The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

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Monday last. The price of beef at Smithfield
varied from If. 14c. to if. 72c. the kilogramme,
the average being lf. 43e. The price of beef at
Sceaux varied from if. 20c. to lf. 60c. the kilo-
gramme, the average price being lf. 40c., a shade
lower than at Smithfield. Now, if we examine the
retail price of beef in London and in Paris the
same day we find that in London, where the t rad e
is free, the price of beef was quoted at from 98-1'
to f. 55c. the kilogramme, while in Paris, caber
the price is regulated by Government, beef wee
quoted at from If. lc. to If. 50c. the kilogramme. -
A letter from Madrid, of the 17th states es
follows

1 the destitutio
al n
NarvaeZ havt4.

It is amid the gre scarcity of fot,
b. prev ,s of Ge.
opener ',plendour. The contrus
A the 'd on that occasion tin,..
ry o, is too striking not td
,cteL public disco":
no less remarkable that•many of the influenial,
tarty to which the General belongs were n

tho saloor

the magnet
ry of the

fed attention, aid increased the

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1 their warmest conga'ruts
to the Queen on the suppression of the insurrectio
,ily, quite as much as if her Majesty had Herself suP"
sed it, and allusions ora very piquant kind were 004

The Cortes have present

to England and France ou MadeCeio vied
The state of the press ind is deploratle.
te
is no law, no fixed rule by which writers can regulars
their conduct. That which in the morning they the
allowed to publish is prohibited by the censorship
evening, and though generally all are subject to this
trary conduct, yet the Government invariably singled out
0
the Norte Espanol for especial severity, from the
that paper being considered as the organ of Gen. °PI.(
nell. The plan is evidently to stifle the liberal portionrst
the press. In the meantime the Absolutist and Ca
journals not only enjoy great liberty, but in many
the conduct of the Government is regulated by theirhe
suggestions. The Court and the Government awaiic,teli
arrival of the Ambassadors of France and England $i et
great anxiety. They were apprehensive that a n°P
would be produced in the progress of reaction•
prudence and reserve of these diplomatists have, 110„w e,.
attracted their attention. For the first few days the Esc
and one or two other Ministerial papers did their IYes.,"„dei
rouse the sentiment of nationality against the ai",`-a
which it was supposed the Ambassadors would assturi-ti
but the public generally laughed at their 133Li0
harangues, emanating, as every one knew, frog' 13`4,-"ho
who were always humble before Louis rhilliePe,A'r'S
were ever ready to lick the dust off' his Anlbliiited.4
shoes, and who now prefer friendship and.,B4-s-a
with the Emperor of Russia and the ri-1/37goecri
Naples, to that of France and England, w110„9,""
the treaty of quadruple alliance. The conu—ttho
Lord Howden and of his colleague deserves tha
highest praise. It is impossible for any one to desert
tia°
either of them offers any pretext for conflict
Government. The ministers are quite sufficient of they yeas'
to raise up numerous difficulties and dangers by thtird the
tionary policy. They are fairly entering on the Ot,' "Their
celebrated Calemarde, minister under Ferdinand iri."ite +'t•
conduct is quite_ as arbitrary,- and their rule is el- if
despotic. They have recently issued orders for thed
closing of the shops and cafes precisely as he did ;
an
oDarit-
'neasures, which are considered by them as Precaattz
86
_ great irritation among the public withlerille'
antage whatever to the Government. The rai13,113 01011
it stir out without being accompaned by police agenld, sel`
.ninister is attended by three of them as a body 0°1;001
when his carriage stops at the door of a house, two IN,' Oro
place themselves at the corner of the street, and tl,eo ,
at the entrance of the house. All wear large clog
1 ,
carry under their arms a loaded blunderbuis. t 114nPf
The nomination of M. Mon to the Erabassei ihie
has surprised every one. . It is known that he was he
of the Moderado opposition w hich was against the
na
the
loan. It was desirable to get him out of the via9,,,15 0011,
appointment was decided on some time since, and wed it'
carried into effect, as the Court of Rome has also 113
representative to Madrid.
f tb
In a previous letter I mentioned the probabilitlo:o
retirement from the Ministry, of General Urbi,st aoi
Minister of War. That retirement has taken 10,ecel'apers
his successor is the Marquis do la Constancia OD°
Figueras.) The Government hesitated for s°lllided if/
between him and General Mazarredo, but at last de
favour of the former. Figueras is a great nullity fro°
not, and never had, any prestige whatever in the arniJ! • Of ,
which be kept pretty much away during the civil svs%,:,,atf
on the other hand be had alwaYs been the faithful serf obi'
-"-eneral Narvaez. Gen. UrbiStondo gets the Plt
`he King's household. This may be considered
F the abandonment of the Carlist plot, but as,
tit. By his appointment to an cffice in the °lv; in th
unary party will still have a point d'eti'l*

prod=

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ra 13"
General O'Donnell had an interview with the allebe Hold
t. Some of the Ministers who saw hila ill, Fay be I;
* got much alarmed, and a Cabinet Council
,1,0 3;
't, As in this country Ministerial 013ili'iliote'
.zsult of Palace intrigues, 'l° joitifi;
lie- trig°,le
.—. nimself as secure for a single day•
Mel' he has employed against others.
_Joke forward to be turned out by the sato° lri,` co'
erence General O'Donnell informed the Qlee,g,,tirti.
was aware that his name was made use of to n)lateuii°o
and that plans of military conspiracies were attr3do. -t
him with which he had nothing whatever to ed t 1330
wished to inform her Majesty of the fact, andhk°Pevii.tliiie
gave no credit to such Tumours. He we" -130h0" to
-,4 for propagating such falsehoods 14'1 gioreo,
' nut of Madrid. He then anode, ssrlber
, and particularly to Genera,;s Dr°,te(i
whom he knows well from his having beep "',., Per
eii
,conspirator on other occasions. The Qoee-ain
oa t►jey
0 Donnell's
,anxiety; she told him he roighL re,i of ':,es•
fectly tranquil, as she did not believe a icor,- sor'li
During, tile t be
rumours, and that she was satisfied with 11,i'so'D°51ic
"he
rained
then turned on the loan, an-,,d in 13-
ined to her Majesty the bad effect produe'

Palace

most always the r

the moti

the Government,

r's must

'aril, on