The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-22 00:00:00

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1856,

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The steam-ship Niagara arrived here yesterday,
shortly after noon, hut she does not bring any
political intelligence of moment. Great exertions
were being made by the respective partizans of
Mr. Buchanan and Colonel Fremont to secure
their election to the Presidential chair. Affairs in
Kansas do not improve ; on the contrary, matters in
that quarter were assuming a more serious and
alarming aspect every day, and by many, there were
apprehensions lest the matter would ultimately
tend to an erruption between the Southern and
Northern States. It will be observed, from the
interesting letter of our Special Correspondent at
New York, that the Pro-Slavery party had
taken possession of all the routes of travel
into Kansas, and prevented immigration at
the point of the bayonet. Further dissatisfaction
was expressed at the conduct of the Federal
Government. Accordingly, we find that the
Governor of Wisconsin has called an extra session
of the State Legislature, to provide measures for the
protection of such of its citizens as have emigrated
thereto. This the Governor says is rendered
necessary, inasmuch as President Pierce and his
colleagues wilfully neglect to do so. As a sort of
exculpation, the Government at Washington had
üblished at length, in the government organ, a
the doings of the Pro-Slavery party in
story of
risag, together with their official directions, and
deavour to show that they have acted throughout
e trying contest in an honourable and patriotic
anner. We regret to observe that a terrific fire
ad taken place at Philadelphia, and that a number
of human beings perished in the flames. The
new steam-ship Adriatic, belonging to the Collins
line, has been appointed to set out on
her maiclen voyage to Liverpool on Saturday, the
11th October. But prior to that date she is to
make a trip to Boston, the leading merchants of
that city having presented the owners with a
memorial requesting the honour of the visit. If
we are to credit the statements in the New York
papers respecting the steaming powers and sailing
qualities of the Adriatic, she will perform nautical
wonders, and traverse the waters of the mighty
and the trackless deep with a rapidity far beyond

anything ever achieved by any other steam-ship

afloat.
The news from the Continent is of the usual
character. Affairs in Naples do not improve.
Indeed, they seem to be approaching a crisis any
thing but desirable—but one which must cause
some decisive notion to be taken by France, Great

Britain, and Austria. His Majesty of Naples is
obstinate, but that obstinacy must yield. His
cruelty and treachery are bye-words in Europe, and
have passed beyond all endurance, He is a doomed
and dangerous man, and Europe has no right to
share the bitter fruits of his folly, his obstinacy, and

cruelty combined. We are not obliged to counte-
nance his aggressions when he despises our advice ;
and, in the necessary absence of diplomatic support,
Lord Lyons, and the blue jackets of England, may
prove, as they have done before, the best negocia
lion after all. Connected with this subject, we may
observe that the French force to be sent with our
squadron to the Bay of Naples, will consist of two
line-of-battle ships and a corresponding number of
frigates. The letter from Naples respecting the
corporal punishment inflicted, by express order of
the King, on political prisoners at Procida, has
been reproduced by the Patrie (Paris). The repro-
duction of such a document, in a French Govern-
ment paper, is not without serious significance; as
an indication of the course which that Government
has resolved to adopt. It is the first shot fired by
the French press, and confirms the fact that the
Neapolitan question is not going smoothly, as
it was recently hoped that it would do, and that
Franceand England are determined not to leave their
remonstrances without effect. From St. Petersburg
we have advices stating that the Emperor of Russia
had granted charters to three steam navigation
companies—one in the Black Sea will ply between
all the important ports of the Mediterranean,
Black, and Ariatic seas. The Czar has been dis-
tributing his military and other honours to the
Count de Morny. Much has been said and made
of the clemency displayed by the Emperor in
the amnesty extended in his manifesto to poli-
tical offenders. We would be far from desiring to
deprecate the merit of this act. Pardon for
a political offence is rare enough in Russia—
in some other continental states as well, for
that matter—and should be, perhaps, valued
the more. When we look a little closely at this
act of grace, however, we see that but a few of the
unknown multitudes who languish in the mines
and penal settlements of Siberia are likely to bene-
fit much by it. But a small proportion of the prisoners
inculcated in the plots of 1820, and the Polish
revolution of 1831, to which events the amnesty
extends (so far only as concerns the prisoners—not
refugees) can be still surviving the miseries of chat
weary exile. Those, and other prisoners of the
same kind, are divided into three classes, two of
which are to receive a mitigation of punishment,
and one only is to be fully pardoned. So far as it
goes, however, it indicates some relaxation of the
hitherto inflexible severity of the Russian Govern-
ment, and encourages a hope that a milder system
is really about to be inaugurated.
By way of Berlin, we have ad vices which state
that the changes in the Russian Ministry go on
continuously. Only two of the functionaries of the
Czar Nicholas of the highest order now hold their
posts. Adjutant-general Katenin, high in the war
office, and an ultra of the old Russian party, has
been appointed Governor-general of Orenburgh,

which is looßect on as exile. The Uzar has given
Prince Adalbert of Prussia the colonelcy of the Ist
brigade of Horse Artillery.

Our accounts from Copenhagen represent that
France is earnestly negociating for the session of
a settlement in Iceland. Denmark is setting a
high price on the concession, and has just sent out
a steam frigate of 30 guns to put her establish-
ments on the island in the best order.
From Constantinople we learn that four battalions
of the Guards had set out to join the expedition
against Montenegro. Sefa Paella, who is at the
head of 30,000 men, has issued a proclamation,
calling on all the Circassians to fight the Russians
with energy.
We have frequently heard the complaints of the

high priced journals against the cheap papers of
the country, alleging that their news was pilfered,
and used without even the courtesy of an
acknowledgment. It, however, happens that these
murmuring scribes are guilty of the very conduct
which they condemn in others. On Friday last,
we published a lengthened and verbatim report of
the speeches delivered at the banquet, given on
board the Great Tasmania, and find that a London
evening cotemporary thinks fit to publish fully
more than three columns of our report without
acknowledging the source of the information. This
is too bad, and reminds us of the old adage,
"people who live in glass houses should not throw
stones."
The domestic occurrences of the day are inter-
esting. The unfortunate shareholders of the Royal
British Bank held a meeting on Saturday, to
ascertain how they could best extricate themselves
from the serious difficulties in which they are
placed. The statements put forth reveal a state of
things truly alarming. The conduct of the direc-
tors appears to be of the most reprehensible
character, and to merit the just indignation of
both shareholders and depositors. We give, in
another column, a report of the proceedings at
the London Tavern on Saturday. We
observe that the bank had been losers by the
failure of Mr. Edward Oliver. The Marchioness of
Londonderry has been feasting her tenantry on
the County Antrim estates, and has delivered one
of these sensible and well-meant speeches which
render her somewhat conspicuous as an owner of
the soil. Her address to the miners in Durham
some short time ago, was the subject of general
eulogium. Iltir Ladyship's oration at Carnlough
on Thursday, is equally commendable. It contains
sentiments of the purest philanthrophy, and the
advice imparted, if adopted, will do much to im-
prove the character and condition of those to whom
it was addressed. Our new's columns this morning
contain an account of a calamitous collision in the
Channel, causing the total loss of the Imogene,
and a valuable cargo of goods. London has
been the scene of another terrific fire. A corres-
pondent at, the Perch Rock Battery, sends us a
scrap of paper purporting to be from the passen-
gers per the Amsterdam, and endorsed," off the Cape
of Good Hope, thirty days out, capital passage:,
It is without date, was enclosed in a common porter
bottle, and floated in with the tide on Saturday
morning, near the Perch Rock Battery, New
Brighton. When picked up, the cork arid top
part of the neck was gone. We fear the thing is
Only some hoax, got up without any specific
object.

DIREFUL alarm h • serzed.iVinting.house-
square. The scribes of that locality see indications
of organic prostration threatening on all sides.
They admit that
theirgreat stagnation in
business, while they loadscolumns with
figures, to show that we are exportingve:l7,l.lr largely.
They prove most conclusively that 1 very largely.
sold
more to foreigners this year, than we
l
and to establish another fact, which seems i, 5 .153 ;
Jaighly satisfactory to the writer, the subjoined