Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-01 00:00:00

POST PHILIP WOOL,
CONTINUED.
Lot. Bales.

Per lb,
a. d

120 5 Scoured 2 3
127 2 Ditto 2 11
128 3 Ditto 111
120 4 2 3
130 4 2 3
131 4 2, 21
132 3 Hogget 2
133 1 Pieces 1 6
134 4 Lams 2 01
135 5 Lambs' 2 1
136 1 1 5
157 3 1 41
138 1 Repacked 2 1
139 1 Ditto 2 0
1.10 3 Sweepiegs 1 0
141 2 Ditto 0 0
142 1 Ditto 0 3
143 1 Repacked 1 101
144 4 1 91
145 3 1 9

SKIN WOOL.
Sheets at Gs 6cl each.
Lots. Sheets. Per 1b

146 3 1 5
147 4 1 5:
148 4 1 5
119 4 1 5
150 3 1 2
151 2 Repacked 0 8

120 Bls BUENOS AYRES,
52 Bags LISBON,
6 , ITALIAN, &c.Lot. Bales.' Per lb

s. d.
152 to 169 passed
17d 1 Pickings 081
171 7 1 4
172 1 1
173 to 177 passed
178 8 Bags, repaki 0 81
179 2 011
180 3 0 8
181 1 Italian 1 61
182 3 1 51
183 2 1 41
181 15 Lisbon 0 10
185 15 0 10;
186 15 0 101
187 5 0 7
188 1 0 6
189 1 0 4
190 191 passed

The pricy to which sheep have reached is enormous, and
may be attributed to the present price of wool, which
ranges from 25,. to 26s per s'one.—Lioterick Chronicle.
FRENCH R tILWAYS. —The are the last returns
of the gross receip's of tho torncip4 French railways from
Sept. 10 to Sept. 16:—:Northern, 1,148,1191. ; Western.
930,493 f. ; Orleans, 1,178,6641. ; Strabourg, 1,127.7081. ;
Lyons, 1,045,9301. ; Lyo,,s to 2113diterranean, 506,1971. ;
Southern, 340.8111.

PROLIFIC GRAlN.—There was grown this year, says
the Ayr Obset ver, on the farm of Taiglem, Cumtnock,
a bean stalk with 80 pods, containing 218 full-grown
beans. In another fi lt.l a corn stalk was cut, on which
w -re 241 p'ckles. Such produce is tl-e more remarkable, as
the farm is fully 600 r et above sea-level.
LABOUR IN CANADA —We are happy to be able to state
that scarcely any of the class of persons induced by the
representatives of the Government of Canada to come
here, have been, and are, unemployed. The farmers of
Canada have secured crops far cheaper than any previous
rar. We believe that 1,000 female servants would get
hired wi hin a week after arrival here next Spring.—
Toronto Times of Sept.
The Aberdeen Journal states that Mr. Welsh, of the
Observatory at Kew, has, fur the last six weeks, been
making a series of observations over Scotland, south of the
Caledonian Canal, on the variation, dip, and force of the
earth's magnetism. Similar experiments are goi ig on at
present in England and Ireland. Mr. Welsh intends to
extend his ob ervations to the north-west of S.:otland next
autumn, and to lay his results befo.e the B itish Association
in 1859.
We are to have a " Dance of Death !" In conseq tence
of the unspeakable horrors of this year's In Ilan "history
(because of the atrocities inflicted on women and children,
because of revolt, rapine, violation, massacre,) a grand,
fete has been announced as about to take place in London,
" for the la,neflt of the sufferers." What sympathisers are
those who must rattle through a Ju!lien Q tadrille of All
Na ions, or whirl to Miss Gilbert's Vandyke Polka, or have
some violent enjoyment or another, before they can look
melancholy and carry their alms to the Indian fund !
Athenceum.

ARTILLICRY EXA.XINATIONS.-With reference to a pub-
lished notice, to the affect that it is in contemplation to
hold an examination in the month of January next " for
commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engi-
neers," Mr. Dreury, of the War OfiSc?, writes to the
Time; to staoe that the ex imination which is to take
place is not for direct apnointmen's to these carp., but
for admiss-o t into the Royal Military Academy, Woo'-
which, where the successful candiAatei will pursue a
course of studies with a view to their qualification for
c.mmissicns.

A VIVID DREAM.—The other night, a man, who is in
the habit of ovas'onally carrying small parcels br t ween
Airdrie and Coatbridge, dreamed th it he lr:d got a " roll
of tobacco" to deiver, but hal forgot to do so fie rose
in great haste, went to the pl ice where he thought he had
left it, but, beho'd !it was not there. Afraid to look his
employer in the face, the 13.11 man was engaged to pr, claim
the less, and offer a reward to the fortunate finder, but
without success; when, on going to his supposed employer
to own his fault, he was told that he had got no parcel,
-nd he seems only then to have fully awoke and found that
_ . . _ _

it was only a dream.—North British Mail.
AN INDUN ADVERTISF3IBNIT.—" Bib )0 Sooroo2claand
Doss has always on hand a large stock of Dccca muslins,
varyirg in price from the cheap but e egant gowc-piece of
tw lye yards, R.. 3 8 to the • webs of woven wind,'
abroar,' and the 'shuhnem,' or mcraing dew, at R.. 100

the piece of ten yards. These latter are so fine that the
whole piece can be with ease passad th-o igh a wed,ii lg

ling, and, when spread on the grass in the early morning,
are so undistinguishable from dew that it is report-d that
a cow eat a web whila grazing with )ut di covering it.
The Emperor Akhbtr rebuked his sist:r for indelicacy in
appearing before him clothed in only seven fulds t,f this
texture."—lndian paper.
STATE OF BELFAST ON SUNDAY.-We are happy t, be
able to say that not the slightest attempt at disturbance
was made on Sunday. The streets of our town wee as
quiet as they usually are on the S ihba' h day. Tm re wer
of course, the u.O LI 1011• gers ab ,ut the quays and streets—•
the very class that the open.-air preaching was meant to
reach ; and t) some of these, as we announc d in our
Kr, Mateer preached. At B illyeafeigh, where it was
stated in one of the It tdical papers that the it, v. Hugh
Hanna would preach, a few individuals had gathered, but
they were not aware that Mr. if mu I had, oa Sa,turlay
evening, yielded to the advice of the Presbytery, and can-
sented to forego his intention of preaching. The police on
duty at the quays were enabled to return to their quarters
at an early hour, their services not being required.—
Belfast News Letter.

THE EMPEROR AND THE I), ET —The Emperor Alex-
ander, at his recent visit > t \\%nacr, lies done an ace of
jsis ice to the memory of one of Polanii's greatest poets,
%Yell may truly be called an event fur that country. Ail
the works of Adam Mickiewi( z, as is well known, were
hitherto most strictly prohibite I throughout Poland and
Russia, so much so, that even those volu lies which had
been printel boforl the Po'ish Russian war, with the
sanction of the authorities, were not a lowed to he reprinted,
so that they bad become, as it were, bibliographic curio
R-gircling the litter works of Mickiewicz, the very
possession of them was punished as a crime, and many
persons had to languish for years in the dungeons of the
Warsaw CPadel— many hal to wander to Siberia, for no
other reason than for having read the " Thaddeus" or the
" Dzyady" (Walpurgis) of the exiled pee t. The Emperor
Alexander, who, when a child, received instr uclun ii the
Polish larguige from Alickiewiez, living at that time at
St. Petershu-g, has now, in a rescript addressed to the
Director of Public Instruction in Poland, M. de Much mow.
ordered the works of the poet to be free for print, and the
copyright is to be the sole property of the poe‘'s children,
up to their being of age. The Cnrman papers report that
it is eifficult to give an adegaa'e idea of the happy excite-
ment which t! is news has created at Warsaw. The pub-
lisher, Herr Alarshech, has entered at once into negotiation
with the trus'ees of Mickiewiez's children, offering a sum
of 6,000 silver rubles for a fi.s', edition, and he is certain to
reap a large profit, notwi.hstanding that high figu-e. The
Emperor Alexander, in his le'ter to N. de hluchanow,
represents this proof of liberality (dways speaking com-
paratively) as an act of personal piety to the memory of
his late teacher; but the wisest policy could not have
advised him Fetter, in ordor partly to reconcile the hearts
tof much tried and much injiired Poland. We only regret
to see, by a statement in the French papers, that the R is-
Sian government has tefused perfusion to the daughters of
the late poet to return to Poland. The moderation and con-
ciliating views of the now dead minstrel should have earned
lets cruel treatment for his children.—Athenceon.