Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

THE NETHERLANDS.

'A telegraphic despatch received to-day from
St. Petersburgh,-' says a letter from the Hague of
the 28ch August., "announces the marriage of the
Grand Duke Michael to the Princess Cicele of
Badenr On the occasion, the Princess Royal of
Wurtemberg, sister of the Grand Duke, had a
solem service performed at Flushing, at which all
the members of the Russian Legation and the
Consu!-General of Russia were present." •

.1!IP? lAVD TPANTiP3II,T CORPS

The Gazette of last night, notifies that a board
43f- officers will sit daily to investigate any claims
which Daly be preferred upon the Government by
men who served in the late Land Transport Corps.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCES

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY Emma.

The Moniteur contains the following announec-
ment:—"Che diplomatic relations between the
r presentatives of France, Russia, Prussic., and
Sardinia, on the one hand, an 4 the Sublime
Porte on the other, were resumed on the 29. h
August,"
The project of an interview of the Emperor
Alexander with the Emperor Napoleon," says a
letter from Baden-Baden, "is no longer a secret for
any one ; it is regarded here as a thing thfinitively
decided on. This interview will take place at
Da

....-rmstadt, during the residence of the Emperor
Alexander in that town, that is to say, between the
16th and the 22nd September. It is positively
stated that this interview, which has several times
occupied the attention of the European press, was
originally intended to take place at the court of
Potsdam, but it appears the health of the King of
Prussia is not yet sufficiently re-established for the
physicians of his Majesty to allow him to expose
himself to the fatigues inseparable from such a
meeting of sovereigns."
Prince Napoleon left on Saturday evening to be
present at the inauguration, by the King of Sar-
dinia, of the works for uniting the French and
Sardinian railways. The Moniteur, in announcing
the fact, says :—" The Prince will be present with
the King on Monday morning at Modena, at the
explosion of the first mine of the tunnel of which
the Victor Emmanuel Railway will pass through
Mont Cenis, and on the following day at Culos, at
the laying of the first stone of the bridge over
which the railway will cross the Rhone and unite
the frontier of Savoy to that of France."
Cardinal Dupont, archbishop of Bourges, is to
proceed to Rome, it is said, at the end of Sept.,
charged with a mission from the Emperor of the
French.

Captain Doineau, the French Government
officer, charged with the triple assassination of
Tlemcen, and various robberies in Algeria, has
been found guilty and condemned to death.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOLO W.gDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1857.

tivtaroor„ DOCKS.

STATEMENT OF lireatimrs TO 30T0 JUNE•

TOWN DUES.

would have, and, with a view of showing that, he read the
following statistics .--

Bond debt..
........ .
000'
Receipts from •ill sources ........ .....-..
Interest on debt ....
Repairs and expenses of management . 145.000

395,000
Surplus income .. .

Receipts
Interest on £i,5.2.0,000 payable to Liver„ool Corpo •
poratioa at 4 per cant. 60,000 70,000

4.172 000

Leaving a balance or revenue to the:New Trust at pre-
sent of 11170,000 per annum. And even supposing no in-
crease of revenue from dock dues cr town dues, will leave
them a balance of £70,000 surpins revenue, on the com—
pletion of the Birkenhead Docks : after having appro
priated, in the meantime, out of surplus revenue, XlOO,OOO
per annum, and .4'50,000 towards completing Birkenhead
Docks. On the other hand they had the

Purchase Money Virkenhoad Dacks and Warehouses: 31,143.000
Ditto, North Reserve ........ .

interest p5yab1e................ .....e1,270,030
Docks and Warehoussi. North Reserve. Taal.
£ Z £
1856.
1837. 25 000. 28.000
1858.. ..........28,000
1859.... ........28,000 ...... ......., 6,0'0 34,000
1860.... —......37,000 .6,03a.. 43,000
1861.
1862 .38,000............ 6,000..........44,000
1863 .49 000..... .6 000 .55,000
lE64 .......... 50,000 .. 6,000 .56,000
1865. ...... —53,000 .... .. ... 6,00 J . ...... 56,000
After 1856, s'.y £1,270, 00. at 41 per cent., about.— ...... —£57,000
Cost of completing Birkenhead Docks. say e1,o()0000, at 4}

... 45,000

Total interest payalie Birkenhead when complete .. £102,000
He, therefore, did not see that the new trustees would have
any difficulty in carrying out their work ; and as for Bir-
kenhead, he on their part had made the best bargain he
could.

For his part, he did not think that any " great effort "
would succeed, as they had always failed before: He
conceived that an expenditure cf the £2OO wag ail that
was required.
Mr. Bradley stated it to be a fict that he considered
the room quito unfit to meet in, and that he never left it
without having an extrmely bad headache. He con-
sidered, as they devoted their tine and attention to doing
the public business, that the public should not refuse to
let them have a proper place to meet in, if even it did
cost £2OO f.er year.
After a few words from some, of the other ccrmmission-
ers, a committee, consisting of the Presitlf Miami the Chair-
men of the several committees, was appointed to report
on the subject at the next November meeting.

FERRY COM:J/11T LE.
The ferry receipts for the month of August. In 1856,
the receipts were £2,789 33 3d; for 1857, 42,974 63 4d.
The receipts from the 24th April to the 313 t August
were, in 1856, £IIM4, Ils Id; in 1857, £11,F64 17s Bd.
The expenditure during the saine period was, in 1856-,
6,234 184101; and far 1837. es•€ 72 44 91. The pro-
ceedings of this committee were confirmed, as were also-
those of the Library Committee.
The meeting then separaled.