The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-28 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA IMPORTANT NEWS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND CALIFORNIA. had been heard to declare that he would take Kansas or die. The same letter states that the Kickapoo Indians (Rangers') have had a serious difficulty among themselves, caused by the free use of liquor. Several were killed. Professor Shannon having declined a re-election to the Presidency to the University of Missouri, the Board of Curators have ele c t e d W. W . Hudson to the Professorship. .one Cunard steamer Canada, Captain Lang, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday afternoon, from Boston and Halifax, after a more than usually rapid passage, bringing 139 passengers, and 7 88,635 dollars in specie. By her we have our files of papers from New York to the 15th, Boston to the 16th, and Halifax to the 17th inst, all inclusive. The steamer Africa, from Liverpool, and the steamer Lebanon, from Havre, had both arrived out at New York. The commercial accounts continue satisfactory. The New York Stock Market had, during the, week, showed much activity, and a rise in prices, sup ported by a tone of more confidence, had been the result of what was believed to be the probability of the settlement of the difficulties with Great Britain. The shares of the Erie, railway had advanced with much buoyancy, and the securities of ' this important company had also been firmly held. The bonds and shares of the Illinois Central Railroad Company had also improved in price. The Money market had beea abundantly supplied for the last few weeks. During the last week there had been more enquiry, and a disposition was evinced on the "part of lenders to advance rates. They remained, however, without much alteration. Loans on call were easier at 6. First class paper, _ short dates, were discounted at 7, longer dates at 73. Advices from Sydney, Cape Breton, convey the The following table shows the changes in the con - gratifying an nouncement t h at the submarine elec dition of the New Y or k B an k s : tric telegraph cable for the New York, Newfound- Loam. Sneci e . Ci rcu l at i on. Depo it .. land, and London T e l egrap h C o ., was successfully July 5, 1516 109.267,582 16,829.236 8 637.471 100.140 420 laid on the 10th inst., from the steamship Propon- July 12, 1856 109,748,042 14,793.400 8 ,405,756 55,663 460 tis, Capt. Goodwin, uhder the direction of Mr. Foreign Exchange had remained for some time Samuel Canning, across the Gulf of St. Lawrence at Mt to 110 for bankers' bill s on L ondon. On the , between Cape Ray Cove, N.F., an d A s hb y B ay, 14th there was an ad vance, an d rates were 110 to 1103 A steamer from California had just arrived CB , a distance of 85 miles, in • fifteen hours. M with 1,701,30] d o l s i n spec i e. The steamer to the are now being freely an d i ns t an t aneous l y Isthmus brought 411,453 dols destined for England. transmitted from shore to shore. We understand Business at S a n' F ranc i sco was extremly dull, that Cyrus W. Fi e ld, E sq , one o f t h e prom i nent The steamer Geo. Law had arrived at New York members of the New York, Newfoundland, and with dates from San F ranc i sco to the 21st of June, London Telegraph Co. w as a b ou t t o l eave N ew Y or k and brought 1,701,000 dollarp in gold dust. The for Europe to complete arrangements for the imme diate commencement of the t ransa tl an ti c li ne. Alta California gives th e f o ll ow i ng as a summary of the news for the previous fortnight : We understand that the Comp an y h ave a b out 7 00 Since the depart ure o f t h e f i rst June steamer, there hasi men at workn Newfoundland and or . C a p e B re t on been no decrease of excitement in the public feeling of The Newfoundland line from St. John's to the California. Circumstances of the same nature that point where it intersects with the lines of the surrounded us then surround us now, and there will b e no American Telegraph Comp any i n N ova S cot i a, will prospect o f their disappearance. until organi se d cr i m i na li ty be about 60) miles i n l engt h , an d i t i s conf i dently is destroyed. and the - bettertclasses assume control throueh expected that the whole will be completed, and in R Purified, ballot box. An; immoveable determination to successful operation by the first of September, and finish the reform now auspiciously developine, has seized from arrangements already completed, it is also Spun all who have respect for public quiet and uprightness, expected by, the New York, Newfoundland and and who have, that right. kind. of public spirit which ever London Telegraph Company, that the cable to prompte the possessor to be anxioas for the prosperity of his connect Newfoundland and Ireland will be laid own community, his State, and the nation. Throughout down during the en su i ng year. the St a t e the people have endorsed tbe :various' actions of , In reference to the stat e o f th e re l at i ons between the San Pranoiseo vigilance co mm itt e e, an d i n most parts there has been, and .is now, more excitement then in this England and America, a Washi ng t on correspon city since the s h oot i ng of Mr. King and the execution of his dent writing on the 14th inst says : " The last con Murderers. Reports from the mining regions are remarks- respondence of the Foreign Office with Mr. Lumley, bly favourabl e , and the prospe c t of immense yields are - British Secretary here, did not authorise him to constantly looking fairer. No extraordinary discoveries re-open the Legation ; but such instructions are have been made, but wherever the gold is being taken from expected as soon as Palmerston recovers from hie the known diggings, the fact is made more evident that it is inexhaustibl e a l most ever coerced concession. Crampton's letters are very y - where in Agricultural p ursu i ts are in a prosperous condition,solicitous as to the state of feeling and opinion The crop of whe a t an d ot h er grain promise well, and toward him here, apparently forgetting that at all other products are as abundant as the farmer could desire, 11°m he e. Farm l a b our i s in demand, and the full T markets are over or " advises from Central America are important. all the luxuries native to this productive soil. In Sacra- They advise the election of General Walker to bleat°, Stockton and oth er p rom i nent c i ties, large meetings the Presidency of Nicaragua, and of the defection have been held to endorse the proceedings of, andsvmpathise and open revolt of ex-President Rivas and the with, the people's reform organisation of San Francisco ; Minister of War. Twel ve d ays pr i or to W a lk er ' s and in th e m i nes an d mountain villages thb same enthusiasm election, which took place on the 24th ult., Rivas prevails. On the 4th of Jane, Gov. Johnson issued a procla- and the Minister of War quitted Leon and repaired lunation declaring the city of an Francisco in a state of in- to Chinendaga, were they assembled six hundred themrrection, and calling upon all persons subject to military Niearaeuane with 120 of whom they took posses- In the third, fourth, and fifth military districts to hold selves in, readiness to do warlike service, under orders ion of Leon, having previously called in the out of the commander-in-chief and his generals of lesser rank• s posts and ordered the American troops to evacuate :I'his, and the accompanying documents, was received that city. The majority of the Rivas Cabinet is by the whole State with-indignation. To those who had said to adhere to Walker, who has declared Rivas csrrectly estimated the objects, past and future, of the and his followers traitors. committee, gubernatorial interference seemed uncalled From a letter, from a most reliable correspondent, for, especially inasmuch as Governor Johnson withheld his dated Bogota, June 6th, 1856, we take the follow ; proclamation until long after there appeared any necessity ink important information : ter its issuance. Some proceeded to enroll themselves as Yesterday both Camaros closed their extraordinary directed, but nearly all such were friends and associates of sessions ; but they were immediately convoked again by the the wretches punished by the committee. Many of the Executive Power, for the following objects : —Th e estab organised military compani es di s b an d e d, surrendered their lishment of an Armed Force, Fiscal Arbitrators, Law . of arms, and p os iti ve l y refused to engage in any attack on the Commerce, Importation, Exportation, Transit an i dDepostt , People. M eanw hi le, the committee opened their books for and the Law of Election. I think thissession . wtl last over recruits, and thousands h urr i e d to join the organisation. fifte en d a y s . If th e l aw o f A r m e d Force is sanctioned, Large quantities o f arms kept coming, until six tho usan d whi c h i s f or 500 men , a hundr e d will undoubtedly be sent Muskets, thirty pieces of cannon, many small arms, an _ 1 to Panama, in order to prevent occurrences such as that abundant ammunition and infantry accoutrements were of the 15th of April. It. is said that up to the present time gathered to the rooms of the committee. A regular the reclamations amount to half a million of dollars. The system of military discipline was established, strong Executive Power, on account of the acts of the 15th of guards were mounted, and the whole force divided into April, has solicited from the Congress the power to suspend ten regiments—all composed of the best men in the city, and bring to judgment before the Supreme Court, tbe. A. strong breast-work of sand . bags was built in the Governor of the State of Panama and some others. It Sight time, in front of the committee rooms; a large is said that a Commissioner will be sent from Bogota to bell was suspended on the roof of their building, to give Panama to examine minutely into the affai r , g in stant alarm on the approach of danger, and several pieces By an arrival from Punta Arenas we have dates 13 f cannon were planted on the adjacent roofs, so as to comma n d eaob street leadi ng to t h e fortification. While from Costa Rica to th e 12th June. The cholera was fast disappearing from the country. A. these formidable Preparations were going forward, the very strong revolution had broken nut against the govern of officers and the public journals in favour rnent, and- there appeared a probability that President of annihilating the committee laboured excessively to Morro would be taken out and shot by the insurgents, The obtain warriors, and succeeded in securing a ragged revolution has been brought about by a party of the Costa few hundred' additional to the fierce desperadoes Ricans who were opposed to the invasion of Nicaragua by ~W,hci " flocked around the , constitution and the Execn- the Morro army. A British vessel-of-war was in port. By T , e" • immediately. on the appearance of his proclamation, the same arrival we learn that the 2,000 troops which left 'While at Benicia, a. committee ...of gentlemen from S an Francisco, but not members of. the Vigilance Committee Guatemala to invade W a lk er , h as b ren prevented from , crossing the territory of Sal va d or , th e l atter State being :withdraw hi s proc l amation, This Waited on the .govereor :to endeavour .to induce him to opposed to the invasi on . Th e i mpress i on of our i nformant ee would not d o , and is that Walker purposes making an early attack on Costa In his reception of the committee forgot that gentlemanly Rio, and that he will succeed, having a very strong deportment is as creditable to the public officer as the private force at present. His head quarters now is Virgin Bay. citizen. He returned to Sacramento, much incensed at Gen. 'Wool, and convinced of the mysterious fact that a "mob" had possession of six thousand: stand of arms and thirty pieces of can non , which they had obtained without blood shed, disturbance, or objection on the part of the owners. On the 6th inst. it was deemed best, by the vigilance commit tee, to dispose of their stock of captured infamy, consisting of six notoriqua individuals. Banishment was the sentence, and the c u lp r i ts were marched to the dock and shipped to other a _ lands. S everal additional arrests have been made, n d before the work of the committee is completed, the exports of knavery will have far surpassed the imports. At ?1?on on the 15th, an immense mass meeting was held of the friends of th e v i g il ance committee. Able addresses were ldelivered, and resoluti ons a d opted I The vigilance commit ee have published their constitution. The government forces have, as yet, made no hostile movement, though they have gpne into camp near this city: Business is dull, and the city was never so quiet .and orderly. The accounts from Kansas are still unsatisfac tor --3'. Adviees from Topeka to the 4th inst., state that a Convention met there on the 2nd, and passed r esolutions in favour of the Republican party and d enunciatory of the Democrats, appealing to the friends of free Kansas in Congress, to stop the supplies until Kansas is ad mittdunder the Topeka Constitution. Marshal Donaldson and Judge Blrnore read to the Convention the President's Febr uary proclamation, G ov . Sh annon ' s proclama tion, and one from Mr. Woodson, Secretary of the Territory; also, a note from Col. Sumner, saying that he would prevent the meeting of the Legislature. sent armed They were unheeded. Ab ou t 800 persons were pre- Both branches of the Legislature met on the t o th in st The roll w as ca ll e d, an d a quorum found be entered the topwn re sent. About noon Col. Sumner with 200 drag o ons, an d planted two cannon at the he a d o f Kansas avenue. The troops were drawn tip before the Constitutional Rall, when Sumner told the citizens that he would not disarms them or break up the Convention, but he had orders to dissolve the Legislature, and Ivo . uld do so. ' Sumner then repaired to the Hall and informed t h e Of Representative's, that he had orders to disperse them. members He said, " I stn called upon to perform the , most painful duty Of tuy life. Under the authority of the President. I sin here to dissolve this Legislature. In accordance with my orders, I comm and you ° disperse. God knows I have: no party feelings 11011 in the matter, and will have none whil e I ( ea • n Kans% I have ju -v resent position i et retpurned from the border, where a. I have )een " t iding home the Missourians, and I am now . .... sere with instructions to disperse this Leg again command you to dis " Judge r asked if they were to understand that they were iven out at the point theof - died, " I will usebayonet. Col. Sumner the whole force under my "nand to enfo rce My o ' rders " The House then A similar Scene was enacted in the ate, whi c h was also d. i pre * Is ersed. The Convention Preparing resolutio nps endorsing the State 'verinnent and the Topeke %Taejon had ke t large ' Constitution. Fears of The St• I •p. numbers from attending. • Joins Republican (!tter fromof the 14th contains a p a r e 4Viliell state i.hrmo, Kansas, dated the Bth inst., territory •s t at General Lane had entered the ith several hundred men, and that he islature a Schuy- The New York papers announce that a grand dinner had been given by the New York, New foundland, and London Telegraph Company, to the officers of the United States steam ship Arctic, which is to traverse the route from St. John's, New foundland, to the West Coast of Ireland, for the purpose of taking soundings in a parallel of thirty miles, and selecting the precise bed for the 1,640 miles of telegraphic wires about to be laid down. Lieutenant Berryman, U.S.N., commands ; and with him is Lieutenant Strain, whose terrible suf ferings and gallant conduct on the Isthmus of Dfirien, two or three years ago, must be within the recollection of many readers, as also the relief afforded him and his party by a British man of war. The occasion was one of great interest. Our dates from Mexico are to the Bth instant. From Vera Cruz the Spanish fleet bad departed. President Comonfort had decided to sell all the lands belonging to the church and other religious corporations. The new Constitu tion, and church property decree, were generally applauded. A new State is to be formed under the Constitution, to be called -the Valley of Mexico. Hostilities have been commenced by the States of Leon and Chihuahua against Tamaulipas. NEW YORK MARKETS. COTTON. The sales in our market during the past week amount to 8,0(10 bales, and include about 2,000 bales in transitu, on a basis of laic for barely Low Middling., New Orleans, with 5-164 freight ; and 10iic per lb for Low Middling Savannah, id freight. For cotton on the spot prices gradually advanced, and closed firmly yesterday to to I° per lb higher than my last quotations, with much indiffer ence on the part of holders to sell. Some parcels have been taken on speculation, the remainder is chie fly for our own spinners. The total stock in all the ports is now only 122,000 bales, against 217,000 in 1853. The number of vessels loading in southern ports is 19, against 27 in 1853. The export to Great Britain from this time out in 1853 was 86,000 bales, for the balance of this season it will scarcely exceed 50,000. The export for the week has been, to Liverpool 3,371 bales. SOUTHERN MARRETS.—The week's receipts in all amount to only 6,000 bales, and the sales 7,000, at very full prices. BY , telegraph the following has been received : New Orleans, July 12.—Receipts for the week, 2,060 bales ; same week last year, 6,300 ; sales for the week, 5,700. Middling, lle to Ilic per lb. Mobile, July 12.—Receipts for the week, 400 bales ; same week last year, 9,000; sales for the week, 1,400. Middling, lOic per lb. Freight to Liverpool, id. CROP.—On the whole, the accounts of the growing crop continue favourable. The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist September last, as compared with the pre vious three years : 1856. 1855. 1854. 1853. Receipts at the P0rt5...... 3,45 0 ,000 2.694.000 2.812,000 3,19;,000 Exports to Great Britain .. 1,876,000 1,416.000 1,468,000 1,651.000 France.. 478,000 405,000 807.000 413,000 other For. Ports 501.000 262,000 312,000 337,000 Total Exports . 2,855,0002,083.000 2,087,0002 401.000 Stock on hand Of whiebifirenT the past week, 'winded in the above Receipts at the Ports . , . Exports to Great Britain. '' .. .. g, France.. other Fcr . Porta Total Exports.. . - 6,000 25,000 11,000" 1 i.OOO 19.000 27,000 17,000 10,000 2,000 .. 1,000 ----- 7,000 10.000 4,q00 4,000 28.000, 37.000 21.000 14,000 SUMMARY.—Receipts : Increase at the ports over last year, 756,000 bales ; over 1853, 259,000. Exports : Increase to Great Britain, 460,000 bales; compared with 1853, 225,000. Increase to France, 73,000 ; compared with 1863, 65.000. Increase to other foreign ports, 239,000 ; compared with 1853, 164,000 bales. FREIGHTS to Liverpool remain dull, at 5-32 d for Com pressed and uncompressed bales. To Havre, ie. EXCIIANCES, on London are firm, at 110 to 110* per cent. On Paris there is a fair demand, at 5 dols 17ic to 5 dols 15e. WILLIAM P. WEIGHT. COTTON STATE! NT. 6Tlf AMY. Exports to Total Receipts. Great Exports to Stock and on Foreign Shipboard Britain. p 3,449,402 1,975,064 2.693,310 1,413 386 days' currency 120,932 221,347 ~~_. Porsed 461,678 774,660 • - GENERAL MARKETS. The market for our cereals is at p resen t exc it e d b y th e inundations in France. The full extent of the injury to the grain crops is at present not known, but to militate against this. is the prospect of a larger harvest than usual in Russia, and an abundant one in the north of Germany and in England. Speculators seem to overlook the latter, and also the fact that more land has been devoted to grain in this country than usual, so that we shall have more to spare. Taking all these things into THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. consideration, the prospect at present is that breadstuffs towed to or capable of performing railway work. will eventually decline, and that those speculators who Female servants are very scarce, and really good are buying for a rise will, unless they realize speedily, ones especially so. Middle-class families, emigrating lose money. to this colony, would do well to bring their own domes- Flour during this week has been active with a good tics with them ; and the active philanthropy of the upper supply, prices are well supported. The sales of domestic classes in England might find an excellent field for its have reached about 80,000 brls, at an advance of from 25 exercise in the establishment of some training institution to 50c per brl. The orders from abroad are large, but at where the unemployed young females of the mother present they are boalaw the current rates here, so that co un t ry m i g ht b e instructed i n th e pr i nc i ples and prac they cannot be filled to any extent. Canadian thin- has tice of domestic economy, and thus qualified for the per also advanced in price to the extent of about 50c per i formance of the light and liberally remunerated duties brl, and 7,000 brls have also changed hands. incidental to domestic servitude in this colony. Southern flour has felt the effect of the general rise, but We are now passing through one of those dull political not so much, only sor 10 cents per brl, but the market is periods when everything is postponed till, after the elec very buoyant, and the better grades are in great request tions and the meeting of the new Parliament. As the —the sales of all qualities extending to 9,000 brls. Rye t elections are not expected to take place before August, flour has not been active, and prices are nominal. Corn the majority of people have not yet begun to excite them meal is in good request at firm prices ; sales of 1,000 brls selves much about the subject, and it is only here and' and 200 puncheons, the latter at 15 dols 50c. there that candidates are beginning to be talked about, I lAt the beginning of the week Wheat was active. The and to make themselves as agreeable as they can in the receipts are large and the orders from abroad are eaten-- districts they desire to represent. sive, but the higher rates of freights and the high price., Among the new members spoken of as being almost retard shipments. The quality of the wheat offering is certain to •be returned is Mr. Gavan Duffy, the former not prime. New Western is in demand, with a small editor of the Nation. We are not yet certain, however, supply ; the supply is, however, expected to increase. The as to the district for which he is to become a candidate. sales include 700 bushels white Genesee, at 1 dol 70c to 1 Several meetings have been held, and to organisation dol 75c ; inferior to prime white Canadian, at 1 dot 60c to established to raise for him by subscription the property 1 dol 87ic—the latter price since refused for prime, and qualification which was unfortunately adopted in the about 25,000 bushels uther qualities. Rye has al so New Constitution Act—a defect in the Act which we been quiet, with but little offering. Sales of 15,000 b us h. , believe many of the men who voted for it would now be at 80c for Pennsylvania, and 84 c f or W estern. Oats have anxious to amend. The movement on Mr. Duffy's behalf, increased in price, with sales of Western at 42c to 43c, though certain, we think, to produce the amount required, State at 41c to 42c, and Jersey at 36c to 37ic. Corn has is going on much more slowly than was anticipated. not been very active, but prices are firm, though they There has been little enthusiasm in paying up, even have not advanced. The sale s a dd up 1.000 bush e l s . among his own countrymen, and it has been necessary The market for provisions gene ra ll y h as b een satisfactory 8,5 to put out feelers and hold meetings in all to the trade. Pork has bee n i n good demand, and the directions, and even to appeal to the neighbouring supply is moderate, consequently an advance has been colonies. From all sides, however, contributions are obtained from 181 to 37ic per brl, at which 8,000 brls slowly percolating, and the fund is gradually rising have changed hands. There is a good business doing in towards the required amount. The difficulty that has beef. The demand is fair, and the arrivals are not large ; been experienced in raising the required amount for Mr. sales of 1,800 brls beef hams, and p r i me mess have been Duffy contrasts strikingly with the promptitude evinced very quiet; quotations are nominal. Cut meats are not long ago in a single electoral district—that of Beech active, the supply is not large. Sales of 1,000 brls and trcs worth, a digging township—where 4'2,000 were raised hams and shoulders, closing at 10i to 10e for hams, and with the greatest ease to qualify a local favourite, Mr. 9c for shoulders. 5,000 pcks shoulders; Sic, 4,600 pcks Cameron. sides in bulk, 91c, and 12,000 shoulders in bulk, delivered We have already begun to experience here the ill effects in Boston, se. Shipping bacon is in good request and in upon all Australia of having one convict colony—that of small supply. Lard is very firm, at an advanced rate. Western Australia—still left to be the sink of British Sales 3,000 brls and tres at 12 to 14c for fair to prime. crime. According to evidence which we published a Butter is in good supply, but is not firm, at the following short time ago, and which has since been abundantly rates ; —l2 to 17c for Ohio, 12 to 190 for State. Cheese is confirmed, the criminal population of our unfortunate also dull, at sto 82c for inferior to prime. Eggs sell at sister colony already begin to turn their glances and 150 to 15c for Ohio and State. • direct their footsteps in this direction in considerable In Groceries there has been but little' excitement, numbers. It seems that, to avert suspicion, they first go except in sugar, which his active and has advanced in to South Australia, and come hither thence. price. Holders are very firm, and speculators have Mfr. Brooke has been playing a round of his popular bought largely, and will not sell at all at present prices. characters, prior to his departure from Melbourne, with The principal sales have been, in Cuba, some 200 hhds. great success. The house was crammed to suffocation Demarara brought Bicts. In teas there is very little every night during the last week of 'his engagement, and doing. The market is firm and stocks are light. Coffee numbers were turned away from the doors. is also quiet but firm ; the stock of Rio is 45,000 bags. The export for the last six months amounts to 24,000 packages. The difference between buyers and sellers in their opinion of the value of cotton operates materially to check business in this staple. Holders are very firm at • present rates, and buyers purchase only to fill present orders. The sales for the week do not amount to 4,000 bales. taWe quote as follows : NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION, Uplands. Florida. Mobile. N. 0. & Tex. Ordinary 9l 91 91 91 Middling llf 11f 11 f Middling Fair ll2 112 12 121 Fair 14 12f 14 13 The Hop market.has been favourably operate d on by the news from Europe. Speculators are buying, though not very largely, being cautious on account of the unfavourable issue which has generally terminated such transactions within the last few years. The market, however, closes firm at our quotations, some holders asking higher' rate. NAVAL STORM—Spirits turpentine continue quiet; sales 100 brls at 37 to 370, the latter rate in good shipping order. Crude is in fair request at 2 dols 87ic to 3 dols per 280 pounds, for Wilmington and North County. Common rosin remains dull at 1 dol 57k'; to 6 dols 10c per 310 lbs afloat and delivered—sales of 100 brls No. 2, at 1 dol 75c in yard ; fine qualities are in moderate request at 3 dols to 5 dols 12&c for No. 1 white, per 280 pounds. Tar is steady at 1 dol 621 c to 1 dol 75c per barrel, for Washing ton, thin and thick. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE OLIVER LANG A WEEK'S LATER NEWS The Black Ball line of packet ship Oliver Lang, belonging to Messrs. James Baines & Co , arrived in the Mersey yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, from Wilbourne, after a passage of eighty five days, bringing 60;000 ounces of gold, valued at about 240,0007. Also 260 passengers, 500 bales of wool, and SOO tons copper ore. She left Port Philip Heads on the. 2nd of May, and by her we have Melbourne papers and Prices Currents to the date of her departure, which arc a week later than those last received. The steamer Royal Charter was still annoutm-d to leave Melbourne, for Liverpool, on the 22nd of May. The Walatar Castle was to leave for London, on the 15th, and the Kent, also for Lon don, during the month of May. The ship Joseph Tarratt, from Liverpool, arrived out at Melbourne on the 27th April, the day before the Kent arrived from London. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MELBOURNE, April 30, 1856.—Referring to our full re port by the Mermaid, on the 15th instant, and a supplementary report by the Earl of Sefton on the 24th instant, we have to state that the markets remain steady, and very little change has occurred in pricei. In some articles there has beeen a good deal of speculation; but this has been very much checked by the news recently received of negociations for peace, as it is thoroughly understood that, in return for our very large exports Of gold during the present year, we shall have a renewal of shipments of merchandise to a large extent, and specu. lators are becoming daily more timid. Indeed, many c p r e i r s s i s o , n a s t l o n o o k d fo i o s r t w a n a t r d d t a o t n o T t h h e e r s g t lt o u ck , s a n o d n t possibly i a n c g o s t , h a e t r this moment, are considered to be far from abundant ; hut, as explained in former reports, the storekeepers in the interior, no longer anticipate an interruption of traffic from bad roads during the winter, or a material rise in carriage. Besides this the internal production is now so large, that, for provisions especially, the demand is trifling compared with that of former years. LIQUORS.—Brandy is now offered freely, and the late extreme rates cannot be realised, We hear of no sales higher than 14s 9d. Otard's brandy is improving in favour and price. The low brands, in case, bring 15s to 16s 6d. All sorts realise higher rates for direct ship ments than for those coastwise. Port : fine sorts are very scarce, and common realise high rates. Sherry : medium is still advancing, Ale : the new brewing of the best brands realises £lO 10s, hut large quantities are on the way. the best brands of bottled bring Its 6d; Bryant and Davis's has been sold at lOs 6.1. Sales of Taylor's XX stout are reported at £7 10s, .E 7 12s 6d, and £7 15s ; Truman's at £7 15s; and Abbott's at 47 10s. Bryant and Davis's porter, has been sold in bottle at 12s 6d. TOBACCO, CIGARS, &c.—The tobacco trade is very dull, the stocks being large and in excess both here and in Sydney, in consequence of recent arrivals from the States ; but as our quotations leave a loss to shippers, holders here are firm, anticipating a cessation of imports. Good Havana cigars are very saleable at our quotations. GROCERIES, OILM ENS' bTORES, &c.—Pearl barley is quoted at 30s to 32s per cwt, and pearl sago is now worth worth 7d per lb. Candles : The stocks of this article are considerable, Nit chiefly in the hands of speculators. The news of peace has led to the impression that present prices cannot be long maintained. Coffee is advancing. Ceylon plantation cannot be purchased under 113, and other kinds in proportion. Dried apples in casks are now 916 per lb. English jams and jellies are scarce, and much wanted. Bottled fruits, pickles, mustard, sauces, and salad oil, are in some demand for the country. Our late quotations for most of these were too low. New Kent hops are held for is 4d. bat the chief Australian brewing season is over. White pepper has advanced. Steel's crown soap has declined. Sugars The market has been considerably affecte 1 by speculation, some specula tors who bought at short dates being now compelled to realise at rates below those asked by importers. Importers are holding for higher rates. The prices of tea are scarcely supported. Exchange on London was still quoted at 2 per cent. premium for thirty days' bills, and the rates of discounts were:—On bills under ninety-fiv e 7 per cent.; over ninety-five 10 per cent.: days, 8 per cent. ; renewals, _ overdrawn accounts, 10 per cent turns for the first quarter of the current year of the banks of the colony had all been pub lished in the Gazette, and show that the improve ment of which we have had occasion to make special mention in comparing the returns of the last two quarters of the year 1855 is steadily progressive. The deposits are increasinr , in a greater ratio than the indebtedness of the colonists to the bank. The average amount of notes in circulation is almost stationary, while the coin and bullion show a ten dency to increase. To show how true a pulse the bank returns are, in reference to the financial condition of the colony, we may mention that in the fourth quarter of 1853, at the acme of her prosperity, the amount due by the banks to the colonists was .R 4,386,379. In the second quarter of 1854, after the commercial crisis had for some time operated, the amount due to the colonists was reduced to 1,844,1061; and iu the fourth quarter of 1854 the indebtedness reached its lowest ebb, 696,2011. After that period the account of the colonists began to improve, and the above statements show that their money capital is rapidly rising to its former extraordinary amount. Indeed, as regards both the banks and their cus tomers, the returns now published must be pro nounced in the highest degree satisfactory. The amount of gold received by escort, for the week ending April 26th, was 49,792 ounces, against 52,174 ounces for the corresponding period last year, and 32,595 for the week ending April 19, this year. The price of gold in Melbourne stood at 3/ 16s 31 per ounce. There had been no change in the wool market. The demand for labour was increasing, and higher wages were current. The following summary of general news we quote from the Melbourne Argus : There is very little to add to our previous remarks on our gold fields. Our populatio i is almost stationary as regards numbers, hut the yield of our gold fields is steadily increasing. We have come to regard the export one hundred tons of gold during the year as a kind of duty which this colony has to discharge. Mining is now, with the majority of those engaged in it, as much a settled pursuit as any of the trades or other znechanical occupations, and the experience of three years has not been lost on these who have served apprenticeship for that period. The older fields are being re-worked systematically, and the whole of the alluvial soil above the pipeclay is being passed through the puddling machine, with a resu l t varying from 1i pennyweights to 11 ounces to the load, many parties washing regularly for the former quantity who are, to use their own words i " doing w e ll at i t. " quartz mining is, however, still the , favourite pursuit, and great numbers of enterprising men are reaping rich rewards for the capital, energy, and hard work they have expended, The zeal and enthusiasm in the cause of science dis played by Dr. Scoresby in undertaking a voyage to and from these shores have met with a partial reward. In a letter, the veteran states that all the theoretic views pre viously published by him in respect to the magnetic in fluences of iron vessels upop their compasses have been distinctly and beautifully verified, and that nothing more is requisite for the safe and satisfactory compass guidance of iron vessels than a compass. for reference duly elevated and properly arranred on a wooden Mast. On the Doc tor's arrival in the Royal Charter, a number of gentlemen connected with scientific, literary, and mercantile `pur suit, waited upon him for the purpose of offering him a cordial welcome to Victoria, and the members of the Philosophical Institute and others have entertained him at a public dinner, given at the Criterion. We have little occasion to vary or modify the remarks which we made in our last summary. The supply of skilled labour appears to be fully equivalent to the demand ; but unskilled labour of all kinds is in . great request, and the extensive public works already in progress, or about to be commenced, have absorbed, and are likely to absorb, a great quantity of the class of labourers known in the colony as " pick-and-shovel men." Navigators, quarry men, and stalwart farm labourers meet with ready employ ment and liberal wages; and as the construction of two or three trunk lines of railway, to bring the metropolis into dire& and speedy communication with the chief centres of population in the interior, has become a matter of paramount necessity, and must be early proceeded with, there appears no immediate prospect of any falling off in the demand for men accus- The re- IfREADSTUFFS.—There is no improvement in Sour. Hamill and Gallego, is, by some houses, held firmly at 60s, at which figure moderate sales are being made, but in the absence of any desire to speculate, or lay in stooks, on the part of our millers and others, we do not think over 55s or 56i could be obtained for a cargo. The four late arrivals from the United States did not bring any, nor i% there any known to be on the way. Oatmeal is worth .t'32 per ton. Scotch oats are held by some importers as high as 6s 6d, but Colonial are so plentiful that prices can scarcely be expected to, advance. Farmers here are threshing out their oats, and selling them in large quan tities at 5s 6d per bushel. Rice : There are large arrivals, and prices are declining. PROVISLONS.—Bacon and hams are advancing. Of the latter, there is not , a parcel in first hands. Dunlop cheese : There are sales at Is 2d to is 3d.. Preserved salmon in one pound tins, realises is 8d to is 91 Sar dines half box are worth 133 6d to 14s. PAINTS, OILS, AND CoLoun.—Sales of white lead are reported at 40s. NlEraLs.—Boiler plates are now quoted at £2l; iron tiles, 24 to 28, £5O; lead pipe, si zes , £ 2B to £3O. There are no tin plates in the market. BUILDING MATERIALS.—There are enquiries for slates. The improved feeling in the timber market continues. Red deals 3 by 9 uncut, and spruce deals have advanced. Doors and sashes are not worth more than invoice. DRUGS AND CHEMICALS —The season is over for arsenic, sulphur, and soda. Soda crystals are worth £9 to £9los Boors AND. SHOES.—Sales to arrive have been made at fair advances. Stocks of British are small, and unless we receive some good parcels soon, the market will be very bear of seasonable goods. The demand never was greater in the palmiest days of the golden era. SUNDRlES.—Earthenware suitable for this market realises 50 per cent adv ance. Large quantities of American goods are in the market, and are freely offered at auction; quotations are by no means firm. Cooking stoves are worth 50 per cent advance. Ewbank's patent nails are worth sto 10 per cent on list. The market is full of small sizes : from 2to 2i inches are saleable. Saws cross-cut and pit are worth 2s per foot. Stockholm tar has declined. In other articles no change is reported. MELBOURNE LABOUR MARKET.—Enquiries for agri cultural and for all kinds of unskilled labour, have been on the increase during the week, and the numbers offering have not been any thing like equal to the demand. Quarrymen and men used to railway work are much wanted. In the present scarcity of such labour, all able bodied men, who seek work are finding ready employ ment, at full rates.. Of skilled labour there is plenty; nearly every branch of the building trade is overdone, notwithstanding, there has been a successful movement among the masons to shorten the daily hours of labour to eight. instead:of ten. This movement, we hear, is about to be taken up by the other trades. Female servants are very scarce and are much wanted. Seafaring labour is very plentiful. With rations : Married couples without families, from £75 to £9O per annum ; do. with families, £55 to £65 do ; gardeners, £5O to £6O do, grooms, £4O to £5O do ; storekeepers, £6O to £7O do; shepherds £35 to £4O do ; hutkeepers, £25 to £3O do; general farm servants, £1 5s per week ; threshing and cleaning is per bushel ; haycutting, 9s per ton ; bullock drivers on the roads, 30s per week ; do, on stations, 25s do ; men cooks, £7O to £9O per annum: female do, £3O to £45; thorouch femaleservants (in great demand), £3O to £4O do ; house maids, .no to £2B do laundresses, £3O to £35 do ; nursemaids,£ls to £2O do. The following are considered the standard weekly rations ;-12 lbs beef or mutton, 10 lbs flour, 2 lbs sugar, lb tea. Without rations : Compositors, Is 4d per thousand, do, by the week, £4 4s ; pressmen, £4 4s to £4 lOs do ; carpenters 12s to 14s per day; masons, 14s to 16s do; bricklayers, 14s to 16s do ; blacks m ith s, do ; quarrymen, 10s to 12s do ; wood splitters and fencers, 5s to 7s per ton ; fencing by the rod, material to split only, Qs ; labourers on the roads, 9s to 10s per dav—woad, water, and tents found. Seamen : For home or the East, £5 per month; in coasters, £5; cooks and stewards, £5 to £6 ; mates, for coasters, £B. MELBOURNE WooL 111AIMET.—Our last report was per Francis Henty, on the 12th inst.., (duplicate of same p er Earl of Seft on, ) since which we have had little wool offer ing; and the favourable advices per Royal Charter have, therefore, had little effect here beyond causing the fell, mongers to seek higher rates for hand-washed wools, but which we haye heard of being paid as yet in one instance only. The quantity shipped has been as follows :—From October 10, 1855, to April 5, 1856, 10.021,815 lbs ; value, £629,718. From April sto April 19, 1856, 504,296 lbs; value, £47,251 —Total 10,526,111 lbs; da. £676,979 value. There has been no public sale since our last, and they will be only occasionally held till next season, the whole clip having beest already shipped. TALLOW AND . HIDES.---OUr market for the former article has been flat since the news per Royal Charter, and shippers have now ceased to operate, there being no margin left between this and home market prices. Of hides, there are few offering since the sailing of the Thomas Ann Cole, on the 27th inst, which cleared the market. Prices 13omin41, J. H. CLOUGH & CO. ""' • nr.,M...,. THE LATE COLLISION IN THE RIVER.- ADJOURNED INQUEST-SATURDAY. The proceedings were resumed at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday morning, before Mr. Statham, deputy coroner. William Brewer, the pilot of the Excelsior, was recalled, and stated that when on board a vessel it was under his sole command, in accordance with the pilotage act. Andrew Shaw, engineer of the Excelsior deposed, that on leafing the dock on the night in question, he was ordered to go at full speed, which order he obeyed, but the vessel did not go so fast on first starting as after she had gained some way. In about ten minutes the order was given to stop, and he immediately stopped the engines. In about half a minute he was ordered to go astern, and accordingly reversed the engines until an order was given to stop. When at full speed the vessel would go about seven knots. The vessel just struck as the order to reverse was given. A very few seconds are sufficient to stop the engines. Has been engineer on board the Excelsior for about eighteen months. John Jameson, seaman of the Excelsior, deposed that on the night in question he was coiling ropes, and assisting to look out. About ten minutes after leaving the dock saw a vessel on the starboard bow. He and the mate reported it. Did not see any other vessel. The mate reported that it was a steam boat. Saw the steamboat as soon as the mato reported her. Saw a light at her masthead. Saw no other light on board her. The first time he saw the vessel on the starboard bow did not see any lights on board her at all. The collision immedi ately followed. Did not see the red light of the steamer at all. Considers his sight is good. The morning was a little hazy. It was not a morning when, one could see a long distance off. Joseph Riddell, seaman of the Excelsior, deposed that he heard the mate sing out that there was a vessel a-head. The mate asked the pilot on the bridge if he saw a vessel a-head with a light flying. Saw the hull of the vessel, but no light. After the collision, saw no light on the masthead or anywhere else, except a bright light under the hurricand desk. Samuel Hogg, second mate of the Excelsior, examined : The order given by the pilot, when we got out of dock, was " Hard-a-port." I was at the wheel, and I put the helm hard a_port. The order " steady" was given in two minutes and a half or three minutes, and that order was obeyed. About ten or twelve minutes after I got orders to starboard. I obeyed that order, and as soon as I got the helm to starboard, I got orders to " hard-a-port. I had not time to put the helm hard-a-port before the collision took place. I had only got about four spokes of the wheel down. I could see nothing ahead from the wheel, but I felt the shock of the collision. The Excelsior answered her helm quickly. To Mr. Blair : I did not hear the order given to stop. I perceived that the engines had stopped just as the collision took place. To Mr. Aspinall : I beard all the orders given by the captain aid pilot, and obeyed them, the captain repeated the pilot's orders, and I answered back. Thomas Walsh, mate of the brig Maria of Whitehaven, deposed : That on the morning of the Gth his vessel was anchored a little south of the New Brighton pier. 'I he tide was then flowing. Was very near the Cheshire shore. Was on deck all night. The night had been cloudy, but the sky was beginning to clear a little to the north west. Saw several steamers during the night going out and coming in. Saw a steamer coming round the rock about half•past one a.m., about ten minutes before high water. The Maria's head was then to the northward. Could not tell upon first seeing the steamer whether she was a paddle or screw. As soon as she rounded the rock her course was south a little east. She was a little south of the Ripp-rapp buoy, which was right a-head of the Maria. As she came up she drew in a little nearer to the Maria and the Cheshire shore. Went to see if his own lamps were hanging in the fore ;rigging. Shortly after she passed his vessel on the starboard side about fifteen fathoms from her. The Maria then lay a little better than half a mile in a direct line south of the Rock lighthouse. Saw the steamer's mast head light and her green light. The lights were as good as any ho saw that night. There was a great num-' ber of small craft lying there, some to the south and some to the west. The steamer could not have gone nearer than she did to the Cheshire shore with safety either to the vessels at anchor or to herself. She kept closer than any other vessel he saw come in that night. After she bad passed he heard some one on board of her sing out " steamer ahoy." Heard also the same voice cry out " port your helm." Heard in the same steamer " port—hard-a-port —stop her.", When he heard the cry of " steamer ahoy" he looked to the south-east and saw a stearnet's masthead light. The latter steamer was coming down the river. Thinks her head was about north by west. The masthead light was over the Maii's forecastle, and therefore he could not see the hull of the steamer coming down. Heard the sound of a collision between the two steamers. Did not hear anything caled out after the collision.. Before they struck, beard the Mail hail the other steamer. Did not hear any anarter from the bttamer coming down. Cannot say whether her course was altered after she was hailed, because he could not see her hull. There were two large ships lying in midstream Saw another in the river to prevent the Excelsior from going to the east side of the channel. Saw several other steamers go out that course. At the time of the collision the Excelsior must have been about 150 fathoms nearer to tho shore than any other steamer he saw going out that night. To Mr. Bremner I do not agreo with the captain of the Mail, or with any person who says that the head of the Excelsior was coming off the Cheshire shore. Charles Moah, police-constable, No. 9, examined : Was on duty on the night of the 6th, at the Clarence Pierhead, near the Clarence-gate. Saw the Mail coming up near the magazines, with a white light, a red light and a ryropo 1;,,6r and when she passed the magazine, she crossed over to Liver pool in a south-easterly direction. This was after the collision. Knew the Mail was expected. When he first saw her lights, she was close on the Cheshire side. The lights were very bright. Did not know of the collision having taken place when he first•saw her lights, nor until she came near to the wall. By Mr. Aspinall : Had been expecting her coming, and that was the reason he was looking out for her. It was near upon two o'clock. The day was breaking, and it was very clear at that time on the water. Saw no other steamer's lights. Was on the pier from twelve o'clock that night. It might be half an hour from the time he first saw ihe lights before she came to the pier. During that half hour, noticed no other steamer's lights about the same place. When she came alongside, saw a tug on her starboard side. Saw the Mail's three lights all the way across. 'rook no notice of the tug's lights. She might have had lights. The Excelsior did not come up with the Mail near the pier: Did not see her at all. Had she been there he must have seen her. Afterwards, another tug came up a-head of the Mail. Did not notice her lights. Was too much engaged in removing the dying and dead---some with their heads smashed, and others with their limbs off, and bruised and broken. Will swear it was not half-past three when she came alongside the wall. It was a quarter to three o'clock. Never noticed any rockets, blue lights, or the lights of fottr reamers together during the night. By Mr. Blair : When a-stern of a vessel cannot see her lights. The Excelsior having gone down the river, could not see her lights. It is part of his duty to observe whether the lights of steamers are sufficient, and if they are not, to lay information against them. Has observed the lights of the Mail many times. Never saw any difference between them and other steamers' lights. Can swear the lights of the Mail were clear and bright that night, and that there was nothing to prevent any one from seeing them. Her lights were burning brightly when she came alongside. The inquest was adjourned to ten o'clock on Monday morning. BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB THE CUP DAY. On Saturday this club held its second match for the present season, when a very elegant piece of plate valued at £2O was contested for. Although, there was a very severe storm in the morning, the weather dur ng the match was very fine. There were nine cutter-rigged yachts en , ered, and precisely at one o'clock the Britannia steamer, which had been engaged for the porposo of affording visitors an opportunity of witnessing the scene, started from the Princes' Dock, with about 150 persons on board. On arriving at the Birkenhead ferry slips, from where the boats started, the following yachts were at their station ready to start ; Owner's Name. Yacht's Name, Tots. Thomas Wilkinson Electric „ • .... 7 W. G. Suthe r be rr y ... „ White Squall .. . 44 H. West Wilson. . ..... ' . Spirit Alfred Bower Spray D. Morrison St. Clair J. Byrne W. C. Wrenshall ... ...... Flirt Thomas Wilkinson Thomas H. Bow en .... ...Zephyr •• • • 51 All being in readiness, at fourteen minutes past two o'clock the gun was tired as a signal to start, and instantly large sheets of canvass were hoisted, and the little vessels proceeded on their way, the Spray taking the lead by a considerable distance, followed by the Glide, all the others keeping well together. The route was from Birkenhead Ferry round a Flag Boat, stationed off Eastham, thence round a Flag Boat stationed off the Dingle, back round the Eastham Flag Boat, thence back round the Dingle Flag Boat, returning direct to Birkenh ea d P erry, passing between the shore and Flag Boat moored Gil the Club House, leaving the last-mentioned Paz Boat on starboard hand. After sailing gallantly on, the yachts rounded the FLAG BOAT' STATIONED OFF EASTITAM in the following order Spray... ........ H. 31. s. Glide ... .......... • • • - • . 2 45 30 Maude , ..... " Electic ........ . ... • h 2 46 20 Zepyr Phantom White Squall 2 29 so Flirt ..... , 2 50 5 Spirit. After rounding the boat, the Glide again took the lead, but, by some accident, ran aground, and the Spray took her position, closely followet by the Maude, the Electric being hard upon her stern. After tacking and re-tacking, in the course of which much nautical science was exhibited by the persons Baling the respective boats, the BOAT OFF THE was reached, when only the following five were timed, the others having given up, or were so far behind that any chance of success was hopeless. . H. M. B. Maude...~, Glide .............. Electric ...... • • . Spray .. .... Phantom 3 59 0 They again returned to Eastbam, and, after a beautiful sail, rounded the boat there, in the following order : H . S. Maude ' Glide ............. 4 6 2 . Electric Spray Phantom •• . • •.. . ...... 4 10 3 In making the first tack, after rounding, the Maude ran aground, and was not got off for about a minute and a half, when the Glide and the Electric took the lead. The boats then returned to THE FERRY on their way home. To describe all the changes that took place in the position of the boats, would almost amount to an impossibility. Suffice it, therefore, to say, that great ingenuity and skill was displayed, to enable each of the little crafts to .‘ catch the favouring gale," and every means were adopted in urging each boat through the waters. At the flatboat, off the Dingle, the Glide passed at sh. 4m Os., the Maude at sh. 4m. 455., the Electric and the Phamtom being some little aistance behind. From thence to the Ferry, the contest was most severe, and, ultimately, the Electric was declared the winner, the boats coming in as follows : A. M. S. • Electric Glide 5 46 40 . 0 0 Immediately after the arr i va l o f t h e b oats, Mr.o Wilkin son, jun., who sailed the Electric, and Mr. Wilkinson, sen., who sailed the Glide, came on board the steamer, when Commander Watkins presented the former with the prize. That gentleman having briefly returned thank?, the amuse ments of the day concluded. BOROUGH SESSIONS The following prisoners' have been tried before G. Hen derson, Esq., the Recorder, and received the undermentioned sentences : Penal Servitude.--Thomas Knaggs, aged 49, a clerk, for embezzling about £1,700, the property of the Liverpool Bondsmen,, Loan Society, five years; Margaret Moore, aged 42, and Mary Moriarty, aged 24, for stealing money from the person, each four years; Jane Childs , aged 18, for stealing money from the person, four years ; Catherine Burns, aged 18, for stealing money from the person, four years; Elizabeth Johnson, aged 39, a servant, for stealing a variety of property, four years. Fifteen Months Imprisonment.—John Barlow, aged 18, for stealing cotton. Twelve Months Imprisonment.—John Feeney, aged 40, for stealing cotton; Mary Tillett, aged 21, for stealing money from the person ; Ann Newland, aged 47, for receiving stolen property. Niue Months Imprisonment.—John Saul, aged 48, a joiner, for stealing tools ; Robert Sweeney, aged 30, for having in his Possession counterfeit coin. Eight Months Imprisonment.--Alice Makin, aged 40, for stealing► wearing apparel ; Susannah Jones, aged 67, for receiving stolen property. Five Months Imprisonment.—John Creer, a porter, for robbing his employer. Four Months Imprisonment. —Mary Burns, aged twenty• three, for stealing dresses ; Alice Taylor, aged nineteen, for stealing money from the person ; Mary Mallooney, for felony. Three Months Imprisonment—lsabella. Harriett, for shop lifting. One Month's Imprisonment.—Richard Benson, aged sixteen, for breaking into St. Saint Andrew's school-room, and stealing. Six Weeks Imprisonment.—Teresa Archer, for felony; Elizabeth Carey, aged forty, for having base coin in her possession ; William Milligan, aged twelve, for stealing butter and tobacco. Acquitted.—Henry O'Hare, Bridge Smith, John Goodin,ll, Rose Ann Grei g , Bills Ignored.—Against Catherine Donagha, and Jane Williams. Robins, Richard id Joseph Ree ley. Mary Walker, POLICE COURT.--SATuaDA/ (BEFORE MR. J. RATHEONE.) CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—A respectable-looking young man, named Joseph Podtnore, who was in the employment of Messrs. Morgan and 111 1 Bay, drapars, No. 60, Old Hall street, was brought up by detective Carlyle, on a charge of having embezzled two sums of £1 l2s. and Bs. 61. The officer said he was informed by one of the partners of the house that the prisoner had acted dishonestly, and he went to the house and took him into custody. The prisoner said to Mr. 111• Kay, " don't put me into the hands of the law; all I have take❑ is £1 125." It had since been discovered that he had embezzled another sum of Bs. 6d. Miss Lynch, a young lady, who does business in the house, stated that she gave the prisoner .£3 to take a sum of £2 124., which she owed in the shop, out of it, and it was proved that he only returned 193. 6d. bThe other sum was under similar circumstances. M 1 Mur— egoed __.• r • - A.r.NaV me case might be dealt with at once; but, as ' his worship could not deal with it in a summary way, the prosecutor said he did not emanded for a exactly wishweek to press th e c h arge. The prisoner was t. DISCOVERY 0 . 4 A. STOLES WATCII.---InZe:tcepS. i a bb ci o g l a t. r , ght up a pers 'med Joh n Wil son, At No, 2, Gr, lotte-street, on the following charge the evith ,e of Mr. Bolton, of Oldball-street, it appeared that on Wednesday last, about noon, ho had a gold b, value about £3O, which he put into a drawer, and, about three o'clock, he found it had been stolen. On Pri,i,,,. brought up a person ~._ shop, at No. 2, Grelt Chat•' —From the evidt evening the prisoner went to the pawn-shop of Mr. Bennessi, of Paradise.str•eet, where he offered the watch in pledge for £4 ; he was stopped, as a description of it had been given pre• viously by the police. The prisoner, in accounting for his possession of the watch, said• a man called at his shop, and purchased some tobacco, and then asked hint to purchase the watch, and he did so, after some time, for £6. He wanted money to buy cigars on Friday, and he went to pledge the watch for that purpose. He made a. memorandum of the purchase and a description of the man from whom he purchased it. The inspector said, when he arrested the prisoner, he told him the same story, and on searching his shop he had found a memorandum of the purchase, as stated, amongst other papers., The magistrate said the prisoner acted very incautiously in making the purchase; the story might be true, and, as there was no evidence to the contrary, he would discharge him; but he warned him to be very cautious for the future. The watch was restored to the owner. THE PROPHECY OF POLICEMAN 6791—We have read of wonderful dreams and the interpretations thereof —we have heard of great visions and had their meaning explained. Great circle sailing is no longer a mystery. The motion of the earth, and the circulation of the blood are understood by every school-boy, but it remained for policeman 679 to make a greater discovery than Harvey or Galileo, or—we were going to say, and we may as well say it—Joseph ! If the discovery of this wonderfully sagacious official could be improved, it would create a revolution, altogether, in European languages, as we shall presently show. A sleepy looking female, named Jane Smith, was charged by a young man named John M'Manus, with having deprived him of "two golden sovereigns." Master A:PA/anus, whose appearance said, as plain as appearance could speak, " I was yowling drunk last night," stated, that he was on his way .to America, and having solicited the indulgence of being absent from his " mama," who had charge of him, she gave him leave, and he went out to see the sights. (Al person sotto voce—"Then your mother knew you were out.") He had not seen many of the sights, however, when Miss Smith fairly took the sight out of his eyes altogether, in Great Howard-sttect. He had two and a half sovereigns and some silver in his pocket, and the latter, with two of the former, by' some process of legerdemain, got transferred from his possession to the pocket, or rather the stocking of Miss Smith. He tan screeching to hi s - and told his mammy. (This produced a roar - The lady made search, and the prisoner was odgin2. ughter.) )() North dock station. when Mrs. Phillips, the %rift station keeper, _searched, and in h er stockin; was four& Now comes the policeman' " When I was taking the prisoner to the station she squeese4 my hand." Mr. Clough : Well, what of that? Policeman 679 : That was saying, I mean by the touch she p I have said, " the money ; it' s a ll r i g h t ; don't split or 'll shay® with you." each and I (Loud laughter ) Mr. Cl : oy. to say,a t ouc h o f the band spoke all that ? ough Certa D inly, ou air t mean r (Nknew it at once. The prisoner was committed for ono month. ow if one touch of the hand spoke so much and so plainly, to policeman 679, and that his interpretation came truly to pass, what would not two or three well contrived be cal cu l ated to do ? Police officer 679, grips of the fingers s:: , ems to be the on l y "rote . of thumb" on this man capable of producing an interesting alphabetical dictionary of supplement, --in fact it might be called the important point; and in order to render him any service in our hpower,f o w w e i n w g o : the shin messmean " very dear fellow, will you come home and dine with "' Two ditto—the uld A si k ig ic g k es i t n that he adds, by w a y I expect you to supper." A good knock last a heavy one—"of a stick on the forehead should represent the words, or • ci h o w are you all at home ?" A. clout in the eyo, so queries, as to blacken or shut it up, at once suggests the salutation of ~ goo d morning, I hope I see you well." These are signs and tokens that could be brought into immediate use and operation, and they are so perfectly intelligablo that none could mistake t h em . No doubt some ' professor" will'soon take up these points, and carry them into speedy practice.) (DEPIRE MR' GLADSTONE.) CAUTION TO CAR-DElvEKs.—John Bushnell, a car-driver, was summoned by a Mrs. Johnston, who stated that, in mistake, she gave him a sovereign instead of a shilling. Ho was fined 10s and costs, for not having given her a ticket when she engaged him. PICKPOCKET respectable .esaid, the coin rt. lie said :, ~.-6everal pickpockets were sent to gaol for various periods, for attempting in some case., and succeeding in others, on the Landing•stage, and other portions of t 1