Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Bombay mosey market was much higher, and the
banks had raised their rates of interest The transactions
in the import market were very limited. Exchange,
2s 1 -.81 1, At Calcutta there was no particular change in
either exports or imports Government securities had
advanced. Exchange, 2s id to 2s 4d. Hong Ko, g ex-
change ss. Shanghai exchange, April 29, 7s 3d to 7s 4d.

FR kNOE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

General Cavaignac, it is said, would rather not
present himself a second time to the electors of
the third arrondissement if he could avoid it. If,
as is pretty certain, he would refuse to take the
oaths to the Emperor, he would act like a man of
sense by not coming forward: The times are no
longer propitious fir mere. manifestations. ' The
circumstances are no longer the same as under the
Restoration, when Manuel could produce an im-
mense effect by resisting the sentence of expulsion
from Parliament, and only yielding to brute force at
the hands of a gendarme. General Cavaignac is not
Manuel ; the Emperor Louis Napolean is not Louis
XVIII; the Legislative Corps in not the Chamber
of Deputies; and France is no longer in 1823. It
General Cavaignac were so badly advised as to
attempt the imitation, it would probably produce
s little effect os the refusal of the oath by M.
Bonhier de l'Ecluse in 1852, and would be as soon
forgotton. It is said that a proposal has been
made to a distinguished member of the Paris bar,
a moderate republican, to take General Cavaignae's
place at the new elections, but has not been
accepted.
The Prefect of the Seine has this day posted a
notice in Paris, announcing that the electors of the
third, fourth, and seventh circumscriptions are
convoked in their respective sections the sth and
Gth July next, in order to elect a deputy in each
circumscription. Cards will be delivered to the
electors by the mayors from the Ist July in the
localities which will be indicated in a future notice.

It is stated that, in pursuance of a report of the
Minister of the Interior, the emperor, previous to
his departure for Plombieres, signed a decree sup-
pressing the Direction-General of Public Security
and the Telegraph Lines, at the head of which
respectively were M. Collet-Meygret and M. de
Vougey. The statement is correct, and those gen-
tlemen are to be transferred to other posts, one as
Prefect of an important department, the other as
Receiver-General. The real cause of the suppres-
sion of these offices not being known to the public
generally, many rumours are put in circulation,
which can only possess interest for the authors of
them. It is probable that in such gases the
Emperor forms the decisions which he adopts on
grounds more serious than any of those that are
alleged. It will be remembered that the decree
for the suppression of the Ministry of Police
coincided with the return of comparative calm
after the agitated period which immediately
followed the codp d'etat, but it was considered
that, in the circumstances that then existed, it
was not safe to pass at once from a regime of too
rigorous a character to a total relaxation of vigi-
lance, and the creation of the intermediate Depart-
-meat of Public Security followed as a state of tran-
sition. It is alleged that, at the present moment,
the utmost material tranquility prevails; secret
societies, the great plague of the country,, though
they may not have totally disappeared, give but
faint signs of their existence, and the general
silence of parties, while it proves the decay of
public spirit, is at all events adduced by the
admirers of the Imperial regime in evidence of the
confidence of the masses in the strength and watch-
fulness of the Emperor. Under such circumstances
the Emperor, doubtless, thought that a Director of
Public security, as it has existed till new, has become
superfluous; and that the services of the intelligent
functionary hitherto so useful to the supreme autho-
rity might be advantageously transferred to another
arid more busy stage. The post of Director-
General of the Public Security is perhaps one of
the most difficult and least popular in the State,
particularly in times of political turmoil ; but if
ever any one succeeded in softening down the
harsher attributes of such a post, M. Collet-
Meygret. it is generally admitted, was the
man. It is well that the office is abolished,
for his successor would have had a difficult
task before him. I believe there are few indeed
who will not admit the loyalty of his character,
the superiority of his intelligence, and, what is far
more valuable than is generally supposed, the
unvarying amenity and polish of manner which
stamp the gentleman. Journalists, and men of
letters especially, whatever they may think of the
institution itself over which he presided, regret
his retirement, for it would be hardly possible to
exhibit more impartiality and forbearance in
carrying out the very rigorous laws and regulations
which weigh upon the press. It is no small merit
for a man at the head of a difficult and unpopular
department to win respect and regard from those
with whom he is brought into contact, and even
collision, and this merit public opinion generally
accords to him.

The trial of three Protestants, MM. Massy,
Rambaud, and Ledoux, of Tonzac (Cltarentc-In-
ferieure), for having been present at a meeting
consisting of more than twenty persons, held
without authorisation of government, was men
tioned some weeks ago. M. Massy was, moreover,
charged with having publicly insulted a cure, and
with having turned the Roman Catholic religion
into contempt. The Siecle now offers a detailed
account of the proceedings which led to the trial,
and 'which places the matter in an entirely new
light. That journal-says :
M. Massy has bee❑ invited by M. Rambaud, a farmer,
to visit him, and to read the Scriptures to his family. On
the day appointed, M. Massy, not having a horse at hand,
gave up the projected visit. But he subsequently met M.
Ledoux, a tradesman, who offered to drive him to the
house of Rambaud. On arriving there, they found that
the family, after having waited for some time, had dis-
persed in the field, and were engaged in their usual occu-
pations. But the youngest son ran off to fetch his
parents, and in the meanwhile a considerable crowd of
persons, numbering more than a hundred, flocked into the
house and courtyard in order to listen to the words of M.
Massey. The latter, surprised at the number around him,
demanded the cause, and was then informed that the cure
of the parish had on the preceding Sunday announced
from the pulpit that a leopard, devouring all that it
encountered, was prowling about the country; that the
ferocious beast would probsbly appear in his parish,
but that he should decidedly go to meet it on its arrival ;
then, dropping the metaphor, the cure added that the
leopard was a landowner of the name of Massy. The
crowd had, consequently, assembled in order to witness
the encounter between the cure and the leopard. M.
Massy contented himself with reading, without comment,
the 23rd chapter of St. Matthew, in order, as he said, to
prove to the audience that religion is holy in spite of the
faults committed by those who teach it. A person
present asked M. Massy if he believed in the Virgin;
upon which he replied :—" The miraculous conceo-
tion of our Lord Jesus Christ is a mystery I
worship ; no woman has so many claims on our
veneration as the Virgin Mary, because she was chosen
by God to conceive the Saviour of the world." " But,"
said another party, " we are told that the Protestants
believe that the Virgin had other children, and that she
not always remain young ?" M. Massy, in reply, read
the chapter of St. Mark where it is recorded that Jesus
had four brothers, named James, Joseph, Judas, and
Simon, and several sisters, and he reminded his hearers
Oat at the time of the eruoiiialeo the Virgin was 33 years

of age. In returning home M. Massy met the cure, who
thus addressed him, " I hare already said, and I repeat
it to you, what St. Polycarp said to Marcion—You are a
demon vomited from hell for the misfortune of the coun-
try." A lively dispute followed, but the provocation was
not on the side of M. Massy. We have not the honour of
belonging to the Reformed Church, but the religion to
which we do belong orders us to protect the weak from
the strong, the oppressed from the oppressors ; it teaches
us to look upon every man as a brothPr, without inquiring
into his religious belief, and to respect liberty of conscience
and of worship. For those reasons do we struggle against
all aggressive tendencies, from any quarter that they may
proceed. We are the antagonists of every intolerant
clergy.

Tie Emperor proposes to remain twenty days
at Plombiers, during which time there will
be no Cabinet Council held, nor will there be
any official business tsansacted except of urgent
necessity.

The Count de Morny, on quitting St. Petersburg,
left the direction of the Embassy to M. Baudin, the
First Secretary. He takes the title of French
Charge d'Affairs until the appointment of a new
ambassador.

The Minister of Marine has adopted a decision
to which ithe Government has hitherto been ad-
verse, which is to, sell by auction, in certain cases,
the old material in the dockyards. In pusuance
of this resolution, the corvettes Sarcelle and
Prudente, and the brigs Pylade and Ruse, are to
be sold by public auction at Brest.
A letter from Flornce, of the 21st inst., informs
us that a strict search has been made by the
Tuscan police at Leghorn and other places to seize
the copies of a funeral oration on the Tuscans who fell
at Curtatone and Mootanara on the 29th May, 1848,
fighting against the Austrians, and which was pub-
lished by Signor Guerazzi. -2,000 copies of this
pamphlet have been introduced, widely circulated,
and eagerly read in Tuscany since the 4th of the
present month. It is scarcely necessary to add that
not a copy has been discovered, and that the police
are excessively annoyed at the cireulaion of this
pamphlet. The Government, who regarded with
indifference the preceding writings of Signor
Guerazzi are indignant at this last, and Signor
Allegretti, the Secretary of Police to the
Minister of the Interior, who serves Signor Lan-
ducci as zealously as he did the Republic, said
that he did not think Guerazzi was capable of
writing any thing so good. In this production the
author, avoiding all violent language, lays open the
weak side of the Government, and speaks like a
man who feels confident in the future prosperity of
Italy, through the influence of the constitutional,
moderate, and rational policy of the Government
of the King of Sardinia—truths which the Tuscan
Ministers did not expect to see proved by the
eloquent pen of Signor Guerazzi. They would
have peferred to see him make use of the extreme
opinions of the Republic and of Mazzini. A new
embarrassment has occurred to the Ministers. The
clergy, whom it was expected to satisfy by a con-
cordat, are more the enemies of the Tuscan
Ministers than ever. The Jesuits wished to publish
a political journal, but the authorities refused per-
, mission. The Grand Duke, however, on his return
from the Marmme, commanded that the permission
should be granted, and the Ministers, with their usual
docility, obeyed. The first number of the journal
appeared on the 3rd inst., with a prospectus not
over favourable to the ministry. The prospectus
is a mere tirade against the authorities, with a
panegyric on the paternal government of Austria.
Several distinguished personages, to whom the first
number was addressed, returned it with a refusal
to subscribe. It is asserted that the ministers are
now so much annoyed with the Jesuits that they
regret the moderate Liberal journals which they
suppressed by their arbitrary prosecutions, and
they would be glad to see others arise to combat
the new champion of the opposite party, of which
the ministers are now in dread.

SPAIN.

MADRID, JUNE 22.

Although the Spanish Government affects to
condemn and to do its utmost to prevent the slave
traffic, and although the Spanish press does not lift
up its voice in its behalf, a great many Spaniards,
even of the more enlightened and professedly
liberal class, look upon it with a certain degree of
favour, as necessary to the interests of their colony.
If you talk to one of these of the indignation felt in
England at the centinual violation of the treaty, he
at-once attempts to carry the war into your own
country, and tells you that it is not philanthropy
but a regard for our own West Indian interests,
that makes us so anxious to check the supply of
slave labour to Cuba. You may as well not join issue
on this point, for it will be hard to persuade a Spa-
niard that there exists in England a very large
number of persons who, out of pure humanity, and
without the slightest prospect of advantage to them-
selves, are at all times willing to make great efforts,
and even ,sacrifices, to promote the abolition of
slavery, and since that seems at present impos-
sible, of the slave trade. You remark, therefore,
that English West India proprietors have a right
to be protected from unfair and illegal competition,
and that a treaty exists, ratified by Spain, and paid
for by England, by which the former power binds
itself to put a stop to the slave trade in its
colonial possessions. Your Spaniard under-
stands the nature of a bargain—money paid down
for a consideration—so he contents himself with
telling you that such a treaty ought never to have
been signed, for that it is destructive of Spanish
interests, and that Cul?a now so flourishing (thanks,
he might add, to recent large importations of slaves),
would sink and decline if the Afroan flesh, markets
were closed to her. Here would be the place to
bring in the suggestion of the abolition of slavery
and substitution of free labour, but to this plan
there are, indeed, many difficulties in the way,
and, if Spain were brought to consent to its
adoption, it would still be hard to find a guarantee
that the free labourer in Spanish colonies should
be, in fact, better off or better treated than a slave.
Finally, and by way of clinching the sophisms
with which he flatters himself that he has utterly
defeated you, he probably tells you that England
should not make such a fuss about a few
negroes taken into Cuba, when it is notorious
that she has tens and• hundreds of thousands of
slaves in her East Indian possessions ; or else
that Spain has just as good a right to com-
plain of the quantities of British manufactures
smuggled into her territory and grievously
damaging her revenue, as Great Britain has of the
contraband introduction of Africans into Spanish
islands. To such wonderful arguments as these the
only possible reply would be an offer to commence
the education of the person addressing them to
you. They have both been addressed to me within
the last few days by Spaniards who pass for highly
intelligent men, and whose position would neces-
sarily imply (at least in any country but this) the
possession of a more than average • amount of
common sense and general information.

A memorandum was handed to Senor Pidal by
Senor Lafragua on Saturday evening, comprising,
as I am informed, a sort of ultimatum —a statement
of the utmost concession which the Mexican envoy
considers himself justified in making on behalf of
his Government. Sea►or Pidal promised to send a
counter memorandum. Should this be unfavourable,
and should Senor Lafragua's recognition in his offi-
cial character not immediately ensue, I believe there
is scarcely a doubt that he will leave Madrid within
the week. Indeed, he lan scarcely do otherwise,
nor would there be any use in his remaining longer.
I find the Spaniards I converts with generally
very bitter against Mexico ; nor is this surprising,
considering how much has been done to envenom
the question, from the period of the Spanish
Charge d' At-Tare's ill-judged and overweening pre-
tensions down to the present time. The impression
seems to be that by force of arms they could
soon bring Mexico to terms, and they appear
scarcely to consider or remember the unpleasant
and dangerous incidents that might spring
from such a contest ; the view the United
States might take of it, and the possible
intervention of England and France to put a
decided stop to a war which would not be damag-
ing only to the parties immediately concerned in
it. They insist on considering it fully proved
that the outrages perpetrated on Spanish residents
in Mexico had a political character. On what
grounds they base this assertion I am unable to
say, but I am not aware of any papers having been

as yet published that contain proofs one way or
the other. They accuse Mexico of bad faith, and
point to the slowness of the proceedings instituted:-
against the criminals. The proverbial sluggishness
of Spanish tribunals ought perhaps to make them
a little more indulgent to their cousins across the
water.

On Saturday, in the Senate, the discussion being
on the reform in the Constitution, Senor Cerrajeria
brought forward an emendment having for its
object to give a greater share of representation in
the Upper Chamber to the industrious and riser
cantile classes. It was rejected by 45 votes against
32, all the old grandees voting in the majority,
white the minority included several of modern
creation, the Pfogresistas and the Vicalvarist
Generals. It is to be observed that the Ministerial
majorities are dwindling in both Chambers. As
regards the Congress, it is perfectly well-known
that the retrograde party could put government in
a minority whenever they pleased, but that they
do not think the right moment come.

It is said that letters of marque have already been
sent from Mexico to the United States, in anticipa-
tion of a war with Spain. The Spaniards would do
well to think of the fell swoop that would be male
upon their merchant navy as soon as the first gun
was fired. The gun, too, would be wadded with
all existing treaties between the two countries, in-
cluding the convention for the payment of Spanish
claims on Mexico—claims the larger half of which
Mexico has declared herself ready to pay, leaving
the remaining portion for revision. Spain must be
very sanguine if she thinks that the ultimate results
of an attack on Mexico would greatly mend her
present position and enable her to lay down the
law to a thoroughly vauquishe l opponent,

FlRE.—This morning a fire broke out in the third story-
of Kelly's cotton-warehouse, Harrington-street, which for
some time was of an alarming charaver, but the speedy
arrival of the fire•-bri,,,ade from Temple-nowt, with Mr.
Hewitt, and a good supply of water, the flames were Trickly
subdued.

SUDDEN PEATH —YPSfe-iday, George Jackson, chief
mate of the barque Mar; Black, for Bonny, lying in the
river, outwar! bound, dropped down in a fit of apop!exy,
and expired in a few minutes. His wife was on botrd at
the time. The body was taken to the dead-liouse south-
end of Prince's Dock.

THE WEATHE R. —YeVerclay, ihe weather, which through-
out the month was delightfully fine, became somewhat.
broken. The early part of the day was oppressively hot,
hut about four o'clock the sky was suddenly overcist, and
a few distant peals of thunder were. hcard. ThPso, were
succeeded by heavy showers of rain, which continued at
ititervels throughout the night.

ACCIDENTS-Oil Saturday night a young woman fell
from the window of a hot:E3 in North-street, on to the
ground, but fortunately escaped with life. She was very
severely insured, and was at once removed to the Northern
Hospital, where she now lies in a dangerous stote. A sea•
man who had his fraenred, and both arms broken, by
a fall from a ves=el in the docks, was also admitted intone
hospital on Saturday.

VIOLENT AssluLT.—A man named John Emialin, was
brought before the county magistrates, on Saturday
charged with an as;ault upon a hale boy named Oscar
Harrison. It appeared that some bays were chasing COW'S
in a field near the canal, and Hirrison, who was not one
of them, happened to tic passing at the time. The defen-
dant ran after the boys, who escaped, but seeing Harrison,.
he seized him, and violently assaulted him, dipni7T him
several times into the canal. The magistrates fined the
defendant £5,

AGREEABLE ENTERTAINMENT TO WORIME N .-ITems.
James Taylor and Co., of the Britannia Iron Works, Bir-
kenhead, gave their workmen, and workmen's wives and
sweethearts, an excursion trip, on Saturday, from Liverpool
to Old Trafford statioa, with the view of giving the men
an opportunity of visiting the Exhibition of Art Treasures.
About 170 persons availed themselves of the special train,
for which Messrs. Taylor had arranged with the Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Company, and
were accompanied by a band of musicians.
INDECENT CONDUCT TO A LITTLE GIRL.—An old man
named Charles Dyer, living at No. 5, Atercrotnby-terrace,
Abercromby-siinare, was brought before the county m2gis
trates on Saturday; charged with an indecent assault upon
a girl about twelve years old. ' The prisoner was given
into custody on Friday, the 26th inst, by a man named
Henry Excell, of 10-Court, Th mas-street. Excell
stated to the police inspector that he saw the prisoner
that day in Parliament-fields, talking to a little girl about
twelve years old, and that he saw him take indecent liber—
ties with her person. He watched him, and saw this re—
peated in another part of the fields. He then gave him in
charge, and he stated that prisoner offered him money to
let him go. When he came hack the little girl was gone,
and he could not ascertain her name. This man did not
appear on Saturday to press the charge, but the police
officer stated that when the prisoner was arrested by him
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lIIINTLY.—THE LATE CASK OF FRAITD.—It is now
ascertained that limes, the defaulter in the grain trade here,
whose l'alaties amounted to about £13,000, has Lailei for
America, having taken his passage for Boston in the Cicero,
a sailing vessel. It is not yet certzin whether steps may
be taken to appvbeni him.—Aberdeen Free Fress.
DEATH FROM TIRE KICK OF A HORSE.—•)n the arrival
of one of the conveyances at Larne, from the Belfast
and Ballymena Riilway, a horse, which had just begn
taken out of the vehicle, kicked violently, strikidg a lad
who was standing near. The boy, who was about four-
teen years of age, was killed on the instant.—Belfast News,-
Letter.

A SPIRITUAL ATAMPRSTATION.—In theaccount given in
the American papers of one of these absurdities, the writer
thus describes the antics of a decent square table :
" Stranger than all, every piece of furniture in the room
was keeping perfect time with the movements of the girl.
A square table cut the queerest antics of anything in the
room. First it would tip forward on the two front legs,
then on the two hinder ones, and lastly ~pin around on one
leg like a top, and again tip backwards and forwards. A
fit e shovel was dancing on the hearth, the word was reeling
about, and pots and skillets made an outlandish racket."

STREET EDUCATION.—The Lewiston Journal says that
a city missionary visited an unhappy young man confined
in jail in that place for a State prison crime. In course
of conversation, the poor culprit said, with tears running
down his cheeks, " Sir, I had a good home education ; it
was my street education that ruined me. I used to slip
out of the house and go off with the boys in the street. In
the street I learned to lounge; in the street I learned to
swear; in the street I learned to smoke; in the street I
learned to gamble; in the street I learned to pilfer. Oh,
sir, it is in the street the devil lurks to work the ruin of
the young !"

NEWSPAPERS TO THE EAST I'M IRS.— A rran gem ents
have b. e❑ entered into with th- ernment of India, under
which all newspapers posted in the United Kiegiona,
addressed to places within the territory of the East India
Company, and properly prep lid, will be delivered in India
without further charge. In lik, manner, newspapers
from India, addressed to the United Kingdom, if duly pre-
paid in India, will be delivered without charge in this
country. The rates of postage upon a single newspaper
will be :-31. when sent via Marseilles; Id. when sent vie
Southampton. Iu consenting to this arrangement, how-
ever, the government of India have required, as a condi-
tion, that the above rates of postage shall be limited to
newspapers not exceeding four ounces in weight ; a news_
paper, therefore, weighieg above four ounces, and not
eight ounces will, on the let July, and thenceforward, be
chargeable with double the single rate, and so on, an addi-
tional rate being charged for each additional four ounces,
or fraction of four ounces, which the newspaper may
weigh.—By command of the Postmaster-General, Row-
LAND HILL, Secretary.—General Post-office, June 23,
1857.

BURGLARY AND OUTRAGE IN LAMBETIL—Between one and
two o'clock on Saturday morning (according to a corres-
pondent) a most daring burglary and robbery of cash,
accompanied by violence, was perpetrated on the premises
of Messrs. Cory, c3al merchants, Barge•house Wharf, Com-
mercial-road, Lambeth. The watchman was going his
rounds when he was suddenly assailed by four men who
had lan led on the wharf from the river. He was knocked
down and ill treated till he became insensible. The poor
fellow then had his hands tied behind him, and the cord
passed round his feet, which were drawn up to his hands,
and in this painful position he was placed face downwards.
The burglars then broke open the counting-houss and the
iron safe, from which they took about £9O in notes and
gold and silver. They fortunately overlooked the collector's
note case, which contained bills, &c., to a large amount.
The moans of th a unfortunate watchman, who had been
nearly three hours in the position described, attracted the
attention of some lightermen who had come to work, and
he was liberated, but was unable to rise, circulation having
nearly ceased. He was removed to his residence, where he
lies in a precarious state. The police, it is believed, have
a clue to the burglars.—Observer.