The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

LONDON.

As usual, at Whitsuntide, business by public sale is sus-
pended,and by private contract the tranFa,ction3 are few and
unimportant. Common Bengal rice has been sold at Ds to Os
6d ; and cargo, at 8s ; cleaned is also in fair demand.

TALLOW; The market is steady to-day, at the following
quotations : —Town tallow, 163 nett cash ; Petersburg Y C on
the spot, 46s to 46s 3d ; May to June, 458 9d ; October to
December, 45s 9d to 465.
Bottouox Hot': Messrs. Pattenclen and Smith report that
there is still a good demand for fine and middling bops, at
fully late prices.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE : Although the number of beasts
is not quite so large as on Monday last, prices aro considerably
lower, and a clearance cannot be effected. The supply of
sheep is very much smaller, yet they cannot he all sold, even
at our reduced quotations. The heavy trade at the dead
market causes a limited demand in all kinds of stock. Good
lambs and calves are selling quite us well as of late. From
Germany and Holland there are 90 sheep; Scotland, 740
beasts, and 140 from Ireland.
CORN : There was a fair quantity of wheat on sale from
Essex this morning ; that from Kent was only moderate, nor
were the offers per railway considerable. Fine qualities sold
readily, at fully last week's prices ; other sorts were dull, but
not cheaper. Foreign wheat and flour underwent no alteration,
but the demand was not great. Barley dull sale, and must be
quoted is lower for grinding sorts. Fine oats fully main-
tained their value, with a good sale, but inferior were rather
cheaper tha❑ otherwise. Beans and peas sold on much the
same terms as last week.

YESTERDAY'S MARKETS.
BELFAST CORN : A very small supply of wheat, oats, and
oatmeal at this day's market, without any change in prices
since Friday.
CORK BUTTER : lsts, 130 s ; 2nds, 1283; 3rds, 112 s ;
4ths, 96s ; sths, 90s ; 6ths, 75s ; firkins, 9445.
DUNDALK CORN : White wheat, 40s to 42s ; red do, 38s
to 40s ; oats, 13s 6d to 14s ; barley, 20s 6d to 225.

FOREIGN MARKETS,

The corn trade commercial advices have been received from
Taganrog to April Ist, and Odessa, 24th. At Odessa little
business has been done in corn, prices demanded being too
high. At Taganrog large purchases of con have been made,
at an advance. All the vessels, excepting those of M.
Gopccvich, are obliged to keep quarantine at Kaffa before they
pass the straits:

This being Whit Sunday, it is observed as a
grand holiday by the Parisians. A vast multitude
of them have been to the horse-races at the Champ
de Mars. The Vicomte de Talon, who figured with
such eclat in the English horse-races in the Crimea,
was, I hear, present at them, and was heartily
welcomed. He only arrived in Paris from the
Crimea on Friday. Though a young man of ancient
family, old title, and large property, he went out to
the Crimea as a simple soldier, and returns with
the grade of a sergeant ! Fancy an English
nobleman doing the same thing.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING,

The sales of cotton at Havre during the week
ending yesterday were 4866 bales, and the impor-
tations 6332 bales. Prices for the inferior qualities
underwent a decline of lfr. compared with last
week's prices.

MISS EMMA STANLEY. -We understand that this
talented artiste, has been engaged by Mr. Niblo, of New
York, for six months, at a salary of £6O per week. Miss
Stanley will take her departure for the United States, by the
Atlantic, which is to sail on the 14th of June.

THE ALBATROSS.—The town of Caher has for the last
two evenings been the scene of great rejoicing, on the re-
turn of William Sargint, Esq., and his amiable lady, and
sister-in-law, from Van Dieman's Land, where they have
for nearly the last four years resided. Nothing could equal
the cordial reception displayed by all parties in welcoming
to his native land one of a family who, from local ties, and
generous sympathy with the people, make them general
favourites with all classes of the community. The Albatross,
in which Mr. Sargint took his voyage home, he describes as
a vessel of superior character, as to sailing accommodation
uouirucb. Tlie cultsino was lit every way worthy of the
generosity of the owners (Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co.,
of Liverpool), who did not omit a single delicacy required;
and the gentlemanly deportment of the captain and his
officers was the theme of general admiration of the passen-
gers. The vessel put into Cro3khaven, where she landed
her passengers for the south of Ireland.—Clonrnel Chronicle,
May 10.
WAVERTRRE BOARD OF HEALTH.—The usual monthly
meeting of the board of health of this locality was held last
night at the board-room, The Rev. Mr. Badnall, the chair-
man, presided. The following members were present :
Messrs. Chaffer, Picton, Rishton, Geddes, Gore, Bradburn,
Clarke, Davis, and Halhead. The minutes of the last
month's meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr.
Rishton called attention to a patent production for the
purpose of filtering water, and two samples of water were
produced from the tank, and the liquid of "Higgs' Patent"
was introduced into one, and the result was highly satis-
factory. as the water soon became clear. Cheques for the
amounts of certain accounts, that had passad the finance
committee, were then drawn. A notice had been served on
Mr. Fisher of Grange-terrace, to pave certain portions of
premises there, and that gentleman attended, and stated that
the property was private, and that he was going to erect a
gate to prevent any one encroaching on it. The subject
was ordered to be taken into consideration. The usual
routine business was then transacted, and the board
adjourned.

THE SHORTEST PASSAGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.—The
Collies steamer Baltic made the shortest passage from
Liverpool to this port in 1854, leaving Liverpool June 28th,
at 1 P.m.., and arriving in this port July Bth, at 1.15 A.m.
The passage was made in nine days, seventeen hours and
fifteen minutes, and up to the past month was the shortest
on record. The feat has been surpassed by the Cunard
steamer Persia, on her late voyage. She left here for Li-
verpool April 2nd, at three P.M., and arrived out ApXll2, at
840 A.M,, making the outward passage in nine days,
twelve hours and seven minutes, or four hours and eight
minutes less time than the Baltic. And it must be borne
in mind that the steamers now go several degrees south of
their direct summer course. The shortest eastern passage
before the Persia's was made by the Arabia, of the
Cunard line, in 1853. She left here for Liverpool June
15th, at 12.35 r.m., and arrived on the 25th, at 10.42
A.m., or nine days seventeen hours and seven minutes.
The Persia left Liverpool for this port at 10.25 A.M. on
Saturday April 19th, and arrived at the Lightship at fif-
teen minutes past nine P.M. on the 28th. Next morning
she came up under easy steam to the city in one hour
thirty-five minutes, making the western passage in nine
days, sixteen hours and fifty eight minutes, so that the
Persia has, thus far, surpassed all the other steamers
of both lines in speed, with the disadvantage of crossing
the Atlantic two or three degrees south of the usual
route sailed by them. Next summer she will cross the
Atlantic inside of nine days.—New York Tribune.

GALVANISM AND GREY HAlR.—Although grey hair has
been thought honourble from the most remote ages, yet there
are few who would not prefer that their hair should always
retain its natural colour ; this, however, has been hitherto
considered quite out of the reach of possibility. But a most
ingenious application of electro-galvanism in the shape of
combs, hair and flesh brushes, bids fair to overcome all
difficulties on this point. An illustrated pamphlet, issued
by Mr. Herring, of 32, Basinghall-street, entitled " Why
hair has become grey, and its remedy," will prove to the
reader that the body is a series of natural galvanic arrange-
mens, that the loss of galvanic power in the skin of the head is
the cause of the colouring matter not rising into the tubes of
the hair which then is left colourless,and consequently appears
white, and that by artificially restoring this power, the
colouring matter again begins and continues to rise, and
thereby restoring the natural colour. This theory is both
feasible and reasonable. Great skill, both philosophical
and mechanical, has been exercised in the construction
and perfection of the above named combs and brushes.
The comb consists of ab gut fifty pairs of platina and
zinc plates placed in an ivory tube, which forms the back
the teeth are cut out of two pieces of silvered metal, fas-
tened by ivory rivets through, and metallic contact pre-
vented by a veneer of ivory ; the galvanic current is con-
veyed from the battery in the back to the teeth by two
silver loops, and the moment the teeth are brought in con-
tact with the skin, the circuit is completed and the current
flows through it; no shock is produced, but the current is
constant and certain. Metallic brushes are even a greater
novelty than combs, which have before been manufactured
from metal. They are of all textures, hard or soft, from
the hardest description of brush to a softness that resembles
the pile of velvet; in the back is inserted a battery, which
is brought into metallic contact with the steel bristles in the
front, which conveys the galvanic current to the skin of the
head, and produces a peculiar friction that is not only
agreeable but most healthful, and may be used with perfect
safety. The flesh brushes are similar in construction to
the hair brushes, but their metallic bristles are perfection.
They are beautifully soft and fine, and yet so elastic, that
the effect on the skin is, what has been frequently but
hitherto unsuccessfully attempted, viz,
,effective friction,
without inconvenience. They are a perfect galvanic machine,
peculiarly adapted for the use of those who are suffering
from rheumatism, deuralgis, tic doloureux, for which dis-
eases there is no remedy so effective as galvanism properly
applied.—Globe.

THE AUSTRIAN, FRENCH, AND vl, SO

TREATY

.It was rumoured in Paris on Tuesday, 17‘,,,cee
triparlite treaty of the 15th ultimo, signed be:- for
Austria, England, and France, only 15 aiiY" id, if
the signature of the treaty of peace, will r„,retarcof•
not stop the mission of M. de Morrey to I°sit 19
The Russians are greatly irritated, allu Lai
doubted whether Count Orloff would so r`Tore
have signed the peace treaty, if he had been $l.: tea
of the triparlite treaty of the 15th. It is t%si4
currently in the French capital, that explans-1 by
will be demanded of the English Giibillet
Russia.