The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-13 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL CHARTER.

This splendid steam clipper, under the command
of Captain Boyce, which passed Cork on Saturday
evening, came to anchor off the bell buoy yester-
day afternoon. She brings thirty seven saloon
passengers, and upwards of 200 in the second
cabin and intermediate berths.

The Royal Charter reports meeting nothing but

light and contrary winds from Cape Horn to the
Western Islands, and for the remainder of the
voyage strong N E. winds; whenever she met with
the slightest chance her sailing qualities were
exemplified in a most satisfactory manner. We
have conversed with several of the passengers as
to the cause of the protracted run, and one and all
were agreed that they never put foot on a more
splendid sailer, and that had the weather been
anything like favourable, she would have more
than equalled her best performance.
The Royal Charter has a heavy mail consisting
of 84 bags and boxes of letters and papers. Her
gold freight amounts to 128,000 ounces, besides
.i 13,000 in sovereigns, making in all £525,000
sterling ; but in addition to this, a large quantity
of gold is in the hands of passengers. One gentle-
man, Mr. G. Sparrow, has an extraordinary nugget
weighing 323 ounces. The nugget is one lump
of solid gold, without the least alloy, and is what
the Australians term a splendid specimen. One
gratifying connection with the passage was the
entire absence of sickness, so that the medical
officer had a perfect sinecure during the entire
time. We may mention that the Royal Charter
steamed from Cape Clear to the Bell Buoy in little
more than 21 hours.

ARRIVAL OF THE SIR W. F. WILLIAMS.

EXTRAORDINARY RAPID RUN.—The clipper ship,
Sir W. F. Williams, belonging to the Blank Ball

line of clipper ships which sailed from Hobart
Town, Tasmania, on the 2nd of February,
arrived off Milford on Saturday, and entered the
Mersey yesterday morning, thus accomplishing
the passage in the extraordinary short space of 68
days being the quickest run passage on record. The
Sir W. F. Williams sailed from Liverpool on the

lOth of September, and has made the run out and
home in 213 days, including a detention of over
60 days at Hobart Town. She took out to Hobart
Town 284 bounty emigrants, whom she landed in
good health, and has brought home a cargo of
upwards of 2,000 bales wool, a quantity of oil,
&0., Sze., also a few passengers.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

Adviees from Odessa of the 22nd March state
that Count Strogonoff, Governor of Bessarabia,
had received despatches informing him that the
journey of the Emperor to that part of his empire
was now decided. The Emperor is only waiting
for the return to St. Petersburg of the Grand Duke
Constantine to set out. The Grand Duke will
visit England; his arrival in London will probably
take place towards the end of May.
Private letters from Vienna, of the Bth, mention
that intelligence had been received there that two
battalions of Turkish infantry had crossed the
frontier of Wallachia on the 6 h, under the com-
mand of Salih Bey. They wilt remAin in garrison
at Rustchuk, in Bulgaria. The evacuation of the
Ottoman troops commenced five days before the
term agreed upon.
M. de Bismark Schonhausen, the Prussian En-
voy to the Diet of Frankfort, is expected in Paris,
'to confer, it is said, with M. de Hatzfeld dn the
Neufchatel question. It was M. de Bismarck who
directed at the Diet that question when it was under
discussion, particularly in all that related to the free
passage of Prussian troops through several of the
German States.
General Todtleben paid a visit yesterday to
Prince Jerome and Prince Napoleon Bonaparte at
the Palais Royal.
Prince Napoleon, it is said, intends visiting
Egypt in the course of next month.
The Republicans seem determined to ascertain
their strength at he approachin elections by
putting up M. Catrnot as a candidate for the
Legislative Chamber. They intend proposing
him in Paris and iu the departments. Some of
the candidates are disposed to take the oath of
allegiance to the Imperial Government, others
refuse. The committee of that party will probably
be allowed to act in Paris, but the Prefects will
not permit them to act in the departments.
The ceremonies of Holy Thursday were yesterday