Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-22 00:00:00

gammatini (saTts. THIS DAY This Day, the 22nd instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 12, Lancaster-buildings, About 1,000 Bales Medium and Fine ROSIN, from the Quay —Apply to ANTHONY WOOD & CO., Brokers. 250 Tons MA now landing c Apply t Brokers' gGANES: in's Prid J. WATERIIO D Tons FL MORR W Apply to & CO., 1 Crimear Sc CO., B :, at the we've o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 11, Oldhall-street, 6,220 SHIN BONES, ex Martha Elliott, from Venice.---APP FERGUSON, lIORSLEY, & the 23rd instant, at One o'etoex, aL Lter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-stree 00 Bags Bombay LINSEED, RAPESEED, AIIISTARDSEE I MINTER, & CO 00 „ BROWNE, Apply to lying O to ow, the 23rd instant, at Twelve o'clock, at th, B ro kers' Office, 12, Lancaster - buildings, 30 Bales Italian HEMP, for inspection in Baxter's, William-street.—Ai ANTHONY WOOD & CO., Broker On account o!whom it may concern. To-morrow, the 23rd instant, at. Half-past One o'clock, at the Broker's &nee, Corn Exchange-buildings, Brunswick-street, A Quantity of FLOUR and RICE; in sriginal packages, A Quantity of WHEAT, FLOUR, RICE, &c. ; also A Quantity of BURNT SACKS, more or less damaged by the late fire at the North Shore Mills. ,apply to H. 11. GOLDING, Broker. WEDNESDAY Wednesday next, the 24th instant, at Twelve o'clock panish Red ARGOLS, ex Mary Warren. JACKSON & M'CULLOCH. Broker 18; liackin'. First Day's Sal On account of S. Bout and:EdWard Higgins, Esqrs., Trustees for whom it may concert ,k, at the On Wednesday next, the Nth -instant, at One o'cloc Broker's Office, 5, Rumford-street, A Large Quantity of Loose American , COTTON, ssaved from the late fire in Love-lane i lying in Johnson's Yarn, opposite to the ruins.—Apply to • H. JNO. WEBSTER, Brokers. TWURSDAY On Thursday, the 25th August, at Twelve o'clock, at Browne, Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 2,000 E. I. TANNED KIPS. BROWNE, HUNTER, & CO., Brokers. Apply to Postponed from. Thursday ; the 11 day, the 25th inst., at Offce, I ncaster-buildings, Tithebarn-street, 450 Singapore Buffalo AIDES. 150 Dry West Coast G. F. MARTIN & CO., Broker Apply tc On Thursday, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'cloc 100 Cases CASTOR OIL, ex Dream, 71 Bags ORANGE PEEL, 14 Bags SQUILLS, } ex Led 2 Bales CARRIAGE SPONGES, 1 Box SCAMMONY, ex Palestine, 20 Barrels BALSAM CAPIVI, ex Tyrer, 6 Bales SARSAPARILLA, ex Edwards, 23 Barrels Cayenne POD PEPPER, 1 Box Essential OIL OF PIMENTO. r to JACKSON & M'CULLOCH, Br FRIDAY er, and Co.'s Office, k, 800 Bales JUTE, BROWNE, HUNTE On ,sate. ON SALE. MURIATIC BIGLAND, Apply to ACID ON SALI & JEFFREY 50 Tons SULPHATE BARYTES, 14 Tons Devon SHININcIiCIRE, of very superior quality Apply to GEORGE WILLIAMS, 32, Dale-street 0 PIPES ON SALE, LEMON JUICE, ssed). (English pry. Apply to THOMSON, BAGNALT S W I 'S S and B UTTERWORTH, OP MESS 30, Itoorfiel .Fply to ON SALE, I R S IN BULK, TN BOND, OR DUTY PAID, In any quantity not less than 500. H. W. BUCKNALL, Importer and Sole Agen 4, Exchange-alley North. 6226 TO EXPORTERS AND THE TRADE. M. SALOMON, Importers of every description of 7 4e T y ol i sdAtuglt s roi d )s i ms o l t c/IL ve I r N y SIRZM I EN o T Ie S, Whole sale and for Export, 73 and 75, DUKE-STREET. The above goods can be had in bond. On 2att. FOR SALE. 3rig NORTH STAR; dth 23 ,feet 5-10ths, depth 13 ster, built at Nova Scotia The handy E \ length 101 feet, brew i i „/Ai,YA feet 5-10ths, 247 tons gdfairyiViill‘4l in 1854, and is now c zinc, whichis in fai nd will be upon inspection, ry desirabl any other trade'her size may suit; lying in Brunswick-d For further particulars, inventories, &c., apply to M. J. WILSON, 6, York-buildings, Liverpo( ON SALE, The Ship NABOB, Wee, •A, length 144 feet 3-10ths, breadth 30 feet 5-10ths, depth 20 feet 6-10ths ; built in the United States in 1845 ; has just come out of the graving dock, where she has been cooroughly overhaulel, boottopped, and newly sheathed with yellow metal, and is now classed A 1 in red for five years ; had a new mainmast put in ; she is a large carrier, and is well suited for the Australian or other traAes. Lying in Salthouse Dock.—For further particulars, inventories, &c., apply to M. J. WILSON, 6, York- •buildings, Liverpool. tth, CURRY, KELLOCK, and CO., BROKERS FOR THE SALE AND PURC HASE , OF SHIPS AND STEAMERS, SHIP VALUERS, CO AND RT O APPFOINTEADMIRAD BROK LTY, WERS almer-building TO THE HIGH URT Water-street. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAI SATURDAY EVENING The Cotton market remains without any change, either in the tone of the trade or with respect to prices. To-day the sales were about 7,000 bales, including 1,000 on speculation and for export. The Liverpool Share Market has shown very great firmness to-day, and an advance of about per cent. has been established upon the current descriptions of stock. The tone at the close was firm, but the demand was chiefly speculative. The following were the day's sales :—Birkenhead, 781 1 4 ; Great Western, 60/ ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, Kendal and Windermere Branch, 101 ; London and North-western 951 1 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 361 ; Midland, 106 ; North-eastern and Berwick, 89-7, ; Dovers, 22 13-16 ; Warrington and Stockport, 9 1-16; Grand Trunk of Canada, 81 13-16 ; Great Louxemburg, 6 ; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 9,4 ; Commercial Bank, 121; Royal In- surancc The demand for Money rather inactive, anc rates of discount continue low The remittances of specie to India and the continent, _however, do not abate, and it is expected that in a week or two there will be an increased inquiry for accom modation. The best bills are readily taken at the private banking houses at 2-1- per cent., the b an k minimum. below The market for the Public Funds and Securities opened very firmly to-day, and although very tittle business was done, the tone was decidedly good, and at the close an advance of I- per cent. ad been established. Consols are quo te d at 95& to 951 for both money and the account. The New Threes are 96 to 94. The Reduced, 96 . k 961. India Loan Debentures, 94- ; Ditto Bond s , s s. di s . ; and Exchequer Bills, 265. prem. Bank Stock is 224. The New Indian Loan is 98 983. Twelve o' 2. Dale- at Browne, J., Broke 11, Oldhal The Government Broker has purchased £15,000 Reduced for the Savings' Bank Commissioners. In the Foreign Stock Market business is rather inactive, but prices are firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 83 84 ; ditto, New Loan, 74 75 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 1021. Brazilian 41 per Cents., 94-a -941. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents., 721 ; ditto De ferred 181. Mexican, 201 201 and ditto 0 is y prem Portuguese 452 T /N,ll n the Lc There was rather more buoyancy ilwav Share Market to-day, and prices gen rally tend upwards advanced to 981 981 Westerns to 501 601 Midland to 1051 106. to 891. North-Eastern, York Eastern to 75 4 Tn Markets there has been lit ance. Grank Trunk of Great Western of Cana( East Indian to 1001. were heavy at 971. Jo ineous Shares remair North-westerns worth-eastern, Ber import- I to 35. nada dec La improve(' Great The Mining Share Mai ndian Peninsul ,ock Bank and MiE week has shown increased firmness, and the past Upon the whole, prices may be loorced — upon as firmer, and there is a better vailing in the market tone generally pre- During the past week the movements of specie have been of an important character. The im ports have reached £652,616, including £72,000 from the United States, by the Ariel; £90,000 by the Africa; £24,260 by the Borussa ; £74,280 by the Jura ; and £39,860 by the New York. The Southampton, from Melbourne, has brought £118,216; the Amazon, from the West Coast of Africa, £4,000; the Parana from Mexico and the West Indies, £160,000; and about £70,000 in gold has been received from Russia. The exports have been—£lsl,97o to Valparaiso, by the Shan non ; £710,054 to the East Indies and China, by the Ceylon; £45,200 in gold to Cadiz; and ship ments to the Continent, through the London Custom-house, estimated at £5,059 ; making a total of £912,283. _ _ _ The half-yearly meeting of the Great Northern Railway Company was held to-day, Mr. E. B. Denison, M.P., chairman of the Board of Directors, presiding. The report read showed that the total expenditure on capital account to the 30th June last amounts to X 11,470,811 3s. 3d. ; the expenditure of the half-year in the same ac count being £64,757 13s. 4d. The total receipts of the half-year amount to £596,938 15s. 5d., as against £587,027175. 7d. in the corresponding half of 1858 ; and the total expenditure to £330,242 15s. Bd., as against £327,193 1 ls. sd. After de fraying the fixed charges there remained £81,282 2s. 6d. available for dividend on the original A and B stocks ; the directors, therefore, recommend a dividend at the rate of £3 7s. 6d. per cent. per annum on the original stock; yielding £3 per cent. for the half-year for the B, and 7s. 6d. per cent. to the A; leaving £337 3s. Bd. to be carried forward to the next account. After some discus sion, the report and accounts were agreed to. There was a meeting of the Great Ship Com pany,to-day, for the purpose of agreeing to the issue of, the remaider of the capital, (£30,000,) so as to despatch the vessel on her voyage. Some discussion took place as to the statement made by Mr. Magnus that the ship was not seaworthy, but, after an emphatic denial on the part of the directors, the resolution for issuing the shares was agreed to by a vast majority. The dividend on the stock of the North British Railway Company is officially announced at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, with a balance of £650, against 211 per cent. per annum at the cor responding period of 1858, and the dividend on Eastern Counties Railway stock at the rate of 2fr per cent. per annum. The total Railway Traffic Returns this week were £538,849 2s. 4d., on 9,189 k miles, which produces an average o £5B 12s. 91d. per mile. For the corresponding week last year, the receipts were £512,473, which, having been earned on 8,840 miles, gave an average of £57 19s. 51d. per THE BIRKENHE. D RAILWAY The following are understood to be the heads of the agreements to be entered into between the Birkenhead Railway Company on the one side, and the London and North-western and Great Western on the other : " 1. All the railways, with the stock, plant, &c., and other property of the Birkenhead Company, to be trans ferred to the two companies,' and to take effect from the Ist January, 1860. "2. The line and plant, &c., to be delivered over in proper condition, and no property or land to be disposed of by the Birkenhead Company in the mean time with out the consent of the two companies. " 3. Dividends to the Birkenkead proprietors in re spect of the revenue during the year 1859 to be made by that company out of their actual profits, after pay ment of all proper maintenance and other charges and expenses. "4. The two companies, as from the Ist January, 1860, to assume the Birkenhead debenture stock mort gage debt, and liabilities on capital account, not exced ing on the whole £512,000. '5. The two companies to pay half-yearly, as from Ist January, 1860, dividends upon the Birkenhead ordi nary share capital, not exceeding £2,000,000, after the rates following, viz. :—For the years 1860 and 1861, 21 per cent. per annum, for the years 1862-65, 31 per cent. per annum ; for the year 1866, and thereafter, 4 per cent. per annum. " 6. If;during the year commencing the Ist of January, 1860, the earnings of the Birkenhead Railways, after deduction of the interest on the debt, and an estimated per centage for working expenses, shall not exceed 21 per cent. per annum, then the next higher rate of 31 per cent. per annnm shall commence and be paid in respect of the year 1861 ; the certificate of the auditors of the two companies on that point being final and con clusive." The London Wool Sales, held to-day, have gone off briskly at very full prices. The attend ance of buyers continues very large. THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP Extract from Savannah Price Current of 6th August: A friend, writing us from Tallahassee on the 30th July, says : " The planters in this region have made an abundance of Corn, and have made good prospects as to Cotton, though the latter is endangered by excessive rains." _ _ Another, writing from Columbus on the 3rd instant, says :—" I have but yesterday returned thus far, from my plantation in Dougherty county. Although the Cotton crop looks unusu ally well, I have but little confidence in a large yield, owing to the excessive wet weather." THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE LONDON, Saturday Evening ConsOls closed firm at 95a, buyers firm, closing very good. French - inactive 2 ; new, THE FUNDS Consols, Money , 95-;1 4 - „ Account 95f-; Exchequer Bills 23 27 PRICES RAILWAY SHARES Bank 5t0ck....223 Three per Cents 961 -CLOSING PRICES Amb. Not. &E. J. 6 4 1 Gt. S. and West.lo3 105 Caledonians . . . . 84-t Lancas. & York.. 95 1 Dutch Rhenish . . L. &N. Western 951- Eastern Counties. 661 71 L. and S. West'n 91-1 :11. East Lancashire. Leeds Northern.. 431 4 Edinburgh& Glas 734741 Man. Shelf. & Lin 35 . 1 61 Great Northern ..101 102 Midland Stock ..105- 1 6 1 ) A. 82 84 North British .. . 59, 1 I Gt. l Westerns. ~ . 604 N. Staffordshire.. G. Wes. ofCanada 141 15 S. E. & Dover . . 751- 61 Gd. Truk. of Can. I York, New. & Ber 89 8 11-16 8 13-16 York & N. Mid„ 71i 2i Shares continue Lombards, NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE.—AuGusT 20 CLOSING PRICES Ches. & B'head.. 781 781 N Caledonian Stock 84 841 N. E. Counties 11 5-16 117-16 Y( E. L. Stock .... Lc, G. N. Stock . ... 100 102 S. Eastern . Great Westerns 601 xd 60 2 4 Dutch Rhenish ; Lan. and York .. 96 961 Gt. - Luxem. 6 . Lon. & Nor. West. 951 951 G. T. Canada. . M. S. and 1 ARKI orth Staffordsh. 4 4 ,1xd 44-d E. Ber. C. Stck 891 xd 891 )rkcapital Stck 711 xd 72 eds Stock . . 43k xd 43a g4t #ortkerit rbinus MONDAY, AUGUST THE DAY'S NEWS The letter of Louis Blanc n the London papers, ante, has caused all our metropolitan contemporaries to be seized in Paris. Even the Morning Chronicle, which at all times has had free entry into France, has been stopped, from something unpalatable having found insertion in its columns. The new decree on the press is the chief topic of interest in Paris ; but the general impression it has produced is, that it must be taken more as a promise than as a boon. The law is not altered, but its retrospec tive operation merely temporarily suspended. The papers are merely placed in the position they held on the day the decree was promulgated, before any avertissement had been inflicted; but the power to inflict them has been retained ; and, as a Paris correspondent remarks, "as long as that decree is not abrogated, -it is vain to hope that the French press will be bold enough freely to discuss the events of the day." It is stated by the Paris correspondent of the Times that there is an appearance of increased cordiality in the relations between the English and French Governments. He is assured that very warm congratulations have been addressed on the part of Queen Victoria to the Emperor, on the occasion of the amnesty. The Piedmontese Goverriment is behaving very strangely, considering its liberal confessions. A pro secution has been instituted against a Genoa paper, Il Cattolico, and pending the trial, M Victor Emmanuel 's Home Secretary, has sus pended its publication. As a correspondent says, " Such conduct is characteristic—Ratazzi pro fesses to be an ultra-Liberal—and it is always your patriots and Liberals who are the greatest tyrants when in power. It is the same thing all over the world." From Genoa we learn that Prince Poniatowsky has arrived there on his way to Florence. The object of his mission is said to be to induce the Tuscans to submit and receive the Archduke. It is perhaps this mission which has given rise to a report that M. Reiset has not shown sufficient firmness in his negotiations with the Tuscan Go vernment. At any rate, it is stated that he had allowed himself to be a little carried away by the movement around him, and that Poniatowsky goes to assume a firmer attitude on behalf of the French Government. In the National Assembly of Modena the Mar quis Fontanelli has presented a proposal declaring the forfeiture of the Austrian dynasty to the duchy, and the banishment for ever from the state of every prince of the House of Hapsburg- Lorraine. The propositions are to be considered. Meanwhile the Italian States are preparing ener getically for their own defence, and are uniting together in order to offer a vigorous resistance to the hordes of Germans who have been enlisted at Verona beneath the banners of the deposed princes of Modena and Tuscany. The total force at the command of these States, including the contingents furnished by Parma am amount to 40,000 men. It is said that the Duchess of Parma has re ceived very favourable assurances from Zurich, and that she will be restored to her former posi tion, she undertaking to grant a constitution on. a liberal basis, and to adhere to the Italian Con federation. Prussia has concluded a .league with the Han seatic Towns for the fortification of the seaboard of Northern Germany. A defensive league, it appears, has been formed in Central Italy. Count Collorado has publicly expressed his be lief " that our work of peace will be crowned witl Rataz zi, Romagna success." Madame Mario (late Miss Jessie White) and her husband have been arrested at Bologna. The Belgian Chambers have, by a majority of fifteen, decided to proceed with the fortifications of Antwerp. There is four days' later news to hand from the United States, by the arrival of the Europa at this port. The forthcoming presidential election was beginning to attract general attention, and there were some four or five candidates in the field. Two of them had issued what may be called manifestoes. One of them is from Senator Douglas, on the African slave trade. Ile con demns its resumption, and contends that it is by the expressed wishes of the States in the Union that no further importation of slaves should take place. General Houston had been elected gover nor of Texas. From the accounts received by this arrival it may now be fairly calculated that the crops throughout the entire country are safe. The prospects in every quarter are most auspici ous ; an abundant harvest has blessed the labour of the husbandman. Another tragedy has been enacted. A woman, named Martha Lewis, drowned her two children in a pond, near Finedon, Northamptonshire, on Wednesday last. She has been committed on the charge of wilful murder. The builders' strike continues. The men are hopeful and resolute, and many of them avow themselves ready to endure temporary privations, in the hope that they may thus obtain what they look upon as a permanent advantage and as a COPFEr Scarcely LONDON TALLOW MARKET The market during the same, and not much doing. Y.C. being 555. on the spot, livery the as on Fr have been some sales at 535, per cwt. in the week colours, good body, slightly Horse Crease no demand to] linnollt in. MI an otatinn 555. Od. to 5( Town Tai cwt. m SOUTH AMERI RAW R_P_ OY am tare 71 61bs. ; do. light ox, 1711b5., 53-11bs., 71d. tare slbs. ; dc 81bs. ; M.V. heavy and HO do. bulls, 6; : 5 -,d.,. tare 81bs. M.V. sound, 10s. 7d. each, ta The stock of River Plat( London is 35,564 hides ; 12,891 ox under 601b5., arrived 15,483 LIVERPOOL COTTON There has been a fair de' with liberal supplies, pri( including 600 Pernambuco 9d ; 100 Egyptian. tild to 7,000' btu ire report( specula Mn and for expo: OHN'S MAT Beef Mutton Lamb, fore qr „ hind qr Fresh Pork . Lobsters Cod Fist .. „ „ Soles Bret Turbot Haddocks „ 0 0 „ 0 0 Fowls, P couple 2 4„ 3 0 Ducks Geese each 3 6 „ 5 0 Turkeys „ 0 0„ 0 0 Hares Rabbits, V c'ple 1 2„ 1 6 Pigeons, „ 1 0„ 1 4 Grouse, brace 3 6„ 5 6 Black Game „ 0 0„ 0 0 Pheasants, 'brce 0 0 „ 0 0 NEWCASTLE CORN At our market to-day fl supply, and sold quickly, a week. South country any demand, at last week's rate Barley wa st week has remained the Prices are Russian to 555. 9d. to 565. for de- River Plat( !s buyers at an 'allow r to 53s American Lt was offered all )W remains at CAN PRODUCE cow Hides have avy ox, 6i do. cow. 61d., tare 2,586 salted horse Hides tea ox and cow Hides in 796 ox over 6011 UARKET to-day The sales 8d tc 50 Maranhar. 0 Surat f whict Fh. Butte 2 „ 1 6 Eggs 124 Potatoes, peck 010 „ 1 2 Woodcocks, each 0 0 „ 0 0 Wild Ducks „ 0 0 „ 0 0 Strawberries,V qt 0 0 „ 0 0 Currants, r. &w. 0 0 „ 0 0 Gossebenies,p. qto 0 „ 0 0 Damsons „ 0 6 „ 0 8 Peas, V peek 0 0„ 0 0 Asparagus, V 100 0 0„ 0 0 Cucumbers, each 0 1 „ 0 6 Melons. V lb 0 0„ 0 0 Cherries „ 0 0 „ 0 0 Filberts „ 0 10 „ 1 0 Grapes, for „ 0 0 „ 0 0 D. 'Eng. 3 6 5 0 Pines, for., each 0 0 „ 0 0 Do. Eng.... „ 5 6 „ i 2 lITGUST MARKET armers' Wheat was in small 'c prices of this day d foreign met with, a retail s. Flour was firm, but sold lower, bu sales not _ Oats were Is. per quarter lower, with scarcely any deal ings. Beans and Peas were not easy to sell. LONDON MINING e London mining : MARKET. market to-day is quiet AuGusT 20, principal transactions - have been in shares in Great Wheal Vor, Stray Park, Unity, and Wheal Kitty (Lelant). Shares in the last-mentioned mine continue in demand, and are marked in the Stock Exchange In to 14. East Basset have been dealt in at 1721. Foreign mining shares have met with little alteration. Worthing Mining are inquired for. North Rhine Copper (South Australia) have been dealt in at : q, j prem., Scottish Australian Mining ate dis. DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET. AUGUST 20 There was a good supply of Beasts to-day, but trade ruled exceedingly slow. Mulch Cows are quoted at £l4 to £l7 ; Heifers £5 to £lO ; Young Irish Stock £3 to Bs. The demand for Sheep has not improved. DONCASTER CORN MARKET itTGITST Supply of Wheat somewhat larger than last week, and the present splendid weather for securing the remainder of the harvest influences sales ; and although we do not alter quotations, last week's prices are only in a few instances obtained. We have several samples of new Barley of indifferent quality, but prices are mainly nominal. Oats and Beans unaltered. LONDON TALLOW MARKET -AUGUST The market is firm at the following prices :—Town tallow 545. net cash ; Petersburg Y.C., on the spot, 555. 3d. ; September, 555. 6d. ; October to Decemb,!r, 555. 9d. ; do., separately, 565. MARKET AVERAGES.—Town tallow, 555. 9d. ; fat by ditto, 2s. 11d. ; yellow Russian, 565. 6d. ; melted stuff, 40s. 6d. ; rough ditto, 245. 6d. ; tallow greaves, 15s. ; good dregs, 7s. LONDON WEEKLY METAL REPORT.-AuG. 20, The market is still inactive, although rather more con fidence is evinced. Copper continues very firm in price, though in moderate request. Iron is mostly firm in quotations, but perhaps there may be a slight giving way as regards Welsh merchant Iron. Scotch Pig is lower, the quotation being 555. for mixed numbers. Tin is quoted a shade lower for Banea, but still too high as compared with Straits; there is a steady business doing in the latter, as well as in English. Speller has rather improved in price and extent of business. Lead qui e t. Tin Plates sell steadily at improved prices. CORK CORN MARKET.—AuopsT 20. White Wheat, 16s. to 245.; Red, 19s. 6d. to 20s. 3d Oats, 11s. 6d. to 12s. 10d. The following appeared in a part of our impressior of Saturday . MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET, AUGUST 20. Leeds, 95; 6 ; Dovers, 22 13-16 ; Midlands 1051 North British, 591. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, AUGUST 20. Our market still continues heavy, and prices rut next to nominal. Duty is called £260,000. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET -AUGUST 20, There is nothing new passing to-day in Colonial pro duce. Tallow firm, 56s 3d spot, 55s 9d last thre months GLASGOW IRON MARKET No. 1, 525. 9d. to 535. ; Warrants, 52, 538. ; Makers Iron, not quoted ; No. 3, 535. Market has a rising tendency. -AUGUST 20 g. 101 d. to 525. 9d. to COMMERCIAL. (From the Times City Article.) FRIDAY EVENING.—The English Funds have shown increased firmness to-day. For the present the pur chases of the Government on account of the Savings' Banks appear to exercise the principal influence on the • market. In the Discount Market the rate has receded to 21 per cent. for the best paper not having two months to run. The Tea Market has been flat and inactive, a condi tion attributable, partly to the sea-son of the year, and also to the heavy stocks of duty-paid parcels held by the dealers. There are many descriptions which could not now be disposed of except at a reduction. The Produce Markets dining the week have agair become quiet, but articles continue wit count of the compar (From FRIDAY EVENINC nd closed trengtl the GI on Col larly buoyant, the the best bills readily tt. of most of the privapal ge, partly on ac- worth onl lea brought for- creased Monei' e Stock Exchange in tish Rail- Some of the Bri way Stocks part ;ing supply Ikea in Lombard- The foreign exchanges this after- No va A. telegram dated St. Petersburg the price of tallow 54 on the spot hemp and am were c NAYS direction was a fail, in Eastern Counties n bullic ;erday, after regular I The markets of 4 per cent It is officially announced that the dividend on the North British Ordinary Stock, for the last half to be at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £650. 'ear, is One or two coma ERRATL'3I Leluding paragrar tees of S of the forms in the printing-office, was t no doubt, discover the awkward blunder. We hope soon to Under no circumst, :es can we insert caravan:llc accompanied by the author's re necessarily for pe Short letters tions not me and address, not tre encc be legit Lrantee of good faith ttters of public interest side of the paper only .etty well right. A great number of the operatives from the country have been induced to join the union, and go back to their homes. A number of the smaller establishments have, during the week, re-opened their establishments, and many men have gone back to their work without being asked to sign, to them, the obnoxious document. The Birkenhead Model Yacht Club had its sailing match on Saturday, which excited a great deal of] interest, the pleasures of which were much enhanced by the beautiful weather. The reader will find a full account of it in another column. The Hull election, on Saturday, terminated with a vast majority in favour of ,the Conservative candidate, Mr. Somes, the voting being 2,070 for Somes, and 1,579 for Lewis. At Berwick-on- Tweed, at the close of the poll, there were 305 for Marjoribanks, and 304 for Hodgson, the Conserva tive candidate. As, however, there is likely to be a scrutiny, there is every probability of Mr. Hodgson being declared the sitting member. -*--- No one would think America a likely place for tleness of speech Yet Mr COBDEN must surely, in his absence, have been Euphuistic school, before he sought himself to so high a pitch of refinement as to characterise the wholesale bri bery at the last election by such a graceful circumlocution as this :—" Some of those who aspired to Part filamentary honours did not con within the strict limits of " discretion !" However, though Mr. COBDEN spoke little and spoke delicately, no doubt he thought the more, and the more poignantly, t all events, it would be cruel to expect the advocate of popular privileges to unbosom his mind publicly of that sharp grief which must, above all, have afflicted himself and the more sympathetic soul of Mr. BRIGHT —namely, that not only was there bribery, but as the virtuous heralds of the coming democracy who bribed. Nay, is there any breast made of such stern stuff as not to shrink from bringing up, in the very presence of Mr. BRIGHT, that bitter memory of Wakefield, and that narrow and guilty escape -hich signalised Huddersfield and its late election, and just saved the remaining hope of the outraged LEATHAMS ? as a p tgent contemporary reminded us, may have sacrificed his sons to a sense of justice it would haye been a touch beyond even the savage virtue of a Roman for Mr. COBDEN to impaled before Mr. BRIGHT'S weeping eyes his frail and unfortunate brothe Yet, with a 1 his caution and his reticence, there are some foolish contradictions in Mr ICOBDEN'S arrangements of topics and arguments We do not exa, see that a disquisition on the rights of the humbler classes to electoral privi- leges, and the, favoura and patriotic use of them, is appropriate)_ duced by a bare historical reference to the rec, mode in which they have testified theil appreciation of their value. Mr. COBDEN says ,ble chance of their judicious y intro- carious truly, that forty election petitions have been just presented to Parliament; and, he adds, that if all had petitioned who had knowledge of corrupt practices, there would have been eighty. Upon this showing, therefore, twelve per cent. of h and are open and as we constituent body of Enf to corrupt inducements ; seen, the turning out and the turning in of a Government may depend on a majority of pur chased votes. In fact, the whole foreign and domestic policy of this country may be made to depend on the power of money, and on some of the lowest hopes that can animate the human breast Now, having started this subject, and placed it in juxta-position with that of extended franchise, Mr. COBDEN was bound to hare told I is auditory whether he thought the enlargement of constituencies would diminish thc chances of corruption, and lessen the evils with which such places as Wakefield, and such candi- dates as Mr. LEATHAM, have made us familiar. If the proportion is now twelve per cent., with the constituencies numbering a million, what does he estimate as ,the probable per centage when the electoral body is swamp e d wi tl another million I of vot ers lower than its now lowest class ? Does he think that the chances upon which the agents of corruption now count so securely would be diminished or increased ? Does he calculate that an addition of a million or two of voters would lessen or increase the proportion of those whom want of principle or want of money leaves open to a bribe ? This was the plea of all others he was called upon to make out ; which the advocaCy of a large measure of " Reform" absolutely compelled him to discuss. Another point, too, might have well challenged the honest admissions of one who was disposed to be so frank and daring in facing the damaging details of recent history ; and that Ls, the melancholy fact that democratic leaders are at least as frail and as unscrupulous as other men ; and that the followers of Mr. BRIGHT are as much exposed as the admirers of an aristocracy to the malady which taints the vici ous and unprincipled. We cannot conceal our dissatisfaction that Mr. COBDEN while calling up .t least reminiscences so recent and so significant, merely uses them to point- or to suggest a sneer at the aristocracy who certainly this time are in no wise mixed up in them. We should fail in our duty to the public did we not express our un feigned disgust at the old and miserable cant which disfigures one of Mr. COBDEN'S most moderate speeches. He tells his simple audience that bribery will die out when plebeian vulgarity has made it no longer fashionable. The only meaning of which can be,—that the chief direc- tors of the arts of corruption are men of birth Now such an assumption as this is so manifestly false and absurd, that if Mr. COBDEN and title really means it, he is making himself a mark for the general scorn of England. Yet, unless he means so much as this, his remark has neither force nor application. But can he be so weak and credulous as to suppose that whatever is the class which bribes, bribery claims, or has ever claimed, a place among merely fashionable pur- AUGUST 22, 1859. suits, as fox-hunting or house-racing or cricket? The men who bribe have a solid object in view , and use the most vulgar and material means' from its con to secure it. The process of bribery. ception to its consummation, is of the most busl- ness-like and commonplace a cast A man wants to get into Parliament, or another wants to get him in. The rival who wishes to keep him out gives every promise of running him close in the favour of the constituent A few votes will turn the scale They are doubtful, but they are purchaseabl The candidate, or his agent, or his zealous partisan, buys them, and the seat is won. What more can 1 said ? Except indeed, that the men who have shown themselves, whose supporters have shown themselves, the most shameless In this kind of traffic, at least at the late Election, have been men of Mr. ConDEN'S own class, and of Mr. COBDEN'S own opinions Miserable indeed it is that we should be plague ( ' with these second-hand BRIGHTS, propagating the delusions of class hatreds and rivalries, and with pretensions of moleration, really turning' themselves into firebrands. They give England but a poor prospect of what she has to expect should the class they represent ever succeed in swamping the intelligence and education of the country, and in gaining the supremacy they n°t only long for, but calculate upon as almost WO' Th're can be no abstract objection to an extended suffrage There is no divine or human law ill 3 Where the Electoral body £lO limit is in variable proportion to the popu - lation, its limitation or extent is a mere matter of expediency and practical wisdom. If the per centage was once a twelfth of the adult male population, and is now a sixth, we are not deterred by any principle of political philosophy from contemplating with calmness its eventual approach to a third. It is the champions of popular privileges who themselves cast suspicion upon their designs by imparting class animosities into what ought to be a grave, and a large' minded, and a moderate advocacy. When the victory with which they flatter the indistinct and at present formless hopes of an easily-inflamed democracy, is the ultimate triumph over the' " selfishness" and " perversity of the aristocrati c portion of the Commonwealth, what can we ge held out to our fears but a prospect of confusion in which the constitutional system will be first made something wholly different from what it is and then swallowed up in political and social rapine ? We may be quite disposed to changes and concessions ; but when those who demand them so plainly confess their tactics, as Mr. Cop' DEN has done, to be small demands at first, as a preparation and vantage ground for the most violent extortion and appropriations, we must beware of giving up to them the key of tile citadel, or putting the constitution in their power THE Licensing question, which was the subject a meeting the other evening, that Was re- ported i lur columns of Saturday, is all" doubtedly one of very deep interest, and of very serious .. - _ - moment, whether in a moral or social point of view We are. not of those who would rail indiscriminately against our public-houses• The Licensed Victuallers, as they are profes sionally called, are, no doubt, in the main, a very respectable body of men ; and we believe that there will be found among them some of the most strenuous advocates of a reform in the present As in all bodies, however, system of licensing there are generally some members of an un- worthy character, so are there in this,—men whose conduct in the management of their busi ness, whilst it does great mischief to the moral. of the community. necessarily brings no sligb disgrace upon their own particular calling on this very account, it must be evident, it is ° the utmost importance to the respectability ° such a body as that of the Licensed Victuallers , that a change should be made in the system O f licensing which would have the effect of eluding those from such a privilege who ar e really unworthy of it, and of whom the re" ipeetable portion of that body have so much reason to be ashamed. Sure we are, too, that there would be no objection whatever, 011 the part of the respectable portion of the Licensed Victuallers, to have even more stringent regulations than there are at present, w ith the view of insuring order, regularity, and sobriety- It is not by vice and immorality that any public' I ce house can, in the l ong run , succeed ; because and immorality must acquire for any such place of public resort an infamous name, and thereby prevent it receiving such an amount of respec table support as must be necessary to its success' No, it is the lower class of public-houses 1)1 which all the mischief is done,—those which have to struggle for an existence, and the Wl ductors of which, therefore, are induced to ha: ce recourse to disreputable expedients, in order to obtain custom ; and to suffer ,drunkenness, lost gambling, and various other vices, to be carrie d on in their premises, which no respectable Pu b lican would tolerate the idea of. And yet, after all, we cannot but think that it 1 0 very much like beginning at the wrong end of the reformation that is so urgent among those classe s of the people, who are now so fearfully addict s to drunkenness and immorality, to commen ce t with a crusade ag a i ns t th e pu bli c -h ouse s. d ot but that it has become absolutely necessary change the Licensing System, so as to limit the number of such houses, and to provide gre ater securities for their orderly conduct. But a f ar greater object, we consider, is to endeavour Ift° reform the morals of the people themselves. there were no propensities under the influence of which the working classes had recourse to the public-houses, and to habits of intoxication there' many of those houses would doubtless soon have to close their doors. This, we concei ve, is t'a