The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

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Seville

BANKRUPTS.

(From last night's Gazette.)
ROBERT HENRY HILL, GEORGE ROBERT liunSOl
FILEDERIcK HUDSON, Lonaou Hall, city, importers'
warehousemen.

HORATIO BUNTING, Colchester, seedsman.
WILLIAM Boma, Back TIM, Haiton Garden, _iss
boot-tree maker.

JOHN OLDHAM, Long Acre, carrier.

RICHARD HARRHON, and JOHN-4AMEI COLS,
Folly, St. Matthews, Bethnal Green, boat builders.

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THEODOR& ROBINSON KENWAY, Birmingham
and commission merchant.

JOSEPH NELSTHORP, Nottingham, builder.
WILLIAM DUCKWORTH, Church, near Accringo
Lumb, in Rosendalek Lancaster, cotton manufacturePg
DAVID SHORE, Croydon, tallow chandler and Mel'
InSEPH BAXTER, G )och street, Birmingham, vict°
,WILLIAM T. GusvgNon, Birmingham, hatter
milliner. •

LORD DERBY'S HALF-BRED BRAHMA BEAST...."
year old ox, bred and fed by Lord Derby, was
yesterday by Mr. Edward Gibbon,Whitechapel, and vie/
about eighteen scores per quarter, or the very extraoy
weight of seventy two scores, and may be seen eV;
curious and those interested in grazing cattle. fie, el
stand that our neighbours across the Atlantic are 11,4';
receive a large-portion-per B tlticiif she turn rip all IV':
THE BIRKENHEAD LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BAIL* 0
observe, by an advertisement in ourpaper of to-d 10;
the 'Licensed Victuallers, ofi Birkenhead, will bt
annual on Thursday next, the 22nd inst. r',ol'
arrangements going forward, the committee are dete.',,
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to make it a most attractive and splendid entert3livil
They are using every exertion to make .the Craven
ref
on the night in question a most gay and fashionable e,
Mr. Greenwood's quadrille band is to be in attendoc
A SHOP WINDOW DASHED IN BY A HORSE.—YeS,t *
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about two o'clock, a horse attached to a brevierni
started in Lime street, and rushing at the windooo 6.17
M'Arthur's china and toy shop, near tho Countist,di
completely dashed it in. The whole front of that pi?
the shop, frameworks, panels, panes, and glass cases4o).
were completely smashed. The animal itself sustai°, cod '')l
severe injuries from the shattered glass, and his bi°fte hi
streaming all over the pavement and into the
,shop
Toed
hid been removed. No injury however, was sustii
any of the inmates of the house.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, THIIRE3I3AY t'VENING.
A telegraphic despatch from Berne, dated at
half past eleven o'clock this morning, announces
that the National Council' had adopted the proposi-
tions of the Federal government on the motions
put forth by the Commission, by a majority of 91
votes against One member abstained from
voting. The 'Council of States had not voted when
the despatc;ll left. The following are the grounds
on which. the propositions are accepted :
'" Inasmuch as, according to the communications
znad.', the independence of the Canton of Neuf-
•chatel appears guaranteed, Switzerland is disposed
to contribute to the maintenance of peace, as far
as her honour and independence permit."
I enclose the first part of the message which the
Federal Council has addressed to the Assembly.
It comprises the propositions which Col. Barmann
and Dr. Kern brought from Berne to Paris, and
the reply of M. Walewski bearing. date the sth of
January. You are already aware that the commis-
sion of the National Council, composed of 11 mem-
bers, and the Commission of the Council of States,
'of nine, held their first sitting on the 13th, and,
after having examined the documents sub-1
mitted to them by the Government. they took
into consideration the report of Dr. Kern on the
result of his mission to Paris. Some difference of
opinion arose, but at the next meeting of the Com-
missioners, held in the afternoon, and the commis
eien of the National Council (as I mentioned yes-
terday) it was decided unanimously, ten one, in the
affirms live.

It is remarked that the majority of the Swiss
press for some days past does not seem to approve
of the policy of the Government as hitherto ; and
some mi.strust, and even discontent, is manifested
as to fle nature and extent of the concessions
made by the Federal Council. The Suisse,' a
Conservative journal, says :
"It seems to us that the chapter of honourable
concessions is very near being exhausted. For
the list three months the Swiss people have been
accustomed to dignified language, and they
Would not easily accept any other. They have
been disturbed from their pursuits by the corn-
/non danger, and 35,000 men are on the frontier.
Is it at such a moment—is it under such anspices
—.that there can be a question of preferring to
lonour the deceitful repose of a falling people ?
-Let the Federal Aseembly derive inspiration from
its vote of the 23d of September, and, above all,
from that of the 28th of December."

The public, perhaps, do not know all the guaran-
tees that the Federal Council may have in its
Possession. It is more than probable that the
Emperor Napoleon has received in private the
assurance that the King of Prussia will formally
renousce his claim on Neuchatel after the libera-
tion of the prisoners.
The Patric says, that the enlargement of the
Royalist prisoners at Neuchatel cannot take place
Without a definitive vote of the Federal Assembly,
and that, consequently, it will experience a delay
not anticipated by the foreign journals, which
asserted that it might take place before the 15th
instant, the day fixed for moving the Prussian
army. But, according to a letter from Berne, in
the Frankfort Journal, the Emperor Napoleon had
foreseen this delay, and he, in accord with the
Powers who signed the Protocol of London, had
demanded of the Bing Frederic William the ad-
journment of every military measure until the
Complete arrangement of the differences.
The delay of five days granted to Verger, by
virtue of the 296th article of the Code of Criminal
Instruction, to appeal against the decree of the
Chambre des Mises en Accusation (tantamount to our
grand jury) expired yesterday. At 2 o'clock,
Vergerhim called for the Registrar, and announced to
that he intended to appeal, and he signed his
Ledal. The Court of Cassation heard the appeal
, and decided against it. The trial will con-
sequently take place on Saturday next..
The Misister of Finance published in the Moni-
teur of this morning a statement of the comparative
receipts of the indirect taxes for the year 1856 with
those of the years 1854 and 1855. *FrOrti these re-
turns it appears that the amount of those taxes
for the last year was 126.000,000 f, being an increase
.44 compared with 1854 of 178,000,000 f, and as
i°llaPared with 1855 of 75,000,000 f. The increase
48 been on the Excise, the stamps on mortgages,
-,1,
duties on home made sugar. and on tobacco.
I, The ministers met in council yesterday at the
'llileries, under the presidency of the Emperor.
From a Constantinople letter in the Moniteur, it
thoughtless
that the pupils who were guilty of such
burial
conduct in desecrating the French
place near the Turkish capital were mere
-°3's of from 12 to 14 years of age, and that the
~lePazation which was at once offered by the Turkish
"-°34.,rnrnent was in every way sufficient