Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

At LIVERPOOL,-IV.N.W., light breeze.
„ HoLYnEAD,—W.N.W., light breeze

ARRIVALS
Kieff (Russian s.s.), Arve Milan (s.s
Ilavre Iris, Seed
Llanelli , Unity, Robsor

Bruce..... Leghorn
. . Newry

Kate, liarke

Emanuel
Redcoat

SAILINGS

Levanter .
Celia .... , ...
Evangeline
Sumatra .

Livingsta
Amethyst

....Bordeaux Isyglen .
...St. Michael's Ecliptic
Nem-foundland Palestine (ss)
• • • Mobile Madras ... .
• Gibraltar Naupbanto
• ......Calcutta Sappho
..... Calcutta Eliza .
„Bonny Bella Marina

Blue Jacket
Monte la Hien I Crescent City

Leghorii Emerald
.Bolivar Itermione

ja-cli-Londesborough

Workington

Bomakv, Nov. 9,

Constantinople
Guatemala

Constantinople

New Orleans
Valparaiso

Pernambuco
.. ....Bahia
.......Bahia

kILITIME EXTRACTS,

Constantinople
.. Malaga
, Buenos Ayres
.... Bombay

LIVERPOOL, Jany. 4.
_xionas washed out most of ground tier of

sugar.
WELLINGTON, Oct. 6.—Oliver Lang been ashore; very leaky-
NEWCASTLE, N.S.W., Nov. 9.—Timandia sunk.
Euclid. from Belize to Cork, totally lost.
Several accidents reported at Odessa, and rumours of damage
in Black Sea.
DOILDT, Lo( c. 27.—Arrived : The Frar
Iquique ; had been struck by a sea, December

Barclay, Cox,

kruca.
LEMVIG, Dec. 29.—The Jonge Rencke, Pedersen, for London
(oats), took the ground at Agger Canal, got off, but is not able to
proceed on her voyage, b ing leaky, and her rigging damaged.
The Brian Bone, from Runcorn for Dublin, in proceedingnt
the river on Monday, ran four of the Don Juan, for Pernambuco,
at anchor, and carried away bulwarks, stanchions, cathead,

of the latter.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 21.—The Gipsy, British brig, Griffin, which
arrived here Dec. 19 from Long Island (Bahamas), had been on
shore in Chesapeake Bay, and had to discharge part of her
cargo of salt.
BOSTON; 17.—The schooner William A. Hammel, Dor-
at
-r of Collector Mason, for an alleged infraction of the
revenue laws. Sometime ago the vessel was stranded, con-
siderably damaged, and sold to foreign parties, which annulled
her nationality. She was afterwards purchased by Messrs. F..
T. Montell and Co., of Baltimore, but, it is alleged, was never
registered by her owners. She was despatched to Nassau,
where she loaded with oranges, sponge, &c., and arrived at
Baltimore on Monday morning. The irregularity of the pro-
ceedings coming to the ears of the Collector, he ordered her
seizure. The penalty is confiscation of vessel and cargo.
MELsaurvrz, Nov. 15.—The Minerva, Griggs' from Galatz for
Queenstown, was capsized in a squall on the 24th July, off the
latter port ; one man picked up by the Middlesex, arrived here
from Liverpsol.

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SANDWOOD, Dec. 30.—A vessel has been driven on the rocks
east of Cape North, from which some barrels of Archangel tar
have drifted ashore ; nothing heard of the crew.

SCILLY, Jan. I.—Three bales of cotton, one of which is marked
P.C.," and some loose pieces of wood, have been washed ashore

HAYLE, Jan. I.—A board, 10 feet long, with " Flora" on it,
so two bales of cotton, probably from the Oakland, as one is
lady burnt, have been picked up near this.
Dec. 29. —The Leo, Etzler, from Memel

FREDRIK9II.IV:7

or Smyrna, with timber, on shore 12 miles' North of this
port, and the Arlon, ➢iyblheimer, from Newcastle for Randers,
on shore to the northward of this place, it is feared will become
wrecks ; but the Ceres, Bossinga, from St. Petersburg for
Amsterdam, also on shore to the northwarJ,• is expected to be
got off ; the cargo of the Leo is expected to be saved. The
schooner Julia, Westerberg, from Arco for Gothenburg (salt), is
stranded on the Scaw.

OUTPORTS. •
BowMoRE (Island of Islay), Dec. 30.—Sailed out of Lochindall :
The Nations, from Liverpool for Letterkenny ; Malakoff, from
Limerick; Cherub, from Sligo ; both for Liverpool. Windbound
The Defiance, from Glasgow for Westport ; Athol, from Liver-
pool for Ramelton ; Wanderer, from Liverpool for Ballina ; Miss
Peck, from Bangor; Edward Beck, from Caernarvon; both for
Newcastle; Falcon, from Liverpool for Donegal; Bacalieu, from
Whitehaven for Sligo ; Lucy' End, from Liverpool for London-
derry; Christian, from Glasgow for Sligo. Sailed : The Lavinia,
from Alicata for Liverpool, last from Castle Bay. The barque
Flora Muir, which was driven on shore, from St. John's, is dis-
charging. This has been the only fine day for the last 14 days.,

FOREIGN PORTS.
James Hull, hence at Vera Cruz, and sailed for Goatzacoalcos.
Julie, Beer, hence at Vera Cruz, and sailed for Laguna.
Thessalia (s.s.), Flynn, hence at Constantinople, and cleared

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for Smyrna.
Malakoff, hence at Bombay.
Golconda, and Free Trader, both hence at Sydney.
Champion of the Seas, hence at Melbourne.
A. B. Thompson, from London at Melbourne.
Middlesex, Mornington, White Star,, Morning Star, and
Golconda; all hence at Melbottrtid.
laeff (s.s.), Arvoe, from Havre at Liverpool, to load for
Trieste.

Gannet (s.s.), hence at Brielle.
Calliope, hence at Queenstown, for Boston, leaky.
The Express, (American ship), is leaky at Bombay.
Papillo, Traveso, hence at St. Jago do Cuba.
Susan West, Todd, hence at La Guayra, and left for Puerto
Cabello.
Sea, Leard, hence at La Guayra.
Elizabeth, Douthwaite, sailed from Genoa for Cardiff' Dec. 24.
General Codrington (s.s.), from London at Naples Dec. 20.
Concordia, from Cardiff at Naples Dec. 21.
Abel, Lamb, sailed from Naples for Girgenti Dec. 15.
Hannah Hicks, Hicks, sailed from Naples for Falmouth Dec

O.
Francis and Ann, Dela Penn, sailed from Naples for Gallipoli
Dec. 21.
Zibiah, De Gruchy, sailed from Naples for Gallipoli Dec. 21. -
Zephyr, Thompson, sailed from Naples for Sicily Dec. 24.
Volunteer, Le Marquand, from Gaspe at Chita Vecchia Dec.

Sappho, James, sailed from Civita Vecchia for Palermo Dec. 24.
Oello, Weiss, hence at Memel Dec. 19.
Caroline, Menlo, from Girgenti at Gibraltar Dec. 18, and
cleared for Liverpool.
Alice Hawthorn, Dublin, from Smyrna at Gibraltar Dec. 20,
and cleared for Liverpool.
Ferreri, Giacomino, cleared at Gibraltar for Liverpool Dec. 18.
Tancredi, Cacase, cleared at Gibraltar for Liverpool Dec. 18.
Minstrel, Vander, sailed from Curacao for Liverpool Nov. 17.
Hammelwarden, Luhrs, hence and Santa Martha at Savanilla
Nov. 22.

TO THE RATEPAYERS OF‘TOXTETH
PARK.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMFS.

Sir,---Your correspondent, " Wet Feet," in your
valuable paper of this day, has certainly not com-
plained, without just cause, of the wretched state
of the Park Hill-road ; and I am sure I am.
equally entitled, if not more so, to expose the
miserable condition in which Mersey View-street
is in, for I defy any one —unless with waterproof
boots on—to walk from the top of Grafton-street
straight to my house without getting wet feet,
with, perhaps, a ducking besides, in some of the
numerous puddles, if, unfortunately, he travels
that way of a dark night, for he is almost sure to
stumble over some of the large stones which
appear to have been thrown promiscuously on the
road for the purpose of calling it paved ; but, in
fact, I may observe that the greater part of the
street cannot even boast of pavement in any
shape.

Now, I ask my brother ratepayers—for a simi-
lar description of pavement applies equally, more
or less, to every street in the Ward—whether they
intend to submit quietly to the present rate of
fourteen-pence in the pound, receiving nothing as
compensation for their money, excepting a wetting
or a dislocated ankle ? I heartily wish that some
of the authorities would take a walk, on a dark
wet evening, both in " -Wet Feet's" and my locali-
ties, and then judge for themselves whether cimer
of us have exaggerated the present scandalous
conditions of the said highways; if they say we
have, I shall be one to proclaim them most worthy
advocates of the Shoe-black Brigade.
Craving your kind notice of this heavy grievance,
and as a humble seconder of "Vet Feet s" Views,
to cause the authorities to reform our ways, .
remain your obliged, PARK TERRACES
Toxteth-park, Jan. 4, 1859.

THE MERSEY DOCK AND HARBouR,
BOARD,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—The result of the. election for the new
Mersey Board is deserving of more notice than as
a mere record of the names of gentlemen who are
chosen, and of those who are in the minority.
Never before has a dock context excited so much
interest as is shown by the fact, that between 600
and 700 votes was recorded: In good old times,
the " Dock Committee " was all but a snug family
party, and scarcely
—f.p, voters could be stirred to
the exertion of leaving the busy 'Change, to
exercise the privilege of voting.
Another point, entitled to more than a passing
notice, is
the success of the movements of the
ratepayers, in opposition to the list put put by
what are called the Commercial Associations ; this
will be understood by the fact, that out of the six
names put out by the rate-payers (not one of which
was any one of the association lists) four were
elected, and the lowest elected on the ratepayers'
list headed the list of the defeated candidates on
the association list, by 100 votes.

Mr. G. H. Horsfali, who expressed his surprise
that there should be any opposition to his nominee
list, will learn from this that the time has not yet
arrived when the Dock-ratepayers will hand
I over their privilege of free choice, to any associa-
tion. It is not fitting, indeed, that they should
. ewi-
-1
iso use the privilege, and it is to be hope
end that the
Isueeess thus resulting from an independt lino of
action will prompt the ratepayers, when they
again feel called to interfere, eto •
hao rely upon
d, to ca the
strength of the cause they har in
defiance n
f any.
in its
urry
the men of their choice, in
)3ination which may consist of . a few great names
'butam,
powh.ich lackssx.
the popular sympathies
F. A. B.