Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-21 00:00:00

A POPULAR HISTORY Or THE WORKING CLASSES. ADDRESSED TO THE WORKING CLASSES THEMSELVES THEIR RISE AND PROGRESB--tiOCIAL AND POLITICAL PART FIFTH CHAPTER THIRD SOCIAL MANNERS AND VICES OF TTIE PEOPLI THROUGHOUT TH REIGNS OF JAMES CHARLES - Throughout the reign of James, and up to the period of the Restoration, the advantages of trade and the useful arts had become so apparent, that -they had ceased, as formerly, to be considered degrading. The change of manners they had wrought, and tf.e intermixture of the higher and middle ranks by marriages, induced the gentry, and even the younger branches of the nobility, says Mr. Chalmers, to bind their sons apprentices to mer chants, and trades, and thereby . to shed lustre on pursuits before deemed only gainful ; to invigorate traffic by their greater capitals, and to extend its operations by superior knowledge and connection with powerful interests. 'These apprentices, it would seem, formed the chief civic nuisances of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scattered over the whole metropolis, they were formidable, not only from their numbers, but from their union ; and they appear to have acquired such a reckless ferocity, from the circum stance of their strength, that they were always ready to head the coarser insurrections and popular riots of the period. In these cases it was in vain for the common city guard to oppose them ; " clubs, bills, ana partizans," were swept before the whirl wind of a 'prentice outset. One aggrieved member of the fraternity, too, was enough to throw, with a 1 . single war-whoop, the whole ward into an uproar. They even, sometimes, constituted themselves the arbitrers and executioners of popular justice ; so I that, if a bull was to be baited in the ring, or if a scold was to be carried to the ducking stool, a , throne of apprentices CrA 71 PT, Ixi ►,,.+i, -- _ ----- executed the deed. Many of these, however, let it be observed, after their apprenticeships wer e fin ished, grew sobe r an d rich persons, and were thus qualified for civic offices and dignities. Others, again, acquired such u nse ttl e d an d pro fli gate ha bi ts that heir dismissal from shop and warehouse va indisDensablf they' wer Being thus thrown upon socibty, ready for every _ desperate deed, and usuall joined the town thieves, who were very numerous at this time. Such, indeed, was the audacity of these town thieves in the latter part of the sixteenth century, that on one occasion Queen Elizabeth herself, while taking an airing in her coach, was surrounded by a whole regiment of these rogues, and was obliged to despatch a footman to the lord mayor and the recorder for help. There - was another class equally r nunier( of, but who did nc time I violenc A resort t leas, during the reigns of James and ( )rotessional commr the gip particulars, in reading the accounts of the various tricks and stratagems of the rogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we seem to be reading the frauds of London and other large towns in the nineteenth. and in thi :cation, rest mbling as well as in many other In fact, much as we may admire the dexterity of modern swindling, scarcely a single trick is of recent adroitness in the reigns of James and cut purses, we learn, for instance (purses were then worn outside the clothes,) used instruments of the finest steel, made by the choicest workmen of Italy. There were schools, too, in London, where the rising generation were regularly trained in every variety of fraud. One way in which the children were taught to pick a pocket adroitly is said to be still practised in the metropolis. (1.) A pocket, or purse, was suspended from the ceiling, and hung round with small bells, and the young learner was required to finger and empty it, without ringing the slightest alarm. All the common knaveries of the town, in short, were the same with which we are made familiar by our police reports every day. Rustic squires coining to London were frequently fleeced, or worse handled, and sent home to horrify their fire sides with &lei of metropolitan ingenuity. They had gazed at some London marvel, and their purses had vanished the while, as if at the touch of fairy fingers. They had been hailed by city kinsmen, of whom they had never heard, and to whom they were persuaded to entrust their property, but their cousins had cozened them, and disappeared with their goods. Rings and gems of price had glittered in their path ; and, just as they picked them up, some bystander claimed a share in the spoil, and was bought off by 'a considerable sum 'of money, and then the golden gaud became brags, and the diamond worthless • crystal. Kind gentlewomen, pitying their ignorance, had directed them to comfortable lodgings ; but at midnight the window had softly opened—hooks and pincers had entered—'and their clothes had risen and departed. With a blanket wrapt round them, they had stolen at an early hour to the inn at which their horses had been left, intending to mount and flee ; but their cousins of yesterday had been there before them, and had carried off their cattle by some plausible tale or token. While . the streets of London, and even the inferior towns, were tilled with sharpers who practised such tricks as those on travellers, the highways were equally. infested with robbers. The mounted high wayman, a marauder known to our generation only from books, was to be found on every main road. (2.) Among the chief places of 'resort were Salisbury Plain and Gadshill in Kent ; the latter place having been long . of Such repute in this way that Shakspere selected it as the scene , of Fallstaff's achievement The Cathbric they approached Epping. Forest, even in the broai ize sc mbled wher day:liglit. Seamen who had Just been paid off a Chatham were often compelled to deliver their purse Gadshill. The same historian from whom I have just quoted, goes on to state, that the public authoritieB were at a loss how to deal with those That at one tir a pardon offered to a robber if he would give up some rough diamonds, of immense value, which h had take 4 when he stopped t while a: Wort thri Harw appeared another proclamation, warning tlin innl pers that the eye govermout ryas upon them Their crimin it was affirmed, enabled banditti to infest the rom not without fount dying . S 4 l)O6Ch 6S of t)m( who appear to 'have' r much r abling thos .ondered . 0o Gibbet Nniotiz the numorov and we Jesuist:. 3 made themselves of ,612.1iged to show false col( these suspicions were led, is proved by the tent robbers of that agc ved from the innkeeper cli Farqulia mracters of thi us to the law, were the wont to show as many shapes as ,Proteas in order to escape detection. Sometimes, we aro informed, they exhibited the gay attire and fashionable:hearing of a gallant; and it would appear that the part .was admirably played by these reverend masqueraderg. Men l , The practice. of cunning chicaneryand however, together with liCentionsnes and lev ity,belongs n gs more especially to the re i gn o f Charles the does to that of James'. 'The restoee°lld, than it former to the Throne of England, brroaiti°n of the is fact, an innundation of all the debauchery with it, French Court, in which he and his followers of the bad spent their exile; so that gallantry had becom e h grand predominant spirit of the age, ~ No to love !» exclaims a writer, " was not to be ; I ' l. and; therefore, all were lovers, from the half-fledged school -boy to the hoary veteran whose dim eyes could scarcely discern the charms with which his heart was smitten. Foppery in dress was the natural result of this overweening desire to please, and gallants, we learn, endeavoured to make themselves irresis tible by the newest cut of a French suit, or an enormous periwig. Trifling and silly as all this may be considered, the same phrases cannot be extended to other things. The language used at Court was o f the most coa rse an d o ff ens i ve character. Thus, on one occasion, Charles, on quarreling with Lady Castlemaine, called her a jade, she in return calling him a fool; while the first English phrase which the Queen learned, and afterwards applied to her husband, was " You lie !" Sanctioned and encou raged by Royal example, it is not to be wondered at that the upper and lower classes fell into the most immoral practices. Swearing, which during the Commonwealth had been punished by a fine—this and profligate conversation were so prevalent under Charles the Second, that a man of family was accounted no gentleman, nor person of any honour, who had not, in two hours' sitting, invented some new oath, or made lampoons on the sacred Scriptures themselves ! (3). Gaming —the terrible vice of every age—became, in the absence of nobler excitements, a fashionable phrenzy. The Zero of gambling heat was certainly displayed at this period, when as we are informed, the Duke of Saint Albans, who, although more than eighty years of age, and com pletely blind, used to frequent the gaming -table, having a man beside him to tell him the name of each card ! ' A spirit of licentiousness is generally combined with cruelty and recklessness of life ; and the rage ' for duelling during the reign I am now reviewing had increased beyond all former precedent, so that fatal encounters were of daily occurrence. One atrocious instance which is handed down to us was in a duel fought between the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury. The Duke, after having wronged the Earl, we are told, in the "nicest point," encountered and slew his antogonist, the Countess standing by the while, in the disguise of a page, and holding the horse of her paramour ; after whose victory, she welcomed with open hands the blood-stained murderer of her husband. the privilege of further publica !o himself Lion or translation.] (3.) Thus exclaims one of the characters in Dryden's " Wild Gallant" " He swears at the rate of £2,000 a-year, if the rump act were stil' 1 in being." - -0-- DR. THOMSON AND THE POOR-LAW BOARD TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES, SIR,—As the letter from the Poor-law Board, read at the meeting of the West Derby Board of Guardians, on Wed nesday last, relative to an informality in my appointment as medical officer of Garston, may seriously prejudice my position, I beg to state that I am a legally qualified and registered doctor of medicine, a Member of the Royal Collez >fSurei service of twenty of the fey ns, and a medical officer in her Majesty's '-three years standing, as well as being one :ed by the Admiralty and the Presidents of 1 Surgeons of London as a .ecipient of the Diane distinction, for being one of " the heal officers who have particularly distinguished thorn .os in the - exercise of their profession." Such, however, s the order of the P A, in their regulation of nedical qualifications, that scarcely any leading consulting Ihysieian, or surgeon, of London or Edinburgh, would be bible fora Poor-: For several years past, I have had a great portion of the work among the poor of the district, gratuitously, and with 3onstant demands on my time and pocket ; and when I was nted by the West Derby board, I accepted it, because s entitled to the emolument as well as considered I v the trouble. --I am, sir, your obedient servant, Thos. It. HEYWOOD THOMSON Beechwood-road, Aigburth, May 20th, 1859. HOW TO PREITE WAR Put the Royal R How TO 'SETTLE THE DISPUTE- Let them do as Norman William proposed to Harold before the battle of listiAgs GOOD MEDICINE! C HEA P COFFINS!! YELLOW BUTTER!!! A very worthy old Lady has written to the Butterman—prot against "the mixture as ((bore," which has lately appearec the papers Butter and you will not require either of the oth A DVICI articles, BULL TO di OH"' (1.) See Mayhew's " London Labour and the Poor Murray's " London ;" Grant's " Great Metropolis." (2.) Macaulay's History of England. They used a cant Keep your hands in your pockets You will f a) you good three ways your mind ; &DVICE TO TAE PUBLIC ur butter in during this hot weather BEEF, BREAD, BACON, AND P ORK , Ur . . _ - - Several interested parties have been saying that such being the ',tee, the Butterman ought to advance the price of the yellow butter. No, no," said the Tiutterman, advance,—not a /Cori!, cue;'''—that is, the nineteenth part of a farthing, which is well known. KELLY, THE BUTTERMIN, TOP OF WILLIAMSON-SQUARE, 3ells Butter twelve hours daily, from Seven to seven. text to an oyster A hard CO, asure's, if not abused, will be new every morn as the worm said who le plough was passing o% COMMON WANT.—An American ,paper has this adver ' '' Two sisters want washing." Igsays that man and wife are like soul and body often at variance, and yet loath to part. Sentimental Youth—" My dear girl, will 'you share my lot for life ? " Practical Girl—" flow many acres is your Dr. Y c The sprig of the laurel, like the lemon in the mouth of the wild boar, is never put into our mouths until we are shot and dished up.— Jean Paul. " Anything for a quiet life," is the Englishman's motto ; "'anything. but a quiet life," is the Irishman's ; "anyth;.,,. with a quiet life," is the Seotchman' husbaiii 7tington says that she did not marry her second !cause she loved the mate sex, but just because he WILL. A farmer made his last will t *in words few but significant: —"I have re nothing, and I give the residue to the AN INDISPITT.II3 tpstn An Irish housemaid, boasting of her industrious habits, said she rose at four, made a fire, put on the tea-kettle, pre- Rared breakfast, and made all the beds, before any one in the house was up "Have you found your verdict ? " said a judge to the foreman of a jury. "No, your honour, we have hunted thrOugh every nook and corner of the room you sent t a to, and we can find ne'er a one!" A LONG COURTSHIP.—Married, in Iredell county, N.C, by Jacob Fraley, Esq , on the 20th January last, after a close courtship of 23 years, Mr. Reuben Barbour and Miss . Sarah Thompson, both aged about sixty years. A drunken north countryman returning from a fair, fell asleep by the road side, where a pig found him, and began to lick his mouth. Sawney roared out, " Wha's kissen' me noo ? Ye see how it is to be wool likit arming the lasses. THE NOnTlltitikr TIMES SATLTRIiii, MAY 21, 1859 MONETARY AND COMMnVIAL. LIVERPOOL, Friday git:iiing. The amount of business done in the Liverpool Cotton Market to-day has been moderate, the sales reaching 7,000 bales, but there was an entire absence of anything approaching to activity, and prices continue depressed. Of the week's business Messrs. Wright, jun. & Co., in their circular issued to-day, say : We closed our last circular advices of 13th instant, per Asia, on a quiet Cotton Market at somewhat irregular quo tations. As the recent heavy import is landed, offerings increase, and for the week under review the demand has been so limited that to press sales was not only impolitic, but to some extent impra c ti ca bl e o f secur i ng the end aimed at— realisations; where such have resulted, concessions in price have been submitted to, and a weakening tendency in rates have been the principal feature of the business daily. Spinners have largely replenished their small holdings by parcels forwarded direct from the ship's side, and hence their restricted action in this market, and notwith standing that prices are now id to 1d per lb below the highest point on the Bth ult. and arrivals are coming forward to a heavy loss. Speculators remain passive, anticipating further decline when our stock is ang mented by some 400,000. bales now at sea from American and East Indian shippinc , ports. Trade is not flourishing, Id the compl ex ity ofe European politics engenders a e. From the seat of war there is nothing of cn important character, both armies beirng kept in check by the inundated state of the country where hostilities are expected to commence with vigour. Money matters are comparatively easy again, liberal arrivals of the precious metals liquidating the outgoings without making inroads of any mome n t on th e b u lli on i n the Bank chambers. Consols fluctuate, and close to-day at 911 quietly. The decline in the week is Hd on fair, down to id on ordinary qualities, and at the extreme depression there seems more inclination to extend transactions yesterday and to-day; the market closes, however, with abundant offerings, and with estimated sales of 7,000 bales, 1,000 to speculators and ex porters, within the range of quotations. The total sales of the week, including what has been forwarded from the ship's side, amount to 38,330 bales, of which 30,790 are American. ' Speculators have taken 200, and exporters 4,000, leaving 31,130 bales of all kinds to the trade. The import for same time is 42,811 bales, of which 32,531 are American. The quantity known to be at sea from American ports is about 280,000 bales. PRICES TO-DAY : New Orleans Fair, 7P Middling, 64d Ordinary, 4 dto sid Mobile 7d SP „ 4 d to 554 d Atlantic „ 6/d 64d „ dto 5/d Total taken for cons um pti on, 18 59, 815,760 bales.lBsB, 852,0 0 bales. „ export (actual) „ 100,965 „ , 74,467 , American Brazil Egypti an E. India W. India. Total. i Stock this day... 501,720 12,600 24,640 44,970 580 584,410 Same time, 1858.496,260 15,410 14,010 57,700 2,660 586,140 Messrs. Edward Jardine and Company, in their circular, say : • cautious resery Our market throughout the week has been extremely depressed, the trade limiting their 'purchases to their merest requirements, and as holders have freely offered their stocks, prices-have naturally given way, and are again reduced to the quotations current on the 6th instant, excepting middling Orleans, which are unchanged from this day week. Egyptiaii,' Brazil, and Surat have all partaken in the general decline, and are 4-d. to 1 - 4 ,d. down. The Liverpo o l Share Market has again been very quiet, and, with a small amount of business, prices remain nominally the same as yesterday, the sales being :—East Lancashire 91. shares, a d ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, .85 c, 42, 41; London and North Western, 861 ; Midland, 93 1 1-, 931 ; South Eastern', 181, 18 5-16. Very little business waS reported after official hours, the only transactions being in Manches ter, Sheffield, and Lincolns at 33, and South-Eastern and Dovers at 181 to 18 5-16. The final closing prices -Blackburn, 11i, 11 ; Chester and Birkenhead, .01, 60; Caledonian, 731, 7411; Eastern - Counties, /OZ-,' 10-1 ; East Lancashi re , 83, 8 5 ; Great orth ern, 94, 96 ; Ditto A., 79, 81 ; Great Western, 51, 511 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 84+, 841; London and North-Western Stock, 851, 868 ; Ditto one-eighth shares; 2 1-16, 2d ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33, 331; Midland Stock, 93, 931 ; North British, 51,1, 52! 3 - ; North Staffordshire, 4+, 4:4 d; North Eastern --Berwick, 831, 841; York and North Midland, 67+, 681 ; Leeds Capital Stock, 42, 43; South Eastern and Dover, 18 5-16, 18+ ; Dutch Rhenish, 71, 7R d ; Great Western of Canada, 131, , 13+ ; Do. New Shares, 71, 7d; Great Luxembourg, 4 13-16, 4+ ; Giand Trunk of Canada, 71, 7+ ; , Lombardo- Venetian, 3, 21- d; Do. New Sh ares , 31, d. In the Liverpool Salt Market, a very good demand has existed for the last fortnight, and • the trade generally' is brisk. Prices have improved, and as supplies will come short for the next' two or three weeks, owing to the River Weaver going off to-day, higher prices may b e an ti c i pate d than the present quoted ones. " The , present quotations are : —Com- . mon Salt, ss. 6d. ; Rough Ditto, 6s. 6d. to Bs. 6d. ; Stoved First Class, Bs. 6d. ; Butter Ditto, 6s. 6d. The Corn Markets are losing some of that extreme buoyancy recently prevailing. In Liverpool to-day the attendance at the Exchange was only limited, and a small business was the result. Holders of Wheat showed a disposition to give way in price to the extent of from threepence to fourpence per cental, and Flour was fully fourpence cheaper. Other articles in proportion. The business done at Wake field to-day was small, but prices were generally the same as those current on Friday last. In Manchester, orders for Goods and Tarns are expiring, and being only partially renewed, the buyer has the adVantage in prices. India merchants pause in their purchases pending the uncertainty of the additional duties imposed by the Eastern governnient, and for other quarters operations are entered upon cautiously, and only in small con tracts. The 'decline in Yarns ranges from id to lid per Ib, at the same time that the raw material has receded about Id per lb average. The Liverpool Produce .Markets have again been very quiet all the week. In Ashes sales are limited to 200 barrels, at 31s to 31s 6d for old Pots, and 33s for new, and 31s 6d to 32s for Pearls, per cwt. Bark :is in very small inquiry, at 6s to 7s for Baltimore, and 9s.for. Philadelphia, per cwt. For Cloverseed, a speculative demand has cleared 700 bags at'4Bs to 50s per cwt. Small sales in Lard are reported at 60s to 62s per cwt., as in quality. About 50 tons Linseed Cake, fine thin oblong, found buyers at 9/. per ton. Retail transactions in Rice at 21s to 23s 6d per cwt. Rosin is in . improved request ; 4,000 barrels, chiefly common; at 4s to 4s 2d per cwt., from the quay and to arrive, have changed hands ; the finer qualities are difficult to move at nominal prices. Tallow is firm ; sales 200 barrels at 57s per cwt. 1,000 barrels Turpentine, rough, of good quality, brought 10s, and 250 barrels Spirits 43s to 43s 6d per cwt. were : The Liverpool Wool Sales have terminated this evening . The quantity offered to-day was 719 bales, by Mes Sis. T. and H. Littlatale and Co., and 2,502 by Messrs: Hughes and Ronald. The two cata logues comprised 1,243 bales of East India, the whole of which found buyers at the full currency of the present series. Some Buenos Ayres, Chili, and Peruvians were withdrawn. The quantity of Wool offered at this series was 21,076 bales. The London Stock Market continues in a com plete state of stagnation, and to-day, there has been scarcely any business done. Prices nominally remain without change, and 'finally closed this afternoon as follows -- Consols for Money, 911, 911: Ditto .for Account, 91-4-, 91'4 ; Exchequer Bills, 20, 24; Three per Cent. Bank Stock, 901, 901. The London Market for Railway Shares also ce of business, prices mu it he regarded as nominal. They closed to-day as follow: Ambergate, Nottingham, and Eastern Junction, 51, 5 ; Caledonian, 731, 74 ; Eastern Counties, 52, 521; East Lancashire, 83, 841; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 68, 70; Great Northern, 941, 951 ; ditto A, 75, 77 ; Great Western, 501, 51; Great Western of Canada, 13.4, 131 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 7;1, 7q ; Great Southern and Western, 100, 102 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 841. London and North-W estern, 851 ; London and South-Western, 861; Leeds Northern, 424 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 33; ; Midland Stock, 931 ; North British, 511 ; South Eastern and Dover, 614 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 84 841 ; York and North Midland, 68, 691. The steamer Pera, with the heavy portion of the Australian, Calcutta, and China mails, has arrived at Southampton, and the letters will be delivered here to-morrow (Saturday) morning. The Discount Mark e t rema i ns quiet, an 4 super abundantly supplied with money', First class bills are negotiated ito I per cent. be; the bank minimum. The residue of the £172,600 in gold by the furd, from New York, was purchased yesterday for expor tation. No gold operations took place at the bank. The Bombay Exchange presents no alteration of importance. It is understood that Government will almost immediately put forward a public notification inviting tenders for the conveyance of the Australian mails, via Panama, in addition to the contract now in course of performance, via Suez, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company. Attached to the " conditions" of tender for the latter contract, which was adjudicated last October, was the following nota bene :—" It is to be observed that as soon as arrangements are completed, it is the in tention of the Government to call for tenders for a monthly steam communication with Australia via Panama, in addition to th e serv i ce v i a S uez. " Th e delay that has occurred is, we believe, in no small degree attributabl e t o th e a b sence o f a definite under standing with the Government of New Granada, re specting the sum to be paid for the transmission of the mails across the Isthmus. The affair has now, however, arrived at so advanced a stage that the " conditions" of the new contract are framed. It is said that three companies propose to tender :- 1, the Royal Mail Steam Company ; 2, an English Company, organised some time ago, in which Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Co., are said to be concerned; and 3, a New York Association. The sooner the negotiation is concluded, and the new service actually commenced, the better for all interests connected with the colonies. Should the two contracts be efficiently performed, a fortnightly service may practically be secured. The extraordinary stagnation of business tends to prejudice - the Funds. The purchases on tha onrt nf the s were public have slackened, ana levy effected to-day. Prices have consequently given way to the extent of kto a per cent. The Stock Ex change continues to wear a very In the other • • ,ransac importance, prices of most classes of securities were nominally unaltered. The Discount Market remains quiet, and superabundantly supplied with money. First-class bills are negotiated half to three-quarters per cent. below the Rank minimum. A further amount of £258,000 in specie has arrived to-day from the West Indies and America. including 27,000 pounds in silver. The demand of cold tF C cc ~ontinent continues active, and these supplie.s a willbe sent away. No gold operations took place at the Bank.— Daily News City Article, Thursday Evening. The English funds opened with firmness, this morning, but subsequently experienced a decline, from which there was no recovery. The eight large steam vessels of the European and American steam Company have at length been definitively purchased on speculation by Mr. J. 0. Lever and Mr. Thomas Howard, of Manchester.—Times City Article, Thursday Evening. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. L. CREDIT. £ 31,020,385 ` Government Debt 11,015,100 Other Securities Gold Coin andother 1 16 545 385 Bullion Notes issued BANKING DEPARTMENT £31,020,385 DEBIT. • CREDIT. Proprietor's Capital. 14,553,000 I Government Secu- Rest 5,282,313 I Other Securities 19,558.132 Public De ler Deposits r . 9-day 8c other 17,290,940 Notes 9,631,090 778,547 Gold and Silver Coin. 650,583 £41,121,181 I Total £41,121,181 Compared with the returns of the previous week, the above shows the following results : s £ Active Circulation... 20,411,195—Decrease Bullion Rest Seven-day & other 1 Bills Public Deposits Other Deposits Government Secu- 778,517-- Decrease 5,232,313—1ncrea5e 17,290,940—1ncrea.5e 414,833 144,008 rities Other Securities 19,558,132--Decrease Notes unemployed... 9,63l,o9o—lncrease 595,015 Cash to liabilities per Mil Rate of Interest, 41 per cent. No change. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 11 ... 12} to 11 ... 13 11 15 ... 11 15 11 .. 15 .. 11 .. 151 25 25 ... 5 Amsterdam Short Ditto, 3 months Rotte'rdam Antwerp . Brussels..., Tiamburgh Paris Short Ditto, 3 months Marseilles Frankfort Vienna St. Petersburg Madrid .. 25 25 1154 14 14 31i 481 - nn 20 ... 14 20 14 MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT —➢iAY 20. Since Tuesday we have had more doing both in cloth and yarn ; the whole, or nearly so, on Eastern account. In yarns suitable for the Eastern markets, a considerable reduction from the highest point has been submitted to, varying, according to numbers, from lid to 2d per lb. The German qualities are almost unsaleable. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, MAY 20 Colonial, &c.: The business in Sugar is confined exclu sively to West India, of which 130 hhds Antigua have been sold at 375 6(1 to 41s 3d, 300 hhds St. Lucia at 36s to 41s 6d, and 30 hhds Demerara at 37s 6d to 39s 9d per cwt. The business in Molasses is confined to 100 puncheons Trinidad at 14s 6d per cwt, and nothing doing in Rum. At auction, 130 bags Ceara Coffee, part all faults, realised 45s Gd to 48s 6d per cwt for sound. The Rangoon and Carolina Rice offered to-day . was not sold, and we have no transactions to notice by private. In Dyewoods, 10 tons Honduras Logwood at £5 ss, 20 tons St. Domingo ditto, all faults, at £3 17s 6d, 35 tons Jamaica at £3 15s, 10 tons Jamaica Fustic; all faults, at £5 ss, and 50 tons Spanish ditto, at £4 15s per ton. Of Ashes, small sales of Pots at 32s 6d. Nitrate of Soda quiet at 15s to 16s per cwt. Nothing further to notice in Saltpetre. 20 tons reported at 15s per ton for best seconds, a little done in grey Tartar at 105 s 6d, 50 ba g s Cutch at 94 6d, 2,700 b ags Baltimore Bark at 6 s 6d, .witha little Philadelphia at 9s 6d per cwt, and small sales of Negrohead and Ceara scrap India _Rubber at is 5d per lb. Oils, 4.c.: Palm at £45, :15 tuns Linseed sold at 30s 6d in export casks, Tallow unchanged, nothing to notice in Rosin, and some Spirits of Turpentine sold (to arrive) at 42s per cwt. We have further to report 700 bags Bombay Linseed at 52s per quarter, and 15 tons Bones at £5 2s 6d per ton for legs. LIVERPOOL COTTON.MARKET.---MAY 20. The depression noticeable in the Cotton Market at the date of our last has continued, without abatement, through out the present week. With a limited trade demand, speculators and exporters b ar€ rumen LIM (Myer. Y esteraay rather more business was transacted, partly induced by the low rates accepted, which are from id to id per lb lower than the currency of last week for American quotations. Brazil and Egyptian dto id per lb lower; Surat nearly sd•uer lb down. The weekly sales are 38,330 1- 1 — --- '- are on speculation and 4,000 for export TILTS WEEK Import. i Sales. I This Week.. I Mid. Fair 32,08 3 510 Sea Island 8 t 7,150 Upland 4 9,150 Mobile 5 30.44 R / 13,980 New Orleans 2,030 Brazil 6 6-16 7t 6 7-16 2,060 Egyptian 7 40 West India . G 62 1 497,930 7S! 11,260 741 24,690 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET---31Av 20- • This morning's market was slenderly attended, and the trade ruled very dull. Had offers for wheat been made, rather lower prices would have been taken. Oats, beans, and Indi an corn mus t b e wr itt en very qu i et ; barley firm. Sack flour and oatmeal neglected, and the turn in value in favour of buyer. American oaty red wheat 6s to 7s 2d; French red 7s 4d to 8s ; white 8s 3d to 8S 6d; Danzig 9s to 10s per 701bs. ; yellow and mixed maize 34s to 365, and white 40s to 428 per 4801bs ; Scotch and foreign 4s 3d to 4s 6d per 451bs ; feeding barley 4s to 4s 6d • per 601bs; Egyptian beans 47s to 42s per 4801bs ; peas 45s to 48s per 5041bs ; linseed 558 to 563 per imperial .quarter ; barrel flour ranges from 25a to 30s per 1961bs ; sack flour from 36s to 44s per 2801bs; oatmeal 306 to 33s per'24olbs ; Irish red wheat 6s 7d to 7s 7cl; white 7s Id to 8s 5d per 701bs ; oats 3s 1001 to 4s 2d per 451bs. FOWLER & FitEAN. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.--May 20. At P, reduction of 4s. to 10s per tierce, as in quality, ;up (sales of beef for the week reach to about 1,800 tierces ; the arrivals, however, are in excess of the sales, and, notwith standing the export demand, stocks are increasing. Pork 1 in the early part of the week ruled dull, there is now a better inquiry, and holders, who are inclined to give way 2s 6d . to 5s per barrel on la s t wee k' s quo t a ti ons, h ave recovered their firmness. There is an improved consump tive demand for American bacon, and holders have succeeded in establishing a further advance of about is per cwt. Lard is quiet, but firm ; the sales for the week reach nearly 50 tons. Cheese is in moderate request, without change in value. The tallow market in the beginning of the week was very slow, and slightly lower : it is now firmer. Lin seed cake sells in retail;at former prices. 1 LIVERPOOL WOOL TRADE. The attention of the trade has been chiefly engaged. with the public sales, which commenced in London on the sth instant, and will last till the 31st. The quantity of fine Colonial to be brought forward is 63,061 bales ; they are going with fair spirit, although at a considerable decline from the March-sale rates. Port Philip washed fleece is lower on the average 3d per lb., Sydney 2d., and other kinds 2d to 3d per lb. Capes about ld per lb., and unwashed wools from -Id to ld per lb. Although there is a fair number of foreign buyers present, they have purchased sparingly, and for Germany scarcely anything has been taken. After the close of the fine Colonial the low wool sales will follow. ' Our public sales of 11,548 bales East India, and 9,154 bales various kinds of foreign, began on the 12th instant, and closed this evening. It was very generally expected that 'East India would suffer a considerable decline, but we - are happy to say that this has not been, by any means, re a lis e d. In consequence of the inte r v a l between the previous sales having been longer than usual—the elections having ren dered it necessary to postpone the sales on two occasions ' many of the trade had become low in stock. There has been a full average attendance of buyers throughont, but the better qualities have not engaged the usual attention, and on these we quote a decline lld npr ih • descrip- anket woo] arc ovau uvsi, au yikpon,ton. ine miscellaneous kiuda of foreign offered are- not worthy of much remark, the greater part meetinc , with little competition, and was consec uently lulu minus, you TO Inn ; buck, 74-,d to &L Buenos Ayres, common and low Mestizo, unwashed sold at from 3d to 6d ; washed fleece 160 to 22d per lb. The sales of English went off as well as could be expected, at an average decline of hi per lb. on skin, mid from 14-d to 2d on fleece. Although very little business has taken place in Scotch wools, it has been at about previous rates, and from the light stocks we do not see any reason to expect lower prices. Sheen- skins continue to meet with ready sale, and at within a fraction of previous rates. HUGHES. & RONALD. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET—MAY 20. Sugar : We have had a dull and drooping market this weak, and prices for all qualities except fine have declined 6d. to ls., with but a limited business done. Refined brown lumps have- receded to 51s. 6d., and all other qualities fully 6d. Coffee : This article has been dull of sale, and prices have scarcely been supported. Tea : The public sales are going off - steadily, but the amount of business done in the private contract market this week has been limited. Rice : Prices are not altered, bat the amount of business I done has not been large this. week Rum : Q - Saltpetre business ris are um] Prices have been supported, with a limited Spices have sold heavily this week, and Cassia Lignea h declined 2s. to 3s. Cotton : The sales have been small and unimportant. In other articles no material alteration. Markets y continue c LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—MAY 20: Market steady but without action. On the spot, 55s June alone, 55s ; July to September, 55s 6d; August ane September, 56s to 56s 3d; October to December, 56s 6d. LONDON CORN MARKET.—MAY 20. English and foreign wheat slow but steady. No floatin cargoes have arrived. Flour is per sack lower to sell maize firm at 33s per 491ba for Venetian on passage. Oat; firm. but without hfn CORN AVERAGES.— MAY 20. For England and Wales, week ending 14th of May : Wheat, 52s sd; barley, 32s 10d ; oats, 25s 4d; beans ; 45s id ; and Peas, 425. BOROUGH HOP. MARKET.—MAY 20. For all good and fine hops there is rather an active demand partly on speculation, and prices have an upward' tendency. Other descriptions arc held at extreme rates. LONDON COLONIAL WOOL SALES.—MAY 20. There has been a fair competition for wool to-day, but almost wholly for home use. In prices no change has taken place. LONDON MINING MARKET.---MAY 20. In the mining market to-day, North Roskear shares are in demand. East Wheal Russell are officially -marked in the Stock. Exchange, Sk to Bi. Generally little business is going forward. There have, however, been transactions in shares in St Ives Consols, Lady Bertha, Wheal Ellen, and East Grennislake mines. LONDON MONEY 'MARKET—Iay 20 Consols opened dull at the closine ouotations of of 91i to 91t, and continued without change all the morning. Little or nothing done ; shares also very inactive, without any alteration. French quite nominal. Lombards 31 to 2 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—MAY 20. Wheat trade quiet at last week's prices. Beans rather No change in other artioli. DUBLIN CORN MARKET.—MAY 20 There was a good supply of home wheat. and a Lava., IV u , uuu nudes Well: large, at rather less money. Oats dull, but not lower, Barley scarce, but not dearer. In foreign wheat, large sales were made, at a slight advance on last day's rates Indian corn was in demand, at 6d per barrel reduction on last quotations. - CORK CORN MARKET.— Barley 15s; Oats 15s to 16s 3d. MAY 20 GLASGOW IRON MARKET--MAY 20. Market drooping. No. 1,48 s 3d to 485 6d ; warrants, 48s to 48s 3d ; makers' iron, 483 to 48s 3d ; No. 3,48 s to 483 3d. LONDON GAZETTE BANKRUPTS John Nicholson, watchmaker, Andover. Charles Nunn, innkeeper, Great Cobb►eshall. Alfred and Henry Arnold, booksellers, Totteuham-court road. . James Milnes, jun., feather merchant, Georges-row, Great Suffolk-street, Southwark. Thomas Chatham, and Thomas Thornley, hosiers, Basford, - • Charles Wright, innkeeper, Birmingham. William•Horris Hall, auctioneer; Shrewsbury. John Chalmers, tea dealer and draper, Cirencester. Ludwig William M. Oppel, commission agent, Bootle, near Liverpool. • BANKRUPTCY ANNULLEP. Arthur Ledger, lead, glass, and colour merchant, Spital fields and Brixton. SPORTING INTELLIGEN SALISBURY RACES -YESTERDAY £6O lIANDICAP PLATE Romsey Four ran, WILTON PARK STAKES CeMia Lovebird Chere Annie Eight ran LONOLEAT STAKrS Schism Charles the Second Birmingham Eight rali QUEEN'S GUINEAS Fisherman LONGFORD CASTLE sTAxT.,B, Mainstone Lady Falconer Skittles Four ran, "----~_ No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one bf Saund ers and Co.'s Patent Self- c l eans i ng Charcoal F i ters, cased and fitted-up expressly for use on board ship, Note the address, & CO., lq. I * - oritreo.t, Liverpool. 5 3i 10 40 42 HIGH WATta, Morn. 3 He i g ht' Evert, 9 IA 13 1 THIS DAY At Llmpoor.,—N.N.W.—Light breeze " HOLYHICAD,-N. Do. A R R I V E D. Allan New Orleans N or d en ..... Nor 00 Ann Duncan Buenos Ayres Ocean Wave ... • Sa sli' Arthur New Orleans Quiliota ....... 4'bile o Berendina A n t wer p Sarah and Emnia•• l ` or iel; Cluny B e li ze S Ri n k s ...... New orie o. Columbo Ch ar l es t on St J ames ... •„.N ew 0 1 40 Chimera Calcutta S E Pettigrew—new .1050 Effingham . . Kria Mooria Surinam ..... ,• .' • o r le0! Esther Sophia .Maracaibo West Point • • il• i n a 10 Epaminondos ..New Orleans Louisella ..... • traur ititt Elvira Owens.. New Orleans Lady Valliant.. • • l a hicell Freedom Havre Canova . . ••AP - ..., Hannah Gezina Catherina .. Nantes I Cardiolado .•• • • "Dotro' J' Fish . .. New Orleans Pacific ......... • 0 4 Lima (s) . Dublin Reciprocity ..g ente llo (on a trial trip) M ajes ty M o nte Maid of Anglesea ....Havre William Henry Loodianah P Libra SArL ED. g d / Nantes Euroclydon •• • • - lotig ..... Singapore Phoenix ....... • St Petersburglr Alice and Max •• , . -..Paimbccuf 'Wreath-- . Buell ° ibg • Dantzic OuanFondy .• • ..-.Cherbourg Caroline .. •• • • va ,utiP ls Ostend Antigua ....... ' L•hale" , . Elsineur .... Caro li ne. .. credric io MAItITIME EXTMACTS Zion's Hill . Clara Maria Reformation Le Cog .. , Active .... 00. _TVERPOOIS 0-`3/ v NT, April l T.—The wreck of the Sarah DlsenD lost on the Pa razuv shoal . tnvethpr- with her boa t ' materials, I BOMBAY, lave be - e - n - sold foi• 3,632 rupees , April 26.—The Dinah Mul;6 is in dock an aerg C oing repairs. RONSTADT, May 2.—The A ship T o h n Rave 01+ vfr°lll ge , Charleston, is now afl oa t, a pp aren tl y w i t h out mu ch ti after being discharged of the most part of her cargo' OMPORTS, - - ," GRAVESEND, May 19.-- 0 Arrived : The. Adelaide/ c o Mauritius ; He ro , C a p e o f G oo d H ope. 20. A ri gjil• Matanzas; Alert, C a p e T own ; M ea l ,ga ; Ledei pp rd walla; Boneta, Oporto Rims; Agnes, St. Tielen 3 ;,, ro je Warriston, Batavia ; A n d r i ae , S arps b urg ; Th es is, doe s, rickshaven; Ma r i ner , R angoon; M ary Hardy, Ba:rulawortlic Sir R. Peel, Du n k erque ; E mpress, K urrac h ee; Ft; Mauritius. wiled : Tapperletto, Gothenberg ; Tarseiro. fr° °l DEAL, May 20. —Passed : The Nicholas Wood (s)tool, London to Genoa; Calmar, London :to Carclit r ;. nn zort; westward to north ; Triton, westward to north; Dui.,„0,90; Newcastle to Batavia; Daniel Xeffery's, Belize to;,P_L o efel Corporation, Cape Coast Castle to London ; u" - i idoo; London to Madras. Sailed: The Quickstep, to, i fi e blicl e. Charles C. Fowler, to Ramsgate ; George Kidd, to.A Bo ulo' GREENOCK, May 20.—Arrived' : . Th e Mi ne , from Sailed : The Marmion for Trinidad. FOREIGN PORTS Augusta lieehle, hence at St. John, Bowes, Ellwood, hence at St. John, N.B. Tam'O'Shanter, Thomas, St. Thomas at Belize. Freeman, Pavia at Rio d e la Male. Decimas, Eos, Makli na , Z ar b , C arol i na, Br id ge t ' • Alf°ll' Marmora, Teneriffe (ss)—all at Malta. • Turon, Code, hence at Bombay. Acrolite,. London, hence at Bombay. 3/1j Norfolk, Charente, h ence a t V a l para i so wi th or e s, discharging to repair. Edward b ßoustead, Williams, hence at Maranha s for Ellerslie, Cowlie, Clyde at Barbadoes, and son Demerara. Andes (ss), and Ella Constance (ss), both hence A corir Snowdon, Wilson; Lily, Peach ; Margaret Jane :bo ltir' thiark (ss) ; and Dama scus ( ss ), B e ll— a ll h ence a t 01 Jantje Wilkers, Holly, hence at.Cronstadt Bosphorus, hence at St Nazaire Irt, Morgan, hence at Demerara. Sagitta, David, and Thalestrics, Henley; both berlc -00 Barbadoes. • and oiled Sea. Rover, Stewart, hence at Kingstown. Ellerslie, Cowley, from Greenock at Barbados, for Demerara. The Lord George Beutinck, from London at. Boll ibil Elkabeth, from Salle at Moulmein. Victoria, Sanderson, from Kooria at Bombay- Flying Venus, from Port Chatham at Bomb* Concordia, from Aden at Bombay. Evangeline, Liverpool, at Calcutta previous April t Y LADlES.—Thompson Brothers, 5, Elliot-street/ gee d . best four shilling tea in England. o f LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISEO rrr ife o BOYS' CLorrnugo.—Number of boys clothed f o r tbe 04 I ending Saturday, May 14th, 910: correse d I week last year, 864.—Increase, 46 boys. ' , ho" ' lIOUSEKEEPERS.—The coffee sold by Az Brothers, 5, Elliot-street, at is. 4d., i s b e tter tue pay ls. Bd. for at an • A runaway thief having applied to a blacksmith f° r the latter showed him some handcuffs, and desired t° ; ( 1 th e, if he made such kind o f wor k. " Why_ yes. Sir, " 3.96111' other, scratchin g his pate, " guess I've' had a h an d in t - A PITZZLINGINQUIRY.—A decent man in Halr ie pfiC a telling his wife of the war, and that in consequence titereo, of meal was rising; to.which she interrogatively al isv- i " And what gude will rai s ing the p r ic e o f meal do ta wat ' A.., LAM,/ IV 9.11....1G occ La isi of a coffee-house in the Featherstone-street, CitY 0 0 London :—" Stolen from this window, a china OP"' saucer ; the set being now incomplete, the thief ma' the remainder a bargain. - WHys.—Why does an engraver suffer less in dru cn i,' than other people ? Because he i s use d t o di e shi'''',o se Why is a spendthrift's pu rs e lik e a th un d er - c l ou d ? „ it keeps continually lightening.—Why is the letter a pig's tail? Because its the en d o f pork. es t A. GREAT FACT.—A lady was .ove r h e a r d in carne cussion with a gentleman noted for to- 'ty to - ,4,erceu oiIIe," opinion. Waxing warm, the old gen tl eme n " Mrs C., facts are stubborn things.," And the lady re.) to " Then Mr M. what a great f ac t y ou must be !'' , WRITING, BOOK - KEEPESIDAT.-- Th ose who real*" t hev. excel in these useful branches of education will coot" v olb interest very much by p ay i ng a v i s i t to Mr. George Th°° l 'o the well-known writing-master, in Clayton-squao• e nd believe those who have tried his system strongly reconinia it.—Mercury. fi tlibis To SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.—A MOS. P r° Self" article of export, to warm climates especially, are t he un a cleansing Charcoal Filte rs , p a t en t e d b y Messrs. they and Co., of 16, Parker-st ree t, Li verpool —i n f ac t t' 00" invaluable wherever there is ball water. S. and o°. a a liberal discount on expo r t an d w h o l esale or d ers . A LONG FACE.—A gentleman ha v i ng a remarkab l y as be P a l s , eo ge, overhear( observe to a " That gentleman's face is longer than 1115 0 ;i0 1 Struck with the singularity of th e observation, he re f, 1 and requested an explanation. " Si r ," sa id the I ' o ' or e read at school that a man's life is but a span ; a nd 1 your face is double that length." It is a well known maxim that "time is moneY 1 1 0 terms arc relative ; so to save one is to save the o ther. ,0.0 1 save both time, and economise pati ence , an d presell_ t _ tempers, when we have a good PEN-a b a d on e upson ence and temper. Preserve all, th en, b y puro hasg l6 ,lolr steel pens and other stati oner y, a t E . T . Hall's - 10P,P, sale steel pen wareho use . 23, out h John-street. ster. Gillott's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. Hughes, and other 01 a dens at is per gross. Good Pen Holders 2d per dozenice, HOLLOWAY'S OTNTMENT A ND P ILLS. - The , il h tumours, pimples, and dise o l ora ti ons o f th e s kin, 10 1 0 4 1. from impure blood, ill-reg u lat e d secre ti ons , or iwine . ll, t the tug taint, often defy science, but can never long .._. toured of Holloway's Pills — an s- ci - olnin;ct: s— c es m f$ d to apply a s t r i n g en t l o ti ons t o eru ptions on the b oo I Yreast, and arms, should be warned that no practice is life dangerous. They throw the disease inward, and pu t et ic itself at stake. The only really safe and effective ee sti !tea ever yet prepared is Holloway's Ointment, which , a l i sltO by his pills, will subd u e th e mos t o b s tinate cases 0. disease. REMARKABLE, IF TRITE.—The Philadelphia f,,lifftligs states that a very large t umour was cut from the ehee'oo child, seven months old, in the College Hospital. hiltif tumour, when taken off, was found to contain a livingehod. imperfectly developed, it is true, but still a living e`titi Fingers were seen, and a part of a rudimentary arm. tite r intestines were well developed, and no doubts were eto be tained of its being a male child. A body, presumedotri, the heart, contained, imperfectly formed, auricles and s oo. des. The mesenteric arteries and veins were of log e „, 00 0 0 The dissecting knife often came in contact with the O 'Dirg e matter of a rudimentary skeleton. Fat was found ill_ t di/ quan tities everywhere. 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