Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-30 00:00:00

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During the Assizes, we shall blish an 2 daily, at 5 o'clock, gi !ping Edition. , edings in both the Civil and Criminal Courts up to the hour of going to The trade, in order to secure a supply of papers, must give their orders early each day, - THE DAY'S N of Cm cellor of the Exc last night, the Chan- t was -desirabl understan di shauld bc e that of the debate on the Reform Bill, lould close on Thursday, a come to with ref rence to the el( and suggested that proposition which appeared to meet the views of both sides of the House. The debate on the bill was afterwards resumed by Mr. Gladstone, who remarked that there was great unanimity in the House on the question of reform, and that the differences were so slight as to offer every opportunity for an easy settlement. He said, Lord John Russell was the last man to propose an irregular resolution, and to which he objected on the grounds of prudence and convenience. If it was a factious move it was a very bad one, and unworthy both of himself and the House. He said the present difficulty had arisen in consequence of the govern ment having rejected the advice of two of their able.* He remarked that if any other in power, there would not colleagues ime unanimity on the question of Reform itself. He said the state of feeiing in t country was highly sati the prop tory. Having reviewed and the consequent di: to notice the measure declaring that he should Mr. Moncrieff denied t zovernments, sappointments,rhe proceeded lf, and concluded by gainst the resolution. thing of a factious or kat the resolution had any rty motive in it ‘ He said, not isolated point the points raised in it we were essential principles, and instanced as evidence, the fact of the secession of two important members of the Government. Mr. Moncrieff, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Westhead, Mr. 'jollier, Sir J. Walsh, Mr. Owen Stanley, Mr. Macauley, Mr,. Mellor, Mr. Fitzgerald, and others has was again adjourn Pen - iling the conclusion of ti bject, the debate all sorts of rumou monster" debat .culation as to ,nd the eor, prob a bl e res i gnat i on of the Ministry, s t ruction of a new on e. The almost univ€ is, that Lord J. Russell's resolution will be adopted the House, but no two parties seem agreed as to wha will follow. The a for --c iviorning Star, a paper which has time past been well informed upon it, says : It is reported Lord John Russell will make up a Ministry, independ ent l y of Lord Palmerston and those who acted with hint while in office. Similar rumours give the leadership in the House of Lords to Lord Brougham, who is to be L or d S tan l ey ' s suc cessor as Secretary of State for India. The Board of Trade is conferred on Mr. Milner Gibson ; the Poor-law Board on Mr. James Clay ; the Home Secretary on Mr. John Abel Smith ; the Under Secretaryship of Home Department on Viscount Melgund. Then, according to the same quirt nuncs, Lord Belper is to go to the Duchy of Lancast er ; the Earl of Carlisle to Ireland ; the Minister of War is - Herbert ; and the Colonial Secre_ Duke of The The P Newcastle on news is not important this morning, Herald declares the irlant o drive Austria to extremetles , should, I think, be merely col the ground after tlotE and Russia to torm h This feeling n the light o: it some time how. see the who are determit fic turn affairs have taken, facts to point to in confirmation of their alarmist Views, Russia has just prohibited the negotiation_ of the last Austrian loan throughout the empire ; and the fact of the new Minister of Algeria, Oount de Chassekup Laubat being a native of Piedmont — he was born in 1805 at Alessandria, where his father commanded the French garrisons, is tortured into an anti-Austrian demonstration on the part of France. Count Cavour is still in Paris. Every day since Ms arrival he has been closeted for several hours with the Emperor and with Count Walewski." . - . The foreign correspondence received during the morning does not supply any fresh facts of interest, but contains unauthenticated reports relating to subiects which at present can only be matters of surmise. The opinion seems to be more general, that while Piedmont will have a seat at the Congress, she will not have a vote; and that on the same conditions many other Italian States will be heard. Count Cavour, it is said, is very well satisfied with the result of his visit to Paris, and it is therefore inferred that the Imperial policy is, at the bottom, warlike. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry was held yesterday. A long discussion took place upon a motion to transfer the Rev. Air. Holmes from the Industrial Schools to the Workhouse, during which the whole course of management at the schools came under review, but the recommenda tion was rejected by a vote of nine to six. ....-.----......- TRADE WITH JAPAN NOTHING can be more important to a great trading nation like ours, than to discover new and extended fields for commercial intercourse. If, as it has been well observed, " our fleets of merchantmen are so many squadrons of floating shops, which vend our wares and merchandise in all the markets of the world, and find out chapinen under both the tropics," their success in such an object must be vastly promoted by the discovery of new openings for their pursuit. Colonies certainly furnish them, in process of time ; and our own Colonial trade affords striking evidence of this. But then it is often a dilatory, and a tedious process; and were it all that such a commerce as ours had to look to, outside its own domestic limits, it would assuredly never satisfy, because it would never sufficiently minister to, the necessities of such an age of progress as the present. What are more urgently wanting, are markets ready to hand, to which commercial enterprise may not only find easy access, but where it may meet with communities both prepared to let it vend among them our wares and merchandise, and to sell in return their own productions. The recent opening of an intercourse of this description with Japan is a remarkable case in point. There they found a people in a high state of civilisation—such as it is. Very different, certainly, from our own —very peculiar, very quaint, and very antique, to our notions. Yet are they a people that 'have brought many of the arts of civilised life to a state of great perfection. And this circumstance, of itself, were surely an encouraging one in forming their acquaintance, since, on good authority, we are told, that " art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature ;" and, it is asked, " what nature will he honour who honours not the human ?" Besides, they are a people among whom also the sciences are greatly esteemed ; and they have schools in which some of the highest branches of knowledge are taught. Their intellectual resources, it is true, are contracted, because they have ever oc cupied so isolated a But the must, position very intercourse now opened with them in time, have the effect of disadvantage obviating this Then, their country is one of the xichczt in the wu ld fur Its natural protluuts. There is gold in abundance, and silver, and copper,—the latter the main source of wealth in many provinces; they cultivate sucoP--' 'otton, indigo, sugar, fully rice and spices ; the very rocks and other rugged places produce a 17^-: - and roots; while t variety of fruits, plant the skill and industry of the people find the materials for fine proce lin, sill ks, and other valuable fabrics Such a country, and such a people, ought to be DAY, t b Broke THE NORTHERN TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 1859 further enlargement of the privileges already granted to foreign commerce. Whatever additional advan tage is gained by one, immediately becomes common to all alike. There is, therefore, in Japan, to be a "fair field and no favour:" a state of things to which our merchants, we are quite sure, will have no objection, but will rather be glad of the opportunity it presents or enabling them to enter into competition, upon equal terms, with any of the rival nations that may be in a position to take advantage of so impor tant an opportunity of extending their commerce. cultivating a commercial with. And yet, until lately, all communication with worth intercourse foreigners in Japan was prohibited, except a very restricted one with the Russians, and partially with the Dutch We are indebted to the United States of America for having opened out a more free and general inter with Japan. The Government of the republic sent out an expedition there, as our readers no doubt remember seven or eight years ago, which, after a very tedious delay, and in the face of formidable diffieultie eceeded in establishing communication with the country, of which our own Government was not long in taking advantage also. And now the Government of the Netherlands has also succeeded in concluding a ne which the proceedings of Am w treaty, for lea and England had paved the wa3 countries had gained their points so suce In the year 1857, after those two cully with the Japanese Uovernment, certain concessions were made to the Netherlands, which were considered very advantageous, it may be remembered, at the time ; but those now secured are certainly much more important. For instance, by the treaty of 1857, the export of the precious metals was prohibited either in coin or in bullion, and a duty of thirty-five per lon the value of all goods sold. By cent. impo the new treaty all Japanese coin, ei Keepting copper, ned gold and and all foreign coins and foreign un silver, may be freely ex 1. A duty of five per les used in the construction, rigging, repairing, or outfit of ships, an whaling gear, salt provisions, bread and bread stuffs, live animals, coal, timber for the construction of houses, rice paddy, steam engines, zinc, lead tin, and raw Even since the signing of the Netherlands treaty, still further concessions have been made. All kinds of woollen and cotton-goods are to be admitted at the aforesaid trifling duty ; but on intoxicating liquors, and other articles not included in the above list, duty of twenty pi cent. will have to be paid rvants or in any other lawful capacity, the Japanese Government unde capable teachers for county rtakes to appoint of other countries and sciences of Japan , it is true, are identical conceded to England and to being due, we to learn th,.. of these provision with those already America to the latter IMPROVEMENT OF TRADE, IT is a generally experienced fact, that the trade of this country, in almost all its departments, has now in a great measure, if not fully, recovered from the state of depression into which it was thrown by the commercial and financial panic of 1857 ; and the Board of Trade returns for the month, and the two months ending the 28th of February last, which have just been issued, confirm and illustrate this experience very completely. They shew that the declared value of British and Irish produce and manufactures, which in the month of February, 1858, was £7,228,416, in the same month just past was £9,6l4,l43,—exhibiting an increase of consider ably more than two millions in that single month, and bringing up the amount to above that of the same month in 1857—one of great commercial activity—which was £9,313,010. Upon the two months the increase is equally striking. In those of the present year, ending on the 28th ult., the amount was £17,207,566, as against £14,510,016 in the corresponding period of last year ; and standing also in favourable contrast to the amount of the same two months of 1857, which was £18,371,145. Thus, as compared with 1857, the present return, we repeat, shews an increase of £301,103 on the month, and with last year an increase of £2,385,727. Up wards of two millions and a quarter is certainly a very large increase to have been attained ; and when the comparison is made with the same period of the prosperous year preceding, we see that there has not only been a full recovery from the late depression, but a further increase upon the whole course of years The chief items of those products, which constitute the details of the comparative augmentations, are matters of interest in such a case, and are at the same time, in this instance, most significant of its actual character, as affording indications of national progress and prosperity. As usual in such returns for even many years past, Cotton fabrics stand prominently and proudly at the top—far, far outstripping in amount all the exceeding, in fact, them all put together. The amount of Cottons, Calicoes, Muslins, &c., for the single and short month of February this year, is £3,029,624 ; whereas, in the same month last year it was £2,116,391,—and in the same month of 1857, it only reached £2,372,187. Thus, in the month just past, there has in cotton products alone been an increase of nearly a million over the same period of last year, and of nearly three quarters of a million over that of .the previous year, which was a period of prosperity. In Cotton Yarns, Lace, Thread, and Stockings, there is also an increase over each year. And among the other items of increase are Linen Yarns ; Apparel ; Flannels, Mixed Stuffs, and Carpets; Worsteds ; Woollen Cloths ; and Haber-. dashery. In Iron, however, whether Railway, Bar, Pig, or Wrought, there has been no increase upon 1858, and but little upon 1857, owing, it is only too much to be feared, to the fact we have noticed before, of such quantities of English iron of inferior quality having been exported for a year "or two preceding the first period, which has got it a bad name. The indications these official returns afford of im provement in trade are the more cheering, when we remember how great was the depression only this time last year. In the seven months ended July 31, 1858, for instance, the declared value of British and Irish manufactures was £64,461,801, against £71,027,913 in the corresponding seven months of 1857 ; shewing a decrease of nearly nine millions in that time from the same short period of the previous year. And the imports for the like period shewed even a greater falling off, being £58,068,399, in 1858, as against £69,350,383, in 1857. Another gratifying symptom in the last issued official trade returns, is the increase they shew in the quantities of the chief articles of food taken for home consumption last month. In Tea, Coffee, Rice, Sugar, Eggs, Cheese, Cocoa, Currants, there has been a considerable augmentation of quantities, even over the same period of that prosperous month in the year 1857. One cause of this improvement, no doubt, has been, that there was peace in Europe,—that we were not engaged in war with any foreign power, and that there was calm and confidence here at home. The insurrection in India may perhaps have prevented, in some measure, the still greater prosperity of the country, in its manufacturing and commercial interests. That, however, is now, let us hope, being brought to an end ; and we shall once more be done with warfare altogether. Long, long may it be, ere we are plunged into it again ! The welfare of our cammeree will now, more than ever, depend upon our having a Government that can keep us out of the evils of war, and thereby enable us to go on advancing in the arts and industry of puce, -.-.0- THE " CENTAL " IN THE LIVERPOOL MARKET. THE centul is a new term; but it is one with which the general public is likely to become very familiar, and more especially that large portion of it that is engaged in the various transactions of It is a term that will carry with it its own meaning, in a great measure ; for every body knows that cent means a hundred ; though every body, pert -Ns, commerce _ may not know that it is an abbrevia tion of the Latin word for hundred—centum. The derivation of cental is a very natural, though it is quite a novel one. We had, before, the word tentage in use, meaning rate by the hundred. But cental, a weight of a hundred pounds, is a term the necessity of which has sprung from the proposition that has been so favourably received, of calculating weights by the centuni, or hundred,—or, its portion, the decimal, or tenth. Instead of stones, of 141bs. weight; quarters, of two stones, or 281bs. ; or hundred weights, of eight stones, or 1121bs. ; a weight of a hundred pounds, it is ascertained, is the more sensible and convenient thing, which is easily dealt with upon the decimal calculation, and alto gether more suitable for the purposes of trade. A change from the present system to that of the cental, has, it seems, been twice proposed for the considera tion of the Legislature, and urged with much force of argument, by men of the highest eminence in practical science, deputed by the Government of the day to make specific inquiries into the whole subject of standards of measurement and weight. Nothing, however, has been based upon their reports in favour of change, and, virtually, of the adoption of the cental system,—and, perhaps, for sufficient reasons. But this system has been introduced in the markets of Liverpool, for the sale of grain, meal, and flour ; and it is the published Report of the Commercial Law Committee of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, recently presented to the- Council and adopted, a copy of which has come into our hands, that has called our attention to the interesting question. It appears, then, we say, from this Report, that the intention announced at the general Meeting of the Corn Trade, held in Liverpool, on the Ist of December last, has been carried into effect, and that the " Cental" is now almost universally adopted in the corn market of Liverpool, and is also under trial in the markets of Glasgow and Hull. And this ready adoption of the new weight in the Liverpool market, is mainly attributable, it is stated, to the exertions of the Association of the Liverpool Corn Trade, to facilitate the changes of practice that had become necessary in advancing from the old to the new system. " Your Committee are informed," says the Report, " that, since the Ist of February last, when the ' Cental' was introduced, more than nine tenths, in quantity and value, of the corn, grain, and meal sold in this market has been sold by the new weight ; and that the parties who have objected to the change are almost exclusively local dealers, whose transactions do not extend to other districts ; millers, whose business is similarly limited ; and farmers from the neighbourhood who, having no business in other markets, have no experience of the diversities now sought to be abolished. But the objections thus urged are said to be daily diminish ing, in number and in strength ; and the new weight may now be said to be definitively adopted in the corn market of Liverpool." But a change of the present systein appears to be demanded on other grounds than those of the greater convenience of calculation by means of the cental, for general purposes. The requisition by the Govern ment of periodical returns, from all parts of the kingdom, of the price of the bushel or quarter of corn is in a great degree inoperative, from the cir cumstance of the price at markets being not by measure but by weight. In Liverpool, in particular, where all sales of Corn (as well home as foreign) are, and have long been, made exclusively by weight, and where, consequently, the returns - required by the Government of the sales actually effected cannot be made by reference to measure, it has long been, and still is, the practice for the local inspector to meet the requirements of the Board of Trade by converting the returns of the weight of home-grown corn sold into equivalent expressions of measure without regard to the actual weight per bushel, (that being unknown to the inspector,) calculating wheat, at 60 lbs. per imperial bushel ; barley, at 49 lbs. ; and oats, at 38 lbs. And the Report we here refer to states, " that a similar practice prevails in all the inspected markets of the kingdom, in which it is the ordinary practice to sell by weight. Whence it may be inferred that as a very large proportion of the home-grown corn, the sale of which is brought under inspection, passes through these markets, the prac tice of selling corn by weight, much extended of late years, has already rendered the present system un worthy of trust as a basis of computation for any purpose requiring even approximate accuracy ; and that the proposed change, (that of substituting weight for measure throughout the kingdom, and continuing the present returns of prices upon the basis of a general and equitable adjustment of the existing relation of measure to weight,) would, by bringing into harmony, the actual sales of the corn' markets, and the record of them preserved and pub lished by the Government, afford a far more truthful and more trustworthy foundation for all transactions having reference to such records." There can be no doubt, we think, of the soundness of these practical views. Yet it will be more difficult than might at first be supposed, to give full legal effect to the proposed change, by making its adoption universally obligatory. The expense as regards the weights would, in the first place, be very great. It is estimated that the quantity of weights of 141b5., and its multiplies, now in use, is not less than 30,000 tons ; and that the expense of changing these weights for weights in the decimal scale would be between £lOO,OOO and £200,000. Then there is the mode of levying all the Customs' Duties would have to be altered,—there are the statutory arrangements connected with Tithe-rents, the statistical records of the Board of Trade,—and the estimating of the Average Prices of grain : iri all this there would need to be corresponding alte rations. " But for all these changes," says the Re port, " however undoubtedly desirable, the leading members of the Liverpool Corn Trade appear disposed to wait till the new method shall have been long enough in use, here and elsewhere, to establish beyond doubt the advantages derived from the change." This is certainly a satisfactory mode of procedure, and one which may not improbably have the effect of working the system into legal adoption sooner than any attempt to force it upon the country would ever do. Intimately connected with this question of a cental system of weights, is that of a decimal system of coinage. Once let this be adopted, as it is, in fact, contemplated to be, and the convenience of the other would become so striking, that the change, in all probability, could not long be deferred. In the meantime, however, it is doubtless working its way, by the every day experience of its advantages in the Liverpool market. -.........-.......--- THE COURT OSBORNE, March 28.—The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Colonel J. Seymour, took leave of her Majesty to-day, and left Osborne for Frogmore-house The Duchess crossed over to Southampton in the royal yacht Fairy. ARRIVAL OF TIIE COURT FROM OSBORNE.—Yesterday morning, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Royal family, and the Court, embarked on board the royal steam-yacht Fairy, and crossed over from Cowes to the Hasler Creek, Gosport. The royal party were conducted under a covered way to the railway, and proceeded by the South Western line to the new station at Wandsworth, and thence in car riages to Buckingham Palace. ler Rc yal Highness the Duchess of Kent returned to Frogmore on Monday, from a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort at Osborne. The high stewardship of the University of Oxford, ren dered vacant by the death of the Earl of Devon, has been conferred by the Chancellor (the Earl of Derby) upon the Earl of Carnarvon, the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. His lordship was educated at Christ Church, and graduated in 1852, when he took a first class in classics. Earl Jermyn, the eldest son of the Marquis of Bristol, has issued an address to the electors of West Suffolk, offer ing himself as a candidate, in anticipation of the retire ment of Mr. H. S. Waddington. Earl Jermyn's address is of a conservative character, and on the whole favourable to the ministerial Reform Bill. At a meeting of the conserva tives, at Bury St. Edmund's, on Wednesday, a requisition was agreed to, calling on Major Parker, of Clopton-hall, to stand for the western division. Despatches have been received at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Mauritius and Malta. His Excellency gr. Reed, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of th to C !hina, has arrived in Paris, and alighted at the Hotel Meurice We (Inquirer) regret to learn that Dr. W. B. Carpenter has resigned the post he has so long filled as Principal of University Hall, in order to devote his exclusive attention to his important and onerous duties as Registrar of London University. _ _ A meeting of hop planters is summoned for to-morrow (Thursday), at Robertsbridge, to take into consideration the question of postponement of the coming May instalment of the duty of 1858. A nreliminary meeting has been held at Rye, and the gathering at Robertsbridge will be for the purpose of deciding upon the best means of proceeding in order to obtain the desired object. The report for 1858 by the Committee of Management of the English Schools in Paris for the children of their poor fellow-countrymen, has just been published. The condition of the schools appears to be very good. Much of the money for their support comes from English persons who are in Paris only on short visits. A new master and mistress have very recently been obtained from two of the best normal colleges in London. The supporters of the schools have spent a good deal of money in trying to put them on a better basis. The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £842. NEW AUSTRALIAN BISHOPRICS.—The Government have assented to the creation of the Bishopric of Brisbane and the Bishopric of Guelburn. Mr. J. Norbury, eenr., of the firm of James Capel and Co., has been elected Chairman of the Stock Exchange, and Mr. F. L. Slous, deputy-chairman. —'rhe Times says that France at of the proposed Con- THE PROPOSED CONGRESS objected to Aix-la-Chapelle as the gress, as being within the Powers represented repeat, the merit of having first successfully exerted its influence and its ability t The 0 obtain ti more intimat communication with the people, ;ranted by the last-mentioned provision, is an advance, and no unimportant one, upon former con- cession —and it is one which is rather surprising so Don, on the part of so jealous and so cautious a people. But it affords very gratifying evidence of the progress that is taking place among them of a more liberal feeling. And although, in this instance, it is the Dutch that have gained these advantages, yet will they not be confined to them. Every successive negotiation of a foreign Government with that of Japan has brought out some further giving way of the restrictions which the latter had before imposed upon foreign intercourse with their people —some native, territory of Prussia, one of the The Tiiites reports that England will he repres the Congress by Lord Malmesbury, assisted missioner by Lord Cowley ; and France by C ted at as second corn ount Walewski, assisted by "Al. Drouyn de L'lluys, The Daily News;ays, the speech of Sir James Graham, on Monday night, was the most damaging that has yet been made against the Government Reform Bill, and calculated to gain many waverers. MAIL NE - ; . VS. - The Calcutta and China mails, via Mar seilles, wfll be delivered in London on Vednesday morning, The Cape Royal mail steamer D; arrived at - Plymouth Bay February 21; St. yesterday morning. She left Tabl( Helena, March 3 ; Ascension, March 6. At - the Cape prosperity was general. Peace had been maintained along the froi. Ver. POPULATION, REVENUE, AND REPRESENTATION. --- A Parliamentary return to the motion of Mr. Dunlop, issued yesterday morning, shows that last year the estimated popu lation of England was 19,853,610, and the amount of taxa tion, 49,063,7321; of Scotland, 3,139,860 ; taxation, 7,216,3581; and of Ireland, 6,020,423; taxation, 6,428,4761. It also shows that if the 654 members of the House . of Commons were allotted to each of these divisions of the United Kingdom proportionately to the population of each, England would have 447, Scotland 71, and Ireland 136 ; if proportionately to taxation, England would have 514, Scotland 74, and Ireland 66 ; if the both combined, Eng land would have 480, Scotland 73, and Ireland 101. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE ENGINEER " WHO'S WANTED."-Up to a late hour last night, Buchanan, the chief engineer of the Bogota, charged with murder on the high seas, had not surrendered himself ; nor have the police any notion of his whereabouts. To SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.—A. most profitable article of export, to warm climates especially, are the Self cleansing Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. Saunders and Co., of 16, Parker-street, Liverpool—in fact they are invaluable wherever there is bad water. S. and Co. allow a liberal discount on export and wholesale orders. THE NEAPOLITAN EXILES.—Our readers will be glad to learn that a movement is being made in Liverpool for the purpose of aiding the necessities of the Neapolitan exiles By an advertisement in another column, it will be seen that a meeting will be held in the Council Chamber to- norrow (Thursday), to consider the propriety of originating a subscription, which we have no doubt will be well attended, and the appeal liberally responded to. LECTURE ON OPIUM.—Last night, R. Martin, Esq., M.D., delivered a lecture iw the Tuckerman's Institute, on the subject of opium. Professor Griffith's occupied the chair. There were also present the Rev. Mr. Steinthal, 41 men and boys, and 10 females. The lecturer proceeded to view the trade in opium between the English and Chinese, and dwelt upon. its injurious effects upon the people who con sumed it. He laid great blame to the English people for carrying on the trade The lecture was ably handled, but did not prove very interesting, which was evident from occasional " yawns" and nods throughout the room. EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, 126, top of Mount Pleasant.—Weekly Report.—Eye Department : New patients admitted in the week ending March 26th, 90 ; patients prescribed for, and who have receiv e d surgical assistance, 379. Ear Department : New patients admitted in the week ending March 26th, 30 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received sur gical assistance, 134. Consultinc , Surgeon : Hugh Neill, Esq. Surgeons : John Poole, Esq., Dr. R. Hibbert Taylor, and Dr. Nevins. Assistant-Surgeon : Thomas Bickerton, Esq. Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, Esq. THE MANAGEAENT OF ST. JOHN'S MARKET.-A spe cial meeting of the markets committee was held yesterday morning, to investigate the duties, conduct, and services of Mr. Luya, superintendent of St. John's Market. Mr. Johnson presided; and there were also present—Messrs. Beckwith, Woodruff, Ridley, Bowring, Chilton, Shimmin, and Haydock. It was resolved that reporters be not admitted, as it was considered unfair to allow the inquiry to be published before it was completed. Mr. Luya and Mr. Radcliffe, one of the collectors, were examined, and the committee adjourned until this morning, at eleven o'clock, after a sitting of three hours and a half. A REPOSITORY SALE OF WORK will be held on Easter Monday and Tuesday, for the benefit of the National Schools of Christ Church, Hunter-street. Further parti culars will be duly announced. Contributions are respect fully solicited, and will be thankfully received by the following members of the ladies' committee : -Mrs. Bous field, 53, Shaw-street ; Mrs. Blundell, 27, Everton-terrace ; Mrs. Cauty, 33, Norton-street ; Mrs. Crosthwaite, 124, Islington ; Mrs. H. J. Hindley, 3, Grecian-terrace, Ever ton ; Mrs. T. L. Hodson, 41, Islington ; Mrs. Martin, 116, Finch-street ; Mrs. Osborn, 17, E ar l- s t ree t, St. Paul's square ; Mrs. T. K. Twist, 72, Huskisson-street ; Miss Yeoward, 23, Stafford-street. GARSTON BOARD OF HEALTH.—The annual meeting of this, board was held yesterday, at the Public-office, Mr. Alderman Cooper in the chair. The other members present were—Messrs. Chidson, Challoner, M'lntire, Tinne, and Watts. The minutes of the last day's proceedings, together with the report of such committees, &c.,'were read and con firmed. The Law-clerk reported that the action which had been brought against the board by Mr. Leland, had been withdrawn, at least for the present. It was reported to the board that Mr. Bevan, an active and respected member of the board, had died since the last meeting. It was agreed to transmit a resolution of condolence to his family, expres sive of the sympathy of the board on his loss. The routine business was then transacted, and the board adjourned. MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S MEETING AT LIVERPOOL, FOR 1859.—Yesterday forenoon, a meeting of the Liverpool committee of this society was held at the Town Hall, his Worship the Mayor in the chair. Mr. T. B. Ryder, the honorary secretary, read the pro ceedings of the last meeting of the committee, and then stated that the subscriptions amount now to £3BB 4s, and, with what he had to receive, the whole would amount to £4OO the present, which was doing very well, so far, but he hoped they would do much better. The above included £5O from the Earl of Derby. It was resolved to advertise the proceedings in the morning and some of the weekly papers, and then the meeting adjourned. [This subject is well worth attention, as the exhibition will be an interesting one, and will be held at Liverpool on the Bth and 9th September, in this year.] A VERY" BARBARP-OUS CASE. —At the Police-court, yesterday, before Mr. Mansfield, James M'Caul, a barber, in Vauxhall-road, was charged with having seriously cut and wounded Sarah Gardiner, the wife of amother barber, at No. 159, in the same road. It appeared that, some time ago. the prisoner was em t recer doing business on his own "hook." On Monday night he got drunk, as was his wont on " Saint Monday" evenings. ,He being barber-ously inclined went to Gardiner's shop, and wanted him to "box," but Gardiner refused, and then the prisoner went away, but in a short time returned with an open razor in his hand, swearing he would do something more than " shave " his opponent ; he was rushing at him for that purpose, when Mrs. Gardiner interfered, and her hand was terribly cut, and according to the certificate of a surgeon, the wound was most dangerous. The prisoner was sent for trial. FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES 'IN AMERICA.—We observe that the Liverpool and London Insurance Company have gained a verdict in an action brought against their agent at Chicago, John H. llllienzie under the sixth sec tion of their act of incorporation, which is as follows : " Sec. 6. There shall be paid to the treasurer of said asso ciation, for the use and benefit of such association, by every person who shall act in the city of Chicago as agent for or on behalf of any individual or association of individuals not incorporated by the law of this State to effect assurances against losses or injury by fire in the city of Chicago, although such individuals or association may be incorpo- rose by anot her State or country, f le sum of two dollars upon the hundred dolllrs, and at that rate upon the amount of all - premiums whic!l, during the year, or part of a year, ending on the next nr.leedine• first day of ante effected or agreediObecfiectedo;PQised by him such agent, or otherwise against loss or injury by fire in the city of Chicago," The unconstitutionality of this imposi- I York,. of ---------_ tion of a tax of two per cent. on the receipts of insura?. c; agents, payable to the Firemen's Benevolent Asseeiti(6)36 was the point at issue. The defendants demurred to og declaration, on the ground that this section of the act unconstitutional. tllls ATLANTIC STEAM-SHIPS.—The Liverpool, New Philadelphia Screw Steam-ship Company's steamer New Baltimore will leave the Mersey this forenoon, for f York direct, with 350 passengers, a moderate Care at 1 ;g, the United States mails. The box at the will close at half-past eight, and finally st_, t o. past nine, and on the landing-stage at half-ps" t y The City of Baltimore will be succeeded 1 1_ l ig Cunard steamer Europa. the box at the Post-offieo,_af close at eight o'clock, and finally at nine, and thee ill house on the landing-stage, George's Pier-head, will be.°Tof until ten o'clock forenoon. Owing to the American e3-;ico Congress, which requires that whenever ante, ,111,000, steamer is sailing she will have. the mails in Pr' es te a British one, and Commodore Vanderbilt having tide 00 his steamers to Southampton on the days that th e 41 ought to come to Liverpool, the City of Baltirooro probably be deprived of the homeward m ail from N e l e fil of the 23rd April ; and, under these circumstances, ', l " l e ttO call at Queenstown on the homeward voy a g e, to lalt"„f tlO and passengers only, and the succeeding s teamer s : it tk e company will make Queenstown a port of call, wu e Is o , detention will not exceed two or three 11 ° urs T .,* . vert company's steamer, City of Manchester, will leave i- - or t FA on Friday, 2nd April, to load at Belfast, whic h , P s he will leave on the 6th, calling at Queenstown, wit,e n , l — d sail finally on the Bth for New York direct. - 11 ', ;•tirov thus have the best opportunity of having its '` e°l , traffic with North America amply provide d for. 1 ., ge rat AN IMPUDENT ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN £lO .---;," e g a rdel at the Birkenhead County Court, before J. " ' J,r Esq., judge, the following important case to )1 Thet waswhomp Iplaintiff an theytteifrdwas ear ..a. o I which, it is presumed, will act as a warning to P',,portf stated, carried cn e a m tr hr p ie l e o dc y aosne inwt the e h s b e au spienressosno transferf namedaocf on i e s: i : r sei l e fe y in Mona-terrace, Great Homer-street, and th e ,. t he was Mr. William Rhoden, formerly the owner 01 " ' - siss lie _-nand Hotel, Chester-sti•eet, Birkenhead. it Ew . t for £9, as commission for letting a public-house,o tb alleged that the defendant had paid 20s on nee, ( ,' o l/ et, Jones appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.. for ' solicitor to the Licensed Victuallers Associattoo‘,ol' defendant. The plaintiff, on being sworn , s tated;, estate agent, and had been employd to assist in defendant's public-house, to a person Rhoden, who, although of the so. relation to the defendant. He also s , - defendant had agreed to give him the £lO, P l 'a4 premises were disposed of to Thomas Rhoden, i'izilynie had paid 20s. on account. In answer to Mr• lot said he would positively swear that the defetuitile 'promised him the £lO. At the request of Thel ° ;4oo, * he, with a publican named Brabie, and another Peos-4.4 to the defendant's house on the 12th of JanuarY 00 1 after having some drink, the parties had some c ° to go e l j about the property, and then he was requested to the cellar and measure the stock. Wh e n the,s'.o reolli the room Thomas Rhoden left for a few min he was gone, the defendant said, "If you is ge him to take the house I will give you ,C 10." t beg, ask the defendant to stand a " fiver." He did , 4 115 , bse complaints made of his being an impostor. ,e i on Thomas Rhoden for £lO, in the same tr ansa " it had been paid. He thought he was entitled.t°, each party. His Honour : Then you drop 111 assistance, and then claim £lO from each p3' valuable services ? Defendant Yes. did everything, but was not present at the ' i i j o g (A document was produced, in which then Pe';" words appeared to be of the smallest conseqelic; not stamped, as required, so it was taken for 35 04 was worth—nothing.) Thomas Brabie was tile, ones he spoke to having heard the defendant proraPeol! give him £lO. He also stated that he had keo the thing about "a fiver." Another witness spoke Vt.! effect. This being the case for the plaintiff, proceeded to address the court for the defendant, course of his observations said, that this if. e e .0 b"'1:1 ...lost barefaced attempts to get money b L inl i ',ila had ever come into a court of justice. Ile , s :stst e that there was not one word of truth in t. i ly 1 ; : and that any professional gentleman would for S t y all the work that the plaintiff had den° lei." shillings, while he sought to obtain la ° The Y ° £2O. He then called Mr. William Rhoden. t hat ' t ,3 said he had spoken to the plaintiff, but after 061,1°.4 arranged with Mr. Rhoden to take the hoasei o Jite t person named Wilson with him, and when h° „bie plaintiff that he did not wish him to trZ ef f . l further, he requested to go to the house. li e at that time agreement had been made' 0, heard anything about the promise to pay himself been sued for £lO, and had paid it . p tiogdo 3 ; think that anything had been done at the„,r a , e ,; o 3 o ,'iil 12th, except the parties all getting drunk. 1-,."' as d said, from what he saw of the parties, he well';to O l e; Rhoden that he thought the parties were trY ill YV of them, and wished to get rid of them, and f 0 °t 0 3 ,1 ef t they gave Sneade 20s, and told him they diolt l ,"i l el l ,'!;O tr t and told him he was a rogue. He denied Oita tb" . ,, i p', ll , employed him. Mr. Nelson fully corrobollie irie e merit. His Honour said it was clear that t eare d ... a had been made before the plaintiff had ati)y bev,.116 scene, but two witnesses had sworn t hat tii e the 0- agreement, but looking at all the facts ° f , r eib te ; c l; r thought they must be mistaken, and should, t' e elf ree a verdict fo; the defendant. The verdict NT great applause. _ , o to MINISTERIAL a l S f Sit a l to The Daily News remarks that the spe c : F :s V, Pakington, in reply to Sir James Graham , s e ' br i64 l lle: end to all chance of accommodation, and t° l, o rii .4 back to the state in which they were left b 7 speech on Monday week. The Times says that after much fluetnatio,"tott);pt, Sir Pakington has pledged his governineu% staked on the issue of the debate ; and t7i,ora This week we trust will decide the fate °` d io Reform Bill. tile r ~„c The Morning Star says : "No one has allY ° L of than that ministers will resign office. ' ; •,e2a, The Post, however, remarks that the go" e i li iini ing the commands of the majority, may, l f P y 0 31 the bill a good one. They may resign, or t 1 . 1 ,e,„ The responsibility in each case must rest vin to bec to The Herald thinks there is still a large ii)ler the which is called the liberal party who relne ul fes t of fair play, and that this section will de attempt of Lord John Russell. 4 NEW MINISTERIAL ARRAN; a tr tb e i li eti Before even it can be known with certa— will be a change of Government, it has beel l ,,,"t , the West--end clubs who is to come in, and ' IP— -A I be assigned to each statesman. ~d 11/"?,, V According to the Morning Star it is rep or a - e atli o .);' Russell will make up a Ministry, • depea Palmerston and those who acted Nv', l r shir Similar rumours give the lea' e . I 5 House of Lords to Lord Broughton, who Stanley's - -- as Secretor' successor The Board of Trade is conferred on gr. "" the Poor-law Board on Mr. James Clay; tho l r ' taryship on Mr. John Abel . Smith ; the thT e ti o , ship of Home Department on Viscount' *lige according to the same quid - mot es, Lord 13 ,1 to the Duchy of Lancaster ; the Earl of CtlV,ber f the Minister of War is to b l e Mr. Sidney n e " Colonial Secretary the Duke of Newcastle ,'"; A. MURDER DISCOVERED BY A d if true, of a horrible murder is relat e s s arai f iel journal' of a recent date, of which we mele e w ith Two brothers, Israelites, set out from Gr" sell . 10 e/ placing their two daughters at a boardingobeir t k o town of Grosswardein. During the nigh t , ° g left $ a thp vivincraef ....A ten . Wh° 14?,, uri n the being L declared that she saw her father ii- 10. m b e e r p ui a n c g ifi t e e d e , k sh th e hiiterly the neat morning urdered. • The mother, for some ti e ioteti notic ewould of the child's declaration, but, a 5 S he S heO els town, whom she declared her drearo, 5 ~a lifl i i same ' e time that the murderers del two vlc oia te , the neighbourhood, whom she berately ? t o 0' and e further added that the murder wa d s ° I/ V:0 50414 ebecghainldteb lefeiNittrlinieet:ltg;r!lot, The e rance of the forest, on the road to mayor, after receiving this revelatl;boars prudent to make in uirafter the two 0 1, tl" y 1 enough, sated by the child, q , when, singular y o l is discovered . re to be absent from home. , 0 0 , to h umstance induced the mayor to despate.discofertro t e forest alluded to by the child, wil ° t he g. ' IP which horrible spectacle of five bodies extended on_,,,bterTr thhiclii were those of the brothers, the tyro d ata 0170 ( river of the vehicle in which they allotoso: 1 0 gro_.ber• tur e e t u re 13/ The corpses appeared to have all bee. ..,,,0 it 13a to prevent • their identity, and the (de ' 1 4 ., eia e fo veh facers '" .sneo I discovered. This horrible tragedy led the o it te r IV' " -nod, when they fortwil,,tant, 0 0 , 1 0 ' q fair not far n'' schicil 500 on t i l er 1 , 1 0 -me notes ;l o, ... a r e .to upon t stiffifee; _ 0 ilw ie two neig abours at s p e a u r s t ati of e n then the child, ne Or being and on theeru_ufproil; .edged the fiog. displayed in their capture. Bent, ..coo iganhbdouritshooci. x elC he d ~33c1e• ......sietoise:citea were in the very act of chang spots of blood were visible : modintpiv the crime,