The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-06 00:00:00

TR NORTNERN TIMES.--LIVRE,POOLs tUESDAY, MAY ft, Me

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING.
The Liverpool Cotton Market has heen steady
and moderately active to-day, the sales amounting
to 8,000 bales, of which 3,000 have been taken for
speculation and export. Holders are less free in
offering their stocks.
A moderate business has been done in the
Liverpool Share Market to-day. The closing
prices were as follows : - Aberdeen, 121 13.
Chester and Birkenhead, 151- 151. Caledonian,
29i 30. Chester and Holyhead, 151 16. Eastern
Counties, 9 15-16 10. East Lancashire, 191 191.
Great Northern, 231 231; Ditto A, 91 91.
Great Western, 611611. Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 881 888. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
16; 171. London and North Western Stock, 1001
1001. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 281 284
Ditto Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 7.16
9-16 p. Midland Stock, 749 741 North British, 81
81. North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern,
21 5-16 211. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191
19:-. York and North Midland, 27i 271. Leeds
Capital Stock, 15: 151. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 2 21p. Dutch Rhenish 11 1: p. Great
Western of Canada, 261 26;1. Ditto New Shares,
31 3:p. Ditto 2nd issue, 31 3:p. Great Luxem-
bourg, 78 71d.
At the close of the last week the Havre cotton
market continued quiet, without any sensible
change in prices. About 1,100 bales were sold by
public auction, and realised from 88f 50c per 50
kilos to 93f for ordinary very ordinary Louisiana,
which was favourable for the purchasers. The
quotations of New Orleans are for very ordinary
95E, low ditto 891, and very low ditto 82f. The
sales of the week for all sorts comprised 8,609
bales, and the arrivals were 10,745 bales. The
stock on hand on the 2nd inst. amounted to 96,372
bales, against 68,726 bales at the corresponding
period last year. The quantity of Cotton arrived
at Havre from the United States during the font.
months of the present year was 31,457 bales,
against 56,721 bales in 1855 ; and the number of
vessels from Havre 27 during both periods.
Now that peace is eoncluded, and the prospects
of an abundant harvest are evident throughont
France, it is anticipated that the prohibition
against the distillation of spirit from grain
in that country will be rescinded this summer.
This possible contingency, and that of a plenteous
vintage, has affected the principal spirit markets.
At Bordeaux, Languedoc brandy of 86 deg. is now
1431 per hectolitre; and fine beet-root spirit, first
quality, 90 deg., strength, 1061., being a decline of
about 2f. per hectolitre ; and contracts for June
are effected at 103 f. Wines are not much in
request, and average from 450 f. to 4601 per tun for
ordinary qualities ; 'and inferior kinds, at public
auction, realise from 325 f. to 375 f., such as Fronsac.
Telegraphic advices from Madrid state that
the amount of the ecclesiastical lands sold for
the benefit of the Crown up to the Ist May
was 300,000,000 reels, and the Stocks 70,000,000
reals.
The Statesman has arrived off the Scilly Islands
from Geelong with 14,198 ounces of gold, valued
at 56,7921, but her advices have been anticipated
by the last overland mail. The Ellenborough, from
New South Wales, is also announced, but she is
not supposed to have any gold on board.
The funds to-day retained a strong upward
tendency, and a fresh rise of to iths per cent, was
finally established, the final quotations being 92
15-16, 93 1-16. With the dissipation of the extra-
vagant reports, recently circulated as regards the
financial requirements of Government, numerous
purchases have been induced. The more favourable
tendency was greatly assisted by the publication of
the amended army estimates. A diminution in
the pressure for money, coupled with further
arrivals of gold, also operated satisfactorily. To-
day short loans upon Government securities could
be obtained in the Stock Exchange at 5 per cent.
In the Discount Market likewise the supply of
money was liberal. At Paris to-day the three
per cent. Rentes closed at a rise of k per cent.
The arrival of four vessels from Australia was to-
day announced, with gold, valued at fully 300,0001.,
nearly the whole of which will, it is hoped, be sent
into the Bank. The Corn Market was firm to-day,
but only the finest descriptions of wheat were
quoted higher than last Monday ; in these cases
the advance averaged is to 2s per quarter. The
provincial Corn markets were firm ; at Paris the
price of first class flour, after touching 92 francs,
has receded to 85 francs. The Railway Share
Market to-day was better, in sympathy
with Consols. The subjoined were the closing quo-
tations :-Caledonian,s9l 601. Eastern Counties,
97-16. East Lancashire, 76 78. Great Northern, 951.
Do. A, 791 80. Great Western, 62 621. Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 881 881. London and North
Western, 100:- 1001. Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 281 291. Midland Stock, 741 741.
North British, 24 25. South Eastern and Dover,
711 71/. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 771 781.
York and North Midland, 551 551.

FRANCE.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRBSPONDUNT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING

The King of Wurtemberg arrived in this city at
eleven o'clock last evening, and was received at the
Strasbnrg railway station by Prince Napoleon and
the first chamberlain of the Emperor and other
personages of the Court. The King comes incognito
under the name of Count de Teck. He is a rela•
tive of the Napoleon family, his sister having
married Prince Jerome, who is father of Prince
Napoleon and uncle of the Emperor. The
marriage of Jerome with the Princess took
place after his divorce from Mrs. Patterson, of the
United States. She made a good and affectionate
wife, and refused to quit him on the downfall of
his brother. The King has taken up his residence
in the Pavilion Maison of the Tuileries, and to-day
he had an interview with the Emperor.
The Patrie, of this evening, announces a fact,
which I was able to communicate to you three or
four days ago—the approaching appearance of
a pamphlet on the Treaty of Peace, written,
if not by, at least under, the positive
direction of the Emperor, and on arguments
supplied by him. The semi-official journal says
that it -will appear, as I told you it would, under
the'signature of " Un Ancien Diplomate" (an Ex-
diplomatist.)
The Moniteur publishes a long letter from the
Minister of the Interior, to the Prefect of Police,
denouncing the tricks of certain persons who
obtain large sums of money from projectors of com-
mercial enterprises, on pretence' of obtaining them
concessions from the government, and declaring
" that all government concessions are made on their
own merits." This is all very well, but it is noto-
rious to every one who has been behind the scenes
of political and commercial affairs in Paris, that
certain concessions would never be granted to
French IlroWns, Jones's, or Robinson's, unless
people of high rank or influence moved on their
behalf; and it is also certain that the said people
do not bestir themselves from mere philanthropy.
The commercial report of the week announces
that Paris trade has at last become active.
A telegraph despatch from Turin announces
that the Duchess Regent has quitted the duchy
and left the government to the Austrians. An-
other says that the King of Naples is about to
change his policy, and to grant a large amnesty.
From a proof-sheet of the forthcoming pam-
phlet of the Emperor which has found its way to
mei I see that, as I informed you in a previous let-
ter, the honour (if honour it be) of having been the
first to propose Paris as the seat of the Peace
Congress will be ascribed to England ; and I am
also informed that the pamphlet will contain this
passage relative to Austria :—" The French govern-
ment, not being discouraged by the slowness of
Austria, succeeeded not in making her descend into
the field of battle, but at least in associating her
as strictly as possible in the efforts made by the
Western Powers in negociations. At present the
interests of Austria are so bound up in those of
France that she cannot separate from her without
exposing herself to a dangerous isolation."

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
An Imperial"decree in the Moniteur of this morn-
ing reduces to 30f. the 100 kilogrammes the import
duty on iron tubes.
The approaching establishment, by the Cunard
Company, of a line of steamers between New York
and Havre, has increased the anxiety of interested
parties to have the question of the ;establishment
of transatlantic lines of French steamers, which has
been so long on the tapis, settled without delay.
These parties represent that the national interest
of France deniands that a foreign company shall
not be allowed to snatch up all the traffic before
the French lines can get fairly into play, and that
the French company or companies must be allowed
a liberal subvention from the government to enable
it or them to compete with the Cunard Company.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police, yesterday,
sentenced ten men (working men and tradesmen, '
by profession) to, from one month's imprisonment
and X 4 fine; to four years' imprisonment and
£4O fine, for having formed a secret society,
called the Militante, for the overthrow of the
government. In the provinces, as well as in Paris,
secret societies exist, and within the last fortnight
very numerous arrests of persons, supposed to be
connected with them, have been made. These
societies and these arrests prove that the govern
ment is neither so solidly established nor so free
from apprehension, as it would fain have it

believed.
General Prim, the well known Spanish General,
was married to-day, at the Madeleine, to an enor-
mously wealthy Mexican heiress, the Mdlle.
Gonzales, of Aguero, who brings to the General
a dowry of seven millions of francs.
It is not every day that I have time to read the
London papers, but when I have, I generally find
in their Paris correspondence, news a day later
than that which I have been able to send you—or
a total ignorance of that which they ought to
know. In the London Times received this morn-
ing, for example, I find its Paris correspondent, in
his letter of Wednesday, giving an account of the
visit of Count Orloff to the Emperor, to notify the
accession of the Emperor Alexander—a fact which
I announced to you on Tuesday. The Times
correspondent evidently copied the news from the
official Moniteur—l sent it you the day before it
appeared in that journal.
Count Orloff has been nominated a Knight
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
After her churching yesterday the Empress held
a reception of the Imperial family, the great
dignitaries of State, and her personal friends.
This was the first time she has " received" since
her confinement.
At Havre the sales of cotton from the Ist
January up to the 30th ult. amounted to
205,360 bales, last year for the same period the
sale was only 144,445 bales. The stock on hand
on the 30th ult. was 100,150 hales.

SOUTHPORT STRANGERS' CHARITY.—On Thursday, the
jubilee celebration of the above invaluable institution was
held. In the morning a sermon was preached in Christ
church, by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, of Liverpool, and in the
evening by the Rev. C. Hesketh, the rector. The morning
collection amounted to £5O, and the evening to £46 12s Bd.
In the afternoon luncheon was prepared, to which a numerous
company sat down, and afterwards a number of addresses
were delivered. Tea was also provided for the patients,
after which interesting addresses were delivered.
APPREHENSION OF A MANUFACTURER FOR FORGERY.—
On Saturday, police inspector Buckley, of the Manchester
force, arrived in that town, from Hamburg, with George
Curedale, late a manufacturer carrying on business at Burn-
ley, in his custody, on a charge of forgery. Curedale
absconded from Burnley about three weeks since, after pay-
ing several forged bills of exchange ; and, Buckley having
reason to believe that he had gone to Hamburg, followed
him thither, and through the influence of Colonel Hodge,
the English consul, obtained the assistance of the police
there, by whom he was soon traced out. The forgeries with
which the prisoner is charged are—one bill for £3OO, drawn
upon Messrs. Standing and Agnew, commission agents,
George-street, Manchester, and paid by the prisoner to
Messrs.' Edmund and Henry Rolinson, manufacturers,
Burnley ; and another bill for £3BO upon Messrs. Ormerod
and Jervis, whose acceptance was forged, and paid to Mr.
Dilworth, commission agent, Manchester. It is said that
other forged bills have been paid by the prisoner. Since
be absconded he has been made a bankrupt by his
creditors.
POLYTF.CHNIC SOCIETY,.... The usual meeting of this
society was held last night in the Royal institution, Colquitt-
street. Mr. Edward Jones in the chair. The paper for the
evening was on '° Smoke Prevention," by Mr. M'Donnell,
i ['specter of smoke nuisancces under the health committee.
In this paper the writer detailed his experiences in the pre.
vention of smoke, and showed that the real secret in the
matter lay in careful stoking. He maintained that the
results obtained in Liverpool, since the present act was put
in operation, afforded proof positive that the generating of
smoke may be prevented, and that manufactures, steamboat
owners, &c., have no valid excuse for inflicting in any quarter
so great a nuisance on the public. Mr. Salt, secretary, bore
testimony to the correctness of Mr. M'Donnell's statements,
and observed that great credit was due to the health com-
mittee for the judicious manner in which they had carried
out the act. Mr. C. Wye Williams also bore testimony to
the possibility of preventing smoke, and observed that no
man need have recourse to a patent in the matter. He then
referred to the controversy now being waged between Mr.
O'Regan and himself, and maintained that Mr. O'Regan's
patent was precisely his (Mr. 'William's) invention, which
was now common to the world. Mr, 0' Regan replied, and
denied that he had included the least part of Me. Williams's
plan in his patent. The principle of the perforated plate
was undoubtedly common, but he (Mr. Regan) claimed as a
patent hie improved method of construction. The contro-
versy lasted for a length of time, and was waged with con-
sidelabl bitterness on both sides!