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

EXPORTS

Cotton. Flax. Whear. Beans. Barley. Lined.
To all parts Fls. 4,454 320' Ardebi 73,496 48,194 39,658 5 335
Of which to ILK.,, 3,629 241 39,163 36 935 15,085 5,395
The Weekly Traffic Return of the:Great Western
Railway Company of Canada,
,just received, shows
a decrease of no less than 6,0621., compared with
that for the corresponding period of last year.
In explanation of this, the advices remark that the
" connection with the Eastern railways has been
completely interrupted by freshets, which have
caused much damage to the railways east of
the suspension bridge." During the fifteen weeks
of the current half-year, the aggregate decrease is
47,3131.

The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of
the British Bank is to be held to-morrow.
At Hamburgh, notwithstanding the measures
which have been adopted with a view to the
restoration of confidence, great disorganisation
continues to prevail in commercial affairs. The
adviees published yesterday announce the sus-
pension of no less than six important firms. . The
names are given as follows :—Messrs, Ullberg and
Kramer, who received assistance some days ago ;
C. F. Johns and Sons, who were the contractors
for the recent Swedish railway loan ; Messrs. Aran
Lcesen, a very old and highly respectable house in
the colonial and tea trade, also shipowners ; Mr.
F. C. Gross, shipowner; Messrs. Lomer and Uhde,
and Mr. Reimarus.

The following exhibits the latest quotations of
exchange on London in the Indian and Chinese
ports. At Calcutta the movement is decidedly
favourable to this country, but at Bombay, Hong
Kong, and Shanghai, the tendency is rather
calculated to encourage shipments of silver thither.
By present mail. By previous mail.
At Calcutta 2s. 3ad. . 23. to 3d.
80mbay...........25. 1 15-16 d .. 2s. lid.
Hong Kong ss. .. 4s lid. to Hid.
Shanghai .6s 83d to 9d .. 63. id. to Bd.

Yesterday there was rather more demand for
silver for exportation to the East, but it is still
thought that, owing to the obstacles interposed by
the state of the money market, the remittances
by the Indus on the 4th insi, will be below
400,0001., inclusive of those on account of the East
India Ccmpany.
The next intelligence from India is expected to
reach London by telegraph about the Bth of
December.

The failure is announced of IVlcssrs. Henry
Hoffman and Co., merchants, chiefly in the Con-
tinental and Australian trades. The house has
never stood high, but it is thought the liabilities
will reach about £lOO,OOO.

The following are tho latest quotations of Foreign
Exchanges:—Amsterdam short, 11 181, to 12 19;
Ditto three months, 12 21, to 12 31; Rotterdsm
ditto, 12 21, to 12 31; Antwerp ditto, 25 80, to 25 90.;
Brussels ditto, 25 80, to 25 90 ; Hamburg ditto,
13 13i to 13 141; Paris short, 25 40, to 25 50 ;
Ditto three months, 26, to 26 10 ; Marseilles ditto,
26 5, to 26 15; Frankfort ditto, 1211 to 122 ; Vienna
ditto. 11 6, to .11 15 ; Trieste. ditto,
,11 10, to 11 1.5 ;
Petersburg ditto, 321, to 33 ; Madrid ditto, 471,
to 471.

THE CASE OF MRS. WILLS, THE VICTIM OF THE
DOUBLE MARRIAGE,-Tt will be recollected that this un-
fortunate lady was placed in the infirmary of Lambeth
parish to await the capture of her husband, John Blair
Wills, or James Fenton Wills, his broth Lr. This, it is now
feared, is hopeless, and Mrs. Wills is left in a state of
destitution, being solely dependent un her mother, who is
merely hou.sAeeper t) a gentleman at Bath. Last week
Lord Raynham called at the Lambeth infirmary, and, after
an iffterView with Dirs. Wills, and subsequently with her
mother, his lordship has agreed to allow the former 103. a
week from the funds of a society with which he is connect-
ed. The Marchioness of Townshend- has since called and
seen Mrs. Wills.—Observer.

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AN ATLAS GRATIS WITH THE "DISPATCH."—On and after
Sunday, October 4th, 1857, each copy of the Dispatch will be
accompanied with a map, a chart, or the plan of a principal town,
so as to furnish to each subscriber, gratis, the most comprehensive,
complete and generally useful Atlas hitherto published in Great
Britain. 'I he size of the engravings will be that of one page of the
newspaper, six maps and two plans, in each year, will be of double
the size-17 inches by 25. The ordinary maps will be correc ly
tinted, the charts will be properly relieved in blue, and the plans
will be printed in a rich colour.. The double maps will be the object
of great attention in the desire to make them beautiful specimens of
map colouring. It is hoped, in the course of no unreasonably pro-
tracted time, that the Dispatch Atlas will contain more names cad
positions of places than any other English publication of the kind.
he counties wid be given separately, and where they are large and
populous, as in the case of Lancashire, each division of the county
will occupy a page; again, the States of Italy will be the sub-
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engravers will be the best guarantee for perfect accuracy. The
maps will be as full as clearness andreference will allow. Corrections
and discoveries will be given from the best authorities. The
engravings will be in the highest style of art, many thousands of
pounds being devoted to their cost, and they will be taken from
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inquiring the selling price of any large and trustworthy collection of
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issue some hints will be given for preserving, indexing, and binding
the Atlas. Orders received by every news tweet and bookseller in
the kingdom, and at the Dispatch office, 139, Fleet-street. The
Friday evening edition may be received in the most distant parts of
the kingdom on Saturday morning.

The transport Ballarat, which sailed on the 15th of.
August, reached Gale on the 4th November.
The states of Mecklenburg have, for the second time,
rejected the proposition to establish civil equality between
Jews and Christians.

A FATAL DELUSION.—An inquest was held on Saturday,
before Mr. Busby, coroner, on the body of Mary Anne, the
wife of Mr. William Slack, fellmonger' Chesterfield, who
committed suicide on .Thursday last, by drowning herself
in the river Hipper. Mr. and Mrs. Slack were in easy
circumstances, and for the last few months she had been
labouring under the delusion that her soul was lost, and
that nothing could save her. Mr. Slack consulted three
physicians, who were unable to remedy her affliction, and
they refused to send her to an asylum, as they did not
think her a fit subject. All they recommended was that
she should be narrowly watched. Precautions were taken,
but on Thursday morning Mrs. Slack procured the key of
the bedroom in which her husband was asleep. She left
the room, locked the door on the outside, went down into
the drawing-room, and got through the window, passing
through the plea are grounds to the river, which skirts the
field in whicb.Mr. Slack's residence is situated, and jumped
into the river. Mr. Slack awoke about a quarter past six
o'clock, and finding his wife gone, he gave an alarm, and
she was found in the river drowned. The jury returAul A
verdict of ‘c Temporary insanity." : ,