, is without reckoning the quantity lost and ordered off to other ports, which will, in all probability, amount to 100,000 bales before the close of the year. The tables you have at your command in Liverpool, will enable you to estimate the export of American for the year, and if you add, for the amount to be received from Ist September to Ist January, half of what was received last year during the same period, you will arrive very closely at what the stock will be at the end of the year, supposing, of course, that there is no variation in the consumption. The calculation stands thus, and cannot be far wrong Export to Great Britain from Ist Sept., 1855, to Ist Sept., 1850. Less received in L'pool bef4ze Ist Jan. 250.000 1,631,000 Stock of American in L'pool on Ist Jan., 1856 231,000 1,865,000 Lees lost at sea and ordered to other ports 100,000 1,765,000 Weekly consumption, 52 weeks, at 33,000 per week 49,000 Add receipts from Ist September to lst:January. Deduct export from Ist Jan., to Ist Jan. '57. As you will have to depend altogether for your future supply on the crop now in the ground, which, before it can be gathered, is subject to many casualties, and may prove short, and seeing no prospect of any diminution of consump tion, believing also that your monetary difficulties will gradually disappear, there appears to be no reason why cotton should not go to higher figures. I believe so, because every one interested in the staple, either as importer or consumer, must shortly see it in this light, if they do not already. The fact is the staple is in so strong a position that something very extraordinary and unlooked for must take place to cause any continued depression in'prices. The lightness of money is doing it for the moment, but I have confidence that a better state of things will exist before this reaches you. I cannot understand the fears which some entertain as to the future price of the staple, when it is so clear that the future supply MUST be short of what it is this year, which, large as it is, will be found barely sufficient to keep stocks from diminishing, and when we. take into consideration the healthy state of the trade and commerce, both of England and the United States, the almost Certainty of cheap breadstuffs for the remainder of the year, I am only surprised that speculation is not more rife. I propose remaining here this summer, and shall not fail to give you all the information I can obtain in reference to the progress of the growing crop. So much depends upon this crop, from the fact that stocks have never been so low, taking consumption into consideration, that any disaster to the crop now in the ground would be a very serious thing. It is a remarkable fact that the stock of cotton in Liverpool at the close of last year was lower than it had been in thirteen years, except in 1847, when the consumption was one million bales less than it was last year. I do not, however, wish you to suppose that I think the amount of stock governs prices altogether, for the year 1847 is a striking example that other causes completely bear down prices in of small stocks. That year fair cotton declined from 71-1-d in January, to 4Zd in December, and continued low until it reached 4d in October, 1848, but the cause of that depression was the most severe commercial crises that England ever laboured under. In 1849, when the recovery commenced, the price advanced to 7d in November, and from that time till August, 1850, a period of prosperity, it continued to advance till it reached 8 6 d. and yet the stock in December, 1850, was 5.1,000 bales, which I take it will be more than it will be at the close of this year. Such a combination of favourable circumstances as exist now, viz., cheap breadstuff:l, short supply, large consumption, and a flourishing trade everywhere, must surely tell. In 1847-8, when prices were so low, breadstuffs were at famine prices, trade and commerce were crippled, and the consumption small. In 1850 it was the reverse of both. This year is as it was in 1850, except that consumption is 10,000 bales per week more, and money is dearer, but if this rights itself I do not see why prices of cotton should not rule as high as they did in that year. The Liverpool Share Market opened very strong this morning, and with a fair business ; prices gradually hardened during the day, closing firm at the highest point at the following quotations :—Aberdeen, 13-a 131. Ches ter and Birkenhead, 16& 16g .Caledonian, 311 311. Chester and Holyhead, 164 161. Eastern Counties, 11 1.16 11 1. East Lan cashire, 201, 21. Great Northern, 24 244. Ditto A, .9110. Great Western, 629 63. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 964 961. Liver pool, Crosby, and Southport, 171 18. London and North Western 5t0ck,.1044 104 g. Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 32 321 Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 9-16 ap. Ditto Pref., 111 12. Mid land Stock, 821 821. North British, 91 91. North Staffordshire, 6 Sid. South Eastern and Dover, 22 a-16 24. York, Newcastle, and Ber , 214 211. York and North Midland, 30 301. Leeds Capital Stock, 19 191. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 11 lap. Dutch Rhenish, 1 13-16 lip. Great Western of Canada, 263. 26k. Ditto New Shares, bi 3 9-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 81 81d. The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada continues to attract some attention, and by the advices re ceived today, we learn from 'the Quebec Chronicle of the 9th instant, the resolutions to be submitted to the House of Assembly by Goverument, or in substance are as follows :—The Province to relieve the Grand Trunk Company from the payment of interest nn the Provincial Bonds for five years, estimated at 225,0001 per annum. The Province to forego priority of lien, and to rank as ordinary bondholders, placing the bonds of the company on an equality with the Province. They further propose to authorise the company to raise two millions additional capital, to complete the line to London and Suznia, together with the Victoria Bridge. The following is a comparative statement of the exports of wheat flour, and Indian corn, from the United States to June 10th : Wheat. Corn. Qrs. Qrs. To 1,718,848 .. 677,074 620,000 Britih ports 183, 5 1854 Continental 787,570 .. 238,111 .. 8,666 2,506,418 915,185 :. 628,666 To Mitish p B5 orts6 } 1,012,656 .. 544,180 ... 677,777 1855, 1 Continental . 641,969 ... 280,018 .. 27,443 1,654,625 824,198 705,220 Less shipnei in 1855-'56 than 851,793 .. 90,987 in 18.53-'54 More shipped in 1855-'56 than . • 76,554 in 18 ;3-'54 11 Accounts from Leipsic to the 14th instant, state that the v, 00l fair of the season had commenced, and the market generally was quiet, with a u advance of 9 to 2, and 1 to 11 rix dollars per stone upon the average prices of 1855. On the second day the market continued good, but the advance in prices was not well sustained, the wools offered not being so satisfactory in condition as was expected. Advices from the wool growers in the neighbouring distriots state that the general appearance of the Clip is good, and will prove more abundant than last year. Advices from Aykab, by way of Suez, have been On SATURDAY next, tt Cotton Sa Landing ex Ferres and Petrari PERKIN It. J Begs respect pool that his f a - Insnectlon NODDEI COTTAGE, No. 2 on the '0 be LET, I, a shoit d a Robert HOUSE and SHOP to b of the most popular .nd an old he prt prietor retiring from equired. For further par- TUESDAY, JUNE 24, MR. LOWE broke fresh ground on Friday on the Town Dues enquiry, and was thrice interrupted by Mr. WATsoN on a charge of irregularity. The subject broached by Mr. Lows was that of the boundaries of Liverpool, within which the Corpo ration claim the right to levy Town Dues• And here ti Committee have certainly arrived at one of the most important phases of the whole inves- tigation. The question of jurisdiction is one of great complc !City, and which, up to the time of CHARLES 1., was often disputed; and it was not until an act was passed in the Bth of: Queen AN 1709, that the matter was finally set at rest. In the grant originally purchased from CHARLES 1., the Corporation obtained " the right to levy Town " Dues over the waters of the Mersey, and within " the town and lordship of Liverpool." This, it will be seen, was a very indefinite and unsatisfac tory description of the corporate privilege. And an act was obtained in 1709 which set aside all litigation, by laying down the limits of the port of Liverpool, as commencing at the Red Noses, Hoylake, and extending over the waters of the Mersey to Warrington and Frodsham Bridges On this Act of Parliament the Corp Oration rested their title in 1833, and succeeded in defeating the Associated Merchants so far as the limits of the port of the Corporation were concerned. With regard to the Lordship of Liverpool, that embraces the whole of the ancient Borough as first incorporated, and its boundary, for the money pur poses of the Lordship, has undergone no change whatever since the first charter was granted. There can be no doubt or quibbling, therefore, as to the limits of either the Town Dues port. or Lordship of Liverpool. The exact extent of our manorial rights by land and water can be readily given, and have nothing whatever to do with what is called the " Customs' Port of Liverpool," and great care must be taken that Mr. LowE is not allowed to confound one with the other, which appears to be his wish. Our Customs' Port extends from the Dee to the Wyre Water, and mercy knows where besides, and can be extended to all England, or confined to any single dock on the other side of the Mersey, at the dis cretion of two Lords of the Treasury. Mr. LOWE would no doubt like to find us with such a frail and shifting boundary as this for our manorial rights. He would like to bring all the Lords of the Manors which the Customs' Port embraces against the Corporation of Liverpool. He would like to be able to call Chester, Southport, Preston, and the places dependent on them to his aid, and then to get the Government officials to limit the Port and Lordship of Liverpool to the Clarence Dock. Mr. SHIITTLEWORTEL, it is hoped, will not give Mr. LOWE a chance of hashing up our Manorial boundaries in any such fashion. We must hold the estate we have, and while we ask nothing more, accept nothing less. Our- Customs' Port may be altered to-morrow for the State's conveniency, but the present limits of our manorial estate cannot be changed without Parliament's sane. tioning a wanton violation of the rights of property. Mr. LOWE will not find an instance on record in which we have abandoned our right to levy Town Dues, because the Government have thought proper to change the limits of the Custom's Port. On the contrary, he will find that whe❑ Runcorn was taken, some years ago, out of the Custom's Port of Liverpool, the Corporation still continued to levy their dues at Runcorn, as though no change had taken place in the custom's department. This fact ought to be enough to convince Mr. LOWE that the Customs and Manorial boundaries of Liverpool are very different things ; and we have good reason to rejoice at the turn the enquiry has taken, as it will decide the question of boundaries for ever, and we shall be better able to see what we may be doing for the increase of the Corporate income by certain dock extensions. The Committee having announced their intention not to go beyond Liverpool this session with the investigation will give us breathing time, and with the aid of the blue books Mr. LOWE will have given us, we shall be quite prepared to renew hostilities on the re:assembling of Parliament in 1857. - As it is, we are perfectly ready to go on with a conflict where we have right on our side against an unpar donable wrong. We neither want dry law or historical research where great fundamental principles are involVed ; nor does it require more than ordinary ability to expose a flimsy pretext, when clothed in the sacred garb of public justice. Mr. LOWE has evidently deceived himself as to the amount of good he has promised the commercial and shipping interests, by a transfer of Shipping and Towns' Dues from their lawful owners to the Board of Trade, of which he is a member. And now that he must have been undeceived both with regard to the boon he offers to commerce, and what the practical effect of his proposed change would be , he is probably as glad as we are to find that the Committee have resolved'on bringing their labours to a close before the grouse grow too wild for the sportsman. Up to the present time the Commit- tee have done us no harm beyond putting_ the Rate-payers to a very serious expense in defending their Constitutional rights of property ; and, with the exception of this palpable cruelty and injustice, we think this good old Borough might cry quits with the VICE-PRESIDENT of the Board of Trade tomorrow, and that Mr. LOWE would gladly accept peace at our hands on even less equal terms. THE COURT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MONDAY. - Yesterday, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, attended Divine service in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Very Rev. the -Dean of Windsor officiated. The Duchess of Kent and Prince 'Frederick William of Prussia also attended the service. The Prince Consort and Prince Frederick William of Prussia visited Prince Oscar of Sweden yesterday, at Claridge's Hotel. Prince Omar, the second surviving son of the King of 1 Sweden and Norway, arrived at Buckingham Palace in the afternoon, and had an audience of the Quen, intro -1 duccd by the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for If Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-Gentral the Hon. Sir Edward C ust, h er M ajesty's Master of the Ceremonies. In the evening the Irrince dine4l with her Majesty. Prince Oscar o f S we d en visited the Duchess ofKentyesterday, at Clarence-house, St. James's. The Prince also paid a visit to,the Duchess of Gloucester, at i Gloucester-house. ---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. received, stating that there has been a considerable rise in the value of rice, chiefly on account of the scarcity of labour, caused by a malady which has been fatal to the coolies working on the plantations; more than one-half of whom have succumbed to its fatal influence. There is a lai•ge number of ships waiting for cargoes of rice at that port, which has also stimulated the market towards the rise, and the latest quotations are 80 rupees per 100 paniers, and at this price not easily to be had, so that next accounts mpy report a farther advance. A telegraphic despatch from Copenhagen an nounces the important fact that the governments of Denmark and the United States have concluded a provisional arrangement relative to the question of the Sound Dues, which will prevent any colli sion for the next twelve months between the ships of the two States. - This amicable arrangement is said to have been brought about by the mediation of Russia, and will continue in force until the 14th June, 1857. The receipts on the principal French railways during the week ended the 9th instant show a greater diminution compared with the correspond ing period last year, than the returns of the pre vious week. The items are as follows Orleans . • 1,227,182 fr. .. 2,188,142 fr. Northern 877,797 .. 946,856 Eastern 750,627 ... 762,727 Western .. 768,791 ... 785,613 Lyons ... 763,068 817,277 Mediterranean 318.483 401,781 Bourbonnais 109,706 .. 216,109 The diminuticin has occurred chiefly in the goods traffic, although there is a falling off in the passen ger traffic as well. The Minister of Finance of Belgium has signed the statutes of a Credit Mobilier Company for that country, with a capital 30,000 ; 000f in 500 f shares. It adds that only 6,000,0001 of the capital will be reserved for the public. M. de Rothschild having taken 8,000,0001, M. Bisschoffsheim 7,000,0001, and other great capitalists the rest. The president of the board of directors is M. Lieds, who is at present Governor of Brabant. Nearly all the Stock Exchange Markets are rising. The further advance in the Funds to day was limited toe per cent, busineSs being inactive. The closing pricey were quoted at 90,- . to 94/. Railway Shares met with increased attention, and experienced a fresh general advanee. The rapid influx of gold into the Bank is now telling upon the Money Market. Good bills can be discounted at 4 per cent, and in the Stock Exchange to day loans were obtainable on stock at the reduced rate of 3 to 4 per cent. Under these circumstances, it is Clear that the Bank must either promptly reduce its rates or lose its business. Next Saturday falls due an instal ment of 1,000,0001. of the New Loan, but on the other hand, the mass of dividend money will be released in little more than a fortnight, and will add largely to the supply of capital seeking em ployment. In the belief that we are on the eve of a further general reduction in the value of money, investments are stimulated in all quarters. The subjoined were the closing prices of Railway Shares :—Caledonian, 62* 62k. Eastern Counties, 10 15-16 1.1 1-16. East Lancashire, 82 84. Great Northern, 96 96k. Ditto A, 781 791. Great Western, 62* 621. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96 96/. Lon don and North Western, 1041 1041 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 31/ 32/. Midland Stock, 818 82k. North British, 37 38. South Eastern and Dover, 731 74. York, Newcastle. and Berwick, 951 961. York and North Midland, 601 61'. , The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Charles Saun ders, the present Recorder of Plymouth and Devonport, to the County Court Judgeship, vacant by the death of Mr. Willmore. THE IRISH EDUCATION VOTE.—Last night, Mr. Chi chester Fortescue in the House of Commons, submitted his motion, having for its indirect object to rescind the resolution carried by Mr. Walpole on the subject of the system of national education in Ireland by a majority of ten votes. Mr. Walpole accepted the terms of Mr. Fortescue's proposition as an addendum to that he had carried- After a debate which lasted the sitting, and after two divisions on as many motions for an adjournment, the resolution was adopted without a division amidst loud cheering. TEE ABJURATION BILL.—The House of Lords, last night, as will be seen from our parliamentary report, rejected the Oaths of Abjuration Bill. The motion for the second reading of the bill was proposed by Lord Lyndhurst in an able speech, but the proposition was met by an amendment moved by Earl Stanhope, that the bill be read a second time that day three months. On a division, the numbers, including proxies, were : For the second reading, 778; against it, 110, giving a majoritynf 32 votes. Thus the bill was lost, and with it the prospect of the admission of Baron Rothschild within the portals of St. Stephens as member fur the City of London. THE RAILWAY STRIKE. —The question of the strike is .a serious one to all parties as well as to the commerce of the town, and requires au immediate decision of the question, whether the old staff is to resume or not. The article in the NORTHERN TIMES of Saturday seems to have echoed the views of those practical men who have considered the subject of strikes, and it really seems strange that no mediation has bee❑ formed to reconcile the conflicting interests involved, and arrive at the just conclusion which the subject admits ot. It cannot be denied that the new manager has not under stood the temper or characteristics of Liverpool men—that the new hands are not as yet of much use—that many of the strikers are betraying their cause, and " eating humble pie" to the company. It must also be admitted that besides the mere loss of profit to the company, and the claims for deten tion of goods, the much more important question remains of diversion of tragic into competing routes, although . the few old hands' (about one-tenth) who remained from excep tional circumstances, have laudably exerted themselves to the utmost to save loss, and promote the business. On the other hand, if the men have not gone very amiably about their grievances, it cannot b 3 denied that they had given a sort of warning by their memorial which was not attended to, and it cannot be expected of men in that class of labour life to stand on punctilios of notice or convenience. They tell their grievance in a rough off-band way, and if no remedy be found they know only one abrupt mode of show ing their intentions, but without any ill-feeling to prompt them. Suppose the company to succeed in establishing a new staff, after months of labour, feeding, and daily loss, still they will have no guarantee that the new staff will not in their day, rebel for higher wages and liberal treatment when they have .mastered. (if they can-do it under two or three months' pr diation) the intricacies of the goods stations. The NORTHERN -TIMES was the first to foretell the strike, and as its article was copied into Herapath, and quoted with approbation by the men, they cannot be accused of bowing to the company. It is equally clear that the men hgve not gone a business way about their grievances since they refused to work, and that if a practical head or two were to be interposed, between the, violent leaders of the men, and the equally positive heads of the company, an arrangement might be arrived at which would secure a "fair day's wages for a fair day's wotk," and both parties from further loss. It is well to have a giant's strength, but the company must not, and we believe will not, use it as a giant. PREFERMENT.—The Rev. Charles Hutchison Newbold has been licensed by the Bishop of Chester to the office of clerk in orders of the parish church of Wigan, upon the nomination of the Rev. H. J. Gunning the rector, vacant by resignation of the Rev. Henry Maclean, the late clerk in orders. . DUVATIONT or PACPER CIIILDEUN.—A. deputation, con sisting of Mr. Rickards, the chairman, Mr. Hodgson, the vice-chairman, and Mr. Harrop, the clerk of the Manches ter Board of Guardians, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, on Saturday, at the office of the Poor Law Board, Whitehall, on the subject of the education of the children of ont-door paupers. FEIGHTFEL COiLIERY ACCIDENT. --At six o'clock on Friday night a • terrible 'catastrophe took place at Lord Dudley's Old Park Colliery, near Dudley, which is w or k e d by butties. Eight men and boys were ascending the shaft in the skip, and had actually reached the top when the chain to which the skip was attached suddenly snapped asunder and th 6, • were precipitated headlong to the battcm of the pit, a distance of 145 feet. Five of the unfortunate creature were taken out lifeless ; and the remaining three died immediately after their removal. The melancholy occurrence hat occasioned great excitement. A . FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. I told you tile other day, that the bill presented to the Legislative Body for striking prohibitions out of the French tariff, and replacing them by high duties, would 'not have any great advantage to foreign manufacturers, owing to the duties fixed, being so high, as to render competition with the French impossible. This morning, there is a note in . the official Moniteur, , which fully confirms what I said. " Some manufacturers," it says, " have been alarmed at certain enactments in the-bill, for repealing prohibitions in the customs. Their alarm is without foundation. The government, in deciding that the removal of prohibitions should be proposed to the Legislative Body, intended that they should be replaced by duties largely protec tive of national labour. The new tariffs have been studied in this point of view. To attain more com pletely this object, the government will itself pro pose the increase of certain articles in the. tariffs." Thus, then, the French government is far, very far, indeed, from free trade; -but, still, I have reason to beliette, that it will persist in a liberal commercial policy. It will, however, in order not to excite the.hostility of themanufacturers; have to carry it out with great prudence, and at a terrible slow pace. _ A list of not less than 1,480 soldiers who have obtained the Military Medal appears in the Moniteur to-day. This makes an addition of 1,480 times 100 fr. (X 4) to the budget ! The Minister of War has decided that the 95,000 soldiers about to be discharged on furlough, shall consist - of 65,640 infantry, 13,914 cavalry; "9,552 artillery, and the rest from the engineers and the baggage train. The reigning Prince of Monaco died .in. this city yesterday. He used to live here, and was, if I remf , mber rightly, though a foreign sovereign, a member of the Chamber of Peers under ling Louis Philippe. He once made a good sum of money by a measure more cunning than honest, — he coined a large amount of indifferent copper coin bearing his name and effigy, and passed them off 'in France as French sous. The poorer classes suffered a good deal, and since then, a " Monaco" means a bad sou. The bill on the supplementary and extraordinary credits now before the Legislative Body, shows that those credits, for the years 1854-5 and 1856, amount to no less a sum than 1,400,747,283 fr. Almost all of them have been, or will be, absorbed by the war. _ _ ✓ The long , vexed question of the establishment of Trans-Atlantic steamers is, it is again said, about to be concluded. There are to be three grand lines, one from Havre to New York, one to Brazil from Havre and Marseilles, and one to the West Indies from Bordeaux and Nantes. It is not, however, yet decided whether the lines are to be confided to one or several companies. The provincial Manufactures are inactive, and at Paris trade is dull. The sales of cotton at Havre last week exceeded 8,000 bales, but prices of nearly all sorts fell :1 f. It may be well to state, in case the news should not have already reached you, that Copenhagen letters represent that in virtue of an arrangement concluded between the United States and Denmark under the auspices of Russia, the former will continue to pay the Sound Dues for another year, but under _protest. The Marseilles telegragh gives a summary of news from Constantinople to the 13th. Mr. Layard had. after surmounting many difficulties, started a bank. Ten English .vessels conveying troops had passed the Bosphorus. The French expected to be able to evacuate the Crimea by the sth of July. The town of Kars had been given up to the Turks. The foitress of Redoubt - Kale had been abandoned by the Turks. Hamburgh letters announce the arrival of large quantities of corn from America, purchased by the Prussian government for Silesia. On the other hand France has made, and is making, large purchases of corn in Russia and in the north of Europe From Naples we learn that th 3 exportation of wheat at the existing duty has been prolonged to the 15th July. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The Journal des Debats, speaking of the nomina tion of Mr• Buchanan, at, Cincinnati, says :—" He is certainly more moderate than Mr. Pierce ; but we must not regard his probable election as a cer tain pledge of peaceable dispositions. As long as the political men of America are in Europe, and in European society, they are under moderating influence, but when they return home they fall under the necessity of sharing popular and national passions." The Debuts afterwards express the opinion that the political programme at Cincinnati is as advanced and as alarming for the future as could have been that of the present President. From an official customs return published to day, it appears that the importations of France, in 1855, amounted to 1,950,700,000 fr; in 1854, to 1,709,200,000 fr ; and in 1853, to 1,631,400,000 fr ; and the exports in each of the three years, to 2,027,800,000 fr; 1,717,900,000 fr; and 1,861,300,000 fr. In the importations, the French vessels employed were 9,587, of 1,248,086 tons but-den, in 1855 ; 9,307, of 1,131,702 tons, in 1854; and 9,210, of 1,065,668 tons, in 1853 ; the foreign, 13,400, of 7,205,482 tons burden in 1855, 10 980, of 1,608,607 in 1854, and 1.1,509 of 1,685,011 in 1853. In expor tations, the French vessels employed were 5,768 of 933,948 tons burden in 1855, 5,726 of 786,733 in 1854. and 6,625 of 796,350 in 1853; foreign vessels, 8,002 of 1,096,750 tons burden 1855, 7,919 of 1,059,562 in 1854, and 8,856 of 1,058,315. - The quantity of cotton iMporteo: in 1855, was 761,563 metrical quintals; in 1854, 715,940 ; and in 1853, 750,913 ; and the duty paid thereon in the three years, was 135,100,0001 r, 127.200,000 fr, and 133,300,000 fr. You will see by the. Afonitettr that Marshal Pelissier gives an account of the distribution of of the Cross of the Bath by Lord Gough to the French and English officers, and that he says that at a banquet which followed, " The representatives of the two armies gave expression to real sympathy and - the most cordial esteem." He adds that these sentiments which unite the two armies have become strengthened by a prolonged contact. Prince Oscar of Sweden left this morning for England, and the Prince Regent of Baden has arrived from England. I hear that at Calais .the Prince's Minister in this city, M. de Scheiwzer, who went on board the steamer to pay his respects, accidentally fell into the sea. He was got out in safety, but looked very sheepish. Count de Montalembert has gone into Germany. His journey at this juncture has created some surprise, but it is whispered that he has gone to consult with the Duchess d'Orleans relative to a letter written by her son, the Count de Paris, to one of his partisans in Paris,—a letter in which the young Prince declaies that he has not given, and will not give, his assent to what is called the fusion between his party and that of the elder Bourbons. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAU INSTITU TION, 9, ROSE HILL.—New patients entered on the books last week, viz. :—June 21st : Relieved at the institution, 164 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 66 ; cases of prevail ing epidemic, 0. Total 230. Visitors, Mr. E. Watts and Mr. T. Kirk. Hen. Secretary and Treasurer, Jos. Kitchen, Esq. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, 29th May, a man named John Curran, who resided at 2 court, Ligbtbody street, was at work at Chrence-dock, in the hold of the ship Sardinia, when one of the slings broke, and a piece of machinery fell on, and injured him fatally. He was taken to the Northern Hcspital, where he died yesterday. An inquest will be held on the body this day. THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GREAT CROSBY.--The examination of the pupils in course of edu cation at this excellent estrblishment, under the supervision of the Rev. John Bernard, M.A., principal, took place on Saturday last. The examiner was the Rev. G. F. Snow ball, M.A., and the answers of the young students were such as to afford the highest satisfaction to their parents and friends, of whom there was a very numerous attendance. A "DIGGER" AND HIS MONEY.--On Sunday night, a " digger," who had come from Australia by the Marco Polo, was robbed in Tithebarn-street of fifty.five sovereigns and several " nuggets" of gold by, a female. She was at once arrested by the police, and on her way to the station she managed to slip the bag containing the money into a back pocket of the man's coat, and on arriving at the " lock requsted that the man might be searched, as she suspected, she said, that he robbed himself! The money, sure enough, was found in the possession of the owner, who was so overjoyed that he nearly faint& d. The police then got a lamp, and went to the spot where the affair took place, and there the nuggets were found in the street, Lucky digger 1 LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE NEW AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA A despatch fi'om Hamburgh of yesterday's date, announces the ar,:ival at Copenhagen, of 11 M•S' gressy, 90 guns, ha - ri.rig on board, Lord Wodehouse, the recently appointed 4k.mbassador of this country, to the Court of St. PetersZ'urg• The same despatch informs us, that Sl cellency will disembark at Crob:sta" THE FRENCH FUND►_ • PARIS, 111oNDAT At the close of business on the Bourse to-•asy the Funds were quoted as follows :—Four and f/ Half per Cents, 92f; Three per Cents, .70f 85°' IAL PARLIAMENT. IMPE" HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY Their Lor e o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION OE' The Royal assent was given by commission to ff nor follo - Wing bills, viz. :—Sir -W. F. Williams' Annuity , P r i so n matory Schools (Scotland), Juvenile Convict pr'n, (Ireland), Public Health (Supplemental), Drafts Bankers; Pawnbrokers, National Gallery, O x ford ITei v° sity, Whichwood Forest, Canada Company, Shrew:bury, Water, Dewsbury, Battlev, and Heckmonelwike Water Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding junction Railwq: Vale of Clwyd. Railway, Shrewsbury and. Hereford R 1" .!', way, Eastern Counties Railway, Hampstead Jilt" „) Railway, Lowestoft and Beccles or he rart The Commissioners were the Ld Ch ancellor, 1 -- of Harrowby, and Lord Colchester. OATH OP BILL. 11 0 Lord LYNDHURST moved the ADJURATION second reading O f Oath of Abjuration Bill. In the course of his remarks lA, defence of the measure the noble and learned ford observe(- that the purpose for which the words in the oath uei. abjuration—" On the true faith of a Christian , w e t r a originally required, having ceased to exist, he was am loss to understand upon what grounds the omission of t w sloe ords could be objected to. With regard to the ow of the reference to the Stuart family in the oath , be cc i t s tended that by rejecting this measure their lord shy would sanction the continuance of an act not only of IWO but of impiety. c ond Earl STANHOPE moved that the bill be read a se time that day three month. The Marquis of CLANRI s CARDE, Lord RAVENSWOII and the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, supported, and ViSe°ll DUNGANNON opposed the measure. On a division there appeared, For the bill, Against it... Majority The bill is consequently lost. ga iv. The endowed Schools at Moulton Bill, and the , e rfp len Hospital (Bath) Bill, and the Excise Bill, " read a third time and passed. The House rose at a quarter to seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAY The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The East India Railway Bill, the Isle of Wigh t Steal 3 - Bridge and approaches Bill, the Severn Navigation 1111 ~ proyement', Commission Bill, and the Waveney Railway Bill, were severally read a third time and pas.- THE IRISH MAILS. In reply to Mr. REPTON, the Mr. WILSON stated that the negotiations betvveell.ad government and the London and North-western, City _ Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies and the pG of Dublin Steam Packet Company for the improYenr, of the postal and passenger accommodation between officer don and Dublin were progressing satisfactor il Y , matter was now under the consideration of the Post- and he hoped shortly to bring the negotiation s to a con elusion. AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. In answer to Lord NAAFI, Mr. WILSON stated that tenders had been received Cr:. the Australian packet service, all of which had been d fully considered, though he did not feel justific announcing which could be accepted, .but goverllteho would, in the course of to-morrow, intimate which 0 , g d to tenders, with certain modifications (which be 'Joel doubt, would not be agreed to by the companY), would be prepared to accept for the entire service. In reply to Sir J. Pakington o ld Mr. WiLsori expressed his hope that the servi ce commence in the course of a few days. The orders of THE the IRISH day having EDUCATION beenVOTE pos t po ned 03 t he' motion of Lord Palmerston. Mr. CHICHESTER FORTESCU to move the following resolution otic e ° rose pursuant to n '—`' That this House " he mosses of hperrolvgir t s _„I sects, under the direction of the commissioners of nation education, and is of opinion, that in the administratl.; of that system, or in any modification of its rules, th„ v o should be maintained a strict and undeviating adhereg.,,,, to its fundamental principles, securing parent al authop_L_ and the rights of conscience to pupils of all denomi n at 17; aejsessty made in - t ub' by excluding all compulsory religious teaching. This 110 the being convinced that no plan for the education of „ .0 , Irish poor, however wisely and unexceptionallY etio trived in other respects, can be carried into eire, c operation, unless it be explicitly avowed, and c'e a riz o understood, as its leading principle, that no attecaP t s ou s be made to influence or disturb the peculiar rel'g The tenets of any sect or denominations of Christians." ffir, honourable gentleman referred to the debate on , Walpole's motion on National Education in Ireland, upon which he remarked that that debate, considering .„.5 importance of the principles involved in the motion. 40., inadequate to the subject. Scarcely any leading meEni; of that House, or of the statesmen who were conc ern d. the establishment of National Education in I r°111" d and no Protestant Irish representative, having exP re lo e n their opinion before the division took place, the decisac., to which the House came that evening must be olt r os t tensed as rash and tending to subvert most .1 119t ,';i of equitable, most Irish, and therefore most SWOP'. educational institutioe_s in Ireland. observed instruction of the poor ci Mr. KERR seconded the motion. • a ae Mr. WALroLe defended his resolution, and dente _du, intention to subvert the existing system of national e cation, or to afford facilities for proselytisi n g' con concurred in the resolution which was then under sideration, and adopted it as an explanation of that, 15.31 the House had assented to upon his motion. Mr. LABOUCHENE defended Mr. Fortescue's reso.7,-„sed lauded the national system of education, and e%131."-ort his gratification at the course taken by Mr. Walpole that; occasion. ere" Mr. KINNAIRD complained of the conduct of the ge.olir ment in refraining from , moving directly, that th e re—ter tion previously adopted should be rescinded, While en e a taining such an opinion as Lord Palmerston had exPres-, as to its result. He supported Mr. Walpole's resolutioafty Lord JOHN RUSSELL deprecated Mr. Walpoles relic, tion, and supported the motion proposed bY Fo Mr. s u rtecue. A the NApn defended the conduct and supporte- views of Mr. Walpole. I , t . the Mr. HOBSMAN vindicated the course taken 1.`," Government, and remarked, that if Mr. Walpo le 's r e .l o - ee tion was carried into effect, it would create thousand grants similar to the Maynooth grant. 1 , 3 of Mr. P. O'BRIEN supported the existing Syste national education in Ireland. o Mr on GROGAN proposed an addition to the res° id be before the House, to the effect that , no schools sia° ° disentitled to aid from the hands of thd Boar d of w the reading . HA the bible is comulso. Mr. G. AMILTON supported ry the resolution Inc)feci by Mr. Walpole. Mr. I. BUTT supported Mr. Fortescue's re solutie n i. the Lord BERNARD then - moved the adjournment ° debate. ' The House divided, when the numbers were :--- For the adjournment Against it Majority ................... 281 iarts . Lord PALMERSTON defended th e re solution as a cl : 9 , s ting tion that no change should take place in the e- ueg tioo system, and stated his intention of pressing t he c l to a division that night. I Pe n- Mr. DzsEAEL! would support the fundamenta or. 2111 ciples of the existing system, and would also stIPP modification or improvement consistent with those h is ciples, and in that view had supported the motion right hon. and learned friend Mr. Walpole. .„ es to A division took place on a motion of gr. v." adjourn the louse. The numbers were— For the adjournment ..................... 39 328 • Against it 289 eivi,* _. Maj The House afterwardsorit divided on Mr. GROGAN'S ma meat. The numbers were— 95 For the amendment ..... •• 282 Against it , __.-- Majority ........................ 187 a g T r e h e e d cheered. main q T ue h s e tio r n esui w a t s wtahsenlopuudtl,yanadndt hceonrteisnoulonutiso; The other business was disposed of, and the ..- 11 ° Ilse adjourned at half-past one o'clock. SUSPECTED FORGERY AT HUDDERSFIELD.-- On t day Mr. Henry Leadbeater, was privately examinedt:, Huddersfield, by Armitage, Esq., and his co mogi' tra t - to on a charge of forging bills of exchange with I ntel I defraud the Huddersfield and Halifax Banking Company, The prisoner was eventually remanded to Thursday t i q it t ' es' when, in consequence of the piotest of the Inog.s Thursdaetratea' clerk, J. C. Laycock, Rq., against secresv, the depys"lcd will be taken in open court. The amountinvolved is stated to be over £2,000. The prisoner has hitherto held a big position in the mercantile and religious worlds e cnnpat th e P'ir t to the I„ n h !r it