Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-03 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's screw-
steamer Hungarian, Capt. T. Jones, which left Portland
on the 21st ult., arrived in the Mersey this morning.

The United States Senate was not in session on Fri-
day, the 20th ult. In, the house the only subject of
interest was the speech of. Mr. Sherman, defining his
position, and offering to make a full explanation if Mr.
Clark would withdraw his .resolution, which the latter
declined to do. Without attempting to ballot for
Speaker, the house adjourned to Monday.
Shocks of an earthquake were felt at Charleston,
Augusta, Macon, and other places, at six o'clock on
Thursday evening, the 19th ult.
Messrs. J. It. Giddings, Plumb, and John Brown,
jun.,,had been summoned 'to Washington to give ,evi-
deuce before the Harper's Ferry Investigating Com-
mittee.
The Quebec Gazette, of the 18th ult., says :—" Yester-
day and to-day the. river was very clear of ice; indeed,
crossing was accomplished yesterday in perfectly clear
water."

Governor Stewart had refused to sign the bill lately
passed by the Missouri Legislature for the exclusion of
free negroes from the State.
The birthday of Franklin was commemorated at the
Music-hall, Boston, on the evening of the 17th ult., by
the Franklin Typographical Society, before Whom the
Hon. Ed. Everett delivered an oration on the early life
of that distinguished printer. The hall was packed.
Advices from. San Francisco to Dec. 26, state that
business remained unchanged, and the large number of;
vessels due tended to increase the indisposition to oper-
ate. The weather was favourable.

The message of Gov. Ghilson, of Washington Terri-
tory, expresses astonishment that the war 'debt of that
territory had not been paid iby Congress, and is particu-
larly severe on Gen. Scott on account of his concessions
in the San Juan affair.

Advices from Curacao state that the yellow fever was
prevailing among the troops of that place.
The Governor of Yucatan had left the capital to take
command of the troops destined to exterminate the
Indians.
There is a movement on foot in the Legislature of
Chiapas to open to foreign trade the port of Barra de
Tonala on the Pacific side. It has been heretofore
closed to all but coastwise traffic.

B. J. Nicholas, late British Consul at Honolulu, died
on board the ship Piazzaro en route for Bremen.

The Ralson tap Company is about to withdraw its
agency from the Sandwich Islands.
The Pike's Peak express arrived at Leavenworth
on the 19th ult., with dates from Jefferson Territory to
the 12th ult., and from Salt Lake to December 30th,--
Advices from Mountain City report that the miners are
still at work in that neighbourhood with, profitable re-
turns. Elections had been held in
,the mountain, in
which the question of organising new counties under
the provisional government was voted down. by a hun-
dred majority. The general expression is in favour of
a separate political organisation by Congress, and
against connection with Kansas. A demand for
mail facilities with New Mexico was sensibly felt,
owing to the increase of commerce between the
two countries. An emigration is 'expected during
the coming spring superior to that of last year ; and
emigrants are cautioned against taking the road unpro-
vided with subsistence. A desperate affray occurred in
Salt Lake city, on the Sunday. preceding the departure
of the mail, between two bands of desperadoes headed
respectively by Lot Huntington and Bill Hickman, in
which Hickman was mortally and Huntington slightly
wounded, and several others received trifling injuries.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.
NEW Yonx, Jan. 20, 6 p.m.
STOCKS.—At the second board stocks wero lower and
dull, closing -heavy. • Quotations : Chicago and Rock
Island Railroad, 631 ; Galena and Chicago Railroad,
63a ; Cleveland anti Toledo Railroad, 191-4; Read-
inq Railroad, 371 ; Illinois Central Railroad, 56 ;
Michigan Central Railroad, 371, b. 60 ; New York
Central Railroad, 734.; Harlem Railroad preferred, 321;
Hudson River Railroad, 411 ; Pacific Mail Steamship
Co., 78 ; Delaware and Hudson Canal Co., 931 ; Ten-
nessee Sixes, 86k; Virginia Sixes, 9*, ; Panama Rail-
road, 129 t, s. 60.
ASHES unchanged; sales, 50 brls; Pots, $5 25; •Pearls,
85 37. COTTON active and A-C better; sales, 8;000 bales,
including 4,500 bales in transit; middling Uplands 11/c.
BREA DSTUFFS.— Flour -- Receipts, 5,757 brls ; . sales,
5,400 • brls : State and Western, heavy and lower ;
superfine State, $5 15 to $5 20 ; extra State, $5 25 to
$5 37 ; round hoop Ohio, $5 70 to 85 80; common to
good extra Western, 85 30 to $5 40. Southern
unchanged : sales, 1,600 brls ; mixed to good $5 60
to• $5 80 ; fancy and extra, $5 85 to $7 .25.
•Canada superfine nominal • sales, 250 brls • extra at
85 70 to $6 65. Grain—WheatA '
dull and drooping ;
sales, 4,000 bushels : Chicago Spring, $1 25 del ; white
California, $1 60 ; SOuthern white, $1 53. Corn, heavy
and lower; sales, 28,000 bushels ; new white and yel-
low, 80c. to 82c. PROVISIONS.—Beef unchanged;
sales, 150 brls; country mess, $5 to $5 25; prime, $4 to
$4 25; repacked Chicago, $9 to $9 75 ; prime mess, dull
at $l6 to $l7 50. Pork, firmer ' • sales, 230 brls ; mess,
$l6 45 to $l6 50 for old, $l7 12 to $l7 25 for new;
prime $ll 62 for old. Bacon quiet. Dressed hogs,
buoyant at 61c to 7ke. ,Lard, dull ; sales, 200 brls at
10c to 10/c. Butter, dull; Ohio, 12c to 16c; State, 15c
to 23c. RICE, firm; sales, 200 tierces at 4c to 4kc.
SUGAR, steady; sales, 25 hhds New Orleans at 71c;
250 ditto Muscovado at 71c to 74c. COFFEE, firin;
sales,
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2165 cc..
SPIRITS TURPENTINE—quiet ; sales 309 brls at 44
to 44kc ; crude (2,000. brls) at $3 50. ROSlN—quiet at
$1 60 to 165 for common. TAR.—Sales 1,000 brls at
$2 25 to 82 44. - IRON=—quiet ; Scotch Pig, $26 per ton.
OlLS—quiet; 'Linseed, 57 to 58c; Lard, 90 to 95c;
Sperm, $1 45; Whale, 48 to 5302 LEAD—dull; Spa-
nish $5 70 ; Galena, $5 754 to 65 80. Toracco—
unchanged ; sales 100 hhds Kentucky, at 41 to 9k.
TALLOW—steady ; sales .50,000 lbs, at 108 to 1010.
Freights to Liverpool unchanged ; Cotton 3-16 d ;
Grain skd to 6d.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 19.—Cotton : Sales to-day 2,500
bales ; market firm.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 19.—Cotton : Sales to-day 5,000
bales; sales for the week 13,750 bales; mid. 11 to like.