The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-25


sssted - 0s journal on Ihuysaay, 10 Ne ssspe q
expenses amounting - nearly 81 200, 70 viii ID We
were made liable by The prosecution st the instance
Of Mr.. Duncan MLsren.
The sales IN the Irish Incunbered Estates Court,
The estate of the children Of the lA>e Eliot warbur
to1 aui hOr of Tho Crescent and the Gross, ;" was
amongst those which were disposed Of.
The Steele Of December ~, reviewing the last an
nual message Of President Pierce says that yhen
President Is net re elected his final message ought
rather to be looked upon as will than platform.
This document " not therefore to be considered ~
the platform of Mr.. Buchansns policy, 80 much the
more that Mr. Pierce has net justified the expec,a-
tons entertained on his accession 70 power. TIE
Steele afterwards makes vigorous attack upon
1.-THE skilfnl lawyer" General Pieroe), for his plea
in favor OF the unlimited extension Of slavery.
The Patrie Of December 30 remarks that the
question Of the Sound dues progresses slowly, but
that the Danish Cabinet seems to reckon on the ed
hesion of all the Interested Powers. Il is already
sad that England and RUSSIA have agreed upon the
following basis:-l. The capitalization. g. rhe d.
VISION OF the dues upon each nag IN proportion to the
plumber Of vessels. g. The assessment of the dues
by halves upon the cargoes imported or to DO ex-
ported.
Dispatches have been received in Vienna from
Count Coll redo, Austrian Ambassador at Rome,
according to which the Holy See is actively engaged
in preparing series Of reforms in the government
Pacards containing mensces of death against the
Emperor Napoleon having been found posted up
some short time back in the Rue Neuve des Matha-
riDs In Paris, the police endeavOred 70 discover the
author of them. A tailor named Wattebled was ar
rested with two similar pscards in his possession,
and condemned to fifteen months Imprisonment and
60f. fine.
A French provincial journal mentions rumor TO
the effect that the town Of Paris medtates imposing
an entrance lee TO the Bots de BoulOgne.
The Liverpool Customs Bill Of Entry states that
the revenue OF the port for the year 1866 is 1884,
III AS sd.-beiDg an increase Of RAT S49 l2s.
over the revenue OF 1855.
The amount Of light dues received at Liverpool
during the year ending the 3lst Of Deoem Der, was
$685. 1856 So. 3d. being increase of 1872 los. I'd.
over the previous year.
In the eleven months ended November the value
Of salt exported from England was q much as $685.
ITO.
The value of woollen manufa:tu imported into
England in eleven months (from January to Novem-
berg not made up was 81 ,O94
project is on foot TO cut tunnel between the
two harbors OF Valetta, Malta
Mr.. John Nelson has completed an extraordinary
engine casting, for the Australian line Of steam
vessels, at the FinniestOn Works, Scotland. At
O'Clock on Tuesday, Esd ult, 60 tons 40 cart loads
OF pig iron were put IN the cup0las and by O'Clock
the same day this enormous mass Of metal was in
condition to be poured into the mould and success
fully cast
Fresh disturbances have broken out in Kunedy,
India.
The government of Bengal has published report
on new Indian iron field examined by Mr.. Smith,
viewer, sent out by the Court Of Directors. It is
at Baro0l, ten miles beyond Raneegunge. The
qnAhs,y Of ore Mr. Smith estimates at about 400,
coo tons 10 the square miles
In the year ended the 3lst March last the expense
Of medals for the British army and navy services
was EST 379. In the preceding wear It FL, 253.
From an English official document. ii appears that
hat haA tn ua laatv
States claimants"
According to return there were employed in
the eleven months ended the 30th utimO, Is many
as l2O 23 vessels Of III 581 676 tons, that entered
inwards and l3S $685. Of $40 TONS that cleared
outwards, in the coastng trade Of the United King
dom.
The value OF embroidery and needlework imported
into Great Britain in eleven months was f72,9 37.
Last year il Was EAT GA.
In the eleven months ended November the guam
uty OF guano imported into England was l76,6ss
The trial of Vervaet, in the AssiSe Court of Bra
bent, Belgium, for the robbery of l02 900 francs,
the property of the Counde Liedekerke, TO whose
children he had acted az tutor, has terminated. He
was convicted. The Court pronounced an order con-
demning Vervaet to fifteen years imprisonment aud
hard labor to be previously exposed for the space of
one hour in the Grand Place with iron collar upon
HIM, and his crime and sentence written over his
head. The Judgment also included the whole costs
Of the proceedings
The London Builder says:-A specimen Of q
French invention has been forwarded to Ms q use
full material for covering skyghts liable TO breakage
from without, and for screens, outside blinds - win
dows, and other purposes. II consists of simple
wirecloth, interlacing a gelatinous web, elastic
enough to admit Of being bent or twisted without
breaking and Is said to stand both heat and moisture
well.
The Paris Afonifeur publishes q return Of the
population OF the different departments of France,
which gives grand total Of 36,O39 1854 inhabitants.
The Sheffield Iris, formerly edited by the poet
Montgomery, was published for the last time on
Wednesday, 3lst ultimo.
Post Ampf Gazette Of Frankfort, says;-The pro-
ject Of mediation agreed upon between the ENJOYS
Of En- gland and the United States 10 have been
signed by the representatives OF those two Po wers,
and those OF France, Austria, Russia, Bavaria, Bar
den and Belgium but these agents. as already stated,
had not sufficient instructions for the purpose and
mad TO apply for them to their respective courts.
II appears, says the bombay Telegraph, that Goa,
Portuguese possession on the western coast Of
India, is elso 20 be shortly included In the British
empire, being about to be coded TO us by the sove
reign Of Portugal In liquidation of an old debt
THE VERY LATEST.
LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 10, 1857.
SETTLEMENT OF The PRUsso-HELvBrIc Diff
GUILTY.
BERNIE, Friday night, Jan. 2, 1867.
The bases Of the French proposals are in close
conformity with the conditions laid down in the in
structons Of Councillor Keren; these are also agreed
to by England and declared acceptable by the Fe-
deral Council. The prisoners are TO be released,
with a sentence of Punishment qualified by pro
Niso that their political statutes may be modified