Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

19th ult

THE VOYAGE OF THE PERSIA.—The erank pin of
the Persia, weighing about 1,800 pounds, and about
three feet in length—an immense piece of iron,—broke
Van the ship was between 500 and 600 miles out. A
hurricane was blowing at the time, and the sea was
very high. The waves dashed over the ship, and
the wind blew away some of the sails. During
the night, Captain Judkins got the vessel round,'
so that she rode the waves better. The gale continu-
ing the next day, the captain determined to put back,
and did put back. He disconnected the engines, and
using one wheel, run over 100 miles back, and got into
the lee of the Irish coast, where the ocean was com-
paratively calm. The engineer then undertook to put
the pin in,—in which he happily succeeded, to the
admiration of all the passengers, who complimented
him highly therefore. This was done in about fifteen
hours' time.

Captain Judkins then made a new start, and again
was met by a succession of heavy gales. The gale was
heavy off Cape Race and on 'Satur.!ay night, and on
Sunday morning, the ship was on the line gale, and the
passengers suffered not a little from the storm.

The—passengers raised about $6OO to give the captain
and other officers pieces of plate, and the remaining
amount was to' be distributed among the crew.
The Persia made a terrible racket.coming in on Mon-
day morning, firing some fourteen guns to wake up the

the dock.

The city was pretty well waked up
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

A gentleman, who came as a passenger in the Persia,
describes the storm in which she was disabled as
_most terrific. Her crank pin was broken on Monday
evening, about ten 'o'clock. She lay too until next
afternoon, in hopes the storm would abate, so she
could repair : • but, finding no improvement in the
weather it was decided to put back for Cork. After
proceeding in that direction about a hundred miles,
weather moderated, and breakage repaired, when the
steamer was put about again. When reaching again
the same latitude in-which the disaster occurred, she
encountered another storm, more terrific than the first,
but ploughed her way throu,gh it uninjured, except the
ciushing of one of her wheel-houses. The Persia has
the heaviest freight she has ever brought.
In. respect of the San Juan difficulty, the Washington
correspondent of the New Fork Herald, writing under
date of the
_l6th of September, says :
,

" General Scott left here .this afternoon for New
York, and-will sail in the steamer of the 20th for the
Pacific. The present delicate and complicated state of
affairs at San Juan, growing out of General Harney's
movements, requires great care and caution on the part
of our government to prevent a collision. The Presi-
dent, in conferring with General Scott, in regard to
the matter; suggested the propriety of sending some
one there who was less impetuous and more prudent
than General Harney. General Scott at once informed
the President that he would go, and that as soon as his
instructions were prepared, he would be ready to start.
The instructions were partially prepared, and considered
in Cabinet Council to-day. They will probably be com-
pleted to-morrow, and forwarded immediately to New
York. The Administration received some additional
advices from General Harney, brought by the Star of
the West. There had been no material change, and

matters remained in sta'u quo

The Herald, commenting upon the above intelligence,
remarks:—

" The latest accounts from the island of San Juan, the
focus of the trouble, are to the 13th ult. • At that date
quiet.prevailed, -and the British and American forces re-
mained as previously repUrted—the British vessels at
anchor in the harbour, and the 'United States' troops
in camp on shore. But it was also reported that
General Harney had ordered all the troops at his dis-
posal to reinforce the command on the island, while
Governor Douglass had directed additional British
vessels of war to rendezvous at that point. Although
it is not apprehended that serious consequences will
result from the action of General Harney, yet the Presi-

General of the army

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAI
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—The receptrs of

the New

In dry goods the business doing is limited both
among commission houses and importers, though a much
better trade is now expected, as the largest of the
auction sales for the season are now over.

Ashes unchanged, pot 5 50, pearl 5 25. Cotton quiet,
sales small, mid uplands 111 to 1131. Flour, receipts
10,172, sales 10,800 bbls; State and Western heavy,
and 5 to 10c lower, unsound 3 50 to 3 90, superfine
State 4 to 4 25, extra State 4 40 to 4 50, round hoop
Ohio 4 70 to 5 15 ; common to good extra Western
440t0 4 75. Beef dull, sales 250 bbls, country mess
5 75 to 7, prime 5 to 5 -50, repacked. Chicago 7
to 10. Pork firmer, sales 2050 bbls, mess 15 50
to 15 68, prime 10 68 to 10 75, Western prime mess 13
to 13 50. Bacon nominal, hams 81, shoulders 71.
Lard quiet ; sales 380 bbls, at 101 to 11k. Sugar steady,
sales 700 hhds., muse 51 to 61; 2,400 boxes Havana, at
51; to 6k. Coffee firm ; sales 150 bags Laguayra, at 13.
Molasses steady, clayed muse 23. Spirits of Turpentine
quiet, 'small sales at 47*; rosin lower, sales 3000 bbls.
common at 1 521 to 1 55. Iron quiet, Scotch $23.
• Frieghts to Liverpool quiet and firm; Cotton id. ;
Flour, la. 9d.

CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Flour dull. Wheat firm and
advanced Ic. ; spring, 743 e. Corn tends upward, sales
6,000 bus, 70c. Oats buoyant. Receipts to-clay, 4,800
bols flour. 84,000 wheat ; 5,509 corn; shipments,
6,000 flour, 177,000 wheat, 16,000 corn.
Touorrro' Sept. 20.—Flour firm. Wheat declined
3c. ; receipts, 8,000 brls. ; sales of white winter at 95c.
to $1 2c. Barley firm.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20.—Sales of cotton to-day
7,500 bales at irregular prices, mid. quoted 11-1 ; sales
of last three days 13,000, and receipts 16,000, against
16,000 last year; exports of the three days, 10,000 ;
receipts at this port 24,000 in excess of last year.
Sugar firm at 61 to 61 for fair to fully fair. Lard in

brl 111. Wiacs.ky 2g. Freights to Havre, lke

SUSPENSION OF TRADE WITH JAPAN.

In Japan, affairs have assumed a very unsatisfactory
position. On the 11th July the Treaty was duly
ratified, but since then the Japanese Government have
attempted to evade it by seeking to confine foreigners
to a small island about ten miles from Yeddo, and to
establish the same sort of surveillance over them as they
formerly exercised at the Dutch settlement of Decima.
They have further sought to establish a new coin
as the only one to be used in commercial dealings with
foreigners, but at the same time forbidding its currency
among the natives, so that all payments in the new coin
would have to be exchanged at the Government treasury
for the old itzabon ; and the relative value fixed by the
Government produced a depreciation of 66 per cent. on
foreign coins, which, according to treaty, are to be
received at their intrinsic value as metal. Mr. Alcock,
the British Consul-General, has issued a protest, and has
stopped the trade for the present.

It is a well-known maxim that " time is money "—the terms
are relative ; so to save one is to save the other. We save
both time, and economise patience, and present good tempers,
when we have a good PEN-a bad one upsets patience and
temper. Preserve all, then, by purchasing your steel pens and
other stationery at E. T. Hall's wholesale steel pen warehouse,
23, South John-street. John Gillott's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W.
Hughes, and other maker's, on sale at is. per grov.
Pen Holders, 2d. per dozen.
HoLLowey's OINTMENT AND PILLS.—AII erroneous idea
prevails in this country in relation to hemorrhoids or piles.
They are suffered to drain the system of its lifeblood because it
is deemed dangerous to meddle with them. But this painful
disease can be expeditiously cured by the use of Holloway's
Pills and Ointment. The former expels the acrid, irritating
matter which produces the pain; while the Ointment, acting
as a balsamic stypic, closes the mouths of the relaxed vessels ;
and thus a safe cure is achieved. These preparations are com-
posed of rare balsams, as mild as they are efficacious. Direc-
tions for their use are affixed to each box and pot. 31

were not all trustworthy, and it was, therefore, necessary
that volunteer corps should be formed for our pro-
tection at home and abroad. He cited several
passages of. Scripture to show that the profession
of arms was not all unchristian, and concluded by wish-
ing the gallant volunteers God speed. At the conclu-
sion of the sermon, collections were made on behalf of
the Christ Church National Schools, realising £l7 odd,
after which, the Volunteers marched from the church.
After leaving church, the corps marched down Islington,
along Commutation-row, amd, turning up London-road,
proceeded to the Birchfield Barracks, where they dis-
persed, but not before they had played " Rule Britan-
nia" and "God save the Queen." The officers in com-
mand were Captain Bousfield, Lieutenant Taylor, En-
sign Robertson, and Captain Billham. The gathering
altogether would number about 100, and every move-
ment shoWed the soldier, reflected through the gentleman.
SOLDIERS' WIVES FOR INDIA.—The fine ship Accring-
ton, Captain Horner, sailed on Saturday for Calcutta,
having on board some 300 soldiers' wives and their
children. In noticing the fact, a day or two ago, that
theAccrington was about to sail, we were unwittingly led
equire I into an error. An investigation did take place by

women going out had,' it-was stated to the
very bad character, and it was an investi-
her to sail with

gation as to the propriety of allow

steady men. The woman was, after the investigation
allowed to proceed in the Accrington under surveillance