The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

I told you tile other day, that the bill presented
to the Legislative Body for striking prohibitions
out of the French tariff, and replacing them by
high duties, would 'not have any great advantage
to foreign manufacturers, owing to the duties fixed,
being so high, as to render competition with the
French impossible. This morning, there is a note
in
.the official Moniteur, , which fully confirms what
I said. " Some manufacturers," it says, " have
been alarmed at certain enactments in the-bill,
for repealing prohibitions in the customs. Their
alarm is without foundation. The government, in
deciding that the removal of prohibitions should
be proposed to the Legislative Body, intended that
they should be replaced by duties largely protec-
tive of national labour. The new tariffs have been
studied in this point of view. To attain more com-
pletely this object, the government will itself pro-
pose the increase of certain articles in the. tariffs."
Thus, then, the French government is far, very
far, indeed, from free trade; -but, still, I have
reason to beliette, that it will persist in a liberal
commercial policy. It will, however, in order not
to excite the.hostility of themanufacturers; have to
carry it out with great prudence, and at a terrible
slow pace. _

A list of not less than 1,480 soldiers who have
obtained the Military Medal appears in the
Moniteur to-day. This makes an addition of 1,480
times 100 fr. (X 4) to the budget !
The Minister of War has decided that the 95,000
soldiers about to be discharged on furlough, shall
consist-of 65,640 infantry, 13,914 cavalry; "9,552
artillery, and the rest from the engineers and
the baggage train.
The reigning Prince of Monaco died .in. this
city yesterday. He used to live here, and was, if
I remf,mber rightly, though a foreign sovereign, a
member of the Chamber of Peers under ling
Louis Philippe. He once made a good sum of
money by a measure more cunning than honest,—
he coined a large amount of indifferent copper coin
bearing his name and effigy, and passed them off
'in France as French sous. The poorer classes
suffered a good deal, and since then, a " Monaco"
means a bad sou.

The bill on the supplementary and extraordinary
credits now before the Legislative Body, shows
that those credits, for the years 1854-5 and 1856,
amount to no less a sum than 1,400,747,283 fr.
Almost all of them have been, or will be, absorbed
by the war. _ _

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The long,vexed question of the establishment of
Trans-Atlantic steamers is, it is again said, about
to be concluded. There are to be three grand lines,
one from Havre to New York, one to Brazil from
Havre and Marseilles, and one to the West Indies
from Bordeaux and Nantes. It is not, however,
yet decided whether the lines are to be confided to
one or several companies.

The provincial Manufactures are inactive, and at
Paris trade is dull. The sales of cotton at Havre
last week exceeded 8,000 bales, but prices of nearly
all sorts fell :1 f.

It may be well to state, in case the news should
not have already reached you, that Copenhagen
letters represent that in virtue of an arrangement
concluded between the United States and Denmark
under the auspices of Russia, the former will
continue to pay the Sound Dues for another year,
but under _protest.
The Marseilles telegragh gives a summary of
news from Constantinople to the 13th. Mr. Layard
had. after surmounting many difficulties, started a
bank. Ten English .vessels conveying troops had
passed the Bosphorus. The French expected to
be able to evacuate the Crimea by the sth of July.
The town of Kars had been given up to the Turks.
The foitress of Redoubt-Kale had been abandoned
by the Turks.
Hamburgh letters announce the arrival of large
quantities of corn from America, purchased by the
Prussian government for Silesia. On the other
hand France has made, and is making, large
purchases of corn in Russia and in the north of
Europe
From Naples we learn that th 3 exportation of
wheat at the existing duty has been prolonged to
the 15th July.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
The Journal des Debats, speaking of the nomina

tion of Mr• Buchanan, at, Cincinnati, says :—" He
is certainly more moderate than Mr. Pierce ; but

we must not regard his probable election as a cer-
tain pledge of peaceable dispositions. As long as
the political men of America are in Europe, and in
European society, they are under moderating
influence, but when they return home they fall
under the necessity of sharing popular and national
passions." The Debuts afterwards express the
opinion that the political programme at Cincinnati
is as advanced and as alarming for the future as
could have been that of the present President.
From an official customs return published to-
day, it appears that the importations of France,
in 1855, amounted to 1,950,700,000 fr; in 1854, to
1,709,200,000 fr ; and in 1853, to 1,631,400,000 fr ;
and the exports in each of the three years, to
2,027,800,000 fr; 1,717,900,000 fr; and 1,861,300,000 fr.
In the importations, the French vessels employed
were 9,587, of 1,248,086 tons but-den, in 1855 ; 9,307,
of 1,131,702 tons, in 1854; and 9,210, of 1,065,668
tons, in 1853 ; the foreign, 13,400, of
7,205,482 tons burden in 1855, 10 980, of 1,608,607
in 1854, and 1.1,509 of 1,685,011 in 1853. In expor-
tations, the French vessels employed were 5,768 of
933,948 tons burden in 1855, 5,726 of 786,733 in
1854. and 6,625 of 796,350 in 1853; foreign vessels,
8,002 of 1,096,750 tons burden 1855, 7,919 of 1,059,562
in 1854, and 8,856 of 1,058,315. - The quantity of
cotton iMporteo: in 1855, was 761,563 metrical
quintals; in 1854, 715,940 ; and in 1853, 750,913 ;
and the duty paid thereon in the three years, was
135,100,0001 r, 127.200,000 fr, and 133,300,000 fr.
You will see by the. Afonitettr that Marshal
Pelissier gives an account of the distribution of
of the Cross of the Bath by Lord Gough to the
French and English officers, and that he says that
at a banquet which followed, " The representatives
of the two armies gave expression to real sympathy
and- the most cordial esteem." He adds that
these sentiments which unite the two armies have
become strengthened by a prolonged contact.

Prince Oscar of Sweden left this morning for
England, and the Prince Regent of Baden has
arrived from England. I hear that at Calais .the
Prince's Minister in this city, M. de Scheiwzer,
who went on board the steamer to pay his respects,
accidentally fell into the sea. He was got out in
safety, but looked very sheepish.
Count de Montalembert has gone into Germany.
His journey at this juncture has created some
surprise, but it is whispered that he has gone to
consult with the Duchess d'Orleans relative to a
letter written by her son, the Count de Paris, to
one of his partisans in Paris,—a letter in which
the young Prince declaies that he has not given,
and will not give, his assent to what is called the
fusion between his party and that of the elder
Bourbons.

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAU INSTITU-
TION, 9, ROSE HILL.—New patients entered on the books
last week, viz. :—June 21st : Relieved at the institution,
164 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 66 ; cases of prevail-
ing epidemic, 0. Total 230. Visitors, Mr. E. Watts and
Mr. T. Kirk. Hen. Secretary and Treasurer, Jos. Kitchen,
Esq.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, 29th May, a man
named John Curran, who resided at 2 court, Ligbtbody-
street, was at work at Chrence-dock, in the hold of the
ship Sardinia, when one of the slings broke, and a piece of
machinery fell on, and injured him fatally. He was taken
to the Northern Hcspital, where he died yesterday. An
inquest will be held on the body this day.

THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GREAT
CROSBY.--The examination of the pupils in course of edu-
cation at this excellent estrblishment, under the supervision
of the Rev. John Bernard, M.A., principal, took place on
Saturday last. The examiner was the Rev. G. F. Snow-
ball, M.A., and the answers of the young students were
such as to afford the highest satisfaction to their parents
and friends, of whom there was a very numerous attendance.
A "DIGGER" AND HIS MONEY.--On Sunday night, a
" digger," who had come from Australia by the Marco
Polo, was robbed in Tithebarn-street of fifty.five sovereigns
and several " nuggets" of gold by, a female. She was at
once arrested by the police, and on her way to the station
she managed to slip the bag containing the money into
a back pocket of the man's coat, and on arriving at the
" lock requsted that the man might be searched,
as she suspected, she said, that he robbed himself! The
money, sure enough, was found in the possession of the
owner, who was so overjoyed that he nearly faint& d. The
police then got a lamp, and went to the spot where the
affair took place, and there the nuggets were found in the
street, Lucky digger 1