The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-28 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL; &c.; MARKETS; 41;STERliAY

GLASGOW IRON.—Market quiet. No. 1,49 d 6d
to 503 Od ; \Varrants7 50s 3d to 60s 6d; No. 3, 49!
Od to 498 3d. .

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CORN MARKETS..Curtit White AAth'ratt,leis et ;
red do., 27s fld to 2s M
Oittk, Is Ad to ad-,==-11AAttEsiliRi There wat it
pithy good atteridande at our market this morning, old
a fair steady dethand Was eiperienced for.most article.
The best conditioned samples of English Wheat hrodit
2s per qr. more motiey, While ibtrOin 'sold at a#i aditare
of 2d to 3d per Mbar iiiti;i tie iiticA
fully is per sack higher, and the best marks of Englih
were held ter a similar improvement ; American at tie

same time being 6d tci'ls per barrel dearer. Oats rind

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firm, and on Oatmeal quotations may be raised 6d
load: Beans and Indian Corn again advanced is per cr.
—BIRMINGIrAM: At this day's market there was a fir
supply of Wheat from farmers, and the market haviig
improved it sold, readily at an advance of is to 'IT.
Barley was held for is per qr. more money, which cheekd
sales. Oats sold at full rates. Peas rather higher.
CATTLE MARKETS. GLAsnow : Supply of
Cattle smaller than. on Thursday last; top qualty
scarce, and in fair demand at full prices, but all otler
sorts more difficult to Fell at last quotations. , Tie
number of Sheep was very large, and the demand dul;
prices much lower, and several lots turned out timed.
Price—Top Scotch, 68s to 70s ;" Irish 655, middlig
555, inferior 45i to. 50s per cwt; Sheep, 6d to 74
per lb.—DustiN : We had a very small supply it
market to-day, in consequence of the diffi,euJty. of trav/-

ling stock owing to, the recent heavy fall of snow. Te
demand was. very , brisk, and cattle sold. fully £1 pr
head over last week's quotations, and Sheep 3? to 5s ovr
former prices.

PLAYING CARDS,—Hitherto the keenly contested whit
cribbage, 100, &c., exhausted the usp of the playing cur..
Now, however, the beautiful, instructive, and chaste desigs
imparted to,their exterior, teach the form, colour, and grows
of plants Which have enrithed thetorritnerce of Great Britai.
Those manufactured by De la Rue apd•Co., are peculiarly ris
in design, and can be had in great variety at Benson and Mir
lett's, commercial eta/Loners, 10, Castle-stoet,

F;

ENLARGEMENT OF PREMISES.

W; PROMOLI,

30 ANI 32, CHURCH-STREET;

.ihIII;STILEtT;)
LIViRPOUL,

Flatters himself that his many kind friends and patrons will
be glad to learn that, having added to his own the extensive
and commodious liremises lately in the occupation o; ;yessrs.
WiHiner and Smith, he has been enabled to .INCREASE MS
LARGE STOCK with a further splpndid Assortment of
GEM GOODS OF EVERY DEKRiPTION.

BROOCHES, BRACELETS, NECXLETS, CHAINS,
and every variety of JEWE'LLEIIY, front the MgSt trifling to
the meet important and expensive 4rtigles,

GOLD AND siLvgit WATCHES,
of the best Home-made and Porcip.Manufacture.
CLOCKS, MUSICAL BOXES, ANIi BRONZES,
DRESSING CASE ANP WORK BOXES,
SILVER AND ELECTRO-PLATE,
And a very large quantity of useful and ornamental Articles
much too naincroui to mention i also the Largest Collection of
MECHANICAL AND OTHER TOYS, GAMES, &c., &c.,
in Liverpool; both of English and Foreign Manufacture, which
he is, determined to let his, Customers have at Ten per Cent.
over the Cost `Price ; and as he only intends keeping the Tel's,
&c., during the Holidays for the convenience of his Customers,
he will feel greatly obliged by an early selection.
F. Wi P. takes this :opportunity of again' returning l3ls best
thanks for the kindness whieh has been hitherto 'Shown him,
and looks forward with, confidence to it further increased
encouragement and suppOrt. , = •
Be good enough to notice the Address—.

• F: W..PROMOLI,
_•... ;AN D 32, CIIU,E,QH-ST
(orroti4i
• LIVERPOOL.

.NI.,A.R.ggIIENT Or PRI LMl§Att

NEWS OF THE DAY.

• ' Y
Count Cd+Otir lids been setiot sl 111. f t is an an-
nouncement which is eaictiidted to acite little SurpriSe
when it is considered that this statesman has pfotablf been
the busiest and hardest worked man in Europe for some
months past. The Kingdom of Italy could ill spare for
some time to come the influence and guiding hand of
the whin td enlightened but cautious and persis-
tent policy it mainly owes its existence. Mc Eafini is also
an able man, but it is very doubtful whether, if he had
to assume the mantle of Count Cavour, he would wear
it
The Bishop of Orvieto has Eifenlated a pastoral letter
in his diocese; condemning the circulation of' all a fire"
ligious, immoral, and lying books." The " Bible of
Diodati"
,(the Italian Protestant version), the almanac
Called a l'Aiiiieb di Casa," the "Four Words to the
Inhabitants of tharld 46) Matches," and the
" Compendium of Controversies bet* ii *Ora of
God and the Roman Theology," are the works especially
denounced by Mgr. Vespignani. " Burn, burn," he
cries; "remember how the Ephesians obeyed St. Paul,
and edmniitted their books to the flames at the desire of
the Apatl6l—they did not hesitate to sacrifice 60,000
oiivet iiunitt not emirs from
destroying pernicious works like these, which will 66r=
rupt and contaminate you."
The French semi-official journals remark, with refe-
rence to the summary which has been published in
Atiglagd of the
.00nditions of the new treaty which Lord
Elgin has concluded ifith the Chinese; that if this ver-
sion of the convention be cornet, the treaty Mast be
different in some respects from that which has been
signed by Baron Gros in the name of France. The
Patric states that, in addition to the advantages which
liaVe been gained bp'
,England in consequence of the
capture of Pekin, and the sitlinilds/ofi o'f the Tartar
or dhin4i6 atithoritieS, Fret* has- likewise' obtained
the acknowledgment of tolthitioit Of the Roman Catholic
faith throughout the whole empire d Ching/ find the
journal adds that it is probable that England has
stipifiated for similar privileges for the Protestant
tilihYuef the despatch is silent on the subject.
It must be confessed that 4114 ailptiadiferi was somewhat
" conspicuous for its absence" in both the telegrams
which haie been received from China in advance of the
malls, litlt *6 die loath In suppose for a moment that, on
a subject of' stitch paidnittlitit importance, Lord Elgin
omitted to secure for England privileges atd advantages
On this pdint at least equal to those which we are thffs.
Worried 411+6 been tiecdred by the French Ambassador.
Some of the journals return to the subject of
the rapidity and completenesi et the arrangeinents
which the Russian Government appears to possess tiit
obtaining intelligence of all that goes on in China. The
Conetitutionnel observes :—The recent arrival of news
from China/ 014.5t4 Petersburg, has once more demons-
trated hb* ldrid eonfeYalice can bring intelli-
gence to Europe from 651 greet empire: Tire cetomu,
nications announcing the surrender of the
conclusion Of the treaty of peace did not consist of a
few lines transmitted by electricity, but of complete
a6toUnti I fsi therefore, evident that the Russian
Government has aggtiii6d; bill Itiatehai a postal service,
which works with great regultai§ diM deiiiteiCii. The
following appears in the Journal due Havre, resPeCti4
the lboting of the Emperor's summer palace :
With regard to' the booty made in China, inestimable
co'nlldests iii ~ail aitistiCal and hisiOikal pant of view
are spoken of. The pdtt delinifed by France *aid
alone suffice for the formation of an imttienaii Chinese
other things mentioned is a clook6
museum. ;Ltu—C.7.:
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tghuer e
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aess
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tdhe
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ooarsks;m aanl
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China, &c. There has also fallen to the lot of the
French an edition of Confucius, which belonged to the
celebrated Emperor Kahg-Di, the Napoleon I. of the
Chinese, and baying notes in his handwriting: Among
the other objects found in the summer palace, and which
are in the part reserved for France, is an elephant of 0
natural sip, in gilt and enamelled bronze, and most
magnificent,
Accounts from Athens announce that the Greek Go-
vernment is'actively engaged in preparing for the crisis
which menaces the East. It is said that a great
French banlting-house has consented to raise a loan of
20,000,000 f. far its use. The Greek Government it is
added purposes to devote the amount of the loan to the
increase of the army and the navy.
The French mail, due at eight yesterday morning,
arrived late in then afternoon, but has not yet been de-
livered..
The present snow storm is an; unusually severe one in
almost all parts of the kingdom. Fifty-eight mail-bags,
from the neighbourhood of Gloucester, Leominster,
Worcester, &c., had not arrived up to eleven o'clock at
the Liondon,General,Post-office, though due at five. a.m.
The severity ,of the snow fall appears to have been

chiefly felt lit the West of higlaild, The northern and
eastern mails Were only delayed td a trifling Went. Mr,
E. J. Lowe; of the fleeston Observatory, near Notting,
hat* who Writes on Christ May Day, furnishes a report
lA' What he destribes as the eitraotdinary cold=perhaps
the most eittadditiary cold Oct known in Hngland ;
certainly exceeding every record but one, acid that record
being looked upon as an error, and, indeed, thought :to
be an impossible temperature in England. He adds
that on Christmas morning the temperature at four feet
above the ground was 8 degrees below zero, and on the
grass 18 8 degrees beldty iero; or 45.8 degrees of frost,
and iii prbbt of the abeilrady or 01 stateMent he appends
the Of a nitßibei of thermonieters plated in
different sitiiatiohi, Lowe (IWO iiieiitio4 that he
saw a horse ds *WI t wiles dt his hose three Inches in
leijgrh and`As Wet as thiee •

/a writing to the Times, with reference to the rules '
of the CheFhire .Rifle Association, ,which, are given in
another colamn Lord Bich°, pates foting lauda-
. •1 • ti. a • ,
tory obervations regarding them. is or hlp says
" The Cheshire rules will serve to show—l. The general
constitution and rules which might, in the opinion of the
Council of the National Rifle Association; be odvanta-
geously adopted by county associations. 2. The mode
in which a close connection may be established between
the county and National Associations. This, it will be
seen, the gentlemen forming the Cheshire Assobiation
propose to ellect 13% ; *hiCh any member
of the 'Colintit by increasing his subscription to become
mfmibereof,the J>. 4tiptial RileAssotiatioll, and
thus entitle himself to the piiiileges of Membership, sail
as free admission to the ground at the annual prize
meeting, as well as to the distribution of prizes. In
order further to promote this connection, the Council
have resolved to give a bronze medal annually to each
county association, and they likewise propose to give a
prize to be competed for at the great national annual
prise meeting by the winners of these medals.
The eotirteti of the National fl,ifle Associa-
tion hope tha't are ,now engaged
in. forming
advantage
distvint
„Fid.e IsscTigAions
will :see the advantaie of 'establishing then as far as
poisible upon an uniform system throughout the king-
dom, and in connection with the central National
Association. There is no wish on the part of the
Council to interfere with or check in any way the
independent action of local associations, but they are
anxious that such an uniform system should be estab-
lished as would enable them annually to tabulate, com-
pare, and record, as they hope to do, the results of the
shooting at the annual county and national prize
nibetingn.
Thehe *as a double execution in
,Thirhaiii yesterday
morning. Thdliio convicted fOi the murder of
John BatY, and Milner Lociey foi the murder of a man
named sultered the extreme lietialty of the
la* in. front Of the dontitY
Chi4Sinias Bay, according to iong4stlitliihed etistom,
was devoted to recreation and pleasure by the hard-
working Londoners. Taking advantage of the dry,
crisp weather, an immense number resorted to the parks
as spectators of or participators in the manly and attrac-
tive art of skating and the humble but by no means con-
temptible sport of sliding. The places of public amuse-
ment were also crowded with old and young, and above
twenty-eight thousand visited the British Museum, while
the attractions at the Crystal Palace drew together the
large numbet of twenty-three thousand persons: in the
evening the theatres were ettythied to excess, and
narietittitt, diavap tind i'dritaloon maintained theii
Ring-established prestige, _ _ _

tinPridayaii4 Stitttray hi the past; and on Monday
and lirediiesddk in the etirrent Week; her Majesty's royal
bounty and gate, tdylii tide distriblited td dged and
meritorious poor in London its vicinity; tinder viii
supervision of the Lord Btishop of O.iford; LerdHigh
Almoner ; the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Sub-Almoner, •by Joseph
Hanby, Esq., Secretary and Yeoman of her Majesty's
almonry in ordinary. The applications for aid were
riniietfally nthiittous; The numbers relieved amounted
to nearly 1,000 persofiti.
The Board of Trade returns shots a deeterde' iri the
exports for November of £101,252; hut, in Setitetitliet
there was a decrease of £1,42437. The increase on
the eleven months is n per den ()Vet last year, and 17
per cent; over
.18,58. The doted Todathe.. expects
amount to 123,714,276'. Cottoii yaroutal lhlefif afrd
vroollerls, show de'drisiderable decrease ddring Noverria
her; and irtid ari iniportunt improVenient. The imports
of breadstuffs in November ate valued tit 4000,000, and
for October the receipts were nearly as largd.