The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-11 00:00:00

(BEFORE MESSRS. MAXWELL AND BENN.)

IMPORTANT iTO PAWNBRORBRB.—Sarah Henry, the child
who had been remanded on a charge of having stolen wearing
apparel, from St. Thomas' Convent, was brought up for further
examination. A young man, named Lewis Yoxhall, from tho
shop of Messrs. George Cowell and William Kewley, pawn-
brokers No, 169, Brownlow•hill, attended, and produced a
variety of shawls, and other property, that had been pledged at
the shop, and two young ladies, pupils at the schools, identified
portions of the property as belonging to them. Sister Mary
Jane said the other property produced had been stolen Irons
the schools, but the owners were not present. Sire knew it,
however, to be the same property, and all the shawls and
other things now produced by the pawnbroker's assistant, as
pledged, were stolen from the school. Mr. Wybergh : All
then

things were pledged by this eaild at the Pawnbrokers,
and I ask Mr. Clough what he intends to do in this case with
the pawnbroker ? Do you inten 1,. Mr. Clough to proceed
against him, and charge hin
knewin2 it to be stole- Mr:

him for

:?lett property,

uld do ;o, but I

fear we cannot at. present s
. - --

tLt cha

ueal of dither'
first, because Mr. Kewley is
and he did not perhaps himself take in the property ; secondly
he has a number of assistants who take in property in pledge,
and perhaps Mr. Kinley did not know this property was pledged
at his place at all. Mr. Maxwell : But surely Mr. Clough,
you know that Mr- Bewley is responsible'for thA of his

not here

Mr. Wybergh said under

act, the pawnbrokc

le to a penalty

for taking
the presen

ry well

king any

0 of taking in stolen goods with
s were stolen. He must know

TRADE OF FRANCE IN 1855.-SOME

STATISTICS

The consumption of cotton in France, say M. Frederick
de Coninck and Co., from whose _Revue, dated Havre,
January, 1856, we borrow the following details, was
greater than in any preceding year, viz., 76,000,000 kilos
against 71,600,000 kilos in 1854, 75,000,000 kilos in 1853,
and 72,000,000 kilos in 1852.

Of coffee, too, the imports and consumption exceeded in
1855 those of any previous year, as follows :

1855
1854
1853
1852

Imported.
kilos 38.000,000
35,000,000
27,000,000
34,000,000

Taken into Consumption
. 27,000,000
21,700,000
20,000,000
21,500,000

Some part of this great apparent increase of consumption
in 1855, 5,300,000 kilos, is the consequence of a large quan-
tity being introduced under the imperial decree of July 14,
and a part of it, though it has passed the Custom-house, has
not yet ben taken into consumption. Making allowance for
this quantity, the actual consumption is estimated at
23,000,000 kilos, 10 per cent. above the average of the
three preceding years. The stock of coffee in France at the
end of 1855 was 10,400,000 kilos against 8,900,000 kilos at
the end of 1854. Of the importations, 48 per cent.
rrivcd in Havre, which supplied 51 per cent. of the

sumption

Ihe importation

and manufact

of sugar was as

From French From Foreign
_._ _ _

Colonies

Made in
France.
kilos

1855 86,000:000
1854 82,000,000
1853 63,000,000
1852 .. _70,0,5,000

80,000

45,000,000

77,100,00,

69,000,000

Of the 80,000 tons of foreign sugar imported, 45,000
tons were re-exported, of which 30,000 tons were refined
sugar. The production of home-made sugar fell off 39 per
cent on the average of the four preceding years. These
statements concern the crops of beet-root grown in each of
,he previous years, and consequently the last year's crop—
that of 1855—is not yet manufactured, and is not yet taken
into account. This will supply the sugar of 1856. Accord-
log to the number of manufactories now at work, the pro-
bable production is estimated at 80,000,000 kilos, or greater
than in any of the previous four years. The actual consump-
tion of France is thus stated in tons :

1855. 1854. 1853.
Native sugar ..... tons 59,000 66,000 70,000
French colonial . 87,000 81,000 66,000
Foreign colonial ..60,000 37,000 31,000

Total
Deduct refined exported 30,000 25,000 18,000

Actual consumption ... 176,000 159,000 149,000
The consumption of 1855 was 11 per cent, above 18.54,
and the consumption of 1854 was 7 per cent, above 1853.
We may, therefore, infer. that the increase of consumption
noticed here, as well as in France, is due to some general
cause, viz., the general activity of business, and the general
well-being of the people. Here, however, this has not been
so remarkable in 1855 as in previous years. The average
consumption-of all France of the three years was 161,300
tons.

Indigo also shows an increase of importation and con-
sumption as follows :

Imports. Consumption
1855 .
1854
1853 ...... ....... 12,265
1852
A large part of the consumption of 1855 consisted of
Java and Kurpah indigo, which makes the increase of lcss
importance by weight than itappears from the number of
chests.
The import of hides and rice into Havre, which may
stand fur all France, were in—