The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-12 00:00:00

in the harbour, it beirg almost impossible for vessels to
discharge their cargoes, or ships to load—this impediment
removed, there wotild be an active demand for spirits tiirpen-
tine and rosin, for consumption, as marl consumers are almost
entirely out of stock. Turpentine is held firmly at 4 dole
and upward, without sales since our bet, stock 1,600 brie.

Poe:V*lBl°Na : Pork is quiet at 20 do's for old mess ; 21
dole for new mess; 18 dole for prime. Beef.is steady at 10
dolt 50c to 13 dols for country mess; 9 dols 50c to 10 dole
250 for pritnt; and 15 dols to 15 dots 50c for new repacked
Western. In beef hams we notice sales at 19 dole 50c.
Lard is firmer at 12a to 13. Dressed hogs aro firm
at 91 to 91. Bacon is heavy' and dull. Cut meats
are firm at 101 to loac for hams, and 8 to 81.1 for
shoulders. Cheese in good demand at 10i to 11i.
SALT t The market remains very quiet. An invoice of 650
sacks Ashton*s Liverpool Viae, the only parcel arrival, sold
at 1 dot 50c, 4 11103, which is a slight decline from previous
rates.
SUGARt The market cOntinties extremely firm, with a
steady good demand from tho Trade and Refiners.
FREIGHTS: Continua dull, necessarily on account of the
impediments to navigation, but the market remains firm on
account of the small quantity of available tonnage The en-
gagements to Liverpool include 5 to 6000 brls flour at 2s 3d to
2s 41d ; 25,030 bushels corn, 7d in bulk ; 3000 bales cotton,
5 16d to id—an advance; 500 bales bacon, and 150 packages
lard, 255; 100 brls pork, 3s 6d; and 50 cases cloclo, 15s.
To London, 2000 brls flour, 3s ; 250 rosin, 3s per 280 lbs;
250 boxes bacon, 30e; and 1000 brls o+l cake, 3s; for spirits
of turpentine, 7s; and for crude turpentine, 41 is asked. To
Glasgow, 500 brls rosin, 3s 4al, 1000 brls dour, 3s; 60
epirits of turp,ntine, 8s; and bacon 303. I'. Havre, 500
bales cotton, ; and ashes, 8 dole and 10 dole for pat
and pearl ; whalebone, He ; grain, 20e; and flour, 70c.
SEAMEN AND WAGES : Advices have declined. We
quote : Wages Advance
To Liverpool • , per month $2O $25
London

Havre
N. of Europe
Mediterranean and South Ameriea - .18 18
weal Indies - ... 18 18
Eat Indies and Califoinia . 15 30
Coasting.. - 20
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LATEST BY TELEGRAM,

We have received telegraphic accounts from New
York to the evening of the 30th ultimo. We learn
that the Steamers Arago, Vigo, Clyde, and New
York had arrived out at New York. There is later
news from California, but it does not contain any in-
formation of the slightest importance. The steamer
from Aspinwall arrived at New York, had 1,200,000
dollars in specie. This had a favoui•able influence
upon the Now York Money Market, and foreign
exchange had become rather more active, bills on
London being quoted at 1081. to 1081. At New
Orleans the rate was 1061 on the evening of the
28th January.
Our advices from New Orleans are to the evening
of the 29th Fob. The Cotton Market had been
pretty active. The sales on the two days reached
25,000 bales, and prices showed an upward ten-
dency.
The New York Cotton Market was active and
buoyant at 13c for Middling Orleans, and 12ie to'
13c for Middling Uplands. The Breadstuff trade
was dull, -and Fiour had declined 5c to 15c.
Indian Corn was. also lc lower, but wheat remain ad
unchanged.

[The following appeared in our Second Edition of
yesterday]
SOUTHANIPTON, TUESDAY.

The Belgian steamer Constitution brings advices
one day later. She left New York on the 25th ult..
at 2,30 p.m. She could not leave on the previous
day as intended, having had twenty-six hours hard
work in cutting and passing through the ice.
Twelve and twenty inches thick to get to the small
lane of clear water left on the Jersey shore of the
river; after that they found fields of ice for thirty
miles out of the bay.
The news by the Persia, from Liverpool, received
at New York on the 24th, checked sales in cotton,
which were confined to a few hundred bales: The
market closing quiet, and rather unsettled. There
were no transactions of sufficient . magnitude after
-cite-recerp-r or- vie -rersia-s news to shew its efft:ct
Upon the market for breadstuff's.
The steamship Atlantic, from Liverpool, after
reaching her dock was discovered to be leaking ;
it is supposed she was cut through by the ice. The
pumps had been constantly at work, by which she
was kept perfectly free from water. The leak on
the bow was about two feet below the water mark.
The cargo was being rapidly discharged, and the
goods had not received the slightest damage.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23.—Sales of cotton to-day,
10,000 bales; sales of the week, 67,500 bales.

ANOTHER MAN BURIED ALIVE IN A CDALPIT.—CAUTION
Ti) MINERS.—On Thursday last a miner named James
'Frost, was at well in the Cliffe colliery, Crigglestone, near,
Wakefield, belonging to Miss Broughton, when some four
or five tens of oat suddenly fell upon him, literally burying
him alive, lie was -in a short time got out and taken
home, but he died, the same evanieg from the injuries he
bad received.

WAR TROPIIIES.—The trophies of the late war—consist-
ing of a mortar piece and two guns—presented to Glasgow
by Government, arrived in the city on Thursday last
from London, by the steamer Metropolitan. On
Saturday night they were landed and placed in the
shed at the feet of Lancefield street, where they
were yesterday inspected by thousands. It is expected
they will be removed to day to the court yard of the Clyde
Police Buildings, in R tbertsan street, and remain there for
some time prior to their being placed in the grounds of the
West End Park.— Glasgow Daily Mail.
ATiVA.NOE OF VICTORIA.—Lander the antspices of the new
constitution, it is undeniable that Victorta is making rapid
strides towards an advanced et lite of civilisation. We
have proof of this in every grade of society. The candidates
for legislative honours are viaing with each other in libera-
lity of profession, and the thieves are contending with each
other in power and dexterity. A day or two ago, one of
the latter genus far outs'ripped all his. competitors in inven-
tive talent ;. for, he succeeded in walking off from Qaeen's
Cliff, with an anchor weighing fifteen hundred weight, to
which was attached fifteen fathers of chain cable. The anchor
was only only lost sight of for a few hours. The detectives
aro on the qui viva, for in their vivid imagination they have
enriched " Hope" with the stolen property—Melbourne Age.
MERCANTILE FAILURES.—Amongst the curious statistical
compilations which the winding up of the old year's affairs
has produced, we find a table of the mercantile failures in
the United States during the year 1856. The whole
number was 2,705, and 708 of them occurred in the State
of New York. The number is certainly inconsiderable,
taken in view with the business of the country; but the
moat remarkable and gratifying fact connected with them
is the very small nutnber which are reported as
" swirPing." Of the 708 failures in that State, only 31
a e characterised by this epithet, from which it would
appear that the others were unavoidable, or at leastinvolved
no question of the.integrity of the failing parties. The
fact is honourable to the character of the mere mtile com-
munity, and widely different from the general supposition
as to the nature of the commercial fraternity.
LORD NAPIER. —There i 3 but one feeling here in relation
to the New British Minister—and that, We are sorry to say,
is regret. In our time, everybody knows everybody, and
we all know Lord Napier ; who, though he may be the
most amiable and loveable of men, and possess a very agree-
able talent for a certain order of litera'nre, is certainly not
the best man that Great Britain had for the embassy to
Washiugton. Many reasons might be urged why the.
appointment was an unfortunate one;' but let them piss.
We are all so anxious here to remain on good cordial terms
with the English, that we are sorry toe see a, second rate
man, like this poor Scotch lord, fresh from absurd despotic
courts, come to Washington, perbps to set us by the ears
as the blundering Dublin men Crampton did . Let us
hope that we may be wrong in our apprehensions. Lord
Napier may be a phoenix ; let us hope for the best.—New
York Paper.
A PRECOCIOUS Musrcraer.—There is at present living in
Lamb street, Hamilton, a boy who has not yet completed
his twefth year, named Alexander Andrew, or M'Culloch,
nephew and adopted son of Mr. William M'Culloch,
shoemaker and violinist. From a very early age this boy
exhibited a very strong propensity for the "heaven born
art." He could, at the age of six or seven years, perform
numerous airs, including waltzes, reels, strathspeys, country
dances, &c., with the utmost precision as to time and tune.
We remember visiting his uncle about three years ago, and
were much surprised and amused to find the young
Paganini, dressed in petticoats, shouldering his violin,
almost as large as himself, and executing, with the finest
taste, selections from Mozart, Strauss, &c., which would
have pat to the blush many amateurs of some years'
.standing. 'Tis a pity he could not be placed under the
care of a proper master.—Hamilton Advertiser.