The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-19 00:00:00

lat::s.—Ebts Dan.

At half-past one o'clock, at Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn
''zc',ange,Brunswick-str eet, 64 bales American Hops.—John 1 orn.
liaison and Son.
At twelve o'c.o. is, at the brokers' office, 2, Da'e-street, a quantity of
Jute and Coir Yarn.— Browne, Hunter and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Sweeting-strr et, 800 Dry Salted
Brazil Hides.—Arnold, Leete, Roscoe and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker,' office, 9, Rumford-street, a quan-
tity of Benzal and Moonghy Rice.—Whitaker, Whtehead and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 27 Tithebarn-street, a
quantity of 'Canned Le ,ther, Dutch Bides, Calf Si, ins, and East
Indian Hips. Isaac Hadwen, jun. and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office. Chapel-street, 100 tierces
Jamaica t offee —Griffith. Sons, a., d Palethorpe.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 4. Lancaster-buildings,
Tithe am-street, a quantity of Oa and Cow Hides.— George Fred.
Martin.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, York-buildings, 6,677 bags
Rang on Rice.—Pattinson and Clark.
At one o'clock prec'sely, at the brokers' offi,e. 6, North John-street,
a qukntity of North American and East India Tobacco.- Parry and
Croabies.
At to ,l: past one o'clock, at the commercial saleroom Temple-court,
80 boxes American Bacon.—Trimmer ar d Grainger.
At twelve o'cl•mk, at the brokers' office, 14, Exchange-buildings. 50
dozen of vades, 2,000 Empty Salt Sacks, and 8 tons Common Salt.
—S. Dutton and Nephew.

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TUESDAY. MAY 19, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Almost simultaneously with the announcement
of the intended marriage of Prince Frederick of
Prussia with the Princess Royal of England
making its appearance in the official Gazette of
Berlin, a message from her Majesty has been
presented to both. Houses of Parliament, asking
their consent to such an arrangement, and putting
in a word for a suitable maintenance, and on
Friday evening Lord Palmerston will bring forward
the subject, for the purpose of learning the feeling
of the house as to what dowry the Princess ought
to receive. Surely Lord Palmerston will not be so
insane as to ask 70,0001. a-year. But nothing now-
a.daS7s will astonish us, seeing that his lordship is
so volatile. We shall learn, however, towards the
end of the week the intentions of the government.
In the meantime, we shall have a word or two to
say on the question. In the House of Commons
list night, after the receipt of the message from
her NL:jesty respectin, the intended marriage of
1. et. daughter, Colonel North took occasion to sag-
riatise the conduct of Mr. Wm. Williams, of Lam
teth, for his attack in his speech, at his e'eetion for
Lambeth, on the British officers as a body, and
defended General Ashbarnham, averring that he
was a most brave and efficient officer. The navy
estimates for the year were, after some very sharp

discussions, passed. The estimates amount to
9,076,000/. of which 3,390,000/. had been voted on
accJunt in the past session.
In the House of Lords the proceedings last
night were not of any particular importance.
On Saturday an artillery officer was tried at the
Middlesex Sessions on a charge of forgery and
fraud, and had a very narrow escape from beiti
convicted. The Recorder advised this " officer

and a gentleman," to leave England, and endeavour
to .wipe out the stain which had been cast upon his

character.

Yesterday, an inquest was held on the body of
Capt. Brown, late of the 23rd Fusiliers. From the
evidence it appeared that the deceased, who was
fifty-nine years of age, had been for a day or two
in very depressed spirits ; that some time before he
hal had an eruptive fever, from which, however, he
isolated
individual, ; that he complained of being an
individual, and that nobody cared for him ; and
that he was in pecuniary embarrassment. On
Friday last he refused to accompany his medical
adviser, in whose house he lived, for a walk, and
locking himself in his room, shot himself through
the heart with a pistol. The jury returned a ver,
diet of temporary insanity.
The euquiry into the practices at St. James'
Cemetery was resumed and concluded yesterday.
One gentleman averred that for some three years
past, during which time he has been iu the habit
of daily frequenting the walks on St. James' Mount,
that the smell trom the Cemetery was of a most
offensive description. Another, gentlethan, how-
ever, denied this. He said he had been a resident
for nearly twenty years, and 119 ha.d lever felt a
disagreeable odour. From what passed, we are
inclined to believe that the present act of parlia-
ment cannot be brought to bear upon the doings
at this cemetery, as there is a special act allowing
a number of bodies to be interred in one grave cr
pit; but, as Mr. Holland said,' the enquiry would
do some good, even if no act of parliament yet in
existence could be called into requisition to stop
any of the practices now in vogue at St. James'
Cemetery.
Several railway accidents will be found recorded
in our columns this morning.

A meeting of the Burial Board was held yester-
day. Mr. Holland, the government inspector, was
in attendance, and he recothrnended that the board
should not go so far as seven miles out of the town
for land for laying out a eemetry, as at present
and for some time to come, there is, and would be,
sufficient accommodation for the burial of the
working and middle classes, i.e., with the present
cemeteries, churchyards, &c., &e.
A meeting of the Churh Missionary Society was
held last evening at the Collegiate Institution.
A. full report will be found in another column
We publish full details of the news from India
and China, this morning. The papers to hand
contain particulars of events in the Persian Gulf,

and of affairs in India and China, which the tele-
graph had already made known. The accounts of
the extraordinary suicides of the British comman-
ders are confirmed. In India the serious
mutinies of the native regiments were absorb-
ing attention. From Hong Kong we learn
that on the 28th of March her M6jesty's
steamer came doyen the Canton River. The posi-
tion of our forces on the river remains as before,
and we hear of no attempts having lately been
made by the Chinese against our ships or the Tee-
totum Forte Hong Kong was quiet, and its
security amply provided for against any open
attack from the Chinese, by the arrival lately of
additional men-of-war, steamers, and troops.
Some of the serVants were returning. On
the 19th, H.M.S. Hornet, Captain Forsyth, while
cruising off St. John's Island, fell in with a fleet of
piratical junks. The steamer could not be brought
within range of them, owing to there not being
sufficient draft of water in the bay where they
were. The boats of the steamer pulled in, and
Captain Forsyth, observing the position of the
junks was a strong one, landed with a party of
marines, and reached an eminence from whence,
as well us from the boats, an effectual fire was
kept up on the junks. After a good deal of firing,
the pirates took to the hills, and seventeen of their
boats were taken possession of, which were subse-
quently destroyed. The only accident that
occurred was one man of the Hornet severely
burnt by a stinkpot. On board one of the junks
were. found one European and a Goa Portuguese.
They said they had been pressed by the pirates
From Shanghai advises are to the 20th inst., but
do not contain anything of political interest.
The news from the Continent is in general
highly satisfactory. The Illoniteur, in a despatch
from Constantinople, publishes the official con-
firmation of the ratification of the treaty of peace
by the Shah. The Neufchatel quarrel is at an
end, the projeCt of the mediators having been
accepted by both parties, while the King of
Prussia voluntarily renounces his claim to the
sum of money allotted to him as an indemnity
The prospect also brightens up with regard to the
question of right between Denmark and her Ger-
man duchies In this latter case the German
Powers have agreed to delay,their threatened appli-
cation to the German Confederation, in conse-
quence of the newly constituted Danish Ministry
offering to submit the special constitutions of
Holstein and Lauenburg to the Diets of these
Duchies, which will be virtually al
though not in form, what the German
Powers have insisted on. From Spain we
hear, that the squadron with which Mexico was
threatened has returned to Cadiz ; and from Italy
that the Pope is about to issue a general amnesty
for political offences. From Turkey alone is there
news of discord and bloo f. The Arabs near Da-
mascus, now in a state of insurrection, and the
Turkish troops, seem to have had a bloody
encounter.
The Prussian official journal announces by royal
order the betrothal of the Princess Royal to Prince
Frederick William.

WE are no longer at war with the Shah of
Persia. Yesterday, we announced that the
Treaty of Peace was ratified at Teheran, on the
14th ultimo. According to the terms of that des-
patch, the British forces still encamped within
the Shah's dominions only awaited the formal
ratification of the treaty, before evacuating the'
Persian territory, some to India, and others
to China, where there is reason at present to
anticipate that the struggle will be more pro-
tracted and sanguinary, and the native govern-
ment more insulting and unreasonable. The
speedy settlement of the Persian dispute must
be welcome intelligence to the people of the
United Kingdom, seeing that it places our
Indian possessions on a more firm and secure
basis. For the future, Herat will be placed
under stringent guarantees, and considering that
that city is the gateway of Affghanistan, and
opens directly upon the road to Asiatic posses-
sions, its thorough independence is of the utmost
consequence to the policy and the trade and
commerce of Great Britain. To those acquainted
with the modern political history of the world, it
is well known that for many years the Shah of
Persia has evinced a strong desire to possess
himself of Herat, and destroy its independence.
In the exercise of this ambition, it is also
equally well known that Russia has been a prime
mover. The war in the Crimea led the Czar to
believe that England was weary of such enormous
sacrifices as that memorable struggle cost her,
and, therefore, relying upon the treaty of March,
1856, hoping to disguise his complicity under a
veil of diplomatic evasion, he persuaded his
creatures in the cabinet of the Shah to make
another attack against the ill-fated city of Herat.
The result of that attack is well known.