Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

ITALY.

A telegraphic despatch from Turin, dated 31st
ult., announces that the King of Sardinia and
Prince Napoleon attended on that day the first
experiment for cutting through Mount Ce.uis. The
experiment was attended with perfect sueeees.
The Venice Gazette states that the annual burden
of which the Emperor of Austria has lately exone-
rated the Pontificial Government for the Austrian
garrisons of Bologna and Ancona amounts to
250,000 scudi (the sendo is sf. 35e.)
The Pepe visited Volterra on the 26th ultimo, in
company with the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The
august personages were received with the usual
honours by the magistry and authorities of the
place. The pope visited the principal establish-
ments and convents, and also the alabaster works,
for which Vslterry is so celebrated. The town was
illuminated during the night. His Holiness wa s
still in the town the next day.

A STRANGE VISITOR —A. live locust, a strange visitan
to this part of the world, may now be seen at this office
It was found in a field at Gortrush, in the neigliblurlictyi
of this town, by a son of Mr. John Houston, ironmonger,
on Tuesday morning last, the day after the thunderstorm.
The young lad seeing it hopping about, asd fancying it was
a bird, with some difficulty caught it, and brought it to his
father, who kindly presented it to us. It is clearly n locust
(Grytus migratorius), that destructive insect whose ra-
vages are proverbial—one of those whose approach, from
the innumerable myriads that compose their squadrons, is
announced in phrophetic language as a day of darknees
and of gloominess, and whose desolating march is thus
described :—" The ;and is as the Garden of Eden bef,rl
them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and
nothing shall escape." This locust is :Mont two and a-
Nall inches long, strong in 1.04, and very active. Has a
loet:At fORTId in; this coon try bnlop P---.7yrone Con-
stitution,

THE PENINSULAR MAILS,

(FROM OUR OWN COT:4IRSPONDRNT.)

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SOUTHAMPTON,
WEDNESDAY.

The steamer Sultan, Captain Cook, has arrived
with the -Peninsular Mails.

She left Gibraltar August 20th; Cadiz, 27th
Lisbon, 29th; Oporto and Vigo, 30th.

She brings 64 passengers, 29 women and chil-
dren of the 47th Regiment, 2,3651. in specie,
3374 chests lemons, 123 bags orchella weed, and
101 packages general merchandise.

At 1.20 p m. on the 30th, 30 miles south of Cape.
Finisterre, she passed the Tagus ; all well.
A Gibraltar her Majesty's ship Royal Albert,
Princess Royal, Vulture, Ariel, Curlew, Vigilant.
The fleet were to proceed to Algiers and Mantau
in a day or two.

The Dauntless and floating battery Terror sailed
from Lisbon for Bermuda on the 29th. They put
into Lisbon to repair trifling damage of the Terror's

engine.

The screw-steamer Count Cavour, from the
Brazils, arrived at Lis')on on the 28th; and the

Petropolis, from Southampton on the 29th.

The steamship Colombo, from Southampton,
arrived at Gibraltar on. the 25th, and proceeded
the same morning for Alexandria.

Gibraltar exchanges, on the 22nd, were quoted—

London, 511; Paris, 5f 38e; Marseilles, 5f 39e
and Genoa, 5f 400.

Lisbon exchanges on the 29th :—London, 54,
with trift_'s clone at 531 ; Hamburg, 54; Paris,
528; Amsterdam, 421; Genoa, 526. light im-
provements in •stocks, Three per Cents. being at
471 to 1; Registered Coupons, 45:- to 47; and
Deferred, 281 to 29.

Sir Morton Peto has returned from Portugal by
this packet, having concluded and signed with the
Government the definitive contract for the Lisbon•
and ()port) Railway. He has six months to get
up the company, but is said to have made such
arrangements before leaving Eng:and as will enable
him to commence the works without delay. The•
young King of Portugal actively promoted the
contract, and Sir Morgan Peto had the honour of
a conference with His Majesty the night before
the packet left.

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