The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

NVe read in the St. Petersburg Northern Bee of
April 22:—
Since the beginning of this month, a stoppage
has taken place in our business matters, The
price of Russian products has fallen at London out
of proportion with the prices at this city. It
results that the traders of St. Petersburg, holders
of merchandise, are in no hurry to make new pur-
chases ; the Russian merchants, on their part,
being little disposed to lower prices, as they are
firmly persuaded that a rise in our principal
articles of export is imminent upon the opening of
the navigation at the time of the arrivals from the
interior.
It is with the greatest satisfaction that7we see at
St, Petersburg, from the foreign journals, that the
London bourse takes a lively interest in the con-
struction of the railway from Riga to Dunabourg.
From information received by private letters, we
learn that many companies are being formed in
England for the construction in Russia of some
other lines, which will also be 'Advantageous for
our country, as well as for English capitalists
themselves, who by this will put their capital to
a much more profitable account than they could do
in England. The construction of railways by
private individuals being authorised by the govern-
ment, commercial men applaud these wise and
useful projects, and entertain the most sincere
wishes for their success.
The above article is copied into the Journal de
St. Petersbourg.

FRANCE.

(FROM 01111, OVN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING

You will not, probably, have failed to see, in the
Moniteur forwarded to you this morning, that the
whole of the soldiers, levied in 1849, have received
their discharge, thus causing a diminution of some
52,000 men in the effective of the army. A regi-
ment of hussars has also been ordered to be dis-
solved.
Although the King of Wurtemburg, as you were
informed yesterday only, arrived at a very late
hour on Saturday night, the Emperor immediately
paid him a visit in his apartments at the Tuileries.
Yesterday, his Majesty was entertained at a grand
dinner at the palace, and in the evening went to
the Opera Comique.
This being the anniversary of the death of
Napoleon 1., at St. Helena, masses for the repose
of his soul were celebrated in the chapel of the
Tuileries and in that of the Hotel des Invalides.
At the former the Emperor was present ; at the
latter were a great number of old soldiers in their
ancient uniforms.
The Petrie, of this evening, gives some extracts
from the pamphlet on the Treaty of Peace which is
about to be published, and which is supposed to
express the sentiments of a lofty personage. In
these I find a confirmation of the facts I have
already communicated to you, that the honour
of chosing Paris as the seat of the Peace
Congress is to be ascribed to England, and that
the English alliance is to be spoken of favourably.
The following extract on the latter point is
interesting :—" In seeing the able attitude which
the Russian Plenipotentiaries adopted towards
France on their arrival at Paris, and in calling to
mind that England, though consenting to
negotiate, would have preferred the continuation
of the war, some persons asked themselves if these
circumstances would not weaken the alliance ;
but the prudence of the French Government has
dissipated all fear. If we are well informed, the
initiative of the plan of conduct in the negotiations
came from France, and was conceived in its
essential conditions in such a manner as to prove
to the Government of her British Majesty flint
at Paris, as at London, it was desired to give to
the conditions, accepted as basis of the Con-
ferences, all the extension they were capable of
bearing."
The question is asked with some interest in
political circles—" What will the United States
say to the abolition of privateering in future wars
proclaimed by the Peace Congress ? " And the
general belief is that they will hesitate to acknow-
ledge it, in order not to deprive themselves of
their most powerful instrument of offence against
any European Power with which they may be at war,
and especially against England. But, at the same
time it is asserted that " Europe" (for it is not
doubted that all the other States will adhere to
what the great Powers have thought fit to
adopt), will certainly, either by persuasion,
or, if forced, by force compel the States to
do what they have done. Some partisans
of the French Government who write in
the Continental press, even go the length of
asserting that the United States will at once be
called on to give their sanction to the new prin-
ciple, or—to take the consequences ; and if these
gentry are to be believed, the French Government,
for its part, would be glad to see the States say
" No," in order to have a pretext for combining all
Europe into a solemn league and covenant against
them. It is even said, gravely, that the European
combination might not only compel the States
to accept the European desire respecting
privateering, but even to cease to be " a
revolutionary stronghold," and, as such, an
object of dislike and terror to all Continental
potentates. All this will, I dare say, look uncom-
monly silly in your eyes, but it is not silly in con-
tinental estimation, and from what I hear in differ-
ent quarters, it represents pretty correctly the
views of the French Emperor.
A Marseilles despatch announces the arrival of
the Meander, with Constantinople news to the
24th ult , to the effect that an insurrection had
broken out at Mecca, owing to the dismissed
Scheriff, at the head of 50,000 Arabs, having pro
claimed the Sultan unfaithful to his religion. In
consequence of this pilgrims had been refused
permission to the Holy City. The Circassian
deputation had arrived.
A Berlin despatch says that the King of Prussia
has conferred the order of the Black Eagle on the
French Emperor. Yesterday, one came which said
that it was the Red Eagle which was granted. But
as the red bird is of inferior dignity to the black
one, in Prussian heraldry, people thought there
was
a mistake, and so it turns out. The despatch
_
the Treaty of Peace had been published
adds, thh..!'
at St Petersb,. . .rg, and that Prince Scuchozanet had
-,sister of War
been appoini.".4