The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-02 00:00:00

SPAIN

Letters dated Madrid, December 25th, inform
us that in the Cortes Senor 'Bruil read the bill
authorising the establishment of a new bank, on
the principles of, and in connexion with, the
Credit Mobilier Company of Paris ; and authoriz-
ing the Government to make similar concessions
on the same -bases, when they may consider it
advantageous to do so. The bill was referred to
the sections for the nomination of a committee to
repoit upon it,
The sitting of the Cortes was prolonged last

levening in 'Order to close the debate on the
authorization bill to collect the taxes, &c. A long

debate took place on the hostile report of the
minority of the committee, which was finally
rejected, and that of the majority adopted by a
large majority. The assembly adjourned at 7

p.m., till the 28th.
General O'Donnell continued throughout yester-
day suffering considerable pain at times, with
of ralevlati.an ; leari tern hours' sleep at
night which gave him much relief.

It is feared there is some organic disease in this

case. Some speculators on the Bolsa are already
selling stock, in the expectation of Gen. O'Donnell's
illness having a fatal termination, and of the disor-
he ministry and other serious couse-

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the relief o f the wounded soldiers in the Crimea.
It had been postponed on account of the cholera.
The Dnke of Sotomayor, formerly ambassador

at London and Paris, committed Suicide on the
26th Dec. at Madrid. He had been suffering for
many years from violent attacks of gout.

ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—Last term 125 attorneys
were admitted, and in Hilary Term a number of fresh
application' will be made. The number in town and coun-
try is about 10,000.

PRIVATE BANK FAirunx.—The notes of Messrs. Palmer
and Greene, private bankers, of Lichfield, were refused
yesterday by their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne,
and Smith. This was an old established house, dating from
the year 1765, of great respectability.
The South Eastern Gazette reports that a poor boy
named Claringbould was lately killed by a thrashing
machine at Asb, in Kent. When the body was taken
home his grandmother was greatly affected by the sight
of the mangled tremains. She retired for the, night,
but expired in the course of a couple of hours through

grief.
A matrimonial alliance is stated to be concluded between
the youthful Marquis of Lothian and the Lady Susan
Ramsay, elder daughter of the Marquis of Dalhousie: The
Marquis is on his return from India, after which the
nuptials are expected to be celebrated. His lordship's
estates in Edinburgh, Roxburgh, and Norfolk counties, are
estimated to yield £40.000 per annum.
THE LONDON OMNIBUS COMPANY (ENGLISH).--WO have
been informed on authority on which we can rely, that
General Wyndham, who so successfully carried the reduction
of the mileage duty in the last session of parliament against
the whole force of the government, has consented to become
the patron of Mr. Bradfield's new English Omnibus Com-
pany, which proposes to place an improved description of
omnibus immediately on the streets of London.
VOLCANO IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—lecordinz to
the Washington Intelligencer, the eruption of the volcano
of Hawaii is becoming horribly dangerous. The higher
regions of the mountain are flooded with vast tracts of
smoking lava, while the streams which have flowed down
the side of the mountain spread over a surface of several
miles in breadth. The mainstream, including all its- wind-
ings must be more than 60 miles long, with an average
breadth of three miles.
SERGEANT BRODIE, OF THE iST DRAGOONS.---4 further
stAp has been taken in the case of Serjeant Alexander
Brodie, of the Ist (Royal) Dragoons, who was dismissed her
Majesty's service, in consequence of having prevented a
duel between two of the officers connected with the Canter-
bury depot,:early in the past year. He has since memoralised
the Chelsea Board in favour of an increase of his pension
from is per day, as fixed by that board, for a servitude of
nearly nineteen years, seventeen as a serjeant. An answer
to that memorial has been received,- increasing the pension
from is to is 3d a-day, in consideration of his long service
as a serjeant.
FURTHER REDUCTION IN THE PRICES OF FOOD.—Yester-
day morning a general, reduction took place in London in
the prices ofrevery description of provisions, with the
exception of bread. The prices of butchers' meat have
declined considerably, and mutton of excellent quality
sells, by retail, at the-following prices, viz., breasts,(so ;
shoulders, 6d to 64d ; and legs, lid per lb. Beef, roasting
pieces, 8d to so; boiling and salting ditto, aid to ;
and steaks off the leg of mutton piece, at 84 per pound.
Geese are so plentiful, that the salesmen, to effect a mar-.
ket for them, are obliged to raffle them. The retail
grocers have reduced the price of sugar another halfpenny ;
inferior Brazil sells at sd, and West India at 5} per pound,
Good loaf can be had at 61d per pound.
A frightful accident, thoughllortunately not attended
by loss of life, took place at the Roman Catholic chapel
of Plaugherrow, in the county of Sligo, on the Christ-
mas morning. A local paper describing the occurrence,
says :—When prayers were about to commence, the
chapel was crowded to excess, and at that moment, while
the people were ;on their knees, the gallery, which was
crowded, gave a sudden crash, threatening to sink under
the great weight. A scene of wild confusion followed,
while the shrieks of women and shouts of men filled the
entire building. Several were trampled down in the rush
to get out, and as only ono door was open, few were able
to go Instantly the windows were broken, and

men and women jumped through heedless of consequences.
Two poor men who acted as collectors were much injured,
one of whom, named O'Brien, received serious injury of
the back, as he was absolutely walked over. Several
women also sustained serious injuries, but no one pro-
videntially was killed, although it was miraculous how all
escaped. Immediately upon hearing of the accident Sir
Robert Gore Booth sent his carriage and horses to remove
the unfortunate sufferers ; and O'Brien had to be rolled
in flannel, humanely sent by Sir Robert before he could
be removed,