The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

The United States mail steamer Baltic, Captain Comstock, has arrived here from New York, with 273,661 dollars in specie, 61 passengers, and advices to the 15th instant. The Baltic left New York at noon on Saturday, the 1 5th. Ni ne m i les from New York she passed Propeller Ci ty o f Edinburgh, going in. On Mon• d ay, the 17th, in lat. 40.30, ion, 63.30, passed American ship Vi c t or i a, b ound to New York, The ac passed the Me r idi an o f 50 d eg . i n l a t. 4winds 1.50 ; saw no ice; experienced strong easterly in a from ion. 35. On Thursday evening, at 9.30, fog, the Balti c anc h ored at the b ar. ae British ma il steamer, Arabia, from Liver- Pool, had arrived out at Boston. T he New York papers announce that a large li o nl r eu nt of cott on h a d b een d estroye d at N ew leans by fire, by the burning of the Lower Cot -2 Pr ess. The quantity consumed is set down at ,000 bales. The fire broke out in yard No. 3 :"_ Pic ayune says :—This ya r d was d evo t e d t o th e il e i e e i Pt and s t orage of Fellows and Co. ' s cotton; Th e lo s s is, however, fully c ov e re d by i nsurance. 25 f ,",,"alts are, as we learn, divided as follows : dols in the Merchants' Insurance Com- F o ll Y; 20,000 dols in the Louisiana Insurance en - ,, r 2l i allY; 12,500 dols in the Crescent Mutual In offl--'llee Company, and the balance in New York al - pl ie s. That which is insured in New Yolk had 11. ;;MY been sold by Messrs. Fellows and Co., and, Th .° as risk was concerned, had passed out of eir hand s. The ve rn Position of the relations :betw ti Monts of Great Britain and America, con k:Ted to occupy a considerable portion. of the ti n t , -11 , t iell of the United States Senate, but nothing "rr"istn reference to them had transpired. lsrrnarrival of the steamer Northern Light at fro m "'ark had supplied a fortnight's later news Pit Ca lifornia, Oregon, and Central America. The .elligence from California is unimportant ; from e r ia len it is reported that the Indian troubles still W Q r ; ll ,lled, and that the new volunteer companies "eicg raised. The Nicaraguan news is very bo a 7 c , eBt icg. General Walker has seized the iinf i s*_, of ire Nicaragua Transit Company, an " nulled Charter, and granted a new Charter to recei v e r company. Costa Rica has refused to rea v eb 2 the Nicaragua -. Envoy; consequently, we th e "uortly rupture between expect to hear of a it w i se n t ,wo republics. According to previous advices, p [tr . ' oe remembered, they were both making pre to ati nn s for a struggle which was generally thought lette r inevitable. Col. Kinney has published a 1111.11: Maintaining his right to the territory from Ge v e e ' rnra lle en lv t as so summarily banished by the of Nicaragua. IV AtiI (M the news from California is the startling . citi es ef Intelligence that Jeddo, one of the chief ° Japan, was visited by a severe earthquake d houses llth of November. One hundred thousand tho us are said to have been destroyed, and thirty an t - } , - *and. lives lost. Jeddo, according to the best b een reties, is the second capital in the empire,. 100Loe residence of the military emperor. It is Nip —e : en the north east coast of the island of 4 h a ll if n ) and cont a i ns a popu l a ti on o f a m illi on an d tre nch b et . souls. It i s s t a t e d t o b e enc l ose d by a_ ri tnl ,' and inte rsec t e d b y numerous cana l s an d bu r - d e "es of riv er , nav i ga b le for vessels of moderate si ve el l. It has a fortified palace with very exten ground orn tt „, s, many noble residences profusely 1 5r -4 ented with sculpture and paintings, several It 1?? religious temples, and other public edifices. f 15 0 o ki n e contains the imperial library, composed o te, o ', o volumes. The houses are mostly one ar e -4 ln height butb• g generally built of wood, iti. F3l bicet to frequen e t in des - truction - by tire ; certain . deice t i ll . at of the one hundred thousand dwellings t 'shed by the recent convulsion, a large por , 15t e l them fell a prey to the flames. On the hf h Ult. p i a shock of earthquake was felt through so ,Jalifornia. At San Francisco it is reported rp i ? slight damage was experienced from it. B fLue latest report of the New York Stock Market p —es the affairs of the Nicaragua Transit Com eoltllY were the leading topic of conversation, in Walker of the proceedings of General C oin — , as stated.. above. The shares of the y h ad . t 4 ° .. 14 11 : 1 rapidly declined from 19 to 14 z , The tendency of the market generally dur ing the four friee a days - had been downward, and : i s were not so good. Two or three of the Xcllnag houses had advanced their rates . for ..r e e g , e on London, the quotations for which inc reased Poied at 109 f to 1091. There had been an Inetl_ demand for money, but it was readily e n oy the banks at from 6 to 7 per cent. oas call, and s' from 7 to 9 per cent. for first- P,aPer ac cor di ng to date. Cotton b ad de t ame if of a cent per pound, and the market was b arrel, Flour had declined from 25 to 371 cents per cent land' Wheat was heavy at a reduction of five Aix ' p I, the 23-1..,,0 According to accounts in the Tamaulipeco of and citult., the position of Haro in uebla was critical, tr ava 's caitse everywhere to the s i de gree unpopular. Siel4,' Gars we already know, has been defeated in the hasoth,da; revolts which had broken out in Morelia 44 4 be en l. Points had been completely quelled ; Haasteca restored to quietness ; the whole ot the republic, the put' was undisturbed, except in Puebla, and prepar ed increasihhiln down; and the government was daily Pr e Qg in strength. 4 eOO3.- en t Comonfort, under date of the 13th ult., sends noariee`"„llnication to Governor Garza, in which he only fort y' at on the 11th, Uraga entered Tulancingo with t roop s Men, in complete route, and that Governm9t haft b e Marching on the place, so as to rende r it difficult for him to esca.,e. The reactionists ece uple eli driven from Tlaxcala, he says, which had been , Parti sa ,by the legitimate authorities. All Haro s to,or_c_enssesugeseand t dsare therefore shut up in Puebla, the against which would be amply su ffi cent tl,Aheir revolt at a blow. Mls. Werevillaral division 5, 500 strong, and with eighteen the ,3, piss marchin ro ' milexico against the place, and The iellander has ued a spirited address :to his men. tllrearlo brigade, of 1,200 men, was at Otumba, A. R 4( le W il Y i t bY way of the plains. The Ghilardt Cm l d wi th '.' l3 to leave Mexico on the 14th, 2,000 strong, " Pieces; and on the 15th the Guanajuato be nsh :Tinder Col. Doblado, 1,700 strong, and with three giro h sas ad with'barey 3,000 men, and would Il atte re l n to suc c um b , (as President Comonfort The 371 t oself) the sacrifice of very little blood. strong,. onitor states, however, that the city was being e ctto ii balestified. Stores had been emptied to get s at behind which to entrench. It is also 14 I,,ukeed that the reactionists do not exceed 2,000 nbetZrr, that officers and chiefs, with exorbitant pay, 1 4 4 , ; that the greatest dissatisfaction prevailed, and 14 an d declared they would retire to their houses; that eota.,..a_cl.raised 90,000 dols ;from the clergy and various apet7rcial houses, on condition of evacuating the city is in al,Population was much irritated against them. This hr.....u e oitio n to the forced loan of 70,000 dols, of which Tltulvt already had accounts. last )4 1'11 Or THE CANADIAN MINISTILY.—In Parliament the ev ening, the Ministry gained the superiority, beating ti er , plosition 72 to 42 on a motion to re‘cind the resolu tee,.6 al inquiri tng ia into Judge Duval' s c h arge on L t . S y l ves urder rl. een the Go NEW YORK MARKETS. : ,itnYlSlol•7B.—Th e market for pork continues dull, and til'eets irregular ; thus, while mess has declined 121 to 181 c. ,ole has met with a corresponding advance :sales 2000 1 Il k closing at 15,661 dols. - to 15,621 dole, for mess, and a 4 .3., j '", i dols. to 14,50 dols. for prime. Other kinds remain -naetive, and prices are entirely nominal. Beef continues el :3: dull, and the market is again lower; sales 680 brls. t n 84 1 at 9 25 dols. to 11 dole, for country mess, 8,25 dole. tc" ° ) 75 dols ' , for do, prime, 11 dots. to 13,25 dole, for re ....keid vie.strn, and $12,50 to $l3 for Vermont mess. Prime l a beef is inactive, and prices are nominally 18 to $22. Beef ti o t ' l l e 8 are in good demand, and the market favours the . q i ,j ; sales 600 brie, at 13 dole to 16 cl,lB 50c, as in gi-qty. Dressed Hogs are selling at 71c for Western and ..? e for hate. Bacon continues scarce and in good request Zshort ',.,`.t fall ditto es ; sales 130 boxes. Long Clear Middles an iaort a Pc —the latter parcel delivered free on ship 24 4t y , d ' Cut Meats 4 are steady, with a fair demand ; sales h f or ° packa ges Hams and Shoulders at 81 to 9ic for . t . e witraer, and 7?., to 71, 3 c for the latter. Lard is again easier, 104,11 e faorrtrio.derate inquiry ; sales 400 brls. closing at 10 to en ii _ s lair to prime, Butter and Cheese' are in moderate w it t at previous prices. portersA'N.--The wheat market is lower, and unsettled. Ex the have Withdrawn their orders from the market, and at e w le Millers buy sufficient only to satisfy their immetli- Prie e .ant s• A. decline of five cents from the present nominal Willi e $ Would scarcely tempt buyers, while holders are un- Of I' llg t° make any such concession ; sales, 400 bushels 80e . hite Southern at 1 dol 90c • 400 mixed ditto, 1 dol. 70..14471.310, IRed Tenessee, 1 dol 671 c 3,000 prime Red dol 75c • 3, 9 00 damaged and heated ditto, pri_ellar 3 5c. to 1 dol ' 51 - c • and 600 Red Long Island, on .7"„e_terre e , The Rye Market is quie„ but firm ; sales . ail' d'i,,_bushels at 1 dollar 121 c to 1 dollars 131 cents , ree ia l u il Garlic at at something below these figures, Barley fo ur n s firm, and in fair demand; sales 8400 bushels good ,the rowed at 1 dol 27e, including 7000 deliverable in May. tlie u „ °)r il market is dull, and prices favour the purchaser, btiahr e 'r an Positive decline has taken place : sales 8000 ,„,, i! at 70 to 72c for Western mixed and round white -'4‘, Yellow, 70 to 71 for yellow Southern, and 67 to 690 for AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC THE 11011,THERT4,1 TINE6,-LEVERPOOL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, MSC SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES, CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY His Lordship, Baron Martin, took his seat in this court at nine o'clock yesterday, and proceeded with the criminal business. present action. After the case had proceeded some time, the defendant consented to a verdict for the plaintiffs, for £2O, and costs, over and above £4 13s, which had been paid into court. CorroN The Cotton market continues much in the same position as noticed in our last ; the demand for American continues fair, but the supply has been sufficient for all requirements, particularly of the lower qualiti es , prices of which a r e scarce ly ma i nta i ne d, whilst the middling and better classes remain firm. Brazil have been dull, except Pernams (taken for export) which are Id per lb dearer. Egyptian without change. Surat are again rather easier. The sales are 41,710 bales, of which 7,340 are on speculation, and 4,570 for export. , This ‘k. ii - wee_. Prices paid Currt. Prices. Import! Sales. I Description. this week• Mid. Fair. I Stocks d. d. d. 15502 I 450 Sea Island -10 to 31 12 6400 Upland - -52 to 6/ 62 6 700 Mobile - 5} to 6i 52 16530 New Orleans 4 to 71 51 2488 3730 Brazil - .6}to7} 6} 3835 1120 Egyptian --6}to Bi 6} 1251 190 West India -31 to 8 6} 5269 659 U East India - 4 to 41 4} Total d. 133 } 64 61 254960 6i, 63 6k 377060 • SCOTCH PIG IRON : Our market for warrants closes at 66s 6d for cash; three months open 675. SUGAR : The market is steady, bat without animation, the business comprising 20 hhds Demerara at 395, 50 brls St. Lucia at 395, 2,500 mats Mauritius at 39s 3d, 300 bags low yellow Dates at 395, and 50 hhds indirect foreign West India at 41s per cwt. Rum prices. A small parcel of Demerara has brought previous COFFEE : There was little disposition shown to purchase the Singapore offered by auction, and only a few lots of damaged found buyers ; 50 bales Mocha sold at 40s to 493, also 125 bags Rio at 435, and 50 hhds Ceara at 41s to 48s per cwt. TEA : We have a very quiet market ; common Congou 91,d per lb; there is a good assortment of Shanghai Greens offering out of the late arrivals. RICE : About 1,350 bags Bengal are reported at 9s 9d to 10s, and 600 bags yellow cargo at 8s 6d to 8s 9d per nrof SALTPETRE There is nothing to notice, SAFFLOWER : 30 bales BengarhavebroUght 85s per cwt. PnovisioN : The demand for beef this week is very slow. which, with the heavy arrivals, has led to an increased desire on the part of some holders to realize, and a decline of 2s to 33 per tierce must be quoted on ordinary sorts; the better descriptions are however firmly held at former rates. Pork sells readily as landed, but, so far, the supply of American is short of what is required ; the trade take Irish as a substitute. The market for Bacon, whilst very firm, is somewhat at a pause, the dealers wishing to see the effect of the arrivals uow landing. This will be tested on Tuesday, when between 2,000 and 3,000 boxes will be submitted to auction. The sales of Lard for the week exceed 200 tons, at full prices. The country demand for refined lard is unusually active. There is a fair but not active demand for Cheese. At the reduced quotations for Tallow there Is somewhat more steadiness. CORN. —This morning's market was tolerably well attended, and we had several buyers from interior counties. The wheat trade exhibited an improving tone, fine samples have become quite scarce, and good qualities are far from plentiful, so that with greater disposition to go into stock, our prices of Tuesday have been strongly supported upon a fair, though not large, extent of business. Prime flours support their value, but inferior descriptions, comprising the bulk of the American stock, are very difficult of sale at 6d per barrel reduction, and Spanish sells only in retail at our extreme quotations. Egyptian beans find a considerable inquiry, and rather more money paid, with a few parcels left unsold. ()As and oatmeal dull, without change. In dian corn is in request and held firmly for Tuesday's rates; a moderate business has transpired : scarcely any samples of our present large arrivals have yet been obtained, and the show at market is consequently limited. In other articles no alteration. Arrivals from the 25th to the 27th March, 1856, inclusive : From Ireland, 510 qrs wheat, 15 qua malt, 2,566 qrs oats, 382 sacks oatmeal, 40 sacks flour; Coastwise, 290 qrs wheat, 565 qrs malt, 38 qrs oats; United States, 8,970 qrs wheat, 21,0.36 qrs Indian corn, 26,741 brls flour ; Europe, &c., 600 qrs wheat, 350 qrs pease, 2,780 qrs Indian corn, 4,900 brls flour ; Egypt, 2,600 qrs wheat, 1,300 qrs beans. Total, 12,970 qrs wheat, 580 qrs malt, 2,604 qrs oats, 1,300 qrs beans, 350 qrs pease, 23,816 qrs Indian corn, 382 sacks oatmeal, 40 sacks flour, 31,641 brls flour. R. MAKIN & SONO. white do. Oats are plenty, and the market is rather easier, State 39 to 42c. Western 40 to 42c 33 to 38cfor Jersey, and 31 to 33 for Southern. Beans are steady, with sales of 350 to 400 brls. prime State at 2 dole 50c. Canada peas remain quiet; 300 bags black eye sold from vessels at 2 dole 124 c to 2 dole 25c, cash. FLOUR AND MEAL.—The adverse accounts per Arabia and the difficulty of despatching freights to the Eastward, have combined to limit the demand for State and West ern flour to the actual necessities of the local trade, and with increased desire on the part of many holders to realize, prices of the low grades have receded 25 to 371 c. Good and extra brands, on the contrary, are firmly supported at the currency of Tuesday last, owing to the fact that +he demand is almost wholly for these. The bad repute in which all the common grades are heir', causes their neglect. The committee on inspection reform have not yet submitted the result of their deliberations. The sales of three days do not exceed 16,000 barrels, the market closing irregular and dull. Canada flour has also declined 121 c, with a moderate business ; sales 2,200 brls, closing at 7 dols 25c to 9 dols 25c, as in quality. FREIGHTS.—The market generally:remains firm, though the offerings to Great Britain and the Continent have materially fallen off; nearly all kinds of sea-going vessels are wanted, and the supply of unengaged tonnage is small. To Liverpool, the engagements include 40,000 to 45,000 bushels. Corn at 8d to 9d ; 2000 bales otton, id 9-32 d ; 30 tons Brazil nuts, 35s • 700 bxs bacon, 20s ; 130 ti erces b ee f, 3s 6d; and by the Baltic, 100 brls lard, 50 tons and 100 bks bacon, 50s per ton • and 32 bales tobacco, 60s, measu remen t. COTTON.--With large receipts at the South, and rather unfavourable accounts from Europe, per Arabia, at Boston, a further decline of one-eighth of a cent has been established with a very limited business at our revised quotations. Some lots have been sold from the wharf at prices rather below our range, but which are no guide to the market. Sales for the three days 5000 and for the week about 10,000 bales; also, 3000 in transitu from Mobile to Liverpool, at 9AO with 17-32 d freight. The market closed quiet. CENTRAL AMERICA We learn, by perfectly trustworthy private intelligence received through a mercantile house in New York, that a combined movement is about to be made by the govern ments of Guatemala, San Salvador, and Costa Rica, for the purpose of expelling Walker and his American fol lowers by force from Nicaragua. Guatemala has already raised 3,000 men for that purpose, and they are now in marching order. San Salvador has engaged to raise 2,000 and Costa Rica 1,500. It is also stated, by the same re liable authority, that great hostility exists towards Walker among the native population of Nicaragua, and that a general popular rising against him is inevitable, so soon as active support is rendered by the' neighbouring States. These facts, in connection with the opposition of the American and English Govern:rents, greatly increased as it must be by the recent demonstrations of Walker against the Nicaragua Transit Company, whose interests are protected by the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, make it very improbable that the Rivas-Walker Government can pre serve Itself much longer. To all appearance, this filibus tering drama has now been played nearly to the end. It is also reported through another source that a com mission of British and Nicaraguan agents has met at Greytown, and settled the Mosquito dispute on a basis satisfactory to both parties, and that a treaty is now on its way to England for ratification. Alluding to this matter, the New York Herald,says :—" If Great Britain agrees to this treaty--and there seems to be pretty good evidence that she will do so—Mr. Marcy is completely fooled, as he always is on diplomatic questions. Then there will be no war with England—then the ports on Long Island Sound' are sate, and New York is in no danger." CHILD MURDER.-CAPITAL CONVICTION On Thursday, at the Suffolk assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Jervis, Emma Mussett, a married woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of her male infant, at Nayland, on the 29th of February. Mr. Couch appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Dasent, at the request of the learned judge, undertook the defence of the prisoner. The prisoner is the wife of a labouring man at Nayland, and for some time before the 29th of February had been observed by her neighbours to be in the family way. She did not deny that she was enciente, and stated that she expected to be confined in May. On the afterno )n of the 29th of February she sent for Mrs. P:essney and Mrs. Oakes, two of her neighbours, and requested them to clean up the house. From what they observed, Mr. Fenn, a local surgeon, expressed his conviction, after examining her, that she had been delivered of a child. She at first denied it, but afterwards opened a box and produced the dead body of an infant, which she said was still-born. It was a full grown child, but had sustained severe injuries on the head. The principal questions for the jury were—first, whether the child was born alive? and, secondly, whether the injuries observed on it were inflicted intentionally or accidentally. Mr. Dasent, for the defenca, remarked strongly on the absence of any apparent motive for the murder, It was an undoubted medical fact that many women were affected in the most extraordinary way, not only during their confine ments, but daring the whole period of gesta ti on , an d per haps the prisoner, suffering under intense agony, and unat tended by any one, might have accidentally and uninten tionally injured the child. She appeared to have behaved with decency and propriety in all the relations of life ; her husband seemed to have been fond of her, and it was notorious to all the gossips of the neighbourhood that she flceinte ; what reason, then, was there to induce her to murder her own offspring ? The Chief Justice, in summing up, said he was sure the jury would be only too glad to take this merciful vie ,v of the case, but there were unfortunately some very serious facts against the prisoner. If the jury believed that the child was born alive, and that the unfortunate prisoner killed it, then, whatever might be the consevences, they must find her guilty of murder; if they thought that it was born dead, she would be guilty of the offence of concealing the birth. At the same time thcy must not find her guilty of concealing the birth, in order to escape the responsibility of finding her guilty of murder. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. The Chiet Justice, in passing sentence, said his duty was most painful, but at the same time plain and simple. It would rest with others, in whose hands the merciful prero gative of the crown was vested, to take the prisoner's case hereafter into considel Eldon ; he could only pass upon her the awful sentence of death. Tne prisoner, who had suffered throughout the proceed ings from a fit of trembling, to which, it was said, she was continually subject, heard the dread sentence, which was pronounced in the usual terms, without making any excla mation, and was removed in a kind of stupor. HAMBURG, Thursday.—The Assembly Burghers has rejected the project for a new Constitution recom mended by the Germanic Diet__ THE FORTHCOMING BUDGET.—The Belfast spirit•dealers have been all again on the alert to have the foreway of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; one house alone having, during the last two days, paid £lO,OOO on whisky, in anticipation of an equalisation of the duty between this country and England. n- • E EAST INDIA COMPANY.—An account respecting the annual territorial revenues and disbursements of the East India Company, for the years 1851-52, 1852-53, 1853-34, and 1854-55 (estimated) was published on Thursday. It contains very comprehensive statements regarding the dif ferent presidencies, from which we gather that during the four years named the net revenue of India amounted in English money to £20,404,230 in 1851-52 ; £20,047,425 in 1852-53 ; £20,328,862 in 1853-54 ; and (estimated) £20,371,450 in 1854-55. The total charges on these years were successively £19,872,965, £20,523,158, £22,372,979, and £22,915,160. There was thus in 1851-52 an increase of income over expenditure of £531,265 ; in 1852.53, this increase amounted to the sum of £424,257. In 1853-54, however, there was a deficit of £2,044,117, and according to the estimate for 1854-55, this deficit was further increased to the sum of £2,543,710. THE PACIFIC NOT HEARD OF YET.—The Pacific has now been out exactly fifty days, and still there are no tidings of her. By many it was expected that something would have been heard of her by the Arabia, but that anticipation has la( en disappointed. A little reflection would have shown that there was but slight probability of the latter vessel either falling in with, or bringing any intelligence of, her. If, as we believe, she is blocked up in the ice as far north as between latitude 45 and 47, it was not likely that the Arabia, running five or seven degrees to the south of her usual course, as she was compelled to do, could have approached within several hund• ed miles of her track. In the case of this arrival, we look upon Pacificmew ha t t han applicable. that it . that the saying, that no news is good news, i t c h e s° ch n i a s d ge a n n e y ra o l t l h v er ap d p i r s e a h s e t n er de befallen e indications of it would, in all probability, have been fallen in with by this time. The long interval that has elapsed since she has been heard of, is by no means incompatible with the safety of the vessel ; although, of course, that of her passengers will, under such circumstances, still depend on the ample provisioning of the ship, and the length of time that she may continu e t o b e ice -bound. Weeks may stil. elapse before any certain calculations can be formed as to her tate, for as long as the extensive fields of ice, tracked by the steamers Ar igo, Atlantic, and Baltic, hold together, so long will there be a chance of her safety. The fact of nothing having been heard of the movements of the Arctic since she left, confirms, we think, this view of the case. That vessel, it will be recollected, was specially constructed for the navi gation of ice, is capable of resisting almost any amount of pressure, and has therefore been able to penetrate pretty far north. Had he met with any certain indications of the loss of the Pacific, Lieutenant Hartstein would have immediately returned to the nearest port. It may be that be has discov_ ere I her whereabouts but has been unable to reach her. It may be that he is himself embargoed and cannot move. In any case we look upon the non -return of Lieutenant Hart stein as confirming the hopes that we still continue to enter tain, of the safety of the Pacific, With the transference to our latitude of an arctic climate, it is to be expected that we should make acquaintance with some of the phenomenal incidents of arctic adventure,—Noto York Iterald, March. 16. INDECENT ASSACLT.—Thomas Quinn, aged 51, labourer, was charged with having, on the 13th of February, at Ashton-under-Lyne, committed an indecent assault upon Martha Belington, a little girl under twelve years of age, The details of this case - are wholly unfit for publication. The prisoner was found guilty. His Lordship sentenced him to be imprisoned for eighteen months with hard labour. FORGERY OF A WlLL.—Terence MiLoughlin, aged 18, James Monaghan 26, and Edw. Dunn 25, were charged with having at Manchester, on the 3rd of August, 1855, forged a will which purported to have been executed by John Monaghan, and with having uttered the same knowing it to be forged. James Keefe was charged with being accessory after the fact. Edward Dunn was further charged with having, while agent for the Diadem Insurance Company at Manchester, on the 6th December, illegally used for his own purpose a bankers' cheque for £l5 4s 9d. From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that John Monaghan, a varnishmaker, lived at 11, Hope-street, Manchester, with his son-in-law, Francis .Keene, a shoemaker, who was married to Monaghan's daughter Eliza. In last August John Monaghan was attacked with dysentery, of which upon the 11th of that month he died. Keene had effected a policy on Monaghan's life for XlO 10s ' with the Wellington Insu rance company, and a short time before Monaghan's death he drew out a will for Monaghan, by the terms of which the latter left to his daughier, Keene's wife, the policy of insurance upon. which Keene had paid the premiums. Monaghan's funeral took place on the 16th of August, and after the funeral Keene took steps to prove the will, when he found that in consequence of certain legal formalities not having been complied with, it was not legal. Keene thought the document of no further use, and threw it on a table in his house. It was picked up by James Monaghan, a on of the deceased John Monaghan. Some days after wards the prisoners Dunn and James Monaghan were sitting at a table in Keene's house, when Keene saw Dunn writing with a pencil upon a piece of paper, which he believed to be the will he had drawn up, and Keene heard Dunn say it was as good a will as if he had paid a lawyer to draw it up. On the 13th of September, James Monaghan asked a man named o'.Neill to write out a document for him which Monaghan dictated to him, and which purported to be the will of John Monaghan, by which a policy of insurance for £3OO in the Diadem Insurance Company, on the life of the deceased John Monaghan, was left to James Monaghan. The latter asked O'Neill if he would copy a document for him, and on O'Neill saying he would, Monaghan read out the document for him from a paper which he held in his hand. He told O'Neill it was a copy of his father's will. O'Neill wrote the name of John Monaghan to it, but left a blank for the mark, as Monaghan said his father only made a mark. O'Neill did not write the name of any witnesses to it. Monaghan requested O'Neill to sign the mark, but O'Neill refused. A man, named Terence M'Loughliu came in at the time, and, on being asked by Monaghan, he made the mark, purporting to be that of John M onaghan. It subsequently appeared that the deceased Monaghan knew nothing whatever of the policy which had been effected upon his life with the Diadem Insurance Company, and that the will which professed to bequeath the amount of that policy was a fac-simile of that drawn up by Keene. The will bequeathing the £3OO was taken by James Monaghan to Mr. Huntingdon, a surrogate at Manchester. Mr. Huntingdor. pointed out to him that the will was not witnessed and properly • drawn up, and therefore could not be received. Some days afterwards the prisoner Monaghan came a second time before the surrogate, accompanied by the prisoner, James Keefe, who swore that he was one of the attesting witnesses to the will presented by Monaghan, and that he saw deceased John Monaghan put his mark to it. It appeared subsequently that the pri soner Dunn was the agent in Manchester to the Diadem Company, and that he and James Monaghan had effected the insurance on the deceased Monaghan's life, and paid up the premiums. When the matter was taken up by the police authorities, there was found in a trunk belonging to the prisoner, James Monaghan,a paper, which Keefe stated was the original will he had written out, and on which were several alterations in Dunn's handwriting, made with a lead pencil. These were the leading points of the case for the prosecution, as they appeared from the statement of counsil, Mr. Overend, and the witnesses. His lordship stated that there was no case of forgery against Dunn. and only a very slight case against Keete. Mr. Fearnleyivelio appeared for the defence, then addressed the jury in behalf of the remaining prisoners. Mr. Fearnley opened by strongly denouncing the Diadem Insurance Company, as an association which no one had ever heard of before that case, which, according to evidence, was in the habit of collecting its premiums by two and three pence at a time, and which had evinced a recklessness in making a criminal charge. He was pro ceeding to the same effect, when his Lordship remarked : "I think it is now quite time to leave the insurance com pany, and apply yourself to the case." Mr. Fearnley then proceeded to point out what he urged to be discrepancies and improbabilities in the evidence. He contended that it was perfectly natural for Mr. Loughlin, when asked by the sun of the deceased, openly in the presence of Keene and other parties, to copy a mark on' a piece of paper, should do so, wi.hout believing that it was anything more than a mere copy of no consequence. He could have had no motive for doing so. He had no interest in the matter, and whether the will was maintained or upset he had nothing to gain. The learned counsel also argued that, on the part of Monaghan, there could be no motive whatever to a forgery, and that, as the insurance had been effected, there was no one could have been defrauded by such a forgery. His Lordship charged the jury. Ii his opening remarks he expressed a hope that this trial might have the effect of teaching people in general, that a policy of insurance effected by a person who had no interest in the life of the party insured was utterly void. The policy effected by the son-in-law for £lO 16s. Was therefore not worth the paper upon which it was writ. ten. Ile hoped also that trial would teach people that issuing a forged document under any circumstances, was an offence even it there should be no actual intention to defraud in doing so. The learned counsel who last addressed the jury, utterly erred in supposing that a man (could utter a forged document, knowing it to be forged. No man could utter a bill of exchaege having the name of another person forged to it, and escape punishment by saying he had no intention to defraud any one as it was his real and honest intention to pay the money when it fell due. All persons should understand that to pass a document signed by a forged name, was really a crime. If this trial cautioned persons against dealing with insurance offices at whose mercy they were, in such a way, and against tampering with documents, it would have done much good. Had the prisoner Monaghan gone to any attorney he would have learned that to take out letters of administration would have answered all the purposes which he appeared to have sought to attain. The jury found James Monaghan guilty of forgery, and the other prisoners not guilty. His Lord ship, in sentencing Monaghan, expressed his belief that the prisoner did not intend to defraud any one of any money to which he was not entitled, and that his object in commit ting the forgery was for the purpose of obtaining a further prOof to enable him to recover the amount of the policy he had effected. He had, however, been guilty of a forgery which should be punished. Justice would be satisfied in that case by a punishment of six months' imprisonment. The prisoner Keefe was then put up on a charge of having taken a false oath. He pleaded guilty, and was ordered to enter into recognizanees to come up for judgment if called upon. The other charge against Dunn, mentioned in the calendar, was not gone into at this period of the day. SENTE NCEi.—Joseph Andrie, convicted of receiving 'jewellery, knowing it to be stolen, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. John Wilson,. found guilty of issuing a forged order, a ticket-of-leave man, was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. Mary Anne Doyle, convicted of stabbing, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment from the expiration of her present confinement. Christopher Bradley, convicted of stabbing, was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months, and kept to hard labour. Richard Stafford and John Sanderson, convicted of robbing, with violence, and pre viously convicted of robbing, were sentenced each to six years penal servitude. George McDowell and Patrick Irwin, convicted of robbery, were sentenced to four years penal servitude each. - TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS.—WiIIiaM Harrison, publican, aged 51, was charged with having at Bolton, on the 2nd December, unlawfully persuaded Roger Walsh, a witness in a prosecution, " the Queen against John Sander son and others," not to give evidence in the said prosecu tion. The prisoner was the father of John Sanderson, just sentenced. No evidence was offered in the case, and the prisoner was discharged. MALICIOUS DAMAGE.—John Lees, James Hilton, an d Samuel Hall, were charged with having maliciously de stroyed some cotton, the property of Mr. Milner, a mill owner, at Chadderton, on the 4th of December. The prisoners pleaded guilty, and, at the request of the prose cutor, they were liberated, on entering into recognisances to come up for judgment if called upon. BURGLAR-.—Anne Burns, aged 17, Thomas Green, 21, boilermaker, and William James, 19, carter, were charged with having entered the establishment of Mr. Nisbett, publican, Liverpool, on the 27th January, and stolen there. from 18s, and a quan tity of cigars, tobacco, wearing apparel, &c. The prisoners were found guilty. A previous conviction was preferred against Green, who was tried belo e under a different name. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Thomas Leigh, 22, Peter. Leigh, 18, and Michael Maguire, were charged with haring assaulted Jam es O g d en, at Rochdale, on the night of the sth January, and stolen from his person 3s 6d. It appeared that the prosecutor, who is an assistant engineer in a mill near Rochdale, was drinking with the prisoners on the night in question in several public houses. He way seen to receive change for half a sovereign at one public house, and the pri soners attacked him as he was going home, and after severely beating and kicki ng hi m desperate l y, robbed him of 3s. 6d. The case rested mainly on the evidence of the prosecutor, who spoke with an overpowering Rochdale dialect, and the downright energy, and naive unintentional humour, of whose answers created the utmost amusement in court, even the learned judge being unable, sometimes, to preserve his gravity. Several other witnesses were examined on both sides. The jury found all the prisoners guilty. His Lordship, in sen tencing the prisoners, declared that this was one of the most audacious exhibitions of wanton violence he had ever heard of. Not content with robbing the man, they had beaten and kicked him in the most brutal manner. He did not see with wh face they could ask for mercy, and he should be unworthy of the seat he occupied if he did not make an example of them. The sentence of the court was, that each of the prisoners be condemned to penal servitude for life. The prisoners received the sentence with a united shriek of horror. One of them, Lees, seemed to be seized with a fit, for he fell on the ground and struggled convulsively, uttering, all the time, loud cries. It was with some difficulty that the prisoners were removed, and quiet restored. THE RECENT ASSAULT AND AETEMPT AT ROBBERY IN SOUTH CASTLE-STREET —Robert Eyre, a g ed 19, described as a clerk, and Henry Eyre, aged 16, shopboy, , were placed in the dock, charged with having, at Liverpool, on the 24th January, 1856, feloniously assaulted and wounded one William Hughes, with intent to kill him. This was the well-known case of the mid-day attempt at robbery in Mr. Durandu's bullion office, South Castle-street, in which the shopman received dangerous wounds. The pri soners withdrew their former plea and pleaded guilty. They were then removed from the dock CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—Edward Dunn, one of the parties tried in the morning, was put up on the charge men tioned before, of having converted to his own use a banker's cheque for £l5 4s 9d, he being then acting as agent for the Diadem Insurance Company. The prosecu tors did not, however, produce the deed of agreement under which the prisoner acted with the company, and his Lord ship directed an acquittal. BURGLARY IN ErvEßPoot.—James M'Cann, aged 25, stonemason; William Evans, 20, labourer; and Peter Cosgrove, 26, baker, were charged with having at Liverpool, on the 27th February, 1856, burglariously broken iuto and entered the house of William Hoult, and stolen therefrom one coat, one gun, one watch, four bottles of spirits, and other articles, the property of William Hoult. The jury acquitted the prisoners. Robert Wilson was arraigned on a charge of embezzling various sums of money from Messrs. Brocklebauk, his employer. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was then remanded. The court rose at half-past six o'clock. NISI PRIUS COURT.-YESTERDAY (BEFORE MR, dIISTICE WILLES.) NASWORTIIY V. KlNG.—This was an action to recover the value of twenty bags of currants sold by the plaintiff to the defendant. The plaintiff is a wholesale fruit mer chant and grocer, carrying on business in Stafford shire, and in October last he purchased twenty bags of currants, not of the highest class. Shortly after the purchase he offered them, through the agency of Mr. Taylor, of Manchester, for sale to the defendant. Th e latter tooki one bag at 46s the cwt., promising to take the whole if he found them suitable. The bag so purchased was sent to the defendant on the 20th October, and shortly afterwards he agreed to take the whole quantity, amounting in all to -t'BB 7s. After some time, the defen dant alleged that the currants were not equal to the sample, and refused to take them. This was on the 21st December, by which time the value of currants had slightly fallen, and those in question being of the lowest quality, were nearly unsaleable. They were then sold by Mr. Taylor for the plaintiff, and the present action was o b b r o t a u i g n h e t d o a e d c th v a e t r a t t h e d f f which,e r e i n n c t e h e b fi e r t s w t e e n n s t t a h n e c e r t. i h c e e y t h h a e d n been disposed of. The custom of the trade is to return such goods immediately, if not equal to sample ; and the defendant contended that he had done so as soon as he had had the opportunity of discovering that they were bad. Mr. Monk and Mr. 'Wheeler appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Overend, Q.C., for the defendant. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff f or th e f u ll amount claimed, 474 Bs, with costs. "DOING COUSIN JONATHAN."—BRENNAN V. HOWARD.— This was an action to recover compensation for breach of contract under peculiar circumstances. Mr. Atherton, Q.C., with Mr. Ovens, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. James, Q.C., with Mr. Blair, for the defendant. Mr. Atherton stated the case. He said that the plaintiff, Mr. Henry Brennan, was a silk merchant in Manchester, and that until recently he had a place of business also at New York. The defendant was formerly what is called a berthing clerk in the employment of Messrs. Grimshaw and Co., shippers and emigration agents, of Liverpool ; and the action was brought to recover damages against him for breach of contract into which he entered with the plaintiff in November, 1853. The conditions of the contract being, that the defendant undertook and guaran teed to deliver at the plaintiff's store in New York certain packages of silk packed in three dozen hampers, and that for each hamper so delivered, he would pay him £7 on receiving information to that effect, from New York. The contract arose in this wise. In November, 1853, the plaintiff being desirous of sending out certain silk goods to New York, came to Liverpool from Man chester, for the purpose of arranging for their transmis sion. He intended to employ Messrs. Grimshaw and Go., as his shipping agents, and with that view he went to their office. He there met a person of the name of Divine, also in the employment of Messrs. Grimshaw and Co., and with him he proceeded in the direction of the docks. On their way they met the defendant, and on Divine in forming him of the nature of the plaintiff's business, he intimated that from his acquaintance with the mates of the various vessels sailing from Liverpool to New York, he could have the goods taken and delivered in New York at a much lo wer rate than if sent by the ordinary way. It was arranged that they should meet that even ing to talk over the defendant's proposal, and the result of their interview was, that the above contract was entered into. The ordinary freight on the goods would be but a few shillings, but as defendant undertook to deliver them in New York free of all charges, duty or otherwise, the plaintiff would effect a considerable gain by adopting this mode of transmission. It was in point of fact, a smuggling transmission—an attempt to evade the duties payable on such goods to the American Cus toms, but of such proceedings towards foreign states, the Government of England took no notice. In pursuance of the arrangement with Howard the plaintiff sent Divine, on the 11th November, silk goods of the value, first cost, of £lBB Os 6d, packed in a three dozen hamper, and by him they were delivered to the defendant, who gave a receipt for them. On. the 23 la of November he sent a like package of goods to the value of £127 14s 6d, and on the 17th December a third package to the value of £152 16s 7d. Of these packages only the third was delivered in New York, but when received by the plaintiff's agent there, it had been rifled of half its contents ; of the other two packages the plaintiff received no tidings, and he now brought the present action to :recover the loss he had sustained in those transactions. The plaintiff was examined, and deposed to the facts set forth in the counsel's opening statement. On cross-examination by Mr. James, he stated that he had been engaged in other smuggling transactions, but that he had not made a shilling by them. As in horse racing, having lost on one risk, he had been tempted into others to recoup himself. On re-examination be stated that he had closed his house in New York, and that he had had quite enough of sending silk as bottled porter. (Laughter.) He intended never to burn his fingers so again. (Laughter.) He was shipping silk for the last six years, in the regular way, to the amount of £BOO a month. Devine was also examined, and he con °berated the plain tiff's statement. Mr. Atherton then applied to amend the declaration in material particulars. Mr. James objected. His Lordship said that this was a case in which the parties should succeed, if they succeeded at all, according to their strict rights, and that he would not assist any person to reap the profits of a transaction, the object of which was to defraud the American government. His Lordship then suggested that the plaintiff should withdraw a juror. Mr. Atherton replied that he would consent to withdraw a juror, but in giving that consent he did not intend to bind his client not to fashion his complaint- in a better manner. Mr. James objected to the withdrawal of a juror on such an understanding. His Lordship : It is very like a case in the Chancery Court, where one man filed a bill against another to obtain an account of their joint robbery. One was hung, and the other had to go abroad, and both attornies were struck off the roll. (Laughter.) Mr. James : I think it would be a proper ending to this case. (Great laughter, the merriment being much increased at the haste and alarm with which Mr. Campbell, the attorney instructing the learned gentleman, remonstrated with him on his recom mendation of eadh a summary proceeding in this case.) Mr. James : Oh, of course I did nat mean you. (Laughter.) His Lordship refused to allow the amendment of the declaration, and the plaintiff was accordingly nousuited. This was the last common jury case on the first list. WATERBURY V. STEEL.—In this cause a verdict was entered by consent for the plaintiff £220. FOULKES v. STEPHKNSON.—This was an undefended action, and was brought to recover the sum of £22 ls. 7d. for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff is a farmer in this county, and the defendant lately kept a public house at Knotty Ash.—Verdict for the plaintiff, for whom Mr. Cole appeared. • CARTER AND OTHERS v. HEPWORTH AND OTHERS.— This also was an undefended action on a bill of exchange for £92 133. 3 1. The defendanr. admitted a balance due of £32 Is. 6d., and a verdict for the plaintiff was accordingly entered for that amount. SMALLEY V. THE BLACKBURN RAILWAY COMPANY. — A verdict was entered by consent for the plaintiff, a sur veyor to determine the value of the land in questio❑. The action was brought to recover the profits of certain land for w o h r i t c h h e th p e la p: n a t i iff n s ti: had obtained a judgment of ejectment against the defendants, ELLIS AND ANOTHER V. DIXON.—This 7708 an action to for the defendant. and Th l‘ e ir. recover compensation for breach of contract by the defend ant. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, with Mr. Millward appeared plaintiffs Wilde, Q a . r C o . , m w e i t t a h l Mb brokers, k M e r e s l , l u i i r s o h n , merchants, and general machinists, and the defendant, until lately, was the proprietor of Windsor Foundry, near Liver pool. In June last he contemplated retiring from business, and he accordingly advertised his machinery and other articles on his premises for sale. The plaintiffs proceeded to the foundry on seeing the advertisement, and agreed to purchase all the scrap iron on the premises at 60s. per ton. They also, at his request, valued the machinery, but he sub sequently refused to let them have all the iron, which they alleged they had purchased from him, and hence arose the BROCKLEBANS v. WILSON.—Just before the court rose, Mr: Aspinall applied that this case might be tried this assize, stating that it was the opinion of Mr. Justice Cromp ton that it was desirable that it should be so. His lordship said that that being the opinion of Mr. Justice Crompton, he would grant the application. The cause was then entered on the list. We believe that the grand jury have not as yet returned a bill against Wilson, who is in custody for embez zlement. The special jury cases will be taken upon Tuesday - The cause Of PETRIE V. NUTTALL bas been fixed for Wed nesday, and POTTER V. THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL for Thursday. Bith are special jury cases. POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY (BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.) A MUSICAL ORASII.—Tom Ito.erts, kn(irvn to the police as "Tom the Bull," or " the Caperer," and who was said by the police to have been ablut 250 ti mes in jail for all sorts of crimes—in fact he has had to answer for every offence known to the law, except murder an 1 arson,—was brought up on a charge of having broken a fiddle belonging to a wandering minstrel, a blind youth, named Patrick Layering. The statistical history of Tom Roberts, accord ing to police returns, was one of romance, and but for the written evidence would amount to the fabulous. His life for about forty-five years (he appears about that age) has been one of the most chequered imaginable, and would prove an excellent foundation for a novel or a stage hero. It appears he was born and bred a gentleman, and, as one of the inspectors said, he had received more beatings from hard sticks than would have demolished a granite stone ! It appeared that in the day be inhabits the Park, night he resides in Ben Jonsen-street mystery to inspectors Kehoe and M'Clough declares he must bo fed by some -" Mrs. Harri or other never-to-be-seen philanthropist. lie formerly possessed some houses in Cotter-street, but it seems that this property has passed from him into the hands of mortgagees long since. The history told by the officers of the " taperer" was both amusing and melancholy, and if some one so i nc li ne d, would " write a book," the history of " Tom Roberts the Bull," would furn . sh ample materials for three volumes quarto. His last caperaticu" took place on Thursday evening, in St. James's-place, when he entered the public house of Mr. Bradley, where the complainant and his fiddle were at " work." Tom did not like the music, and the poor blind fellow having laid down the " instru ment" on a stool, Tom very deliberately sat down on it, and, to use the words olf the owner, he made "mash of it !" Here the remains of what was once a violin, were held up amid a shout of laughter. Its appearance fully bore the expressive term of the owner. Tom Roberti was the only man who did not seem to mind or care about the affair. He stood like a granite stone, and did not flinch, even when Mr. Mansfield ordered him to pay a fine of £l, or in default to be imprisoned for one month. Tom chose the latter alternative, and was ultimately carried off in the sable van to durance vile. The police say they will have peace in the Park for a month in his absence How he exists and even (BEFORE MR. SMITH.) THE " SWELLB."—Four persons, named Thomas Kerry, Daniel Hague, Elizabeth Hanly, an 1 Emma Thompson, who were apparently about twenty years of age, and were dressed very stylishly, were brought up by detectives Thompson and Scaife, on a charge of having stolen a purse from a lady, named Mrs. Mary Scoffield, in .Renshaw-street, on Thursday. Mr. Bluck appeared for the prisoners. From the evidence of the officers, it appeared that they saw the prisoners in Byrom-street, and noticing that their conduct was more than suspicious, they watched them into Lime street, Copperas-hill, and Renshaw-street. The prosecutrix was standing at a window in the latter street, and the two male prisoners "telegraphed" the females, who at once proceeded to `• sound" the lady's pocket ; after " diving" at the pocket for a time, they drew something from it, the male prisoners covering the operation. The officers then seized the whole of the prisoners, and immediately after one of the females dropped the purse which had b3en taken from the pocket of Mrs. Scoffield. Mr. Bluck eras-examined the officers, but their testimony was not altered. Mr. Bluck requested that the offence should be dealt with under the summary jurisdiction act; but, in consequence of Inspector Maybury, of Manchester, coming forward and claiming the male prisoners on a charge of having passed two base five pound notes in that city, the prisoners were ordered to be given up to the inspector. Mr. Bluck then asked for a summary conviction on the females, and his worship sent them to prison for three months. PUBLICANS' AND BEERHOTISE CASES.—The following publicans' and beerhouse cases were disposed of, in both courts, before Mr. Mansfield and Mr. Smith : —George Land, publican, Peter street, was summoned by police constable Riley, 91. for doing business at illegal hours, and allowing drunkenness. Fined £2 and costs.—Nicholas Cornew, publican, Suffolk street, was charged with doing business at illegal hours, and allowing drunkenness in his house. Fined lOs and costs.—Henry Moss, publican, Pitt street, was charged with doing business on Good Friday morning. Fined 5s and costs.—Mary Smith, hotel keeper, was charged with doing business on Good Friday morning Mr. Snowball said the persons found in the house were lodgers, and he produced one of the persons who proved the the fact. Dismissed.—Henry Barrigan, beer house keeper, Windsor, was charged with doing business at illegal hours. Fined ss. and costs. James Sayer, publican, Copperas-hill, was charged with doing business on Good Friday morning. Fined 10s. and costs, and a like sum on a second information. —Robert Meldrum, publican, Tames-street, was charged with a like offence. Dismissed.—Peter Bradshaw, beerhouse keeper, Duke-street, was fined 2s. 6d. and costs, for doing business at illegal hours.- -Margaret Thompson, publican, Market Street, was charged with selling ale on Good Friday that the person who got the ale was a dismissed.—John Stockton, beerhouse keeper, Street, was charged with refusing to _admit the police It was shown traveller. Case I\lann Fined 5s and costs.—Robert Worral, beerhouse keeper, Edward Street, Park, was fined 21 for dhing business at illegal hours.—Margaret Pinfield, publican, Street, was charged with ing business on Good Friday mor ning. Fined ls, and is costs.—Joseph Pate, publican, Jordan Street, was charged with selling ale on Good Friday at half-past twelve o'clock. Dismissed.—John Houghton, publican, Flint Street, was charged with doing business on Good Friday. The defendant in this case complained loudly of the exiduct of the police coming in disguse to his house, and acting very illegally and inso lently. Dismissed.—Robt. Williams, publican, Trafalgar Street, was charged with doing business on Good Friday morning.- Fined 2s 6d and costs.—Hugh Devlin, New Bird-street, was summoned for doing business on Sunday morning. Fined 2s 6d.—Michael Cooper, beerhouse keeper, Ashton Street, was summoned for doing business on Sunday. Dismissed.—Thomas Davis, beerhouse keeper, Rose Place, was summoned for doing business on Sunday mid-day. The defence in this case was, that the affair took place in consequence of a raffle for an ass. Fined £2.—Mary Jones, beerhouse keeper, Queen Anne Street, was charged with selling ale on Sunday morning, and for having a policeman (in uniform) in the house drinking. The defence was, that the parties found in the in the house were lodgers. Fined 2s 6d and 2s 6d costs.— Margaret Rowlands, beerhouse keeper, Horatio Street, was charged with doing business on Sunday morning. This house was designated as one of the worst dens in. Liverpool. Fined £5 and costs.—Jane Kane, beer house keeper, Stewart Street, was charged with selling ale on Sunday morning. Fined 21 and costs.—Bridget Hodson, of the same street, was charged with a like offence. Fined 5s and costs.—William Pitt, Burlington Street, beerhouse keeper, was charged with selling ale on Sunday morning last. Fined lOs and costs.—John Williams, Naylor Street, was charged with refusing to admit the police on Sunday morning. Fined 5s and costs. —Hugh Logan, table-beer house keeper, was summoned for selling ale at half. past twelve o'clock on Sunday last. Fined 5s and costs. BILLET CASES —Several publicans were summoned for refusing soldiers billets. The details were void of interest. Some cases were dismissed, and in other cases fines were inflicted. " The Emperor," says the Constitutionnel, "has, for this year, doubled the salaries of all the persons in his house hold." A letter from Hamburg states, :that English mer chants daily arrive in that city with a view of proceeding to Russia as soon as peace is effected. GRAND NAVAL REviEw.—Orders have been issued for every despatch screw gun vessel, as well as the that t elv t gun boats, to be ready by the 16 th of April; so may be takenl for granted that on the 16 th otthe lith of the next month, the Queen will review the finest and most powerful fleet on record. It is believed that her Majesty will arrive in the morning .at Portsmouth, and return to town in the evening of the same day. Friday's Times says : —The last intelligence from Paris is to the effect that the late diplomatic difficulty is on the point of being settled. It will be remembered that, a few days since, an unexpected obstacle threatened to delay the conclusion of peace. On Saturday last the plenipotentiaries met with the expectation of concluding their labours. The Emperor, among others, is reported to have been certain that all was over, and even to have given orders for the cannon of the Envalides to announce the advent of peace at the same time that the Te Deum was resounding in the churches of France for the safe delivery of the Empress. The claim of Prussia to sign the treaty, on equal terms with the other powers, is said to have been the cause of this difficulty, and orders will be, or have been already, despatched to the generals at the seat of war, ordering them not to re-commence hostilities, even though the 31st of March should arrive without their receiving the news of peace. Lord Clarendon is reported to have resisted the Prussian claim with much earnestness, and to have insisted that this State should only adhere to the treaty in the same manner as France did to that of 1840 —signed without her participation. Matters now ap pear to have been arranged. We anticipate nothing more serious than a short delay, and trust that though some days may pass before all is settled, the Plenipoten tiaries will soon affix their names to a treaty of peace. TRADE REPORT.- VAIDAY. LIVERPOOL LONDON SUGAR : We have had a very good demand during the week, and a fair amount of general business done, including three floating cargoes, at fully 6d advance on last week's currency. The refined market is also rather dearer. Grocery lumps quoted 51s to 535. COFFEE : The quantity offered in public sale has been too small to give quotations. A limited business has been done in very good Native Ceylon, at 52s 6d, and a floating cargo of St. Domingo Jacmil at about 48s. TEA : The market has been dull during the week, and the bulk of quantity offered in public sale was bought in. Duty paid on tea in London for the week ending 22nd March, 468,7651 b. Rice. A small amount of business at about previous :....... Rust : The demand has improved, and a slight advance has been established. Proof Leewards sold at 2s; Deme rara, 2s 4d. SALTPETRE has sold freely to arrive at 35s to 35s 6d according to date of shipment, and 37s 3d has been paid for refraction 2, on the spot. CoTTox : The stock in first bands is much reduced, and scarcely any business during the week. HEMP : Italian sold £26 to £3O 5s ; Polish Rhine, £32 10!) Sc. Petersburg clean, £3l to £32. OILS : Linseed, '£34 ; rape, English refined, £5O £47; foreign, £52 10s. ; brown, SPICES : .A limited business done at previous rates. In other articles no material alteration. Coax: There was scarcely any English wheat fresh up for this morning's market, and its value underwent no The receipts of foreign wheat have been large this week, and amount to 23,340 qrs, the bulk consisting of inferior qualities, viz., Egyptian and Indian descriptions. The trade was steady at the recent decline. American flour was unchanged in value. Norfolk was rather dearer.— Barley, beans, and peas s Id on much the same terms as on Mon•)ay las% ()its could not be purchased on easier terms than in the beginni-.g of the week. Chang TALnow.—The market is again quiet at the annexed quotation :—Petersburgh Y. C. on the spot, 47s 6d ; March to April, 47s ; April to June, 47s ; October to December, 48s 3d. BOROUGH Hop.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith, hop factors, report that there is a good demand for fine hops, at late prices. METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—The supply of beasts in to day's market w limited, and all kinds moved off steadily at Monday's quotations. The quality of the stock was but middling—with sheep we were scantily supplied, and the mutton trade ruled brisk at a further improvement in value of 2d. per 8 lbs. The best old downs in the wool realised ss. 4d. per 8 lbs. Lambs were in moderate supply and heavy request at 6d. per 8 lbs. less money. Calves sold slowly, and prices gave way 2d. per 8 lbs. Pigs were very dull, and not cheaper. Beef, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to is. 4d.; Lamb, 6s. to 7s. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 10d. ; Pork, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d.—per 8 lbs. to sink offal. YESTERDAY'S MARKETS BELFAST CORN : Wheat in moderate supply. White, l4s9d to 15s 61; red, 14s to 14s 9d. Oats 7s 6d to 10s. Oatmeal 13s t ) 13s 6d. At Corn Exchange, attendance small. No change in any article except Indian Corn, which is offered at XS per ton. *4 DUBLIN CORN : A small supply; very little doing; prices steady. Prime samples of wheat a little higher. Nothing doing in Indian Corn. WAKEFIELD CORN : Wheat in fair demand, at last week's rates. Barley dull, at is decline. Beans and Oats very firm. CORK CORN: White wheat, 375; red wheat, 27s to 355. Barley, 16s to 19s. Oats, lOs 6d to 14s 81. Pork, 38s to 445. PARIS, Thursday.—An order from the Minister of . ar directs the immediate embarkation of troops for the 'rimes BERLIN, Thursday.—The Wiener Zeilung announces that the Papal nuncio will preside at the forthcoming assembly of Austrian prelates when the Papal proposals are under examination. On other occasions the presi dency will be taken by one of the Austrian archbishops. MELANCHOLY BEREANENtENT. —The Dean of Carlisle has, we regret to learn, sustained a m;st lamentable domestic bereavement, no less than four daughters having been c irried off by scarlet fever within the last twenty days. The last and eldest died on Tuesday, at the age of ten years. THE CRIMEA,—The T imes has received its corres pondence to Marcia 15. The conditions of the armistice had been settled. Drafts of men continually arrived from England. The 4th division numbered nearly 8,000 men. The English and Sardinians generally desired the continuance of the war, while the French are glad it is over. In another campaign the French feel that it would be in vain for them to affect an imaginary supe riority over their allies. Our army augments daily, while theirs continues to dwindle. FIRE AT MANCHESTER. —On Thursday night, about 11 o'clock, a policeman perceived a fire in the sixth story of the extensive warehouse in Portland Street, occupied by Messrs. A. and S. Henry and Co., Merchants. The and Mr. Rose, with th e fire brigade.walearre mpromptl ywas on the spot. The books were carried to a place of safety, with some of the goods that were in the lower rooms. At present the extent of the injury done is not known, nor can it be said how the fire originated. The Paris correspondent of Friday's Times states, that the difficulty respecting Prussia and others, which existed a few days ago, having been removed other difficulties arose at the meeting of the congress yesterday, not, of cour'e, he says, insurmountable, but sufficient to retard the definitive settlement. It was reported that the corn pletion.of the treaty would be delayed till Monday, or even.the middle of next week. Orders have been sent to continue the suspension of hostilities.