The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-28 00:00:00

will do what in them lies •to reconcile the people and
authorities of China, to the changes in their relations
..with foreigners, which are about to be introduced under
' the international compacts herewith promulgated--;
changes which, if they be carried into effect in such a,
manner as to afford greater scope to the commercial
activity of the Chinese people, without doing urineces-i
saty siolence to their habits and traditions, will, it may
be hoped, prove beneficial to them, and to all who have;
dealings with them. Due notice will be even whenever
the arrangements for carrying into execution the proyi- :
sions of this Convention and Treaty at the ports thereby
opened to British trade nail tae 6brefileied. tied save
the quebti:

bated at Tien-tsin, this 20th of Nov., 1800.
ELGIN AND KINCARDINE."

(From the China Mail)

From Fuhchau there are rumours of new inland taxes
having been imposed by the Mandarins, on foreign
goods going into the interior. Further measures have
been taken by the native authorities to protect the city
from any Cantonese pirates who might feel disposed to
revenge the setae measures. FiS desOili6il iii our
last issue, had liecii adopted against that fraternity..
, Cauton has been visited, within the fortnight, both by
Baron Gros, the French Minister, and by the American
Minister, Mr. Ward. Mach discussion has been caused
by the 'seizure by the French, and despite the remon-
strance of the governor-general, of the site of Yeh' s Tamun,
in order to erect upon it a Roman Catholie cathedral.
The only plea *UM hit libeii abated in excuse of this
iitt is the absurd one that a number of Catholic churches
are said.to have been destroyed in Canton more than a
century ago. Large sums of money, probably an instal-
ment of the indemnity money, have been removed from
the city by the British authorities. , We mentioned in
our last that permission had been granted to a foreign
steamer to run in the inland waters near Canton, and
have now to record that a trip has been made with per-
fect safety. On the 7th instant, a violent conftagration.
occurred in Canton, between the custom-house and the
Shameen site, destroying about two hundred Chinese
houses, and property, in all, to the value of about a lakh
and a half of dollars.

In Hong Kong there has been another fire, in the
Taiping-shang district, destroying eighty-one houses and
property to the value of 56,000 dollars.

A few of the expedition who have reached Hong Kong
have been extremely fortunate in their selection of
plunder, and count their gains by thousands of pounds.
The town has been quite overwhelmed with fur coats,
silk coats, jade-stone ornaments, and other articles taken
from the Emperor's Summer Palace. These, when sold
by auction, have fetched high priecs, and were bottght
chiefly by the Chinese.

MURDEROUS AFFRAYS IN
4-ORNSON-STREET.

FEARFUL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.

STABBING OF AN UNCLE.

ESCAPE OF THE PERPETRATOR OF
THE CRIME.

On Saturday night last, the inhabitants of Dale-street
and its neighbourhood were thrown into a fearful state
of excitement, when it became known that.a murderous
assault had been committed in Johnson-street, one of
the small streets branching off Dale-street. It appears
that about twelve o'clock on the night already named,
James Cassidy, Thomas Donegan, William Donegan
and a number of men and women, were drinking in a
public-house in Dale-street, and some angry words hav-
ing arisen between one of the Donegans and Cassidy,
which threatened to terminate in a row, the land-
lord ejected the party out of the house. They
then proceeded in the direction. of Byrom-street,
and knocked. at the doors of several public-houses,
but were refused admittance. Finding that the
attempts to procure any more drink were unsuccessful,
Cassidy and his companions, male and female, deter-
mined to go home, and on their way to Johnson-street,
where the greater part of them lived, frequent alterca-
tions took place between Cassidy and Thos. Donegan,
but on the interference of one or two mutual friends,
their disputes were somewhat amicably settled. How-
ever, when within a short distance or his residence in
Johnson-street, Cassidy Made use of certain observations
in reply to Donegan, Which so aggravated the latter
that he immediate 4 took from his breast-pocket a large
clasp-knifes with which he inflicted repeated stabs
on Cassidy, under the left ear and on other parts
of the body. The injuries sustained by the, unfor-
tunate man were so great, that he died in about
three rranutes after the murderous assault had been
er,,mmitted on him. &William Donegan, it seems,
Interposed, and essayed to save Cassidy from his brutal
assailant, but received a severe wound for his praise-
worthy exertions, and is at present lying at home in a
very precarious state, slight hopes being entertained of
his recovery. A large number of persons soon collected
near the scene of the melancholy affray, but it was
found that the culprit had escaped. The police,
under the superintendence of Inspector Valentine,
went to his lodgings and other places, where it was
supposed that he might have secreted himself, but
without any result, no tidings could be ascertained of
his whereabouts, and up to the present time he has
evaded the most vigilant and searching enquiries of the
officers of justice. It appears that Thomas Donegan is
a distant relative of the murdered man, and is also
nephew of William Donegan. ' The body of Cassidy
has been removed to the Dead-house, Prince's. Dock.

FEARFUL CASE OF STABBING BY A YOUNG

WOMAN.
Last night, between 'the hours of seven and eight
o'clock, a number of women was congregated at the
upper end of Johnson-street, engaged in a conversation
about the tragic affair which took place in that street the
Hunter,
night, when one of the women, named Mary
Hunter, expressed herself in terms strongly condemna-
tory of the conduct of the assassin Donegan. She also.
hoped that he would not be allowed to escape, but that he
would soon be brought to justice. This opinion seemed not
to be palatable to some of her hearers, more especially
to a young person named Johnson, who almised Mrs.
Hunter in the foulest language for • what she had said.
Hunter retaliated, and a war of words ensued, which
soon resulted in recourse to the knife, which deadly in-
strument Johnson drew from her pocket and stabbed
her opponent in the right jaw, the shoulder, and also in
the breast. An attempt was made, by afev of the
women present, to secure Johnson, but she immediately
after the perpetration of the deed took to flight and
ran with all celerity through several of the adjoining
streets and alleys, but after a sharp pursuit she was
captured in Dale-street by two men, who gave her into
the custody of a policeman, by whom she was conveyed
to tho station, where she now awaits her trial. Mrs.
Hunter is at present lying in the hospital, in a very
dangerous state. She is a married woman, and mother
of a numerous family. The prisoner is a young woman
of about 18 years of age, and is supposed to be the
sweetheart of the assassin Donegan.

ACCIDENT.—The following accident
was reported at
the Northern Hospital yesterday —A
seaman, named William Crowdle, 1.12'7, able-bodied sustained a
fracture of his right leg by a fall from a yard on board
tie ship Marian H. Nottam.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—On Saturday the Corjoner
held the following inquests :—On the bodyof
Morris, a boatman, who died in consequence of injurieselln
received, having falletrinto the river whilst in a state
drunkenness. No lived a couple of days after theact-
e of
dent, but died from the effects of the immersion. ver
diet accordingly. On the body of Jane Murphy, un•ed.
34, the wife of a shipwright. Iler clothes caught
on the 16th by accident, and she died on the 24th from
• the injuries. The unfortunate affair was purely acci-
dental, and the
_jury found a verdict accordingly.
SE. SILAS'S UHURCH, PEMBROKE-PLACE.--A petition
to the trustees of this church is, it will be seen, in course
of signature by the inhabitants of St. Silas's district,
earnestly entreating the trustees, in making the appoint-
ment of a clergyman, to provide that the church, built
for the use of the inhabitants, may be rendered useful
to them by every sitting beinc, made practically free.
The trustees are, T. B. Horsfall,'Esq., M.P., A. Hodgson,
Esq., W. Jones, Esq., C. S. Parker, Esq., and Edward
Cropper, Esq. The memorialists represent, among other
things, that " St. Silas's Church was built by public
subscription with a view to the general use of the resi-
dents within the immediate district. That, in its ar-
rangements, the church is preetically, useless to the great
mass of the inhabitants of the district. That more
than 600, out of the 900, sittings are let at an average
rent of one guinea per annum, and are reserved for the
exclusive use of the parties renting them—many of,
whom are unconnected with St. Silas's district—to the
scandal of true religion ;" and they express their belief
" that no faithful Minister would lack adequate support
from the weekly free-will offerings of the congregation,
and that many good men and true can be found to accept
the inennibency of the church without any further
guarantee of income." We should hope that the
trustees of the church will not turn a deaf' car to repre-
sentations which appear to be so well founded.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TIMBER TRADE.—The past
year, but for the disturbance of the timber duties,
Would have been one of uninterrupted prosperity, owing
to the animation existing in the manufacturing districts.
But the shippers in British America of sawn wood (the
form in-which their staple is chiefly presented) being
subject to much heavier cost' of transit and labour, must
henceforth be placed at a marked disadvantage in their
competition with the European shippers, whose adven-
tures become as it were assured to them in this country,
,y the comparatively small freight they have to pay.
Until the past year this difference of freight was always
takeninto account in fixing a scale of duty. Wood
in many
an import from our colonies, the freight of which,
many instances, amounts to more than even its cost
a,,t the port of shipment, this alteration of duty termed
issimilation" must be always at the cost of the
colonist, unless the freights could be also assimilated,
dutywhi on
chthey never can. Neither has the 'reduction, of
foreign timber this past year benefited the con-
sumer, the amount of duty forfeited by the customs
having been divided by the foreigner as cutter and
carrier, his competitor in the, British colonies being his
sure protection ma!ket in this country. The existing
rate of duty en
colonialinvo deals being equal to about 10
Per cent., on the
on the year's import the amount of duty aggregated
.£20,513 against £205 into Liverpool ,is shown to •be
Proving how little of receivedr on foreign sawn fir, thus
European fir passes through this
Port. In London and
fro
fir • much preponderates competing ports, foreign
over cosloonpipalli,adan. d
Apartfrom
rr ports the interior is completely
4nese
om political contingencies, the present state and future
Prospects, of the -holders of wood at market here have
Seldom been brighter, on account of the advanced rates
of freight •
unctelikely to rule in the corning spring. the
dew
ds.—to I d ck
iCI alone n this por
st,
calar.o and the prospects an active
r'ir