Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

MEXICO.

From INleico we have dates from Maruanillo, to
Nov. 11. th, and Acapulco to the 13th. A small
remittance from the former place, amounting to
19,8.50 dols. on merchant's account, has come to
hand. Advice 3 from the city of Mexico state, that
owing to the unsettled sate of the country on the
Vera Cruz route, a large amount has been sent to
Acapulco. A steamer has been sent from Panama
to meet it, but having got on shore no intelligence
had been received of its arrival. It will doubtless
arrive by the next mail. The state of affairs in the
republic is very unsettled, and much dissatisfaction
is stirred up by the priesthood, who are opposed
to the Comonfort Government.

At St. Thomas's, the Royal Mail Company have
obtained a new coaling wharf, more open to the sea
breeze, aud, consequently, a much more healthy
situation.

At Honduras, and the neighbouring Republics,
cholera is raging to that ex :eat as in some places
to cause a complato suspension of business.

There is little news of interest from the Wind-
ward Islands. The young crop is coming up well.
The commercial distress at New York has acted on
the provision market.

At Vera Cruz the yellow fever is making fearful
ravages among every class.

The official paper of Grenada publishes a de-
claration of war against Costa Rica, for the purpose
of pressing its rights to the whole line of transit
from San Juan del Norte to San Juan del Sul, as
well as the district of Juanacosta. The same paper
names the Provisional Government during the
time that General Maratinez and Xeres take charge
of the army.

The commercial distress at New York was being
felt at Colon. and Panama.

' The United States. steamers Wabash at Colon,
and Saratoga at Greytown.

At Callao the National Convention had been dis-
solved by actual force.

No favourable alteration had occurred in the
money market at Cilili Provisions were dear and
scarce, and the labouring population in great dis-
tress. The affair of the Sportsman, captured in
the port of Santa Maria, loa iing copper ore without
a Chilian permission, still remained in abeyance.
The American Minister and the French Consul
had demanded. satisfaction. The master claims
100 dols. per day as damages and losses.
The steamer Maria Isabella, bought from the
English governors, had arrived, making the voyage
in 102 days. She experienced bad weather, and
was out of fuel.

The barque Sarah Ann, bound for the Island of
Oceania, with passengers, &e , was wrecked on one
inhabited by savages, who devoured every person
on board. Details were not yet published.
The steamer La Plata, from Southampton,
arrived at St. Thomas on the Ist inst., at 7 a.m.

CRUELTY AT SEA BY A CAPTAIN AND MAUL—At the
Magistrates' Court, Sunderland, on Monday, Mr. Cooper
applied, on behalf of a seaman named Henry Pompey, for
a warrant against Captain Board, of the ship Indus, which
arrived at that port on Friday week. The complainant was
one of several seamen en board that vessel, who had been
maltrea`ed by the captain and mate on their voyage to and
from Cartkagena. Two other seamen (Dutch) also applied
for summonses against the captain' and his mate, John
Milne. The captain had ill-treated these latter very badly,
having frequently knocked them down without sny offence,
and on one occasion be struck one of them over the face
with a trullion, and knocked him down, and the mark of
the wound still appears. On another occasion he struck
him with such force that be drove him over the poop, to a
distance of eight feet. Scarcely a day passed over but the
most brutal conduct was exhibited. Toe summonses were
granted against the captain and mate. Another seaman
of the same vessel, who laid similar information last week
(the hearing of which should have taken place on Thurs-
day), it is supposed had been induced by the captain to go
away to Bristol that morning.

THE AGRI ULTURAL STATISTICS OF SCOTLAND.—That
portion of the agricultural statistics of Sc )tland which
relates to the actual produce of this year has been pub-
lished. The table show Fife to be the county producing
the greatest quantity of wheat; the counties next in order
standing thus—Perth, Forfar, Ayr, Haddington, Berwick,
Lanark, the celebrated Mid-Lothian conning in only eighth,
Fife producing nearly three times more of the principal
grain. In barley, Fife is again at the head—then Forfar,
Perth, Berwick, It)xburgh, Haddington, Edinburgh being
seventh. In oats, Aberdeen exi..e-ds any other county by
more than double (the produce of that county being nearly
54 million bushe p)—then Ayr, Perth, Lanark, Forfar,
Dumfries, Banff, Berwick. One notable feature in the
retains is the very small quantity of barley grown in the
great county of Ayr—only 29 567 bushels, against nearly
halt a million of bushels of wheat, and 21 millions of
barley. In turnips, Aberdeen shows 1,155,514 tons,
being three times greater than the weight shown by any
other county,-and about a sixth of the whole produce of
that crop in Scotland ; the second county for turnips is
Forfar, the third Haddington, the fourth Perth. In
potatoes, Perth is first, and Fife second; bat the quantities
are remarkably small,--Scotsman,