The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-25 00:00:00

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THIS DAY, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 13, Exchange-buildings, 35 Tierces Carolina RICE, all faults, ex Emerald ; open for inspection in Harbord's, 311, Greenock-street. —Apply to T. & LITTLEDALE & CO., Brokers. T O-M 0 R R 0 W. TO -MORROW, the 26th instant, at Twelve o'elock, at the General saleroom, Exchange-buildings, 338 Pieces FITSTIC, now landing ex Agnes, from Arecibo, east side George's Dock.—Apply to ROBERT CHRISTIE, Broker. FRIDAY, On FRIDAY next. the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 1, Royal Bank-buildings, 190 Bales Egyptian FLAX, A Quantity Ditto DITTO, all faults, ST. CF. CC. 55 Bales Dressed Italian HEMP, SG. ST. SL. SO. 52 Bales Do. TOW, A Quantity Russian HEMP, all faults, 166 Bales, and a Quantity Loose, Bombay HEMP, 66 Do., and a Do. Do., ALOE FIBRE. For particulars apply to J. A. BENCKE, Broker. On FRIDAY next, the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, 1, Oldhall•street, 10 Casks FLAG ANNATTO. JOHN BARON & SON, Brokers. Apply to NEXT WEEK MONDAY ANIMAL CHARCOAL. To be SOLD by AUCTION, at Binyon and Fryer's Sugar Refinery, Chester-street, Oxford-road, Manchester, on 2nd day (Monday), 3rd month (March) 31st, 1856, at Twelve o'clock noon, About 200 Tons ANIMAL CHARCOAL, all faults. Samples may be obtained, and further particulars learned, by application to FRANCIS REID & CO., Brokers, 16, Exchange-alley North. EARLY DELIVERY OP THE " NORTHERN TIMES."—Any subscriber within four miles of the Liverpo)l Exchange, or at Reck-ferry, Trannaere, Birkenhead, Woodside, Osten, Claughton, Seacombe, Egremont, or New Brighton, who Aoes not receive his copy of the . 4 NourttEux Tam," by Right o'clock will oblige the publisher by addressing a note to him at the office notifying the fact, in order that the cause of complaint may be investigated and removed. As our messengers commence their delivery at five o'clock on each morning, it would greatly facilitate its completion if subscribers would have letter-boxes in their doors through which the papers might be dropped, as the detention at some houses is very great at present, and causes delay and disappointment to other subscribers. EVENING EDITION ar .An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY Timms is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, containing the Markets, together with all the News of the Day, up to the hour of going to Press. THI ANNUAL BusaclurrioN TO THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES ts TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1856 IT 18 almost impossible to ascertain the cost of crime to this country. The Civil Service estimates only give us those charges for which the Govern ment are made liable. They show us the law charges, and cost of maintaining the Constabulary of England and of Ireland, but then they do not go beyond the expense of the London police. They leave the municipal and rural forces of England wholly out of sight. The cost of penal colonies ransportation, government prisons, convict estab lishments at home, and the victualling of prisons —other minor matters are, however, given, and may be set down in round numbers at 2,408,0001., to which we may fairly add 2,000,0001. more as the cost of local police courts, prisons, police, and all the other items attending the criminal expenditure of England alone. This may be something above or below the actual amount paid annually for the detection and punishment of crime. Still we find that we pay over 20,000,0001. every five years, or 100,000,000/. every quar ter of a century for these painful and truly lamentable purposes —to root out of the land and destfoy that which the neglects of parents and the State have produced. It is bad enough to be obliged to look into such returns ; but to put them to political uses, and draw invidious com parisons from them, for the avowed object of keeping up party or inter-state feuds, is most unpardonable• Crime, in the aggregate, dates from two sources—poverty and ignorance. This is proved, beyond all question, by the fact that the great bulk of the criminals convicted in these realms are wretchedly poor, and appallingly ignorant. Now, we are inyno way disposed to use this argument for any sinister purpose, or to exalt one people at the expense of another, as the Freeman's Journal and other Irish papers are We admit the sinfulness of the crimes committed in these days, and seek to remedy it b y ex p os ing it in its blackest colours to the full light of day. We have no palliative whatever The vice of one country cannot be atoned for because crime is rife in another. Where extreme poverty exists in the presence of redundant wont wealth, there must be a stronger incentive to robbery to overcome ; and where the ignorant are congregated together in hundreds of thousands in large towns, the scourges dating from the want of education and enlightment must be much greater than in the rural and thinly peopled districts of other parts of the realm ; and it is rather a danger ous thing to go into statistics to . show that the crimes of England Tare :numerically greater than those of Ireland ? If in Ireland only one in eighty of the population, and in England, one in twenty are paupers, who are " unmercifully punished for " mendicancy," while in Ireland they enjoy and can exercise the " unpunishable liberty of begging," it is quite clear that crimes dating from poverty ought to be as one to four less in the Sister Isle than in England. Add to this the absence of inordi nate wealth always staring famishing thousands in the face, the isolation in which the great bulk of her people exist, the incessant attention paid to their spiritual instruction, and the wonder is , that there should be any lvice at tall among the Irish ! The only essential difference which does appear to exist between tha two countries is, that here men have perfect liberty to bring themselves to beggary, and to rear up their children in utter ignorance and disregard ofithe laws of both God and man. In Ireland it is far different. There they have the Crucifix in the hand of the pastor on one side, and the bayonet—not the staff—of the policeman on the other ; and yet, notwithstanding that pauperism is three hundred !per cent—the temptation of want in the presence of wealth so many thousand fold less, and the people so spread over the face of the country, that contamination is almost impossible—in Ireland crime is only a fraction less than it 'is _on this side the channel. We do not say this:to make England appear better than she is, but that Irishmen may see the amount of suffering 'their country must endure from the commission of crime, and may be forewarned, and take steps to arrest its further growth and onward Recounting the vices of a neighbour, will not make our sins the less intolerable. Let us " lump" together the criminals convicted in the three kingdoms annually, and reflect for a moment on the truth, ;that there are upwards of 30,000 souls sent to the gallows, the hulks, penal colonies, into penal servitude, prisons, dungeons, hard labour, to be flogged, and to feel every species of privation human ingenuity can devise. This is the terrible truth with which churchmen, patriots, and philanthropists, have to busy themselves• Give us more work and less recrimination. There is an abundance of room for the entire 27,000,000 of British subjects toj putj their !shoulders to the wheel. career If we appealed to the Judge, who sits in the Liverpool Assize Court, to hear the revolting tales of the crimes enacted all around us day by day, what a tale that learned man would tell us of the guilt which drunkenness, poverty, and ignorance have incurred within a few short months. As an addition to this take into account the hundreds within the county of Lancashire and borough of Liverpool who have been summarily convicted, within the same time and behold the frightful total the figures present. The man who would really wish us to think him ;patriotic and wise would do well to tell us what is to be done to heal such terrific social ulcers. There is certainly no want of detection or convictions. The law is fully enforced against offenders. But this does not touch the cause or causes .of crime. It only seems to open the door to fresh delinquents, and novel abominations. Surely religion, education, and human refinement in its most circumscribed sense, can never have reached this mass of vice and suffering. There must be some other way ofconvert ing human hearts and heads, and leading them to the temples of Christianity besides through the bridewell, the dark cell, and prison courtyard. The innate wickedness of man must be as feeble and helpless iin its infancy as the limps of the oldest criminal when about to expiate his guilt at the scaffold. The question for all men then is to consider the true source of crime, and having found it to speak out and give it to the world, even if it should only be as a humble Easter offering. We hold that education, and the inculcation of sober habits by working men, among the working classes would relieve themselves and their country of three-fourths of the misery which follows prodi gality, drunkenness, and the neglect of the self instruction, which is, after all, indispensible to the completement of all that parents, or others can do for them. THE COURT WINDSOR CASTLE, Sunday.—The Queen and Prince, the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning iu the chapel of the Castle. The King of; the Belgians and the Duchess of Kent were also at the service. The hon. and very Rev. the Dean of Windsor performed the service, and adminis tered the holy sacrament The grand parterre was crowded this afternoon with visitors from all parts, who had availed themselves of the reduction of the South Western fare during the Saturday preceding the Easter week, and the Sunday and Monday following; tickets being granted for the three days. The fine bands of the 2nd Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards were in attendance ; but, from the severe north easterly winds which prevailed, her Majesty and the King of the Belgians did not make their appearance. It is now understood that the King of the Belgians will prolong his visit until Tuesday, when his Majesty will take his departure by the South Western railway. Owing to the fineness of the weather, the Court will remain at Windsor, according to the present arrange— ments, until Tuesday week. Mr. Albert Smith has just been honoured by her Majesty's commands, through Col. Phipps, to give his well-known entertainment of " Mont Blanc" at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening next. ---..---- FIRE LAST NIGHT.—A fire broke out about seven o'clock last night in a cotton kiln in Finney-lane, between Thomas street and Atherton-street. The kiln belongs to Air. Taylor, of Cleveland-square, and is occupied by Mr. Edwd. Woods, of Canning-place. Mr. Hewitt, with his active brigade from Temple court were soon upon the spot, as was also Major Greig and some of the police force, and the fire was got under in about half an hour. Considerable damage was done to the cotton. The premises are, we understand, insured. We have had an unusual number of fires lately, although none which were allowed to create any destructive effect. AOcIDENTAL AND SUDDEN DEATHS.—Some days ago a child, named John Bachannan, who lived with his parents at No. 16, Oriel-street, was burnt severely, and died on Saturday, in the Royal Infirmary, from the effects of the injury. —A man named Edward Evans, a passenger on board the Shalimar, bound for Australia, fell from the vessel on Sunday morning, and coming between the ship and a steam tug, he received such injuries that he died in the Northern Hospital, in the course of the afternoon.— Yesterday, a man named Abel Moore, who is a box maker, residing at No. 5, Bent-street, was arrested by Mr. Blake, the Coroner's beadle, on the following charges. It appears that on Thursday last the man was engaged at the establishment, Hare-place, along with a man named Patrick Brady. A boy named Reece and Moore had some altercation about a hammer, when the latter, in a great passion, took up a piece of coal and Rung it at the head of Reece. Brady was standing behind Reece, and the latter having ducked to avoid the blow, the coal struck Brady on the forehead, and inflicted such considerable injury on his skull that he died in the Northern Hospital on Sunday evening.—Sarah Jane Blundell, a child, age d five years, was terri d b i l e v d burnt on othne effectsSaturd of the Injuries.y night, at No. 8, McKee-street ,and Inquests will be held in the above cases this day. TUX H 1H s TlMEC—LivtarooL, TUESDAY, MAC. 26110500 MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING. [ln our article :of yesterday, under this head, the price of gold at Melbourne was quoted at £2 14s 6d, whereas it should have been £3 14s 6d.] There has been a more active demand for Cotton to-day, and a large business has been done, the sales amounting to 10,000 bales, including 3,000 taken for speculation and export. Prices have not shown any change, but there has been more tone in the market. There has not been much business done in the Share Market to-day, and prices were a shade easier, closing as follows :—Aberdeen, 131 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 151 14. Caledonian, 301 301. Chester and Holyhead, Lik lA. Eastern Coun ties, 98 91, East Lancashire, 181 181. Great Northern, 23 231- . . Ditto A 91 10. Great Western, 63 631. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 844 841. Liverpool, Crosby, and South port, 151 16, London and North Western Stock, 100 1001-. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 261 27. Ditto Preference, 111 111. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 2- Ip. Midland Stock, 711 721. North British, 8 81. North Staffordshire, 6! 58d. South Eastern and Dover, 20D 20 11-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 194 19 D. York and North Midland, 274 271. Leeds Capital Stock, 151 16. Dutch Rhenish, 13-16 b. Ditto New Shares, 21, 2=p. Great Western of Canada, 25: 251. Ditto New Share s , 2a 21p. Ditto 2nd issue, 21 2ip. Great Luxembourg, 71 71d. Messrs. Brown, Hunter & Co., have to-day issued their usual monthly trade circular, from which we quote the following :—The Money Market has manifested symptoms of increased ease, conse quent upon the probability of peace, and the Bank of England have reduced their rate of discount on 90 days bills, the uniform rate being 6 per cent. In the stock of bullion there is not much variation, being at present £9,903,095, against £9,892,835 at this time last month. Accounts from Havre state that trade generally, at that port, was brisk. In the Cotton Market, during the week, business has been steady, with an improvement of 50c to Ifr per 50 kilos. Very ordinary New Orleans is now firm at 92f, inferior ditto from 87f, and very inferior from 82f. The arrivals during the week, of all sorts, have been 13,003 bales, of which 9,940 bales have been dis posed of. The stock on hand on the 21st inst. amounted to 62,076, against 75,642 bales at the corresponding period last year. The arrivals from the United States from the Ist Jan. to that date, comprised 92,467, against 25,201 in 1856, show ing the increase of this branch of trade beiween the French sea ports and America. Of Flour the imports from the United States are smaller on account of the fall in prices ; best quality is 48f. per barrel, and not much in demand. In Carolina rice there is a good business doing at 32f. 50c. per 50 kilos. Coffee is in request at 67f. 50c. per ditto for St. Domingo middling quality. Sugar is with out variation in price at 63f. for St. Michael's. Cocoanut oil is in request at 54f. 75c. per 50 kilos. At Lille the price of good Colza oil is higher, and ranges from 108 f. to 114 f. per hectolitre ; and ditto grain from 30 to 32 francs. At Mulhouse there is great activity in all! the manufactories of cotton threads and tissues, in consequence of the in creasing demand: and prices have risen gradually and in a manner which gives satisfaction to vendors. Accounts from Russia mention that the Emperor has permitted a wealthy capitalist at Odessa to establish a new commercial banking-house there. This is the first indication in that quarter of his liberal intentions in commercial matters, after the re-establishment of peace. Subjoined is a statement of the railway calls falling due in March and April. The amounts are heavy, but in each case will fall chiefly upon the French market. The new issue of bonds of the Southern Railway of France absorbs no less than 1,105,500/. , a call upon Eastern of France Rail way shares, 1,500,000/. ; and a call upon those of the Lyons and Mediterranean Company, 180,0001. Amount per share. ._=_......,.--, _ Due in March, 1656. Due All eady Number Date. paid. Call. of shares. .4" Belgian Eastern Junction 13 41 010 0 42,500 21,250 Bruipo,t. Dutc i Itheuish, re-issued shares E .st IndLn Extension, £ls p.dd .. Ediahu,gh and Glasgow, 5 per cent. pref. Midd. and Redcar, New .e. 5, issued at 4 prem. 1 23 30 0 720 2,160 Sambre and Meta?, .elO Pref., issued Et:.l - the_ 15 9 10 0 unknown, Southern of France Three per Cent. Bonds ll deposit 11 0 0 10.),500 1,105,500 Wiesbaden, Preference, 8 per cent., £6 3l 2 20 0 u.ktiown. Total in March, Due in April, 1856. .t'1,935,528 . . Deeside 8 7i 10 0 10,625 10,645 E4 - st Kent Old l2 10 210 0 28,000 70,0 0 Ditto, Dover Extensions 12 2i 210 0 20,000 50,000 Eastern of France, New 6to 9 13 6 0 0 250,000 1,500,000 Great Luxembourg, re- " issue forfeited sh7rea.. 1 Great Western of ti.naia, 12 1 0 0 21,665 21,665 Lew shares, 1855 .. 4 deposit 510 0 36,000 198,0)0 Lancaster and Preston, 31 410 0 11,736 Lyons and Meciit rranean I to N l5 16 20 0 90, 0 00 180,000 A s 81 05 0 18 , 0 0 0 4,500 wry ,jrie and nd Enniskillen, 12 North and South Western • - Junction, Hammer. smith Branch... lO 5 210 0 1,500 3,750 St. An,,rews and Quebec, Class A Total in April .. ...42,171,352 Total called in 1856 5,817,029. An extraordinary general meeting of the Recife and San Francisco (Pernambuco) Railway Company is called for the 22nd of April, to approve the appointment of the directors. The first half yearly meeting is to be held on the same day. The English Funds opened steadily this morn ing, but were for a short time unfavourably affected by renewed speculative sales, which caused a temporary decline of 7,- per cent, Some influential and tuna fide !purchases being made, however, a recovery took place and the closing quotations were only per, cent. below those of Saturday—the prices standing at 921 to 921. In its general character the market remains steady, being assisted by the constant absorption of .-,tock by the public; but pending any unexplained delay in the announcement of peace, some sensitiveness may be evinced. Money was rather more wanted in the Stock Exchange to-day, in anticipation of the instalment falling due on Saturday on the new Loan. In Lam bard-street, however, there is no pressure whatever. At Paris, today, the Three per Cent. Rentes closed fat b, or 4 per cent.. better e o e f t gold a oe br t o o u g b h e t 3 i t 1 n ,00 13 0 y o t u h n e e e A s d i N n v i o r r a t l h , than th e fi na l quotat i ons of Saturday, The amount isaboaust -144,000/. The Emma has also arrived from Melbourne witli 41,000 ounces, valued at 164,0001. Including the 11,689 ounces brought in by the Lightning, a total of 355,0001 is here pre sented. As small parcels of bar gold and French twenty franc piece pieces continue to be received from. the Continent, it is inferred that a large portion of those Australian supplies will be sent into the bank. The Blackwall, with 350,0001 worth is almost daily expected. Assuming that the Red Jacket sailed at the date fixed, this vesdel, which will probably bring a large amount of gold, has been seventy-four days since she sailed. The Corn Market to-day was very heavy. The belief in peace caused buyers to operate very sparingly. English wheat sold slowly at a decline of 3s to 5s per quarter from the rates of last Monday. The large arrivals of floating cargoes off the coast continue to depress the market. From the 14th to the 21st instant twenty-two cargoes were reported ; Saturday's list including twenty-seven cargoes, and t o- d ays no less than forty-nine. This chews a total of eighty-nine cargoes, of which fif ty - n i ne are wheat, thirty-four Indian corn, and four beans. These arrivals probably represent a total of 100,000 quarters of wheat, and 50,000 quarters of Indi an corn. According to the advices received to-day the French corn markets are generally lower. The R,ailway Share Market to-day was very inactive, but steady in price s . The market closed at the following quotations Caledonian, 61 611 Eastern Counties, 9 9.16 9 11-16. East Lancashire, 73j- 741. Great Northern, 931 94. Do. Class A, 79 80. Great Western, 6.21 1 6 3+. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 84 841. Lond on and North Western, 1008 100,1. Manchester Shef. field, and Lancashire, 27 271 Midland Stock, 72 72+. North British, 32 43. South Eastern and Dover, 68+ 084. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 6 M. York and North Midland, 55 553. LATES.O INTELLIGENCE. I THE PEACE CONGRESS PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The twelfth sitting of the Plenipotentiaries in Congress was held to-day. His Imperial Highness Prince Jerome is pro. nounced to be out of danger. SPAIN A despatch, dated Madrid, the 22nd instant, informs us that the financial question had been decided in the Cortes, conformably to the desires of the Government. THE FRENCH FUNDS PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. Business on the Bourse to-day was closed with the funds at the following quotations :—Four and a half per Cents., 04f. Three per Cents, 72f. 70c. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING The Peade Congress met again yesterday, and it had been expected that the treaty of peace would be signed in the course of the sitting ; but it turns out that matters are not yet quite sufficiently advanced for that formality. It is not doubted, however, that the siging will take place in the course of the present week, or at all events before the 31,st. Thus one of your London co temporaries, who speaks of a renewal of the armistice as likely, is in error. Now that peace seems certain these fickle Parisians are almost inclined to wish for a continuance of the war :—at least some of those who were formerly clamorous for peace on any terms. n3w say that the peace is not worth what it has cost ; that it would have been better for France to have joined England in standing out for higher terms, &c. ;—and this language may be more especially heard amongst the real friends of the Bonapartist dynasty. The semi-official journals publish letters from St. Petersburg, which teem with fulsome adulation of the French, and of the French Emperor. According to them, the Russians in general are burning with the desire to throw them selves into the arms of the French, who thrashed them so gloriously at Sebastopol:— the Czar Alexander is so full of enthusiasm for the Emperor Napoleon, that he not only sings his praises in his drawing room, but vows that the moment peace is concluded, nothing shall prevent him from coming to Paris to demand his friend ship. All this is very like bosh. At Notre Dame, to-day, a Te Deum has been chanted with a good deal of pomp for the birth of the Imperial Prince. A vast number of Marshals, Generals, Colonels, Senators, Councillors of State, Members of the Legislative body, and public functionaries of all sorts, all in splendid uniform, bedizzened with gold and silver embroidery, or in red or black robes, were present. All the Minis ters were in attendance, and the vast church, in the parts not occupied by the officers, was crowded by' the profane vulgar. To sing the Te Deum, two or three bands, and the companies of the opera houses were engaged,—and well they did it, in. an artistic point of view :—but in my English and Protestant eyes, their performance seemed a sad desecration of the house of God. And what seemed still worse was to see detachments of the Imperial Guard and National Guard stationed, musket on shoulder and schakoes on head, in lines from the altar to the great door, and to hear the words of command— " Shoulder arms!" " Present arms !" etc., given as on parade, whilst the drums beat loud tattoos! I am told that the nomination of Generals Canrobert and Bosquet to the dignity of Marshal was made known to them by what the French call " une surprise." The day before the decrees of nomination appeared in the Moniteur, the kmperor gave a grand dinner, to which Bosquet and Canrobert were bidden; and at the dessert he rose and said : " Gentlemen, Fill your glasses ! I propose the health of Marshals Bosquet and Canrobert !" On this great enthusiasm was mani fested ; and Bosquet and Canrobert—Frenchmen like—burst into tears ! The Moniteur to-day publishes the official report of the birth of the Imperial Prince. It occasions much ridicule from the terms in which it is couched. An absurd project is on foot—the raising of a regiment of children under the protection of the Imperial Prince, and under the name of " Pupils of the Guard." Something of that kind, it appears, existed under the elder Napoleon. To compose it, it is proposed to take the children of soldiers and foundlings. P.S.—I am told that according to present proba bility the treaty of peace will be signed in the next sitting of the Congress, which will take place on Tuesday or Wednesday. The sitting of yesterday was, it is said, taken up with the discussions of the propositions presented by the sub-committee. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. Another proof of the priority and correctness of my information has been afforded to-day. I told you, some days back—what no other Paris corres pondent of any journal, London or provincial, knew—that the Gogernment was about to take measures to check the negociation of foreign securities on the Bourse ; and to-day for the first time, the negociation of all shares in foreign enterprises, not quoted in the official lists, has been formally prohibited. This has created an immense sensation on the Bourse. Amongst the companies whose shares can no longer be sold are the Aus trian Credit Mobilier and the London Omnibus. The measure of the government is, of course, caused principally by fear of the crisis which is " looming in the future." But there are not want ing people who say that private motives are also mixed up with it—that for instance, the Emperor is not sorry to give the speculating world a lesson for not having saluted the birth of his son with a huge rise ; and that M. Fould, Minister of State, and M. M. Perriere are anxious to vex Rothschild by excluding his Austrian Credit Mobilier from the Bourse. P R ESENTATTO N.—Yesterday afternoon a few friends of Captain Kennedy, of the ship Parker, of this port, belonging to Sandbach, Tinnie, and Co., assembled at the Castle Hotel, Birkenhead, for the purpose of presenting to him a handsome and massive gold snuff box, bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to Captain H. C. Kennedy, of the ship Parker, at the dying request of the late Andrew Low, Esq., for the uniform kindness, and attention, con ferred upon him and Mrs. Low, during their passage home from Demerara. Liverpool, October, 1855." Mr. A. 8 Walters, father-in-law of Mr. Low, addressing Mr.' Kennedy said,—" I ha ve on th e present occasion a pleasing and melancholy duty to perform—pleasing because it affords me an opportunity of testifying to the merits of a gentleman, who, as com man d er of the ship Parker, has manifested all the feelings of a kind-hearted friend, and the sympathy of a true-hearted British sailor. The duty is also melancholy because it brings to my mind the loss of a valuable member of my family. In presenting to you this token of my respect, and esteem, I can assure you that it is no less at the dying request of my son-in-law, the late Mr. Andrew Low, than the earnest wish of his bereaved widow, my daughter, for services performed by you during their passage &mu Demerara in your well appointed and excellent ship, the Parker. I believe I am co rr ect i n s t a ti ng t h at your kind attention to the wants of the one, during his serious illness, saved him from a watery grave, and ameliorated in no slight degree the afflictions of his beloved wife. On their behalf, then, I hand this token of their regard to you, and at the same time offer you my very best wishes that prosperity and happiness may attend you, whether ashore in the bosom of yonr family, or following your noble but difficult occupa tion on the mighty waters." The box having been handed to Captain Kennedy, that gentleman briefly acknowledged the compliment, Ere begged to return them his sincere thanks for the kind present, and assured Mr. Walter and his friends, that in what he had done for Mr. and Mrs. Low, as his passengers, he had only done what was his most anxious desire, to render their passage as comfortable and as agreeable as he could, more especially, as far as possible to relieve the ain and suffering under which the gentleman laboured. e should always highl y esteem the f l Present which h a d th a t a y been h an d e d to him, inasmuch as it would b e a l ast i ng memento o f one of the most noble hearted gentlemen who had ever non oure d him with his a cquaintance. THE CONFERENCES Considerable sensation was created yesterday in this town by the receipt of a telegraphic communi cation of a portion of the Sunday letter of the Times correspondent in Paris, which indicated some rupture having taken place at the sitting of the Congress on Saturday. In that letter the corres pondent in question asserts his fears that we are at this moment more distant from a pacific solution than we were ten days ago. He says :—" The change, I believe, to be owing to the demand put forth yesterday by the Prussian plenipotentiaries to be admitted to sign the treaty of peace on the same footing and in the same character - as if Prussia had been a party to the alliance through out, as if she had accepted all the obligations involved in it, had joined in the ultimatum, and had declared that she nould abide by all its conse quences. Such, it seems, are the pretensions of Prussia at this moment, and I believe that in these pretensions she has - the support of Russia, if not of others." Now a reference to the letter of our own Paris correspondent of Sunday's date, will shew, that he, with equal if not superior sources of information, with his cotemporary, entertains no such dread. On the contrary, he informs us that the Treaty will be signed by the Plenipotentiaries either this day or tomorrow. The views of our correspondent receive confirmation to some extent from the communication addressed on Sunday to the Globe of last night, in which we read the following :—" Contrary to what was expected, the Congress assembled yesterday ; but I am not in a position to inform you whether the treaty of peace was definitively signed, though what I hear on good authority might perhaps justify one less scrupulous in announcing its signature to have taken place. Whether the treaty be dated March 22 or March 24 is, however, of very little moment, for I have reason to know that all the essential points are formally settled and paraphecl.' By this day week there is no doubt the treaty will be ratified at St. Petersburg, and the proclamation of peace may officially take place before the 31st." The Russian organ Le Nord, of Sunday, goes still further, and declares that the commission has actually terminated its labours, and that peace was to be signed yesterday or to-day (Monday.) The Debats says that, according to information which it has reason to believe correct, nothing has occurred in the Congress to warrant the announce ment made by nn English journal, that the armis tice will be prolonged to April 30. The Debats" agrees in the opinion generally entertained, that the treaty of peace will be signed before the 31st of this month, and that, consequently no prolonga tion of the armistice will be necessary. The writer in the Times stands alone in his con- 1 jectures as to the procrastination of peace, and the following extracts from the Siecle will not serve 1 him in aid of his views : The Siecle conveys intelligence from St. Peters burg which shadows forth, according to this autho• rity, some, of the leading articles of the expected treaty 1. Russia consents to the neutralisation of the Black Sea. 2. Sebastopol is not again to become,'s war depot, and the reconstruction of the fortresses is prohibited. 3. Nicolaieff is to be reduced to a commercial port. 4. Russia is to abandon, her protectorate of the Principalities. 5. Russia renounces certain territories in Bes sarabia, which leaves the navigation of the Danube perfectly - free. 6. A commission is to be appointed to trace the new frontiers in this district. 7. The fact of a Russian soldier passing the Pruth is to be looked upon as a casus belli by the contracting Powers. To which might be added " a revision of the Asiatic frontiers of Turkey. to accomplish which, a commission will also be appointed." RIGA AND THE GULF OF FINLAND The Journal de St. Petersburg publishes the fol lowing extracts from a letter dated Riga the 16th instant :—" The navigation of the Gulf of Finland is interrupted by the rigours of the winter, and this state of things may continue until the breaking up of the ice, which does not usually take place until the end of April. Communication with the coasts of Finland is effected only at great risks. We are assured that some foreign vessels, bound for our city, are checked by ice in the very middle of the Gulf, and are threatened, not only with the loss of their rich cargoes, but with utter destruction from one moment to another. In the almost certain prospect of peace, our merchants daily receive important orders from abroad for different products, such as flax, hemp, tallow, oleaginous and cereal grains. Prices are firmly maintained, and it is believed that with peace once concluded, a fresh rise will follow, in anticipation of large exports of these products." PARMA We read in the Parma Gazette of the 18th instant:— At seven o'clock this evening, when the auditor of war, Gaetano Bordi, was walking in the street Bassa de Magnani with another officer, he was treacherously stabbed in the back with a poniard by an unknown hand. The assassin, having pre cipitately fled, could not be arrested. Lieutenant Bordi, supported by two soldiers, was conveyed to the office of the commander, where he received medical relief and the consolation of religion. At three o'clock he was carried to his house. His life is in the greatest danger. In consequence of this atrocious attempt, the following sovereign act and proclamation has been issued : We, Louise Marie de Bourdon, governing for Duke Robert 1., the States of ParMa, &e. ; Murderous hands have once more sacrificed two innocent victims to their infamous designs, and struck with dismay and horror the peaceable population of this city. ThoSe horrible attempts fill our heart with sadness and pain. Our inten tions were and are clement, but we cannot forget that it is our sacred duty to protect honest people against the wicked, and to . adopt rigorous and efficient measures solely . directed against the latter. With that object we have enacted the following : Art. 1. In virtue of the decrees of the 28th of September, 1849, and 22d of December, 1851, martial law is again proclaimed in the city of Parma and in the neighbouring provincial towns. Art: 2 The general administration of the police and the military authorities shall concert measures for the disarmament of the inhabitants, domi ciliary visits, and the expulsion of all individuals who have not obtained leave to reside in those localities. (Signed) LOUISE. Parma, March 17, 1856. A letter from Milan of the 17th inst. states that the Communal Council of that city had addressed to the Government the list of the three candidates from whom it is to choose the Mayor. The can didates are—Count Luis Belgiojoso, Dr. Alexan der Sormani, and Count Joseph Sebregondi. EXECUTION OF THOMAS JONES, Thomas Jones, the murderer of Dr. Hope, the surgeon at Portsmouth, was executed at,Winchester on Saturday morning. Hefore he died he repented of his crime, acknow ledged the justice of his sentence, and sought the aid of religion to support him in the prospect of an ignominious death. From his condemned cell he sent the following letter, viz. : " Winchester, March 18. " To the friends and relatives of the late Dr. Hope. " It is quite impossible for me to express the feelings of deep sorrow and shame with which I reflect on the wicked deed of mind which has deprived you of one so near and dear to you. I fear I cannot depart this life without this expression of my sorrow, even though it may ba suspected or spurned, as I deserve it should be ; but as it will be too late when this reaches you to ask you to forgive me, If can only entertain the hope that your Christian charity would have afforded me that comfort if there had been an opportunity. May you be found on the day of judgment amongst those who shall be saved. " THOMAS JONES." The parties to whom this was addressed, believing in its sincerity, and compassionating the unhappy writer, sent a reply which oonsoled him in his last agonies. Thomas Jones was a most extraordinary man, and some particu lars of his life are to be published at his own request. He partook of the Holy Sacrament on the day previous to his execution. He met his death with firmness, but without bravado, and the drop fell as he prayed God through the Saviour of mankind to sustain and receive his soul. It will be recollected that Jones was a convict on board the hulks at Vortsmouth, and that he murdered Dr. Hope, because he thought the latter treated him harshly. Wit. nesses bore testimony to Dr. Hope's tenderness and humanity, but the attention of the government has been drawn to the discipline of the hulks in consequence of the murder, and it is not improbable that the hulks will be abolished, as the treatment of convicts on board them tends rather to brutalise than to reform thp men. THE EAST. MARSEILLES, March 22, 7 30 p.m. The Thabor has arrived with advices from Con stantinople of the 13th, and from the Crimea of the 12th (11th ?) inst. She is in quarantine, with 173 soldiers on board. Despatches leave at 8 p.m. The steamer European, which left Constanti nople on the 11th inst. with 400 soldiers on board, and the clipper Edgar Stringer, with 170, hav e arrived, and are in quarantine. THE CRIMEA. SEBaSTOPOL, M arc h 10th, 1856.—1 t seems as if th: armistice were likely t o exp i re b e f ore i ts terms are settled. The fi rs t diffi cu l ty arose upon the demand - the Allies to embark things from the south side of th e d harbour, the object being to ship the cannon captur e d in Sebastop o l. B ut to this the Russians donna' j ag ree saying, th a t th e port was not ours. The Allies to waive the stipulations, and the delay no w arises frog' questions relating to the blockad e o f the Bl ac k Sea ar the Sea of Azoff. Meanwhile the susp e nsion of fire, t he main point, continues. We are not quite so intimate with our Muscovite friends; our e n th us i asm or curiosity has a little subsided, and, m oreover, G eneral Or d er s f l . a sentries are there to check it ; but we may be sa l e to be on terms of distant civility. It is probab, that there will be another meeting of Generals tills week at Traktir Bridge. There is no truth in a report that was lately spread here that th e Thi r d an d F ourt h Divisi°,,gs were to go dow n t o I n k erman and the Tcherna•';- , to relieve the French. N o changes —l3f contemplated in the present position our troops until th e resu l t of the C°l,ll,- ferences at Paris be known, or the armistiu° over. The war-p ar ty still cherishes hopes that ti s negociations may break . down. If anything l e n s g than the full conditi ons, including the dismantling Nicolaieff, be a cce pt e d , there will be a pr etty - y outcry amongst the ma r ti a ll y di spose d , an d y it will hardly have been worth while going to Isqlt, It may suit the French. to make concessions , it ought not to suit us. Their army, however numerous they may show it to be upon pa ve. ? - 4 dwindling sadly. Scurvy and fever are playi ng havoc in its ranks. I can no* tell you positive.o that the French admit the present mortali t l s l ys their army to be 120 a day, and on some " 9 t i me considerably more. The right of the army, in ,d Baidar valley suffers th e most. l am assure t. that the . deaths th ere h ave reached 100 per ll'M I do not hesitate to say that' the„ French_ar l3l / b y being expended at least as rapidly as - it w l.. t he shell and shot during the severest part the seige. A sanitary commission's investigation 01 , o f French camp would reveal a startling arneun' n d suffering. Insufficient shelter and covering? 8- iit a deficiency of vegetable food, readily ae e° ,, u ge , for the sickness that prevails. Of •e° ll , : a ;i r every thing we can spare is freely placed :at the disposal. Our army,. abundantly - fed and ca r l t for at an immense expense, may be well..con te with its present quarters, but assuredly it will be joyful day for our allies when they tnrn their back on this inhospitable peninsula and sail for la elear a nc th From the Ist t o th e 9 t h o f the present ni ° , ll l ,_ the thermometer at th e C ast l e .Hospital at .1 33 ' 3 lava, where a regi s t er is k ept , ha s range d from 11 deg,. to 49 deg. Here, where we are several 4uil r , dred feet higher, the t emperature i s lower. Yes,p`-d day was a beautiful day. The sun was hot, an melted ice and snow*wherever its rays fell, .exe e l F; upon very high gr oun d. N o t w ith s tanding t changes of weath er , th e i ncrease of admissions to the camp hospitals during the past week has been very small. Cata rr h s h ave, o f course, b een rather more numerous, but ther e d oes no t a diseases to ha ve been an increase wort h nam i ng i n diseases of a serious character. THE INFANT OF FRANCE The Moniteur of Sunday gives publicity to the following official documents, in, relation-to the birth of the Imperial Prince : In the year 1856, on the 16th day of the month the March, we, Achille Fould, Mi n i s t er o f S tate an d o f tl Emperor's household, in vi r t ue o f th e o ffi ce we h o ld uncle thb Bth article of the S ena t us -C onsu l tum of t h e 25th , December, 1852, 'and;under the 13th ar ti c l e o f th e ImPe. la i , Statute o f 21st of June, 1853, aided in the execu tt cs of the same statute by hi s exce ll ency M . Pi er re Ju ll ed Baroche, President of the Co u n c il o f S ta t e , we proceed to the palace of the Tuileries, iu obedience to the order s of his Majesty th e E m p eror, con t a i ne d i n t h e sea l e d ► dated the 12th inst., as follows : M. Achille Fould, Minister of State.—As the Ea 3 Pr e n sg t ; our much beloved spouse, is approaching her cenfi nertie joS we have ordained that as soon as she feels the first Pa e o f you shall be apprised thereof, to proceed to the Palace the Tuileries to the room appointed for you, that a t may be introduced into the chamber of the EraPr es The the moment of her delivery. Our wish is that, wit il ifi t a y aid of the President of our Council of State, Y e ti e of draw up the act of birth conformably to the Bth a rt '`iss2, the Senatus-Consultum of the 25th of December' - i ne, and the 13th article of the Statute of the 21st et '- 1853. •ghnes s We have selected as witnesses his Imperial t. Prince Napoleon and his Highness Prince Lucien 0 -if its Whereupon, M. le Ministre, Ipray God to have y -u health and His good keeping. Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, March 1 2 • And being at the P a l ace at the hour of two • loa the morning, in company with his Imperial wt r b . ; at, Prince Napoleon and hi s Hi g h ness Princ e Lucien 1 o the witnesses select e d an d sent for by the Ea l P e-r • letters couched as follows : h We d My dear Cousin,--A% 'the Empress, our much — e • a ordLo b ee spouse, approaches her confinement, we :have .11 - that as soon as she feels the first pains you s‘l - fo tbo requested to proceed to the Palace of the Tgiler,i e , s ' i pill b , chamber reserved to the Princes of the,,lrePen, 3 `,„ — ber that you may be admitted into the Empfess's ent - i i sign the tine of her delivery. Our wish is that you soli' the act birth as witness. u °- Wherein, I pray God, m y d ear cous i n, t o have y° good health and His good keeping. f ob - . Done at the Pala ce o f th e T u il er i es the 12th of 2a i. 1856.—Yours aff ec ti ona t e l y, s A roo , To hM Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon. to oter , [Here follow two letters precisely of the saret u ; to oci , one to Prince Lucien Murat, the other to n Keeper of the Seals.] Apr of, 01 : We, Minister of State, were admitted by order prioe- Majesty the Emperor, with his Imperial Highness ,d big Napoleon, and his Highness Prince Lucien Murbeat,cutedionlooef Excellency the Keeper of the Seals, into the her Majesty the Empress at the moment she seff er w bleb , pains which announced her proximate delivery; , 0 1 0 c1g , having happily taken place at a quarter past,thre e pre' Madame Bruat, Governess of the "Infant of Franeeimo sented to us, as also to his Imperial Highness Pri n l to h is leon, and to his Highness Prince Lucien Murat, r` A pjestY Excellency the Keeper of the Seals, by order of b l„ g t bee ll the Emperor, the child of which her Majesty had 8 4 ' delivered, and which we recognized to be of thesp And we then immediately entered the Empress's o' l° o . 0 1 which was his M ajes ty th e Emperor, and his 11YraPe ittformed us that it was hi s i ntention that the prince youi4 rial should recei ve th e names of Napoleon E u gene Jean Joseph. ate' Of all which we h ave d rawn np the presen t °faci al s st acs ment upon the re g i s t er o f the Imperial family, i n P re o lee , of his Imperial Hi g h ness Monseigneur the Prince Vlsortit, and of his Highn ess Monseigneur the Prince Luci en witnesses selected by his Majesty the Emperor. fi t he And said statem en t h as b een s i gned b y hi s Mal e g n eeo Emperor, the abovenamed witnesses, and by the by Kis and Prinees se3 o f t h e f am i ly present, and als ° e i c e. Excellency the K ee p er o f th e S ea l s, Mi n i s t er of Jg a nd Which act has been signed by us, Minister of Staff the countersigned by His Excell enc y th e P r esident " Council of State. (Here follow the signatures) : • Napoleon. Princess Matilda. Prince Napoleon. Princess Baciocehi ..rat Prince Murat. P r i ncess C a roline 1 1 .“' Prince Joachim Murat. Countess de Montijo, Duchess of Penaranda Achille Fould, J. Baroche ABBATVC pI. jestHOLYCROSS SCHOOLS.—A texperance soiree ill con- with the above schools, was held in the scaool' r°°l3 ' 3 ere night, and was w e ll attended. Several speeches W oe made, and the company seemed much pleased w ith tea evening's entertainment. Throughout the town other „.1, e au arties were held in connexion with various char ja it institutions, including the Methodists of the BethAe.. Chapel, and the congregation attending at Pen3br-ss es place chapel. In all of these there were several ad delivered to crowded and delighted audiences. 'd t° The new Emperor of Abyssinia, Theodosius I. is sal bay entertain vast projects of .conquest. He has already to s possession of the territory of Hurrua, near his states, and a n given the goverment of that province to an Euglistin33 named Bell, who has long been in his service.