The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-30 00:00:00

THE LEATHER TRADE.

Seieral meetings of creditors took place yester-
day. The balance-sheet of Mr. W. Carpenter,
leather-seller, of the New Kent-road, showed
liabilities amounting to £25,371, and assets to
£10,948, or Bs, 6d. in the pound. Transactions.
in accommodation bills to ,the extent of £2,667
had been traced. A composition of $B. in the
pound was offered, payable in twelve months,
and this was eventually agreed to. The balance-
sheet of Messrs: John Ridley and Son, of New-
castle and London, showed liabilities amounting
to £23,084, and assets to £5;366. Mr. Ridley
has lost £3,000 In thee-farming business during
the last two or three years. Mr. Ridley had
treated without
,any capital, and he had also
entered into, accommodation bill transactions.
It was proposed to pay a composition of 4s.
in the pound. Two inspectors are to report
at an adjourned meeting. In the case of Messrs.
D. and J. M'lntosh, tanners, of Bermondsey, the
' liabilities are £10,6N, and the assets £8,204,
showing above 15s. in the pound. It was finally
agreed to wind up under inspection. At the
meeting of the creditors of Mr. W. A. Page, in the
leather trade, it was agreed to accept a compo-
sition of 10s. in the pound.

The colonial produce markets during the week have
been rather quiet, at steady quotations.
The corn market this morning was quiet, at the ad-
vance of Monday last.

The Past's Paris correspondent telegraphs that
Garibaldi is at this moment at Messina.

The French War Department is actively occupied
with the organisation of the army reserve.
Mr. David Wemyss Jobson was yesterday com-
mitted for trial for alleged libels on Sir James
Ferguson.
The advices by the Persia caused an improved
demand yesterday for American stocks and
selected shares.

The Paris correspondent of the Post says it is
doubtful whether anything definite will result
from the interview at Tceplitz. The Prince of
Prussia will meet King Leopold at Ostend.
When the ships now fitting out with the
utmost despatch are ready for sea, France will
have twenty screw ships of the line in the
Mediterranean. The steam-frigate Gloire, plated
with steel, will shortly be on the Mediterranean
station.

COMMITTAL OF TWO PRIZE-FIGHTERS.

,on Friday, two men, named Joseph Goss alias "the
ljukknown," and Jemmy Welch, who officiated as the
second of Sayers in the recent prize-fight for the cham-
pionship, were brought before the Oxfordshire county
magistrates, Dr. scrynter and Guy Thompson, Esq.,
charged with figiring a pitched battle with Bodger
Crutchley, of Birmingham, on Tuesday week.
It ap-
peared that the defendants, in company with a number
of other people, left London by a special train on the
Great Western Railway, and alighted at the Wal-
lingford-road station, at a short distance from which
a ring was formed, and Goss and Crutchley fought
for a hundred pounds aside. After a contest which lasted
three hours and twenty minutes, " The Unknown" was
declared the victor. A crowd of 300 or 400 persons
mere assembled to witness the fight, and at its termina-
tion they quietly dispersed. Warrants were subsequently
Boomed : Goss was taken into custody at Northampton,
full Welch was arrested at his residence in London.
The; were committed to take their trial at the next
quarter, sessions, but were eventually admitted to bail,
themsehfes in ,ElOO each and one surety each in £5O.

Lord Clyde was entertained to dither by the Cosmo-
politan Club, of London, on Saturday evening.
On Friday, a ticket collector was knocked down and
cut to pieces by an engine on the Brighton railway.
On Friday, several men were injured by a vessel
slipping on her launehways, in the shipbuilding yard
of Messrs. Mare and Co., Millwall.
In London, on Friday, a man and his sister having
had a quarrel, both attempted suicide by leaping off
Blackfriar's-bridge. The man will not recover.
BURGLARY AT THE RESIDENCE Or MRS. LILLY, THE
;QUEEN'S NURSE.—On Sunday morning last, during the
absence of the family at church, the residence of Mrs.
Lilly, her Majesty's nurse, situated in the Camberwell
New-road, was burglariously entered, and the whole of
the valuable presents made to Mrs. Lilly by the Queen,
the Duchess of gent, the Royal children, and other per-
sons of distinction, were carried off. The thieves have
not been apprehended.
ELECTRICITY IN ADVANCE or TIME.—The announce-
ment of the accouchement of the Princess Frederick
William of Prussia on Tuesday was telegraphed direct
to Her :Majesty at Osborne., from the Palace at. Potsdam,
without any break or interruption. The young Princess
was born at 10 minutes past 8 a.m. but the fact was
known at Osborne at 5 minutes past 8 ! 'This apparent
paradox is explained by the differenee of longitude of
the two places.
A LADY SWINDLER.---EXTRAORDINARY CASR OF
FRAUD.—At the Maidstone assizes, on Friday, Louisa
Reed, 39, a well-di-cased, lady-like woman, was charged
with unlawfully obtaining, by false pretences, the several
sums of £l2, £2B, and £3O, with intent to defraud
Messrs. Hanley and Co., the bankers, and other persons.
'The circumstances of this case were of a very extra-
ordinary nature. The prisoner is said to be the daughter
of a deceased admiral. She was found guilty, and sen„
elleed to penal servitude for three years.