The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-21 00:00:00

TURKEY,

A despatch, of which the following is a copy, has
been communicated for publication by the Turkish
Embassy in London :
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 16.

The Sheriff Abdul Montalib, who endeavoured
to prevent the successor nominated by the Sub-
lime Port, to supersede him from taking possession
of the government of Mecca, has been made
prisoner by the Imperial troops.
All the province of Hedjaz enjoys the most per-
fect tranquillity.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

Reports have been prevalent to-day that the
French government contemplated armed inter-
vention in Spain, on behalf of O'Donnell; but I
can assure you, on excellent authority, that it has
not the slightest possible intention of intervening,
either on behalf of O'Donnell, or Espartero, or the
Queen, or anybody else ; it means to leave the
Spaniards to settle their own affairs in their own
way. But, nevertheless, the French government
will probably take precautions for preventing the
hubbub from extending beyond its frontiers.
The Government, I am assured has, up to this
moment, received no telegraphic despatches of any
interest; and I have not heard that any from or to
private persons have come to hand. As to the
newspapers, they, as usual, know nothing ;—those
both morning an evening, have no news later
than I sent off yesterday. There is, how
ever, reason to believe that Sarragossa has
not only formally " pronounced against the
government, but that the military governor, General
Falcon, has headed the pronunciamento. As to the
garrison, some accounts say that they have joined
the insurgents; others, that they have retired to
the heights above the town to await the turn of
events.
Marshal Narvaez, who has been in exile in this
country for some years past, on hearing of the
events at Madrid, left Vichy, where ho was
drinking the waters, arrived in Paris yesterday
morning, and left last evening for Spain. This
would almost seem to indicate that he and
O'Donnell are in connivance.
The Constitutional says that the Emperor is ex-
pected here on the 25th inst. This is a confirma-
tion of what I told you some time back. But from
information obtained to day, I have reason to
believe that the Emperor will probably prolong his
stay at Plombieres, until the 10th or 12th of next
month. _

The Moniteur publishes the translation of a
proclamation from the Bey of Tunis to his sub-
jects, making known his intention to abolish the
duties on tobacco, salt, skins, and a multitude of
other objects, and only to derive the revenues of
the State from a tax on corn and oil, olive and
palm tree, and from pecuniary recompenses for
crimes. The same journal gives an account of the
wreck of the English vessel mentioned in my letter
of yesterday. The vessel was the Spartan from
Balaklava, and she was wrecked at the barren
isle of Cain, about fifteen miles from Bezerte, but
all the troops on board, together with her crew and
cargo, were saved. An officer went on shore in a
small boat to demand assistance, and the French
Consul-general sent off a vessel which took every
soul to Tunis, where they were, as stated yester-
day, generously provided for by the Bey.
A fifth remittance of 4,0001 from the Lord Mayor
of London, for the victims of the inundations, is
announced in the Moniteur.

ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.—On Saturday afternoon, a
labourer, employed on board a vessel in the Trafalgar dock,
accidentally fell into the hold of a ship, and, besides break-
ing his leg, received some other very severe contusions.
RE-APPEARANCE OF PALMER GROWING OUT OF A TREE !
—Will it be credited that thousands of people have during
the past week crowded a certain road in the village of
Melling, near Ormskirk, to inspect a sycamore tree which
has burst its bark, and the sap protrudes in a shape
resembling a man's head ? Rumour spread abroad that
it was the re-appearance of Palmer, who " had come again,
because he was buried without a coffin !" Some inns in
the neighbourhood of this singular tree reaped a rich
harvest. _ _

DISSOLUTIONS OF PART NERSHIP.—Mary Weddington
and J. Taylor, New York Mill, near Heywood, Lanca-
shire, cotton spinners. J. Jones, D. Roberts, and W.
Jones, Liverpool, timber merchants. W. Morley, C.
Alexander, and E. Fields, Barnsley, Yorkshire, stay
manufacturers, as far as regards W. Morley. T. Ashton,
S. Ashton, R. Ashton, F. Ashton, and J. Ashton, Man-
chester and Ramsbottom, manufacturers. J. Crowther
and G. Crowther, Lindley, Yorkshire, woollen cloth
dressers. P. M‘Mahon and J. Postlethwaite, Liverpool,
packing case manufacturers. J. Rushton and J. W.
Pilling, Salford, Lancashire, screw bolt manufacturers.
J. Hobday and J. H. Smith, Manchester. B. Earnshaw
and J. Cliffe, Almondbury, Yorkshire, machine makers.
CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLER..—On Saturday at
the Birkenhead police court, Mr. Farrand, a commercial
traveller, in the employment of Mr. Hellaby, hosiery manu-
facturer, of London, was fined 10s and costs, in all 235,
for travelling from Chester to Birkenhead, by the Birken-
head and Chester Railway Co., with an expired return day
ticket. He took a return day ticket to Chester on the 15th
of this month, and not being able to return that day he
came down by the early express train on the 16th. On
arriving at Birkenhead he was called on to pay 2s 6d, being
the amount of a single fare, but he refused and offered
Is 6d, the difference between the expired return ticket and
the ordinary fare. The clerk refused to accept the tender,
and the defendant now appeared to answer the complaint of
having travelled by. the Company's line with an expired
ticket. He pleaded in his defence that he was a frequent
traveller by the line, and that as such heclnsideredthteree
would no objection to his travelling on it, under h
circumstances, with. an expired ticket, the same privilege
being granted to him on other lines. The magistrates held
that he was not justified in travelling with an expired ticket,
and fined him in the above sum,