The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

AUSTRIA

A letter dated Vienna, March 8, has the follow-
ing intelligence :—About two months since you
were informed that the relations between Austria
and the United States had not only greatly
improved, but that something was passing between
them which was kept from the knowledge of the
public. The mystery is at length cleared up. An
Austro-American Commercial Company is about
to he formed, and the Ministerial Austria explains,
that the principal aim of the establishment
will be to open a direct trade between the
United States and Austria, " so that there shall
no longer be such heavy expenses for agency,
warehousing, &c." It need hardly be said that the
Austrians wish to import their cotton, coffee, &c.
direct from America, instead of getting them second-
hand from Liverpool or London. Nothing has yet
been openly said of a Treaty of Commerce between
Austria and the United States, but there is a strong
impression on my mind that at no distant period
one will be concluded. Can it be that Austria is
endeavouring to play off the United States against
England?
The Post Ampt Gazette, says :—Prince Gortscha-
koff has given a farewell fete, at which were
present Prince Aloys de Lichenstein, Count Zichy,
and many other notabilities.
The Hourse Gazette, states :—The Emperor has
ordered that more attention be paid to the improve •
ment and development of the navy, and at this
moment a very extensive plan 'concerning this
subjelt has been submitted to his examination.
Already, in consequence of former orders, three
screw line-of-battle ships are being constructed.
It would appear that the monetary conference
proceeds very slowly.

It is announced by the Paris Freese that measures have
been taken to expel from the Bourse women who, to evade
the rule against the admission of females, have lately been
in the habit of going there in male attire.
The animal population of the Jardin des Plantes has just
been increased by the birth of a male giraffe, the first of
the race which has ever been born either in France or on
any part of the continent of Europe. It already measures
nearly six feet in height.
The Russian government has the intention, it is reported
of establishing journals, as organs of its views, in various
capitals of Europe, or of purchasing journals already M. Tisseraud, the gentleman sent to this country by the
established. Le Nord is said to fulfil in a very small French Minister of Agriculture, has been busy visiting far-
degree the expectations of its founders. mers in the vicinity of Edinburgh. After his tour in Scot-
The stoppage of a very old and respectable house in the land, he visits England to communicate with the English
retail woollen trade in Dublin, hitherto supposed to be agriculturists.
wealthy, was announced early in the week. Great sympathy Tins ACCOUCLIBMENT.-11 is expected that on official
is felt for the head of the establishment, who was much intimation of the birth of an heir to the throne of France
re-petted. The liabilities are stated to be 20,0001. The being received by the British government, a general royal
assets are reported to be small. salute will he ordered to he fired by the fleet, with ships
MILITARY DUELLlNO.—Sergeant Brodie has, it seems, dressed and yards manned, at Portsmouth and elsewhere.
askel Colonel Dunne, why he pronounced him unfit to fill THE RECTORY OP S fOCKPORT.—Tho responsibility. of
the office of inspector of saddlery at Weedon. Colonel giving spiritual instruction to 42,000 of the inhabitants of
Dunne's only reply was, i 4 you had no business to interfere Stockport is to be decided by the auctioneer's hammer
in
with officers in a duel." At least so says Brodie in a letter *he course of the present month. The valuable ecclesiasti-
to one of the London morning papers. cal living which is thus to be disposed of comprises the
THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade of Birmingham eon. rectories of St. Mary and St. Thomas, as the same will be
tinues less active than it was in t.e early part of January, divided under the provisions of a recent Act of Parliament
and until the result of the Paris Conferences is made known, upon the death of the present rector, the Rev. C. K. Pres-
there is not much probability
of i
its revival. The spring cott, who is now in his 70th year. Upon such division the
orders are coming in slowly, bur. it s. known that American income of the rectory of St. Mary will be about £2,000 a
merchants, more especially, are holding back until the ques- year, with some patronage. The income of the rectory of
tion of war or peace is fully settled. St. Thomas, after the division, will be about 4920 a year.