Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Consols closed per cent lower than yesterday, but this
decline was scarcely attributable to political considerations.
The fact that Prussia has demanded permission to march
troops through Hanover to the Rhine was not known
during business hours. In the other departments of the
Stock Exchange an extraordinary degree of dulness
continued to prevail. As the deposits with some of the
monied establishments are now more generally employed,
n per cent is generally asked for bills of fine high class.—
Daily News City Article, Thursday Evening.
A sale of £lOO,OOO Consols, supposed to be on account of
a Scotch Bank, produced depression, and speculative
operations are nearly suspended, pending a decisive battle in
Italy. and the uncertainty which prevails with regard to
the intentions of Germany. There were no bullion opera-
tions of any importance at the Bank to-day. The arrivals
of Australian gold, announced to-day, amounted to £202,000.
The £120,000 in gold .by the La Plata, was delivered to-day,
and taken for the Continent, together with a small portion
Of the late Australian arrivals.. At Hamburgh, (notwith-
standing the political'excitement prevalent there, as well as
in other parts of Germany) the rate of discount has fallen to
1 per cent.—Times City Article, Thursday Evening. •
FAILURES. - The stoppage is announced of Messrs.
Robert Brandt and Co., Russian merchants, of Old Jewry
Chambers. The liabilities are believed to be under
£20,000. Messrs. Herman Seller, Son, and Co., a firm in
the 'German trade, who suspended payment in December,
1857, on Thursday completed the payment of 20s in the
pound, with 5 per cent. interest, on liabilities amounting to
£93,000.

4111Pa:dart, Thursday.—Prnssia has demanded permission to
thttrch 31,000 troops through Hanover to the Rhine between
Ist and sth of July. The Nord contains the following :
r-`BERLIN, Jnne 21.—At a military conference held yes-
,
te.4 ay morning, it was resolved that the Guards should
t!Qain at Berlin and Potsdam. The four regiments of the
Zlidwher of the Guards, and two regiments of cavalry, will
eantened in the province of -Brandenburgh. The 4th,
n, and Bth corps of the army will take up position between
,Peer
lower and central Rhine ; the 3rd and sth upon the
Rhine and the Maine; the sth corps (Posen) will
reoe eed to its destination by the route of Silesia, Saxony,
n 74 hayaria. The departure of troops will take place about
We Ist of July."
The following appears in the Independance Belga:. -
4
th'i If the accounts which reach us are correct—and more
1011 once we have been able to verify the accuracy *of
i.,lligeace transmitted to- us from the same source the
°Wing are the basis of the Prussian propositions
Presented at Vienna, and which are about to be presented
at Paris, if indeed that has not been done already.
wis, A ,congress shall settle the Italian question on the
or'lest moral bases conceded by Austria, with the revision
kt the
of treies concluded by.
that power with the other
ates theat Italian clPeninsula •,
18,` The territorial limits established by the treaties of
1815
shall be considered as the unalterable bases of the
"iangement.
p `T annexations made to Sardinia with the consent of
ranehe e shall not be sanctioned.
`lf these propositions are conveyed to Vienna and Paris
oelieve we are able to state with certainty that Austria
40(1 accept them- probably has already ,eepted them—
clis that France will reject them. Excepting the previous
Nartaament (now out of question), the above are the
1.0 Positions made by Lord Cowley—propositions that were
kasenable before the war, but which, after the battles of
,ofentebello Palestro, Magenta, and Marignan, the conquest
Lombardy, the revolutions of Tuscany, Parma, and
atistl).(ielia, the agitation in the legations, and the disturbances
iib ich begin to manifest themselves even at Venice, will infal-
,be refused by France. If, in spite of this refusal, Prussia
tzsts on exercising an influence over the settlement of the
trilian questions in such a manner that the European equili-
ii4,4lll shall not be deranged, it is natural to conclude, from the
it 'crier declarations of the cabinet of the Tuileries, that
Will not refuse to. recognise the rights of Prussia exerted
t conditions of absolute impartiality ;_ that it will accede
then to the meeting of a congress charged with perserving
he interests of Europe in the future territorial arrangmeuts
tr
h the Italian Peninsula, but only after the expulsion of
eae Austrians fromltaly—the end assigned for the present
lirkPiaign in the proclamation of Napoleon 111. at the out-
6eaK of the war. As for the annexations of territory made
eiders Sardi, France will be able to reply that she only con- THE COURT.
liat them as events of the war, necessary, to the centrali- The Queen held a Court on -Wednesday afternoon at
mil°4 of military operations against Austria, but essenti- Buckingham Palace.
to teMporary and which, to become definitive, will require The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Count of
thb sanctioned at once by the plainly-expressed wishes of Flanders, arrived at Buckingham Palace on a visit to the
ei, e
populations concerned, and the consent of Europe." Queen.
13:1.3e Correspondant de Hambourg having stated that the The Queen received his Majesty at the grand entrance of
of the Prussian mediation is the abolition of the ' the Palace, and was accompanied by the Princes Arthur and
Pvate treaties of Austria with the- small Italian States, Leopold, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, Louisa, and
:114ti the realisation of reforms in Italy, and that Austria Beatrice.
Tod Prussia are now agreed upon these ' points (which The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and
Vilicd the object of General Willisen's recent mission to Helena, and attended by the lion. Mary Bulteel, took a
lenna), the Patrie exclaims : drive in au open carriage-and-four in the afternoon. Lord
it,` Row long as the Correspondent been asleep ? Does it Colville attended, on horseback. ; •
AY that we have driven the Austtiaps out of Piedmont The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Count of
Which they had invaded ; that Austria ,has already lost Flanders, rode on horseback, attended by Captain the Hon.
lic!inbardy ; that the allied . armies are approaching the D. de Ros.
iticio and that The complete and absolute liberation of Her Majesty and the Prince Consort entered the Sa loon
co";l7from Austria domination is • the only reform' that about 10 o'clock, accompanied by the King of the Belgians;
now be talked of ?" 1 the Princess Alice, the Duchess and the Princess Mary of
• j Cambridge, the Count of Flanders, the Mike of Cambridge,

Letters from Riga state that the grain markets had
already been influenced by the warlike preparations of
Pripsia, large and unusual purchases of oats having been
made for that country.

RAILWAY NEws.--On Thursday the London and North
Western, Midland, Caledonian, Sheffield, and Eastern
Counties shares closed h per cent. lower than the previous
day. A recovery of 4 per cent. took place in Great
Northern. The Midland Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of £3,004 ; the Sheffield an increase of
£5,070 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, £11,506 ; the East
Lancashire, £3,233 ; and the North Eastern and Newcastle
and Carlisle, £3,333. The traffic of Whitsuntide is
included, but compared with that of last week the I.
shire and Yorkshire still shows an increase of £6 907

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

The House sat a short time, Lord Redesdale presiding,
and after reading a few private bills a second time, adjourned
to Friday evening, at half-past four o'clock.

THE COMING BATTLE. and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
viCietn Tuesday morning the Emperor Napoleon and King The concert then commenced.
hea2r Emmanuel left Brescia to place themselves at the ! ARRIVAL or THE KING or THE BELGIANS. —llls Majesty
40 of their armies. The Austrian army has hastily aban- the King of the Belgians arrived at Dover on Wednesday
atned its positions at Lonato, Castiglione,, and Montechiari, morning, at half-past twelve o'clock, in the Belgian-govern-
failivhieh it had seemed to be really to accept battle, and has went steamer Emerald, Captain Hoed, and escorted by the
de, en back beyond the Mincio. According to an official Topaze, Captain Picard. On landing, his Majesty was
st:Ra,tch from Vienna, the Emperor Francis Joseph, as we received by Lord Raglan and General Wylde, of the Queen's
".,Q yesterday, left Verona in the evening, to transfer his Household. His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the
Vear4-quarters to Villafrancat situated between Mantua and Belgian Ambassador, and M. Delfosse, Charge d'Affaires,
"a• The Nord says : were also in attendance. A guard of honour of the 32nd
t: The telegraph will not be long before it brings us the Regiment was drawn up on the landing-place to receive his
a 478 of a decisive event. The contest will have colossal Majesty on his debarcation. Major-General Crauford,
u terrible Proportions. There will not -be less than commandant of the garrison, and Major Barnard, Grena-
-1,,,,000 combatants; the best troops of three armies with dier Guards, together with Capt. Truscott, R.N., the naval
c'theraPerors and a king at their head. It will be one superintendent of the port, and S. M. Latham, Esq., the
Ilio"se memorable struggles which compose a page of Belgian Consul, were likewise present. His Majesty dined
T ! at Birmingham's Imperial Lord Warden Hotel, and left
fri he Nord says that a Sardinian fleet, composed of four per South Eastern Railway, for Buckingham Palace, at
4,44te, s, will take part in the rtriritirne operations a?..,ainst 3,30. The Royal train was in charge of Mr. J. P. Knight,
Acc•4ll. These operations wiil be of three kinds m the superintendent of the South-Eastern Railway. A royal
Sarzr,„tie blockade, attack, and disembarkation. The salute was fired from the -Ileights Battery Oh 'his Majesty
kttzt an fleet are desirous of in the operßtiQPli Pf stepping on shore,
an-a
4g414 thetram leaving for idsek, I Bricklayers' t‘rup,
•

MERSEY DOCK BOARD.

The weekly meeting of this board-was held at one o'clock
yesterday; Mr. Charles Turner in the chair. • The 'other
'members present were—Messrs. Shaw, Hutchison, Rounth-
waite, Bushell, Rankin, Inman, Mondell, Forwood, Anderson,
Seger, Hubback, Smith, Bold, Brocklebank, Moss, Graves,
M'lver, Littledale, Boult.

WORKS COMMITTEE,

The proceedings contained recommendations to accept
the following tenders :—Edward Harrison, for olive oil ;
Walker, Parker and Co., for white and red lead ; James
Thornton and Sons, one ton wood screws ; and that the
steam crane at Birkenhead, belonging to the Birkenhead
Railway Company, be purchased for £l,OOO.
Mr. Brocklebank moved that the pi oceedings be confirmed,
which was seconded by Mr. Smith, and carried unanimously.

WAREHOUSE COMMITTEE

The committee reported that the following sums had
been transferred from the several warehouse accounts to the
general accounts, for the past six months :—From the
Albert warehouses, £20,000 ; the Stanley, £30,000 ; the
Wapping. £7,000; and the Birkenhead, X 35,000; in all,
£336,000. _ _

,
Mr. Hubback, in moving the confirmation of the pro-
ceedings, stated that the large increase in the amount of the
warehouse accounts this year arose in a great measure from
a considerable amount being due for rents and charges at
the end of 1858, but which was not received until 1859.
This more particularly applied to the Albert Dock ware-
houses. There was also to be taken into consideration the
amount received from the Birkenhead Dock Warehouses this
year, from which source no amount was received last year.

MARINE COMMITTEE,

The proceedings of this committee contained a recom-
mendation to the effect that, tenders be invited for the use
and working, of the whole line of dock telegraph wires,
subject to giving priority to all messages in the service of
the board. It was also recommended that the salary of the
assistant marine surveyor be increased' to £350.

Mr. Mondell, in moving the confirmation, referred, in the
first instance, to the increase of the assistant marine sur-
veyor's salary. He said, there was no need for him to
speak of the merits and the abilities of that officer, and he
should only say that the salary now recommended, was the
same as his predecessor had enjoyed and no more ; but with
this distinction, that -the salary of the former officer was
coupled with a retiring allowance, while that of the present
had no such addition —his salary ceasing, with his services.
With regard to the letting of the telegraph wires, there
was a great variety of opinion on that subject in the com-
mittee, but it was thought better to bring this motion
forward, and let the general board decide upon what prin-
ciple the telegraph should be worked. In his own opinion
the first consideration with the board should be to reserve is
wire for-their own use, to be connected with the telegraph
to Holyhead. That wire should lead into the marine
surveyor's office, for life-boat purposes ; and he thought
they would find the connecting it with the harbour-master's
offices along the line of docks, a very considerable advantage
to the public, while adding no great cost to the estate. If
they let off the whole of the wires they would have to pay
to somebody quite as much for sending their messages as it
would be to retain one wire for their own purposes. He
thought it would be expedient to give the exclusive use of
a wire also to the Bridgewater-trustees, and another to the
Customs' authorities.

Mr. Inman said, it was he who moved the recommendation,
which the committee adopted and was brought forward, and
he had the misfortune to differ with the chairman of the
committee upon that subject. He did not see the advantage
of keeping up two establishments, where one would suffice,
for the, working of the whole of the wires. He, therefore,
hoped the board would decide the principle whether it would
not be better to let the wires to some-company, leaving all
the public to share in the advantages of the telegraph alike;
only reserving for the messages of the board such a priority
as those which the government had in the telegraphic corn-
mnnication of the country.
Mr. Bold said ha understood that the chairman of the
committee stood alone in voting against the recommenda-
tion. There did not, therefore, appear to have been that
great variety of opinion on the subject of which he had just
spoken, as all the other members took the same view of it.
Mr. M'lver : I was not there ; but, if I had been, I
should unquestionably not have voted for it.
Mr. Bold said he was only speaking of gentlemen who
had been present.
The Chairman thought it would be better to have the
question referred back to the committee. In the very bald
ant crude state in which it now appeared, he did not' see
how the board could decide upon it. Surely the recom-
mendation of the committee ought to be accompanied by
some report, stating the'conditions upon which they proposed
that the• line should be let. It was not intended that it
should be let to any one for ever, or without a power of re-
sumption in case it should be found that the system did not
work well, or that the parties did not do their duty pro-
perly. All the conditions and limitations ought to be set
forth. His own vote would, be very much affected by their
character ; for while he would not vote for letting the line
unconditionally. he would probably vote for it being let
under proper and satisfactory restrictions and limitations.
Mr. Graves agreed that the question ought to be referred
back as regarded its arrangements, but was of opinion, that
it would be desirable in the first instance to decide the
principle. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Bushell moved as an amendment--" That the
subject be referred back to the marine committee, for the
purpose of considering. and reporting,to the board the terms,
conditions, and restrictions on which they propose that the
telegraph shall be let," _

, .
Mr. Smith seconded the amendment.
After some discussion a division took place, when there
appeared:—
For ties amendment : -Messrs. Anderson, Boult, Bushell,
Forwood, Myer, Mondell, Rankin, Rounthwaite, Shand,
Smith, and Turner —ll. - . .

Agltinst : —Messrs. Bold, Brocklebank, Graves, Ilubback,
Inman, Littledale, Moss, and Segar-8.
The. amendment was therefore carried, and the recom-
mendation referred back acoordingly. _ _

The remainder of the proceedin'is was confirmed
PILOTAGE COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this committee did not contain any-
thing of public importance. Mr. Shand moved their con-
firmation, which was agreed to.