Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

—The Adelaide

day';

),ter news than the

Persia. She brings 60 first, 114 second, and 130
third-class passengers. She left New York on the
26th, and St. John's on the evening of the 31st ult.
She brings telegrams from New York to the 30th
nit., making the passage from St. John's in 6 days
13 hours. Her passengers embarked at 5.30 p.m.,
and will leave by this evening's train. On Saturday
the Adelaide spoke the barque Acteon, bound west ;
&l well.

NEW YORK

26th Afay

—Moses Taylor arrived,

bringing nearly two millions in specie

French

abandoned Marqueses ; design establishing a strong
military depot near Caledonia Islands. Cotton steady
and quiet. Flour slightly lower. Wheat and corn
drooping. Provisions unchanged
NEW YORK,

May 27th.—Advices from Mexico
state that the Mamiore cabinet has issued a decree,
restoring Santa Anna all right and titles he formerly
possessed, and inviting him to return, via Tampico,
where General Waul, is marching to meet him.
NEw YORK, May 28th.—Cotton heavy; sales
for two days, 1,300, upland middling, 111. Flour
declined 10c. to 20c. Provisions steady, and stocks

improving,

NEW ORLEANS, Thursday

Cotton nominal ;

easier under Asia's news,

NEW YORK, May 30th

—Cotton nominal ; Bread-

stuffs firm; Flour advanced Is to 2s, under foreign

Provisions

Pork rather lower

dull and heav

Fight between Troops and the Comenches, at
Arkansas River. Forty Indians killed, and thirty-
.
aken. ITarmonia and Hugaria arrived_

sfx prisoners t

Greater part of the

Key West burnt

Loss, quarter

of a million

An extensive fire had occurred in the Sugar
Estates, Barbadoes.

NEW ORLEANS, Friday.—Cotton nominal. Mid
dling, 114-. Sales for the week, 17,000 bales.
H.M.S• Styx, and H.M.S. Tartar, were in St
John's when the Adelaide left.

THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE

EASTERN MONyI_RCH.

Captain Henry Morris, late master of theEa.sternMonarch
thus reports the destruction of that ship by fire, at Spit.
head, on the morning of the 3rd inst. :—" Sailed fron
Bombay May 10; with fine weather, wind blowing strong
breeze from the N. At the time of her departure, every-
thing was in first-rate condition for the voyage. Arriving
at KurraChee, took in troops, and proceeded, without
casualty occurring, until her time of anchoring al

Spithead, where V she was brought up in order tc
obtain a supply of bread, that on board having. turned mil

weevilly. The ship came t,
of June, the tide at the tit

m. of the 3r(

and the wind

the crev

The passenf.,r

he (Ce.ptain Morris) had also gone down to his berth,
when about half-past two o'clo

tremendous explosion, which threw him and all the pas
sengers. sleeping in the poop on the cabin floor. The
whole of the cabin fittings were torn to pieces, and fell in
He, with the passengers, rushed on deck, the cabin
fille

_
—a with smoke, and in a few minutes 'afterwards
flames rushed up the after companion on the poop, and very
shortly the after part of the poop was in flames. Indeed,
within forty minutes from the time of the explosion, the
ship was in a blaze from stem to stern. He believes 0-
flve lives were ,st by suP -tion. Tb- ,de

_.coca mlie remainder of tL
people on board, crew and passengers, about 511 in all,
were saved by the ship's boats (four in number, which were
in good working order), and the boats of her Majesty's ships
Falcon and Flying Fish, lying at Spithead. These rendered
important services, as also sundry pilot boats, but more
especially two barges, the crews of which exerted them-
selves in a most praiseworthy manner. There were 200 tons
of saltpetre stowed from the mainmast right aft. The fore
part of the ship was stowed with linseed. He has no hesi-
tation in attributing the calamity to some spontaneous com-
bustion arising from the saltpetre. "

~./M DUNGANNON TO OMAGII.—Mr. Gordon,
the contractor for the line to Omagh, has
arrived at Dungannon, and the first sod has been turned
The tunnel under the park, it is said, will cost £40,000
THE COLONEL OF THE BIRMINGHAM RIFLE CORPS.-
Hon. Colonel Scott, late of the Scots Fusilier Guards, a
Crimean officer and a cousin of the Earl of Warwick, has
accepted the colonelcy of the Birmingham volunteer rifir
corps.

of Lond(

MR. DAWSON TURNER'S MANUSCRIPT LIBRA RY. --
first day's sale of this important collection took place on
Monday, at the auction gallery of Messrs. Pickup and Simp-
son, in Leicester-square. Though the day's sale was inferior
in interest to any of t:b.

,ne four which Ware to follow, it
ted a large attendance of well-known literary cha-
•id agents of various public libraries The gentle-
sally represents the British Museum was a lame

racters

man who t

purchase

- THE PROSECUTION FOR THE SALE OF ARMY COMMISSIONS
This prosecution, which has been removed by certic»
into the Court of Queen's Bench

e 17t1

or 18th instant. Mr. Edwin James, Q.€
War Office, will conduct the prosecution. The various
defendants will be represented by Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C.,
Mr. Sergeant Shee, and other learned gentlemen. The
case will be tried by a special jury before Lord Campbell at
Westminster.

retained by the

RAILWAY MEET INC
High Sheriff, on Tin

=Thomas Sadleir, Esq.,
over a large meeting
1, ~ . ...

.sday presic

os.ronies of Upp,r Ormond, Lowei
iid, and Owney and Arra, interested in the construction
of a railway from Nenagh to the Roscrea line, heldto consider
the propriety of giving a guarantee for the construction of
such railway. The meeting was attended by the principal
land owners and land holders of the district; and the object
for which the meeting was called was fully realised.--
Limerick Reporter.

EXPLOSION OF GAS AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRA

Saturday afternoon, an explosion of gas
Paul's Cathedral, but it was fortunately unattenutu
serious consequences. A workman was engaged in the crypt
beneath the dome of the cathedral, in some operation con-
necterl - - 1 there for regulating the

place at St

with the large meter place(
supply of gas daring the late special services, when, from
a cause which is unexplained, an explosion took place, by
the force of which the thick metal
fro -

s of which

teter was composed were rent to Dieu
1 hurled to a considerable di
bench, used by the carpenter

employ of the cathedral authorities, was shivered to piect
shield for the index of the meter was brok
food. Happily the whole of the workmen, wi
- —on referred to, were at dinner at t

and alind of

must have been o

The man who was E

time of

xplosion was behind

,s having started. The report of the expl(
alarm at the moment in the building, but

STATUE OF THE LATE MR.

T. ATTWOOD.

The Statue of the late Mr. T. Attwood, founder of the
Birmingham Union, erected in Stephenson's-place, New-
street, was inaugurated yesterday, in the presence of a vast
concourse of spectators. The Mayor, Sir John Radcliffe,
presided, and the attendance included—Mr. T. J. Attwood,
son of the late M.P. ; the Members of the Corporation, and
several of the Members of the Old Political Union. Mr.
Alderman Hodgson, chairman of the committee, formally

presented the statue to the Mayor, to be held in trust for
the inhabitants of the town, expressing a hope, that the
corporation would see that it was preserved from generation
to generation. The statue was then uncovered amidst the
plaudits of the assembly. The meeting was afterwards
addressed by Mr. George Edmonds, an alderman of the
Birmingham Political Union, who referred to the deeds and
virtues of Mr. Attwood in most eulogistic terms, and referring
to the moriument, he stated that the sculptor had 'produced
a powerful likeness of their deceased friend. He might
attempt to describe it as a photograph, mathematically
correct even to the dress which had been placed upon it.
The proceedings terminated with three cheers for the
Borough Members, who were absent on account of the
Opening of Pdrliament. The statue is of white marble, and
was executed by Mr. Thomas, of Lominn

THE COURT.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Court and Privy Council
on Monday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Messrs Hale and
Conder, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had an
audience of the Queen, to receive her commands relative to
the reception of an address from the Corporation of the City
of London. Her Majesty was pleased to appoint Saturday
next, at St. James's Palace, after the Drawing-room, for the
reception of the address. The Sheriffs were presented to the
Queen by the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of
State for the Home Department.
Earl De la Warr, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of
Derby, and the Lord President, had an audience of the
Queen.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, rode on horseback in the morning, attended
by the lion. Emily Cathcart and the Equerries in Waiting.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort was present at a
meeting of a committee of the governors of Wellington
College, at the new Palace of Westminster.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alice,
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarenc
St. James's.

visited her
House,

Her Majesty attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart and
Lord Colville, took a carriage drive.
The Prince Consort rode on horseback, attended by his
Equerry in Waiting.

Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included her
Royal Higeness the Princess Alice, the Earl and Countess
of Elgin, the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Viscount and
Lady Katharine Valletort, Lord George Lennox, Colonel
and Lady Catharine Vernon Harcourt, and Major Elphiu-
stone, R E.

The Band of the Royal Horsi,
dinner, and played selections from the
"Martha, " &c. The Queen's privat
performed in the drawing-room.
We have authority to state, that, to prevent any injury
to trade, Her Majesty has been pleased to command that
Court mourning shall not be worn at the drawing -room on
Saturday next, the 11th June. •

Guards attended during
)f Castille. "

Dana at