The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-23 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE UNITED STATES

A despatch, dated Berlin, June 21, mentions that,
thanks to the mediation of Russia, an arrangement
has been concluded between Denmark and the
United States, in virtue of which a provisional
Toll Convention will remain in force until June,
1857, and the Sound Dues will be collected under
this Convention as formerly.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur publishes the draft of the Senatus
Consultum about the Regency, which I told you
two days back] had been presented. It enacts
that the minority of an Emperor shall cease at the
age of eighteen, and that the Empress' mother
shall be Regent, unless the Emperor, his father,
shall by some public act, promulgated before his
death, have nominated another person. In case

there shall be no Empress, and in case the

Emperor shall have published no such act, the
first Prince of the blood, or in his default, any
other Prince capable of succeeding to the throne
is to be Regent. In case there be no Prince
the Senate is to name the Regent. The
protection of the Emperor minor, the superin ten-
tendence of his education and household, are con-
fided to his mother. The Regent is to take an oath
of fidelity to the Emperor minor. A council of
regency, consisting of the princes of the blood, and
of persons designated by the Emperor, or in case
of no nomination being made by him, five persons
selected by the Senate is to be forme' to assist
the Regent, and is to be presided over by him or
her.

Such are the principal enactments of the Regency
Bill. In preparing for the contingency of a regency,
the Emperor no doubt shows foresight, natural
enough for one in his situation ; but, assuredly
there are very few men in France who believe that
if he were to be taken away, his power would be
allowed to descend quietly into the hands of a
Regent for the benefit of his son.
The large amount subscibed in London for the
victims of the inudation, and the announcement
that Liverpool is also getting up a subscription for
the sufferers, have afforded great pleasure to the
Parisians, and are regarded as a proof of hearty
good will on the part of the English. The central
commission for distributing the funds raised, held
i . fi rat cti ft i yrsatard siy, and it dectlareE3 in the
Moniteur that the gravity of the disasters " caused
by the inundations is such, that notwithstanding
the large amount already subscribed in France, " it
deems it necessary to make a new and earnest
appeal to private charity on behalf of the victims."

- The model of a cannon, invented by the Grand
Duke Michael, of Russia, was yesterday presented
to the Emperor by Count Lewaschiff, aide-de camp
to the Prince. The present was, says the Moniteur,
made by order of the Emperor of Russia.
We have had another bad day at the Bourse—a
fall in all kinds of securities. The large capitalists
still stand aloof, and leave the speculators to
flounder on as best they can. The greater part of
these men having counted on a continuous rise,
and having no means to await a return of the tide
are in a very pitiable position—many of them have
been ruined, and others are on the brink of ruin.
The great capitalists, who have neither for-
gotten nor pardoned the large rise which
the speculators forced on contrary to their
interests, in the few months preceding the
conclusion of the war,—have, it is said, determined
to give them a terrible lesson. If they have
really made this threat, and mean to realise it, it
is not easy to say where the fall will stop. Apart
from the capitalists, the market is very much
oppressed, owing to immense sums it has to
supply for various companies. The state of the
weather, too, has again begun to cause alarm
—it is windy, rainy, and dismal, as in
February or March. I am assured that in conse-
quence of it, serious alarm is felt about the crops—
about such of them, that is. as escaped the inunda-
tions.

There is some talk of the resignation of M.
Billault, Minister of the Interior, being not impro-
bable, but I am not disposed to place credit on it.
The Cardinal Legate yesterday presented to the
Empress the Golden Rose sent her by the Pope.

ME HISTORIC SOCIETY.—Besides the intellectual food,
which the good people of Preston are preparing for the
members of our Historic Society to-morrow, it is rumoured
that intentions are entertained of a more substantial
hospitality. _

CORONER'S INQUESTS.-0a Saturday the coroner held
inquests, the first of which is an additional proof of the
fatal effects of drinking to excess. It was on the body of
William Swift, aged forty-two, who was a carter, employed
by Mr. Hesketh, of Marybone. The deceased had been a
teetotaler for three months; but it appeared that on Thurs-
day morning last he (to use the, phrase of his wife) " broke
out." He was very drunk on Friday, and was sitting on
the shaft of a lorry, laden with cotton, which he was taking
from one of the docks to Gradwell-street. He was told to
get down, but he replied he was " all right," and just at the
moment he fell off and was crushed to death between one
of the wheels and the footway. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death.—On the body of Anthony Compeidonico,
who was a tobacco manufacturer in the employment of Mr.
Jones, No. 31, Whitechapel. It appeared that on Saturday
morning the unfortunate deceased, who was described as a
sober, well-conducted young man, twenty-four years of age,
went into the cellar to grind some knives. The machinery
that worked the e3tablishment, was in the cellar, and it
would seem that the apron, worn by the deceased, caught in
it, and he was drawn in, and had his head and one of his
legs crushed, so that he died at once. Verdict, accidental
death.

THE LITTLE JOLLY MARINER.—In the northwest corner
of George's Dock a saucy looking little craft bearinc, the
above name is now lying, and has attracted a good deal
of attention from nautical men, on account of her pecu-
liarities and trim appearance. Though only 42 tons
register, the Jolly Mariner is intended to cross the Atlan-
tic, on a voyage of nearly 6,000 miles. Her dimensions
are :—Length, 60 feet ; beam, 15 feet ; depth, 6& feet- The
Jolly Mariner is constructed of iron by Messrs. Barclay
and Curl, of Glasgow, to the order of Mr. Chabot, of
Manchester. She has the appearance of a schooner
yacht, and is rigged so simply that a couple of hands can
work her, but for her Trans-Atlantic voyage, she will
carry six. The Jolly Mariner is intended for the Tam-
pico trade, to ply in connection with the West India mail
steamers. The town of Tampico lies six miles above the
bar, and as the mail steamers have to lie about two miles
outside this bar, the Jolly Mariner is intended to commu-
nicate between them and the shore. The owners at Tam-
pico are Messrs. Jolly and Mariner, and the names of the
two partners in the firm have been joined into one to give
an appropriate title to the little vessel. Her commander ;
is Captain Trevellick, whose former vessel, the British '
Empire, was, singularly enough, one of the largest British. 1
merchantmen afloat. The Jolly Mariner is being de- '
spatched by Messrs. Louthean and Cross, and she carries
out a most miscellaneous cargo, including pale ale, patent
bricks, crockery ware, soda water, bale goods, &c. Her
masts are conspicuous amongst the surrounding forest by
the flags they carry, the Mexican flag flying at the fore.A I