The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-09 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Our latest advices from Sydney state that Mr.
Donaldson had been returned without opposition
for the South Riding of Cumberland. A meeting
was held on the 3rd instant for the purpose of
raising funds for the relief of the sufferers by the
inundations in France. The Governor presided,
and a number of influential gontlemen were
present, but only about thirty persons attended,
and the meeting was adjourned for a week.

A. numerous meeting of the working classes had
been held, and resolutions were unanimously
passed for establishing the principle of short time,
and for forming a Labour League.
The Governor-General had issued a proclama-
tion announcing that, by virtue of an order in
Council, Norfolk Island had been separated from
tile jurisdiction of Tasmania, and that the
Governor-General had been appointed Governor
of the island.

Many of the diggers were leaving the Rocky
River. and generally matters were *lull. A frightful
catastrophe had taken place at Sydney Flat, on
Mount Jones. Five Scotchmen, in tunnelling,
had been buried by the earth falling in a hundred
feet below the surface At the date of the mail,
one hundred miners were at work getting out the
bodies, but there was no hope of saving life.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

Calder) has been made at a 103, being an advance on late
rates, and a large quantity of lead pipe, but well assorted,
has been sold at £32 per ton.

BUILDING MATERIALS generally are without change.
Li consequence of successive arrivals, slates are very difficult
of sale.

Dittos : There are large arrivals of opium. Benares and
Patna are not worth more than £l2O to £125 per chest,
and prepared in canisters is very dull of sale, at .135 to 15s
per canister. It is in contemplation to propose to the
government that a duty should be imposed on opium and
Chinese drugs, which latter, it is believed, are a kind of
wine or spirits. _ _

BOOTS AND SHOES have been greatly overdone, and prices
must rule very Jew for some time. We must, however,
except light made boots and children's siz ,s, which are
scarce, and worth 33A per cent. advance. American gonch
Calf Congress and patent leather boots are in demand at
10s. In other goods the market has been swamped by
arrivals from California. The market is quite overstocked
with heavy boots, sixteen to twenty inch pegged, which are
at ten to fifteen per cent. discount. Large sized boots of all
kinds are a drug. Small sized Hungarians only are in
request.

PAPER : Grey and brown wrapping sorts are easier:
salPs have been made at 31 to 31.
ROSIN : The market is overstocked. Turpentine is
very dull.

HOLLOWARE is not worth more than ten per cent off list.
Cookin; stoves have seen sold at 50 per cent. on genuine
invoice and camp ovens are worth £lB to £:2O per ton.
HARDWARE : Shovels and picks have declined. There
are no handle,l c:xes in the mark: t.

CORDAGE is easier: European, £3B to £45; spunyarn.
£4O to £45.

COALS are rather declining; English in the bay being
only worh 41 per ton.
Sorr GO DS : Large arrivals have tended to depress
prices, even in the face of a brisk demand, but as there is
an impression that arrivals of this description of goods will
not continue on the same scale, it is hoped that the down-
ward tendency will now cease. If it be found that shippers
have been making these large consignmen's at this time in
order to avail themselves of the opening of our season, and
that now-they are holding off until winter goods require to
be forwarded, a feeling of confidence in the home houses
willbe inspired, which will be quite new in this market.

MELBOURNE WOOL MARKET, &o.
WeoL.—Our last was per Heather Bell, on the 28-h ult.,
since which the opening sale of the new season's clip has
taken place. The attendance of buyers was very large, and
biddings were spirited, although the quality offered was
only small, and our quotations were realised, which we
consider to be an advance of ld to lid per lb on last
season's prices, the cause of which we consider, in a great
measure, to be in consequence of buyers being anxious to
ship by this mail ship, in order that the wools may arrive
in time for the February Landon sales. Advices to hand
by the White Star, of the rallying of the prices in the July
sales towards the close, will, we anticipate, cause prices to
be kept up here. Our quotations are, for fleece wool, 16l
to 19d Der lb; scoured, 19d to 21d per lb; handwashed and
slipe, 14d to 160 per lb. The quantity shipped this season
has been as folio ws ;—viz, from October 11th to November
Ist, 650,313 lbs, value £52,533.
TALLOW : The quantity offering is not large, and any
lots in shipping order are readily taken up at the following
rates, viz. : —for beef, £35 to £37 per ton ; mutton, £4O.
HIDES : There is a good demand for shipment, and some
large parcels have changed hands at high rates ; our
transactions have been at the following prices, viz. :
country salted 13s 6d, and town cured 16a each.—Y. H.
CLOUGH AND CO.

MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR.
The demand for Gold is on the increase, and the com-
petition among the bankers is keeping up the price at the
gold fields, so that the supply in town is not equal to the
demand. The price is from 76s 34 to 78s, according to
quality, and from the exchange having been altered to one
p.m. Our Adelaide neighbours are using every effort to
establish a trade to our gold fields by the Murray,
and have shown some spirit in doing so, particularly
at the Ovens. Having brought up goods by water,
they are anxious to make returns to Adelaide in gold
and black sand through the same channel, but a diffi-
culty has arisen regarding a port on the Murray for
exporting gold, the gold export duty act naming
only sea board ports. The news from the diggings is
encouraging, from the discovery of new fields, and fair
accounts from the old ones. We have it reported that
rich quartz reefs have been found at South Mnckleford,
and at Mount Blackwood. At Tarrengower the quartz
reefs are very productive. From Wryer we hear that the
quartz claims are producing a fair return, and that there
has been a rush to a new field near Sander's Station, the
sinking being only about nine fiet, and the gold plentiful.
Number of persons arrived, 824; number that have left,
203; addition this week, 621, and year 14,817. The
escorts have brought from—]fount Alexander and Ben-
digo, 18,654 ounces ; Ballarat, including Geelong, 17,602
do ; Ovens, 11,577 do; Marvborough, 7,545 do ; Fiery
Eraw'o,l 31? .dII;"KirOCI.,3OI-,`'Sc:; amount week,
61,775 do, and year 2.246,175 do. Gold shipped in 1856,
2,480,127 ounces—per steamers to Sydney, 2,240 do; per
Corriemulzie, to Calcutta, 2,614 do; per Meteor, to Hong
Kong, 3,262—T0ta1, 2,488,243 ounces, or 103 tons 13 cwts
2 qt. 3 1631 C 413, At 000, x 9,902,972.
Exchange on London :—Drafts against gold put chased
at par. Freight, 41d per ounce, delivered at the Bullion
Office, Bank of England, London. Insurance, lay per cent,
EDWARD KHULL.
MELBOURNE LABOUR MARKET.

There have been numerous enquiries during the week
for married couples for the country, and an active demand
is springing up for mowers and other descriptions of
agricultural labourers. The former are asking lOs per
acre, but we have heard of hirings at a lower rate.
The following are the ruling prices for the week:
With rations : Married couples, without families, from
£75 to £B5 per annum; do. with families, £55 to £65 do;
gardeners, £5O to £55 do ; grooms, £4O to £5O do ; stook
keepers, £6O to 470 do; shepherds, £35 to 4'40 do; hut
keepers, £25 to £3O; general farm servants, 20s to 25s
per week ; mowers, 8s to 103 per acre; hay cutting, 9s per
ton ; bullock drivers on the roads, 30s per week ; do on
stations, 25s do; sheep shearers, 18s to 20s per hundred
sheep ; sheep washing, 7s 61 per day ; men cooks, £7O to
£9O per annum; female do, £3O to 445 do; thorough
female servants, £3O to 435 do ; housemaids, £25 do ;
laundresses, 430 to £35 do • nursemaids, £2O to £25 do.
The following are considered the standard weekly rations:
—l2 lbs beef or mutton, 10 lbs flour, 2 lbs sugar, 3 lb tea.
Skilled labour is more fully employed now than for
many months past.
Without rations : Compositors, is 4d per thousand; do.
by the week, £4 4s ; pressmen, £4 4s to £4 los do. ; car-
penters, 14s to 15s per day; masons. 155 do. ; plasterers,
15s to 16s do. ; bricklayers, 14s to 15s do. ; blacksmiths,
12s to 14s ; quarrymen, lOs do. ; woodsplitters and fencers,
5s to is per ton. fencing by the rod, material to split only,
Os ; labourers on the roads, 93 per day—wood, water, and
tents found.

Sailors continue in active demand. For home or the
east £7 per month in coasters to ; cooks and
stewards, £1 to ; mates for coasters, .49 per month.

GEELONG LABOUR MARKET•

The labour market has been marked by unusual slack-
ness since our last circular, the enquiry for shearers
having almost ceased, and the demand for reapers and
haymakers not having set in as yet; but doubtless a few
days will bring the commencement of the hay harvest,
and with it increased activity.
We have still a great call, with an extremely scanty
supply of quarrymen, masons, stonecutters, and stone-
breakers.

Seamen have been but little in demand.
Female servants continue much in request ; but, as
usual, good servants are obtained with extreme difficulty,
especially English girls.
Wages are as under, viz.

With rations.—Married couples for hotels, to .eBO
per annum ; married couples, without families, for town
work, .410 to .6'Bo per annum: do for home stations, £6O
to 4'Bo do; do, shepherding one flock, .€4O to '.15 do;
do two flocks, £6O to .t7O do ; do for farm work, 060 to
£7O do ; single shepherds, .4'30 to do ; hutkeepers,
£2B to £3O do ; shearers, 18s to 20s per hundred sheep ;
woolpressers, is 6d per bale ; sheepwashers, 20s to 25s
per week; bullock drivers for roads, 30s do; do for farms
or stations, 25s do; general farm servants, 20s to 25s do;
gardeners, 25s to 303 do ; bush carpenters, 35s to 40s do ;
cutting and trussing hay, 7s 6d to 103 per ton ; hand
threshers, 10d to Is per bushel ; threshers by machine,
25s to 30s per week; carters for town or roads, 26s to 30s
do ; grooms, .t'so to'e6o per annum.

In the Times, Mr. C. E. Stewart, secretary of the Lon-
don and North Western Railway, produces Baron Wensley-
Oale's notes on the case of stealing Mr. Gorst's carpet bag,
at Rugby, brought against John Matson Temple. The
,‘ notes" clearly justify a charge of guilty against the pri-
soner, and Mr. Brady wily have some difficulty in main-
taining the ground that Temple's conviction was a " egal
accident."

ing to the Bank of France, which it attributed to Napoleon
I. This note, however, is stated by the De4ats to have
been written by M. MoMen, then Minister of the Treasury.
The note was destined to correct certain errors which the
Emperor had expressed, along with much that was sagaci-
ous, the the Emperor was so struck with the idea of his
skilful minister that "he ordered him to communicate the
note to the bank as if it had proceeded from the Emperor."
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 6. - PROMOTIONS.—Commander W. T.
Bate (1848) has been promoted to the rank of captain, and
to retain the command of the Actaeon. Lieutenants C.
Antridge (1815), A. S. Syme3 (1816), J. W. Tomlinann,
(1826), 0. R. Bamber (1837), T. C. O'D. Whipple (1840),
and 11. B. Everest (1844), have been promoted to com-
manders on reserved half pay. Appointments :—Commander
11, Selwyn (1851), to the Siren, 16, sloop, South Ameri.
Can station. Masters' Assistants E. 14. Blunden, to the
Plumper, 12, screw steam surveying vessel at Portsmouth;
and W. J. Grundy, to the Megtra, screw steam troop ship,
at Portsmouth.