The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-31 00:00:00

CALCUTTA MARKETS, DEC. 22

Sine,' the issue of our last fortnightly report we hay'
had advices from London to the 9th ult., via Bombay, the,
mail steamer from Suez having also been announces
early yesterday morning, The prominent effect of the
commercial accounts was an immediate excitement in ee!
sugar market, which has since abated, and prices, which
had advanced considerably, have again declined fully tvo!
rupees a maund, although supplies from up the counta
have been quite scanty. In rice a brisk business is in
progress at advanced prices. The demand f9r indigo'
though not very active, public sales have resulted sat's"
factorily as regards fine qualities. In seeds, owing t!
very small stocks, a limited business has been done a''
full prices.

We regret to have to report less favourably of the stay
of the IMPORT MARKET, which seems to suffer most froto
the increasing scarcity of money.
Our MONEY MARKET is again tighter, nor is there all
appearance of relief for some time to come. The banks:
as well as private capitalists in the Bazaar, are enable'fr
to obtain their own terms, which in many instances ar,e,
very exorbitant, and to which necessity alone compel'
borrowTs to submit.

FREIGHTS : The abundance of tonnage and the scarcityt
of supplies of some staple articles have caused a slir
decline in the rates of freights to England. The entrige
ments during the past fortnight have been on a moderato
scale, and the existing rates to London are Si for sueral;;,
4/ lOs to 41 12s 6d, saltpetre ; 4/ 17s 6d. rice ; 57,
wheat'
4/ 17s 6d, linseed or rapeseed ; 3/ 10s, jute ; and 51 55 to
5/ 10s, indigo. To Liverpool, about 5s per ton lower t 113;
these rates; for Australia, as high as 61 has been paid f°'
a small vessel to sail immediately.
INDIGO : Very little has been done by private con+roc.,t;
though at the public sales prices of fine and middling
qualities have been fully maintained.
EXPORTS from the Ist of November to the 18th of De'
cember, 1855 :
To Great Britain
Franc- "036 A ierica
Other parts C‘,2ho2e369stls. mrn6l4

7153
343
14

CHINA MARKETS.
EXMANCIR AND BULLION.
CANTON, Dry. 12 :On London, 4.101 to 4.14 -110
nn 4
bay, 225 to 220; on Calcutta, 219 r ; carolus dollar°,
per cent. premium.

TIONGItinNG, DEC. 14.—0 n London, six mouth,-,' tp
5--
sight 4.8 ; Indi i, Onßombay 22;5 to 226. on (Ne,l;ll;r',
219 r. per $100; on Sydney and Melbourne, 30 days' s'biit,
4.7 A; Singapore, par.

IndSilliN3-101;‘.ItoD3E,c2.rG. Drafts on Canton, 281 per cv
discount.

MANILLA, Drc. 4.—On London, six months, 4.1 7
30 clays' sinter, 4s ;on Canton, 4 per cent. prenit'
on Amoy, 6 per cent premium,

OPIUM.
CANTON, DEC. 13.—New P,Cna 3871; New BenIregy
$405; Afalwa, $540; Turkey, $460,
SHANGHAI, DEC. 6.—Malwa. $420 to $422; Patna, v
to $324 per chest.

FREIGHT AND TONNAGE.
CANTON.—To London nominal, £4 for tea. 5W:a
SHANGHAI—To London, £4 for tea, and £5 for
To New Y:rlf, $l4 per ton of 40 cubic feet. 4 I.°
MANILLA.—To London £3 10s; Australia,
'''''
United States, nominal, $l2 all round.

FRANCE

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OIIR oval :ToßtusalsoNDENT.)

?Anis, TUESDAY EVENING.
~,The Berlin telegraph brings the news to-day that
'ere is to be no armistice, but merely a suspension
'0 hostilities. This fact, however, has not had any
!ect in diminishing the engouement for peace
teicb. exists in this city. The Berlin telegraph
:11118 also that Prussia is to take part in the Con-
lerences, Austria, France, and Russia having in-
Thed her to do so; as to England, the telegraph
1)84Y8 she hesitates to allow the admission of
rllBBle. My own information leads ere
51ieve that the telegraph is in error as regards
„ ngland• What lam informed is that the French
to is desirous of having Prussia to take
part
the conferences, because he intends, after the
that
of the peace question, to demand that
at Part of the treaties of 1815, which prohibit the
ish"eParte family from ever reigning in France,Bll4ll abolished, and that the abolition thereof
b bee signed by the very powers that signed the
unfPnal treat
'e y- And lam assured that England
theyflrdiallY seconds him in this desire, and that
ef„re
she will not 'oppose the admis-
;,°ll of Prussia ; indeed, it was only to please the
;Teach
Emperor still further in the matter in
question that she proposed Paris as the place of
conference.
The confid
da I 'nee in peace becomes stronger every
le
have seen o, private letter written by Count
Za.
"enea Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
•
1 Says ',hat he has every reason to believe
!1 Peace. TLe article in which the Journal of St.
4-ret6Bburg announced the acceptance of the
Z1E4,11411 propositions has reached Paris to-day,
18, on the whole, considered as very concilia-
of; nay, more, it is held to be a sort of confession
Russia, that she is completely exhausted by the
*at

11,4 kcoo irdng to the Constitutionnel, M. Hubner,
o's ustran Ambassador in this city will, with
°u/It Buol, represent Austria in the conferences, `lld Turkey will be represented by Fuad Effendi,
kinister of Foreign Affairs, and Mehemed Bon
Ambassador in Paris. •
411 the accounts received in this city from Swe-
L'4en, say, that the prospect of peace with Russia
taused the greatest dissatisfaction in that
v'oltb:try.
It is really amUsing
"1 to read the foreign papers
Fran t this moment : according to them, England and
ce have not had the honour of reducing Russia
to submission by
powers their arms, but it is the neutral
that have done so. Thus the Vienna papers
Say, that it wasth
Austria that brought about peace—
s Berlin papers say that it was Prussia,—the
IZBthat it was Saxony; the Bavarian, that it
Bavaria and the Dutch, that it was Holland.
'on% the journals of Naples soon claim the h
°tit for King Bomba? on-
ill;The wife of the Minister of the Interior, M;
tultthl , who died on Sunday, has been buried to-
Y with a great deal of pomp.
1.
;41110U will remember that I told you that the
lous article in the Moniteur rebuking the Senate
its apathy in matters 'that the Constitution
itlea"( s to its charge, and its meddling with other
wellttters that concerned it not, was considered in
•informed quar".ers a proof that the govern-
Illent contemplated the adoption of financial
111"i:ties of a'n unpopular character which it
Is'is,--e(1; the Sienate to take the responsibility of
ril:'-ors'ng• It turns out that this view is the cot.-
• e' rh% the Senate is now stated to be secretly
life 7iielin drawing up a scheme for transferring
Pover assurance from private companies to the
equalins-,,e11t,---and has other measures of an
thY Socialist" character in view. It is said,
8018:: wmat by means of the Senate the government
-"ernplates the dissolution of, or a great modifi-
a,7l" in, the Polytechnic School. Several pupils
11
-el this very day, I understand, bees dismissed
11:‘,141avin''' signed an address of condolence to the
-"w of the late David (d'Angers), a great
1,--▪ eullitor----a noted republican—and several others
4.lftve
to •
consequence resigned.

•TI
of
ule followct in
:.2.7 appeared in our Extra Editions
oresterday

TIIE CONFERE NCES

EXCLUSION OF PRUSSIA

born": London Post says : " We believe we will be perfectly
That p°ot by the result, when we emphatically declare,
'Whate,er :nBsia will not be admitted to the conferences, ando
is
l w
be the impression at Berlin on the subject
r tlliot truemay-
that F has withdrawn her oosition,
The brii.the Britishrance cabinet alone will raise p
opbstacl.es.
Power Igerente onl with Austria as the mediating
t°°Pisne:tpak.e part 3"rin, the conferences which are about
in the oi.
Prussia having chosen to take no part
war, and , . .
Europkeilator, roust' bneaving no recognised status as the
Euro- •
, ve Ignore an Content to see the other powers of
e dor influence which she has allowed to
Want, good
'414 aPo T • offices which she has never exercised,
Pritssia herselfsll" 111 Europe as a first-rate power which
unlikely, has voluntary abandoned. It is not
Pra ; that if a treaty of peace be concluded, that then
Ze" may be invited to give her signature to a docu-
-.11! of. -European acceptance, but in its forming she
:In take no part.''
4liush.e Paris correspondent of the Times says,—The
conpn despatches completing and confirming the un-
wer ltional acceptance of the Austrian prepositions,
e„,Le received at Vienna on the 23rd. The rotocol
arTikdYing these propositions has been signed at Vienna,
Those uas already been received at Paris and London.
acme who conduct the negociations, and who, at the
air tittle, are members of cabinets, will be considered
that ist plenipotentiaries on the occasion. It is believed
2, ePlenipotentiaries will meet in Paris on the 17th
"''Pebroli.y, that very little time will be lost in dis-
ceuisio ut and that the whole will be brought to
pl'.r, conclusion by the 25th. Matters should be
anirranged that not the slightest shadow of excuse
11W exist for applying to St. Petersburg or Vienna
for fresh instructions. The moment that such a pretext
is lip
ong ged, trickery may be suspected. At present every-
'L augurs a favourable and speedy result.