The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-09 00:00:00

PEACE CONFERENCE.

Owing to the non•receipt of the usual letter
of our Paris correspondent, we have but little to
add under this head to our former intelligence.
From Berlin, under yesterday's date, we have
advices which inform us that the Austrian com-
munication on the subject of the Five Points
accepted by Russia was, on the previous day,
presented to the Diet of Frankfort and
was referred to the respective committees
without discussion. We learn also that
Sardinia will be represented in the ensuing Con-
ferences by Count Cavour and the Marquis Villa-
marina—Chevalier d'Azeglio being obliged, on
account of ill health, to decline the office, to
which he was originally appointed. Thus the
rumour circulated that the representation of
Sardinia in the Conferences would be in some
way exceptional, entirely falls to the ground. In
the number and authority of her plenipotentiaries
she will take her place on the same footing as
Austria, or any of the States represented.
It is stated that Russia has declared that the
participation of Prussia in the conferences is
a special question, entirely independent of
the signature of the preliminaries of peace,
and the solution of which may take place at a
later period in the course of the conferences.
From Holstein it is stated that the
Emperor of Russia is purchasing horses for
his approaching coronation, which is to
take place after the conclusion of peace.
The Patrie of Thursday evening says that it is
the intention of the Emperor of Russia to visit
Paris next May—that is, immediately after his
coronation.

HESSE CassEr..—The government of Hesse Cassel has
commenced a prosecution against some officers, its subjects,
for accepting commands in the Legion
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measure—to abolish the London Trinity House.
In the custom-house of Limerick, within the last fort-
night, a sum of 20,0001 has been paid to the collector of
inland revenue on account of whisky duty alone. The
largest sum paid by one house was 10,000/, by another
2,000/, and by others smaller sums. Surely the chancellor
of the exchequer must rejoice.—Limerick Reporter.
NAVAL STATION IN QuEENsTow*:.—There are now five
men-of-war on the Iri.h station, under Admiral Sir G.
Sartorious, a part of the Baltic fleet sent here to winter,
at the requisition of the:citizens of Cork. Their names
and stations are'ras follow :—The Russell and Hastings, 60
gun ships, at Queenstown ; Edinburgh, 60, at Dublin ;
Meander, 50, in the Shannon; and Hecla, frigate at
Wat erford.— Cork Reporter.

3' THE CLERKSHIP OF THE COMMONS.—Mr. Wilson's new
bill confirms thejappointment of Mr. T. Erskine May as
Clerk-Assistant of the House of Commons, and requires
that the clerk assistant and his deputy, the second clerk,
shall be hereafter appointed by her Majesty, and be
removable from office only upon an address of the house
to her Majesty for that purpose.
MR. CORDEN•—•" WHERE NEXT?"--The annual election
for honorary officers of the Manchester Athenmum took
place last week. The election is by ballot, and at least
four-fifths of the members who voted (and hundreds did
so) have rotes for Manchester. Richard Cobden, Esq.,
was proposed and seconded as one of the vice-presidents,
and he was black-balled! What a change! But two or
three short years ago, and he would have been elected with
acclamations.

THE LATE MRS. OLARKSort. —On the 31st ult., died at
Playfield-hall, near Ipswich, aged 83, Mrs. Catherine
Clarkson, the relict of Thomas Clarkson,—he who stood
in the front of that noble band of labourers which, after
many years of seemingly. hopeless toil, effected the aboli-
tion of the African slave trade, Mrs. Clarkson was dis-
tinguished by her social virtues, her animation, and her
colloquial eloquence.

Mons CAUTION TO LETTER CARRlERS.—Yesterday at
the police court, before Messrs. Bolton and Sands, Mr.
Bales, the superintendent of letter carriers, General Post
office, appeared to charge a man named John Barnes, who
was lately a letter carrier, for having neglected to deliver
letters intrusted to him for that purpose. Tha charge was
brought under the Post-office Act. It appeared from the
evidence that on the 19th January the prisoner received
certain letters which he should have delivered by noon on
that day, and that at seven o'clock in the evening the letters
in question were found in the possession of the prisoner at
his lodgings. He was sentenced to pay a fine of 45, or to
be imprisoned for three months according to the act.
DEATH OP THOMAS PRIGS, ESQ.—The City of York has
this week to lament the loss of one of its most honoured
citizens, Thomas Price, Esq. The late Mr. Price was the
fourth son of Sir Charles Price, Bart., of Spring Grove,
Richmond, Surrey, an eminent banker in London, an
alderman and Loed Mayor of the metropolitan city, and
also the representative of that important constituency in
three successive parliaments. The deceased was, on
Monday, in the parlour of the City and County Bank,
conversing with his brother directors on general matter
when he was suddenly struck with apoplexy, attended
with paralysis. He expired the following morning at six
o'clock. Deceased was a deputy-lieutenant of the West
Riding, and a magistrate for the city of York.
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a number of concerts in the provinces—at Reading, Exeter,
Plymouth, and other places. They have been attended by
great crowds, and the '• Nightingale " has been everywhere
received with acclamations. At Reading an accident
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