The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

yesterday that new difficulties had arisen in th
negotiations on the Mexican question, and priva,
letters from the same city of the 25th confirm th
fact. The " Mexican question" comprises the claim
of certain bondholders in the republic which are
of old standing, and the satisfaction demanded by
Spain for the outrages and murders perpetrated'on
Spanish subjects resident in the Mexican territory
Though some days ago a satisfactory settlement
appeared extremely probable, yet there is reason
to fear that, in spite of the united efforts of Lord,

Howden and - the Marquis Turgot, the
question does not present at this moment a
very favourable appearance. The President
of the Council; and the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Marshal Narvaez and M. Pidal, are both
moderate in their views and pacific in their inten-
tions, but there is a violent and uncompromising
feeling of hostility against Mexico among the
public, in the press, and in the Congress. In the
Congress the paragraph in the answer to the speech
from the Throne was drawn up by Mr. Gonzalez
Bravo (the Spanish Minister in England), in a
much stronger tone than the corresponding pas-
sages in the speech; but it would appear that even
this does not satisfy the deputies, and an amend-
ment will probably be moved to make the paragraph
more bitter still. It is certain that the Government
is just now excedingly weak from the many fractions
into which the majority is split, and as thy Alexi
can question is the readiest and- easiest of all
means of opposition, Marshal Narvaca and M.
Pidal are becoming every day less free agents in
the matter. Besides the natural feeling in the

public to triumph over the insolence of the old
colony, an artificial irritation has been excited by
persevering efforts and a lavish expenditure of
money on the part of persons fradulently holding
Mexican bonds to a large amount, and who think
that nothing Short?of hostilities will obtain for
them the payment of their more than
doubtful claims. It is to be regretted that
M. Lafragua did not arrive in Madrid some
time before tho meeting of the Cortes.
The Government feels that the Deputies, although
for the greater part ito own nominees, are growing
unmanagable now that they are elected, and with
ungrateful hardihood presume to make a show of
independence. There is now an outcry against
Mexico which people persuade themselves and
others is patriotic—that unhappy adjective that is
so dreadfully prostituted in Spain. On the whole
I fear that Lord Howden and Monsieur Turgot may
be working not for Queen Isabella, but, as they say
in France, "pour le Tioi de prasse"—that is, for
nothing
The Minister of War has received, via Mar-
seilles, the despatch from the Governor-General of
Algeria :

ing a small batch of new senators; their names
have been already given. It is pretty certain
that the Government had decided on getting rid
of at least fifty members of the present, or rather late,
Chamber (it expired yesterday, and until its
death was announced few knew that it was

living)• This measure was rendered neccessary by
the utter uselessness of the parties, the aversion
felt for them in their departments, and the
unwillingness of the Government to injure itself
again cramming them down the throats of the
unfortunate eleciors. They were men utterly
unknown and as little respected by their
constituents—men without political or social
standing, who would serve any master for place,
Sce., and whose single merit was to be the servants
ofany master for the time being. They possessed
no intelligence or capacity as a set-off, and did
more injury than service to the Government. By
dint of supplications the number of the rejected is
reduced from 50 to about 20, and for aught I know
this number may be still more reduced.
The Pays announces, in its private correspon-
dence from the Black Sea, dated the 10th instant,

Ale and Porter : The imports during the quarter have
been 2,063 brls and cases, against 780 packages during the
same period of last vE ar, and have been sold on arrival at
fair prices, The 129 hrls per Matilda are sold at 6$ per
dozen quarts and 6sBoo per dozen pints.
Beef Jerked : The stock on hand, Ist of January last,
was about 5,000 arrobas. and the. receipts during the
quarter amount to 82,360 arrobas, making together,
87,360 arrobas ; the stock on hand, 31st of March, was
about 19,950 arrobas; showing the very large consumption
of 67,410 arrobas during the quarter. The actual stock is
said to be 15,000 arrobas of Rio Grande, retailing at from
55400 to 598C0 per arroba, and 11,000 ditto Buenos Ayres,
retailing at 46700 to 58500 per ditto.
Butter : The present stock is said to be 700 firkins Irish,
retailing at 630 rs to 680 rs per lb; and 1,300 do French,
retailing at 565 rs to 575 rs per lb, .
Cheese : There has been no arrivals during the week,
and prima remain without change.
Cod Fish : The Titania, with 2 400 drums, whose arrival
we mentioned in our last, proceeded on to the South.
The consumption of this article, as stated above, has been
very large during the quarter.
Earthenware: Part of that received per Matilda is sold
at 270 per cent, and our dealers appear to be fully sup-
plied, as the imports during the quarter have been twice
as large as those during the same period last year.
Manufactured Goods :• The demand has been brisk, and
thelprices generally speaking remunerating ;—the receipts
during the quarter have been 9,636 packages, or about
one-third more than during the same period last year.
Oil, Olive : The 25 barrels received per Alfredo are sold
at 25600 per gallon.
Rice : We have several times mentioned the importation
of small parcels of this article from England. ' A lot of
300 bags of East India, containing about 1,900 arrobas,
per Matilda, is sold at 35500 per arroba.
Tin Plates The 50 boxes per same vessel are sold at
$24 per box.
Sugar : The arrivals during the past week are 27,121
bags. or an average of 4,500 bags daily by land and water,
and the shipments have been 2,016 tons, making the total
exports since Ist November last 38,230 tons, comprising
16,708 tons whites and 21,522 tons browns. The market
has been very dull, and scarcely any sales have taken
place, partly from the great scarcity of shipping, and
partly from the absence of later accounts from Europe, so
that some decline in prices may be expected ; the only
purchase that we are aware of is of about 6,000 bags
Channel kinds at from 25850 to MOO per. arroba. Mimic)
and Paraiba : 2,000 bags of former (fine yellows) have
been sold at 35400 per arroba f.o.b. ; .nothing done in the
latter.
Cotton : The receipts during the week are 946 bags,
which were purchased on arrival at 75500 to 75700 per
arraba. The shipments have been 250 bags to Rio de
Janeiro, and 827 do. to Liverpool. Paraiba and Maccios
—Some 2,000 bags have changed hands at 75900 per
arroba, f.o.b.

Hides r Sales at 346 per lb here.
Rum continues to be purchased on arrival for the river
Plate at 110$ to 112$ per pipe.

FRANCE.

that, by command of General Prince Bariatinski,
five battalions, selected from the various infanty
'regiments of the Russian army in Asia, are
are to be employed in constructing the magnificent
road of Wakhtchivan. This road, it is said, will
be finished before the end of the summer. It will
give access to the centre of Persia, and is intended
to serve the transit of the commerce of the entire
couniry.
Ii is affirmed that the last'official despatches
received from China announce that M. de Montigny,
who had been charged with missions to several
States in , Asia, had arrived at Shanghai. M. de
Montigny had perfectly succeeded at Siam, but he
had failed at Cochin China. The Emperor of
Cochin China had refused to receive M. de Mon-
tigny, and had further refused to permit him to
enter his capital.
The following despatches have been received :
MARSEILLES, MAY 28.
The Moniteur Algerien contains despatches from Mar-
shal Randon, dated from Kabylia, and in which he
announces that the town of Djemma Saharidji, the centre
of the Beni-Fraoussen, has made its submission at the
s licitation of a faithful tribe. Early on the 24th, after
a fog which has lasted several days, and rendering the
ground slippery, the army attacked the Beni-Raten on
three points. After two hours fight, all the commanding
positions were taken with bat trifling loss. The French
outposts ere now stated on the verge of the central territory
of Kabylia

"VIENNA, Ku 29.

" The general meeting of the shareholders of the Austrian
Railways Company, after having heard a report on the
progress of the, constructions of the lines and the working,
unanimously voted a dividend for 1856 of 24f. 58fc. per
share, in addition to the interest of five per cent. The
reserve has been carried up to nearly 2,000,000 f."
" BERNE MAY 29.

" The Federal Assembly is convoked for the 9th ofJune.
The vote of the Neufchatel people on the subject of the
revision of the constitution is fixed for the 21st of June.
" The tunnel .of Efauenstein fell in yesterday. It is
feared that 50 workmen have perished."
MADRID, MAT 28,

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

The Persian Ambassador, Feruk Khan, received
yesterday the official news of the ratification at
Teheran of. the treaty with England. He at the
Fame time received a letter froM his government
expressing much satisfaction at the.sue-cesS of the
'negotiation, and flattering acknowiedgments of the
ability and zeal he-displayed. The Ambassador has
returned to Paris from his visit to different manu-
facturing towns in the north of Franee. After
being at Roubaix and Tourcoing, he visited all the
principal mannfactitring• establishments of Lille.
M.,Ktililmann, the. Piesident of the Chamber of
Cetrimerce, gave.a tlinnei. in honour of the Envoy.,
to which were invited a number Of the administra-
tive and commercial notabilities of the pla6e.. To
a toast to the Shah. of Persici, given by M...Kuhl-
mann, Feruk Khan replied in. Persian., which was
interpreted by M.. Ilibertstein. The, Ambassader,
in turn, proposed the health of the.. Emperor and of
the Imperial family, and the. pr sperity of France ;
andspoka in the most grate!'nl terms of the kind
retention which he had ir..et with since his arrival
in France,
,k,t;elk;graphio des 3atch from Nadrid announced

The Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed the bill
authorizing the works of the Puerta del Sol. The
Minister of Finance has declared to the Chababer that he
intends introducing radical reforms into the Customs'
tariff. M. Isturitz will leave for Russia on the 2d.
The Queen this day gives a splendid banquet to Prince
Galitzin. ,

~.The Espana maintains that Marshal Ecriano's resigna•
tion of the embassy to Paris has no yet been accepted.
There have been some insignificatit disturbances at
Grenada."

The ball given by. the Prefect of the Seine ~to
the King of Bavaria, at the Hotel de: Ville last
evening; was of the usual magnifteent description:
His Majesty and -suite arrived. after ten, in three,
of the Court carriages, escorted by the dragons. de
Imperatrice. He was, introduced to the Oalerie
des Fetes, -where Prince Napoleon, 'the Princess
Mathilde,. and other personages had already
arrived. A " Court quadrille • was shortly after-
wards formed, , The King
,danced with the Princess
Math Ude • _

BELGIUM

Lrussels was, on the afternoon of Wednesday, the

wecb

. . scene of a popular -turmoil, which at one time
assumed-the features of a serious political demon-
stration. The incident arose from the warmth of
poltical feeling excited by the debates in the Chem-ber of Representatives mg-charitable institutions,''
and particularly by the attitude of the opposition
in the sitting of Wednesday.. M. Frere, a member
of the latter, laid the foundation of. the -subse-
quent' disorder by characterising the guareritee'l
effererl by Government for the production of
the accounts of monastic -institutiona as 'an
insulting farce. Loud cries - from the- •Right
of "We • know nothing of the kind, interruptel
the speaker, who was , requested by the
President to retract his words M. Frere
replied in a stentonian voice--""When, some days
ago I dennunced the conduct observed towards
scene young. girls, lace workers, in a religious insti-
tution, a voice in this chamber taunted me as an
infame." This seritencewas received with applause
by the strangers in the gallery, who commenced
yelling and stamping. The President gave orderB
to the Huissiers to clear the gallery,and the pedple
slowly withdrew. The allusion of M Frere -to the
lace manufacturers is explained by the folio Wing
article in the' Precurseur. ef Antwerp :
The Observoteur published in one of. its late numbers a
fact so incrodible that in the expectation of se official con-
tradiction we have until now hesieited to lay it before our
reader. In presence of the sil,nce of the clerical journals
and of the persons in'erested we can no longer doubt of.
the correctness of the account given by that journal. It is
therefore now certain. that the religieuses of • the lace-
school of Liederkerke caused the ha r of the heads of ten
young girls who worked in their manufactory to be cut off,
because, on the
.unday of Lakermesse, these peer girls
had taken part in a dance."
After a few minutes had elapsed, and before 'the
excitement created among- the members of the
Chamber by the ' incident•had subsided, a great
number of men with their hats on forced their way
into. the galleries, and it was necessary to have•re;
course to the troops on guard in order to clear the
Chamber, and orders were given to strengthen the
military posts' outside. Half an - hour 'after- this
second disturbance the 'Preiident resumed his
seat, and the dismission re-commenced. Mean-
while the public, after having been expelled troth
the House, assembled
_in noisy and agitated gi-'oups
on the space which separates the park from the
Chamber. Above a thousand persons belonging
to respectable clasSes of ' society congregated
around the steps . of the Chamber, and awaited
the close of the sitting No sooner had the pid-
ceedings , terminated, and some Members of the
Right departed than a - storm of hisses and yells
arose from the crowd. The Apostolic. 'Nuncio,
'Mgr. Gonella, who was leaving at ilie'Same time;
misconstrued the attitude of the crowd into- a'
• ,
ALGIERS, MAY 26. Pers°ll.al attack upon himself, and' he with-.
, .
We had a brilliant affair against the Beni-Raten on the 'drew Info the ' Chamber: *But the* Minister
24th. All their positions were carried. I send my report of Foreign Aflairs and MY. Demoor, a Liberal_
by the mail. . . member, hastened .to acquaint 'hiin of hie
The Paris papers have been recommended by error,' and offering him their 'arms, they left the
the authorities not to make any allusion to the visit Chamber and accompanied the prelate to 'his car-
paid yesterday morning by the EmPeror and King riage. The groups made way with respet for the
of Bavaria to tlie Museum of Artillery. This, of Nuncio, and many persons took off their hats to the
course, has excited a good dela of curiosity, and representative of the Church. It appeared that the
people are trying to account for .such precaution.. crowd had; in the first instance; mistaken the latter
Some suspect that an unpleasant incident. a politi- for, the Chanoine de Haerne,a most unpopular per-
cal manifestation for instance, took place in the son, a fact which explained the hostile manifestation
establishment The truth of the matter seems to The members of the Left were received by the
be that the. Grand Duke Constantine was not taken , crowd with enthusiastic cheers. M. Rogier, on .ap-
to, the Musee while he was inspecting the curiosities pealing on the steps, was the object of a particular
of Paris, as experiments are made in the Museum ovation, but, he retreated before the welcome which
with the inventions of the Emperor, which could awaited him, and left the Chamber by a private
not well .be shown to a visitor, who was, issue. The crowd, after waiting in vain- for M.
,
when too late, .found to be over inquisitive in Frere, -proceeded to his residence, where it sang
'his researches, and too accurate in noting them the ' " Brabanconne " under his windows, and
down. The experiments were kept from the know- indulged in innumerable vivete. The crowd next
ledge of the Russian ," Paul Pry," but there could proceeded to the residence •of M. Verhaegen, and
not be much harm in showing them* to a pacific favoured him with a similar manifestation ;it then
Prince like the Xing of Bavaria. It was thought I dispersed in the utmost order. During the above
as well, however, not to let the Grand Duke know , scenes the troops were ordered to remain in bar-
that there were things which he did not see, and racks, ready to act should circumstances unfortu-
therefore the journals were rquested to say nothing nately have demanded their interference.
about the visit—a request which will of course, be , A despatch, dated Mussels, Friday, says :
' complied with, and the Grand Duke will remain 1, The Civic Guard is called out. Squadrons of lancers,
ignoranaof the preference given to King Maximi- ' cuirassiers, and other troops have arrived at Brussels. A
Cabinet Council is sitting. It is thought that the obnoxious
'Han...
The Moniteur will soon publish decrees nominat- ! bill will be withdrawn.
•

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MAY 27.
The Wiener Zeitung of this morning contains the
following autograph letter__ from his
_Majesty the

Emperor to the Governor-General of Hungary :
Dear Cousin Archduke Albrecht,—As a supplement to
my decree of the 12th July, 1856, by which property that
had been confiscated as a consequence of the sentence of a
military court was returned to several persons who were
concerned in the rebellion in the kingdom of Hungary and
in the Grand Principality of Transylvania in 1843 and

849, I now ordsin,—:
1. That the cnfiscat d property in the hands of the

State—in the same condition as.
itwas when taken possess-
sion of—and all such produce and revenue of the same as
had not then been received, and the same indemnification
as has been allstod .to the other landed proprietors for the
loss of their rights of villenage and socage, and any
interest that may be due on the indemnification's capital"
from the date of this my decree, shall in the way of grace,
and as a supplement to my ordnance of July 12th, 1856,

be delivered over to the following perions
(a) All those non-military individuals who were guilty
of high treason during the above-mentioned rebellion, or
of other offences which were not mentioned in my auto-
graph letter of May B'h, 1857, and who, for the list-men-
tioned offences, are still in prison in this my empire ; and
all those military men who are now in confinement in
this my empire.
(b) All those persons wh) are no longer imprisoned iu
this my empire, but whose property is, still under confisca-
tion.

And it is further my will, that the net revenue arising
from confiscated property which has been received by the
State Treasury shall be employed for the benefit of the
country and its inhabitants. 2. And, in the way of grace,.
I ordain that all those persons included in the above-
mentioned category, who, during the revolution, had sums
of money advanced to them out of the treasuries of the
State, and never accounted at all, or only in. part, for
the same, shall not bo obliged to produce their accounts.
On the one side, the necessary steps for cancelling the sums
in question are to be taken, and on the other, such. measures
as may be requisite for handing over their contlsceed
property to those persons who had received ,hiria (the sum
of money.
As Article 3 only curtains instructions to t'ee authorities
how to manage with the property of persons who were
bankrupts at the time that the sentence of confiscation was
pronounced, it has not been translated. . • :
4. In regard to those persons who,. having been con-
demned by court-martial, are still fugitives, my legations
and consulates having received instructions to accept their
petitions for permission to return, for remission of punish-
ment, and for the restoration of their confiscated property.
I, however, reserve to myself the right of determining in
how far the conditions of this my set of grace can be
applied to those petitions.
At the same time my Ministers of the Interior,
Finance, and Justice are instructed to do what is neees,
sary to give full effect to this my decree.
Buda, May 23, 18.57. FRANCIS Joszest. '
The foregoing ordinance will be a very godsend
to many most respectable families, which during
eight long years have been exposed to great priva•
tions ; and its second article will restore peace of
mind to many indlfiduals who owed to, the State
certain sums of money that had been advanced to
*them, bilt which they during the troubles of 1848
and 1849, applied to purposes that were by no
means oonduoVve to its interests. The -fourth
'article will not fail to cause many 'a sleepless night
to some of those Austrians who have relatives
living as fugitiveS in foreign countries. -As has
already been said, the great majority of the
refugees will be permitted to return to their homes,'
and will have their property restored to them, but
there are some few persons whose misdeeds" will
never be either forgtten or forgiven. The names
of the persons who cannot hepo for mercy are 'well
known to me, hitt for self-2Vident reasons • they
cannot be publicly mentioned. The Austrian
wr
iiteiyrsp,ethok
who in general. are meal inclined to abuse
the
when sneaking of the Ernecrori-are
but lukelkurm their praise or his mananimity
and clemency. It ions so often been my: hit to
censure the measures of the Austrian. Government,
that it affords me extreme pleasure to be able
publicly to exnr,•ss admiration of the' generous
behaviour of hi:3 Majesty towards his erring
subjects. MAy °lice potentates imitate such an
excellent example.
The tulletin issued by Marshal Radetzky's phy-
sician in the morningbf the 24th'insf. runs:7--
pis-Mccelleugy 'Mucha'. Count Raditzky slept quietly
. •

-tied

until midnight. The bandages cause no incovenience.
The cramp in the iegs has ceased, and the frpcture only
gives pain when 'the body is moved. The Ilhysical and
rnnral•cnndittos of hi= Excellency- ion the-whole-;
satis-
faetary."