Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Paris Three Per Cents closed yesterday
(Friday), at 68f. 65c.

BRITISH AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CIRCASSIAN

The screw steamship Circassian, from Portland
(Maine), Halifax (Nova Scotia), and. St. John's
(Newfoundland) arrived yesterday in the Mersey,
after an excellent passage of only eight days and
three hours. She has brought a large number of
passengers, the following being from St. John's :
Mr. Edward Smith, Mrs. Cranford, Miss Stabb, Hon.
Thomas Row and servant, Mrs. Row, Master Row, Mr.
Jordan, Mr. Stafford, Mr. W. Kitchen, Hon. P. Duggan,
Miss Inkes, Rev. W. G. Crouch, C. F. Bennett, Esq.,
Mrs. Bennett, W. H. Ridley, servant and infant, Mr. W.
Thompson, Mr. James Baird, Mr. J. B. Barnes, Mr. E.
Barnes, Mr. D. P. Ramie, the two Misses Stonehouse,
Mrs. Mun.
From Portland :—Mr. W. A. Packard, Mrs. Wetherbee
Miss Medley, Miss Burnett, Mr. J. W. M'Callum, Mrs.
M'Callum, Mr. Jacob Aemosnina, Mr. Abraham Israel,
Mr. L N La Chapelle.
From Halifax :—Mcs. Stewart, Miss Stewart.
By this arrival we have dates from Portland to
the 30th ult., Halifax to the Ist, awl St. John's to
the 4th instant.

From Newfoundland we learn that on the 29th
of May, a great fire raged at River Head. Thirty
miles in circumference of woods were burning at
one time, and a large quantity of cattle was de-
stroyed.
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The St. John's papers of Janell, sny : -
There i' an awful fire still raging from above River head,
nearly as far east as Mosquito valley ; several houses at
Riverhead burned yesnr-day ; thirty miles in circumference
of wood burning at oner time, a great numbe of cattle des-
troye 1. If rain does not fall, many farms at River head
will be ruined. The appearance of the fire at night is
awful. There have been several extensive fires through
the woods in various directions about St. John's during
the last few days, and it is to be feared considerable mis-
chief has been dono by them. We are yet uninformed as
to particulars.

The Newfoundland Evros urges the attention
of the government and legislators to the question
of education, and suggests that the sum of £1,400
should be voted to establish one superior school in
each electoral district or division, and a second in.
each of the more populous districts. The propo-
sition has been received with general favour. e
The following vessels were loading at St. John's :
Elizabeth, for Liverpool; Ida, Ellen, and Dart, for
London ; Ann Johnston, for Greenock.
A Halifax paper of the Ist inst. says :
We are sorry to perceive by the editorial column of the
Advertiser of Thursday, that business is dull at Windsor
this Spring, great quantities of Plaister, the staple of that
part, remaining on hand. The writer speaks favorably
of the progress of Railway works in that direction. When
these are completed, there is little doubt that Windsor will
immediately take a start as great as its best friends can
desire. We repeat the hope that the utmost efforts will
be put forth to make the whole road to Windsor available
at an early period of the present season. Our contempo-
rary reports " eighty sturdy Highlanders," from Cape
Breton, for labour on the railway. A few more such
batches ought to push " the slow length" more rapidly
along than hitherto. Contractors shou dbe kept tightly
to their specified time of completion, or the commissioners
will be held responsible.
The Rev. George M'Clatchey, a minister of
twenty-seven years standing, and of late a resident
Katesville, Canada, has been committed to jail for
having forged a certificate of losses from fire, with
the intent to defraud the Provincial Insurance
Company. The forgery was made perfectly ap-
parent,
General Eyre, Military Commander-in-Chief of
8.N.A., was nearly drowned lately by the lurch of
a boat in which he was, but was saved by the grasp
of Major Robinson, his secretary.
A road from River de Loup in Canada to New
Brunswick is in a state of forwardness
We have received the first two numbers of a
new paper lately started in Charlottetown, P.E.1,,
called the Monitor, and published semi-weekly.
It begins with spirit and ability, and plunges at
once into the restless political sea, for which
" the Island" has been long notorious. In
the columns of this piper we find a state-
ment of the yearly revenue and expenditure.
showing the former to be about £50,000, of that
currency— and the latter several thousands more
than the receipts "If it were not for the diffi-
culty of communication in the winter season,
which would make parliamentary attendance at
that season next to impossible, it would be, says
the Ilalifax Morning Journal, " much for the wel-
fare of the Island to be politically annexed to
Nova Scotia."