The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

HARVEST PROSPECTS.

The broken weather of the past week has greatly
impeded harvest operations. The wheat iirthe southern
and midland counties was well nigh gathered before'
the rain commenced, but in the northern part operations
have been seriously checked, the principal part being
yet .watarrested. Oats and barley have also suffereq,
but chiefly the latter, and the condition of the wheat,
already sufficiently bad, seems not likely to be improved.
The potato crop, too, in Ireland, which hitherto was
doubtful, or not so decidedly bad as in this country, has
lately been rotting at a fearful rate, so that prices at
Limerick have doubled, and maize has everywhere bean
improving in value. , Under these unfavourable circum-
stances the price of wheat, has generally risen ls. to 2s,
per quarter, and the few parcels of good new have also
brought rather more money ; yet a contemporary, under
mercantile authority, would fain assure the public that
a very rainy season has been actnally favourable to an
ample yield of cereals, and thus ignore and deny the
statements of practical men, whose interests would
naturally report an abundance, to lessen foreign imports.
Some of the nearer countries, such as France and
Belgium, not being abundantly supplied, show a slight
reaction in favour of prices; but in the Baltic, at
Odessa, and on the Danube, rates have given way under
the more favourable advices from England. The same
influence is observable in Spain. At New York the
excitement produced by fernier reports hfq not yet
subsided, both flour and wheat having risen further,
with a large amount of busineas transacted, and
_good
shipments made for Great Britain. 'The capacity, how-
ever, of the States to send the enormous quantity esti-
mated by florid writers bas never yet been proved, and
should 8,000,000 quarters he imported through thp
entire season, it would fully reach the limits of our
expectations.

It has been resolved to present the freedom of Paisley
to Lord Brougham.
The Third Company of the Staffordshire Rifle Volun-
teers have obtained a ball practice ground, on Wetley
Moor, near Hanky, with a range of 1,200 yards.
AUDIT OE ACCOUNTS. The annual audit of the
accounts of the township of Toxteth Park took
yesterday before Mr. Rees, auditor. 4c.9
We understand that, prior to leaving Scotland, the
Queen renewed her assurance that she will pay a visit
to the Highlands about April or May next. e,
Journal.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—An old woman named Catherine
M'Carthy, went to St. Joseph's Chapel, where she fell
down some steps, and was so much injured that she died
in. consequence. The case was so clear, that an inquest
was not necessary.
THE TROUBLES OF THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS.
A Garibaldian," in a letter to a Plymouth contem-
porary, gives a very unsatisfactory account of the treat-
meat to which he and his compatriots were subjected on
hoard the steamer Wien.); appointed to convey ttigin
to Italy.
PRESENTATION OF A SILVER BUGLE To
THE
PRESTON VOLUNTEERS.—.On Saturday afternoon, tha
11th (Preston) Lancashire Volunteer Corps Was
pre-
sented with a splendid silver bugle, by Mrs. J. Cooper,
of the Oaks, Penwortham, near Preston, on behalf of
the ladies of the latter named place.
NEW • BAZAAR LONDON Roan.—A successful
attempt to open a useful bazhar, has been made, in
respect to the new and extensive premises London-road,
corner of Hotham-street. It has been let off in stalls,
and will embrace a variety of neat shops, many of Which
are already taken. The rents are moderate, and from
the central position of thp locality and the attractions
presented, no clonbt it will become a place of interest.
We believe it, will he operied about the middle of next
month.
The will of the late Mr. Thomas Cotterill, of Birminn,
ham, was proved on the 12th inst., by three of the
executors, Mr. William Scholefield,
ALP-, who fs the
testator's nephew, and Messrs. Thomas Samuel Girdler
and Daniel Bell, jun., both of London. The personalty,
together with foreign securities, amounts to t 1,100,000.
This immense mass of acquired wealth he has bequeathed
executors
among the different members. of his ;family, with the
exception of some legacies and annnittes to his
and trustees, personal friends, and others, arid of charit-
able bequests to the amount of £5,000, which he has
left to various institutions in niemingham, arta n sum
-e'1.200 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer towards the
extinction of the national debt.
A VESSEL RUN DowN ON.THE HUMBER.—On &friday
morning a very serious accident occurred on the River
Humber, near Hull. About a quarter past twelve o'clock
the steamer Adler, Captain Munster, left. the Hull Docks
to proceed on a voyage to Bremer. She had only got a
short distance down the Humber—past her Majesty's
ship Cornwallis—when she ran into a fishing smack; She
immediately freed herself, and was about to proceed
onward, when she ran into a Swedish yacht, which was
coming up towards Hull. The Swedish vessel imme-
diately sank, and, before any boats could he ce,ot out,
two men were drowned. Their names are If. Johan
T Olof Baokstrorn, and Johan August Fredrickston, he
vessel's name was Anna B. Celia, and she was laden
with iron. Efforts will be made to recover the vessel
and the cargo. •
TRIAL. FOR MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—At the Stirling
Circuit Court, on Friday, before Lords Ardmillan and
Neavis, Elizabeth Paton or Morrison was charged with
having, on the 21st June last., at No. 57 bridge of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, " feloniously
assaulted James Morrison, jun., her son, a child of about
three years of age, then residing with his father, James
Morrison, mason, in Laurieston, parish of Falkirk, and
with having thrown and pushed him into the canal,
whereby he was drowned, or deprived of life, 4nd was
thus rnlirdered lisc the said Elizabeth Peters or Mor-
rison." After a trial, the prisoner was ordered to be
confined during her Maesty's pleasure, as it was proved
she was labohring under' insanity at the time of the
murder.
QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE HIGHLAND CH ILD.—
The following Simple story illustrates a trait in the
character of our Queen which explains much of the
feeling of fond regard entertained for her by all classes
of her subjects. One year when the Court was at
Balmoral her Majesty made the promise to Jenny
the daughter of a humble Balmoral neighbour, and who
was an especial favourite with her Majesty, "I'll bring
a pretty toy for you when we come back next year."
The Court went, and the promise was thought little
more of, at least on one side. Her Majesty that
year went to Paris to visit the Emperor of the
French, amid all the pomp and state of Royalty and
tmperialty, and there was enough in the events of the
year generally to drive many others besides the peasant
child from the thoughts of the Queen, of Great Britain.
Well, next. season came, and with it the Court returned
to Balmoral. The Queen, in making her rounds soon
called on her little portdge, and with a "Now, I hav'n't
forgot you," exhibited the promised present. While
Queen Victoria was in the French capital, amid all the
din and distraction of French State pageantry, she found
time to think of her favourite, the little Highland girl
on the banks of the Dee, and then and there selected
and bought an article to please and gratify the dnsophis-
ticated little bodie,