The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-24 00:00:00

NEW ORLEANS, MONDAY, OCT. 10

Fifteen hundred bales of cotton were sold to-day.. The
market is heavy and lower. We quote middling at 94c.
The receipts were 4,000 bales. Mess pork, $l6-to $l6 50c.
Rio coffee is dull at 10c. to lle. Frights are dull ; for
Liverpool they are asking three farthings.

HAVAISTNAH, -FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 1853.
Our last printed report was dated 13th inst., since when
a fair amount of business has been (Loa., ;vi -ch would, no
doubt,, have been of a larger extent, but for th scarcity
of vessels.

• SUGARL—Have continued to be in demand for Cucuru-
chos, browns and yellows, with advance in price of 1 rl.
fpr parcels less damp than those which are now-a-days
offered for sale. Whites are neglected. The supplies
from theinterior are small, and being exceeded by the ex-
ports, our stock will be gradually reduced ; it is estimated
to be at present in the City and the Regla warehouses
about' 170,000 against 100,000 boxes in 1852, same period.
We continue our last quotations excepting for Muscovados :
Whites rs. 61 to 91 Browns rs. 51 to 51
Florete yellows 7 to 74 Cuenrnehos 4l to 51
Good to prime do ...6 to 6/ Muscovados 41 to 51
MOLASSES has been sold at 2 rls., 21 and 21 rls per keg,
and is at present held at the latter price. The quantity left
for shipment is small.
RUM is selling at our last quotations, say $25 for coloured
and $2B per pipe for white. Cleared 149 pipes for Ham-
burg, and. 105 do. for New York, in all 254 pipes.
COFFEE : —The small stock of good seconds, which was
in town at the close of our last report, :was soon after
bought $9l to $9/ qtl. What remains consists of Triage,
which is selling as high as $9l per qtl.

Cia.s.us are-of ready sale for . all classes. Cleared 51
mile for Amsterdam, 99 do. for Vera Cruz, 162 do. for
Spain, 714 do. for Bremen, 829 do. for Hamburg, and 2,668
do. for the United States, in all 4,523 mille.
TOBACCO has hardly undergone any change. Cleared
7,379 pds. for Bremen, 33,858 pds. for Antwerp, 41,570 do.
for the United States, 42,900 do. for Spain, 50,000 do. for
Prance, and 63,313 pds. for
.Amsterdam, in all 240,000
pounds.
EXCHANGE. —The operations in bills have been moderato
at declining rates. London is worth 10 per cent. prem. ;
Paris 24-- per cent. disc. ; New York and Boston, 11 to 21
per cent: discount.

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool, about 2,000 bbls. flour engaged
at 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d., and about 2,500 to 3000, bbls Resin at
4s. to 4s. 3d., and about 20,000 bushels wheat on private
terms, but mostly at 12€1. to 13d., in bulk and bags. To
London, 1,000 bbls. flour were reported at 45., and 300 do.
were engaged at .4s. 9d., and .1,50 Q boxes cheese at 50s.
Grain was at 15d. To Havre, 20,000 bushels wheat werc.
reported at 224 c. to 23c., and with some flour at 80e. to 82,
To California, clippers advanced in loading were getting
from 60c. to 65e. per foot measurement.

ALBANY.—MONDAY, Oar. 10.
The receipts here, during the past 48 hours, have been :
flour, 16,000 bbls. ; wheat, 63,000 ,bushels ; corn, 69,000
bushels ; oats, 39,000 bushels ; barley, 52,000 bushels.
.The sales of flour , have been 21,000 bbls.,! at $6 75
to $6 87 for . state, and $6 87 to $7 for western. Wheat
firm, with a good .milling inquiry; 6,000 bushels sold at
$1 56 to $1 58 for Genesee. Corn is not so active, but
prices aro unchanged. Barley, 30,000 bushels sold at
78c. to 80c. for two-rowed, and 85c. to 87ic. for four-rowed.
Oats are doing better. Sales at 48,4 c. to 49ic..

KINGSTON, (JAMAICA,)-SEPT. 24, 1853.

OUr market has been very inadequately supplied during
the fortnight, with dry and pickled fish, and, in conse-
quence, a very small amount of business has been done—
the inquiry running principally on those articles. The
great abundance of native ground provisions rendered the
market more than usually heavy for bread-stuffs, and until
THitifikl (sQCon'ttl;''ralWe'L' the -advance Of
prices there to $6, gave rise to some speculative feeling, and
upwards of 4,000 barrels, chiefly of new wheat, changed
hands.

B,um.—Proof 18, for home consumption, has been taker
at 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. per gallon, and for, export at 2s. 6d. t:
2s. 9d. There is very little of the latter not offering.

SIG An may be quoted at 15s. to 18s. for dark to fair.
There is a larger quantity on offer than usual, owing to the
want of tonnage.

Exchange oil' New York.—Bills On New 'Ail, drawn by
Panama Railroad, Company, at one day's sight, have been
sold to the extent of £BOO to £l,OOO, at 3 per cent premium.

AUSTRALIA.
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER NEWS.

The Australian packet-ship Eagle, arrived here
on Saturday afternoon, from Melbourne, with ttd
vices to the 28th of July, being sixteen days later
than those published in the NORTHERN DAILY
TIMES on Saturday week.

The E,Agle has brought home 64,000 ounces of
gold, valued: at about £250,000 sterling, and 156
passengers. We learn there were no deaths on
board, among the passengers during the voyage,
and that they,all came home delighted and speak
in the highest terms of praise, of the attention to
their comfort which was throughout manifested by
the Captain.
For .three weeks before entering the Channel,
the Eagle had to contend with .severe easterly
winds.

The steamer Cleopatra was to sail for England
in a day or two, and the Argo, for Southampton,
on the 14th of August.
The most unfavourable accounts are given of
the sanitary condition of Melbourne. The Argu3
says that Melbourne. is just simply a tho-
roughly beastly place, no man acquainted with any
other part of the world will at the present moment
venture to deny. Its stinking alleys, its unfathom.
able mud, its undraiued horrors, its decomposing
dogs, and its dense dark condition, its utter desti-
tution of every requisite to make human life en-
durable in a city, is demonstrated to, you, whether
you, go shopping in the day, or work your cdurse
of an evening by a series of gymnastic exercises,
to the &ening concert at the Mechanics' InStittite.
Such, to our own certain knowledge, has' been the
effect of this state of things upon some hew
arrivals from London and Sydney, that they have
taken flight from us after a few hours' taste of the
place.

rorow. acxya, fs of
Coal, "of the fact of the existence of the coal,
we may speak without hesitatien; our information
is from such a source, that we have no room for a
doubt upon the matter. Coal has been discovered;
the quality is said to be excellent; the quantityas
at present known is but small, though it is hardly
likely that the only seam in the Colony has been
opened.

A letter received- in Melbourne states, that
three nuggets, one of which weighed 4th., and the
other two something less, were dug up within
about five miles of the Government station at the
Mayor. A party of six, {all residents of Coning-
wood,) have returned from a three month's sojourn
at Bendigo, and they have netted, on the Whole,
about £4,000 worth of gold. • •

A mass of gold weighing 158 ounces had been
brought to Melbourne, It is 'said to have been
very fine, an,d: apparently contained_, only a few
penny-weights-of:iron stone•alloy.

_ _ ..
Consider-able agitation was. going on among the
diggers for a reduction of the license fee. The
Argus says—so long as the gold fields were highly
productive, there was little to be feared from any
movement of dissatisfaction ; but now there is a

large mass of disappointed men, who are not only
unwilling, but unable, to comply with 11 , demands
of the tax collector. The re-adjustment of the
license fee appears to' lie imperative, unless
the brilliant idea of the Argus, that the exaction
should be continiied in order to compel the diggers
to leaVe their occupation, should be. adopted. The
truth is, ~we
believe, that during the

ist six

months nine-tenths of the license fees have been
out of the digging, but

paw, _ profits • of
from the funds brought to the •colony by
rivalS,. or from funds the proceeds of labour at
other pursuits.. This cannot last long. The re
venue from liCeithe- fees is certain to fall to a- low
figure during the presput quartet.
An attack had been made by a party of - bush-

ew ar-

rangers on the private escort of the Melbourne
Company, on its way from. Mc Ivor to Kyneton,
and the robbery of about 2,300 ounces of gold,
with £7OO in cash, it was conveying had
caused considerable_ excitement, and the Govern-
ment was about to offer a reward of £5OO for each
of the parties implicated in the above outrage, or
£l,OOO for each man if the whole gang be taken.
To an accomplice, beyond the men, full pardon, a
free passage out of the colony, and safety guaran-
teed whilst in it. Amongst the quantity of gold
stolen, there was one very fine nugget weighing
80 ounces. The precious metal was nearly all
uninsured, and, the .saine :remark applies. to the
money under transmission, The majority of the
parcels of gold were the property of storekeepers
and others who had purchased the same ; and a
comparatively small portion was sent to Mel-
bourne by diggers ; the latter having sufficiently
advantageously quitted their gold.

MELBOURNE PRICE CURRENT.—Jurir 23rd, 1853.
Trade has been languid during the week, but rather a
better feeling existed towards its close, so far at least as to
confirm large holders in their determination to maintan their
prices. With the exception of flour, there have been
no transactions of any moment, but in that article
there have been a good many inquiries, and a few lots of
good sound stuff have changed hands at 355. Sour flour,
too, has. rather risen in, consequence of the large shipments
making to England, which, no doubt, will pay well enough,
seeing that the freight on the article is so low as to be al-
most nominal. This .has relieved the market materially,
and high prices are now asked by the large holders. Co-
lonial flour, it will be observed, is also firmer; both mills
were quoting the best quality at £3O. Oats, maize, bran,
and hay maintain their former quotations, and, perhaps, the
litter article is a shade higher.

Pro vi.ions and grocenes, bacon, hams, and particularly
cheese, are rathor firmer. Pickles and oilmen's stores, fruit,
and preserves, are still dull of sale. Sugar has fallen a little.
Crushed lump has been sold at 565., which is a dacline of
4s. per cwt. on former prices.
. . _

Brandy, notwithstanain the large importations, has not
declined any further, and° generally other spirits are firmer
this week, though sales are few. Port and sherry continue
at former prices, with a small demand, and for lig
there is no inaui

Ale, beer, and Porter still rather decline. Porter of good
brand has been sold this last week at £7 per hogshead, and
at 1 ls. per dozen ; but these sales have been forced, and
those who have stocks are now inclined to hold on rather
than sell at these low figures.
Soft goods are still at a discount, and even winter cloth-
ing and boots and shOes are continuing to fall, which is not
to be wondered at if we consider the enormous number of
shops opening in every direction, particularly by American
dealers, who are" deluging the market with their stocks,
more especially with boots and shoes, which are exposed for
sale to any amount, and at any price.
Building materials we need scarcely refer to, for they
must continue, at least for some time, at present high prices,
which are as firm as last week, and give no symptom of
any reduction. _

Hardware goods are quoted the same as last week, but in-
voices have been sold at rather reduced rates. Retailers
complain that there is no demand, and stocks are accumula-
ting. Iron, lead, and oils are in good demand, and so is
whitening' which is scarce, and fetching high prices.
C. A. Ross and Co. sold, at Melbourne, on the 23rd July,
on the Queen's Wharf, cracked maize, 9s. per bushel ;
lime 14s. to 16s. per bag; English bricks, £l7 per thou-
sand. Also timber, as folows—quartering, 465. to 595.
per 100 feet ; joists, 565. to 575. per ditto ; battens, 545.
to 60s. per ditto ; laths, 40s. to 41s. per thousand.; shingles,
735. per ditto; grooved and tongued boards, 74d. per foot ;
spring waggons, £45 each.
R. M. Martin & Co. sold at their rooms, No. 11, Great
'Bourke-street, fine Adelaide flour, £27 and £2B per ton;
hay, £23 per ton • oats, 12s. per bushel ; maize, 15s. per
bushel; sherry; 20s. per dozen ; port, 245. ditto ; bottled
porter, 17s. ditto; bottled :ale, 13s. 9d. ditto; rum, per
gallon (in bond), 4s. 2d. ; Indian goods realized 25 per cent.
on invoice prices ; hams, 9d. per lb. ; cheese (Colonial), Bd.
per lb.; Chedder cheese, ls. 3d. per lb.

Stubbs and Son sold, on the Queen's Wharf yesterday,
cedar boards ; 'finch, 1 inch, 1 # inch, 2 inch, from lld. to
2s. 4d. per foot. Cedar. scantling, 2* inch, 3 inch, 4 inch,
froth ls. 2d. to is. 6d. per foot.
The latest market report says the colonial flour trade
continues steady at last week's rates ; the lowest figure
at the town mills is now £2B. American flour is
still avoided as an article of extensive speculation, but
small sales, for actual wants, are made without difficulty at
'4Bs to 52s per barrel for really good samples

Some further

diminution of the stock in the bay, to a Considerable extent,
is about to be made, one firm alone having engaged to
purchase ten thousand barrels for shipment to Liverpool, for
manufacturing purposes ; and other purchases for the
same purpose are, we hear, in contemplation. Our American
friends have bought their experience rather dearly, as to the
fallacy of sending damaged flour to this market : most of
laa 6,, al iyuaLf will not roan.; more than the
freight and lighterage,—leaving the ship as altogether
minus the original cost of the article. At the same time,
the excessive supplies have had the effect of seriously de-
'pressing the value of the good flour imported here from

America, which if alone sent here, would have maintained
remunerating price, as indeed we believe most of it will
ultimately do now, to those who can hold until the stocks
,are reduced by the withdrawals alluded to.

MELBOURNE-JULY 25th, 1853

The price of gold has an upward tendency, and may be
quotedto-day at £3 17s. 6d. per ounce. The holders of Ameri-
can flour are indulging in the hope that they will yet obtain a
remunerative price for good qualities, and that prices are
slightly improving we blieve to .be the case ; but if their
hopes are realised, it must be by a temporary cessation of
farther supplies, as none of the neighbouring markets of the

Australian Colonies are at all likely to help them ; even at
Sydney, where the stocks are reported to be getting coin-
paratively low, a limit of 255. per barrel for best qualities is
the highest expectation held out. So complete is the
derangement of business in some branches of the wholesale
trade at present, that merchants who have latitude given
them to sell at considerable discount at invoice prices, cannot
meet with purchasers on any terms. All attempts to sell
are met with the reply, that nothing will Se taken but what
is actually wanted, and that if purchases are to be made at
all, it will be by way of investment only, where the prices
are exceedingly tempting. Under such a state of the
market, the want of a convenient place of meeting for the
merchants is more than usually felt, as there is the greater
necessity for faciltaiting intercourse amongst the mercantile
body in order to promote sales at reasonable prices.

GOLD CIRCULAR

The prices continue as last quotation, £3 17s. 3d. for
small parcels, and £3 17s. 6d. for larger quantities. Busi-
ness has been brisk this week, the .demand for shipment
being spirited, and the quantity offered not sufficient to sup-
ply the large_ orders in the market. •
Another week has passed without any shipments of gold
to report, that per Eagle was taken on board to-day ; but as
she is not cleared at the custom house yet, the exact quantity
has not been ascertained ; in allSprObability it will be the
largest shipment for some time past ; one banking company
also sends 30,000 ounces by her.

The only matter of interest that has excited the public at-
tention during the past week, has been the attack by bush-
rangers on the private escort on its way from the M'lvor
to liyneton, and the robbery of about 2,300 ounces that it
was conveying. _ _ _

The excitement in town caused by the many contradictory
reports, and the absence of any authentic information, has
been extreme, and although the violence was committed on
Wednesday last, it was only this afternoon, on the arrival
of the escort, that. the real fact§ were known, a full
itatement of which will doubtless be published on Monday.
The robbers, after wounding. four of the escort decamped
with the gold, leaving £750 in cash, which they did not dis-
cover.

The police, and a numerous body of armed diggers, "are now
scattered over the country around the scene of the outrage,
and there is every probability of the stolen property being
'recovered, even although the pernetrators of the crime may
escape.
This unfortunate occurrence will be severely felt by the
company, as part of the gold was insured, and they will
have to incur additional expenses in future by increasing
their troops, which as yet have not been strong enough to
make any great resistance against a superior body of men
lying in ambush. It is to be hoped-that the liberal support
of the public may continue to increase, and that the profits
of the company may soon enable them to clear off this heavy
loss.

From the mines there is nothing important this week,
rumours of gold were circulated yesterday. Several sam-
ples of earth and sand, containing small portions of gold,
wore exhibited to-day; they were said to have been brought
from the junction of the Yarra Yarra and Salt Water River,
and were taken froin the stuff with which the vessels were
ballasted. No authentic information has as yet been re-
ceived, but if it is really the case, many thousands of tons
of -the precious earth have been carried away without their
ever having been a suspicion of. its worth.
About £93,000 in specie have been received by the Bank

this week.
Advance made by the Banks on gold shipped to Great
Britain, 60s. per ounce:
Bills drawn against gold-dust at thirty days sight taken
by the Banks at par. Bank drafts on London at thirty days
sight, issued' at 2 per' cent. premium.
Freight of gold to Great Britain, deliverable at the Bul-
lion Office, Bank of England, 4id per ounce in full.
Insurance of gold to Great Britain three guinGas per
cent.

ENNISKILLEN REGISTI
zly (lea

—The Daily Exlir'iss• of exult-
that the revision in - Enniskillen Borough
has giveu_Mr. Whiteside, Lord Derby's Splicitor-General,
clear majority of 45 out of a miserable constituency of 180
It is to be seen whether Mr. Whiteside will to
of this, as at the last election he was admitted without a

adva,ntag

contest by Mr. Collura,who had previously ran him within
nine—on the condition that he would,.,on a futtire occasion,
retire in Mr. Collura's favor.

POLICE COURT.-SATURDAY.

LIVERPOOL

A seaman, named Charles Langley, summoned Captain
John Prescott for having refused to give up his certificate of
discharge, by which he was prevented from getting employ-
ment. Mr Chilton appeared on behalf of the complainant,
who stated he arrived in Liverpool from New Orleans upon
the 22nd of September, when he was obliged to go to the
hospital, being ill. He had since frequently applied to the
captain for his certificate of discharge, without which he
could not get employment, and the captain refused giving him
it. The captain said the seaman was bound to sign a release
before he obtained his discharge, but he had not come to do
so, because he was in debt to the ship. Finally, the captain
agreed to go with Mr. Chilton, and the complainant, to the
Sailors' Home and have both release and discharge made
out and signed there.

DESERTION FROM THE NAVY.--,Tohn Guthrie, captain of
the British merchant ship Medina, appeired to answer a
charge made on behalf of the Admiralty, of having, upon
the 14th of August, employed a man named Richard Thomp-
son, and three other men, knowing them to have been desert-
ers from her Majesty's war sloop Espiegle, then lying at
Carthagena. Mr. Parr, solicitor to the Admiralty, appeared
for the prosecution: Sir George Stephen, instructed by
Messrs. Davenport and Collier, defended Captain Guthrie.
Mr. Parr said each case would form the subject of a separate
prosecution, and he would begin with that of Richard Thonip-
son. Sir George Stephen applied to have all the other
witnesses Ordered out of court, as his defence would
mainly rest upon the contradictory nature of their testimony.
The witnesses were accordingly orderedto leave the court. Mr.
Parr said the circumstances of the case were, that on Sunday,
the 7th of August last, Richard Thompson and two others,
able seamen, and one marine, deserted from on board her
Majesty's sloop Espiegle, then lying at Carthaghena. They
travelled through the country until, upon the Saturday fol-
lowing, they arrived at Savanilla, where they met Captain
Guthrie, whose brig, the Medina, was then in that port.
They told him they were deserters, but he offered, neverthe:-
less, to ship them, and he accordingly entered them under
fictitious names, as seamen of the Medina, and brought them
to Liverpool. In Liverpool they were taken into custody.
The prosecution was accordingly commenced by, the Admi-
ralty, under the 10th and 11th Victoria. Richard. Thompson
was called and placed in the witness box. In answer to Mr.
Parr, he stated that he was boatswain's mate on board the
Espiegle, from which he deserted, with three others, at Car-
thaghena' upon the 7th of August. They went on through
the country and arrived at Savanilla, on Saturday, the 13th
of August. They met with Captain Guthrie there, who
spoke to them. They told him they were deserters from an
English vessel of war. He said "the whole four of you?"
and witness said " yes, we all left one ship." They told
him it was the Espiegle they had left. He said, "lam so
many hands short, and if you have a mind to engage with

me fo take the ship to England, I will engagel3ll
and we will go direct to Liverpool." They said they
were all agreeable to go. Ile added—" I can't ship you as
Englishmen, but I'll ship you as foreigners—you can ship
with me as Americans." ' They agreed, and lie took them
on board at once, where they worked the next day. They
signed articles to bring the ship to England, as Americans.
They did not ship under their own names ; witness took the
name of Richard Ward. Did not tell the captain what his
real name was. When they arrived in Liverpool they were
taken into custody. On cross-examination by Sir George
Stephen, witness stated that he had previously served in the
Constant; 50 gun frigate, and in the Terrible, and was paid
off from both vessels. Deserted from the Espiegle, because
he was not comfortable there, not .that he had a dislike to
any on board, but he did not like the vessel. Did not tell
Captain Guthrie that he and his comrades were wrecked
from the Eliza, of New York. Captain Guthrie said they
Should give the name of some vessel as having served last in
her, and witness mentioned the Eliza, of New York.
Captain Guthrie said that would do very well. That was in
the cabin. They were about fourteen days on board the
Medina, in Savanilla, before they sailed. They made no
effort at concealment. They wore the uniform of the Es-
piegle, blue shirt and white trowsers. Witness and two of
his comrades rowed the captain ashore three or four times.
While in prison, in Liverpool, saw Captain Bevis, of the
Espiegle, and Mr. Parr. They did not say .a word to him
about their puniShment being mitigated if he succeeded in con-
victing Captain Guthrie. Does not erpect that it will he naiti-
gated on that account. Sir George Stephen addressed the Court
:upon behalf of Captain Guthrie commenting strongly upon
the questionable character of the evidence given by Thomp-
son, after which he called the mate of the Medina, named
Roper, who deposed that when first he saw Thompson and
his comrades aboard the Medina, they had striped shirts on
and canvass trousers, not the dress of man-of-war men, and
'that Captain Guthrie directed him to have some conversa-

don with them, as he said he was doubtful whether they had
not come frOm a man-of-war. That was in Savanilla before

the articles were signed. In consequence, he had some eon-
versation with Thompson, who. passed by the name of Ward,
and asked him what ship he belonged to last ? Thompson

said the American. vessel Eliza, a New York, which was
Wrecked. Witness asked was she a total wreck, and Thomp-
son replied, no, but
..they saw no rtbaneo of getting her off,
ua 44.,,,,0n., cney- leit her mid walked on to SaTanilla.
{Neither witness nor anyone on .board, as far as he knows,
bad any thought of concealment regarding the men, nor was
Imy 'effort whatever made to hide the fact of their being on
board. • Witness • reported to Captain Guthrie the result of
the conversation. Witness did not become acquainted with
the real character of the men; until they were at sea, three
or four 'days after they had left Savanilla, when he learned

•
it in consequence of a conversation he had with th
Had no reason to believe when they were sizninz

articles that they were giving fictitious names. When
they were arrested in Liverpool heard one of them say
the captain had sold them. To Mr. Parr :.It is customary
when men are shipped at a foreign port to apply to the
consul, and the captain did so in this instance. To the
Court : When he reported to the captabf_that he had
'discovered who they were, the captain said, "We must
only make the best of it—we are at sea now." At the

.......
desire of the Court, Thompson was recalled, and deposed that
he mate was present at the conversation which took place
'n the cabin, and also that he had been telling the mate
bout the duties of a man-of-war before the articles were
igned. The mate: That is not true. Mr. Parr urged that
he evidence of the mate did not disprove that of Thompson ;
and alSo mentioned that Captain Bevis and he had told
Thompson that'he must not expect the slightest mitigation
of punishment in consequence of the evidence he was about
to give. The Court said the evidence was very contradictory.
The evidence of the seaman appeared on the whole very
consistent, and might possibly be true. On the other hand,
the mate was an unimpeached witness, and hig character and
tation rendered him less liable to be biased in any testimony
he gave. His evidence contradicted that of the other wit-
Iness in some very material points, and, therefore, in so very
erious a case it was right to give the benefit of any doubt
to the defendant, and not to find a conviction. There were
Certainly very strong reasons for believing that the evidence of
the seaman was not much at variance with he truth. But
Upon the whole as a doubt existed at all, it was fight to give the
benefit of it to. Captain Guthrie, the case therefore was dis-
missed. Sir George Stephen observed that if his client had
been in a position to give the evidence of the consul at Sa-
vanilla, he could show that he had applied to him, and that
the consul felt satisfied from the statements of the seamen,
that they were what they represented themselves to be, there-
fore the. Captain was not to blame in the matter. Mr. Parr
observed that the Admiralty thought it right to institute the
jolrosecution, in 'order to prevent seamen who had deserted
from Her Majesty's Ships from being taken aboard merchant
vessels. He was however, quite content with the verdict.
Sir George Stephen : Do you withdraw the other cases ?
Mr. Parr,- I do. _ --

ROBBERY OF BOOTS AND JEWELLERY.--Ellen Smith was
Charged by Mrs. Cowen, 42, Great Howard-street, with
stealing a pair of boots her property. The prisoner came
to look for a servant's place with the prosecutrix, and took the
boots. When arrested by officer 733, the prisoner stated
she pledged the boots in a shop in Regent-street, this how-
ever was not the case. Martha Christie, a young girl who
lives in Benjamin-street, charged the same prisoner with
stealing a gold chain ; she came to inquire if prosecutrix
had fotnd a parrot which she lately lost, and about which
prisoner had given evidence before the magistrates, when
she went away, prosecutrix missed the chain. Mr. Lieppe-
Schutz of 67, Great Howard-street, proved that he purchased
the stolen article from the prisoner. She was convicted, and
sentenced to three months imprisonment.
CONCEALING THE BIRTH OF A CHlLD.—Committal
to the Assises.-2lfargaret Clegg was placed at the bar
charged with concealing the birth of her child. Richard
Williams, spirit dealer, said that the prisoner was in
his service seven months. About six weeks ago, he sus-
pected from her delicacy that something was wrong.
He sent for Mr. Alexander Galloway, surgeon, about three
weeks ago, who attended, and pronounced the girl to be
enciente. The dotter swore that he met the prisoner some
two weeks previously to his last visit in the shop of Mr.
Sutton, druggist, and that she then asked him to prescribe
for her; she complained of pains in her back, he told her
she was enciente, but she demed that she was so. When called
in by Mr. Williams, he at once asked prisoner what she had
done, with her child, she immediately told him that it was
in a box in the warehouse, and handed him the key. He
opened the box pointed out to him, and there, in a bucket,
found the body of a full-grown child. He applied the usual
tests, and found that the infant was still-born. The girl
was sent for trial to the Assizes.

ROBBERY OF AN EMPLOYER.—Thomas Quinn was charged
with stealing a piece of silk and two button boxes, the pro-
perty of his employers, Messrs. Stones and Halleday, drapers
and tailors, Lord-street. The priso-ner had been in their
employment two years, first as an errand boy, and after-
wards as assistant to the foreman cutter-out. Mr. Stones
had suspected him for some time past, and on the 21st of
October, another man named James ll'Allisten., in his
employment, told him that prisoner had asked him to sell
some silk for him. John Eaton, detective officer, searched
lodgings in Vauxhall-road, and there found the
roperty produced. The prisoner was committed to take
his trial, at the Quarter Sessions.

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PLUNDERING A BONDED &calm—Joseph Leethwaite, and
Elizabeth _Leethwaite, his wife, were charged with stealing a
bottle of brandy, the property of Messrs Bushell, spirit
merchants, from their bonded stores, in York buildings. It
appeared by the evidence that the Messrs Bushell had re-

caesyivested
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raloneryfrowmasthge
They applied to Captain Greggr,----who sent one 0,
tective officers to watch the premises. Patrick, tneapt'ae
watched the premises for several days, between one_ „ ion
in the afternoon he observed the female prisonelye
the warehouse, and she invariably returned 1.1 tolio
some small parcel to the driver of an omaibusactillot
she afterwards got, and which
hers;'b goes to I„°tosecct
sant. On Friday he followed she wellt :it,0517
shops, and ultimately into the 'bus, into which
got, and was driven with her to Mount Pleasant steo
she got out at her house, Patrick asked her w1,,,i,t,g0 -`3' 2f;
got about her, wn she said, nothing but some uder
had bought; het hen searched her, and found under
apron the bottle of brandy produced.. She stateubsrdi
it from a man in Mr. Bushell's vaults. Witness.vieri
going on inffitcheerir°fesetilasbtirlitifel
the bottle to the warehouse, when the male Prl,4
mated that his wife came to him for some bran, t!t/ 4''41",e1);,
into the gruel of a child of theirs who ,was o 7 ,
fever, and that he had given her the botkntiii
Messrs Bushell, who were • both 'present, in`ntirC , "4
the bottle .of brandy as their property, b} .I d 11,
ad
marks. One of the gentlemen said that he Prescits
case only as a solemn act of duty, as comPlnistels.
hi made that the revenue was defrauded 1-1'
system of plunder which existed. As to the prisonc,i-to
tll6 brandy for the exigency of a sick child, he 611_11, tt;11:7,
that every person in their employment .knew very "fot pk
they always could have what spirits they required„ to,
sortable private use ; this they allowed to prevent -
tion—to prevent the necessity of such a motive as the ,
had mentioned to the officer. The Magistrates std ,44,13 ht
would send both prisoners for trial, but they te° nr,c' °
ofr,,
nal bail of £5, for the wife's appearance.
A QUEER STOE,Y.—• FOreS.ya was pu.f f 0
Officer 257. A Barman in Mr. Tayletir‘s Vaults, Ti 'IP,
street, said the prisoner came into the vaults at half 1)e 4' '111:1(
on Friday evening, and called for a glass of rum; tdo 0r,t14
down a half-sovereign on the counter, and witness
the change, but never took up ,the gold; whilst
round to get prisoneer a little bitters, the latter P ei,' 11/4°,itti;l4l4g
both the half-soverign and the change. Witness 11,DY, t:p,t„.
until he gave him in charge of the officer, whoa ,
17s. in silver was found on his person. AnotherlP4L ett
posed that between 5 and 6 the same evening, prison'
Belk
into Mr. Cutt's public house, Chapel Street, for three te,l
worth of rum, he put down a half-sovereign to Pts
SI
they had not change, and prisoner said he w° •n •
in again. About nine o'clock he came in 3r. halm
said that he had lost the half sovereign at the f%lehad
but that would not make them even for the glass he e 1
'l9, p,
nd he paid for that, and &of a candle to look for Lea
. Mr. Clough said that the presumption 14'4cs
e his way to the police-office, he had dropped t 11„ o
~
-,reign taken at Mr. Tayleues vaults, and.
charged from thence, went to Mr. Cutt's for a calni`e
for it. The magistrates said it was not more than $
Suspicion, and they should dismiss the prisoner. „ I ''Jatn,
ASSAULT ON A RAILWAY POLICEMAN.— Tfratiant
a carman, was charged by one of the policemen, 1)3
Lancaghire and Yorkshire Railway, with assaulti%
He said that on Friday morning, •theprisoner
convicted of an overcharge at the terminus, the clerk
witness to put him out of the yard; up-on telling Priestji4
go out, he refused to do so, and upon witness proce e
enforce the orders he had received, defendant I°ll,ll (;4pl
lash of his whip round his hand, and struck hill'
with it over the head and shoulders. He was orue„, '•
pay a fine of 20s and costs, or to be imprisoned for
as
Gilliam Hobam was sentenced to two months'
went for having a valuable coat in his possession, ft)r
he could not account. it, 0,4
Sl4t.

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LIVERPOOL MARKETS—SATunDAY... 'tit:
(Written expressly for the Northern Daily Ti ,ji ''4
nt
Saturday being generally considered a kind of holydivr,
~ tt't,t
produce market, the business done, if any, seldom.t7,llle, W‘
Fire have not heard of any sales in SUGAR? Rum, or 'l,4' )0t441•
.Some further business was done in Rico at a further ' ' '
but in other produce there is nothing to report. t
COTTON.—The sales to:day are 6,000 bales, 1,000. c .
',lave been taken for export, and .500 "on speculatll', ;44,
sales include 281 Pernams and MaranhaMS,"6fd. to 64:' '1 Vorot
Egyptians, 6ld. to Bid. ; 500 Surats,• 3d. to 41' N;,e4'l)f
'market closes steadily. 4.t+,(?'

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a£nldl:l7.-AsohNrakrihsu,ilE.e:Tl ~.
a further decline has taken place in several classes
~
SHARES.—The market to- day has again been &PI
The sales are :—ealedonian, 24,3 ; Eastern Courlu:l;k
Great S. & Western., 50; Kendal . and Windernlp i
.gt
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 611 g Lancaster a"ioiji' lA°t'.,,l
Manchester S. and Lincoln, 19 ; Midland, 59.1; -be' 'n
2'17
i
' age , .03 k
6miAießr
KmcentT, I:ls:Tc,..lia p
‘4,i:,,,.C,i
Richmond Debentures, 6 per, cent, 1024. ' , t lAS*, ,'' IV;
The market has been weak and inactive.to-day, 'l. ss. s , '',l3,
are a shade lower than yesterday. The follow:A. ,:l v,
business transacted :—Caledoniari, 241 ; East Lancash,lri; 12;',, 11,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61i-1 ;` London and Noir:s, 7
ern, 1011; London and North Western New garmh
Manchester and Rirmlnaharn (C Quartero). tr ; d_ b;.
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 19; North Sta
South Eastern and,Dover, 17 5-16-4.
E;l6RLopsnishina,:ilea,aEn.d North Western, if' ~,,co ‘,..
GLASGOW MARKETS—Oar.
The improved feeling noticed in our Cotton g-
in the early part of the week has continued till the C
there is a fair amount of business going on. Ce
here yesterday, but there is now rather 'a firmer

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.ontinges scarce,

enhanced prices.

to b7S.
sellers, 6

1 to 3 lines
4 or 5 lines

6 or 7 lines

8, 9 ,or 10 line

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