The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

LONDON GAZET rE

BANKRUPTS.-.-GEOBGE GREGORY, Whitechapel Road,
and Church Lane, Whit chapel, baker. Josiv WILLIAM
GREAYOR, the elder. High-street, Bow, wholesale iron-
monger. HENRY LIYERRIDGE, Eckington, Derbyshire,
surgeon and apothecary. HENRY SYERS, Sheffield, anvil
manufacturer. EDWARD KEMP ABINGDON, Berkshire,
grocer, tea dealer and provision merchant. FREDERICK
M`KINNELL AND GEORGE SMITH, Liverpool and of Huyton
Quarry, Lancashire, manufacturers of waterproof and air-
proof fabrics. JOHN SAMUEL WAKEFIELD, Hartlepool,
Durham, watch manufacturer, jeweller, and innkeeper.
JAMES B. Lo,-;xr, Truro, Cornwall, mercer and tailor.
JOHN BEARNE WAY KER, Newton Abbott, Devonshire,
draper.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING

What principally excites attention to-day is, the
note which the Sardinian Plenipotentiary pre-
sented to Lord Clarendon, and Count Walewiski,
on the 27th March last, It does not refer to Italy
in general, as was believed at the time, but to the
Roman Legations, and it demands, further, a quasi
independence, namely, the French Codes for law,
and a native army for the maintenance of order,
&c.

In consequence of yesterday being observed as
a holiday, not one of the morning papers has ap-
peared to-day.
The Emperor and Empress did not, I learn, go
to St. Cloud yesterday to take up their definite
residence, but only for a ride. They are, however,
to go there for the season this week, perhaps,
to-morrow. The Empress was so weak that the
Emperor had to carry her in his arms to the
carriage.

The Emperor and the King of WurteMburg
witnessed to-day the manoeuvring of a detachment
of artillery of the guard in the courtyard of the
Tuileries. They were both on foot and in plain
clothes.

With the view of diminishing the excessive
dearness of meat, which is one of the great greivances
of the Parisian population, the Government, I hear,
contemplate 'encouraging the formation of a com-
pany to import oxen on a grand scale from Den-
mark, Holstein, and other cattle-producing countries
in the north of Europe.

The preparations for the great Universal Cattle
Show and Exhibition of Agricultural Productions,
which is to take place in this city towards the end
of the month, are rapidly proceeding.
The weekly commercial report says that nothing
has yet been decided with respect to the establish-
ment of lines of Trans-Atlantic steamers. The
unfavourable weather which has existed so long is
stated to have done considerable damage in the

vineyards of Burgundy and the south. The young
crops have not yet been injured by the weather,
but prices have advanced. The cotton manufac-

turers in the provinces have received fewer orders
of late, but those sent to them some weeks back
are sufficient to keep them in activity. At Paris
retail business is dull, but a fair number of orders
from abroad have arrived.

The Marseilles telegraph announces the receipt
of Constantinople news to the Ist. The treaty of
peace was to be published the next day, and the
return of the Russian Legation was expected.
The number of French who had left the Crimea
was 35,000. The corps d'armee of Baidar had
returned to Sebastopol, and General Luders had
consented to allow the French cavalry at Eupa-
toria to go to Sebastopol by land. The Sultan had
expressed a wish to have several Anglo-French
divisions to stop at Constantinople, on account of
the disturbed state of the country. There had
been more disturbances in Syria and at Marasch ;
the English Consul and his family had been
asassinated. The insurrection in Magnesia had
been quelled.
According to the Copenhagen despatch, Russia,
Sweden, and Norway, have consented to the doing
away with the Sound Dues, by means of a
capitalisation.
The semi-official Pays of this morning, contains
a note which confirms what I told you yesterday,
as to the question of the Belgian press, being
declined to be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
It declares that the government is satisfied at the
Belgian government having published in its official
organ, the Moniteur Beige, an article stating that
what the Minister of Foreign Affairs said in the
Chamber was, that he would never consent
to a modification of the constitution, and not as
the telegraph made him say, that he would never
consent to a change in the laws of the press ; and
that the government means to reserve to itself its
full liberty of action within constitutional limits,
in order to propose such modifications in the said
laws, as may appear to it necessary.

THE TRIAL OF W. PALMER,

OF RUGELEY.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING

There is now no doubt whatever that the trial of Palmer,
for the Rugeley poisonings, will be proceeded with to-
morrow, at the Central Criminal Court, and continued
daily until the extraordinary charges against the prisoner
shall have been fully investigated. Up to yesterday it was
thought that the prisoner would merely be arraigned
to-morrow, and that the investigation would be postponed
to Monday next, but it is now distinctly understood that
the Crown will altogether oppose the postponement to
Monday, on the ground that it would be attended with a
very serious expense by detaining the numerous witnesses
in the case who are now in town.

It has been decided to take the case of Mr. John Par_
sons Cook first, and in the event of there being an acquittal
of the prisoner on this charge, then the prisoner will be
charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Ann Palmer.
From all that can be learnt to-day, and from the general
impression prevailing in the Old Bally, amongst the pro-
fessional and other gentlemen engaged, it is believed that
the Attorney-general's opening address will occupy the
attention of the court for about three hours, and that the
case cannot possibly close before Saturday evening, at
the soonest. A conviction failing, the second charge will be
proceeded with early on Monday next, and should this be
the case, it is confidently believed, considering the pecu-
liar circumstances connected with the alleged murder of
Mrs. Palmer, that the investigation will not finally ter-
minate before the middle of next week. It is more
particularly with_reference to Mrs. Palmer's case that
the examination of Dr. Taylor is exciting such interest
among the medical profession.

The excitement manifested is daily and hourly on the
increase, and to-day the Old Court, in which Palmer is to
be tried, and in which the Recorder is now sitting, is
literally beseiged by the public, the attendance being
swelled by the hundreds and thousandsiof strangers who
are eagerly seeking admission to the trial, but whose
applications are uniformly refused for want of space.
With reference to this part of the subject, it may be
said that the arrangements made by the sheriffs, are the
subject of general complaint, so far as regards the provin-
cial press, which has' been uniformly excluded. The
representatives of the press, generally, could not have
been admitted, but the provincial daily papers might have
been admitted as well as the metropolitan, had it not been
purposely designed to favour the latter. We have, how-
ever, made arrangements to give a full report of the
proceedings of to-morrow, and subsequent days.

ADDRESS OF THE CIRCASSIAN CHIEFS TO THE SULTAN.—
The following is a translation of the principal passages of
the address presented to the Porte on the 24th ult., by a
deputation from the mountain tribes of the Caucasus :
" Some thirty years ago, your servant, Zauzade Sefer
Bas, having chosen twelve delegates among the twelve
Circassian tribes, provided them with credentials and
despatched them to your Imperial Porte, with a declara-
tion that the l'adishah—our only light and fountain of
prosperity—being our only sovereign and master besides
—we were determined never to separate from his rule.
Ever faithful to the State, and to the true faith, we lived
in expectation, when a great functionary came to Circas-
sia with a mission, and provided with your Imperial fir-
man. Your sovereignty was thus established in Circassia.
We rejoiced with our children, offered up prayers and
sacrifices to Heaven for the prolongation of our Padishah 's
days and his triumph over his enemies; swearing also
before the Eternal God, that never_ till doomsday should
we acknowledge any other master. When this war broke
out, in which our Padishah, together with the two Allied
Powers, fought the Muscovite—the undersigned, your
servants, entered the lists and did their best under the
command of Sefer Pacha. But as now the news of peace
has reached, and there is no mention made of Circassia,
this petition, drawn up by the different tribes of our race,
and declaring that we shall never separate from our
Padishah, has been entrusted to 350 delegates. Now,
according to the maxim that all things return to their
source, we have turned towards your Imperial Majesty,
and while we kiss the dust under your feet, we abjure you
to order that we be placed for ever under the majestic
shadow of your Imperial throne."

LATEST INT ELLTGENC

THE KING OF WURTEMBERG

A despatch from Paris, dated yesterdap
1 ft the
nounces that the King of Wurtemberg ie-
French capitl that morning. proceed
The Emperaor and Empress of the French
o-morrow (this day) to St. Cloud.