The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-19 00:00:00

-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

LARY AND COMMER

FRANCE.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENINC

The Liverpool Cotton Market has again been
quiet, and a‘small business only has been trans-
acted, the sales amounting t 0.6,000 bales, of which
1,000 have been taken for speculation and export.
Prices are scarcely so firm.
A large business has been done in the Share
Market to-day, and a very buoyant feeling has pre-
vailed. ,The market closed firm at the following
quotations :—Aberdeen, 13 13/. Chester and Bir-
kenhead, 15/ 151. Caledonian, 311 311. Chester
and Holyhead, 161 161. Eastern Counties, 10
7-16 103. East Lancashire, 20 3-16 201. Great
Northern, 24 241. Ditto A, 91 10. Great Western,
63/ 631. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 95 95/.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 171 171. London
and North Western Stock, 104 1041. Manchester
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 301 31. Ditto Pref., 111.
111. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 9-16 an. Mid-
land Stock, 801 801. North British, 91 9/. North
Staffordshire, 6 Sid. South Eastern and Dover,
22 22 1-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 20 15-
16 21 1-16. York and North Midland, 292 30.
Leeds Capital Stock, 181 191. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 11.11 p. Dutch Rhenish, 11 1 13-16 p.
Great Western of Canada, 261 26a. Ditto New
Shares, 31 3 13-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 81 81d.
From St. Petersburg we learn that trade is
becoming active, and preparations are being
actively made for the prosecution of commercial
enterprise. The letters state that at no previous
period were the local traders so busily occupied
with such arrangements, several merchants having
left for nearly all the principal towns in Europe to
found branch establishments, agencies, &c., through
which the trade of Russia can be more quickly
developed. The construction of banks, railways,
and other important undertakings were likewise
engaging attention. The Russian government and
the mercantile body also are fully aware that to
repair the damage done to their country by the
war, in a commercial point of view, energetic
measures will have to be adopted, and the greatest
encouragement, therefore, given to the various
projects which are being mooted with that object.
• Letters from Constantinople state that financial
questions continue to be the order of the day in
the capital of the Turkish empire. The non-arrival
of the representations of the Paris Credit Mobilier
Company, has strengthened the chances of foreign
capitalists, who have offered their services to the
Ottoman Government, to establish a National Bank
upon a sure basis. It is said that there is likely to
'be a fusion pf the interests of Messrs Rothschild

EROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

with those of Mr. Layard, who is at present at Con-
stantinople, as the representative of the Ottoman
Bank recently formed in London.
Accounts from the, French Wool Markets state

that the attendance of buyers on the plains of
Versailles, Brie, Valoise, and Maltien, for the new
clip, has been smaller than usual. This is attri-
buted to the high prices demanded by the wool
growers, which amount to 1.5 and 20 per cent.
above those of 1855. - Under these circumstances
the manufacturers are not inclined to lay in large
stocks. The prices of best merino wools in grease,
averaging from lf. 18c. to lf. 20c. per kilo,
show an advance of 30 per cent. on last year's

uotations.
According to a Parliamentary return jnst issued

the numbet;tnd tonnage of vassels entered inwards
and cleared outwards at the twelve principal ports
of the kingdom for the year 1855 was as follows,
viz., entered inwards, 24,006 vessels, tonnage,
6,372,301 ; cleared outwards, 22,863 vessels, ton-

nage, 6,426,566. The number of vessels that
entered each particular port was—London, 9,770;
Liverpool, 4,197; Hull, 2,058; Bristol, 567; New-
castle, 3,836 ; Southampton, 839 ; Leith, 1,200 ;
Glasgow, 412; Greenock, 266; Dublin, 297; Cork,
360 ; and Belfast, 204.
The Belgian Moniteur publishes the following
return of the receipts on the State railways, for the
month of April, and the four first months of this
year compared with the corresponding periods
last year. The items are as follows, showing a
falling off in the gross receipts for the month, and
a favourable increase during the four months
1855.
1,888,936 fr
4,655,013

Total for April -
Previous quarter

1856•
1,747,362 fr.
4,968,375

Total four months 6,544.950
The receipts of the telegraph establishment
during the month amounted to 28,401 f. The falling
off has been both in the passenger and goods traffic,
and attributed to the opening up of the new line
from France to Northern Germany.

The Funds to-day though remarkably firm were
qniet. A fresh rise of per cent. was attained in
the morning, but owing chiefly to the inactivity of
business was not maintained to the close, the

market finally leaving' off the same as yesterday,
namely at 94i 94-2. Speculative attention was
to day diverted from this department to the
Markets for British Railway Shares and Turkish
bonds, in which an important advance took place.
In most quarters there is a sanguine expectation
of a steady improvement in the Money Market, and
speculative operations are stimulated by the belief
that prices of most descriptions of securities will
gradually advance towards the range of quotations
which prevailed prior to the breaking out of the
late war. In Lombard-street to-day the supply of
money was superabundant, and the demand good.
At Paris to-day a preponderance of Money pur-
chased is indicated. The difficulty with which
recent settlements in the Rentes and Railway
Shares have been effected seems to have
greatly damaged most of the speculators,
numbers of whom hasten to realise upon
any rally. The belief remains that a
disastrous financial crisis will eventually super-
vene in France, but that necessary element of a
monetary crisis, general distrust and unwillingness
to lend, is happily as yet absent. The Railway
Share Market to-day was extrordinarily buoyant;
operations for higher prices were freely prosecuted,
and the rise in most cases averaged I to 1 per cent.
London and South Western Stock rose 2 per cent.
The closing quotations of Railway Shares stood as
follows :—Caledonian, 62- 631. Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 59 61. Eastern Counties, 108 101.
East Lancashire, 791 801. Great Northern,
961 97. Ditto A, 781 791. Great Western 631 641.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95 95k. Leeds Northern,
181 19+. London and North Western, 104 104+.
Manchester, Sheffield,' and Lincolnshire, 30i 311.
Midland Stock, 801 801. North British, 361 37.
South Eastern and Dover, 73+ 734. York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 831 84k. York and North
Midland, 591 60.

We understand that Abraham Ormerod, Esq., of Ridgefoot
House, Todmorden, has been put on the commission of the
peace for the county palatine of Lancaster.
DISSOLUTIONS OP PARTNERSHIP.—T. Shaw and E. Wild,
Liverpool, glass dealers. J. H. Monk and T. England.
Hustead'e-mill, near Doberosa, Yorkshire, silk waste
dressers. A. Barlow (deceased), B. Warburton, and S.
Holker, Bury, Lancashire, bleachers, so far as regards A.
Barlow. J. Barff and W. Barff, Wakefield, woolstapers.
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY.—(Before
Mr. Commissioner Stevenson.)— In re J. R. Clummow.—
The bankrupt, builder, of Wrexham, applied this day for
his certificate. He was unsupported, and was opposed by
Mr. Gregory on behalf of the assignees. His Honour
granted a certificate of the second class, after nine months
suspension, without protection for the firsts three months

AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF-
THE COVENANTERS.—
The original historical painting bearing this title, the work
of Mr. Alexander Johnston, is now on view at Mr. Jeffrey's
Fine Art Repository, 88, Bold-street The painting illus-
trates an incident of Scottish history in the year 1685. A
Covenanter killed in the " good fight" is being interred in
the glen of a Scottish mountain, and grouped around are
the figures of stern and mourning friends and relatives. It
is the closing hour of the 44y, and the sunset which light up
the glen with its parting rays, and falls upon a loch in the
background, contrasts with the sombre character of the
scene and the incident. The subject is treated by the artist
in a manner worthy of its touching and dignified nature.
Engravings of the picture are being prepared.
RATING OF TELEGRAPHS IN TOWNS AND CITIES.--Yes-
terday, Mr. James Aiken and Mr. H. Romilly sat in the
magistrates' room of the Sessions-house, Chapel-street, to
hear appeals against assessments under the poor rites.
E Among the parties who appealed were the nglish and Irish
Magnetic Telegraph Company. They were represented by Mr.
Bright, their manager in Liverpool ; and he complained that
not only were they assessed at £5OO a year for their station
in Exchange-buildings, but that they were now'assessed at
£25 for the mile and a half of wires which ran through the,
town. Against this laster assessment he appealed, on the
ground that the expense of maintaining their wires in town
was far greater than the income derived from them, and that
the company were already taxed sufficiently high on their
termini. Re mentioned that such appeals had been decided
in their favour in London and elsewhere, and that the
assessment, inome places, had been reduced to is. per
mile. The magistrates, acting on those decisions, reduced
the assessment, in this instance, from £25 to 20s.

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1 LATEST INTELLIGENCE

The telegraph will have informed you of the
appearance of a imperial decree in the Moniteur,
prolonging the session of the Legislative Body to
the 2nd July.

Count de Persigny, French ambassador at Lon-
don, has been promoted to the dignity of Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honour, and the French
Consul at Dublin, M. do Burggarff, has been
named a member of the Order.

A very magnificent ball was given to the Em-
peror and Empress, at the Hotel. de Ville, last
night. The decorations and lighting of the vast
apartments were truly splendid, and there was a
profusion of flowers. - The dress of the ladies
were, as usual, exquisite, and the uniforms of the
gentlemen very fine. Dancing was kept ,up to a
late hour. It is the intention.of their Majesties
to give two balls at St; Cloud in the course of the
week.

I am assured that General Changarnier has
written a letter to the Emperor, asking permission
to return to France; but that the terms in which
it is couched are not sufficiently humble to please
his Majesty. What reply will be given to it, lam
not in a condition to state.

The Bourse, notwithstanding the vast sum
(600,0001.) advanced yesterday by a company of
speculators, to facilitate the railway liquidation,
has again closed to day with a rather heavy
decline. The Money Market is evidently in a
depressed state from the over speculation of the
last two months.

The bankruptcy of M. Place, pronounced on
the 31st of May last, has been set aside,
on the grounds—firstly, that he had not, as
was stated, suspended paynient or been
executed at the Bourse ; secondly, that he has no
immediate liabilities which he is unable to meet ;
thirdly, that he did not take to flight, but merely
left Paris to go to Algeria to visit some lands and
quarries about to be conceded to him, and that
the moment he learned by telegraph that proceed-
ings were being taken to have him declared a
bankrupt, he set out for Paris, but could not arrive
before the 2nd, owing to the inundations; and
fourthly, that his principal creditors had
declared themselves satisfied of his solvency.
The tribunal, however, declared, that at the
moment the bankruptcy was declared, his affairs
were in a bad state, inasmuch, as they presented a
deficit of 2,478,000 f. (nearly £100,000:) According
to Place himself, on the contrary, his assets were
15,717,000 f., liabilities 13,880,000 f., so that there
was a balance on the right side of 1,837,000 f., but
the tribunal said that he had counted as assets an
item of 4,315,000 f. for speculators, not yet realised,
and it struck it out.

If I am correctly informed the government has
received information that Souloque, the Emperor of
Haiti, has been overthrown ; but if the thing be
true, the news will, no doubt, have reached Eng-
land by this time. lam also told that the govern..
ment has received telegraphic despatches to day,
stating that brigandage is spreading more and more
in Greece, and that so audacious have the brigands
become, that they have actually murdered two
officers of the French army of occupation, -at
the very gates of Athens. And I am
assured, besides, that other despatches, which have
reached it to-day, state that a sanguinary conflict
has taken place between the Austrian troops and
the peasantry, at some place in Wallachia (the
name of it was not given to me) owing to the
former having, with their usual oppression, seized
all the carts and other vehicles of the latter. The
affair is represented as very serious, and it excites
some apprehension.
I have some reason to believe, that the tele'
graphic despatch from Madrid, received yesterday,
announcing that the French Government had been
accepted as mediator between Spain and Mexico,
was in error. No mediation, in the diplomatic
meaning of the term has, I am assured, been
offered or requested; but France has professed
her readiness to exercise her good offices between
the two powers, and Spain has shown a readiness
to avail herself of them. This is all that has been
I done.

THE LIEUTENANCY.—The following gentlemen have been
added to the list of deputy-lieutenants for the county Palatine
of Lancaster :—Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, Jonathan Har-
greaves, Esq., and •Richard Smethurst the younger.

THE MILITIA.—The Gazette of Tuesday evening pub-
lishes the following militia appointments :-6th Regiment
of R lel Lancashire militia—Ensign Alexander Beaufoy
Thompson to be lieutenant, vice Ceadock, appointed to the
2nd W,-st India Regiment ; Ensign Thomas Acres Ogle
to be lieutenant, vice Whelan, appointed to the 12th foot.
PARLIAMENTARY REPaESENTATION. —OR Tuesday night,
in the House of Commons, Sir Joshua Walmsley, who had
a motion on the paper for leave to 'bring in a bill for the
extension of the franchise, and for the amendment of the
representation in England and Wales, said his object was to
obtain a fall discussion of the subject. and ho thought he
should best attain that object by postponing the motion till
a future opportunity.

FlRE.—About half .past seven o'clock, yesterday evening;
a fire broke out in the drying store in Mr. Haigh's yard,
Frazer-street. The West of England engine was the first
to arrive, quickly followed by Mr. Hewitt. with the reels, &c.,
from Temple-court, but owing to the difficulty experienced
in getting at the fire, it was not extinguished until after a
laborious exertion of an hour and a-halt's duration. The
stcck and buildings are insured in the Liverpool office.
WATERLOO mint Sgsixonni.—lt has been officially inti-
mated to the inhabitants, in a letter from the General
Board of Health, addressed to William Hall, Esq., that the
supplemental bill, applicable to the sanitary improvement
of the district, has passed both houses of parliament, and
only now awaits the Royal assent. When this has been
given, instructions will be issued for the guidance of the
proposed local board, from whose administration of affairs
very important advantages are anticipated.

BRIGANDAGE IN GREECE

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITA,L,—WEENLY REPORT,
JUZcE 18, 1856.—1 n patients :--Discharged : cured, 11 ;
relieved, 0; at own request, 0 ; irregular, 1. Dead, 3 ;
entered, 2p, ; under treatment, 61. Out patients : cured,
58 ; entered, 52 ; under treatment, 35. Treasurer, James
Houghton, Esq. Visitors, Rev. T. Robberds, and John
Rogers, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry,
B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr.
Cameron, and Pr. Petrie. House surgeons, Mr. g. C.
Garland, and Mr. William Townsend.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. --The Lord Bishop of
Manchester on Tuesday, at the Diocesan Registry, St.
James's Square, instituted the Rev. John Pedder, M.A., to
the vicarage and parish church .of Garsang Church Town,
the same being vacant by tht death of the B.ev. James
Pedder, the late incumbent there, on the presentation and
appointment of Elizabeth Pedder, of Church Town Gar-
slog, widow; Isabella Moss, of Lincoln; Richard Pedder,
of Preston, Esq. ; and the Rev. John Pedder, of Finisth-
waite, in this county ; the trustee and devisees- under the
will of the Rev. James Pedder, deceased, and as such the
patrons of the said living, and his lordship at the same
time issued his mandate for his induction thereto.

GOOD TASTE OF AMERICAN CAPTAINS WAR.
The following incident may be taken as a good omen, and
certainly wchibits the best feelings on the part of the
numerous, intelligent, and gentlemanly American captains
at present in port. Yesterday, from •oue end of the docks
to the other, the American ships had their national flags
flying, and all their gayest bunting " out"for the day. In the
majority of the ships the English flag was also hoisted, and
altogether, the vessels wore the most holiday appearance.
The American shipping, and other houses along the line of
docks, had their flags afloat also. At first it was not rightly
known why this display of 4.‘ bunting" was exeibited, but
on enquiry we were inforratd that it arose in this way.
The American captains, and other citizens of the States,
being assured that there would not be any war between, the
two countries, testified their feelings in the very becoming
manner mentioned. We have heard the good taste shown
spoken of highly, and we trust the day will never come
when any other than the most affectionate feeling shall
prevail between the two important nations.

Despatches from Athens, dated the 11,1"1"-- n-
state that an enquiry, instituted by the ''—erith
meat, had resulted in tracing a connection vv.,.c.
the system of brigandage, so ,disgracefully
tised, to several 'high personages f\;•ertiaetilon
Indignant at the state of things the investLc" the
has disclosed, the Ministrrhas resolved on
punishment of the parties implicated.