Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

SEWS FR OM LIBE 31A.

The Rev. Mr. Says writes from Careysburg in Liberia,
that the cri.;is of scarcity is over in that loaality, but that
the ordeal has been fearful, and has amounted almost to
a famine. In other parts, many have actually been stary•
ing. Twice, only, at Careysburg have they been driven
to such a scanty supply as to have no bread for the pre-
sent meal. They have eat-n of their own potatoes, and
will soon have a Rood crop of Cassavas.
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The Colonisation Journal says, that at Cape Mount
there has been a loss of four adults rod eight children out
of ninety emigrants. while at Careysbtrg none have died.
With such an evidence of the importance of interior
locations, it trusts that no such oppressive conditions and
burthens will be imposed by the Republic of Liberia as
to drive the Colonizttion Soclety to abandon them, Let-
ters speak of great dullness in business, and of general
scarcity of provisions, attributed in part to the late wars,
and to the pol!cy of open trade for fereigm rs
M. J. D. Johnson writes from Nlonrovia, Jaly 19, that
great improvements are making at St. Paul's River, but
there has been a hard time all along the coast. and he
fears they will not be better off unlit they stop the inter-
course which the foreign traders now erjoy, and .which
they sho ill not enjly exc.pt at ports of entry. Oil is
dull. New rice is coming in.
They have I.Vtligs in Liberia. .letter in the Colonisa-
tion Journal mentions the election to the Legislature of
W S. Andersor, a Whig., who ran ahead of every
other candidate, although the "Whig ticket" in his town
was beaten.

)YS' CLOTHING MA-E wr cE GREATJAITE AT LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, ilialelagh-street.

THE ATLANTIC TEL',GRAPI3.—So Song as the failure of
the entespri• e wes announced, Mr. Gisbern forwarded a
telegraphic despatch to Peter Cooper, Esq., Ptesident of
the New York, Newfoundland and London Teleg•apb
Company, to the effect.—" that if appointed. Chief En-
gineer of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, with full
powers, he wr uld subm't a plan far laying the cable safely
at the rate of not less than eight nautical miles par hour,
or in case of fAlure w.uld fe.feit reputation, time, and one
thousand pounds rter'ing " The above is no more empty
vaunt, the manner of effecting it having been satisfactorily
explaieed to his Excellency the Govenor of this Colony.
It appears to us that our own (par excellence) Colonial
Telegraph Engineer, F. N. Gisborne, Esq , will maintain
Lis p ‘sitien in this in;elaty projection which has sprung to
life from the sweat of his bros, on our so-1. despite the
few wire have upon more than one emersion, to their
sorrow, shame and discimfitnre, nisi to injure his merits.
We venture to predict that s'iould all others fail, oar old
friend Gisb,,rre will stand forth, at all events to try.—
• Newfoundlead Paper.
TH3 COST Or DRESS.—LftdieS P7h, used to dress
handsomely on thirty poun 'a a year, now find that sum
insufficient for-their gawps alone; and middie-elass young
ladies, who bate hitherto been satisfied -vith twenty pounds
a year, nre now driven to eheir wits' end to keep up with
the mode at all; aed they have recourse to cheat) showy
silks that will not last, or light ga,.atr materials requieirg a
style of petticoat which makes the chess a costly one atter
all. Maid-servants, who feria before deposited sornethirg
in saving ' banks every pint- r, now feel morally cem;elled
to buy twice as finery yet& re formerly for their towns.
"It is bet nineperee a yard," tlie mistro:s says, when the
gown is in print ; but the gowns are rot all prints; and if
all r, quire eight or ten breadths in the skirt, ha different)
at the end of the year to a girl whose wages are tea or
tnelve pounds a year, is not smell. Finn the cheap print
gowns require so much making, and cue so troublesome
to wash and iron, that the custom is it tyrannous one to
those on whom it weighs least. As for the most nernsrou:
order of its victims, that of the midale•el:ss
year, 1857, will be a mortifying or disastrous one in the
family history of too many hoesehoYe. The cost of dress
has become so dtspr pot Conte to other items of e4endi-
tare as to create serious difficulty in the homes of men of
business, who have hitherto been able to provide their
wives and daughters with whatever was needful to a
satcderate complacency. The rich silks of the day, under
their various nitres, of which every lady now thinks one
at least absolutely necessary, cermet be had for a wife and
daughters, with the prodigious trimmings which are
equally indispen'ab'e, urder a less earn than would
maintain a country clergyman, or halr-pay officer smi his
family. The parerpherralia of ribb-ns, laces, fringes, and
flowers, is more expensive than tlze entire gown of ten
sears ago.— Westminster Review, new number.
FeRGERIES AT Lvoas.—The Courrier de Lyoaes contains
the following : —We have to annonece the arrest of a rich
landed proprietor, named Deno nt, formerly a grocer in
this city, for uttering forged notes. His name was some
time ego before the public by a lawsuit which he instituted
anainst the company formed to build the nee Iraperiale
here, from whom, in the end, he &stained an indemnity of
125,000 fr. The bank notes forged are all fur 500 ft. and
the mo :e adopted by him for puttirg them into circulation
was most curious, keepers oftrothels being generally the
victims At length cane of these persons-, being more acute
than the others from whom he had succre led in obtaining
change for his notes, detected the counterfeit and gait,
information to the police, which led to his arrest. So well
were the notes executed that one of them was received as
a deposit by a clerk at the Savings' Balk, but detected
later in the thy by another clerk. t'n being arrested by
the police at his resider ee, a handsome house, his own pro-
perty, in the Cite Napoleon, a number of other votes besides
those found on him were d'scovered 'concealed in different
places. On being examined by the commissary of police,
he at first said that all the notes had been given bim by a
Pole, who died in the hostital at Lyons in 1852 ; but the
falsehood of this story being clearly proved by some of the
note; bearing the date of 1851, he found that further denial
of his guilt was males", and he requested to he again taken
to his house, where he pointed out a concealed place which
was so made that its discovery would otherwise have been
impossible, end where plates were found far manufactur-
ing the notes, as well as a bundle of notes amounting to
490,000'r. The amount of notes which he has put into
circulation is not ex rctly known. it ap:eara that Dupont
at first paid a werkman 51-. a day fur prit ting them, but
the man aferrwardi deraanded and received 50fr. a week.
The wife of Dupont had been arrested.

ElCluairely for CLOTHING BOYS fr.m Six to Twenty Years
LEWIS & COMPANY, Haaelagh-street.