The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-07-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.  The steamer Baltic arrived in the Mersey, from New York, yesterday morning, with 157 passengers, 458,291. dollars in specie, and dates to the 19th instant. The Baltic left Sandy Hook at 6.30 p.m , Saturday, the 19th. Off the bar, passed ,'nip Endymion, bound inwards. July 89th, off Point Lynas, passed ships Yorkshire, of :New York ; Thalatta, f -----; and Gilbert Munro, of London—all bound  Inwards. The Baltic encowntered a dense fog from lon. 2-1 tO Holyhead. A dreadful...railway accident had occurred near Philadelphia, by which upwards of sixty persons are said to have been killed. The following are briefly' the particulars as nearly as ascertained. The scholars of St. Michael's church, Philadelphia, attended by their friend's, teachers, and Rev. Mr. Sheridan, left the city on a pie-nio excursion. The te-ain consisted of twelve cars, containing about six hundred persons; and when near Camp Hill, where there is a curve in the track, was run against by the down train, and, dreadful to relate, some fifty persons, mostly children, together with the conductor Mr. Harris and the Rev. .iMr. Sheridan, were killed, and from seventy to eighty badly, if not fatally hurt. Three cars of the up train were broken to splinters, and the front,----, from the fire of the engine, b above victims lost their lives. but slightly injured, and no person s, it sustameu any injury. The greatest excitement prevails in the vicinity of St. Michael's chum/A, where most of the sufferers, have resided. Sub_equent to the collision, the conductor of the dow-A train (Mr. Vanstavoren) driven to desperation "At beholding the result of his Criminal recklessne:4B. swallowed arsenic terMinated his exis!4ence. The engineer was placed ander arrest to await the result of the Coroner's investigation. The New York Times adds :—The lmuch oss of life and the extent of injury appear to be eater than were at first stated. The dead, it is .oported, exceed 60 persons, while there are rof Jra than 100 of maimed and wounded. So frighttill a disaster as this, in which the terror of the calamity is increased by the combination of 'destroying elements, has seldom startled the 'community. The suicide of the conductor, 'whose self-destruction is an acknowledgement of his guilt in causing the disaster, adds 'to the gloominess of the tragedy. Two ether fearful accidents had occurred, full details of all of which are recorded at length in another part of our paper. Beyond these, the papers now to hand are totally devoid of news of interest. In commercial matters there had been but little stock e change. Money continued easy, and the had a tendency to improvement. Exchange on London had declined about arreighth per cont. We subjoin the latest report of the New York markets Cow d orr: Our previous circular was per Ericsson, under ate of 21st t. urin summer season we Will only issue our reports Dmonthg the ly. After two weeks of 9omparative dullness, with sales of 600 to 800 bales daily to the home trade, and occasional parcels for export, without any material change in prices, we entered into a snore lively state of things about a week since. The favourable advices we had been receiving from Liverpool Per Canada, Baltic, and Africa, gave confidence to holders Irent n exacting full prices, and with a small speculative curthey have this week improved lull Pin to sr!. On Jalesday morning we received three days later from Liverpool per propeller Canadian, at Quebec, say to 2nd hist, had on the following day our usual weekly summary 'O sth inst., per Niagara, at Halifax. By this packet We are advised of sales of 82,000 bales in the week, 'closing; quiet at id advance ; very favourable harvest prospects, and continued improvement in money matters, and also in the tone of the Manchester gaols market ; all which has had an important effect here, and increased the desire to buy on speculation. The sales of the present Week were 1,500 OR Monday, about one-third to be home trade; 4,000 on Tuesday, of which 2,500 bales were in transit ; 700 on .Wednesday, 2,200 on Thursday, and 700 tOur ransit; 700 closing firm, but with a limited enquiry. home trade are in better stock than usual, and !though generally running full time, complain of the excess of goods of all descriptions which has rendered their business "unremunerative this season. delivery into the retarded the residue of the present I:f°P has been greatly by low water for the past a_our weeks, and the prospect at present is against the 4liure of 3,550,000 being reached. The growing crop is 'season favourably of in all quarters. We have never seen a _iasort so entirely free of complaints as the present one. 43_0Yotlelegraph 16th inst. from New Orleans, we are advised receipt on preceding day of the first bale of new ,cotton. T. J.