The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-14 00:00:00

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

An Ac, ount of the Gross Public Income of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Iceland, hi the year ended the 3lst day of March,
18,7, and of the activil issues or payment-4 within the same period,
exclusive o' the sums applied to the redemption of fended or pay-
ing off unfunded debt, and of the advances and repaymen's for
local works, &C.

£ a. A.
CUSTO Ms ~..23 321,842 16 6
F. altsu 14005,000 0 0
STA Ai PS
TAXES ( Land and Assessud) ..
PRO pERTT TAX... 10,039,933 5 5
POST-ovrles
CRO NN LANDS (not)
If ISCELLAwaous :
Produce of the Sa eof Cid Ft,res, .€ s. d.
and oche• extra Receipts 627,014 7 2
M one y received from the East India
Company 60,010 0 0
Mi.e,llaneous Receipts, including
Imprest and other Mcn-y4 .. • . 331 473 0 2
Unclaimed Dividends received 76,861 8 2

INCOME

1,(98,173 15 6

72,334,062 10 10
EXCESS of Exoenditnrt. over Income in the year
ceded 31st March, 1857

£75,588,661 3 7

PENDITURE.
Int-rest and Management of toe
Pe manent D. bt '2l 597 552 19 1
Unclaimed Dividends paid 89,021 15 5
Terminable Annuities 3 985 931 16 6
interest of Exchequer Bonds, 1054 215,-00 0 o
I nterest of Exchequer Bills, Supply 747,493 4 5
Ditto, Deficiency l6 176 19 7
------28,681,176 15 ft

CIIKNOES ON CONSOLIDATED
FOND :
Civil List . 401 532 10 0
Annuities and Pensions 336 257 17 11
Salaries and Allowances. 159 230 3 11
Dipidmatic Salaries and Pensions 159,237 1 0
Courts of Justice
Miscellaneous Charges on the Con-
solidated Fand 152.369 8 2

073,726 1 2

SUPPLY SERVICRS: -
A rmy 20,811,242 6 6

Navy • • 13,459,013 0 0
Miscellaneous Civil Selvieee 6,426,733 15 S
Salaries. &e., of Revenue Depart-
-
ments
------ .--45.133,764 7 5

£75,588,667 3 7

Account No. 2 shows the additions to the flnded and unfunded
debt during the year; the arnouut applied to redeem funded and
unfunded debt; the amount advanced and repaid on account of
local works, &c., and the balaocei in the Exchequer.

. ,
BALANCES IN THE EXCHEQUER'
On 31st March, 1856 €5,600,621
On 315 t March, 1851 . 8,668,370

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF TIRE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

The Philadelphia Steam Ship Company's steamer
City of Washington arrived at this port at 0 o'clock
yesterday morning from New York with one day's
later news, having sailed on the 30th ultimo. -She
has brought home 7QOOO dollars in specie, and 220
passengers.
The New York money market continued to show
increased ease, and call loans were readily nego-
tiated at seven per cent., whilst first-Class paper
was discounted at from Bto 9per cent. The stack
market was tolerably active, and prices were on the
advance. The cotton market was firm, and prices
advancing. There was a fair amount of business
going forwar u n breadstuffs at full prices. Freights
continued heavy.
The papers contain a fortnight's later news from
California, Nicaragua, New Granada, the South
Pacific', Jamaica, and Havannah. The most impor-
tant points are_ those relating to filibusterism in
Nicaragua and-the position of the difficulties With
the government of New Gr-ria
From Nicaragua the reports - 411.)w that filibus-
terism is in a more desperate condition than any
previous aceounts, have represeritiet it. Tie San
Juan river is completely abandoned by the ft thus-
ters. and the Costainiaans are its mas.ters. .The,
filibuster Lockridgo bad not - eat, but
brother buceaneers,"Witeat'ani'flornsby have, and
'With them a numbeeo-t fickyldge'S men A otiriiVr
of die latter have al4o,arrty.o at 4.,iiy.„(lrz a us.,:an d
the *remainder of -the survivors cf the whole band
'ire hastening to leave the scene of their piratical
warfare, as fast as , payerty and sickness will let
them. Thus ends cempletely, in utter defeat and
disaster, fiihuaterism on the Atlantic side or
Nicaragua. On the Pueifia -side, Walker, with 'a
small force, growing less every day by desertion,
sickness, and death, is hemmed in at Rivas by eight.
or nine thousand Costa IC cans,'and his ndpeospect
before him but one as black as his own crime% He
itnd his men are living on mule meat when they can
'get it, and'from. reports_ brought by filibusters who
have returned; welearn- that his scare of arrny pay
ia, twenty shiaings per week for privates, one dollar
land seventy-five cents per week for subalterns, and
dollars per week for-captains and higher grades.
Whether even these sums are paid in cash,-'`®r
promisee-does- not appear 'Drat- he eirtnTheltrout
sn udt longer seemsaandmpollasibility.
From Bogota the news .is briefly that the-New.
Granadian governrnenthas deliberately, and in an
insolent manner, rejected entirely the propositions
of the United States government respecting a set-
tlement of the difficulties between them,Oeinanded
reparatioirfOr discourtesies on the. 'part, of the
United States officials towards the New Granadian
officials at Panama, denied in the strangest terms
any, respo.nsibiLty for the outrages-.4.---April-45
,856., at Panama; charged said responsibility
entirely and emphatically upon the United States
goavernment-; refused_ .peremptorily' 'en pay any
deaiages for. the rasults_of aemanded
`for tho same, of the, Vaiteilr.rStwffi
and fifty -tlyiK494 Mr-P-111'AV the.folaject
of the United States in _making the claim, der., was-
to get possession of the Isthmus ; that no settle
meat of the question at issue and of a prqteetion
for said transit can be made, •throti-gh7'bonUtrt
of action and consent o-f the representatirestof
Great Britain and France ; and proceeded to
initiate preliminaries for placing New CVran'icla on
a scat. foOting. _ 72. i;
. This latter ne*s shows the New Granadian ques-

iron to he in a state that demands prompt and
effectiVe action on the part of the U. S. government.
We trust such action will be taken, and the question
brought to a right settlement at once.

It was expected by the Carthagenians that the
country would be blockaded by the British, as
will be seen by the following extracts from the
papers to hand :
From the Aspinwall Courier, April 14. we learn
that the people of Carthagena fully expect that
ttnd the neighbobring ports will be blockaded, in
consequence of the non-uompliance of the New
Granadian Government with the demands of the
English Government, respecting the Mackiutosh
debt. The method of arrangement (Melded- upon
by Congress is not in accordance with the wishes
of the British Government, as declal el at 13.)gota
by their resident minister there.
From the Colonial (Tamsin3) Standard, April 18.

—We learn that her Majesty's screw steam frigate
Termagant, 24 guns, bearing the broad pendant of
Commodore H. Kellett, C. 8., with the screw gun
boat Victor, 6 guns, Commander D'Horsey. was to
leave Port Royal soon after the arrival of the mails
from England for Calthagena, where- they will
likely meet her Majesty's ship Indus, 78 guns,
Capt. Stewart. C. 8., bearing the flag of Rear
Admiral Sir Houston Stewart. KGB., with a few
:other vessels of war. The arrival of a fleet of
British men of-war in the water of New Granada,
to support the claims of Great Britain, we have no
doubt, will soon cause the misunderstanding be-
tween the t•.vo governments to be arranged
From F,.l Centinela of Panama, April 19.—
The Senate and the Chamber of Representatives
of New Granada assembled in. Conrrrese decree
•
Art. I. The executive is authorised.to dispose of sixty
thousand dollars from the treasury as an additional credit
toahe budget of 1856 57, which are to be deducted from
the sum dhe to the English subject, James Mackintosh,
for the sum due him of Colombian origin- against New
Granada, and interest thereon, as a compensation for
whatever damages the said Mackintosh may have suffered
itt consequence of the obstacles thrown in the way of the
ereeeiving at the custom offices of the bonds given to him,
conformably to the convention of December 13, 1851. For
the obtaining of this sum of sixty thousand dollars, the
..pxecutive power is authorised to sell at public auction, at
a loss of not more than 5 per cent., bonds of the same
:*character as the coupons drawn upon the revenue.
Art. 2. The floating bonds which have been given nut,
or are to he given out, in payment of the sum due to Mr.
-James Mackintosh, with interest. according to article
.athird of the convention agreed upon with the legation of
her British Majesty of Dee. 13, 1851, will be admitted
for:its amortisation from the first of May next, and in
free competition with coin to the tenth part of .the total
of theimport duties on foreign merchandise from that
date, conformably to the existine laws, or such as may be
issued hereafter, inclusive of the additional import of
twenty-five per cent. established by the 1 iw of March
31, 1852, payable in cash.
Art. 3, In order that the amortisation of the sum due to
Mr. Jas. Mackintosh for capital and interest may run
from the Ist of September next, it is indispensable that
on the part of said Mackintosh the eondiiien stipulated in
article 5 of the convention of Deeember.l3, 1851, be ful-
filled. The executive will likewise take care that, confer.
--mably to article 5 of the convention of Lon- on of Dec. 27,
1825, the bonds and debentureS granted by Se. Luis
Lopez Mend.-z, and the half of the value of the certifi,:.ates
which, according to the subsequent convention poste for
to the 29th of January, 1827, were handed to James
ii. Mackintosh by the Oonsul General of Columbia, Sr.
Santos Michelena, be returned or cancelled in favour of
'New Granada.
irt. 4. According to the tenure of the articles I and .2
of the convention of December 13, 1851, the basis of the
definitive liquidation of the sum due to James Machin-
'dash, are the, stipulations of the above mentioned cooven.
tion of Lenden of Deeeimber 27, 1823. Nevertheless, if the
legation of her British Majesty should not conrorin to this
declaration after the matter has been discussed from the
legal point of.view. the executive remains authorised to
submitthe matter to the arbitration of one or more allied
governments, -dr of their representatives, whose decision
will be_acknowledged by the two parties.
Art. 5. The executive may dispose, in the manner it
judges conven:enc, for completing and accelerating the
payment of the debt in favour of Mr. Mackintosh, of a
sum in Peruvian of 4fr per cent bonds, belonging to the
republic, and deposited in the British legation in Lima.
The. news from California is unimportant. All
kinds of business was dull in. San Francisco, but
accounts from the mipes represented them as pro-
ductive as heretofore.
We have Eidviees from Kingston, Jamaica, to the
23rd instant.. The British brig Arab had captured
a slave vessel of about 150 tons, without name,
bearing a Spanish flag, and having on board 377
Africans. She .was taken. off the west end of Cuba,
and the negrocs, who were in a wretched
landed and liberated at Portfloyal....oo agitation
against the slave tra-de'continued in-Jamaica: The
taxes of the people were Much complained of. The
Wesleyan Methodist missions were encouraging.
The Deed Scott decision was much canvassed in
Jainaica,. In BarLa foes the treasury was in a good
condition. An intense heat prevailed in Antigua.
Sugar had been offered at 23s per cwt. There was
much executive and judicial ill feeling prevailing
in Dominica. Sugar rated at 32s 6d per. English

cwt. at Martin;qls.-- The -new.-French_goveruor of
Guadalope had arrived at that island.
The news from Havannah is to the 25th instant:.
lion Mr.-Morse; tate-United States-C)inmiSsitarer
in New Granada: hid-landed itlfriVannah, and left
in the Empire City for-New Orleans. A number
of deserters from Walleer'S artily were shipped to
the. same deatination. Negroes- and --Calli-esiVere
being fended in large numbers otx the island, not
withstanding the capture of- a>Slaver at ,Trinidad.
Nothing had been heerd of the Spanish force
destined for Mexico. Trade was very active.

COMMERCIAL IN TE LLI GENCE.

Nzw YORK, April 30. ,

The activity in the Money market for the past few days
wag tempi rare, and the only result was the calling ia. of a
few demuad,lonos. Dice )untsates hate not advanced, and
to-day the supply of paper givlis a tendency rather to fall,
and first olasa paper is not over abundant, will roes from
8 to 9 per cent, second class frora 8 to 1.0, call loans more
abundant at 7 per cant.
COTTON.--The ru:rket continua to improve, and is vary
firm at 1-11,- cents for middling upland, with sales of abou
2,000 bales. _

B LEADSTU.Kk'S —The market for flour continne3 very
flan, wilt "an upward te;,(l...:Ley,,and in' Sonthera and
G-ncsee there h a further iaan:-eypraient of lde to 15e per hri
bi 4 therelestLanipatiiin/eWpraYed„and themama,trules
ilw?,ternand for eatnmon and inc,ditina'kike3.
nearly susirentiktd ; i! ,iher grades are only taken by
the tr ide ate Want3d; an we have,'theref,re,iiir
business, andono important trans.aations to rector`. Y:e
eerifidence3 of "holderss however, ii vertv,deaideti Fa;l
"asking-Prime ffn•Trinte lots of wl-teat wette:rea ised to—la
aad ae not 3 p A-3-1s _f good Selitk' ra, white at
1 dol 'net') 1 dol 79e, delivered ; some ehoiee,Ventueky
white brought 1 dol 80e in stow: F Ititli4nl3oTll: mach
unsettled, and operators are wide apart in their views ; for
example, Western nixed in stwe is iieW as high as 80e,
and we 133ar of tri!, 761 offered ; 6,400 hashel3 So,lthern
yAtew sill at 76e to 761 e ; a eargii of Delathre Whilb at
77e. _ _ .

ParristorLa's Ale-s pork has improved. further to-day,
and closes will an upward terrle7cr..' Cut meats are
head; aiid either lower. Bef is quiet-but firm:.
FAEIGIITS :..),Ta Liverpool: 1.000 brls ,ro.;ii 3,1, barely
the cost of nading and unloadihx; baits cotton at
2s 61,18• 3s per hale for sq tarc bdies' and y i per lb for
W Sea aal; 250 brls pqrk at 61. To Lou]i :u : 150 ti?recs
beef at 61: .To Glaszow, soinc stn:4ll shipments per
steamer : 2400 brls Hoar landed at lfelbonrile at 2 dollars.
A. ship. was chartered at Quebec to London with deals at
£5 2; 6:1.-
,Aauthei from Q. tr.b,2,c to the BristA Chancel
at kt 153,

We understated that Dr. B alfanr, of the Royal Military
.A.syliun, has been' aeleeted to be secretary to the Rept
Conainission appointed for the ,purpose of irapiring iuto
the -organisation, government, and direction of the Medical
Department of the army.
T.RE.. TELEGRAPH, IN A terrnaLlA.—Aerangements are
making in, Anstralia..fpr establishing a telegraphic corn.-
nounieation between Melbourne and Adelaide. When this
cormandeation is ex' ended to King George's Sojnd, and
the telegraph is eeteblishel 'between Elgland and Aden,
news will reach Loadun from Alstrelia in two/11-two
daNa.
We ( Irorning Post) are- authorised to state that tat(
rumour ahich. has apps red in the Moe ning Chronic,le
some ether public jaurnals, that the Rev. F. D. ea-amine
is about to be reinitatea ie the Prefesseeship at-mikes
College, is entirely-withont foundation. We have autleri,y
for stating that no such step has ever been contemplated,
nor is there, • indeed, at present any vacancy in the Pro-
,'
fessorShine.
REINFORCEMENTS .Fon, INDIA..—It is stated that • her
Majes'y's government have determined to despatch four
more Infantry Reginnnta to Indian The 7th Fusiliers,
the 87'h' Iteniirrer`inAteld the thirl 'hattelicineof the'Thties
liivte been 'veartiled' for this service the remaining "corps
have not yet been named.. Upon the arrival t f these rein-
in-e3rnan's, the 10th and• 29-h Regiments will return
horns.—Smith, Elder,and Co 's Overland
SALE OF THE VICARAGE OF CAMBERWELL.—The right of
presentation to the vicarage of Camberwell is to be sold
by public auction. The present rent charge in lieu of
tithes is £1 100 a year, while the ground_ rents, arising
from buildinan glebe lands, dividends on stock, with
surplice, and Easter fees and offerings, increase, the value
to upwards of £2,000 per annum. It is one of the best
pieces of ecclesiastical preferment in the neighbourh,od
of the metropolis. The present incumbent is in hie 53rd
year. •
THE CHINESE PREPARING FOR WAR.—In the last
official papers on Chin; a proclam ation.of the acting chief
magistrate in Heang-Shang district appears, calling upo
the Chinese subjects to contribute toNar.ls the ex,;eases
of a war against England. It says e--" The district of
Shue-teh has undertaken to fu:cish moo taels ; and
as it appe.xs that the districts of Ileang-Shang and Sin-
hwung enjoy the reputation cf grat wealth, and contain
no small number of zealot's and publie-spirited inhabitants,
it is my duty to detain their respective mnnistgates to, call
on Ileangeohann fn- a contribution of 100''000 tads, and
on Sir-hwung for a contribution of 120,000 taels, fur
provisions of the necessaries of war." 1:,• -
HEALTH OF LONDyN.,-The number .of 'deaths registered
in London in the week that ended on .Saturday is 1,064,
and exhibits a small increase on that of the p-evicts week,
which was 1,038. In the ten years 1847-56 the ave•
rege number of dealis in the weeks corresponding with
last week was 1,049. But as the deaths of last week oc-
curred in an increeserl population, the average, With a-view
to comparison, must be raised or Tortionally to the increase,
iri which case it will become 1,144 Hence it appears
that the deaths now. retu ned were less by 80 than the
number that would have occurred ueder the average rate
of mortalitY.... Last week the births of. 924 boys, and 922
girls, in all 1,846 chit Iren were registered in London. In
the ten c .rresponding weeks ,the years 181 T-56 the
average number was 1,550.
THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—A con-
siderable number of the hot-ekeepers in the service, of
this company, at Paddington and St. John's Wood, left
their work on Monday morning, without notice, and
parad&d Paddirgton, Bayswater, Chelsea, and other
parts of London, visiting stables; endeavouring to persuade
or intimidate - others to follow their example. For
some years past it has been the practice for the
horsekeepers to levy a species of n black rt ail" on the
drivers in the form of daily fees, amounting in some
cases as high as sixpence per day, or in case of
refusal, to neglect the horses, so that they lost flesh,
and thereby brought them into disrepute with their
masters, and probably cost them their situations. Tnis
crying evil the directors determined to suppress, and
therefore issued directions prohibiting the payment of the
fees by the coachmen, and the receipt of them by the
horsekeepers. At the same time the wages of the horse-
keepeut which varied from 16s to 20s per week (the teen
finding their own tools), were raised to the universal rate
of 21s per week, the company .finding the tools. The
men, however, dissatisfied at the suppression of the fees,
have thought fit to strike.
WHO IS A CAND inerE.P—We find the folowieg
parag aph in the Daily sews :—" A novel point in,
election matters will be shorty raised.. T'ne Tres-Ann is
Who is a candidate?' By the lare Act ever, candidate
q tired to pay the election auditor a fee of £lO for
auditing the accounts of the expenses before and at the
'ejection. A number of perenis announced theniselves
as candidates at the late general election, bet retired
before the nomination day. The election eu.litor3 hove
Claimed their lees from such parties, and payment has
'been refueed, on ihe grou'.d that the parties were not.
candidates' within the meaning of the Act of Varna-
rnent. Tee -interpretation clause seetee a candidate to
he all persons eleted as members ;' all persons • who
-shall have declared themselves candidates at or More-
such election ;' anti also ' all persons nominated as canti--
da!es.' The question will have to be decided in a court
of law, and wit] be of importance, as, if all partie3 who
issue an address are liable,..it wall wevent persons from
thrusting themselves forward, who, in reality, have no
intention to stand as whilst on the other hand
it will increase the pay of the election auditor, who is
entitled to £lO from each candidate; and 10 per cent. on
the payments he may make far an election. This ma.,
be a novel point in England, but it is net so
in Ireland. At the general election of 1852,
the question was tried, and the election auditor made
good his claim at law against sornasham candidates. We
believe the law to be, that any man who permits himself
to he proposed as a candidate at the hustings, and adopts
his candidature ED far as to recognise his nomination, by
making a speech or otherwise, is strictly a candidate within
the• meaning of the act, and is, therefore, bound to pay the
auditor his fee of £10: It is not necessary that he should
go to the poll. The very fact of permitting himself to be
proposed as a candidate et the hustings, and adopting that
act, is quite sufficient. We believe it was at the Drogheda
election, in :1852, that the election auditor brought an
action against a flash candidate who was proposed,
merely for the purpose of making a speech, ard recovered
his tee. Na liability attaches for any acts done prior to
the nomination at the hustings. Addresses in newspapers,
and so forth, do not involve liability; the candidate must
he proposed and seconded regularly at the hustings, and,
should' he recognise this act he then hecomes liable to the
auditor for his fee of £10; but he is not liable to ana share
of the expenses, should he, on a show of nands, decline
going tea poll. Such is the law as it has been declared
In Ireland, and, all things considered, it is a very salutary
law."—Belfast oaver.