Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

NADA UNITED STATES

ARRIVAL OF THE INDIAN.

The screw-steamer IndianPwhich sailed from
Quebec on the 18th inst., arrived here about ten
o'clock yesterday morning. She brings 114 passengers,
among whom is Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. for
Rochdale, and President of the Board of Trade.
The news is three days later.

by this

There is no news of any consequen _-
arrival. We find a return in the Montreal paper.,
from which it appears that the revenue from Cus
toms in the Province of Canada during the present
year to the end of May, has been $2,041,760, ao.ains
$1,038,776 in the corresponding five months of 1858
being an increase of $1,002,984. In the excise

revenue for the same period, there has been an
increase of $111,513, being a total increase of
$1,114,497. We would be very glad, says the
Montreal Transcript, " to believe that these figures

return of solid prosperity.
3. spring have been great—

Our imiort ti-
the queition

indicate
tions thi
whether they have been too geat, cannot -wen be
answered until we know how the harvest turns
out."

His Excellency the Governor-General arrived in
Montreal on the 14th, by the Grand Trunk Rail-
road, and proceeded to the residence of the Hon. J.
Rose. We understand that his Excellency is on a
pleasure trip to the salt water, the gulf, and as far
as the shores of the Atlafttic. It is said that he will
certainly proceed as far d§ Belle Isle, and b accom-
panied by several of the Ministers as well as other
gentlemen. _

- By an order of Council, to take,efekton.:--the 16th
inst., considerable reductions h

upon the IV

Welland Canal articles in the 3rd class have been
reduced from 20 cents to 15 cents per ton ; those of
the 4th class, from 25 cents to 20 cents ; those of the
sth class, from 30 cents to 25 cents, and those of the
6th class from $1 to 50 cents ; while boards, planks,
scantling and other sawed lumber, which lately paid
30 cents per 1,000 superficial feet, are now charged
but 20 cents. Barrel staves and headings, 30 cents
instead of 40 cents per M. ; pipe staves, $1 50c
instead 9f $2, and West India staves 60 cents in
lieu of 75 cents. The following articles which
hitherto paid $1 as coming under the 6th class, have
been transferred to the sth class, paying 25 cents per
ton, namely : rosin, tar, pitch, whiting, chalk, ships'
stores, crockery, iron safes, soda ash, white lead,
paint, turpentine, dye woods and dye stuffs, leather,
manufactured tobacco, mahogany, and agricultural
implements. Ice has been placed in the 3rd or lowest
class; and horses and all kinds of oil, in barrels,
have been put in the 4th class. But by far the most
important reduction is the transfer of flour, wheat,
and agricultural products not elsewhere enumerated,
from the fifth to the fourth class, thus reducing the
tolls on those staple articles from 30 cents per ton,
which they recently paid, to 20 cents per ton. A
Corresponding reduction has been made in the tolls
on the St. Lawrence Canal.

A letter from Washington, dated June 16th says :
—The views of the Administration as to the rights
of the naturalized citizens who may return to Europe,
were yesterday promulgated by General Cass, in a
letter from the State Department. The Secretary
states that this Government will not interfere
in cases where individuals voluntarily return to
countries to which they owed military service at the
period of their departure for the United States.
The State Department has received advices from
our Minister at Chili, giving all the facts relative to
the seizure of the schooner Townsend Jones. The
Administration has sent instructions to our minister
to demand reparation for the revocation of the
exequator of the American Consul at Valparaiso, and
a man-of-war has also been ordered to that port.
The officers and crew of the barque Orion surren-
dered to the custody of the U. S. Marshal. .The
Orion was chartered in December last to J. T.
Demirancla of this city, for a trading voyage to the
coast of Africa.

The New York Board of Education had passed, by
a vote of 25 to 16, to compel the reading of the Bible
in all public schools.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

QUEBEC, Saturday, Jun(

18, 1859

AsnEs.—ln this article we note a decline, more particu-
larly for Pots. Pearls are more looked after. The supply

of both is small

PRODUCE.—The recent news from Britain has had much
effect on our market; prices more particularly of flour are
lower. Stock of low grades in first hands is heavy, and
some anxiety is manifested to realise on that description.
Holders of good Canada brands do not press sales, and are
Ihm at our prices. •
P.novisroms.—Pork remains as quoted last week, without
much demand. Beef is easy, and low grades are offered
fully at our inside prices.
The Grocery trade is very dull. Auction sales during the
week were well attended, but bidding poor, and in most
instances only first lots sold.
Fish and oils continue nominal. We are informed on
reliable authority that the Labrador seal fithery of last fall

was very poor.
Coals and salt have not arrived very freely,•and prices are
firmer.

Freights and exchange are without material Chang.

XEW YORK, Thursday, June 16, 1859

.Flour : Receipts moderate. State and Western heavy,
and 10c lower. Sales of Western 5,000 brls. Sup. State
$6 15c to $6 40c; Extra State $6 60c to $6 80c; round hoop
Ohio $7 to $7 25c; common to good extra Western $6 65c
to $7. Southern dull and heavy, sales trifling. ; $7 25c to
$7 40c for mixed to good ; $7 500 to $9 25 tor fancy and

and extra nominal