The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-05 00:00:00

tive value for some time to come.

highly

this diminished supply the British_-cGovt

In Tri

erument has

d at Porto Rico, and

yellow

'e learn that ap unOsually good crop of

At Antigua ,Her Majesty's - shin Medea, whieh
conveys the • admiral's letters to Bermuda from St.
-Thomas, was detained shne dayS, in consequence of
zneeting the United States sloop-of-war, Cyane, which,
refasedo fialtite the British flag, alleging that 'an Anie-:
rican subject (a slave); had there been taken out of an

3as on the lith

arrived on the 15th ult.

.a business was ,uot, ,so brisk, and t)rniff-
pus:were at dbuble their . usual price., The sugar crop
is nearly gathered in. • There waS but little shipping
port; and freight ruled. high:-

kt-Detnera

At Grenada oc,.l4islative business, had been intex-1
"ruptedi fitl66iist4Lipnco of a wished-for adjournment, on,
ttie Money Bill not, being granted by his• Excellency..-it
~was expected the dispute-would lead to a dissolution.
The weather was.favourable to the plantations.
The' Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Nbw Grenada, .had arrived rat Panama -with 1.80;000
dollars in .treastire, and dates from Valparaiso; ;Nov.
loth ; Callao, 25th; Payta, 29th., -
-
• 'A largo quantity, of gold had been discovered in.
Southern 'Chili. •

iAll the .revolutionary movements in the republic of
Bblivia had been qaelled.

Later ne*s had been received
.from Australia. The
gold market was without animation, and the prices
were tO 763:3d.

;The prodticiotthe wee); was large.
,Th 9 Tyne experienced.heau gales from the S.W; to
-N:W.durinB most of the passage home.

THE LIVERTOO,L T:ITERARY AND
DRAMATIC SOCIETY.

This society gave their usual Christmas performance
last night in the Clayton-hall, Clayton-square, than which
perhaps there is not a building in the town better adapted,
in almost every particular for such entertainments. Suf-
ficiently commodious to contain the numbers which will
at any time, be drawn together by a private performance,
no matter how excellent its character may be; it is yet not
so larg-e as to require any exertion on the part of the per-
formers to make their voices heard throughout its
whole extent. But while the hall affords this advantage,
and-a very serviceablo one to amateur actor's, it has one ,
great defect in the smallness of the stage, which cramps
their movements, and gives in consequence to the per-
formance an air of constraint and tameness. We were
particularly struck, with this defect' in the performa.uce
last night, and we sincerely, regretted it, because
it increased the difficulties under which the performers, as
amateurs, naturally laboured, and marred their best efforts•
As for the performance itself, it was, as a whole, very
eXcelleut, and received at the hands of the very numerous
and respectable audience assembled to witness it, frequent
marks of approbation. There was no doubt much that
was faulty, both in the conception of the characters that
were personified; and in the manner in which that concep-
tion was represented but while there were these faults_
• .

many e.

sequences of inex

pprience, thlie

llencies which received, as they

1 commendati'on

The entertainment