Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-19 00:00:00

for the expe .uses of the-Exhibition will ntt
called upon even for •a single sixpence. The
receipts, it appears, are fully equal to the ex
Fend iture.
The Bin ningham Social-Science Conference has
terminated, by >a Nery'successfut meeting, held in
the Town—hall, at which the leading members of
the Conference took part. Before Lord John.
Russeli's . departure from Birmingham, the Liberal
politicians of that town thought it their duty to
present hint with an address. 'ln 'reply, 'his'
lordshi p did not employ any observation worthy of
comm‘ nat.

At 1 .ast the police think that they have discovered
a clue. that may dispel the mystery of the Waterloo
Brill ge affair.. There appears to be strong grounds
for the belief that the mutilated remains are
the se of a Mr. Hugh Patterson, a gentleman

fre m Australia. IC so, the motive for the
m order will sufficiently appear in then state-
.ent of a Staffordshire police authority, that ho
c arried t 3,800/. iegold in his carpet bag. The
rio:ncidence in the description of this man and his
clothes aid his carpet bag is very roma:liable.
It is understood that Mr. Layard, late M:P. for
Aylesbury, will proceed to India by the next mail
in order to visit the seat of the rebellion, and

judge for hirgzelf as to its cause and results. It
will be remembered, Says a London paper, with
what alatritv the hon. gentleman started for the
Crimea witl; a somewhat similar intention, and
how much the parliament and the country were
benefitted by his personal knowledge. It would
be a great gain if some vacant constituftey would
elect Mr. Layard, during hia absence, so that the
House of -Commons might have tile advantage of
his information when he returns.

The ministerial organ of yesterday (the Observer),
is " glad to be able to'state that there is no present
intention of calling Parliament together, and that
it is not apprehended that any occasion of eufficient
gravity will arise to cause the premature assem-
bling of both houses before the usual time.
Lord Eilenborough sees no possible salvation
for E.lgland in India, and no possible protection
for Rigland at hcme, unless we largely increase
our military force. If the country gentlemen and
farmers, according to his lordship, do not work as
zealously to get recruits as they do to bring up
voters at a contested election, we must submit to
be dishonoured in India ; and dishonour there, he
affirms, would be very speedily followed by an
invasion of this Island by the continental powers,
" slwayo prepared for war, offended by our pride,
resentful of former victories, and coveting our
present wealth."
There are several items of interesting news from
the C intinent. The clouds hanging over the
Danubian Principalities are by no means disap-
pearing. It now comes our, that the assertion of
the German papers, though flatly denied by the
Constitutionnel, of a protest made by the English
and Austrian Ambassadors at Constantinople
against the new elections, was at least not wholly
without foundation, only the protest will not be
brought to beer on the present state of things, but
on the decisions of the Paris Conference. At
what time this .conference is to assemble is as yet
uncertain, and the Nord, in its latest number,
denies that it will be very soon. This also would
tend to show that the preliminary negociationW-
betw•e€n the Great Powers for the settlement of
main points in case of disliact emergencies, which,
by necessity, meet precede the assembling of the
eonference, have as yet not led to a satisfactory
understanding.
Tho health of the King of Prussia continues to
improve.

The Bankof Amsterdam has followed the general

movement, and raised its viscount,

The Admiralty of London lately recommended
that resolutions should be taken in eoinmon by the
different maritime states, to avoid collisions at sea
The French goVernment has taken the proposal into
favourable consideration, and a committee of naval
.officers is appointed to report upon it.
The Paris Pays says that a letter from Calcutta,

of September 3, states that Sir Colin Campbell had
left on the 2nd for Allahabad, whet'e ho intended
ta, establish his head-quarters. The Pays also
says that letters from the Asiatic frontier announce
that General Jacob, with his cavalry, had evactvlted
Afghanistan, and had arrived at Moult&n, in the
Puojaub, August W. ll.s presence in the centre of
ike Sikh country was likely to impart confidence.
The mail steamer Magdalena, arrived at :South-
ampton on Saturdsv, with later news from Clio
\Vest Indies and the west coast of South America.
rate bright upwards :of 800,0001 ia specie. Rum
had fallen in the whole.of the islands in the West.
Indies: St. Thomas Alvin-es state that the

yellow fever had subsided. Disturbances had taken
place in consequence of the re-opening of the
Catholic chapel. At Trinidad there had been very
heavy rains. The report of the -troops was not
favourable. At Baxh:tdoe-g the .rains had set in
with much ;vigour. The planters anticipate an
.average crop. From Demeoara we learn that gol4
had not yet been found in the British territory;
the expedition ,under government auspices had
not yet been able to rzpart, progress. A
second expedition, to pro-twed by another
route, was on the eve of • .departure. The
import breadstuff and protiSion market at
Demerara was ruling at high prices ; wages were
high and labourers inur.'h wanted. The canes were

yielding very badly, 0_5710g to the late rains, but dry
weather had now bet in. Slgar was firm ; freights
low. _The prop.;sed rail-say in Honduras is popular
throu4hout British Honduras. The export of
mahogany has been red:riled in e:nsequenee of tb.e
bad seasc.n. A great in:4vase in the, akiLauhleturo

of sugar and rum has taken place. Jamaica has
been visited with heavy rains, and business was
suspended in consequence, The brig Mary was
lost. From Chili there is no news of general in
terest. At Peru the question between Castel: a anCi
Tivanco was-still_ unsettled. -Vivaneo is making
etnrts to enable him to take possession of the.
Chincha Islands, and raise funds by the imtizeri-
minate sale of .guano. If ho succeeds he win pro-
long the settlement of the vevolution arid
embarrass Castella About eighty tons
shipping were loading. guano at the Chinchao..
The eLly-)rt of guano for the month of August watt.
nearly 30,000 tons. The Peruvian ,government
hevo appointed cemmissioners to Luvestigate
charriz:s against the :consignee of their :guano in
Loudon, iParis, and New. York. 't he result of this
investigatioft will be, it sis expected, a ris€ in the
price of guano. Cholera .had loolten out in the
Guatemalan army after the latter had expelled the
Ameriatn filibttster?, and it bad extended over a
great pc,l:tion of the country. In conszquened of
this, the exportation of large.quantities of cochineal
had been delayed.. The troop, believing they had
been poisoned, had mutinied, hut the mu:inv had ]
been put down. The cochineal ,crop is above the

average.

The steamer America arrived here yesterday.
She brought V.,.50.0 ia specie. The Monetary
crisis in the United States was subsiding, and
more cheerfulness was felt in commercial circles.
Three more of the survivors of the wreck of the
steamer Central America has been discovered. The
men had been in the water for three days, after which
they were picked up by a Britishv.:-..ssel, put on board
a ship bound for the United States, and had
arrived at New, York. Advices from California
to the sth Sept. are of no importance. A full and
ample summary of tho news wild be found in
another part of tc-day's paper.
Ta-day we are enabled to publish three weeks'
later news from Australia, the screw steamer Royal
Charter, Captain Taylor, having arrived here on
Saturthy morning. This vessel sailed from Liv r
pool on the 16th of May ; arrived at Melbourne on
the 20th of July ; stopped there until the 14•11 of
August, on the afternoon of which day she passed
Port Phillip Heads, and arrived off Queestown on
Thursday evening last, the 15th—four months and
twenty-nine days from her leaving Liverpool,
including a detention of 25 days at Melbourne—
thus rounding the world in about four
months, mean sailing time. Captain Taylor
certainly merits praise frr this extraor-
dinary performance The newt, on the
whole, may be set down as of a negative character.
We do not hear much good, nor, on the other hand,
can we say that there is any bad, if we except the
fact, that the lab3ur market, at Melbourne, was in