The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-26 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA

The Cunard steamer Persia, Captain Judkins, arrived
here from New York, on Saturday morning, after a passage
still more rapid than her last, bringing 229 passengers,
1,431,365 dollars in specie, and advices from New York to
the 14th inst.

The steamer Atlantic, from Liverpool, had arrived out at
New York.

The exact time of the Persia's passage is nine days
eight hours and seven minutes to the Bar.
The Central American question continued to occupy a
large share of public attention, and it seems not improbable
that it will cause a break up of the Cabinet of Washington,
at which place there were some startling reports in circula-
tion. The correspondant of the New York Times, writing
on the 12th, says :—" I heard it asserted this morning,
with great positiveness, that at the last Cabinet meeting,
the President and Mr. Marcy disagreed so seriously (the
former in favour of, and the latter against, the recognition
of the Walker Government,) that the Secretary of State had
determined to retire from office the moment the recognition
of Pedro Vijil should become a fait aceompli. lam well
satisfied that the disagreements upon this subject have been
very positive and serious."

Our Washington advices state that Mr. Crompton, the
British minister, had given a grand reconciliation dinner
to the ministers of Russia, France, and others. This is
the only social occasion in which the three first have
personally participated since the war began. The enter-
tainment was brilliant, and was enlivened by the presence
of the ladies of the legations now in Washington.
A Washington correspondent, writing on the 13th inst.,
says :—The President is decided on his purpose to receive
Padre Vijil, the minister sent to represent Walker's govern-
ment in Nicaragua. This purpose may be communicated
in the message answering the resolution of inquiry into
Central American affairs. The opposition in the Cabinet
seems not to have affected the President's inclination.

This step, if taken in connection with the dismissal of Mr.
Crampton, the British representative here—which dismissal
is now determined upon—it is believed by sagacious states-
men will have the effect of reviving Lord Palmerston's
power, which is totterin,-, to its fall, and of seriously compli-
cating our relations with all the European governments.
Indeed, it cannot be disguised, that the most momentuous
consequences may ensue, involving the peace of this country
in various quarters, and inviting entanglements and disputes
which cannot at this time be appreciated by the public. A
profound sensation will necessarily be created throughout
Europe, leading to new and formidable combinations against
the United States. It is by far the gravest complication since
the Oregon difficulty.
The New York Times publishes a full report of the
testimony taken before the congressional investigating
committee, on the Kansas provision question, upon the first
two days of its :session. If any one has hitherto been
inclined to doubt the statements which have been made
from time to time, concerning the outragous invasion of
Kansas by men from Missouri, we are confident a perusal
of this testimony will compel a conviction of their truth. It
is certain, indeed, from this evidence, that the propagandists
of slavery had formed an extensive organisation for the ex-
press purpose of introducing illegal voters, and thus making
Kansas a slave State. Mr. Jordan Davidson, the first
witness who was examined before this committee, testified
that he was a member of a secret society formed in Missouri,
the express object of which was to make Kansas a slave
State, and that he had reason to believe that it existed also
in other Southern States,—in Virginia, in Tennessee, Ken-
tucky and Arkansas. He came from Missouri to Kansas to
vote—was sworn in on the spot as one of the officers of
election, and knew of many others who came from Missouri
and voted. _

The commercial accounts report that the cotton market
was easier, that owing to the tenor of the European news
there had been an upward tendency in the markets for brea d
stuff=, and that freights were more firm. Exchange on Lon-
don ranged from 109 to 1091. There had been a little strin-
gency in the money market, but at the last acconnts it was
again more free although the demand continued active.