The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

tHE NORTHERN TT S.---LIV Elt POO L, SATUR DAY.

manufactured at an average cost of XI per hogs.
head.
The unusual state of the weather at St. Lucia
had overthrown all the calculations of the agricul-
turists. The quantity of rain had been detrimental
to the young canes.
The cholera has ceased in Demerara.
The project of connecting the West Indies with
Europe by means of the electric telegraph is
exciting the greatest interest in the West India
colonies.

61 ; Jeffry's has been sold at I is 6d and 63 9d quarts and
pints strong ale ; 83 pale ale, quarts.
OIL : May be quoted at 33 74-d per gallon.
PORK: Prime Mess sells at 102 s. Heavy Mcss is held
at 124 s per barrel.
PIMENTO : Last sales at 3d to 3/d per lb.
Rica : Very dull, and stock much in excess of demand.
No operation to report:
Rum : We hear of sales at 3s 4d to 3s 40, and 33 6d.
SALT : Very abundant, both coarse and fine qualities.
SOAP : Sales of Steele's crown at 19s and 183; feather
at 13s 6d ; Casey's feather at 13s.
SUGAR : Sales at 23s to 25s 6i, according to quality.

SHIPPING.

• Arrived at Kingston, March Is—Elizabeth Walker, 47
days from Glasgow; March 23, First of May, in 48 days
from Liverpool.
Arrived at Falmouth (Jamaica), Red Rose from London,
Trelawny from Greenock.
Sailed from Falmouth. March 19—Flora, for London.

will not be found wanting to the country or to
itself on that trying occasion.
The following despatches have been received
BERNE, APRIL 15.

Several journals propose to open a national subscription
to pay the indemnity claimed by Prussia. They declare
it to be certain that the required sum would lie raised
without delay. The Band pronounces against this idea,
affirming that any pecuniary indemnity would be
humiliating to Switzerland.

MADRID, APRIL 15.
The budgets for 1857 and 1858 will be presented to the
Cortes at the opening of the session.
The political prisoners belonging to the Carlist party
have been set at liberty."
The Bull which defines the spiritual jurisdiction'
of the Bishop of Nancy as Chief Almoner to the
Emperor, and to which I alluded in a late letter,
has been sent to the Council of State for examina,
tion and approval previous to its promulgation
according to law.
In consequence of the late rains the waters of
the Seine have risen three feet above their ordinary
level. _

Several of the pupils of the Polytechnic School
who were recently dismissed have been re admitted,
and it is thought that the favour will be extendea
to the great majority of them. '

opinions of the Austrian government on the union
question. His mission may also have reference to
the protected Wallachian bank and railroads.
Yesterday,Easter Monday, the Prater was fuller
than it has been for many years ; but the " drive"
has entirely lost its aristocratic character. There
were not fifty elegant equipages, but hackney
coaches and cabs without end. The weather was
so warm that almost all the carriages were open.
Their Majesties were in a very handsome phaeton,
with thorough-bred horses and outriders.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Arityr, 15.
List night I telegraphed to you the news that
had arrived here from Copenhagen, that the King
of Denmark had the evening before accepted Herr
Von Scheele's resignation as Minister for Holstein
and Minister for Foreign Affairs. This news, unex-
pected as it was, and considerably more satisfactory
than any well-wisher of Danmark had ventured to
expect; is at variance with the apparent probabili-
ties of the case, as I described them to you in
my letter of the 11th inst., and which I find corro-
borated in all the correspondence I hale seen from
Copenhagen, since the first intelligence of all the
Ministers having resigned became known. The
circumstance of the Minister for Foreign Affairs
having been invited to the Royal table a day or two
after the resignation of the Ministry, to meet
the Duke Carl of Glucksburg and the Royal
Princes, and a long audience which preceded the
dinner, seemed to show that the reconciliation
with the future heirs to the throne, which
he had manceuvred for in his late anti,
Scandinavian circular despatch. had taken place,
and that therefore Her von Scheele Was now firmer
than ever in office, while his colleagues, vvlio have
abided consistently by their Scandinavian, natiopal,
and Eider-Dane convictions, were to be thrown
overboard. On the Bth, the same day as the break
up of the Ministry took place, the King visited
Prince Christian of Denmark, presented his con.
gratulations on his birthday, and communicated
to him his promotion to the rank of lieutenant
general ; and everything seemed to augur that the
despotic Russian-like system known to be affected
by the heir presumptive land heir elect to the
Throne had attained the ascendency by the open
rupture of Herr von Scheele with its opponents.
On the 11th there was a Council of State held at
the palace, and though its results as to the
acceptance of the several resignations of the
Ministers did not transpire at the time, all the
journals if Copenhagen were of the same
view, that Herr *on Scheele would retain
his former position in the favour of the King, and
would be commissioned to form a .n6W Ministry.
That he would find the greatest difficulty,
amounting almost to impossibility of doing so,
was also to be foreseen, from the events of last
, autumn, 'When, • after four weeks of incessant
begging and negociating, he was obliged to offer
the Presidency of the Council. to Herr von Andrae,
who despises and opposes him, and the Ministry
of the Interior to Herr Krieger, of whom he had
Said that he would never sit at the same table with
him. It may be that Herr von Scheele has already
arrived at the conviction of the impcssibility for
him to conduct the Government any further, and
has consetitlently acquiesced in his own retirement.
In the first telegraphic despatch announcing the
resignations of all the Ministers, it was carefully
stated, on the part of the correspondent in Copen-
hagen *he sent it off, that the break up of the
Ministry was not occasioned by any foreign in-
fluence.- It may be true, that the ultintate occasion
of the rupture was mere personal incompatibilities
in the Ministry, which found a special vent and
expression apropos of the manner in which the late
communications were made to the Rigsraad with
reference to the Sound Thies' redemption ; these
were, singularly enough, all brought to the know-
ledge of the Danish Council in German, although
almost without exception, the members present
all understood Danish, and hitherto it has been
the fashion on all occasions to use the Danish
language, whether the German members present
tinderstood it or not. On the other hand it is
not to be dotibted that the conflict with Ger-
many has been the-real, though the indirect cause
of the rupture; the Rigsraad was to meet again on
the 14th inst., when the Holstein members who
had hitherto stayed away that they might spend
Passion Week and Easter with their families, in-
tended to take their places in council in full
numbers ; and the three weeks' time for reflection
that the German Powers had allowed to Denmark
on the subject of her treatment of the German
Duchies would expire at the end of this week.
All the Ministers, with the exception of Herr von
Scheele, are Eider Danes, and coniequently more
or less favourable to Scandinavians. Herr von
Scheele has of late taken to opposing both these
views, while his own treatment of the German
Duchies has brought Denmark into very serious
complications. It appears, therefore, that Herr
von Scheele retires from office either because
he cannot find men to work with him,
or because the policy he has hitherto fol-
lowed towards Holstein and Lauenburg,
must be abandoned. Baron' von Plessen, formerly
Ober-President of Altona, whom Derr von Scheele
not long since deprived of his office on account of
his patriotic opposition in the Holststein estates,
was sommoned to Copenhagen on the 14th inst.,
and it seems highly probable that he will be made
Minister for Holstein in the place of the man that
lately deposed him, If this takes place Denmark
will have to congratulate herself on a great danger
escaped, and on a better course being entered
upon ; the Scandinavian union with Sweden and
Norway will have . become still more practicable.
the renunciation of the entire Monarchy scheme
more probable, the restriction of Denmark to the
Eider frontiers almost a certainty, and therescue of
the German Duchies from incorporation into
Denmark all but attained. In a letter from Copen-
hagen of the 13th inst., I read that, in fact, the King
of Denmark is well disposed, and intends to accede,
to the propositions last made to him by the
German Powers ; these do not go so far
as to require. any revision, and much less
repeal of the- present entire Monarchy charter, but
require only that the six paragraphs in
the Constitution lately oetroye of Holstein
on which the Estates have not as yet been allowed
to deliberate or make their voice heard, shall be
submitted to them for their acquiescence. It was
by means of these. six paragraphs that the Danish
Government had abstracted from the cognizance
of the Holstein Estates all the subjects of vita]
interest to the duchy, such, for instance, as the
management of its own state domttins, &c. In the
course of the summer the Danish Government
promises, as I hear, to convoke a special session of
the Holstein Estates, and it will then be for the
liolsteiners themselves to protect their own rights.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, APRIL 8

Sir Morton Pete, accompanied by Mr. Wilson,
C.E., and Mr Lloyd, returns to England in this
packet. After a protracted discussion of prelimi-
naries, it is understood that Sir Morton's pro-
posals for the construction of the lines of railway
from the capital of Oporto and to the Spanish
frontier have been definitively accepted by the
Portuguese government. The King, who has all
along shown the greatest interest in the progress
of the negotiations, has expressed his entire
satisfaction with the result ; and although I am
unable to quote the exact words, I believe his
Majesty gave utterance to an opinion that at
length Portugal would be able to approximate that
position which her geographical situation and
natural qualifications entitle her to hold. A feeling
of content in this solution of the railway difficulty,
which has so long been a fertile object of con-
tention in the legislative chambers, appears
diffused through all classes, and is openly expressed
in some of the public papers.
Last evening the ministers were in conference all
night to prepare the documents for the packet, and
it was only this mornins, a few hours before her
departure, that the signatures were finally affixed
to the documents by the contracting parties.
Everybody seems impressed with the importance