The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

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SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.

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Mr. Baron Alderson tool
eleven o'clock, when the
sworn in as a Grand Jury :-

X.-YESTERDAY.
his seat on the bench at-
following gentlemen were

The Mayor of Liverpool.

T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P.
W. Entwhistle, Esq., F'man.
Oliver Heywood, E.q.
Edward L'oyd, jun., Esq.

H. Cook, Esq.
N. Nevitt, Esq.
N. Gregg, Esq.
E. Grundy, E.g.
H. Hardman, Esq.
Robert Heywood, Esq.
J. C. Harter, jun., Esq.
G. W. Moss, Esq.
J. A. Nicole, Esq.
J. N. Walker, Esq.
G. H. Thompson, Esq.
H. Phillips, Esq.

Edward ToOthill, Esq

J. A. Turner, El,
W. R. Wood, E'q
H. Woods, Esq.

W. Eccleston, Eq.

James Acton, Esq.•
H. Asten, Esq.
H. Bai'ey,
His Lordship then said : Gentlemen of the Grand
Inquest, I am very glad to see so numerous an attend-
ance, indeed, the largest number which could properly
attend in the court, for the purpose of discharging one
of the important duties belonging to your rank and
station ; and I am very glad that you do not neglect it,
for, believe me, it is one of the greatest safety valves for
the English Constitution. So long as the gentry of the
country discharge these duties to the public, so long will
they have that legitimate and proper influence which
they have hitherto possessed in this country. And he is
the best Conservative who continues to do his duty in
his own station of life, with the utmost activity and
intelligence. We are met together here at a season of
the year which I cannot say is an unusual period,
knowing that I am speaking in a place where I have
before addressed persons at this period of the year
several times. It would be absurd for me to :call this an
unusual period ; and, in truth, I do not myself forget that
it is very right and proper, and ought to continue to be
a usual thing in the County of Lancashire, that the,
judges should come here at this period of the year for
the purpose of discharging the gaol of the large body of
criminals which accumulate at this time. Imay, per-
haps, think it is not quite s) necessary in other counties
of England—certainly not in all, as is manifested by the
fact of the judges not being sent to all, but in this
county and in the adjoining great county of York, there
is DO questiou but that it is a necessary and very' proper
management. Gentlemen, there are in this calender
not a great number of persons to whose cases it is at all
necessary that I should call your attention. There are
several charges of murder. I think two or three of them
will probably amount only, in your judgment, when they
come to be considered more fully, or even if you should
have doubt about it, there is the judgment of the potty
jury to cases of manslaughter. There is one, for
instance, in which a young woman, certainty of bad
character, and living with a man in a very improper and
indecorous way, and both being extremely drunk at the
time, stabbed the man under circumstances which I
cannot help thinking will turn 'out to be of very con-
siderable provocation towards her even by blows, which
of course, if it be found so, will reduce the crime to
manslaughter. If you so look upon it, and see
that there is reasonable ground for that belief,
you will find a bill only for manslaughter. There
are other cases in which no such provocation can pos-
sibly have arisen, for they are cases of the the murder of
children ; not at the time of birth, for that is not in
general a case of much difficulty, but after the children
have been born, have lived, and have been seen alive—so
so to speak—in the world. These are clear cases of
murder, for there can be no manslaughter in such a
case, inasmuch, as the child was incapable of committing
any offence towards its mother, which could justify the
act of the mother—unless you are satisfied that the
death has arisen from exposure of an unwise and im -
provident description, without amounting to the offence
of murder, by means of the intent to kill. But, if a per-
son expose an infant child voluntarily, to hardship and
cold, with insufficient clothing.-you can hardly but
infer an intent to kill. If that be so, the crime, of
course, is murder. Then the questions will only be
questions of the identity of the child and questions
of the identity of the mother. There is, then,
another class of cases, which I am sorry to see beginning t
to be so common thronghout England ; for, 1 regret to
tell you, that elsewhere the settle thing prevails. Cases
of what are called Garotte robberies, in which persons
are seized, put to considerable violence, and robbed.
Generally speaking, by two or three together, like
the Thugs in India. These are cases, in which, when ,
they are brought before you, you will, if the circum-
stance
warrant, find bills, and I will, to the extent of my
power, punish them with the greatest severity of the
law, because I do believe that that is the only way in
which we can put them down, if we can put them down
at all. The other cases are such as occur to you in the
ordinary course of your duty as magistrates, and I am
quite sure, knowing the county of Lancashire fora
in. it'd or jcazn no.v amounting, to very close upon 50,
that you are perfetly well competent to discharge your
duties in that respect without any instruction. Gentle-
men, these cases having been disposed of, then, perhaps,
you will find a good many— I do n a know how many—
eases in which the prisoners are persons who have been
pardoned, so to speak, and have come back into the
worl I with what are called tickets of leave, which,
certainly, appears to be'—apparently from its effects, I
mean, a very unwise arrangement. These persons ara
let toose, you see, upon society, and the reason of it is
because it is almost impassible to keep persons for so
long a period of time as persons used to be transported
for in custody in this country. People get
tired of keeping them any longer. I believe that is one
of the operations of human nature. Then, the
chaplains of the geols become extremely atten
tive, and if a man turns up the , wh'tes
of his eyes a little more than others, and
pretends to be a converted sinner, the chaplain
immediately considers himself much complimented by
the effects of his ministrations, and recommended him
to be set free. So that, in truth you see the effect is
nothing more than to add hypocrisy to their other crimes.
Then we have the benefit of this in the next generation
resul ing in a greater number of crimes committed by
hose very persons who were not really reformed, but
pretended to be reformed for the purpose of escaping
from punishment. Gentlemen, this arises in some
degree from our having, through the medium of certain
very active, but I cannot help thinking, not very
judicious philanthropists, seeing that they are not
practical men, abolished to some extent or been attempt-
ing to abolish' the punishment of transportation
altogether. Now, that transportation was subjected to
considerable evils, and required considerable reforms
lion, is perfectly true. But it is not proper to abolish
it, hecause, after all, it is the best punishment both for
the country which inflicts it, and for the criminal who
receives it. For, I believe it is pretty well known, that
the number of persons transported, who recovered to all
appearance their good name in the colonies, and
lived as decent and respectable people there, is a very
large per centage, whilst of those who remain in this
country and are not transported, but turned loose again,
a very small if not an infinitesimal per centage has been
found to reform. I remember some years ago I visited
the Millbank Penitentiary, as it is celled in London, a
penitentiary which receives principally, if not only—l
believe indeed only—persons sentenced to transportation.
I went over that prison with the late Mr. Whitworth
Russell, a clergyman of very considerable eminence on
account of the attention which he devoted to what may
be called criminal statistics. He showed me ever the
gaol, where there were some 600, 600, or 700 prisoners
at the time. He had been there doing his duty, and
very actively and energelcally, for upwards of fifteen or
sixteen years. After Iliad seen the whole gaol, and
observed all the means whereby the penitence and
reform were to be produced, I said to Mr. Russell :
" Pray, Mr. Russell, as I know that you have been here
fifteen or sixteen years, how many persons do you think
were really reformed during all these years, out of the
700 who have been constantly here ?" Now, what do
you think was his answer? " Possibly two—l am sure
of one !" This was the experience of that gentleman in
the greatest penitentiary in London, among that class of
Persons of whom we are now speaking having been sub-
jected to transportation. But it is absurd to talk of this
as being reformation. If, however, these persons had
been sent abroad, had been put into the colonies, and
turned out in the colonies, after the periods of their
transportation had elapsed, perhaps subjecting them In
the intermediate time to that very objectionable system
here, but not objectionable system there, the
ticket of leave, it has been ascertained by experi-
ence that 40 or 50 per cent. of them would have
been reclaimed. It is therefore really and truly' a
humane proceeding to transport people, with a chance of
redemption for them, rather than by keeping them in
this country, out of all chances of redemption at all.
Surely this is more humane—surely this is more wise
I do not think I need doubt about the answer you
would give me, if the facts be such as I state. Well,
first consider what the circumstances are. What is
a man to do? You turn him out after he has
been subjected to a long series of imp,ison•
ments in this country. What is he to do ?
you turn him out with a ticket of leave. I will presume
he has behaved well in gaol, because people who cannot
behave ill are for the moment apt to behave well, and
this is particularly the case with this class of persons,
They are always clever, and know what will be the

consequences of good behaviour for the time being, but
what are they to do when they come , out ? Would not
you, if you took any one of them into your employment,
consider that you were doing, and you would be doing
an act of the greatest philanthropy, but at the hazard
of your comfortif you took him into your house—at the
hazard of the comfort of all your servants who would not
like 'to associate with persons of that description. They
cannot obtain employment, what then are they to do ?
You turn them out amongst their old associates, they
have the cleverness which belongs to people of that
description ; they place themselves at the head of new
gangs, the same evils arise, crime is committed, the man
is punished, and perhaps sometimes even to the extent
of death. That is generally the consequences of the
act, but if you turn them . out in the coloniei, where the
capital of the country yearly requires additional labour,
you will treat those people more humanely, because you
can employ them with much greater ease. At all events,
they will be far from their associates in England, and
vim Will give them the opportunity of distinguishing
themselves by their talents and their conduct,
and by their exercise they very often redeem them-
selves and become useful colonists. Well, then,
why should we abolish instead of reforming
transportation ) Far better to do the one than the
other. ,It -is but. gaining nothing in exchange for a
great good, though that great good is accompanied with
some evil, no doubt, because it is inconvenient and
difficult to obtain a place in which a settlement is to be
had. ,A great deal of that difficulty has arisen from the
early blunder and early want of a good understanding of
this country with the colonists in former times on this
subject. I feel this that no more ought to be transported
who is an incorrigible criminal. You should only
transport your corrigible criminals, if I may so call them.
You should try to separate one from the other by pre-
viods reformatory imprisonuient, and though you cannot
say that the hypocrite will not deceive you instead of the
other, yet this you can say and do—you can teach him
to yead, write, and cast up accounts. You can teach him
a new'trade, or even two new -trades, I have seen in the
old reformatory at Pentonville persons who had been
taught two trades since the time they came into the
reformatory. If you send men capable of reading,
writing, and casting up accounts, in addition to the
trades which he has been taught, the new colony will find
him a useful colonist, even though you do not send him
out an 'honest man altogether. Not that I would
neglect the other means of reformation, the teach-
ing of religion and morality, which are useful
combined with the system of which I have
been speaking ; but I know that though you
may be deceived in them through the one, you cannot
be deceived as to the other, because in it you have a test,
but by combining both, while you may probably impart
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because they are removed from their evil associates—
they are very clever—they are capable of distinguishing
themselves by skill in their respective trades, and while
they become good colonists, you give them the chance
of becoming also good men, and with GOd's blessing, 1
hope that under • circumstances their number will
increase. You place them in situations, in which, by
the exercise of their talents, they will be relieved of the
temptation of want, and that is the best po sible chance
'of reclaiming them from that state in which they were
in s .ciety at home. No doubt that is a chance, but it is
the best chance. With respect to your incorrigibles, you
ought to keep them here ; you have no right to afflict
your colonies with them, because of the impossibility of
their being refoimed in this country at . all. Your
corrigible criminals, seeing that they become useful
colonists, you have a right to send them out, and it
seems to me that you would have no difficulty in inducing
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speak, of the colonists themselves, instead of being those
upon whom the colonists should depend as their servants.
That, in a great degree, was the canse why the colonists
rebelled, so to speak, against them. Then there ought
to be this distinction too. I cannot help thinking, that
when yon reform a man in the course of imprisonment
in jail, and then send him out of the country, you should
also provide that he should be accompanied with his wife
and family. He ought to be burthened with a certain
fixed amount for the transport of his wife and children,
to be repaid within a limited period after his arrival and
liberation in the colony, and if he is willing to submit
to that condition, I do think you ought to assist hint,
because it is one of the best ways of reclaiming him, to
bring him back to his domestic duties, domestic cares,
and domestic comforts. I am ashamed, gentlemen, to
hove occupied your time so long with this topic, but I
much wish that you won in employ your minds in tl.c
consideration of it. It is a subject much at heart with
me, and I hope it will be also at heart with you, and I
am sure that if my views met with the concurrence of
gentlemen of your intelligence, position, and experience
in the country, we shall have some chance, at no remote
period, of coming to some real conclusion in this
matter. I leave the young criminals to the means which
are to be taken for their reformations in thiecountry.
They are to be reformed by means of reformatory schools,
which are doing great service. I have spoken only of
the two classes of persons for whom transportation was
provided, and for whom a right system of transportation
would be the greatest blessing that could be provided.
The Grand Jury then retired to their room, to con-
sider the bills of indic'ment sent up to them.
BURGLARY BY A TICKET OF-LEAVE
Anderson, aged 22, a slipper maker, pleaded guilty to
the charge of having, at Manchester, in August last,
burglariously broken into the dwelling house of John
Mannion, and stolen several articles of property. A
previous conviction was proved. His lordship, in sen-
tencing the prisoner, said : In, the year 1853 you were
tried and sentenced to transportation for seven years, but
at the end of three years they granted you a ticket of
leave. This was in June last, and having then come
out, you committed this offence the following August.
What hope is there, then, for you ? The sentence of the
court is, that you be transported beyond the seas for 20
years. If they let you out again, it is their fault, not
mine.

Bunor.kuv.— James Thomas, aged 24, foundry worker,
pleaded guilty to a charge of burglarious:), breaking into
the house of William Edge. at Manchester, in October
last, with intent to steal. Sentence deferred.
STABBING A PoLicESlAN.—Richard Carr, aged 21,
shoemaker, was charged with having at Wigan, on the
Ist September last, feloniously stabbed a policeman,
named Joseph Pearson, with intent to do him grievous
bodily harm. Mr. Lereische prosecuted, and the pri-
soner was undefended. It appeared that the prisoner
had been drinking on the night in question, at a public-
house called the Royal Oak, in Wigan; and alter
leaving the place he had a quarrel with a man named
Leyland, whom he attempted to stab with a pocket.
knife. A cry of " Murder," was raised by Leyland and
others. The police-officer ran to the spot, and attempted
to arrest the prisoner. The prisoner grappled with him,
and both fell to the ground, when the prisoner stabbed
the policeman two or three times, giving him some severe
wounds in the side and stomach. The jury found the
prisoner guilty, and hls lordship sentenced him to
eighteen mon, hs' imprisonment with hard labour.
BURGLARY.— Patrick Murphy, aged 25, blacksmith,
was charged with having, at Openshaw, on the night of
the 2nd October last, burglarously broken and entered
the house of Samuel Atkinson, a beerseller, and stolen
thence 14'. in copper money, a pair of boots, a quantity
of cigars, and some biscuits. Mr. Owens prosecuted. The
prisoner, when arrested, had the stolen boots on, and had
left in the house of the prosecutor, a pair of boots after
him, which were proved to be his. He was found guilty,
and. sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
John. Connor, was charged with having at Newton, on
the 21st October, 1856,burglariously broken apd entered
the- dwelling house of George Macbeth. It appeared
that :a noise awoke a son of the prosecutors early on the
morning in
question, and looking out of the window, he
saw three men making their escape from the yard. He
called his father, and ran out himself, and succeeded in
holding the prisoner until assistance was brought. The
other men escaped. The prisoner was found guilty, and
sentenced to four years' penal servitude. His lordship
eulogised the activity and courage displayed by the
prosecutor's son, and ordered him to receive a reward of
forty shillings.

Sylvester Fairclough, labourer, William Ashurst,
collier, and Peter Fairclough, collier, were charged with
having
at Wigan, on the 7th September, feloniously
assaulted John France, and stolen from him Avc pence, a
silk handkerchief, and other prorerty. Mr. Simon
prosecuted, and Mr. Tyndal Atkinson defended. The
charge was not sustained, and the prisoners were ac
quitted,

HORSE STEALINO.—John Hall, was charged with
having on the 18th of August, 1853, at Gerton,
feloniously stolen a black gelding, the property of John
Brown bill. The horse was lost on the day in question
by the prosecutor, and not found until a considerable
time after, when the prisoner sold it at a fair in War-
wickshire. There being no sufficient evidence to con-

neet the prisoner with the act of stealing, the jury, at the
suggestion of his lordship, acquitted to prisoner.
GAnorra ROBBERY : William Bowler, aged 26, whip-
maker, was charged with having, on the 29th of August
last; assaulted Thomas Roberts, and with great personal
violence robbed him of 9s 10d. The prosecutor, a dyer,
living in Manchester, deposed that on the night in
question be was drinking at a place called the Fox Inn
in that city, and having given half a sovereign to pay he
received 9s 10d change, He saw the prisoner, with some
other persons, there• After leaving the house he was
going home along Deansgate, when the prisoner with the
others came upan him. The prisoner seized him round
the throat, and threw him down, while the two others
took the money out of his pocket. A waiter at the
public house stated that he saw the prisoner in the
house at the time the prosecutor received his change, and
two witnesses, a man and a little girl, corroborated the
account of the garotting, and the iden.ity of the prisoner.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.—Catherine Hogan,
aged 26, factory worker, was charged with aiding in a
garotte robbery at Manchester.. It appeared that on the
night of the 26th September the prisoner met a man,
named Ralph Young. whom she enticed into a dark
passage, from which another man who had been hiding
there came out, caught prosecutor round the neck, and
garotted him. His cries brought assistance, and the
woman was arrested, but the man had escaped. The
prosrentor then found that his watch-guard had been
cut through, but the garotter in escaping had left the
watch behind. The jury found the prisoner guilty.
His Lordship sentenced William Bowler to transports•
tion for twenty years, and Catherine Hogan to transporta-
tion for fifteen years.
The Court rose at half-past six o'clock.

SECOND COURT.
RFFORE MR. SE',JEANT CHINNELL.
STABBING AT TOTTINGHAM. William Johnson, aged
twenty•four, a blacksmith, stood indicted with having,
on the night of the 7th of September, feloniously
wounded Thomas Fisherwood. Mr. Halker conducted
the prosecution, and Mr Wheeler defended the prisoner.
In this case the _prosecutor was a collier, and on the
night in question, he had been reiding at the house of a
school master, named Shaw, and was walking outside
the door, when the prisoner suddenly came up to him
and stabbed him in the left side. -Just before this. the
prisoner had been at the house of a widow, namelß tr-
low, opp ,site the Waggon and Horses public house,
inquiring for some fighters. At th it time he had a large
clasp knife in his hand, ad declared, with an oath, that he
would kill one if he caught any of them. The proseCti•
tion having failed to identify the prisoner as the person
who struck the blow, the jury, after some deliberation,
returned a verdic of not guilty.
BURGLARY AT BURY.—lsaac Ellison, twenty-three,
hatter, was placed at the bar charged with having, at
Bury, or. the 12th of August, 1856. hurglarionsly broken
and entered the dwelling house of James Bentley, and
stolen therein sixty. pounds weight of bacon. On the
night of the 11th August, the prisoner was seen drinking
in the Shakespeare public house, and afterwards,
'between ene and two o'clock in the morning, near the
prosecutor's premises. He was the next day seen in
Manchester, with two flitches of bacon in his possession,
which he succeeded in selling, by representing himself
as a farmer from Knutsford, in Cheshire. Mr. Monek
prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended. He was
convicted, and sentences to four years penal servitude:
UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING,-John Glynn.- twenty five,
labourer, was placed at the bar, charged with having, -at
Warrington, on the 9th September, 1856, un'awfully
wounded John Lough, by stabbing him in the head. wi.h
a sickle. Mr. Ovens prosecuted, and Mr. M'Donnell
defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the day in
question, the prisoner, the prosecutor, and a number of
other persons, were drinking in the Star and Garter
public house, in Warrington. A dispute took place
between them, hut through the interference of the land-
lord, peace was for the time restored. The prisoner then
left, but returned just as the landlord was endeavouring
to put nut Lough, who was drunk. Lough in a moment
struck him with his fist in the face, and then in the
course of the fight which ensued, the prisoner seized his
reaping hook and struck him in the head with it. The
point of the hook entered about three quarters of an
inch, and then broke leaving about three inches of the
iron sticking in the prosecutor's hear). Providentially
the wound did not prove fatal. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to two
months imprisonment, with hard labour. He has already
-been three months in prison.
The.coart rose at six o'clock. ..

BREAK DOWN OF THE ,CANDIA. —We have received in-
telligence by electric tel-graph, via Marseilles, that the
Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Comp iny's ship
Candia, C wain Powell, from Alexandria, on the 25th ult.,
with the India and China nrailt, and which wis due at
Southampton on the 4'h inst., had broken down and put into
Tunis. The mails and passengers were all safe at Marseilles.
The C4ndia hal on freight about 000 bale,
£60,000, and a diamond ra'ue 15,000 rupees, consigned to
Messrs. T. A. Gibbs and Co., of London.
ADMIRALTY APPOINTMENTS. —SA TURDA Y, DEC. 6, 185 6 .
—Lieutenants A. 17; Hart, to the Pembroke ; C. G. M Grc-
gor, to the Mminder ; A. J. Kingston. to the Indus ; James
C. Clark, to the Coast Guar3 ; T. 11. M. Martin, to the
Cornwallis : Mr. F. A. Wetherell, midshipman, to the
Indus ; Dr. Alexander Anderson, surgeon, to the Pembroke;
Mr. Samuel Clift (ft), assistant surgeon to the Pembroke;
Mr. R. J. Scriire, assistant surgeon, to the Plat 1; Mr. C.
E. H. Farrant, second master, to the Pluto ; Mr. Richard
hiumfard, se3nnd master, to the James Watt. Prom,tion :

Commander William Hoseason, to the rank of captain on
the reserved list.
SHOOTING A RAT.—Oa Wednesday, a most dangerous
accident occurred to Mr. W. C. Burniston, collector of taxes,
Suffolk-road, from the bursting of a pitool. The family
had, for some time, been annoyed by the incur-sloes of a
rat in the cellar, and had in vain tried to capture the in-
truder with a trap. On Wednesday, the rat venturad into
the kitchen, and Mr. Burniston having loaded a horse pistol,
drove it into the garden, and there shot at it—as it stood
with its head buried in the snow, as the ostrich hides its
head in a bush. The pistol burst at the breech, and
shattered the stock to pieces. Parts of it struck Mr. Bur
niston on the hand, which was severely injured, the thumb
being almost torn off. The b irrel struck Lim on the fore-
head, instantly knocking him d awn ; and on a surgeon
being caliel in, it was found that the skull was fractured in
two or three places. The fractures were removed, and no
depression of the brain havinz taken place, the injuries,
though dangerous, are not lik ly to prove fatal. The ace-
dent is believed to have arisen trom the pistol, which had
not been us- cl for some months, having been imperfectly
cleaned about two months ago. Mr. Barcistoa is pro
gressirg very favourably.
DETERMINED CASE OF SELF-DESTRUCTION AT BOLTON.
—A most determined case of self-destrucion occurred iu
Bolton, on S tturday evening. A young man. 21 years of
age residing in Blundell court, top of l)eansgate, tamed
Joseph Pendlebury, was discharged that day from his
employment at Mr. Skinner's mill, for some cause not
stated. On the same eay a small felony was commitied at
the house of a neighbour, named William Mann, and the
wife of rendlebury on that evening charged him with com-
mitting the offence. In consequence of this he became so
exasperated that he left the house, stating at the time that
he would go and destroy himself. The wife followed him,
and remonstrated witlihim on his rash conduct, and strug-
gled with him for stveral hours on tho road towards Mere
Hill : be appearing strong in his d :termination to go and
drown himself, asking the wife to go back to the house and
fetch their infant child, so that they might all be drowned
together. The wife b. ing unable to struggle with him
longer, left him at Dawson lane, about eleven o'clock at
night, and went to the police office and gave information of
the occurrence. Sea, ch was made for him the same night,
bat he was not found until about ten o'clock the morning
following, when his body was discovered in a lodge belong.
ing to the mill of Messrs. Hebden and Whittaker, at Mere
Hill, so that he evidently had gone direct from his wife
when she laft him the night previous, and committed the
rash act.

MYSTERIPUB DISAPPRARANCE OF NEARLY £2,000
.
WORTH Or ?RorEßßy..—On Monday night last Mr. geys,
the traveller for an extensive London house, lost a case con-
taining nearly £2,000' worth of watches, while travelling
from Coleraine to this city. Mr. Keys, who is known in
business to some parties in Derry, states that he arrived in
Coleraine from Belfast by the last train on the evening in
question, having'with him a portmanteau and two cases,'the
latter containing gold watches, &c. These packages he
brought with him into the omnibus which carries passengers
between the Ballymena and the Derry termini at Coleraine.
He was about getting into the compartment of a second
class carriage at Coleraine, taking the cases, &c, with him.
when the guard of the train told him he could not bring them
there, as the luggage must be put into the compartment re-
served for itself. The train being about to start, Mi. Keys
permitted him to, remove the parcels. Oa reaching Derry,
however, to his dismay, he discovered that one case, as
already described, was rot forthcoming. Only three or
four passengers had travelled by the train, and of these but
one had got out between Coleraine and Derry. The guard
wrs at once taken into custody ; he denied that he had
taken the case into his hands at Culetaine, but said that he
had ordered a porter to carry the gentleman's luggage to
its proper pare. This the porter at Coleraine denies. The
constabulary and the officials of the line have been making
every effort to recovo• the missing case, but without
success, Having been detained in gaol till
morning,. the guard was liberated, security to the amount of
£lOO having been entered into for his appearance when
called upon. This is a grave matter, and wt lit we trust, be
thoroughly investigated.—Derry Standard,

THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY.

ESCAPE OF TESTER FROM SWEDEN AND
NOTIFIED SURRENDER..

After the positive manner in which Mr. Bodkin an-
nounced the speedy capture of Tester, at the commence-
ment of the proceedings when Pierce and Burgess were
brought up for re-examination before the Lord Mayor on
Tuesday last, some little surprise will no doubt be excited.
when it is stated that Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Rees, the solicitor
for the prosecutor, the authorities of the South Eastern
Railway Company, and the metropolitan detectives,
have all been upon a wrong scent in looking for their
man in Sweden, when he was in reality in this country.
and even in the metropolis. There is, however, every
reason to believe that such has been the case, and
that Tester for this month past has been quietly
hiding himself away in London. while Thornton and
Smith (the detectives) were in hot pursnit of him in a
foreign country. Tester, it is almost needless to repeat,
was for some years in the employment of the South
Eastern Railway Company, and, in fact, continued so for
several months after the perpetration of that gigantic
robbery, in which the evidence of Agar, the convict wit-
ness, has recently implicated him as one of four active
principals, if not, indeed, as the original contriver of the
daring design. The robbery took place in May, 1855, and
in the month of September following, Tester being offered
an appointment as district traffic superintendent upon the
Royal Swedish Railway, at a much higher salary than he
was then receiving from the South Eastern Railway Com-
pany, accepted the appointment, and went over to
Sweden, carrying with him his testimonials and letters
of recommendation, speaking of him in the highest terms
of official praise. Ile continued to fill the situation thus
obtained in a manner satisfactory to his new employers,
up to nearly the middle of November. In all probability,
like the• other parties to the robbery—if such he really
were—he had come to the conclusion that all risk of
discOvery was over after such a lapse of time; but no
sooner were Pierce and Burgess, his alleged accompPees,
in custody, and the first public proceedings in the
prosecution of the case taken, than Tester, either from
private information, or the reports which appeared in the
newspapers, became aware of his danger, and took steps
to remove and place himself beyond the reach of any
offieeni of justice who might be sent to capture him. As
is well known there is no convention for the deliver-
ing of parties so accused, between this country and
Sweden, and, therefore, under ordinary circumstances,
he might have stayed in that country without fear of
police interference; but it is said that he received a hint
that continuance in his situation was out of the question.
and that neither the railway officials nor the Government
of the country would countenance his evasion of Justice.
Under these circumstances be (pitted Sweden secretly
m ire than three weeks ago, and coming direct to
England (and it is even said to London), watched the
proceedings in the case, until at last, either being
conscious of his innocence or aware that ultimate
escape was hopeless, he accepted the advice of a solicitor
with whom he had put himself in communication, and
came to a resolution to surrender and stand his trial. In
consequence of this resolution. Mr. Rees, solicitor for the
prosecution, formally notified on Saturday that Tester
would give himself up to Meet the charge against him, on
the day appointed for the further examination of Pierce
and Burgess. Upon that occasion he will have the right of
insisting that Agar and all the other witnesses hitherto
examined shall be again put into the witness box, but,
acting upon the advice of his solicitor, he will no doubt
waive that right, and be content with having the deposi-
tions read over in his presence. As several more exami.
nations will be necessary to complete the case, the
prisoners cannot be included in the Old Bailey calendar
before the January sessions of the Central Criminal
Court, which, as the Great Northern Railway frauds are
also likely then to be on the list, will be of a protracted
character. The services of Mr. Serjeant Ballantine are
intended to be retained, if possible, on behalf of Tester,
while Burgess and Pierce will have the best available
talent of the bar employed on their defence.

THE PARLIXMENT-STREET'MURDER.

CONDUCT OF MARLEY IN NEWGATE.

Since the condemnation of the wretched man, Robert Mar-
ley, for the murder of Richard Cope, in Parliament street, be
has conducted himself in a very ept;sfactory manner, but
appears quite resigned to his fate, which he seems all along to
have considered inevitable. The culprit appears to hate
received a good education, and to have been connected with a
family of very great resprctability, but in consequence of his
wild habits they were compelled to di.card him, and he enlisted
in the 7th hussars, and served with that regiment in the Caffre
war, and evinced very great bravery upon several occasions
when hefbre the enemy. He was visited on Tuesday by a
female relative. The interview was very shout, and, for
obvious reasons, need not be further alluded to. Marley was
long known to the police. He was originally convicted
snmmarily by a magistrate at one of the police courts, and was
subsequently tried for housebreaking, and sentenced to be.
transported, but subsequently obtained his liberty under the
ticket of leave system, but he stated lie had no chance at
obtaining any employment, even if he had been disposed to
weds, end he was compelled again to resort to his evil courses
to obtain a subsistence. ee all the conversations Marley has had
with the officials of the gaol of Newsate, he has till
every occasion expressed his satisfaction with the manner
in which his trial was conducted, and also that Mr.
sleigh, the gentleman who was assigned to act as his
counsel by the humanity of the sheriffs, did everthing
'hat was possible for him, but he says that ho felt
his ease was hopeless, and that he was not at all surprised
at the verdict that was delivered by the jury, and that
as he had been the means of destroying life, be was
prepared to sacrifice his own in return. It should not
be inferred that there is any bravado exhibited by the culprit,
on the contrary, his demeanour is very decorous, but he it
evidently a determined man, who has calmly weighed all the
circumstances, and who is prepared for the worst. It has been.
stated that immediately after the sentence the prisoner's clothes
were taken off him, and the prison dress substituted, but there
is no truth in this statement, the gaol authorities have the
power to take this step, if they consider it necessary, but it is
never resorted to unless, as in the case of Palmer, there is a
suspicion that poison may be secreted about the garments, and
Marley still retains the same dress he wore at the trial.
During the day one officer is in the eell with him, and
at night there are two. He converses freely, and
from his tone and demeanour, no one would suppose
that be was under sentence of death, and that his days
were numbered. It is, almost net dices to state that the
prisoner, notwithstanding the ingenious manner in which bill
learned connscl argued the question upon the trial has never
for a single moment since his conviction, attempted to deny,
that his was the hand that intcted the deadly injuries upon
the poor man Cope, but he persists in asserting that he had net
accomplices wha'ever in the matter, and that the whole.
offence was entirely unpremeditated, and that be had no thought
of being concerned in such an iiffair a quarter of an hour before
the occurrence took place. It will he remembered, that the
principal witness, Lerigo, while passing the shop heard groans
from the inside, and saw two or three men standing close by;
and when he inquired what was the matter, they told
him it was only a man and his wife quarrelling, apes;
rently to throw him off bis guard, and not to interfere; east
those men subsequently rendered no assistance to apprehend
the prisoner ; and from these circumstances it was very
naturally inferred that they were concerned with the prisoner
in the eutrage. Marley, however, declares positively that this
was riot the case, and states that he alone was concerned in the
affair, and that, accidentally passing by and seeing that it was
a small shop with no one in it but the deceased, who was appa-
rently a weak and A:minutive man, the thought struck him
that it was a good tipper-trinity to commit a robbery, and he
went in with that intention, but he declared most solemnly
that he never intended to use more violence than would be
necessary to render Cope helpless, and enable him to escape
with his expected booty. He admits that having made some
inquiry of the deceased to take off his attention, he suddenly,.
struck him with the life.preserver, but the blow did not haves
the intended effect, and as he was fearful that the alarm raised
by Cope would cause his deiect'on, he was induced to give bissa
several other violent blows before his victim was reduced
to unconscious, ess, and there is no douht that it Was the leas
blow so indicted that fractured the skull, and depressed the
hone, and was the cause of the fats" result. The culprit states
that, in the confusion and excitement of the moment, be had
no opportnity of making very close observation, and seeing the
basket which, it will be remembered, contained a cod fish, &so
which had been placed in a blue bag, he snppased that it cap-
tained some valuable property, and snatched it up and made oft
with it; but, finding that it impeded hie flight, he threw it away
shortly before lie arrived at Bridge street, and he asserts that
there is no foundation for the supposition that it was handed
by him to to accomplice. With regard to the fact of the
posaession of such an instrument as a life preserver, the prises
ner says that it is no indication of an intention to destroy li'e,
as such weapons are constantly carried by persons who are inS
the habit of committing offences of this class, and. that he had.
it always about him, and that the only use for it was to stun
the person intended to be robbed. Although that may perhaps
the the ease, still it, of course, does not afford the slightest
nalliatiou, either legal or moral,
The execution will take place M P the 15th,
instant, of the risoner's offence.
on onday next,

Mr. Hustwit, carpenter to the Herue.bay Pier Coln-
pany, while at work beneath the pier, a few days ago,
Picked up a packet of papers, tiad together with a tarred,
twine, which appeared to have been in the water some,
time, and "sanded." The pier master, on finding it to
contain document's belonging to some ships of war,
immediately placed them in the hands of Lieutenant
when,upon further.
papers belonging
theyoaswtgeureard station,
be fousntadton
to no less than 15 vessels of war, among which were
eti Imp it nn
' a t of
ion the,
c
the Wellington, Waterloo, and Victory. How they came to
be taken so little care of, or who consigned them to the
custody of Neptune, at present remains a mystery. Tbey
were forwarded to the Admiralty,—Kentish Observer.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

The Cunard royal mail steamer Europa, Captain
Leitch, arrived here yesterday, with thirty-three
passengers, 562,000 dollars in specie, and foil, days
later news. The Persia arrived at New York on
the 25th November, ten days from Liverpool, and
the screw. steamer Glasgow, from Glasgow, at New
York, on the 26th. On the 26th, off Staten Island,
the Europa met the U.S.M.S. Ericsson, from
Liverpool, going on to New York.
The news by this arrival is to the 26th ultimo,
inclusive.
The New York Money Market was easy, and the
supply rather large. Call loans were freely made
at 7 per cent , and commercial paper, first class
names, met with a ready sale at from 9 to 10 per
cent. for long dates. Foreign Exchange was not
active, at 109 to 1091 for Bills on London.
The Cotton market had been firm and gradually
hardening. Spinners were buying largely, and
evincing generally a disposition to get into stock.
In Breadstuffs there was a moderate demand at
receding prices, with the exception of Indian Corn,
which was advancing. Freights to Liverpool were
quoted at Flour 2s 3d, Grain Bd. to 9d, and
Cotton 3-16 d to 7 32d.
Of political intelligence there is nothing worth
recording. The Florida and South Carolina Legis-
latures met on the 24. th ult. The latter will have
to elect a governor for two years.
From Washington we learn that the claims of
the two British companies in Oregon and Washing-
ton territories, which are excluded from notice in
Mr. Dallas' treaty, will probably be provided for in
a separate convention, or by special legislation at
the coming session of Congress. The privileges
secured by the treaty of 1846 to the Hudson's Bay
Company, are less important and valuable to them
than 'embarrassing to the American Govern
ment. They will be disposed of without much
trouble and at little expense. The Puget's Sound
Agricultural Company claims a very large tract of
the best arable lands in Washington territory, and
should its pretensions be sustained, they would
very seriously interfere with the settlement of the
country. Could the extinguishment of the alleged
rights of both companies he connected with the
retrocession of Vancouver's Island, the United
States government would he found disposed to
pursue a very liberal policy. This great island
contains vast deposits of bituminous coal, which is
needed to supply the wants of the population of
the Pacific slope. Its re-annexation to the United
States is an object which the executive is anxious
to accomplish before yielding the helm of affairs to
his successor.
The changed tone of a part of the southern press
is amusing. The principal newspapers of that
section have come down to a very rational and
and moderate view of public affairs. Their ravings
about disunion have done their work, and having
frightened a good many capitalists and business
men of the north, are laid aside like the scenery
and appointments of a suspended play. They had
a good run; and will doubtless be placed on the
stage again four years hence.
. The Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier and Enquirer thinks that they are in the
habit of giving too much attention to the avowed
filibuster and disunion sheets:—" Their bluster
against the North amounts to no more than the
vehement protestations of the head waiter in the
kitchen, that really he shall be compelled to give
notice and leave. This vapouring below stairs
does no hurt. Those who indulge in it generally
remain until turned away for insolence and worth•
lessness. There are, however, party organs of the
Southern democracy who have been making them-
selves hoarse with screams of secession, which
:inspire other feeling than contempt, because they
represent an organisation which is powerful for
mischief. The disunion excitement raised or
echoed by those sheets. is shewn to have been
merely a disgraceful electioneering trick, by the
fact that after the success of their candidate, they
generally call for a conservative administration.
The offices, the contracts, and the spoils are now
secured. and it is more conducive to a quiet enjoy-
ment of them to forget the treasonable threats
which won them. than to continue the noisy agita-
tion of the late canvass. The Virginia papers,
supposed to represent that moderate and dignified
politician, Governor Wise. substantially advico Mr.
lauchanan to avoid the example of Pierce, and let
the subject of slavery alone. The reason is plain;
Wise himself is intriguing for the succession. He
cannot postpone his aspirations beyond 1860. It
is essential to begin by inducing the Northern
people to forget the infamous and crazy diatribes
against the Union with which he interlarded the
manifestoes of the democracy in their campaign
against Col. Fremont. If Mr. Buchanan adopt a
moderate course now, it will, perhaps, be the more
easy to open a virulent and venemous agitation for
the salvation of the South, about 1859, under the
auspices of the filibustering Governor. The issues
of 1860. will be " ebo shins," " gizzards feet," or
any thing else of which the Governor may be
regarded as the peculiar champion. In the mean-
time, however, it must be distinctly understood
that the President elect shall apportion the patron-
age under the dictation of the secessionists. They
may forego their principles and tolerate the Union.
But the spoils of victory they must be seized.
Another large party of recruits for General
Walker's army in Nicaragua, left New York by the
steamer 'texas, on the 24th. The condition of
President Walker's affairs, says the New York
Daily Times, ie not such to inspire his friends
with riotous confidence. After a careful collation
of the accounts public and private received in New
York and at New Orleans, we incline to the belief
that his position is far less secure than is generally
supposed.
The seventh Annual National Woman's Rights
Convention was in session at New York. A large
number of women, and a few men, were present.
The, house was by no means inconveniently
crowded, and there is reason to believe that this
eccentric "ism" is fast losing its hold upon public
interest. Ceasing to be a novelty, it ceases to be
of any significande as a reform movement. Mrs.
Lucy Stone Blackwell was chosen president, and
the usual additional officers were appointed. Mrs.
Blackwell, Mrs Mary F. Davis, and Mr. De Blan-
court addressed the meeting in the old familiar
vein, and the inevitable trite resolutions were
adopted. The proceedings of the Convention seem
to be duplicated after the pattern of last year, with
the exception of the enthusiasm, in which there is
a manitest falling off. The Convention would
remain in session two days, during which time
speeches were promised from Lucretia Mott, Wen-
dell Philips, Ernestine L. Rose, Rev. Samuel J.
May, Horace Greeley, and other loquacious phi
lanthropists.
The steamer Victoria, Capt. L. G Shuyter, had
Arrived at New York from St. Johns, N. F , 31st
ult., via Sidney, C B , November 21. The Victoria
is connected with the Newfoundland and London
Telegraph Co., and since leaving New York, on the
12th April last, has been engaged in the very
arduous duty of delivering men, material and sup-
plies, at different ports on the coast, and in that
tine has visited 106 ports, and run a distance of
11,800 miles, along probably the most difficult and
dangerous coast known.
The steam ship Marion had returned to New
York from the search for the passenger and crew
of the La Lyonnais steam ship, having been en
tirely unsuccessful. There seemed to be little
h )pe of their ever being discovered, es the Marion
had experienced the most tempestuous weather.
;yes ;e1 s which had been several days in the vicinity
of the collision were spoken, and could give no in-
,r,,finn, The wind at times has blown a gale,
and the second officer in his statement said that he
did not think the raft that was constructed could
h--)ld together in a heavy sea. The heavy storms
are the cause of all discouragement. According to
the same statement, the steamer WAR provided with
idoh w oud 12wohl
two cutters, each of which would
twenty-
five persons ; two lifeboats, one of
contain twenty, and the other, eighteen per-
sons ; and two yawls, each of Ivhich would hold
six. These with a strong raft (such as there appears
to have been time to build) might have sufficed in
fair weather, but the yawls could be of little use in a

rough sea, and the cutters were a very uncertain
reliance; the principal dependence of the passengers I
and crew for safety if a violent storm arose must
have been on the life-boats. It was ono of the
life-boats which was picked up. The other, it will
be remembered, was stove by corning in collision
with the raft. As to the raft, it was at best but a
frail dependence ; the sea has rolled terribly, and
the poor creatures who were obliged to take their
chance of life on it. have probably been shaken or
torn from the spars and planks of which it was
formed, or overwhelmed by the waves ; or it being
dashed to pieces, its precious burden has, with
those in the missing boats, met a common fate. It
is barely possible that a portion have been rescued
by some vessel going eastward, but to one who
reads the log of the Marion it does not seem probable.
Among the lost are Mr. Albert Sumner, with his
wife and daughter. Mr. Sumner was a brother of
Hon. Charles Sumner, and was a gentleman of
wealth and standing, residing at Newport, Rhode
Island. A singular fatality from shipwreck has at-
tached to this family. Horace Sumner, a brother,
and a young man of great promise, lost his life by
drowning at the wreck of the ship Elizabeth, on Fire
Island, in 1850, on which occasion Margaret Fuller
Oasoli, her husband and child, also perished
Mrs. Albert Sumner also had a sister, (Mrs. Ball)
who, with her husband, was lost in the packet ship
Home, bound from New York to Charleston, several
years ago. Another of the lost is Mr. T. F. Bass-
ford and wife, of New York Mr. B. though quite
young, had distinguished himself as a pianist, and
as a composer attained some position. He was 00
his way to Paris, for the purpose of studying his
profession. Mr. Froelich, during a few years past,
a resident of New York, and distinguished for his
thorough education and rare intelligence; is among
the lost. He was a native of France, and a gradu-
ate of her university. During the latter part of
October Mr. Froelich received a letter from his
father, in France, enjoining him to return home as
soon as possible, as it was his last desire to see his
son once more before he finished his earthly pil-
grimage. In obedience to this parental injunction,
Mr. Froelich closed up his affairs, and set out at
once to re.visit his native land. His fine social
qualities had won him au extended circle of
friends. Theodore A Bailey, Esq., also one of the
lost, was a son of Theodorus Bailey, formerly
postmaster of New York. He was accompanied
by his wife. Those of the crew that were saved
will probably be sent to France by the French
consul. A subscription in their behalf has been
opened at the office of the Courier des Etats Uizis,
and about 300 dollars already subscribed.
A St. Louis paper contains a long account of
things as they are at Kansas. Among other
matters it says : The Herald ofFreedoni, published
at Lawrence, after a long suspension, is out again
in full blast. It will be temembered that the
printing presses and types were tumbled into the
river by an excited crowd at the very beginning of
the Kansas troubles. On the restoration of peace,
under Gov. Geary, Mr. Brown, the editor, returned
prepared to issue the Herald again, as the organ
of the Free State party in Kansas. According to the
statement of the _Herald, there is no violence along
the river, and persons are perfectly secure in
travelling to Kansas if they keep quiet on the
exciting issues os the day. The late troubles have
diminished the number of families, buthave hurried
forward a large class of young men and adven-
turers. A line of stages plies regularly between
Lawrence and Leavenworth. The Herald states
that there are comparatively few families in Law-
rence from Massachusetts. This is suprising as
the general opinion has been that the chief emigra-
tion to that point had been from Massachusetts.
The Herald also states that the principal merchants
there are Missourians, and that, as the chief
sufferers by robbery were Missourians, and that,
as the goods to a considerable extent which were
plundered ware sold 'ay St. Louis dealers on credit.
the losses by the invasions fall heaviest on Missouri
herself..
Captain Robertson, of the British barque Perth-
shire, at Savarnah, from the Clyde, reports that off
Tuskar Light, S.E. coast of Ireland, bearing N.E ,
distance 40 miles, passed the wreck of a ship which
had been run down by a large vessel, supposed to
be one of the New York packets. All hands are
supposed to have perished, except a Spanish sailor
who was taken from the wreck by the boat and
crew of the P. The rescued sailor had in his arms
a boy, who perished before assistance could be
rendored. He could give no information as to the
name of his ship.
A storm at Chicago had destroyed 50,000 dollars
worth of property.
An accident at the Bergen Tunnel, near New
Jersey City, had caused the instant death of three
workmen and the severely wounding of several
others.

COMMERCIAL—NEW YORK, Nov. 26.
MONETARY AFFAIRS.—In money matters there is a mate_
rial improvement. The export of gold has been partially
checked by the lower rates of exchange on Europe, and the
weekly shipments are cow below the receipts from California
and the interior. In consequence of this favourable feature,
and the less alarming accounts from London and Paris, the
banks in the city have abandoned the system of curtailment
pursued by them during the last few weeks, and in view of the
steady accumulation of coin in their vaults, have felt justified
in increasing their line of loans to a moderate extent. The
advance in stocks is, in a great measure, due to the confidence
produced by this change of policy, and the belief that there is
no longer reason to apprehend a serious stringency during the
winter. The position of financial affairs in London and Paris,
however, still causes considerable anxiety. and until the antis
cipated crisis has been met or averted, our market will he more
or less influenced by the tenor of the accounts received by the
European mails. The advices per Niagara being of a more
gloomy character than those brought by the two preceding
steamers, checked the buoyant feeling which previously existed,
and produced a slignt downward tendency of prices, but the
market is again rather firm at the close, although we have this
morning, per Persia, accounts of a further advance in interest
by the bank of England. Money is abundant on call at 7 per
cent, and the rates of discount are slightly lower, first class
paper selling at Bto 9 per cent. The bank returns for the
fortnight shows an increase in loans of 1,996,280 dole, and in
specie of 1,455,448 dole. Shipments of specie since our last
report, 1,669 477 dols ; receipts of gold from California,
1,753,558 dols. Foreign exchanges have been rather inactive
for this mail, and the market closes heavy at 1098 to 1098 for
bills on London.
COTTON : Talcott, Brothers' circular of this morning
supplies the following :
The market bat been firm and gradually hardening during
the past three days. Sales 6,500 bales. Spinners have
bought largely, and evince generally a disposition to get into
stock.
The Persia's advices from Liverpool of 14th inst , to hand
tbis morning have produced no other effect than to make
holders firm at full quoted rates.
Sot7THERN MARKETS, NeW Orleans, Nov. 21st : Niagara
received ; middling, 112 d. Sales, 10,000 bales. Freight, id.
MOBILE, Nov. 22nd : Receipts of the week, 26,000 ;
sales, 16,000 bales. Export to Great Britain, 1,500 bales ;
freight, 17 32d. Middling, 64:1, free on hoard, with freight.
HARLESTON, Nov. 24 : Sales, 1,300 bales, with an
advancing tendency in prices. On the 22nd middling was 11=7;c;
good middling, llic ; and middling fair, nac to nic.
Ft eight to Liverpool, d.
' he total receipts at the ports; to latest mail dates, amount
to 728,000 hales, against 720,000 hales last year. The total
export to Great Britain since Sept. Ist, 120,000 against
265,000 last year.
CuoP : The estimate of the country is unchanged, namely,
3,000,000 bales ; a leaning, however, to a little higher figures,
indulged in by same parties, is certainly excusPable, in view of
the continued heavy scale of receipts. The closing quotations
of :his market are :

Upland Mobile N. Orleans.
Ordinary . —to 111 11/ to —to 111
Mildli7:g ....„. .... —to 12 121 to —to 121
INliddliug Fair —to 121 19' to —to 13
-if
Fair

Freight to Liverpool, 3-16 d.
We annex an extract from the circular of Mr.W. P.
Wright. The following is a statement of the movements
in cotton since the lst of September last, as compared with
the previous three years :-
1856. 1855 1851 18,.3.

Receipts at the Ports 732,000 724,001, 454,000 41.2,000
Exports to Great Britain 124,000 255,000 137,000 112,000
it France 6l 000 79 000 58 000 17,0:.0
" other For. Ports 25001 56,000 266100 20.000
Total Exports . 216,000 400,000 221,000 158 000
Stock on hand. 420,00, , 331.000' 209.000, 273 000
Of which during the past week, included in the above :
Receipts at the Ports llO,lOO 92,0001 67,000 70 000
Exports to Great Britain 3l 00 19,000! 25,00 42,000
" France.. B,OOO 12 0,,0i 3 000 6.009
" other For. Ports. 6,100 10,000 4,0 0 4,000
Total Exports 48.000 41,000, 32.000 , 22,000

SllMMARY.—Receipts: Increase at the ports compared
with last, year, 12,000 bales. Exports ; Decrease to