The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

from Cette on the 28th of March, being off.t.l e
(bast of Spain on the Bth of April, perceived a
brigantine, carrying six guns, whiek Chas( d th, •
Amicitia, and fired two shots itt her. Oiher sliips
haviig appeared, the lorioiltine sailed away, but
returned again, and during two days chased the
Dutchman. The latter succeeded in getting into
the creek above mentioned, where the captain
jumped, ashore together with his crew.

AUSTRIA,

VIENNA, APRIL 24,

The. Oesterreichische Zeitung of this morning has
a leader, in which it is sail that the breach
between Austria and Russia " is not so wide as
it was a short time at bUt it is perfectly well
known to me that the very reverse is the case.
Russia and Austria hate each other With such
'a deadly hatred, that they would probably come
to bio*s if they were not both so miserably
poor. So •jealous are the Austrians of the
attentions paid by France to Russia and
her sons, that they are now endeavouring.
to persuade themselves that the reception
given to the Grand Duke Constantine will be
exactly the same as that which the Archduke
Ferdinand Maximitian met with in the month of
September, 1835 There can be no question of a
renewal of the diplonLiiic relations between Arts'
tria and Sardinia for some time to come, but it
affords ale satisfaction to be able to state that
both Governments are equally desirous to avoid
any measures which could widen the breach.
The report that the Austrian army is being
reduced is incerrk tt. That great numbers of men
are sent to their homes is perfectly true, but the
gaps are filled up by the recruits raised during the
last two months,

PRUSSIA.,

BERLIN, APRIL 25-.

The Prussian Ministry has received. another
defeat on a finance question. Their bill for raising
the price of salt from l 2 to 15 Ureters, for a cask:of
40' lbs., Was thrown out in-the House of Notables
last Thursday, by a majority of 95 against 21
This' result was confidently foreseen from the
moment the oommittee of that House had deeided
to recommend the rejection of the bill by a majority
of 13 against 1, and in the House of Deputie,s, also,
where the Government Can reckon'oonfideit tly on
an overwhelining majority for any proposition
exctpt one-that takes money out of the people's
pockets, the Government had only been able by
'the greatest exertions to save it by a very trifling
majority.' . . • ,
Prince Alfreti left Geneva last week on his way,
through Switzerland, to Gotha, where he is going
to !pend a few- weeks on a visit to his uncle, the
reigning Duke.' On Waving Geneva he presented'
the hospital with 2 500 f. , On the 19th ins,-ant, the
young Prince anivea.at lAerne,-Whenie his retire
was-to lay through Lucerne Rout rnshorn
and ,Stutgardt. borne of the -Swiss papers persist
in making him heir to the throne of
,Great Britain,
call him Prince of Wales, and describe him `! as a
very young-looking man, with -a handsome
countenance"-. • .:

The Leipsic Easter fair, which begins next
Monday, 27th instant, promises very favourably.
Great numbers-of' purcbitsem from the ainubian-
Principalities and Poland hay°, already arrived in
the :7•axou capital, and the stocks of cloth. !either,
ane other staple artielos are reported to he insuffi-
cient to meet the demand. Prices, in consiquence,
are , generally very and money at 6 per cent
The cloth manufacturers ofPrussia and Saxony have

for many months past been-very actively einp!oyed,
and have received more erdera than they could exo.
cute. Since the peace with Russia, and the abun-
dant harvest of last year, an extraordinary impulse
has been given to the mantCactuaing energies of
Germany. As a proof of this it may be mentioned.
that the entire quantity of goodi.whether Garman
or foreign, :brought on sale to' the Leipsie fairs'in
1856 was 568,237 quintals, whereas on an average
of the five previous years it did not exceed 387,003
quintals. For British manufactures, e eci ally cot-
ton and woollen yarns, the year 1856 teas a,very
brilliant one ; the entire quantity .brought to the
Leipsic market is estimated at 127,121 quintals,
being an increase of above 400 por cent. on the
average of the previous five years, which ranged at
2%656 quintals, There seems every prospect .of.
.the continuance of this favourable state of things,
.at least during the present year. This large im-
portation of English yarns shows how far the
German spinning: establishments are from being
able to meet the home demand, and' that the
protective duties imposed by the Zollverein on
half-manufactured articles have, so far as. the
German produce is concerned, hitherto failed of
the'result anticipated.

SPAIN.

MADRID, April 22

The opening of the Cortes-noW draWs very near,
and certain probabilities begin to shape themselves
out. In the first place, it is more than probable
that the 'Queen will not open the Chambers
but that they will be opened by a Royal. Corn,
mission. Her . speech upon, the occasion is
ready, and is said to include no mention of the
events of 1854 The Government will lose 'no
time in presenting the two budgets of 1857 and
1858. The motive of this double delivery
of the Minister of Finance is to palliate the
heavy ' and' unsatisfactery estimates' for thiS
year by the flattering prospects told out for.the
next ; and also, perhaps,, to, embarass a future
ministry by nicking promises which it will find
it impossible to fulfil. According, to` present
appearances, this Government will not very.long.
survive the opening of the Chambers, in which,
according to an opinion that gains fresh adherents,
they' Will 'not have 'a working majority, and
will, in fact, exists but by tolerance. , Bravo
Murillo is likely to be the mast prominent
figure in these Certes, anti, it is thdught,
could very soon upset -the present tx.iiiisters,
but it is positively, stated that be means to k •ep.
aloof, not to oppose them, an 1 to let them fall by
their own weakness. For this he is persuaded
that a little patience is all that is needed, and he
reckons that he shall then be able to form a
skronger Government than if he were to head an
active oppositi,n and-overthrow that of Narvaez,
in which case people would say that the latter
had not had fair play, and had not been allowed
the chance of governing. In the :Vicalvarist
Privy Council, that has been holding at
O'Donnell's country 110116', , it has been
decided, as I am assured, not 'to oppose
Bravo 'Murillo and his supporters in the chamber.
Of comae, should theseiatiain to ppwer, the ques
Lion will be entirely different, and they May'expect
to see ranged against them that fraction of- the
chambers, which will at.firstabstaiu from hamper-
ing them, and.may even probohly join them in
divisions hostile to ihe present ministry. It
appears tliat in the discussions and deliberations.
at 'O'Donnell's the political Tic-Banns of .the day
were thoroughly gone into, not excepting that of
the dynasty, and that the decision come to was to
support the Queen, at least for the present.

THE " TIME 3" ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

The Ti/nrs looks at the question first as popular and
then as a parliamentary question. The metropolis, for
example, is the strongest c4se in the abstract for parlia-
mentary reform in tit-: wh, le e. Its population is the
wealthiest and the best educited, and yet it has the least
population ,of members. Now, if the demand for parlia-
mentlry reform is at zero in the metropolis,that settles the
question as to itslgeneral popularity; but when a cabinet
meets at a critical season and asks whether or when it
shall enter on the field of parliamentary reform, can it
venture to rely on the fact that there is no present palpable
pressure from without on the subject. No, it cannot, for
the obvious reason that this is now a parliamentary not a
popular question. At any reasonable time anybody may
rise up and propose this or tbat partial mea.ure, or a full
grown reform bill, with the fairest chance of carrying the
house with him, and putting the m,tigter into a most
unplea=ant situation, but a worse contingency is even
probable. It is that of the rejection of such a bill, by a
well disciplined ministerial majority, the country might be
raised in its favour, and the parliamentary turned into a
popular question.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

The British and North American Royal Mail
Steam-shin Asia has arrived, with 121 passengers,
and 322,380 dollars in 'specie on freight. The
steamer Eriesson had 'arrived at New York.
The dates and advices by this arrival are
,to the
lath inst. The news to hand is not of great im-
p whine°
It would seem by our advice& from Washington,
that Mr. Buchanan and his cabinet were busily
eogaged upon the diplomatic appointments and
disappointments incidental to the establishment of
a new administration. A New-York paper; remark-
ing upon this fact, says !
It is an unpleasant fact, but a fact unquestionable as it
is unpleasant, that the conduct and character of our
diplomatic representatives in Europe has of late years
done very much more to damn our nAional reputation
and to destroy the consideration in which our institutions
were formerly held even by their enemies, than their
activity has done to advance our material interests, or
protect our public rights. There is hardly a court in
Europe at which sonic pet partisan of a past administra-
tion has not left his-memory to be a hissing and a re..
proach to all of us. I-a one city the American traveller
descends at a hotel from which a plenipotentiary of the
republic Was expelled for drunken insolence to the female
servants of the establishment. In another he is regaled
with the sight of diplomatic autographs in the form of
" due bills )5 -drawn ori brother envoys and never dis-
charged. In a third he is invited to inspect the records
of a club fiona which an American Charge was formally
expelled for his indecent vilification of the sovereign and
the society of the nation to which he was accredited.
Everywhere he hears of gaucheries and inelegancies, of
awkwardness and ithpraprieties lending confirmation to
the lying legends of Mrs. Troll*, *hen he is so
fortunate as to escape the battery of darker and heavier
charges. It is time that an end should be put to these
things. It is time that our diplomatic service should
cease to be regarded as the sure resource of Administra-
tions driven to-despair by hungry retainers and insatiable
supporters. Mr. Buchanan can do nothing which will-
more redound to his credit or more warmly enlist the good
will of all decent and respectable citizens in his behalf,
than. to reorganise our diplomatic system in accordance
with the true principles by which it should be eovern d.
His own experience must have amply satisfied him that,
while the personal traits of good breeding and of charac-
ter are most essential to the success of a public negoeiator
engaged in transactions of the highest importance, they
are of more value to a resident at a Court of the second
or third milt than any other qualities whatever. Nor,
we• trust, "will Mr. Buchanan forget, in selecting the
foreign representatives of the American people, that a
due regard Is ;delays to be had to the public opinion and
the political ethics of the different nations to whom our
envoys are to be accredited. A minister whose Racial
Philosophy and practice would cause him to be received
with open arms by the society of St. Petersburgh might
.very possibyfind himself confined, at London within the
narrow circle of strictly official courtesies, and be wholly
cut. off froth the thousand' opportunities of usefulness
which are afforded to any agent by the cordial sympathy
With hien of the people actions; whom he is to act in his
coneeietions and his views of life., -
With respect to the Indian difficulty, a Washing-
ton- despatch states tioit the sedi'etnry of the interior
has given fiili instructions to Messrs: Rector and
Garrett, Indian agents, who haVe left Washington
for the, scene of their duties, to organise a delegation
from the Creeks and Saminoles residing west of the
Mississippi, to proceed to Florida in the autumn,.
en the especial bueinese of.; persuading Billy Bow-
legs and his followers to emigrate. The Florida
Seminoles, the government is aware, are too proud
to be forced-to thia step at the point of the bayonet,
and hence the resort to peaceful measures, which
will,- it iu coed lently believed, aecornplith that
important measure'. lo view of the above:mentioned
design, there will, meanwhile, be no active military
movements in Florida.
There is nothing
,new from K Lases. It would
appear that there: are to be no traelie stationed
iii
the territory; : who have in any way beets,. peen
in the former .difficulties. in that qaarter.
addition to the large force detailed for abeorn-
panying the C ennaissisoa tb ruin the- Southern
Boundary line of Kansas a slit-miler campaign to
eliastise the.Qheyeunes and Kio way s is arranged,
and several officers were in Washington-i•eceiving
epeeilie instructions to that end. 'None of these
troops are intended for Utah, as has been con-
jectured.
In the latter country, Utah, the state of affairs is
far from satisfactory. It has not yet transpired who
is to receive the,appointment of Governor of the
territory of trail, but it is believed to be the de-
termination of the Administration to put a speedy
end to the anarchical despotism which reigns
there. A letter from Judge Drummond to Attor-
ney General Black had been published in the
American papers. The atrocities it reveals, un
exannpled as they are in our national history,
are no .blacker than might have been expected
from the monster of iniqui y who rules over the
Mormons at -Salt Lake City. The most fanatical
clubs of Carbonari, -with their oath-hound obliga-
tions to assassinate, to promote their ends, fall
short of the hideous vows of the Mormon Danites,
of whom Brigham Young is the acknowledged
leader and protector. Judge, Drummond accuses
them, " after a careful and mature investigation,"
of having procured th.eminaler of Captain Gunnison
and his eight associates. fie says that his prude
cessor on the bench, Hon. Leonidas Shave, met
his death " hy, drinking poisonous liquors, given
to him by order of the ' leading men of the
Mormon Church,• in Great Salt Lelie City."
The late Mr. Babbitt, Secretary of the Terri-
tory, was slaughtered, Judge Drummond avers,
"by a band-of marauders under the particular and
special order of Brigham Young, Heber -C. Kim-
ball and J. 1 Grant." Mormon murderers have
been pardoned by Young, while- " five or six inno•
cent- inen are now in the Penitentiary at Utah,
without having violated any criminal law what.
soever of America." Fo.leral officers who attempt
to do their duty in the territory are insulted,
hareased and killed, without being able to accono
.good, because they, are unsupported by
. a suffieient military force.
The reinforeement which was fitting for the
'Chinese seas, would consist of some of: the most
:powerful: ships in the world. Amongst others,
,the frigate Minnesota, one of the six new 'steamers,
ha& been'desigeatel. View of -the importance
and distant theatre of the service, we cannot but
-express our pleasure at the selection of the Min-
nesota, because" the noble ship herself and her
substantial machinery were built at the Washington
Navy Yard. In this fact we have a guarantee that,
when the Minnesota goes to sea, we shall not hear
the almost invariable story of broken inaehinery,
or of the ship having put back or into some port
to repair damage. The immense battery of the.
Colorado, another of the new steamers, is to be
transferred, it is said, to the Minnesota at Norfolk;
and it is further stated that Mr. Reed, the new
Minister to China, will take passage in this magni-
ficent ship.
The miscellaneous news from the States con-
tain ash announeement that a destructive fire had
occurred, in Baltimore, destroying half a million
dollars worth of property. • •
There is nothing new respecting the Burden
murder, At New York, eOll the 14th inet, ,the
examination of witnesses as the alleged mar-
riage *between the late Ranly Buidell and -Mrs.
Cunningham had been. continued, A .New. York
paper says :
The rigorous cross examination to which Miss Augusta
Cunningham hart barn subjected, by thecouncil opposing
her mother's claim, was concluded. • Dr. D. SmiFh and
Mr. B. T. Bent-in were ex- mined on the same side. Dr.
Smith tis'illed that on the 31th of -October lest he saw
Dr. Berdell in the Lafarge House, and was informed by
him that be intended going to Europe in June next, in
company with several ladies, and that oWbeing asked by
.witness if he was about to get married, he smiled signifi-
cantly. Mr. B.3nton ,tstifiel that Dr. Bartell was present
at a meeting of the board of directors of the Artisans'
Bank (of which the witness also was a member) on the
28. h of October last, the date of the marriage, and took
part in a discussion relative to matters concerning the
bulk. At this stage in the proceeding the claimant's'
council ann .unced that they would rest their case.
According to a New York paper a report had
reached Aspinwall, prior to the departure of the
last steamer, that on the 2nd instant a canoe had
come down the river to Greytown, with the intelli-
gence that on Monday, Marcia 30, Lockridge
attacked Castillo and, after a brief resistance, cap-
tured it. His forces numbered 400 men, and were
opposed by an equal number of the enemy, who
lost 120 men. Lockridge's loss did not exceed
twenty-seven. On the other hand, letters from

Greytown to the 3rd instant, make, no-:mention of ! ,
this report, but state that Lockridge had moved ' '
tip the river to avoid the •sianess which prevailed !
at San Carlos and Serapiqui, where our
_last
accounts left him encamped, and that a fulihalf of
his men were prostrated by fever. 1
Details of news from Mexieo are of an interesw I
tine description. The rejection of the. Forsyth
Treaties was not known at the capital up to the
14th ult. A rumour that they. had been accepted.
occasioned great rejoicing. The new conatitution
was proinulgated on the llth of March, the anni-
versary of the adoption of the plan. The .Siglo
publishes a list of 71.' deputies who failed to sign
the new Corstitution. They represent principally
the States of Jalisco, San Louis, Sonora and Sinaloa.
The Territories of Colima and .Sieara •Gnrda
were not at all represented, The law ovri,ning
elections throughout the republic seas signed by
the President on the Ilah. . El 3lonitor fs.-,} s that
Santa Anna is in a:nista et commueleation with the
Mexican eniissaries, Great excitement eaie.tecl in
Sinaloa and Sonora at the rumoured project of an
an invasion of those regions by Californan Hi.
busters, and seFhlti measures of defence were
preparing by G wernor Yaucz and the local
authorities. The trial of G merit' Gandara for
insurrection was about to begin before a court
martial. The pacification of the republic appears
tobe for the nonce nearly complete, Al the principal
fomenters of insurrection, Gandara, Osollos, Van-
carte, &la have been put down orarrested. The Trait
dUnion thinks, nevertheless, that the policy is more,
apparent than real, that the clergy and conservatives
are still endeavouring to consumniate a reaction,
and that greater need than ever exists for firmness,
and vigour. The State of Jalisco was aienaced at
the Mist accounts with an invasion of two thousand
indiatis-atirtrlive-irrirrctred-mounteci robbore.-Troops
have been despatched in large numbers to protect
Jalisco and attack tlio rebels. - Mr. Jaquez,
a high dignity of ' Iguala, was recently ' attacked
in his house by fl'lriro number of bandits' Aided
by a 'servant, he defended himself bravely, but
was at length'in'luced to surrender on a promise
of personal safety, No sooner• had he placed
himself in the power of the wretches, than he was
most vilely assassinated. As usual, we read of
the attacks and robberies of the mail. The Indians
on the frontiers continue their depredations. The
Mexicin Extraordinary says :—" In Durango the
Tndians ' appear to be continuing their.
ravages without abatethent. The different,' state-
ments of theifravagea irf the past year 'tire most
startling. Murders, robberiA, and 'outrages 'of
the grossest nature fill a' calendar' of the most
pitiful character" The straightened circumstances
of the supreme government; says the same jottrnal,
, have forced the suspe,nsion of paYment at the
1 eastern. hoUses of. Vera Cruz and that city. The
i Vera Cruz diligence was robbed at Acajete. A
i Noly Father was ono of the passengers, whom the
' robtiers dil n A spare. .Soon after relieving him of
400 dollars in cash, the robbera required -him to
give them absolution.

CO3IMEECIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Nam YORK, April 15.
MONETARY AFFAIRS.—The money market is without
alteration, if anything, the supply on temporary loan is
easier, and likely to be further increased by the payments
into the foreign bauking-houses. Messrs. De Coopet and
Co , ,in their circular for the Asia, make the following
remarks :----" The market last week opened with a depressed
feelit:gi which at one time almost became a vatic. The
fall in price, did not seem to be an ordinary fluctuation of
a speculative market, but rather the effect of disappoint-
ment at the financial conditions and distrust of the manage-
ment of EOM) of the prominent railroad companies. The
changes in prices were violent and sudden, with large.
transaetionsin almost all descriptions of stocks and bonds.
For the past few days prices have been rising and close firm,
though at a trifling decline from the highest paint. During
the week there has been more than the usual amount of
purchases for investment. State Stocks, more active, with
sales of Missouri 64, Virginia 61 and Tennesee 6s, all
closing at an advance upon the Money in good demand,
with a free supply. Loans on demand at 7 per cent; Payer
81 to 11, according to class and length. Not much offering.
The statement of the New Yolk City Banks, of their
average condition for the week ending April 11th: show. 4
an increase of 510,815 dole in loans, and a decrease of
654,242 dolts in specie, 21,981 in circulation, and 822,003
dole in deposits We annex the week's average, with a
comparison of all the statements since the opening.of the
year, together with the average of the corresponding week
last year:

:!•4 DAte. Loans &Di 4C. Specie. Circulation. Depasi's.
Jan 10, '57
Jan 17 '57
J:n '24, '57
Jan 31, ,57
Feb 7, '57
Feb 14, '57 ll2 722 799 10 497 382 8.151.799 91,917,168
Feb 21, '57 .•
Feb 28, '57 111.137:717 10,645 254 8,159.275 91,173,280
Me i 7, '37 ......111,899,64'0 11 707,346 8 451,697 95,858,21
MO 14, '57 ......113,150,930 I 1 077 732 8,452 541 94,231 267
Mar 21 '57 —....11',448 592 11,291,373 8 494.238 96.406 450
Melt 98, '57
April 4,'37 ll4 833 902 11.538 732 8.812,423 97 340 914
Aprl 11,'57
t=.atn, time last year:
Aprl 12,'56 107,840 435 12.623,094 8,218 525 91,081,978
The actual deposits, as shown by deducting the clearings,
have increased 158,777 dole. Many. are harping upon the
"unprecedented expansion of the banks," but the loans
and discounts are not as large in proportion to the capital
employed as at the corresponding date of last year. A
simple comparison will settle this point:—
Date. Capital. Loans & Dis.
April 11, 1157
April 12, 1856

Increase
The loans are not as large therefore in proportion to the
capital by nearly 10,000,000 dols as in April of last year.

COTTON.
We have bad a quiet market, with less doing throughout
the past week than for a long period previously. The
advises per Niagara, to the 28th ult, have disappointed
holders, bat the accounts from the south of the continued
faliing off in receipts havipreienied any decline in prices,
and we repeat our quotations of last week, which, how.
ever, are barely obtainable. The sales are estimated at
8,000 bales, but little of which in transitu.
Urnarms Very ordinary to middling, Hie to 141 e ;
(ord„ 121 e; low mid. 131 e; good mid. 140); fair to good
fair and Bond, 150 to 154 e and 131 e; middling fair, 1.4-le,
fully fair, 151 e.
3./OBILea, LOUISIANA'S, &C: Ordinary to middling, 121 e
to 144 c ; (good ord, lne ; low mid. 14e ; good mid. 14-1 e)
fair to good fair, lac to 1.11.3 ; (middling fair; 151 e ;
fair, 15'4e.
We annex the following from the circular of Mr. NV, P.
Wright :
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the list of September last, as conspired with the
Previous four years :

. . 1857. 1856. 1855, 1854.
Receipts at the Ports 2 67.;,000 2,998,80012,081.000 2.312.000
Exports toG Britain...
i. France ' 330,,100 3-5.001. 272,000 231,000
" other F. Ports
Total Exports 1.704,000 2.031,00(0,471.000,1 373.0!10
Stock on band
OF which during the past week, included in the above :
ttec,;ipts at the Ports i 55,000 69,000 56,0001 85,000
Exports to G.Britain
" France.
" other For. Fts ..
Total Exports. ...
, Sammary.—Receip's : Decrease at , tho ports `Compared
with last year, 322,000 1351,5; comp)r3d with 18.53,
208,000. ElVrts : Decrease to Great Britain, 217,000 ;
compared with 1853, 159,000 bales. Decrease to France,
45,000; increase comp,arel with 1853, 39,000. Decrease
to other foreign ports, 65,000 ; increase compared with
1853, 86,000 hales.
The New York Shipping List of to-day contains the
following respecting the movements in the trade—
Receipts. G ri.e.axr I Irit43 atin. ETxoptarlts. Stocks,
.. 2 679 096 1,052.893 1;703.770° - 62 330
..2 597 574 1,278,371 165,811 141,629

Increase.... ........
Decrease.... 318.478 215,675 3_6 705 231
•
Hors : The business is small, but in prices there is no
change. The sales are 80 to 90 bales good to prime
Western at Bto 11 cents, and 140 do. Eastern, 6 to 0,
including one parcel of 60 bales at 6, cash.
IRON : The market is quiet, bat firm for all descriptions.
Scotch pig is steady, with small sales at 35 dols to arrive,
and 36 dots to 37 dots 50e, 6 mos, here—the latter rate
for swig, lots. In bars there is little or nothing doing ;
18 tons Staffordshire rod sold at 75 dols, 6 mos. Of
English sheet we notice 1,000 bndls It. G., assorted, at 41
cents, 6 mos. The Philadelphia North American says :
" The market is firmer. Stocks are light, with a fair
enquiry for pig metal, for future delivery, and some 2,000
tons Anthracite have been diiposed of, in lots, at 26 dols
to 26 dots 50c for No. 2, and 27 dols 50c to 28 dots for
No. 1, on time. Score makers now reins° our highest
figures. Manuractured iron is steady, with a moderate
business to note in rails and bars at quotations."
BRZA.DSTUFS.—FIour has been in very moderate demand
during the past week, the arrivals consisting principally