The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-03 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.—The Mercantile Advertiser says :
—General trade in Dublin and in the country towns has be-

come dull in consequence of the threatening aspect of foreign
affairs, and the increased rate for discount charged by the
banks, which are acting with much greater caution. The
retail trade in provisions is also. much more limited, on
account of the very high prices of food, which press severely
on the consumers, although, of course, they greatly benefit
the growers of agricultural produce. As yet, the staple

manufactures of Ulster do not appear to have teen materially
affected by the causes that have led to so much depression in
England; and this may be considered as an evidence of the
sound principles upon which the linen trade is conducted,
without anything in the shape of wild speculation. The em-
ployers and workmen seem to be upon the best terms, and
there has not been a single " turn out" in any department.
There is a fair demand for linen yarns, without, however,
any general advance in prices. The stocks of linens are very
moderate ; prices are well maintained by a yes
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have damaged the standing crops to a considerable extent.
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hare • ITO worse reports, and people are beginning to find out
that they have only heard a great deal of the exaggeration of
former years over again. Turnips, mangel-wurzel, and other
green crops, it is said, generally present a somewhat un-
healthy appearance, and will not realise early expectations.

THE CHANNEL FLEET.—The vessels compoSing this fleet
have, as I said yesterday, left Cork, but their destination is
not known, although they were stated to have been bound
for the Mediterranean, and not the Baltic as was at first
supposed. The Black Eagle steam yacht reached Kingstown
on Thursday, to await the Lords of the Admiralty, and con-
vey them to England. Yesterday afternoon, Sir James Gra-
ham, accompanied by the Junior Lords, arrived in Dublin,
and soon after proceeded to Kingstown, when, about half-
past four o'clock, they went on board the Black Eagle,
which took her departure for Holyhead,

KIDNAPPING CHILDREN.—The Dublin journals have not
noticed some strange statements which have been abroad for
the last week, but which, although vague in many respects,
have certainly some foundation. It is, Ibelieve, undoubted,
that some children in various parts of the city have been
lately missing, and under such circumstances as to warrant
the police in coming to the conclusion that there has been
unfair work going on. It is said, that some of those lost are
girls of tender years, who are supposed to have been kid-
napped for a purpose sufficiently obvious. This is worth
mentioning, if for no other purpose than as a caution to
parents. What has happened in Dublin, might also happeu
in Liverpool.

FOREIGN CATTLE.—The importation of live cattle
of various kinds from the continental states of Europe have
been unprecedentedly great during the past week. They in-
clude nearly 20,000 sheep, with upwards of 5,000 head of
oxen and cows, and a proportionate number of calves and
pigs, making altogether the extraordinary large number of
nearly 29,000 head of stock of various kinds. This far exceeds
in extent all previous supplies of this nature from
abroad, and must have formed an important feature in the
general supply of live stock for the London markets. M
usual, the principle portion of the importations have been
from Holland, with some few of small extent from France
and Belgium ; and they have been swelled so far beyond the
ordinary extent by large supplies of horned stock, as well as
sheep and other cattle, from Denmark and the Hanseatic
States.

SANITARY PROCEEDINGS UND
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FACTORY

ACT.— information cif Mr. Baker, Sub-Inspector
of Factories, Mr. Thomas Lister, woollen manufacturer,
Hunslet, was charged before the presiding magistrates ati
the Court-house, Leeds, on Tuesday last, with having
neglected, (luring the preceding fourteen months, to whitewash
the interior of his factory. The offence was proved, and
the defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of 31.

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FRANKFORT AND BOLO ['TONE RAILWAY.—The first
sod of the Frankfort and Cologne Railway was turned on
Tuesday, at Biebrick with great ceremony. This line will
supply the last link in the chain of railway communication
between the various Belgian, Dutch, and North German
railways, and those of the south and east of Europe.

THE LUCKY SAILOR OF THE LEANDER.—TIIe sailor,
whose lucky fortune in becoming the sudden possessor of
property amounting to £60,000, as mentioned in the
Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, is a Scotchman, named
Thomas Black, and has lately been doing duty as a petty
officer on Board her Majesty's ship Leander, now lying in
Plymouth Sound. According to the Globe, it appears that
he is connected with a highly respectable family in Perth-
shire, was well educated, and intended by his parents for one
of the learned professions. Seventeen years ago, however,
he ran from home, and entered the naval service, doing
duty as a common sailor, and, having acquired some reputa-
tion as a mariner, he was advanced to the rank of a petty
officer. That was his position, when, aboutnine months ago,
an advertisement appeared, informing Thomas Black, if he
were still alive, that by communicating with certain parties
therein named, would "hear of something very considerably
to his advantage." Thomas Black, however, for months re-
mained in ignorance of the "something," which his next of
kin were beginning to be afraid they would be obliged tO
appropriate itto their own use andbenefit. Luckily for Black,
however, he one day entered into conversation with a foot-
man, whom he met accidentally at the Cove of Cork, and
who had heard from another servant, some particulars touch-
ing the lost heir to the Perthshire estates. The result was,
that Black made his existence known in the proper quarter,
and, after the lapse of a few months, his claims were recog-
nised, and he succeeded in obtaining his discharge front
naval servitude on the arrival of the Leander at the port of
Plymouth, from New York, which took place a few day!
ago. The lucky sailor and his friend Lieut. Barnard, R.N.,
are now in Scotland adjusting the prelimindries.
CATHARINE HAYES has been giving. concerts at
Valparaiso with great success ; on the evening of the 6th
August, she gave her farewell concert ; on which occasion
she was presented with a splendid diamond bracelet, valued
at one thousand dollars. She was to leave Valparaiso on the
oth, for Santiago, thence to Lim,