The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

CANADIAN NEWS.

The Western mails alone reached New York in
time for the Europa. The Montreal and Quebec
letters and papers were left behind, although the
Europa waited three hours for the arrival of the
trains.

Several of the railroads leading into Boston had
been so blocked up by snow as to prevent the
running of the cars.

The Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway is opened
from Paris to Stratford. At present there is only
one train each way per day, but we believe it is
intended when the road is in better order to in-
crease the number of trains. The distance from
Stratford to Buffalo is 117 miles, which is accom
plished in seven hours, including stoppages.
THE LONDON AND ST. MARY'S RAILWAY.—In reply
to the reiterated assertions of the London Free
Press, in its issue of Satur lay, it is only necessary
fer us to repeat our former denial. There has
been no attempt made whatever by Sir Allan
Mac Nab and the Great Western, to intrigue
against London. As regards the alleged un-
scrupulous statements made by Sir Allan," they
have their existence only in the imagination of
our cotemporary. The Free Press does us injustice
in saying that we endorsed the sentiments of
the Montreal Advertiser, which advised that Messrs.
Holton and Galt should make over the London
and St. Mary's line to the Great Western. We
merely quoted an extract from the Advertiser, but
in doing so, we by no means wished to be under-
stood as endorsing it. We have nothing to urge
against the construction of the line, further than
we have already stated. The manner in which the
contract was given out is what we object to ; and
if our cotemporary's memory is good he will
recollect that we made the objection at the time it
was given out. The idea of the Free Press asking
us to disapprove his allegations of intriguing,
against Sir Allan and the Great Western Company,
is rather novel. We consider it sufficient to give
an explicit denial, and if our cotemporary has
any proof of his assertion, he ought to produce it.
—Hamilton Spectator.
There is no political news, even railway squabbles
were quieting.down.
The Toronto correspondence of the Hamilton
Spectator says :—" I write you to day just as on
Monday last, to keep up the weekly ceremony, and
not communicate intelligence ; for whether it is
that I am but a bad purveyor of news, or that
there are no news to purvey—the latter in
my opinion being the true reason—it is a
melancholy fact that I don't know an item worth
the sheet upon which I write. And yet it is
pleasant to have a friendly chat, even though
the topics chatted about, are neither very new nor
very striking. We have actually got to the end of
another year, and like its predecessors it has not
been an unproductive one to Canada: Indeed, I
think that in the amount of work accomplished it
has been ttte best year in the history of the country.
I passed about a year ario from Montreal to
Toronto, over the ground now occupied by the
Grand Trunk Railway, and from Brockville to this
city it took me three and a half days, and part of
three nights, during which I was frozen and thawed
out at least a score of times. To day a journey of 120
miles longer is accomplished in 15 hours. By the
way it may be worth mentioning that we are receiv-
ing some contributions from below, in the way of
oats, butter, Sze., which will have a tendency to keep
down the prices of these things. I see oats are
selling at Quebec for is 0d to 2s per bushel,
whereas here they command 3s to ,3s 3d. Would
it not be worth somebody's while to go into
this business on a large scale ? Butter is 9d to
10c1 below, here is to is 2cl; surely, this ought to

leave a good margin for profit. Whether the
changes in politics have been as beneficial as those
i.. 1 our means of intercourse, is not for me to say;
but the year has been eventful in this respect also.
At this time twelve months ago the Administra-
tion was strong in the support of the best men
-of the two great parties which in past times had
divided the suffrages of the country, and they were
preparing to meet Parliament with a majority of
some thirty good votes. How that power was
shaken, it boots not now to say, but ere long they
chose to consider themselves beaten when nobody
else thought so, the accidental defeat on the Duval
Corrigan matter not being regarded even by the
Globe of the next morning as a circumstance of any
moment. What possessed them to affect great
consternation upon so trivial a matter has always
been a mystery to me, and unless they intended to
admonish their followers of the imprudence of
exercising an independent judgment in any possible
case their conduct was inscrutable."

10 Italian merino fleece, 56 Port Phillip, and 5 black
Spanis'a merino. During this sale the attendance of buyers
had rather diminished, but still tbere was a large number
present. The following lots sold readily :-
122 Bales East India Wool. Lot. Bales. lh.
Lot. Bales. lb. ! 16 5 7FI
1 4 80 i 17 1 101
2 1 7d i 18 1 61
3 1 61c1 19 1 .51d
4 1 6id i 20 1 6d
5 1 7d 1 21 1 60
6 1 6i 22 9 81d
7 i Id 23 6 741
All faults 8 9 55d 24 12 81
9 8 id 25 13 811
. •
. • ]0 2 4d 26 2 10d
. 11 11 41 27 1 9id
• 12 10 4d 28 9 81
• 13 6 51(1 29 8 81
4
• 14 1 311 30 8 8d
15 6 91d
PERTIVI

N WOOL.

Of this wool, lot 31, consisting of 35 bales, fetched, after
considerable hesitation and reluctance on the part of the
bidders, 110 p r lb. The next eight lots, consisting of 50
bales each, were knocked down at Ild per lb. Lot 40, three
bales, fetched 141]. For the next four lots not a single
offer was made, and they were all withdrawn. Lot 45.
three bales, fetched 101,d per lb. The remainder of the
Peruvian wool, from lot 4G to 57, was then withdrawn,
several buyers expressing their dissatisfaction at such a
course being adopted, to which the auctioneer, Mr.
Robinson, replied that he had no alternative, as the parties
present did not offer anything like the value. The follow.
ing lots were then disp)sed of, but the biddings were very
languid :
Lot. Bales. lb. Lot. Bales. lb.
Oporto 58 13 qi Turkey 66 9 91-,d
Castel Branco 59 6 10:1-,,d Bk. Spanish 1 -
67 1 12'd
61 1 10,1 Merino J
Egyptian 62 8 1411 • . 68 4 101 d
63 5 11141 Entre Rios 69 5 104 d
64 7 Hid Secured De-
• • 65 7 lid von Lambs j 69* 4 16id