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

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. By the arrival of the Royal Mail Steamer America, which entered this port shortly after noon, yester day, we are in receipt of New York dates to the 16th ; Boston, 17th ; and Halifax, 18th inst. The America brings a great number of passen gers, and a large quantity of specie on freight. The Canada had arrived at Boston, from Live] pool; the Vanderbilt, f ro m Southampton at N ew York; and the North American, from Liverpool at Quebec. The following is an ample epitome of the news come to hand From Washington we learn that General Walker's arrival in that city had created no little excitement and curiosity to see the great chief. Every one is surprised at the small figure of the man, and his mild, modest, and even bashful demeanour, while it is generally conceded that he is a remarkable man, of great talent and firm ness. Capt. C. J. Faysoux, the hero of the schooner Granada, also attracts great attenti3n, and being even smaller than Gen. Walker, creates still greater astonishment. He is very boyish 16okirtg, with a fine, sparkling black eye, and is more prepossessing than Walker, though quite as modest and retiring. So says the New York Times. General Walker had an interview with the Pre sident. The President will, it is said, order an inquiry into the facts connected with the action of Captain Davis, of the sloop•of-war St Marys, - while in Nicaragua. Ohio is prolific of Fugitive Slave troubles. On the 13th, four deputy U. S. Marshals•arrested two slaves in Cincinnati—a man and his wife—when one of the marshals was stabbed dangerously by the negro, and another of the marshals shot the negro four times in the abdomen. The fugitives were then - secured, though it is probable the -man will die. The Brooklyn Board of Health have adopted a resolution requiring all vessels to obtain a permit from that Board before landing cargo in Brooklyn. This applies to vessels from domestic as well as foreigTl ports. The New Orleans Board of Health have issued a notice for the establishment of a very rigid qua rantine after the 'lbth instant. All vessels coming from ports beyond the United States, south of New Orleans, where fever prevails, are to be detained in the river thirty days. Tae attention of the Cabinet was 'occupied by - Utah affairs on the 12th. The arrival of Ex-Gov. Phi:ip Frank Thomas of Md., who was designated for -the Governorship of 'Utah, was daily expected. In the event of his non-acceptance, the indica tions are that Col. Cummirgs, who, having once declined, butis now an applicant, will be appointed. It is not impossible that au entire new set of officers for the Territory will be sent out, the Surveyor-General included. The three Judges will be appointed from the West or North-west ; and the Marshal from Mississippi. Several days would elapse before answers can be received from those to whom these appointments have been tendered. The corps of officers will travel to Utah with the military force. Sir George Gare and suite returned to St. Louis, on the 12th inst., from a year's hunting expedition at the head waters of the Missouri. They report that the country has never been in a wersd condi tion respecting the Indians. The Santees and Sioux were committing atrocities against the whites, and, since the removal of the troops from Forts R.mdall and Lookout, the Indians in the neighbourhood have assumed a hostile attitude. A party of troops had marched against the Santees. The New York ,Herald publishes a manifesto, issued by Santa Anna, ex-Dictator of Mexico, at Carthagena, for private circulation among his ad herents, partizans, and revolutionists generally in Mexico, Cuba, and elsewhere, denouncing the present government of Comonfort, the new Con etitution, the law affecting the property and privileges of the clergy, &c., and announcing that there must be another sanguinary revolution, even though half of the territory shouid have to be sold to supply the sinews of w ar . . _ Advicesirom Belize, Hondurai of the 21st May, state that a number of General Walker's men had arrived there in a destitute condition, and suffering from wound's. The brig Favorita, from New York. with the expedition sent out to survey and locate the Honduras inter-oceanic railroad, had arrived at Omoa. The weather was unfavourable for maho gany -cutting. Provision market overstocked. The Nicaraguan correspondent of the Hew York Daily Times writes that 200 sick and wounded filibusters, the remnant. of Walker's army, had arrived at San Carlos, in the steamer of the same name. They were all en their way home, and are described as being in a most pitiable condition. The men left Rivas, and have probably gone to Costa Rica, where there are already some 300 deserters from Walker's army. Nicaragua was tranquil, and an election was to be held on the 15th of June. The republic would be occupied by the four Central American States until its government was firmly established. The same correspondent states that the reason for the interference of Commander Davis in behalf of Walker was, that a letter in Walker's handwriting was found on a spy, addressed to Mr. McDonald, agent of the Nicaraguan steamers, which recounted the strait to which he was reduced-completely hemmed in , by a numerous enemy, without provisions, and the men daily thinning out by desertion. Walker ;prayed McDonald to work out a plan by which he .could get possession of one of the lake steamers, -or to fix some other way of his escape. Upon reading this missive, Commander Davis determined to-act at once. We have .a fortnight's later news from California, San Francisco dates being to the 20th of May. We extract the following from the Alta Californian of that date :L-- News of the annihilation of the ill-fated Sonora expedi tionists reached this city on the 13th instant, and has been,,u-p to the present, the all-absorbing theme of conver sation both in this city and throughout the State. The in formation seems to be direct and explicit, and gathered as it is from various sources, and all agreeing in essential details, leave little room to doubt that it is reliable. The entire party, consisting of eighty-four men, including Henry A. Crabbe, their commander, have been massa cred. On the Ist of April the party entered the town of Cavorca, situated on the Gulf of California, and immediately encountered the Mexicans, under Rodriguez, who, with several of his soldiers, lost their lives. The filibusters next took possession of several houses on the plaza, but shortly thereafter were hemmed in by the foe. In this position a sort of guerilla warfare was sustained for eight cays, with a loss to the Americans of twenty-five, and to the Mexicans of 200 men. A summons from the latter to the Americans to surrender was at first refused, but at the Expiration of the above-mentioned period, Crabb and his,fifty-eight survivingsoldiers marched out of the building in which they had intrenched them selves, and which had been fired, and unconditionally laid down their arms. On the following day, the entire party, with the exception of their general, was taken out iu squads and shot. A more humiliating and igno minious death awaited General Crabb. He was allowed to write a letter to his wife, and hold an interview with one of his original company, who had left him before they crossed into Mexican territory, after which he was led otst to execution. He was tied to a post in front of the building he had occupied, his face to the post, and his back to his executioners. A hundred balls were then fired into his body, after which he was decapitated, and his head exhibited in a conspicuous place for the multitude to gaze upon. Amongst the killed are a number of the most distinguished political personages who have ever resided in this State. Some days after the massacre, a detachment cf twenty-five Mexicans, from San Juan, crossed the line, American soil, seized four of Crabb's party, who were sick and, on in bed in the house of an American, and meted out to them the same punishment as had been visited upon their countrymen. Some twenty recruits from Tueson, who were on their way to join Crabb, at Cavorca, were attacked by 200 Mexicans affer severe fighting, reach near that place. They , however, Mexicans at Cavorca line. The reached the American e are said to be five hundred strong. The excitement throughout the State consequent on the reception of this news, has been intense, and a very gene ral feeling of revenge seems to actuate the minds of the masses. The press of the State have almost unanimously condemned the course of the American territory, and hurrying Mexicans in invading to an untimely and ignominious cloth, citizens of our country wh o had never set foot on their soil, or violated, in the slightest degree, the law of nations. Later news has been received from the valley of the Great Salt Lake, our files of papers being to the Ist of April. In the valley, according to the accounts, as published in the Mormon sheet, matters were progressing harmoniously. Wo learn, however, that brutal murders have been committed within thirty miles of Salt Lake City, which con firm the startling developments made by Drum mond in his letter of declination of the judgeship. The parties had had a difficulty with the Mormon authorities about their property. Rumour has it that the murders were committed by Indians. From Oregon there is nothing of importance. Election matters monopolise the columns of the local journals. The Indians in Washington Terri tory are menacing hostilities, but as yet have com mitted few overt acts. _ _ The mines, as usual, continue to yield up their golden treasures. Fewer accounts of " big strikes" are chronicled, as time advances, but the diggings generally are paying quite as well as ever. Much more confidence prevails relative to quartz mining, as is evidenced by the increasing capital invested in this branch of mining enterprises. Still another indictment has been found against Dr. Bates, the defaulting State Treasurer, now under arrest. in Sacramento. It is alleged that he has embezzled 41,000 dols. of the State monies, which is over and above the missing, 224,000 dols. In default of bail in the sum of 50,000 dols. he was ordered into custody. He is said to be very ill— so much so as to be unable to leave his bed. An officerconstantly guards his room. We have St. John, N. 13 , papers to the 15th inst. A. Royal Gazette Extra dated 9th inst., announces the acceptance of the resignation by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the late Government, and also contains the appointments, provisionally, of the Hon. Charles Fisher, James Brown, Samuel L. Tilley, William H. Steves, John M. Johnson, jun., Albert J. Smith, David Wark, and Charles Watters, tc be members of Her Majesty's Execu tive Council in the Province. An iron foundry has been oponed at Moncton. The Times says :—" The premises are fitted up for the purpose of executing all castings and iron work such as are usually done in other parts of the Province and the United States?' The fisheries at the North have been very successful this season. A gentleman from Northumberland states that many have realized snug little fortunes at the business in the space of a few months. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Jun© 10. Moxrretry AFFAIRS : There is rather more activity in money to-day, but the supply is quite abundant on call, at six and seven per cent. Tho large arrivals of sp3cie, at present beir g moved, must, of course, cause considerable changing of loans. There is, perhaps, rather more paper offering, but the demand is still good at seven to nine per 'ent. for first-class. There is not a large demand for Ster ling. Rates show no important change, but are rather heavy. Sterling, 94- to 91; Francs, 5 181 to 5 14. COTTON: People here had anticipated rather unfavour able news by these arrivals in conseciuenee of the con tinued stringency in the money market in London, and the very large import of Cotton during the proceeding week in Liverpool. When, therefore, the Canada's letters were received, a better feeling prevailed here, and more disposition was shown to enter upon shipments, holders have been uniformly firm, selling only when fall outside rates were obtainel Yesterday, after the accounts par North America were known, the market assumed a still firmer aspect, and it was difficult to buy at the annexed quotations, which are raised con those given in my last circular. The sales since 9th inst., to last evening, I esti mate at 5,000 bales for export to Liverpool, the Continent, and on speculation. Boma few purchases have also been made by our domestic consumers. The clearances have beanto Liverpool. - 2,515 bales; Havre, 883 ; Bremen, 499 ; Hamburg, 74. Total, 4,007 bales. _ _ COTTON IN TaAwsn u : Has been in somewhat better demand, and two large sales have been made of Uplands afloat, on terms not made public. Some few other parcels have been sold at irregular rates. The stock is now so much reduced that I find quotations of little use, and for the most part nominal. This branch of the cotton business must be considered as over for the season. I estimate the sales since 9th inst. at 8,000 bales. NEW ORLEANS, Jane 1 . 2 : Receipts for the week, 3,000 bales ; same week last year, 2,846. Total deficit at this port, 239,000; total deficit at all the ports, 547,000. Sales for the week, 5,000 bales; to-day. 700. Middling, 13a to 'lnc. Stock on hand, 95,000 bales. Freights stagnant. Exchange on London, 110 per cent. • Montra4 June 12 : Receipts for the week, 900 bales • same week last : year, 1,000. Sales of the week, 3000 bales. Decrease in receipts at this port 130,000. Stock on hand, 44,000. GROWING CROP -: Op to the 7th Jane very little progress had been made in the growth of the young plant, owing to the late and unfavourable character of the spring. At that date, however, a change took place ; the weather became seasonably warm, and we have a cessation of coat plaints, except that everywhere the crop is very late, and thereby more subject to the vicissitudes of the weather during the summer and fall. It is believed generally that the stand for the crop is good. RECEIPTS, &c.—The receipts are now brought down to a very small weekly total, as will appear from my table, and the reports by telegraph for a week later. The telegraphic message from New Orleans given in my last week's circular stated the receipts for the week at 3,700 bales ; by mail I find it should have been 2,700. And no doubt the 3,000 bales reported this week will prove the gross instead of the nett receipts. The total deficit as compared with last year stands now at 546,000 bales. The deficit in the export to Great Britain has increased materially this week, the clearances being but 14,000 bales against 62,000 bales in the corresponding week last year. The total deficit now amounts to 440,000 bales, and will be again increased next week, and the week after. The following is a statement of the movement. in cotton since the Ist, September last, as compared with the pre vious four years : 1857. 1856. 1855. 1854. Receipts at thePortsl2 859,00013,405,000 2,531,000 2, 7 •8,000 . Exports toG Britain 1,305 000 1,745,010 1,333,000 1,335.000 France 368,000 470,000 399,000 278,000 ] other F. Ports• 376,000 473,000 243,10 C 235,0001 Total Exports 2,049,000 2,688.000 1,980,000 1.893,000, Stock on hand 260,0J0, 252,000, 162,000 456,0001 Of which during the past week, included in the ab Receipts at the Ports 9,000 19,000 31,000, 27,000 Exports to G. Britain 14,000 61,000 30,030 27,100 " France. .. 3,000 6,000 3,090 8.000 " other For. Pts.l 3,000 8,000 4,0001 4 000 Total Exports. .... 20,000 76,000, 37,003 t 39,C00 1853. 3,150,000 1,569 000 402,000 323,000 2,294,000 I 303,000 love : 5,000 36,000 SUMMARY.—Receipts — Decrease at the ports, compared with last year, 546,000 bales ; compared with 1853. 291,000. Exports—decrease to Great Britain, 440,000 ; compared with 1853, 264,000 bales, Decrease to France, 102,000; compared with 1853, 34,000; decrease to other foreign ports, 97,000 ; increase compared with 1853, 53,000 bales. W. P. WRIGHT. BREADSTUFF& FLOUR.—The market has been very dull throughout the week, the business doing, being confinel to the home demand, and dealers restricting their purchases to their absolute neceseaties. Nevertheless, owing to the light receipts, prices remain tolerably steady. Western Canal and State, Good shipping, 6 dole. 65c. to 7 dole. 10c. per bbl. Ohio. Indiana, &c , 7 dole. 20c. to 7 dols. 70c, Canada, 7 dole . 25c. to Bdols. 50c. Southern, 7 dole. 75c. to 8 dots. 25e. Francies and high extras, 8 dole. 25c. to 10 dole. WIIZAT : The supplies have been most unprecedently small for the season, no boats having yet arrived from Buffalo. This, together with the improved state of the markets in England, advised by the Canada, with dates to the 301 ult , caused an advance of 5c per 601bs upon the lower qualities of red wheat, which were in request to fulfil freight engagements previously made. Yesterday the market was very dull, to which the accounts to the 3rd inst., per Vanderbilt, contributed. Southern white, none. Genesee and Western, 175 c to 185 e. Canadian, 175 c to 190 c. Western red and mixed, .152 c, to 170 c. Southern red, none. _ _ INDIAN CORN : There has been but little business doing ; prices are pretty well maintained, owing to the reduced stocks, but no quantities would find buyers at our quota tions. Yellow, 95c to 96c per sGlbs. White, 95c to 08c. Western old, mixed, 95c to 96c. __ WOTRERSPOON, KINGSFORD AND CO. Hors continue quiet at 7 to 11e. for common to good, and 12c. for choice lots. IRON.—Scotch pig is inactive, as buyers are reluenntt to mdet the advanced pretensions of holders, consequent on the recet favourable advices from Great Britain. There is hardly so much buoyancy manifest, therefore we quote the range from 30 dols. to 33 dolts. for large and small parcels. NAVAL STORES.—Spirits Turpentine is irregular, and prices are again a shade lower, but we notice more activity at the decline. Crude is guise but firm ; the stock is still quite meager. Common Rosin is hardly so buoyent, The medium and fine grades are quite but firm. OILS.--Crude whale continues in good demand, and prices rule firmly. In Crude Sperm we hear of a sale at New Bedford at 1 dol. 30c., which is an edvance, but there is no mention made of the quantity. Linseed is in moderate demz.nd at eteady ;en ; English is quite at 83c; other kinds are inactive, but prices are nominally the 1 same. Camphene is declining, in sympathy with Spirits Turpentine ; sales at 48c., cash. Burning fluid is also lower ; sales at 64 to 65 cash. PROVISIONS : The inquiry for pork is fair, but at lower figures; the demand is mainly for the local trade, and is confined principally to mess, which is 10 to 15c lower. Beef is in steady request, and is quite firm. Beef hams are heavy at 23 dols to 23 dols 50c. Bacon is in small stock, and quiet at 13 to 131 c. for Western. Cut meats are steady. Lard is firm but quiet. Butter is quite plenty, and is quiet at 17 to 21c for Ohio, and 18 to 22c hr state. Cheese is quite plentiful at 6to 10!e. Wool, : The market remains quiet, but prices are sus tained. The attention of all parties in this branch of trade is now diverted to the interior ; but as the clippir g syson is unusually late, nothing definite hss transpired as yet to form a basis for the new crop. The general im pression is that last year's opening prices will be fully maintained, and those requiring immediate supplies will, no doubt, be induced to pay an advance of 10 to 15 per cent. Foreign is quiet, but firm, and an active demand is anticipated soon. . FuituTs are still irregular and dull. The engagements to Liverpool are 300 bates C Dtton, at 3s per bale ; 50 brls. Spirits Turpentine, at 2s ; 30 tons Logwood, at 7s 01. To London : 2,000 brls. Rosin and Turpentine, at ISd ; 850 brig. Spirits Turpentine. at 4s. To Glasgow : 35 brls. Spirits Turpentine, at Bs. Toßremen : 50 brls. Oil, at 21c. ; 200 ceroons Tobacco, at 75c. To Bordeaux: 10,000 gals. Rum, at 4e. A vessel to Cadiz and Malaga and back to New York on private terms. A vessel from Quebec to London with Deal, at 05s. EY TELEG RAPTI. NEW YORK, JUNE 1, avr.—Ashes steady, pot 8 122 to 825 ; pearl 7 75. Cotton firm, sales 1,000 bales. Flour 10e to 15c lower on low grades of iderior and extra, sales 7,500 but, common to strait State 6 30 to 6 70, Upper Lake 6 40 to 6 75, common to good Ohio extra 7 10 to 7 80, extra Genessee 7 75 to 10 ; Southern 5c to 10c lower on low grades, sales 900 brls, mixed to good 7 40 to 7 75, fancy and extra 7 80 to 9 60; Canadian 10c lower and quiet, sales 350 bile, superfine 7 50 to 6 85, extra 710 to 9. Wheat lower and very unsettled. Oats lower and unsettled, 54 to 62 and 63 to 65. Corn 2c lower and closed dull and heavy, sales 18,000 bus, mixed 92 to 93, white 94 to 28, yellow 94 to 95. Pork 5c lower for mess and closes quiet, sales 550 brls, mess 23 30 to 23 35, prime 19 20 to 19 25. Beef steady, sales 550 brls, country mess 14 to 15, repacked Chicago 16 50 to 17, prime mess 28 to 31. Lard steady, 340 brls 14 to 141. Batter heavy, Ohio 17 to 21, State 18 to 22. Whisky 33 to 331 c. Leather active, oak 34 to 37, hemlock 25 to 26. Fish, 1,000 qls dry cod 4 dols for George's. Coffee firm. Sugar lower, sales 6,000 hlids, muse 94 to 10, English Island 94. Molasses dull, English Island 53, Linseed oil 80 to 81, whale in good request, 800 bile at 71 ; 1,000 gals lard 1 16 4 mos. Spirits turpentine easier, 500 brls 44c to 46c cash. Hides firm, sales 1,000 Rio Grande 294, Texas 22/. Iron dull, Scotch 30 dols 6 mos. Lead, Galena 725 cash. Tobacca, Ky 16, Rice, 120 tcs 4-1 to sa. Tallow firm, 100,000 lbs 11,4. Freig'lts to Liverpool inactive and nominal, cotton 3s. flour 6d, grain 2d. Stocks dull. Reading, 73i; Galena and Chicago, 92; La Crosse and Milwaukee, 75; Erie, :321 ; Milwaukee and Mississippl, 61 ; Illinois Central, 130 ; New York do, 831; Michigan Southern, 491. LIST OF PASSENGERS BY (R.M.S.) AMERICA, FROM BOSTON. —Mr. A. Ritch e, Miss Ritchie, Mrs. Putman, two Masters Fishers, Mr. W. F. Olis, Mr. Read, Miss Comsell, Miss Parsons, Mr. Parsons and lady, Mr. Robinson, nurse and child Miss Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Berry, Mr. George A. Holt and lady, Messrs. E. liolyneutc, L. Moffat and lady, 0. B. Graham, Esbach and son ; Mrs Alty and son ; Messrs. A. Lowe, Thompson, Baillie ; Mrs. Hammersley children, two and nurse; Messrs. J. Alty, F. Schroeder, Professor sparks, Messrs. Thomas, Griffin, Bord, James Milne, Miss Withers, Mr. S. Farleer, Mr. Doull and lady, Messrs. Blake, Rose, R. K. Masterton, G. Lawton, lady, and son ; Robert Lowe, M'Keaord, P. E. Ronssett and brother, F. Cissa, Lugon, John Halterman, R. S. Blaekmore, lady, and two children ; Mr. T. Powers and. lady, Miss Richards, Mr. Thomas Lowe, lady, and son ; Mr. Thomas Babbing ton, Miss H. E. M'Kenzie, Messrs. K Eagle and lady, G. Andie and lady, John Vodder and lady, John Elliott, John Hall, R. Horton; Rev. J. Dean and lady, Messrs. J. Wilson, George Bridge, W. Foster and lady, Daniel Mllaw, E. Shields, R. Chapman, lady, and child, John Lodge, Miss E. Jones and servant, Messrs. William Peck, A. Donop, John Barry, Clarke, Follin, Captain Hodgson, Mr. George Beattie, Miss Almon, Miss. Johnston ' Mr. P. Brown, Honourable S. W. Johnston, Hon. Adam Archibald, Hon. F. W. Seeley, Mr. Steele and lady, Messrs. James Rodgers, Williams, A. M'Donald, Captain Tobin, Messrs. L Corelli, J. Thayer, Mrs. Sparks, four children and one servant; Messrs. Chassaignaz, F. W. Flegner, G. Bayley and lady; Colonel G. Chartrond and lady ; Messrs. J. R. Solosa and lady, Wharters, and three children, W. C. Wharters, lady, and two servants; Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Inoclmbe and child, Miss C. L. Bayley, Miss Otis and maid ; Messrs. Jolty. Lloyd, T. A. Rockwell arid lady, T. W. Daniel, R. Williams and lady, R. W. Harris, J. M Robertson, Shine and two children, Revds. Williams and Hors. SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Midnight.—The Ariel has arrived on her way to Havre. She left New York on the 13th, and has brought specie to the value of 225,700 dollars. The Canada, from Liverpool, arrived out on the 11th. There is but little news by this arrival, New York cotton mtrket firm, prices unchanged. The flour market firm. Provisions steady. Freights depressed, and rates the same.. The stock market unsettled, with a downward tendency. Money market easy, at 6 and 7 per cent. on call and 7 and 9 per cent. for discounts. At New Orleans, on the 12th, cotton market brisk and prices unchanged. At bharleston, on same date, prices of cotton had advanced. Thomas, the ex-Governor of Maryland, has been ap pointed Governor of Utah. At Havana sugars dull but prices maintained. General Walker arrived at Washington on the 12th and was quite lionised. The steady drain of specie from America to Europe is attributed to over importations by the dry goods men and dealers in luxuries. The importations into New York 'luting the year ending with June have been 4 25,000,000 dollars in excess of those of last year, while the exports have been only 4,000,000 dollars in excess. INDIA AND CHINA. ALARMING REVOLT OF SEPOYS. DELHI IN PO&ESSION OF THE MUTINEERS. PROCLAMATION OF A KING BY THE REBELS. ALFXANDRIA, Jane 21.—The dates from India are— B )mbay, May 27 ; Calcutta, 18th; and Madras, 25th. The mutiny in the Bengal army had spread in a most alarming manner from Meerat. The 11th and 20th Native Infantry had united with the 3rd Light Cavalry in open revolt after some bloodshed had been dispersed by Earo peen troops, but they fled to Delhi, where they were joined by the 38th, 51-th, and 74th Native Infantry-. Delhi was in possession of the mutineers, who had massacred almost all the Europeans, regardless of age or sex, plundered the bank, and proclaimed the son of the late Mogul Emperor as King. Disturbances had also broken out at Ferozepore but had been suppressed. Rajah of Gwalior had placed his troops at the disposal of the British government. Government was taking active measures to suppress the revolt, and was concentrating troops around Delhi. The 34th Native Infantry was disbandoned on the 7th. The Nizam of the Deccan died on the 19th. HONG KONG, May 9.—Great distress is caused in China by the scarcity of food. The neighbourhood of Foochoo continued to be disturbed by rebels. It is feared that serious injury will be caused thereby to trade. TRIESTE. Saturday Morning —The India mails left Alexandria on the 20th, .with dates from Calcutta, 19th May ; Madras, 25th ; Ceylon, :;'Oth; Bombay, 27th : and Hong Kong, 9th. From Calcutta to Lahore the troops of the Bengal presidency are in open or undisguised mutiny. At Ferozepore, the 57th and 45th Native Infantry have mutinied; the 10th Cavalry stood by the Europeans, and the native regiments were broken and dispersed. Part of the 57th were coming in and delivering their arms. Delhi is in possession of 3,0J0 rebel Sepoys. Lieut. Willoughby , in charge of the powder magazine, fired it and escaped . Fifty lacs of rupees have been plundered from the Delhi Bank, and several of the Europeans have been murdered. The mutineers have proclaimed the son of the Emperor of Delhi King of India. General Anson, with a European force, was on the march from the hills to attack the insurgents, and troops from other points have been despatched; the storm was allaying. All quiet at Lucknow and Benares. His Highness the Nizam of the Deccan died on the 19th May. The barque Ocean, Captain T 2iOdd, was lost at Pooree the crew all saved. The total exports of Intlgs from the Ist November to the 13th May, am aunt to 25,422 chests. k 1 e n d ° a t her t,spat c h officers 4 . Delhi." says that eleven have been THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1857. CHINA. The insurgents are gaining ground. It - was reported that the capital of Kway in Kuei Lung had fallen into the hands of the chief rebel. The granaries and Tree Sicy are exhausted. The price orrice has risen to 4 dollars, The exports from Formosa are prohibited. The duty on opium hat been levied ; it is to be 12 taels per chest. It is feared that supplies of new teas would be retarded, if not altogether diverted, from Port Victoria. Exchanges : Hong Kong, 4s lld to 5s ; Shanghai, 7s 3d. MARSEILLES, Saturday.—The India and China mails arrived here this morning, and will leave at ten. The India letters will, in all probability, therefore, be distri tributed by the first delivery on Monday morning. 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 - . 8 1 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 he admitted having had his hand under the girl's clothes. nei playing by the g with h child,magistrates, a nd prisoner di n t statedthink that nhe h was We washe e n om goti m nel i y committing any indecency. He stated that be had been forty years mar r, et c ro d an , t de n su n ce d tx, w pb ru a e s t s under living eo thesne vsome ut mr m esp e t a ra n on s be ae o s ! ti o li f iosli th : e in p t.h ro e s T e P e rh u ies t o o nit r iea n r Ot being present, had no alternative but to direct him to be discharged from custody. 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 hi m.—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 h a d j us t b egn 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 g iven in the American papers of one of these absurdities, th e 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.