The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

CHINA.

.0 • •
China advices are from Hong-Kong to July 7th,
and Shanghair, June 29th. Nothing of a political.,
nature affecting our relations with Engiana tran-
nired since the despatch of last mail. The heads
"I intelligence have been transmitted by tele-
graph,

Coi4l4EittlAL.
July /th.—ln business, with the
tletption o 1 shipping, there is not the slightest
!InhProvernent; - Accounts from Canton are better.
ere it a decided improvement in the tonnage in
SIIA-Nonm , June 29th.—Tea transactions are
n'eessively light. Exchange—Amount of busi-
es§ in sterling very light.

SHIPPING.
The Bacchante Empire, the Electric, and the
id Eagle, hence at Shanghai ; the Koh-i-Noor,
ilence at Kong-Kong.

The Morning Star says we are authorised to
state that the extract from a private letter, written
/33' Mr. Cobden to a friend, which has appeared
in most of the London papers, was published
Without kis knowledge or sanction.
We
Shipping. Gazette contains the followingt—
,..7 e are enabled to state that Mr. W. S. Lindsay,
.31. P., has been authorised to proceed to Washing-
ton to plane, before the American Cabinet and the
Senate the views of her Majesty's Government
with reference to the existing navigation laws of
the State and its effect upon maritime commerce,
1.1103.t0 enter upon negotiations for the opening of
the American coasting trade to British shipping.

Peal fishing in the river Don, in Aberdeenshire, has
recently
i been prosecuted with success—two Inverary
oYshaving made about £6O. The pearls sell freely at
'rem 3s. up to £3.
The Army and Nag Gazette, referring to the Tunes'
letter respecting Cherbourg says ; —4, It should not be
f
°tßetten thkt invariably at this season of the year, when
he Visitors abound in Frauce, a dullness pervades
'the Imperial arsenals and yards. The busy periods are
inter and Spring months.
rrotITIVE METTECEDIST JUBILEE.--The Primitive Me-
edists of Manchester district held 'a jubilee meeting on
pSaturday_ evening, in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester.
Pwards 9f, 4,200 persons partook of tea, which was
a.ided in the great hall (the tables being twice filled),
d in file supper-room. We are assured that more
'll 6,000 tickets were sold ; and the meeting held sub-
sequently was one of the most crowded ever seen in the

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—Two MEN KILLED
AT
141TYLEBOROUG11.—On Saturday morning, three men
Were •
toeing let down the Rakewood Colliery, at Durn,
ear Littleborosigh, when, from some cause, the cage
tPset, and all of them fell to the bottom, a distance of
, Yards. Two of them, named William Whipp and
4anies Kershaw, were taken up quite dead, but the third,
Jacob Leach, was found to be alive. He was conveyed
the
top as soon as possible, and medical aid was pro-
-4,1
but his recovery was reported to be very doubtful.
Pi re IMPRESSIONS'''cIar-i;s0: OF NAPOLEON.—When I first saw
England she was in mourning for the young Princess
the hope of the empire; I came from India
18a Child, and our ship touched at the island on the
14'y home, where my black servant took me a long walk
over rocks and hills until we reached a garden, where
106 saw a man walking. " That is he," said the black
1314 ; " that is Bonaparte ! He eats three sheep every
daY
and all the little children he can lay hands on !"
_There were pedple in the British dominions besides that
Poor Calcutta serving-man, with an equal horror of the
eersican ogre.—cortain magazine.
l 1110NITMENT TO THE NINETY-THIRD HIGHLANDERS.—
beautiful piece of sculpture has just been erected on
the wall of the north aisle of the Cathedral, Glasgow,
°PPosite the south entrance, to the memory of the
officers and men of the 93rd Highlanders who fell in
the Crimea. The memorial has been erected by the
regiment, and bears the following inscription on the
tase :—" To the memory of Major Robert Murray
Banner, Brevet Major John Anstruther, Lieutenants
William
Lear M'Night, William Turner, James Wemyss,
`ebert Abercromby, Edward Alfred Ball, Franklin
Knight Kirby, 13 non-commissioned officers, 4 drummers,
"(I 298 privates, of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders,
Who fell in the action, or died during the Crimean cam-
paign of 1851-6-6."
„ SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONG.—A rumour has been for
so days in circulation in Woolwich Arsenal to the
effect that Sir Wm. Armstrong was about to resign the
Superintendence of the Rifled Ordnance Department ; and
.1/11 Saturday it was announced as a fact, that, although
tt resignation had not been accepted by the Government,
Secretary of State for War had requested him to
retain his post until the close of the present session of
,harliament, when a new arrangement would be finally
-Jade. It is supposed that the long contemplated. inten-
Ivir)bil. of reappointing a Director-General of Artillery,
Which has been strongly recommended by the Military
Prganisation Committee, will be acted upon, and that
rTulloch, the present Inspector-General, will
It'eeive the appointment, uniting under one head the
rector-Generalsbip of Artillery and the manufac-
ng trenches of the arsenal throughout. In addition
t 0
t the above announcement it is stated that the superin-
Zeuce of the royal gun factories will be assumed in
by Mr. John Anderson, the present resident or
assistant superintendent, who has carried out with per-
1. :et success the absolute direction of the department,
With an occasional visit only of Sir William Armstrong
floe its fOundation under the new system.
1)4141 OF A WIFE FROM ILL-TREATMENT.—Within
tol last few days public attention has been excited
41 unusual degree in one of the suburbs of Leeds,
6
the death of Catherine Ann Calvert, the wife
nines Thompson Calvert, who is a solicitor's clerk,
i „17,7.,g in Reuben-street, Little London. The hue-
baud spent spent what little money he earned in drink, and,
his drunken fits, beat his wife because she was too
ill to sit up for him, or had no means to procure him
food,t Which be demanded with callous indifference
the Sufferings of herself and family, and threatened
t-
kill her if she did not comply with his behests.
er health gave way, and for three weeks she was
e°hfined to bed. From the facts stated to Mr. Lupton,
`'lle of the borough magistrates, an information was laid
against the husband, and steps were taken for his
apprehension, but he could not be found until after
her death. While she was in the agonies of physical
lEffering, he was spending his time and his money at
. York races, and it was only on his return that the police
Werew able to trace him to the Central Market Hotel,
1,,.,e0ut midnight on Thursday, and take him into custody.
7e believe -that the body bears evident marks of ill-
rnreaatraent and though the immediate cause of death
little doubt to
be inflammation of the bowels, there is
doubt this inflammation was accelerated, if not
brought
on, by the brutality of the prisoner. The pro-
`‘Uligo at the inqueet were adjourned,—Leold Mercury.