Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

MoLAssEs, RUM, AND COFFEE : Nothing has taken plac
RICE : Nottung to notice.

SALTPETRE
per cent.

300 bags are reported at 40s. per cwt. for

EAPESEED: 3,000 bags, at 365. for Scinde, 38s. to 445.
Dr middling, to fine brown Bombay, and 48s. 3d. per
uarter for rlnzAr.t

LONDON MINING MARKET._JULY 25.
In the Mining market to-day a considerable amount of
business has been done in shares in West Seton, Wheal
Seton, Wheal Clifford, East Basset, Stray Park, and
Hingston Downs mines. Prices generally are firm. Foreign
--3 shares remain without alteration. Port
ire marked 10s.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—JULY 25.
ttendance was fair, and the tone firm but quiet.
'most articles of the trade were slightly higher 'or

Prices (

f home-grown grain was small. The
in into London since last Monday were
as 'fair of flour, large of wheat and

reported this mormi
oats, and fair of barl(
WHEAT.—For English an advance of ls. to 2s. per qr. over
last Monday's 'prices was asked, but there was a slow sale.
A parcel -of new white English wheat, not prime quality,
hed 455. per quarter. Foreign held at ls. per qr. over
rates. English white, 40s. to 465. ; red, 355.
Dantzic and Konigsberg, 445. to 58s per
50s. to 525. ; other Baltic ports, 40s. to

40i. to 50s

50s. ; Fi
Flow

i but quiet, at last Monday's prices. Town,
)rfolk, 28s . to 295. per 2801bs. ; French, 30s.
Amer., 17. S.—per barrel:
at about last Monday's rates. English,
rter ; Baltic, 28s. to 38s. ; other sorts,

BARLEY slow sa.

-475. to 325. per quarter. •
OATS sold slowly at about last Monday's rates
245. to 325. per quarter ; Russian, 21s. 6d. to
'Aber Baltic ports, 225. to 28s. per quarter.
• English and Egyptian unaltered, at last Mon-
English tick, 365. to 425. ; harrow, 425. to
Foreign, 40s. to 50s. per qr. Egyptian, 335.

British

,3s. per qr

468. per qr

°L' qr.
PEAS quiet at last Monday's rates. English boilers, 48s.
) 50s. ; hog and grey, 38s. to 425. Foreign, white, 48s.
Pi!owrirro CARGOES.—Since last Friday 14 grain-laden
ported
,arrived at ports of call, viz., 7 wheat,
1 beans. 1 millet seed. The demand for

SALE OF WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY.—The sale of this
library of nearly 3,000 volumes in every class of literature,
for which, the literary world had looked with some anxiety,
took place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, last week,
under the management of Mr. John Burton, of Preston,
who occupied the rostrum with much ability, and manifested
no little tact in the manner in which he expatiated on the
volumes, and the assoeiations connected with them. The
mode in which the books were arranged and catalogued was
superior to anything of the kind previously seen in the pro-
vinces, where a huge poster is generally the only catalogue
I nut. AND IMPRISONMENT OF MR. JOSEPHJOSEPHBARKER, provided for the public. There was a large attendance of
IN ANiERIoA.—On Monday last, Mr. Joseph Barker, the booksellers from London, Dublin, Manchester, and other
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-known infidel orator, was arrested at Virginia, for towns, of clergymen, `and private buyers. Among the latter
ig some time back incited the people to rebel against were Lady Cranworth, Sir John Richardson, of Arctic fame-
tel slavery, in his tour through the United States, and Dr. Davy, the brother of the inventor of the safety-lamp
In haVing spoken in' strong terms against .the American and the Rev. J. Wordsworth, a grandson of the poet. The
revivals and the christian slaveholding churches. For first day's sale seemed somewhat affected by the weather,
several months the spies belonging to the slaveholders have the rain pouring in torrents, and preventing a thronged
been on the watch for Mr. Barker, expecting that he would attendance. On the second day there was more animation
unthinkingly, walk unmolested through the Slave States ; in the biddings ; and on Thursday, the concluding day, when
LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—.Tuur 25. to suffer in a dark dungeon for ten solitary months, if even he the books sold were principally in verse, the bulk of them
The market is steady. Prices, which exhibit little move_ but his manly courage has been overtaken, and he is doomed being presentation copies from their authors to Wordsworth,
ment, are
quoted as follows :—Town tallow, 50s. 6d. net should bear: the inhuman tortures of this kind of prison life. there was much competition, some of the lots bringing re.
cash ; Petersburg ye., on the spot, 535. 3d- ; July, 5380.
~6d2• Mr. Barker, with all- his opposition to christiamty, goes to warkab!y highda.mounts. It should be noticed that auto-
use,—cincinnati Herald, graphs mserte in most of the books gave them great addi.
August, 535. 9d. to 545. ; October to December, 645, ou. to
548. 6(1. prison in a virtuous and god-hke Ca tional value in the eyes of the bidders.
May, 1859,

vessels were—r
4 maize, 1 IT

ale- /Lot , ~,nee Monday, rather inactive. The latest
Salonie reported before was that of an arrived cargo of
ha need maize, 275. 6d: per 480 lbs. Importers ask en-
- -erma. frront

has been

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-
Che following public sales are declared for to-morrow
gar : 600 hhds. West India, 4,000 bags Mauritius, and
0 bags Madras. Coffee : 3,000 bags Costa Rica, 250
ks plantation Ceylon, and 1,500 bags native. Tea : 7,000
.kages. Rice : 2,000 bags cleaned.
; UGAR : The market wears a steady appearance, but we wei
without business of importance to report by private hal-
pal
tract since Friday, except two floating cargoes of Ha-
aah for the United Kingdom.

JULY 25

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TEA remains firm

have a steady a