The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Austrian garrison of Piacenza continues to
receive reinforcements.

THE ORLEANS FAMILY.

The Comte de Paris and the Duke de Chartres
have not left for England. They have proceeded
directly from Hamburg to Eisenach.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING

the fete yesterday passed off tolerably well,
though the people were rather disappointed at a
balloon ascent which had been announced not
takine, place, and at the fireworks not being so
brilliant as usual. In the morning aTe Deum
was chaunted at Notre Dame, but it was but scan-
tily attended, even by public functionaries. It
was observed that the cafés on the Boulevards
went to some expense in putting up illuminations
on the fagades. As this was contrary to their usual
custom, some surprise was felt, and it turned out
that the police had made them put up the decora-
tions, under the threat, if they did not, of pre-
venting them placing chairs and tables on the
outside of their establishments—a measure which,
in this hot weather, would deprive them of all their
customers. _

An Algiers newspaper says that, at the end of
une last, about 1,470 heetores (the heetores is

two and a-half acres) were planted with cotton, but
that the plant had suffered from drought and
insects. In the plains of the Seg and the Habra
(where in previous years the cotton flourished
most), the plants, however, were healthy. A
curious fact in connection with the cultivation is
mentioned—it is, that the laurel rose, planted by
the side of the cotton plant, preserves it from the
ravages of insects. On the whole, the cultivation
of the cotton iu Algeria is progressing so satisfac-
torily as to warrant the hope that, in a few years, it
will become one of the most important in the
colony.

PAHIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial
Prince leave this evening for Biarritz, but, at the
end of the week, the Emperor will return.
It is believed that Russia will he severely
offended at the title of Duke de Malakoff being
conferred on Marshal Pelissier.
I mention, as an on dit of the political circles,
but without crediting it, that the French Govern-
ment thinks that the English fleet in the Black
Sea is stopping longer than is necessary.
The Moniteur announces that General Codring-
ton and General de M. 'Marmora have received
the military medal of France.
M. Pacheco, the new Spanish Minister at
London has arrived in Paris, but instead of going
at once to his destination, he intends, it is sail,
to pass a few weeks at Enghien, a watering place
a few miles from this city.
The commercialmercial reports of the week do
do not yet record any renewal of activity,
begin.thoughl
this
is the epoch at which it should
Manufacturers and traders complain
bitterly of saving been forced to increase the
wages of their workmen, and of the dearness of
raw materiel. Foreigners are described as reluc.
tant to give orders at the high prices exacted, but
nevertheless sales of some importance have been
made for Brazil. Russian houses also have
purchased furniture, silks, bronzes, &c.,
largely.
At Lyons and St. Etienne there has been a large
advance in prices. The price of wheat is on the
decline.
At Havre, transactions in cotton have not been
animated; the stock on the Bth was 104,701 bales,
5,000 less than at the corresponding period last
year.
St. Petersburg letters say, that the Count de
Morny, therFrench ambassador, was the lion of the
day, and that he cast the English and Austrian
ministers completely into the shade. The
Austrian Cuunt Esterhazy, it appears, made
tremendous haste to get to St. Petersburg before
de Morny, in order, by being presented first, to
take precedency of him ; and though he arrived
first, he had the mortification of finding that he
had forgot his credentials, and so could not be
presented.
Letters of Constantinople of the 7th, announce
a rise of five piastres in the price of h w eat from the
Danube and the Sea of A zoff.

WHAT O'CLOCK IS IT ? EXTRAORDINARY CASE --A very
curious looking young man, well-dressed, who gave his
name as Richard S,rear, was brought before Mr. Gladstore,
yesterday, at the police court, in custody of officer 694,
who told the following story :—iie was on duty in Great
George's Square the previous Light, when he heard a
noise in the area of Mr. Robinson's house in that square ;
he looked and saw something emerging from one of the
kitchen windows, and then thinking it was a robber, he
made close to the place, when he saw the prisoner in the
area with his boots in one hand and his coat in the other.
He heard a noise in the house at the time, and by the time
be had secured the prisoner, one of the servant girls of the
house came dlwn and said there were robbers in the house.
He asked the prisoner who or what he was ? but he would
only tell him his name was Richard Spear. He asked him
what brought I,im into the house ? and his reply was, " I
went to see what o'clock it was!" This was all he could
ascertain of or front him. A servant girl in Mr. Robin.
son's house, said about the hour in question, she was awoke
by a noise " gently tapping at her chamber door," when
she asked who was there ? She got no reply, but the
" knocking" went on. She again enquired who the intruder
was ? but not getting any answer, she concluded it was
not one of the family, and she gave an alarm, end then she
heard some one run down stairs, and she called the master.
In reply to his Worship, the prisoner, who seemed very shy
at his position, said he " merely went into the house to see
what o'clock it was." The police officer, in answer to his
Worship, said the prisoner must have got in by the same
window out of which he found him coming, as there was no
place about the house broken into. The prisoner was
remanded to this day, as there was a question raised to his
sanity.