The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-23 00:00:00

THE COURT, eg,

WINDSOR, Wednesday, Jan 21.—Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit. Lady
Caroline Barrington, Major-General and Mrs, Grey, and
Sir Charles trood, had the honour of dining with the
Queen. The band of the Ist Life Guards played during
dinner. The Q teen's private band afterwards performed.
The Queen and the prince of Wales walked in the Home
Park this morning. Prince. Albert, the Count of Flanders,
and Prince Edward of S axe Weimar went out shooting.
The younger children took a carriage drive. Sir Charles
Wood loft the Castle in the forenoon. Prince Edward of
Leiningen left Frogmore,the residence of her Royal High.
ness the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, for Germaay, and
and travelled through Landon en route to Dover,

EMBEZZLEMENT.--By an inquiry which took place at
the police office, on Wednesday last, before Mr. Mansfield,
it will be seen that a clerk of the name of Shtffiebottom,
in the employment of M. Mussabini, was charged with
having embezzled various sums of money, to the amount of
£2OO. . These monies, according to M. Mussabini's evi-
dince, were given to the clerk for the purpose of paying
duties at the custom house, ranging over a period commen-
cing on the 15th Dec, 1856, and ending on the 3°d instant.
These defalcations, said to amount to no less a sum than
£2OO, might have been saved at a very small coat to the
employers of the unfortunate young man. Had they
expended the sum of £1 annually for information, con.
tained in a document published daily for, and distributed
by the Bill of Entry (and which would have been placed
in their hands day by day, without further trouble
or cost on their part, beyond the. annual sub-
scription above named) wherein is shown the payment
made for duties by every individual house in the port of
Liverpool, and to which is affixed the signature of the
collettor, as an attesting evidence of its accuracy. This
document, which has not long been published, has already
prodnced results most beneficial not only to the mercantile
community, but to the youths who are intrusted by them
with the payment of duties, inasmuch as frauds, which were
too common previous to the appearance of this publication,
have now nearly disappeared ; for this-is the only case which
his been discovered during the six months of its existence;
while in July last seven cases of embezzlement, committed
under similar circumstances, occurred, and in some instants
eight or nine defalcations were discovered to be the
act of one individual, and there was scarcely a month that
passed over during which similar painful irregularities
were not manifested, and many a youth in consequence
thrown upon the world as an outcast, degraded in the eyes
of the public, and a painful memorial to his parents,
relatives, and friends, of the results of a total absence of
check on the part of their employers, which, although
productive of some labour in the exercise of the check in the
ordinary way, is now so simplified by the publication of the
Bill of Entry, as to render the checking of any number or
amount of payments the work of merely glancing the eye
over the names of those that pay the duties and the amount
of payment for which credit is given to them. It is to the
Collector of Customs that the merchants of Liverpool are
indebted for the simple yet accurate mode of checking the
payments made for duties which is thus placed in the hands
of all those who pay the same, at a cost, we are assured,
barely sufficient to cover the exoense of production.

LOUIS KOSSUTH AT ASHTONUNDER-LYNE.-012 Monday
night, M. Kossuth addressed an influential and enthusias-
tic meeting in the Lower Hall, Ashton, under the presi_
dency of the Mayor. Mr. N. Buckley. The subject of his
address was, " The Political State of Continental Europe."
He commenced by saying the great war was over, the
dead buried, the money spent, and in the end the French
Ambassador was married to a Russian Princess, and an
allance formed between the two courts. In Europe,
generally, we have much the same state of things as before
the war. At such an expense, the world might have been
redeemed, but the money has been spent without result. He
complimented the attitude taken by Switzerland in the
late quarrel. He was glad to know the old spirit had not
departed, but the black spot in her history was the sending
of her degenerate sons to assist the tyrants of Italy. In
America, if a citizen of the United States enlisted under a
foreign power, he forfeited all his privileges. If his voice
could find:an echo in the mountain passes of Switzerland,
he would urge upon the people that their own honour
demanded on their part a similar course.

In St. Petersburg the Calr is engaged in the erection
of one of the largest forges, iron shipbuilding yards, and
engine factories in the world, on one of the principal quays
in the government part of the city. The operations are
being conducted with the greatest secrecy and dispatch.
That the works are on a gigantic scale will be evident to
the least scientific, when it is •stated that fourteen steam
hammers are being placed in the forge, for the purpose of
constructing, together with forgings for marine engines,
for the Russian navy, monster wrought iron ordnance.
The works are being built chiefly by English mechanics,
from one of whom, just returned to England, this infor-
mation is derived.

RUMOURED CHANCES IN THE CABINET.—A Cabinet
Council was held on Wednesday. The deliberations of
the right honourable party lasted for a considerable time.
We have good reason for stating naf, the chief subject of
discussion was a re-construction of the government. We
shall state the facts as we believe them to be, without anX
comment—commentary we leave to our readers. Offers
for another coalition were made more than a month ago. Of
course "coalition" means a junction of any existing govern-
ment with the " Peelites," commonly and properly so
called. Lord Aberdeen. Sir James Graham, and Mr.
Gladstone have consequently had the necessary meetings,
at Mr. Sidney Herbert's mansion. Lord Aberdeen has
had interviews with Lord Palmerston twice within the last
three days. There is little doubt that Sir Charles Wool
will retire from the Admiralty. There is little doubt also
that Sir James Grrham will return to office, brit why not
to his old and " first loved" post, the Admiralty, we cannot
imagine, We understand that Sir George Grey will take
the, office of the late First Lord, and that Sir James will
re-assume in his place one of his various other previous