Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-19 00:00:00

—Caledonian, 75k, 75/; Eastern Counties, 11 9-16,
1.1-16 ; East Lancashire, 94, 971 ; Great
Northern, 991, 100; Ditto A, 92;93 ; Great Western,
641, 641; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1001, 1008 ;
Leeds Northern, 43f ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 441, 45k; Midland Stock, 831, 831;
South Eastern and Dover, 751; York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 921; York and North Midland,
70k, •
The Grain trade keeps very active, indeed prices
are on the advance. At the markets held to-day, it
was difficult to obtain wheat under an advance of
2s. per quarter, on the prices current this day
se'nni ght.
In general produce there is not, much doing.
Late rates are, however, maintained.
Respecting the movements in Mines, the circular
of Mr. J. Tredenuick, of London,just issued, says :
Daring the
.past month a panic has existed to a frightful
extent in mining property : shares in great numbers, and
without discretion, have been forced upon the market
until the whole public pause in buying even at depressed.
prices. Shares can be purchased in West Seton, Condar-
row, North Basset, West Basset, South Frances, Basset,
Providence, Margaret, and Botallack to pay 25 and even 30
per cent. upon current value, with fair prospects of perma-
nent continuance, although the recent fall in value of
Tin and Copper has engendered universal mistrust in the
stability of dive. as regards the future in this view, how-
ever, we do not concur, thence we direct the attention of
our subscribers to the mines in question as desirable at
present quotations to embark capital in ; we scarcely
remember an epoch in the history of speculative adven-
tire so fiee from excitement or schemes of an abortive
- character, as that which now exists; the sound progressive
mines in the chief mineral districts of Cornwall hold out
extraordinary inducements to purchase at ruling prices,
money and patience have been expended in their develop-
ment, and the following possess all the elements
essentia' to success, being practically managed, on the eve
of import ant discoveries, or rapidly emerging into dividends.
We are advised that the north part of the lode at the 120
at Alfred Consols is worth 201 per fm., the south. part, no
lode taken down; the lode at the 100 is worth 1201 per
fm., and the south lode east 201 per fm. ; and the 90 east is
worth 201 per fm. ; the winze below the 90 on the north
lode is worth 90 per fm ; and a winze is commenced below
the 100 worth 801 per fm. This property is at a standstill
in the market, and the shares are weak even at 17i ; it
must, however, be evident to all associated practically with
mines that the points of operation are laying open large
quantities of ore. At Great Alfred adjoining the water
is in fork to the 150 fm level, and the flat rods from Field's
to Painter's shaft are being connected to fork to the 180
fm. level. _

The draft of the Sound Dues Bill has been
issued, but the subject having recently been fully
discussed in the House of Commons, there is little
additional information to furnish. It is provided
that the 1,125;206/ which England has to pay, as
indemnification for the abolition of those imposts, is
to he handed over to the Danish Government three
months after the passing of the act. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer lately stated that
he had ample means at command for the payment
of this sum, but a good deed of interest is felt to
ascertain whether it will be withdrawn from the
country or applied, as is very probable, to the
redemption of the, English debt. At the present
time, when money is leaving in such large quan-
tities for India, China, Sze , strict attention is paid
to any exceptional demand upon our metallic
resources.

• The Sandy Hill Herald relates that a gentleman resid-
ing in the town of Granville, Washington county, died
recently, and willed his wife a handsome sum, stipu-
lating in his will that in case she again married the
sum was to be doubled ! That man was " sensible to
the last."

•
GEORGE STEPHENSON AND THE PARLIAMENTARY
COMMITTEE.—One of the members of the committee
pressed the witness a little further. Be put the following
case :—" Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going
along a railroad at the rate or nine- or ten miles an hour,
and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the
way of the engine; would not that, think you, be a very
awkward eircumstance ?" " Yes," replied the witness,
with a twinkle in his eye, "very awkward, indeed—for
the coo!"—The Life of George Stephenson, by S. Smiles.
JUVENILE CRIMINALS --A large proportion of the juve-
nile criminals: are children who have been impelled by
want, persuasion, evil example, or even thoeghtlessness, to
commit petty larencies, which, had their perpetrators be-
longed to the middle and upper classes, would have been
visited only with domestic correction. But their disposi-
tions are not really worse than those of most children ; and
the mere refuge afforded to them by the reformatory from
the temptations which occasioned their fall, together with
the replier life they lead in it, the religious and secular
i ,struction, the industrial training it affords them, and the
employment which the benevolent care of the managers
procures for them when they leave it, can hardly fail to
render thein respectable members of society.—Mr. H. G.
Bowyer's Education Report.
MODERN LUXURY.—The cost of living in our artificial
society itself causes demands on exertion which have an
imperious tendency. Besides the mere competition, the
house-room, and the cost of provisions in a great city, the
growth of luxury creates want, and custom intrudes with
fantastic demands tending to make the man.of science and
genius the slave of his station in society, The sweat of
his brain ought to be spent for something better than
merely to live in a fashionable square, to dress his family
iu the newest gauds, and enable them to, appear in all
places of public resort. May I, without presumption,
counsel a greater simplicity of life to those whom I
would fain look upon as among the witntsses and guides
of their time P—Sir J. K Shuttleworth in the Medical
Times.-
COUNTY EXTRAVAGANCE.—A petition from Devonshire
stys, that county ra'.es amount to a very considerable
sem, and that neither the ratepayers nor their represente-
tive,a, the elcete,i guardians, have any authority or control
over the levying or expenditure thereof. That your
petitioners, knowing that your honourable house views
cith a constitutional jealousy any attempt to levy taxes
on the people of England by any body except that com-
posed of the representatives of the people, pray that your
honourable house will carry out the' principle which yen
so much value, -and grant to the '"county ratepayers of
England a control over the levy and expenditure, of their
moneys by the establishment oepounty financial boards."..
BRUTAL CRUELTY TO A PiG —At the Guildford borough
court, on Monday, Edward Hind, pig dealer, of Guildford,
Was charged at the instance of Mr. Werayss, superinten-
dent of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, with torturing a pig. James Bendel', a youth of
fifteen, stated that on Sunday, the 17th of May, he was
Employed to assist Hind to drive a pig to' Gonshall ; after
going a short distance the animal refused to travel, upon
which the defendant beat it over the head, back, legs, and
tongue with a stick, taking out pieces of flesh, and streams
of blood ran from the eoor animal'a mouth. A farrier
was at length sent for, who said the back was broken, and
it was immediately killed. %whirs evidence being fully
corroborated, the defendeeet, who had no defence to make,
roses sentenced to three months' imprisonment with bard
labour