The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-12 00:00:00

THE DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1861.

CHANDELIERS. LAMPS; &o.

W. H. TOOKE,

SUCCESSOR TO
F. L. HAUSBTIRG,

Respectfully invites attention to the extensve STOCK of
CHANDELIERS,
of Glass and Metal;.
LANTERNS, BRACKETS, LUSTRES,
of all descriptions, '

France for the last month, show a decrease, under
the head of "cash in hand,' of £3,280,000, and an
increase of nearly £2,250,000 in the discounts.
According to the Eines, the arrangement entered
into, a short time back, between the tank of
England and the Bank of France, has been
worked out. On Thu.rstlay afternoon it was
rumoured in London, on 'Change, that the Bank
of France had suspended specie payments-, Ma
it will be seen that the state Of draft's &Oared
by the returns is fer from being so desperate as
such an eVek Would indicate.
An address to the Prime Minister is in circula-
tion amongst the members of the House of Com-
mons, calling attention to the present high rate
of the national expenditure, and showing: tlin
necessity for its reduction. We ple6lish the -docu-
ment elsewhere, with the remark that, all 'circum-
stances couviclered, the proceeding looks uncom-
monly like an expression of want of confidence
in the Government.

At a banquet -given by the Lord Mayor of
York, on Thursday night, Sir Charles Wood,
among others, took an opportunity efexpressinghis
opinion On Home, Foreign) and American affairs.
To the treaty With France Sir CharleS aPiears
to be constrained to give faint praise. 'Pie 'Af-tlue
of it consists, he thinks, more in the opening of
intercourse betWee:n t.le two countries than in
developing Their industry. From the Chinese
treaty uir Charles Wood expects great results,
though he avows that it is a " moderate" one.
In referring to the conduct of the Secessionists of
America Sir Charles designated their proceedings
as.an abuse of liberty.
Poole, the bankrupt) lt,-hdo WAS committed on
Thursday for frakkdttentlyboncealing and disposing
of good, WO tried yesterday for miSdeineanciur,
hkring committed forgery during his eXaminm-
tion before the Commissioner in Bankre.ptcy, and
found guilty: bUt.sentence Wft.'..3 deferred.
Yesterday, in the Court of Common Pleas, Mr.
Edwin lades moved for a new trial in the
Cambridge Proctors' case, on the ground of mis-
direction, but for which, he alleged, the damages
would have been larger. The Court, however,
suspended the motion, in order to see whtktedikige
the defendants would take..

The horror excited_ by the double murder of the
brothers Shaw', tit Vlonaghan, has hot a whit
subdued', When another atrocity, of which a fall
account will be found in another ooldn'in,'CoMpre-
hending, however, this time three ',:ictitn, follows
close upon the heels of tit frightful crime. On
Tuesday night A, grocer of Ballymote, county Sligo,
named Calaghan, with his wife and a servant girl,
had their throats cut. It is supposed the assassin or
assassins were in search of plunder. No trace of
them has yet been detected by the police, .\ re
have likewise to record the particulars of
another murderous outrage, tot less atrocious in
its circumstances) though attended as yet
by the death or only one of the victims, which
has been committed in the West of England.
A secluded cottage at Dundry, near Bristol,
inhabited by an aged couple named Waterman,
was entered on Wednesday night by two burglars,
The woman was barbarously murdered', and the
old man is not expected to survive the injuries
inflicted on him.