Commercial.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 672, 12 February 1864, Page 4

Commercial.

. Daily Times Office, Wednesday Evening. Tiers \vas no gold passed to-day at the Custom House./ , ; Thtf;revenna:received on articles for home consumption waa LIOO4 9s 7d, made up as follows :— Brandy,' 25i erals, Lll4 19s 7d; wine, 162 gals, Ll4 7a/Tdl; geneva, 187 gah, IBt 16s; whiskey, 2ia gala; L 95175; beer, in bulk, 500 gals, Ll2 10s- ;< ibottled> beer, TOB gals, L3B 8s: tobacco, fi6libs, L 42 Is 6d; rigara, 79 Jbs, Lll 17s ; sugar, 77,461 lbs, L 322 15s Id; sundries, L 256

i The " (Jnion " says that the baptism of Prince Napoleon's son is at this moment a great stumbling block to the church. The little prince wa9 half baptised (ondoye) immediately after his birth ; but it is almost without precedent that the full ceremony of bapthm should be'postponed longer tliaii six months. The infant is now more than a year o!d,.and the reason, given for the extraordinary delay is that Prince Napoleon will have no other godfather'for his son than the Xii g of Italy, who is excommunicated; The Pope making a great point of holding to the excommunication' in this cisc, no bishop in F.ance can he found to fly openly in the face of the church, and Prince Nopo'eon, with equal firmness, declares that unless Victor Emmanuel holds his infant over the font ha shall not be baptised at all.

A ship belonging atfsnflernannarned Heaven sailed from this p;;rt, a few (Jays a»o for Canada with a cargo ot' coal. i.~hortly before she left, it was ascertained that the owner had not sent down sufficient Jading for the vessel, and the agent startled his clerk hj the order, " Telegraph to . Heaven for more coals." The youth to whom this jcbm'mand was addressed almost fainted on the spot.—" Greenock. Advertiser."