Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-25 00:00:00

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

The screw steamship Nova Scotian, Capt. Bor-
land, belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steamship
Company, arrived in the Mersey this morning.
She left Quebec on the 12th instant, and brings
36 cabin and 53 steerage passengers, and 1 officer
and 53 soldiers.

The Nova Scotian arrived off the Bell Buoy at eight
o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning, and was de-
tained there for twenty-four hours by a dense fog. She
was also detained a night in the St. Lawrence by a
heavy snow storm.
The Royal Mail Steamer America, from Liverpool on
Saturday 22nd ult., arrived at Halifax on the 3rd
November.
The steam-ship Hungarian arrived at St. John's, on
the 10th inst., and landed forty-two persons, who were
Saved from a wreck off Newfoundland in a vessel from
Labrador.
The Quebec Board of Trade met on the' 2nd inst.,
when the mission of the French Consul-General was
adverted to, and a resolution passed for the purpose of
tendering to him any assistance in their power in pro-
motion of the commercial objects which France might
have had in view in sending him thither.
Four hundred delegates, including several Members
of parliament on the opposition side of the House, met-
at Toronto on the 9th inst., as a Reform Convention.
important constitutional changes are to be discussed.
Frederic Douglass, the coloured abolitionist, who is
said to have been charged by Cook with cowardice in
neglecting, as agreed upon, to join the Harper's Ferry
insurrection, has escaped to Toronto, and is about to
proceed to England. He has published a letter in
which he denies the truth of the statement attributed to
Cook, but admits that he was cognizant of the out-
break. He did not join it, because fighting is not his
vocation, and because he looked upon the scheme as rash
and d.
The wilvalue of imports at Quebec, during the first ten
months of the present year, was $2,879,625; for the
same period during 1858, $2,704,314 ; being an increase
in favour of 1859 of $175,311. The amount, of duties
collected during the same ten months, this year, was
$403,977 99; an 1858, $328,940.; increase in 1859,
$76,037 99.
From Washington we learn that, while the Cabinet
was in session, Nov. Bth, the President received a dis-
patch, showing the positive necessity for military assis-
tance at Brownsville. The Secretary of War, within
half an hour thereafter, issued instructions to Capt.
Rickets, commanding the artillery company at Baten
Rouge, to place his men in readiness for a march,
and, at the same time, the Quartermaster at New
Orleans was telegraphed to make arrangement&
for transporting the troops to Point Isabel,
towards which place they are now, probably, on
their way. J. B. -Thomas, the Special delegate from
Brownsville, had an interview with the Secretary of
War, and fully' explained to him the alarming condition
of the' fronier of the Rio Grande.
The Postmaster - General ' had returned' from the
South, but had not. opened thp bids for the transporta-
tion of the mail between Portland and New Orleans.
. The Tribune's Washington correspondent says, that,
the Postmaster-General will 'isk'about $10,000,000 for-
mail service next fiscal year, the increase being caused
by the establishment of additional overland and other
routes,

The ship Charles nobles, from Liverpool for Mob:le,
has been wrecked; the crew is all lost.
A private letter, dated El Paso, Oettiber 24, says that
the new law of the luarct Government, making mar-
riage by the civil authorites imperative, had created
much excitement in Northern :Mexico. At Durango a
protzwiciainatto was issued against the law, but it was
suppressed. In Chihuahua petitions were in circulation,
calhng upon the Governor of the State to suspend the
execution of the law. The clergy are at the foundation
of these disturbances.

liostitEat, Nov. 12th, evening.—Flour to-day ad-
vanced 10e. to 15c., with large sales. Superfine and
fancy firm at $5 to $5 Me. ; extra, $5 80c. to $6 40e.
No wheat offering. Ashes heavy at $5 60c. for pots,
and $5 40c. for pearls.
A slight accident has occurred to the supports of the
last tube of the Victoria bridge, which will probably
cause a delay of a few days beyond the time fixed for
opening the road.