Northern Times. — 1859-05-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND PACIFIC MAILS.  SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. —The Atrato steamer, Captain Woolley, has arrived, with Jamaica dates to April 10th ; Vera Cruz, 4th; Havana, 9th ; Hayti, 12th; Demerara. and Trinidad, 9th • Barbadoes. 11th ; Grenada, 10th; St. Thomas,•l4. She brings 250 passengers, $517,702 in specie, jewellery, value $11,960, -and large cargo of cochineal, indigo, &c. • At Jamaica the public health was much improved. Rain much wanted. Business at Bari-wines dull. Very little doing in -produce market. There:- had been a cessation in arrivals of breadstUffs ; corn meal in rather better demand, holders demanding $l4. Exports from D'aunerara during the fortnight have been-sugar, 2,209 hogsheads, 266 tierces, 776 barrels; rum, 1,102 puncheons, 106 tierces, 70  barrels. Agricultural matters at Grenada continued in the sathe condition as last mail. Business with the  question  merchants not brisk. The Hamburgh barque Henrietta and Rebecca, from Rio Hacha, for Queenstown (Ireland), was at St. Thomas, leaky, and would have to discharge. The British ship ndenmanna, from BOmbay for Liverpool, put in at. St. Thomas, on the 31st March, in distress, leaky, _and part of her cargo thrown  overboard. The revolution in Chili was nearly quelled. Business improved at Valparaiso. The financial condition of Nicaragua is in a most deplorable state. The Alinister of Finance shows in his report a deficit of $70,000 for the year 1859-60.  -Tillage of Columbia; frentreonnt3r, Alabama, and the diseaK was streading 'rapidly to baler count-jet Murderous riots among the firemen of Pliladelpha ,are of so common occurrence as hardly to t/Itite reniark:in that city. One of a more than ordinaTily serious character, however, occurred on Sunday, like 17th ult., in whiCh two -or three inaividuals were shot,, probably fatally. The riot.grew out of an old grudge-between theShifiler and the Nloyainensing Hose Companies. One of the.- men was. Robert Thompson, Secretary-of tke Moyamensing Hese, and another was John Capir. -A desperate fight occurred on the same day between the Reliance Engine and the Humane Hese Companies, in which several persons- were very badly hurt.. The police succeeded in arresting some half dozen of the leaders. A Washington letter in the Bolton Advertiser of the 20th April says,. iu relation to the Nicaragua treaty : Theamendment to the Cass-Yrissari treaty provides that the Untied States shall engage to use due vigilance and all lawful means to prevent the organisatim of hostile parties in this country intended for the invasion of Nicaragua. While some -prominent gentlemen look upon , this as a reflection upon our good faititin carrying out thenentralitr laws, and as,unuecessary, other's are disposed to regard' the ratification as an evidence of the dispositibn of Nicaragua to cultivate friendly relations, with us. alight as the amendment iss it is not certain that it will /4e acceptable- to the Administration, which has not given to it due consideration. With regard to the efforts- of the ,British' authorities to revive the obstacles to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, present appearances, if not the assurances, are such as not to change the belief t 't there will be a favourable solution of -'  slat It has-heretofore been confidently stated that . ..aguay fleet had been ordered to Central America, but such does not now seem to be probable, althotrg,h several of the vessels will be. sent to the Gulf, when they shall he again put in commission. It is considered•that there is sufficient force in Cbtral America for all practical purposes. Lord Napier mid family had left for Annapolis, where he would take his passage in the British frigate Curacoa for England.