The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1856, Page 1

Sn = eam ao nee memes ARRIV. THE BOROPA. the of Radetuky 20 military Governor. The ‘of Ghent, in 1815. Bat’ this ‘AL OF old pg eg FR ieee or neo iam, ONE: DAY LATER FROM EUROPE, Pope has also announced his intention of | Bat wy «en ong to ee - eee ‘Bn aninesty; so in fact ammesties are the aT. comments oan . the day. be nce yg ven on Ree ord WAR. AGAINST PERSIA, Paris Conferences, as you are aware, are to | can people were that ‘merchant : again about Christmas Pp agen sitap should BOS be Teed ake semetaae bx om awa ING ADDITION THE MANS, Blah are 4 Vee & ek pr) fremecn ene Se ri 4 prin st bed pee! ¥i - AL OF Lion the oe ees y sisted and end in @ war between the two countries. : ee ne Honey. memoran- nd sa rage soenle seers Oe on two casue was THE NEW TURKISH MINISTRY. | quowions arene t= CA slag t to eenrel Ucited States A memtothe Serpents Island, Russia says it | men-cf-war for and not merchant- 4 her possession before the war, and asno- | men, and that if he have any doubt or this saject Wo Mews of the Hermann. b oer Setaerenr ameter es sete he gill Sa ee an way, nena % a recent ri . nae pessinte shat Soe ns ay paper Mi Hightet Seach wih ts poner i Resolt Portamouth peace was to insure nat showing the hollowness present American re- Arrival of the lute. at tim Dante. Jf she possessed the Into of fusal to abolish the odloas practice of privateering agree she the Sulina mouths at her | wit! the rovision of immunity to THE GERMAN MONETARY, CONVENTION. pepe ‘neuer fi fleet. viene ad ‘The er Teard mot ir ‘ ‘The second a, er ot of Holgrad, must be grates big oy Ne American Affairs in 3 Sarepean Point of as Ia ay: grat OEY View, ay which tam ialet of | tr: &., &., ko. & ‘times aged to reopect ¥0 this. point motive which is s pi ach by Het on, eppene pane mee end ae Input Raglt anf Pr sommes ‘The Cunard steamship Europa, Captain Shannon, | cisims, and which is situated on the lake, Having tile powers we have af hand the opinion of an from Liverpool on the morning of Saturday, the | possession of this letton:elgrad, Russie could wee American jurist, who, whatever he may know of in- 13th, arrived at half-past three o'clock yesterday af- 8 flotilla down the Danube never she chose. law, most stanly pore bed. on. copee 7 te nn ae alee Sein, Deka. Conky of. eeaatively Saening fe, comes: the faulty, e 88] was fault. Ameri ; of estimating The: news by this arrival is but one day later, and Th ups Fraiee thatgeerided the one. a a eee re rte ir Cooben is not important. The Rugsian memorandum concludes by stating | of learnin, Soa petars of “Whet Wenpeneny heave ‘The steamer Belgique arrived at’Southampton on | that Russia is willing to abide by the majority of | the U si in London, and our For- te reaps votes on the subject. 9 Ui eign Office,” in 1864. What is the motive stated the 12th, on ber way wees ‘There has been good deal of intrigue going on by Mr. W. B. Lawrence, formerly Change dA ffaines England bas proclaimea war against Persia. behind the scenes, and Russia fancied that she could the Un States at London, in edition of "The: Arctic ship Resolute arrived at Portsmouth on | command a at the new Congress. Irather | ‘‘ Wheaton’s ot International Law,” pub- the 1200 nt , | 80 pene f in uot. quite cafe) castffnnnch sclowiel maine lant bo gts The! in the of hed HS Bo peace of Europe is not quite sat a an a gh peg £74,800.. The monthly returns of the Bank of Vhe Anglo-Indian to the Persian gulf provious to the present war, it is very evident tbat if two France show an increase of 34,900,000 franca, and | 8s commenced The fall of Herat ap- | astions situated like and France, one lag to be confirmed. It surrendered on the 26th | the largest miliary marine in the world, and the other a only 433,000 franes had been paid during the month | Oct, to the Persian general navy only inferior to that ofits ally, were, a8 co-bellige- for premium on purchases of gold and silver. At | ‘The Swiss government has also issued a lengthy | Tels, each to maintain ite own peculiar va toned the Landon iron market rails had advanced to £7 | memorandum to prove that Neufchatel is nos Neutral property, which Kaglaad would not condemn for * Seote! to obey the King of Prussia The King of Prussia | being found in an enemy’s vessel, would be good orize to Use. «£8, and bars £7 15s, 64. in Wales; h pig, is very sore on this point, and the rumor prevails | the Frevok cruiser; while the neutral ‘whose fing was 738. 64. Clyde. = aad Fn march into Switzerland. one tion tran vance woul outta by arobed telligence steamship Hermann, peckony very unwell. cfficers for enemy's property, mere saspi- (a seater ethene bah The weat in London is as mild as spring. oie of having ic om bourd mig induce the ponding None of our correspondents mention the Lyon- The New Turkish Ministry. @ voyage, for which any allowance, either as freight or aise. No particulars of the arrival of Capt. Devaux {Constant Letter of Deo 1—London for 5 eabiaed ale teem alle a teens, ‘and fifteen others at Bordeaux are given in anyof heeesnel Pee eres Set Aa ke Mca" the naar eal ant, ian of for. the papers, The Liverpool Times of the 12th inst. | amwirs, and the following day it was known that wes Ce ey wae 4 saye:— there bad taken f further modification of the wae ponte Ey Noten comider: WHOLE NO. 1625. has been received from Havre, em ouncing the «in and fifteen men, belt to the wrecked steamer Le Lyonvaise, have arrived, ‘been landed at Bordeaux. ‘Thé money market remained tolerably easy, bat the Beak of England has not relaxed the screw any further—consola, however, closing at 93} to j. The Liverpoot cotton market is reported by the Brokers’ Weekly Circular as having been slightly affected downwards by the American advices, but ‘was again rendered firm by the good business done in Manchester, and the quotations of last week were fully apported.’ Sales of the week, 53,810 bales, including 34,530 American, of which were 8,570 on speculation, smd 5.530 for export. Selea on Friday, Dec. 12,'6,000 bales, including 1,000 on epecalation and fér export. New Orleans fair, 7[d.; middling Orleans, 6 (5-16d.; fair Mobiles, 7}d.; middling Me- Wiles, 6j¢:; tair Uplands, 7jd.; middling Uplands, 15-Téd. Of | breadstuffs prices have undergone a slight reaction since Friday last, and with a very limited deasand. Wheat has given way 2d. 034. per 70 lbs.,and flour 64. 9 1s. per barrel. Indian corn maintains aboat previbus rates. Good Western flour 31s, a 32s. per barrel, Baltimore and Philadelphia 31s. a 32s. 6d., extra Ohio 34a. a 358. Red wheat 88. a 88. 9d., white 9a. a 9s. 84. per 70 Ibs. Indian corn, mixed 33s, yellow 33s. 6d., white 34s. 6d. per 480Ibs. Beef re- ported unchanged, and in retail only. Pork quiet, the stock being chiefly of low quality. The small arrivals of new bacon eell in retail at about 688. per cwt. For lard 82s. to 83s. has been paid for small lots. Tallow, firm at about 60s. per ewt- Com- won rosin was not so active: sales of 3,060 barrels at 4s, 7d. a 48. 8d. Ashes, nominally 50s. for both sorts, but to effect sales considerably less would be taken. Spirits of turpentine dearer: 398. 6d. to 40s. Linsed oil in good demand at 38s. to 36s. 6d. per wt. No sales of whale or sperm. Olive oil in good demand. Rice firm at 25s. to 278. per owt. Sugar active. Coffee unchanged. Freights from Liverpooi to New York :— Pig iton, bara and rails, 9s. a 10s.; salt 11s. @d.; dry goods, 10s. a 17s. 6d.; hardware, 12s. 6d.; earthen- ware, 68.; passengers, £3. Havre markets, from the 34 to the 9th inclusive. quieter from Eauropa’s advices. Week's sales 12,000 bales, including 4,000 bales afloat; tres ordinaire Orleans, 106 fr. Stock 47,000 bales. At Havre the demand for breadstuffs had been limited, but prices had not varied. Provisions A r ‘elegrapble dewpateh There bad been a good demand for American se- =x Peeper eree asserssssee State of Maly Generally—The Paris Conferences— Rassian Memorandum—The King of Prussia, and Switzerland— Miscellaneous. The insurrection in Sicily ia suppressed. The yeaders have been arrested. The island is, however. hy no means tranquil, and the same may be said of the whole of the Neapolitan States. The King has amnestied a certain number of political and other 3 i : of Avstria, The Archdoke Maximilian of Austeia— younger brother of the Emperor—is to be the new Viceroy of Lombardy. Count Ginylai will take ; subseq! as @ member of the Coancil of Minis- ters wi will give cause for reflection to writers at who have been macatiying the elevation of into a decisive for British r. Reschid's presence at the Porte as Grand Vizier is, no doubt, an evidence not to be mistaken, that the policy of England coincides, for the time , with Turkish aims. But it would be a e to sty ‘that we can calculate on the continuance of this conctrrence of opinion for y considerable length of time. The de: and ter which ihe Tarks have particularly at heart. 1 Russian Movements. says—as a comment of his own on this statement— a Pe wos = on a passive spectator steps the British government is taking towards Persia, or of the tergiversations of Dane ‘and that it will not be Russia s fault if now warlike complications arise. Of the Russian army, however, it is added, qu'elle ne demande mieux than to measure its strength eastward. It states that the eutire Ruslan ’ which has hitherto been stationed in the South winter, but slso | f rf ; | i u § if = z i z 4 é | a4<5 E i i FE F i i 5 Fe Ee i2giiE ee int BF i i H 2 : 3 s i uphold belligerent rights, would not have been tolerated by 2 z ¥, ry that country.” Mr. Cobden here fi the very obvious distinction which the United 5 ment has always made with respect to the right of “visitation” to examine for goods, and the right of search to seize British euajects, the enforcement of which led to the war of 1812, and to a plicated gegotiation, which waa left unsettled ay th, = better cause, He has little reason to adopt measures which may create equal a and zeal in the ' “Walker tohim & ——— his ete a i | r : i i s j li i ie ifr i 538 i il E i F 28 eS | z FH fe Pa 4 i 5 a s: | i : 33 i rate al z jks E Hl PE , F 3 3 i § i 4 5 oF 352 iii le : no power in She e been now for a years pertimaciously aggressive, and men, who would willingly have preserved peace, have been againat their wil) placed on the ive. Bighty years ago slavery existed in but few States to any very Considersinie extent. Tt was al fanet in some, 1% was dwindling awa nt most people suppysed it was on the point of dying ont in all~Wab the face of aflairs is changed now. {t is rampav’, in its own territorie qhera, grasping everywhere. it is o ' t that freedom SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBMR 28, 1856. HERALD. (failed in patting de wir sivery. Bie ths asc | actual, alter da; tt obrestens te feeedom down. It boa ever & sort of teiteelf. A ceries of very and very extracte, frome Americait ye war round of the a ‘weeks past, we inserted a of ‘Most truculent at the time, mast vot be taken ay ions of rabid: }, foaming at the. mouth excitement, and lesa ae eee a y Man; fect a. Ca; blecks—are ep thon have elwewhere, tow 1 sapporters It New York paper that the modest and os ‘Those senti are bue of compelled to endorse ‘i ra forth to-sell all the ery—a opplice, toot Bropounded forthe first time some etenigasnnst sarc ry a ime. Files ee essential to the nion piste without a ‘spirit C » Which for its preservation, is gincere of the English nation; bat we cannot shat our to the magnitude:of ‘the now depend. the ‘and the impar- General Walker's Prospects and the Bu- chanan me. [From the Liverpaot Mercury, Dec 13. understan: ‘sine We never could liticians who fancied that Cig saw in Walker's Central A: of Spanish extraction. ago, on President Pieree a of the raries were making themselves and their readers visions dd the fears of ie merica the germs of part of the ‘When, some ’s hurried and unprincipled set ap by puppet government Nicaragua, most of our contempo- uncomfortable if i to sesure the British Cabinet that “we are not en- H E in any scheme for face them sary on the 12th Angust says Walker, wri | was specially pal mien 4 ‘to his emis- | last, “ the only way to cut the expanding and expansive democracy of by a powerful Tad compact sonthern the north is fidentially teristic must of Walker's polic er wel a cee lanes a there are two ways oO federation, based on bog the inds adds, with if mi ’t ook ciples.” He con- ively playfulness charac- in their more familiar igacy is much more apparent than ite not exactly see wh: should be bound to his neck in for the benetit of the Yankees; and the enter. i ef EratF £ ‘an unpleasant ps voenr to us that when ing ata thing it ia as well to wait and sec, instead of «t once assuming the very worst. The Enropean Ranking Mania Cottapsing, From the Londop Unronlc'e, Dee. 9 | A pasel La obi movement, lately Credit jon for engaging in bonk ing enterprises has up on the fer is, perhaj The wonderfr, S Continent. The Fron! at the bottom of the ye, ia 4 apo sulative ia il ad PRICE TWO CENTS. point of view, which that giant establishment has won, aud the riraculous di nds received by the ae eee enoagh 2 Bestrsy nd oiric commursty in ‘Ope ‘to imi example and share im the profita of the bi Paria associa- tion of money brokers. Ca after capital caught tite infection. In Hamburg, in Berlin, in Vienng. in the Italian cities, and in Ma- Grid schenves were iaid for the formation of highest ‘aus Within the feet few deys the letters from Spain have announced the pi ‘tive establishment of a new bank of issue at Seville, om the joint stock aye tem, with a cspigal of eighteen million reals, or £180,000, in 9, shares of 2,000 reals (£20) each. The mauvager of this bank isto bear the title of Royal Commissioner, and the concern is promised extensive privileges from the crown for a period of twenty-five years after commencing business. | Fm quasters, however, Gis Neaking. mania: ly suffered a collapee. exci was too vivlent to last, and it is doubtful witha the actual fulfiument of many pepieots of this sort, whith are really wemted and likely to prove suc- eed ney not have been frustrated the effects of the sudden and abnormal at. SPA) the sobemen ween Ort promulgated. At the prospectus of every new enterprise was wed with eager delight, and o rusk made for in the inchoate concern. A. period of reac- now set in, and the even of the sound- aoeny kings are viewed jam! x the course of September last, parate Sisanies were started, ander the in- a Evel capitalists, for the Bayt el Tes the deposits paid. Before the had elapsed for receiving : the throng of jates-for the pri of hold- ing shares had enormous, end subscrip- tions ther reached to the enormous amount of the capital uired. ‘The allotments were, of course, ly sold at large preminms; 10 and Cf derma’ equal to more than cent per cont on ny, were eagerly » and but few shares attainable, even by favor, at those extrat “But what been the issue? The mania has banks in Hamburg. According to Inter advices, the shares were selling—w! saleable at. all—at a serious discount. y holders of allotments were indeed inclined to decline up their shares, preferring the sacrifice of their deposits to the risks be 'y consented to throug! -—partly in conseq' scarcity of metallic currency, and partly from the enormous and imprudent isaues of money. i oe - ison state of redit aad ing on Ene c en- terprise in States of Central Ew — “The excess of the circulation the bultion deposits antee, bas risen in the of 243,499 573f. to 1,006,865 ,0008. ous state of not saccessful when the bank which now desolates Germany aroee, and bly increased the difficulties of the situation.” The New Monetary System of the States of German, {Translated from Michei Chevaerr, im the Journal des Déabate, Nov. 18, 186' | A convention of the several German States met some time since at Vienna, in order to make arrange- ments jor a nniform 8; of currency on the ex- tensive continent of Germany, whereto the present day a most inconvenient diversity of coins After several seseions conference has at last come toa pas as the difficulty. Let us _ rapid surve: the new system my wee P of wich, translated from the German doco- ment, have been published in the Moniteur. The convention began with laying down the prin- ciple that there shall exist but one standard of value, represented by one metal, viz., silver. Other me- are to be subordinate to the standard metal, and the value My Ad be used to represent shall be measured b; standard metal. The same principle revails in the French monetary system. Silver is The standard metal. The gold which is coined and put in circulstion, represents, not the value of the pass according to the value of gold, but it represents so many of silver—that is, 8O Many francs, the franc being the unity, and all coin, of wi metal, re 80 many france or of francs. This #; was created by law He Hi | z Ay A F Hi 7 | i : A i F i ui HE ft 4 i j He se ‘ i get ie n = if § aFa F i i 1 : i i i i et 2 : i i Ad it H it i Hi cee i I i i £ AF it j - 3 B E i a Ha ‘ ij i 4 & Z ij i é 3 4 és 4 HF wal tt i piece not such arsd such a quantity o' wi er that be. Wi meant wad inte: that gold coi in valve, but with the Germans this and faily understood by everybody. Wi only @: din legislative documenta, that the rein valine of gold and silver is not the same aa it was at the passage of the law, then the weight of the gold coin ought to be varied ac- cordingly, to bring the gold exactly to represemt the exhibiting valve ot silver. Bat with the Germans this variation avd change to which gold ts subject is tr'ly recognive! and expresged, and will be gene- i & 2 = 35F— rH he 28s ES = i a raily understeod. Gold pieces in Germany, which are to be called crowns and half crowns, will aif have a fixed snd determinate weight. The quantity of pare gold which they contain will aimpiy refer to handredth & pound weight, an: id there is the unity of weight, as for example: a fiftieth part of alloy. Such will be the wotaht It be evident, however, that if gold coin is taken at the taxes, &c., theo Dut is i positively deckded lic treasuries will take it? an monarchies by use magne, which was aso the practice in the ancients, will be agsin revived. When in reference to money, speaks of a fonentg A precisely mean a pound weight of silver. This is pee treasury and in payment of the value fixed it ift the same as was done in ancient times, when money consisted of copper or brags. The pound weight fixed upon by the German convention is the same which is in use in the Zolive- rein States, viz., the of 600: is exactly half a Laem which kilogramme of our French weight. (This German pound is also the same as the Ameri- can and Heraup sitting at Vienna is, aa it will be seen, forwards in the creation of 3 uniform Measures among civil zed weights object much desired by enlightened mea of promotion tions, and for the of which an lish id avoirda: Note by the ‘This action of the German Currency Con HF all na- interna - the tional association was formed at Paris after Universal Exhibition which was held there. But by making the =1nit of value in the currency te consist of a pound weight, it is to establish ing unit which is too heavy to be used. ‘of this weight would be in fact large silver centaining in balk as much tained in abont one hundred andeleven ieces. In consequence of this weight, te plan has been edoyted oft unit instead of the entire unit. This the thirtieth part of a fers gain a cioutypreeents al again a reeents 4 dollar s Praseian cola, But the majority of the German States thalers; theyghave the and small fic these States were not willing to give w their florins, and settle down upon the ler, as the currency unit. On this erent 4 F., lera in proportion ion, ited to imum to be coined, i F it : if i FS haps this is carrying the principle of tion rather too Yar, ima transition from- the new currency. Under this arra: nt it will take fifty- a half small Stee unkiane ry silver, and it will take forty-five large the same. will remain exactly, or very nearly, present. Its new value will be three seventy-hundredths of a franc, with a one-hundredth of a franc besides. In the of the cflice of Longitude its value is reck: three francs and seventy one-hundredths of a so that it will remain nearly of the same was before. But the great florin will much more consi le deviation. It will to be worth two franca and and forty-se dredtbs, instead of two francs and hundredths, at which new lesser florin will two francs and twelve they were making a people, it would not have been very difficult ne a little further, so as to approach rench divisions of the unit, jis would i E £ i ® . F i 5 2¥ : 8 =} 3 & | i iG if f § 2 whereas now it will be dredths,) and ¢ jeven centimes (or tI this had beer, done, then, in such camp, off coins Wich should be multiples and unit or Of its subunits, the Frenoh and curren’, systems would be in fact one and THE selection ol silver for the standard It i» ‘im conformity with what has lately i! the ‘russian account ite F i if E e rf u f i =: i it new. passes. be the same as before, hundredths. Now, in the custome 5 F E ; j if ‘i in if iH i A i it ~ hil if i Hl ze Hy 5 ry FFre i Hit = tf = iy i eatteele i g Li i g g | E i in i FR OF beet suit il lL jl