Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-30 00:00:00

NEW YORK MARKETS, JuLY 17.

The sales of cotton yesterday embraled about 1,200
bales, based upon middling uplands at about 15c, and Mid-
dling New Orleans at 151 c, which was an advance of 8c to
ac from the lowest figures of last week. Cotton has now
reached the highest price it has been before in seventeen
years, or since 1830. The average price of 15c per lb, will
give a value to each bale of 400 lbs. (the average weight)
of 60 dole. Estimating the crop at 2,950 000 bales, which
may be considered from 200,000 to 230,000 bales under the
average actual growth of the two or three prior years, and
each bale at 60 dole, will give a total value of the crop at
177,000,000 dole. Flour was firmer, and closed at an ad-
vance of 5c to 10c per barrel. Wheat sold to a moderate
extent. including Chicago Riming at 1 dol 400, and prime
white Canadian at 2 dole, and some Milwaukie on p:ivate
private terms, Corn was in light supply, with sales of
Western mixed at 83c to 84c to 85c, the latter figure for
prime. Pork again advanced, with sales of mess at 23
doll 75c to 21 doh, chiefly at 23 dole 87c to 24 dole
Sugars were sold to the extent of about 400 hhde. Freights
were dull, and rates unchanged.

CANADA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLO-SAXON.

The Montreal Ocean Mail Steam-ship Company's
Steamer Anglo-Saxon, Captain M'Master, which
sailed from QuAce on the 18th inst., arrived here
last night, with nearly 200 passengers, and one
week's later news. The Anglo-Saxon was detained
twenty-four hours, by a dense fog, in the St. Law-
rence.

The news to hand is interesting As intimated
in our summary of news per the Columbia, the
coroner's jury at Quebec had found thy, owner,
captain, mate, and pilot of the steamer Montreal,
recently burnt on the river St. Lawrence, guilty of
manslaughter. The verdict takes up half a column
in the Quebec Chronicle. The jury, in the course of

it, say :
That the steamboat Montreal, before mentioned, was
not equinced in the manner required by the law 16 Te.
Cap. 167. Sec. 1, and had not on board, as a boat attached
to, and belonging to her, for passengers, a life boat made
of metal, fire proof, and in all respects a good, substantial,
safe ssaboat, capable of sustaining inside and outside fifty
person., with life lines attached to the gunwale, at suitable
distances, well furnished with oars, nor any life preservers
of suitable material, or floats—well adapted for preserving
life, for each and every passenger on Id'ard, in any con-
venient or accessible place in the before-mentioned steamer
Montreal, on the day on which sin was destroyed by fife ;
and, that, therefore, the owner of the vessel, John Wilson,
Junior, or the Younger, and employed on board of the
vessel, and John Charles Rudolf, the master cf the before
mentioned steamer Montreal at the time of her destruction
by fire, on the evening of the 26th of June last, are
chargeable with the crime of manslaughter. That
a dangerous fire having broken out on the
26th day of June 1857, on hoard of the
steamer Montreal, she being then filled with
immigrants and other passengers to the number
of nearly four hundred souls, before the said
steamer Montreal bad passed several places where she
might safely and prudently have been run ashore, as re-
gards the preservation of the lives of the passengers, and
that no exertton was made, worthy of the name, nor any
extraordinary anxiety manifested f,r the safe'y of the
passengers by J rhn Charles Rudolph, tho master,
Jean Baptiste Dorval, the first pilot, and Louis
Roberge, the mote of the before mentioned steamer
Montreal, after the destruction of the vessel was
inevitable, and the passengers had been seized with
pani,, they, each and all of them, are chargeable with the
crime of manslaughter. And the Jury, now summing up
the whole, conclude upon their oaths, and now say : That
John Wilson, the younger, John Charles Rudolf, Jean
Baptiste Dorval, and Louis Roberge, before mentioned,
in maniacr and by the means aforesaid, feloniously,
wilfully and unlawfully did kill and slay, against the
peace of our Lody the Queen, her Crown and dignity, the
persons herein before men ioned.
The Canadian Trinity Board had held an inves_

tigation into the loss of the screw steamer Cana
dian, and they had emus to the determination o
takicg the license from the pilot. The Quebec
Chronicle says
The c: neiseness of the testimony, and the authentic
manner in which it comes before U 3, Wi 1 enable it to do
more than perhaps any other statement towards deicing
up false ideas on the subject of the accident, which some
have attempted to turn to the disadvantage of the St.
Lawrence route. Now that the facts are fairly represented
the public will be enabled, by its own unassisted sense, to
discover that the whole blame lay with the pilot, and that
it was neither from any defect in the vessel, any want of
prudence or skillfulness in. her officers, or w.y danger of
the route that the accident occurred. The pilot seems
to have blundered in a most unaccountable planner, and the

Trinity Board, by prohibiting his exercise of the calling for
which he hag shown himself so unfit, has proparly pun-
ished his stupidity. Deprived of his branch, he will no
longer endanger the safety of any vessel, and his disgrace
will afford an example to others of his profession which
cannot but be attended with salutary results. The Cana-
dian lice of Ocean steamers should not suffer in repu'a-
tion from this casualty, nor the Bt. Lawrence rout.e be
charged with a disaster attributable solely to the incapacity
of one whose error is not likely to be repeated. The loss
of the steam-ship we regret, we should be the more sorry
if we could not show, as we do now, that this was one of
these casualties which attended all human enterprises, and
the recurrence of which can be somewhat guarded against,
by the Trinity Board exacting the highest qualifications
from those who desire to be licensed as pilots for this river,
now navigated by steam as well as sailing vessels of the
largest tonnage.
The other news by this arrival is not of the least
moment.

COMMERCIAL.
QUEBEC TIMBER MARKET, JULY 18.—Since we pub-
lished our last circular, we have had a very considerable
addition to our stock, of lumbar generally, especially of
white pine, which now hang heavy on the market, in
comparison to the preceding four or five weeks, although
rafts of a large average and good make and quality still
find buyers at a high figure.
Good rafts of 50 to 55 feet, have been sold at from CA
to 611, while inferior of the same average are offered at
44 to 6,3, and large sizes if of cool quality, command
latices varying from 7d to 9d. Although a good deal
of new timber is arriving daily, the old stick Las been
mostly shipped.
In RED PINE very little is doing and prices are declining. •
OAK is still pretty heavy in stock of old timber, although
very little new has „yet arrived ; the demand is by no
means so anunated as was anticipated.
FLM, on the other hand, bas been moving off at better
prices, and more readily than we expected, and sore
raf:s have IY en placed at 17d far about 47 feet ; 19d fur
54 feet ; 40 feet at 12#id.
STAVES have been shipped in large quantity, and we
never remember to have seen the Coves so hare, but with
the new supply arriving and the ships getting away, prices
are receding a little, and some standards have been sold
at £57 10s, and a lot of very good West Indian were
offered at £l7, without finding a buyer.
DEALS are much the same as when we last gave our
quotations.
FREIGHTS : 30s for Brisiol Channel ; Be 2 for the Clyde;
28s for Liverpool ; and 80s for London.
FORSYTH, BELL & CO.

OXFORD CITY ELRCTION.---It is a singular and .!t-ilting i
fact, illustrative of the systematic wanner in which Mr, i
Cardwell's recent election was conducted by his friends ir,
his absence, that on the Saturday night pros ions to 'the
nomination, which was fixed for Monday, the cow:mime
communicated to Mr. Cardwell in Landon Qv.% the pro-
mises upon which they could safely rely
amounted to
1,036. The number actually polled fur
Mr. Cardwell,
according to the official return, was 1,,0,4:5,
4less than the committee's estimate, The
only one
The absence of many
iiheads of colleges and principal families from Oxford
'`deprived Mr. Cardwell of frot'. fifty to sixty votes at the
least,