Northern Times. — 1857-09-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ITALIAN RAILWAYS.—There is a report , e--01 liminary works for the railway from Piacenza 0 "pot„, dinian frontier have again bean suspended on ace' Cts" some stragetical objections cif red by the Austriag mandant at Piacenza. f AMER CSN Mates.—The Royal Mail steamer A pe, sails this day for New York direct, with ihe Unirat.ef°,,c3 and Canadian mails. Letters at the General rfrd'e s"0 up to eight, a.m , in the usual course, will be in tri,e'ofe with late fees to nine. The box at the Stage will to ten, with an additional late fee of 19a on letters. Areit; TRH Wevruna —We have got a secand suallo4 tbA During the past week the weather has been railforj usually file, and some days were fully as hot 05 hove had among the past summer. Fro° itbso appearances, one would be inclined to say thet, °P"we near the rvinoxt.s, we are likely to have a I°l3° 0( of fine wea'her yet. else STATISTICS OF SWCIDP„—Thu " Ear op,..nn DO- filed Suicif?e," recently published in France by M. Lisi,ref°,'; that England is no longer at the heal of the dra The French author proves that Franco is high°. Jicine scale, sod Russia lowest. In Landon, we have in 8,250 peop'e. Paris gives t', ono in 2,221. For Por t English population, the suicides reckon one ir1,017 France, one in 12,489. The north of France is 'jolt" prolific) in suicides, that district yielding nearly sib the whole number in the enure empire. DEPARTURE OF SIR CHARLES Wool) —Yes'e4o‘ll:4‘ll Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiral y, Irvr Milne, took his cleoarture for London by the trAill 1)01.11 left the Li see-street station at 9 10 a.m. We 1131°, 61/3,,f, that he vv,,s much astonished tho comparetifeaatg'teg sum expended in the construction of th magnifioini, °,,ot in g docks at Birkenhead, and that he took eel of all the particulars connected with them. we :sa ou;e1 be surprisedV if he make the information, acquire visit to Liverpool, ground for an inquiry into t'',lider which have made similar docks at seine of the rlair ief so extravegantly costly to gove;nment. t 0° LITERARY GO',SlP.—There is some little stir the literary world, considering it is the "of 'ail year. Taackeray is bard at work in the althettesi-;:tolat day with his " Virginians ;" and Lever, fresh, "0'4;0 prom as ever, is satirizing modern follies s'neßeitYee fools with unsparing lash. You will have no (3,1`-(10,',1q recognising Lord C..ant,vorth's portrait in Lord ",,°l.l'ol Traere will be acme political sketches in this bo'ijiticstete as Lever has grown very keen in the matter of P-4,001 late. It is a pity his munificent offer to the 00°'fiesio/S, party about the purchase of the Herald and e accepted. There is a sparkling passage in B'''':gioa centithatioa of his novel to Blackwood. be d some charraing picture of rural scenery, he doses",Vo>l!, " knitting England's feudal memories with Egit-,lllolll' b-):n hopes ; the old land and the young P:it' 001 Etgland is so old, and the English are so roc.: is e; a consolation to know that Pisistratus Caltc:eoft'ait", inure ha his study, and that as the days groef "olif ttbt the nights grow long, we shall hold m0pe:41161% otsej him in those pleasant hours when we CheeseeregieSA darkness and cluster round our own bright gifie,°(B, Pe ap'e ate reading a now novel called °Farina of Cologne," very generally. Who will not feelißoisistire in it when he .knows it. is the production °F,i'olcati,l3,',lll Caxton, junior—young Bulwer. Ly ton—whoed in the republic cf letters as Owen Meredith 3-,000,10°, Meredyt t indiscriminately? His last essay ilf%; sirelet/i. one for his future fame. His father's renove° tsNe well as a sword for his son, should he seed it" pill tlt''s may net, but,"knowrt as the "Spes surgentis off° 0, illustra'e au illustrious name. A cotecopararltesde'A that thBtero I saw, cooly announced some time age, author of "Never too Late to Mend, one ;,°f extraordinary books of modern times, wag vf.r-iingan` rital in the London under the disgulst: -915 'O5 Gerald Keen. If you ask is this true, I eeP'-',:ssi°ll,,ear gays in the play, and not to use a strong CePr-,,a5e,,,t• exacely." Miles Gerald Keon is a listing Per'the ltipgy Irishman withal, and in genius and honour t°vv l He is Itulwer's Arius Aehates. Reade is /2ezij it is" isb titer? in this magazine really, and a sever oisa yob c'.lled " White Lies," and, no doubt, will bitedeA separately when complete.—London Corrisr