Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

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CANADA.

ARRIV Ati OF THE ANGLO-3AXON.

The Royal Mail Screw Steal P.-ship Anglo-Saxon,
belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steam-shit.
Company, salved here yesterday afterneon, from
Quebec, whehte sha sailed on the 20th ult. • After
an excellent run, rather under ten days, she
brings 60 cabin and 86 steerage passengers,
besides the usual mails, and a full cargo of
Canadian produce, 5511bs potash, 4201bs pearl do.,
16 casks scrap iron, 246 bags oil cake, 555 cases
rubber goody, 40 bundles do. do., 1 box I. case
barrels oil, 4 barrels flour, from Montreal;
1 box by Chapman and Co.; 2m W 0 W I
staves, by G. B. Sytnes and Co. ; '7,837 std. nine
deals, by Sharpies and Co.; 2 boxes by W. J. Wil-
son; 1 boa by R. Pope.
Besides the foregoing passengers, the Anglo-
Saxen brings the passengers of the screw steamer
Clyde, from New 'York to Glasgow. which became
a total wreck off Mingan Island, north of Antreosti,
tan the 24th o August. The following ate the only
varaculars which we are at present enabled to
learn regarding this disaster. It is an extract
trom the log of the Anglo-Saxon:—" August 30th,
at 7 30 a.m., whets off Point de Monts, fell in with
the brig Louis Ferrier, having on boari the crew
and passengers of the scree: steamer Clyde, which
vessel hal ran on the Perrequete Reef, off the
Ilingaa Island, on Monday morning, the 24,11 of
Au1.7,0.5t, at '1 30, a.m. The crew and passengers were
einhavked in the boats, and landed in safety at
Nlia.2an Island. On the 28th they embarked in
,be Leatis Ferrier, with the intention of proceeding
-to"Qa,3bec. On the 30,h, at :30 a.m., they met
the "slq7eW-steanter Anglo-Saxon, when the passen-
gers were all taken on hoard of her, the captain
'anti crew proceeding to Quebec in the brig. When
'the boats left the Clyde, fhe water was up to her
mainmast, 'tad she'had a heavy list to starboard,
'and it. NVLiS 'feared she would become a total wreak."
Such are the brief outlines of the loss of this fine
siteamer.

Tile 'news from Canada is not of much im.
lortantz
From the Quebec papers we learn that it was

stated in well inforeted (furthers, that the whole of
the 'egular troops in the Province, will be shortly
witUrawn for service in India, and that orders
froUt Head Quarters to that purport are expected

to arrive by nest mail. Should this be see, there
is • every probability that the active force will be
.z.ttiuired 'to do permanent duty, or that, failing
..this, immediate steps will be taken .to raise
/Ind (-quip sae or more Provincial °regiments.
Sin 'connection with this matter we may
state that a report which had gained ground
°in 'Kingston, that the 9th Regiment, tow stationed
in that eity,'were to be sent to Imre, had caused
much consternation among the .men of the Regi-
.7ment, in .O'M-sequence of which several of them had
'deserted to the United Stares, On the morning of
the 24- h'ult , the whole garrison guard deserted,
consisting of a sergeant and eight men, carrying
-five stand of arms and ammunition with them.

They deserted by taking one of the officer's
boats.; "hut before leaving they scuttled all the
other -boats belonging to thc;garrison,), so as to
preveht- a pursuit.
tilt soldiers in the United States army had also
bee&Zeserting, though not from the same cause.

A letter in the. St. Louis -4.?tpublican dated Fort
Kearney, 7th ult., says that the sth and l'Oth
regiments of infantry and Phelps' battery had
arrived there. Captain •Van'Vteet had gone in ad.
vance on important business. The troops were
much dissatisfied, and the two infantry regiments
had lost nearly 500 omen -by desertion.
The seat of government- question was still being
agitated. _ Ottowa now • proclaims itself AS the

-15olected city, but we are-inclined to the belief that
no definitive arrangement has yet been made.
The inquiry into the recent bank robbery at
''''''Toronto was being proceeded with, and several
curious revelations had been made. One of the
witnesses state .1 thst, 7r. Morrison, the Receiver
' General of the province, had been in the custom of
- endorsing notes in favour of McGaffey, who is
accused of being an accomplice of Cummings, the
bank clerk. Mr. Morrison denies that he ever
endorsed any notes for the person in question The
Toronto Leacter declares tha.. Cummings last a great
deal of the funds• of the bank in a " hell," estab-
lished in the Rossin House, the grand hotel lately
opened at Toronto. I. We agree with our co-
-tempos y,l' says the Montreal Pilot, that
"The persons Whowon from Cu•nmings money vvhich they
knew was not his own ought to be exposed, even if they
- cannot be otherwise to:nished. It seems that efforts are
made to prevent their names from reaching •the public.
We trust that the attempt at concealment will be nn-
ate metal, -as the vice of gambling is becoming too preva-
. lent in certain quarters to the destr,,uction and rain of
laminae, and ought to be restrained by every legitimate
means.' Toronto is,o.Te are told, a perfect gamblers den."
From a Quebec paper of the 27th ult. we extract
the following singular paragraph
John alias Janes 'Hagan, the person last-tried for the
murder of Corrigan, at Et. Sylvester, was brought to
town and lodged in gaol yesterday afternoon, on a charge
of shooting at one -Tomato, a Preneh Canadian farmer,
who had purchased and was alnut taking possession of a
farm which Hagan shad previously assigned to Mr. O'Far-
rell, his Counsel at the Corrigm trial. Before the
commission of the of which he is accused, it is said
Hagan had threatened that "no one ehould come a second
time to take possession of his property."
In Toronto a serious riot had been occasioned
' by the cabmen:: they demanded an increase of 25
per cent. in their fares. The City •Couneil would
not grant it. anrirthe cabmen proceeded ,to acts of
violence. The police were called out. Several
attempts had been tuade to fire haildings,lut they
were frustrated.

Montreal papers publish particulars connected
--with the prcsentaticn of a magnificent service of
.plate to WilliatulVorkman, Esq., for the valuable
assistance he has renxdered to the ,City andaistrict
Savings' Bank of Montreal during tize six /ears in
which he occupied the presidential ,chair of that
institution. •

The crops in the neighbourhood of London,
C.W. have been greatly damaged by the ,rezent
storm of rain, the •effects of which were also 'felt
north,of Toronto.

The,. ate of taxttion fixed upon by the Fandil-
ton Council for the current year is 33,61 in
the pound.
Th 9 following important historical statements,
-under distinct heads be perused with intorect
by all eosneeteel with the trade of Canada and the
Western States :