The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
The royal mail steam-ship Arabia, from Boston
on the 6th and Halifax on the 7th instant, arrived
here yesterday. She brings seventy-two passen-
gers, 561,241, and 5,000 in specie.
The City of Manchester and Palestine had
arrived out. September 10th, lat. 49 14 N, lon.
40 15 W. At nine a.m. passed the English
barque Queen, bound West.
The Prince of Wales reached Brook Ville, where
he was received with the usual distinction.
Some troubles being anticipated on the Prince's
arrival at Toronto, in consequence of the long
standing quarrels between the Orangemen and
the Catholics, the Prince has properly signified
his determination not to countenance any ovation
in which religious or political predilections of
any party are made public.
Advices from Mexico to the 30th ult., state
that a battle was fought on the 10th between
Miramon and Degollado, at Lagos. Miramon
with 2,800 men attempted to cut through Degol-
lado's forces, by which he was surrounded. The
fight lasted five days, and resulted in Degollado's
favour. Miramon was wounded, but succeeded in
making his escape with a few of his cavalry. He
lost all his artillery, however, and the remainder
of his army were taken prisoners. Miramon, at
latest accounts, was in full flight.
A telegram from Washington states, that the
plans of the' filibuster Walker excites no little
attention in official quarters, so that naval vessels
have been directed especially to watch his
movements.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The stock market in
the speculation share list was closely contested,
at no important difference on either side. Cent-
rals left off 834. State stocks were firmer.
Money rules steady at 7 per cent. The bank
returns show a decline in specie of 1,803,000

dols., in loans of 1,551,000 dols. Exchange tends

to easier rates. Sales of cotton were confined to
a few hundred bales, closing without change in
quotations. The accounts from the south country
speak unfavourably of the prospect of the present
growing crops. Breadstuffs were heavy and
lower. The export demand was less active,
shipping having been discouraged by rise in
freights to 3s. 6cl. to 3s. 9d. on flour, and 14
dols. on grain to Liverpool. Provisions were
moderately dealt in. Sugars depressed. Freights
for full room a head were firm, and 15 dols. asked
for wheat in ships' bags, and 4s. for flour.
(From W. P. Wright and Co.'s Ci; (War.)
The demand for cotton in this market during the past
week has been good, chiefly confined, however, to the
purchases of our domestic spinners. Prices are well
maintained, and holders sell when outside quotations
can be obtained. Shippers are doing nothing ; our
rates are considerably higher than those of Liverpool cr
Havre, and with the fear of damage to the English
grain harvest, as well as political troubles, no disposition
is shown to ship on American account, and the orders
on foreign account are too low for execution. The sales
for the week amount to 9,000 bales, and the export for
same time have been confined to 724 bales, all to Liver-
pool. Some sales of Orleans new crop have been made
at 13c. to 14ic., quality ranging from good middling to
middling fair, with extra long staple. The stock in this
city by actual count, on the Ist instant, was found to be
somewhere over 60,000 bales.

The cotton season closed on Friday last, 31st August.
'We are in receipt of various telegrams from each of the
Southern port markets, with an array of figures for
total receipts for the year. In most cases the gross
receipts are given, which are calculated to mislead

y the steamer hence on the 12th instant, we hope to
be able to give the official return. Meantime we think
we may safely assume the total to be somewhat in
excess of 4,700,000 bales—a result showing a gain on
last year of over 900,000 bales, and exceeding by half
a million of bales the current estimates made in the
months of October, November, and December, 1859.
By telegraph the following has been received :
New Orleans, August 31.—Receipts for the week,
18,000 bales (net), against 4,150 for same week last
year. Total receipts of new cotton to date, 36,500 bales,
against 10,000 to same date last year. Exports for the
week, 1,300 bales ; stock, 74,000. Sales for the week,
14,250 bales; to-day, '2,000; market closing firmly at
101-e. to 10-Ic. for middling. Sept. lst.--Market steady
Sales to-day, 1,000 bales at 10Z-c. for middling, and
difficult to find at this price. Freight to Liverpool,
id 3d. Market firm. Sales to-day, 2,200 bales. Prices
stiffer, but quotably unchanged. 11-16 d is now the
current rate of freight to Liverpool ; to Havre, 11d
has been paid.

Caor.—The accounts from the South received during
the past week are of a very contradictory nature. From
some sections we learn that the prospect has improved
materially in the past three weeks; from others we hear
of too much rain, rust, dropping of squares, forms, &c.;
as well as confirmation from other quarters of the
opinion that the drought in summer was too severe for
the plant to benefit by any change, and that the recent
rains have done most positive injury on the low lands in
Louisiana and Mississippi. The state of the weather
from this time to the period of frost, and the date at
which frost may occur, are of more consequence this
year than usual. The second growth of the plant is
doing well, but to secure any amount of cotton from
this we must be favoured with fine weather and a late
frost.

LIST Or PASSENGERS BY THE R.M.S. ARABIA.--For
Queenstown : Mrs. Reid, Master W. Meagher, Mr.
Graner, Mr. Robinson, Mr. M'Closky. For Liverpool :
Mr. Keifer and lady, Mr. Hulbert and lady, Mr. Young
and lady, Mr. Norman, Mr. Howard, Mr. Cameron, 'Mr.
Hunter, lady, and child, Mr, Ellen, Rev. C. C. Villa];
Mr. Boote, Lieut.-Col. Bourchier, Mr. Wedemayer, Mr.
Hothansen, Mr. Little, Mr. Pratt, Mr. M. de Oscarraga,
Mr. Goldsteir, Mr. Milton, Mr. Appold, Mr. Feldman,
Miss Guild and two children, Mr. J. Colley, Miss Hulbert,
M. Blanes, Mr. George, Mr. Alger, junior, Mr. Sears,
.Mr. Hillebrand, Mr. Pearson, lady, and infant, Mrs.
Nanebert and two children, Mrs. iiirriet rind three
children, Mr. Darlington, Mr. Sehrimpf, Mr. Bolton,
Mr. Hughes, Mr. Brown, Mr. Reed, lady, and child,
•Mr. Smith, Mr. Ruddock, Mrs. Bolton, Mr. M‘Langhlin,
Mr. Hylliard; Lady Mulgrave and maid, Miss Johnston,
Mr. Clarke, Mrs. Clarke and son, Mr. Cooper, and Mr.
Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Coleman.

Tiit Centzt LAWs. The Courricr de la
Gironde publishes the teat of ri petition addressed to
the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce tY the mem-
bees of the Council of the Association for Commercial
Reform, praying for the abolition of the sliding scale,
and for free trade in corn.

The Daily Yews says that the directors of the Great
Ship Company intend to appeal against the award of
£17,000 or £lB,OOO made by the arbitrators in favour
of Mr. J. Scott Russell.

Gordon Cammirtg, the Nitl'ell-kown lion hunter, was
entrained before the Inverness Bankruptcy Court a few
days ago. He staled that he had no other Means of
support than what he derived frond the exhibition of
trophies taken from Africa, now in his Mfisenm at
Fort Augustus. The state of affairs prepared by the
bankrupt estimates his debts at £551, anti his assets
at £206.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, LONDON.--The Sep-
;ember session of the Central Criminal Court will corn-

mence this day (Monday), and there are at present
considerably over 100 prisoners for trial. There is no
charge of wilful murder in the calendar, but there are
one or two cases of manslaughter, the most important
of which is that of the two warders at the Colney
Hatch Lunatic Asylum, Vivyan and Slater, who are to
be tried for causing the death of one of the patients
by brutal treatment. ThiA case is prosecuted by the
Commissioners of Lunacy, and it will in all probability
be the first on the list on Wednesday morning. There
are seme important cases of forgery to be disposed of,
among which is the charge against a merchant named
Davies of having obtained discounts from the Bank of
England by Means of forged acceptances to bills of
exchange, which creates a great dual of interest in
mercantile circles. The charge against Dr. Gourlay,
the physician, under the Fraudulent Trustees Act,
which is also one of considerable importance, will have
to be disposed of at this session. The judges who will
attend are Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Bylcs,
and Mr. Justice Blackburn.

"'Tis THE PA.CF. THAT KILLS !"—The Great Northern
Railway Directors, in their report to their shareholders,
admit that on the past half-year they have bad to pay
upwards of £14,000 compensation, in respect of two
accidents on their line; and add "the accidents (?) to
which those payments are attributable were not caused
by (?) any defect in the permanent way, nor (?) in the
machinery of the locomotive department." Where,
then, are the public to look for the cause of broken
axles, collisions, or overshooting' stations? Mr. Denison,
in his public exposition to his flock at their last meeting,
puts the saddle on another horse, and adds confirmation
to our maxim, "that the greater the speed, the greater
the danger ;" " for," he adds, " it is the pace that kills,
as we say in the sporting world. If we come down an
incline at forty miles per hour, it must damage the rail-
way ; but it was absolutely necessary (7..) that we
increased the pace to—keep up our position ! We have
the worst gradients, yet seek for the Liverpool and
North traffic with competitors who are shorter and
quieter! Traffic managers cannot always be on the
alert and unceasingly watchful who have elections and
Parliamentary contests for seats to manage. But where
is the necessity for a break-neck' competition ?—why
set it on foot? Perhaps the somnolent Board of Trade
will wake up to the question some of Oleo fine days.'"
---.Arash on Railway Ofoutagt9nicnt.