Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-11 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Flour down to £2O per ton. Holders of .wool are
demanding an advance, and some 'transactions have•
taken place.
The brig Test brings 2,400 bags of sugar. General
business is dull.

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Queensland is to be proclaimed in a fortnight's time.
Mr. Plunkett has been offered the Presidency of the•
National Board.

TASMANIA.
Ad\ices from Hobart Town to the 16th inst.
The flour market is showing signs of animation, and
prices are quoted at £2O to £22.
Measures are in progress for completing the inter-
rupted telegraphic communication with the continent.

TASMANIA.—In Tasmania the colonists were con-
gratulating themselves upon the subsidence of political
agitation. One of their sorest subjects is the expense-
which is still inflicted upon them through the main-
tenance of benevolent and other institutions for the re-
mains of the convict population. They avoli.themselves
ready to do their proper share, but complain bitterly of
the selfishness of the mother country in leaving them to,
bear, unassisted, the whole of the burden. The news-
from the gold-fields was by no means exciting, yet many
of the diggers were doing well.—Auatralian_ilfail.
THE REPRESENTATION OF FORFARSHIRE.—We have
the best authority-for stating that the Hon. Charles.
Carnegie, brother of the Earl of Southesk, is to become
a candidate for the seat for this county. Mr. Carnegie-
comes forward in the Liberal interest, and is a, sup-
porter of the present government. He is a young-
man, being only twenty-six years of age, bat, he-
is already pretty well known among agricultural
men in Forfarshire, as well as in agricultural
districts in England. Mr. Carnegie has seen service in
the army both in Canada and India, having held the-
rank of lieutenant in the 73rd and 29th Regiments. He:
has now retired from the service, and has recently de-
voted himself assiduously to agricultural pursuits. lie
resides at Kinnaird Castle, the seat of his brother, and.
has at present the entire management of the Southesk
estates, whose noble owner has some time since aban-.
doned the Conservatism which was long a hereditary
element in the family politics.—Arbroath Guide.
MR. COBDEN.-11r; Cobden attended the.monthly
' dinner of the Society of Political Economists in Paris on
Thursday. The conversation turned chiefly on the
Isthmus of Suez scheme. Mr. Cobden observed that
the opposition in Parliament was owing in some mea-
sure to the manner in which the question was intro-
duced, the House of Commoni almost fancying that it
was expected to take shares in the enterprise. The
principal opposition was found among diplomatis'3- who
seemed to think that the concession of lands, and the
construction of forts might be at some future period
turned to the injury of English interests ; but that there,
was no opposition on the ground that any country, on,
the Mediterranean could deprive England by means off
that canal of a considerable portion of her trade with
the East. The natural advantages of England and her -
geographical situation rendered any such apprehensions-
futile. Moreover, the opposition .to Are scheme bath
much diminished in England.

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