The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-12 00:00:00

NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

take the lead in a work of such a non-political and
Christian character, is much to be regretted. The
name of our port is popular nearly all over the
world ; and we should lose no opportunity of
rendering it still more so, as a set off against that
organised oppOsition shown towards the Mersey
close at home. We have immense strides to make
yet before the whole of our vast outlay, to facilitate
trade and commerce, is rendered remunerative.
But apart from these selfish views, we owe much to
the French. And the lukewarmness which is so
manifest in dry political circles, in calling on
England to discharge the common-place obligations
of friendships, is, to our mind, the strongest
reason that can be assigned for our doing so, and
at the moment it is most wanted. If we are to
render wise unions lasting, and wicked and
bootless wars impossible, we must cultivate the
higher feelings and virtues of brotherhood. Time
or space' can no longer be said to separate us
from other countries, and the difference of language,
government, and customs, must not be suffered to

estrange us

We are all subject to the same visitation as that
which has befallen France, and how encouraging
it would be for us to know that we had a noble
and generous people to reciprocate an act of
humanity in the hour of need. The amount of
damage done up to Friday must prove to France a
national calamity. Our Paris correspondent
states :—" The valley of the Loire has been
" ravaged to an extent of 100 kilometres. The
" crops are lost, many houses have been destroyed
" by the waters, a numerous population is without
" resources, without habitation, and without
" instruments of cultivation ! And, remember,
" this does not include the damage done at Lyons,
" or in the southern departments, nor in the coun-
try comprised between Tours and Rouen. In the
" latter, it is stated authoratively, that the waters
" formed a sheet not less than 100 French leagues
"across." This is no ordinary affliction, and must
tell heavily on the future of our Ally, irrespective
of the individual want and suffering it will cause.
Its Providence may be seen in its taking from
intrigue the power of precipitating events still
more disastrous to Europe. It may be the pre-
cursor of a reign of caution and moderation.
The vain-glorious will read in it a lesson,
and the strong-headed will find it replete with
admonition.

Taking this view of the desolation it has
produced, it may prove one of the greatest
blessings which could have befallen France;
but we must not neglect our duty, if only as a
neighbour, on such hypothesis. France cannot
help herself beyond a certain extent in such a
crisis, any more than another country. The in-
jury done to houses, land, cattle, crops, and other
effects, over such a large surface as that which the
waters covered, must amount to some millions of
francs. The number of lives lost must also be very
considerable, and when the numbers of widows and
orphans the floods have left behind are all told, we
fear there will be more to excite the sympathy of
surrounding nations than we have any idea of at
present. The intelligence which has reached us
already is sufficient to justify this inference, and
since England is evidently expected to do her
duty, we still hope to see Liverpool among the
first to respond to the call on behalf of France.
That we have not moved in the matter before this
is a grave reproach. A Committee consisting of
a few respectable and earnest townsmen will be
enough to carry out the good work. Those who
are never to be moved by trifles would not be
required to devote their valuable time to it. They
would, as a matter of course, contribute to a relief
fund for France with that liberality they have
shown in less urgent cases.
If the Corporation should take the matter up at
the Council meeting to-day, the public will, no
doubt, contribute freely to any plan they may
suggest. A Commission has been established in
France, to receive and distribute the funds raised.
This will greatly facilitate the object which the
British public have in view. The money collected
in Liverpool and elsewhere, cannot be misapplied,
and by a prompt and united effort of all classes,
a fund may be raised, in small and large sums
which will do credit to this good old Borough.,
We must not wait for London to show us how such
things ought to be done. We are quite Metro-
politan enough, to do what common humanity
demands at our hands, and it is to be hoped, that
our liberality will be commensurate with our
means in this instance. The Londoners will act
with their usual munificence, and if " the greatest
" emporium of trade in the world," does its duty,
France will have as much reason to be proud of
Great Britain's generosity, as a friend, as we have
had to boast of the devotion and valour of the
French, as Allies in war.

THE AMERICAN DIYFICULTIES.—We are enabled to
state, on the best authority, that one, at least, of the diffi•
aulties, which beset oar government and that of the United
States, is about to be satisfactorily solved. We learn, with
much pleasure, that the two Cabinets have agreed to refer the
settlement of the Central American question to a
commission, and thus all the disquietnde which that
topic has occasioned will, it is to be hoped, be speedily
removed. It would be gratifying, had we the same authority
to assure our readers that the remaining point, the alleged
complicity of the British Minister at Washington, in the
infraction of the constitutional laws of the States, by the
enlistment of American citizens for the military service of
the British crown, was so near a pacific adjustment. On
this subject we quote the opinion which has been privately
expressed by one of the most eminent statesmen of the
present age. This gentleman conveys his sentiments,
and those of a large and influential body of
our represe dtatives in Parliament, in this language ;
" We are L ere strangely put about by the contradictory and
uncertain accounts from America. One day Crampton is
sent off—the next not. One day there is to be a quarrel—
another, it is to be made up. If Crampton is sent away,
or if in any way the quarrel in continued, thin, in my
opinion, is the time for all those to act who do not wish to
be responsible for each a contest, on such grounds. Our
case in the recruiting is wretched. We have not a leg to
stand upon. The United States Government may or may
not be playing a dirty part, but that does not affect our
position, and that we have done wrong is as plain as that
we were bound to do right."

TAE NEW SERTEANTS.—Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry'
who had been promoted to the dignity of Serjeants-at-Law,
yesterday morning appeared in the Court of Common
Pleas in fall dres3, and went through the forms usual on
such occasions. The Judges had on their scarlet robe 3, and
wore their bl.ack caps during the ceremony, and Mr.
Serjeant Manning, the Queen's ancient serjeant, was in
Court, and performed the part which devolved upon him.

LAZY LEGISLATORS.—No less than five abortive attempts
were made on Tuesday night to " count out" the House of
Commons. Yet Tuesday is now the one day in the week
reserved for private members ; and last night Sir Erskine
Peril's resolutions respecting the Law of Property as it
affects married women, and Mr. Chambers's motion for a
select committee on the Law of Artistic Copyright, stood on
the list of motions. Such questions may possess little
interest for the packs of party whippersin, who chafe at
being detained from their congenial places of nocturnal
resort; but the country takes a deep interest in them, and
will not tolerate a practice which goes far to preclude their
discussion.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING

There has been no change in the tone of the
Liverpool Cotton Market, but there has been
rather more business done.to-day, the sales reach-
ing 7,000 bales, and including 1,500 taken for
speculation and export. Prices remain without
change.
The Liverpool Share Market opened inactively
this morning, but gradually improved, and closed
very firm at the following quotations :- Aber-
deen, 13 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 158 158.
Caledonian, 301 301. Chester and Holyhead, 161.,
161. Eastern Counties; 108 101. East Lanca-
shire,' 191 19k. Great Northern, 231 24. Ditto
A, 93- 98. Great Western, 611, 611. Lancashire
and Yorkshire Stock, 93 931. Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport, 171 172. London and North
Western Stock, 1021 1021 Manchester Sheffield,
and Lincoln, 29;1 291. Ditto Pref., Ila 111. Ditto
New 6 per cent. Pref., -I -an. Midland Stock, 79
79k. North British, 8 15-16 9 1 16. North
Staffordshire, 6 50. South Eastern and Dover,
211 211 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 202
208. York and North Midland, 29Z- 29k. Leeds
Capitfil Stock, 18 181. Buffalo and Lake Huron,
17p. Dutch Rhenish, 11 lip. Great Western
of Canada, 25 13-16 251. Ditto New Shares, 21
3p. Great Luxembourg, 8,1- Bg-d.
The following is a statement of traffic receipts
of the Great Western Railway of Canada, by
Passenger and Goods Trains, for the week ending
23rd May, 1856, and for the corresponding period
last year:-23rd May, 1856, 10,4961. 18s. 4d.
25th May, 1855, 7,9611. Bs. 4d. Increase, 2,5351 10s.
Aggregate Gross Receipts from the commence-
ment of the current half-year to date, equal to
194,8571. ls. 4d. sterling. Ditto, for the
coresponding period last year, equal to
137,2091. 13s. 7d. sterling.
The Continental accounts, received this morning,
state that the Vienna Bourse, on the 9th instant,
was inanimate, and the speculators were operating
very cautiously. The exchange on London had
slightly declined. The Berlin Bourse, at the latest
date ruled dill!.
Accounts from Madrid to the 6th inst., state that
the government had sold 22,737 lots of government
lands, representing a sum of 137,860,671 reals, and
that they realised 400,850,039 reals. Thus the
Treasury benefit by the sale to the amount of
262,889,368 reals. The Madrid Gazette publishes
a decree ordering the issue of shares of the royal
roads of 2,000 reals each, to the amount of
34,000,000 reals, bearing interest at 6 per cent.
Accounts from the French Spirit Market con-
tinue to report firmness in prices. At Marseilles
the merchants refuse to give the increased prices
demanded by the producers, consequently the
stores on hand are increasing. The 3s. 6d. marked
brandies are in request at 140 f. to 1551. per hec-
tolitre, according to quality. Beetroot Spirit from
the North commands 1251., and Tafias for the
colonies 6f. to Of. Wines for the colonies are in
demand at 95f to 1001., and for India 125 c. to 130 c.
At Bordeaux, the Wine market is in an unsettled
state until the effects of the recent inundations is
known.

A notice has been issued by the Directors of the
Great Luxembourg Railway Company, that they
have this day made a call of 25 francs, or 1/ per
share on the constituted shares of the company,
350 francs, or 141. sterling, having already been
paid. Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum will be allowed on all payments made
before the 14th July in anticipation of the call, and
interest at the same rate will be charged on all
sums in arrear after that period. Also, that the
constituted shares of W. will be ready for delivery
in exchange for the provisional certificates of the
shares authorised to be re-issued by virtue of the
resolutions passed at the last special general
meeting.

The Societe Generale des Clippers Francais is
making arrangements for the employment of its
fleet, and notice has been given that the Lady
Jocelyn will soon be despatched to Rio de Janeiro
from Havre. She will call at Southampton, and it
is expected that a regular communication will be
speedily established between France and the
Brazils.

Lord Clarendon's statement that Mr. Crampton
has not yet received his dismissal has removed a
check upon the Stock Market. The immediate
result is a rise of three shillings and eightpence
per cent. in the funds, w,hich was firmly maintained
to the close of business. The final quotations were
94 5-16 to 94 7.16. The increasing abundance of
money gives a strong basis to the market. In all
quarters to-day the supply of capital seeking
employment was very large, and it would
appear that even at the reduced charges now
established, the Bank can be obtaining little
discount business, good bills being readily nego-
tiable out of doors below 5 per cent. In this fact,
and in the rapid accumulation of the banks' unem-
ployed resources, there is ground for the belief
that a further reduction in the rates is not far
distant. At Paris to-day the Three per Cent
Rentes recovered about per cent. The gold
brought by the Mermaid, was to-day pur-
chased by the Bank. The new board of
the Royal Swedish Railway Company, an-
nounees that, in the event of the new prefer-
ence shares not being taken up to an extent
sufficient to liquidate the debts of the company,
and to finish the 45 miles of railway to Orebro,
they intend to return the whole of the subscribers
deposits, and to resign to the shareholders in pub-
lic meeting, the charge with which they have been
entrusted. The Railway Share Market to-day was
very steady, and attained a general improvement.
Thefollowing were the closing quotations of Railway
Shares :—Caledonian, 617-, 61,1. Eastern Counties,
10 1-16 10 3-16. East Lancashire, 78 78k.
Great Northern, 95-1, 96k. Ditto A, 78 79. Great
Western, 611 62. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
93 93k. London and North Western, 102*
1021. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
29* 30. Midland Stock, 79 79k. North British,
351 36k, South Eastern and Dover, 72 721.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 811 821. York and
North Midland, 58,1 59.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY—(Before
Mr. Commissioner Perry) —ln re Colpitts Harrison.—The
bankrupt, a wine merchant, of Liverpool, passed his ad-
journed last examination this day, and the Bth of July was
fixed for the certificate meeting.

LONDON GAZETTE.—Our readers are directed to the
advertisement announcing the sale of a rare and extensive
series of the London Gazette, offering an opportunity which
is not likely to occur again for many years, and which
would form an important feature, and record of events, in
the library of a nobleman, or public institution.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—A child, named Catherine 13riclgel
tower, sixteen months old, died in Saltney-street, under the
following eircumstarces :—The mother of the child laid a
hot smoothing-iron on the floor, and the child sat on it, and
was so injured that it died. The jury found a verdict of
accidental death, and censured the mother for not being
more cautious.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.—The Lord Bishop of
Manchester, on Tuesday, collated the Rev. William Law
Hussey, M.A. (vicar of Kirkham, near Preston,) and the
Rev. Henry Mildred Birch, M.A. (rector of Prestwich,)
to be honorary canons of the Cathedral Church of Man-
chester; and his lordship at the same time issued his
mandate for their induction and installation thereto.
SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—WEEKLY RErORT,
JUNE 11, 1856.—1 n patients :—Discharged cured, 23 ;
relieved, 0; at own request, 2 ; irregular, 1. Dead, 0 ;
entered, 21 ; under treatment, 47. Out patients : cured,
53 ; entered, 45; under treatment, 41. Treasurer, James
Houghton, Esq. Visitors, Rev. T. Robberds, and John
Rogers, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry,
B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr.
Cameron, and Mr. Minshull. House surgeons, Mr. E. 0.
Garland, and Mr. William Townsend.
THE LATE WRECX ON AiticLow.—At the earnest
solicitation of Mary Ann Smith, a poor widow who, with
her child, escaped with life at the late wreck on Arklow-
bank, but who lost, on that occasion, everything she
possessed in the world, we have to express the heartfelt
gratitude of the poor woman to those philanthropic ladies
and gentlemen resident of this town, who, on her desti-
tution becoming known, have generously and benevolently
supplied her wants by their pecuniary aid, and enabled her
a second time to pay for her passage, and that of her little
boy, to America,
THE SUMMER Assizas.—The learned judges, Mr. Justice
Welles and Mr. Baron Bramwell, appointed to proceed and
hold the summer assizes of Oyer and Terminer, and general
gaol delivery for the Northern Circuits, have appointed them
as follows :—York county and city at York, July ;
Durham, July 22 ; Newcastle, July 28 ; Carlisle, August 1 ;
Appleby, August 5 ; Lancaster, August 6, ; and Liverpool,
August 9. Mr. Sergeant Channel goes the Western
Circuit, in the place of Mr. Baron Platt, who has not
sufficiently recovered from his severe indisposition to
undertake the exertions and fatigue consequent on a
Circuit. Mr. Justice Crowder remains in town as the
vacation edge.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

TURKEY,

Despatches arrived at .Marseilles on the 10th
inst. from Constantinople, which state that reports
were in circulation there on the 2nd inst , to the
effect that the Russians had destroyed the defences
at Kars, and dismantled the fortress of Ismail.
The Sultan had presented to Miss Nightingale
a rich and extremely valuable memento of her
indefatigable exertions and untiring services in
the causes of suffering humanity.
It is asserted that French employees would be
appointed to organise the customs' service in the
Turkish dominions.

The European population were anxiously
awaiting the return of Aali Pacha, from whom they
intend to claim new regulations with respect to the

rights of property.

Among other on dits are the following
Ouveron is to be Minister at Athens, while M. de
Bouteneuffe has been appointed the Ambassador
at Constantinople from the Russian court.

INDIA AND AUSTRALIA.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY,

The Vectis arrived at this port at half-past five
o'clock this morning, with the Indian and Austra

Tian mails

The letters and papers which she has brought will
e desp atched hence at ten o'clock this evening.

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The transactions on the Bourse to-day closed at
the following quotations :—Four and a Half per
Cents., 94f.; Three per Cents., 72f.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

Some continental papers have asserted, that the
government contemplate withdrawing its troops
from Rome very shortly. Your contemporaries, I
can state on good authority, are incorrectly in-
formed. The Roman prefect of police is in Paris
at present, and he states, without any sort of dis-
guise, that if the French troops were to be taken
away, there would be a revolution the day after
their departure.
The Cardinal Legate of the Pope arrived last
evening ; but, instead of descending at the Boule-
vards, he went to the Tuileries by the Rue de
Rivoli. He was conveyed on a state carriage, with
a military escort, and was accompanied by a large
crowd of high state dignitaries; and he had a
crucifix borne before him.

The solemn distribution of prizes to the suc•
cessful exhibitors in the cattle and agricultural
show took place to-day with some pomp in the
Exhibition Palace. The Minister of Agriculture
and Commerce presided. The English, Irish, and
Scotch, got a good many prizes.
The inundations have, it appears, been very
serious in the neighbourhood of Angers, and

especially in the extensive slate quarries of
Trelaze. Into the latter the water poured like a
cataract, and did frightful damage. I am informed
that the government has this day learned that the
Emperor, on visiting the quarries, was well re-
ceived by the men; though it is not very long
since that a vast number of them were, as
You may remember, engaged in a secret
political society for the overthrow of the
government, and actually broke into open
insurrection. .When his Majesty distributed
relief to the men, their spokesman, it
seems, addessed him in some such terms as
these :—" Well, you understand the working man,
and are kind to him; so let all between you
and us be forgotten, and let us toss it into the
inundations of the Loire !"

In the sitting of the Legislative Body, yesterday,
a bill was brought in for doing away with the pro-
hibitions inscribed i❑ the customs tariff, and for
replacing them by protective duties. This is a new
step in that free trade policy which, as I told
you (exclusively) months ago, the government had
resolved on adopting, though with prudence and
temporisation.

You may, from all I hear, take it for granted that,
in the event of hostilities breaking out between
England and the United States, France will give
a cordial moral support to England, but that she
will not rush into war to aid her, at least at the
commencement. On the other hand, Russia will
do all she can to back the States, by moral
support, but will on no account fire a shot for
them. The semi-official Patrie contains the
following rather singular paragraph, which,
from the form in which it is printed, evidently
comes from the government:--" The attitude of
England in presence of the pretensions of the
United States appears to become firmer. The
manufacturing question has been hitherto of a
nature to exercise some influence on the govern-
ment of Great Britain ; but the British govern-
ment, as we are informed from London, thinks of
rendering its policy perfectly independent of its
material interests by favouring, by extensive
measures, the cultivation of cotton in its Indian
possessions. Instructions in this sense are said
to have been sent off from London."

Prussia and Sardinia have, I hear, been making
new efforts to get themselves admitted to the com-
mission for regulating the questions in the Danu-
bian Principalities, but, though supported by
England and Russia, they have not been suc-
cessful.

The French Government will, very shortly, have
to come into the market for a loan—at least, this
is the belief in well informed financial cir-
cles. I informed you, some weeks back, that a
loan would be shortly indispensable ; but
probably it would not have been demanded quite
so soon, if it had not been for the inundations,
There has been another decline on the Bourse to-
day, and it was caused in some degree by the
anticipated loarl.

P ST—,The Emperor was expected back from
Angers this evening, but as he has prolonged his
journey to Nantes, he will not return till to•morrow.

AUSTRIA CONTENTED.—We learn, with a shiver, that
Austria expresses herself contented with the future inten-
tions of France and England towards Italy. When the
vulture is contented, it must fare hard with the lambs.—
Punch.

A DIPLOMATIC NOTE.—IMMEDIATE.—Mr. John Bull
presents his compliments to Mr. Dallas, and begs to say
that, although Mr. Crampton may have packed up his
things from Washington, that is no reason why Mr. Dallas
should be in any hurry to send for /?is Things from the
Wash.—PuncA.

CLAYTON HALL,-.41% COTTON'S ENT&RTANMENT.—Th e
spirited and enterprising proprietors of this beautiful hall,
haying afforded the public a real treat in the performances
of Miss Stanley, seem resolved not to let the hall lack
further novelties. They have, this week, introduced to the
public of Liverpool Mr. Charles Cotton, a gentleman whose
varied acquirements and exquisite personatiors, in the
departments which he undertakes, ranks him amongst the
most popular performers of the metropolis. Every one—
the merist child—is taught to lisp and revere the tame of
Nelson; and one of Mr. Cotton's ‘4 Nights " with that
world-renowned naval hero conveys a good idea of scenes in
that life, long since passed away, yet green in historical
memory. Mr. Cotton's entertainment is a perfect illustra-
tion of the life of Nelson. The prose portion of tho enter-
tainmentis beautiful—the songs exquisite. We cannot
speak in too high favour of the perfortnanee, and the public
seem to duly appreciate it, as the patronage bestowed amply
testifies.