The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JAN 12.
The Osservatore Triestino confirms the news of
the Triest Zeitung relative to the occupation of the
islands on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.
some years since, Russia " borrowed" the island
Dagada from Persia, as a station against the
Turcoman pirates. The pirates were long ago
annihilated, but the island in question, which is at
the mouth of the Oxus, is still in the hands of
Russia.

It is related that Dr. Ilarless, the chief of the
Protestant Consistorial Council in Bavaria, is about
I'l be dismissed, and he deserves no better fate;
'or his rash attempt to introduce auricular con-
fession and stricter church discipline almost led to
schism in the church.
All three ministers are gone direct to Milan, and
they will receive their Majesties when they make
their solemn entry into that city on the 15th. Ac-
(,°l,'cling to the official programme which has been
OrAished, the Emperor and Empress will be met
,tbe authorities as they pass under the triumphal
'orert Which has been erected in front of. the Porta
t rlentale. In the evening, their Majesties will go
t 0 the Scala. In the evening of the 18th. there
s'll` be a torso through the brilliantly illuminated
,411 ares and streets. On the 21st there will. be a
ball at the Scala, and her Majesty will re•
',"'!ve from the municipality an album containing
`,.:l'glnal drawings by Italian artists. The municipal
141ncil has also resolved to give 50,700 lire to the
eflaritable institutions of the city.

ICEW LEGISLAIION AND THE LAWYERS.—If the scheme
"," registration of titles, to he produced next session, is
"113 thing like that which has been described by the news-
p.toers, half the solicitors in the country must prepare to
8411 t uP their offices. Three-fourths of the business of the
r- ofession in the provinces—all of it, indeed, that is worth
.tying—comes from conveyancing. Tl.e operation of the
lntoposed scheme will be to 'destroy that branch of a country
'll:°"nev's practice, leaving him only that in which he shares
"s profits, small as they are, with his agent in London.—
Lau, Times.

WEST INDIES & PACIFIC.

The royal mail steamer La Plata, as noticed in
yesterday's NORTHERN TIMES, arrived at South-
ampton on Thursday. She brings the usual mails,
and on freight gold dust value 377,711 dollars;
British coin (copper), 890 dollars ; specie, 156,869
dollars ; gold tbars, 54,453 dollars ; silver bars,
286,011 dollars; plataPina, 15,425 dollars; pearls,
2,500 dollars—total, 893,859 dollars. The cargo
comprises 382 serons of cochineal, 214 serons of
indigo, 79 bales tobacco, 714 bags of cocoa, one
package of vanilla, 22 cases of succaiees, 163 bales
of bark, two bales of hats, 28 kegs of arrow-root,
58 packages of merchandise, and 56 packages of
sundries

Jamaica advices are to the 26th ult., but they
contain nothing of interest. The House of
Assembly continued in session, and the financial
statement for the year, presented by Mr. Hosack,
was considered very satisfactory.
From Demerara we have papers to the 25th ult.,
but nothing of public importance had occurred in
the colony since the last mail. The registration
ordinance was in operation, and no difficulty had
been experienced in carrying out its provisions. Mr.
T. H. Forster had been appointed registrar of the
counties of Demerara and Essequibo, in the room
of Mr. Schrack, who had resigned and returned to
Europe. Mr. J. W. Goodman had been appointed
a stipendiary magistrate, in the room of Mr.
Lyons, retired on a pension. Heavy rains had
fallen throughout the colony during the fortnight
before the mail left. and the wet weather interfered
considerably with the manufacturing operations on
many of the estates. The weather, however, was
favourable for the growing canes, and vegetation
exhibited everywhere a luxuriant appearance.
There is no political news from Barbadoes. In
the sugar market transactions had taken place at
48s 6d to 52s 6€l for common to fine yellow.
At Trinidad the weather had till within the last
week being very wet. The canes grew, and made
up in some measure fcr their previous shortness,
but operations for the commencement of crop
were performed with difficulty. Ships had come
in very freely well loaded with goods, and business
of all kinds seemed brisk and encouraging.
There was a demand for cocoa, which had
realised lately as much as 13 dols, and portions of
next year's crop of sugar had been said to be
purchased at 5 dols;
A letter from St. Vincent, dated Dec. 23, says
there was not much news. The Bishop of Barba-
does had confirmed 300 young people there.
At St. Kitt's his Honour A. P. Burt had been
appointed by the Lieutenant Governor to the
vacant judgeship, and F. S.'Wigley to fill the office
of Attorney General, vacant by Mr. Burt's promo-
tion.

From Martinique the melancholy intelligence
has been received of the death. of Mr. John Law
less, her Majesty's consul at that place.
The general news from the Republic of Chili
was not of any particular interest. The President
of the Republic was about to visit Valparaiso,
where he intended to remain during the warm
season. The Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad
was soon to be opened as far as Limache, a distance
of 30 miles. An electric telegraph between Santi-
ago and Talca would probably be completed this
summer.

The yellow fever rages in the towns and villa ges
north of La Paz.

Dates from the Republic of Pera are to Dec. 11.
General Vivanco, the head of the revolutionary
movement, arrived at Arequipa on the 3rd of Dec.,
and was received with enthusiasm ; he immediately
issued a proclamation to the people, and commenced
organizing the different branches of his Adminis
tration. The departments of Moquegua and Puno
remain faithful to the Government ; those of Canas
and Canches have declared for Vivanco. The
Tacna division of the army was at Arica, to protect
that port, and General San Roman was at Puno,
organising the troops. The city of Cuzco remained
faithful to the Government. Truxillo and Lam-
bayeque have declared against the Government, in
favour of General Vivanco. In the latter town the
people defeated a force of forty infantry and a
picquet of cavalry. Don Jose Tello had been
nominated a sub prefect by the revolutionary party.
Business was, of course, complete ly parlysed by
the unsettled state of affairs.