The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

MISMANAGEMENT AT THE CONCERT HALL. . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. I have the misfortune to remain, Your very obedient servant, ONE OF THE CRUSHED THE POLICE AND PROSTITUTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. Liverpool, Dec_ 20, 1853. SIR—I am happy to find that, through; the ,me- Ilium of your very valuable paper, you are exposing some of the immoralities which exist in this town to a most alarming extent, namely, "police regula tions and prostitution." • It is my duty, in order to attend my employment, to pass through the streets at 12 o'clock at night, and sometimes at a very early hour in the morning. But, I can _say, that during the whole of the last three months, I have never passed, but one mprn ing, without seeing one or more of the police-of ficers, who should have been on their duty at the time, inside of public houses, drinking ; and this, Mr. Editor, is the way that the public are protected. The houses into which they principally retire, too, are houses of very inferior description, many of which are the •abodes.of prostitutes of the rather better-dressed kind. And it is from these unfortu nate persons that they . principally get what they call their allowance ! But, Mr. Editor, what I should , call it, is a licence to steal, given to th ose W omen. It is a well-known fact, that if they would not give the police their fee or allowance, they would n9t,be allowed to walk on their "round." In fact, they are encouraged by the police of this town, who will for a small sum keep the whole of their round for that unfortunate being who fees them ; and this, sir, I have from their own words and from expe rience, for . I have, to obtain information, gone, into the company of many of these unfortunates, includ ing some of the most well-dressed and . s'ome of the most wretched, some drunken and: some sober. For, sir, there are some sober persons even amongst the most wretched - beings under the *canopy of hea ven ; and these are the most to be pitied of their most miserable class. I have not sought the com pany of these despised and most wretched beings for any evil purpose, but simply to find where the real truth of their fall lies ! • If you think fit, Mr. Editor, I will send you some of their statements, which, when brought to light before the public, I am sure will help to release those miserables from utter reprobation. Trusting that ,I . have_not ,taken up too much of your valuable time, and-hoping that you will insert this in your paper, making some allowance for mis takes, it being from a working man, with not much time to spare, but wishing to reform some of these wretched beings who have fallen through man's craft,—l remain, Sir, yours, A WORKING MAN OF LIVERPOOL. [We shall be glad to hear again from the " Working Man of Liverpool." He has manifestly a kind heart, and a judgment beyond.his opportu nities. If we could lay the communication as-it has reached us before the public, it would at once be made clear that the writer is what he calls him self. But with men so valuable among the working classes, we should not despair of freeing this town frOm the enormities to which his letter refers.] THE " CITY OF SYDNEY."—The sailing of this steamer for Australia is delayed in consequence of being fitted with a boomerang instead of the screw-propeller she had already shipped. She is to sail on the 3rd January, and Sir Thomas Mitchel the inventor of the boomerang goes out in her. GLASGOW POST-OFFICE.—The Provost of Glasgow has an-. nounced that he has had letters from Lord Canning and Sir C. Trevelyan, promising that the foundation of a new post-office for that city would be laid on the. 25th March, 1854. So much for agitation. On Saturday last, a desperate attack was made on the police at Belfast, when on entering a victualler's house after hours to put out the guests, they were assailed with great violence. - A young man, named John R. Gibbon, employed in the establishment of Mr. Boyd, Mary-street, Dublin, killed him self on Friday morning last, by taking au over-dose of laudanum, 35 drops. PREACHING AND PRACTICE.—A man who lately carried off a prize for an essay on total abstinence from a temperance society in a large town in the west, was seen the other day dragged to the police-office between two constables, as merry as Bacchus, without any of the jolly god's classical associations. A daguerreotype of the scene would form a capital frontispiece to the next edition of his essay , which would thereby be rendered d ou bly va l ua bl e.—N. B. Mail. UNIVERS= RErousr.--University reform to be made a Qovernment measure, and to f orm one o f t h e top i cs of the ueen's speech. The question was thus to be taken out of the hands of the university, and submitted to the wisdom of parliament. The government are anxious in the meantime to know what the university has done, or propose to do, on the four leading points, to which attention was drawn by Lord John Russell in his speech in the house in April last, viz.:-1. The constitution of the university-2. Its .exten- Bien, by the admission of persons to its teaching otherwise than belonging to, and residing in colleges.-3. The removal of restrictions , upon fellowships ; and 4'. The application of some parts or Lao; .sf" nAIiPPSS to the payment of professors and other cognate purposes. :flow TO CHOOSE A HtTSnAND.—If a man wipes his feet on the door-mat before coming into the room you may be sure he will make a goo d d omes ti c husband. If a man, in snuffing the candles, snuffs them out, you may be sure he will make a stupid husband. If a man puts his handkerchief on his knees whilst taking his tea, you may be sure he will make a prudent husband. In the same way, always Mis trust the man who will not take the last piece of toast or Sally Lunn, but prefers waiting for the next warm batch. It is not unlikely that he gr will make a eedy, . selfish hus band, with whom you will enjoy no " brown ' at dinner, no crust at tea, no peace whatever at home. The man, my dears, who wears goloshes, and is careful about wrapping himself up well before venturing into the night air, not unfrequently makes a good invalid husband that mostly stops at home, and is easily comforted with slops. The man who watches the kettle and pFevents it boiling over, will not fail, my dears, in his married state, in exercising the same care in always keeping the pot boiling. The man who doesn't take tea, ill-treats the cat, takes snuff, and stands with his back to the fire, is a brute whom I would not advise you, my dears, to marry upon any consideration, either for love or money, but most decidedly not for love. But the man who, when the tea is over, is discovered to have had none, is sure to make the best husband. Patience like his deserves being rewarded with the best of wives and the best of mothers-in-law. My dears, when you meeewith such a man, do your utmost to marry him; In the severest winter he would not mind going to bed first. —Punch's Pocket-book. WOLVERHAMPTON COAL AND IRON TRADE.—On account of the proximity of Christmas, great anxiety is felt by ironmon, gers and the people generalli.to get in a stock of coal for their immediate wants; the demand is therefore very great, and far in excess of the supply. Large tracts of thick coal still lies immersed in water, at Tipton Green, the Moat ColliCry, and-the Deepfields, and there seems no probability at present of a release on account of the disagreement which exists amongst the proprietors, as to the expense of erecting water engines and other necessaries. The Iron trade still maintains unabated vigour, and the ironmasters will not remain satisfied, it appears, till there is another rise declared of 20s. per ton upon manufactured iron, which will bring it up to the stan dard it was at the commencement of the year, viz :—Bars, £l.l, hoops, £l2, and plates, £l3 per ton. Some, of, the makers state, as a justification for this step, that the'raw material has note attainedibeprice it was when iron fetched the above rates. We would caution the ironmasters against any precipitate act tha,t, will again b r i ng d own t h e price, and u l t i mately end in discomfiture.-- FolverliamolZfral f fi t • L friendly squeeze is no doubt well enough in ids way, but to be " ramm'd, and jamm'd, and • cramm'd," as were her Majesty's lieges, Without and within the Concert-hall on last Friday night, is a matter not to be laughed at, much less paid for. Who the gentlemen are that perpetrate the arrange ments for temperance demonstrations in that edi fice, I don't know; but it is certain that their per ceptions of the nature of "pressure from without," are exceeding obtuse, and I. for oue would rejoice to see them forced to take their first step in the march Of humanity adorned each with a pair of fashionable stays ; or, better still, the straps and lacings of a straight waistcoat. It is really much too bad that an audience bent upon enjoying the intel lectual feast which one of Gough's orations un-, questionably supplies, should have their thoughts, distracted by reminiscences of the black hole of Calcutta, and an involuntary craving for fresh air and cold water. Why, in the name of common sense and common honesty, d oes no t th e " direr tory" limit the issue of tickets to such a number as the hall can comfortably 'accommodate, and,: above all, eschew the discreditable trick of allowing favorites easy access to choice 'locations in the in-' terior, by the door of the newsroom, before the. door of the hall itself is opened. A ticket for a' seat, one would imagine, should secure a seat to the holder, and anywhere else would do so, but in, the hands df these sapient Managers it ,becomes " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." Trusting, Mr. Editor, that your sympathy with crushed humanity will induce you to let these delinquents feel the power of the press, hydraulic, if you will. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. EDINBURGII.—This court met on Tuesday.—Present on the bench the Lord Justice Clerk and Lords Cockburn and Handyside. MURDER.—William Cumming was put to the bar charged with the murder of his wife, by striking her with his fists, and with a stick, or poker, or tongs, or pieces of broken furniture, on the head and other parts of her person, at different times betwixt the 22nd and 26th October last, in their house, Scott's Close, Water-lane, Leith, which injuries, being of a fatal character, resulted in her death on the Bth November following. The prisoner is a little elderly man, and was a sailor. The following was the principal evidence adduced : Janet Selkirk, or Hunter, lives in Waterlane-close, Leith. The prisoner and his wife lived there. His house contained only one room and one bed, and entered from the top of the stair. I saw the prisoner on Saturday the 22d. He seemed to be sober. He came into Danskin's house. His wife came to the door about nine o'clock in the evening, perfectly. sober and collected. She had no marks on her face. They went away in perfectly good terms. There were no marks on her face then. I went to bed, and was awakened by cries of . murder' coming from Mrs. Cumming. It , was a severe scream: I think this was about 12. The prisoner came in after 12 next day. I went up and saw Mrs. Cumming in bed all marked. One of her ears was swelled and blood oozing from it. She told me her breast was hurt with his knees. She was all bruised from ,the toe to the crown. Remained till 9 a t n i g h t an d poulticed her three times. She was very weak. I asked him to look at her ear, and said he had d one f or h er . Re peatedly said he had bruised: her very sore. He never denied it. Washed two caps and a pillow slip, all of which were very bloody. Saw the prisoner on the Monday very bad, with drink, . On Tuesday she got out of bed very weak. He, was quarrelling with her and knocking everything about the house. Left between three and four, and did not come, back, and went to bed, and between twelve and one heard cries of iinieder and loud screams. Her husband would not go out. All was quiet. N ex t d a y wen t - to Mrs. Cumming, and found her lying with her head over the back of the bed and feet over the front. Took off her clothes, when she did not speak. Saw the prisoner about two, when he gave three hurrahs and went away. She only spoke on the Thurs day. She was quite unconscious all the time. Mr. Cum ming was a quiet person. Mary Danskin—Lives in same stair with prisoner. Pri soner had just come home from the sea on the 20th October. She saw the priboucx'a wife in bed en the 21th. Sho said her husband had struck her on the breast. She was quite sober. She saw the prisoner going about drunk. Heard cries of murder from Mrs. Cumming's house on Wednesday morning, about three o'clock. This did not last above a quarter of an hour. Went to Mrs. Cumming's, and found, her in bed and not able to speak. Marion Danskin—daughter of previous witness—Saw Mrs. Cumming on the night of the 22d October. She was looking out for something, and sent witness for a little milk. She went up to her bed, and asked if her head was much bruised. It was all blood. She said William had struck her sore.l Cumming came in and went to bed, and after having e good sleep he rose up. He was asleep when he saddenlrawoke' and knocked his wife out of the bed. He began cursing and swearing. She said " Don't hash me the way you are doing, or you will be hanged, and I wouldn't wish you to be hanged for, me." She had got up from the floor, and he struck her with i the pillow. He brogged with his knees and trampled on her; breast. He took a stick, and struck her on the shoulders .and side. She did not cry at that time. 'Witness was so frightened at this that she ran out. She heard a noise, while she was standing out, as of sticks striking against; tables, and as if he had been beating her. He seemed to have been breaking the table, and then beating her. Heard no more that night. Saw Mrs. Cumming next day about nine o'clock. The prisoner opened the door, and Mrs. Cumming was lying across the bed ; her head was over the deal, and her feet over the front. She was not able to speak. She had on a petticoat, shift, and wrapper. She had more clothes on than at night. She was not moanin g . Cumming asked her to ask his wife if she had any money. On asking her, she shook her head, but did not speak. He then rose, and took ten shillings out of her pocket, which was tied on her. He gave her half a crown to get a pint of a l e. He asked his wife if she would take a glass of spirits Sh e shook her head as if to say no, when he said f she take it he would knock h er b ra i ns ou t. He giavehersaArgiaLt of whisky which she pretended to take, but threw it away. He asked her if she had taken it, and she answered yes. He then left, taking his clothes, and saying he was going to his wife and children in India. Mrs. Hunter came in, and she pat her right into the bed and undressed her. There was blood on her cap. Cross-examined--Mrs. Cumming asked - her to come in on the Saturday night to take a cup of tea, as she was afraid he would strike her as he was in such ,a rage. They appeared to be on good terms th a t n i g ht . Mrs. Wilson knew the Cummings. Recollects of going to the house on Sunday 23d October. Mary M‘Pherson was with her. This was about five or six. Saw Cum ming and an artillerym a n. M rs . C umm i ng was lying in her bed On going to bed side, she said she was ill owing to his strokes. He was squarring with a stick, and fencing with the artilleryman. He had been drinking. He was quite able to stand, and knew that he'was about. Witness asked her how he struck her, and she said it was with her first hus band's stick. He was in at the time, but was not attending to what was said by his wife. There was a poultice on her ears and a bandage on one of her eyes, which were both black. She had seven marks of, violence on her body. Mary McPherson said to prisoner, "You have done for her now," and he answered, "No fear, she will see two or three of us out yet." Mrs. Cumming wished to be lifted up in bed, but could not remain in that , position, as she said three of her ribs were broken. Witness said to her, if she was used so she should leave him; but she said, "What can Ido ? " She said he would finish her right out th a t night. There was no smell of drink about her. On asking what the cause was, she said he came home drunk in the morning, and not being able to get the match-box quick enough, he pulled her out of bed, and got upon her breast with his knees, and this, she th oug ht, h a d b ro k e h er r ib s. ' She said he had, broken the furnit ure , an d struc k h er w i th the bits. On looking into the closet, saw it full of broken furniture ; also the same underneath the bed. He had gone out with the artilleryman at this time. She and Mary M'Pherson left about seven o'clock. Mrs. Cumming said, on bidding good-bye, to be sure arid come down next day, as they would get her dead next day. She kissed her several times on leaving, as if parting with her for the, last time. The prisoner came in before they left, and seemed to be in good spirits. She left word with Mrs. Hunter to inform the police if anything took place. Witness went down next evening, and found her out of bed and preparing to go out. She had a very wild appearance—raised looking. She looked bewildered like, and did not appear to mind having asked witness to come down to her the next day. Prisoner was worse in drink than on,the Sunday. He seemed happy like. Went to see her on the 6th December. She was then speechless and in bed. Saw fresh wounds on her face, One on forehead and One on back, and several on various ;parts of her person. She did not seem to know witness. Saw the body after death. Dr. Brown, house surg eon i n Leith' Hospital, was called to attend Mrs. Cumming on Thursday, 27th October. Found her in bed lyi ng i nsens ibl e, very feeble. She had a great many marks on face, ears, back, body, and legs. She appeared to have been a healthy woman. She died on Bth November, up to which time h e a tt en d e d her. Her head had been shaved, which discovered two injuries on the head. Considered her seriously ill from the first, arising from an injury on the brain. Read report of post viortem examina ion made by him and D r . Paterson, which attribut e d th e ath to laceration of th e brain, caused by . external violence. L e. as satisfied there must have been many injuries and blows. .Mr. Graham, for the prisoner, made a very forcible appeal ?II ben= or t -LL , r- - ;---... admittinc , his general guilt in Striking and maltreating his wife, blit conrenalu s 0... i, 41:—. particular injury, which was the sole cause of her death, was not proved to have been inqictd by him. The Lord Justice-Clerk summed up the whole evidence in the case. The Jury, after a short absence, returned a verdict unani mously finding the prisoner guilty of murder as libelled. The Lord Justice-Clerk then, after a solemn admonition, to prepare by attention to his religious duties for his awful change, pronounced the sentence of the court, which or dained him to be executed at Edinburgh on the 9th of January next. His lordship then stated to the jury that the court entirely concurred in the verdict. The prisoncr having 'intimated that he wished to address dile court, and being allowed to do so, said—l am, my Lord, a man who has been forty years at sea, and I can say I have served my country truly and faithfully, and though the sen tence of death has been passed upon me for my wife's death, I can say sincerely, that I did it with no intention of .com mitting death, and I trust the Lord will have mercy on my soul. The Lord Justice-Clerk in reply, feelingly recommended the unhappy man not to trust to any hopes of earthly mercy, nor to harden his heart against the conviction of guilt by any such notion as he had mentioned, but to pre pare with all earnestness, by devoting his remaining days to religion, for the death the law had ordained him t o suffer. • • The patent asphalte factory of Ritchie and Son, 4t DcVast, has been burned down. -On Monday night the premises in Donegall-street, Belfast, jointly occupied by a sewed muslin manufacturer and draper, were on fire, and the upper part is nearly consumed. Al though the wind was strong, the flames were confined to the premises in which they oiiginated. GRAIN IN EGYPT.-A mercantile house in town (says the Northern Whig), has handed us the following extract from a letter just received from their correspondent at Alexa'ndria, dated Bth December :—" The British Consul has just re ceived a letter from the Egyption.government, to the effect that so soon as the seed sowing shall be terminated,- and it is nearly over - the stock of grain existing will be ascertained, with the intention, if it shall be found to exceed the quantity required for food, to permit the free export again. It is ge nerally understood that this will be done very shortly, and that government itself will commence its public sales. The Emperor Napoleon 111., has given 25,000 f .from his private pulse to establish four new markets in Paris, for the retail sale of meat by auction. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-MONDAY. (Nisi Prius Sittingi at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice JERVIS and a Special Jury.) CLELAND AND ANOTHER V. THE UNITED GUARANTEE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action on a policy of insurance, dated 17th January, 1850, whereby the defendants guaranteed to the extent of £2OOO, to make good within three months, after reasonable proof thereof to the defendants; any loss what soever which the plaintiffs should sustain during the liability of the defendants on that policy by reason of the want of integrity, honesty, or fidelity of Frederick Savil Lee, arising out of his employment by the plaintiffs as the London manager of their business. The defendants pleaded that the plaintiffs did not sustain loss by want of the integrity, honesty, or fidelity of Lee as London manager of the plain tiffs ; that proof was not given to the reasonable satisfaction of the directors of the loss ; that three calendar months after such proof of loss had not elapsed before the com mencement of the action ; that the loss was . occasioned by the plaintiffs having entrusted Lee with certain bills of exchange drawn by the plaintiffs in blank, contrary to, mer cantile usage and a safe and respectable mode of earring on business; to which, some time afterwards, was added a plea that the defendants were induced to make the policy by the fraud of the plaintiffs. Mr. Serjeant Byles, Mr. Coiling, and Mr. W. Rose were counsel for the plaintiffs; and Sir F. Thesiger, Q.C., Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Bovill for the defendants. Mr: Serjeant Byles, in stating the plaintiffs' case, said that the plaintiffs were citizens of , the United States of America, who, some time ago, 'carried on business as mer chants at Boston. The defendants were a, joint-stock company in London,' whose business it was to insure the integrity and fidelity of persons employed towards their em ployers. The plaintiff, Mr. Cleland, was in England in the spring of 1849, and whilst in London he resided in a house in Surrey-street, Strand, where he became acqoainted with an American gentleman, named Lee, who introduced him to another gentleman of the same name, but not connected with him—a Mr. Savil Lee. After the introduction Mr. Savil Lee and Mr. Cleland went about London together, and at length Mr. Cleland was led to believe that Mr. Lee would be extremely serviceable to him in carrying out a pro ject he entertained of establishing a branch business in London. Mr. Cleland was, howoyer, unwilling to do this unless Mr. S. Lee would give him ample security for his in tegrity, and after Mr. Cleland returned to America a corres pondence ensued on this subject, the result of which was that as the plaintiffs would have to send Mr. Lee letters of credit on a house at Liverpool for £2,000, and also to allow him to draw upon their credit, they required from him a guarantee ,to the extent of £2,000. Mr. S. Lee, therefore, applied to th e d e f en d an t s t o k now if th ey would `guarantee his integrity as manager of the London branch of the plaintiffs' business, and the defendants' secretary then gave him a doc umen t containing a number of questions, which he undertook to transmit to the plain tiffs at Boston, to be answered in a manner that should meet the defendants' approbation. Amongst those ques tions were the following, which he would read, with the plaintiffs' answers to them : " In what capacity do you intend to employ the applicant ? and with reference to this question will you state,, as far as circumstances will permit, the nature of his intented duties and his responsibilities; the amount which it is likely will at any time be entrusted to his custody, and the probable period of its retention by him; the checks which will be used to secure accuracy in his accounts ; and the salary or emolument which will be paid to him, and how and when it' will be paid ? " To this the answer wa s , , " He is to be manager of a branch of our house in London. His duties will be, generally, to make advances on and influence consignments of merchandise to our address in America, and to dispose of goods consigned to him in Lon don. The amount entrusted to his custody will vary from' £5OOO to £lO,OOO. There is no definitive period specified for his remaining in our employment. Ile will regulary advise us of his doings, and our accounts will be balanced as often as once, and perhaps twice a year. Ile will g e t cer tain commissions on a ll th e business transacted by our house in London." Another question was, " Are you aware of any reason why a guarantee of the applicant's intregity should be considered more than usually hazardous ? " The answer was "No reason whatever. On the contrary, we have full confidence in his integrity, or we would not employ hint , ' On the basis of these questions and answers, the policy in question was entered into on the 17th of, January, 1850, but prevfausly, on the 18th, December, 1849, the plaintiffs bad appointed Lee their agent to manage the .branch of their business in London, on the terms that he was to have, by way of salary, 50 per cent. on the profits, but • not to be a partner. They also sent him the power of attorney, and a letter of credit on Hamden and Co., of Liverpool, for £2OOO, and blank forms of bills to be filled up by him and used as might be required by the exigencies of business. The annual premium to be, paid on the policy was £25 ; but it was stipulated that any fraudulent misrepresentation should render the policy void, and that the holder of the policy should give notice of any acts resulting in the accrual of the right to make a claim on the policy, and all particulars there of, within ten days, otherwise the p o li c y an d a ll e xi s ti ng claims under it should be void. Moreover, although the plaintiffs were not aware of it at the time, there was an other contEtitm attached, n u d e l y , that the person whose fidelity was guaranteed should insure his life, and that if any claim was made upon the guarantee the life policy should be forfeited. And this led him to make observa tions on the conduct of the defendants, which he regretted to be obliged to make. The number of references ordi narily required by the society was three. Mr. Lee supplied them with five. The defendants had -thrown the case into Chancery, and thus delayed the trial of the cause for two years ; and now, within the last few months, they had put upon the record a plea of fraud, of which he would venture to say that they would not be able to offer any evidence. But the policy being effected, and the letter of credit and the bills received, the first thing Lee did was to draw the whole £2OOO from Harnden and Co., and pl ace it in the Royal British Bank to the credit of the plaintiffs. This was not complained of; but what was complained of was, that, having withdrawn this £2OOO, and a second sum of £2OOO, for which another letter of credit was sent to him, he filled up the blank bills which had been entrusted to him, drew out the money, and misappropriated not only that, but also a much larger sum to his own purpoSes. Having done this, in consequence of speculations he had, engaged in which turned out unsuccessful, he wrote the following letter to the plaintiffs : • " London, June 14, 1850. " Messrs. Cleland and Day, Boston, U. S. " Dear Sirs,—ln making to you the following communica tions, which are more painful to me thin to you, for two rea sons- namely, that 1 am in both respects the loser,.l have the Consolation of having it in my power to make every atonement. The simple case is, that I have met with heavy and unexpected fosses, and was called upon to make payments when I did not expect such would be the case, so that 1 was not prepared to do so. To avoid the consequences, I availed myself of the means ht hand, and those means were yours. Mind Ido not wish or attempt to exculpate myself. I acted decidedly wrong, but a man is not always master over : his actions. I, however, as 1 said above, can offer you sufficient atonement without being Obliged to have recourse to the security I gave you. I have a manufactory in this City (unknown to the trade, Its it was in ended as the bread for my wife and children, in case I were, Unfortunate in business) worth more than I have lost. I cal culate the value at least at £2500, and dare say could obtain more for it, as it is a monopoly in Great Britain, and greatly improved of late. This' r offer to place in your hands. My advice would be for you to keep the business, as it is (and will be) a splendid paying concern ; and it could be easily managed and worked to advantage in many ways. " You must, however, know that payments of the drafts will be made without your name or that of the house here being compromised for a few weeks longer, but that then it would became difficult to do so any length of time. I lost, and with my money my head, my presence of mind, and raised money. These bills became due in the middle of July. As I said before T; c ;,,,, try cyoncrty into your hands, but wish you to remit me another letter of credit, to enable Me to - taxe up at Litt.. ) £l5OO or £l6OO would be sufficient. " I am glad Mr. Cleland is coming over, as he can decide upon selling, or c9ntinuing the manufactory on your own account. " For your own sake remit me the above credit per return of Post, _ "I have .been ill, and this is the first day I have attended a. nu office since the Bth, and should not have come had it nol been American post or mail. " That I regret extremely having lost my money you can easily conceive. but I regret much more the consequences. Thank God ! you will not lose. "Itisof na use making excuses. I acted wrong, and wish to amend the wrong I have done by every means in my power. I remain, dear Sir, yours respectfully, " FREDER IC S. LEE." To this letter the plaintiffs returned the folloWing answer: " Frederick S. Lee; Esq., London. " Boston, July 2, 1850. ‘, Dear Sir,—Yours of the 14th ult, is to band, and we are perfectly astounded at the development which you .have therein made, of having appropriated .£l5OO or £l6OO of our money to your private uses. ,We cannot conceive why a person of your standing and integrity should have allowed yourself to be tempted in such a manner, and that too, to misappropriate the money belonging to young men who had reposed such unlimited confidence in your honesty. You speak of having some p r iv a t e property to secure us, b u t you neither tell us what or where it is, and we are perfectly in the dark as to the nature of the busi ness that is carried on in it. If it is so valuable as you say it is, why do you not dispose of it at one° and make up the deficf ency of the account, and not allow of an exposure of this ,unplea sant'affair? You are aware, that no matter how favourably we may feel disposed toward you, yet the conditions of the,United Guarantee and Life Assurance Company are such, that in case we neglect to give them due notice of any delinquency which may occur in the honesty of the person so insured, within ten days after the development of this fact, the policy shall be void. This being the case, we have notified them of the, deficiency, with all the other information in our power in regard, to, that unfortunate affair: We have also mentioned the matter in n•co fidence to Jam e i Scott, Esq., of your city, whom, togethe r. r with the officer, we beg you will lose no time in calling upon, and make such amends as are in your power to save all parties concerned from any loss which may accrue from your unwar rantable conduct. , We, beg, at any fate, you Rill make such . . „ a , 11=h - ora - tuts" Wn'your friends as to protect our'dratts until our Mr. Cleland arrives in London per next steamer. W 6 could not for a moment think of forwarding you a letter of credit under existing circumstances ; and we do not wish you to use any. more (if you have not done so already) of the cre, dit ou Harnden and Co. We trust you will, at least, show in this matter a disposition to do all in your power to make restitution for th e ev il w hi c h you have already , com mitted, and p ro t ec t our i nterests and that of the insurance company to the utmost of your ability.--" We remain, dear sir, yours truly, " CLELAND and DAY. " P.S. We wish you to hand over to Mr. Scott the power of attorney and the instrument of our agreement." By the same mail the plaintiffs wrote to the defendants on the subject of Lee's letter, and by the next mail they sent the defendants a copy of the letter, and they also sent over a gentleman named Brigham with a power of attorney to act for them, but two late, for Mr. Brigham found that Lee had not only drawn out and misappropriated the two sums of 20001., but that he had in several instances placed the plaintiffs' names to bills without their authority, and that altogether they were losers by him to the amount of between 50001. and 60001. Under these circumstances they called upon the defendants to make good the loss to the extent of their guarantee, and upon the defendants refusing to do so they commenced the present action; but the defendants applied to the Court of Chancery for an injunction, which.' however was dissolved by the Vice Chancellor without cal ling , upon the plaintiffs' counsel to reply. The defendants then applied for a second injunction to stay execution in case the verdict , should go against them, and at last they added the plea of fraud, as to which he frankly confessed he did not know what it meant, for he believed, if they ventured to put their secretary into the box, he should be able to show that Lee's agreement with the plaintiffs, their letter of, credit, and power of a tt orney , were all made known to him! before the policy was effected. This being the plaintiffs' case, he thought the only question would-be the amount of their loss, and if there was any difficulty in that question, which he did not anticipate, he was quite ready to refer it to arbitration. Mr. W. Swain, formerly in the employ of Harnden and Co., of Liverpool, Boston, and New York, deposed that Lee called on Hamden and Co., January 17, 1850. He brought a bill drawn in blank by plaintiffs, which was filled up in our office for £1,750, and Harnden and Coe accepted it. It is endorsed by F. S. Lee and Co., and Barned and Co. A second bill was brought for £950 by L ee , an d d ea l t w i t h i n the same manner. The first was made payable to F. S. Lee and Co. ; the second to Cleland and Co., and endorsed by -Lee by procuration. Afterwards, June 27, a second bill of credit came, and Lee came with a bill for £1,076, drawn in favour of F. S. Lee, Esq., at sight ; it is endorsed F. S. Lee, and Barned and C o . H e a l so b rought a second bill for £429, drawn and accepted in the same manner. After wards, July 8, he brought a bill for £495, drawn in favour of Mr. F. S. Lee, which we accepted, payable November 11, 1850. Cross-examined : I left Harnden and Co. in May, 1851. It was a branch of the houses in Boston and New York. It had been for years conducted by one of the firm, At the time the first bill of credit came, Mr. Osgood, a partner; was managing the Liverpool betas ess ; when the second came, a gentleman nailed Barnes. They were merchants, ship brokers, passage-brokers, and bankers. They were in the habit of giving bills to a small extent to emigrants. Taking the average of sight bills at £5 each, it did not exceed £lO a month. The business done in remitting money from emigrants to this country was gigantic, amounting to £176,000 a year. They failed, and I have not heard they have paid ls. in the pound. I did not know Mr. Lee except in this business. Mr. Baines : I was manager of Harnden and Co.'s busi ness from February, 1850, to September, 1851. I believe all the bills were paid by .Harnden and Co. Cross-examined : I believe Hamden and Co, suspended payment in the month of October. The amount of the lia bilities of the Liverpool branch was 30,0001. or 40,000/. Perhaps about 10,000/. was drawn in favor of emigrants, but a large portion was paid in full. There was not ls. in the pound paid by the Live r p oo l b ranc h , b ut I k now that all the emigrant notes issued i n N ew Y or k were pa i d i n full. 'The claims of the London creditors were remitted to the States, and I do not know what became of them. Sir F. Thesiger : Probably they were repudiated. _ Mr. Serjeant Byles : That is not a fortunate phrase from you, for we are here in consequence of youi clients' repudia tion Witness : We received the money to answer these bills from Boston, and we did so. Evidence Was then given of the .discounting of the bills by Earned and Co. and the Royal British bank; of loss sus tained by the plaintiffs; and of demand upon, and refusal by, the defendants to compensate the plaintiffs. Mr. Samuel Cleland, one of the plaintiffs : I carried on business with Mr. Day in Boston. I was in England in 1849, and lived with a Mrs. Morgan, in Surrey-street, Strand. Frederick Saville Lee and his wife and family were also residing there. We became introduced. He took me to several houses. There was a negotiation as to his becom ing manager of a conttriplated Loudon business. He re presented himself to be agent for several foreign houses. I afterwards went on the continent, and made inquiry at those houses about him. Afterwards he became the manager of our London business. A discussion ensued as to the amount the plaintiffs had lost by Lee, and a suggestion was made that it should be referred to arbitration, in consequence of which the exami nation in chief was closed. Cross-examined : When I employed Lee he was- only acting as agent for;houses on the continent. He was carrying on that agency business under the name of F. S. Lee and Co., in Little Tower-street. I knew that Lee and Co., in fact, was Mr. Lee. I did not know before the proposal was sent to the defendant, that Overend, Gurney, and Co. had refused, to discount .the bills of Harnden and Co. I did not know their credit was bad before the date of the policy. I received the letter produced from Lee. Harnden and Co. failed in Boston. We also failed in August, 1850. We commenced business in 1847. lam now carrying on busi ness slightly. Mr. Day is clerk in a house in New York. Some of our creditors were paid 10s. in the pound, others not so much. Our American liabilities were 60,000 or 79,000 dollars, or about 12,0001. Ido not know the amount of our liabilities in this. country. Lee first proposed our sending blank bills. That was not proposed to us before the 4th December. It was not intended to be entirely a colisgnment business, but Lee was to make advances on consignments. The amount of consignments which Lee influenced in six months was a little over 2251. The amount consigned from America was eleven or twelve hundred' dollars for lard sent before the policy, but received afterwards. Re. examined : We from time to time urged him to con sign to us. We gave him orders to send us goods, which he did not do. He purchased goods for us to the extent of 12231. ss. Amongst that was 100 tons of Welsh bar iron, 5271. 195., which he sold again. We never received the money for that iron. Our failure was in consequence of Lee's .delinquencies. We lost about 50001. altogether by him. Cross-examined again by Sir F. Thesiger.—We drew several bill s u p on L ee an d C o. , w hi c h have been paid, to the amount of £1497 4s. 7d. Those bills were drawn for money he had in our hands. I mean on the let ter of credit. There were 11 bills altogether drawn on Lee and Co., exclusive of the lard, eight of which were drawn by us, and three by other persons. Cross-examined upon this additional evidence.—We drew these bills because we could not get consignments, and the money was lying idle. We sold the bills in the Boston money market. We provided the money for the first £2OOO letter of credit ; when the second letter of credit became due we had stopped payment. Sir F. Thesiger here addressed the jury for the defen dents, and contended that notwithstanding the odium and loss they might incdr by doing so, it was the duty of the defendants to resist this action—at least until the circum stances under which the policy had been effected had been fully investigated by a jury. Great complaint had been made that the defendants had put a plea of fraud upon the record; but he would explain to the jury why that was 'iuu., and glgo why it was not done sooner. When the plaintiffs' demand was first mane up tho dofouclante they were very desirous of seein g th e correspondence between the plaintiffs and their agent Lee, but they were only allowed to see extracts, and when they proposed to compare those extracts with the originals, the application to do so was refused. Under these circumstances they were driven to file a bill in Chancery, and it was not until March last,-when all the correspondence was brought into the Record and Writ Office, that the defendants had an opportunity of perusing it. Up to that time they did not know but that the business had been carried on in the usual mercantile manner, but upon pe r usi ng th e correspon de nce they found that such was not the case. The jury would re member the questions put to the plaintiff's before the policy was effected, and the plaintiffs' answers to them. Would they have conjectured from those questions and answers that instead of being a business for thepurpose of effecting consign ments, that it was to be a business carried on by a system of accommodation bills, byletters of credit upon an insolvent firm, and by bills sent to Lee in blank, without even a stamp to limit the amount of them ? He would read to the jury some extracts from the correspondence between the plaintiffs' and Mr. Lee, their agent. On the 9th of October, 1849, the plaintiffs wrote :—" In looking over the papers we per ceive you limit the branch in London to influencing con signments from America, and that it should do no business on its own account. This would be objec tionable, for why should it not do all the profitable business it could from the Continent find other places as well as from America'?" On the 26th of October Lee wrote to plaintiffs :—" The second grand object in jour having a branch hors would be an open or blank credit to any amount." On the 6th of November plaintiffs wrote to Lee :—" We should have preferred that you would Dave acted as our agent in obtaining consignments of goods to begin with, and after a while we might have made other satisfactory arrangements. We could then have increased the facilities, and have given you not only the credit for 42000, but could also have made it nearly double in other ways which is now unnecessary to mention. It is rather difficult for us to draw all the time on our own house in London—such bills are always looked upon with suspicion, as a kind of kiting business, but if you were always acting for us under your own name we could draw on you at all times on 90 days, and send you bills on 60 days, which, yo u ,could get discounted, and thus be flush iu fends for advnnees all the time. In our present arrangements with Hamden Evidence in support of the defendants' case was about to be tendered when The jury asked if it was necessary that it should be proceeded with ? Even assuming the defendants should prove the whole case as opened by their counsel, they were unanimously of opinion that it was no answer to the action. Some conversation ensued upon this, and ultimately a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs, for such damages as they should prove upon reference they had sustained by Lee's defalcations. Verdict for the plaintiffs. The Submarine European Telegraph Companies have opened offices in Chatham and Canterbury. An inquest was held in Manchester, on „Monday, on the body of Judith Barker, aged 8,5, who died from a fall, in which her head came in contact with an iron holdfast. On the same day, an inquest was held, touching the death of Mary Clemenson, Ancoat-street. She had been ill for a fortnight, and on the morning of her death, the evidence showed that her husband said to the deceased, " Give me my money. " The deceased said she had not any money. The husband had not been sober for three weeks, and the previous night he went to bed drunk. With an oath be told the deceased that he would knock her two eyes into one, And then the niece heard the blows. The brute then went and got drunk, having got 19s. from the niece. At ten o'clock in the morning she died. The doctor, however, deposed that the woman was not injured by the bro ws , b ut died of asthma. V er di ct accordingly. THE ST. JOHN'S N. B. AND LIVERPOOL LINE OF PACKETS :—The St. John's Freeman, in reference to this well-appointed line of packets, says :—lt is gratifying to be able to say that, since the establishment of the St. John's line of packets, about twelve months since, not a single death has occurred on the passame. This fact speaks volumes in favour of the line, and should be universally known. It is also a singular fact, and one that all shippers, importers, and insurance agents should be aware of, that since the establishment of the line not a single claim for made,insl- r fe we goods except brought tilat fo O r n g th b r t ee by h o t r h s e e s s o b v e e l ss on e g ls in h g as to be th en e province. The Eudocia had a most boisterous passage, several vessels havi ng b een l ost at the time, yet not even on the goods bro ug ht b y h er was a single claim made. The Imperial brought goods to the value of £lOO,OOO, on which the underwriters had not to pay a dollar. Importers may fairly expect, under these circumstances, to have merchandise importen by these vessels insured at a very low rate. THE FIRE ANNIHILATOR.—On Saturday, at about twelve o'clock at noon, a fire occurred upon the premises of Mr. Thomas Gould, coach builder, Princess-street; Gravesend. Mr. White, the superintendent of police, who has charge of the annihilators, together with Mr. Aitkin, the serjeant-at mace, immediately proceeded there with the annihilators. On their arrival they found that the fire was raging in an up stairs bedroom, which appeared to be full of flames. When Mr. White entered the house and proceeded up stairs he found that the fire had just burnt through the wainscot of the room, and the flames were just spreading across the landing to the rooms on the opposite side of the staircase; it was utterly impossible to get into the room, and so he, with Mr. Aitkin, discharged one of the No. 5 twenty-two pound annihilators through a hole in the wainscot. Almost immediately that the annihilating atmosphere entered the room, the flames, as if by magic, dropped, and in about three minutes Mr. White and Mr. Aitkin were enabled to enter'the room. When the fire was got under it was clis covered that in addition to the 'room having been on fire all round, the flame had burnt through the ceiling and commu nicated the fire to the roof of the bullding.—lrentish luck pendent, Dec. 17. EXTRAORDINARY NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA.—The following extraordinary intelligence is contained in a letter received by Mr. Joseph Abraham, of Bristol, from a relative in Hobart Town, and kindly handed•to us by the former gentleman. For really startling intelligence it beats every thing that has yet reached us from the golden land. Mr. Abraham, from the personal knowledge which he has of his relative, knows he would not impose upon others,and does not believe he is likely to be imposed upon himself. If, therefore, the account be true, well might the writer say, " Goodness only knows where all this will end !" Some conjectures have been recently ventured that the auriferous yield, which was apparently lessening, had seen its best days; but, if the in telligence contained in the subjoined letter be true, we are now only coming to a genuine deposit. Well may it be called a " quarry of gold," if 18,000founces have been taken out in three days by a few persons :—" Hobart Town, Sept. 8, 1853.—Knowing how deeply interesting any news respect ing Australia must be to you, I write to inform you of a great discovery that has again been made on the Geelong side, about 56 miles from the town. They have been digging very deep, and have come on a table of gold about 100 feet from the surface, appa rently inexhaustible. All I can tell you respecting it is that the people's minds are partly turned from the immense discovery. Every tubfull of earth they raise from these holes coutaira pounds weight of gold. Tho more they dig the more inexhaustible it appears. At Geelong a tumult has broken out among the diggers. The government has sent up all the military to quell the disturbances, and the marines of Her Majesty's ship Electra are mounting guard at the Treasury, and the sailors of the above steamer of war mount sentry at the banks. The military from Van Die men's Land are about to be dispatched to Melbourne to aid the military already there. Goodness only knows how all this will end !—Hobart Town, Sept. 5. By the steamer from Geelong this day I find that a gold quarry has been discovered near Geelong, 100 to 130 feet from the surface of the earth, putting all other diggings in the shade ; 18,000 ounces have been taken out in three days by a few persons, and'one person has got a lump weighing 190 pounds in one solid piece. This is no exaggeration, and the greatest ex citement prevails."—Bristol Journal. CHRISTMAS DAY IN GOVERNMHNT OFFrczs.--Lord Pal merston will probably not be much regretted in government Offices, which are singularly forgetful of political virtues, and wonderfully addicted to personal convenience. Before the noble lord retired from office, in answer to an inquiry from the the ,lord mayor of London, as to whether the 26th would be observed by government in the manner adapted to public ex pectation. The folowing was the characteristic reply through his lordship's secretary, Mr. Waddington :—I am to state that, as regards the city cf London, the question is one as to which the feelings and opinions of the Mercantile body 'would pro bably have a main influence on .:your lordshiP's decision. tirith respect to the public offices of the government, when Christmas day falls upon a week-day if is made a holyday, in order to enable persons employed in those departments to at tend to the religious observances belonging to that day ; but, as in the present year, tlese observances will have been duly at tended to on the Bunday, the 25th, there does not ap pear to Lord Palmerston to be any good reason why the public service of the country, should be stayed and im peded by a holyday in tie government offices on Monday, the 26th of December, whet there will be no religious observances to attend to. MORE MARYLEBONE.—A vestry meet ing was held in this parisi, on Tuesday eveniug, when it was proposed to contribute £lOOO from the parish funds towards the construction of the ney churches about to be erected there. amendment was mover by Sir Joshua Walmilej, .M.P., but was lost on a division ly 20 to 3. and Co., as soon as you draw on them for an amount on four months they draw on us for the same amount at three months, thus making us ad vance th e cash lone , a before we get the goods to be sold. If you were our agent we could draw on you at 90 days to meet those drafts, and thus make the time six instead of three months. This we might do on our own house in London, but, as wehave stated, it is not so easy to negociate our bills. This holds good even with Harnden and Co's bills on England." Now, this and other corres pondence to the like effect, which would be read, took place before the proposal for the policy, and it, therefore, plainly appeared that the plaintiffs contemplated what they de scribed as a " kiting business ;" that they knew the credit of Harnden and Co. was not good in the market, and, more over, at this very time, they had transmitted six blank bills to Lee, in London. On the 23d of November, Lee wrote to the plaintiffs, " When once well started, I feel convinced that all would go on swimmingly. As, however, much, if not all, depends upon the starting, I think it desirable to open an account with the bankers here as respectably as possible, and less than 1,0001. would not do. In the com mencement it would also be advisable to send me a few bills, drawn by you, leaving me to fill up the names and the amounts, so that I might make any arrangements with par ties against bills of lading." This suggestion was adopted by the plaintiff's; but it was important the jury should un derstand the question was not the amount of the bills, or the amount that Lee had misappropriated, but the character of the business contemplated between the plaintiffs and Lee, beft:re the policy was effected ; because if it was out of the ordinary course, and attended with more than ordinary risk, it was the plaintiffs' duty to have informed the defendants of it, and as they had not done so, they had been guilty o f a legal fraud,—which ju s tly vitiated their policy. With re ference to Harnden and Co., he - would show that the plain tiffs knew before the policy was effected that their credit was not good; for on the 11th January, 1850; they wrote to Lee :—" We regret exceedingly to be obliged to inform you that the information obtained by those parties (Overend and Gurney) as to, the standing of Hamden and Co., was not favourable enough for them to discount the bill." On April 26th Lee wrote, " You must keep in view that if this house does a larzebusiness,hat then we shall be able to get a monied partner—or, what is better, we shall have the money of the public at our command, like Rothschild and Baring. Large houses may do what in young houses would be termed svvindling—draw upon thems e l ves ." A n d t hi s l etter, wh i ch characterised their proceedings by an apter term than he was willing to use, was replied to on 7th June, without "repu diation," Having read some further extracts of a similar character, the learned counsel said he might have taken a' partial view of the matter ; but he confessed that it ap peared to him that it was not reasonable to expect the defendants would have entered into the policy if the plain tiffs' mode of conducting business with .their agent had been made known to them; that the withholding that knowledge was a fraudulent suppression of important facts by the plaintiff's; and this being so, that it was the duty of the defendants not to pay the sum claimed in the policy until the matter had been fully investigated before a jury. LIVERPOOL MARKET B.—YEsTrADO. es.) (Written exp ress ly f or the Northern Daily Pm ti o SUGAR has been taken to a fair extent, the sale!, comprising 80 hhd s J ama i ca, at 30s to 35 s ; 4,5" 05 Khaur, at ' 29s • 150 cases and 1,000 b ags B a hia, l it 20s V cwt, for low to fair brown. 4 ,k Of MOLASSES we hav e t o report a b out 80 punc heoll - f tigua, at 16s 6d, chiefly ex s hi p ; a l so a small pare Vincent, at 16s V cwt, ex store. RUM.-60 puncheons Demerara have been d full prices. Nd sales have transpired in COFFEE ; thing occurred in RICE. Sixty chests SHELLAC are reported at 44s to 5; to good orange ; 100 bags SAGO FLOUR, at dead COWRIES, at 42s V cwt; and 300 bales mil at £22 lOs 19 ton. TEA..—A few hundred chests of medium quali are reported at about is 8d t 9 lb; common is ther change. Very little took place at auction.to-day, the being confined to 100 bales Bombay MApoEn 335, 10 bales Syrian, at 48s; 6 casks of T&RTAI 109 s 6d; 100 bags SALITETRE, at 24s 6d to 25, bales Irish Moss; 'at £l2 12s 6d elm; .500 h LINSEED, all faiths, at 50s 6d for - sound ; anc MUSTARD SEED, at 49s 6d t 9 qr. 't COTTON. —The demand was fair,. and the charact business steady. Sales 7,000 bales, of which not more 1,000 were for export and on speculation. PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN ST. ZORN'S' MARKET.'' WEDNESDAY, 21st DEC., 1863. .. d s. d. s. d. a. d. e oli , Beef ....from 0 6 to . 0 8 per lb. Turkeys .... a 6 to 9 0 „ L ie' Mutton 0 6 to' o 8 .. Rabb to ' 010 to 2 4 ',,,,,M1., , Veal ." 1 1 Lamb o o to 0 0 .. Asparagus .. 10 0 to 0 0 Y.;# Fresh Prk Lobsters Haddock Bret Turbot .. „ . Red, o 0 to 0 0 ;1). Soles 06to o 0 .. Cherries, .... o o t o 0 0 5,4. Cod Fish" 3oto 4 o .. Grouse '- " - sot o 0 0 .clt Fres Butter, I s to, 0 . 0 .. Hares ' 03to 0 e ;,.(0 1 ' Salt Ditto o 9 'to i 0 .. Apricots - ..•. 00t o 0 0 9 P o ll Eggs Boto 8 4 per 1.:0. Pi..es, Foreign 00to0 0 e , Ith Pots , oes - p.m]: English 6.0t 0 0 0 Id' Filberts s 6 to 0 o p er lb. Pigeons....;. * co to o 0 c Grapes, foreign 1 6 to 0 0 Partridge ~ . bo English 3 0 to o 0 Fowls Pucks Chickens ..., o o to 0 0 each. Geese 2 6 to 6 o Pheasaiks "7 Black Game 6 Woodcocks 6 Larks Snipes 9 to 0 0 6 to 8 6 o to 0 0 O t 0 0 o er . 80 to to . 0 0 iociy. LONDON CORN MARBET.—TASTERDA.Y. • 1 1 We have a small sh ow o f English Wit Ell:. The suPP I N of foreign are large. Trade opened' steadily, and the prices of Monday were realised for both Erglish and f o res FLOURand MALT take n a t M on d a y' s advance. BAlly BEANS. and P EAS , sales retail, but a t f u ll• pr i ces. The trade is steady at late advance. SEEDS are flat, but lower. ARRIVALS. British : wheat, 690 ; barley, 1,450; 441 1 0 ; 760 ; malt, 1,660 ; fl our , 1,7 10. ' lr i sh : barley, 11100; oats, 14,060, Foreign: wheat, 21,570; barley, 1, oats, 7,290; flour, 10,120 barrels. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—YEsTsRDAY.:_ 01 SUGAR.--West India is fi r m, an d th ere i s . a good busige doing at 30s 6d to 38s. Refined sells freely ; grocery lad 44s 6d to 475. F ore i gn i s much wanted, the sukl)l4l small. C OFFEE i s fi rm an d i n good demand ; native Uet',il 43s 6d to 49s ; Rio, 45s to 50s. TBA. is _dull, and barely supported. RICE firm, demand large ; 13s 3d to 14s ; white Bengal, 14a_ to 16. Rubt.—P t o purchases have been made; D emerara, 3s 6d to 4s for &. 11 42 over proof ; Jamaica, 4s 2d to 5s 4d. There is an act i o demand for BRAN DY , and rates are advancing. TALLOW firm, P.Y.C., 57s to 57s 3d. S 'ALFORD CATTLE MARKEL ----YEESTERDAT• ARRIVALS . —Cows, 1,135; sheep, 3,888. Beef, 4d to 7d; mutton, 61d to 7-id; veal, 6d to 7 - 0 . 0 A ready market for all articles, and a good clears° effected. GLASGOW MARKETS.--YESTERDAY. CORN.--WHEAT : Fair business,_ 2s to 3s 6 q r advail c ; on prices of this d a y se'nnight. FLOUR is brl, and 2s j sack up. BARLEY is to is 6d t, 320 lbs dearer, a nd in go, demand. OAT S , b r o ug ht f u ll y Is 19' 264 lbs, and OATir•Am is tg load more money. PEAS is ? 280 lbs in retail. PIG IRON.—Market steady at 79s 19 ton for warrants. EDINBURGH MARKETS.—YESTERDAY. CORN.--A good supply of all kinds of grain in to-dal l9 lss weeekA.TTLAEi t — en S d u a p nce ly g o o f o O d market, sales qui e t, an d prices. up. prices. good, and asalliciesB6.efflel;te'md o a r t e lasthtairn DUBLIN COR.7SFEXCEAsjair DEC' 20. hozne- There was a small supply of eve r y d escr i pt i o n of te d od grown grain at market to-day. WHEAT moot b# lh an on to ls, and BARLEY of all qualities about 6d d of that day Friday. OATS fully supported the pric es 37s Od to White wheat, .40s` Od to 42s 6d ; red ditto Mal tin g' 40s 6d; barley, grinding, 14s Od to 18s Od; 015 , dim' 19s to 21s; bere, 15s to 16s ; oats, wilite,l 2952 . O t d ; oisk lea4 tawny, lls to 14s ; rapeseed, 27. sd .t . , . I d''II I1;1 22s to gds 11 tan cep l4s Od to 16s ; bakers' flour, - , 480 lbs, 408 to 45s 61 ditto, Y Lo nuOu the following anecdote, which had been related to ' of Cit R e e lte m r e d p : a i te b s eg pt_ri t Tb h iui e td E p v th e Leui o sr f ug.i Sl_ fta t.. m. T y h on f, l i a t :, er th m e Mr. Child, the banker, who desired to hire a yalet. -0 11 e• these gentlemen presented himself, and inojuired what win o Mr. Child allowed at the second table: " Pert and she,f r i', replied Mr. Child. " I like a glass of Madeira, sir', the turned the valet. _ " Why," - sa id - M r. Child , " there Is o f curate of the parish here cannot afford himself a giss! h i s wine of any sort." " Ah," replied the valet, shruggi ti g,,,.. shoulders, I always pitied that sort• of gentlemen. Bathurst's Memoirs. 0 MR. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS, Monday evening a numerous meeting_ of the constituency o r. Lambeth was held t o the Horns, at Kennington, t o hear W. Williams, M.P. for the borough, give an account of stewardship. The chai r was filled by Mr. Aunt, who 1111 w ing briefly explained the object of the meeting, Mr. Williams came forward, and in an addrps which took Op time to deliver, gave a complete history of his parliamental conduct during the last session of the House Of Coninn The hon. gentleman stated the number of h ours h e had c i tended the debatenand the committees of the house, I re explained the motives Which had influenc e d hi s vo tes. ";, approved of the bud ge t o f th e present e h ancellor of t h e e chequer,. though he - was sorry to see th a t'tli e i ncome tax W 0 et still levied. That ta x , h e h o p e d, wou ld soon be remo i He thought that, , inst ea d o f t ax i ng th e poorer classes, til6 a dded tithes should be taxed, by w hi c h £2,000 ,000 m i ght b e a do annually to the revenue. In reference to the custom due s ' he must say that £6,000,000 were annually intercepted b 1 tween the pockets of the peopl e an d the treasury by the C'?,' lectors of the customs a n d exc i se. The speech of Mr. i hams was recei ve d with- the usual demonstrations 0 approbation by th e meet i ng, and a vote of confidence passe d in his conduct. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Is Published every Morning in LIVERPOOL and MANcaloa SS simultaneously, and thefollowing are the rates and TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IN LIVERPOOL. OUT OF LIVERPOOL. 1 17 s- rrn for •In advance On Credit In advance. OA Credit. 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