The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

THE CORN MARKET.

The Daily Nezcs says it was owing partly to an
improvement in the condition of the new wheat that
came to market yesterday that prices were quoted
Is to 2s per qr. higher than on the previous Monday.

FAILURE IN THE CORN TRADE.

The suspension was announced yesterday of the old-
established house of William Archer and Son, millers
and flour factors, of Upper Thames-street. The liabilities
are about £45,000, and the estate is expected to yield a
fair dividend.

The telegraph cable between the Balearic Islands and
Barcelona, has been successfully laid.
It is reported at. Paris that the Italian part of Lamori-
ciere's army abandoned him early in the action.
It is believed that steps were really taken to secure an
invitation for the Emperor Napoleon to the Warsaw
interview, though the invitation is now disavowed.
The antagonism between Garibaldi and the Piedmon-
tese Government. is still maintained, but doubts are
expressed by the correspondent of the Times whether
all that is taking place is not according to a programme
previously arranged by Count Cavour.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

MR. J. C. COWPER'S BENEFIT,

This very talented and most deserving actor takes his
benefit to-night. A word of commendation is scarcely
required. Who would not go to see Mr. Cowper as
Louis XL, and as .Ruy Gomez in "Faint Heart never
won Fair Lady." The interlude is the sparkling little
piece entitled " Where's.Piccolomini ?"

MR. AND MRS. • GERMAN REED AND

MR. JOHN PARRY.

We beg-to remind our readers that Mr. and Mrs.
German Reed give a morning performance to-day, and
thatit is the only one they are to give during their short
visit. Mrs. German Reed, though still suffering last
night from a cold, did wonders in spite of it; her
anxiety not to disappoint the audience at times,
indeed, seemed to be on the very verge of enabling
her to conceal her evident indisposition altogether.
Mr. John Parry, with his proverbial good nature, sup-
plied her unavoidable omission of several of the songs
belonging to her ride by singing some of his own unap-
proachable songs and medleys instead.
A full lustrum has elapsed since we had the privilege
of being present, at this gentleman's own entertain-
ments, but this comparatively long interval has not
sufficed to obliterate iu the least our recollection
Of the impression made upon us on these occasions
by his inimitable representations of character, his admi-
rable acting, and the almost unequalled variety and
excellence of his singing—he has come back to his
numerous friends and admfrers, matured, not weakened,
and he has brought with him the same powers of pleas-
ing, the same faculty of delighting, for which he was
formerly so pre-eminently distinguished.
Tickets for all the performances are to be had, we
may also again mention, at the piano-forte emporium of
the Messrs. Smith, in. Lord-street, where a plan of the
Concert-room will also be found, and a choice of seats
secured, and also at Messrs. Dreapers', Bold-street. We
should recommend an early visit for this purpose.

AMERICAN MAILS. —The Liverpool New York and
Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer City
of Baltimore, Captain Petrie, will sail this day for New
York. To-morrow the Montreal Ocean Steamship
Company's screw steamer North Britain, Captain Bor-
land, will sail for Quebec and Montreal with the Canadian
mails. The letter-box will close at 1 p.m. ; letters_ can
be sent via Londonderry up to 9 30 p.m.
THE FANCY BAZAAR.—The fancy bazaar in aid of
the funds of the Presbyterian (St. Peter's) Church was
continued yesterday. The weather was delightful, and
large numbers of ladies and gentlemen visited the
Assembly-rooms in the course of the day. The fair
vendors used every one of their arts, and succeeded in
abstracting a considerable amount of money—what pick-
pockets !—from the portemonnaies of the rougher sex.
On Monday the stun of £l2O was tealised.
DEATH OF MR. R. A. STEFITENS, OF BIRVINQ.
HAM.—Many of our readers will share the regret with
which we announce the death of this gentleman, so long
the Chief Superintendent of the Birmingham police
force. He died on Monday morning at his residence in
Bath-row, after only four day's illness, pleurisy having
supervened upon a severe cold caught in the course of
last week. For a long series of years Mr. Stephens
was a most efficient servant of the public, and even lat-
terly he maintained the force in a good state of disci-
pline.—Birminghon Daily Post.
GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS.-.—OR Monday last the
remainder of the excursionists who had volunteered to
serve under Captain Hampton at Naples, or wherever
their services might be required, to assist the Liberator
of Italy, left the Lime-street station. Amongst the
number were two of the Liverpool police, who, having
tendered their resignations as members of that fOrce,
and being refused by the chief constable, afterwards
forwarded their uniform to the authorities, and left with
the other excursionists.
TUE ABORMINES PROTECTION Socrerr.—At tho
Tuckerman Institute, last night, a meeting was held on
behalf of the Aborigines Protection Society. The
attendance was exceedingly small ; and it was not
thought advisable to enter into lengthy particulars of
the 'state of the native tribes of English colonised coun-
tries. The chairman, Mr. J. Abingdon, and Captain
William Kennedy, the well-known commander of Lady
Franklin's private expedition into the Arctic Regions,
briefly put before the audience the objects, the expe_
riences, and the success already gained by the new
society which they represented. A meeting will be
held again, to-night, at the Temperance Hall, Renshaw-
street.
GRAND FETE AND MELANCHOLY . ACCIDENT AT
STOCKPORT.--The anniversary of the opening of the
beautiful Vernon Park, Stockport, was celebrated on
Monday by a grand Pte, the laying
.of the foundation
stone of an observatory, the ascent of innumerable small
balloons, and one monster, called the Prinee of Wales,
carrying Professor Lythgoe ; and the evening closed
with a grand display of fireworks. The day was ol9served
as a strict holiday by all classes, all the shops and places
of businesss were shut, and the mills were also closed.
Unhappily, at night, the market-place being thronged
lay great crowds of people assembled to witness the dis-
play of fireworks, a rash took place down the steep streets
leading thence, and in consequence a number of women
and. children were forced down and trampled upon.
Seven persons were killed and four seriously injured.
AN ADVERTISEMENT COLLECTOR AND A NEWS-
PAPER PROPRIETOR.—At the County Court, yesterday,
Mr. Wm. Logan, advertisement collector, summoned
Mr. Thomas John Ouseley, the proprietor of the Liver-
pool Herald, for the sum of £8 Bs. 9d., being the balance
of an account for commission upon advertisements collected
for that publication. The plaintiff, who was formerly con-
nected with the Herald, but is now engaged on the
Daily Times, was represented by Mr. Blackhurst, and
the defendant by Mi. Cross, Before the case was
entered upon, the latter applied for an adjournment, on
the ground that the service was not legal, as the de-
fendant lived in the Isle of Man, and was desirous of
pleading a set-off. Mr. Blackhurst objected, as the
defendant's manager (Mr. Swan) was in attendance.
The Court consented to an adjournment, the defendant
paying the costs, which was done.
On Saturday evening last a distressing accident hap-
pened to a Mrs. Hoffe, a respectable widow lady residing
with her son, Mr. George Hoffe, in Love-lane, near the
Antelope Cricket Ground. It is supposed that she fell
against the grate in a fit,- as latterly she had been sub-
ject to them. An inquest was held on Monday afternoon
on the body by Mr. Coxwell, the borough coroner, when
a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. Mrs.
Hoffe was the widow of a surgeon who practised for
`rimy, years at Iwerne Minster, in Somersetshire. She
Was in her 85th year.