The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-18 00:00:00

Marine

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, MONDAY EVOING.I
The festivities, yesterday, passed Off esceediegle
well, and, notwithstanding the immense reilltitil a
ter 0
consis
they attracted, without accident. They
of gratuitous performances in the theatres, Pub ig
pantomimes, and military spectacles, the sendind
up of balloons containing bon-bons, fireworks, arl_f
animents;
illuminations, and all the usual accomP
public fetes in this country. The fireworks Wery
very brilliant, and the illumin,ations were veil.
tasteful and elegant. In the gardb.lis of the T.unu.
eries, and in the Champs Elyoeo.9' the
land
minations were in variegated laink"'
111 of
were perfectly fairy like. One P(344/"

.tee
gb.

them was exactly the same as o—th,
displayed at Versailles, on the occasion °I ;0
visit of the Queen of England, last year' the
Emperor and Empress, accompanied laden"
Cardinal Legate, the Grand Duchess of Dauess,
Prince Oscar of Sweden, the Duke and Deehe
of Hamilton, and a number of other per:301330:0
distinction, witnessed the -fireworks from a 174'10
on the balcony of the Ministry of Marine, e.tor
Place de la Concorde. This morning the 31.°7/.l;er
announces, that the Emperor has caused 811;0
medals, worth 50c. each, commemorative ef
the
baptism, to be distributed to all the children ef is,
Paris schools, and to the soldiers and noll'ec)raln000
sioned officers of the garrison of Paris (about 120,0
meaals will be necessary, and the expense ef seineh
will be £2,400); also, that the Prefect of thhe e
6°ooo
has given a bag of bonbons to each of t'
children of the Primary Commercial Sehnele. ss
The value of the diadem which the Bet„0.
wore on Saturday at the baptism, and at the-LA" 5
de Ville, was not less than 15,000,000 francs
(£600,000). of
. The traders and householders, en the line
procession on Saturday, reaped an abutt- m
harvest, by letting places at their windows.
much as 2001. aryl 300 f. (XlO or £l2) were frge of
given for a place at a window. Even persen-ott
wealth did not hesitate to let their roalne -
balconies

tel de

There is to be a grand ball at the IP' or
Ville to night, and a grand dinner in a dny !
two. What money spent in amusement and I°-tio
The Independance of Brussels states that:
Empress is already in an " interesting situation

But this assertion requires confirmation.
It is said that M. de Lamartine intends
the'
present to the victims of the inundations° 05
amount received in subscriptions to s
hiß were
Familier de Literature, which subscription
made by the public expressly to relieve hiln I a
his pecuniary difficulties. The amount is nes.he
£50,000, but large deductions will have to 11

made for expenses of advertising, Srm. °f 110 W
The Paris papers and public continue to -
0.1.01
the progress of the Anglo-American difficulty
marked interest, but neither in what is
said is there anything to add to what I have pre,written
°

viously communicated to you. Bourse
An improvement has taken place on the 33°11-t.,,
today. It was caused by a financial establioL`e
ment having advanced 15,000,000fr5. to facilittit
the railway liquidation.
The bill for doing away with the prohibitiene °(
tive
duties,
and replacing them
the French tariff by Pot° the
which was presented a few days RV t° :d
Legislative Body by the Government, bile cc:11,18%4
great terror to the protectionist and prohibitiniect
party in this country, inasmuch as it is eensi"e- in
a new step towards that awful bugbentfleb,
French i
eyes—freesquiteh
trade. That it is 13:0
true, and that the frie'
a step
of liberal commercial policy have eonsequentil
nt be
reason to be gratified with it eueni.,—,,nor-
denied ; but, after all, the bill adopts sue"- —will
mously high protective duties, that
ont they
e Ye oft tioono
amount to actual prohibitions—those
goods, for example, are equal to a protection° dia
per cent. With such protection, French tra„orkt
the pr.,sna
and manufacturing interests have, for
fat least, little
eel fear from foreign con3Petit,ine is
foreigners ha ittle to expect. Besides, ' this
adopted
no chanee.at all that the bill will be
year. ,raye
Letters received in this city state that b of
differences, threatening to lead to a ruPtti,.,reoeu
diplomatic relations, had broken out he''''
Sweden and Denmark. record
Italian letters and journals continue to tele,
agitation in most of the Italian States. Irbie been
graph says that considerable sensation had
ting
caused at Turin, by the King having, in
medals to his troops from the Crimea, eglrest of
interetbeo
his conviction that "if the honour and
the country should oblige him to confide t° fend
the national flag, they would know how withde
evi
rit n
it always and everywhere, and
to cover
glory," doverir
Madrid
advices say that the Spanish Li-a out
ment is making the most active efforts to Bella one
a fleet to Mexico, and to make it an iroPosibs:t has
but, according to a telegraphic despateb' 1 to.
distribussed
accepted the mediation of France in the dispu
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hag je,h"
THE Loss OF TEETH.—A neat little bochute ow,
issued from the press, on the subject of the loss of t
lets with._
and on the best means of restorin them.
useful information, this work commands at Rep attention
which the practical knowledgeof its authors, Itteneet'ee
Gabriel, the celebrated dentists of this town, is a g.tie. lit
the hands of every
ftuarhietsinaccuracy. This concise and familiar treatise ought
one who quire the art . 1
a dentist. To sufferers from dentoal mmaaylarlea, we 1°31411
recommend the work to tbeir attentive perusal. ~. Ott
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF I[ORSE-STEALTSu"-,-",1e..
Monday afternoon a person attired as a carter walk° de'
into the stables of Messrs. Ba Gartsherrw!
where servants, carters, and waggoners were all busily etre
ployed at their respective duties, and after marching
the throng be selected one of the finest 'lnnis in the tellablei
animal su
he rubbed it c ' arefudy down with a wisp of stravt,lbe,
covered it with a rug which was ]Ting at hall,d'wevent
taking with him a bunch of hay under his arm, 'a r" -foal
Rl_ halter
give
the gpICIO/1 no douht, he coolly led the horse by a to .
stables, and requesting
one of the bystanders
_,B if
him a lift
on the horse, mounted in " hot haste," all"
it 0
by magic disappeared from the gaze of the speetator:e,oll,
one knew where. Up till the present moment no tr
tau;
the daring delinquent has been discovered. Tbe I)rsesold
been got in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, having Woo.
e•
to a party there for, £l4, being only one-third of its v Les,
o
Meanwhile, however, the fellow escapes detection.---6
flow Herald.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack

at five o'clock,

Iu reply to the Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
The Earl of HARROWBY refused to produced the corres-
P°Menee between the Government and certain individuals
8;4 dyed in factories on the subject of the Factories'
11, Oh the ground that it might compromise those persons
with their employers.
The LORD CHANCELLOR referred to the case of a man
'Who had been imprisoned for 40 years for contempt of
etprt, and stated that the reason of the imprisonment was
Is refusal to state to his creditors the amount of his pro-
-1)e Et'. That man died a few months ago without making
;Ile required statement. The noble and learned lord
itniated that the Government would be willing to enter_
41'11 allY Proposition for the amendment of the law relating
1.0 rrnprisonment for debt.

ad a second lino

The Excise Bill was r
The Refortt
F• Williams' Annuity Bill went through committee
In reply to Viscount DUNGANNON,
rho Duke of ARGYLE stated that t►

,ry and Industri

e question of

1133 the mail communication between London and Dublin
11
114IYhead and Kingstown had occupied the anxious
attention of the Government_ and they had come to a

decision on the subject

That dec

ad been eommn-

Ilieated to the Railway and Steamboat Companies cot
ee. riled, but no answer had as yet been received.

The Commons' Amendments to the Oxford Universit
till Were considered and agreed to.
kTheir LOrdships rose at half-past six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TuE

The Speaker entered at twelve o'clock, nut it was ten
minutesJ Past before there were sufficien`
- make a house. This was the
sittings, which are usually held

session:

..; members present

-Ant of the morning
awards the close of the

, PRITATF, sr stms.
The Lewes, Eastbour reaA . an, and Railsham Road Bill was
~ a third time an''
..Ile following ...I passed.
third reading Ails were considered, and ordered for
lind , Abe 0 ' . .—Denny•y Junction Railway, Inverness
b... r
"""alway, Jaen Junction,, ,Railway, Scottish Central

'FACE PRESERVATION (IRELAND) BILL.)
du the order for going into committee on this bill,
til44. 111,111Anoy said that the bill had been altered by
eice
Fight hon. gentleman the Chief Secretary for Ireland
it came down from the House of Lords, making it
fact the Crime and Outrage Bill of 1847. There was
tiltleh less crime in Ireland than there was in England,
the judges of assize had substantially nothing to do.
t4"aleasure was entirely uncalled for, he should pro-
-I"`'se t.tiat the house go into committee on the bill this day
I% Months.
"tr. BRADY seconded the amendment.
Sir G. GREY said the hon. and learned gentleman was
11,!er a mistake, as the bill was in precisely the state in
which it left the House of Lords.
colonel GREVILLS objected to the bill, on the ground
,:at it did not explain what it meant to do, and he really
1,(1,4,i't not understand its object. While the people of
and were so free from crime as at present, he thought
ewould be very imprudent to bring in such a bill,
el tendingint over five years. He should not object to going
."'ornniittee on the bill, provided it should only be
enacted for one year-
DRVERE did not see anything in the present state
of Ireland to justify such a bill. By this measure the
t°rd-Lieutenant would be enabled to impose additional
itaxation
aen any district in Ireland, and to send down a
re Police force upon a representation from any source.
211 BERNARD approved of the bill, and thought it was
intely necessary in consequence of the disturbed
ate of
, some districts in Ireland. If the people kept
4:11:1`et- the bill would not do them any harm, for it
ld never in that case come into operation.
(Laughter.)
Colonel DONNE opposed the bill; as a clumsy piece of

gislation.
NanEa approved of the general principles of the
72, and thought they should go into committee, where
should propose some alterations.
%lir' IsAlio BUTT took the same view of the case, and
:ght it was highly desirable to give the Lord Lieuten-
pro3e Power of checking the acquisition of arms as
411 twaed by the bill. At the same he thought this power
1:14 riot be given for so long a period as five yrars. He
given notice of his intention of proposing it
ie that its operation should be confined to two years
erhaps one year would be better.
Mr' MAGI:1111E said that nothing was more unconstitu-
nal than to arm the Lord Lieutenant with such powers
dcontemplated by this bill, which smacked more of the
,_BPotie character of foreign nations than of the free
Zatitutions of this. In the House of Lords it was pro-
s ehto make the measure perpetual—a proposition
_
li
was defeated by a suggestion of a noble lord to
It to five years.
t "0 amendment was negatived without a division, and
he,,„ll°llse went into committee on the bill.
the clause
clause 2 a discussion arose as to the assimilation by
clause of the measure to those of the Crime and Out-
st,,A-ct• Ultimately, on a division, the clause as it
was retained by a majority of 45.
Clause 3 was agreed to.
14'11 clause 4, which limits the operations of the bill to
e Year
Mr.
BUTT proposed to reduce the limitation to two
• ears.

I commit-

The Governmentclause acceded to the amendment, and the
Was altered accordingly.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the bill
Was reported.
4e time. Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Bill was read a second

AThe
• .`4rand Juries Bill was read a third time, and
—se d
the
Ins eveningsittino
Marriage Law Amendment Bill was read a second

In an. POSTAGE STAMPS.
,th answer to Mr, WHITESIDE,
eer CRANCELLOII. of the EXCHEQUER stated that the
coat "lent had given orders for the renewal of the
1;114:let With Messrs Bacon and Petch, for printing and
tiling postal labels.

Cir TROOPS FROM THE CRIMEA.
to h. —nARLEs Woo]) gave some explanations in addition
troops fr form statements respecting the return of the
for-,,0m the Crimea, and added that the arrangements
di4 "le service were such, that he should be extremely
ZOtai,Pl3r ° intned, if one man remained in the Crimea on the
" °aee.

answer
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS' BILL.
qtlyer-BWer to Mr. WISE, it was stated on the part of the
be prollelent, that, the Medical Practitioners' Bill would
Sir eeded with in the present session.
e
it Wa 44RLES WOOD, in answer to Mr. STAFFORD, said
trail S"t intended to pension the widows of officers of
Iva:13°11 vessels, who lost their lives during the late

vir EDUCATION (IRELAND).
• " 'tLr'oLE moved that an humble address be pre-
t° directpraying Majesty, that her Majesty be pleased
e
• th et titerat such modifications may be made in the rules
Will nati°ll4. schools system of education in Ireland as
SchooeilstteM the advantages now enjoyed by non-vested
hereaf. ° any other than vested schools now existing or
kay bLeer to be established, whatever their regulations
denied as to the mode of religious instructions. He
eatee is that children shall be compelled to learn
gguardian''guardian'' creed, or formulary, which their parents any
or
shall may' object to, and prcr,ided that the patron
the lb: willing to place their schools in connection with
1144 to permit the board control over books to be
visit .. gen eral instruction and to receive officially the
tow!, "the government inspectors. The object of the
cell$;11 he explained to be to disallow in non-vested schools
chidreteaching in a particular creed to be forced upon
each n
„,,, "use parents were not of that creed to bring
the -"°01a under the control of the board to subject
ta to government inspection, and under these provisions
Sir W them a share in the grant.
Whieh:7l. lIEATHCoTE seconded the motion, the effect of
the le said, would be to conciliate to the support of
the nation system of education the clergy and laity of
hiellurch of Ireland.
fran:'ecl tx:iNeny apprehended that the motion, as then
p
r
es
would rather encourage proselytising, and ex-
sed all opinion that sufficient ground had not been

THE

shown to justify interference with the system under which
about five thousand schools were at present working.
Mr. HoasMAN, on the part of the Government, at some
length opposed the proposition, observing that the Derby
party three years ago had expressed themselves against

the views set forth by the right hon. and learned mem-
ber, and that the Bishop of Ossory, the chief patron of
the Church Education Society, had said that the rules of
that society were incompatible with the rules of the
national system. He also denied that the schools in ques-
tion required any assistance from the grant, as their funds
had been increasing, while the number of schools was
decreasing.
Mr. G. B. HAMILTON and Mr. NAPIER supported, and
Mr. Humus and Mr. DEASY opposed the motion.
A. division then took place, upon a motion made by Sir
JOHN FIT4OERALD to adjourn the debate. The numbers

were :

For the adjournment
Against it

Majority

The House immediately

afterwards divided upon the

main question, the numbers being,

,r the motion

Against it

Majority

The announcement o

t was loudly cheered.

The other bus

posed of, and the House ad-

a ourne

THE

SOUND DUES.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

.110IISE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY.

The select committee appointed to enquire into the
operation of the Sound Dues, as affecting the shipping
interest of England and other countries, met to-day for

the first time for the purpose of receiving evidence. The
members of the committee present were—Mr. Villiers in
the chair ; also the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr-
Cardwell, Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, Mr. Duncan, Mr.
Mitchell, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Hutt.

The first witness examined was Mr. Bowring, registrar
at the Board of Trade. He commenced by referring to
the first treaty for the payment of Sound Dues, which
was in 1544, and was called the Treaty of Holland.
By the Chairman : By that treaty one per cent. was paid
to Denmark on the value of all goods imported, and a
similar amount was paid on the tonnage of the ship. The
next treaty was effected in 1655, and the following treaty,
which was concluded in 1670, and which was called the
Treaty of Copenhagen, applied for the first time to this
country.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer : That, I think, was
a special treaty between this country and Denmark?
Witness : Yes.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer : And that treaty
applied to the treaty of 1544, which you say was called
the Treaty of Holland ? Witness : It did.

Examination continued : All kinds of dues paid to
Denmark on shipping were included in Sound Dues,
whether they might be light dues or anything else.
Mr. Ilutt : I think you will find that originally the
Sound Dues were only one per cent., and that it was never
contemplated that the dues should amount to more than
that, but now you will find that as far as this country is
concerned they practically amount to much more.
Examination continued : Up to the year 1815, the Sound
Dues were paid into the King's private coffers, and it was
not until the year 1825 that they were made state monies.
When the treaty of 1841 was effected, the Danish govern-
ment reduced the amount of the dues.

Mr. Hutt : That reduction was in consequence of an
alteration in the value of produce, and the principle of it
was to reduce everything to the standard of one per cent.
Witness: The reduction was made on this principle.
The Danish government took the average price of ship-
ments for the previous ten years, and made the reduction
on that principle. The amount now levied by Denmark
on tonnage and merchandise will be much more than two
and a half per cent.

By Mr. Mitchell: I am well aware that what are called
the fees paid on all vessels entering the Sound, amount to
nearly as much as the dues themselves.

By Mr. Bramley-Moore : These extra dues or fees are
imposed on vessels exclusive of the dues paid on cargo.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer: Now, if England
were to give notice to put an end to the treaty of )841,

and that was done, would she be in a better position
regards Denmark than she is now. That is, if we were
reduced to the same state cf 'things that we were in be-

fore the treaty of 1841, should .ve be in a better position
than we are in now? Witness . No, I think we should be

in a worse position,

The C ha!

Then I understand you to say, that th,

treaty of which you are speaking, places us in a better
position than we were in before? Witness : I do.