The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

indentationimade by a former shot. The outer edges of
the plates have bulged, as in Jones's target, from want
of support. This may be noted as the first instance of
any- plates placed in a vertical position resisting solid
shot at 200 yards' range. The edges of the plates
where they fitted with the tongue and groove stood the
concussion of the shot as well, if not better, than the
central portion of the plate; neither did it show the
slightest inclination to bulge.

Parliamentary returns, issued yesterday, show the
number of houses compounded for by landlords in each
of the cities and boroughs of England and Wales. The

grand total in the metropolitan boroughs of houses of
the annual value of £6 is 3,745 ; of £7, 3,802; of £B,
7,592; of £9, 4,865; of £lO and upwards, 51,496.
The number of persons on the parliamentary register of
1859 and 1860 in respect of the compounding of such
houses was 6,160. For the rest of the cities and
boroughs of England and Wales the number of houses
compounded for by landlords of the annual value of £6
is 80,632 ; of £7, 64,071; of £B, 26,990; of £9, 21,181
and of £lO and upwards, 35,495.
The Berwick Election Commission progresses; and,
as might have been anticipated, the conduct of Mr.
Disraeli is being completely cleared from the aspersions
attempted to be thrown upon it by the half-insane man
Of the name of Brodie.

Mr. Richard Cobden, in reply to a friend in this
country, who forwarded the paragraph, lately published
in our columns, by the Paris correspondent of an American
paper, says :—" There is a good deal of the paragraph
which agrees with what I have thought; but whether I
expressed it in private conversation is more than I could
swear to, as no one expects to be made responsible for
private gossip. There ought to be the punishment of
the pillory or the stocks revived for those Who ptiblish
n newspapers the unguarded remarks which fall from a
man in private conversation, when he frequently speaks
merely to provoke a reply and keep people from going
to sleep over too serious an interchange of views."
With regard to the French Treaty, he remarks :—" Yon
will see that in less than a couple of years all our
politicians will be eager enough to claim the merit of
having always been friendly to the French Treaty."

"What is to be done for hot rolls for breakfast ?" as
the journeymen bakers intend to abolish their night
work. In Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other cities of
Scotland, the bread supplied to the public is now almost
entirely baked by day. In Bristol the reform is of
ncent origin, but already sixty out of seventy-six master
bakers have pleged themselves to day work—from five
in the morning to five in the afternoon. In Cork, and
other towns in Ireland, the success of the movement has

been very striking.
The act for preventing the adulteration of articles of
food and drink came into operation on the 6th instant.
Its provisions are sufficiently stringent.

The accounts from the hardware districts are rather
gloomy. At Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the
contiguous towns, trade has slackened, the demand both
for home consumption and exportation being below the
average.

The demand for cotton lately has been to a consider-
able extent speculative, and based upon no stronger
foundation than the receipt of less favourable, but per-
haps interested, reports respecting the growing crop in
America. At a time when so large a quantity of cotton
is held on borrowed money, we cannot help thinking
that the course of the market will be regulated princi-
pally by that of the money market. If money become
scarce and dear, the position of the holders of cotton
will become difficult.