Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

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NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 4.—Sales of cotton to-
'day 300 bales, at firm prices ; sales of the last
three days, 2,400 bales ; receipts same time,
150 bales ; stock in port, 11,000 ; receipts
here less than last year 249,000; and at all ports
482,000 bales. Freights slightly higher. Cotton
to Liverpool, id. Sterling Exchange, ten per cent.
premiums.

MOBILE, AUGUST 4 —We have had continuous
rains in the vicinity for twelve days past. It is
feared great damage must have been done to the
Crops.

INAUGURATION OF THE O'CONNELL STATUE.

lIMERICR, SATURDAY EVRNING.—A multitudinous meet-
'tug assembled this day in Limerick, on the occasion of
the inauguration of the statue of O'Connell, erected in the
'Crescent, from the chisel of Hogar, the eminent Irish
sculptor. There were about 100,000 persons present. The
-procession,consist in g of the congregated trades, with banners,
the band of the Limerick Regiment, and the Young Men's
Society. The Inauguration Committee, the Earl of Dun-
raven, the Mayor and Corporation in their sashes, occupied
'more than a mile and a-half. The Mayor presided. The
proceedings were began by Caleb Punch, Esq , late M.P.
'for county Limerick. The Earl of Dunraven made the
inaugural address, and reviewed the labyars of O'Connell,
'mid the changes he effected in the laws, by which the
People had been oppressed before him. The Rev. William
Braham, Mr. Sergeant O'Br'en, M.P. ; Mr. White, D L.;
major Gavan, High Sheriff; Mr. David, Mr. O'Callaghan,
and Rev. Mr. Yade, addressed the meeting The proceed-
14g8 Passed of without any irregularity, and in the most
admirable order. -

The Rev. Mr. Conway, P.P., Ballinrob?, will re tried
in Dublin, and not at the County Mayo Quarter Sessions.—
Limerick Chronicle,
A. Nsm EMPLOYMENT.—There is a man in Cincin-
nati in possession of a powerful memory. He is em-
ployed by the Humane Society to "remember the
poor."

HEAT of THE WEATHEI.—Mr. T. Forster, of Brtysel,
-who has registered the weather for fifty-three years, finds
that the average heat of this summer has already no
-.parallel, and, indeed, exceeds every other, by at least seven
degrees.

MAJOR-GENERAL WYNDRA3I, M.P., AT NORWI C IL—A.
Public dinner at Norwich. was given to the General previous
-to his leaving for his new India command. In his address
he insisted much upon the desirableness of a more thorough
military organisation and a greater facility of augmenting
'the army when required.
ROYAL BRITISH BANIL—On Friday, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, the discharge of Mr. H. Brown was ordered. The
whole of the directors, as also the general manager, against
whom indictments are to be preferred, have now obtained
their freedom, with the exception of Mr. Cochrane, who
has avoided arrest and the necessity of giving bail.
THE MONEY MARKET IN RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG,
Aua. 11.—The exchanges are much depreciated in copse-
equence of the reduction of the rate of interest allowed by
the Imperial Banks from 4 to 3 per cent. The public
funds, on the contrary, have experienced a great rise. The
'6 per cents, are at 135, and the 5 par cents. have risen
from 110 to 115.
YOUNG AMERICA.—One n'ght last week Colonel H. D.
Witcher, proprietor of the Altanta House, Georgia, repri-
Mended his son, a youth aged eighteen or twenty Sears,
for drinking, when the youngster drew a pistol and fi..ed.
The ball unfortunately took effect in the abdomen of the
father, pweing through the liver and lodging in the spire,
causing his death. Another father, at Saugueen, C.W.,
was shot and then robbed by his two sons.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND ' Puerca."—The Em-
peror Napoleon is sail to have taken a small revenge lately
- -of his tormentor Mr. Punch A member of the firm of
'Bradbury and Evans, the printers of that periodical, sent
recently a copy of their beautiful work, illustrative of
Nature Printing, to the crowned heads of Europe, the
Emperor Napo'eon among the number. Corteous ac-
Itnowledgemen's and presents arrived from every country
but France, but the-volume sent to the ruler of that nation
was sect back spoWd with fingering, and without any
"thanks to the peblishers for their courtesy in inviting
attention to it.
Tete Gnowre or Beet:lN--The Zeit of Berlin has the
'following : —According to a statistical account just pub-
lished, the inhabitants of this capital have increased since
1816 from 181,052 to 487,001, or more than doubled;
and the houses and apartments from 41,588 to 67,027 to
''lBs) but the houses constructed have been much larger
and higher, and consequently have afforded m ore accom.
!lodation. In 1820 it was very difficult for the inhabitants
to find s iffieient roam, but since that period lies inconven-
:tence has been every year felt, although the inhabitants
n!Pre gene on increasing. Rents have risen on an average
since 1830 about one-third.
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE ST. LAWRENCE ROUTE FaR
U11"1"N IM3ENIVA! TS —The Mrlwaukie Sentinel, after
republishing our recent emigration retnrns, adds :---"This
table shows a very large increase in the immigration via
Quebec- This is due, undoubtedly, to the improved fa-
aff riled by this new route of travel, and the feet
wbaeotnes the more interesting and significant to us in MP-
allde when we remember that the completion of the
Detroit and Milwaukie and the Milwaukie and Port Huron
ita
ilwaYs will make this city the receiving and distri-
buting point for the whole of the immense immigration
reming to the West from the Old World by way of Que-
np aeond the G-and Trunk and Great Western Railways."
pax n GOSSIP —Scarcely an Englishman is left in
poure.nne ; even the temptation of seeing a migratory
ntoff has
year P yielded to the heat. At another season of the
Pope Pius might have seen a fair proportion of the
emale celebrities of England. Science, as represented by
ors. SJTnervill.., "holds her speculative tower' in the Via
del Mandorlo It is hardly necessary to say that a house
"with such an Angle-Floren'ine sound as " Villino
Trollope " belongs to Mrs. Trollope. Elizabeth
'Barrettßae Browning has exchanged for the baths of
the first floor of the Casa Guidi which will always
'be associated with her verse; her friend Mrs. Jamieson has
'left the second floor (where, I believe, she intends perma-
znently locating herself) for Sienna and Perugina, to collect
materials for her new volume on the artistic history of the
Madonna. And C caries lever, who has enough to do to
;Rupport the rights and dignity of the lords of creation
against this band of literary Amazons, has departed (and
with him Hies and jollity) for Spezia.
A L IDY ARRESTED FOR OR ITRUCIING THE SIDE WALK'.
:--One of the mast extraordinary cases ever brought
before a legal tribunal, was witnessed in tee police-court
on Saturday. An officer complained of a young and
r..,nlarkably handsome lady for obstructing the side walks
91.1 Washington-street by too great a display of crinoline.
-4_l!.•t is understood that the lady is highly connected, we
'will call her Mary Smith, and not, expose her true name.
12 fore the complaint was read, Judge Rased' inquired
that
te the whereabouts of the prisoner. Toe officer replied t
two
rethers had endeavoured to squeeze her through the
but they were too narrow, and be wished the
extraordinaryadvice in the premises. The judge said it was an
case ; the constitution guaranteed to every
one
'eat °Pea trial, and he would not held a session in the
reel even "
Please a lady. Under the circumstances, he
In`nued that Miss Smith be moved from the entry to
1. 'thefront door, and he thought that she most spread eon-
_tderab!e not o b able to take her place in the prisoner's
dock.
,The
ad i. experiment was tried, and found to answer
In- "IY—the door being some 20 feet wide, very little
compression was needed—and, with a frown of indignation
upon her pretty bruw, Miss Smith found herself face to face
with the which was
read to her.
judge, and listened to the complaint
The officer testified that half a dozen times
during the week he had been obliged to step from the side
Walk to enable the defendant to pass. Once he came vdeloy
near being run over by a passing carriage ;
the judge and he inquired
whether the city government would have a ,o, d
a pension to his widow in case he had been killed. The
judge s tid he should reserve his op had
'any until some time
next week on that point. The court inquired if he
'any further testimlny to offer. The effi:er said that he
had. He had requsted the prisoner two or three times
not to stop on the side walk, as peorls were unable to
Pass without going into the street, which at times was in-
convenient to ladies wearing paper-sealed shoes, owing to
the outrageous manner in which the tnoroughfares were
watered. The court, Hi summing up, said that the
evil was one of great magnitude, and should be checked
by vigorous measures. There was no statute under which
too great a display of crinoline came, but he should take
the responsibility of inflicing a fine of five dols. and costs,
and he hoped that it would be a warning. The fine was
Hprorald .mptly paid, and Kiss Smith was discharged,--Roston
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