The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Money very irregular,
Stocks irregular. Erie, 35 ; New York Centrals,
75; Illinois Central, 68. The cotton market was
firm. Flour has advanced, Wheat having an
upward tendency, and Corn rising. Provisions
steady.
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's screw steamer Vigo, from New York,
Dec. 22, arrived here at 6 p.m. last night, with
14 cabin and 76 steerage passengers; landed 35
and proceeded. She experienced strong Easterly
gales from 26th to 30th ; and on the 4th had a
strong gale from the W.N.W. No vessels re-
ported. Full cargo. The City of Manchester,
of the same line, passed Cape Race at 6 a.m. on
the 22nd December ; all well.
LONDONDERRY, Jan. 6.

The Montreal Company's steamship North
Briton, with dates from Portland to 22nd ult.,
arrived at 9 a.m. this morning, and proceeded to
Liverpool, having landed all her mails. She
encountered heavy easterly gales. The steam-
ships Persia, Borussia, and Atlantic have arrived
out, and the Fulton was intercepted off Cape
Race on the morning of the 21st ult.
A large mining district had been deprived of
water for two months by the bursting of a flume
of the water company.
The Californian plurality vote for Mr. Lincoln
was 301.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 6 p.m.—The Prussian
barque Johanna Benjamin, from Newcastle for
New York, is ashore at Hampstead, Long Island.
Five of the crew, in attempting to land, were
drowned.

SOUTIIAMPTON, Jan. 6.

The North German Lloyd steamer New York,
Captain Von Santen, with dates New York 22nd
ult., has arrived. She brings fifty passengers in
all, and 2,100 dollars in specie from Bremen.
Her news is anticipated.

OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 6.

The R.M.S. Asia arrived here this afternoon,
embarked mails and passengers, and proceeded
for New York. All well.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. C.
The Moniteur publishes a decree modifying the
duties on the importation of raw and dry hides
and skins of all kinds, of horse hair, seed, oleagi-
nous fruits, oleaginous seects,&c.; also of copper,
pewter, lead, &c. The Montteur also contains a
decree raising the interest on Treasury Bills to 3,
31, and 4 per cent. respectively.
The Monitcur announces that, on account of
the death of the King of Prussia, the ball at the
Tuileries has been postponed.
THE FRENCH CHURCH AND THE POPE.
PARIS, Jan. 6.
A pamphlet, entitled " Rome et Les Eveques,"
has been published here. The author draws a
comparison between the Popes of the first era of
Christianity, who strictly confined themselves to
the exercise of their evangelical office and spiritual
jurisdiction, and those of the second era, who
aspire to an universal theocracy and obtrude them-
selves in temporal affairs. The author regrets to
be compelled to state that the bishops and supe-
rior clergy have followed the Papacy on this path,
but that it would be unjust to believe that all
hishnpa (4ln:zit-Ur tho rilintonanoo of temporal
sovereignty as essential for the freedom of
spiritual ministry and security of conscience. He
then affirms that a certain number of bishops
profess a contrary opinion, and states that two
distinct opinions exist among the clergy, viz.,
the official view of the question; which the clergy
incurring
disgrace, publicly confess at the risk of
disgrace, and the secret opinion, which in reality
is the most disseminated among the lower order of
clergy, but which they are obliged to conceal in
order to escape the stigma of Gallicanism, a term
now more compromising than that of heresy.

THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF SYRIA.
The correspondent of the Times states that
within the last few days the English Government
has communicated a note to the French Govern-
ment against any longer occupation of Syria by
French troops than is warranted by the treaty
with the Porte. The note is said to be couched
in strong terms. No answer has yet been given
to it.
THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, Jan. 5, 3.20 p.m.
The Bourse has been heavy, in consequence of
the decline in English Funds. Rentes, which
opened at 67.75, closed at 67.70, or about the
same as yesterday.