The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

the papal army.

AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN,.)/lay 6.
The royal mail stParn-ship Persia arrived
to'
evening at five p.m., and was waited on by
company's own tender, Jackall, before she et
inside the harbour. Having transferred all tile
mails excepting those for Liverpool, She
,Pre.
ceeded at 5.30 p.m. She brings 239 passenger°
and $780,000 in specie. She passed the Afri°
and the Vanderbilt on the 26th ult., and the Aei°

on the 2nd May.
On the 29th the Persia passed the British shill
Favourite, bound west, in lat. 45 45, lon. 4632'
with maintopmast and foreeopgallantmast gene a
NEW YORK.—Ashes steady. Cotton: Deli
moderate; prices steady ; sales 650 bales; qlots.
tions almost nominal. Coffee : Sales small. El°lln
Western and State, active and in request; the
sales are 23,720 barrels, at $5.35 to 5.40 ; f°lfr
superfine State, Canadian, and Southern, brj"a
and firmer. Grain quiet. Sugars active $ll,
steady. Provisions in favour of buyers. Tallosc'
Demand heavy. Financial stocks rather feverisbi:
New York Central, 79 791; Erie, 171 18' rfl°lle'
easy. Exchange, 1091 ; freights dull.
NEW ORLEANS, April 24.—Cotton unchang
Sales (3,000 bales, at 101 c to 11c for midOlig't
Sales the last three days 23,500, and receiptsl°,
three days, 7,000 bales. Sugars firm. Freign:
Cotton to Liverpool sterling ; Exchange 108° .
MOBILE, April 23.—Cotton: sales 23,0001:41.
middling Uplands, at 10.1 c to 101 c.
BALTIMORE, April 24.—Flour firm.
MEXICO.
BROWNSVILLE.—Advices to the 19th %Tee/
re'
It was rumoured there that Cortinas
organising his force, and had crossed the ri`Trii. o,
severe drought prevtlilled in Northern Ida"-
causing much suffering among the cattle. the
Advices from Texas to the 19th state that tea
Democratic Stadt Convention had Orainit

General Houston for the Prctlidency.
Nvtlf
The Charleston Democratic Contention b
permanently organised yesterday, Mr* Caleb
n tile
Cushing being elected chairman. 'She town 4,4
filled with delegates.

siiIPS-
AUSTRALIAN GOLD of
the departureA
The- Australian adviccs announcee for England, betwer,
several vessels from Melbournisth of march, with ..
the 19th of February and
mthewo-rth £592,000. Thus I.
total of 148,000 oz. of g
c's:;:d the Norwood and I'ditle'
also £74,000 at sea on
last mail, making the age/
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gmaatreenscey6,67opooort,:odrboyi
ohheo
of the Herald says that the fO,lOO
THE GREAT FAtfIL"UId.RE AT ABERDE ,turf
The city article
of Messrs. Blaikie, of Aberdeen, will, it is expecte' 'that'
gut to be for a much more important stun than tiro
stated in the local
.Scottish papers. This is the red
to which reference was made en 'Monday• It i 5 free 0'
numerous irregularities will be discovered. TheaBbeeil
!alive operations of the house have, it is asserted,
carried on with vigour for a series of years.

THE COLONIAL WOOL SALES. the' 0
The city articles
sales yesterday.
The Daily notice the commencement of
l ~.d cticl
17e:cs was a trifling r---Ato ;-
on the March .4.
prices,says but anthere advance of about liuto a 4
per lb. above the prices realised for Port PhiliP
Liverpool last month. t ci•
c a
The Herald &tys the biddings were not aill'reaalise
The finer qualities of 6ydney and Port Philip L but
about the rates current at the close of last 541,7,7er lb.
inferior descriptions went at a decline of id to lcrall'e of
The Times says there was a very large :Jaen t roil,
both home and foreign buyers. Prices of ror veriPY
descriptions exhibited a reduction of about one t 1; e lag
t
per lb., as compared with the commencenlen- °sif ng rates
sales, but were pretty much the same at the clo
In Sydney
wool there was little or no alteration.

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