Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

COMMEACIAL INTELLIGENCE.

PFANAVEtcO, July 20.
Suct*w; The arrivals of sugar, as usual during .our
rain', have be( n on a ninth smaller seale, daring the past
and present month. These is, however, still more of the
crop to come to market, and which is likely to be sent down
with our la'c rery fine weather, indeed the arrisals are
already showing an increase. We have bad some very fine
growing weather lately, some rains in the night, and a
vaim genial $P in OP daytime, xvhici has brought

forward the new cane very -rapidly, and it never showed a
finer condition. If the rains shauld take up soon, of
which there are indica-ions, and with floe dry weatber
in next month (August) 'we shall' have Suga'rs to market
then, in much larger,quantitieg.than usual. Indeed, we
hear that some Eagenhos, have already commenced to
grind the new cane ; we only hop', that they may not be
hurried to market before being properly 'male, so
as to avail of the present almost fabulous priees. With
regard to the extent of the-crop 1856-1°57, our estimates
have hitherto been made from Ist Nov. of each year, but
such has been tile irregularity in the COO mencement of the
crop, that this ',merely -represents the entry 'for' twelve
months, without attempting to distinguish 'one crop
from another. =Thus. 'in the present crop,-the entries of
new Sugars commenced in September of last year, but
all the arrivals up to Ist November went to swell the
extent of the last crop; and it would be -the same this
year, unless the crop periods were changed. This we
shall endeavour to do, and to make oar crop estimates in
'future, from the•lst October of each year, to'lst October of
'the f, Hewing year, as up to that date, the bulk of the old
crop is already in, and the small arrivals of new Sugars
cannot have any material Effect on the estimates. If we
venture on an 'approximate estimate, our impressionais,
that the crop year from Ist September, 1856, to let
September, 1857, will show fully '65,000 tons,
and 'that the following crop year, from present
appearances, seems likely to yield 'fully 75,000 tons,
in the same periods—as the cane never had a
more promising appearance. and promises an
unprecedentedly heavy yield. Prices here have been
forced up much too high, and leave e•certain loss en the
'last quotations from Europe. It-,allygood browns may be
quoted to-day 0200 to 48300 per arrJba ; at the latter
prices they c -st 3911 per cwt. ex. Commission and F;eight.
These.added and allowing f r lossin weight and European
charges, it would require 451 per -cwt. to 'ewer the first
cost, and for Sugars not equal in quality to what were
shipped earlier in the season. We give quotations as
follows- : —Channel Sugars, a low,qualit-, 35700 to 38800
per arroba ; goon browns, 4sooo to 0100 do.-.; picked
ditto, 0150 to 45200 do.

COTTON: The prices of this article have continually
ruled here exorbitantly high, and above European prices
—36400f.0.b. lately paid for Paraibas, first and seconds
would cost laid down in Liverpool will 3 rer cent.
Commission 814 per lb., whilst by the late advices they
were setting there at B,li to for firs's, and 7,1 d to Bil
for good seconds, thirds being valued at only 74 to 714 per
lb.—Prices have now a decided tendency downwards, and
tit's is assisted by the a4vance which has taken place in
freight of the.article, from 71 101 to 1 per lb.; and which
may go up still further—Today we quote Pernams,
75400 to 75600; Paraibas, V4lOO to WOO; Maceios,
7sBoo to 75700.

dines : The same remarks apply to prices of this article
as to sugar and cotton. They have gone much too high,
and have, consequently, to come down materially with the
late worse accounts received. These have already declined
a little and we quote to-day 335 rs to 333 rs per lb.
RuM A/113 MOLASSES have lately hem in much request,
and considerable exports have been made for Portugal,
and elsewhere, at prices corresponding to the high prices
of sugar.

FREIGHTS. —Hive for some time been exceedingly de-
pressed, owing to the many Arrivals with iron work, and
machinery, for the railway and gas works, &c., These
shipments however, being now about finished, we expect to
see much smaller supply of tonnage, and that freights will
now take a decided start upwards.—ln ree3 for Sugar
owing to small stocks, not much advance has taken place
just yet, but in Cotton, of which the stocks are large, we
loot for more improvement; id. per lb. has been already
paid for Liverpool, and we expect more will soon be given
at outpoes.

EXCELUSGE has not declined this year as usual; this we
consider to be owing. prineipally, to the very high prices
at which produce has ruled, and which has thus absorbed
a much larger amount of capital tha❑ usual. This is also
proved by the high rates of clisclunt, which are now 10
per unit., when they usually have been 8 to 6 per cent.
We quote the rate at 281 d to 28J.

MARRIAGE OF ME. FREDERICK PEEL.---011 Wednesday
morning, the doors of the parish church of St. George's,
Hanover-square, were besieged by a large number of ladies
anxious to witness the ceremony of marriage between the
Right Hen. Frederick Peel, second son of the late Sir
Robert Peel, Bart., and Miss Shelley daughter of John
Shelley, Esq., of Ovington House, Winchester, Hants.
When the doors were opened there was a general rush, and
the body and gallerissowere soon filled with spectators of
both sexes. Shortly after eleven o'clock the bride entered
the church, accompanied by her father, and wearing a
superb bridal costume. A square veil of Brussels lace was
thrown over her head,!whiGh was enriched with a wreath
of orange blossoms .and myrtle. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Dean of Worcester, Dr. Peel, brother of the
lamented baronet, and ureee of the bridegroom. The
bells of the parish church,Bury, rang merry peels in honour
of the marriage. In the evening, balls took place at a con-
siderable number of public hcuses and beershops.
Tue INDIAN MUTINY —Some additional papers have
been issued. They contain the proclamation in which the
Govenor General warns the army of Bengal that the
t Iles by which the men of certain regiments have been led
t suspect that offence to their religion or injury to their
castes meditated by the Government of India are ma-
licious falseLools. Beyond that the return is a report of
the proceedings of the different bodies in Calcutta and else-
whe-e, who bad resolved to uphold the authority of the
goys'. , men" . Tn acknowledging these expressions of. loyalty,
the Govenor General reiterates the assurance to the na-
tives that the policy of the British Government has been,
and ever will be, to preserve a position of strict neu-
trality in matters of faith. The document concluding this
assurance was written on the 25th of May. A blue book'
of 381 pages is also published, being an appendix to pa-
pers already issued, ant consisting of proc:eiings in
Various native regiments, con ts-mcrtial, and telegraphic
comm rnications between military authorities and the
Indian government, and from various stations, reporting
the sitogress of the mu-ineers.

Ax .i.'eraTatteer OP 7N-10;-/BNIT INDlA.—England is, as
regards India, in the condition of a men who has had his
first apoplectic str, ke. She will get better but she will never
again experience the joyful conflehnee of perfect health.
She will for evermore be anxious and careworn, weaker
and perhaps wiser, more thoughtful, and possibly more
just. Let us imagine that the insurrection is put down--
and it will he put down—lndia: will nevertheless require
three times as many European troops as before to hold it;
and the possibility of a Russian invasion, heretofore a
phantom, is now a reality. The probability of R Issian
intrigues affecting the native population is converted into
an accomplished fact. Teheran will now be what Con-
stantinople long has been - a battle field on which English
and Russian influence will struggle for the mastery with
greater violence. Since the fall of the first Napoleon,
England has been universally regarded as invulnerable.
Irish discontent brought no serious dangers, and the
Canadian rebellion was quickly repressed. At home the
country was at peace; abroad, itjseemed unassailable. Ne
wonder, then, that English statesmen grow overbearing
from the excess of prosperity. It may indeed safely be
affirmed, that England has, in the last few years, done
more to hinder the development of free institutions in
Europe, than the Cabinet of Petersburgb. Ste has made
divisions, and sown distrust between rulers and their
people, and has thus brought about such a state of things
as we now see prevailing in Naples. From the moment
that her Indian po.sessions a-e in danger, the whole policy
of England must be changed. India is not the Achilles-
h'esel of England, it, is more, it is her other half. Europe
aeld European civilisation have need of England, but an
En glaud much changed from that which they have known
of late-- Oesterreiehiehe Zeitung.
Tiles THOUSAND Poseen Ronsuaay.—At the Manchester
City
.?-elice Court, on Wednesday, John Smethurst, beet.
house .keeper in New Charter-street, and William Howard,
were cAarged with being concerned in the robbery of
£1,020 from the person of Mr. Thomas Taylor, mill
owner, Volton, on the afternoon of Tuesday last. In-
spector Taylor., of the detective force, stated that after re-
ceiving informetion of the robbery he made every possible
inquiry, and at about eight o'clock the same night went
into Mr. Whip,)'s public-11one, Smithfield Market, and
there meertairted that the two prisoners had changed a £5
note, which, on examination, proved to he one of those
which had been stolen. The prisoners were at the bar
when he went to the public-house, and they left Wean
diately ; as so soon as he ascertained that the note was
One of •the massing, he followed there, and in Eve minutes
apprehended them in Miller-street—The barmaid, Mrs
Newton, sister to Mr. Whipp, said the cote was changed
by her She knew both the prisoners. As usual, in
ehanging a note, ehe said she would require to leave it en-
dorsed, and Smethurst called out "Smethurst," and she
wrote his name on the corner. Mr. Taylor, who bad lost
the money, said that about two o'clock on the Tuesday be
got £3O in notes from Loyd and Entwisle's bank, and
£9BO from the Bank of England, and put them into the
outside pocket of his coat. From the bank he went down
King-street, through Cross-street, and down into Half
Moen-serest, and thence into the Arcade to get a copy- of
the Guardian. On the way be had felt bis pocket several
,eimes, And found all right. At the Arcade he had to pass
Ihrough a crowd who were sheltering from a shower, and
when he had got his papers and in kittle more than a
minute ,from the time that he last felt the money safe, be
found it was gone. It was contended for the defence that
the prisoner ;Smethurst had changed the note innocently in
his own beerbeuse, and being out afterwards and ;aeeting
Ho~~a,"d, glass together in Whipp's, where be
cboanoev.e4d, theyoo hsd
ote;;
stated.—The case was remanded PI
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