Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

The telegram received in anticipation of file'
mail mentions that the ship Herald of the Moro'
ing, sailed from Liverpool August 2nd, has been'
burnt at Melbourne. The Suffolk, from Ply-
mouth, had passed Cape Otway, near Melbour!le:
The Water Nymph, for London, had sailed with'
gold on freight valued at £136,000., •

LATEST FROM AMERICA

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 29.
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelplk
Company's steamer Edinburgh touched here to
2 30 p.m., with dates from New York to the 17t11?
Experienced bad weather, was at anchor in Sandy
Hook Bay from 4 10 p.m. on the 17th, to 130
a.m. on the 18th, it blowing a gale with rain'
She brings 150 cabin and steerage passengers C2P_A
of whom landed) and 227,200 dollars. Pas
the steam-ships Borossia and Vanderbilt on vie.
18th; on the 19th passed a screw-steamer, barque
rigged, and on 26th a steamer, both bound west'
Mr. Hamilton, chief engineer, reports his fie:
partment in perfect order, and ready to. sail Ua
Wednesday next.
WASHINGTON,- Dec. 16.—The New Orleans
Crescent, of yesterday, says sixty-seven ships arcei
loading there for Liverpool, six for Havre, an
sixteen for other foreign ports. Sixty-four of the
principal buyers and brokers at New Orlearli:
have acquiesced in the resolution published in
New Orleans Crescent of Nov. 10, and it Will g"
into effect.on Monday next. The evening befn''.,,
their execution, Cook and Coppic, two of the part
ticipators in Brown's foray, made a bold anew?
to escape. They succeeded, with the assist'
nice of an old knife and a bed-screl.
in sawing off their manacles, and rd
digging through the wall of the prison 61/
making their way into the prison yard ; but vrbe0
the heads of the prisoners appeared above the or,
of the wall the sentinel observed them and gave.
the alarm by discharging his musket. They vm-
speedily captured.
The following is the latest balloting Cc.
Speaker:—Herman (Republican), 111 ; Boecee
(Democrat), 83 ; Bottoler, 25 ; Scattering, 9.

The following appeared in a part of °
inaprOsion of yesterday :

FRANCE.
[REITTER'S TBLEGRINIS.]
Wit
PARIS, Dec. 28.—The Russian ambassador, et),,,
Kisselef, has declared to Count Walewski that
pamphlet, Le Tape et le Congtes, contains, witb°iipl
considering . the relipious question, with which Itne
does not intend to interfere, principles in oppositiorl_„,
the respect of authority on which the Russian Govelli
mant is founded, and that, consequently, Russia It
oppose the programme drawn up in this pamphlet. ot
is asserted that Austria, Naples, and Spain
send plenipotentiaries to- the Congress should the Pepe
not be represented. The Constitictionne/ publishes le",be
of a Catholic journalist, refuting the views of
Bishop of Orleans on the pamphlet, Le Tape e
Congree.

Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., continues in a very precari°ll6
state. It
A testimonial, consisting of a magnificent silver-Peo,
shield, forty inches in diameter, and of elaborate de l
was yesterday presented to Sir J. Pakington at a Pti
dinner given him by the county of Worcester. the
The Post publishes a circular just promulgated by for
Admiralty, who have established new regulatian3_ of
the entry of naval cadets, and, for the examinatiooo
mates, midshipmen, naval cadets, &c., which will c
into operation in April next, instead of those no",
force. 100
The official report of the Board of Trade on the 4,4,
of the mail steamer Paramata has been publish for
Captain Benton's certificate has been suspend mire
twelve months and the report remarks that the "tioe
to make rapid voyages is supplanting the proper °I.-their
of shipmasters, who may be led to suppose that t
the
first duty is to regard, not the safety of the ship, bu
quickness of the passage.