The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The transactions on the Bourse iu the Three per
cents closed to-day at 72f. 80c.

FRANCE.
.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING

The Congress (as that is the name which the
French persist in giving to it, it may be as well to
adopt it) held its second sitting to-day, but it did
not, like the first one, excite sufficient curiosity to
attract a crowd to see the plenipotentiaries arrive
and leave.

In addition to what has been said in previous
letters respecting the first sitting, it may be stated
that it is generally reported in political circles that
the speech with which Count Walewski opened
tl►e proceedings was of a very reserved
character indeed—so much so as to dis-
please the Russians. Count Orloff is said to
have made a speech setting forth the line of
conduct which Russia meant to follow, and on dit
that it pretended that Russia is really desirous of
peace.

- It is understood that what has occupied the
Congress to-day is the fifth point:
The Bente has again declined on the Bourse
to-day.

If we can believe the Independance of Brussels
the Czar Alexander has written a letter to the
Emperor Napoleon expressing his earnest desire
for peace on conditions favourable to Russia, and
the Emperor Napoleoon has replied to it by an
assurance that be also desires peace, and will do
all he can to facilitate it. The story looks very
like a canard, and what makes it look still more so
is that the 'lndependance publishes what it pretends
is a textual quotation from a letter, as if such
communications were ever permitted to reach
newspapers.

If I am correctly informed the silly dispute
between the plenipotentiaries in the Congress,
Lords Clarendon and Cowley, as to which of them
shall take precedence of the other is not terminated,
as I was led to believe yesterday—Lord Cowley
still insisting that as Ambssador he, to a certain
extent, personates the sovereign, and is therefore
above Lord Clarendon—the latter, on his part,
maintains that constitutionally Lord Cowley is his
subordinate and must remain subordinate. Lord
Cowley, it is said, takes the matter so much to
heart that he threatens to go to London to obtain
a decision from the highest authority.
I hear that it is almost certain that the Emperor,
on opening the Legislative body, next week, will
announce the necessity for a new loan.
The troops forming the garrison of Paris have,
for the last few days, been made to take very long
marches, with their campaign kits, as if it were
desired to prepare them for active service.
One of the newspapers have got hold of a story
to the effect that when Count Orloff was first
invited to a soiree at the Turneries, he
asked what the invitation meant by saying
that he was to be en franc: " That you
must be in a plain black dress coat—not in
uniform !" "In a black coat— why, I have not got
such a thing, and never wore such a thing in my
life ! In Russia a soldier is always in uniform—
always ! In France, it is different—so send for
a tailor." The tailor was summoned, and a coat
and other garments were made with all speed.
This being Jeudi-gras, one of the great Parisian
holidays, the washerwomen, and water carriers, and
people of other callings, have been amusing them-
selves by riding about the Boulevards, and
streets, dressed in all manner of fantastic costumes,
carrying flags (some of them by the way, the English
one by the side of the French one) blowing horns,
yelling, and otherwise making fools of themselves ;
and a vast number of respectable p .ople have been
making great fools of themselves by blocking up
the thoroughfares to gape at them.
The accounts from St. Petersburg confirm fully
what has been said as to the Russians being
engaged in barring the gulf of Finland so as to
prevent the approach of vessels to Cronstadt.
They have, it is said, from 30,000 to 40,000 men
employed in the enterprise.

THE RECENT BURGLARY AT WALWORTH.--A report was
circulated yesterday morning that the woman whose throat
was cut by the men who committed the recent burglary at
Walworth, had died from the effects of the wound. The
report, we learn, is untrue—great hopes are entertained of
her recovery. The poor woman has been able to give a full
description of the burglars to the detective officers who are
in pursuit of them.
PRolusEs FULFILLED.—OR Wednesday,•at the Worship-
street Pulicc-court, a fellow named Fordham, was charged
before Mr. D'Eynconrt with stealing a pair of boots, the
property of David Smith, one of the Society of Friends.
The prosecutor, who is a shoemaker, deposed, that the
prisoner went to his shop, and desired to look at some
boots ; ultimately he refused to purchase, and left in haste,
but the heel of a boot being seen beneath his coat, he was
followed, and given in charge of a constable. The prisoner
was committed for two months for the felony. Prosecutor
I promised the prisoner that I would bring him to a police
court, with the process of which I am unacquainted, and I
kept my word ; and as I promised also to complain of one
of your off 3ers who refused permission to my entering the
court by the public door, I also keep my promise to him.
(Laughter.) Gee, the warrant officer in custody of the
principal entrance to this much-crowded court, explained
to the bench that no intentional disrespect had been com-
mitfed. So many parties tried to gain access by every
method, that the greatest precaution was requisite to secure
himself from blame in admitting too many. The com-
plainant had not sufficiently explained his business at the
court. Mr. Smith said, probably it was so, but he had kept
his promise to the constable.