The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-26 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The North Atlantic Company's. steam - ship
Adriatic, Captain Comstock, with dates from
New York to the 14th instant, arrived at
Southampton yesterday. The Persia had arrived
out ; also the Edinburgh.
Advices from Vera Cruz confirm the raising of
the siege by Miramon, owing to the want of pro-
visions and munitions of war. He lost 2,000 out
5,000 men. There was a strong feeling in the
city in favour of a war with the United States.
Degollado had gone to Tampico to enter upon a

campaign.
News from Havanna are to the 10th instant.
The sugar market was quiet ; molasses quiet.
Exchange on London, 121 to 131 premium.
But little business of importance had been
transacted in Congress. In the Senate the bill

for the admission of-- Kansas into the Union was
referred to the Committee on Territories.

FINANCIAL.

The extraordinary coincidence of a stringent
money market, at 4t per cent. in London, and an
easy money market at 5 per_cent. in New York,
was causing a good deal of comment in financial
circles. Loans are offered freely at• 5 per cent.
on call. Foreign exchange inactive ; bankers
asking 108 i to 109 for sixty days' sterling bills.
Stock market inactive; with a daily increase -in
speculation. -

Cotton market embraced about 1,000 bales,
closing dull at 111 c. to 111 c. for Middling
Uplands.' Southern flour in good request ; wheat
less active ; corn heavy ; pork firmer,; sugar
active. Freights steady, with shipments of 2,000
bales, to Liverpool.

NEW ORLEANS.—Cotton sales, 4,000 bales, at
10!c. to 11c. for middling. Sales of the week,
28,500 bales. Exchange without alteration.

MOBlLE.—Cotton sales last two nays, 7,000
bales. Markets unchanged.
SAVANNAH.—Cotton firm ; sales, 6,000 bales.

CIIARLESTON.—Cotton advanced ie. on the
week. Sales to-day, 1,200 bales ; sales of the
week, 12,000 bales.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YEnERDAY, ,
,
Mr. E. JA it gave notice, that in committee on the Reform
Bill, he should move a clause establishing what was called the
lodger franchise.

The sitting was entirely occupied by the discussion in com-
mittee of the Law and Property Bill, sent down from the
Lords. The. discussion. turned entirely on technical points.
The House adjourned at a quarter past five. If

COURT NEWS.

The Queen held a levee on Tuesday afternoon in S
James's Palace.

Previous to the levee Field-Marshal Lord Seaton was
presented to the Queen, on hisappointnint as Field-
Marshal.

The Queen and Prince. Consort were attended by the
Marchioness of Ely, officiating for the Mistress of the.
Robes, and the officers of the royal household.
' Her Majesty wore a train of blackporded silk,' trim-
med with a ruche and rosettes of black crape ; the
petticoat to correspond. The Queen wore a black jet
circlet as a headdress.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite
arrived at Dover from Calais at six p.m. on Tuesday,
and, after dining at the Lord Warden Hotel; left by the
7.30 express train for. London.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding in
Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Monday next,
the 30th instant.

The Union is scandalised by Mr. Gladstone's accep-
tance of the rectorship of the University of-Edinburgh.
" How it is reconcilable with his position as a, High
Churchman is a problem which we are totally unable to
solve. True it may be, as it is said, that the University
is merely a secular institution, but it is also essentially
Presbyterian."

SERVANT-GALISM.—A correspondent says :- I observe
two cases reported in your journal in which servant
" maids of all work" have brought actions for one
month's wages in the County Court. In the first case
the servant had agreed, on being hired, never to
wear artificial flowers in her bonnet; hut, afterwards,
refusing to abide- by this agreement, she was at once
dismissed without either the month's warning- or
the month's wages. The judge gave his decision
against the servant. In tlfe other case th
agreed, on being hired, that she was to hayeeerery
istress
m otherre.seryant
Sunday evening to herself. However, her
desired her to remain at home one Sday, and on her
declining to do so, instantly disit,nbiuessed herjudge, in
without
the usual warning or wages-
case, also decided against theausbe correct ? Is
yo
servant.nju-d I
ask, can both of theses
t decisions
bind the maid-servant, but-
an agreement alvnever the mistress T
There is no class of servants on
earth who lead such
.
ita
.slavish miserable life us "maids
of all work," and is
me,:)custor generous to -place them so
completely at the y of,
perhaps,
a violent and ill-
temperedNi,ti3 mistress. A most resptcble simple girl
daughter ,
to the gate-keeper of the Earl of----,.,
induced to go to Lonclon in the service of a
flashy couple, who spent a month ---..k on the
coast, near the Earl's mansion. This poor girl
was never permitted to leave the house (in Islington)
from September to March, and she Only escaped from
this vile tyranny by the honest kindne3s of a cab-driver,
who came early one morning and drove- the young
creature to the Dover railway station, refusing to-accept
any payment for his trouble. The girl's health had
suffered so much that her life was in danger.for some
time, but the flashy couple did not dare to make any
effort to punish her for taking " French leave."