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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1856,

THE DAY'S NEWS

In our publication of yesterday we inadvertently
made a mistake as to the result of the division on
the motion to increase the salary of Mr. Mansfield.
Our readers, through the error in question, may
have been led to believe that the Council granted
the increase sought for. Such, however, was not
the case, so that, no doubt, the matter will again
be brought forward. A reference to our report of
the Town Council proceedings, where the result of
the division was accurately given, would, no doubt,
satisfy the numerous readers of our paper that the
mistake to which we have called attention was an
oversight in the hurry of preparing for press.
The 'Health Committee held their usual weekly
meeting yesterday. According to the report of the
Medical Officer, the health of the town continues
in a satisfactory state. Zymotic, or epidemic
diseases, are reported to be considerably below
those of last year at same date. The temperature
has been in a fluctuating state, and rain has fallen
in the course of the week to the extent of 94-100th
inch. A curious circumstance is reported in the
proceedings of the Health Committee, with
reference to the non-interment of a man named
Albert, who was unburied for a fortnight after

I his decease. The body was incased in a
shell, well pitched inside, with a plate glass in-
serted in the lid, to show the face of the body.
The reason assigned for the non-interment of the
corpse was two-foldwant of sufficient means to
defray funeral expenses, and wishing to procure the
attendance of friends from Glasgow. The Health
Committee have taken steps to enforce the validity
of the liability of the Athenaeum and Lyceum news
rooms, and_to compel the-managers of those insti-
tutions to defray their just quota of the local rates ;
and, from what transpired, it is not at all impro-
bable that the matter will, ere long, be referred to
the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench.
The proceedings of the Dock Committee, yester-
day, were of an unimportant
.character, and the
chief point of discussion was respecting the prac-
tice of the chairman of the committee taking upon
himself the duty of explaining the proceedings of
sub-committees, instead of leaving to the chairmen
of the several sub-committees to state what their
proceedings were. The conversation led to no
practical result.

The members of the Wallasey local Board of
Health held their monthly meeting last night, and
from the report of the proceedings which took
place we learn that a district rate of I s 9.1, a spe
cial rate of 3d for Seacombe, and 411 for New
Brighton, were agreed to. The Board also en-
gaged in some discussion respecting the Birken-
head Docks and approaches to the Landing Stage
at Liverpool. For the particulars of what took
place, we have to refer our readers to the report
inserted elsewhere.

It would seem that the Irish government have at
length directed that more active steps shall be
taken for the discovery of the assassin of Mr.
Little. Owing, it is stated, to instructions from a
high quarter, two of the most efficient of the Lon-
don detective officers (Witcher and Smith) have
arrived in Dublin and commenced operations at
the Broadstone Terminus, in conjunction with the
Dublin detectives. According to one of the Dublin
papers, new ground has been broken, and the explora
tion after facts is going on steadily and surely. The
durance to which Catherine Campbell has been
subjected for some days past, we learn, has made
her get rid of a good deal of her tactinurity, and
become rather communicative. Such is the
importance attached to this woman's evidence that
strict watch is kept on her, and she is not allowed
to hold intercourse with any person save with those
who are in charge of her. This precaution is said
to be absolutely necessary. A few days or- a few
hours may remove a great deal of the mystery
which hangs over this murder, and from what we
have heard there is every reason to hope that the
police are on the right track of the assassin. One
of our metropolitan cotemporaries yesterday gave
currency to a rumour that the murderer had been
arrested on board one of the steamers belonging to
the City of Dublin Company, about to start for
Liverpool, but we fear our cotemporary has been
imposed upon by the report in questi on.
We observe that there is a rumour prevalent in
Dublin, that an intention_ exists- of removing the
Earl of Carlisle from the vice royalty is not received
with favour by any party. There has never been
a Lord Lieutenant in Ireland so universally
popular, and his withdrawal would be viewed with
very general regret.

Among the domestic incidents of the day, is the
enthroning of the Bishop of London yesterday.
The ceremony took place in St. Paul's Cathedral,
in the presence of a large number of the clergy and
laity of the metropolis. The ceremony was a
somewhat_ lengthy one, for not only had the Right
Rev. Prelate to repeat his oaths of abjuration and
Supremacy, but he had also to take- the oath of
residence, and that in reference to the rights of
JAMES BAINES & CO. I the church.

The Southampton Electors have a difficult game

to play just now. According to advices from our
Southampton Correspondent, Mr. EdWin James
was the favourite of the London candidates for the
borough. He was the first also in the field. Mr.
Weguelin, however, considered thai he had such a
powerful party of liberals in Southampton, who
had promised him their support, that he declined
to give way to Mr. James. For the latter to have
any chance, therefore, it was necessary that he
should personally canvass the electors. His pro-
fession, however, required so much of his time that
this was impossible. His friends, seeing the hope-
lessness of contending with the activity of Mr.
Weguelin and Sir Edward Butler, gave up the task
in despair. The bad feelings engendered by the
split prevented them from uniting their forces with
Mr. Weguelin to fight the Conservative candidate,
and they decided on bringing forward another
liberal. Their choice fell upon Mr. Richard
Andrews, mayor of the borough. Mr. Andrews
resolved at once to come forward, provided a
numerously signed requisition by the electors' was
presented to him. As he is the returning officer,
he will be obliged to resign the office of mayor, and
pay a heavy fine, before he can be elected member
of parliament. He has pledged himself that if he
becomes a candidate he will go to the poll, and
poll the last man. He is a liberal with very
advanced opinions, and a most energetic man.
We have Paris advices of Wednesday, from
from which we learn that the talk of a forthcoming
Congress is now quite general, and by the positive
tone in which it is spoken of, preliminaries would
already seem to have been arranged. The rumours,
too, that all differences between Lord Palmerston
and the French Cabinet are smoothed down, and
that the two will now act in the most perfect har
mony, are again repeated, The Siecle, triumphant
in the policy it has all along pursued, exults over
those journals which, but a little while ago,
" represented Lord Palmerston as ready to carry
fire and flood to the four corners of Europe," and
which now are obliged to assume "the piteous atti
tude of those sacrificed personages who, at the end
of a melodrama, go off by the wings, so as not to
trouble the joys of a happy. denouement." This is,
anon, directed against the Debate, which the Siecle
does not seem inclined to let off very easily for its
article of a few day's since. According to the infor-
mation of a frequenter of one of the best political sa-
loons of Paris it would seem that the old reports that
the King of Naples will make no concession either to
England and France, or to the Congress that may
assemble in which they will take part, is again in
circulation, but merits no more attention than has
hitherto been bestowed upon it. • The accounts
from Switzerland are of the most reassuring kind,
and show that however much the King of Prussia
may threaten and bully, his " claim'" will meet
with the firm resistance it deserves, and that
Neufchatel will not be surrendered without a blow
being struck in its defence. The liberal party
would appear to be just now stronger, than ever,
and to be acting with an unanimity, which is the
best guarantee for thelr success.
It would appear that amnesties are the. order of

he day. The Emperor of Austria has issued an

amnesty. Seventy political offenders have received
a free pardon, and the sequestration on the pro-
perty of political fugitives is entirely removed. It
is said that the Emperor, when at Trieste, ad-
dressed a flattering letter to the Governor of the
Coasts, expressing to the inhabitants his Sincere.
gratitude and best wishes for their welfare and
prosperity, and the satisfaction which he feels at
the state of the administration and public institu-
tions. The Emperor on the same day decreed the
total suspension for five years, from Ist January
next, of the import duties on wheat, buckwheat,
flour, and a number of other articles in the custom
houses of Istria and the Isles of the Quarnero.
From Berlin we learn that the Prussian Corres-
pondence contains a violent article against what it
calls the disgraceful attitude assumed by certain
English journals on the subject of the question of
Neufchatel. It declares that it relies on the English
government declining all solidarity in the sentiments
put forth by these journals. Respecting the opening
of the Diet at Berlin, we are informed that the
King, in delivering his speech, was visibly affected
at the part which referred to Neufchatel, and his
emotion gained the assembly. On two occasions
bravoes broke out, and when the King made an
appeal to the people to defend the honour of the
Crown, hurrahs four times repeated. When the
minister president, in conformity with the order of
the King, had declared the session to be opened,
his Majesty left the Chamber amidst the acclama-
tions of the assembly. The members of the Diet
were afterwards individually presented to their
Majesties in the picture gallery, and were then
entertained at breakfast. The Chambers subse-
quently assembled. In the Chamber of Nobles,
Prince Hohenlohe I ngelfin gen was elected president
by 89 votes out of 90. In the Lower Chamber,
where 235 out of 350 members were present, com-
mittees were formed to examine into the validity of
the newly-elected members, and the election of
president was postponed to the ensuing Monday.

DIPLOMATIC intermeddling has, at last, produced
civil war in Naples, and just as those for whom
the busybodies have professed commiseration
had taken up arms to throw off the yoke of the
oppressor they have condemned so loudly, the
intermeddlers draw back that the insurrection
may be put down. This affair of " putting
"down insurrections," involves a cruel sacrifice
of human life, and arms the Government revolted
against, with full power to put to death those
whose lives our diplomatists would have the
world believe they wished to save. The hovering
of French and British ships-of-war about the
shores of Naples, has encouraged King BOMBA'S
subjects to rebel against his lawless Govern-
ment ;-- but, where are they, now that the unfor-
tunate Sicilians have taken up arms? What will
England and France—what will the world think
of such disclosures? We have interfered, swag-
gered, and bullied, when we had no intention of

doing anything for the relief of the oppressed. We
have merely furnished the most cruel tyrant in
Europe with a pretext for strengthening his
strongholds, and augmenting his military and naval
forces, which may, ere long, be employed against us
on the side of Continental despotism. There is
something little short of fiendishness in these work-
ings of diplomacy, which must soon come to light.
The state of Naples was decidedly bad when the
Western Powers took upon themselves to advise,
protest, and threaten ; but it is now perfectly
intolerable.

What effect the rising in Sicily will have on the
Continent remains to be told. It will not improve
our prospects with regard to those branches of our
material system, which have been so madly mixed up
with the political movements of the day. It may
give a fresh impetus to the feeling of terror which led
to the rapid hoarding of gold in France, and a
wider scope to those monetary embarrassments
which promise to give such frightful intensity to
the pressure of the winter quarter of the year in
this country. Our social condition is deplorable
enough in all reason, without suneradding to our
difficulties still greater troubles than those we
have just had to wade through. When our Paris
corespondent sent us the news of the insurrection
in Sicily, it was not generally known in the
French capital, nor will the exact influence it
has had on the popular mind of France
be known for some short time to come. We are
left to look for the fruits of political events in the
Bank returns of Western Europe. We are now
suffering from the political doings of the autumn,
and what our mid-winter antics may lead to no one
can pretend to foretel. We hear already that the!
Sicilians are moved by a strong " Italian spirit.'
The great body of the population of the Two
Sicilies look towards Italy for deliverance. If this
be true, it will serve to increase the entanglement
of the latter State. It will also help to stimulate
the Italian spirit in the Legations.

The Austrians have, for some time, been con-
centrating their forces in the large and fortified
towns in the Papal States, in anticipation of some
contingencies which they have seen looming in
the distance ; and it is very possible that this
outburst of the " Italian spirit" in Italy mayexplain
the necessity which has urged them to take such
a step. The childish coquetting which has been going
on of late between France and Russia, on one hand,
and the PALM ERSTON Cabinet and Austria on the
other, may also have contributed in some measure
towards hastening forward the precautionary steps
of FRANCIS JOSE PR'S generals. It will suffice,
however, for Englishmen to know that we are
once more brought to the brink of a volcano— that
we are the scapegoats of intermeddling diplomacy,
and a love of political intrigue, which will leave
us without a Constitutional ally, or trustworthy
friend, to oppose to the avalanche of despotism
which is hanging over our. heads. We have no
fixed foreign policy. We are drifting about like a
ship without a helm. Constitutional Europe is
without a leader. Its armies have been scattered
by the winds, its moral power and political con-
sistency have been allowed to be trampled down
by compromising statesmen, and a little greater
unity among absolute rulers is all that is required
to deluge the earth with its blood. That the
solid union of absolute rule will and must speedily
take place, is quite certain. .The first rising of the
" Italian spirit" will render it indispensible. The
insurrection in Sicily is enough of itself to draw
the French Government and the CZAR ALEXANDER
into still closer alliance ; but the people of this
country will be at a loss to understand why it
should make the Palmerston Cabinet sanction the
prolonged occupation of the Danubian Principal..
ities by the troops of Austria.
This is pushing individual views too far in the
absence of Parliament. If France and Russia
desire the evacuation of the SULTAN'S territories by

the Austrian troops, why should Great Britain
encourage FRANCIS JOSEPH in his unwarrantable
pretensions ? England stands pledged to enforce
the strict observance of the conditions of the
Treaty of Paris on all the parties to that compact
and would it not be most dishonourable for us to
be the first to sanction Austria's treating it with
disdain? Our foreign relations appear, in a word,
to be falling into inextricable confusion. Policy
we have none. We are led away from the old
landmarks of Constitutionalism by every Conti-
nental chimera, frightened into obsequiousness by
every little bugbear, and laughed at at the conclu
sion of every diplomatic rodomontade ; but we
should pass over all this in utter contempt, if
we were not heavy losers, materially, by the
gambols of our diplomates. If they did not
bring panics upon us, and leave us, in the
depth of a severe winter, without money to employ
labour, and keep the springs of trade in motion.
Should the Sicilian insurrection spread to the Ita
Tian peninsula, we shall soon discover the evils of
intermeddling with the concerns of others.
Meanwhile, if trade can continue for ano-
thh month, as it is at present, our con-
dition at the end of that time will not be im-
proved by the events which are now treading on the
heels of our most unpardonable interference in the
affairs of a State, where we had no intention of
affording succour to the victims of brutal
oppression.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

quoted :—Aberdeen,

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Cotton Market to-day was rather active, the
sales being estimated at fully 12,000 bales, export-
ers and speculators taking 3,000 bales. Prices of
American were slightly in favor of the seller,
though not to a quotable extent. East India
Cotton was not so firm. - - - -

The Liverpool Share Market opened with a very
firm feeling to-day, went rather easier, and closed

quietly, after sales to the following extent had
taken place, viz , Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, Oat. Blackburn, 7 7-161. Caledonian,
29Z,-. Eastern Counties, 92. East Lancashire, 211
Great Western, 701. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
97i, Lancaster and Preston,. £ll
quarter shares, bap. London and North Western,
1061, 1-„ I. Do. Fifth Shares, 21. Manchester,
Shefffield, and Lincoln, 35 Y. Midland Stock, 821-'l,

s• North British, 915 16 10. Dovers
g. Liverpool Corporation B,
ten years, 85. The closing prices are

Blackburr

7 9-16. Chester and Birkenhead, 17 171. Caledo-
nian, 29 13-16 29 13-16. Chester and Holyhead, 19:3,-
20. Eastern Counties, 9a 91. East Lancashire, 21E
xn 211. Great Northern, 22a 224. Ditto A Shares,
91; 91. Great Western, 701 701 Lancashire and
Yorkshire Stock, 97197, Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 18-1 18.1. London and North Western
Stock, 1061 1061 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
coln, 35Z 354. Midland Stock, 821 821. North
British, 9 15.16 10. North Staffordshire, 51 511.
South Eastern and Dover, 221 22?-4. York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 21.1. 2112. York and
North Midland, 301 301 Leeds Capital Stock,
181 19. Buffalo and Lake Huron, Z- 41p. Dutch
Rhenish, 1 11p. Great Western of Canada, 24
9.16 24 11-16. Do. New Shares, 23 2ap. Great
Luxembourg, 107,, 101 d.

The Bank of England made the first step today
towards a reduction in the official value of discount
accommodation to a reasonable fi

short sitting compared with previous discussions
in the " parlour" of late, the directors reduced the
minimum to 01 per cent. Many expected that
whenever a change was determined upon, it would
be to the extent of 1 per cent., but the authorities
have adopted a medium course, because the
prejudicial effects of sudden and important
alterations in their policy are universally
acknowledged. Unless any untoward event
occurs, the fall in money will now be
gradual, but it is sincerely hoped that undue en-
couragement will not be given to speculation
either in the commercial departments or within
the precincts of the Stock Exchange, which might,
if carried to an unwarrantable extent, reproduce
inconvenience and mistrust As the Directors
have lowered their terms, it is reasonable to
conclude that the weekly balance-sheet, which
will be published to-morrow, will be of a very
favourable character, showing a further improve-
ment in the various departments of the establish-
ment. The fact of the lowering of the rates of
discount being anticipated, there was a buoyant
market for the Public Securities, but the dealings
were checked by the announcement of a large fail-
ure in the " House." Consols for Money. were 942
-11. and for January 95/ but when it was
announced that the minimum was reduced, a rise to
94i-1 for the former, and to 95-1 a for the latter
ensued. The New Three per Cents were quoted at
93f, a, _4, and the Reduced 93,1 I. Bank Stock, 2164
217. Exchequer Bills were gm at 5s to 8s prem,
the Bonds are 984 4, and India Bonds is to 2s
premium.
The transactions in the Railway 'Share Market
were limited, but previous, rates continued to be
well maintained. In one or two cases a slight
advance may be reported. Great Western, Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, North Western, South West-
ern, and South Eastern, exhibited an improvement
of about ss. to 7s. 6d. per share. Great Luxem-
bourg advanced ss. to 10s , and Lombardo
Venetian, about 10s. The Canadian and East
Indian lines ruled dull, but reached fully former
rates. The dealings reported comprised, Eastern
Counties, 9 pf,ll. Great Northern, 91. Great West.
ern, 70, •Lancashire and Yorkshire, 074
London and North Western, 106, a. Midland,
82, a)3, 2, 4. Dover, 74 4, d.

diir produca market keeps moderately active.
The Sugar market to-day was firm, and higher
prices were demanded for most qualities. Coffee
is in good request, and full prices were readily
obtained for some Santos sold to-day. The business
in Rice was rather restricted at 9s. 91 to uJs. 6d.
per Cwt. for Bengal.
The steamer Ripon sailed from Southampton
to-day for Alexandria. She had 807,2511 on board,
of which 8 6201 was in gold, and the remaining
798,6311. in silver. The sum destined for China,
which by the mail of the 4th of November amounted
to 234,206/, is now only 158,0011, owing to the
decline in the Chinese exchanges reported by the
last mail Upon the other hand, the remittances
of silver to Bombay represent an enormous sum-
The particulars are subjoined, viz : for Alexandria,
gold, 2,0001; for Bombay, silver, 448,7051; for
Ceylon, gold, 3,2001; for Madras, gold, 2,4201 and
silver, 10,000/; for Calcutta, silver, 157,3341; for
Singapore, silver, 24,5911, and gold, 1,0001; for
Hong Kong, silver, 62,7981; for Canton, silver,
30,6921; and for Shanghae, silver, 64,511/. The
subjoined statement shows the total remittances
by each• of the last six steamers leaving on the 4th
of the month, viz.:—
July 4, per Euxine
August 4, per Ava
September 4, per Indus
October 4, per Pera .... 778,763
November 4, per Candia
December 4, per Ripon

The steamer La Plata has taken out £66,692 in
specie to the West Indies, besides jewellery valued
at £9,000, The Euxine has brought in about
£13,000 from the Peninsula, and the Caledonia,
from Hamburg, about £28,000 worth of bar silver
on freight.
Some interest has been excited by the statement
that M. Mires and other French capitalists propose
to undertake a new Spanish loan of some three
millions sterling. To understand the nature of the
transaction, fuller details are required; but in any
case the English markets cannot be affected, our
Stock Exchange being closed against all new
Spanish securities until the government shall have
satisfied the claims of the parties holding the
certificate for the overdue coupons.
From Copenhagen we have advices by telegraph
of the failure of Messrs. Mailing and Lund, of that
city. This firm, was largely engaged in the corn
trade, and was otherwise committed to extensive
speculative engagements. The liabilities are esti-
mated at 150,0001, and the loss is expected to fall
upon houses in Hamburgh and Glasgow, and in
the interior of Denmark.
Business in American, securities in London
during the past week has been active, with con-
siderable transactions in Illinois Central Construc-
tion Bonds and Shares, in Erie Third Mortgage,
1862 and 1871 Bonds, and in New York Central Six
per Cent and Seven per• Cent Convertible, and in
Michigan Central Eight per Cent Convertible
Bonds. We note a moderate enquiry for the bonds
of the Detroit and Milwaukie Railroad.

Accounts from Belgium state that the imports of
merchandise into that country, in October last,
were 1 per cent. larger than those of the corres-
ponding month of the previous year, and 12 per
cent. more than in 1854. Exports in the same
period exceeded those of the preceding year by
9 per cent , and those of 1854 by 8 per cent. The
imports showed an augmentation in raw cotton,
wool, leather, glass, oleaginous goods, wheat, flour,
bran, and rice. The exports were larger as regards
manufactured leather, linen, machinery, cotton
tissues, cloths, &e.
The accounts from the continental wcol markets
represent trade as being quiet, but prices were
well supported. At Berlin there is an absence of
animation, and the manufacturers, having effected
large purchases at the fair at Frankfort, are operat-
ing only to a limited extent. During the week
ending the 24th ult. the sales were estimated at
1,000 centners. At Breslau the market has been
quiet, but those descriptions suitable for cloths
and combed wools have been in good demand.
For Silesian also there has been a brisk enquiry,
and as the finer qualities are scarce full prices