Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1857.

rather a quiet one in our Hide market, and the operations have
been very small as compared will the several weeks of July.
The transactions, however, have been at full prices, and include
3,000 Bumo; Ayres at 36c. The present inamivity is very
attur o hwj succeeded 1 e unusually largo buthiess that
was done through the four previous weeks, and holders seem
prepared to await the coining of a more necessitous demand for
their goods, and show no willingness to make concessions for
the purpose of effecting sales. The recent advices from
European markets are of a character to encourage them in the
expectation of better prices, when the fall demand com-
mences."

lIoPs :—There is very HAT° animation, and prices are
nominally unchanged; say 7 to 9 for Eastern, and 9 to 11 cts
for Wevern. The accounts from the various parts of the
hop growing districts are more encouraging, and give good
reason to hope that an average yield will be harvested, This
face, in connection with repsrte of largo crops in Germiny,
keeps down speculation, for although the crop in England may
not be as large as her consumptive demand, it is thought that
her markets will be abundantly supplied from the Continent.
IRON :—Scotch Pig is in good demand, and is selling to a
fair extent, mostly at 30 dols., six months.
NAVAL STORES : The arrivals of spirits of turpentine to-day
were to a fair extent, and sales of 300 brls were made at a
slight concession, tee price being 48 cents, eash, in prime
shipping order ; at the close there was more firmness, and the
nominal price is again 49 cents cash, in shipping order. Crude
turpentine is quiet and nominal at 4 dols per 280 lbs. Com
mon rosin is scarce and wanted ; lots on the spot would readily
command 1 dol 95e per 310 lbs, and 1 dol 90c is freely offered
for cargoes to arrive. Tar is dull ; the retail demand is to a
fair extent at 2 doss 25c for Wilmington, and 1 dol 87ic for
Newberne. •

OILS : Linseed Oil is firmer, with jobbing sales making at
79 to 80 cents. Crude Whale and Sperm Oils are quiet, the
former at 72 to 74 cents, and th, latter at I dol 30c. Manu-
factured is active at 80 to 83 for summer and fall Whale ; 86
to 88 for winter bleached do; 1 dol 350 for summer Sperm ;
I dol 40c for 'fall do : and 1 dol 45c to 1 dol 55c for winter
natural and bleached do,

PROVISIONS : Pork is in good demand at full prices ; sales
are 230 brls at 24 dole 35c to 24 dols 40c for mess, 19 dots
50c for prime. Beef is steady, with sales of 200 brls at 16
dole 50c to 17 dols 60c for repacked Western, and 18 dots
to 19 dots for extra mess. Beef hams are nominal at 23 dols
50c to 23 dots 75c. Bacon is scarce and wanted at 14c for
smoked Western. Cut meats are firm, with sales of 20 casks
at 12c for hams, and llbc for shoulders. Lard is buoyant,
with sales of 200 tierces and brie at 151 c to 15,4e1 and 500
kegs at 161 c. Butter and cheese are unchanged.
FREIGHTS : To Liverpool 10,000 bushels of corn wet. taken
in bulk at 24d ; 100 bales cotton at 3s ; 200 tree beef 91. To
London 1,000 brls rosin at 2s ; 800 brie oilcake, is 6d ; 700
bags do, 153 per ton. To Harriburgh, 800 brls spirits of
turpentine, 3e : 600 brls rosin 2s ; 60 hhds bark 25J. The
Oldenburg barque Falk° was chartered to commence loading in
Philadelphia and finish at New York for Trinidad de Cuba,
thence to load wiih suefar, mah4any, ant honey for Hamburg'
at £8 12s 6d per ten.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF TILE S.S. CIRCASSIAN.

This splendid steamer, belonging to the North
Atlantic Stean Navigation Company, arrived in the
Mersey on Saturday afternoon, after a passage of
seven days twenty-two hours from St. John's, New-
foundland, having sailed from that port on the 14th
inst. The Circassian brings 100 passengers and a
full cargo, principally sugar and molasses.
The intelligence by this arrival is of little
moment.

A meetinc, had been held at St. John's for the
puepose of entering into arrangements to got up a
grand reception to all employed in the laying down
of the Atlantic telegraph cable. The meeting was
very enthusiastic in the matter. The colonial
government had consented to contribute £5OO
towards the expense. The entertainments pro-
posed were to consist of a public dinner, regatte,
ball, and illuminations. The Neufoundlander, of
the 13th inst , says:—
Every thing in the political line is just now dug and
out of season arriongs4 us. All minor subjects are very
properly for the time voted insignificant in comparison
with the great event now in progress which is to unite
the two hemispheres in telegraphic communication.
Public interest and anxiety here, as elsewhere, grows
more and more intense as each day passes and speeds
the monster ships of England and America with their
wondrous freight towards their destination on our
coast ; and every movement of which we hear in the
undertaking gives additional assurance that all dangers
of its miscarriage are provided against as far as human
means and skill can accomplish, and that success may
be confidently hoped for This great work will bring
into our harbour in a week or two the four steamers en-
gaged in it—the Niagara, the' Agamemnon, the Cyclops,
and the Susquehanna, together with H. M. ship Basilisk,
the Arctic, and not improbably some one or two other
steamers from America. It is obviously very important
that these ships should be secured the best possible ground
in part, not only far their own safe accommodation, but that
risk of collision with any of the numerous shipping now
in the harbour may be avoided. The government have
done well to look to this requisite provision ' • and arrange-
mmts are being made between Captain Phayre of the
Basilisk, and the Pilot Commissioners for the purpose to
which we refer. It is further satisfactory to see that the
inhabitants are alive to the importance of a suitable de-
monstration of hospitalities on the arrival of the ships.
When the intelligence of the accident to the
cable reaches St. John's, the inhabitants will no
doubt feel greatly annoyed. By the St. John's
Commercial Journal we learn that reports were in
circulation to the effect that the Home Government
had consented to give an annual grant of £3,000,
in addition to the vote of £7,000 per annum, in
the last session of our Legislature, for the en-
couragement of direct steam communication
between Great Britain, Newfoundland, and, via
Halifax, the United States of America ; and we
further learn that the Attorney-General of this
colony, and the President of the Council, now in
England, were about conclnding arrangements with
Messrs. Wier, Cochrane, and Co., the enterprising
pioneers in the introduction of this beneficial
measure into this colony, and which will secure for
us—if not weekly, at least semi-monthly—steam
communication direct with England.
The St. John's papers publish the address of the
people of Nova Scotia to Judge Haliburton, for his
great exertions in promoting the claims of the
colonists on the Fishery question, and the Judge's
reply thereto, who remarks that the danger is
not quite over, and adds :

I am not in parliament, having declined a seat there,
and therefore have no official influence, but anything I can
do to aid the people of Newfoundland by pen or tongue
I shall be most happy to do. "This," says one of the
St. John's papers, " we fully and firmly believe, and little
doubt cin be entertained that, with the vigilant and ener-
getics aid of Judge Haliburton, and the earnest and
generous assistance of another of our distinguished coun-
trymen, Sir WilliAm F. Williams, the hero of Kars, the
rights and interests of the people of Newfoundland will be
well and faithfully watched over, guarded and protected
by these representatives of Nova Scotians who have made
the British Isle their adopted home."