The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAM EN T. HOUSE OF ,LORDS .-M , )ND4Y • The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock.- Lore] BROUGHAM moved for .returns of the results of the proceedimzs in the Crirninal,:Civil,.. Ecclesiastical. dtniraltv, and Bankruptcy Courts, and referred to a nstav)er. of st a ti s ti cs . t o s h ow th e advantage- that would u obtained in legislation, by the prryduction of a st te- M eet of th e operation of different laws, and . of the number awl nature of crimes. The LORD CHANCELLOR di or the retu ns. The motion was then ar 'e Commons Tr Their I not object to the production Temi to. e'h committee linutes to seven o'clock HOUSE OF COMMONS The SPEAKER to, )7FL COU NY BIE a.ur On the motion ti all Mr. BENTINCIE II day Rix months. Mr. Fpr7P— "" read a second time this ed hotel .. s pi Ivonid be of great uNCI think it was or soffit to sanction thp seher Sir J. SHELLEr th comm to induce Parthment 101 be referrrd to a select .11'. BouvE a q h the house Select coin. should deci „ Mr. T. D note] or pu 11 ' 01 4d be a great evi,. , Mr. Wtt.scot said that when t f l rd Palmerston t reference to t lThsent. Otway, Mr. J. M`Geegor. Mr. W. F.wart. and M Tittles expressed their opinion that the bills should be stn Lo a celeet committee. I% Tr• DRU MMON D complained that vast sums of money a cre annually wasted upon what were called improve_ °lents. He had always found that a lawyer and a jubbiog l.e hltect were at the bottom of these things , and no doubt that was the case with the present schem (La ughter ) The Rouse divided bill, beeatis he theilght art of Trafalgar-square atter was submitted 'own prop, which might be taken by i there appeare 1 For the inot Against it .. Majority for the motion ut bill was read a second time. PETITIONS. HouSTALL presented a petition'from the Chamber of i'scwornerce at Liverpool, praying that time might t he stock co sideration before the Uouse proceeded with j oint. companies bill ; also a petition from the mayor and c orporation Polic e of Liverpool in opposition to Sir Geo. Grey's 'lice bill t er 7 e " bill, which pri g conside'red an unconstitutional in __ renee with theleges or municipal corporations, 'ulthe right or local self-government. It: s r G. GREY presented some petitions in favour of his uugh and Counties Police bill, the petitioners express fe opinion that it would tend to the preservation of end property. e 0, 'r• Positio W.turiza il b presented a petition from Norwich in uto the l. NOTICE CF MOTION Sir r i ft ice z LAcy EvANS gave notice of a motion in refer to the state of the army. DISTRICT SURVISTOBSHIPS. the lASri ii SMITH asked the Secretary of State for tier °,b lame Department, whether it was the into-ntion of lish government to introduce any bill during the tit 84 'ssion of Parliament for the purpose of estate syst'eng district surveyors, instead of the present parochial Poo r ill , ',which, in many instances, is merely an auxiliary purrate, and very inefficient for effecting its proposed Pose. Sir t it va G . , GnEy said he had introduced one or two bits rmos times on this subject and they had been op posed at different stages by county members who com tai Ted of the expense. Ile was not without hope that he but • t be able to accomplish some alteration in the law. wasnot at present his intention to introduce any "wasure on the subject. Tfig LicF.NsING SYSTEM. 6 1 •T. DUNCOMBR entrtited whether the government an _ended to introduce any measure founded upon the report k r: d to last session, upon the subject of the licensing SI Si l : G . GREY said it was not his intention to bring in such a measur e ibis session. EXPLANATI"NB t? 1. 13 E Lacy EVATIS rose to make some explanations of o sPeech of night. He said he had not intended b ,e!tst the slightest imputation upon the Duke of Cim rifige, either as to his eouraize or ability. He had oh. a v 7ved th at he h a d a l ways acte d w i t h hi s R oya l Hi g h ness 1 ,2 1 i1e in th e C r i mea w ith th e u t mos t cor di a lity. With belll!ard to C o l one l G or d on, h e ex iremed his regret that in e heat of debate, and feeling somewhat hurt at what had re 7l l Bahl about th e o ld genera l s , h e had sa id things in f n to th e ga ll ant co;onel which should not h ave a : reterred t o i n Parl!ament. The hon and pi general also landed Mr. Gordon for the ability i s ei.i V he had displayA in the defence of hip gallant 1 114 `,ilve• In refer,-nee to the charge which had been , ainst him that he had counselled L.rd Raglan. ‘vi i i e ‘ 1 ''e battle of Inlierivan, to aha:,don the pos , t , on orennied. and•to leave the guns . and trenches be,. said .he. French to 0 • fate. t' aul that h oTci ' shae'nbarktt/ the i , 'and yrop'w ready t, t' to ela isreprested b he .rrane. it mere xin the eireumsta ing, forward Pvidenc , iday night, but was Lorif „. C. HAMILTON prncee i ht 4P i port of his statem Th e l s P/Pd by the I 'EARA:n a who Si r ' DE or the Howe to fittiy; "E LACY EvA'ss said he was prepared, when 'the a nci l titne arrived, to justify his conduct in the Crimea, 1314,,i e 1 ° Prove, if necessary, the charges which had been it it was contrary to debate. mew. ‘iolitloN tendered Ms thanks to - the hon. and gallant *ith , r ,t 4 the explanations which he had jest made, b e a i s :neh he (Mr. G gdon) was perfectly satistiel, and thq h',2,"Pressed his gratitude for the manner in which and gallant gentleman had referred to himself. refe r , " A LMERSTOX and Mr. D I SBA ELI deprec tted Cees to tinged debates,which could result in nothing, '1 1 : 13 :, the di would not be pursued further. ' llu jectthen dropped. RELATIONS WITH PERSIA. kr th e Motion f or go i ng i nto comm i ttee o f supp l y , si a. ;,AYAIto drew attention to our relations with Fer tile d After adverting to the circumstance which led to ileci:Porture of Mr. Murraylfrom Teheran, and the con ceu - Itt breach of offichl intercourse with the Persian am t 1 2 , he r emarked upon the uncertain position of Asiatic ep al e xPressitiz fear that :in following up a . mere pehre itr s q ua bble this try was throning Persia int o t Mc% et Ru s sia. Country Lord / ,L vow.. AtatERSTON expressed regret that while endea- VAC,. w ere being made to reconcile the misunderstanding dut,u,ood taken place. the hon. member had thought it his b fo lie e open discussion on a subject which would or e troe,,easuded with difficulties. The no laay ar d,! 4 to explain the circumstances to which NI d. e li„ nod allu led, and to exculoatl Mr. Murray, but con ...e . d to enter into the question as between the t wo . tit s.;The dispute was still pending, but nothing like a n actual breach of relation.hip had taken place, and ee t ai the circumstances he appealed to the House not to flue the discussion. PRELIMINARIES OP PEACE. Mr - 11) Ulu pas.eta inquired as to the t ru th o f th e s tatement Of 1 4 ' been lately promulgated that the preliminaries teaee had already been signed at P ar i s . hael!,( easTos stated that at th e l as t con f e rence it were "b agreed to place on record the articles which adnpt th Prb Posed by A ustr i a and accepted by Russia, and to „, e m as formal preliminaries of peace. ne house then went into committee of supply. SOPPLY. The remaining . 4 '500,000 of the vote of £7.000,009 for the Day of the land forces, (.e6,:' , 00030 of whieln were taken on Frid ay night), was agreed to after considerable discus- Mons on many of the items of which it wIS composed. The following votes were agreed to :-21,000,000 on account to defray the expenses of the embo tied militia; XBB,OOO for the expenses of for the army works ' the vo l unteer corps ; .e250,0(}0 corps contingencies of the war departrne,nt and £22.791 to ; £169 0.5 q for salaries and defray the charges of the head qua rter s depots. On the motion of are. Q of military ,—Prioner.' the CHAIRMAN then rep,.rted progress, a own e d leave to sit again on Friday. THE POLICE BILL. The b next til orou‘Th l Monday. and county police bill was postponed from Rtida) WAYS AND MEANS. In committee of waym awl means, hl4r. WILSON itrotto' , o , l th a t , o ma k e good the supptY to er Majt-sty - , £ 26,000,00 0 should be granted from the c onsol fund. T he idated metion was acreed to. THE COMMERCI kt T he joint st oc k companies bin, and the partnership all bill, were fixed for Monday next. TRIlt. . dNCEs BILL, „ A brier discussion arose upon the trial of offenees bill, rle obj”ct or which is to authoris" the trial of Mr. Palmer 'ti:.rt.he central crimin 41 c , surt. In the course of the deb,te I Z a i . Principle of the moasure was opposed by Air. 11,1iley, '""v•iot way. Mr. Whiteside. and Mr..Wyse. ~:-. ue tnaNcELLon of the EXCIIFQUER said the prisoner '..,tlf atliii,,ce+l In the proposition. BiTrho, bill was ultiMately rea R second tiny'. _ tie Annuites; Hilt, and the Exchequer Bills Funding I Bill %ver.i re a d a third thee and passed. The Marin f u ' i nY B 11, and the 'Mutiny Rill, went through . corn ; Inittee, The Secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners' The (Ireland) Bil was read a third time and passed. Oat-Pensione;s' (Green svich and Chelsea). Bill, was read a BPcond time. WwaZ_ On t he motion o f L or d DuNcau, a - select committee The god to consider the O r d nance survey of Scotland. e adjourned at halt-past twelve o'clock. COLLISION ON THE MANCHESTER. SHEF FIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY. About half-past two o'cloillt on Saturday morning a collision occurred on the above railway, smashing several carriages to pieces, and scattering the contents about the line. The last of the Great Northern cheap express trains from London arrived in Sheffield during Friday night. ,One of the luggage trains of the Manchester, Sheffield ani Lincoloshke Railway Company left Sleffield for Manchester between one and two o'clock thii mnrninr, and the train of the Great Northern went forward immediately afterwards with the empty car- riages. While the luggage train was being stivated at the Woodhouse junction the empty passenger train arrived there, and ran into it with great violence. the passenger train escaped without much damage, but the luggage train had several carriages smashed. The guards van of the luggage train was among the unfortunate carriages. hut providentially the uard was not in it. Harrison and Edmundson, the driver ni stoker of the passenger train. received some slight int beyond this no . personal injury was sustained by theenllisinft. Subsequently, however, a plate layer, named Thomas Wilson who was assisting at the station wh►le the enFt . ties were running up and down the line to their supply of water replenished, was knocked down he wheels_ of which passed over _ . by one of the engin, Lured it in a most ir' THE CHELFON-M1)OR COLLIERS ,:,_ On Saturdiy nearly 4001) uea Nilployedin the col!eries on atilton•Moor, near Durham, the property of the Marchiouess Dowag , r of Londonderry, a , setubled to par take of an excellent ()liner, which took place in a large building, the property of Mr. Hopper, formerly in the employment of the Marquis of Londonderry, but now a manufacturer. Earl Vane occupied the chair, having his mother upon his right hand, and the Countess Vane upon his left. After the accustomed toasts to the Queen. Prince Albert, anti the Royal family, which the pitmen received with applause, the Marchioness of Londonderty addressed the assembly iu very touching and emphatic terms, assuring them that she shou4l always take a deep interest in their welfare. The Marchioness adverted to the bond of union which had exis ed between her ances tors and the pitmen, and exhorted them to frequent read ing-roo:ns, mechanics' institutions, and tempera ce soci eties ; to avoid public-houses, and to be orderly. indus trious, and religious. This address was received with vociferous cheering, as was the toast to the health of the Marchioness, for which she expressed her acknowledg ments. The health of the Countess Vane, proposed by Mr. Mowbray, M.P., was received in a similar manner, and after other toasts appropriate to the occasion, Lady Londonderry retired amid long-continued cheering. ELECTION NEWS. Mr. G. H. Heathcote has addressed the electors of Rutlandshire, pointing to his previous career in Parlia ment as the best indication of the course he will pursue if returned. No other candidate is in the field and Mr. Heathcote's return is looked upon as certain. The nomination for Boston takes place on Thursday. The candidates are all connected with the press. Mr. Herbert Ingram, of the illustrated News, Mr. Sleigh, of the Daily Telegraph, are liberals ; and Mr. Adams, formerly of the Morning Herald the Tory candidate. The contest is likely to be between Mr. Ingram and Mr. Adams, and to result, in the return of Mr. Ingram. _ The Sligo election was fixed for yesterday. Mr. Somers is the only candidate formally in the field, but Mr. Hughes Q C., has, it is said, gone down. Should Mr. Hughes and Mr. Somers both go to the poll, Mr. Wynne would probably be put forward by the Conserva tives, and] the d►vision among the liberals might render the contest very close. THE TIPPERARY BANK,-THE LATE MR. JOHN SADLEIP►, M.P. Every day there are fresh indications of the ruin im pending over the shareholders of the unfortunate Tippe rary Bank. There is a wide-spread feeling of pity for the position of Mr. James Sadleir, the chief victim of his brother's frauds, and upon whose shoulders will fall the full weight of the 'suicide's transgressions. The member f. , r Tipperary is, in fact, a ruined man, and it is said that. he has already broken up his establishment, parted with servants, equipage, &c., and is prepared to meet with becoming fortitude the sad reverse which has cruelly crushed Isis worldly prospects. The Bucks Herald has the following :—" We are given to understand that of the 99 shareholders in this Joint Stock Bank more than 30 are from the town and neigh bourhood of Leighton B4zzard. Their claims range from £2OO up to, in one instance, £5,000, and the stoppage of the hank will necessarily cause a areat dell of distress to a number of shareholders, a few of them hay ng invested their all in this scheme, in the vain hope of receiving nine per cent for their money." The Limerick Chronicle says :—" Great excitement and disappointment has h. en caused by the wholesale robbery of the Tipper ary joint stock bank; many have lost their lives as well as money from disappointment, and the sudden shock occasioned one farmer to heat his wife to death, because she dissuaded him from taking out his mlney (300/) when he heard of the alarm. A. poor woman who was gathering her little savings —near 1001—to send her stepson to America, has lost it all." NATIONAL REFi )11,NIN I'ORY UNION An infltientill. and numerous y :mewled, meetingot the friends of the reforsnatory movement w s held on Saturday afternoon, at the rooms of the Law Amendment Society, Waterloo-place, for the poirpose of tortnally organi.,ing an Association bearing this title. Amongst thcoe present were—Viscount Ebrinvon. M.P., Lord Robert . Ceeil, M.P., Sir S',ff Nortr•eote, M.P.. Lord Lov4ino. M.P., r Th , imas M.P., Winnington, Milries, r. Adderley, M.P., Iderson ; and many Coleri Mr. Baron other distinguished supporters of the movement. The followitig a re declared to he the objects of the institution : —To collect and diffose information bearinl on th refor mation of criminal ; to promote the formation of refor matory ins' itutioas where needed ; and generally to ad vance the further practical developmfmt of the reformatory movement; to consider and promote such legislative measures as are still reqiiiewl for the better care and reformation of youthful offooders ; to assist in placing out, and subsequent guardianship V, young persons leaving reformatories; to consider and promote me ns for the em ployment and .estoration to society of discharged pri soners; to promote the practical training and prep gyration of efficient masters and teachers fur reformatory institu tions. The Rev. Sidney Turner moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Ju-tiee Coleridge seconded the motion, which was agreed to nem. con. Sir S. Northcote moved, and the hon. Mr. Liddell seconded a resolution to the effect that a deputation would wait upon his Royal High ness Prince Albert to request him to become president of the society. This was agreed to, and the deputation nominated accordingly. The election of the other officers also took place, and some other formal business having been transacted, the chairman closed the proceedings. NOATHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1856. POLICE COURT.-YE ST ERDAY (BEFORE MR. G. GRANT.) The " EARLY . BIRD." —George Atkinson, w'm stood remanded on a charge of having a valuable Cochin China fowl in his poi Session, was brought up. It was discovered that the bird had been stolen from Mrs. Mooney, of Clare street, but still the. prisoner persisted in saying he found it " promiscuously "in the street. He was fined 104. for not being able to-acentint for the possession of the bird. A CLAIRVOYANT'S FORTUNE TotAti.—A tall young fellow, named William Muchm, was charged with having as nulled and stolen •"1 5s from a nigger named Wel lington Billings. The tale of the prosecutor, which was confirmed by a comrade. was that he met the prisoner, who spoke to him, and said he knew his name, and all about him. The black man said he knew better, and that the prisoner could not tell his name. "I can tell your name, and all about you, where you came from, where you are goinn to, and what will become of you," said the prisoner; and he dogged him along to the corner of a street, off Great Howard-street, when he knocked him down, and robbed him of .£1 .A police constable said he saw the assault, but not the robbery. The prisoner denied the statement, and said it was another person who did it. He was discharged from the charge of stealing the mousy, and ordered to )re proceeded, against for the assault. MELANCHOLY CASE.—A. very genteel-looking youth, named Thos. Teake, the son of a gentleman of respect ability, was brought up by offieer 322, on a charge pre ferred against him by Elizabeth-Davis, of Leigh -MN stealing a hen. Mr. Bremner appeared for the prisoner. The complainant said from time to time she missed a number of hens, and she was on the watch for the thief. Op Saturday at three o'clock she saw the prisoner go into a passage after the hens and pick up one of them. She seized him, and said she hail lost a great many fowls before, when he exclaimed, " Oh! I only took one." She then gave him in charge. Mr. Bremner said unfortunately, the boy was of unsound mind, and he had been so from his birth, and could not confine himself to one point for five minutes ; he was not an accountable person ; by some means he got out from the house on Saturday, when the unfortunate occurrence took place. Re called the father of Cle youth, who proved that from birth the boy was of we , k intellect, and had a soft brain, and Drs. M'lntyre and Aspinall proved that he was incapable of dwelling, on anything for five minutes—he was decidedly of very weak intellect and not accountable. Mr. Grant said under the circumstances it was a pity that the boy was brought up at all. Mr. Cloturh said if the officer had heard of the boy's infirmity he should have made inquiry and not have brought him up. Mr. Campbell, one of the Bridewell keepers, said when the facts were known and certified, on Sunday, thil lad was admitted to bail. The magistrate discharged him, and ordered him to be given up to his father. BACON THAT WAS NEAR NOT BEING SAVED.--Tavn young fellows named Patrick Burns and Thomas M'Dermott, were brought up by officers Thompson and Scaife (detec tives), on the following charge. On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, the officers saw the prisoners dodging about the provision shop of Mr. James Battershy, No. 174, London-road, and knowing all was not right, they had an eye on their movements. In a short time they saw M'Dermott make a spring towards a large ham that hung by the door, cut the cord by which it was suspended. and then run away. The ham fell into the street, unseen by any one in the shop, and then the other prisoner came up and took it away. He was joined immediately after by his comrade, and both were making off with the "bacon," when the officers followed and captured them, with it in their possession. The prisoners said they found th e ha m "lying inadvertently " in the street, and took it up, with the view of finding an owner for it ! This story was utterly repudiated by the police, who said the prisoners were "old hands at hams," and the like. They were sent for trial, and then they began a storm of cursing that was quite shocking to hear. ASSAULT ON A CHriLD.—A person named William Ellis, having the appearance of a painter, was sent to gaol for three months for having assaulted a girl about eight rears of age. The details were not of a nature to be published. (BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.) A POKER AND CROWBAR.—Thomas Quinn, a lumpe-, residing in College-lane, was charged with having com mitted a violent assault on police officer, 467. The con stable said about three o'clock on Sunday. there were a number of boys throwing stones in College-lane, a voting man who was passing, had been struck on the head by a stone thrown by a boy, who ran into the house where the prisoner resides. The young man told the policem'n, who was making some inquiry, when the prisoner put his head out of the window, and swore if he did not hegnne, he would come dOwn and " whop" him. He did come, and laid hold of the officer ; a scuffle followed, and the constable was knocked down. The prisoner then ran into the house, and was followed by two constables ; the prisoner took a p-iker fi-st to attack them, but laid it down, ran to a closet and took out a crowbar, with which he made a dart at the constable, and his coat, trousers, and thigh were cut by the blow. A fight fol lowed, which ended in the prisoner being flung down stairs, and taken to the station. Mr. Snowball anpeared for the prisoner, and said he had been very badly treated by the police. Ile produc , d two witnesses, who stated that it lwas all the fault of the police, and that they wanted`the :constable to summon Quinn, if:he had done any thing wrong, hut' they refused. Mr. Mansfield did not think there was any necessity for the police coing Into thehouse, and therefotT he di. , missed the charge. CHARGE Or R , CEIvING STOLEN PROPERTY.—EIiza Haley, the keeper of a provison shop in Banister-street, and two boys, named John Coyle and John Mack, were charred under the followinircircurnstances. Mr. Aspinall instructed by Mr. Walter, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluek defended the prisoners. It appeared that some time early in the month of February a female, named Elizabeth Edherry, who keeps a sailors' boarding house. had her pocket picked of a purse containing 8/ by th ree boys, one of whom was the son of the female pri soner. On that occasion the two boys were charged, and the son of the woman was. brought up. The latter boy was sent for trial, hut the others were discharged for want of evidence. Since that time the police procured the evidence of a woman, named Gribbon, who gave such testimonY yesterday, as induced his worship to send all the prisoners for trial. Mr. Bluck said he had a good drfence at. the trial, and would show that no jury could eca o u f se the woman th believe the sal(i,avee evidence vicineeb her 2t. fr w s.na a l n ey Gr v i e b f h o o se n d , who said POCKET Pim!Na.—Anne Long was charred with picking the pocket of Margaret Really in Great Char lotte-street, on Saturday night. Mr. Bluck defended the prisoner. A piece of base coin which the complainant had in her rocket (with some gold money) was stolen and found on the prisoner, who was next to the complainant at the time of the robbery. Committed for fourteen days. (BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.) SATURDAY ASSAULTS ON WOMEN —Henry Cortain, said to be em ployed about one of the theatres, was charged for having committed an assault on Mrs. H. Thomas, of Lord Nelson street, in whose house the defendant lodged. The com plaint was that the defendant went home in a state of drunkenness, and that he begun to quarrel with his wife. and from words it went on to blows. Mr. Thomas and some other persons interfered to prevent him from beating hi s w ife, and the allegation was that he struck Mrs. Th o mas a violent blow on the e y e d: which wass blackened, and at the same time infl•cting a wound on h er c h ee k, which n . w as cut. The d e f ence se t up was, t h at fi ve or s i x p set on the defend an t t o ma l treat him, and that in t r ying to escape, by pushing hi s wa y th roug h th em , hi s fist came accidentally in contact with complainant's face. This not being proved in 'evid ence , th e d e f en d an t wa s fined 5/, and ordered to find bail, in two sureties, of 25/ erso each, to keep the peace. The prisoner then said he had some doubts whether the lady with whom he lived was his wife, because she was married ;before. He paid the fine and found the securities.—George Street was fined 10/ or in default of payment to be imprisoned for three monthP, for having violently assaulted a female, named Barclay. who resided in Lower Harrington-street. The prisoner lodged in the complainant's house, and there was a dispute about the removal of some boxes, which led to the assault for which the fins was inflicted. The fine was not paid at the rising of the court, and the prisoner was committed; a CLAIM You SEAM'S b W ei lt on O z E e Sa — t l‘ o ir t . h A e s c pi i n a a n i g l re a g p o T a r n ed d C0., 1 the owners of th e vesse l. M r. For %l for e s s s i r x s t . ee N n i o s o a r i e l sailor who claimed certain amounts due th em as wages b y shaw was for the defendants. In law points, arguments thereon, and speeeies, the case occupied nearly four hours 1 although the facts were brief and simple. The ship Clangregor was coming into port. when overtaken on the night of the sth and morning of the 6th February by the great storm, and was run ashore between Crosby and Bootle, where she remained and became high and dry. She hail since been sold as a wreck. The men claimed the wages in the ordinary way, but the claim was resisted on the ground that they had disobeyed orders, and that in consequence of their having refused to do their duty, the vessel ran aground. It was also alleged that they had signed a paper to the captain in which they agreed to be accountable for the expens-s, &c . of anchors and chains that might be shipped for the safety of the ship. This was not denied by the men, but they alleged that after they had signed a paper to that effect, that certain condi tions were added to it, of which they know nothing, and they only heard of these conditions when the paper was again produced. They said they would not have signed the paper at all, if such conditions'were then attached to it. They denied having refused to do their duty, and that it was not in consequence of their neglect that the vessel was lost. These were the facts on both sides, and several were examined to sustain them pro and eon. At the con clusion Mr. Mansfield reviewed the entire, and decided in favour of the first claimant, decreeing that he should be paid the balance due to him. This decision grounded all -he other cases, and Mr. Forshaw at once advised his clients to adopt it. It is admitted that it is scarcely possible to obtain authentic information of what really passes at the Peace Con ferences. I:eports are circulated, wh'c't profess to indicate the turn affairs ate taking. Thus, the Paris correspondent of the limes asserts, that a difficulty arose respecting the armistice. Count Orloff contended against itsnot including the tr ans p or t of troops by sea ; alleging that tbe English, for example, could convey 50,000 men from the Crimea to the B title, and that consequently all the disadvantages of immobility would fall upon Russia. The interval between the first and second sitting . of the Conferences was, it is said, necessary, not only in preparing and copying th e minutes of the first sitting, but in deciding on the wording of the convention or arm istice. Count Orloff, a nd the Turkish Plenipotentiary dined 3n Thursday with tits pow SUNDAY v. SABBATH MYSTERENTS DEATH Yesterday morninc, shortly atter the sitting magistrate, Mr. Elliott, had taken his seat at the Lambeth Police Court, Dixon, one of the summoning officers, informed him that on Saturday evening last a warrant obtained on the application of Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, by the South Western Railway Company, against Mr. William Dunn, a gentleman residing at Shortwood house, Staines, for defrauding them by means of an exhausted ticket, was placed in his (Dixon's) han is; and on going to the Waterloo terminus on that morning for the pur pose of proceeding to Staines to execute it, he learned from Inspector Bent that information had been received at the 'different police stations on the - day before, that a man answering in every particular the description of Mr. Dunn, was drowned at the Old Royal Baths, in Newgate-street, and recommended him in the first instance to proceed there and see the man. He did so, and on seeing the body he at once recognised the deceased as the person on whom he had served the summons. On making inquiries, Mr. Poole, the keeper of the bath, informed him that about 9 o'clock on Saturday night the deceased came there and Ordered a private Is. bath, and a bath room was prepared for him, which he entered ; and at the time nothing was obsorvedin his ap pearance to excite suspicion. Nothing more was heard of him until eleven o'clock, when the place was about to he locked up ; and at that time the deceased was found lying in a reclining position, with his head and chest out of the water, and life quite extinct. His gold watch, gold spectacles, two rings, and a small sum of money were found on the table, and from docu ments found in his pockets it would appear that the was very much involved. Amongst the documents was found a letter from a respectable legal firm, threatening immediate proceedings against him unless £.t,000 and odd was paid. Dixon added that he had learned that the deceased, who was, he believed, a commission agent, had left eight children to lament his loss, and that _one s .of them was at the B:ue Coat School. • TOWN DUES. To THE ED:TQR of THE NoUTFIERN TIMES Sir,—Publ'c attention has been pre-eminently drawn to This subj.-ct for some weeks past, and has brought to my mind a letter which appeared in yoer columns on the 2&h July last, showing the very unsatisfactory manner in which the du'ies of the principal receiver were performed, for his very liberal salary of £6OO per annum—but which letter, as far as I can ascertain, has never been further noticed, or any of the evils therein complained of redressed. The time ha-, however, now arrived, when such inopportune appoint, ments will be tested by the searching ingairy of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, when ttie corporation Of Liverpool will have to answer 't the reason why." And it is high time, for, trom the notice in the paper for Wed resday next, I observe another 'id)" of the same stamp is abriut to be rierpt crated, viz., the raising of the salary of the auditor in the Town Dues office £3O per year, and who now eej,siiyirely stlso per annum, for doing that which any sober matt, with a &e ar head, and a steady hand, might very easily acc om pli s h i n two h ours a day. allow their eyes to be opened by our jealous Manchester ( :i P es P i ; n n e s . o tp, , a_nd thus lend themselves o strengthen . the of a goverun;l47b" for centralising everything in the.hands even the eller, whe, t to attain their purpose, hesitate . not tempt of entire t• oliation.—l am, sir, .A Virktamieurat To THE GOOD OLD TOWN Liverpool. 3,d ItAaNrit 7: 46 TAADE =sago". INDIA AND CHINA. ♦ By the Marseilles route, we have received our files of papers by the Indian Thai', of the' arrival of which, we published a telegraphic notification a few, days since. INDIA, The Rombay Times, of Fehr's!) , 2nd, says :—Tit a past fortnight leaves no room for our customary complaint of want of warlike intelligence; and though the British empire in the East enjoys undisturbed peace, there are serious disquiettples somvvrhat beyond the limits of its border, and we have at present ships of war on hostile missions, b ttli in the Red ::ea and Pers'an Gulf, On the 14th inst., •he Queeen (steamer) was despatched to Juddah, to afford protection to the French and EN - - fish consuls in the southern ports' of Arabia. and to endeavour to suppress the contest there threatened between the Turks and Arabs. _ _ _ From time immemorial a flour'shing trade in slaves has prevailed betwixt. the chief places on the Arabian and African shores. Massowah, a town of between 3,000 and 4.000 populati , m. is the chief point of export. There used to be about 2,0n0 slaves sold annually at Massowah, of whom one-half were Christians. Some months since the Sultan issued orders to the Turkish authorities at Juddah and Mecca for its suppression; the order was proclaimed a.s imperial, and to be implicitly obeyed. The Ulemahs and inhabitants on this proceeded to the Court of Justice to demand on what authority the aboli ion of slavery had hen ordered. On the &man of the Sultan being quoted, it was d-nounced by them as opposed to the Koran, and the Cadi being attacked, escaped with his life, and with difficulty found refuge in the sanctuary.' The order was read a second tiers, but treated with such scorn that violence immediately ensued, and numbers were wounded on both sides. The troops having fired at the Muezzin, and shot the priest as he went up to prayer. a battle f Towed betwixt them and the towns people, in which about a hundred of the latter fel, when a general rising all around immediately ensued. The troops were compelled to retreat. and were beleaguered in the fort. A similar amou. tof excitement, and from the same cause. had arisen at Juddah, and both plac .s are now in a state of siege. Mean While the people told the authori ties that as the Sultan must doubtless; on the present occasioned have been moved by his allies, the French and English. the d igs or these nations must be pulled down and their representatives expelled. The Pacha ofJuddah,. taking the consul under his protection, proposed referring the question to the Porte, when the multitude declared that unless their wishes were complied with instantly, they would take the matter into their own hands. Intelligence of Mr. Murray's dispute with the govern ment of Persia reached Bombay on the 16th January, by the Semiramis, which brought a despatch from the ambassador, with a request for the immediate despatch of a steamer for Bushir. Four steamers and a sloop-of war were ordered to be got in instant readiness for sea. Extensive supplies were said to have been ordered for the commissariat, and a land force was spoken of as under orders. Much of this turned out to be exaggera tion; two only of the steamers, with sixty artillerymen to work the guns, being the only for ce despatched, or in contemplation. It is difficult, indeed, to discover even what services they can. perform. Such vessels cannot get within four miles of Bushir for want of water. A considerable force is collecting around Oodeypore; the Rana, it is asserted, being, alike with his chiefs, dis satisfied with the extent to which our interposition has proceeded. Troops continue to accumulate at Cawnpore, and arrangements advance steadily and tranquilly for the annexation of Oude. Although the Sontal disturhane es no longer wear the character of au insurrection, the country continnes far from quiet. Sir William Gomm has taken a final leave of the Bengal army, at the conclusion of a five years' admini stration. Such has of late becoma the state of our financial ar rangements, that five per cent paper has gone down to 99, and four per cent to 83, from the conviction amongst the monied classes that we shall some morning discover, as we did last year, when least expecting it, that there is not as much cash in the treasury as will meet the charges of the month, so that a six per cent loan must on the instant be improvised. Our prospictive Governor-general, Lord Canning, is at present sojourning amongst us, having arrived from Suez by the Feroze on the 281 : t u`t. lie was received in great stare at a landing place prepared on purpose in the dock yard, but too late in the evening to see about him. A grand levee occurred on the 30th, followed by a native Durban On the 31st his lordshio visited the caves of Kennery, in Salsette, examined the Vehar hills, and closed the day by perfnrmtngin state the cerem ,, ny of turning the first sod of our proj , :cted waterworks. He leaves on the sth, taking Madras in his wey to Calcutta, and will assume office about the Ist March. The Ma.quis f Dalhousie continues at Calcutta, winding up the arrangements at the close of his administration. We intim .ted four months since the commencement of spinning operations at Mr. Landon's cotton factory at Broach. The yarns have now come to the market, and are spoken of in terms of the highest comtwndatinn. Though made, we believe, exclusively of short staple Broach cotton, they fetch in the market nearly ten per cent more than Manchester yarn of the same designation, and oth,lre have in consequence already been received sufficient to keep the factory in constant work for the four months. CHINA. F om Hong Kong we have advices to the date of the 15th Januiry At Macao two.very nd destr•iyeri the greater pin of the Chinese )wn, irelading the biziar. Pr Terty to the extent of upwards of 1,000,000 dollar 3, besides 1,000 houses, were destroyed. rgi fires broke out In the 4th and sth inst., Admiral Sterling. has orrn'sed a system of convoy betwfen the five ports, which promises to be of inca'culahle benefit to n dive and foreign trade, and highly efficient in suppressing. piracy 'fh3 Chinese rebellion appears to be making head against the government. In liwangsi the rebels have been success ful and have entirely possessed themselves of three prefec tures, which act threatens to interrupt the transit from the tea and silk producing country. We have also a report that the plague, called the " black-tongue plague" from its peculiar symptoms, has broken out at Cain-Biang-foo, and carried off 180,000 persons. At Canton all remains quiet, but the progress of the rebels is a source of uneasiness. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Bosnia . ; February 4.—Money market much tighter, and banks, although they have raised their rate of inte rest to 12 per cent, will only discount first-class paper at short dates. Securities of all descriptions almost unsale able, in consequence of the t:esire of holders to realise. Little or no demand for English goods, except at almost ruinous prices. The sales have been principally for the interior. Coloured goods and printed remain unchanged both in value and demand. Yarns are not sought after. The Cotton market is now nearly cleared of last year's stock, and new supplies are heginning to be looked for. Of the new staple sales have been effected of Oomra wuttee and Candeish at 93 rupees t ) 94, and 89 rupees to 9U. Exchange on England for the mail is as fol lows :-2s 2 . 7 4 d to 2 s 2 i g,d for China and first-class credits ; 2s 2,?-,d to 2s 211 for documents. Freights had advanced, L 4 68 per ton having been refused for seed to London. For cotton engagements have been made at £3 15s. To Liverpool the rates range from £3 17s 7d to 44. CALCUTTA, January 23. The English accounts show a decline in most articles of our produce.. Our market hiss been similarly affected ; but .the. :Stocks generally being low, the bazaar men do not readily give way in price, and consequently a sack business is the result. From this, however, we must except indigo, which, doing well at home, has commanded full prices and ready sales ; and rice which, although lower in price, is in active shipment. With the continued shipments of piece goods from Great Britain no improvement can be looked for; but stocks in first or second hands, neither here nor up country, are not excessive, thereby proving that the consumption could not but be very considerably on the increase, the natives getting high prices for their produce, having larger means for investment in clothing Twist is rather more active, but with no improvement in value. Stocks, however, are but moderate. Metals generally are down in price and dull of sale. The im pression is general, that money matters have seen their worst. Rates ►►f exchange closed rather stiff at. 2s 2.1 to for first-class bills, up to.2s lid for documents for six months' sight. HUNG-SONG, Jan. 1 5.—Transactions are usually res tricted at this season ; we have, :however, to notice a fair demand for imports during the past month, and after the new year we look for increased activity. Cotton shows a slight decline, In cotton yarns the lower numbers have been chistly inquired for, at a small advance on previous rates. The heavier kinds of grey longcloths have been taken for Shanghai. From Amoy our advices are to the 3d instant. The demand for the abovenamed articles of imp rt had slightly improved, but prices had a downward tendency. Woollens have further improved. In the metal trade, iron has advanced. There has been no further arrival of cargoes of tea at Canton. Transactions have been on a limited scale, and prices terrain much as before. l'xebanges on England or six moeths prompt bills, 44 110 to 5s Old per dollar. Fe. ights to England, £4 10s to £5 ss. Shanghai advices are to the 7th inc.. Money continued very scarce, and imports hal been in moderate demand. fn exports less than usual had been done. Exchange on England—for one month, prompt bills, 6a. Oil. to 6s 911. ner dollar. Freights to England, £4 for tea, and LS for silk. ABERDEEN UNIVER•ITT.—On Saturday, Mr. Layard, M.P.,was unanimously re-elected Lord Rector of Maxeschal College and University, Aberdeen, for the current year. The Duke of Newcastle had declined the nomination, and the Lord Advocate refused to be put in opposition to the hon. member for Aylesbury. TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN TIMES; Sir,—The,Rev. Version W. White is ,at last disposed of. Pierced with more arrows than St. Sebastian himself— (I must apologise for compariNg Mr. White to a Papist Saint l)—convieted of presumptuous ignorance, or wilful misrertresentations. he has retired from the field in favour of the Rev. Joseph Bantsley. When this gentleman is de. feated, we mar, perhaps f be opposed by Dr. M•Neile himself, who has preserved a most prudent silence since his speech at St. George's Hall. He knows well that his voice is more powerful than his pen. He knows too that "lie oho gghts and runs sway. May live to fight another day ;" and that discretion is the be.ter part of valotr more formi- Meanwhile, Mr. Bardsley is a fat dable opponent than Mr. White. He can arzue, and not merely abuse. He has some faint conception of 10 2 in. Hq has evidently read somewhat on the points which he discusses. I will leave " A Churchman" to deal with the special question of what the Church of England 'teaches, and whether the bitter observance of Sunda) , is inde' her I - I among . articles of faith. •+ilt take higher ground, if may 1 and show what the earliest Christians taught .bout the Sabbath, a how they would refire to rank they I mast first, however: have one word with Mr. Birdsley respecting our pamphlet. He quotes the preface, which asserts that the Sabbatarian party have perverted fact and scripture. He quotes the passage,—le does not prove it false. Perhaps he thinks it impossible that the public can B inizzley that, since this controversy commenced, the public are beginning to believe in much which their blind respect from suip-ectin4 Meanwhile I will only remind Mr. Bardsley versions of Scripture, whie4 he may explain if he ca two pa- I. Wra it not assert a St. GeorzE Llall that when our Saviour said, " lam t ord of the Sab bath," he thereby authori ed the .I,3wi,h Sabbath as a per manent institution of Christianity ? And could the speaker have been ignorant that when our Saviour uttered these words, he was himself vindicating a breach in the cbset v ance of that Sabbath, which ha is now represented as en joinin' on his disciples ? 2. Was not a circular published and distributed by the evangelical clergy, which contained the 'following words, " that Saviour who died to purchase the Sabbath and its blessings for you," &c. ? And if it was, was not such a circu- e and hi . But I must now ac:.omplish the task I have proposed to myself. I dare not venture to draw down the charge of Socinianism, which I should of course incur, were I, with Sir Charles liven, Professor Sedgwiclt, and Baden Powell, to deny that the world was created in six days, and that i:s ;faker rested upon the seventh. I will not attempt to prove that the Patriarchs had no Sabbath, for it rests with our opponents to prove that they had. I will not show, what has been shown again and again, that the Jewish Sabbath, no less than all other Jewish ordinances, was abolished by the Founder of Christianity. :IslJr will I again quote St. Paul's unanswerable statement (Col. ii. l 6 ), nor dwell upon the fact that if the Oriental day be reckoned (as we know it was) from 6 p.m., to 6. a.m., St. Paul must have himself set out upon his travels on a Sunday. (Acts xx. 7.) But, passing all this by, I am prepared to prove, from the earliest and noblest Christian writers, that, in their day, the Jewish Sabbath was not kept, and that the first day of the week was observed as a joyous festival, commemorative of the Lord's resurrection. Justin Martyr, in his dialogue with Trvpho, observes (p. 261, ed. Par )—" Ac, therefore. circumcision began from Abraham, and the Sabbath, sacrifices, and oblations from Moses, and these, it has been shown, were ordained on account of your nation's hardness of heart,—sn, according to the counsel of the Father, they were to end in Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Ignatius (ad. Meg., c. ix) says—" No longer observing Sabbaths, but keeping the Lord's day, in which also our life is sprung up in him" _ He also v says in the same treatise — 4 ' Therefore let us not keep Sabbarhs in the Jewish manner, as if we delighted in idleness, for according to the sacred oracle, whosoever 41,,th not work should not ear, and, in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. But let each of us sab bat;ze in a spiritual manner." Tertul!ian (De Idolatria, car. xiv.) remarls " With the heathen there is a festival day (,lies festue) once a sear, but to thee every eighth day is a festival." Clement of Alexandria, ('trom. Lib 7.)—" We ore com manded to worship God through Jesus Christ, not on chosen day? as some others do, but continually through our whole life" I will not quote further from the Fathers, though I might easily do so. it is ceretin that the first authoritative injunction to keep the Lord's Day of rest was the proclamation of the Emperor Constmtine; and mark, how ju..t and sensible is the edict of the civil head of the Christian Church in those days :- 1‘ Let all judges and townspeople, and the occupations of all trades, rest on the venerable day of the sun. But let those who are situated in the country have a full power (libere licenterque) to attend to agriculture, because it °itch happens that no other day is so fit fur sowing corn, or planting vines, and, should the critical moment be allowed to pass, mfbn would lose the blessings granted them by the heavenly Providence." Imnaiiemly aw.iting Mr Bardsley's answer and eon futation,—i am, sir. yours obediently, B. March 1, 1856. EARLY CLOSING din limit retail to a o ~ TO THE EDITOR OF THR NoRTIIERN TIMF Fir,— As the ti vie is rapidly .ir aw i ng near , w hi c h w e' s ' • 3 reat extent, the leisure hours t f persons eng e . b us i n ess of various branches, I think it a duty which eeyeleeson all pereet s who wish for :he welfare of their f llow-m-n, to exert th twelves in pubic and private, to cut , ff these lone hours of business, which are. about to rush upon us, to incr ase one toil, , to de' reaite our strength of body tell of mind, and press heavily tiro i us, so as to make us absolutely slaves, not *sta search of ' knowledge to enrich cur minds, not In pursuit of virtue to moisten our heeds. and prepare for that In g journey, which all and every one of ur must ultimately undertake ; and, for all we know, the hour may not be far d:stant when our starting p tints will be death. tine our journey will be Eternity. Theo, when the employer, as well as the employed, know such is the law of nature, and that the ete ges of sin is d-ath, and that the sentence passed on the seed of Adam is irrevocable, then I say, when we all feel convinced that tha• tribute must be p did to,the eternal justice of 0 ,r 1 for the transvression 4 of our race, why are we so aeltish? Why do we prefer adding to our richer, and tali the mlse,tble coffers dedicated to n ammon at the expense of those we employ in the shop an 1 in the counitng.houee, to keep them there an hour or two 10-g-r, as the days are ma e longer by the omnipotent power it a mighty God, who never intended that those cre.titres, stamoed with his own image. should be foreetfel of everything else, but at all tim-s wide awake to accumul. te money, from which sp rin g all the evils that surround us to the nine teenth century : frAn that mine of mammon gushes forth all the murders, t ur beueicrit: of al p 48. f7rgeeri g, and robbs rcs which disgu s t an d O i se hthe h aCeful and w w e a l 0 1 - t d . :s o p f fy s) h u d m pt '. anit y and virtue only. It throws a cloud over the ey es of worldly-minded-miworldly-mindedmen, so at to make teem a b so lutely blind to the c alls,a nd In a lamer and important, town like Liverp oo l , thi ngs ought to assume a far different a s p ect ; as it rises LI wealth and importance—its advance virtue, and po int the w a y to other t owns ought also to rise and practis e fib ers itv, which are ago buried in ignorance and slavery , e w o ild suggest tile importance of all persons in trade, no matter what that trade is, to form an assoc i at i on, and ca l l a public in eting (which may be held at the Concert Hall Lord N I ,e s in-street), at the same time, send a deputation to . wet i n the Mayor, that he may preside at the meeting, also , the clergymen of various denomina tions, and other gentlemen of standing and influence in the town. If this course •is adopted, I am convinced success is certain, and that the hours of beslnees will be s ) a-ranged as to meet the views of the most sanguine trader; and that the employed will It ,ye more time te c .Itivate his mind. and exercise his body in t e open atmos rhere, which is necessary for the preservadon of health and lorg life, as fee dis for the body. When this course Is adopted, it is then, and only then, the employer wi'l b , empty r warded for hi gene. rod y, for wish the gilt of enlightenment and liberty, will fallow in a train, sobriete. hone•ty• sincerity, grarttu le, and good con duct. Now. I say. If such an example wilt be shown .0 other towns, veal it not elev to Liverpool in the estimation of th country ? and its p-op e will lie looked on with respect and confidence, if they abolish the In- g hours of business, and instead of a hering to th present system of t septet; shops Osten until tight, nine, ten, arid eleven o'clock at night, tempt another and a better i ourse, whicri well be more conducive of good to all parties—that is, to terminate busine a at I alt4ast sir o'cloek p.m., all through the yea - . It this course is adopted. it will be a standing monument to the Lonouf and res ecteielity of our town. I fervently hope some men of '-pint will rep fo•werd and raise their voice in the ca ise of humanity, and support the cause of those who are cumpeled to .d t, t such ay, cutitins for tee maintenance of themse , see and families. We hate a great maey :thread and c ever men abi.ut us —men who make brl Haut appeals to the pub is at e , ec ton times, who appear to vrapo , e with things in the distance (such as high positions, honours, Ike.), to wolch are always attached disappol. tments, vexa tions. and sorrow. But far different would it be with these gentle men if they spent a purion of that time they a minder so extrava gantly, In prnmoting the we.fare a d happiness of those whom they employ, and liberate them from eoofinernent —that species of slavery under which thee groan. Ther e are a great many stave drivers in the wo Id— there is the public, as well at the private, slave driver; but, in my esttmetion. the man who owns publicly his adhesion to such pr.ceip!es is far more honourable, than the man who waleis about with liberty written on in. forehead t o di s gui se h im i n that p eh which is etc. era ed by all men and in all generations. From sunrise in the morning unul long after its dep inure to the antipodes, no matter what the heat of the summ is day may be, no matter whit crest labours the victims of close confinement may go through, still the long hour must pass away before they are allowed to the f-esh air of heaven, given them without price. go and inhere The heavy and fetid a mosphere of the large, as well as of the small shop, weakens its victims, and also the dust makes rapid wa to their f .st-dec tying longs. All. all visit them without y sympathy, as it were, driving them front life to death, to beco me n grav e. when their toil will cease andimates of a cold and lonely blended with the Gust of a ges , to where th it bodies will be sleep in pet. e wit' the trumpet sounds to wake the slumbers of the dead, when the te rants of many a lonely tomb evil, ,' c ii And it may h Dpen th a t mai g y Ilse to obey the call to judgment. iy, and very many, of those gentlemen, eho are at present obs acles io the instruction of their young men (by keeping them too la said young met f or their te at bu.iness), will be ct arged by these illiberality in the cause of knowledge. The lathes also ought to use their influence with all friends to refrain from shoppine at late hours which gives ill. avaricious trade a license for t ats trading.—Yours, etc.. Liverpool, Feb. 27. VitRITAS, TRH APPROACIIING A CCOUCLIFM RIFT. The rooms of Mdlle. Felicie, one of the principal linen warehouses in Paris, have been thronged during the last few days by ladies desirous of inspecting the garments prepared for the first Imperial ihant. Although the ladies of the Court seem to take it for granted that a boy will be born, two sets of clothes are prepared ready for either event. Blue ribbons are used for ths boy's, red for t ho girl' s. ~r--_ TRADE REPORT LIVERPOOL COTTON : There has been a to-day, and the demand has and prices are well maintained. The s I to 7d Pernambuco. -MONDAY. ry urn market for Cotton been extensive, the supply fair, es—including 400 20 Bahia, at 611 444 to 411— 1,600 are on epecu- Egyptian, at 6d to 93, and 1,200 Surit are reported 12,000 bales, of which lation and for export. Pio IRON :.Our market for Warrants closes at 68 6d cash ; three months open, 69.. SUGAR : There has been a strong market since Fridsy, at a further advance of 6d per cwt, the business comprising 125 hhds Demerara, from 35s 91 to 37s 61, including grainy at 41s 6d to 42 Mauritius 3d, 2,000 bags Madras, at 335, 3,800 mats, it 353 fur very low brown, up to 40s for fine, d 6,700 bags Brazil, cbiefly at 21s 6d to 22s per cwt About 120 puneheoni, ebitfly Demerara, have found buyers at previous prices. COFFEE : 350 ha Iported at 613 6d to ,nd 90 bags Rio, 350 bags Bahi had a better demand, the sa!ei including gs Bengal, at uls for mid 70 bags Arraca 200 bags fine have ng, and, owing to preliminar and 93 to 95 61 for and 70 tierces Caro- might 341 to 34s 61 he effect of rai attained 0-clay was ;a to tid ; arket— Beasts, 2,254; glish samples of wheat was good to having .gs Maracaib t 44s to 46s TEA is steady, but not much business doing Ric We have 2,400 bl ellow care SALTPETRE red licit An iucr mutton, 6.1 to 7d sheep, 6,446 M..!ef fetch, The show of I LONDON this morn from 1" been signed in Paris, the trade was dull in the extreme, at a decline of os to 63 per quarter u last Monday's cur- reign wheat neglected, and about 41 cheaper to 11. Fine qualities of b were quarter. zood suppl ey were is s fuly suppo Beans and peas we ction of is per StuAtt : Tie following sales are adver ised for to-m4rrow 400 hogsheads of West India; 17,800 bags of Mauritius, 2,200 bags of Bengal, and 1,290 bags of Madras ; tea, about 7,000 packages; rice, 2 700 bags of Bengal, and 500 bags of saltpetre. Ahhongh we have not any business of icn-i portanca to report in the private contract market since Friday, yet most articles have a steady appearance, and su B ar continitt a to have great confidence. Ott.s: Seal, pale, £56 to £56 lOs ; yellow. 450 ; brown , £47 t ) £4B ; sperm, 4125 to 4126; cod, £47 ; South Sea, pile, 448 to £49; olive, Gallipoli, £52 lOs to 453; Spanish and Sicily, £5O to £5l; cocoa nut, 36s to 383; palm, 36s to 40s; linseed, 34s ; rape, pale, 61a to 52s ; brown, 48s to 48s 6d. TALLOW : The market is quiet, with scarcely any basineFs doing, either for consumption or speculation. Prices are quoted as follows :—Petersb irg Y. C., on the spot, 694 i March, 69, 3.1; March to April, 54s 61; April to June, 52s 61; October to D,cemher, 57s 9d. METROPOLITAN CATTLE : The number of beasts is con siderably larger, consequently trade is dull and prices are The weather being favourable they 11 , 43 mostly ,f. ~There are a few more , sheep, and prices are t quite so good as on Monday last, but rdther better than on Friday. Good lambs are rather dearer. Calves are in demend at fully Friday's quotations. From Germany and Holland there are 323 beasts aid 37 calves ; Spain, 140 beasts ; Scotland, 400 ; Norfolk and Suffolk, 2,50); and 40 from Ireland HOP isjiosed Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that the demand for fine hops continues steady at late prices; low and inferior are not s) much souzlit after. COALS : Walls End Harton, 144 61 ; Walls End Haswell, 17s 6tl ; Walls End, Hutton, 17s 6d.-83 fresh ships at market. YESTERDAY'S MARKETS. BELFAST COM : Small supply of wheat and oats. The former, 14s 6d to 154; the latter, 7s 61 to 8s 3d per cwt. Oatmeal 13s 61 to 14s pet cwt. The monetary crisis at Constantinople hai passed, and trade is recovering from the shock the first news of peace had occasioned. The Atti-Fheriff, relating to the privileges of the Christian subjects of the Porte, is issued. It will be dis persed in the several languages of the Ottoman empire. THE CRIMEAN CommrssioN.—lt is understood that the Crimean Commission Board of General Officers, will meet for business at the office of the late Clothing Board, White hall-yard.— United Service Gazette. It is said that Lord Pantuure will shortly retire from the War Pepartment, and that the laborious duties of that office will be undertaken by the Duke of Somerset. It is also rumoured that Mr. Alonsell and Mr. Frederick Peel, neither f whom have shown with great brilliancy in par liament this session, will also be moved to other offices. Court Journal. • FEB. 16.—The yellow crocus is appearing in all ( 9 directions. T wo reg i ments o f t h e :3 r d division— viz., 13th and 4 1 13 11 a—labkal:‘e u_af a t eic already marched heights, relieve e ente sev down the e from the front t . , siege train. Yesterday companies of the siege train artillery embarked_ teen companies remain behind, one of which is at Kertch—Crimean Letter FIVE MONTHS roe. SEDUCTION —On Saturday, in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Richard Sennett, who is in the employ of his brother, a fur manufacturer, in Southwark, was opposed by William Weaver, on the ground that he had not paid the damages and costs which had been awarded upon an action brought af., , ,inst him for seducing a girl named Elizabeth Pymer. The damages and costs exceeded £lOO. Since the trial £2O had been offered, rnd 4i. a week for two years, which offer was refused. Mr. Commissioner Phillips said his decision must be regulated by the amount of damages, and the judgment he should give would be for five months from the vesting order on January 31st. The Paris correspondent of the Times quotes a letter from Stockholm, which states that the Russians were sending troops in considerable quantities to Finland ; concentrating a large force round St. Pet( rsburg ; strengthening the harriers near Crrnstadt, so as completely to close up the entrance. The question is asked — ho w is it that the Czar, if so desirous olpeace. continues to snea d million s in these warlike preparations ? The Russians are prohibiting the exportation of fresh and salt meat from Finland to Sweden. They are very severe in stopping the export of corn and grain. The Swedish population on the opposite shore have, from time immemorial. been its the habit of drawing their supplies of food from Finland. LTMITED LIABILITY Aci• . A return bas been t.:nireps,omautnc presented rloiray4emeres3ye.: to Parliament by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, giving various particulars respectinc , the companies formed under the Limited Liability Act oelast Session, and also as to the applications not completed under the act. From this paper , we find that four companies, previously in existence, have obtained certificates of corcpb to registration with limited liability, the most important of which is Price's Patent Candle Company. Two other companies, whose formation was In.gun, but not completed, before the passing of the act, also obtained certificates . Six new companies have been formed, and completely registered. These are the London. Manchester, and Foreign N ya V ,c a h r i e n - e house Company , tt‘e Kilrush Gas Company, the greneral the obtainedgS p llral a They T:sne:)ie Apothecaries ' s a soe , 1 1 a tcl companies 8 . t nia o: Edr , complete t i o ne n ig"Ss e c ' 7 1 1 o l which aau companies England ri p e msmCir , scut no!.ll: e a:nl vn r : f e s ty l . 1 r anatfiy p ti r ii hoteli. Company , in t e c i gTCdno The m ebaf p rt:n n :e a rnd e rd w i Gas e ba s b s rtr , majorityuelle,discounting newspapers, s rhf°yueaomrwstc.t t Pel: h )tleA e l Gardens Compuy, a freehold land company, Promotd by Mr. R. Cobden, &c. The rest are for various trades and manufactures. The Morning Advertiser not only gives publicity to a variety of unauthenticated tumours respecting the Paris Conferences but adopts them, and in a leading article quotes the following, which must be taken with much reserve ; they are chiefly of interest, ES specimens of the rumours which on Friday seriously affect( d the funds :—A very grave hitch in the conferences has already occurred. Though the fifth point is the last of all, it had been agreed to take it first. It was, accordingly, on the second meeting of the conference, submitted for the c onsideration of the plenipo • tentiaris s. No sooner had it been formally laid on the table tha❑ Count Orloff and Baron Brunow took obit ctions to it being taken into consideration with a view to its being decided by the conference. They proposed that it should be referred to a congress of the representatives of all the crowned heads in Europe; if so referred they pledged them selves in the name of the Czar to abide by whatever Cecision that congress might come to. This new and unexpected phase in the Erstern question produced great consterna tion in Paris, and caused a further fall on the French funds. It also no less surarised and alarmed our own Govern ment. We were informed on Friday, that Lord Cowley was expected to arrive in London on SAutday, to take the in structions of his government on the subject. It is deemed not improbable, that this new move of the artful diplomatists of Russia may be the immediate breaking up of the Con ferences.