The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-11 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

air An Evening Edition of the NORTHERN DAILY
TIIIES is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock,
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FRIDAY,

JANUARY 11, 1856

DIPLONACY has enjoyed rather a merry
Christmas and happy New Year, if agreeable
anticipations and a determination to do good have
anything at all to say to human enjoyment. It
requires, however, to be a diplomatist, and one of
a vulgar or past age, to participate in such revels
as the " peace negociations " concocted by Austrian
statesmen. If Russia had really desired peace she

might have obtained it in the spring of last year,

and on terms which the Constitutional party of
Europe considered anything but honourable or
evenhanded. She determinedly refused those
terms, and continued the war with redoubled
vigour. She desired no peace, and only sought
by conferences to gain time to deepen her plots
and fortify her position. In a word, despotism
entertains a long cherished belief that it can set
Constitutional Europe at defiance, and that its
signal triumph over all we delight to call civiliza-
tion is but a question of time. Absolutists have

THE commercial intelligence from America,
published in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES of
Wednesday, contained a mass of statistics which
cannot be too carefully reviewed by the manufac-
turing and trading community of the North. In
our race after prosperity we have little to hope for
from poor governments or exhausted nations.
Where peace and plenty reign, there commerce
must seek its abode, and human industry and
enterprise their honest reward. We can only draw
driblets of supplies from peoples pining under the
burthens of intolerance, impoverished by iron
rule, or wallowing in the sloughs of despotism:
We, therefore, turn with increased delight, as we
cross the threshold of every new year, to the
progress made by those enlightened nations whose
freedom has won for them that prosperity which
imparts stability to their own existence, and
diffuses its innumerable blessings throughout
those countries which enjoy their friendship and
specially for their'work, I constant intercourse

no confidence in our institutions. They cannot
persuade themselves that a free nation can resist
the inroad of that strength which a military
despotism can send into the field. They admit
the superiority of our civil polity, and admire the
extraordinary social condition we have attained
but they

upon the history of our progress and
nething by far too ephe-

peace as

meratto stand the t

-3 and the convulsive

.e have to

shocks of war. These are th

it, and the errors we have t

Nations who make themselves soldiers can onl,

exist by triumphs, and must, therefore, plunge into,
to all the risks of, war. Their mental and

its them

To America the manufac-
turing districts of England must ever look for
trade and profit ; and to us the States must in
their turn coma with their produce, and for their
supplies.

submit to its scourges as a

ion of thin,

s. Russia is one of

Such compulsory obligations have not their

origin in chance. Man's industry requires room,
and the accumulated millions on small islands,
spread over continents in obedience to a great
natural necessity. And hence the circles of
demand and supply are' widened ; and, when
rational freedom and civilisation accompany the
exodus of man, the glorious triumphs we now
witness over the poverty of what is called over-
population in old countries, and the inexhaustible
resources of the sNilderness in America and
England, is the consummation of the original
design. From the day on which the PILGRIM
FATHERS landed on the inhospitable shores of
America up to the present hour, the States and

transitorius

or favorable to

Russia at a

Is it I:

y math

fiVitittitt4 Wit* tiMboottlitiii4ool4l ittittikito lANtAtit ii

balanced; and from this day both may be said to
be starting afresh on a new cycle of greatness and
And two such rivals, so full of energy,
genius, enterprise, and a determination to conquer
all that stands in the way of their further progress
in the arts, sciences, and dominion, never before
appeared on the world's stage. Other nations may
join in their rivalry, but none appear to possess
the peculiar aptitude required for the difficulties of
the race, or the enjoyment of winning the
prize. All nations would share the profits of
incessant commercial toil, but few have the relish
for the unceasing labour, immense risks, and
racking anxieties of a trading life, and an endless
round of commercial adventure.
We must, therefore, look to America at once as
our great friend and competitor ; and, while she
mingles friendship with her rivalry, there is
nothing to prevent, at the end of the next three.
quarters of a century, that glorious spectacle of
success which has marked the career of the two
countries for the last seventy-five years. We
cannot turn to our bullion statistics, with any
degree of satisfaction. They are too much
mystified for practical purposes, and can only be
dealt with by theorists who can draw inferences
from darkness, and evanescent assurances to
sustain their own particular crotchets. OIV Banks
make one set of " returns" to Parliament and
another to the public. We have, however, in
America another people, and can get a more
distinct view of their bullion operations and
general monetary condition. And what do we
find ? By the bullion returns we published on
Wednesday, it will be seen the gold fields of
California produced, from their discovery up to
the 24th of December last, little short of
82,500,0001. The States have also imported, from
foreign countries, something over 7,500,0001.,
making a total of about 90,000,0001. ; of which
quantity they exported, up to the 31st of Decem_
ber, 1855, about 46,500,0001., leaving in their
Banks and circulation, 43,500,0001., being upwards
of 27,000,0001. more than they had for all pur-

poses in 1818.
That this enormous production of gold—brought
to market at a nominal price, first flowing iato
their banks, and giving life and stability to their
trade, then leaving their shores for materials to
enrich them in railways and other internal
improvements, fructifying as it passes from hand
to hand in the great circle of commerce—must
inevitably make them a most powerful nation.
But England has her gold fields ; and although
we cannot, at this moment, give the same straight-
forward account of what becomes of our bullion,
still we will not be left far behind the States
in command of metallic treasure. Where they
lead we can follow; and it would be hard for
ono to shake off the other in this world's social
progress. The accounts received from the States
with regard to the sugar crop aro, on the other
hand, most discouraging. The demand for sugar,
taking into account the world's consumption,
keeps rather in advance of supply, and when it
is broadly announced that the deficiency in the
American sugar crop has been variously estimated
at from 60,000 to 90,000 hogsheads, it becomes
a very serious matter, as it would be impossible
to withdraw the least of those quantities from the
established sources of supply without causing an
almost universal derangement in the markets for
that staple. America will feel this as much as we
shall, and unless the cheap sugars of Siam be
brought to onr rescue, the pressure on this
commodity will be almost universal and excessive.
The tabular statement of the American sugar
crop, which we gave on Wednesday, shows that
the production of the present year will be con-
siderably less than that obtained since 1851 ; and
we cannot, therefore, rely on receiving any large
supplies from that quarter. We make these
remarks in order that some of our Legislators may
turn their attention to the subject, and may be
prepared to resist any attempt to advance the duty
on this favourite article of taxation, and that the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER may have timely

notice that the price of sugar may possibly rise
50 per cent- above the maximum on which
he based his calculations when reimposing
duties on that commodity in the last Session of
Parliament.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING.

There has been no change in the Cotton Market
today, and the sales only amount to 6000 bales,
inclusive of 1000 taken for speculation and export.
An unusual amount of attention being at present
drawn to the receipts of cotton at the southern
ports of the United States, we have drawn out a
comparative statement, date for date, at each port,
showing at a glance, the increase and decrease this
year as compared with the year 1852-53.

1852.53. 1855-56. Increase, Decrease.
New Orleans .... 739,128. , 667,751... ..82,377
Mobile
Florida
Texas ...... ... 19,252.. 24,749... 5,497...
Savanna
Charleston
Other Ports 11,342.. 7,651.. .. 3,691

1,262,828 _1,252,505..76,372 86,635
76,372

Actual Decrease.... ~..10,263
This statement is from the different prices cur-
rent of corresponding dates each year, and the
contrast is a most remarkable one. This year, it
was reported that a very large surplus of the last
year's crop was left in the interior, and that the
new crop was unusally large ; yet, with all, we
find that, although the western rivers have been in
good boating order nearly all the season, the
receipts are actually 82,377 bales less than in
1852-53. In 'A.Tobile, the rivers have been up
earlier, yet the receipts are not equal to 1852-53
The only excess of receipts being in the Atlantic
seaboard, where the railway communication with
the interior has more than doubled in extent since
1852, and the facilities of getting the crop to mar-
ket, increased in proportion. From these facts,
we would ask whether it is not natural to come to
the conclusion, that the large estimates made" of
the probable receipts of 185:5-56, have been exag-
gerated, and that we shall, ere long, find that the
present expectation of large receipts will be disap-
pointed. We may notice that the receipts for the
first eleven weeks of 1853, average 118,000 bales
per week. The following is a list of vessels now
at sea, cleared per New York list of 26th December,
received per Baltic :
NEW ORLEANS.
2382045 L. G.
SAVANNAH
Irne tCao ......... . . 328003
Eliza Bonsall
Milton
7/
J. P. Harward 2llO Charter Oak
Arkwright 3990 Normandy . 4325
Ashland
Arabia
Heber
John Cottle .. 4828

CHARLESTON.

St. Louis
Shakspeare
Dorcas Prince
Caravan
Richard Anderson
Plymouth Rock
Monmouth
Magistrate .
Wellfieet
Westmoreland
Alfred Storer
Carlyle
Clara L. Preble 1125
Ben Bolt
Windermere
Ashburton l6OB
Nich. Riddle .....

MOBILE.
Governor Langdon
Portland

NEW YORK.

J. Thompson
Arctic ....

tlarvest Queen

Driver

18,083

71,785jSavannah

Char:eston
. 3400 New York ,
2022

TOTALS.

1134
2695
1588
1992
2303

646
1017
869

71,785

. , 18,083
.. 9,712
.. 3,352

X 6644

quarter. During the continuance of the present
easterly winds, however, no Australian arrivals will
probably take place. At Paris to-day the Three
per Cent. Rentes closed much the same as yester-
day, while the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. were
rather better. The Railway Share Market to-day
was stronger, although business remains very
stagnant. The following were the latest
quotations : Caledonian, 531 541. Eastern
Counties, 81 East Lancashire, 69 70.
Great Northern, 87g 88. Ditto A, 72 73. Great
Western, 511 52k. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 751-,
Leeds Northern, 12k. London and
North Western, 932 931. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 23 23k. Midland Stock, 621-,; 6371.
North British, 28g 29. South Eastern and Dover,
561 57. York,. Newcastle and Berwick,. 66g 67g.
York and North Midland, 442 45.
The following are the traffic returns for the
past week :

----
ENGLISH LINES. .
Bristol and Exeter
Blyth and Tyne .
.... 591
Cheshire Junction
Chester and Holyhead
Deeside
Great Western
Great Northern
Kendal and Windermere
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 20,669
London and South Western ...... 12,390
London and North Western.. .. 51,393
London and Brighton ..
Manchester and S. Junction .... .. 746
Midland
Newport, Abergavenny, &c.
Oxford, Worcester, &c
Shrewsbury and Hereford l,llB
South Eastern . .
South Devon ..... „.
Shropshire Union .. .......
Taff Vale
Wes., Cornwall
West Hartlepool . 2,515
Whitehaven Junction
Whitehaven and Furness 229
IRISH LINES.
Belfast and Ballymena . 862
Cork and Blackrock
Dublin and Wicklow 305
Waterford and Limerick
SCOTCH LINES.

Aberdeen
Caledonian
Dundee and Arbroath ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow.. ......
Edinbu-gh, Perth, and Dundee 3.405
Glasgow and South Western 7,253
Great North of Scotland
Scottish Central
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
Great Luxembourg
Dutch Rhenish
Grand Trunk of Canada
Antwerp and Rotterdam
Liege and Turnhout

... 302
1,912
... 4,468
... 547
... 112

Corresponding
week last year.
▪ £4,610
• . 671
1 993
3,600
172
• • •
.... 19,874
... 18,716
138

19,205
11,436
46,173
10,171
708
23,899
541

2,755
1,056
17.291
2,126
798

LATES INTELLIGENC

SECOND EDITION.

RUSSIA.

A despatch from Berlin states that Count Nes-
selrode has confidentially declared to M. de See-
bach, that, in his opinion, Russia had adopted, in
the declaration of the 22d December, the furthest
concession that she could make.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

5,4221
This afternoon, Messrs. Robert A- Munn and Co
offered for sale by auction, at their offices, 3, York-
buildings, Dale-street, five vessels, in the aggre-
gate 5,273 tons. Of these two were sold—the
Mount Lilac, a very fine new Quebec-built ship,
1,346 tons, of seven years class, which was knocked
down, after a spirited competition, at 7/. ss. per
ton nett cash ; and the City of Toronto, 835 tons
old imeasurement, sold at £5,800. She is also
a fine new ship, built at Toronto, on Lake Onta-
rio, and for seven years class. The Tehernaya,
1,326 tons ; Inkerman, 063 tons ; and Acadia, 803
tons, were withdrawn, but we believe prices will be
civet) closely approximating to those previously
demanded. We understand these gentlemen sold
by private sale a new Miramichi ship of seven
years class, of 960 tons, at 7/. 18s. per ton old men
surement. It is gratifying to find this important
interest is in such a healthy state, indicating as it
does that an active spring trade may be looked
forward to. In addition to the above sale, we
believe Messrs. Curry and Co , and Messrs.
Cunard, Brett, and Co , had auctions, but we have
not been favoured with the results.
The Liverpool Share Market opened with a dull
tone, and continued flat until towards the close,
when the improvement in Consols caused an
advance of 1 to 1 per cent. in the heavy stocks,
leaving off about the best :—Aberdeen, 11 111.
Chester and Birkenhead, 13 13k. Caledonian, 27
271. Chester and Holyhead, 111 111. Eastern Coun-
ties, 88, Si. East ;Lancashire, 17 5-16, 17-4. Great
Northern, 211 22k. Ditto A, 9 91. Great Western,
511 521. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 761 761.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 134. 14. Lon-
don and North Western Stock, 931 931. Manches-
ter, Sheffield and Lincoln, 231 231. Ditto Prefer-
ence,7-10 ap. We read in the Gazette de Lyon:—"A merchant in our
131 13i. Ditto New 6 per cent Pref.,
Midland Stock, 621 631. North British, 71 71. ccity has,
ina concerto r withm i
e severalcii
North Staffordshire, 81 81d. South Eastern, pally consist of second hand furniture, kitchen utensils,
16 14-16, 17 1-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, mattresses, and a very large quantity of second-hand
164 16L York and North Midland, 221 22f,. Dutch coats put into good repair. More than 1000 quintals of
Rhenish, 13-16 11-16 d. Great Western of Canada, hams, sausages, &c., will be carried out by the same
241 241. Ditto New Shares, 21 21p. Great vessel.
Luxembourg, 101 10d. PAYMENT or DIVIDENDS.—A resolution was passed by
In the Manchester Market to-day there has been the Manchester Town-council on Wednesday, on the motion
less demand for both goods and yarn, but prices
of Mr. Alderman Barnes, seconded by Mr. Alderman Hey-
have shown no important change. wood, to the effect that a great public as well as private
advantage would be secared if the privilege were granted of
Telegraphic despatches from Madrid mention
that the Cortes had thrown out the transferring Government Securities, and receiving the
petition from dividends thereon in that city, and in all other towns in
the City of Saragossa, relative to the reduction of which a branch of the Bank of England has been esta-
the budget. Also, that the committee appointed blished ; and it was determined to memorialise the govern-
by the Spanish capitalists to demand the estab- ment on the subject.
lishment of a new Bank of Credit, purely national, THE RUSSIANS AND THEIR CZAR.—There is a great
had drawn up their draft of the proposed society, abatement of the gross personal worship with which he
and presented it to the Cortes. was once treated. A very old inhabitant of St. Peters-
An indemnity has been accorded to M. Chede-
burg related to me that, in his youth, the common people
went down on their knees and crossed themselves at the
villa, by the United States government, as owner approach of the Czar; but that he had lived to sees
of the ship Abeille, for the goods which had been great change, when the majestic figure of Nicholas failed
3r and
eetbhdaetn
,ompaentny
seized by the Customs at San Francisco, under an to commana a greater homage than a respectful obeisance
error of the officers of that department. The aml the sign omittedhlet the
ERGEANT.—Li, utenantp Berry,
amount of this indemnity has been transmitted by lattera, oGf:No Nifeo I I
itl ehEreya tß7Ory no
Ass
s'
the secretary for the foreign department to the who is at the head of the recruiting staff in Preston, is
iaxTOßaTsrilkN
French Bank of Deposit at Paris, which is directed now engaged in investigating a charge of extorting money,
to pay the same into the hands of the parties brought against Sergeant Jean of the 63rd Regiment. The
entitl6d to it. sergeant had spent the evening at a public-house with Mr.
The English Funds sheaved renewed heaviness teinaZidnsthna'ta pawnbroker, and calling the next day re-
the
this morning, pending the deliberations of the
pawnbroker the pawnbroker had enlisted, on which p
gave a sovereign for the sake of a compro-
weekly Board at the Bank, but the market sub- mise. The sergeant, who is an old soldier, will probably
sequently became firmer in character assisted by be discharged without pension.
the announcement that the Directors had separated. The Malta Times contains an account of an examination
without making any change in the rate of discount.
aatndthcoemeTtitielfaolr trial of thee officers for misconduct
Rumours that Russia, although rejecting the They are Lieut. Robert Hodson an
Royal
IC hArriirlearsy Daanyci
Austrian proposals for peace, may, perhaps, put Lieut. Alex. Nixon Montgomery, 7th Royal Fusiliers', and
forward counter-propositions, also stimulated the they are charged with resisting the police in the oxecu-
recovery. Prices finally closed at the best point tion of their duty, ani with having threatened
of the day, and fully i per cent. higher than the
the
eolice with loaded fire-arms. During the hearing
o
yesterday, namely, at 861 to 868. The balance of I
havease been attended e
of
violencew
vteoroylt
serious I!ace,
conse-
quences. might
opinion, it is evident, points strongly to a conti- Some sixty or seventy soldiers rushed into
nuance of the war, and thus the late reduction in the corridor of the Palace of Justice, upsetting the con-
the price of Consols may be regarded as partly stable on duty, it is supposed with a view to rescuing the
caused by the preparations for the reception prisoners, The iron gate leading to the Courts was
of the anticipated Government Loan. Mean-
Court
ntels closed, before
letherus soldiersou t could Baia an
while, the immediate necessities of the Treasury are Courts,e and joiningpetohpemselves to the few policemen
met by the proceeds of the continued sale of stock. present, the soldiers became alarmed and retreated,
If Government sells Savings Bank stock they striking, as they retired, right and left with their belts
must replace it with other national securities, and and sticks. , A fight ensued, but fortunately no heads
the general effect of the operation varies little from were broken.
lee
THE GERMAN LeoroN.—The German Legion at./Kulu ,
that which would attend a new Loan, although the thanks to the care of Brimad'er-General Woolrulge, are
announcement of the latter may be, by these means, getting on remarkably well', scar ely , ase of drunkenness
temporarily postponed. It is computed that or punishment required, and secareelay'never a man absent
upwards of a million of stock has already been from parade. Christmas-eve, a day perhaps more generally
thrown upon the market from this source. The kept in Germany than in England, was kept like whe by
,
Money Market to-day was easier, a more liberal 1 the German Legion. The few men still remaining in the
supply being induced by the release of the divi- barrack hospital had a Christmas tree arranged for them
dends, We may repeat, however, that an unfa- by Dr. Pincopp and his lady, while their comrades at Ku-
rourable anticipation prevails as regards the next lulee kept the day on a larger scale. They decorated their
two or three returns of the Bank. Of the specie barracks with evergreens, illuminated them most tastefully,
freight of the steamer Tyne, no less than about and mnamentedt
etehemGe
with
neral elegantiveeiiid ter awnseps atrhenci.es and
545,200/. was in dollars. The bulk of this large .
, appro pria t e
ber t
appearedps was received by theg men with cheers
snpnly, we learn, has been purchased for account and when
Sergeant-Major stepped forw d d ;
apps se . ar an made an
of the Bank of France. this feet furnishes priate speech, expressing in the name of his comrades
additional eYidencP of the continued severity of the gratitude they felt for the kind feelings expressed in the
the drain upon the stock of specie held by that General's order of the day, ending with a promise to endure,
establishment. The Gold, ea.. the Tyne, ameunting with pleasure and perseverance, the hardships which they
to about 60,0001. has also been absorbed by the may he called upon to endure during the ensuing campaign,
continental demand. Any fresh imports of under the auspices of the General. their leader and friend,
the precious metal that may reach this and shouts of " God save our Queen." Letter from
country are expected to be taken for the same Constantinople.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING

The French Funds closed this day at the following
prices :—Four and a Half per Cents, 91f. 30c. ;
Three per Cents, 02f. 95c.

REPORTED LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S

SHIP ROYAL ALBERT

For the last few days reports have been current
to the effect that the fine screw three-decker Royal
Albert had either been lost or seriously damaged,
and Sir Edmund Lyons has been given as the
authority for such rumour. Now, we believe that
the gallant admiral did receive, since his arrival in
England, some report from Captain Mends, stating
that a screw was loose (we must be excused the
pun), but that all would be shortly right again.—
Standard.

The steamer Ebl.ana, running between this port and
Dublin, at six o'clock yesterday morning, while rounding
the east pier of Kingston-harbour, came in contact with a
trawler (No. 45) which sunk. The crew, however, were
saved, and brought in by the steamer.

EASTERN COUNTIES.—A special meeting of this company
is appointed to be held on the 25th inst., for the purpose of
taking into consideration the general position of the board
of directors and the state of the company's affairs, and of
adopting such measures and resolutions as may be deemed
necessary for the due and proper administration of the
affairs of the company.