The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-23 00:00:00

tion 3 an immense tariff is imposed, in SOM3 cases
almost prohibiting the import of agricultural and
mechanical implements, and of course so far
contracting the operations of progress. The new
line of steamers laid on the run between Liverpool
and Quebec is working well, and a most valuable
traffic in goods and passengers has already sprung
up. Rapid and cheap communication will very
soon develop still more extensively the vast re-
sources of Canada, and give commercial enterprise
on each side the Atlantic such an impetus
as, we feel assured, will, at no distant period,
double the present amount of exchanges between
that valuable colony and the mother country. It
appears, by the recent returns of the census, that
the population of Toronto, including the village of
Zorkville, which may now be set down as a portion
of the city, numbers fifty thousand inhabitants.
According to the report of the Patriot, the value of
goods entered for consumption, for the six months

was 955.8501., against ending 4th of July last,
627,965/. for the same period of 1835. Banking
affairs, which, for several years, remained in a
backward position in Canada, have been successful
for some time: past. The leading principles of

finance are becoming better known, and with
extended knowledge on a subject of such vital
importance, we may anticipate the most valuable
results, both as regards commerce and agriculture.
Bank stock was in a healthy state at the date of
last advices. British North American shares sold
at 881, on 501 paid; Montreal bank shares were
current at 661, on 50/ paid ; and city banks were
sold at 241, on 201 paid up. Altogether, we feel
satisfied for the future of Canada. The elections,
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From these and many other evils incident to the
peculiar Constitution and institutions of the
neighbouring Republic, the Canadians are happily
exempt. Exempt because they have freedom in
its highest sense, regulated and respected, neither
repressed by the undue power of the State and
its executive, nor scandalised by the extreme of
popular license. All parties recognise this, and,
recognising, will study to preserve it.
The Baltic which arrived here last evening,
had amongst her passengers, Dr. Kane, the
celebrated Artie traveller. With that modesty which
invit:iably accompanies true genius, he declined
to receive a public entertainment from the citizens
- of Philadelphia previous to his departure for
Europe. The advices brought by this arrival are
meagre in the extreme. At the election of mayor
in Baltimore a series of fearful riots took place,
and the loss of four lives, and the seriously
wounding of some twenty persons, was
the consequence. A remarkable banquet had
been given at a place called Ninety-six, in
South Carolina, to Colonel S. Brooks, in approba-
tion of his murderous assault on Senator Sumner.
It was a fitting climax of the honours which the
Slave interest has showered on his head for that
disgraceful act. The meeting seems to have been
largely attended, by a respectable and influential
portion of the community--ladies were there in
great numbers—a splendid dinner was prepared—
and speeches were made by Colonel M`Gowan,
Colonel Preston S. Brooks, Governor Adams,
Senator Butler, the distinguished uncle of his
nephew, and Senator Toombs, of Georgia, who
acts upon the marked approval of the Brooks
assault, which he expressed on the floor of the
Senate at the time it was made. The spirit of the
meeting, from beginning to end, was in frantic
approbation of the brutal assault. No words of
eulogy seemed adequate to express the heartiness
with which Colonel Brooks was applauded for
having first disabled, and then beaten, with the
most savage fury, a Senator of the United States,
for words spoken in debate. Two magnificent
goblets—one of gold and the other of silver—were
presented to him, with several canes and other
tokens of approbation and complimentary
speeches were addressed to him in as high-flown
terms as if he were just returned a crowned victor
from some heroic war. As to the actual state
of the Union at present, we cannot do better
than make an extract from the letter of our pri▪
vate
correspondent, written on the 11th inst. He
says:—The cities here, and, indeed, in all the coun-
try, are now almost entirely engaged in poli▪ tical
excitement, in anticipation of the forthcoming
Presidential election, which causes great slackness
in trade. Party spirit runs high, but it passes off
quietly in all the Northern States ; yet in the
South, much riot and bloodshed has occurred, and
it may be, before November expires, some such
trouble may take place at the North. On
Tuesday the election for State officers of Pennsyl-
vania takes place, and should the democrats
succeed in that State, it is though that the
Republic Presidential nominee will fail, and then
slavery will again reign supreme in. Congress. The
two brothers Grelet, and the broker Parot, charged
with the embezzlement of a large number of shares
of the Northern Railway of France, have been
transferred, by order of the Executive, to the
custody of the federal authorities. The principal
actor in the alleged fraud, Carpentier, had not yet
been arrested, but the most active measures were
being taken by the police to discover his where-
abouts, as well as that of the female who accom-
panies him, and who is also supposed to be his
accomplice. The question is raised whether,
under the treaty of the extradition of offenders,
between the United States and France, Parot, the
Grelets and Carpentier, even though the fact of
their having embezzled the funds of the railway
be established beyond all doubt, can be delivered
up to the French authorities

The advices from the Continent to-day are of
little consequence. The official communication in
the Mohiteur, with regard to the Neapolitan
question, appears to have pleased all the Paris
journals, though from very opposite motives. The
organs of the Legitimists, Orleanists, and Ultra-
monta nrs, rejoice at the moderation displayed in
the °Mc:jai document, and laugh in their sleeve at
the narrow escape of their royal client; but the
Siecle, curious to relate, founds its approval on the
fact that the language in which the communication
is conveyed betrays a conviction that the struggle
which commenced on the banks of the Pruth
is destined to be terminated in Italy. It is not
often that diplomatic documents command so
general a success, and the sole fact of the present
one having been interpreted in two so very con-
trary senses must be highly gratifying to diplomacy
in general. The Ost. Deutsche Post asserts that
England has askeci, and obtained, a union of the
naval squadrons as the minimum preliminary to
more decided action, reserving, however, to herself
the adoption of ulterior measures independently
of France. The Mediterranean squadron is still
in the roads of Toulon; but letters from that port