Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

THE TEA TRADE

The Herald says that the overland advices have not
had much effect on the .tea market, which, although
firm, was inactive. The trade appears less eager to
buy in the face of the continued activity in shipments
At Chinese ports. •

The death of General Evelegh is announced. He
bore the oldest commission extant in the RoYal Artillery.
The Times and Daily News have each a leader on the
capture of Schamyl, which they. regard as calculated
to extend the influence of Russia in- Persia and the
East.
The Secretary of the Admiralty has sent to the
morning papers a copy of the report, dated July 26th,
received yesterday from Admiral Hope, showing, the
state of the officers and men wounded at .the mouth of
the Peiho.

nally belonged to Piers Grufydd, the owner of the
Penrhyn estate in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
A SOLDIER ON THE 'PEIHO MASSACRE.—A York-
shire soldier, engaged in the late affair on the Peiho,
writes home to his friends at Wortley, as follows :
" Peiho River, July 3, 1859.—Dear Brothers and
Sisters,--I write these few lixes, hoping they will find
you well, as they leave me at present, thank God for
that. You will they
heard of our late engagement ;
if not, you will presently. Our attack on these forts
was awful. I don't think they could picture it
so bad as it was. I cannot tell you much about it,
for I have not got paper—l have had to borrow this
COUNTY COURT, YESTERDAY.—The court, during the scrap. Our battallion was about 430 strong on the
day, was occupied with the investigation of insolvency morning of the 25th June, and on the 26th we had
cases, none of which possessed the slightest feature of about 175 killed and wounded. I think, out of about
public interest. 1,300 who were engaged in gunboats and landed, 500
were killed and wounded : it .was the frightfulest affair
ERITT.SH COAL EXPORTS FOR AUGUST .—Messrs. ever witnessed. There are nine men here who went
W. and H. Laird,' of Liverpool, in the circular issued
on Tuesday, state that the total exports of British coal through the Crimean war—were at Inkermann, and also
from January to August inclusive, were-4,499/956 at the storming of the Redan—but for horrors neither
the one nor the other can be compared with it. But.,
tons, against 4,229,324 tons in the same period of 1858.
The total exports for August were—from the Scotch thank God, I have escaped clear this time. I hope,
ports 48,170 tons, from the Severn ports 160,045, from please God
them suffer when we I live, I will repay tattack hem fothem again.
r this. We
Liverpool 71,220, from the Yorkshire ports 27,338, and shall make
We are waiting for more troops, which are .expected
from the northern ports 353,048, making a total of
659_, 821 tons, against 585,537 tons in the same month here in two months. The river is only a mass of
of the previous year. sludge ; 'the water is all oat for near ten miles
. of the forts, so we cannot get to the forts with
CHARGE AGAINST A RELIEVING Or ICER.—It will our shipping. I was on board the Nimrod when
be remembered, that at the last meeting of the Toxteth- the signal was made to land ; and when we did
park Guardians, a charge was brought against Mr. land, as it is called, we were nearly all stuck
Heath, one of the relieving officers, of cruelty towards fast in mud. The shots . coming from the fort
a poor man who had applied for medical relief,—the knocked both men and boats to pieces ;itis a mystery
cruelty consisting in having falsely charged him with to me we were not every man killed. We had about
being drunk, although he had just ruptured a 'blood half-a-mile to go to the forts, above the knees in a
vessel, and was lying then in a dying state from pulmo- sludge, some stuck fast, some over the middle ; the am-
nary consumption. At that meeting, Mr. Johns, Mr. munition 'all spoiled ; some with arms and legs blown
Baynes, and Mr. John Wilson, were appointed a coin- off. I was going on very well until I got half-way up,
mittee to investigate the matter ; and yesterday after- then I stuck fast above the knees in mud, as if I was
noon they proceeded with the inquiry at the public grown there ; presently some marine passed me on my
.St- Petersburgh letter says:— office. Mrs. Thompson, the widow of the deceased, left about a yard—at all events a stride—when a large
who resides in Pleastnthill-street ; Mrs. Maher, a per- shot came and knocked him 'in two upon me, which
~.1“,„ au . Emperor yielded to the urgent soli_
I.L is said that the Em Son who was in the house at the time of Mr. Heath's felled me, but the ball missed me. I was some time be-
eholera.crwebviet
Is ,ruo,_ e Empress in hastily leaving Moscow I visit Dr. Finegau, and Mr. Barnes were called. Mr. fore I could get up and recover,. and roll the. part of his
the "Y suffering from Asiatic
t see'Heatht reeer
wieed
s;uaptpdoslevi, without anytbeprepfoarrmedaltodreecpisoirotnu,
pthone body off me—the blood running out of him upon me
tement ti conanitt will until I was covered. But I shall not tell you more
114 Z his Majesty's sudden departur e subject to the meeting of thethis at this time.—l am, yours, &c., JOHN CEREL, Private
e guardians
morning. Marine.

The
hut_ elainination of Hughes, the absconding
tis-'llPt attorney, was re-opened to-day, but
" ease
ha's been adjourned.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.