The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-15 00:00:00

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Anglo-
Saxon, Captain Ballantine, from Quebec, arrived
in the Mersey at six o'clock yesterday morning.
We are indebted to Mr. W. F. Bowes, the mail
officer, for Quebec and other Canadian papers
of a late date. The news is unimportant, but we
select a few items.

The statements as to the crops of 1860, from
almost all parts of the country, are coming in
very favourably. Late rains are said to have
made a wonderful change all over the United
States, as in Canada.

Rafts of new timber are daily arriving. A
very large number of ships are taking in cargo,
and the clearances up to this date are consider-
able. The rates of labour operate greatly against
despatch. _

All vessels are now free to pass through the
improved channel in Lake St. Peter, without
paying the toll of 9d. per ton, heretofore levied.
• The papers are filled4ith statements of extra-
ordinary preparations for the reception of the
Prince of Wales. The Quebec Chronicle says
that the new Parliament House is to be converted
into a temporary palace for the Prince of Wales ;
that " new furniture is to be put in. Kitchens,
cooking utensils, beds, bedding, dining tables,
sideboards, pianos, and the full accessories of a
well furnished house, are to take the place of
desks and office stools ; and there is to be an
upheaving of things in general." The late Mr.
Zimmerman's house at the Falls of Niagara, now
owned by the Bank of Upper Canada is also being
renovated and prepared for the Prince's recep-
tion, whO, with his suite„sare expected to occupy
it a week.

De Lave, the rope-walker, and the rival of
Blondin, expects to walk across the Passiac River,
a short distance below the Paterson Falls. The
river at the point selected is 500 feet wide, and
the rope will be 150 feet above -the surface.of the
water. The feat will be performed in a week or
two;
A Lowell correspondent of the Boston Traveller
writes :—" The greatest activity prevails in all
our mills. Preparations are' making to start
200,000 more spindles in other parts of New
England ; but I hear of no such preparations
here. At the rate at which manufacturers are
now progressing, it will not require more than
a year to create a rise in the price of cotton, a
glut in the market, and a general reaction."
THE GREAT JULY ECLlPSE.—Lieutenant T. M.
Gillis, U.S.N., and two assistants, left New
York on Monday afternoon, in the North Star, for
California, whence they will proceed to Wash-
ington Territory, to observe the great solar eclipse
on the 18th of July. The party will land at
Steilacoom, Washington Territory, and proceed
to a favourable point as far inland as possible, to
the centre of the path of the eclipse. A sufficient
number of old and experienced employes of the
Hudson Bay Company will join them at Stella-
caom, to cut a path through the forest and
properly take care of their pack of animals.
Lieutenant Gillis has achieved a good reputation
as a practical astronomer in connection with the
National Observatory and the United States Coast
Survey, and also by his recent observations of a
great solar eclipse in Chili. Another party will
start, for Labrador next month, .to. observe the
eclipse from that part of the world.