The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE ALPS.

The Cunard steamer Alps, Captain Inglis, has
arrived. She sailed from New York on the 11th
inst., and brings three days' late news, but no
specie or passengers.
The following is an outline of all the news of
interest to hand by this arrival : •
Prom Washington we have despatches to the
effect that a reply had been made by the Secretary
of State to propositions of Lord Napier relative
to a tripartite alliance, in the prosecution of the
be
with China. They also develope the policy to
°a pursued by the U.S. government with reference
to our intercourse with that country. The adminis-

tration declines co-operating with France and
England, but will despatch a Minister to China to
Watch over American interests is that quarter,
supported by a fleet of sufficient strength to give
efficiency to the line of conduct agreed upon. Mr.
Wm. B. Reed, of Philadelphia, had been offered,
at, d accepted, the mission to China.
Mr. Stanton, tbe new secretary of Kansas terri-
tnry, had left Washington for the scene of his
future labours. Gov. Walker was to leave on the
llth of next month.
It is stated that ex-Gov. Rodman M. Price, of
New Jersey, will probably supercede Mr. Forsyth
as minister to. Mexico.

The state department had given notice that a
decree had been promulgated at Pernambuco,
,increasing the export duty to seven per
c"-11'. The decree took effect on the Ist of January
Ins:.

Additional returns of the charter election in St
Louis show that the emancipationists• beat their
opponents in every .point. They have elected all
their candidates. It is said, moreover, that the
Americans united with the democrats to defeat the
emancipation ticket:
A destructive fire Occurred at Atlanta, Ga., on the

sth inst., and property to the extent of £20,000 was
lost thereby. At Quebec, on the 9th, a serious fire
also occurred, but the loss is not mentioned.
Six persons were killed and sixteen injured by
the recent explosion onboard the steamer Forest
Rose on the Mississippi.
On the night of the Bth instant the whole of the
offices of the Grank Trunk Railway Company at
Point Levi, opposite Yuebec, were destroyed by
fire. The amount of the loss has not transpired.
We continue to receive intelligence of- a melan-
choly character from Io sit, respecting the Indian
atrocities in lowa. A letter- received at Pittsburg,
Port Dodge, lowa, March 23, says that a settle•
Illerit of twentk families at the head waters of the
z Moines river had been attacked by Indians,
and that it was supposeLthat all were, murdered.
Only two houses . were visited by the persons
bringing the news, in which fourteen dead bodies
Were found, Some had been shot and others in-
humanly clubbed to death. It is presumed that
the, whole number of persons composing the set-
tlement were killed, or that they are now in capti-
vity; A meeting of citizens was called on the 22d
ult., and a company of fifty to one hundred men
had organised to march to take vengeance on the
Indians and rescue any persons that might be
found with them.
_.
The Chicago -D,elizpa ratio Press has intelligence
of the massacre of white settlers at Spirit Lake,
lowa, by a band of Stoux Indians. Agent Flan-
dreau started with a company of. troops for Fort
Bidgeley, on the 17th ult., Fifteen settlers are
l'oported missing. The St Paul Pioneer, of the 27th
tilt, confirms the report of the massacre which
occurred on the. 9th of March, at Spirit Lake in
Emmett county, lowa, near the Minnesota
boundary.
Advices from Havanna state that a party of
French emigrants having landed, armed with fire-
arras, were objects of much interest both to the
resident.people and authorities. General Concha
bad issued a decree revoking the certificates
of protection ordered to be issued to slaves lately,
sabeing insufficient in curtailing the traffic. It
was said that no means of taking the halt yearly
stock of these unfortunates was so effective as that
of the strict registration of each slave, ordered by
General Pczuela. The schedules of protection
<lid not show the number added on the estates of
all: Strangers travelling in the island were per-
Mitted more freedom now, by executive decree.
Two New York vessels had been sold as slavers.

The weather was very fine. There was an amount
of -merchant shipping Ding in the harbour- suffi-.•
dient to take away the whole sugar crop of the
islfind at one trip.
We have flits from Bermuda to the 31st ult.
Admiral Fanshawe had embarked on board the
oscawen, his flag ship, for England. The Spanish
-war steamer Don Antonio de Ulloa, from Havannah,
Arrived at St. George's, and having received coal
frora the depot lately established there, left for
Cadiz. The pastoral charge of ,the Presbyterian
church in the islands had devolved upon the Rev.
Alexander W. K`Hay, who had arrived from Nova
Scotia.
Bahama correspondence, dated at Nassau M. P.,
21st ult., states that the Legislature had voted a
bonus of £lOO per annum for five years, for the
_import of ice. • Heavy rains had impeded salt
raking operations at the out islands, but there was
a good supply notwithstanding. The House of
Assembly had offered a bonus of £2,000 per annum
for five years for the promotion of steam commu
Ideation between Nassau and New York, The
project of the West India and North and South
American (Submarine) Telegraph Company was
recommended by the executive. The military
corps of the island were to be placed under better
regulations. Mr. Bailey, the new Governor,.was
expected to land by the 10th inst.


COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
• NEW YORK. April 11.
Money was in good supply to-day, especially for call.
biscounts are not so much applied for. Rates were easy
At 8 to 9 for prime, and 9 to 10 for second class. The
payments from the Sub-Treasury to-day exceeded the
receipts, namely : Receipts, 302,464 dole 36c ; payments,
344,187 dols 74c; balance this evening, 15,083,134 dole
430. Sterling Exchange was dull to-day, but rates were
well maintained; 108/ to 109 is the quotation for sterling,
,and. 5 211 to 5`22, for francs.
Ashes: Market steady ; sales 50 brie at 7 dole 50c for
pearls, and 7 dole 75c to 7 dols 81Ic for pots.
Cotton: The market is quiet with small. sales at 147-c
'or middling Uplands; 16c for Mobile, and 14ac for New
Orleans.
,BRIADSTUFFS.—The news by the Niagara has caused a
heau feeling in the Flour market, but prices have under
gone no ynaterial change. Exporters are almost entirely
out of the market, while the demand both for tha local and
Eastern trade is confined to supplying pressing wants.
holders of medium and good grades (which are scarce)
are indifferent about realising unless full prices are
obtained. The transactions aggregate 5,500 brie at 5 dole
50e to 5 dole 65c for common to choice superfine
Ste() 5 dole 75e to 5 dols 95c (the bulk of the sales
at 5 dole 10c to 5 dole 90c) for extra State; 5 dole 50c to
80e for common to choice superfine Western ; and 5 dole
85e to 6 dols 30e for common to medium extra ditto,
including round hoop Ohio at 6 dole 10c to 6 dols 25c ;
the market closing quiet. The wheat market is quiet.
The receipts and stock limited and holders generally dis-
posed to insist on full prices. No transactions of magnitude
reported. The nominal quotations are 1 dol 28c to 1 dol
30e for Chicago spring, Milwaukee and Canadian club ;
1 del 38c to 1 dol 47c for red winter western ; 1 dol 35c to
1 dol 48c for red southern ; 1 dol 50c to 1 del 62c for white
430 ; 1 dol 54c to 1 dol 58c for white western, and 1 dol
55e to 1 del 60c fcr white Canadian. Rye is scarce and
wanted at full prices ; sales 1,500 bushels prime nordiern
at 89s delivered. The whole range is 86c to 89e for inferior
to prime. Indian corn is firmer, with a better demand
both for home demand and export.
Paovisrozes.—The pork market is 10c to 20e lower, with
rather more doing at the decline. A very good demand
Prevails for beef, and the market is steady. Beef hams
are in good request, and the market is very firm. Cut
meats are rather quiet, but the market is firm. Bacon is
quiet, and prices are without important change. Lard is
a shade firmer, and in better request. Butter is in goad
request, at 15c to 20e for Ohio, and 19c to `..-?3e for State.
Cheese is firm at 12 c to 13 c.
~PRACIGHTS : The engagements to Liverpool include
0,000 bushels grain at 4d in bulk; 600 brls flour, is (id
..
is lid ; 1,000 bales cotton, 5.32 d ; and by the Alps,
Dam
• n, 30 ; 300 brie lard, 17s 6d ; beef, 4s to 4s 6d ;
clover seed, 25a • Cheese, 30s ; and tobacco, 30s. To
Copenhagen : 1,000 brls rosin at a rate not transpired.
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 107 1857.—Tha receipt of the

Niagara's news had no effect upon our cotton market.
Sales to-day, 1,500 bales. Sales of the week, 14,000
bales. Stock, 221,550 bales. Receipts up to the present
time, as. compared with those of last year, fall short,
Wl,OOO bales. The receipts at all the Southern ports,
thus far, less than those of last year, are 853,000 bales.
Sugar firm at 108 e to 103 c. Yellow corn 65c. Pork dull.
Lard dull; sales of keg at' 15e, Rio Coffee—Prime sells
at 11c. Sales of the week, 4,800 bags ; receipts of the
week, 9,000 bags. Exchange on London 81, per cent, and
on New York Bto per cent.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.

The steamship Alhambra, of the_Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Captain
Woodgate, with the -usual Peninsular mails, in
charge of Lieutenant James Irwin, arrived to-day.
Her dates of sailing were=—Gibraltar, 16 ; Cadiz,
17 ; Lisbon, 19 ; Oporto, 20 ; and Vigo, 20th April
She" brought 17 passengers, viz.,' 9 first class, 2
second claSs, and 6 distressed British seamen
The freight of the Alhambra consists of five
packages of specie, value £1,795,. 70 cases eggs,
7 casks wine; 735 half chests of oranges, 239 boxes
dates, 1 box cigars, and 8 boxes potatoes.
The Alhambra was unable to call off Oporto on
the outward voyage on account of the strong N.W.
wind ; a S.E. breeze springing up the day-she left
Gibraltar, upwards of 300 sail passed through the
gut homeward bound.
The Alhambra left the following ships of
her M►ajesty's service at Lisbon :—Exmouth,
Colossus, and Princess Royal ; also, a Dutch screw
steamer, of 10 gunS, bound to Batavia,'-and the
usual Portuguese squadron. •
Oporto bar was clear of the wreck of the Bac-
chante. About ninety vessels were at at anchor
there, waiting to go in. _ _

A report on the railway question has been pre-
sented to the Portuguese. Cortes. and a project of
law is to ratify it. Sir Morton Pete has engaged to
embody a company for the fortnrtion of the railway
inaccordance with the commercial code of Portugal,
within six mouths. The former contractors of the
Central Peninsular Railway have forwarded the
accounts of their unsettled claims against the Portu-
guese government, through the Foreign Offi.3e. Sir
Morton Peto first asked the Portuguese govern.
anent to guarantee a minimum interest of 7 per
cent on the capital employed on the railways,
but he was afterwards induce to accept of a
subvention of so much per kilometre.
When -the Eastern railway -is finished, an
annual charge of 500 contos of rein 'will devolve
upon the state, but the amount will aug-
ment gradually from a low figure. as the different
parts are completed, so as to enable the Treasury
to meet the demand. In the rail way report
presented to the Cortes, the Government is
authorised to rescind the contract made with the.
Central Peninsula Railway Company, by indemni.
fying the shareholders. The new railway . com-
pany is to be exempt from taxation for twenty
years, and to have the right of working
all mines near each other of the railway. The
payment to the company under the. subvention is
to be made every three months. The government
cedes to the company all the, state lands through
which the railway passes Sir Morton Pete is to
make a deposit of £20,000 sterling within one
month after the commencement of the works, as a
material guarantee.