The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-06 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL, &c., MARKETS, SATURDAY.

MANCHESTER SHARE.—Leeds, 110 ; Midlands,
1281 ; Londons, 1041 ; North British, 651 ; Shef-
fields, 42! ; Great Westerns, 73i.
GLASGOW IRON.--Market steady. No. 1, 51. to
51. 3d ; Warrants, 52. 4id to 524 6d ; No. 3, 501
9d to 51s.

CORN MARKETS.—CORK : New Oats, 13s ; old,
15s 2d tq 168.—DONCASTER : Quiet Wheat trade,
owing to scanty supply. Farmers' Wheat realised
fully last week's rates. For spring Corn there was a
good consumptive trade,. at late rates.—NEWCASTLE :
Very short supply
,of home-grown Wheat, which has
sold at last week's prices. Factors' Wheat, both
English and foreign. held for eltreme Prices ; but
millers being well in stock are not eager buyers. Prices
fully equal to last week, but business limited. Flour
quiet, but fully as dear. Not much inquiry for Barley.
Oats held more freely, and rather more inquiry. Beans
and Peas Not much doing.—DROGHEDA : There was
a small attendance at market to-day, and the only
description of grain offered was a few samples of Wheat,
which met a ready sale at the quotations of last Satur-
day. ''rites : White Wheat, 32s to 33s ; Red
Wheat, 31s to 325; White Oats, 15s to 161 ; Black
Oats, 14s to 15e.

DONCASTER CATTLE.—An average supply of
stock, principally Irish Beasts. Young Steers and
Heifers in most request, at late currencies. Mulch Cows
£l4 to £l9 ; Steers and Heifers, £5 to £8 lOs ; Irish
Drapes, £6 to £8 each. A better show of Sheep, but
trade very slow. Wethers, 42s to 46s ; Lambs, 28s to
30s each.--Large supply of Pigs, but quite in excess of
demand. Pork, 7s 6d to 7s 9d per stone.

ct,t ipping 3ntriligturt.

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Aug. 3.
Portena, M'Gowen,
Buenos Ayres
Crisis, Black Singapore
Persian, Trewavas ...Paraiba
llermion e, Towill,Peniambuco
Restless, Noel Porto Rico
Phceniz, Kuiper Antwerp
Jamsatjee Cursetjee,Crßombawforayil,

seahorse, Banks Calcutta
Aquila, Gladovieb...Marseilles
Tamaulipas (is), Baker,
Peerless Bordeaux
, Davis ... Pomaron
.1 Fra9er, Herbert Mazatlan
Criminal Rathbrand,
Nebundal, Honduras
Sicilian (ss), Wukeham,

Crescent Alexandria, Guard Charente
Louise, Quick Rouen
Elizabeth, Roberts Dieppe
Aug. 5.
J Fish, Young ...New Orleans
F Fern, Lawrence ...Savannah
Ben Adams, Chase, New York
W Tupscott, Bell New York

Aug. 4.
Princeton Bell ......New York
Princeton, New York
..
PerilahceneLta,, Graves ......Antigua
Tagus (ss), Wade .....Lisbon
Petronella, Webjer ...Sm)rna
Volante ................. Pomaron
Falcon, Hope .....Can..........
Arabia (rms), Stone ...Boston
OFF THE PORT.
Aali Logan, Braganza (ss), Favourite, and Tiber (sa).
SAILED.
Tamerlane, from Aug, 4.—Persia (rms), Judit.ini, New York
OUTPOSTS
Ciiim...._ _
, 1it:17,..
Azt,t72
von
Odessa at gingstown
Rockiii, .11 Clove, from Sulina at Waterford
Madras off Portsznouth
chevalier,,rona Savannah at Bristol
Irene, from from St bk., N B, at Gloucester
Bruauflia. t. ediae at Warrenpoint
burg;
Quebec, both ktV llorth America, and Fanny Watson, from
Adelaidel
&rid Firth
burg; Adelaje Ar?ived i 1.) W Pickering, from Ham"
}244Pbrasie, Havre; Fetish, Pisagua

THE DAY'S NEWS.

If we are behind the rest of the world in giving
credence to the report published in this column on
Saturday,• to the effect that England, along with all the
other powers, had agreed to the terms of an intervention
in Syria, it must be because we are unwilling to believe
that Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell are so
thoroughly imbecile and unable to resist Napoleonic
wheedling as to have once more entangled us into a
French alliance of this sort, wherein we are to play
second fiddle to the wily Frenchman. Look at the facts
which have already been published and certified to all
the world, and tell us how this last report is to be
believed, without admitting that Lord Palmerston
has thereby bound England to a common policy
with a potentate whom he thinks capable of wan-
tonly exciting a war between England and France ?
Everybody knows that at the sitting of the Conference
on Monday last, France and Russia on the one hand
were outvoted by
England, Austria, Prussia, and the
Porte on a very important question. Russia claimed the
right of interfering in European Turkey, as well to in the
Asiatic provinces, and France backed those pretensions.
Lord Cowley, departing from his usual frigidity, vehe-
mently opposed them, and was supported by Prussia and

Austria; whereupon the Conference adjourned sine die.
.This we knew. ago. Well, then, what has taken
.
'place-to alter the._ state of the case, or account for the
suddenly announced agreement? Nothing but tio
publication of the Emperor's appeal to " jlear Pam."
Can it be that in a matter which requires the utmost
delicacy in the handling, in which the Emperor himself
admits that the very existence of the Turkish Empire is
at stake. Lord Palmerston has sacrificed the interests
of his country to gratify his Imperial friend. .If the
EniPeror of the French professes himself to be " com-
pelled by events beyond his control" to proceed to the
dissection of the sick man, England may withdraw
her troops, may possibly protest, but whatever
course she adopts is sure to, entail loss of prestige, less
of influence, and consequently loss of allies. These
remarks hold good even if the French and -Rus-
sian Goverments should simulate an agreement with the
other four powers. Once in the East, with England at
her tail, France becomes mistress of the field, and we
all know the skill with which the French Emperor can
direct events so as to compel him, very reluctantly, of
course, to trample upon any engagements he might
have entered into. Sheer philanthropy will compel him
to annihilate the Turkish empire, and occupy Damascus
and Beyrout, just as philanthropy compels him to keep a
large force in Italy. It is a heavy expense, and his
Majesty, whose simplicity approaches the sublime, counts
it for nothing to be looked upon as the supreme arbiter
of the fate of Italy. In a word, acting in common with
the Emperor of the French in Syria invoites our com-
plicity in the conspiracy against the Turkiih empire, with-
out the possibility of our coming to the rescue, and the
downfall of Tarkey is synonymous with Russia at Con-
stantinople and France firmly settled in Syria and Egypt.
Our incredibity as to the truth of the report, in which
respect we may appear somewhat singular, is to some
extent countenanced by the following bombast of M.
Grandguillot in the Constitutionnel, of Friday, which
seems inconsistent with the truth of the statement that
the Powers have come to an understanding :—" The in-
tervention in Syria to protect the Christians who were
massacred, was not only a political privilege, but an im-
perative duty of humanity. Once more we say that is
why France, happy to seize the occasion which presented
itself to put an end to certain passing discussions, and to
convoke all Christian Europe under the same flag, has
called for the union of all civilised nations against fana-
ticism and barbarism. Such a step does net assuredly
signify that, if an understanding should not be come to
between the different Powers, France will henceforth
consider herself free from all obligations. The expedi-
tion to Syria, we do not fear to affirm, will be made in
any case; if European intervention should become im-
possible, French intervention will be not the less inevi-
table ; but it- was prudent, in order to edify public
opinion in Europe, to act in the manner which has been
adopted."

The Patric of Saturday evening says the regiments
intended for Syria left Chalons that morning. Four
steamers left Toulon on Friday, to embark troops.
News received here states that great agitation prevails in
Candia, Jeddah, and Arabia.
By telegram from Naples, via Genoa, dated the 3rd
instant, we are informed that the city is tranquil.
A rumoar_had currency at Turin yesterday that the
Neapolitan Plenipotentiaries have seen the impossibility
of concluding an alliance between Sardinia and Naples,
and will leave Turin immediately. The journals
annotince that the Government has contracted a 19a4 of
60,000,000 lire at 80 26.

The Perseveranza of Milan announces that the Sar-
dinian government has ordered the levy of the classes
1838 and 1839.

From Rome we learn that a popular movement at
Urpino has beeen suppressed. The people shouted for
Garibaldi. General Lamoriciere has despatched a column
of troops to Terracina. A militdry eolaniti has also
been sent to Calabria.

Merlingue, the grenadier of the Guards, who in June
last shot a sergeant of his company, who had inflicted
a slight punishment upon. him, has been executed at
Vincennes. Immediately' before the execution, the
firing party of twelve men were addressed by an
adjutant, who, in pursuance of orders from the
general commanding the parade, exhorted them
as well in the performance of a military duty as
from motives of humanity to fire straight. They
obeyed the injunction so well that not a single ball
missed its mark. Two struck the criminal .in. the
head and ten in the breast, and he rolled over
quite dead, without a struggle. The man exhibited
great firmness. He said he had committed a hei-
nous crime and was ready to die for it, and he
hoped God would pardon- him. He took off his coat
himself, and marched without assistance to the spot
indicated. He was told that, according to the ref ula-
tions, he .eyes would be bandaged, unless he expiessly
requested to have that ceremony dispensed with. It is
to be presumed that he did not avail himself of the
option, as a handkerchief was tied sound his head at the
last moment.

The Bombay mail of the 7th ult. brings news of
importance. The death of Mr. Legeyt, a member of
the India Council, is announced.

Astronomic annals, says the New York, Reml4 of the
24th ult., do not, perhaps, contain the record of a phe-
nomenon occurring in any age of the world more start-
lingly beautiful than than which was witnessed in this
locality on Friday night. The great comet which
blazed in our harvest skies two years ago was, night after
night, an object of grand attraction ; but those who
witnessed the flight of that brilliant meteor
through the air the night before hest, enjoyed
a spectacle eclipsing in its splendour any-
thing that they had ever before seen, or
that perhaps they will ever see again. Meteors,
though regarded, like comets, with superstitious awe, as
portentous of some great calamities, are not very rare.
We read from time to time of meteoric stones falling in
different parts of the country. There were some
remarkable instanbes of the kind a few months ago
in Virginia ; and those phenomena known as shoot-
ing stars, and which are ascribed to meteoric
action, may be witnessed almost every fine summer
night.. .But the display, of Friday night was, if not
without precedent in astronomic annals, at least without
precedent in the memory of any individual whom we have
heard speak -on the subject. The main particulars may
be thus summed up :—At about a quarter before ten
o'clock on Friday' evening, the atmosphere being very
sultry, and no perceptible Motion in the air, a light
cloud appeared in the west, from which a blue-
tinted luminous globe shot out, which at the first
glance suggested to the'spectators the idea of an artificial
firework, Instantly it, lost its globular form, bursting,
like an immense skyrocket, into four portions. The
first two are represented by one of our correspondents
as resembong ,browinuy .iturainatea cnancteuera, vrti,t
innumerable jets. of purple flame; the others were
globular and comparatively small, appearing rat vi"
as the tills of the first.. They maintained thin.
relative distances as they flew athwart the s.:y
from , west to east occupying in their flight sone-
thing like a 'minute. Whether they vanished .n
air or fell on the land or sea we have not yet ascertaind.
About a minute after their passage, a detonation va.s
heard, as from a piece of ordnance ; but whether it pn-
ceeded from the bursting of the meteor is a matter of ca-
jecture. One very curious optical delusion which it re
rise to is worthy of remark. To the spectators it appeard
to be no higher than from a quarter to half a
and to be almost directly over their heads, and yet whn
the fact is considered that it was witnessed under almst
identical circumstances at Philadelphia, some nine),
miles south-west of Newyork; at New Haven, viey
miles east ; at,Barnegat, forty miles south, and at isTe... •
burg, on the Hudson, sixty miles north, it will perceivd
that the idea of its insignificant elevation was met
delusive... It must have been at an immense elevatia
to have been seen at these widely-remote poin,
and to have presented at all of them the sale
appearance of being so nearly in the zenith. t
is also to be remarked in connection with to
meteor, that for the previous two or thrn,
nights brilliant, , flashes of the aurora borealis has
illumined the northern skies—a most unusual display i
the dog days, and one which we only look for in the lai
fall and winter months. The aurora is generally su,
posed to indicate -clear cold weather, but in this case
has been followed by an oppressively sultry state of tl
atmosphere, thus contradicting our previously conceive
notions. It is also very closely connected in point i
time with the solar eclipse, which took place la:
Wednesday morning.

Francis Price has been condemned to be executed o
Monday week for the murder of Sarah Pratt, at Sirmini
ham, on the Bth of April la.st.
The volunteer corps of the northern and western pot

tions of the metropolis pet on Saturday at Hampstead
Heath, for the purpose of having--afield day and sham
fight. The military ardour of the volunteers had been
awakened to some effect by the. -sham fight which
took, place a short time since at Bromley, and as
that affair went off with great eclat, the notion
appears tb have become general that a field-day
of this sort is a perfectly easy and manageable affair,
and that nothing more is wanting to insure success than
to fix the hour-and place of meeting for these rifle tour-
naments: The experience obtained on Saturday at
Hampstead will not be thrown away, if it leads to a
cenviction of the absolute necessity of agreeing before-
hand to some plan of action, and taking precautions
which will ensure its lseing carried out. But space pre-
vents us from giving details.