The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
A long list of English non-commissioned officers
and soldiers, who have obtained the military medal
from the French Emperor, for having dis-
tinguished themselves in the eastern war, is given
in the Moniteur today. In the French army, the
medal carries with it a pension of 41. per year ; but
it is not said whether or not the English are to
receive the pension.
The receipt of a further sum of 1371., from Ire-
land, for the victims of the inundations, is
acknowledged in the Moniteur.
An official return, shows that the import duties
in the first seven months of the present year,
amounted to 100,522 391 f, which were 20,698,989 f
less than in the corresponding period of last year,
but 20,036,6:33f more than in 1951. As regards the
month of July, the receipts were 16,490,497 f;
whilst in July of last year, they were 32,914,650 f,
and in that of the preceding year, 13,436,420 f.
The marked diminution of July last, com-
pared with the same month last year, is
owing in part to the exhibition, but chiefly
to the fact, that the import duties were
to be augmented by a decime from August, and
that, in consequence, importers hastened to pay
duty on the goods they had in entrepot before the
increase came into operation. In the total receipts
for July last cotton figures for 1,574,4741, whereas
in the same month of 1855, it figured for 2,396,247 f,
and of 1854, for only 1,369,206 f. Iron, in bars,
in the three months, was 287,847 f, 528,098 f, and
55,058 f. Coal, 642,595 f, 814,7291, and 612,1901,
and wool, 710,011 f, 1,551,270 f, and 904,793 f.
The total importation of wheat from the
commencement of the present year up to
the end of July was 3,859,286 quintals,
and the export was only 410,561. As regards
shipping, that of France, as usual, stands in woe-
ful inferiority to that of foreign countries.
The weekly commercial report says, that an
increase in the wages of workmen has taken place
generally, but that their employers have not
been able to increase their price of sale
in the same proportion, so that they suffer loss.
Although trade can hardly be said to have become
active, it has a certain degree of movement, owing
to the approach of the end of the " dead seasan.''
At Rouen, Elbeuf, and Roubaix, manufacturing
towns, sales have been active. At Lyons, owing
to the excessive dearness of raw material, manu-
facturers will not enter into any transactions at
the old price, and the stocks on hand have nearly
been all bought up for Paris and America. In
wheat there is a general decline. At Havre, the
sales of cotton amounted to 4,982 bales ; there
were no arrivals. Prices remained unchanged.
St. Petersburg letters speak of the probability of
the Grand Duke Nicholas, being nominated
Viceroy of Poland ; Prince Gortschakoff, the pre-
sent Governor-general, having manifested a wish
to resign.
The cholera is stated to have broken out with
terrible violence at Stockholm, and to have carried
off General Bodisco, Russian military plenipoteu-
tary in that city, and brother of the commander
of Bomarsund.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING

A few days ago twenty one persons were tried
at St. Etienne for having formed a secret society
for the overthrow of the government and the
assassination of the Emperor. This week the
tribunal of correctional police has been occupied
in trying not fewer than forty six persons on a
similar charge. Of these forty six, ten have just
been acquitted, and the rest have been
condemned to from four months to four
years imprisonment. At a distance this
secret political societies appear very formidable,
but here in France, they do not attract very much
attention. Nevertheless, there is no question that
they are dangerous, and that they prove that poor
France is still menaced with insurrections and
revolutions.

According to the Pays, the Russian government
has offered Prussia to take part in chastising the
pirates of the Riff, and proposes to send from
Cronstadt, as soon as required, two steam
frigates, two steam corvettes, and several smaller
vessels.

Heavy rains have fallen during the last few days
in nearly all parts of France. They are stated to
have done good to the vines, but it appears that
they have caused considerable harm to the crops
of wheat and other grain not yet got in.
A Bayonne paper says that the Emperor and
Empress will stay a month at Biarritz. I have
already told you that the Empress would make a
longer stay there than she had originally intended;
but I think your contemporary is in error in saying
that the Emperor will stop so long. He will visit
different seaports, and means besides to go to
Compiegne to have a. little shooting.
it is said that the Russians have abandoned the
Isle of Serpents, and left the famous lighthouse to
the care of the Turks.

On dit, that a famous Austrian general, Count
Sohlick by name, being in Paris, requested to be
received by the Emperor, previous to his departure
for Biarritz, but that the Emperor declined to
grant the honour, because the Count was a great
partisan of Russia during the war.

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER ARABIA, PROM BOSTON AND
HALIFAX.—Rev. W. Mountford and lady, Mr. N. Curruth,
Mr. A. Carney, Major Lang, Mr. T. Hunter, Mr. T.
Faussett, Miss Hunter, Mr. J. Crookshank, Mr.
G. A. Berchmeyer, Mr. A. Newall, Mr. S. W. Dana,
Mr. J. E. Gowan, Mr. J. M. Holmes, Mr. T. Appleton,
Mr. W. B. Howes, Mr. H. W. Torrey, Mr. C. C. Hender-
son, Mr. Levey, Mr. J. C. Hooker and lady, Major Colman,
lady, and infant, Mr. C. Feey and lady, Mr. Thompson,
Mr. G. H. Horstman, Mr. A. St. Denis, Mr. M. A. Nich-
olson. Mr. Stanton, Mr. C. F. M'Donald, Mrs. L. Booth,
Mr. W. Morris, Mr. Walter Hanlon, Mr. R. H. Lauxton,
Rev. W. Elder, Mr. Heyes, Mr. R. Heyes, Mr. S. Haybald,
lady, and child, Mrs. Kirby, Miss E. Brown, Mr. P.
Fogarty, Mr. G. Drexel, Mr. Thorley and brother, Mr.
Schlensser, Mr. J. Clapham, lady, and three children, Mr.
H. B. Palmer, Mr. Griffiths, Mr. A. Fasten, Mr. T. B.
Garside, Mr. Hunter's servant, Mr. Hutcheson, Mrs.
Colman's nurse, Mrs. Brand, Miss Hardesty's maid, Mr.
Jordine, Mr. Slatter, Capt. Tibbet, Mr. Brand and lady,
Mr. Knox, Mr. Reddin, Mr. James, Mr. M'Farlane, Mrs
Figgins and child, Mr. Mahany, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Forsyth,
Mr. G. Moody.

THE RAILWAY TRIALS.—It was impossible for the advo-
cates of justice, or the administrators of the law, to feel
satisfied with two incidents which transpired on the late
railway prosecutions, with respect to a gentleman who was
absent when required as a witness, although it would be
manifest to every reflecting mind that they admitted of
explanation, or deseved the highest censure from the Press.
It is especially necessary that those in high position should
set an example to others of obedience to the law, and
readiness to assist in the administration of justice ; while
those who know Mr. Poole will readily allow that he would
be actuated by such feelings. The duty of the Press is
equally clear, and from enquiries which have been made,
and explanations given to the authorities, in the interests
of the public, it appaars that Mr. Poole's absence from the
late trials was occasioned by no censurable defiance of the
law, but by the want of proper intimation, whereby he was
absent from Liverpool on his multifarious, ard, indeed,
public duties ; had he been properly apprised of his
attendance being required, there can be no doubt that he
would have been ready with his evidence, which would
have been satisfactory to all parties. His absence seems to
have furnished a pivot on which to hang some ad captan.
dues, special pleading, else it is difficult to see, on the
charge made, the importance of evidence, whether one or
more of the formal signatures were genuine or not. Mr.
Parsonage has voluntered a disclaimer of the remarks
attributed to him by the policeman, which he heard, for the
first time, at the trial, and avows that his actual remarks
referred to Mr. Salter, and not to Mr. Poole, and his own
innocence, but were withheld from the evidence by the
policeman, or they would have tended to his (Mr. Parson-
age's) more complete vindication.