Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

COTTON.

extra brands. Wheat is heavy and lower ; the sales are,
white Canadian, mostly at 1 dol 65c to 1 dol 86c, but
including some sm.ll parcels retailed out at 1 dol 87e to
1 dol 90.; ; Milwaukee cluh at 1 dol 51e to 1 dol 52; and
Chicago spring at 1 dol 47c. Indian Corn is heavy, with
sales at 1 dol for mixei Western ; 1 dol to 1 dol 3c for
yell iv/ &wham, closing at the inside price, and 1 dol
2e to 1 dol 4c for white Southern, the latter an extreme rate.
Hors : There is a continuance of the firm feeling
among the trade already referred to, and the b utter quali-
ties are either very scarce or are not off red ; we learn
that within the past fortnight some 600 or 700 bales were
taken privately, mostly on speculation at 10 to 11 cents,
aad to-day, a sale of 200 bales prime quality Western is
reported at 12c , cash, which latter, if correctly stated,
shows an advance of 1 cent _ .

IRON : Scotch Pig is dull at 33 dols. to 34 dols., 4
MOH.

OILS : Crude whsle oil is quiet but firm at 70 cents.
Crude sperm oil is quoted at 1 d.o' 30 cents to 1 dol 35
cents, which may be regarded as nominal rates. For
manufactured o la there is a limited demand at 83 cents.
to 85 cents for bleached whale, and 1 dol 45 cents to 1
55 cents for sperm. Linseed oil is quiet at 79 cents to
80 cents.
PaOVrSIONS : Pork is unset'led awl lower sales at 23
d-ls 82z cents to 23 dols 85 cents for mess, and 19 dole
30 cents to 19 dole 40 cents for prime. Beef is firm and irt
fair request, with sales at 14 dols to 15 dole for country
mesa, 12 dols to 12 dole 50 cents for railroad mess, and
16 dols 50 cents to 17 dole fa. repacked Western. Prime
mess beef and beef hams are quiet. Bacon is scarce and
prices are nominal. Cut mews are firm, at 11 dole to 111
dols for hams, and 10 cents for shoulders Lard steady
at 111 dols to 14a Batter is heave and dull. Cheese is
also heavy and price are very irregular.
FRE.GHTS—To Liverpool, 12 tons oil lOs ; 500 bales Cot-
ton 3s per bale ; 100 bales Sea Island at id per lb ; 30 000
st sves, part at 21s; 1.00) bets Tar is 31; 500 brls Flour
at 6d; 500 bags 74.61 To London, 500 tons Oil-cake
12s 6d to 15s; 300 brls Rosin is 7id Tobacco was
taken for Palermo at 8 dole. A bark was chartered to
to load at Bic for Hull at 97e 6d.

BY TELEG RAPH.

NEW Yo ex, Jane 2.6 r M —Ashes steady, pot 7 871, pearl
725t0 7 37i. Cotton dull and heavy, quotations nomi
nal. Flour 10 to 15e lower, sales 7 000 brls, corn to strait
State 6 60 to 6 75, Upper Lak-r 6 60 to 6 90, corn to good
Ohio extra 7 15 to 7 50, extra Genesse 7 75 to 10 ;
Southern 15 to 901 lower on low grades, sales 2.400 brls
mixed to good 7 30 to 7 70, fancy and extra 7 75 to 0 ;
Canadian 10 to 15. lower, sales 600 brls, superfine
660 to 6 80, extra 7 50 to 8 60 Wheat 2to 3c lower. Oats
lower and dull, 60 to 65 and 66 to 68 Corn Ito 1 !,c haver.
sales 23,000 bushels, mixed 98 nominal, white 98 to 101,
yellow 98 to 1 d il. Pork cllses firm, sales 1,200 brls, mess
23 80 to 23 921, prime 19 25 to 19 35. Beef firm, sales
350 brls, country mess 14 to 15, repacked Chicago 16 50 to
17. Lard firm, 260 brls, 144 to 144. Whiskey lower 354
to S. Leather dull and heavy. Fish steady, 1,300 ells
St. George's dry cod 4 374. Mackerel quiet, but firm.
Coffee dull and heavy, sales 500 bags, Rio 114, Java 15i,
Maracaibo 12?„ Sugar dull and nominal, sales 200 hhd.
muse 1017 melado 7c Molasses dull, sales 100 hhds, P R 67,
muse 63. Linseed nil quiet at 79 to 80, whale batter, sales
brls 71; Spirits turneniine qui et at 51c cash; rosin quiet,
hut firm at 1 874 to 1 90. aides heavy and lower, sales
25,000. B. A 30 Western 21. Iron lower, sales 200 tons
Scotch 31, 6 mss. Lead dull and heavy Rice active,
sales 700 tee, 468 to 525 Tallow, small sales at 11c.
Hemp quiet but stea'ly, sales 200 bales Jute 113 dole six
mos. Freight to Liverpool firmer, cotton 3s, flour 61,
grain . 2;d. Stocks firmer but rather inactive ; N. Y.
Central 85i ; Reading 801 ; Harlem, 10; Erie, 36 ;
Michigan Southern,

THE STEAM-SHIP CANADIAN ASHORE IN THE
ST. LAWRENCE.

QUEBEC, June I.—The screw steamship Canadian, from
Liverpool for this port, went ashore on the Pillars, forty
miles below this city, at one o'clock this morning. The
extent of the damage to her is unknown. The provincial
steam-tug Napoleon been sent to her asistance.

BRAZILS AND THE RIVER
PLATA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
S UTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.

The Royal 'Mail Company's Steamship Teviot,
Capt. James Moir, with the usual mails, arrived
this day at 9 o'clock a.m. During the voyage
homewards the Teviot experienced fresh N.H.
trades as far as Tenerifle, and fair weather on-

The accounts per Arabia were not as favourable as had
been expected, and a feeling of disappointment was the
natural consequence; buyers kept aloof, and though
holders so far are firm, cotton cannot be sold at the
quotations, which are renewed from last week and
which must be considered as entirely nominal. The sales
since 25th May to last evening have only been 4,000 bales,
the market closing with a heavy dull feeling. The clear-
ances have been for Liverpool, 1,476 bales ; Havre, 754:
Hamburg, 123. Total, 2 353.
Bantams, CROP, &c.—The total receipts at the ports
amount to 2,840,000 bales, against 3,360,000 to the cor-
responding period last year, showing a deficit of 520,000
bales. Next week this deficit will be increased to 536,000.
We have had, for several weeks at the South, very full
rivers ; all the upper streams have been navigable aff
ing opporamities for any remaining cotton to be brought
to the ports, and yet the receipts continue to fall off until
they ore reduced, as advised by telegraph, to a total of
10,000 bales per week. I consider this fully proves the
assertions mamt iined in this circular during the entire
season, that the receipts, induced by tempting prices and
free navigation, were being hurried to market more rapidly
than in any former year. The probable actual receipts at
the ports during the remainder of the season will not
exceed 60,000 bales, and if I add 30,000 for
corrections, difference in interior stocks, &c, the
figures for crop would be a total of 2,940,000 bales.
At any rate, it seems almost certain that the total will not
vary much from 2,950,000 bales, from which, for practical
use, must be deducted 15,000 bales burnt, already counted
in receipts, and a considerable amount lost at sea.
In relation to the growing crop we continue to receive
gloomy accounts ; it is everywhere fully four weeks later
than an average, and very strong letters are daily received
from the South as to the impossibility of making an average
crop. Ne doubt can possibly exist that the start for the
new crop has been bad, and that an early or a monster
crop is entirely out of the question ; but to give any esti-
mate in figures of what may be grown is mere guess-work,
so much must necessarily depend upon the character of the
weather during the summer and autumn, and the period of
frost.
Naw ORLCANS, May 30 : Receipts for the week 4,000
bales against 10,500 bales same week last year. Pales
for the week 12,000 bales ; market firm at 14e for mid-
dling. Export for the week to Liverpool 3,000 bales
Stock on hard 114,F000 bales. The °receipts at thiaport
are 230,500 bales less than to the same date last year, and
the total deficit by our table of date amounted to 524,000
bales. Freights to Liverpool 5 16d, ver dull. Exchange on
London 10 Per cent.
Montrx, May 30 : Receipts for the week 750 bales
against 2,937 bales same week last year. Middling l 3 to
13-ie per lb ; market firm.
COTTON IN Taaasrru—Has also partaken of the dull
feeling, and I have only two sales to report, both made
yesterday, amounting to about 1,000 bales at a decline
from previous prices ; buyers do not offer enough, and
holders generally prefer letting interest go forward rather
than sell at a loss in this market. The quantity on hand
is reduced to a few thousand bales.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous
four years :

wards.
The Teviot brings mails from the following
places with their respective dates affixed :—Buenos
Ayres, May sth ; Monte Video . 6th - Rio do Ja-
neiro, 15th ; Bahia: .19th • Pernambuco, 22nd ;
St. Vincent, 31st ; Tedeare, June 4th ; Madeira,
6th ; Lisbon, 9th.
The total number of passengers brought,* the
Teviot was 101, amongst whom are :
Mr. Brownell, lady. and chill, Mr. and Mrs. Fair and
Miss Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. DrPbble and Mr. Carduv,
Mr. Rudge and party, General Comte de Vauder Meere,
Mr. Ilobilliard and Mr. Moorsoo, the Rev. A. D. D'Orsey,
Mr. Davies, Mr. Johnson, Miss James, and Miss du Cue.
The Teviot brings on freight specie value 2301,
diamonds value 87,9521, and cargo of tapioca,
ipecacuanha, cochineal, and sundries.
The following were the"stations of H.M ships :
At Mont eVideo, &c., Marajo and Harrier; atßuenes
Ay res,lndefatigable and Rifleman; at Rio de Janiero,
the Madagascar and Spy; the Retribution sailed
for Valparaiso, May 12; the President sailed for
England, May 12 ; the Sirene sailed on a cruise,
May 13th ; the French frigate, Potirsuivante, and
the steamer Terrare, and the American frigate St.
Lawrence, were also of Rio. At St. Vincent was
her Majesty's gun-boat, Firm, for China. The
sqUadron 'was off the island.
The steamer wts detained at Buenos Ayres by
the British Minister, to bring home the result of
the 'elections for Governor of the Province. The
votes were as follows:—Alsina, 35; Peira, 18;
Slavallot, 7. Alsina had declined his nomination,
and tendered his renunciation to the General
Assembly, on the ground of strong personal
opposition to him, but the renunciation was
negatived by 44 to 11, and his acceptance was
looked upon as certain.
In the Argentine Provinces the revolution in the
Rosa Rio had been put down by the governor of
Sante Fe, and a temporary arrangement had been
come to with Urquiza.
At Monte Video business was at a standstill. The
fever had made great ravages, but was hoped to
have subsided.
The New Brazilian Chambers opened on the
3rd of May. It was doubted whether the new
ministry would be able to sustain itself. Yellow fever
was daily diminishing.
The steamer Golden Met-3e arrived at Bahia from
Southampton on the 19th May.
The steamer Teutonia, from Hamburg and
Southampton, was to leave Rio on the 17th.
The screw steamer Hydaspes,. from Southamp-
ton, arrived at Lisbon on the 9th June.
The French steamer Bresil had put back to Rio
With damaged machinery.
The Genoa, Bard inian steamer, arrived at Pernam_
buco, from Europe, May 22.
The Victor Emmanuel, from Rio, for Genoa,
arrived at Lisbon, June 9.
From Lisbon we learn that the King of Portuga'
had announced his intention to get married. It is
believed that the intended Queen of Portugal is a
daughter of the King of Bavaria ; others assert
that the royal choice has fallen on a Saxon Princess
whom his Majesty saw at Dresden.
It is believed that the concordat with the people
will be rejected by the Cortez.

Receipts at thePortsi2 840,000,3,360,000,2,479,00012,675,000. 3,117,000
Exports toG Britain 1,278 000 1,643,0001,272,000 1,272,000 1,508,000
" Fra,ce ' 364,000 447,000 3e9,00f, 266,000 389,000
" other F. Ports 361,0001 461,000 232,609 274,000 309 000
Total Exports 12,006,009,2,551,00011 E 93,000,1 812,000;2 206,000
Stock on hand 1 294,050, 350,000 i 202,000 492,0001 372,000
.Of which during the past week, included in the ab

love :

Receipts at the Ports 18,0001 30,000; 45,000 35,090 13,000
Exports to G. Britain 32,000 49.00 29,000' 61,000 33,000
~
France. .. 6,0001 4,000, 12,000 5,00 10,000
" other For. Pts.\ 3,000: 11.000 12.000 18.000 8,000
Total Exnorts. .... 41,000 6t 000; 63,003: 84,•-;00 51,000

- - - - •
SllMMARY.—Receipts : Decrease at the ports, compared
with last year, 520,000 bales ; compared with 1853, 277,000
Exports : Decrease to Great Britain, 365,000, compared
with 1853, 230,000 bales ; decrease to France, 83,000, com-
pared with 1853, 25,000 ; decrease to other foreign ports,
97,000; increase compared with 1853,55,000 bales.
BaBADSTUFFEI : The market for State and Western Flour
is heavy and dull, and prices are in favour of the buyer ;
the stock is light, however, and holders are not disposed
to make any material concession, although we make a
slight reduction in our outside quotations. The sales are
at 6 dole 75c to 6 dole 85c for common to good State ;
7 dole to 7 dols 10c for extra State ; 6 dols 75c to 6 dols
950 for common to good Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, lowa,
&c., and 7 dole to 8 dole 60c for extra do. Best brands of
Genesee and St. Lows fatally brands are selling in a small
way at 10 dole 50e. Southern Flour is heavy and dull
with sales at 7 dols 50a to 7 dole 75c for mixed to good
brands of Baltimore, Alexandria, Georgetown, Fredericks-
burg, &c., and 7 dols 85c to 9 dole for favourite, fancy, and
extra brands do ; 9 dole for extra Petersburg, 8 dole for
Brandywine, 8 dole to 8 25c for Richmond country, and
8 dole 50c to 9 dole 25c for Richmond city. Canadian flour
is heavy, with sales of 500 brls at 6 dole 75c to 6 dole 90c
for superfine, and 7 dole 15c to 8 dole 75c for the range of

far advanced)—we do not look forward to a very large crop
for our next season ; it is said that our growers have
planted extensively.—Oar entree during the month have
been 88,385 bags from date to date, or equal to 6,313 tons ;
our shipments at the same time have been 6,975 tons, and
the stocks on hand are estimeted as above stated. Cot-
tons : Have been steady and prices have varied but little,
MOO to 75650 being the prices paid, the entries during
the month have been 3,216 baga. Paraiba and Maceio's
Sales of former to some extent have taken place at from
78600 to Bs9oo, and of latter at 78800 to 75700 per arro-
ba, and all f.o.b. Hides : Some excitement has prevai ed,
and as high as 300 rs par lb has been offered for a large lot
and refused, when the highest prices paid h eve been 335 to
355 rs for small parcels, we hol no stock for sale. Rum :
There has been little or no fluctuation in prices, and pur-
chases have been made on arrival to the market
Freights : Owing to the great scarcity of vessels the rates
advanced considera9y, and seven vessels were taken up,
viz , three for the Channel at 501 and 5 per cent per ton,
one for Genoa for part cargo at 601 and 5 per cent per ton,
and two for Paraiba and Maccia, to load ballast here
at 25[ and 30[ and 5 per cent, and part
cargo ootton at t per lb ; during the last few days arri-
vals have been abundant, and we look to lower rates being
submitted to, especially for Cotton, as little or nothing is
held on hand for shipment. Exchange : Transactions to
the extent of about £120,000 have taken place at from
27-41,d to 28d 60 and 90 days sight, money is very scarce at
these rates. Discounts : The Bank rate has continued at
10 per cent per annum, and money out-of-doors is not
abundant. Beef Je,ked : Our market is well stocked and
the arrivals during the month have been 23,301 arrobas
from Rio Grande, retailing at from 55400 to 6sooo per
arroba, and for what is left of Buenos Ayrrs at 45600 to
55200 per arroba. Butter: The dot/land-has been very li-
mited although p, ices Bono t give way.' Irish continues to
630 to 680 rs porb 1 and French at 550 rest per lb;
receipts of former have been 450 fl,kins and of
latter 2 134 ditto, including what has arrived
within the last few days. Codfish : The only
arrivals during the month have baen 2,691 drums, and the
present stock has been reduced to a few hundred drums,
retailing for inferior to better qualities at from 105 to 145000
per drum. Flour continues to pour in, and we estimate
our stock to-day at 20,000 barrels, retailing at for ordinary
to good brands 165000 to 275000 per barrel. We have
had 2,551 barrels from the South, and 6,544 barrels
touched here proeceded Southward, fin ling no paying
marke t. Many that have stopped here have been ware-
housed for retail by the importfrrs. We consider the stock
extremely heavy, and we are told that large receipts are
expected daily. Wines : The demand is limited, and
ab rut 2,000 pipes arelheld in second hands, exclusive of
about 500 pipes fronal Portugal in first hands ; the cargo
of the Amelia, of 148 pipes, from the Straits, sold at 265$
per pipe.

BLIIIA, May 18
ExcnaNaa sustained itself at 28d until the other day,
when the government ewe into the market and negotiated
about L. £25 000 at 27 3/4d, at which rate it closes flat.
SUGAR : The sudden stir at advancing prices, mentioned
in our last number, has subsided, and s,-les during the past
week were unimportant, although prices have sustained
themselves at our former quotations of 35300 to 35350 for
browns and 4i per arroba for whites, in cases at which,
exchange 27/3/41, sugars stand in 30s 9d to 31s 2d and
378 21 per cwt f cm on board, exclusive of freight. Some of
the holders demand 35400 and 4sloo, while purchasers are
making efforts to reduce prices to 35200 and 35900 per
arr. For sugar in bags, and picked qualities 50 rs. to
100 re. more has been granted.
CorroN : The sales effected during the past week were
for home consumption ; exporters still keep out of the
market, principally for want of opportunity to ship, and
holders are beginning to be anxious to realize. Stocks on
hand are small. Our quotations of 75600 to 75400 per arr
are nominal; and at these prices, exchange 27 3/4, cotton
costs 7 54d to 7,551 per lb. free on board, freight excluded.
CorFEE : Our crop is at an end, and we have had no
supplies during the past week; quotations are nominal,
45600 to 45800 per arr. for Bahias, at which, exchange
27 3/4, it stands in 453 101 to 473 91 par cwt. free on
board, without freig`tt.
HIDES are dull of sale and prices flat at quotation ; at
400 rs. for dry and 360 rs. uerlb. for dry salted they would
c st about 12 29d and 11.79 d per lb. free on board without
freight ; Exchange 27.314 d.
Fazionrs : No charters have transpired and our quota-
tions are nomi al. The Shooting Star is on the berth for
London and has engaged at 52s 6d per ton.

Rio Jammu°, May 14.
XCHANON : The total amount negotiated upon London
for this conveyance has been generally at 272 60 and 90
days, at which quotation remains firm.
Dlscourrs : The bank has raised its rate of discount
9 per cent.
CAFFZE : The sales since the sailing of the Avon
amount to 222,000 bags, that is, from 14th to 30th April,
168,000 bags. Arrivals have been moderate on account
of the continual rains, and receipts do not much exceed
200.000 baize in the thirty one days since our last.
Our quotations are entirely nominal, for nothing has been
done in this article since 7th inst.
Fazionrs to Liverpool and London steady at 40s.

BUENOS ATREE, May 4

The British Packet, says that " So far as' foreign or
commercial matters are concerned, we calla extract much
consolation from the present lowering aspect of political
parties." Exchange 748. per doubloon.
•

MELBOURNE.

A correspondent of the Glasgow Daily Mail sends
she editor the following—
The colony of Victoria comprehends an area of
55,000,000 of acres. About 2,2u0,000 acres of this quan-
tity have been sold, and of that 115,000 some odd hundred
acres are under culture. To this cultivation some people
ascribe a change in our climate, for no longer have we
those long exhausting droughts of which you have heard
so much ; still in summer we have the same fierce sun, and
the same terrible north winds passing over the burning
deserts of the interior, while in winter we obtain rains
descending in great fury, at a temperature which produces
ice, of the thickness of half-a-crown when the rain abates.
Would you know the qu tlity of our heat, let any one go into
a calico printer's stove, with the thermometer at 117 deg,
and with a stream of hot air of that temperature playing
against his body, and then set him to hard labour. I speak not
of the sun blazing over his head—l leave that to your fancy.
Then as to the winter—it is not the cold we complain of so
much, but the altuost ceaseless shower of rain for two or
three months together, tumbling in drops the circum
terence of threepenny piece. True we have many days of
matchless beauty, but from all this you will see how much a
labouring man's time is cut up. Nor is this all. The
Government estimates for this year provides for the immi-
gration of 26,000 more people. Where are they to be
housed? There are not one hundred houses in Mel-
bourne or neighbourhood to be let. Then let them take to
tents, some say. Consider, I pray you, the frightful
mortality which overtook so many immigrants some
three ye ars ego, and who were compelled to adopt this
wretched mode of lodging. 1 quote from the words of
Mr. William Birkmyre, a most able and accomplished
chemist (acknowledged to he one of the first assayers in
the world—boroar to Paisley that produces so many able
men)—" My belief is that that calamity arose from these
immigrants living in tents exposed to all the variations
of the weather, and other causes incidental t ) immigration,
under such circumstanets." I pass from this branch of
the subject, and ask you to read the speech of Captain
Clark, Surveyor-General, in speaking of railways. He
says, " One contractor offers to furnish from 15,000 to
20,000 men for Government works." He speaks also of
the rapidity with which the vast blue stone piles of the
Parliamentary h )uses have been got up. Does that
look like wanting more people here, except for a purpose
lam unwilling to understand—to lower wages? There
are hundreds of every grade going idle, who will be forced
to go to the gold fields. This is the reason why wages
apparently keep high, and as these fields receive more
labourers we export more gold ; but remember that the
average produce there realises only what is equal to ordinary
wages, for toil and privations that your Airdrie colliers
know nothing of. D,) you ask me, " What about your
harvests, which will be lost for want of labour ?" I answer,
It is quite rue ; but no man in his senses will undertake,
in a country like this, to go a great distance for a
fortnight's work. and then be turned adrift. This, then,
is your gold colony. Not the place of so little hope
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. either to the working classes as to mercantile men, ex-
PERNAMBUCO, MAY 22. ceptimr those of large capital, fit always to take advantage
SUGARS.—During this month considerable excitement of needy importers and glutted markets. Hero let.
has prevailed in this article, and large purchases have been me remind you that the population of Victoria is not much
made; immediately on the arrival of this boat from South- mere than that of Glasgow, yet what cargoes of goods
ampton, purchasers began to flock into the market and e.:,me here, and what shoals of eager merchants ready to
25900 to 28950 were paid for Channels : but as the stocks sell them off, by commission, auction, or any way I Turn-
became scarce the prices gradually advanced and our in; from the gloomy picture, that our fair lands are nearly
quotation to-day is from 3SIOO to 35200 per aroba and all lying dormant, aad that there are few producers save
no stocks whatever for sale, the better kinds also have been the gold diegers, I think it well to uotics an effort made
in great demand at 35300 to 35450.—1 n white Sugar not by Mr. A. K. Smith, C.E. (a name standing in deservedly
Po much done and our stock for:sale "from somenos toads high repute in this part of the world, although some of
(goad)" is about 30,000 bags, the stock of all your Galashiels readers may remember him as once a
kinds for shipment we estimate at about 90,000 tointrolueogood colouialbricks. We think this
bags or 0,430 tons.—Paraiba and Maceio's.— effort to be one in the right direction, tending to supply
000 our
15,000 bags of former have been , purchased at . own necessities at a cheaper rate (the price is £5 per 1,
few
‘sv e n
md o
re from
practical
a home.etial
from 38300 to 38500, full prices paid, and of latter about here) and of as good a qualityassesysoeud
aca
10,00 bags at 35400 to 35550 do., all free on board, we now It were well if this country possessed
consider the crops almost at an end, the winter rains having men like Mr. Smith. We could then spare you a host of
commenced to set in, and our Engenhos having almost ex- poets, fiddlers, ria.sers, and mountebanks, while working
haustsd their stocks ; unless the rains become more men, and mercantile men too, would get their own, and a
abundant (which is Generally doubted, the season being SQ stop would be Tut'. to that grumbling tblt overspreads the

whole community. There are many things in my haste
I have forgotten to state. Such as you ask me, " What is
the labour market ?" A labour market is a number of
shops or bothies in different parts of the town, sceh as your
register offices for services at home. The manor woman
who gets you a place gets a fee, and so on. High prices
ere always quoted for labour, of course; and he that puffs
best has the best chance of doing a trade. If he wants, far
example, one farm-servant, he advertises for to-enty. Again
I caution your readers not to be misled by tho.-3e is
advertisements in the Argus nor by the opinion of any
paper in Melbaurne. In stating all this Ido not pretend
to set myself up as an aTharity. I only write you (as
thousands here will sal-) what is unfortunately too true,
and what many private letters Bent home will corroborate.
I send you a box containing four bricks of the manufacture
I refer to, that you may show them to the Glasgow makers.
The price here is £5 per 1000. You must be aware
what a large quantity of bricks are sent here from home,
and you will now be able to seee whether ;yy remarks are
correct.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The lists of opposition candidates are still in
conflict with each other. Several of the names
in both belong to men of eminence in the party,
so that one does not well know whom to prefer—
" Who shall decide when. doctors disagree ?" I
mentioned yesterday that one section of the
Democratic leaders protested against the list
adopted at the same lime by the Rupbliati &ecic
and the Orleanist Debats. The list put forth by
the first-mentioned was incomplete yesterday. It
is now, I understand, filled up in the following
manner:—Garnier Pages, I. Itlmaud„Tulcs Bas
tide, Jules Simon, and Eugene Pelletan. Thus
the Siecle candidates have to contend not only
against the Government nominees, but also to
encounter competitors in their own party. This
division of interests will not be regretted by the
Government. _ _ _

The election movement seems to extend itself.
In the fablourgs plactrds described as of a
" seditious tendency," are found on the walls in the
morning. and so frequently that, I am assured, it
has been thought necessary to organist; a nightly
service of police, in plain clothes, for the purpose
of catching the posters of the olTansive proclama-
tions. A. circular from a well.known leader of the
ultra-Democratic party, urging, the electors not to
vote, has been for some days circulating at Lyons
ewnelev
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and other places. So far as one can judge at
pOrperosintLoitn icsatlil believedates
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Chamber.

The Constitutionnel published the following list
of Government candidates for the city of Paris :-
Ist Electorial Division, M. Guyard Delalain.
2d .. M. Devinck.
3rd .. M. Germain Thibaut.
4th • • M. Vavin.
sth .. M. Monnin Japy.
6th • • M. Perrot.
7th • • M. Lanquetur.
Bth . • M Fouche Lepelletin.
9th .. M. Kcenigswarter.
10th
' • M. Veron.

The Moniteur publishes several important de-
crees. One raises the following gentlemen to the
dignity of senator :—M. Boulay (de la Meurihe),
President of Section in the Council of State; M.
Favre, Mayor of Nantes, lately deputy ; Baron
Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine ; the Marquis de
Laroche-Lambert ; M. Le Roy, Prefect of the
Seine-Inferienre; M. Mallet, Vice-President of the
Council-General of the Ponts-et-Chaussees ; M. de
Mesonan, lately deputy ; General de Montreal and
Niel ; and M. Pietri, Prefect of Police. Another
Imperial Decree appoints Count de Germiny,
Governor of the Credit Foncier, to be Governor of
the Bank of France in the room of Count d'Argont
whose resignation has been accepted, and who, by
another decree, is named Honorary Governor of
the Bank of France. _ _

Count de Germiny, who has just been nominated
to the high office of Governor of the Bank of
France, is descended from an ancient family of
Normandy: His father, after having filled several
high State employments, was peer of France
under the Restoration and under Louis Philippe.
As to the son, he commenced his political career
as Prefect of the Seine-et-Marne, and was shortly
after returned to the Chamber of Deputies by the
electors of Melun. He afterwards, on marrying
the daughter of M. Hutnann, minister of finance,
loft th.o I.B:Qlativ. body, or►d anturail n thn only
of financial matters. He was then appointed to
the office of receiver general at Melun ; and after-
wards ,to a similar office in the Seine Inferieure.
In 1848 he was named minister of finance ; he did
not remain long in the position, and the Emperor,
when the Credit-Fonder was re-constituted, placed
him at the head of the institution.

The Emperor has commissioned Colonel Fave
one of his orderly officers, to visit the camp at
Chalons sur Marne, and to give an account of the
works commanded to be executed by the engineer
department.
The Pays announces the death of M Fontnnier,
the French Consul at Civita Vecchia.
The sittings of the Commission named to regu-
late the appointment of French Consuls to the
RusSian ports in the Black Sea have been resumed
at the Foreign-office under the direction of M. de
Lesseps, chief of the commercial department. The
Consuls are not to be named until after the Con-
ference which is to take place respecting the clauses
of the Treaty of Paris.
The Moniteur publishes the official returns of the
import and export trade of France during the last
year, with the. comparison of the two preceding.
The total amount of the imports for 1856 in round
numbers was 2,564 millions, being an increase of
468 millions ovor those of the year 1855, and of
692 millions over 1854. The items which show the
greatest increase over 1855 are corn, 181 millions ;
French colonial sugar, 15 ; oleaginous seeds, 5 ;
raw wool, 60 ; raw cotton, 25 ; rice 17 ; raw and
spun silk, 63 ; gold and silver, 74; sundries, 91
millions. Those which show the greatest falling off
are foreign sugar, 8 millions ; coffee, 2 ; coal, 4 ;
olive oil, 5 ; rough castings, bar iron, and other
metals, 4; and indigo, 3 millions. The exports in
1856 ,amounted to 2,375 millions, being an increase
of 338 millions over those of 1855, and of 634 over
1854. The items which show the greatest improve-
ment as compared with 1855 are wine and spirits,
60 millions; books, engravings, and music, 4;
millinery, 2 ; paper, 2 ; prepared skins and gloves,
30; unbleached and dyed silk, 10; refined sugar,
10 ; woollen, silk, and cotton wove goods, 119 ;
gold and silver, 2 millions. Those articles which
show the greatest decrease are, works in iron and
other metals, 8 ; cattle, 2; and dye stuffs, 3 millions.

RUSSIA.

BERLIN, JUNE 11

The small crumbs of information that cne can
pick up, now that the high-placed and the well-in-
formed have all left the capital, are very scanty ;
the post seems the only source of intelligence left,
From this sole fountain, then, I derive the follow.
ing :-1, from St. Petersburg that there is an almost
certainty that the Emperor Alexander will have a
meeting with the Emperor Louis Napoleon either
at Wildbad or Stuttgard in the, early part of July ;
2, from Potsdam, that it is more than probable that
the King of Prussia will join his sister, the Dowager
Empress of Russia, and her son, the reigning Em-
peror, at Wildbad, early in July, and bring them
both home with him to Sans-Souci ; and 3, from
Paris, that, although as yet no fixed and unalterable
travelling arrangements have been made by the
Emperor for a visit to Germany within the next
month, there remains little doubt of his having a
meeting there, if in any way possible, with the
Emperor of Russia. As these three statements
coincide very closely with what I have announced
to you several times of late, I presume they may
be looked upon as pretty nearly correct, as far as
the present time is concerned.
It turns out now, that Admiral Count. Putiatin,
whose departure for Kiachta was mentioned some
little time back, is really gone on a mission to the
Chinese Court at Pekin, and must by this time
have already arrived there. The frigate Olivuzzi,
which left Nicolaieff, last autumn, and is now daily
expected in St. Petersburg, has already forwarded
home letterS,Which she took in at Hong Kong about
the beginning of February ; in tho previous