The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA

The most important measurt o the session is
the act appropriating $200,030 0 Sbttle with the
lessee of the State prison. Th institution now
comes back tinder Elie control of he State officers.
The sum of $20,000 was grantd to procure a
geological survey of the State and Professor
Whitney appointed geologist. State Reform.
School is to be established at viarysville, for
which $30,000 Was appropriatec. Mr. J. C.
Pelton, formerly superintendent ofpublic schools,
has received the appointment of drector of the
institution. He leaves for New York, with
'the view of inspecting similar shools in the
Eastern States. The Legislature lso made the
following appropriations, and as then is $750,000
in the State treasury the drafts wil be at once
paid :—For the Roman Catholic •ad Protestant
Orphan Asylums, $6,000 each ; Catlolic Orphan
Asylum at Los Angeles, $l,OOO ; Sistrs of Mercy
for the establishment of a lagdain Asylum,
$5',000 ; for the encouragement of telegraphic
communication between Missouri anl California,
$100,000; for expenses of India vars in the
north, s6o,ooo—the latter is known a the Kible
campaign ; for the erection of State apitol build-
ings at Sacramento, $150,000.

COMMERCIAL.
NEw Yonx, May 30.-Cotton dttill tlll.o.eavy; sales
800 bales, at 114 e. for middling tlplaids. Flour :
receipts 13,191 latatelts sales 17,000. Stitt, and West-
ern a shade firmer; mtperfine State, $5 111. to $5 15c.;
round hoop Ohio, $5 85c. to $6 ; Soutiern without
striking change; sales 2,200 barrels. Cort hea'yy and
lower ; sales 98,000 bushels ; mixed WestiA, 5.8 e. to
62c. for unsound, and 64e. tt 55c. to'r sated; round
yellow, fiBc. Oats Mort rfaiNrC; Northern, 391 c. to 42c.
Beef quiet andtriehiaged ; sales 315 barrels. Pork closed
dull and IteaVy; sales 300 barrels; mess $l7 40c. for old,
$1750..t0 $l3 87c. for new. Lard,qniet and firm; sales
/50 barrels. Rice quiet, 100 tierces 41c. to 41c. - Sugar
quiet and firm, 100 hhds. P.R., 7c. to 71c, ; 400 mus-
covado, 61c. to 7c. ; 70 boxes Havoia, 7c.; 242 hhds..
melado on private terms. Colfee study, 700 begs Rio,
13c. to 131 c. ; 700 St. Domingo, 121 c Sash. MolaSses
steady; 24 hhds. P.R., 88e. ; 300 birrel's AntecoVado,
31c. Spirits turpentine beaVy, 50Ci t trrelt, 45c. to 46c.
Rosin in mode'rat'e i'eghe4, 3,600 barrels common,
$1 521 C. to Preights to LiNerpool firm ; cotton,
5.3-3211. ; dour, 2s. 3d.; grain, Bd. to 81d. in bulk and
ship's bags. Stocks at Second Boarl easier and dull;
Chicago and Rock Island, 701; Illinois Central, 64
Michigan Southern guaranteed, 24;1; Nichigan Central,
53Z ; Harlem preferred, 40Z ; Hudson, 491; Erie, 211.;
New York Central, 82i ; Pacific Mail, 831.
ALBANY, May 27, Evening.-Corntontinues to droop ;
sales Western mixed 59c, to 60c. for tinsound, and 61c.
for sound. Oats, 421 e. for State, and 39c. for Canada
East. Wool sales MOO lbs. ; No. 1 pul:ed 32c.-
.Argies.

Nt* -OttLEANs, May 22, Evening.--Cottorin very fair
&tad to-day ; prices unchanged. Pork : 200 barrels
heavy mess sold at $l9. Lard : 105 tierces rime sold at
12c. Coffee very dull. Gunny bags . 417 bales, averaging
420 to 427 lbs., sold at 10c. cash. Freights, cotton
shipping to Liverpool, at Id. to 7-16 d., mostly, however,
at ,?id.—Picayune.

May 26.—8 y telegraph : Cotton unchanged ; sales
2,000 balm Pork buoyant; mess, $l9 60c. to $2O.
Molasses 25c. to 34c. Exchange steady. Freights
unaltered.

CimersNATl, May 29.—Flour unchanged. Provisions :
Nothing doing, owing to the firmness of holders. The
money market unchanged.

PHILADELPHIA, May 29.—Flour very dull, but
unchanged in price. Wheat, dull white, $1 50e to
$1 57c; red, H 35c to H 42c. Corn declined lc;
yellow, 71c to 72c. Provisions firm : mess Pork, H 8 50c.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.--Tonnage in good demand,
and few ships in port unengaged ; Sierra Nevada taken
for New York, and Morning Star taken to follow. The
Flying Mist engaged guano from Jarvis Island to
Hampton Roads at about HI. The Sea Nymph loads
wood in the Gulf of California for New York, and a
similar engagement is offering.

LIST or PASSENGERS.—Miss Beadle, Miss Middle-
more, R. A. Eddy, Miss, Gougenghein, Mr. Menessier
and lady, Madame Gazzaniga and sister, Celonel Fred.
Bull and lady, Mr. Jacob Abbot and lady, Mr. H.
Waldo and lady, Count Ferreos and lady, sister, two
daughters, and two sons, Albertes, Truson, C. Booes,
B. Lewis, Master Charles Fanshawe, Master George
Fansha,we, Miss Mary Fanshawe, and maid-servant, Dr.
A. Crane, C. Crane, Mr. W. Appleton, jun., and lady,
Miss Appleton, Master W. Appleton, and three Misses
Appleton, Theo. Chase, E. S. Brown, J. P. Williams, W.
Murray, C. Glenenss, C. Honold, D. Spence, T. Groom,
M‘Lanan, Rev. N. e.t Guinness, Miss F. Mullard, Mrs.
Rawcliirs and infant, Mt.' Hartley and lady, Mi 3, A.
Hawkins, Noora, Eugene Beaulere, L. Chantard, Mrs.
A. Sedgley, Count Ferreos' two servants, Mr. Menessier's
servant, J. Webb, jun., E. Crocker, Miss Jane Dale, J.
Roberts, W. Hughes, Mr. D. Hall and lady, T.
Rutherford, Mrs. Debarres, Cocharain, W. Forrester,
W. Wilson, Mrs. Griffiths, W. Somerville, J. Landy,
Harris, Miss M'Kaky, Madame Gazzaniga's servants;
one serjeant, one corporal, one bombardier, one woman,
and two children, Admiralty passengers.

THE FINAL TRIAL TRIP OF THE GREAT
EASTERN.

On board the Great Eastern, Southampton,
Saturday Morning.
The fires were lighted this morning soon after sir
o'clock, for getting up the steam. As at present arranged
we are to take a run down Channel for about twelve
hours; we shall steam- easily going out, but on the
return the engines are to do their best, and I should
not be surprised if the ship makes between 15 and 16
knots. So far as the engines are concerned there is to
be no excuse, no "if" this, or " but" that ; always
excepting, of course, a little stiffness in the bearings,
and so on. The number of persons who will preceed in
the trial trip is exceedingly limited, and the party is a
very select one, in all not more than 50 persons.
The crew which has just been shipped is a first-rate
one. They are all "naval reserve" men; 80 being A. B.'B,
and 20 ordinary seamen. Everyone has been thoroughly
examined by Dr.. Watson, the surgeon of the ship, and
a more healthy and able set of seamen has seldom
passed muster. About four hundred workmen have
been engaged up to the last moment in different parts of
the ship, some in painting, and others in doing smith's;
carpenter's, joiner's, rigger's, and all kinds -of work.
They will leave the ship just before she starts.
There is every prospect of a clear bright day for the
run down channel. The steam is now up, and the men
preparing to cast off the moorings. A tug steamer
returning to Southampton Will convey this communica-
tion to shore.

By a telegraphic message from Southampton we learn
that the Great Eastern got under weigh at two o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, steaming with screw and paddle,
with a light breeze, N.E. by E.

Among the proposals of a curious character before
the public, and twin to the drinking fountains idea, is
one for the establishment of a number of public thermo-
meters and barometers.

The speech-day at Harrow School is fixed for Thurs-
day, the 28th instant. The Harrow dinner will be held
at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday, the 4th of
July. The Archbishop of York will be in the chair.
A woman named Joly, who had fallen into a state of
lethargy at Angouleme, has died after an uninterrupted
sleep of 246; hours. Her death was calm, and appeared
like the continuation of the slumber which had preceded it.
In a farewell letter to the New York Mercury,
Bayard Taylor thus sums up his labours for the past
sixteen mouths :-250 lectures, 30,000 miles travel,
forty-eight Mercury articles, two books published, and
one house built.

Mdlle. Mires, on the morning of her marriage,
received from' Bordeaux, her birthplace, a pyramid in
which there were 3,000 natural roses, and, what is
singular is, that there was nothing to indicate by whom
ihe present was made.
At the Thames Police-court, on Friday, three more
shipwrights applied for certificates to enable them to
obtain passports for France. They stated that they were
going to Cherbourg, where they would receive 8s per
day and work shorter hours. The applications were
granted.
SINGULAR ESCAPE FROM PRISON. - The Inverness
Advertiser records the escape, from Nairn Gaol, of a
notorious character, sentenced to ten years' penal servi-
tude for sheep-stealing. He commenced operations by
turning up a flagstone in his cell; then dug down about
eight feet to the foundation of the prison, under which
he made a tunnel; then holing upwards for the same
distance on the outside of the foundation, he at length
effected a breach. The hole resembles a rabbit's burrow,
nearly two cart-leads of sand and debris being deposited
on the floor of his cell. His tools consisted of a small
pewter saucer, the leg of his cell table, and his trousers,
which were converted into a bag to convey the loosened
material out of the way. It would puzzle the head of
many a wiser man to pass through a hole resembling
the letter U, in some parts not a foot square. By the
aid of the outside bars of the prison windows, he got
upon the roof, and at last, landed in safety in an adjoin-
ing garden.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. Dyspepsia, indigestion, flatulency,
heartburn, biliousness, nausea, want of appetite. French
philosophers trace the moral feelings of the mind to the state
of the stomach ; and there is much wisdom in the assertion,
the stomach to the human body is more than the kitchen to
domestic establishment, ever so little disordered the whole
internal economy is deranged. The young may smile at the
simile, and disbelieve the tremendous sacrifice indigestion
extracts from his victim. The day will come when they will
lament over their dyspepsia, as thousands stronger than them-
selves have done, when it will be well for their comfort and
happiness if they only remember these prophetic words, and
hold in roataess Ho.lloWaY'§ Mt* safeguard.