The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

---.-..---

THE CAMPAIGN IN ASIA.

A despatch from Trieste dated the sth instant,
mentions that the news from Kertch state that Gen.

Vivian was preparing a reconnaisance on a grand
scale towards Arabat, where the Russians were
concentrating great numbers of troops.

-..-•01,---

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The closing quotations on the Bourse to-day
were as follows :—Four and a half per Cents., 97f.

sc. ; Three per Cents., 72f. 83e

WEST INDIA MAIL

SOUTHAMPTON, MAttcit 5

The Royal Mail Steamship Company's pqcket
Parana, Capt. E. Baynton, with the West India
and Pacific mails, has arrived. Her dates are :

Santa Martha, Jan. 25 ; Tampico, Feb. 2; Vera
Cruz, Feb. 4; Colon, Feb. 8 ; Havanna, Feb. 9 ;
Jamaica, Feb. 11; Barbados, Feb. 12 ; and St.
Thomas, Feb. 17.

The Parana brings 25 passengers, a full cargo,
and 1,101,932 dollars in specie, of which 519 684
dollars is in gold, and 582,218 dollars is in silver.
Among her passengers are Captain Ord, 36th
Regiment, and Assistant-surgeon Somerville, 69th
Regiment, from Jamaica ; and Assistant-paymaster
Shirreff, R.N., from Barbados.

From Antigua, we learn that the weather con-

ral and manufac

turing operations. The absence of rain was
severely felt by the planters. The Legislature was
to meet on the 7th Feb.

From St. Thomas we have intelligence that Mr.
1. Emerson, acting consul there since his brother's
Leath, expired on the 17th ult.. a few hours before
he Parana left.

The Queen, 35 days from Liverpool, arrived at
Barbados on the 9th ult.

THE CRIMEA.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Camp before Sebastopol, Feb. 22

A correspondent in the Crimea at the present
moment must needs have an ingenious mind, if he
wish to cater to the public appetite for news.
With the dull routine of camp life, the stagnation
of winter quarters, the prospect of an armistice,
and a peace infaturo, he almost finds it impossible
to extract anything interesting or exciting from the
dead level of things around. The weather indeed
is an unfailing topic, and with the quality of variety
at the least ; but even this may be exhausted ; and
there is nothing left but to grumble or to be silent.
A slight episode of a martial character indeed
did occur last week. On Wednesday, the 13th, the
Russians made a great reconnaissance ; they ad_
vanced in two distinct bodies, one from the Mac-
kenzie Heights on the right attack, and the other
at Baidar. They came down in great force, drove
in the French outposts, but retired again without
effecting anything, leaving several prisoners in the
hands of the French. What their object could
have been, it is impossible to conceive. It was
reported that the reconnaissance took place in con-
sequence of the arrival of their new general.
Whatever was the reason of it, it satisfactorily
proved, at least to us, how soon a large force could
be concentrated on any one point ; for the French,
on the first news of the attack, poured in on the
point assailed, with a rapidity and steadiness that,
I have no doubt, astonished the Russians.
The Russians still keep up a desultory fire from
the north side; it has been somewhat more fierce
of late, though as little effective as ever. They have
been, probably, attracted by the increased number
of men employed on the French side in removing
guns, anchors, and other Russian spoils. I
was in Sebastopol the other day, and saw this
weighty booty undergoing the process of removal.
the labour is immense, and the French have lost
by it a great number of horses. I saw quantities
of large anchors which had stuck on their way;
they have to be dragged from the water's edge up
the precipitous hill on the entrance to the French
side of the town, and thence along the road, over
hill and dale, to Kamiesch, where they are shipped
for their destination. Since my last letter, though we
have had every variety of weather, we have had no
rain, and the ground having attained a consistency
sufficient to bear man and horse, reviewing has
been the order of the day. Yesterday the Third
Division marched out and were reviewed ; the day
before, the Light Division were out; and to-day,
the First Division had a grand field day. This
division looked remarkably well ; the Brigade of
Guards especially attracting much attention. The
Grenadier Guards are now nearly 800 strong ; and,
perhaps, a finer body of men never stepped together.
Sir W. Codrington, who -vas present, complimented
Lord Rokeby on the appearance of his division.
Last Monday there was to have been a review of
the whole army, but the weather, which, up to that
day, had been mild and favourable, suddenly
changed to the •depth of winter again, and the
morning was ushered in with frost, sleet, and a
piercing north-east wind, the thermometer falling
to 15,) ; the review is, therefore, postponed till next
Monday, always with the proviso of weather per-
mitting. To-night orders have come out for
detachments from each division to parade at 7 a.m.
to-morrow, to see a private of the 77th Regiment
hanged, for murdering his comrade in hospital.
To-day the weather has again changed, the frost is
all gone, and has been succeeded by a very bluster_
ing wind from the south-west, and the thermo-
imneorsntinpgeeniltiarw;
asyesfrteersdtva,y,
afnodr instance,meter is up again to above 40°. This climate is
cinertatihnely
cold ; at noon misty and muggy,
and towards
evening quite mild and warm. The army
however, continues in good health, and however
the peace negociations may end',
certain, that 'at no time could our Queen have
finer—
entrusted the honour of her country, and the safe-
keeping of her throne, to a one thing is
a more loyal—
and a better-conditioned body of men than the
one which is now drawing sword in her behalf on
the shores of the Euxine.

LIVERPOOL SPRING COP.—The race not being p.p., the
bets about Berezina, De Ginkel, and other horses that did
not start, are void. _ _

THE LATE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT FROM 111E3SRS.
BROCKLEBANX.—A writ for £6,000 has been served on the
prisoner, Robert Wilson, late cashkeeper to the. above firm,
and who is at present confined in gaol on the charge of
embezzlement, for which he is to abide his trial at the
coming assizes. The writ is at the snit of his late
employers.
THE " FAIR SEX."—It may be considered very ungallant
to say anything that could be construed into disparagement
on the " fair sex," but truth compels us to state a fact. At
the police.courts on Tuesday, the proportion of females to that
of males, brought before the magistrates, was remarkably
striking. In the felony court the proportion was sixteen
females to six men. In the summons department, twenty-
three women to seven men, and in the " drunk and dis-
orderly list," there was a considerable per centage in favour
of the "womankind" also.
PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.—The monthly meetirg of the
Liverpool Photographic Society was held in the Royal
Institution on Tuesday, Mr. Corey in the chair. Mr. J.
W. Jeans, of Grantham, Lincolnshire, and Mr. James Eden,
of Park road, Liverpool, were elected members on the
motion of Mr. Forrest; and Mr. Bensusan, of the Electric
Telegraph office, was elected a member on the motion of the
chairman. A copy of a new publication of the Manchester
society, designed to illustrate their experiments in the art,
was exhibited. Mr. Iliggin exhibited some very beautiful
specimens of the Photographic art, in landscapes and archi-
tectural delineations, by Meisrs. Martin and Bisson,
freres, of Paris, and glazed by a peculiar process through the
adaptation of Gelatine. Several other interesting items of
intelligence relating to the Photographic art were laid before
the meeting. The third yearly report of the society's pro-
ceedings and accounts was read, which took a retrospective
glance of the society's labours during the past year, as well
as of the general condition of the art, which it declared
emphatically to be in an advancing state. On the motion
of the Rev. Mr. Banner, seconded by Mr. Higgio, the report
was unanimously adopted. Mr. Bell read a communication
from Mr. Stansfield, of Leeds, relative to the albumen
process, and giving an account of the results of his practice
in that respect. Mr. Berry read a paper on the advance
made in the art as regards facility of production in all lights
and seasons. A short conversation on this paper closed the
night's proeeedings.