The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-25 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, May 24.
Counts Antoine Svecheny and Andrassy, and
a Hungarian prelate, are spoken of as having
been chosen by Government to replace the three
Hungarians who declined their appointments to
the Council of the Empire. They are also said
to have formally consented to their nomination.

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, May 24•

The Cape mail steamer Athens, Captain Clark'
arrived here this afternoon. Her dates area
21st ult., St. Helena 30th ult., and
Ascension 4th inst. She bring eight passenger°`
Lieut.-Governor Scott was on leave of absence is
order to make arrangements for improving Natal
harbour. Sir George Grey was expected daily.
Public business was generally deferred until his
arrival. Parliament was to meet on the 27th ult.
The session was expected to be a busy one, and
the leading business would most likely doneern
measures of administrative and financial reform--
One of the first questions would be the anomalcala
position of the Legislative Council in having for
its perpetual President the principal judge of the
Supreme Court. The vote for the emigration
estates would probably be repealed. Government
would bring in a Convict Exclusion Bill, inflict•
ing heavy penalties on captains bringing and per-
sons harbouring convicts ; the latter would be
condemned to renewed penal servitude. The
Government would also bring in a Census Bill
and a Crown Lands Bill. A bill proposing a
railway from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town
was strongly opposed among the eastern province
members. A bill would be brought in for the
construction of a breakwater in Table Bay, the.
estimated expenses of which are -(400,000.
Petitions were being got up, praying for a
restrictive law to limit the rate of interest to.
6 per cent., as the farmers feared that mortgages•
would raise the rate of interest to 121 per cent.
There was no chance of such a law being enacted.
£lO,OOO per annum was wanted to maintain
the clergy of the Church of England. An appeal
to the laity for voluntary contributions had been
unsuccessful, as they were jealous of the power
of the clergy. The laity have proposed that the
church finances would be administered by a com-
mittee, with a preponderance of lay members, of
which the bishop only should be president, and
that the congregations should select their own
clergymen, whom the bishop would approve and
license. No sales of wine had taken place, as the
prices offered being lower, farmers declined selling•

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN May 24.

The Montreal Ocean Steam Company's s.e•
North Briton, which left Quebec on the 12th inst.,
touched here shortly before midnight. She
landed all mails, and proceeded to Liverpool
immediately.

The Asia (s) had arrived out. The North
Briton passed the Canadian on the 12th inst.,
bound in.

Political news unimportant.

Extensive new diggings of coarse gold are
said to have been discovered on the River Fraser►
on the 19th ult.

The largest fire ever known in Cuba took place
in the valley of Trinidad. It swept 18 miles of
ground, clearing all the sugar cane before it-
The loss is estimated at upwards of $500,000, and
will reduce the production of sugar over 8,000
hogsheads.

The Great Western Railway Company are
building a state carriage for the Prince of Wales•
It is expected to surpass anything of the kind-
which has ever been produced on the continent.

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, May 11.—Flour dull, and 5 cents
lower; Wheat heavy, and in favour of buyers,
with moderate sales; Rye steady, at 86 ; Corn
firm, with good export demand; Pork quiso;
Lard steady ; Ashes quiet, pots 5.25, pearls
5.62 ; Barley quiet; Oats steady, 42 to 43 for
Western Canada and State. Stocks active and
higher. Money easier on call. Sterling exchange
only a moderate business doing at 109 k to 109 i
for bankers' bills.
Vessels spoken by the North Briton, all bound
for Quebec, May 12 :—Ship Augusta Mary Of
Dundee), St. Laurence, Jonah, Nubia, Maroon,
Emigrant, Pilgrims, Eliza, Albion, Oregon' °ff
Brandy Pots ; Culloden ditto, Louisa ditto,
Wandsworth ditto, Tribune ditto, barque Polly
ditto ; Larne, below Brandy Pots, Envy ditto,
Tranimore (of Grangemouth) ditto. May 13
Ship Sunbeam, off Point do Monts. May 14
Barque Caroline (of Poole ditto). Bard Rockg:
ship Lady Milton, brig Congress, and barque
Eleanor.