The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

and the new grant now annually made for the professorships
of the Belfast College, according as the lives fall in of any
persons at present in the receipt of any moneys out of either

of such grants.
3. That the Chairman ask leave to bring in a bill to carry
these resolutions into effect.

Here the utmost asked for is the re appropriation
of Church property to the support of Divine
worship according to the rites of the Protestant
Episcopal communion, and the discontinuance
of State endowments for Church purposes
and religious teaching. To Mr. Mistis
motion, and the popular spirit of his
resolutions, the PREMIEU has opposed his
" deep, settled, and rooted conviction," that an
Established or State Church is essential to the dif-
fusion and inculcation of religion on the minds of
the people. Had the noble Viscount supported
his opinion by statistics, we fear the reverse
would have been the inevitable impression, a
recital of facts would have left behind it. The
great spiritual work of these realms is not carried
on by the Established Church. Protestantism has
outlived the necessity of State subsidies. Other
Churches may crave such aid, but biblical religion
has grown beyond the help of Parliament, and we
owe its diffusion and inculcation oq the mind of

this, and nearly every other nation, to the
voluntary system. While the State Church has
been hugging its millions of revenue, the voluntary

communions have been spreading the Scripture
far and near, without listening to compromises
with rival churches, or empiric controversalists, on
incomprehensible dogmas. We need scarcely say
more, in order to show what the Established
Church, with Parliament and the Consolidated
Fund at their back, have not done. The Episco•
palian clergy are not, as a body, in the
slightest degree reprehensible for the omission
of their church. Many of the Irish Churchmen are
the most zealous and meritorious pastors on the
race of the earth, but we find in the Church, as we
do in the army, navy and civil service, that zeal
and merit are rarely thought deserving of pecuniary
favours.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAT

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING

Thii Cotton Market, up to the close of the week's
business on Wednesday evening, uniformly pre-
sented a dull and drooping aspect, consumers
having been deterred from buying anything in
excess of their immediate requirements by the
advices of liberal receipts and declining markets
which continue to be received from the States, and
the prices then current exhibited a decline as com-
pared with those ruling on Friday last of 1-16 d to
id per lb in American descriptions, this being most
apparent in the classes ranging below 6d per lb.
The reduction, however, of 1 per cent. in the rates
of interest announced yesterday by the Directors
of the Bank of England has imparted more tone to
the market to-day, and the above quotations are
again pretty much on a par with those of this day
week for all descriptions of Cotton. The sales of
the week amount to 40,410 bales, 33,030 of which
have been taken by the trade, 3,400 for speculation,
and 3,080 for export. To-day's business is estimated
at 8,000 bales, 2,000 of which have been taken for
speculation and export. The Committee's quota-
tions to-day' for fair cotton are as follows, viz.:—
Bowed 61d, Mobile 6,1 d, and Orleans 7d per lb.

A fair amount of business has been done
in the Liverpool Share Market to day, and
prices have been firm, closing as under :

Aberdeen, 134- 131. Chester and Birkenhead,
16. Caledonian, 30a 301. Chester and Holyhead,
15416. Eastern Counties, 10-L-- 101. East Lanca-
shire, 19k 20. Great Northern, 231 211. Ditto A,
9k 10k. Great Western, 61 61. Lam

hire and

Yorkshire Stock, 931 931. Liverpool, Crosby and
Sou'hport, 171 17g. London and North Western
Stock, 1021 103. Manchester Sheffield, and Lin-
coln, 29a 30. Ditto Pref., 11-1 11g. Ditto New 6
per cent. Prof., ;1 ap. Midland Stock, 794 79k.
North British, 81 9. North Staffordshire, 6 5-la.
South Eastern and Dover, 21 13-16 21j York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 201 291. York and North
Midland, 29i 30k. Leeds Capital Stock, 171 18.
Buffalo and,Lake Huron, If IQp. Dutehilibenisl.l
1 9-16 lip. Great Western of Canada, 26* 261
Ditto New Shares, 3 1-16 3 3-16 p. Great Luxem-
bourg, 8 1-16 Bd.

As there have been no public sales of foreign
and colonial produce during the last two days, the
Mincing-lane markets this week have necessarily
been dull. Prices have been firmly supported,
however, for most staples, and sugar has ruled
rather dearer. At the wool sales there has been
less firmness, but no material decline in the quo-
tations has occurred.

LITEST INTELLIGENCE.

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SPAIN

A despatch from Madrid dated the 29th instant,
states that a force consisting of three ships of the
line, three frigates, two corvettes, and four
steamers is ordered to the Gulf of Mexico.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EDINBURGH

ONE DAY LATER NEWS.

The steamship Edinburgh arrived at Greenock
yesterday. She left New York on the 17th inst.,
and has made the passage in 12 days 22 hours.
On the 22nd instant, the Edinburgh spoke the
Baltic in a dense fog.
The Edinburgh brings New York papers of the

date of the 17th, from which we learn that advices
from Honduras, to the da

that the good feeli

Walker in that con

clang

In con

of the 1

h ult., sated

formerly entertained for G

judicial repo

circulated in regard to the treatment of his fileTl in
Nicaragua. The question whether Honduras will
join Costa Rica against Walker, however, was

not settled

It was rumoured in Honduras, that Guatemala
was arming against Walker, and would bring a
large force into the field.

On the 16th, the Cotton market at New York
was quiet, and prices unsettled ; the sales were
nonfined to 500 or 600 bales.

At Charleston, on the lath, the sales for the
week had been 9,000 bales, at ic to -lc decline. The
receipts for the week had been 7,000 bales.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FiIiDAY

Their lordships met for public business at five o'clock:
The Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) Bill was

read a second time.
The Preservation of the Peace (Ireland) Bill paiso.l
through committee, an arrangement being made to limit

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

AUSTRIA

' e learn Is
advices dated the 20th inst., from
the folio?la that the Emperor of Austria had addressed
pyiu g order of the day to the troops °cell-
', "The
Danubian Principalities :
paimbe t"coupation of the Principalities of the
sent- hi e. uas afforded an opportunity to the troops
'
tlio. e tther, to exhibit fidelity and self-denial, for
the tco countries had recently been devastated by
obstur-
, g, of war, and presented difficulties and
thatcelea of every hind. They have fulfilled their
tier'lv"lstud preserved in the most satisfactory man-
eend..eir military spirit and excellent material
tell:en. At a moment when this corps of the
x 37 is quitting the Principalities I feel it a duty
the 13ffires.8 my satisfaction to the generals, and to
Tll,rs and soldiers. " FRANCIS JOSEPH.',
ttnn a hers
Gazette, of Berlin, states that the
ver of Austria has just given special orders,
Pr,;ns'quence of the representations of his
12aeae• ST
a t subjects in reference to the arbitrary
the ."5 to which they have been subjected since
rtietteZclusion of the Concordat, especially in
isrpr
(' Concerning Protestant burials. The Min-
issilpcit the Interior has, by his Majesty's directions
tit;e, a circular to the municipal and police Ruth°.
slire re
them to oppose every mea-
Ip hfalculated to wound the feelings of protestants.
the /1!) circular he states that every subject of
his Peror enjoys the right of protection. in
epee
".,lobs belief after life as during his exist-
that no obstacle is to be placed in the
11.1%°y'eligious ceremonies authorised by the law.
lehdruer to facilitate the burial in their native
Gernef individuals belonging to other states of
WitILP, Austria has concluded a convention
rites's, Bavaria. Saxony, Hanover, and other
pa,.. States, by which permission, in the shape of
frO will be granted for the transport of a body
int
tno
torritory of that one of the contracting parties
O. another.

PRUSSIA

Ain., e slave received intelligence (confirmatory of
daie`iire,vious telegraphic despatches) from Berlin,
is Thursday evening. Our news of that date
as 101 l
The lows :
by p, Emperor of Russia has just arrived, attended
R;4ooe Gortschakoff and a numerous suite.
royai ,wa% accompanied by the King and all the
Th -"rinses of Prussia.
Pre Dowager Empress of Russia, the King of
the la, and the Grand Duko Michael, arrived by
reeeiv et,tin railway on Sunday evening, and were
kEt4t e" at the station by Prince Adelbert, Baron
Gerlerellifiel, President of the Council of Ministers,.
alieS -at
\Vrangel, and a number of high. function-
Droe",.; After a short stay, the illustrious party
Prii;:ded to Sans Souci, and there the Prince of
brla, and the Princes Charles and. Albert,
kaio,*er.e oe
St
I the King and Empress, received their
Th''',les at the station at Potsdam.
for „ a Queen left Potsdam yesterday morning early
Mae' Place called Riesa, on the Saxon frontier,
Of snee she is to fetch her sister, the present Queen
to iA4.1°037, and bring her back with her to Potsdam,
144'111
ain the already numerous circle of high born
Russsembled there to welcome the Empress of
frohiB',". The latter has apparently so far recovered
TestA",„er fatigues as to have been able to drive out
Rrou-LgaY with the Queen, and revisit all the
Souer's and gardens about Potsdam and Sans
la th; The Empress herself inhabits the palace
the - L°wn, where there is a chapel fitted up for
tritual of the Russo-Greek church.
114 r". Meyendorff. the former Minister of Rus
biluere, arm subsequently at Vienna, who was to
hither accoMpanied the Empress on her journey
is el% but was prevented by illness from so doing,
thee4Pented to arrive to-day at Stettin on board
Prinsarce vessel that brings Count Nesselrode and
Pet Woronzoff. The Prussian Minister at St.
vtrry g, Baron Nether, will also be of the