Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

he basis of 111 c to 11fie for Middling New Orleans, with
id freight.
SOUTHERN MARKETs.—Prices have rapidly advanced
under the,improved accounts from Liverpool receivee
the past week. The New Orleans and 111(11'
le dearer on the week, Hiddlinn• ' • 6,
an active business_at bcth poinj: u? 1•11 0,
rather checked business, b„,
prices. The Atlaw:-
active, at Ad"

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

FROM OUR OWN CORRE
• -
:.. uuring ?RAVEL TO EUROPE • Sr°7DENT
.7446 markets are_ DETAINED IQ Sv'""
..n..,VE IN Tr'''.
,looted 11lc, with ACROSS-THE ATLAN"—
. • the Anglo Saxon's news I ' QUESTION : - •
produced no quotable change in_
_.,c and interior markets have also
~vauced rates ; and
1
The following is a statement of at Chart. -`
. an advance of le to is on the week.
the movements of cotton
for the past week,"and since the Ist September last, as Com-
pared with the previous six years :

FOR.'"

LiGNER

show .-

.con, quotation;

- -
Past !re
Since Ist To Great
_e.,!.
SeptTnber. Britain.

13 FOR THE WEER—,
Other
F. P.
'5.000

To France

168,000 36,000
10,000 13,000

1,562,000
1,318,000
7A7 nrin

f 199,000 over 1855-6, and
results :

ie exports exhibit the following

17,000 De. 74,000 1n.44

eipts for the week 44'

exempt
And

it seems

C. 7 1
would either drive all th

spensable to the
*xpulsion of these f

peoptE

THE NORTHERN TIME

rkl •LIABLE TO BE
WAR; STILL, TRAVEL
INCREASES. THE SLAVERY

. DIFFICULTY OF DEALING WITH THE
...6ZE NEGROES; CONVENTION ON THE SUBJECT IN
MARYLAND; IDEA OF EXPELLING THEM ABAN-
DONED. REPORT ON CRIME IN THE STATE OF NEW
YORK : LARGE EXCESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
STEAM FRIGATE FOR THE RUSSIAN. GOVERNMENT.
LAGER BEER : IMMENSE CONSUMPTION OF IT IN
NEW. YORK; CAUSES OF THIS. WASHINGTON'S
MOUNT VERNON : THE FUND FOR ITS PURCHASE.

REVIVAL OF TRADE SALES IN THE NEW ENGLAND
STATES.

Although travel to Europe generally this season
has, so far, been as brisk as ever, there is a large
class of the population who are now entirely preven-
ted from crossing the Atlantic,—at any rate to
revisit their native country,— during the continu-
ance of the present European war,—such persons,
that is, as may have been born subjects of some of
the crowned heads of Europe who are engaged in
that war, and having emigrated to this country
acquired citizenship here and amassed some means
. .
may desire '

to revisit their homes and friends,. as
many have always been doing. For it appears that
the military laws of the Continental States of Europe
oblige every man over the age of eighteen to serve a
certain term in the army, and by the interpretation
which has been given to these laws, emigration and
he acquisition of Ameiican citizenship do not
such persons from the obligation.
that several attempts have,
and - actually been

at one time _ another,
~
made by these States to compel natives, now citizens
of America, on visiting • their native land, to enter
the army and serve out their time. And if this has
been the case, as I understand it has, in time of
peace, there can be no doubt that now. - .

, when the
personal service of every available man is wanted in
all the continental armies, the governments of
France, Gerniany, and Italy will be more stringent
than ever in enforcing the military laws. The United
States Government has, indeed, in several instances,
been applied to in behalf of persons, so circumstanced,
who had been arrested and put into the ranks on
revisiting Europe, and the question was decided that
their Ainerican citizenship did not protect them.
This doctrine, had to be plainly laid doWn a short
time ago by Mr. Cass, the Foreign Secretary, in the
case of a Prussian gentleman who had been a long
resident and a citizen in America, but who, on his
return to Prussia, was seized and sent to join the
army. And quite lately—since the present war
broke out—the Foreign Secretary has again been
applied to in behalf of sonic_ citizens of French birth
residing in Tennessee, as to whether their natural-
isation exempted them from military service
in case they returned ;to France,—to which
he has macte adswer, " that it is understood
the French Government claims military service from
all natives of France who may be found within its
jurisdiction, and that their naturalisation in this
country will not exempt them from that claim,
should they voluntarily repair thither." This state of
things, therefore, is naturally having the effect of
keeping a great many at home who would otherwise
be going on visits to their native countries, either on
business or pleasure. Still there is no apparent
falling-off in the number of passengers to the old
world. The war is thus no impediment to the
tourists generally : on the contrary, it appears to
have given an impetus to European travel ; a
expected that, as the summer advances, the Atit,
steamships will be still more crowded with traveller
for Europe.

nd it i

I have frequently had occasion, of late, to notice,
in one phase of it or another, the Slavery question,
as having been forced upon my attention by what is
passing in relation to it. Another inducement to
advert to it has just occurred. The Slaveholders of
Maryland have been having a Convention to con-
sider the important question, " What shall we do
with the immense (74,000) and still increasing
negro population of the State.?" There are, it seems,
two parties in the State who essay to deal with this
question, - One, "a party of ultra pro-slavery, or
ultra anti-free negro politicians in the State, who are
''i.vour of that rigid policy which in a few years

ree negroes now within
the commonwealth out of it, or reduce them to
slavery." Another, " a party of sensible slaveholders
who are opposed to this violent remedy." The
counsels of the latter have controlled the convention.
They declared themselves opposed to the forcible ex-
pulsion of this free negro population from the State
first because their removal would deduct nearly fifty
per cent—from the negro labour of the State ; and,
because the labour thus furnished by the
is i