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

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

QUEBEC, Sept. G.
Tama : Me.srs. Forsyth, Bell, and Cu'd. circular, of
-to-day, rionatki:—
Dur,ng the past few weeks our markets have shewn no
improvernenr. in juice al bough there have been several large
sales, yet no buoyancy is apparent as purchasers merely buy to
supply present wants, and until there is a change for the better
either in the home markets or in the fin racial state in New
York, we are no san;ulno of am}, improvement.
Rafts of very fair qt:ality and manuf,te'rne, and of 58 to 62
feet average have been sold at from 61d to 611, while for 50
to 55 feet the price may be quoted at from 5,;(1 to 611 for good
fair quali y; for very prime. rafts of 60 to 65 feet a larger
price is demanded ; several rafts, however, of 80 to 85 feet
are hell at 311 to Bd, but could, we believe, be purchased for

In RED PINE there is very little doing, and we do no'
consider the demand equal to what it was in the eat ly part o
the month.

OAK has arrived very sparingly up to the middle of the
asionth, but the stock ,s now getting larger. and we reduce
.our quotations to 18d to 191 large parcels ccuid nor, we
think, be placed even at the lower quotations, if forced off at
the present state of depression in our mat kets•
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Rill is much as when we iatteil our last Circular.

STAMARD STAVEB in small quantities are Felling at L 52 10.,
"hut we think £5O would be aceoprecl for lots of 20 M to 30
X. West India are more in demand, but the price in England
.11 no means warrants the present quotations.
DZALB are still in languid deinaurl, and we reduce our
4rino'a`ions, though for first late specifications our highest rates
-.can he obtained.

FIIZIGHTS are very dull especiAlly for Livetplal, to which
port very few Lre inclined to ship at any rate. 293 to 30s for
lite Clyde, arid 35e for London may be considered as the Pre-
sent quotations.
Our arrivals have been pretty numerous since we last issued
our circular and we do not expect over 150 to 200 more vessels
during the remainder• of the season.

1 mammoth cucumber has been shown in the office of
the Providence Journal. It weighs over eight pounds,
and is five feet ard a half in length. It recembles a
serpent in shape, ard is in fact of the species called the
"serpent cuoamb r." There are two others on the
same vile, still larger and mote serpent-like in their
..shape. Th-ngh so large, they a-e in flavor more d-li-
c.ate than the encumber of the usual size. The seeds
from which this cucumber sprang clere brouzht from
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IrIEDICAL PRACTICZ IN BELOOCIIISTAN.—To the practice
of aiec'icine in Beloochistan there are only two slight
drawbacks. 'When the physician gives a dose, he is ex-
pected to part Ike of a similar one himself, as a gcarantee
of his good faith ; should the patient die under his hands,
the relate, s, though by no means bound to exercise it in
all circumstances, h,,ve the right of puttir. him to death,
unless a special agreement has been mode freeing him
from all responsibility as to the coLsequcnces ; while he,
should they detile on immolating him, has no reason ble
ground f,r complaint, but is exi,ected to submit to his fate
like a man and a bAirn. In other respects the amateur
will Oad an easy field,--lilackurood s Magazine fJr October.

DARING ROBBERY IN ABERDEEN.

On Monday morning, a robbery, remarkable fer its
extent and daring, was discovered to have been committed
in the pawnbroking establishment of Mr. Bain, Broad-
street, Abe-deen The property stolen consists of 29 gld
wat 31 silver do , rings, 20 watch chains, and
about Pt 3 in money—the whole amounting probably to
nearly £3OO. The manner in which the thieves accom-
plished
their work was at once clever and cunning. They
aseended to the top of the house—a four story one—
adjoining the pawn establishment, opened the door of a
padlocked garret dere, g)t cut at the skylight, then slid
down the slates to a flat leaded portion of the building
(the scratches made by their shoes are very distinct),
clambered up a division wall to get on the roof of Mr.
Bain's house (which is also flat and leaded on the top),
tore off some slates and wood from the side of a projecting
attic door, and thus being able to draw the bolt, were
within the pawn establishment. Being a very old building,
this is one of the most intricate places possible to conceive;
yet the burglars bad managed most adroitly to pick their
way through trap doors and winding stairs till they came to
the office, where they extracted the money and part of
the goods. They then proceeded to the low floo , and
reached the sale-shop, admission to which they obtained by
cutting a round hole in the door, by means of a boaring-
brace with a bit, large enough to let in a man's arm.
Here they got the gold and silver watched; an 1, having
satisfied themselves within, must have retraced th it steps
to the flat roof of the house, where they cooly picked and
arranged their booty, a quantity of the less valuable rings,
&c , being left lying in their cases at the top of the house
Strange to say. nearly the whole of the stolen property
were et( ek kept by Mr. Ban for sale. The pledged goods
of the same de cription—though perfec ly at the command
of the thieves—were left untouched. Probably they may
have thought the valuables they have taken are less likely
to be so well known or easily recognised as pawned
articles. A curious circumstance connected with -the
robbery is the fact that, as in the case of the robbery from
a jeweller's last week in Edinburgh, the thieves were
heard by two females opening the padlocked door about
one o'clock (Monday morning), talking to each other
inside, and quitting again three hours a'ter ards. The
damsels were, however, so much terror stricken, that they
were quite unable to rise and venture an alarm. In
getting from the one balcony 'o the other the robbers had
to pull themselves up by a rope fastened to some woodwork
on the top of the higher house This rope they left
behind them—the only one of their instruments yet dis-
covered. They missed, it may be mentioned, a sum of
£l4O Mr. Bain had in a d ewer. The robbery was dis-
covered about half past six, when the officials went to
open the establishment; and intelligence having been
immediately conveyed to the police, a large number of the
force were instantly on the trail of the thieves, who are
supposed to be strangers. Up till the afternoon, however,
not the least trace had been obtained either of them or
any por ion of the stolen goods. The fellows were no
dobat greatly assisted in their daring and successful
scheme by the beautifully clear moonlight of the morning.
—North British Mail.