Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-26 00:00:00

AMERICA

The Ariel, which arrived at Southampton last evening
with New York advices of the 11th, has . brought
150,000 dollars for England and 300,000 for France.

Lord Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from
Broidlands.

Mr. Robert Stevenson C.E., is reported by the
Advet-tiser to be dangerously ill.
The Earl of Elgin and Lord Sohn Russell were
among her Majesty's guests at dinner on Wednesday.
The Post condemns Lord Stanhope's recent allusion
to the absence of Irishmen ix the present Administra-
tion, arid quotes historical examples.
A plan for preventing railway accidents, by Afr.
Wrigley, of Timberhurst, near Bury, is explained in a
long letter in to-day's Times, which also devotes a
leading article to the subject.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA

The British and North American royal mail
steamship Africa,, Captain Shannon, arrived in
the Mersey yesterday morning from New York,
whence she sailed on Wednesday, the 14th inst.,
bringing journals to that date. Besides the usual
mails, the Africa brought $390,266 in specie.
She also brought 70 passengers.
The Persia from Liverpool, on the 3rd instant,
had not arrived off Sandy Hook at one o'clock,
a.m. on Wednesday, the 14th.
The intelligence received by this arrival is in-
teresting in many particulars, although not con-
taining anything of very great importance in
itself. The elections are occupying a large degree
of attention, and respecting that, for New York,
the Herald has the following remarks :
The State ticket and platform of the republican party
of New York, for our local November campaign, are
before our readers. The ticket includes a fair admixture
of old line Whigs and original Van I3uren free soil
democrats, and a. very liberal allowance of canal men
but the concession of only one candidate to the anxious
straggler of the Know-Nothing faction, but who
repudiated the order before he was adopted, falls far
short of their expectations. But even this concession
was " not on the slate?' It was an after-thought, forced
upon the Convention by the energetic General Nye, who,
it also appears, exercised his peculiar eloquence with
decisive effect against a resolution complimentary to
Governor Morgan. This is the result of the some-
what independent coarse of the governor in regard to
the Metropolitan
.police. It is to be hoped, however,
that he will graciously pocket the affront thus adminis-
tered, and remember next time that to a man in his
Position all considerations of the public good must be
held secondary to the demands of party.

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,te ticket selected from their most
available politicians of different stripes, and a
string of Bun6ombe resolutions which, like " the
three polar. stars" of the Hon. Tittlebat Titmouse,
promise " everything to everybody ;" and thus
marshalled and harnessed for the fight, they ap-
pear to be confident of an easy victory. They
say that their forces are united ; they are flatter-
ing themselves that the wranglng democracy are
hopelessly divided, and that the rump of the late
American party is too contemptible to be noticed.
But upon the main issue of the canvass, which they
have carefully disguised from the public e 3 e,
the managers of our republican camp ought to be,
can be, and may be, defeated in their calculations.
In reference, then, to our State affairs, we re-
gard with comparative indifference the clamour
on each side against the other. It is " all
sound and fury, signifying nothing." But upon
the great underlying and overshadowing issue,
which has been so carefully put in the back-
ground by the republican scene-shifters, this
approaching November election of ours may
be more momentous in its consequences than
any other of the last fifty years. This great
issue to which we refer is the question of the
endorsement or rejection by. New York of W. H.
Seward for the next Presidency. His name is
not mentioned in the republican Syracuse resolu-
tions, nor can we find the remotest allusion to him
in them or in the debates of the Convention ; but
his portrait adorned the hall of the Convention, as
the image of the presiding genius of the party,
and we may rest assured, in the event of a repub-
lican triumph, that the result will be claimed as
equivalent to the deliberate vote of New York for
W. H. Seward for the Presidential succession,
Rochester platform and all.
In regard to the boundary dispute with this
country, the paper already quoted says :

Our advices from the Pacific indicate a considerable
degree of excitement in regard to the question of the
right of sovereignty over the Arroo islands, lying between
Washington Territory and Vancouver's Island. Previous
despatches had made known the fact that the island of San
Juan, the principal of the group, had been occupied by a
few of our troops ; and now we learn that reinforcenients
hadbeen sent there, as if Gen. Harney apprehended that
an attempt would be made to dislodge them. Governor
Douglass had declared his intention of sending. English
troops there, and a rumour was also got up to the effect
that thirty Americans had been killed in an attack made
on the island by the British steamer Satellite. We do
not attach the slightest importance to this last report,
regarding it as a mere attempt to add to the excitement,
an, if possible, to precipitate a collision, which could
not fail to lead to deplorable results.

With respect to business prospects for the
" fall trade," the New York Herald says :

That the coming business season is to Vbe a pros-
perous one, in a financial point of view, is to be seen in
the number of stores and mercantile buildings of every
kind which are springing up in our city. Some six or
seven years ago, the wholesale dry goods trade was in
a great measure confined to that portion of the city
lying below Barclay-street. Suddenly it made an
up-town stride, and we find it taking possession of
the neighbourhood included between Barclay and
Chambers-streets and Broadway and the North river.
All the old shanties and tumble-down dwellings which
formerly characterised that locality, where levelled
to the ground, and splendid palaces now occupy their
plaCes. One can hardly believe that the Church-
street of to-day, is the Church-street of five or SiT vonra

ago. This fill business seems to manifest a disposi-
tion to take another up-town leap. Many of the old
buildings and tenements located between Chambers and
Canal and west of Broadway, some of them nearly a
century old, are now in course of rapid demolition to
make way for beautiful stores. This fact is but a sign
of the increasing prosperity of our affairs, and merchants
and tradesmen may look forward to a pecuniary harvest
this autumn.

Several suicides have taken •place in. New York.
Mr. Alfred Freeman, proprietor of the Inter-
national Hotel, committed suicide on Thursday in
the house, by cutting his throat. He had been
ill for a week of slow fever and a nervous
attack, which doubtless caused aberation of mind,
and led to the suicide. Anna Gosliercer, of
No. 76, Cannon-street, had been afflicted with
rheumatism in one of her feet, and on Thursday
took three ounces of laudanum, which put a