Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

This Da}' (Tuesday,) the'ir:th instant, at flair-past One o'clock, -'• e.t 1, Oldtall-street, - • , • 1013 Bags Fine Thin City Oblong .I.I:..;SEED CANE, ex Manb,atilm, from New Ynik.. Apply. to HOW & BARCLAY. Brokers. This Day (Tnestlay;) the 13th inutalt . , ut Twelve Brokers effi , 3e, 7li , Ze.; • 1,134 Da Am , ..,_ can • CAIiF., - now landing CK Manhattan, • AF ply to - • FRAN,Ci:-; J. EATON, Broker.. Tii:s Day (Tn , sday,) the 13th ins!ar.t, at. Twelve o'Llc. , ek, at the Brokers' Office, 2i'Date-street, 2,200 D2g3 Bengal TABLE RICE... BROWNE, & CO., Brokers. On Friday, the 16t11 instant, at Twelve o'clock, at Browne, Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 220 Bales Bombay HEMP, About 63 cwt. Loose DiLto. BROWNE, RUN PEE, & CO., Broker,. g.6111/11 CUM laitS. THIS 11A-Y.. This - say- (Tuesclay,),the 12th instant, at Twelve at the Brol;er,' Office, 2l,.North Sohn-street, 45 Barrels rine Ameriema LARD,. lately 'lauded; e, li:ingar3OFl~A MA Q1;I3 & A., Dr:j.kors. This Day (TocslaV,) the .I:3th instant, nt 7 Twelve '.clack, at the 13relver..i' ()Wee, North John-i,trect, '2s . o.ltrrels aoSIN, ex Neptune., Apply to • • • JOHN MARQUIS & i!.10 c_. C 0.,. Apph to This Day Trvesda.y,) the 13th -in&taul., at I.lz_lf-;;apt isy.ave ut the ProlterF,'lce, 2, Dale-strect, •209. _Bags SEM.' ' • 293 liaa . s 11APESEED, GROTTND 'TT'., all faults. 200 17a.?,• POPPY SEED, • .10 Bac:F. ;\.SSAIIIA SEED. BILOW NE, EIITNTI: - .IL, & CO., Brokers; Apply to On account of whein it may concern. This Day (Tani:ll3 , o the I3th instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, irketoria-buildings, 24. Hackin's-hey, 107 BaleS Don,•koy WOOL, ex Baltic ansl Leopard. 6 „,• Fine Linza DO. ex Deogeum. „. Buenos DO% cx Buceplaalus. :47 Baihots Peruvian 'DO., ex norence Nightingale. „ Alpaea DO., ex • DAto. dAmaged by sea water— _ Appty to & ROBINSON, Brokcrs, - TO_MOLtY\V To-morrow Wudnesitaj, the Llth instant, at Twelve o'clock, ;Bltes7ll.oG4i' LIAM, ex Cons';_tutiort, from New Tank.; iu Sill's Goree. apply to HOW 4t• BARCLAY, or • )• Brok,ero. ARNOLD, LEirf • - HOSaOE, Sz7 C0.,1 To-morrtv: (Weareo:An) tie 14th in.3tatit, at Tvali ,- .3 o'clock, gt. the Prokers' office, Druid-court, Dale-street, 11 aff,; , ; ORCIIELI.A.WEED, .ex Brazaitt , Li3bon. Apply to - J. II rrAers, 'o -morrow .(Wednesday,) the 14th inst=t, at Twelve o'clock, at the Tablie Sale-room, Exchamm,haililiAss, • AO Tens SA.I'.I.NV. - 001), • Aow bailing ex John - Bibb„ from 7,1411 a, Prince's Dock.-,- AliPlY to T. ay: L Irri! 00.; troirr.Ts. - . . . • . To-morrow (Wednesday,) the lita :nsiant, Oa:. o'clOck, at the Brokers' Office, Liverpool and Londr.r.-c.haroberg, A Quantity Dahavdauellfamerchantable CQ;11:0N, ari faults, per variQus ships. & CLAYTON. Brok,-.•rs, Apply to - - - To-ntorrow (7recintsday), the iAth (14i - .; at Twelve o'elozk, attn.?. Brokers' °Mee, Itoyal 1 nk Baildings, • '219 Bats - Bombay 3.d I,TPETILE, ex Ann Miteteil.---For pkrziculur.s .I)pty to WTI, Sc 11R0031, 7;roliers. - - To-morrow Weiliway,) the 11th lastant, et Twelve o'clock, at the PuLit 6 10-roo.o, 5 Tons itcquclle CAAIWOOD, • just landed cx Maggie Walker; lying in A-ltq. - et Dock Ware house, Nos. 4 and 5. Apply to 6B.IFFITH, SONS, & PALETHOUE, Brokers. To-morrow (Wednesday), the llth,itistant, at Twelv - e o'cleck,. at the Commercial Salerco , o, Temple-court, 752 Large Boxes St. Michael's 011.1,NGL,5,, 72 Small' ~ • • Do. Do. . . IT, 11,1,t;2, JFG2, A, &c„ ex Madeira Bet. , 1000 Half-chests - Ushott ORANGES, . . 9 Half-boxes Tangerine Do., cx Arno (5..,'5,) ' '3OO ' ~ Taro Figs, • )- 605 Large Boxes St. Michael's ORANGES, ex Zig Zag, Lotus . , Clio, and Stork. • . :583 Tinlf-chests Avei! o ORANGES, cx Hercules. • 192 llalf-chests'Llsbe , n•OßA.NGES, ex l3raganza. • .170 Cases.Messina LEMONS, 250 Boxes-Palermo ORANGES„ ( ex Corinthian (s.s.) 10 Cases . Do. •• •' .1), 1100 . 80xe3 MeSsin % a OR 1 , ...111E5, ex Roioert Cottle. , 19 Bags French CHESNUTS. 100 „ Messina NUTS. Apply to ADAM . , SON, and CO., Erolcers. THURSDAY. On Thursday nest, 15th instant, at One o'cicr:k, at the - :—Brokere Office,-17, ExchaLg-buildings, . 17 Bale 3 Mobile COTTON, damaged by sea 11 at' r, ex:tiny, from Mobile. For pareetdars apply to DUCKWORTII 11.1THBONE, BrokerF,..l On account of whom it max e. - mccrn. • On Thursday next, the 15th instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, ): '4O Cash Ft Lucia SUGAR, all faults, Per Wanderer. 'Apply to" ' T. and 11. tITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers. FRIDAY. On Friday next, the 10th instant, at 'Twclve 6'.:1:)el;, at the •'' • rEtakersOftlee,"s; Exchange-b:uildiugs, 225 RAPESEED, • • .• 1,220 Bags DITTO, all fault‘, ex Tippo. Saib, from Calcutta; lying in Albert Dock Ware houses, Nos. 2 aufl 3. Apply to BALISBURY,-TURNI..:II, & GREY, Brokers. - • ?Jostts Nutiou. By ()rags of the Mersey Dock and HarbOur Boat. On account 4.=„thom it may concern, and without reserve.. On Thurada.v *text, the 13th instant,at One o'clock, at the , Broker-4; saleroom, Walmer-buildings,'Water-street, The- Schooner • -•- - -F I D E L-I Y , tons, as, she now lies in .daznaitccl state tri. -Canning Half-tidelDock ; stzl, immediately ..lifttc, 32 tons Rushy Park best House COAL. '1 his ves sel was rept - lred at- Truiv :eight . .montlis.since. Dimensions - : Length, &3 feet ; breadth, 15 feet ; depth, 8 feet 8 inches. Apply to CURRY, KELLOCR, and CO., Brokers. On Friday next, the I , 3th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at • the Brokers' Oftice, 2, Dale-st!eet, ,3(14 BUFFALO HORNS, ex _Melbourne, in Albert Dock. Apply to BROWNE, HUNTEtt, and CO., Brokers. Apply to On Friday next, the 10th it stunt, at Twelve o'clock Noon, on the Quay, west side Brunswick Dock, Liverpocl, 471 Loge White PINE TIMBER, containing 35.163 feet 20 „ White PINE, of fine ‘enalitY,"." -'' " • 1,144 ; 60 „- BEAIIFILLING, . ' - • •,' , ' ' - 2,463 OS „ OAK TIMBER, y . ' ;", 2;087 9 „ Small OAK TIMBER, Pt . • 145 „ 31 „ Red PINE TIMBER, . „ 1,795- 17 , „ TAXIRAC, • , , 819 - • ff 1000 Pieces _Bright SPRUCE DEALS, 12 x 9 i 3, 65 „ - Bright PINE DEALS, 12 x9x 3, and broad, . 2400 „ :.;tandard STAVES, 2.„ 0„0 „ 0, 18 Cords HEMLOCK 4-feet LATHWOOD, . beipg the cargo now landing ex Minesota from Quebec. On account of the imptirters.- . Apply to A. F. & D. MACKAY, Brokers and Measurers, East Side _Queen's Dock, . - . Foot of Parliament-Street, Liverpool. NEXT WEEK. ,On Tuesday next, the 20th instant, at One o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, • 31 Cases 1 Para INDIARUBBER, 06 Bags Per Isabella Saott : dying in Johnson's,'Brook-strect. Apply to Messcs. Drake, Kleinwort, and Cohen, Merchants; or to J. 11. RAYNOR & CO., Brokers. CURRY, KELLOCK; and CO., - IthOICEaS FORTHE SALE AND PeaCHASE: OF SHIPS riND STEA:TEKS, SHIP VAI,U!.:RS A'.'4l) APPOINTED .EROKERS TO THE HIGH `, 01'1:0 lIRT OF AIEVIIRALTY Wahner=building,s, Waterrstlect. On 2*. NOTTINGHAM ALE. This celebrated ALE is brewed expressly for Families, and may be had in casks of 9, 13, and 36 gallons. Apply to JOHN SHELTON, Sole Agent., Stores Hanover - street, corner of Wood-street. 73119 ON SALE, SAL AMMONIAC, SALTS OF TARTAR, CARBONATE AMMONIA, GLAUBER SALTS, • • Ready packed for Etport. GEORGE WILLIAMS, 32, Dale-stree. Api,ly to etss.ets .G.ll FOR SALE, The fine new Round-sterne4 Schooner ALICE CAASINEY, 85 69-100ths tons per register N.N.31., about 110 • tons oar. Builders' .measurement : Length 681 feet, breadth 191 feet, depth 101 f e et; dimensions per regis feet ter Length 64 feet 3-10ths, breadth 19 feet 4-10ths, depth 10 6-10ths. Built under special survey at Port Downie, in the county of Stirling, in 1859, and launched iu August last; is copper-fastened to the bends, and classed A 1 for eight years, with • ; will carry about 160 tons dead weight on a light draft of water; has a frame of timber equal to a vessel of 300 tons, and built to carry heavy cargoes. In Canning Dock.---For further particulars apply to TON'GE & CO., Brokers for the Sale and Purchase of Ships, Middleton-buildings, 1, Rumford-street. FOR SALE, BY PRIVATE TREATY, 4. The well-known Chepstow-built Brig . ELINOR CHAPMAN, . • Jaie r coppered and copper-fastened ; 293 tons N.N.31.- - - • -....pwrFor further particulars apply to CHARLES CALLIS, 2, New Wapping ; or on board, to CAPTAIN FRANCES, Coburg Dock. 6d17 . ' ROBERT A. MUNN and CO., F . o. . _ ADMIRALTY BROKER:3, N ..t> ''', BRONFR 'To , - TIM :_ , ALL OF SHIPS AND l'"''''' . ' ST4 . I.I.IERS ':. , SHIP VALUERS, &c., v -- ;.r.5.,..- •,,..na• . 3', Ytnii-building-3, Dale-street.. 0.4•1....1[14•P5W1N1,A.P.M1• 1 1, Inai/MANONCIAIO CO3I3IEP.CIA.I, CiROULARS, CATALOGUES, Src. RIFFIN G II I E (Succes.3ws to CIIVILIN Vi.LLNIER,) GENERAL -PRINTERS,- Are in a position to execute, on the shortest notice, and with correctness, COII4ERCIAL CIRCGLARi, CATALOGUES, ecc. PRINT6iG OFFICES, 15, SOUTH JOHN-STREET. FOR SALE, BY PRIVATE TREATY, ' v ' r, , if% The Fine British-built Barque CONRAD, I,,agi fr ri s e% 328' tons N.N.M. Now lying in rthe West• India --:-..-:,-.-, ' Export Dock, London.., For further particulars apply to Sand and Simpson, 9, Clement's-lane, Lombard street) London ; or to CIIARLES CALLIS, 2, New Wapping, Liverpool. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVEPOOL, Monday Evening. The Cotton Market to-day was rather better, with a rather more general enquiry. Holders, however, offering freely, prices tended slightly in favour of buyers. The sales amounted to 8,000 bales, of which about 2,000 were for export, or taken on speculation. - In the Liverpool Share- Market there was but little animation, and prices of heavy stocks have slightly given way. Dovers were in good - demand, and 'so: likewise were Grand Trunk Shares, : the latter showing an advanee' of 63; per share over previous Prices; owing chiefly, if not: . alt - ogether by the satisfactory accounts brought from Canada, by the managing director of the Com pany. The transactions included Eastern Counties at 11 740 ; Edinburgh arid GlasgoW, SO ; Great Northam, 1051 ; Great - Western, 'O7l, 8; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 99i; London and North :Western, 981; ; ditto, 3 shares, id. ; SoutliL Eastern, 2-1 7.16, 9-16 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 10; North and South Wales Bank, 3 L ; Great Ship,4. CLOSING PRICES. Chester & lThead 78-1-, 784 Caledonian .... 93H.9%,-; Counties ..111 11 9-16, G. N.- Stock.. _lO4 106f,- Great Westerns.. 671 . 6 8 ; Lan. and York .. 99 1 9, 0 Ln. & Nor, West. 9$ - 9!..1 „ l i -shares 9-16 ,;; ; d M. S. and Lincoln 371- Midlan.dStock ..1031 103 N. British Stock.. Gil 61 . 1 N. Stafford N. E. Ber. c. Stock 941 95 York capital Stock 781 78 Leeds Stock .... 481 48 S. East. . 241 24 9-16 Dutch Rhenish . a 41d Gt. Lexem. 7 3-16 7 5-16 G.T. Onna. .. 9 15-16 10 G. - W. Can. 1 3.1 13 1 „ new shares el .6 3 4 Buffalo & L. Heron 41 5 Great Ship 10 010 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Mdnday Even The Market for English Securities was not active ti-day, and only a limited amount of busi ness was dOne; with prices not materially changed from those of Saturday, although the tcnicucy has r • Consols opened steadily, and may be quoted at 953 I . forth o January account ; Bank Stock has been dealt ia at 228 and 227 ; Reduced Three per Cents., 9 and '4 ; New Three per Cents., 95:4 and 1,-; and Exchequer Bills, 393. and 275. pm. Stock of the New Indian Loan,has been dealt in. at 1031 to 1033. Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are quoted steady at 11- to prem., and those of the New Universal Insurance to 1 prem. • In the English . ..ll,alway Market business was extremely quiet, but quotations were. ratlicr better supported -than at the close of the week. Caledonians, South-Easterns, and Eastern Co - unties - are I . per cent. higher. The market for Foreign' SecUrities was near - - stagnant, almest.no business having been done, and values in some instances declined. * 'Mexicans arc quited 221 only; Brazilian have fallen ~,4 ; :per cent. ; the New Turkish Sixes are flat at 66 to 66:1. French Rentes at a quarter past twelve were marked at 70f. 70c., the Bourse described as very firm. THE FUNDS.—CLOSIXG PRICES. Consols, Money. shut. Bank Stock.... 226 8 „ Account .. .. 95' i l a • Three : per Cents 95a . a Exchequer Bills 27 30 RAILWAY Anil). Not. &E. J.. 6,1 Caledonians . . . 421 3 Dutch Rhenish.. --- Eastern Counties. 57 East Lancashire. Edinbar2;h& Gla.s 80 81. Great Northern . . 106 t, )1 A. 95 96 ' Gt: Westerns.... 674 8 1 G. W. Cana. ....in3 Gd. Tk. Canada . 9,-1 10 Gt. S. and West. 112 113 SHARES. Laneas. & York. 991 2 L. & N. Wes`... 97884 1 L. and S. West.. 97 8 Leeds Northern.. 43 Man. Shell. Shelf. & Lin 37 A Midland Stock ...1.081 North Britisla ... Cl N. Staffordshire.. -- S. E. & Dover .. 811 2 YOrk, N. &B. . . 941 4 York & N. Mid... 73 The - following appeared in a part of our impression on yesterday : THE MONEY MARKET. The English funds }vire been quiet throughout the day, at the slight reaction of last evening. In the dis count market there has been a good demand to-day for a Saturday. The approach of the fortnightly settlement next week has led to some realisations in the railway market ; one large speculative account for the rise hav ing especially been closed. Several of the heavier British stocks have consequently declined Ato per cent.—Times. Consols declined kto per cent. The heavier Rail way Stocks were also slightly weaker. The cause was realisation by operators for the rise, desirous of securing their profit. Generally the reduction in price was not of much importance. In the demand for money a fair de j gree of activity prevailed. Discounters ask Bank minimum for best bills. About £20,000 in gold were withdrawn from Bank to-day for the Continent. The laorndaouedntinrec Bankov er l e v d aren fr o o l n is i e the ns Rldo.yalThCe prospectus rr e e t m n a s of iiis pl e; ily News. the .Universal Marine Insurance Com n has been issued, capital 1,00,000, in £2O shares. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—DEc. 12. There has been - rather a more general e v ii r r e il s • Y te f n o d r Cotton to=day, but with . very free offerin gs , to favour buyers. The sales, including 40 Pernambuco at Md., 30 Maranham at 80., i 300 Egyptian at 81d. to 10d., 2,000 Surat at 4 d. to old., are reported 8,000 bales, of which '2,000 - are on speculation and for export. •• - - LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—DEC.• 12. SUGAR.—The market continues steady,* but owing to the. firmness of holders nothing has been done on the spot, and the sales are confined to `a small cargo of Paraiba, to arrive, part new and part of the old crop, at 235. 3d. per pat. floating conditions, landing weights, for the United Kingdom. Nothing has been reported in Molasses or Rum. Corr•En.—There has been an improved inquiry, and ,;.;T F , 7 r ; .‘ NORTITERN DAILY TIMES. a small- carp (2,000 bags) of Rio has been sold.afk-at for the :Mediterranean at 55e., and 500 bags Bahia, to arrive ) of-which the price has not transpired ; .16.0 bags Para Coen are also reported at 555. per cwt. Rier.--Nothinglias taken place in Rice. • Wellave.alse to noticQsso bags Pimento ar3lper lb. DSYtWOODS.-10 tons Bombay Sapanwocaat - £7s- 6 d; andtis tons LiMaWOod at £l4 10s.-per-ton. • 'I2satIiALTERfES &c.-Small sales of Sumac at 12s. to 435., 150 tons 3rds . Brimstone at. £3, 100 tons Nitrate of Soda at 14s. 6d, 230 bags Bengal Saltpetre 10,1, per cent_ refraction at 34e. 6d. ; Ashes ; Tots,. 275; 3d.. to 275. 6d. ; Pearls,_ 275. 6d. -to 275, ; 20 bales of -Mexican Fibre,' at £2B 108. per ten:- . OILS, &c.—Palm, f';' , fiO tons,. at 44, and retlil lots at C 45, which is now the market price. Tallow steady ; Olive Oil firm, but quiet ; 709 - bris. common Rosin, at 413..; 79 brls. spirits of Ttrpentine,iat B!As. per cwt. *LIVERPO9II, CATTLE' VARKET.—DEc. 12 'The supply of stock wa.§ maoh larger tiaa4 on - Monday Met • The demand vary good, *of:last week's prices, for prithe stock ' - middling and inferior .easier to buy. Beef, sd. to 7d. ; Mutton, 61 to 7!d. Numbers at market : Cattle, 3,341 ;Sheep; 9,568. LONDON PP DUDE leti_A_D,KET.—DEc. 12, StiGAß—The transactions in the in ivate contract nMrket since Friday have. been folv.i and 'unimportant. Quotations are nuattered. COFFEE has a firm appearance TEA remains dull of sale. RicE—The demand has been- active. Bengal most inquired for. The following public sales are declared for to-morrow : —Sugar : 1,100 hlcds. of West India. Coffee : Lgoo bags native Ceylon ; 1,000 bags of Costa Rica. Cocoa : 350 bags.' Rice . 4,500 bags. LONDON MINING MAIZET. 7 —Dc, 12, The Mining Market to-day is steady,with a moderate amount - of business. • 'Wheal Mary Ann shares are Marked in the Stock - Exchange 31k. The_ other trans actions hare been principally in shares in Stray Park, Buller and Basset, North Basset, North Itoskear, Hingston Downs, West-. Caradon, and Tolcarne mines. St John del Rey Mining Shares have relapsed, being Marked 19 and. IF.J. :North Rhine Copper (South Australia) have been dealt in at par and 4- prem. Great Northern Copper are quoted to r i c prem. There have been a good many transaction; lately is Cobre Copper shares. This company's , sale of 1;151 tuns of Copper Ore on the 6tit instant-Ott Swansea realised JCI9,QBS 13s. A further sampling of 680 tons )vill be sold on the 27th instant. LONDON TALLOW MATIKET.—Dr.c..,I2. . . The market is firmer to-doy, pnee3 exhibit an ITII- proveriiiiifof 3d.10 6d' per compared With thOsc last current on Saturday, viz.:—Town tallow, 545. 9d. net cash ; Petersburg Y. 0. on - the spot, 565. ; alt the month, 555. Gd. to )lateli, 555..; - 14 faith only, 555: -6(1. BOROUGH HOP MARKET.--DEC, 12, early all new Hops continue very firm in 'price; but the speculative demand has -become lei's active. Other kinds of Hops have a slog; sale on former terms. LONDON CORN MARKET.—DEc. 12. Engl - 14 Wheat held f6r more money. - Foreign fully .. as dear. Floating cargoes in small compass, and ha porters-stiff, but-cargoes well bid for. -Barley moderate - sale. 0.1. ts against buyers.' Maize in request, at is. decline - . on the iveok. - --:Zrsborw's Report. _ METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—Dno.. 12. The great market has been held here to•dly, and •the supplies of both Bests and Shecp'Very large, and of an unusual flue quality. Prime Reacts and Sheep sold readily, at a ehght improvement in .the quotations, but other -kind3 a slow inquiry, on .-former terms. Prime CalVes in fair request, at very -full prices. Inferior breeds and Pigs were dull. • - Beef 3s Gd. to 5s 15 I - Veal 43 2d to 5s 25 Mutt0n„...3.3 . _45 to 53 45! ....::3s al to 53 oa Lamb Os Od to Os 05 I . 81$3. ' TOTAL SUPPLY. • - Beasts „ foreign. .. ... . CalveS • - 160 Cows ...... 125 .930 „ foreign. foreign, C.I.LE6TE It LIA.E.E ARKET.—DEC. 12. Great IYeterns, 671, .toni.fons, 97-1 ; Leeds, 991 ; • Truiiks 9 2 5-16 - 10 9 -• • p • GLASGOW IRON MARKET.D.Ec. 12, No. 1, 565. 3d. .to 565. 6d. Warrants, 50s. 3a. to 565, 6d.. Makers' iron, 558.'3d. to 555. 6a. No. 3, srs to 558. 6d. Market very eaeiteLL; large btisincss don ' The, Hudson's Bay Seal Skin Cloaks and Jackets, One Guinea each, at the New Shal and Muffle Ware; house, 40, Bold-strcet.—Shellard and llocl,pon, pro . . , prietors i ; , . . TO CORRESPONDENTS, .In the letter on "Decimals" which appeared in our yesterday's imp:ession, in is 'err;:.nedusly Printed "as many unites as . there - are - ones' Should have been "at thereSre ante's."'' - • Short letters are 6ncouraged on matters of public interest. . They shaald Toe ltibly written on olie . sie Qf the paper enly. Under no circumstances can we msert col/num - neatens act accompanied by the author's real name and address, wh!ch are required, not necessarily for:p - ab7.l:ation, 'but as guarL: tees of good faith. • to amount . to that of 2-1 individuals. The cele brated and plc.'aSing Atrierican, author, WaShington Irving -is thad. ° The steamers . Europa and Bohemian had arrived out. The Canada, which . , , .. maybe ;expected in- course of this forenoon; Was detained at Halifax by_ a dense fog. From . the meagre . outline of intelligeried thus furnisbed, it appears that the excitement relative to the San . . •-- Juan dispute has nearly died _ out ;it is said The War in Morocco, _so far, is in favour of the General Scott is 'about to initiate a conciliatOry Moors, who continue to be the assailants, the Policy. -- Spaniards acting -solely on the defensive. . The -. . . LaSt .night an interesting meeting washeld in Spanish Government has evidently not taken Hope-hall. ,It was the_ annual meeting of the ~ sufficient precaution for the preservation of its Liverpool branch of the Irish Society, which was army in - - Africa, the climate of which is so un- established-lir - 1818 f for the purpose of diffusing a favourable to Europeans.. It is now said that the 1 knowledge of the Bible among, the Trish,! by mode of supplying provisions for the troops turns ;printing and circulating the Scriptures in the out to be exceedingly defective, and the men in !Irish tongue. The chair was . occupied by the consequence are suffering severely. Considerable I{6 - t, Di.. M'Neile, who, in a long and animated reinforcements of troops; it is considered, will be , address, pointed out the particular objects of the required to enable the Spaniards to prosecute the i society. He was followed in aii energetic appeal war with any decided effect ; and the Spanish 'by the hey. Canon Stowell,'of Manehesterl , other Government are , now chartering English tiling- clergy , men also taking part in the proceedings, a ports-for the conveyance of their soldiers. - detailed account of which Will be found in" our The Freiiich Government would seem to have reporting columns. used considerable promptitude in getting ready Ely i r,,cfrtljent ants TUESDAY DECEMBER 13, .1859. THE DAY'S NEWS. and despatching the expedition to China. All the ships we now learn, destined for that expedi- No orie: 'that witnessed Tthe proceedings of the late trial in the Court of Exchequer, in the case of the Sierra Nevada, which has resulted in so serious a verdict against the Mersey Dock and Harbpur Board, can have received any very fairourable im pression of our Jury system. We do not remeinber, a case submitted to similar arbitrement, that would appear to have been decided so slightly, if at all, upon the real merits of the question at issue. - And - there were two reasons, perhaps, in the case hefoi'e us, why its decision was upon the whole so unsatisfactory: In the first plice, the Jury evidently did not fully:comprehend the actual bearings of the entire case; and in the next place, there were popular influences—infacnc - is that were very apparent in court throughout the . whole proceedings, but more particularly at the close of the last speech of counsel for theplaintiff— w.hich could not but affect, more or. less; the mind and feeling of the Jury. When the counsel for the ; plaintiffs sat down, immediately preceding the 1 : summing up of the Judge, there was an evident attempt to applaud on the part of the crowded audience, which was Only prevented by the instant interposition of the Judge - and. the' tion, have, with one' exception, left, the French ports, with troops and stores for China. The exception is a screw steamer, which is to follow immediately. We suppose that by the month of April the 'combined French and English squa drons will be in -a position to enforce redress, if necessary, in the Chinese waters. We yesterday alluded to the intention of the French Government to introduce a revision of the tariff of customs.duties. 'We now learn, that such revision is 'expected to be - undertaken in a spirit favourable to free trade. One immediate •conse- qUence of this ought to be, a large reduction, on - . • our part, of the duties on French wines. It is true that hitherto our relaxation of customs duties have not been reciprocated by France ; brit if this is now to be done, it will certainly be our truest wisdom to meet it with the utmost liberality. It is now reported. that Lord Wodehouse is to go to Paris to assist Lord Cowley as our repre sentative at . the approaching Congress. The, - 1 -toriting Herald complains that Lord Cowley- is paying a heavy penalty for the honour of repre- senting England on this 'occasion. " \Tory ,un jUsay;" it obsen'es, "the — unpopularity with which the policy of the present Government is re . • , • garded throughout the country is relleeted upon• the nobleman who is • selected to' carry it out ; and doubts as to the propriety of e-ltrusting an ambassador with the duties Aie -obviously. those of •a• member of tl cabinet have degenerated into it depretiation cf . the qualifications which Lord Cowley un (.1.;a.,:..my possesses Tor his present position: And then the writer proceeds to remark, that to visit ,th.e. shorteethings of the Minibtxy on our representative at Paris is evidently to put the sadille on the Wrong horSe, and to lighten the red delinquents of a great portion of their respehisibility." And so we thi.lh. f. _', .1 de linquency there may be, surely Lord Cowley is not. involved in,it. There can be no question what- , ever, in short, as is further well observed, that "the fact that our Paris ambassador has been the trusted servant of three successive Ministries ought to be a sufficient answer to those who find in Lord Cowley's, personal services a disk qualification for the important office thrust upon him by the necessities of the Whig Ministry." The business of the Winter Assizes for S outh Lan cashire was commenced yesterday, at St. George's : hall, by Baron Martin. The. Right Hon. Lord Stanley was, on this occasion, 'foreman of the grand jury. In his charge to that important body, the learned judge remarked, that, althoUgh the calendar vas rather light as regards the limn ber of the prisoners to be tried, the quality of the offences charge' was of an unusually- aggravated ch4itter. Out of sixty-two cases, he expreP. , :el hid r - gret to find that not fewer than .-four teen wore for hom;cide. Although, perhaps; not more' than one- er two of them presented the featuyes of , the clime of melrder. He remarked,and his re marks are, ur_happily, significant, " they (that is, the crimes) exhibit the most re:_•K - I-ss violence I , . . . . ;have had the Misfortune to, read. It appears ; that, 'in this -county, upon • the slightest offence upon-- a dispute-- between .personS who immediately before were' upon the most friciißy the party offended- has . ;lc — course to the Anife, to ,an iron tool, or any other weapon that comes to his . hand ; and noon several , • of these occasions—l dare say not less than ten or a ' dozen of them—you will, the man iratnediately- killed by the violence applied ; to Under these eircumstances. There aro three of the most appalling cases. One of them is_ of a child. A - inan received some insult froM some boys. Ile. immediately seized some iron weapon which'Was at hand, and fi - c.ng , it at • a child,' -who' died immediately afterwards." His Lordship proceeded to remark also upon another case, in which a woman in 'a drunken frenzy stabbed and killed her husband, he, being also at the time drnnlr. He neat, 111. terms Of mild. though strong condemnation, adverted, to a prac-', tice which in some instances seems to prevail—of policemen taltingeonfeSsions froin parties sehargba with offences. This he properly zharacterised contrary to law, and at variance with the' general praCtice of police affairs. Thrdiigh the, intervention of the telegraph we are - in receipt of a digest. of the news brought by the Canada, which sailed from Boston on the 30 . The Canada arrived at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, bringing fifty-nine pas , Senaers, 'and 24,000 dollars specie. Tiythis cbtn= ihunication we learn that the total loss of life by the Wreck of the steamer Indian has been eseertained officers of his court. But it had its effect. It produced a _sensation. The Jury plainly .mam fested the.. impression they had thus received. AU impression, we repeat, had thereby been pro auced on the mind of the Jury,—a popular im pression, favourable to the case of the plaintiffs, and, of course, unfavourable to that of the defen dants. Nor was the summing up of the Judge, able and impartial though we admit it, in some respects, to have been, calculated to remove very effectually, if - at all, the impression they had thus received. Besides, as the case was put before them, it was one of a very conflicting nature — one, which gave great room for doubt,—whieh left it very much with the Jury to give either one party or the other -the _benefit of that doubt, without any consciousness of injustice or wrong to one side or the other, according as they might happen to conclude. The first part of the ques tion was plain enough, perhaps,—namely, whe ther the veskl had received the injury for which compensation was sought by the interposition of Of a rniid - bank at the entrance of the - doc - IT but the next division of the question was one of a very different character. The Sierra Nevada might have been stopped by a bank of mud at the entrance of the Wellington half-tide dock; but it might not be that the defendants, by their servants, had the means of knowing the state of the - dock; or were - negligently ignorant of it. These, then, were the issues on which the Jury were called upon to pronoun C e. a , verdict. But, .as v a have - said; there is - reason to believe that they did:not altogether comprehend those . issues, -the latter more 'especially ; and their returning into, court, after an absence of some twenty Minutes, to be further enlightened upon the sub ject, May be taken as pretty conclusive proof that ;thely were still somewhat at a loss how to decide. again, when they had retired a - second time, it ben• ? an to_ be disputed by counsel whether, after •_! _ _ _ _ _ all; the Judge had put the case fairly to the Jury, I as respects the second issue—the issue, 'namely, • , • that involved the responsibility Of the . defen dants in _their having:_ the means Of knowing the state of the dock, or • their being negli gently ignorant of it. This was anew ex plained to the Juyy, and they retired for further deliberation. Nor was it until at least another half hour had expired that -they again returned into court, having made up their minds. Yet even then they • did not at first appear quite pre pared to deliver , a verdict ; for . the foreman, instead of doing so at once, began to address the Lord Chief Baron as to the remuneration they ought to receive for their lengthened ser vices, a question which certainly might*have had no little to do with the verdict. But the Judge very pro perly told them, that they had better return their verdict first ; and having done so Tor the plaintiffs, their: counsel not :unnaturally rose to intimate that, having contented With his clients upon the su'.)ject, they readily assented to his proposition to increase the ordinary Such, then, 'were the circumstances under ,which this most important case was decided; and they were circumstances, we contend, everything :considered, most unsatisfactory to the interests of justice. The question of remuneration, we repeat, was one calculated to affect very materially such a decision as this. In saying "so, we disclaim any intention to reflect upon the Jury. We . merely -speak of it, in the nature of things, as indicating 1 , aninfluence, which ought to: have had nothing to do with such a ease. In justice to the Dock Board, it ought not to be kept out of view, in considering this case, that they have incurred the severe penalty that has been inflicted, very much by their anxiety to afford every convenience to the Shipping Interest,, —to give the best opportunity for vessels getting into dock as soon as possible, instead - of availing themselves of the pretext which might so often ai ise, of there being obstructions at the entrances of the docks which must render delay inevitable —often to the serious inconvenience, if not loss of the waiting ships. By shortening the time of docking, and by forbidding their servants to dock any ship after the tide has reached a certain point, any recurrence of 'such an accident as that to the Sierra Nevada, for which the dock estate is called upon to pay such serious damages and costs; may henceforth be avoided. It will be an avoidance, however; that may operate very seriously . against the Shipping Interest. To keep the entrances of the docks always free. from obstruction in .a river so full of silt and mud,. as the Mersey is found to be, and such large quantities of which arc frequently thrown up in a single tide, must always be a very difficult matter. But if the dock estate, is to be mulcted in this way for such an accident as that which occurred to the Sierra Nevada, certainly much more liberal aßowance must henceforth he made for any restricaVe regulations - which the Dock Board may enforce, than the popular feeling has been in the habit of conceding. The case there fore, which in the Court of Exchequer has just been decided, has a two-fold illustration. It pre sents our Jury system in a very questionable light; and it shows how public bodies must, after all, look to their own security, even at the risk of interfering with what may be popularly re garded as the public convenience. THE political system tinder which we live is an awkward one to apply. theories to. Yet at the same time, such is the nature of society, and the extent of licence in modern ways of thinking and experimentalising, that nothing is easier than for mediocre minds to, be continually attempting an d levity, or good int en ti ons it. It is a circumstance of some alarm , but no less true, that great care should be necessary lest the merest vanity backed up with the poorest pretence and the smallest kmiwiedge, should work irreparal;le mischief in things affecting 'most closely our , natone.l well-being. As there is now a pretti general consent that no changes should be adJuit ted into our system of government which do act naturally flow from its first principles, a service is done When the ideal of the Constitution is on tinually kept before the popular mind as a correc tive to those crude but sometimes taking theories for which its favour is solicited. - If we begin our examination of such the9rie sl by admitting, as the simple character of the Con stitution,-that it is nothing but a collection Of expedients, suggested by circumstances and cla berated 'by time, for bringing into activity the most useful and appropriate form or forms of go - verning, of 'giving expression to the mast in" part ant .phases of national life, and embodyingf for practical purposes, the accumulating lessons of experience, we fix ourselves at a point whence we can, with tolerable safety, diverge into meal of the speculations, whether of empirics or of philosophers. It is a difficult question, stated beforehand, how to construct the best machine of Government,—a machine 'Which will work with most ease, and the longest without getting out of order ; which, with the fewest hitches and drawbacks, will turn out a good and serviceabl e article. That is, an article which will give the most satisfaction to the largest number ; or, if we choose to put it so, the most dissatisfaction . to the smallest number, arriving as near at a point of perfection as we can fairly expect an) .- thing to do in this botched, shuffling, misshapen' system of compromise, in which actual human nature has to live as it can, and not as abstract ' human nature would. It is comparatively eel, to put together, or rather imagine, a compact and perfect sort of theory on paper. But the objet" tion to such theory is,that whereas it might be ,gnitable'for beings living under a more perfect Theocracy than has ever been in the world, it i° by no means fitted for humanity as we find it' And the objection is the most fatal that could be offered. It admits of no philosophical reply, an d needs no philosophical corroboration. For iO 5 in itself a practical difficulty, , which all men 'Would like to see. overcome, and cannot. T ll°. theory will never be put into working, for tlic" best of all reasons, that it cannot be got to works It is:self-cancelling. Putting a negat: vein° a well known decisive resolution of refille d methods of reasoning, it my be said of it' von ambulanclo solvitier. Besides, the as gumption of a perfect Theocracy, such as could alone admit the application of the theory, ,, Wou la render speculation about it superfluous, as me n would find it ready made to their hands: As then we cannot find on earth the . required, nor that theocratic form of governme nt which 'would save us infinite trouble and nUmbe r -less Mistakes, perhapswe shall be content to ta bu it as the next best advantage, that we do fl ed ready made a tolerably serviceable and working machine- whichwhich`it Would be difficult, prObprobabl y' impossible, to improvise for ourselves even in , generation or. two. Every age is entering it ° the labours' of former ages, which scarcely Ic-e ° '- themselves that they laboured. The. pro e f S of experience ,and the gradual growth' whic h i evolves, is the- least self-conscious. And the le self-conscious are the reforms and the reform ers' which our ConStitution suffers and is hand ) by, the more genuine, and practicable, 4 13 permanent thoY - will be. The mole' that the - English Constitution is set uPol . 131 doctors on all sides, and prescribed for out o f the pharinacopeias of political philosophy , t hl moment we may count upon as the crisis - condition, and the little accent farce played °l4 before its decay. Perhaps even we might upon the signs-of bustle and anxiety as the at quest, and concl'ide that the patient is•nAr -o e departed. What time - - and circumstances ....... . till have produced, the same agents must as gra-12e' • and as insensibly -amend and adapt. N ° ( 1,, a II man, or set of men, made . the Constitution , 0 • If t h no one man, or set of men, can remake it. os'" experimentalists, with their beautiful and WI lir sible theerieS, can point to any crisis in ° history when politicians went down to the fon a • • dations, Ore 'Up the• Constitution by the re - ot , f ' reset it upon' new and definite principles, 10 011 perhaps lend an ear to their ambitious sc The reforms of Simon de Montfort or Arebbis - Magna Charta or the Bill of 1 --lu 110 t did not testify to the changeability e . 0 "00 .•: ! English Constitution, but rather to its 111 . ti) 10 querable elasticity, its power of looking ba c o.o to itself after its own principles, as well as o f 111 0 f lts growth, and the durability and permanen ce a oc if self-development. When men wish to Jai 110'; foundation, arid talk of the old principles a s ,eft ing been outworn, and become unfit for a rise . conditions, we do well to be alarmed; n ot bec t ol of strangeness in details, but because o f a 111 0 . e n sot" of procedure unknown to our history, rercand to the leading idea of our past national lif e, a ve l sharply and Violently transitional intoColti order of things. Unless the Constitution oh. es,,vor be safely and consistently amended and 1 "' a O, amendment by the rf , l son o. on . 0 to each passing age, and varyints resides f 0 it would not be so adapted as it has m en ' But thisitself, s d as the only instrument of safe reform. w hico , cern haS a . reserVe fund of its own, _ og . s ro' power must le o f drawname n ciously used is inexhaustible. When the til e Iaos ! begin to,go upon the market of abstr act P for t hap a 1 1 i l3 '" phy, or class interest, or political partisanshel! ►,:irFt the means of pretended and extrav a g ne 0 the result loss of influence and reputation,. afterwards confusion andlaankruptcp. t ip Orders have reached Woolwich for ineresrhogof Regiment of Artillery from the present "strengt"iti w ° to 16 brigades. It is besides intended to 00,0„,iact extra batteries to be horsed and manned with IS-1' iege guns. DE&MBER 13, 1859. I ~f`~ n