The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, July 6.—Flour receipts, 7,707
barrels ; State and Western heavy, but rates
unchanged. Wheat heavy and in favour of
buyers. Corn very scarce and firmer. Beef quiet
and unchanged. Lard firm. Stocks are not
very brisk, but prices are higher. Money uu3,l
exchange without new change.

At the half-yearly meeting of the London and
Westminster. Bank yesterday, it was stated that
£lO,OOO had been reserved for losses that might
occur from failures in the leather trade. The nett
Profits of the half-year amounted to £106,748.
Report adopted, and dividend of 6 per cent. per
annum, and a bonus of 7 per cent. on paid up
capital, declared.
The Globe says it will require all the co-opera-
tion of the House of Commons to enable the
Government to get the Bankruptcy Bill through.
this session.

The following appeared in our later editions of

yesterday :

THE MASSACRE IN SYRIA.

A despatch, dated Beyrout, 7th July, etmtains
various details of the recent massacres, but no,
new facts of importance are related.

THE SPIRIT TRADE AND THE
ADDITIONAL DUTY.

The imposition of the additional duty of
ls. 1 ld. on home, foreign, and colonial spirits
exercised little influence on the market for
French brandy yesterday, the quotations being
only a shade flatter. Business in this branch of.
the import trade has been for a long time inac-
tive, owing to the high terms required by the
growers ; and during the past week or two
unfavourable accounts have been received from
Bordeaux, the Rhine, and the south of the re-
appearance of the oidium blight. Hence the
prices at Cognac are very firm; although there is
but a limited demand. The payment of the new
duty dates its commencement on the 15th inst.
on home spirits under the Excise, and on the 16th
for imported spirits at the Customs. Consequently,
all persons who may have cleared brandy or rum
from the docks on Monday will be called upon
for the additional amount.

THE LIVERPOOL VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

Colonel M'Murdo writes to correct the report
of his speech at the Volunteer Review at Liver-
pool,- which appeared in the Times of yesterday.
The words he did use were that " he was sure her
Majesty would be satisfied if she was informed
by the Secretary for War of the efficiency of time
volunteer force in that part of the country."

LONDON AND EASTERN BANKING
CORPORATION.

It has been officially notified that on the 26th
instant a further call is proposed (of £lOO per
share) on the proprietors of this notorious con-
cern. The call was wholly unexpected, and has
created considerable dismay. Not only has the
whole of the share capital vanished, but such
holders as have been able have had to meet the .

call of £5O per share, and are now required to
find £lOO more. - .

The end of the session is beginning to be appa-
rent. The Times remarks that there is no further
hope now of fighting any bill through, the prin-
ciple of which is opposed and the necessity of
which is not very urgent.

Additional failures in the leather trade continue
to be reported from the provinces. They appear
also to have extended into Scotland, and the sus-
pension
of Messrs. T. Pilling and Co., of Glasgow,.
with debts and liabilities of about £50,000 or .
£60,000, has been advised. The total failures are.
estimated to involve the large sum of £3,000,000.
The associated manufacturers at Coventry
write to the Times, stating that although con-
siderable ..
distress prevails in that city among the
ribbon weavers, many hundreds of people who
are now parading the streets might be at work,
at wages varying—the men, from 15s. to 21s. a
week, and the women from Bs. to 145., if the
weavers' committee would let them.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article, by its
chief editor, which contains the following pas-
sage :—Turkey is either powerless, or has no
foresight. The evil which has been committed is
great, but Europe, having knowledge of the
same, will neither permit its continuation nor its
renovation, and will remember her defies towards
populations who have been too long opposed, and
for three centuries have endured servitude to
Turkey.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YESTERDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.
The Highways South Wales Bill passed through Committee.
On the motion of Mr. Cobbett, the Coroners Bill, which
provides for the payment of coroners by salaries instead of fees,.
was read a second time. In the course of the discussion,
Sir G. C. LEWIS recommended that the appointment of
county coroners should be vested in the lord-lieutenants.
The Lords' amendments to the Duchy of Cornwall Bill
were considered and were agreed to.
The adjournei debate on going into committee on the Metro-
polis Local Management Act amendment, was resumed by
Mr. STANILAND, who objected to the biil, as giving an undue
power to vestries in raising funds.
A long discussion ensued, in which various country mem-
bers opposed the measure, and the metropolitan members in
their turn objected to country interference with the question.
Upon a division, the motion for going into committee was
carried by 78 to 68, majority 10.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied by the discussion
of the clauses. The other business was disposed of; and
The house adjourned at six o'clock p.m.

TEE BIBLE IN INDIA.—The following resolutions
were adopted on the 9th inst., by the committee of the
Church Missionary Society, in reference to the Duke of
Marlborough's recent motion respecting " the authorita-
tive exclusion of the Word of God from the course of
education afforded in the Government colleges and
schools" in India :—" 1. That this committee are thank-
ful to record the fact that no less than 1,950 petitions
have been presented to the House of Lords from all
parts of the United Kingdom, in favour of the removal
of the restriction upon the Bible in Government
sehqols in India; that these petitions were sent up on
a very short notice of the Duke's intended motion,
without organised efforts to procure them, and under
many other disadvantages. 2. That the thanks of this
society are due to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough
for his able, Christian, and determined advocacy
of the cause of Bible instruction ; and that his
grace be respectfully requested to print his speech,
and to allow this society to aid in its general
circulation. 3. That Mho thanks of this society are
also due to the Right Hon. the President and Vice-
Presidents, who on this occasion have aided
the cause in their places in Parliament. 4. That
this committee regard the recent expression of public
opinion and the proceedings in the House of Lords as
having greatly helped forward the cause of Bible educa-
tion in India, and being fully persuaded that the
removal .of the authoritative restriction which now
exists will be a safe as well as a Christian policy, they
cherish the hope that her Majesty's Ministers may see
it right to provide for such removal before the next
Session of Parliament; for should this hope be disap-
pointed, the object, they are persuaded, will be demanded
by a far more general and powerful expression of
opinion than on the present occasion."