Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-25 00:00:00

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TUSCANY.
A pamphlet published at Florence, despite thte
vigilance of the Tuscan police, .has created a' grit
sensation. It is entitled Tuscany and Austria.
is a manifesto favourable to the policy of Sarditas•
It declares that the Tuscans place confidence 1:
Victor Emmanuel' and in the Emperor NaP°ll
who, after having restored to France her author]. Yt
in the , councils of , Europe, wishes to exert tha
authority in the defence of civilisation and justice.

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AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIIVIOII

The screw steamer City of Baltimore, which sal e
from New York on the 12th instant, arrived he,1.5
this morning, with
_four days' later news, 1'

P a and,51E4,202 in specie.
- The screw steather North Briton arrived at 13°1't'
land on the llth'inAant. ,

The Arabia arrived at Boston the same day-
The news is not of much importance. Desl3l"cole
had been received at the State Department, q.,,is,
Arabia, from London. and Paris and also from
'
ter Dodge, at Madrid. _Mr. Preston, the new übot
Minister to Spain had not yet reached Madrid, ea
was shortly expected. The excitement occasi°,llafj
by the , President's Message regarding Cuba, Pee
nearly subsided, and Mr. Preston would experiellon•
no difficulty in being received. The unsettled
dition of affairs throughout Europe had Parilto
supplanted the Cuba question. From Alessrs. ,t
and Mason -assUrances. were received that the se
the
ments of Great Britain and France towards

United States were amicable and satisfactory
Hon. George W. Jones had signified his deelon''
of the mission to Bogota. gtates
The extraordinary session of the United - of
closed on the 10th inst., after the confirmation

several unimportant bills.
The funeral of the late Postmaster-General 0
United States took place on the 10th inst. It
atic
attended by all the public officers, the cliPl°utile
corps, and others, and the Streets through which $
procession passed were thronged with 1110`11.11111
spectators.
The trial of Mr. Sickles would not take place,f°lll4rs
fortnight, the Grand Jury of the Criminal
declining to give his case precedence of others. , the
A Savannah paper. says that a portion 01
e to
Africans imported in • the Wanderer, and carrilo.
Jackson, Telfair county, were arrested near Al"' bly
and carried back eighty miles. They will pro
be claimed by owners.
We have important news from Mexico. -ueeli
stated that a portion of Miramon's forces bad to
-,turne

defeated in an attack upon Jalapo, and re— , war
Perote ; and subsequently Miramon reached `of
ado,intending to march upon Vera Cruz by Nce4,o
the sea coast. The latest, moreover, ae,4o
that Miramon, at the head of 5,000 men all'oe
field pieces had actually reached Vera Cruz. „, to
Tampico papers manifested considerable alarm 7„oly
the. result of Miramon's expedition, but tlleis.",c,e,
sidered Vera Cruz in a most perfect state of deice" ir
More than 4,000 men, says the Prisma, can be f-6,0
ccntrated there at a moment's notice, in ousei„Ve
attack; without including the commandsl of 1-I[ooo,
and Trejo, or the army of Oajaca, numbering' -11 for
now before Orizaba, all counted, the liberals lin': Jo.
the defence of the city about 6,000 available tl.;oore
On the other hand, the Prisma thinks that rie" -0101
man 1,000 men can be spared from the citie
held at the point of the bayonet by the reactiouot
party,. and that Miranrm will have to depend ti from
entirely upon the army with which he set Ou'i, bo
the capital. -In the meantime the war '-
prosecuted with vigour all through the interiet. the
We have fileS from Turks Islands, dated 011,0
19th ult. . The Royal Gazette says Our 10,e•e•
continues dull, and there is no prospect of lueote
ment at present. Advices from New Yolic ct.
salt at 17-1-,c., four months. • The price witillcLite6
nominal, say 7c. to Bc. Mr. Winter, Unitou from
Con.sul, had arrived in the ship Marathon
Philadelphia, bringing forty mechanics mid i:l4o'
ers for the purpose, of commencing the sett'i,-, oue
at West Caicos, with the view of cultivating t'-frou
hundred acres of salina leased by Mr. Winter
the government."

COMMERCIAL. ,
NEW YORK, March 12: The cotton market ww-00,g
yesterday, and the sales reached about 4,500 bales', 1ic4014,
the total transactions since the departure of the ,ge ft);
nearly 20,000 bales, closing stiff on the basis of J.- et 10'
middling uplands. Flour was more active, and Pri,c;
common and medium grades of State and We'te,i
better. Southern flour was in good demand, il•'4l P/
freely made at full prices. Wheat was firmer, iwTt„i
sales, and closed at a decided advance for &00u* P:11
Western red and white. Southern and Kentuaty w;
held with oTeater firmness. Corn was also firne"
• e d
moderate sales. Pork was better, and more 3eti4v. le, ant
sales embraced new mess at $lB, old ditto at $l7 2d 1,4,614
prime at $l3 25c. Beef was firm and in good denlatiro On,
heavy. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 7uh
Coffee was firmly held ; holders demanded pricesav:lalec_e.;
views of buyers, which checked sales. There f;ne
ment in naval stores yesterday. Spirits of turpen::,
quite active, with free sales on'the spot and to arill-that
f°
de
advance. The market closed with sales at 52-4-9 rd
shipping order, while 53c was asked. Rosin
turpentine were also in good demand, with toleraud'otry
-sales. Freight., engagements were moderate, °lt; W
0131
without change of moment. Among the ship
,16d,
650 bales of compressed cotton for Liverpool at 3-' ae' A
1,200 brls rosin at is 6d. 5 A ',di
t
NEW ORLEANS, March 10.—The Arabia's adve-iffe r '-
firmness to the cotton market, which closed at s bslei
not quotably higher prices ; sales to-day 27/13,tic$11eae
middling, 111 c. Freights : Cotton to Liverpool -
to'
1-16 d., and quoted at id. sales
MOBILE, March B.—Cotton moderately active three 0
M/5!
day, 4,500 bales middling at lltc • sales of last ball;
'
13,500 bales ; receipts of last three days 725 v Vile°
March 9.—Cotton unchanged ; sales 5,000 balest.,, 9,0.
-10.—The Arabia's news caused an advance;
loy
bales, at 117,-c to 1 for middlino•
CH
balesAarE s.T o Ns,a
elsa rocfht
hleo. weekTh, e sales
0o fbcaoitetso, natio°
sni
11,111101;i
1,800
to lc better rates than those of last week. Gooa
12c to 128. 300 balegbp
SAVANNAH, March 10.—Cotton quiet, sales
wee
sales of the week, 4,750 bales ; receipts of the we 3/0,0
bales. Total receipts at this port for the soasell'
bales. Stock in port, 59,000 bales.

. -
rigf
THE CABINET AND
REFORM BILL. ines(l39,
There was a meeting of the Cabinet Council on Welyerber'
The Star surmises that the speech of Mr. Syclael -t have.
passedts
to understand
veryund
e underitua cnhdr
ettvhailaekltve.
ad.
ml
la
measure
suuHtr
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Herbert
suche. politicalclearlyas m
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,ei, censiiehrCab
ciro isvris 1 er,
'Walpole would have agreed to should his
his I, Sueb
and be supported by all the influence at his coninlaien' 01
a speech has a tendency to raise a supposition that e+teniPte
i. be 3. - ~iefi'
and before the debate closes, something nia; .1 act a —,,ni
to defeat the purposes of Lord John Russell, ea ',..ald prev.;j.
sure passed during the present session that wutare peri of
now.
.of a democratic kind being discussed at afu defe3t ..‘
bat the
so 11,
Yet nothing seems certain for the moment
the Government in the event of the issue being tile
t tlic

has issued an add
tiolsnfrto.
tica'r.hdteearyhßolileo.pino.f Lont7—'lP----on was elected a Goveernitoripvo; on
:hese rtoomi .of the latet.Earstalti:
tip%
Tic
vet'
soltl°11;
Tvootielemaagoaihne,:sLusfo
jrcooShnonsuttillitt Cheshire (conseinteil,'
op' se the second reading re _„t ref°
also to of the goernrne.
bill.
Russell's