Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-28 00:00:00

SYDNEY PROMJCE lailtXtrs.

WooL : The result of the Febrully sales in London,
although considered very favourable, has not caused any
further advance in price here. Doriog the last two or
three weeks the price has ben gra lually rising on the
anticipation of good accounts from England. There was,.
therefore, rather a desire to realise at present prices than
to hold on for a furthee advance. The biiding at Messrs.
Mort and Co.'s produce ode. yesterday, was stack, and the
last week's prices were barely maintained. The fallowing
are the latest quotations :—Superior clips Is 10i to 2s ;
fair to g od, Is 7d to 1< 101; low to midiling, is 6d to
Is 8d; grease, 9}.1. to is 21; locks, pieces, &a., 10d to
51; handwashed, Is 411 to Is lid : scoured, Is 10c1 to
2s 6d. Sheepskins ate firm at from 74d to is pur

TALLOW : 'roe tallow market has b vary thinly-
supplied, and prices may also be considered nominal.
There have been no transactions this week in beef t flow
for shipment. Mutton is voted, for h utte consumption,
£4B to £53, and station tallow at £4O to £56.
BIDES are not quite so much in demand. Since last
fqrtnight they have declined about 4s. They are now
rowed at 183 to 325. Tho highest price at which they have
touched this year was 364 eaca.

SNAKE IN A WATER PIPE.—The Alrxitaia (Virginia)
Gazette relates the tollowiyg.—Mr. George W. Harrison
biou4ht us, in a phial of whiskey, a snak., which came
from the hyii a.:t in his store at the foot of Q teen-street.
Mr. Hariso t says that he has been in the habit, when
thirsty, and tht.re was no glass or cup near, of placing his
month tinder the muzzle of the hydrant, and thus drinking.
On Thursday, when in the act or drinking in this way, as
he g)t his in ,nth near the muzzle, and turned the tip, a
water snake, in lerrith measuring betwoen ten and twelve
inches, cams out and fail in the sink. Mr. Harrison, as•
soon as he recovered from the shock caused by the sight
it .
of the snake, coining as did from the hydrant, sag-
eeeded in capturing it."

caBRGE or HUHDRII.—The Great Yarmouth magistrates
were oecupie.l on Friday with a very serious case. The
"0,160, James Ablett, has been a peeper nurse in he union
workhouse, and was charged with having caused the death
~r an aged ply alysed pauper named Angus Steward. The
deceased was all inmate of the north w ad of the workhouse
in which Ahlett was nurse. At an early hour on Wednes.
(lay the prisoner went to the deceased's bed, stripped him,
with a short brush sixteen-
;led struck him violently behind
Imes. The prisoner then put the decea ed on one side of
the bed, so that his feet rested on the fl or, and struck him
sevi ral times as hard as he could on both sides of his head;
The deceased was also struck by the prisoner three or four
times in the rßs. He called out, "For God's sake, don't
hit me any more, you'll kill me," and the prisoner then
se.z4d the bed-board, struck him with it on the head, and
threw him into the night chai-. The deceased's head fell
forward between his knees, and soon afterwards he died.
The evidence of the fuelled officer showed that the death
of the deceased had been.caused by pressure on the brain..
The deceased, who was bedridden. was dirty in his habits,
and it is supposed that this excited the prisoner's anger.
The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the
approaehing Norwich assizes, on the charge of wilfully
murdering the miserable old man,