The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. The Cunard royal mail steamer Europa, Captain Leitch, arrived here yesterday, with thirty-three passengers, 562,000 dollars in specie, and foil, days later news. The Persia arrived at New York on the 25th November, ten days from Liverpool, and the screw. steamer Glasgow, from Glasgow, at New York, on the 26th. On the 26th, off Staten Island, the Europa met the U.S.M.S. Ericsson, from Liverpool, going on to New York. The news by this arrival is to the 26th ultimo, inclusive. The New York Money Market was easy, and the supply rather large. Call loans were freely made at 7 per cent , and commercial paper, first class names, met with a ready sale at from 9 to 10 per cent. for long dates. Foreign Exchange was not active, at 109 to 1091 for Bills on London. The Cotton market had been firm and gradually hardening. Spinners were buying largely, and evincing generally a disposition to get into stock. In Breadstuffs there was a moderate demand at receding prices, with the exception of Indian Corn, which was advancing. Freights to Liverpool were quoted at Flour 2s 3d, Grain Bd. to 9d, and Cotton 3-16 d to 7 32d. Of political intelligence there is nothing worth recording. The Florida and South Carolina Legis latures met on the 24. th ult. The latter will have to elect a governor for two years. From Washington we learn that the claims of the two British companies in Oregon and Washing ton territories, which are excluded from notice in Mr. Dallas' treaty, will probably be provided for in a separate convention, or by special legislation at the coming session of Congress. The privileges secured by the treaty of 1846 to the Hudson's Bay Company, are less important and valuable to them than 'embarrassing to the American Govern ment. They will be disposed of without much trouble and at little expense. The Puget's Sound Agricultural Company claims a very large tract of the best arable lands in Washington territory, and should its pretensions be sustained, they would very seriously interfere with the settlement of the country. Could the extinguishment of the alleged rights of both companies he connected with the retrocession of Vancouver's Island, the United States government would he found disposed to pursue a very liberal policy. This great island contains vast deposits of bituminous coal, which is needed to supply the wants of the population of the Pacific slope. Its re-annexation to the United States is an object which the executive is anxious to accomplish before yielding the helm of affairs to his successor. The changed tone of a part of the southern press is amusing. The principal newspapers of that section have come down to a very rational and and moderate view of public affairs. Their ravings about disunion have done their work, and having frightened a good many capitalists and business men of the north, are laid aside like the scenery and appointments of a suspended play. They had a good run; and will doubtless be placed on the stage again four years hence. . The Washington correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer thinks that they are in the habit of giving too much attention to the avowed filibuster and disunion sheets:—" Their bluster against the North amounts to no more than the vehement protestations of the head waiter in the kitchen, that really he shall be compelled to give notice and leave. This vapouring below stairs does no hurt. Those who indulge in it generally remain until turned away for insolence and worth• lessness. There are, however, party organs of the Southern democracy who have been making them selves hoarse with screams of secession, which :inspire other feeling than contempt, because they represent an organisation which is powerful for mischief. The disunion excitement raised or echoed by those sheets. is shewn to have been merely a disgraceful electioneering trick, by the fact that after the success of their candidate, they generally call for a conservative administration. The offices, the contracts, and the spoils are now secured. and it is more conducive to a quiet enjoy ment of them to forget the treasonable threats which won them. than to continue the noisy agita tion of the late canvass. The Virginia papers, supposed to represent that moderate and dignified p o liti c ian, Governor Wise. substantially ad vico Mr. lauchanan to avoid the example of Pierce, and let the subject of slavery alone. The reason is plain; Wise himself is intriguing for the succession. He cannot postpone his aspirations beyond 1860. It is essential to begin by inducing the Northern people to forget the infamous and crazy diatribes against the Union with which he interlarded the manifestoes of the democracy in their campaign against Col. Fremont. If Mr. Buchanan adopt a moderate course now, it will, perhaps, be the more easy to open a virulent and venemous agitation for the salvation of the South, about 1859, under the auspices of the filibustering Governor. The issues of 1860. will be " ebo shins," " gizzards feet," or any thing else of which the Governor may be regarded as the peculiar champion. In the mean time, however, it must be distinctly understood that the President elect shall apportion the patron age under the dictation of the secessionists. They may forego their principles and tolerate the Union. But the spoils of victory they must be seized. Another large party of recruits for General Walker's army in Nicaragua, left New York by the steamer 'texas, on the 24th. The condition of President Walker's affairs, says the New York Daily Times, ie not such to inspire his friends with riotous confidence. After a careful collation of the accounts public and private received in New York and at New Orleans, we incline to the belief that his position is far less secure than is generally supposed. The seventh Annual National Woman's Rights Convention was in session at New York. A large number of women, and a few men, were present. The , house was by no means inconveniently crowded, and there is reason to believe that this eccentric "ism" is fast losing its hold upon public interest. Ceasing to be a novelty, it ceases to be of any significande as a reform movement. Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell was chosen president, and the usual additional officers were appointed. Mrs. Blackwell, Mrs Mary F. Davis, and Mr. De Blan court addressed the meeting in the old familiar vein, and the inevitable trite resolutions were adopted. The proceedings of the Convention seem to be duplicated after the pattern of last year, with the exception of the enthusiasm, in which there is a manitest falling off. The Convention would remain in session two days, during which time speeches were promised from Lucretia Mott, Wen dell Philips, Ernestine L. Rose, Rev. Samuel J. May, Horace Greeley, and other loquacious phi lanthropists. The steamer Victoria, Capt. L. G Shuyter, had Arrived at New York from St. Johns, N. F , 31st ult., via Sidney, C B , November 21. The Victoria is connected with the Newfoundland and London Telegraph Co., and since leaving New York, on the 12th April last, has been engaged in the very arduous duty of delivering men, material and sup plies, at different ports on the coast, and in that tine has visited 106 ports, and run a distance of 11,800 miles, along probably the most difficult and dangerous coast known. The steam ship Marion had returned to New York from the search for the passenger and crew of the La Lyonnais steam ship, having been en tirely unsuccessful. There seemed to be little h )pe of their ever being discovered, es the Marion had experienced the most tempestuous weather. ;y es ;e1 s which had been several days in the vicinity of the collision were spoken, and could give no in ,r,,finn, The wind at times has blown a gale, and the second officer in his statement said that he did not think the raft that was constructed could h- - )ld together in a heavy sea. The heavy storms are the cause of all discouragement. According to the same statement, the steamer WAR provided with i d oh w oud 12 w o h l two cutters, each of w hi c h would twenty five persons ; two lifeboa ts, one of contain twenty, and the other, eighteen per sons ; and two yawls, each of Ivhich would hold six. These with a strong raft (such as there appears to have been time to build) might have sufficed in fair weather, but the yawls could be of little use in a rough sea, and the cutters were a very uncertain reliance; the principal dependence of the passengers I and crew for safety if a violent storm arose must have been on the life-boats. It was ono of the life-boats which was picked up. The other, it will be remembered, was stove by corning in collision with the raft. As to the raft, it was at best but a frail dependence ; the sea has rolled terribly, and the poor creatures who were obliged to take their chance of life on it . have probably been shaken or torn from the spars and planks of which it was formed, or overwhelmed by the waves ; or it being dashed to pieces, its precious burden has, with those in the missing boats, met a common fate. It is barely possible that a portion have been rescued by some vessel going eastward, but to one who reads the log of the Marion it does not seem probable. Among the lost are Mr. Albert Sumner, with his wife and daughter. Mr. Sumner was a brother of Hon. Charles Sumner, and was a gentleman of wealth and standing, residing at Newport, Rhode Island. A singular fatality from shipwreck has at tached to this family. Horace Sumner, a brother, and a young man of great promise, lost his life by drowning at the wreck of the ship Elizabeth, on Fire Island, in 1850, on which occasion Margaret Fuller Oasoli, her husband and child, also perished Mrs. Albert Sumner also had a sister, (Mrs. Ball) who, with her husband, was lost in the packet ship Home, bound from New York to Charleston, several years ago. Another of the lost is Mr. T. F. Bass ford and wife, of New York Mr. B. though quite young, had distinguished himself as a pianist, and as a composer attained some position. He was 00 his way to Paris, for the purpose of studying his profession. Mr. Froelich, during a few years past, a resident of New York, and distinguished for his thorough education and rare intelligence; is among the lost. He was a native of France, and a gradu ate of her university. During the latter part of October Mr. Froelich received a letter from his father, in France, enjoining him to return home as soon as possible, as it was his last desire to see his son once more before he finished his earthly pil grimage. In obedience to this parental injunction, Mr. Froelich closed up his affairs, and set out at once to re.visit his native land. His fine social qualities had won him au extended circle of friends. Theodore A Bailey, Esq., also one of the lost, was a son of Theodorus Bailey, formerly postmaster of New York. He was accompanied by his wife. Those of the crew that were saved will probably be sent to France by the French consul. A subscription in their behalf has been opened at the office of the Courier des Etats Uizis, and about 300 dollars already subscribed. A St. Louis paper contains a long account of things as they are at Kansas. Among other matters it says : The Herald ofFreedoni, published at Lawrence, after a long suspension, is out again in full blast. It will be temembered that the printing presses and types were tumbled into the river by an excited crowd at the very beginning of the Kansas troubles . On the restoration of peace, under Gov. Geary, Mr. Brown, the editor, returned prepared to issue the Herald again, as the organ of the Free State party in Kansas. According to the statement of the _Herald, there is no violence along the river, and persons are perfectly secure in travelling to Kansas if they keep quiet on the exciting issues os the day. The late troubles have diminished the number of families, buthave hurried forward a large class of young men and adven turers. A line of stages plies regularly between Lawrence and Leavenworth. The Herald states that there are comparatively few families in Law- rence from Massachusetts. This is suprising as the general opinion has been that the chief emigra tion to that point had been from Massachusetts. The Herald also states that the principal merchants there are Missourians, and that, as the chief sufferers by robbery were Missourians, and that, as the goods to a considerable extent which were plundered ware sold 'ay St. Louis dealers on credit. the losses by the invasions fall heaviest on Missouri herself.. Captain Robertson, of the British barque Perth shire, at Savarnah, from the Clyde, reports that off Tuskar Light, S.E. coast of Ireland, bearing N.E , distance 40 miles, passed the wreck of a ship which had been run down by a large vessel, supposed to be one of the New York packets. All hands are supposed to have perished, except a Spanish sailor who was taken from the wreck by the boat and crew of the P. The rescued sailor had in his arms a boy, who perished before assistance could be rendored. He could give no information as to the name of his ship. A storm at Chicago had destroyed 50,000 dollars worth of property. An accident at the Bergen Tunnel, near New Jersey City, had caused the instant death of three workmen and the severely wounding of several others. COMMERCIAL—NEW YORK, Nov. 26. MONETARY AFFAIRS.—In money matters there is a mate_ rial improvement. The export of gold has been partially checked by the lower rates of exchange on Europe, and the weekly shipments are cow below the receipts from California and the interior. In consequence of this favourable feature, and the less alarming accounts from London and Paris, the banks in the city have abandoned the system of curtailment pursued by them during the last few weeks, and in view of the steady accumulation of coin in their vaults, have felt justified in increasing their line of loans to a moderate extent. The advance in stocks is, in a great measure, due to the confidence produced by this change of policy, and the belief that there is no longer reason to apprehend a serious stringency during the winter. The position of financial affairs in London and Paris, however, still causes considerable anxiety. and until the antis cipated crisis has been met or averted, our market will he more or less influenced by the tenor of the accounts received by the European mails. The advices per Niagara being of a more gloomy character than those brought by the two preceding steamers, checked the buoyant feeling which previously existed, and produced a slignt downward tendency of prices, but the market is again rather firm at the close, although we have this morning, per Persia, accounts of a further advance in interest by the bank of England. Money is abundant on call at 7 per cent, and the rates of discount are slightly lower, first class paper selling at Bto 9 per cent. The bank returns for the fortnight shows an increase in loans of 1,996,280 dole, and in specie of 1,455,448 dole. Shipments of specie since our last report, 1,669 477 dols ; receipts of gold from California, 1,753,558 dols. Foreign exchanges have been rather inactive for this mail, and the market closes heavy at 1098 to 1098 for bills on London. COTTON : Talcott, Brothers' circular of this morning supplies the following : The market bat been firm and gradually hardening during the past three days. Sales 6,500 bales. Spinners have bought largely, and evince generally a disposition to get into stock. The Persia's advices from Liverpool of 14th inst , to hand tbis morning have produced no other effect than to make holders firm at full quoted rates. Sot7THERN MARKETS, NeW Orleans, Nov. 21st : Niagara received ; middling, 112 d. Sales, 10,000 bales. Freight, id. MOBILE, Nov. 22nd : Receipts of the week, 26,000 ; sales, 16,000 bales. Export to Great Britain, 1,500 bales ; freight, 17 32d. Middling, 64:1, free on hoard, with freight. HARLESTON, Nov. 24 : Sales, 1,300 bales, with an advancing tendency in prices. On the 22nd middling was 11=7 ; c; good middling, llic ; and middling fair, nac to nic. Ft eight to Liverpool, d. ' he total receipts at the ports; to latest mail dates, amount to 728,000 hales, against 720,000 hales last year. The total export to Great Britain since Sept. Ist, 120,000 against 265,000 last year. CuoP : The estimate of the country is unchanged, namely, 3,000,000 bales ; a leaning, however, to a little higher figures, indulged in by same parties, is certainly excusPable, in view of the continued heavy scale of receipts. The closing quotations of :his market are : Upland Mobile N. Orleans. Ordinary . —to 111 11/ to —to 111 Mildli7:g ....„. .... —to 12 121 to —to 121 INliddliug Fair —to 12 1 1 9 ' to —to 13 -if Fair Freight to Liverpool, 3-16 d. We annex an extract from the circular of Mr.W. P. Wright. The following is a statement of the movements in cotton since the lst of September last, as compared with the previous three years :- 1856. 1855 1851 18,.3. Receipts at the Ports 732,000 724,001, 454,000 41.2,000 Exports to Great Britain 124,000 255,000 137,000 112,000 it France 6l 000 79 000 58 000 17,0:.0 " other For. Ports 250 01 56,000 266100 20 . 000 Total Exports . 216,000 400,000 221,000 158 000 Stock on hand. 420,00, , 331.000' 209.000, 273 000 Of which during the past week, included in the above : Receipts at the Ports llO , lOO 92,0001 67,000 70 000 Exports to Great Britain 3l 00 19,000! 25,00 42,000 " France.. B,OOO 12 0 ,, 0i 3 000 6.009 " other For. Ports. 6,100 10,000 4,0 0 4,000 Total Exports 48 . 000 41,000 , 32.000 , 22,000 SllMMARY.—Receipts: Increase at the ports compared with last, year, 12,000 bales. Exports ; Decrease to THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. Great Britain, 141,000 ; France, 15,000 ; other foreign ports, 28,000. Total decrease in exports, 184,000 bales. BREADSTUFFS.—FIour, State and Western : My last re port was of the 17th instant, per Canada, via Boston. We have since been in receipt of advices per City of Washington at Philadelphia, and Niagara at Boston, with Liverpool dates down to the Bth inst. A fair inquiry has prevailed during the week both for export and the home trade, but with liberal arrivals. and influenced by the foreign advices, prices of most descriptions have receded 10 and 15 cents per barrel. Common to good State, 6 dole 25 cents to 6 dole 35 cents per barrel; extra ditto, 6 dols 55 cents to 6 dole 70 cents ; common to good Ohio and Indiana, 6 dole 40 cents to 6 dole 80 cents; low to fair grades extra Ohio, 6 dols 90 cents to 7 dols 15 cents ; extra Genesee, 7 dole 45 cents to 8 dole 75 cents. Southern : mixed to good brand=, 7 dole 10 cents to 7 dols 40 cents per barrel ; favourite and extras, 7 dollars 50 cents to 8 dollars. Canadian : 6 dols 55 cents to 7 dols 70 cents for all grades. Wheat: Our market during the week has experienced slight fluctuations. A good inquiry has on the whole prevailed for Great Britain and the Continent, the closing rates varying little from these reported by the Canada. Good to prime white, 1 del 63 cents to t del 70 cents per 60 lbs., two or three parcels Genesee having been taken by millers at 1 dol 73 cents to 1 dol 75 cents; winter red, 1 dol 51 cents to 1 del 57 cents ; spring, 1 dol 36 cents to 1 dol 40 cents. ALFRED F. DE LIIZE. P.S. With large arrivals (43,000 barrels), and under effect of Persia's advices, flour 5 to 10 cents lower; wheat, prime white, firm; red, about 2 cents lower; corn, 1 cent better; rye firm. IRON : Scotch pig has been steady at 29 dots, 6 months, with sales for the week of 600 tons ; bar iron has been dull ; sales 150 tons of common English at .53 dols, 6 months ; and 300 tons refined, 571 dole to 60 dols, 6 months; hoops in good supply—no sale to report ; rails are held at 64 dols, cash. LEAD: The sales for the week include 100 tons Spanish, for home use, at 6 dols, cash ; 25 do. for export, at 5 dole 123 c in bond, time and interest; 70 tons English at 6 dole, cash, duty paid ; and 50 tons German (Stolberg), at 5 dole, cash, in bond. PROVISIONS : Pork has improved, with sales of old mess at 18 dols. Old prime is scarce ;wo hear of no sales to report. New mess sells at 18 dole 50c to 18 dole 75e ; Prime 17 dole 25e to 17 doffs 50c ; hams in pickle 101,-c to 10c; green hams 9- 1 5 c to 91c ; long and short bone middles 94c to 10c ; clear 101 c to 11c. Lard is in fair demand at 12 : ', , c to 13c fur brls, and 13c to 134 c for kegs. Dressed hogs 74c to 7Z -c. Beef is in fair demand ; old repacked Chicago and Western mess 9 dols to 11 dole 50c ; prime 6 dols 50c to 7 dols ; new repacked Chicago mess 14 dole to 15 dole; extra 16 dole ; repacked Western mess 13 dole to 14 dole 50c; State mess, new, 10 dole to 11 dols ; prime 7 dole to 7 dole 50c ; beef hams 17 dols ,50c to 20 dole. Rion : The market has continued to drop, with large receipts, but with more doing for export ; it has been especially dull for those qualities below the export standard ; the sales are 1,200 trcs, at 3 dols 50c to 4 dole 50c for fair to prime. SALT : The sales include 4,300 sacks Jeffery') and Darcey's Liverpool fine at 1 dol 374 c ; 21,600 Liverpool ground 82te to 831 c; and 3,500 bushels Lisbon at 19. SUGAR : Raw sugars are dull, holders appear to keep up good courage, but buyers hold bark ; there is little doing to the trade, and refiners take only enough to supply their neces sities ; we make no quotable decline, but sales could not be fft cted except at a concession. The sales for the week aro 1.108 hhds, 23 tierces, and 41 brie Cuba, at 81 to 10 ; 200 hhds Porto Rico, part at 9 to 9Z ; and 480 boxes Havana, at 9to 101. Refined are a fraction easier; crushed are quoted at I*, to 131; ground and granulated, 12a to 12,7; loaf, 134; coffee, white, 11 to 111, ; do. yellow, 10 to NI FREIGHTS.— Are rather dull. To Liverpool—Tobacco, hhds, 30 to 35s ; Cotton, square bales, per lb. 3-16 d ; Flour, per bbl, 2s. 3d; Rosin, per hbl, 2s 6d to 3s; Heavy Goods, Cheese, &c, per ton, 25a to 32s 61 ; Grain, per bushel, 8-3 d a 9d. To London—Cheese per ton, 32s 6d a 35s ; Flour, per bbl. 2s 10d to 3s ; Rosin and Turpentine, per 280 lbs, 3s to 3s 6d ; Fur and Skins, &c, per ton, 30s to 32s 61; Heavy Goods, Oil, &c, 30a to 35s ; Oil Cake, per ton, 30s to 32s 6d ; Grain, per bushel, ltd. To Havre—Cotton, square bales, per lb, ic; Whalebone, &c, per lb, ; Ashes, Pot and Pearl, ton, 8 dole, to 10 dols; Rice, 9 dole. ; Flour, per bbl, 70c ; Provisions, 871 c ; Grain, per bushel, 20. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.-CRYSTAL PALACE' MAY, 1857. The arrangements for this enormous musical exhibition, of two thousand three hundred performers, progress in the most satisfactory manner. The interest awl enthusiasm exited in musical circ'es are without precedent. The committee of the Sacred Harmonic Society have already received offers of assistance from nearly three thousard persons desirous of taking part in this great celebration, a number which does not include the society's own orchestra of seven hundred perform ers, nor those members of the nuuskal profession whose position precludes the necessity of applications for engage ments. The provincial towns have come forward in a very unanimous manner. Bitmingham offers a choir of four hun dred voices. Under the organisation of Mr. Oliver Mason, the able manager of the Birmingham festivals, it is sugges'ed that rehearsals should at once commence. Bradford has also a large force of picked Yorkshire vocalists at disposal; while from Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, York, Hereford, Wor• ces'er, Gloucester, Norwich, K-ighlev, Huddersfield, Lincoln, Exeter, Peterborough, Oxford, Gimbridge, Canterbury, Brighton, Leicester, Nottingham, and many other towns, applications to take part continue to he received ; and even horn places as remote as Dublin, Editibur,;h, and Belfast, communications have been made of the desire to be associated in this immense musical gathering. Bearing in mind that 1859 is not only one hundred years from the death of Handel. but also fifty years from the death of Haydn, and fifty years from the birth of Mendelseohn, it will be apparent that this great celebration of May, 1857, will be but the precursor of still greater solemnities, on an occasion on which so many interesting musical recollections will find their focus and meeting point. The contract for the organ has been taken by Messrs. Gray and Davidson, of the New-road, London. It will be on a really grand scale. with an ample supply of 32 feet and 16 feet stops; the builders binding themselves to have it fixed complete in the central transept by the 25th of April next. The plans for the orchestra aro now receiving the closest attention of the managing committee ' • and when i t is stated that it will cover a space as large as Exeter Hall, some notion of the magnitude of the undertaking may b e gained. Although we have heretofore been enjoying theatrical representations of Negro Life, yet we are gratified to hear that the Howard's have just arrived from the Lnited States, under the management of P. T. Barnum, Esq., a n d intend gratifying the public with a series of these per. formances, am ongst which will be prominent, " Topsy a in Uncle T om's Cabin, " Old Milkey," " Aunt Venus," " Market Woman," &c., &c. ; of Mrs. Howard, and the " Tom Tit," " Ida May," " Hot Corn Girl," " Strawberry Girl," " Eva," &c., and of little Cordelia Howard, a child eight years of age, whose truthful and characteristic representations, have won for them encomiums of no ordinary cast. REPRESENTATION OF GREPNWICH.—AdmiraI J. W. D. Dundas having &dined to come forward as a candidate for the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Peter Rolt, an address to the electors was issued by Mr. W. Jones, solicitor, and many years a resident in the town of Green wich. In his address Mr. Jones says :—" My opinions on public questions are well known to you. Religious, politi cal, and commercial freedom ; household suffrage, the ballot, short parliaments, administrative and law reform, e.lucation, abolition of income and rrduction of property-tax, and a division of the three important towns of your borough (Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich) into separate bo roughs GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA.—The Montreal celebrat on of the through opening to the West, which took place on the 12. h and 13th ultimo, appears to have afforded universal satisfaction, upwards of 12,000 strangers were at tracted to witness the fetes, which were upon a scale com mensurate with the Importance of the occ sion to the pro vince. Party feeling has entirely ceased, and the Canadians are now as unanimous in their praise of the work as they formerly were censor ioa. According to American authorities, the grand Trunk is admitted to be the cheapest and most substantial line in the western hemisphere. The Canadian Government has consented to. modify the Relief-bill of last session, with a view to enable the directors to apply the powers in a practical way in the first instance—such as com pletion of the Victoria-bridge, and expediting the works be tween St. Mary's and London (22 miles), where a junction takes place with the Great Western. This will open the Michigan and Wisconsin traffic to the Grand Trunk, for that portion destined for Lower Canada and the Eastern States of America and New Brunswick. Without the bridge the line is incomplete, hut the traffic is expected to be sufficient to pay interest on the shares, and so prevent its becoming a further charge on capital. The local traffic alone on the Toronto and Guelph section, according to the statement of the president, is already £25 per mile per week, and the re ceipts from passengers between Toronto and Montreal were over £lO per mile. When the goods traffic commences, this will, judging from the eastern sections, show one-third more revenue than from passeng ers. The G rand Trunk is now, therefore, fairly out of its fina ncial diffi culties. These chiefly arose from a miscalculwion in supposing that pur chase of the Montreal and Portland, at £6,500 per mile, placed the concern in possession of an efficient road and plant. Still, inducing the bridge, it will be one of the cheapest and most substantial lines in America, should the whole be completed under 1,000 sterling per mile, includ ing intereet. The traffic does not depend on Canada alone, as hitherto. The trade from Europe and the Eastern Stites with the Far West will be tapped in the spring, having the ereat lake feeders at Goderich and Collingwood on the right flank, Detroit and Sarnia to the west, and Port Stanley and Cleveland on the left.—Railway Times. THE INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—There are few Englishmen who will not rejoice to see the odious income tax tottering to its fall. The detestable impost is doomed ; the insult, degradation, and robbery to which the professional men, the traders, and clerks of this country have been systematically subjected, is coming to an end. But mark, Mr. Editor, a m os t determined and complete organisation, on the part of our countrymen, is absolutely necessary, else the ravager will not be annihilated. Every town and county must have its " Anti•lncome Tax Association ;" a network of power must be spread over the land ; the vampire must be destroyed by the hands of our parliamentary representatives; in a word, the work of destruction must take place at the hustings Nothing can withstand the trades men of this country (I mean the shopkeepers), if they take a stand. Let Liverpool speak out at a town's meeting—let an association be immediately farmed—let men like Mr. Jeffrey speak out and denounce the impost in the name of the trade of the country, and the monster will perish. Let no I blarney nor evasion be attempted by our represen tatives ; if they cannot devise a plan, or pledge themselves to support a measure for the abolition of the income tax, let them seek anoth:.'r arena in which to display their fiscal capabilities. Can we forget the insult, the oppression, the bullying, and the gross want of fair play shown to tradesmen at Kirkdale, after waiting an audience some three or four days, in the hope of meeting with justice. Such oppression, if tried on the Continent, would revolutionise half the capitals in Europe. Let the cry be " Down with the income tax and no surren der."—Yours truly, ANGLO-SAXON. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. SOMETHING AKIN TO IT. TO THE EDITOR OF THrl NORTHERN TIMEI. Sir,—l have again transcribed another passing im promptu; it is the offspring of this subject, though it has no ciaim to brotherhood with the disquisitions of your acute currency doctors. Money ! Oh ! money ! thou wayward, wayward help mete ! What a roving rambling thing thou art ; thou friend of friends, and thou friend of the friendless ; with thy potent affixing qualities, which, like the magnet, holds in close embrace the most incongruous, inadhesive mate rials without a single link of love, friendship, or esteem. Money, oh ! money 1 Unto what shall I liken thee, thou hateful, longed-for, coveted thing ! How oft could I say, would there were no such thing; and, yet, oh, that I could pile thee up as mountains of bliss, to be dispensed abroad to the friendless, fatherless, and widows, as some would pile thee up for very greed of thee—some for pride and ostentation, and some for wrong, tyranny, and oppression. Money ! oh, money I Thou art like an evil genius in fair attire, whose rich flowing garments commend them selves to all for beauty and grace, but whose mysterious power affects all things which come within the blighting influence of its corrupting subtle outgoings. Money ! oh, money Thou art a faithless friend—thou art a fickle foe ; with thy glowing hand proffered to all, and thy magic gifts to few ; thou art in truth as an evil genius, pervading the face of nature; denaturalising all things, corrupting all places, and demoralising all nations. Money 1 money ! money ! offspring of commerce child of necessity ! thou most useful thing ! Whatsoever be thy form or superscription—whatsoever be thy worth—be thy parts ever so costly, or ever so vile to look upon—be thou brilliant as a jewel, or be thou ever so dull—be thou in thy most choice attire and ever so charming, or in thy most disfigured garb, and ever $o repulsive; yet art thou prized of all, and loved ! Yes, loved to madness, by thousands of wretched votaries, who care not how they get thee, so they do but get thee, and who seem to follow the pernicious advice of a father to his son, who said—" Gat money, my son, get money ; get it honestly if thou can, but get money." And in truth it is a great bait, one suited to nearly all mankind, for the choicest of them nibble at thy most choice portions, even though they scorn to touch thy more modest allotments. Oh! it is as a decoy bird of beauty and song—it has charms for all eyes and music for all ears—and the most frugal, yea, the truly upright, know full well from sad experience, that in the ordinary ways of life, " Money makes the mare to go ;" For not only does it procure the inanimAle comforts and luxuries of civilisation, but, painful though it be to say— it gains, it makes, yea, it buys very friends, and secures the smiles and admiration of all around us. Money ! oh, money Truly thou art most prominently conspicuous in the world, whether for weal or for woe, standing out in bold relief as a finger-post at the junction of cross roads, directing to the high ways of ruin and fortune, bp which men are drawn aside from the ❑arrow path of peace and happiness. And yet, 0 ! Money ; to do thee justice thou are both for good and for evil—thou art a test of honesty though thou dost not reveal the frauds either of the rich or of the poor, for thy secret accusations—being cumbered over with funded wealth. princely domains, or mercantile. im portance, are audible to none, no, not even to those thou mightest have admonished, had they not so consigned them to oblivion. And now, oh, Money I that I have glanced at thy ways and wanderings, let me part with thee in the fond hope of better times, and a brighter era for thee, in which thou mayest stand in thy normal character—a true commercial medium—ample in principle, and founded only by the wide spread measure of wealth and value.—l am, sir, yours, &c., NEros. UNSOUND MEAT AND GERMAN COOKERY AT SEA. At the Thames police court, Captain Wilhelm Übbflohde, (a German,) captain of the lidcio, from Sydney, was charged under the 19th Vic., c. 119, sec. 35 and 36, with not issuing wholesome provisions to the passengers, and with issuing provisions improperly cooked. Mr. Owen Evans, said he em barked in the Adele, at Sydney, with his wife and four children, aged respectively eleven ten, seven and five years. He paid £BO for their passage, and they set sail for London on the sth of August last. He brought with him a side of bacon, a quantity of butter, 1 cwt, of flour, and other things, but for which he and his family would have been starved ou the ship's diet. A few days after sailing, the passengers wrote a remonstrance to the captain, on the bad quality and the bad cookery of the provi-ions, but in vain. The beef was rotten, and smelt strongly. The dough ( pudding) was full of mags go's ; witness here produced a paper, which was full of live maggots, which excited the admiration of the court. Tile pas sengers had to cause the meat to he removed from the cabin to the deck. They, one day, Enid a German stew. It was so horribly bad that it was thrown overboard, and three persons who had taken some, became ill. Witness will remember that horrid German stew all his day,. On the first of September, they caught an albatross. Mr. Sadgrove (solicitor): You caught a fish ? (A. laugh.) Witness : No; a bird. Mr. Sadgrovo . Oh, to be sure, a bird. Mr. Druco (solicitor) : You would not have killed an albatross if you had read Cole• ridge's Ancient Mariner. Witness: We made a safe voyage notwithstanding. The witness then proceeded to state that the sugar served out, was coarse brown sugar ; so hard that they had to cut it with a knife. The water had been curtailed during a portion of the voyage. All the beef was bad except one barrel. The potatoes were but scantily served, and dur ing a portion of the voyage they had none, although potatoes could have been had for 4s. a hundred weight at Sydney, and also at Pernambuco. They had no lime juice; pickles were served instead. There was poultry on hoard, and pigs, but witness had neither poultry or pork. He was a steerage passenger. Every passenger on board complained, and there was a " round robin" once. Witness was sick for 8 days, and his wife had scurvy from tho bad provisions, and the want of antiseptics. Mr, George Whitehead, a second class passenger, who paid £6O for his passage, and Mr. B. Waugh, who paid £7O for the passage of himself and his wife, corro borated the above evidence, and said that they fortunately had brought some provisions and luxuries for their own use. When a shoulder of mutton was served to them it weighed but fib., including bone, for 18 persons, and the mutton chops at breakfast were skeletons and dry. Some of the sleeping berths were in a bad state, and the pigs seemed to be but little bigger than the rats. First class passengers fared as badly. Monsieur Beeson, a French gentleman, said : The cooking was neither English nor French, nor anything. The mutton chop—oh, oh ! —it vash like—it vash like—be could not tell vat it vash like. He never had a good breakfast on board. He paid £7O for his passage, and brought his own wines. There were forty passengers on board the vessel. Mrs. Pitman (an Englishwoman), and Mr. Edlar (a Garman), were called for the defence, and said the cuisine, which was a German one, was on the whole good, Some of the beef was bad, and the puddings were sour, owing to carbonate of soda being used to make them light, Tho ship's steward gave similar evidence. The defendant said he had purchased quantities of preserved provisions, but his agent did not send them, and his poultry were nearly all lost in the stormy weather. Mr. Self, the magistrate, said that it was clear that the act of Parliament had been violated, and if this had not been the first case of the kind brought before him, and if the captain had not been a foreigner, and unacquanted with the law, he should have inflicted a very heavy penalty. He fined the captain £25, and £5 costs, in all £3O. The money was paid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL. BEFORE ME. HAYWOOD, THE BACON THAT WAS NOT SAVIsD ! —William Smith, John Finegan, Thomas Finegan, and James Connor, four youths of from fourteen to eighteen years of age, were brought up by Constable Reilly, No. 91. on suspicion of being concerned in the plunder of fifteen flitches of bacon. It appeared that on Saturday night a bacon store, under John's Market, was broken into;and fifteen flitches of bacon, value £l5, the property of Hugh Carragher, stolen thereout. From information which the constable received, he went to Bradbury court, where he got one flitch of the bacon, and subsequently he arrested the prisoners, and they admitted that they found it lying " inadvertenly" at the back of a crate near the market. They were reminded for further evidence. (The remainder was not foiled.) WHO STOLE THE MONEY ?—William Newell was charged on suspicion a ha►ing stolen £l5 from a man named E I ward Robinson, who resides in Etdon place. The facts were these. On Saturday the complainant was out - on business, and had £l5 in his possession. He got rather " fresh," and went home in a cab in the evening, the cab diving to the yard attached to his house. The prisoner; it appeared, met the prosemitor on leaving the car, and knocked him down, and in the scuffi Rubinson alleged that he lost the money. The prisoner was drunk, and a►though two witnesses stated that they saw the scuffle, they did not see any money, nor could the prosecutor state that he had the Cash at the time. The prisoner was fined 5s for being drank, but liberated from the charge of felony. STEALING COPPER.—James Burns, a carter, was charged by detective &Von, under the following circumstances. On Saturday he arrested the prisoner in Preston street, with a quantity of copper in his posseseion ; • and, as he could not give any account of how he got it, he locked him.up. On enquiry, he found that the prisoner had been engaged on Saturday, carting copper for Messrs. Moss and Co., copper merchants,. of Ifenn's gardens, and. that ne doubt existed the copper which he got with the prisoner, belonged to that firm. Mr. Bluck who appeared for the •prisoner, cross examined the officer; who, in reply, said he saw a person in Messrs. Moss's employment, and that person promised to be present to sustain the case, but he was not now present. Mr. Bluck : Did you speak to him ? Officer : Yes. Mr. Blues : Did he say he would come ? Officef : He did. Mr. Block : And he is not here ? Officer : He is not. Mr. Block : I suppose he does not intend to come ? Officer: I do not know. Mr. Bluck: I contend, your worship, that you must discharge the prisoner; there is no evidence to show that he stole this metal, nor that it is the property of Messrs. Moss. The only thing you can do is to fine him for not accounting for the possession of the copper. The prisoner was fined Sc. and costs for not being able to account for the honest possession of the metal. BEFORE MESSRS. ZEYWOOD AND S. ROLM& STABBING.—Richard Tims, a resident of Mansfield street, was charged for having stabbed a woman named Eliza Barr, who resides in the same. street. There was some dispute between the wife of the prisoner and the complainant, and it was alleged that the prisoner struck the complainant a desperate blow of a knife in the forehead, which inflicted a dangerous wound. He was remanded, in order to procure medic evidence as to the natare of the injury inflicted on Mrs. Barr. IP:FORE MR. AIKBN AND Mft. BBNN. A foreign sailor, named Petra L auia, was charged with stabbing another sailor, named George Matthews, at a public house in Charles street. The wounded mnn was unable to attend. and the prisoner was remanded for a week. There was a row in the house at the time with a number of foreign sailors, when the prisoner deliberately took his knife and stabbed the complainant in the breast. DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. The neighbourhood of 'Change, Castle and Brunswick streets, and the adjoining localities were thrown into a state of great alarm yesterday evening, shortly bEf ,re four o'clock, in consequence of a report that prevailed to the effect that Mr. Joseph Hadfield, an eminent sail maker, carrying on business adjoining Brunswick—street and the Back Goree, had put an end to his existence by cutting his throat. The report spread with great rapidity, and the rumour gained strength from the fact that the police were seen hurrying towards the Northerp Hospital hearing a stretcher, on which was placed the body of a man, his clothes covered with blood, and apparently lifeless. A large crowd soon collected, and every sort of rumour, as generally in such cases, prevailed. In justice to the unfortunate gentleman himself, and his large circle of respectable friends, we folk-heir pub'ishing any of these reports, which no doubt are exaggerated, if not totally void of truth. As far as we could collect, there certainly seems an absence of motive which would have worked upon the mind of the unfortunate gentleman, except that he was sized with souse unaccountable tit of insanity, which for the time reduced his faculties to the lowest state of despondency, without any apparent cause. About the time stated, as we are informed, police officer 401 was called into Mr. Hadfield's office, when ho found him lyivg with a terrible gash in his throat, and, at the same time, he was apparently insensible. The officer called anis ance, and immediately procured a stretcher, on which the wounded man was conveyed with despatch to the Northern Hospital, and placed in a bed. Dr. Wall, the house surgeon, was in immediate attendance, sod examined the wound. It was found to be across the centre of the throat, and about four inches long, the windpipe being partially severe 1, Dr. Wall, with his usual ability and promptness. proceeded to render the assistance necessary, and having succeeded in stopping the bleeding, the patient soon became o scions, but was much exhausted. The utmost care and- unremitting attention -was paid to him, and after some time he rallied considerably. He was not, however, able to articulate, but he pointed to sevoral of his friends who we , e present, and pressed them warmly by the hand, and, so far as signs and gestures could express a meaning, he appeared very sorry for what had taken place. Dr. Wall is of opinion, that although the wound is of a very serious character, that at present there is no immediate danger, but such wounds assume . different characters in their progress, so that no definite opinion can be pronounced for some days, We are glad to find that there is no instant danger appres hended, and it is to be hoped that the gentleman will ultimately recover from the Effects of the wounds. It appears the instrument used was a razor. It is not our wish to penetrate farther into this sad affair which has thrown several highly respectable families into a state of the utmost grief. ABSCONDING CLERKS AND OTHER 3. Man is an imitative animal, and bad example is more likely to do the inoculation business than good precept is to meet with followers The gentlemen of the great metro polis, who sperld thansinis a year out of two or three hundred salaries, must have some imitators in Liverpool, and accordingly we find that during the past week some parties have made themselves scarce by levanting, but it is not said whether in their hasty flight they have " left a wreck behind," or not. It is stated that the cashkeeper of a will known wool-hroking firm, whose office is not far from Dale street, has, in conjunction with the keeper of an hotel, called after one of the celebrated London coffee hcuies, " mizzled" with money, the amount of which is at present unknown. This hotel is not far from the Crescent, and at the south side of Lord street, We do not give any more of the rumours regarding this affair, except that it is now stated that "our host," in the blandest manner has suc ceeded in sticking several of his friends in a more effectual manner than if he used a needle for that purpose. It is also said that the agent of a " Provident Society," the office of which is cinite close to George's Hall, has been " found wanting" to the extent of over £2,000, but that the directors have come forward and subscribed the amount of deficiency. We understand that the Police are "on the look out" in reference to these matters, but at present we say no more until something new turns up. INSURANCE NEWS. The Waterloo Life Assurance Company held its fifth anni versary meeting on the 4th inst. 476 proposals have been received, and 380iaccepted during the yFar. The revenue of the company, as arising from premiums, amounts now to £17,482 per annum. The life losses of the year have been £3,849, while the total losses during the whole term of the company's existence have been only £5,649, which is a small sum, and which testifies to the discrimination exercised in the selection of the lives. A dividend of six per cent was declared. Th e directors, feeling now that the connection and influence already obtained were guarantees for future increase and prosperit), have cur'ailed the expenditure by nearly £l,OOO a year. This step would, if taken by a failing office, have, by some, been . regarded as an indication of weakness; but, taken as is by a board whose labours are successful in a high degree, it reflects great credit upon their management. The investments, again, which are now £29,000, have reached an amount which, in itself, is a proof of the good character and management of the office. EQUITABLE LIFE OFFICE.—We cannot tell our readers what the progress of this office has lately been. The usual quarterly meeting was held on Friday, but the same system of secrecy prevailed, and we were not admitted. We know enough of the office and of the opinion of those concerned, however, to be able to predict that the doors must be op.med to the press before very long. The policy of the managem int is most sui cidal. We assure them, in no hostile feeling, but with an anxious desire for their welfare, and that of the cause of insu rance, that we must and do regard the affairs of the company as not able to bear the investigation of the public at largo until we are allowed the opportunity of changing our opinion. BRUNSWICK ASSURANCE CoMFANY.—This company was announced to meet on Friday, but, like the houses of parlia ment, they met but to adjourn to two months hence. THE BESSEMER PROCESS. When, on the first publication of Mr. Bessemer's tion, we subjected the process to suc h an examination_a; the data then furnished _to the pu bli c permitted. II ,L f pressed the belief that many particulars were visen_4r s which appeared to us essential, to a correct estimate 01",. value. The high pretensions with which Mr. Bessemer s he cess was ushered into the world and the importance o_lf manufacture to which it refers alike required that aeoPo74 ticulars should be withheld essential to the justific at bleb those pretensions, and to the solution of a question iv agitated the most important manufacture of the etrS i i The misgivings we had at that time were exPre ss these words : Especially important, too, is it that accurate (3he le i l if analysis should be resorted to to show the comPos. l i t i l tr olf this iron, and to prove that the new process pet Bessemer it a sulphur and phosphorus, as we understand ne t Bessemer to say it will—elements, the presence cent of which is fatal to the quality of the iron. his So far as we are aware, this importan t informatnio not been communicated to the public, and so long a...t0 the t he has no m elapsed that we despair of receiving it , f r i ti quarter it was most naturally expected from w hich hope of contributing to the settlement o f a qaestion e ha ve has already too long disturbed the public mind , ool ( ' imposed 'upon ourselves a task which w e thinkas have been spared us,.and present to our readers such oil/ analysis of Mr, Bessemer ' s iron as we have b , e f ° hoping to see published by that gentleman binis e . those specimen we have experimented upon pcss‘'s s t o tios s ' physical properties which, from repeated d''s c `^' - of $ ll the public are familiar with. The iron consists sins, agglutinated mass of large brilliant crystallinfleartenis% possessed of a very imperfect malleability, ariabli under the blow of a hammer, but almost Woof cracking at the edges. It is wholly destitute of a T o ted structure, and only after having been repeate dil pert i a l and drawn out in a smith's forge, exhibits the P7 o od of an inferior wrought iron. On analysis it w as have the following composition :—. . • 93. 9 Iron Phosphorus Sulphur ...................................... . .. 0.0 Carbon ... trac e Silicon .............................. ........... . ......... 10 0 . W to , ; c al P h, This composition is so accordant with the PhYs.-,0, i ts perties of the iron that, the composition being Pting chemist would have had no difficulty in p l;di" tro ctu t re a more marked characteristics. Its crystaline or. •.; and fusibility are very satisfactorily Chefaccount -chser„ order more exactly to illustrate the nature of o od a - t effected by Mr. Bessemer'a treatment, 'We , a l, l3 jish nie p li i analysis of refined iron prodUced at a large es,a-iocieht'd' in the neighbourhood of Birmingham. We a r f, It . If t "; to the courtesy of Dr. Percy for' this analfeili r P e- he made in his laboratory by one of his assistants, 'd'epie," the iron was obtained only a few months ago , !io regarded as representing the average conaPosp i ;,l9 tiele fined iron as made at the present moment in "" bourhood :—. v „,.14 Iron ... . .......... . ......... ........ . ................... 3.07 Carbon (combined) .............................. 0 01 Ph osp h orus OP Silicon ..... . ......................................... •••• 0. 151 Sulphur .................... . .................... ••• wee Manganese .... . ...................... . .............. 0. 53 Residue, insoluble in hydrochloric acid •••'",.---; 10 3 ,1 6' „vie , " The residue, insoluble'in'hydrochloric acid, 3 5i1ica................................................... 0.14 Alumina, with a little peroxide of ..... ....... ' 0. 44 t 's Ol e -gess ,sr In contrasting the change effected by 1 " .1. iag treatment with that of the refinery, ticulars force themselves strongly upon our 11° , 1 , ti e car, l l, Bessemer's method removes most edectualli I,ot th e follece. s fl and the silicon, while in the refinery these ar e „ e rfee, tl , ,- e diminished. The carbon is eliminated with a i r a baL, ti a which we should scarcely have thought poser are without information as to the sacrifice a' by ' f a has been effected ; the amount of iron 'oxidizes we e o , vivid combustion which Mr. Bessemer indurliaill,,fie unable to ascertain. The point which most the i", i - ot strikes the chymist in Mr. Bessemer's iron l '„ a o3° ; r 's amonnt of phosphorus which it contains---3&.5004 utterly fatal, we fear, to the value of Mr. s pa is - t pot method. His treatment, we suspect. doe s too, or, diminish the amount of this element.; but this,a,ssesi'pci point on which we must be dep endent on Mt' We have hhd no opportunity of exa inin the slag r eu o ioi c e i t in the treatment, but we learn fromm angeminent - no 5 1; authori y that at least one sample of it -refitcontainsutet'e Bible amount of phosphoric mil We have th er a explained that it is by the puddling 1 0 " cesg cs phosphorus and sulphur are mainly renaoved, the ora a o examination of the tap-cinder .of the puddlioi yet. .4 disclosing an abundance of phosphoric acid 1 " . ., far as we can learn, Mr: -Bessemer has de l l' m phe r i - e d towards the removal of this p ern i c ious elemen t ,P h ", v re6er and in this impdrtant respect his process Inue' r - 13ess` re as a failure. From the number of patents Nr,:,, a pPl,O , has commenced (one's° late as the 18th ult.) r j o lt .° virtually to confess the transition state o f his fell ments. e 3 (ei In taking leave'of this subj.& we think We " -a 'str ec m ar predicate that_ t h r e e iron pec manufacture thy a - nh ' ing w w i in any essential . has done. No one will more sincerely i r ll e irce ' h o rn io l‘t e ll;tl3a ti ell a ll t rel' re ll Improvement in the iron manufacture than 8 !: though we admit a preference for such i mo rove° 3- ,• tg laP : : not heralded by announcements of " revolutinn,ebeif modestly propounded, and left to demonstrate 4 0 0 I° ,o portance by that quiet and cautious introdue`ritori°,o practice whie4 generally characterises really me lve r P ot inventions. We fear, however, that Mr. 13e ri csr iti hif lost his opportunity; the interest he hash wasted• 0100 be readily re-awaliened, and less reed ii r bI Y , er r ie s another. Like the shepherd in the la ,' hm ec„,e, " Wolf, wolf!" when there was no wolf, and : • ( 1 en/ for help were unheeded when the marauder inae; 11 o po Mr. Bessemer will find that any real improveme. '„is hastiness s r a na n a l k w e a w nt ill ef s e u a ff n e ti r n a n nweigillehcte a fo lo r n ev e hic3,-;o3V to Birmingham Journal ADMIRALTY COURT:-.SATuBDA' h p BEFORE DR. LUSHINGTON. go,,, t f THE PANAGIA. HONG I:7.—PRIZ 134 ", g a brig, with a cargo of wheat, sailing under GreL` i es ty 4 ,; of captured on the 27th Nov., IEOS, by her e el i t'i o elte'rbod Dauntless, for having attempted to break e,.. 3 f esstlio. Odessa. The excuse of the mister was that u t l the P fr ; for sustained so much injury in crossing the ba r 3 .3 " to 06.- 11.0 mouth of the Danube, that he had been oblige d pr , 14 Odessa in order to save the lives of his crew' egti°ll ington ordered further proof. 4.,t1060,4, THE EMPRESS.—POSSESSION.—SENTENCE' ar il 110.m'gr that arose in this case was wh e th er Mr. R ichar gr. P 'po rt/ of St. Mary's, Scilly, had given his see , the.p, Newman, junior, power to sell the vessel ," ° Adel al P r ,' proceeded against, Mr. R. C. Venn, c", the Australia, who had given him 12,00 0 'lot 4 0 0 Lushington said the sale had been brougb t t o o, itosi ° fraudulent representations of Richard N eil % fae, t reef er , that he was the owner of the vessel. It ira° l l ; eatllebt,' effected by forgery and fraud, and such as a no 1 : - ch dives' the original owner of his tide. It sl e d f ers great misfortune to Mr. Venn to have P,: r n erol l Ott money ; that was a misfortune to which 13iffgou'01 liable who became the victims of forgerr an , se° 4 .o., ' court must decree possession to Mr. Neicr n ,: d ; er a was certainly not a case for costs. i;; NECESSAUIES.—SENTENCE. —The sole qttes t ':, - ,, was one relating to the jurisdiction of T o pe i .,lo; necessaries having been furnished to the ves 6e t 'the, ' ,, w i t one), while she was laying in Simon's .135Y , . 2 ,,iba Good Hope. Dr. Lushington was of °PI:" elan"' court had jurisdiction, and pronounced for tu g • A bel r 00 , 98 0 THE AMERICAN GENERAL TOM Tlllllo',llo°Agrfabl4 of years this little General, so well known Oa ohro. public, as the only perfectly-formed, talente ilingtvitionsd; educated dwarf in existence, has been tra y : esp hA lb r. v to the United States, and giving his interestioeooWefer„, under the direction and supervision of f° „o r nt.„ i sl has concluded, prior to retiring to privew n f i the:P' e a r er nay a visit to this country, and make a tour ", e 'h th" to A To recall the many happy hours spent, W 2 w iifi l i t pot during his former visit, would only vu,„`for„ Ofr' o eve readers a foretaste of the pleasure in st o ,r l- hate v ba ls t ° y r ; . visit to the exhibition of General Toni h icirelli o - 0 fail to please, not only the ladies and re., of 11- A 10 to convince others of the fact that the 1 11 4:'" flow tal" $ sfersTed 116 sessed not only of a " feast of reason, b u " He leaves New Y.,rk on the 10th, in th,, c h e rrl t io preceded by his agent, Mr. C. L. West , '7 ° orts o f t ; o n ; week in the Baltic. s The blue book recently published of the. L e :0 0 :106 uts on the trade of foreign places furun , " for - 65 ""0 California and its gold and other productiollei, 18367,8 t year. It appears that the total gold e%ll l $ l l, Off £8,933,830 sterling, showing a falling °A, bet '' a lervis from 1854, and of £2,00j,000 from Ityiele' 4s - 110 0 supposed there was any redaction in t "" ja 18 " - 8.5 5 101 amount being retained for homy circulation j o 1 0 PIP Vet ars the preceding years. The coinage at the T he sl 00 4 £4,591,535, against £1,344,700 in 18 54 ' ~,.,e of l, t ,, c e - r in the Mint is extracted from the gold, B°ruicksu„oooo ing as much as 5 per cent. The exports°, g lar e 1' 9 5,1 9 „; the New Almaden Mine again (xhibited ato The exports last year were 29,917 fie e1 18 1 00 11 i s rl ar i i 8 ; 41 r 1 0 4 ; against 20,963 flasks in 1854, and New Almaden, which is about 70 mile s f led, 1)14 00 11 0 is at present the only quicksilver mine wor T h e three others have been discovered in the coas t p "' er iod. and are expected to be opened at a n •• e t rt i te tr/nede°ttl of °' most extraordinary fact in connection vn „ indeP te a c ° ,l State is, that it has already not only bec01.13_,!5 o por m ott . but ns carg oes ° fl oe foreign supplies of grain and flour, siderable quantities to Australia, and soo t e erie r to Liverpool, which have been found of , 5 . 1 0 . 01 14 Barley and oats have likewise been Shippea