The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-26 00:00:00

SPAIN

A despatch from Madrid, dated yesterday, inti-
mates the existence of an alarming state of things
in the provinces.
At Valladolid several houses had been destroyed
by fire—the work of incendiaries, and at Palermo
similar scenes had been enacted.

Several arrests had already taken place

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The only quotations to make at the close of
business to-day was that of the Three per Cents,
which stood at 70f. 75c.

TRANSPORTS FROM TRE CRIMEA

The War Department yesterday promulgated the
fact that the following vessels passed the Bospho-
rus on their way to England on the 22nd and 23rd
inst. :—Norman, with 66 men of the Ist Dragoon
Guards ; Brunswick, with the 95th Regiment, and
400 men of the 20th Regiment; Majestic, with the
18th Regiment ; her Majesty's ship Exmouth, with
the 4th Foot; Tonning, with 91 men of the 12th
Hussars, and 86 men of the Royal Artillery ; her
Majesty's ship Leopard, with men of the Land
Transport Corps; Hispaniola, with ditto.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

The great affair of the day is the demand for
pensions of £B,OOO to the surviving daughter
of Louis Phillipe and the children of his two
dalighters deceased. The bill on the subject was
presented yesterday to the Legislative body. The
daughter of the ex-King now living is married to a
cousin of Prince Albert, a Duke of Saxe Coburg

Gotha ; of the other two daughters, one was the
Queen of the Belgians, the other the wife a Prince
of Wurtemberg. The Orleanists profess to be scan-
dalised at the idea of such a grant being made by
such a man as the Emperor ; and they vow that
the sons of Louis Philippe will protest earnestly
against it—indeed that they have already done so
in writing. But according to their enemies, this
is all nonsense—they have given their consent to
their sister; and the children of the other two, to
receive the money, and only protest to keep up
some appearance of dignity. However this
may be, it is certain that their cause
is henceforth irreparably damaged in the eyes not
only of the public, but of the Orleanist party. Any
of the members of the Orleans family accepting
money from the Emperor, or through him, is con-
sidered a positive degradation, inasmuch as he
was the bitter enemy of their father, and has con-
fiscated a great part of his property. If I am
correctly informed, it was the King of Wurtemberg
who, in his recent visit to Paris, arranged the
matter with the Emperor.
The usual monthly returns of the Custom-house
have been published to-day. They show that in
May last the receipts of the Customs only
amounted to fifteen millions of francs, whereas,
in the same month last year, they were sixteen
millions and a.half. For the first five mouths of
the year they were not less than 2,815,000 francs
below what they were for the corresponding period
of. last year. It is not a little singular that .the
Customs should have been more productive in time
of war than in peace.
The Government, alarmed at the opposition its
bill with doing away with prohibitions has encoun-
tei•ed, has presented a modification of it, to the
effect, that cotton and woollen textures shall pay
duty equal to 30 per cent. ad valorem, and ready
made clothes, duties equal to 40 per cent. ad
valorem.

Owing to the postponment of the departure of
Count de Morny for St. Petersburg as Ambassa-
dor Extraordinary, it has, I hear been determined
to send M. Bandin, lately Secretary of the French
Embassy at London, to that city as Charge
d'Affairs. It seems to be quite settled that Prince
Dolgorouki shall not be nominated Russian
Ambassador in this country. The government
is rather vexed at this, as it would have
been glad to have him, owing to his lofty position
as one of the first nobles of the empire, and as an
ex-minister.

Accounts from Constantinople, to the 16th, say
that Marshal Pelissier was prepared to leave in
the Bretagne, and that he had notified that,
from the sth July the Allies would cease to exercise
any authority in the Crimea.

AUSTRALIAN REMIT TANCRB. Out Of consignments of
£255,000 in gold lately received by the London branch of
the Bank of New South Wales, a very large amount is said
to have been remitted to provide for draughts in favour of
labouring people in the United Kingdom, sums ranging
from £5 to £5O, purchased by their successful relatives in
Australi •.

A NEW LIGHTHOUSE.—For two years past the Needles
Rock, the furthest distant trom the land, has been cut
down so as to form a foundation for a lighthouse on it.
This lighthouse is at length about to be erected. The
present one is on the main land, close to the needles, and
is so often enveloped in fog that it is almost useless.
The new lighthouse will be rarely invisible, and will be
a far better guide to the narrow entrance of the Solent
than the existing one.