The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

THE AMPHITHEATRE.

MR. T. C. KING.—We have only time to say that Mr.
King has realised and made certain, during the past
week, the success we predicted for him. _;,He will appear
to-night as Hamlet, and during the week in several other
Shaksperian characters. As an intellectual and highly
cultivated actor, who never seeks applause by the making
of " points," and the display of stage effects, Mr. King is
remarkable among the many competitors for high honour
in tragedy. We shall examine the character of per-
formances at greater length on an early occasion.

THE DIORAMA OF L INDIA.-.TEUTONIC HALL.

The value of Pictorial representation consists in the
fidelity borne to the original which is intended to be
represented, and in this respect the great and beautiful
Diorama of India, now exhibitihg in Lime-street, is
remarkable. A learned friend of ours, with whom we
visited the exhibition a few evenings since, and who has
traversed every inch of India, was most rapturous in his
applause of the work, as he recognised every scene pre-
sented to his view, and said, but for the fact of his being
aware that he was physically lu Liverpool, he would feel
himself once again amongst the scenes of Hindostan, or
standing on the banks of the mighty Ganges. This,
although a high compliment, is deserved, for a more
elaborate and life—like portraiture of the country, its
people, manners gnd customs, we never saw on canvas.
As a work of art, we have already spoken of it. As a
faithful representative of all it presents to the admiring
gaze, there can be no doubt. The Games is :seen in all
its phases of soft beauty and wild grandeur. 7,,,,The ancient
towns and temples that adorn its hallowed banks, stand
out in bold relief, and we can almost fancy that it is on
"busy life" we are looking, instead of a gorgeous inani-
mate picture—which, indeed, is the next thing to nature.
We have the poetry of mellow moonlight spread over the
glistening surface of the sacred river; and, anon, the
unbridled fury of the sweeping hurricane, as it lashes the
broad expanse of Cerulean waters into desperate mad-
ness (as it were), dashing the devoted vessels about like
straws carried away by a mighty wail. The scene of the
hurricane on the Ganges is one true to nature, and the
accompanying flashes of lightning, peals of thunder, and
deluge of rain, gives a sublimely grand yet awful picture
of nature in the distant but instructing regions of the
Ganges. The representation of the Hindoo burials, the
immolation of widows on the funeral pile, and their
daring the terrible sacrifice, fills the mind with wonder,
and we are bound to admire the courage—even mistaken
as it is—with which this strange people preserve their
traditions and perform the ceremonies of their ancestors.
The Hindoo funeral is a magnificent picture, and with an
addition of mechanical arrangements the representation
is complete and effective. The landscapes 'are full of
interest, but as regards the religious temples and other
buildings, towns, and so forth, we must reserve these for
another notice, at the same time guaranteeing to all who
visit the Hall, that they will thank us for advising them
to do so. During the past week the house has been
crowded by fashionable audiences.

Rommuy.—On Thursday night last a case of the above
kind took place at New Brighton. It appears that about
eleven o'clock on the night in-question, some characters
had broken into the refreshment rooms of Mr. Cole. and
had carried off several articles. They were, however,
speedily captured, and will be brought up for trial.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT —An accident, which had near
been attended with fatal consequences, occurred near the
Tipperary station-house on Tuesday, on the arrival of
the noon train from Waterford. Mr. Binks, a Liverpool
gentleman, took a seat on a hotel outside car, and when
proceeding from the station - house, the horse bolted
toward the gate leading to the station-house against the
stone pier, of which the car came in contact, and Mr.
Binks, who narrowly escaped being killed. was thrown
from his right side over the car, and suffered severe
injuries in his head and shoulders. Car-owners and
hotel proprietors shonl,l be careful in the selection of
persons they place in charge of vehicles, as also of the
horses they use to them, as valuable lives depend so much
on them.

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER, EUROPA, FROM BOSTON AND
HALIFAX —Miss S. B. Inches, Mrs. B. R. Inches, Miss P.
M. Nicholls, Miss M. 0. Pickering, Rev. M. David and
Lady, Mr. and Mrs. Pyne, Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan
Pyne, Mr. Wm Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Abbot, child, and
servant ; Mr. and ars. J. W. Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Talbot
and child, Mr and Mrs. Paine, three children, and nurse ;
Miss E. P Nicholls, Miss Eastman, Messrs. Bainbridge,
J. C. Yuille, G. D, Young, M'Clure, Mr. and Mrs. Sent,
Mr. Spangenberg, Mr. and, Mrs. J. A. Low, Messrs.
Dovernns, P. Mallard, E. Y. Reilly, J.& Quesada, Lambert,
Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and child, Messrs. M. Dyas,
S. Prendos, Honold, A. Folsom, A. Wimpfheimes, J. W.
Plumpton, T. Mickerson, J. Runge, D. Law, B. W.
Nichols, A. D. Hodges, Mrs. D. P. Parker, Miss Parker,
Rev. J. M. Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Hastings, Messrs. R.
Smith, F. Gain, 0. Warner, L. Buher, A. Dennis, F.
Monchet, A. J. Crews, A. Waller, H. tilyers, C. Gluterbius,
F. D. Harrola, A. de E. Scads, Massingbert. Don L.
Senrens, Mr. P. A. Garland, Miss Green and maid;
Messrs. L. RodaNnacke, F. Rodaconacke, J. Walton, L.
Stottzner, J. E. Walker, and Mrs. Spiers, Mr. Forbes,
Miss Forbes, Messrs. Micken, Galleath, and Mrs. Hancock,
Messrs. G. K. uny, M'Kenzie, Dunne, and Mrs.
Dyke, J. P. Br Iwo. From Halifax Fordice,
Mrs. Parks, 310.-:sra, J, Youlrou, R. Redy, Capt.
Brouvirie, Mr. and Mrs. Stark, Mr. J. R. Ivy,
M'Gill, Pendloon, Mrs. Quin, Mrs. Cushing, Mr. J. F.
Brown, Miss Willingham, Messrs-. Schlossberg, E. Camean,
H. Kemp, S. J. Hobson, Mr. and Mrs. Lake and child, Dr.
Stevenson, Messrs. R. Smiths W. 11, Dean, Mr. and
Mrs. Killoran and infant, Mrs -Dennison, Mrs. Eastman,
two Ursalimo uuus,

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur publishes a Ministerial Circular
to the prefects concerning elections, and says
the Emperor calls to the ballot nine millions of
electors and demands from all a free and loyal
vote,

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, SATURDAY.

The Emperor and Empress of Russsia are ex-
pected here in June

Th. 3 Norfolk American says it is estimated that 30,000
slaves wer,4 sold and removed from Virginia last year, and
2,000 more escaped.
The income of the Ma Tits of Westminster is four
hundied tt oilsand pounds per annum ; eqn,il to five
thollaud d,,113rA pyr day, •,r over three dollars fm every
miniTte tinn, day and 'sight, throughout the year.
Ev-ry t'ck of she dock throw. a half dime into his purse.
—American Paper.

WHAT MARES MADNESS.—If they ( the Lunatic Asylum
Commissioner.) were authorised to search cut the root of the
=titer, there can be little doubt that intemperance, in the
use of strong drink and of tobacco, would be found at the
bottom of a pervaang wreck and deterioration of the
nobler part of mac, which it is equally grievous and
humiliating to contemplate.—Dublin Evening Mail.
WANTS TO GET DATED BACK.-00. a Sunday afternoon,
last fall. a young couple came down to our village, stopped
at one of the hotels, sent out for a clergyman, and were
married. The young man took a marriage certificate, and
they left the hotel a happy couple. A few days since- the
young man called upon the clergyman with his certificate,
and wished to get it dated la,ck Row far back do you
wish it dated ? inquired the clergyman. Why, as near as
we can calculate, about a couple of months, replied the
young men. This the clergyman declined doing, and
regretted that their should oe any necessity for the appli-
cation.—tlanerzean P Ter.
M it. GLADSTONE.—W, position is re na,kable and un-
certain 11, may be prime nvnister :he probably sill be
again Chancellor of the Each, (per. He is a devout
believer iu the sac.ed authority of givernment ; a man of
the niePst honour ; a firm adherent of pr. cedent ; a true
Conservative ; and yet the most deadly enemy of that
tyranny w;,ich he has characterised as " the nega!ion of
Goti erected into a system." He is the mast rt markable
man in wha' is called the Peelite Party ; the most philo-
sophical o' our modern statesmen ; and the most cn-
-I.ctentious of puliiictans. He glories in the fame he won
at Eton and Christ Chum as a scholar; in ihe honour
he has sttic attained as a philosopher; and in his new
character, that of politician. There is none of the Con-
serywive party at all comparable to him,—Banbury
Guai-dian.

DEATH OF .TAMES W. O'CONNOR, ESQ.—We regret to
record the death of thisLenileman, which took place on
Friday morning, at nine o'clock, on board the semaphore
steamer, on her passage from Liverpool to Belfast. Mr.
Connor was for some time past in a delicate state of health,
and a few days ago he left Belfast for Cheltenham, accom-
panied by Mrs. O'Connor, for change of air, but had
scarcely got there when he beceme so ill that he desired to
return home, and it was on the pstassge as already stated,
that he died. Mr. Connor was connected with some of our
banking establishments for many years He was far a
time manager of one of the branches of the Belfast
Banking Company, but for some years past he has filled
the office of cashier of the Ulster Bank, and in that position
earned the good opinion .f those who knew him. At half-
past there o'clock on Friday afternoon the remains were
removed from on board the steamer by his relatives to his
late residence at Apsley-place, Donegali Pass.
ESCAPE OF A PRIONELt FROM !HE NEW BAILEY, MAN-
CHESTER.—During the night of Thursday, a desperate
thief of great climbing qualifications, acquired partly by
the exercise of his calling as a stater, as wed as by less
honest means, contrived to elude the vigilance of the
officers, to scale the hill wall, and escape. The prisoners
are locked up at two different tim s. An officer who had
locked up one portion of his prisoners about six or seven
o'clock in the evening, had three left at work is the rooms.
When the time arrived for these to be put in close
quarters, only two appear, d. He mentioned this, we
learn, but it was suggested that the person who made the
entry in the book of three being left out, must have made
a mistake. The third man hae been working in the warp
room, amongst fibrous material, an had concealed himself.
Some time between twelve and ,wo o'clock, he had broken
his way into the open yard, and exercised his ingenuity
by tying rope steps between two long puces of wood, and
thus formed a ladder. This he heed against the office
of the magistrates' clerk, and climbed, it would seem, by
aid of the iron window stanchions—which must have been
a daring effort—to the ro f ; thence pissed ever the
governor's house, and descen ted to the top of the high
wall, in Stanley-street, made his tv.,y along is to the side
next Irwell-street, and continued his course to that part of
the wall near the railway. Here he lei himself down by
a rope he bad taken with him. The rope was discovered
by a policeman about two o'c'ock in the morning, when
an alarm was given in the prison. On ml nation it was
found that the missing man was named Braithwaite, who
had been committed for nine months for stealing slates at
Eccles. He had six months yet to serve.
EXTRAORDINARY FORGERIES BY A WARRINGTON TRADES-
MAN.—Last week we were in possession of information that
Mr. James Bentley, ironmonger, Sankey street, had forged
a number of bills to a large amount, and absconded no one
knew where. Satisfactory proof that such is the case was
furnished at the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday, and we
need therefore no longer refrain from giving the facts
publicity. It appears that for years Mr. James Bentley,
who must not be confounded with Mr. George Bentley,
also an ironmonger, has been in difficulties, and instead
of calling his creditors together, he has put off the evil
day by getting a friend at Greppenhell to discount
nearly £1,300 of forged bills, and by passing off bills for
at least as much more upon others. For a time the friend
at Grappenhall lent money on Mr. Bentley's own note of
hand, bat for the last year he has required additional
security, which he was furnished with, as he supposed, in
bills endorsed with the names of Mr. Bentley's sister, son
in law, and other persons, all of whom deny having signed
the bilis—one of them, in fact, has been dead for years.
The amount of forgeries is supposed to be little short of
£3,000. The bills have been renewed from time to time,
and only a few days before Mr. Bentley was made a bank-
rupt the premises were closed, and the stock advertised for
sale by the Grappenhall gentleman, by virtue of the power
of a bill of sale which be possessed. The powers of the
bill are now disputed, but there seems every reason to
believe that it will hold good, being perfectly bona fide.
Mr. Bentley, up to the present time, has kept out of
the way ; but no doubt a warrant from the court of bank-
ruptcy will be issued for his apprehension.—Warrington
Guardian.

COMMON LODGING HOUSES.—A report is published to
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by the
Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, upon
the operation of the Common Lodgicg House Acts within
the metropolitan police district. The report speaks in
satisfactory terms of the general working of the act, which
has been in force since 1861, and anticipates further bene-
ficial results as the opsration of the law becomes more
searching and complete. A great amount of disease,
misery, and crime has been removed, or abated, and habits
of cleanliness and decency substituted, while the accom-
modation for the poor has been extended and imprsved
without any bier ase of payment, With one exception,
the examples cited of cases dealt with under the act, are
c mfined to the east end of London. Notwithstanding
that during a period of more than five years nearly 800,000
visits have been made by the officers, both by day and
l amongst a class of persons deemed almost incorri-
'i
gStel4hlet'
,not a single instance of assault- has occurred, or one
just complaint of intrusion into a "private dwelling."
The report text adverts to the model lodging-hous s, the
rumber of which, so ftr as it can be ascertained, amounts
to 104, accoemodating 989 families, and 882 single persons.
The charges made in these houses are generally higher,
and the class ot occupiers much superior than in the
common lodgingehouses. Tee report susgests, that if
houses were erected or converted to the purpose of being
let out in rooms to married couples, at rates not exceeding
one shilling per week per rosin, the greatest benefit would
be conferred on the poorer classes. Much advantage has
resulted from the operation of the Nuisances Rsmoval
Acts, tinder which 2,471 cases had been effectually dealt
with by the magistrates. The report condoles with
sundry suggestions as to the letting of single rooms, the
prevention of contagious diseases, and the improper use of
the act by licensed victuallers; it is also furnished with an
appendix, containing a copy ot the regulations, and nume-
rous certificates, important by way of teaOraQuy, from
various medical officers. -

AME RICA.

Wmtera ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

g'The royal mail steam-ship Europa, Capt. Leitch,
which sailed from Boston on the 20th, and from
Halifax on the 22nd, arrived in the Mersey yester-
day afternoon, bringing 140 passengers, the usual
mails and specie on freight amounting to 1,065,459
dole., of which 573,948 dole. are for Havre.
The Europa passed the royal mail steam-ship
Canada, on the 31st ult., bound west, and on
the 21st signalised the barque Gipsy Queen,
bound west. The steam-ship Asia arrived
at New York on the 15th ; the Anglo-Saxon,
screw steamer, reached Quebec on the 17th ; the
Arago, from Havre, entered New York on the
evening of the 18th ; and the Niagara at Halifax,
en route to Boston, on the 19th.

The news by this arrival is six days later than
that brought by the Kangaroo, and is, in some
respects, of an interesting character.
From Washington we learn that the British
Ministry had signified their satisfaction with the
policy to be pursued in China by the United States
authorities. With respect to the Central
American dispute there is nothing new. Mr
Henan, the Minister from Central America,
had expressed his belief in the pacific adjust-
ment of the questions in dispute with New
Grenada. The Saratoga had been ordered to
Greytown, and one of the vessels at Panama would
proceed to San Juan del Sar, to watch the progress
of affairs, and protect American interests in that
quarter. A despatch, dated Washington, May 19,
which appeared in the Boston papers of the 20th,
says that a member of the cabinet had received a
telegraphic despatch from Major M'Culloch, de-
clining the Governorship of Utah. He, however,
expects to reach this city in the course of ten days
It is not true that Judge Drummond has been
offered the appointment, but this afternoon a
telegraphic despatch was sent to a Western man,
whose name is officially concealed for the present,
tendering it to him. Recent information has caused
a change in the policy hitherto contemplated, the
condition. of Utah now being such as to require
rigorous measures. Troops in large numbers will
be sent thither, probably under command of
General Harney. The administration is anxious
to at once act on this important matter, especially
in view of the late obstruction to judiciary proeeed-
ings, and accounts frequently received relative to
oppressions by the Mormons of those who do not
belong to their fraternity.
Much excitement has existed in the Pen-
sion Bureau, in consequence of the alleged
discovery of extensive frauds. Commissioner
Whiting, after close investigation, found no proofs
of venality, but discovered that a clerk therein had
extended undue facilities to an agent for claims,
some of which were improperly allowed, and
required the clerk to resign his office. A letter
from Mr. Denison, Indian agent, represents the
accounts of Pawnee depredations to be much
exaggerated. These Indians, 3,000 or 4,000 in
number, are in a starving condition, and retaliated
upon the whites for supposed wrongs. In the
council which Denison held with them, they did
not deny that some young men of their tribe were
. guilty of misdemeanours, but none of so serious a
nature as to warrant the whites in taking the life
of one of their chiefs. They said they were willing
to make a treaty, to be placed on an equal footing
with the Otoes, Missourians, and Omanas.
The Supreme court of Ohio had decided the
Poindexter slave ease in direct opposition to that
of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case. They have adjudged Henry Poindexter
free, on the ground that neither i hio nor Ken.
tuckey can demand an abrogation of the constitu-
tion and laws of the other ; and if a Kentucky
slave comes into Ohio by the consent of the owner,
the constitution and laws -erf, Ohio operate on the
condition of such person, and effect his immediate
emancipation. The constitution declares that if a
person held to service in one State escapes into
another, he shall be given up. In this case Poin-
dexter did not escape, but was sent into Ohio by
his master. This case is, therefore, not covered by
the constitution, and he became entitled to the full
benefit of the express prohibition of slavery in
Ohio, and was to all intents and purposes free.
We observe in the papers before us that there
had been a popular outbreak at Louisville,
attended by a terrible result. Four negroes were
tried on a charge of murdering a family. One of
them turned State's evidence, but his testimony
not being sustained, the prisoners were acquitted.
Thereupon the mob procured cannon, demanded
the culprits, and theatened to bombard the prison.
The jailer yielded to the pressure. Three of the
negroes were forthwith hung, and the fourth com-
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.
The last accounts from the Great Salt Lake

represent matters in that quarter as being mos
unsettled; and containing a narrative of startling
facts, showing that unmitigated treason, murder,
arson, robbery, and forcible debauch, are every day
incidents of Mormon life, and that not an effort is
made to check the perpetration of any .tof these
terrible crimes. Brigham Young was at Great
Salt Lake City, organising a secret expedition to
somewhere in the North, for some purpose un-
known to the Gentile world. This fact is cor-
roborated by a despatch from St. Louis. His
negotiations with the Chief Pah-Utah for his co-
operation in the plans of the expedition, fully
explain the statement that he had been treating
with the Indians for safe conduct out of the country.
Women were becoming scarce in the territory.
and the Mormons consequently are resorting to
merest children to replenish their harems , while
the most fiendish oppression is resorted to for the
purpose of forcing reluctant females to become the
" spirituals" of Mormon Turks. A new doctrine
had been practically introduced into the Mormon
creed, and was expected soon to be promulgated—
to wit, that of furnishing proxies to supply the
place of husbands to wives of missionaries absent
on foreign service, so that " the duty of raising up
a kingdom to the Lord" may, not fail of perform-
ance during their absence.
A despatch from St. Louis states that the Kansas
United States District has entered a nolle prosepti
in all the treason trials pending. The cases of
Governor Robinson and others, arraigned for
usurpation of office, will be determined in a simi-
lar manner.
The following piece of Washington gossip is
worthy of perusal: It appears that Lord Napier
had an interview with the. President respecting the
Dallas-Clarendon treaty, which might, under ordi.
nary circumstances, appear strange, and even a
slight; but it was not so intended, nor has it been
so received. It is simply a fulfilment of the fixed
determination of Mr. Buchanan to oversee ' indi-
vidually the whole business of the foreign rela-
tions of the government—a resolution which
no one will condemn in view of the
advanced age of Mr. Cass. It may be added to what
Mr. Harvey has stated in his letter, that whenever
the ratificrtion of the treaty between Great Britain
and Honduras shall be received, the obstacle to
the completion of the Dallas-Clarendon treaty, in-
cluding all the amendments of the senate, will have
been removed, and Lord Napier will be enabled,
in the name of his government, to reopen negoci-
ations. Much has appeared in some of the New
York papers in relation to a supposed correspon-
dence in relation -ro 'the senate amendments,
between. Mr. Dallas and Lord Clarendon. NO
such correspondence has ever taken place,
nor had a single line been written, CI)
to lest date, by either of the two parties,
on the subject. General Cass has given his per-
sonal views, respecting the matter, to those who
have
hashed in
approached him, and these have been re-
hashed shapes ; but their value can
only be i
measured by the degre of confidence which
he may be
he has, for supposedthe to repose in those with whom
Meagher is an a time, been speaking. Mr. T. F:
ipe
jpniocant for the OM of Minister to
Venezuela. It occupied by Mr.-Eames, wIDo
is the brother
. of
Meagher's partner in
business in your City.
Intelligence from the city of Mexico
been iaker;
the most stringent measures
hadfillibusters mentions th
to
“
annihilate the Sonora
as to lend a probability to the report
—so stringent.
indeed,
received by telegraph that Col. Crabb et the Augu-

mander of the party, and sixty others, had been
captured and shot. - Governor Pesquiera,. in his
proclamation to the citizens of Sonora,
tells them to show the invaders no mercy,
and the War Department has exorcised
great energy in despatching a formidable
body of troops to the scene of anticipated hostili-
ties. The Archbishop, in his last.circular, com-
pletely succumbs to the law, and recommends
obedience to the Constitution. Opinions vary as
to whether his Grace is sincere or not in his new
character of pacificator. It is stated that pre-
parations for defence have been for some time
progressing in Vera Cruz, and that a Spanish fleet,
whenever it appears in Mexican waters, will meet
with a stubborn resistance. _

The following is a copy of the decree of the
Archbishop of Mexico :
I. That you neither refuse nor cause the faithful to wait
for the administration of the sacraments, nor other ens.
tomary offices of the church. 2. That you axact nothing
whatever from those who have recourse to your ministry.
3. That you content yourselves with what is voluntarily
°flared to you. 4. That, without using oth-r means, you
give the faithful manuscript copies of this letter, certified
by your signature, in order to make thrn acquainted with
it. 5. That in the place for the law, you sh .11 put up.,l
copy in the frame, transcribing it al ,o in the book ~f
Diocesan Acts I likewise warn and pray you, in the name
of our Lard and Savioar Jesus Christ, that you neither
begin nor encourage any c,,nve.rattion upon thin law, nor
upon any other political question, and much less still that
you should not toueh neon such matter in the pulpit.
We have news from Caraccas (Venezuela) to the
25th ult. Popular opinion was averse to the new
constitution. The popular voice had beet* stifled by
the abolition of triennial Legislature ; Governors,
hitherto elected, were appointed and dismissed by

the executive ; the cenu:alizatioa of power in the
bands of the Monagas family was complete—in fact
they exercise almost imperial sway without the
ostentation of imperial dignity. The people were
discontented, and a revolution was expected very
soon. General Flores had left Laguayra for St.
Thomas, after being honoured with the nominal
rank of General-in Chief of the republic.
. _ _

Advices from Havannah state that oh the 10th
ultimo the decree of the Captain-General, permit
tini.7, the free importation of fresh fish from Key
West, had been annulled by a royal order from
Madrid, procured through interest at court. The
joint stook speculation bubble had reached such a
point of inflation that a speedy and ruinous
disruption was inevitable There were twelve
banks, seven insurance companies wtth " fomen-
ter's' and " credit mohilier'' insttucions withoitt
number in prospect. Every point at which the
finances of the people could be assaled had been
attacked by the cormorant speculars. Sugar was
advancing in price and freights were dull.

COMMERCI A.L INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 19.
MONETARY AFFAIRS.
There is no change in Money affairs. The business in
Foreign Bills for the Boston steamer is thus far moderate,
with an ample offering of Steriirg within last week's
quotations, 1094 to 1091 plr cent. Francs, 5.181 to 5.171
The Stock Exchange continues under considerable excite-
ment on three or four of the active Rai!road Shares, while
on the remainder of the list prices leave off steady and
a fraction higher than Saturday. Messrs. Marie
and Kanz in their circular issued for the Europa
says :---" Owing to the want of activity which affects the
various branches of trade as well ;s the financial classes,
money, in spite of the large shipments of specie, becomes
daily more abundant, and the rates of interest are tending
downward. Stocks are for the most part a trifle lower
than our previous quotations; but California State Bonds
and the shares of the Michigan Southern and Illinois Cen-
tral Railroads have experienced a marked advance. The
California Bonds rose upon the news that the Legi lature
seemed on the eve of passing a law ratifying the debt, sub-
ject to the popular vote in September next. Michigan
Southern Stock is up in consequence of the success
attending the new loan, and the rise in Illinois Central is
due in part to forced purchases by speculators who have
oversold the market. Money easier. Loans on call 7, and
in exceptional cases at 6 per cent. First class paper 9 per
cent; second class do, 9to 11. Stock contracts, Bto 10.
Exchanges firm, with moderate activity. London, 1091, to
10n,