Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-02 00:00:00

ADAMS'S NEW PURSES;

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

63, CIIITRCH-STREET,

(Three doors below Parker-street)

CIIRISTAIAS

WINE OF MALT, or the pure Genuine Extract
of Malt and Flops, brewed expressly for Family Din-
ner use, and supplied in the convenient quantities of 4i, 9, and
HI-gallon casks. Address—

T. BOLTON,
FA;IILLY ALE AND PORTER MERCHANT,
110, DUKE STREET.
• X Light Table Beer 46-gal. cask 3s Gd, 9-gal. cask •7s Od
XX Light Dinner Ale „ Is Gd, „ „ lOs Gd
XXX Rich Dinner Ale „ , Gs 6d, „ „ 12s 6d
XXXX Burton Mild ... .. •„ 7s Gef& 8s Od, „ fss & 164-0 d
Light Bitter Ale „ „is Od,, ~ „ 14s Od
Hinton Bitter
Barclay's London Stout
Knotty Abh, Old Swan, Wavertroe, Aigburtb, and Town.

J. C. • CARVER,
HOUSE, ESTATE, AND INSURANCE BROKER,
GENERAL AGENCY . 0 FFI CE S,
38, ST. ANN-STREET, LIyERPOOL.

• ' LPANS.
4dvances for £2O and upwards, for one, two, three, or foul.
years. on Personal or Real Security, at Five. per' Cm..
Interest, granted without deliy.

INSURANCES.
FIRE AKD LIFE POLICES, ANNUTTIEF, Ruvr.nsiox, &C.
EFFECTED.
MORTGAGES.
.•
Vnricts eutns of Money ready to be ;Ach.nnee4 by Permanent
and irerniinating Building Societies, and prirately, on eligible
Istoperty:

PROPERTY FOR SALE AND TO LET.
RENTS COLLECTED.

For particulars apply as above.

REVIEW OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN 1859.

(From .3fitchcli's Steam Shipping Journal.)
The year 1859 has been a chequered one for the
owners of stearii-shipping property. When it first
dawned, there was an unprecedented amount of steam
tonnage uneinployed, and for sale. The Emperor of
France, in his NCW Year's speech, on receiving the
diplomatic corps, laid the ground for disquietude ; this
alone depressed the funds, and paralysed trade. Words
of "regret" were succeeded by blows, till the bloody
fight at Solferino led to an armistice ; and this Italian
war, thou,gh it gave a slight impetus to th:-e shipment
of coal; helped, to sink' deeper an alre-,,dy depressed,
interest. But' the attempt on I.J.,uis Napoleon's:
life in February rebounded sp;dy for a while-
on the passenger traffic to the Ce,raiucet, - Difficulties
of
France. These barriers to
international courtesy to':
si more on French trade than
aggravated
passports
ru nature were
on. English pleasure-',ekers, but the passenger traffic
from the Thames armed the outputs to France fell off so.
considerably that • thrown in the way of
obtaining an
had the cessation lasted many weeks
more, a dini'diution would have been made in the
steamers Pl.eing to French ports. The execution of
Orsini, 0;e repressive laws,_ and the strong language Of
tlieFiii-ch colOneli, after a Time ceased Wexercise any
very great influence On the babitiets and peoples of the
two countries; so the passport system was relaxed, our
()Arm Foreign Office reduced the charge for British pass-
ports, and ASO put it in the power of any subject of the
realm to obtain one of those (locuments in a cheap and
easy manner.
Vli ifiacrimonious
Frame took its usual oourso, and the passenger trade
was ,so good during the s
.summer as to make up, in
Prt.._for..._the severe_ losses in the_spring,
,The fleet of
6ah
been
softeedfe4ling
down, bthelevfleoenw England
of touristsantde
Frinceade.
-tir:: Eiiibioeari and Almeria= SteamShipping-05inYany,
-which had remained idle i-a the Victoria Docks; havir•
made insolvent two companies to whom. they belon,ged;
: were at length sole./ under a fiat of bankruptcy, and have
i since found an enviornent which; we hope, will be of
a more remunerative character than that in which
they , previously plied. The market for the sale of
steam -thips was-further weeded by Russian pur-
&eases, still the number to be .sold ' was considerable,
and the attemait to force employment forthem ended
with-over-doinr, the -Baltic trade, leading to competition
-tvith :the Italian and Turkish portcand_ beating down
• freights in tlaose several lines.. But matters are now
brightening. Thedisorganised state of India, which was
; a ea,use,throurrhout the entire year, of diminished exports
tfrom that quarter, has given place to a better state of
affairs, and we may rationally look, in 1860, for a more
•, profitable trade with our costly and populous eastern
1 empire. With peace and good government there may
.L 1 be-a prospect of the Indian coasting trade taking a
few of our steamers from this side 'and , employing
them to advantage. Already has the war about to be
i opened with China eased the market for steam shipping,
for the Admiralty have taken up the largest of the
-.! disengaged fleet. Our neighbours have further assisted
in lightening the market by purchasing three first-class
steamers for transport service. And, to lesson the steam
competition in the coming spring, some of_the Hull
steamers, that made such poor voyages this-year to the
Russian ports, are, it is reported, to be sent out to
Australia. This weeding of the home ports is a healthy
4-sign, and gives trading promises of a cheering aspect to
steam-ship companies and private owners, who have
suffered from the too (mat_ redundance of steamers to
and from ports in the United Kingdom, or of steamers
laid up -without charter.
The losses by` wreck of steam Ships in 18WliaVe ex-
ceededCeacomhplaiandy
htialevire
loshstarteb.
ree
sTtleiaemPeiesn, insular and Oriental
any former year, and the leading companies have
the loyal Mail Com-
pany one, the Canadian Mail Line one, the Galway Line
one, the Liverpool and Australian Company one, and
_other. smaller establishments have also-- had—their
misfortinies. These calamities have led to much
valuable controversy on the build of long and
narrow ships, - and the experience gained is likely
to be turned to account in .the construction
of vessels of this description now building or
to be built. As we have so frequent' contended in
these columns, the long ships want greiter -Strength
amidships. , The last
,practical proof of this is made
manifes.t in the wreck of the Canadian screw steamer
Indian. A passenger who was en board writes :---Half-
an-houi after she stack a heavy roller came in, and
lifting the ship about six feet, let her fall on the rocks, •
when she broke across the middle into two parts, the
.bow fell _over sideways, and the afterpart - remained
en-tire." If a fall of about six feet will break a first-
class• iron-built steam ship in two, it is plain that we
want reform in our building establishments.
- The Great Eastern absorbed a good deal of attention
in the dying year, yet she has not crossed the ocean as
a passenger ship. Her old proprietors were in peen-
nitcry difficultiei when 1859 was ushered into existence,.
and her new shareholders have the same difficulty to-
cope with in the new year now breaking •upon us.
Companies winding up have had to contend with a
swamped market, and the disposal of their property has
been attended with embarragment. The Australian
Royal Mail have sold their last two ships, the Adelaide
and Victoria. The European and Australian Royal
Mail COmpany are liquidating their affairs ; and the
late proprietors of that unfortunately managed concern,
the European and American_ Steam Company .(limited), whose vessels are el sold, will leave to subscribe hand- •
spnkelyforlaw expenses....

--.---,..,,-
THE INFERNAL A ACHINE.—The Village of Ville-
, momble,-near Sceaux; liaS been thrown into a state of
alarm by the discovery that some evil disposed person
had attempted to injure several of the inhabitants
by a kind of infernal machine. A pefson named
Lecomte, when closing his shutters two evenings ago,
found a. piece of wood- on the windowsill, which his
rife immediately put into the stove. A few minutes
afterwards a violent explosion took place, by which the
stove was blown to pieces, and the fire scattered all
1 over the room. The fact was soon known throughout the
• village, and one man on learning it recollected that he
had found a small log near his own door, and had laid
it beside the stove ready to burn. He hastened home,
and discovered that the piece of wood liad just been put
into the stove. He got it out as speedily as possible,
4! and, on examination, it was found that a large hole had
enetnineg
of.
been bored in it, partially filled with gunpowder, and
then plugged with wood, so as to be scarcely percep-
lAnd%
o GlasgowFu s tn.--. tible. A third log, similarly charged, was also found at
j another house. The police are engaged ix discovering
the perpetrator of these acts.
Re-
lief Fund was held on Wednesday, to receive a report
from the sub-committee, the Lord Provost presiding.
TthEeEcoGMLmAgiatteew in INDIAN
charge RELIEF
f the
From the report read it appeared the actual amount
subicriEb-d- in Glasgow and neighbourhood was
£16,355 ls. 6d, to which falls to be added £261 7s. 2d.
of interest, making in all £16,616 Bs. Bd. The
' disbursements of the committee have been as fol-
lows; -:--Remittanees to Calcutta, £lO,OOO ; ditto Lon-
don, £1,000: ditto Edinburgh, £667 I ls. ld. ; ditto in
aid of pension fund, £250 ; grants to parties in Glas-
gow and neighbcarrhood (not widows), £lB7 6s. ;
charges for advertising and expenses of administration,
£321 12s. 10d. ; making a total of £12,426 9s. 11d.
This 'leaves a balance at the disposal of the committee
of £3,704 19s. 9d., subject to the payment of the sum
of £lll 10s. due to the Edinburgh committee, and
£250 to the pension fund, as above noted. Them mcoemd-
mittee state that they are not "prepared to
recommend
any hand,
any definite course of action as to the balance
t neon to '
but will continue to direct their anxious attention esunhthe
carrying out the views of the subscribers i
ex expedient." " manner
atfrom time to time shall appear most p • The
report was adopied.
Captain Hermel of +
Tax SHIP BIRKENHEAD.— ) —1 e
• d at Havre, rescued at
French ship Lusinato, arrive
sea
the crew of the British ship Birkenhead, E. Phelan,
liavr
master. On his arrival at . . Captain- if Phelan
master.
.errael
his .to the authorities which was published
made report ,
MI cant 7e
in the Shipping and . . 4 Gazette of the Bth
instant, and the Journal aff avre of the, 4th instant.
In that report the following statement"oecurs :--" Six
days before he saw, the Birkenhead, t4i, ship had been
passed at short distance by one of' their own nation,
but which did not think proper to Etop and assist their
ountrymen."
unfortunate c Her Malesty's consul at
Havre having read the aboyel properly called upon the
master of the Birkenhead to explain whether the allega-
tion, •so damaging* fo the character of British seamen,
was correct. In-reply, Ca thin Phelan, in the presence
of his mates and the carpenter of the Birkenhead, and
with the logbook in, his hand, d assured . an assur the consul"that
he "had no reason whatever to'suppose ._,that the vessel
which
,passed Inca in. distress unnotica was a British
vessel.' The en* in the log, showed that on the l 7th
November (six days before the Lusitano was met), at
five p.m., a vessel was sighted. Captain Phelan asserts
that she was from six to eight miles distant, and that it
was not possible to distinguish her build,—Gallyrnani,

On Wednesday next, the 4th January, at Twelve o'clock, at
the Public Saleroom, Exchangebtilltiings,
222 Bales Bombay MADDER ROOTS.
N. WATERHOUSE & SONS, Brokers.

Apply to

Postponed from Wednesday;the 21th Dee.
On Wednesday next, the 4th January, at the ,broker's
Sale-room, Apsley-buildings,
9800 Bundles RATTANS, •
ex John Wood,•from Singapore. Apply to 111..sors. Leech,
Ilairiton, and Forwood, Merchants ; or to • -
s. RicKmax, Broker.

- .
On Wednesday next, the 4th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Brokers' Office, Liverpool anti 7 ondon Chambers,
• 702 Bags SALTPETRE,
now landing ex F. C. Clarke, from Calcutta, in Albert Dock
warehouse. Apply to Thomas C!iffe, Esq., lferchaat, or to
JEFFERSON & TAYLOR, Brokers.