The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA,

The Royal mail Steam Ship Europa, John Leitch,
commander, which. sailed from New York on the
7th inst.. entered the Mersey about noon yester-
day,, having been detained at the Bar for water for
three hours and twenty minutes.

The Europa brings the usual semi weekly mails,
forty-five passengers, and specie on freight, amount-
ing to 252,740 dollars, of which only £2OO is for
Dverpool, the remainder, 251,740 dollars being for
Havre. The Europa passed the Asia en route to
Boston yesterday at 1 a.m.

of Judge Daniels, of the Supreme Court, shaving been
burnt to death. Mrs. Daniels had retired to her sleeping
room, and cotamenced disrobing preparatory to retiring
for the night, when, being very near-sighted, she did not
,perceive a candle that was standing on the hearth, or the
if ones which communicated to her clothes, until they
completely enveloped her. She then ran from the room
shrieking for assistance. Her motion of course only
added to the strength of thellames, and before any effec-
,tual assistance could be rendered, she was so shockingly
burnt that she died after eight hours of suffering. She
was an estimable lady, about thirty-five years of age, a
daughter of the late Dr. Harris, of Philadelphia, Chief
of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy, and
leaves two children, the youngest about six months old.
Her terrible death has caused much regret among a large
circle of friends and the community at large, and much
sympathy is felt on :all hands for the Judge at' his
bereavemeuAr.
With reglrd to the Negro excitement in Virginia
we learn by the Alexandria Sentinel that there is
general excitement in Caroline county growing out
of the same suspicions that have excited so much
painful solicitude in various sections of the South.
It seems that a negro nsmed Thornton, for many
years a sailor on the Rapphannock, but last year
r 4 employed in the gang at work on the York River
Railroad, was apprehended, with two others, on
the night of Christmas eve, and upon him was found
a letter indicating a plot which was to be speedily
executed. The excited people have given him
two hundred lashes to make him disol se the full
meaning of the note ; but he says he will die first.
Our informant thinks, from the feeling of the people
that they Will certainly kill him if heepersists in
his refusal. In York district, south Carolina, the
slave excitement continues. Powder and muskets
have been found in possession of the slaves. A
dispatch from Columbia says fifteen negroes have
been killed by their owners in Perry. Escapes of
slaves are numerous. The whites in all directions
are arming themselves.
It is reported that the President of the United
States in° his prepared message, in reply to a
resolution of the Senate relative to the Atlantic
submarine telegraph, will contain no recom-
mendations, but merely inclose the correspondence
which has taken place on the subject. It 'will
probably he sent in to-morrow. The administration
has been officially advised that Mr. Villiers,
brother of Lord Clarendon and late Judge Advo-
cate General, has been appointed British minister
to the United States, and will shortly arrive here.
A recent canvass of the town of Chelsea, Mass.,
reveals the fact that there are some 5,000 persons
residents in that town who do not attend church
on the Sabbath. It was further ascertained, that
the church edifices now existing, will not accomo-
date with seats more than 4,000 or 5 000 persons,
thus leaving 5,000 or 6,000 of the 10,000 or 11,000
persOns, residents in Chelsea, who cannot obtain
seats.

The news by this arrival is four days later than
that brought by the Baltic which arrived here on
Siturday, and is of meagre importance.
Congress hal not transacted any business of
consequence. In the House of Representatives,
Mr. Boyce gave notice of some amendments on the
Tariff Bill. A bill was introduced and referred to
the judiciary committees for the more effectual
prevention -of the sale t',,f intoxic sting liquors to
ihe Inlians. In the same body. the President's
:Message had been the topic for further debate,
the chief speakers being Mr. Stephens, of Georgia,
.an:l Mr. Davis, of Maryland. The former con-
:gi atulated everybody, generally and in particular,
on the resat of the tate eleetion ; while the latter
contended that, os Mr. Buchanan was elected by
'the votes of A minority of the peoule, the majority
"nd,.enc"....ea the issues made by the Democratic
Part.
_ .• He predicted the greatest possible con-
e- • •
amen in the distribution of the spoils. With regard
to the proposed amendment, of Mr Boyce on the
Tariffßill, his object is to have enacted that from and
after January- 1867, all goods, wares, merchandise
other produnts, subject under the existing
.1.7,1.;.f to pay a duty of twenty per cent , shall
'continue to be admitted at that rate, and that tea
and coffee shall be included in the same schedule.
Washington correspondent writing on the 6th
instant, states that the tariff question is again
thrown over temporarily, but it will soon come up
',again. The projects and counter projects and
conflicting interests are so varied and numerous,
however, that it is exceedingly doubtful whether
anything will be done.
Mr. Secretary Guthrie has replied to the enquiry
of the house, asking to be informed of the reasons
ho has for not paying certain clerks of that body
the extra compensation heretofore voted. He
agrees with Mr. Whittlesey that neither House of
'Congress can lawfully increase the compensation
.of officers whose salaries are fixed by law, without,
'the concurrence of the other House ,and the
PreSident, which, he says, is not the fact in this
'case. One of the great topics of anxiety in politi•
'cal 'circles was the " cast" of the new administra-
don. Previous advices had put forth a certain pro-
!gramme, but according to the latest advices
from Washington it would appear that Mr.
Buchanan had not definately determined upon
any particular list. One thing, however, seems
certain. namely, that Governor Floyd and Governor
Cobb will have prominent positions assigned them.

The rumour that General Cass is to be secretary-of
state, under Mr. Buchanan was said to be untrue.
It was said that he had been offered the position,
but declined accepting it. Alluding to this sub-
ject; the Washing:on correspondent of the New
York Daily 7imes remarks:—
General Cass has been kept industriously 'in the fore-
ground, but as appears, against his own will and better
judgment. He is favoured by most of those who desire
the next secretary of state should share, in the main, the
views of policy entertained by Mr. Marcy. The advanced
age, however, of the Michigan patriarch, and occasional
-Ucers cf decreased mental vigour, are too little taken
into account by admirers, who think of him less as he now
is, than as he was ten or twenty years ago. Mr. Buchanan
is iu no danger of mistaking gray hairs, per se, for wisdom,
(I haTnearly forgotten that Mr. Cass wears a wig) nor of
'timbering up his departments with antiquities. He is
liable, as all are, to err in judgment ; but it cannot be

doubted that his sincere object is to choose, without regard
to sections or localities, the best men, wherever they are to
be four <e —men who are thoroughly national, and imbued
with the instinctive horror for northern as well as southern

dis•unionism, which he so eminently fe Is. In the first
letter which I wrote to you after the election, I remarked
that tie distinguishing characteristic of the President elect
was caution, I might have said, also, discretion. He has
shown this to an unusual degree during the two trying
months that have passed, and I am convinced that he will
continue to do tio•to the end.

• ,J •
The sin me writer in noticing the attempt to
defeat the bill for the pay of the army officers,
says :

" Much disgust has been Created at Washington within
a week, by the determined persecution of Lieutenant Gene-
ral Scott. and of army interests generally, by a few bitter,
unpatriotic demagogues, in the House of Representatives.
I trust their object will be frustrated. There never has
been a time when army officers generally, were so discour-
aged" es the present. Before a year is over, they will resign
by scores, unless Congress passes a law for their relief.
They, cannot live upon the pay, which is now allowed them.
I have conversed lately with several distinguished officers in
the three highest corps, men proud of their profession, who
say that they will be driven from it by the parsimony of the
Nati:nal Legislature. Is not the press snmewhat at fault,
for riot urging reform more strenuously ?"

The Washington Union still imagining itself on
the tripod, speaks in Delphic strains of Mr.
Buchanan's intentions towards Kansas. It copies,
with the approval of Mr. Buchanan, as it alleges,
just one half, and that the least important half, of
Mr. Buchanan's declarations to the editor of the
South Side Democrat, as to the rights of the people
of a territory over slavery. The last half, as
reported by the editor himself, and published by
the junior organ here, is to the effect that the
people .could prohibit slavery when they came to
form a state constitution. and not before. This is
equivalent to saying that it is competent to the
people to insert a clause in their intended state
constitution excluding slavery, which shall have
force after being ratified by Congress, and only in
that case, and it amounts to an explicit denial of
any other power in the people over slavery than
to recognise and adopt it This is really the
much discussed ''principle of the Nebraska bill,"
and the machinery of the act is very skilfully
arranged to carry out that principle. The only
consolation in the whole miserable business is,
that it also carried out Pierce and several of its
originators and abettors.

It is stated in one of the New York papers that
the'counsel in the Dred Scott case assert that the
Supreme Court has come to no, decision, and that
no indication's have been given of the. opinion,
which will be rendered at a suitable time. The
opinion still prevails to souls extent that the court
will avoid a judgment on the political and sectional
questions involved, by denying jurisdiction.
The Governor of the State of New York had his
first message to the State Legislature, which had
assembled at Albany, and is characterised by
some of the New York papers as a document every
way worthy of its source, clear in statement, cogent
in argument, felicitous in style, and in all respects
appropriate. It will exact the respect of even his
political opponents, even though it does not in alt
respects obtain ther concurrence. The Governoi.,
in concluding his message, refers to the vote cast by
the State of New York at the late Presidential elec-
tion and justly assumes that vote to be the deliberate
and irreversible decree, that so far as the state of
New Yt rk is concerned, there, shall be henceforth

no extimsion of slavery in the territories of the
United S ates. Rebuking the partistp and inde
eorous spirit of President Pierce's message, the
governor concludes with a noble and forcible
defence of the conservative position of a majority
of the people of this state in their late vote, vhich
proclaimed, that while they sought not to interfere
with slavery within the limits recognised by the
constitution, they utterly repudiated the new and
unsound construction attempted to be given to the
constitution of the United States, by which that
instrument is made to carry slavery whereVer it
goes.

A bill has been introduced into the North Caro-
lina legislature, entitled "an act to encourage and
promote matrimony." The bill authorises the
judges of the supreme and superior courts, and all
licensed practising attorneys at law, to solemnise
the rights of matrimony, under the same rules as
justices of the peace and ministers of the Gospel.
The Governor of Missouri had issued his Bien-
nial Message to the Legislature of that State, and
after taking a comprehensive review of its financial
condition, concludes by pitching into the Republi-
cans, and complimenting the Democracy for having
effected the salvation of the Union. He says :
For the first time in the history of the Republic, the
solemn warnings of the Father of his country have been
disregarded by a large portion of its people, and a sec
tional party, having (with a few ignominious exceptions)
its adherents solely in these States in which the institu-
tion of Slavery does not exist, has been rallied to an
attack upon the equality of States, which is the corner-
stone of our Federal Institutions. But another very large
portion of the people of those very States, and in some of
them a majority, have proven faithful to the compromises
of the Constitution, and driven back the flood of fanati-
cism which threatened to overwhelm us in its fury. A
large debt of gratitude is due by all lovers of the Union
and the Constitution to the national men who met and
conquered the foes of that Union and Constitution in the
Northern States. Let us trust that a conquest gained
over such heavy odds will prove a durable one.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

I'•TEW YORK, JANUARY 7.

MONETARY AFFAIRS:—Money is -still abundant on
call, and business paper, known names, is passed
more readily than in December. The exports of
coin being stopped for the present, there will
speedily be an accumulation in the vaults of our
city banks. Sound policy will, however, dictate
that no sudden expansion is desirable. The recent
stringency in the money market, has made havoc
among our business men; many of whom could
not obtain loans on substantial securities. No en-
couragement should be given for larger importa-
tions of foreign goods than those of the past
year. We are now availing ourselves of the
proceeds of heavy shipments of breadstuffs
and provisions to Western and Southern Europe ;
an export unusually • large, and which can
not, probably be maintained for many months
longer. Messrs. Cameron and Co.'s circular, issued
for the sailing of the Europa, contains the
following : _ _

Notwithstanding a continuance of the scarcity of money,
noticed in our last report of the 23rd ult, and a censequently
rather limited business in stocks at the close of,the year, prices
have generally had an improving tendency throughout the
fortnight. Since the commencement of the new year business
has become more active, and thee upward movement more
decided, although the expectations of a better supp'y of money
from the heavy disbursements since the let inst have been only
partially realised, there being as yet but a slight alleviatio❑ of
the stringency. The improved tone of the market during the
last few days was caused principally by the late encouraging
financial advices from London, which, in connection with the
decline of foreign exchanges and the decreased exports of specie,
strengthen confidence in an early favourable change in money
matters. The market, although slightly easier, continues
quite stringent, and heavy deficiencies are still paid on
stock contracts, and time loans command high rates of
interest. On call, the demand is very active at 7 per
cent, and discount on first class paper ranges from 9 to 10
per cent. Although the receipts of gold from California, for
some weeks past, have considerably exceeded the demand for
export, the specie balances of the banks in this city, in conse-
quence of heavy drafts from the South, have not increased.
The Foreign Exchange Market is dull. Bankers Bills on
London can be had at 1081 to 1082. We annex the closing
rates for to-morrow's steamer : London, 60 days' sight. 10,41
to 108-a ; Paris, 5.211 to 5.20 ; Antwerp, 5.181 to 5.174 ;
Amsterdam, 41i to 414 ; Hamburg, 36i to 36k ; Bremen,
781 to 79; Frankfort, 41-4- to 41Z; Berlin, Laipsic, and.
Cologne, 72 to 724.

Among the miscellaneous intelligence we are
sorry to.perceive an account of the terrible death
of the wife of Judge Daniels, under the most
painful circumstances. A Washington paper, of
the 4th inst, thus reports the affair :
A shocking accident occurred here last night, the wife

NORTHERN TIMES.----LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
tr,

next week, and probably will be less than 10,000 the week
after. We are now entering upon a comparison with the small
weeks of last year, caused by an inclemency of weather almost
unexampled, while now we have, and have had for a month
past,' free, navigation of the tributaries of the Mississippi,
permitting large receipts of cotton from'all points, while in
Mobile, cotton has, for a month past, been received from the
most distant landings on the Bigby and its branches. The
receipts being thus satisfactorily accounted for create no stir-
prise, nor do they for a moment shake confidence in a crop
below 3,000,000 bales; on the contrary, further developments
of individual crops, incline southern opinion to a total of
2,900,000 bales.
If these suppositions • are correct, we shall find the total
receipts a fortnight hence, forming a ranch larg •r per centage
than ever known of the whole crop. This is, however, no more
than what ought to be expected, since the extension of railroads
give planters the facilities of accelerating the receipts, which
are and have been further increased by the past and present
navigable condition of all those tributaries, which were not
high enough two seasons ago to hear their crops to market
at all. _

The exports to Great Britain are again small, and next
week will be still sataller, since we learn by telegraph from
Mobile to 3rd instant, that nothing had cleared, and from
New Orleans to same date, only 8,000 bales bad been cleared
during the week. By mail from New Orleana to 2701 Dec.,
we learn there was loading for Great Britain but 39 vessels
against 63 at the corresponding date last season.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist September last, as compared with the pre-
vious three years :

1857.

Receipts at the Ports 1,495,00 D
Exports toG Britain 311,0 ill

Fralce 141,1100
" other F. Ports 97,000
Total Exports 5 9 000
Stock on band 695 tioo

Of which during the past

1856.

1855,

1854. 1833

023,000 913 000 959.001 1,4^3000
50 ~000 411,000 267,000 565,000
177,00,, 93,000 73 000 98.000
1z3,,:0, 49,000 63,000 80 000
05,000 553 oeo 405,000 743.000
640,000 3'0,001, 493,00. 50.4,00

week, included in the above :

Itecelpte at the vorts 144,,,09 137,000 o9,,ini UOO 165 i.O/0
Exports to G. Britain 30 00'1 53,000 47,000 24 090 49,000
" France... 13,000 9,0 ,0 3 000 18,009 17,000
" other For. Pts 14,000 4.000 6,0,0 13 001 12.00
Total Exports. .... 57,000 66 003 56,,.00 55,000 78,000

SUllMARY.—Receipts: Decrease at the ports compared
,With last year, 41,000 b les ; compared with 1853, 8000.
Enoorts : Decrease to Great Britain, 189,00, compared
wirh 1853, 254,000—France, 36,000 ; increase, compared
with 1853, 43,000; decrease to ocher foreign ports, com-
pared with last year, 36,000 ; increase compared with 1853,
17,000 bales.

FREIGHTS.—The very unusual scarcity of ships ready to
receive cotton has advanced the rate to trper lb for Liver-
pool, to Havre, ic per lb.
EXCHANGES—On London are very dell at 1081 per cent ;
on Paris, active at 5.20. I,W. P. WRIGHT.

She has brought 60,000 dollars in specie, 29
passengers, and by her we have .three days later
papers from New York:
The political news is wholly devoid .of interest.
Commercial matters remained much in the same
condition as last reported. There : was some
activity in the New York Stock Market,
and prices ware . generally well supp )rted, and,-
in some instances an advance had been established.
There was a moderate :demand for money, which
was freely met; 'whilst the rate of Exchange on
London remained without important change. We
have a telegraphic report of a fire at Halifax-,
United States, on the 2nd of January, which
destroyed property to the amount of 100,000 dollars.
1 the account says

A fire broke out here yesterday, -at four o'clock in the
afternoon, in the 'vast betiding On the corner of Hollis
and Prince streets, extending from thence south to the
residence of Dr Allan, crossing Ileitis street, and burning
nearly the whole block between that and Granville street,
incln ling St Matthew's Presbyterian church. Twenty
buildings were consumed and thirteen partially destroyed.
Two entire blocks, from Bedford row to Barrington street,
were gutted.' The scene is most desolating. The streets
I are filled with goods and furniture. Several persons were
seriously injured, but no lives were lost. The estimated
loss is 10,000 dollars.
Both houses of Congress met on the 2nd of
January, but no business of special importance
was transacted. The Senate adopted a resolution
calling for the correspondence relative to the
refusal of the Dutch Minister to testify before the
court in the case of Herbert, who• shot the waiter
at one of the hotels at Washington last spring.
The course of Mr. Dubois, the Minister alluded
to, has, it appears, met the disapprobation of
his government, and he has,. therefore been trans-
ferred to Copenhagen. Among the communi-
cations sent to the Senate was one from the
Secretary of War, submitting a letter from the
Bareau of Construction and from the Engineer-
in Chief on the subject of greater safety from fire
in the construction of steam vessels, These
officers make numerous suggestions, but the gist
of them all is the use of metal upon the floors and
decks, and the surrounding of the furnaces with
water. The House was occupied exclusively with
the consideration of private bills, thirteen of which
were passed.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 1857.

BREADSTUFFS.

C)TTON.

FLOUR : State and Western : Since my report of the 29th
tilt, per Canada, via Boston, we are in receipt of advices per
Fulton and Niagara, with Liverpool dates to the 20th ultimo.
The market, with Lair receipts, has ruled dull during the week,
the closing rates being about 10c below the quotations reported
per Canada. For forward delivery nothing is doing. Common
to good State 6 dots 20c to 6 dols 30c per brl; extra do 6 dots
45c to 6 dols 65c; common to good Ohio and Indiana 6 dots
40c to 6 dots 70c ; fair grade ex:ra Ohio 6 dots 90c to 7 dots.
Southern : Mixed to goof brands 6 dots 95c to 7 dols 25c
per barrel ; favourite and extra 7 dots 40c to 8 dots.
Wnzatx : Little has transpired in our market since the
sailing of the Canada ; some enquiry has however existed
for the Peninsula. Good to prime white can be quoted I
dol 740 to 1 dot 78c per 60 lbs. Winter red, l dol 55c to
1 dol 60c; spring do, 1 dot 40c to 1 dol 48c.
INDIAN CORN has been in very limited request since my
last; good supply offering. Western mixed, 69c to 70e
per 56Ibs. -Southern white, 72c to 76c; do yellow, 72c to
74c.

Middling qualities have been in active demand and prices
have advanced during the week fully lc. There has been
less inquiry for the better grades, which have not, there-
fore, advanced in the same proportion, The loss of tin
large cargo per British ship John Garrow, brought from
Savannah to Liverpool, will tend to strengthen prices. The
sales for the week are about 10,000 bales, chiefly for export
to Liverpool.
We quote :
N.Y. Classification. Upland Florida. Mobile. N.O. & Texas.
Ordinary ... 114 114 114 114
Middling..... 13 13 134. 131,
Middling Fair 11331 1133 i
11 4 3:- 14
Fair
Receipts for the week bales 4,686
Exports for the week
Do. from January Ist
Do. same time last year .
Receipts at all the shipping ports since
September Ist .... - d 0.1,341,000
Do. same time last year

FREIGHTS to Great Britain have advanced. To London,
flour, 3s per bbl; grain, 9d to 91d per bushel. Liverpool,
flour, 24 3d to 2s 6d per bbl; grain, Eld to Bid per bushel.
,Havre, flour, 65c to 70c per bbl; grain, 20c per bushel.
Marseilles, flour, 90c per bbl ; grain, 22c to 23e per bushel.
Lisbon, &Lir, 91c per bbl: grain, 200 per bushel. Cadiz,
flour, 1 dol per bbl; grain, 20e per bushel. Santander,
flour, 1 dol ; grain, 24c to 23c. A. F. DE LUZE.
ASHES : The receipts continue light, and as the stock
decreases, prices tend upward; sales 100 brls, pot at 7
dols 75c to 7 dots 87ic ; and 24 brls extra tares, 8 dols.
50 brls pearl brought 8 dots to 8 dols 12lc. Stock in
Boston, Jan. 1, 1857, 200 casks pot and pearl, against 100
in 1656, 300 in 1855, 270 in 1854, 288 in 1853, and 430 in
1852.

Coat : Liverpool is held firmly, and prices have im-
proved.' Sales 150 tons Orrel at 7 dols 50c ; 50 tons Cannel,
10 dols 25c ; and 170 tons Newcastle, below 7 dols, four
months.

blow : Scotch pig is in small stock, and held firmly at 30
dols, with few sales ; small lots command 31 doll, six
months. Englfsh bars remain in small supply, and very
firm; 150 tons refined brought 62 dols to 64 dols; and 25
tons hoop, 90 dols, six months.
NAVAL STORES : The market for spirits turpentine has
exhibited no marked change ; sales of 300 brls are reported
at 51c, 30 days, adding interest ; and yesterday, in addi.
tion to our report at the time, 300 brls at 49c, cash.
Crude turpentine is nominal at 4 dols. Rosin and tar are
unchanged.
OILS Linseed oil is dull at 80c to 81c for American and
Entilish ; lots of the latter to arrive are held at 85e to 90e.
Crude whale oil is nominally unchanged, but as there has
been no movement of consequence for some time, it is
useless to give quotations, opinions being divided as to
how the market will open when manufacturers commence
buying. Winter bleached whale is selling at 88c to 90c,
four months. Crude sperm oil is very firm; the sales in
New Bedford for the past week amount to 10,000 brls, all at
I dol 30c. Refined sperm is selling at 1 dot tiOe to 1 dol
65c for natural and bleached. Lard oil is firm at 1 dol,
tour months.

Decrease this year
ASHES.—The sales embraced 30 lolls to 40 brls pots at no

PaovlsioNs : Pork is firmer, with sales of 330 bbls at
19 dots, 37c to 19 dols 500 for old mess, 20 dols to 20
dols 121 c for new mess, and 17 dols for new prime. Beef
is firm, with sales of 950 bbls at our quotations. We
notice sales: of 100 tierces prime mess beef at 22
dots. Cut meats are dull, with an increased supply;
sales of 260 casks were made at 73 to 7/ for shoulders,
and 91 to 10i for hams, the latter rate for a fancy
quality. Dressed hogs arc selling at 84 to Bi. Bacon
is ,in good demand ; we notice sales of 500 boxes
long middles, rib in, at 10; 100 boxes Western clear
at 101, and 1,000 boxes Cumberland cut to arrive at
P.N.T. Lard is better, with sales of 950 bbls and tierces,
at 123 c to 12/c, including 190 tea on the spot at the latter
rate. Butter and cheese are unchanged.
Sala : The market for all descriptions remains flat--
several invoices of Liverpool, a cargo of Torrevieja and
one of Turks Islands are afloat unsold. The only trans-
actions we have to note is 1,950 sacks Marshall's Liverpool
Fine, and 1,800 do. Ground on private terms.
SUGAR: The market for raw continues very firm, and
as the offerings are still very small, full prices are realised.
Refined is in active request, and prices generally have
advanced if to / of a cent, while on the lower grades an
improvement of to # cent has been established. The
production, by the further suspension of work, has now
become reduced' 50 per cent from the average when all
our refineries are in full operation, this being the usual
period of the season for making repairs to machinery, &c.,
and the prices obtained for refined affording but a small
margin of profit over the cost of production.
FREIGHTS.—The market is decidedly better to Great.
Britain, with a fair business, but in other directions rates
indicate no change of importance. Small and medium
vessels are wanted for the West India and Mediterranean
trade, and they are scarce. Large bottoms, on the con-
trary, are in good supply, and it is rather difficult to find
employment for them. To Liverpool, the engagements
include 75,000 bushels corn and wheat at 7d to Bd,
closing at 8d to Bid, including a bin for all next week at
74d; 5,000 brls. flour, 2s 3d; 2.500 bales cotton, 7.32 d to
id. including Sea Island at 5 164; 600 to 700 pkgs. lard,
and 1,000 bxs. bacon, 27s 64 ; 50 tcs. beef, 4s 6d ; 10 tons
clover seed. 26s 6d ; 25,000 lb. tallow, 25s ; •and 500 brls.
rosin, 2s 6d. To London, 5,000 to 6,000 brls. flour,
23 1034 to 3s ; 300 do. pork, 3s 6d; 400 to 500 pkgs. lard,
and 500 to 600 bxs. bacon, 303 to 32s 6d. To Glasgow,
600 brls. flour, 23 101 d ; and by the Edinburgh, sailing
10th inst., in addition, 700 brls flour. 3s 3d; 500 sacks
do., 4s each; 2,500 bxs. cheese, 503; 50 tea. rice, and 800
pksg. lard, 40s.

BREADSTUFFS.—FIour : The market was depressed, and
prices for common grades inclined to droop. The sales
embraced about 3,000 brls to 4,000 brls, at about the fol-
lowing quotations :—Common to good State, 6 dols 10c to
6 dole 40 c; common to good Michigan,. 6 duls 103 to
6 dols 35c; extra State, 6 dole 40c to 6 dole 70c; common
to good Ohio, 6 dole 15c to 6 dots 60c ; extra Ohio, 6 dols
60c to 7 dole; Southern mixed to good brands, 6 dols 900
to 7 dollars ; Southern fancy and extra, 7 dollars 25 cents
to 8 dollars; Canadian superfise and extras, 6 dollars
20 cents to 7 dollars 75 cents; choice. extra Georgetown,
Richmond City Mills, Petersburg, and St. Louis, 8 dollars
to 8 dols 25c ; Haxall and Gallegos, 9 dole to 9 dole 25c.
Canadian was heavy, and sales were confined to about
250 brie, at the above quotations. Southern flour was
heavy, with sales of about 500 to 600 brls within the
range of the above prices. Rye flour tail moil were
unchangeable. Wheat was very quiet, and prices more or
less nominal • a small lot of 150 bshls common southern red
and white sold at 1 dol 35e to-1 dol 70c; prime to choice
southarn white was about 1 dol 763 to I dol 77c; western
winter re l was at 1 dol 57c to .1 dol 600. Corn was quiet,
at 63c to 70c for western mixed, from store and delivered ;
new yellow.southern was held at 72c, and old at 74c to
75c. Rle was quiet and nominal, at 88c to 90c for
northern. Oats were at 47c to 48c for- State, and 48c to
50i for western.
NAVAL STORES : The sales embraced about 1 500 brls
spirits turpentine at 48ic, now held at 50c, and 100 brls.
No. 2 rosin at 1 dol 72e, crude turpentine was held at 4 dole.

PaovoroNs.—Pork : The market was heavy, with sales
of 200 to 300 brls, including new mess at 20 dols, and old
do'. at 19. dots 37.4 e to 19 dols 50c. Beef was steady, with
sales of about 200 brls including country prime, at 9 dols
to 10 dols, and country mess and old repacked do at 10 dols
50c to 12 dots 25c, repacked new at 14 dols 50c to 14 dols
75c, aad 15 dols 53c for extra Chicago do. There was no
change worthy of note in other descriptions. Bacon was
steady, 100 boxes short ribin, sold at 91c. Pickled meats
were in fair request; 9ic was offered for 20,000 pieces
pickled hams, and refused. Lard was firm, with sales of
200 to 300 packages, at 13:c to 121 to 121 c asked.
FREIGHTS : Rates more steady, while engagements were
moderate. To Liverpool about 12,000 bushels of grain
were engaged at 7d to 81 in bulk and bags, 400 to 500 bbls
flour at 2.3 3d, 100 tierces beef at 4s, and 200 bbls lard and
100 boxes bacon at 253. Cotton was at 3-16 d to 7.321.
To London 200 boxes bicon at 32s 61, 3,000 bbls .flour at
28 lOid to 33. To Glasgow 500 bbl 3 flier were engaged
at 2s 104 d. To Rotterdam 1,000 bbls flour engaged at
3e 91, and 100 tons logwood at 255. Rates to Havre were
at 70c for flour, cotton Zc, bone at 2c, lard at lc.
NEW ORLEANS.—Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day 12,500
bales. Middling is quoted at 11,ic to 124-c. Flour has
declined to 6 dols 50c. Pork very dull at 18 dols for mess.
Bacon firm, clear sides selling at 9c, and ribbed do. at 10c.
Barrelled Lard is selling at I lie. Freights of Cotton to
Liverpool, 946 d. Exchange on London, 71d.

WEDNESDAY, NOON.
The following are the movements of this day's
markets :
COTTON : The market is very firm, and the demand
good, at 13/ for middling Uplands,
.131 for Mobile, and
13i for New Orleans.
Aiwa AND GRAIN : Flour market quiet, with a limited
business, chiefly for the home trade, at 6 dols 15c to 6
dots 40c for superfine State, 6 dots 50e to 7 dots for extra
State and Western, including Ohio. &c , and 6 dots
80a to 7 dots 20c for Baltimore. Wheat drooping; red is
held at 1 dot 40c to 1 dot 58e, and white at 1 dot 60c to 1
dal 78c. Bye firm at 90c to :-t3c. Corn dull at 67c to 70c
for mixed, and 70c to 75c for yellow and white.
Paovisiorts : POrk steady, with a moderate business.
Beef firmly held, sales of prime miss at 20 dots to 25 dots.
Hams and shoulders dull. Sides steady at 9L to 102 c.
Lard firm at 121 c to 13c. Cheese firm at Stic to 10&c.
STOCKS moderately active, at steady prices.
,MONEY in brisk demand, at 8 to 12 per cent.
DRY GOODS: Spring business is opening, with a fair
prospect of a fully active trade.

DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM Cox.—lt is with
regret we record the death of Major General William Cox,
K.H., who expired at St. Leonard's-on-Sea on Tuesday.
HO was a very distinguished officer, having served in the
old 95th at Copenhagen, and throughout the whole of the
Peninsular war, from 1808 to 1814. Major General Cox
was on the staff in Ireland. He had the war medal of
seven clasps for his Peninsular services.
CoNvicrioN AND SENTENCE OF A WILL FORGER.—
At' the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Wednesday
last, Dr. Dionysius Wielobycki, who had been convicted
on the Friday previous of forging and uttering a
fabricated will, was sentenced to fourteen years' transpor-
tation. The prisoner, originally a Polish refugee, bad for
12 or 13 years practised as a homceopathic physician in Edin-
burgh, his annual income having latterly approached £1,200.
lie had been called some years ago to attend a family of
elderly persons in Portobello, of whom only one, Miss
Isabella Darling, now survived, and so great influence
had he obtained over them that he had managed to
secure possession of all their finds, about £4,000, with
the view of investing them' for their benefit. It was for
forging the will of Margaret Darling that be was now
convicted. The trial and its results have occasioned great
sensation in Edinburgh, were the prisoner was extensively
k town.

LECTURE IN HOPE ,HALL.-011 Thursday evening the
Rev. J. M. Weiland, I).D , delivered a lecture in the
ab )ve hall, on "Israel a blessing to the nations." There
was a large attendance. The itev. J, B. Lowe occupied the
chair, and after a few introductory remarks, the Rev. Dr.
M'Calloch proceeded to elucidate his subject, showing that
though the Jews had not, as a people, embraced Christianity,
yet it was a fact well worthy of consideration, that to that
nation the world was indebted for all its Christianity, for
all the civilisation of which Christianity had been produc-
tive, and for .the manifold and invaluable blessings which
that Christian civilization has conferred. The great founder
of Christianity was himself a Jew.. The 3,000 Christian
converts otiPenteco-t were either Jaws or Jewish proselytes,
and they douhiless acted as so many zealous missionaries in
the various remote nations in all the regions of the world
from which they came. The first and most successful
preachers of the G.)spel to the heathen nations were not
Gentiles, but Jews; and the first stations in all the countries
where they carried on their evangelistic labours were the
Jewish synagogues, which were so many doors for the
entrance of revealed truth. During their long dispersion
amongst the nations the Hebrew nation maintained a con-
stant protest against polytheism, and a living testimony on
behalf of monotheism ; and thereby was presumed, to some
extent retarded the down ward flow of the rapid current of
human degeneracy. The lecture was listened to with much
attention, and at its conclusion a vote of thanks was passed
to the lecturer.

The following appeared in our second edition of
Saturday :
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

The steamer. Baltic, Captain Comstock, has just
arrived in the Mersey. She left New York at
noon on taturday, the 3rd instant. In the bay
she passed the ship Northumberland, bound in-
wards ; on January 'loth, in lat. 44 6, long. 42 8,
passcd a ship's topgallant mast, with rigging
attached, and several pieces of timber; January
117th, at 5 a.m , arrived off the. Bell Buoy, Liverpool.

COUNTY MAGISTRATES' COURT.-SATURDAY.

BEFORE MESSRS, HALL, PRESTON, ASPINALL, AND