The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-03 00:00:00

INDIA.

From our Indian territories the news by this
arrival is of less than average interest. A new
Five per Cent. Loan was opened on the 16th of
January. It is offered on the usual conditions, but
is limited to three millions sterling, and is not to
be paid off for sixteen years.
Dr. Straker, Physician General, died on the 17th
of January, after a term of thirty-three years' servi
tude, and when close on the eve of his retirement.
He was a man of great worth and uprightness, of
excellent talents, and a measure of classical
accomplishments not very often to be met with in
the services. _ _ _

The Vombay Times states on good authority that

Colonel Sir henry M. Lawrence has been appointed
Chief Commissioner i❑ Oude.
Dost Mahomed was still at Peshawar.
The Hurkaru has been informed that " Sir
John Bowring has intimated to the Indian
government that hostile operations against the
Chinese must necessarily be suspended until
he obtains a rk,inforcement of troops from
India." Our eotemporary has heard that " part
of the Ceylon Rifle Regireient will be dispatched
to China, and it is said that the Queen's Regiment
at Bangalore will also be sent when shipping can
be obtained." It is a matter of surprise, consider-
ing how well the Bengal Volunteers, the Madras
37th, and other native infantry regiments behaved
during the late war, that a few thousand sepoys are
not ordered off at once. _

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 1.

The Government received yesterday despatches
from the Marquis de Moustier, the French Minis-
ter at Berlin. It is sail they contain the last
propositions of the King of Prussia relative to the
affairs of Switzerland, and are not as favourable
as were expected. In the afternoon M. de
Hat zf3ld, who had likewise received despatches
from his Government, had a conference with Count
\Ya!ewski.

The Presse says, in its weekly commercial

review :

Trade has this week received a piece of news which is
likely to exercise a favourable influence upon business for
the spring season, The Bank, at length, decides to take
bills with 90 days to run' en attendant, the favourable mo-
ment for reducing its discount to 5 per cent. This measure
does not produce any very great immediate effect upon
merchants' bill books, for draing the last five or six
months that it has been impossible to negotiate paper at
long r date than 60 or 75 days, people have become
used to these hard conditions, and have regulated their trans-
ac ions accordingly. Nothing could more strongly show
the solidity of our commercial houses than the facility with
which they have supported such a crisis. Failures have
been extremely rare ; nevertheless, many houses must have
found it very difficult to meet their engagements when
discounts could only be effected at sixty days. Up to the
present time very little activity has been manifested
either in the wholesale or retail trade. The amount of
business done last week was again altogether insignificant
There is unfortunately no favourable change in the price
of raw materials and colonial goods. The rise seems likely
to continue. This is the greatest obstacle to any real
revival of the trade.

General Berryer, the brother of the celebrated
advocate, and the uncle of M. Arthur Berryer,
died. last night in Paris

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FEB. 26

Some Hungarian employes of rank have assured
me that the police authorities at Pesth are so
excessively severe, that the liberty of the press
exists but in name. As a proof of the
e.otness of their statement, my informants
called my attention to the fact that none of
the Hungarian papers have noticed the straight-
forward representations made by Count Wenkheim
and Cziraky to the Governor General of the
province, or have called on the public to assist
the authorities in preparing for the reception of
the Emperor, who is certainly inclined to do as
much for his Hungarian; as he has already done
for his Italian subjects. It appears to me that
the Vienna authorities committed a sad political
blunder when they prohibited the grand ball
which the Hungarians were to have given here
on the 18th inst., but men in office affirm that the
Stadtholder " had good reasons for acting as he
did."

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, FEB. 28.

Baron von Richthofen, the representative of
Prussia in the Commission for regulating the
future Constitution of the Danubian Principalities,
will, according to present arrangements, leave
hero for Bucharest in the early part of next month,
so as to be on the spot as soon. as the business of
the commission is opened ; as, however, this is not
to take place until after the Austrians have left the
Principalities, it is possible that Baron Richtho-
fen, like all the rest of the Commissioners, may
have some time yet to wait before he gets to work.
In the German press one meets with frequent
indications that our our Cabinet grudges Prussia
her participation in this commission for the
settlement of the Danubian Principalities, and
would gladly see her excluded ; but, as the treaty
of Paris included her among the States who should
take part in these labours, it might as well be
submitted to with a good grace.
The Prussian Minister at Constantinople, Herr
von Wildenbruck, has not been recalled, as several
journals state, but has left his post on leave of
absence for a short time, the greater part of which
he sill pass in Berlin, where he is expected to
arrive shortly.
There are some agents of the Russian Government
now here, actively occupied in engaging mechanics
and handicraftsmen to immigrate into Russia, and
settle there ; those are much preferred whose
avocations are connected with the construction of
railways. It is understood that small plots of
land will be granted to them along the line of the
Petersburg and Moscow Railway, and that about
100 persons have already availed themselves of the
offers. A. German engineer in the service of the
Russian government, of the name of Branmuhl, is
also expected to arrive very shortly in Munich, for
the purpose of engaging mechanics for the con-
struction of a railway at Tiflis