The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-14 00:00:00

roans, April 4; Bonny, 9; Lagos, 12; Aecra, 13;
Cape Coast. 14; Liberia, 19; Sierra Leone, 2-1;
Bathurst, 28; Goree, 29 ; Teneriffe, May 4; and
Madeira, O.
Her cargo consists of, 3,000 ounces of gold dust,
400 barrels of palin oil, with ivory, cochineal, pine
apples, wine, 4k4,
Among her passengers are—Lieutenant Beslie,
R.N., and the Rev. J Wiltshire, from Sierra Leone;
Lieutenant Gatehouse and Dr. Gawkins, from Cape
Coast; 'and Lieut. Runsford, from Rathur3t.-
- A misnaderatandingi between the goverhor of
Fernando Po and the inhabitant was under adjust
ment, by the Mediation, of CoMmodere Adams and
the British consul:

The :oil trade wasl brisk at Cameroons, andfi
increasing at Lagos. Business, quiet.at Old Cala.
bar, Minny, and at Cape Coast Castle.
Sir B. C; Pine, the nevi Ooiernor of the Golds
Coast, had arrived, from Cape .Coast Castle, at .
Accra, vhere he intended to,-,remain ilotnefirae.
propoies to abolish the Pell-taiCtirileifs the-Payers-
have a voice in its expenditure. The iiiitiert duty,.
is to be reduced to a half per cent.
The American schoorer Antelope was at
Liberia; the Ceuntess 6f Zotland, Mary Ann, and
Emily, at Bathurst; the Gerni Susan, and Glance,'
at Penerifie; and the Comet and-Washing .Wave,
at Maderia.
i
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steamsli -§k ()urge,
with C ,mtno.lore John Adams, was appointed; to
lease Fernando:Po:for the south coast,ltauching
at all the stations to Sierra Leone, whece orders
from home were expected. 3
The paddle-wit, el steamship Prometheus,: 5,
Commander Charles W. Hope, and the paddle-
wheel steamship Myrmidon, 3, Lieut. Commander
Edward Shaw, were at Lagos. The Paddl&wheel
steamship Heels', donimander Elphinstone
and the paddle-Wht.3el steam Vessel puto, 4, Lieut.
Swinbourne, were at'Sierri• 'Leone. The
steam vessel Dover, was at Bathurst. The French
G-ovcrnment :vessels .Jeanne d'Arc, Victor, En-
phrate, gad Fondeur were at Goree.
The,mail steamship Niger sailed from Sierra
Leone-April 231. d, for the leeward coast.-

The (Jandece ryas spoken May, 3d, lat.. 25.19
north, lon 10.12 AV, outward bound.`
Spoken, March 31, off Calabar niver, the brig'
31 days ;put ; April ;18, in lat. 5 26 N,
9.30 W, the screw stearne.r Yarrow ; and May 3, the
screw steamer Dement, both for London from
Fernando Pa.

The screw steamship Exmouth, 00,, Captain
Harry. Eyres, and Colossus, 80, Captain Thomas
S. Thompson, from Lisbon, arrived in Plymouth
Sound this'morning,lit 6 o'clock.


PRANCE:

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
If it ever was seriously contetriplatA by Ri1.3:11
to effect an estrangement between France and 147,ng
land, and bring .over the
.:former to herself; the
chlances of success have not been increased by the
Grand Duke's visit to Paris. However appearances
may be to the contrary, the feelings IsetWeen the
Emperor and his guest are not of the warmest de-
scription. The Court would not grieve. much if he
left this very day, and, from what is currently re_
ported in Russian circles, . the Grand Duke is un-
grateful enough to criticise its style and. toga.
You may depend upon it that the detaqed
account given in the Nord of the "hop
ping" and ‘,romping " amusements the other day
at Villeneuve I'Etaug was not without a .purpcfse.
The feeling here is pretty well known, and you
can easily fancy the sneers: with which that cli!
seription of Court recreations will have been read
by the Grand Duchess, who has not accompanied
her husband on his visit—a visit, by the way, which
world have given her the opportunity of making the
acquantance of the Empress Eugenie. The Nord
it Was, I believe, that remarked, the other day, that
the Empress made the most particular enquiries
after the Grand Duchess, insinuating.thzreby`that
a visit from her would have been desirable.

• On the whole it' must be admitted that the.
E,nperer acted very prudeiltly. in sending P,ince
Napoleon out of the way. The: Prince, of all
other men, is the least likely to pass unnoticed the
air of superciliousness which the Grand Duke is
reproached with not sufficiently concealing. Had
the Prince remained a collision was apprehended,
and
there is reason to doubt whether, under . the
circumstances, he wou1:1 have consented to
accompany the Grand Duke to the railway
station on his departure. At the r0u:.,11 sporting
the other day at Villenuve l'Etang some
casualties occurred ; one high functionary of
the Court " hopped" into the water. He was,
however, fished out again, shook himself, and sat
down to dry in the sun. A lady, round and
elderly, got a roll on her mother eart.h, to the great,
amusement of the party; and the Grand Duke
himself hurt his knee, but not so seriously as to
prevent his dancing a night or two after.
'Then, again, the Grand Duke thinks that the
Emperor and Empress should have attended at
the, fete given by M. Hausman at the Hotel do
Ville the other night ; that the preparations should:
have been on a still grander scale, awl that a
greater number of persens., should have been
invited to do him honour. It is said to have been
by superior order that M. Hausman kept the
entertainment within the limits of what was, done,
for the Plenipotentiaries last year.
It is a matter of doubt whether the Empetor will
visit Biarritz this summer.. Cloud,-Fentain.e-
bleau, Counneigne,r and Plombierefik will probably
take up the whole season. At the last mentioned
place preparations are ordered to be made for more-
enlarged accommodation than could be had last
year. Whether the, Empress .goes to Plombieres
or not is not said, but for the present at all events,
Biarritz seems to be out of the 'question Yet it
would cost the Empress much to 'Prep the plea-
sure she has in revisiting the spots once so familiar
to her.

The Grand Duke received despatches yesterday
from St. Petersburg. Among them was a letter
from the Czar to the Emperor, thanking him for
his hospitality to his brother during his stay in
France.

The answer of the King of Prussia 'to the letter
of the Emperor which was made the pretext of
sending Prince Napoleon out of tho way, has been
received. Whether His Prussian Majesty has im-
proved in his French so as to come up to the stan-
dard required by Dr. Kern I know not, but the
sense of the missive is described by the general
term " favourable." Whether it positively announ-
ces concessions—for, if concession there be,

from Prussia they must come—l cannot say. The
King. is said to express his satisfaction at the
schooling given by the Monitea.r to the Swiss, who,
alas! have no Princes or Grand Dukes to send to
the Tuileries as visitors.
The Emperor and Empress, the Grand Duke, and
their suite arrived at- Fontainbleau at half-past two
yesterday. They were received by the population
with every demonstration if respect. The town
was hauch,oinely deeorared with flags. The -number

of guests inviteCl to meet the Imperial party is said
to exceed 150. Amongst the amusemet:ts an-
nounced for to-day is a stag hunt, at which several
ladies are expected to appear on horseback.
A frigate and a corvette are fitting out at Cron-

stadt for the China Seas. It is reported that a
Russian Envoy 'Extraordinary is to take passage in
the frigate. He is charged with a special mission
'to the Emperor of the Celestial Empire.
A. copy of the treaty of commerce between France

and Russia, arranged by- tho Count de Morny at

St. Petursburgii, arrived in Paris,. and has been
presented to the Emperor by Count Walewski.
When it is examined and approved in Paris it
will be sent back to St. Petersburg to be converted
into a definite treaty.
The French Government has made a present to
the Pope of 800 rifles of the most improved model.
They are intended to arm a battalion of light
infantry of the Papal troops.
A letterfrom Genoa, of the Bth inst., announces
the arrival there of the Duchess of Orleans. She
left the same evening for Geneva. On the 7th the
Princes of the house of Orleans visited the new
fortifications of Aiessandria.
A letter from Rome, of the sth 'inst., mentions
that the Empress-Dowager of Russia had quitted
the eternal city on the 4th to take an excursion in