The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-30 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

It is enough that our valuable merchandise has

beell driven out of its lawful path for more than a
,qAt ell of a century by exhorbitant imposts, which
Oujiisto have been abolished centuries since. The
idea of allowing British ships to be detained in
Prussian ports, and their papers ransacked
for Dues claimed by Denmark, is almost too
monstrous to be credited. If such a thing had
been generally known it never would have been
submitted to. We are indebted to diplomatic
secrecy for such a surrender of our independence
as a nation. The Committee have not shown us
what services, or other species of value, we get
from Denmark for the amount she claims for Sound
Dues ; whether she has any lights on the shores
of the Sound which are not required for the use of
her own ports, and how many of the few light-
houses she has which are not as indispensable for
her domestic purpose as they are in the safe navi-
gation of the Sound. If the Danes have erected
those light beacons to give security to the ships of
the world passing through that passage, totally
irrespective of the wants of any Danish ports, most
unquestionably the use of those lights should be
paid by all wayfarers; but to think of charging the
ships of all nations for port lights which they never
see, and need not look for, is a glaring imposition,
and one which will not be much longer allowed by
England, even if America should consent to the
exaction. The Committee have said something
about Danish lighthouses, but they have not told
us how many are purely port lights, and how many
belong wholly to the navigation of the Sound. We
may, however, have this point cleared up before the
Committee close the enquiry ; and, when the
country receives this most necessary information,
we shall be better able to judge of the reasonable-
ness of asking the public to pay 1,000,0001. toward
the capitalisation of an excessive tax for which they
do not receive fair value.

LORD PALMERSTON will -not meet Mr. MOORE.
At one tilme this would have been a very serious
charge to have brought against any man who had
received a challenge. But fire-eating has gone
completely out of fashion, and the billicose mortal
who now invites another to meet him at the early
dawn of morning for the innocent pleasure of
shooting him, is looked on as a bedlamite. Society,
in fact, appears to be fully convinced of the sound-
ness of our moral philosophy, namely," it is better to
"be a coward than a corpse." And the PREMIER
answers his Parliamentary antagonist in pretty
much the same strain. The Noble Viscount thinks
it better to be a war agitating Minister than a
defunct First Lord of the Treasury. Lord PAL-
MERSTON will not therefore give Mr. MOORS the
satisfaction the Honourable Member asks in the
name slf the House of Commons on the
American question. The Noble Lord confines
his defence to that sublime doctrine—armor
patrice. Mr. MOORE does not dispute the
purity of the PREMIER'S patriotism. All he
seeks is a certain amount of information on
which Parliament may form an opinion as to
the legality and consistency of the conduct of the
Cabinet of which Lord PALMERSTON is the leader.
The Honourable Member for Mayo only asks what
any Minister ought always to be ready to afford,
and what the mercantile classes, and the country
at large, would, in this instance, be but too happy
to hear.

The negociakions pending between America and
England can scarcely be of such a formidable
character as to require the observance of Oriental
secresy ! If the past uncertainty as to the probable
issue of the difficulties between the two countries is
to be renewed by the Government's refusing to give
Parliament a candid ex4lanation of what they'have
done, and the course they intend: to pursue, what,
we would as_ lc, is to become of trade ? The Board
of Trade returns for the last month show
merely a nominal increase in our exports for the
past month as compared with the corresponding
period of 1855. With nothing to meet excessive
taxation, and a constant threat of war before the
public eye, what, we must again enquire, is to be-
come of commerce ? The aristocracy are unusual
prosperous. They are getting good rents for their
lands—and may circumstances always favour the
landowner as well the merchant—they have an
army and fleets, from which they draw millions a
year, and it is really not too much to ask, when
the trader is t ) have a seed time and harvest. We
do this with the greater importunity, as experince
has shown that it requires almost supernatural
patriotism and tloyalty in a statesman to hold the
balance evenly, where a multiplicity of interests
are thrown into the scales. And considering the
alarming magnitude of the interests at Bolt-,

the American question, it iq
should see how far "
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a question open, and th 9 effect
a out of doors must have on the
'ay interest, and trade and commerce

Every s tno man must be aware

.c the country has already lost by keeping
isgraceful affair alive for so long a time, and

we are to have politicians playing their diplo-
matic airs, or the wretched ministerial rebec for

as many months more, we may find that 'that

which up to now his ben a miserable farce, tin

great disloyal and dastardly tragedy we apprehend.
It requi« es perfect unanimity in the public mind
of Great Britain, if not of Europe, to carry on a
war successfully; and who will dare to giirantee
this indispensable union in a struggle against one
of the most free and onward countries in Christen-
dom ? This is a query Which Parliament ought
to solve before it rises, and not leave the people to
dwell on a topic which will only serve to inflame
prejudice, and give unnatural warmth to the
torrent of political passion with which it will fill
England and the Continent.

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child, and
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.icknor, Miss Guild,
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P. Bruce, lady, and two
Lindsay and child, Mrs.
children, and

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arse, Mrs.
-tti, Mr. Carrell, lady, and maid,
Nort,n, W. Cochran, S. Mathon,
H. T. Ropes, lady, two sons and
n, P. Hanal.ton, J. Richards, 11.
Thomas, J. A. Amoy, It. J. Scrivener, E. V. Ashton,
J. N. Mot and lady, Messrs. S. Gray, D. Lewis, A.
Backing, J. Eilbracht, Hold .n, E. Pedrera, Anderson, L.
Lay, lady and child, Messrs. R. J. Caughley, F. W. Reid,
Currell, Hill. Hamilton, James Wilson, Robert Wilson
Joseph Meagri., J. T. Mitchell, C.-awford, J. Mare, J.
C. Greene, A. Stott, W. Fen.erman, W. Lindsay, C.
Stott, A. 8.-Stott, C. Hooman, .Master Denham, Messrs.
E. Douglas, J. Smith, J. Logan, Mrs. Addy, Miss S.
Randall, Miss Geddes, Messrs. J. Brennan, Joseph Bren.
nan, P. H. Flanaghan, J. Fackel, J. H. Simmons, J.
Gedeon, Rev. J. Henderson, Mes rs. F. Edwards, C. S'ead
and lady, Geo. Watson, Miss King, Mossrs. D. Sullivan,
W. M. Fisher and lady, Messrs. W. °fiord, Geo. Moran,
W. H. Edwards, J. Tobin, Nickill, H. Heyman, Leo Yde,
G. B. Merellor, J. Ainley, 0. Rice and laiy, W. Alexander,
John Morrison, Mrs. M. Morris and, infant, Rev. Protessor
King and lady, Mr. Meinel and lady, Miss Bliss, Miss
Bullock. Miss Pryon, Mrs. Pryon, Messrs. Tapper, Lamont,
Morris, Form in, Stewart and lady, Rev. Mr. Green, lady,
and infant, Rev. James Shaw, Rev. Mr. Wilson, Mr.
M'Dougal, Mr. Weir.

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I°,luNT

ES AND COMM E IA

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING

The Liverpool Cotton Market has again shown
great activity, and a large business has been done,
the sales amounting to 10,000 bales, of which about
one-half have been taken on speculation. Prices
have been very firm.

The buoyancy of the Share Market rather
increased than otherwise to-day, a good business
Las been done, and the tendency of prices has
been gradually but steadily upward. The closing
quotations were :—Aberdeen, 14,1 14;1. Chester and
Birkenhead, 171 18. Caledonian, 31H 311 Chester
and Holyhead, 161 161. Eastern Counties, 111
111. East Lancashire, 211 21g. - Great Northern,
24 241. Ditto A, 91 10. Great Western, 63-1- 64.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock. 981 99. Liver-
pool, Crosby, and Southport. 181 In. London and
North Western Stock, 107 1071. Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 35/ 351 New 6 per cent.
Pref , Rie. Ditto Preference, 12 12k. . Midland
Stork, 84: 851. North British, 98 9-1. North
Staffordshire, 515$d. South Eastern and Dover,
221 .22 15-16 York, Newcastle, end Berwick, 22
221„ York and North Midland, 311- 32. Leeds
Capital Stock, 191 201. Buffalo and fake Huron,
11 lip. Dutch Rhenish, 4 22p. Great
Western of Canada, 26,1 261. Ditto New Shares,
31 38?. Great Luxembourg, 81 81d.
The imports of gold this week have amounted to
545,204/ , as follows :—From New York, 197,0001 ;
from Australia about 300,000/. ; from Antwerp,
46,0001.; and from
.the Peninsula; 2,2041. The
exports have consisted merely of the amounts
shipped through the Customs, the particulars of
which are given in the official return of the exports
of bullion from the port of London for the week
ending Thursday last:— Gold coin—Hamburg, 780
ozs.; Sierra Leone, 760 ozs. ; Belgium, 13 700 ozs.;
Boulogne, 100 ozs. Silver coin—Boulogne, 6,000
ozs.; Hamburg, 400 ozs. Siver bars—Hamburg,
157,308 czs.

Letters from Paris mention that a rumour is
current of the probability of a third prorogation of
the Legislative Body before the session closes. It
is said that this will be necessitated by the mea
sure before the Chamber relative to the modifies,
tinn of Customs Tariff not likely to be settled, as
it receives a very lively opposition, notwithstanding
the concessions' already made by the Government.
In consequence of the lengthened discussion upon
this measure, it appears not possible for the Legis•
lature to come to a close on the 2d July, the day to
which the Assembly is prorogued ; therefore a new
decree is looked for, authorising them to continue
their labours until the 15th or 20th of July.

Meounts from the wine district of Auxerre, in
France, state that the humid weather which pre-
vailed during the flowering season of the vine has
lessened the prospects of much fruit. The plants
suffered at night chiefly, and in some vineyards
destroyed the new f'ruit. Meanwhile, the return
of fine weather has given hopes of the injurious
effects of the moisture being checked, and an
average vintage resulting from the season. If the
weather continues firm until the middle of July,
any further damage will be of little consequence.
The vino growers are standing out for exorbitant
prices, which purchasers are not inclined to give,
although they offer a fair advance on last year's
prices. .

In the London Stock Market, there was extreme
buoyancy to-dap We quote the following report
from Mr. Aven's circular

The reduction in the minimum rate of discount, combined
with a plentiful supply of money in the general market, ant
the prospect of increased case and further abundance, has
produced en extraordinary effect upon our markets to-day,
particularly upon the price of railway securities. Contrary
to the ordinary practice of recent times upon a Saturday. we
have had a most extensive and animated business followed by
an advance in quotations almost unprecedented for rapidity
and magnitude. It has avenged from 1 to fully 3 per cent.
Certainly, compared with the present and prospective value
of money, and especially remembering the long period during
which railway stock has been depressed, so considerable
an improvement is not out of the way. It only attracts
attention from its liability to serious reaction in the event of
unfavourable weather, or of some threatening change in our
political relations, or of some casualty affecting commercial
credit. At all events, judging from the speculative disposi-
tion manifested to-day, and the tendencies which it has
already developed, we regard with satisfaction the policy
of the Bank directors in abstaining from lowering the
rates of discount more than 71 per cent. in the
first instance ; and we now believe that both prudence
and policy dictate the postponement of any further
„oneanie fur a seernieht at least, if not for throe week©.
The Bank, however, under the pressure of the formidable
competition it has to meat, must have regard to the
interests of its proprietors ; still, the interests of the
proprietors are not essentially distinct from those of the
public, and the public interest would certainly suffer if the
speculative tendencies now rife were unduly encouraged.
What we most fear is the competition of the monied
interests for the profi'able employment of their reserves
during the next two months. Tie banks have been so long
accustomed to extraordinary profits from the long continued
dearness of money, that, unless managed with consummate
prudence, they will fall into the error of endeavouring to
maintain those excep+ional profits by unduly extending
their accommodation, and so create the very evil which, we
knew, they are anxious to avoid. To-day's transactions
upon the stock exchaege are only a reflex of what is passing
outside : and the time is now at hand when we are to see
whether joint stock management will equal in prudence the
commercial and mercantile management‘during the critical
period from which we are now emerging. Consols opened at
95 to 1 ex-dividend, very firm, and wi'h a good demand.
-Almost immediately, they improved to 951 to A, still firm;
bet before the close they gave way slightly, and finally left off
-1 se , exceedingly strong, The scrip of the new loan closed
"Is pm. Exchequer bills advanced is upon vesterd ey's
-nd the demand continues. They are 12s to 15s.
Railway Market, as stated above, has been
nated, and a most active business was done
ut the day at greatly improved prices. The rise
aeral ; and, extending as it did over all descriptions
in only request our tiiends and clients to compare this
e prices with those given in yesterday's circular, as well
'th those of last Saturday, as given in the table. For
1 descriptions the demand has been constant, and they
off firm. Pernambuco Railway and Netherlands
Preference Shares were more enquired for, The
with the 7 per cent. guarantee, are cheap
wt quotations-11 to el premium. In Ceylon
phrates Valley a large business has been done.
other markets are strong. The payment of the
0001. instalment upon the new loan was effected to-
eithout the slightest pressure ; and the money market
rerally, is perfectly easy. The closing quotation of the
e'rench three per cents upon the Paris bourse, were 71f 65c,
being an improvement of per cent on yesterday's prices.

In the Mincing-lane markets this week there
has not been much activity, an absence of specula
tive dealing being apparent. Of sugar the pur-
chasers have generally been confined to immediate
wants, but buyers have evinced a willingness to
operate at the slightest concession in prices. The
stock of this staple at the port of London at the
end of last week was 57,888 tons against 58,618 in
the corresponding period of 1855. Coffee has been
dull, and prices have declined 6.1 to is per cwt ;
tea at public sale has scareely sustained previous
prices, and cocoa is -a trifle cheaper. For rice the
enquiry has :.diminished, and a decline of 6d per
c.,%1; from the recent high point has occurred.
Rum has been in improved request at a slight
enhancement. Saltpetre has realised 6d per cwt,
and spices have realised full rates. Tallow has
been improving.

CHARGE OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON A GIRL.—OR
Saturday a case of the above description was investigated in
one of the private rooms attached to the police court, before
Mr. Aiken, one of the magistrates. The charge was pre-
ferred by a smart well dressed girl, named Charlotte Brown,
aged 15, against a man named Jams Hill, a cabinet maker,

residing in: Paddington. Mr. Pemberton defended the
prisoner. Th girl lived as servant with the prisoner,
and about a fortnight ago the offence was said to have been
committed. From the evi lence of the girl, and a certificate
of Dr. Sibbald, there was no doubt about the charge, but
in consequence of the conduct of the girl the magistrates
said the criminal proceeding failed, and he must dismiss the
complaint, at the same time he censured, in very strong
language, the conduct of the man, and advised the mother
of the girl to seek redress by a civil action.
Tn WzaTsiza.—TnE Caors.—The weather, during
the past week, has been most propitious in every respect
Indeed, it may be said to be the fi,st summer weather of the
season—sunny and warm. The crops in the vicinity of the
town look vigorous and most promising ; and that useful
esculant, the potato, surpasses in appearance anything pre-
sented for several years past. The vegetable, so far, that is
brought to market, is good and dry, and within the last few
days the size has greatly increased. The corn crop, too, is
fine and healthy, and, with a continuance of the present
favourable weather, an early and productive harvest may be
looked for. We have spoken with a gentleman who has,
within bst week, travelled a considerable prtion of the
south coast of Ireland, and he reports that the best
prospects are presented as to the crops in that part of the
kingdom.

LA_ FEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE EAST

MARSEILLES, JUNE 28.

The Carmen has just arrived, bringing news from
Constantinople to the 19th inst.

The only point of interest is the announcement
made by the Presse (1' Orient, of a communication
made by the Ottoman Government to the effect

that the rumours which have been of late generally
circulated are wholly destitute of foundation in

truth

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

From Stockholm under date of the 27th instant,

we learn that the government is prepared to accept
the declaration of the Maritime Laws as settled by

the Peace Congress at Paris

SPAIN

We are in receipt of despatches from Madrid.
to the date of the 29th inst. The insurrectionists

in Valladolid have been brought to trial, and
another execution, which it is believed will not

be the last, has taken place.

THE DUCHY OF PARMA

Advices to the date of the 28th instant, men-
tion that at the period of their despatch, the Duchy

of Parma was perfectly quiet.
Numerous individuals who had been placed
under arrest for supposed complicity in the in-
surrectionary movement, had been discharged
from custody, and hopes were sanguinely enter
tained, that the state of siege would speedily be
raised.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PAhIS, FRIDAY EVENING

You will remember that a few days back I was
able to announce to you, on good authority, that,
on account of the very great coolness which has
sprung up between France and Russia, the long
talked of and often postponed departure of Count
do Morny for St. Petersburg had been put off to
the 10th July. I learn to-day from an excellent
source that this departure, though not exactly
postponed sine die, will certainly not take
place until Russia shall have made an
advance to France, by definitively nominating an
ambassador to represent her here—a nomination
which, at present, she has shown a reluctance to
make. Prince Dolgorouki, who was originally
selected by his government for the post, has been
d,finitively set aside—and this, as I have already
informed you, has caused offence to France.
Touching the reported interview between the
Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Austria,
which I spoke of as probable in a recent letter, I
learn to-day that nothing has been definitively
settled about it, but that the chances are that it
will take place. The place now spoken of for it is
Rheinberg, somewhere on the AustrO-Swiss Iron
tier. lam assured that the interview will be of a
strictly private and confidential nature
The French government, I hear, has sent orders
to the Crimea that some of the regiments there,
instead of coming to France, shall be landed in
Greece, and shall take the most energetic measures
possible for the suppression of brigandage.
The departure of the Emperor for Plombieres
is fixed for the 2nd July. It is from that place
that he is to go to Switzerland to see the Emperor
of Austria. The departure of the Cardinal
Legate Patrizzi is to take place on Tuesday.
Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is to
leave for Wiesbaden on Thursday.
The improvement on the Bourse commenced yes-
terday has continued to-day. People are beginning
to hope that the crisis is at an end. It is expected
that the Bank of France will reduce its discount.
The "great Dallas black-neckcloth question" has
excited considerable interest. The following are
the terms in which a London letter, printed osten-
sibly in the official organ of the government, the
/V/oniteur speaks of it :—" An incident, which could
not fail to cause a certain emotion, occurred at the
last levee of the Queen. At the moment at which
the foreign ambassadors and ministers were about
to pass before her Majesty it was perceived that
several members (sic) of the Legation of the
United States were attired in a manner contrary
to all usages on such occasions ; one of them in
particular was in trousers, a frock coat
and a black cravat, This negligence having
attracted the attention of everybody, General Sir
E. Cust, master of the ceremonies, after, probably,
taking the orders of the Queen, addressed some
remarks on the subject to Mr. Dallas, and begged
him to advise the member of his legation not to
present himself before the Queen in the dress
in which he was. Mr. Dallas choosing rather, as
we are assured, to decline the honour of saluting
the Queen, retired with his legation. This inci-
dent appears to have produced a painful impression
on the persons present."
The Moniteur publishes the first list of the
English contributors to the fund for the relief of
the victims of the inundations. It is headed by
the names of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the
Duke of Cambridge.

The Bishop of Arras has just published a strange
pastoral letter, which is greeted with shouts of
derision. He says in it, quite seriously, that
having recently been to Rome, he is able to
declare that it is quite an error to suppose that
the Romans complain of their government, or are
anxious to overthrow it, or that they grudge the
splendour of the Cardinals and the pomp
of the Papacy, or that they complain of
being infested with beggars, and kept in
subjection by brigands. On the contrary, says the
right reverend prelate, they adore the Pope and
the Cardinals, love their system of government,
admire their beggars, see no cause to complain of
their brigands, and are in short the most con-
tented, happiest, and liveliest people in the world.
The man who naively writes such nonsense as this
is considered one of the most learned and
sagacious of the episcopal bench of France. Judge,
then, what comical ideas of good government and
popular contentment ordinary churchmen must
entertain.

P.S.—The same official Patric this evening,
publishes a leading article on the " black neck-
cloth" affair. It is terribly severe on the offending
Yankees.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.