The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-21 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

The royal mail steamer Europa arrived here
aaOrtly after noon yesterday, with Boston dates and
viees to the Bth, and Halifax, 10th instant. The
481 a arrived at New York ou the 4th, and the
,erevv steamer Canadian, at Portland, on the 7th

Washington
news is not of much importance. From
Ivashingt(in we learn that a rumour prevailed that
'• Parker, the present United States Plenipoten•
liarY i •
n China; would be remQved, that he will be
41e.,euily replaced by some one of much superior
co
and nerve, and who will be better fitted to
ecointer emergencies as they may arise, in the
rnplicated state of foreign relations in the
"lestial Empire. The Washington correspondent
of the Boston Advertiser, in noticing the above
14,
-.our, says:—
;,..With respect to the course the government should
IrLuisue in the Chinese matters, I can give you a correct
i:4te of the case. Previous to the news of the trouble
ECanton river, M. Sartiges, acting for France and
ngland, proposed to Mr. Marcy to join in a commercial
iwsade to Pekin. Mr. Marcy posilvely declined, and
:Plied that, after being twitted with petty fillibustering
rrt)ilets everywhere on this continent, the government
w otdd not take part in those of greater magnitude in
'fla. But, said Sartiges, you Americans originated the
'a of demanding access to Pekin, and you authorised
Cammissioner Parker to bring the matter officially
we'ore I,rd Clarendon and Count Walewski, which he
ki en rouge to the East, backed by the statement, that
n American fleet would carry out the design. Mr.
arcs denied that any such authority had been granted
t° Mr. Parker; that he was totally unauthorised to
®eke Such cominuhications; that aggressive measures
rctl 'solely upon the action of Congress, and therefore
he
sodcoul not legally have given such orders, even had be
keen inclined. In proof of this he produced Mr. Par-
lastructions. 1 t was only a few days after this
terview that theintelligence arrived of the bombardments
FCanttha riverAand it is lair to presume that, on the
4glish side Admiral Seymour had only precipitated
:I:isures, which he had been instructed to carry out at
he future period. For our share of the work there,
e e present admiListration have approved o
Of
, but f the !
kelect of the naval anthorities the course-
„,
_air, Parker is not sanctioned. Since the coming
Lord Napier, he has repeatedly urged the
'ternment to the same course advocated by his French
thatelague, but Mr. Buchanan told himvery lately,
we should keep out of the Chinese enebroglio, useless
ti!'„like measures became imperative, out of respect to the
trts and interests of our citizens and commerce in
I"Cese waters. Thus stands the question. I think,
;.wever, in addition to the naval reinforcements, a corn-
'agiisioner with full powers will be named—probably Mr.
°aAng—and Dr. Parker will be either displaced or remain
!3'-'ina subordinate capaci y. The demonstration of Spain
i wards Mexico is not regarded here as an earnest of her
w°,tclitions. If Fr..nce and &gland could be persuaded—
t„nich they cannot—to keep ,our hands tied, Simla might
aura aggressive Mexico but with the probability of a friendly
t°l' end
between and the United States, the affair
L end in bluster.".
vsltespecting the intentions of the new President'
correspondent of the New York Daily Times,
Citing on the 6th instant, says:
1•g l‘io w that the worry, hurry, and bustle of appointments
0_-
4i:ere the whole attention of Mr. Buchanan is being
ti.,:ned to our foreign relations. They will occupy most of
sit",t,irne for some days
is in and, ere the close of the week, I
14,4 have much thatinteresting to communicate. It
CY be doubted whether more industry has ever been
4el.43red by an executive, during the first mouth of his
lm Career than has been exhibited by the present Chief
,"z4gistrate. ' This is partly owing to the fact that long
aPerience has caused him, as well as most members of his
l.Liet, to have such settled • convicti,ms upon most
Jects of public interest, that consultation is facilitated
"c 1 Speedy decisions are insured.
the newly appointed Governor of Kansas,
laienter, had issued a proclamation to the inhabt-
, 'ts of that Territory. Although the proclamation
as pacific, and designed to address the " intern-
t-ce and patriotism of the whole people" in that
itl'itory, it must not be understood, says a
Oltington correspondent, that- it is either his
4rPose, or that of the Administration, to with-
w the military forces, or to hesitate in appealing
a„a
" that resource should the .necessity be apparent
1:)(1 urgent; The bead quarters are transferred ,
0% Lavenwarth to St, Louis, and a portion of the
a')Ps will be changed in Order to disconnect the
sew Governor with any of the former prejudices
Ot May yet linger, and remove associations that
eoght be disturbing. The aggregate force at the
B'ittrian d' of the Governor will be slightly increased.
fnd
x. he has full authority to employ it in any
4 igeney that may require such interposition. All
`'se contingencies were fully discussed in Cabi
comasl unt Mr. alker's resence, and with his full
.
on a uWnd concuprrence.

the steam ship Illinois left New York on the
inst. for Aspinwall with about six hundred
passengers, many of them fillibusters.
It •
is reportedthat the steamers of the Nicaraguan
tone have not only given up carrying fillibusters
'Valker, but have withdrawn (rota the California
passenger trade also.
~,At the meeting of-Abe New York Board of Health,
Iva the 6th inst., the subject under consideration
lt4' proposition from the Philadelphia Board of
ealth to hold a Quarantine Convention in that
tv
tr,.5 on the 13th of next May. The convention is
lt„enmprise delegates from the various Boards of
k'aith in the, maritime cities of the United States,
04n fer in relation. to the establishment of a uni-
to %.system of Quarantine laws. The Board voted
'end seven delegates to the.eonvention.
lijhe telegraph informs us of two dreadful casu
qt!es by fire in N Y. State. The house of a Mr
Iroshaw, near Cape Vincent, was burned, and
OtP. (rimshaw, his wife, and six children perished.
%l the following morning, a dwelling 'in Oswego,
e 4Pied by a French family, named Pleonta, was
perish and three children, one seventeen years old,
ed and an old man was burned to death in
•elv York, on the sth instant.
4,44qvices from Fort Dodge, in lowa, state that a
of'tiernent of twenty .families at the head waters
d,the Des Moines River had been attacked by a
ntY of Indians, and the supposition was that all
k"" been murdered, or carried into captivity.
Ame had been shot, and others clubbed to death.
tt, iinpany of whites had been organised, to pursue
ndiane and take vengeance upon them.
iS stated, on the authority of letters from
th'ilionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Pieiar
a 'furious war is raging in Liberia, in the
the "ny or Cape Palmas, between the colonists and
natives. Thirty-seven American horses and
%I",ich property are stated to have been destroyed,
ttt),; ,twerrty-eight lives had been lost All missionary
• i,rousiness matters were at a stand.
151' e have details of news from the city of Mexico
th Late date. The country was quiet, except in
Qestern Styes. . The serious aspect of the
4p, •Wty with Spain bad given rise to much
141;enension. General confidence was expressed
N),,"'e result of--General Lafragna's mission. The
ktlt74lBll residents of the Republic appear to be
Ite,h-e'Pating the threatened attack 'upon. the
49"blia by their government at Madrid. They
Wi,tat.i.ailing Mexicans with a high hand. On the
, twelve of them well armed, attacked, the.
111‘0!40 of Olverti, demanding arms of the Mexican
hi% lirietor Sr. Oinnt, iII treating and insulting him,
qfe"erseers, and his fame*" and servants, byway
heir demand. On arms being of
qott."."lty delivered to them, they pr,;;..feded
to
J11,,-," money, and got 1,300 dols, all that Sr.
NO Possessed, and then with more threats and
‘14.1 s, loCked up all the inmates in the place,
11(14 Made off with their booty, also taking their
411 a !,? With them. They were pursued, however,
401.8'48cm/erect ; six of them seizedi..9so dols, the
t01.,e3, and one of the firearms being also re.
Thevred.
On„
Ni,.` dates from Havannah are to the 3rd April,
101,i:Lexican question continued to be the general
‘art of conversation among the people of Cuba,
the noth•
-ing further official was known regarding i
*k )14eivv-inents of 'Spain. Dispatc
at Hhes.
auwere daily
'e"ed- The stock of sugar aveah and

Matanzas was 210,000 boxes, and the market
remained firm at last quotations. Two Dutch
ships, with seven hundred Coolies on board, had
arrived at Havannah. There had been copious rains
throughout the Island. Our papers from Texas
are to the 2nd inst The crops were in tolerable
condition, but ware suffering from want of rain.
The New York papers contain lengthened
accounts of Walker's movements in Nicaragua.
They all agree in saying that Walker had most
signally defeated the Costa Ricans. They all
speak of Walker's attack upon San Jorge, and of
the simultaneous attack upon Rivas by the allieS,
and agree in the main facts with the statements
published on the morning of the arrival of the Texas
They agree that General Walker left Rivas on.
the 'l6th of March, with the main holly of his
little army, for the purpose of attacking San
Jorge ; that he was doing well there against
the allies, when he heard firing at Rivas,: that
he immediately thereon abandoned the fight at
San Jorge and hastened back. When near Rivas
he opened fire on the enemy's rear, while General
Henningsen was using. grape with much effect
upon their front. • The result was a slaughter of
some five hundred of the allies, and a stampede
of the rest. More detailed statements of the battle
were expected, but have not arrived. One General
Cayneau writes a long letter to the New York Times,
and concludes in the following strain :
If the steamer Texas had duly touched at San Juan del
Norte, on her ritarn from Aspinwall, the public would
have even now direct confirmation of the following im-
portant facts That President Walker is now at the
head of the de facto and only government of Nicaragua.
2. That having :reed Patricio Rivas as an implement for
the ruin of his country, the invaders are prepared to set
aside the feeble show of a government they set up in his
name, and divide the territory of Nicaragua arnang the
neighbouring states. 3. That the moseable and popular cl
the native Niearagnan generals has declared against the
despoiling invaders, and it is quite probable that the next
trustworthy advices will announce him in arms ,to
assist General Walker in driving them out of the country.
The partition of Nicaragua was to ensure to the
special benefit of the allies of England, and was planned
under British direction, in the same spirit that the
British officials at Grey town abetted the suppression of the
Nicaragua transit. 5. The mitive of the British govern-
ment in aiding and encouraging the destruction of that
important highway to the Pacific is to confine our trade
and travel to California to the one route by-Panama,
which, we have fatal evidence, is under the irresponsible
control of the negro subjects and allies of England. 6.
There are strong grounds for believing that some British
capitalists have views of their own relative to the'
Nicaragua transit, and are making efforts to monopolise
and control .for their private interest this peculiarly
favourable route to the Pacific. The representative of
large moneyed interests in Europe has proposed negotia-
tions with the view of obtaining the comment of
that transit in return 'for material aid.
7. The allies having been routed at the battle of
Quaresma ( %larch 176): with a loss so d,cisive that they
.will be unable to renew the contest, with the slightest
hopes of suecess, the parties interested will now demand. of
the United States Government the immediate re-eitablish-
ment of the Nicaraguan line of transit, under the guaran-
tee; of the Clayton dul,wer treaty, and both this goveremect
and that of England are under distinct obligations to
" protect it from interruption," under the •conven:ion of
April 19. 1850. This mutual engagement of Great Britain
and the United States has been strangely overlooked by the
American people, but it exists in binding forts neverthelt as,
and its enforcement at this crisis may have an incompatible
effect on the security and advancement of American
interests on all the transits of the American Isthmus.

COMMERCIAL IN i'ELLIGENC E.

NEW YORK, April 7.

MONETARY AFFAIRS : Messrs. De Coppit and Co., in
their circular issued for the Europa, contains the follow-
ing : "In the face of an increasing ease in the na mey
market, since our last advioes of the 21st ultimo, the
tendency of prices in the stock market has been downward.
The movement in shares, which h is been tolerably large,
has run chiefly upon the speculative stocks, and has been
mostly confined to a few large operators. But few stocks
for permanent investment have been bought during the
week. The payments into the banks of an unusually large
amount of notes, falling due the 4th instant, were made
with unexpected else. There was no unusual demand for
money on that day, as had been anticipated by many.
Monay without change in rate, though the supply is
freer—demand loans 7 per cent ; good paper, not very
abundant, at 84 to 12, according to class and length.
The statement of the New York City Ranks, of their
average condition for the week ending April 4, shows an
increase of 1,949 878 dols in loans, 212,999 dols in specie,
338,499 dols in circulation, and 4,726,354 dols in nominal
deposits. We annex the week's average, with a com-
parison of all the statements since the opening of the year,
together with the average for the corresponding week of
last year

Wits. Loans & DiaC Specie. Circulation. Deposi`s.
Jan 10, '57
Jan 17, '57
Jal 24, '57
Jan 31, '57
Feb 7, '57
Feb 14, '57
Feb 21, '57 ....
Feb 28, '57 ..,, 111.137,717 10,645,254 8,159,275 91,173,280
Mei 7, '57 ..„ ..111,899,649 11,707,346 8,465,697 95,858.22
Bich 14, '57 . .113,250,930 II 077,732 8.452 541 94,231 267
Mel] 21,'57 -- 113,448 692 11,291,373 8 491,238 93,406 450
arch 28, '57
April 4, '57 ll4 833,802 11,538,732 8,813;423 97 340,914

Same time last year:

April 5, '5B 105,962,018 13,38135 i 8,347,498 91,008,408
The actual deuosi.s (deducting clearings) show an
increase of 655;673 dols ; the nominal deposits were largely
increased by the enormous payments maturing the fourth
or April.