The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-18 00:00:00

PANIC ON THE PARIS BOURSE

Much agitation was produced on Friday on the

—indeed it might be called a panic--
in consequence of the telegraph announcing thiA
Consols had fallen 2 per cent. The effect was
severely felt at first, but the funds rallied after-
wards. Various reports, some of them absurd,
were in circulation fora good part of the day. 111.8
complete rupture with the United States, the dell-
very of his passports to Mr. Crampton, th°

iris Bourn

departure of Mr. Buchanan from London, dill'
turbances in some large towns in England, the Au:
of the Ministry, the conversion of a large amour'
of Exchequer Bills into Three per Cents! were the
principal reasons assigned by public rumour for
the fall. The alarm at first occasioned, however'
diminished as the evening advanced.

THE CONFERENCES

The opening of the Conferences for the re-estalY
lishment of peace remains fixed for the 23rd /vat'
Baron Bruno w has already seen some of his friends'
political as well as personal. Though still uneonr
municative, he is reported to have said that Rea°
is sincerely desirous of peace ; but that if peace
be not made without loss of time, if all be not over
within three weeks or a month from the opening
of the Conferences, serious difficulties might inter'
fere with the final settlement of the questiorg7
Count Cavour, the Sardinian plenipotentiary to the
Conferences, arrived at Paris on Friday, accolir
panic(' by a secretary and two attaches. -fro
alighted at the Hotel du Rhin, Place Vendome.
The Independance publishes the text of the dee?'
ration as to the peace propositions presented to the
German Diet at Frankfort by Austria on the 7th 0i
February. After recounting the history of the re
cent diplomatic transactions, the document says
The said [Western] Powers, faithful to the principlefi
the collective recognition of which constitutes the bona uo,
their alliance, have conscientiously excluded any Pro
position which would not be fully justified by ,tt
incontestable European right, and which, for
very reason, would not be of a nature to be a;
cepted with honour by each of the great Powers
which divide between them, in the first rank, ",," responsibility of peace and of the prosperity of EuroP';
The Imperial Court entertains the firm conviction till
this spirit of moderation and solicitude for the genel',,4
welfare of nations will also prevail at the Conference
which will shortly open, and that, consequently, the right
expressly reserved in the fifth point for the belligerePf
Powers to propose, in addition to the four points I%tl
guarantee, new conditions in a European interests,::
not be exercised in a sense which migllt have the ea
of again compromising the work of peace so happily c°[isl
menced. As a member of the Confederation, the ImPe4:o.
Court ,hopes that the High Assembly will see in the P.',
sent communication on a motive for declaring before
Europe, that the whole of Germany, united with Austrian
accepts, and is resolved to maintain, the bases uP°„,
which the approaching Conferences are to erect and c°'
solidate general:peace.

CORONERS' INQUEST,. - On Saturday, Mr. Statham'
deputy coroner, held the following inquests :—On the bo'
of a Lascar named Lalamea, who arrived here a'few days °Pa
from India, as a sailor in the ship Rangoon. and who died
in the Southern Hospital. From the evidence, it aPPearet
very
that when the ship came into the e_hannel, the deceased gt°o
bad with the cold, which he did not appear able
;,,0,
of the
Eery attention was paid to him by Capt. 111151;"„a
the ship, and on arrival here Ile was sent to the hescu---1
oareu
where he died. On a post mortem examination, it aPP,• dolt that death was caused by congestion of the lungs, a,,."",:iiet
the change of climate, and cold, hastened death. v e"-hie
accordingly.—On the body of John Hardie who died at -
residence, Victoria-street. The deceased le,ft home on SIP;
day night, and was found about eleven o'clock lying the
Boundary-place, Prescott-street, and was removed to
13,
station. He was sent from the main Bridewell, at an early
hour in the morning, to the workhouse, in consequence
Mr. Campbell, the lmidewell-keeper, having called ,r
a doctor to see him. He complained of his neck being hurl
and said he fell. The doctor asked him if he fell Bern,
anything ? and he said he could not say. Mr. W. Kolas
surgeon, stated that he had made a post mortem examination
of the body of the deceased, and found death was t',,e relit
of partial dislocation of the spine, and such injury nligrd
praceed from a fall, if the neck came in contact with a utut
raised substance. Verdict, " died from the above cause,
how received there was no evidence."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SECOND EDITION

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THE CRIMEA

A despatch dated Berlin, the 17th instant, men-
tions that General Luders reported to his Govern-
flent on the 26th January, that the Allies continued
to fortify the bay of Kamiesch.
The General also mentioned that some skir-
lb"sho!shad taken place between the alvanced posts
'l4 Phe left of the Russian army, and the Allies.
'The same despatch mentions that public feeling
at St. Petersburg appeared to be quite inclined
t9wards peace.