The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

CANADIAN NEWS.

STEAM COMMUNICATION.—The Toronto corresponden
of the Canadian News writes :—lt is probable that some
arrangement will be made next year to give us a weekly
instead of a semimonthly line of Atlantic steamers.
Various rumours have been aft rat for some time as to the
intentions of the Cunard Company. and of an agreement
they are alleged to have entered into with the Imperial
Government to run a line of steamers to the St. Lawrence,
but they all want confirmation. What may be
relied upon is this, and it has ,not yet found
its way into the papers, that Mr. Cunard has
written to the Canadian Government on the
subject. He has no', however, made any direct
proposition himself, but invited one from them
He sets out by assuming that the Canadian Government
are desirous of obtaining the service of a weekly line,
and then says that on being officially assured that such
is the case, he will be ready to make a proposition. On
the other hand, Mr Hugh Allan, of the Canadian Ocean
Steam Ship line, has been here, attempting to induce
the Government to increase the subsidy to £50,000 cur-
rency a year. I believe nothing 11:ts been settled in
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regard to the matter, although it may, I think, be taken
for granted that the service will be doubled by the
establishment of a weekly instead of a bi-monthly line.
Thant' TRADE WITH EUROPH—London, C. W., having
become a lake port, through the London and Port
Stanley Railway, the enterprising business men of that
city recently held a meeting, at which it was determined
that a trade should bn set on foot to take the exportable
produce Of the country from that port directly to
Liverpool or other markets of England. It is contended
that Canadian wheat can be put on board vessels at Port
Stanley and carried direct, without once breaking bulk,
to the • European market, at much better remunerative
rates than by way of New Irces, with the delays an
re-shipments of that route. The Canadian Londoners
have resolved to test the matter, and form a direct
business interest with the Londoners over the water.—
Cleveland Herald.

THE THROUGH TICKET SYSTEM. -Mr. S. P. Bidder,
the general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway, has
arrived in England, with the view of making arrange-
ments for his Through Ticket System from every shipping
port of importance in Europe to any part of North
America. Agreements have already been made by Mr.
Bidder with all the leading railways of the United States,
by which passengers, whether emigrants or otherwise,
will be passed to any part of Northern and Western
America upon tickets issued to them in Europe. Thus
passengers who purchase through tickets from the agents
of the Grand Trunk Railway at Havre, Antwerp, Rotter-
dam, Bremen, and Hamburg, as well as at Liverpool,Hull,
Glasgow, A berdeen, Belfast, Dublin, Cork,Galway, or aty
port which trades with Boston, Portland, Quebec, or
Montreal, will be conveyed to any point in Canada to
which a railway runs, or to any place in the United
States where a leading railway has a station, without
the trouble of making even an enquiry or the delay of a
single unnecessary moment. Each passenger will be
supplied with a ticket (authenticated by the signature of
a duly authorised chief officer of the Grand Trunk
Company), a map of his route, and even a time table,
which, while he will be secured against all imposition,
vexatious, and delays after he lands, will tell him almost
the very hour on which he NOR arrive at his destination.
If this system be thoroughly carried out, it will tend to
revolutionise the whole passenger traffic between Europe
and America, as well as in America itself.—Canadian
News,

OPENING OF A CO-OPERATIVE COTTON MILL AT RlP-
roNnEm.—On the evening of Saturday last, the Ripponden
Commercial Company celebrated, by a dinner and ball, the
completion of their new cotton mill at Ripponden, near
So werhy bridge. The mill, a spacious six storeyed building,
is the property of 170 shareholders (chiefly operatives),
holdi 'g 300 shares, at £lO per share, It is intended to run
it on the co-operative principle. The engine and boiler are
already set up, and the remainder of the machinery will be
adc'ed in the course of this Ln 1 next month.
THE CI.=NTLEMANLY CHARACTER OF A NEW YORK
JOURNAL.— The teetotal humbugs have now entirely burst
up, and are broken outright. They may be set down
among the bankrupts of the day—debts, twenty or thirty
thousand dollars; asseto, nothing, and the members will
not pay a cent to liquidate the liabilities. Mr. Delavan,
the amiable, pious, religious, temperate. water drinking,
wine eschewing head of the concern, at first refused to
continue in office, bet was afterwards persuaded to serve
six months louger, but the whole affair has virtually
exploded. This is always the end of these absurd, fan.itical,
one idea people, who want to reform the whole world by
force of nousenbe,—/Veta York Herald,