Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.m

NORTHERS; TIMES OFFICE, THURSDAY, 6 A.M.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.

The screw steamer City of Baltimore, which ,trailed
frost New York on the- 12th instant, arrived here
this morning, with four days' later news, 145
passengers, and $184,202 in specie.
• The screw steamer North Briton arrived at Port-
land on the 11th instant.
The Arabia arrived at Boston the same day.
The news is not of much importance. Despatches
had been received at the State Department, by the
Arabia, from London and Paris, and also from Minis-
ter Dodge, at Madrid. Mr. Preston, our new
Minister to Spain had not yet reached Madrid, but
was shortly expected. The excitement occasioned
by the President's Message regarding Cuba, had
nearly subsided, and Mr. Preston would experience
no difficulty in being received. The unsettled con-
dition of affairs throughout Europe had partially
supplanted the Cuba question. From Messrs. Dallas
and Mason assurances were received that.the senti-
ments of Great Britain and France towards the
United States were amicable and satisfactory.
Hon. George W. Jones has signified his intention
of his declension of the mission to Bogota.
The extraordinary. session of the United States
closed on the 10th inst., after the confirmation of
several unimportant bills.
The funeral of the late Postmaster-General of the
United States took place on the 10th inst. It was
attended by all the public officers, the diplomatic
corps, and others, and the streets through which the
procession passed were thronged with 'mourning
spectators.
The trial of Mr. Sickles would not take place for a
fortnight, the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court
declining to give his case precedence of others.
A Savannah paper says that a portion of the
Africans imported in the Wanderer, and carried to
Jackson, Telfair county, were arrested near Albany,
and carried back eighty miles. They will probably
be claimed by owners.
We have important news from Mexico. It is
stated that a portion of Miramon's forces had beeh
defeated in an attack upon Jalapo, and returned to
Perote ; and subsequently Miramon reached Alvar-
ado, intending to march upon Vera Cruz by.,way of
the sea coast. The latest, moreover, asserts
that Miramon, at the head of 5,000 men and 40
field pieces had actually reached Vera Cruz. The
Tampico papers manifested considerable alarm as to
the result of Miramon's expedition, but they con-
sidered Vera Cruz in a most perfect state of defence.
More than 4,000 men, says the Prisma, can be con-
centrated there at a moment's notice, in case of an
attack, without including the commands of Lalave
and Trejo, or the army of Oajaca, numbering 1,000,
now before Orizaba, all counted, the liberals have for
the defence of the city about 6,000 available troops.
on the other hand, the Prisma thinks that not more
twin 1,000 men can be spared from the cities now
nem at the point of the bayonet by the reactionary,
party, and that Miram'rn will have to depend almost
entirely upon the army with which he set out from
the capital. In the meantime the war is,to be
prosecuted with vigour all through the interior.
We have files from Turks Islands, dated on the
19th ult. The Royal Gazette says :—" Our market
continues dull, and there is no prospect of improve-
ment at present. Advices from New York quote
salt at like., four months. The price with us is
nominal, say 7c. to Bc. Mr. Winter, United States
Consul, had arrived in the ship Marathon from
Philadelphia, bringing forty mechanics and labour-
ers for the purpose of commencing the settlement
at West Caicos, with the view of cultivating the one
hundred acres of sauna leased by Mr. Winter from
the government."