Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

TO TR FDITORS

Sir,—l sh.ll feel ob!iged by your insovion of
the following wry interesting lettor,whioh I have
just received from Agra:

The public will, at the „sam".... timer be glad to
learn that --q,lO 000. the exact amount of relief
requested by the A,..T had bsen toted for
:hem by this committee before the date cf their
application ; so that a fow days after their letter
was despatched the funds for which they had api
plied must have been at their dispes.o,--4 em,
( .;igneq) TIIO3TAS Q FINMS, President.-
27, t_ta.mor;-3trt et, (E.C.)

TO THE FR,BTDVNT OF TUE FUND' FOE THE RELIEF` OT 'llHe
SUFFERBRS BY THE murixy IN INDIA, LONDON,

Fort Agra, Nov. 20. 1857.
Sir,—Having been appoi2ted by the cimmiisilner of
the North-Western Pro inces agents for the subscriptions
which have been or may be pl=ead at the disposal of this
government fir the r:-lief of sufferers by the late mutinies.
we beg to make dir ct application to you for a portion of
the fends now being raised by the' liberality of oar
countrymen at home. and to request that if it meets with
your approval, a gum of money may be placed at our'
disposal to enable us to relieve the wants of those whose
circumstances cannot be considered by the 'relief com-
mittees at Celcuta alai Bombay.
It will readily occur to you that, situated as we are
the very centre of the districts whic', h. y e been the scenes
of so much violmce and suffering, the call,. for assistance
are numerous and pressing. By the liberality of the relief
committees at Kurrachee and B)mbay, who have sent us
£3O) and £2125 respectively, we have been enabled to
afford some help to the most necessitous, but thlse sums
will only enable us to relieve a very small portion of the
distress around us.

In Agra it may he truly said that the entire Christian
population is not only houssless, but that the majority of
it has not the most essential article of furniture or cloth-
ing. At present we are living in the cellars and viults in
the fort brit, as soon as tranquillity is restored, it will be
necessary for all except the garrison to move out of it.
and we fear that, unless we can succeed in raising fund*
sufficient to help those who have lit la or no means of their
own, a large number of people will be unable to get over
before the hot weather commeaces. The circumstances of-
the survivors at the other stations in these provinces are
As bad, and in many instances mare deplorable than of the
residents here. .

In addition to those who are suffering from the loss of
their property, there is a number of widows and children.
many rf them entirely destitute, fur w.lom provision wilt
have to be made.

We propose applying to the Calcutta Rellef Committee
for £2,000, and the Bombay committee for £6OO, in;
addition to the remittances they have already sent. and we
now ask you to assist Us to the extent of £lO,OOO, and
we hope that with these sums we ma► he able to afford
material assistance to those in need of it.

We take this opportunity of exo.7essing our entire
concurrence in the rubs laid d )wn by •the India Distress
Committee at the meeting of 2G,h Sep'eral3er and our full.
intention of acting up to their spirit as far as it is possible.
With the concurrence cf the fluanc;al commissioner of
the North Western Province,., we beg in cmclution, that
any slams you may be pleased to rend us may be
forwarded to the Bink of Bengtil in Calcutta, to be placed
to the credit of the government of Agra, and the
necessary steps to get the money up here will ba taken
by the government;—We have the honour t) be, &e.,
(Signed). W. IL Low, Civil service; Joint Magi•trate
of Agra ; E. H. LiNGDOr{ Curator to G3vernment, North-
West Provinces; R. MISID,t, Captin, Major of Brigade,
Gwalior Contirgent ; ARNOLD W. MaTruEws, Agent
Agra Bank Corporation.

THE AUSTRIAN SCVNTIFIC VOYAGE ROUND VIE WORLD.
—According to the last accounts from the Cape of Good
Hope the /Vest ian frigate N whin is performing
a vny-,ge round the wort;, left Table Bay en the lath
November; for Singapore. Durieg the stay of th Novara
at the Cape, the members of the scient'fic m'ssion on board
made several excursions in the neighbeurhoo 1, and collected
a number of im;.o taut specimens connected with the
natural, miueralogiesl. and botanic .1 history of the
Country.
True Sonen Weans COLLI'ZRY S_TaTICIC —The strike or
the colliers in the Aberdare district
.of the South Wales
colliery c ,unary, is now more general than ever. Tee
partial return to work, on the part of some of the colliers,
has been followed by the exercise of the moat violent
threats by the disaffected part of the men, and a relapse, se
that at the present moment there is very little being done
in the district. Some colliers have been introduced at
Mess-e. Poweli's and other pi's. but they have been
ietimidated and threatened by the resident men Small
bodies of men, calling themselves "committees," sit daily
itt the retired districts, ana take open themselves the
direction of the strike, and suit is the state of ignorance
and fear of the power of these men, that they have the
general body of colliers in the whole country completely
under their control.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A DRUNKARD—At the West—
mins:er p doe court, Landon, on Teesdav, William
Richards ,n, a shoemaker, was chare-d with bei ig drunk,
and conducting himself in the following reprehensible
manner :—Frederick Weaver, porter at tt. Bernabas
Chu-ch, Pimlico, said that last evening the prisoner came
to the entrance of the sacred edifice. and made a most
disgraceful disturbance. At ab tut eight o'clock witness
had occasion to leave the doer of_ the church for two or
three minutes, and on his return found the defendant
there intox'cated, declaring be would have satisfactinn,
and imputing to witness that he had robbed hint He
used the most violent lanenage, and threatened to give
witness two inches of cold steel, and witness, becoming
alarmed, sent for a policeman. Farther evidence proved
that a mob of above a hundred and fifty had collected-
round the church door, and that the defendant had not
only abused men as they entered the church, but had used:
groesly disgusting language towards ladies when leaving.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said be was
therooghly ashamed of h'inselF. The magistrate, after
lecturing him on the disgusting character of his condect,
sentenced him to pay a fine of 20 ~ or go to prison for
fourteen days; he was further required to enter into re—
tognisinces for his future good behaviour.
Orontes AT Naw YORK.—There is no place in the
world where there are such fine °esters as in this city—fine
in flavour, and of a size unparalleled in the sister-heds of
Whitstable, Ostend, or the Reacher de Caucale. Nor has
the gift of oysters been bestowed upon' an ungrateful
people. If one may judge from appearances, the delicacy
is highly relished and esteemed by all classes, from the
railli msire in the Fifth Avenue to the boy in the Bowery
and the Getman and Irish emierants in their own peculiar
quarters of the city, which (sole' die en passant) seem to-
nennopolise all the filth to be found in Mtubattan. In,
walking up Broadway by day or by night—but mere-
especially by night—the stranger cannot hut be struck by
the great number of " Oyster Saloons," " Oyster and
Coffee Saloons," and "Oyster and Lager Beer Saloons ''''
that solicit him at every turn to stop and taste. Tsese
saloons—many of them very handsomely fitted up—are,
like the drinking saloons in Germany, situated in vaults or
cellars, with steps from the street ; but, unlike their
German models, they often form them in underground
stories of stately commercial palaces of granite, brown
store, iron, and white marble. In these palaces, es ih the
hotels, oysters are to be had at all hours, either from the
shell, as they are commonly eaten in England, or conked
in twenty—or, for all I knew to the contrary, in forty or
a hundred—cifferent ways. Oysters picked, stewed,
baked, roasted, fried, and scolloped; oysters made into
soups, patties, and puddings ; oysters with condiments.
and without condiments ; oysters for breakfast, dinner,
and supper; oysters without stint or limit—fresh as the
fresh air, and almost as abundant—are daily offered to the.
palates of the Manhattanese, and appreciated with all the
grcitatie which such a bounty of nature ought to inspire.
The shore of Long IslanO, fronting the Long Island
Sound, for 115 miles, is one long succession of oyster
beds. Snnbwards, along the coast of New Jersey. and
torthwards and eastwards to Rhode Island and Massa—
chusetts, the same delicacies abound, and foster a large
end very lucrative commerce. Ili City Island, adjoining
Long Island Sound, the whole population, consisting of
400 persons, is employed in the cultivation of oysters.
The City Islanders era represented as a very honest,
peculiar, ant primitive community, who intermarry
entirely amongst themselves, and drive a very floariabing
business. The oyster which they rear is a particular
favourite. Other esteemed varieties come from Shrewsbury,
Cow Bay, Oyster Bay, Rock Bay, Soille Rack, Virginia
Bay, and Spuyten Duyvel. This last-mentioned place is
in the East River, near the Long Island Sound, sal derives
its name from the original Dutch settlers .of New
Amsterdam, in the days ef Knickerbocker. It is related
of an English earl, not long ago a visitor to the States,
that his great delight was to wander up and down
Broadway at night, and visit all the principal oyster
saloons in succession, regaling himself upon fried oysters
at one place, upon stewed oysters at ano'her, upon,
roosted oysters at a third. and winding up the evening
with a dish of oysters al' Anglaise. As nearly all the
theatres are in Broadway, the Broadway 'oyster saloons
command at night a traffic even larger than by day.
" Fruges consumers nal", may designate elsewhere, bat
here the quotation is out of place, and man is born to
consume " oysters."—Letter frOM Ur, Mackay in the
Illustrated Lando. News,

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