The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

bacon, hams, pork, and butter, to a considerable amount, have
been made at our quotations. Large parcels of butter have
been forwarded to the interioi.. A sale of XlOO firkins,at
(invoice weight and tare) is reported; but other sales are
reported at is. 14d. to ls. 3d. The stocks are very heavy, and
the season is against large sales. Cheese—Sales of, Wilts
and Dunlop at our quotations are reported. fterrings are
saleable. There are inquires for sardines and preserved
salmon. Ling, and cod are very scarce.

PAINTS, OILS, AND CoLoußa.,-,—There is an increasing
demand tor. white lead, and the price has slightly advanced.
Other articles in the trade are dull.

METALS.—Excepting a few sizes, the market is well sup•
plied with bar and bolt iron. A sale at £l4 is reported, but
.£l5 is generally asked. For pig Iron £5 10s. has been
offered, and refused ; £6 would be taken. The market is
very full of hoop iron, excepting a few sizes.. There is no
charcoal 24 gunge. Sales of light corrugated iron at our
'qtiqtations are reported. Copper sheathing and Muntz metal
are scarce, and greatly wanted. Compostion is unsaleable.
Lead is firmer, and holders are asking higher rates, but sales
are still made at £2B. Light sheet zinc is improving. Zinc
nails are very plentiful.
BUILDING MATERIALL—There is very little demand for
impOrted bricks. Roman cement is worth 25s per barrel.
Glass : Large sizes of Chance's patent are saleable. The
market is glutted with other sizes. Slates : Ladies' have
rather improved in value.

TrmnEa.—There are now inquiries for deals and timber,
but no transactions of large-amount have taken place. A sale
is reported of 1 inch Baltic, drawn flooring, at 21d, in the
bay. The market is overstocked with American lumber, and
it is very slow of sale.
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.—The market is almost without
change. Sales of arsenic have been made at £l5, and of flour
of sulphur at 4d. Of this last article there are large stocks.
Supplies of opium are much wanted. The last sales of
Turkey were at 45s to 50s per lb. Quicksilver has been sold
at 3s to 3s 61. There is a large quantity of inferior in the
market.

BOOTS AND SHOES.—For summer goods, which arenow
alone seasonable, well sorted invoices have realised 25 per cent.
advance. Some invoices have realised even higher rates.
Hungarian wax and grain are worth 35 to 40 per cent.
advance.
HARDWARE.—The market is now well supplied with
Collins' picks, light and heavy, and with axes. They are,
still saleable. Building and shelf ironmongery are
dull ; a well-assorted invoice of the latter, however, realises
30 per cent. Large-shipments of revolvers and pistols are
being returned to America. The price of hollow-ware is nomi-
nal. Ewbank's patent nails are scarce.
SOFT Goons.—Th'e following goods realise the rates of
advance on invoice quoted :—Black and drab trousers 25 per
cent. ; Scotch twill shirts, 20 per cent. ; Paris kid gloves
(scarce), 25 per cent, ; 9-8 and 5-4 plates small patterns, 25
per cent; 10, 12, 14, 16, black lutes, 25 per cent. : 24 and
30 Oriental, 25 per cent. ; German wove stays, 25 per cent. ;
drab mole trousers (scarce), 30 per cent. ; millers, 30 per cent. ;
seasonable slops, 25 per cent. ; black felt hats (scarce), 30
per cent, ; 8-4 grey calico (scarce), 33-t per cent. ; infants'
and girls' Leghorn hats, 25 per cent. ; double black blue
serge shirts, 25 per cent: There is now some speculation, and
a considerable improvement in this trade, chiefly in conse-
quence of greatly diminished shipments, and for seasonable
goods, remunerative prices aro realised.
SIINDRIES.—There is little demand for carpeting. American
tubs and other woodware are advancing. English malt is
worth 15s to 16s. There are inquiries for ginger beer corks.
Turpentine has declined. Blasting gunpowder is very scarce,
and in great demand. American drills are fully stocked.
Woolpacks are firm. Gunnies have declined. Cordage is
dull. The market is well supplied with both Europe and
Manilla rope. American made, no sales. Pine apple rope is
unsaleable. The stocks of coir are large. The market is
full of blacking. The price of coal is nominal, there being no
demand. The season is commencing for Panama hats, and
prices are advancing. Very fine Sydney cabbage trees realise
10s to 15s each.
On merchandise, generally, we may remark that fears are
here expressed of the great danger of another glut by next
winter. Shippers at a distance would do well to be cautious,
and to watch our markets.
FAVOURABLE SYMPTOMS.—Wo have pleasure in directing
special attention to the revenue, bonded goods, gold per escort,
population, shipping, imports, exports, and banking, which are
deserving of careful study. It will be observed that the
balance of trade is now considerably in favour of the colony.

howeve

MELBOURNE WOOL MARKET, &c.
The shipments of Wool from this place during the past
season (as given in our report of the 28th ultimo), were up to
15th September 15,231,381 lbs weight, equal to £873,478
value.

Since that date up to the end of the year, October 10, addi.
tional shipments have been made 0f..129.403 lbs £9,778

Makin

a total of

15,360,7841b3 £883,256

Being about 54,859 bales of wool during the season 1854-5,
which is an increase of 4,256,654 lbs weight, or 15,202 bales,
equal to rather more than 26 per cent on the shipments from
this place of the season 1853-4.

The new season having commenced buyers have thonght it
a favourable opportunity at the first public wool sale, on the
1 Ith instant, of urging upon the selling brokers the adjustment
of the terms of sale with regard to tares and draft, to the same
_ _

scale as that adopted last year in Sydney, namely
ary allowance of 10 lbs per bale tare, and 1 lb

the custom-

per cwt draft, as

,iverpool,

the clai

for tare was allowed by the brokers, and 101bs will
e the standing rule durirg the season, DRAFT : The brokers
did not feel empowered to allow, and in consequence some
steps to effect the alteration desired have been taken, and
many parties interested in the trade have signed the requisition
on the subject, which is being got up, to the effect that without
this allowance they will decline purchasing. We trust to see
the matter satisfactorily settled before the next week. The

new clip only comes forward very slowly, and our quotations
for it aro nominally at our last rates; the favourable advices
of the July sales have, however, made more inquiry, and some
fair lots of scoured, &c, wools, offered by auction on the 11th,
were knocked down at an advance on last season of Id to
lid per lb.

TALLOW AND HIDES : We have had more inquiry for
tallow for local use, and a good sample is worth £4O per ton;
in hidcs we have no change to note. Freights id per lb on
wool to London or Liverpool. J. H. CLODGII & CO.

FATAL AND DISTRESSING ACCIDENT —On Monday a most

afflicting accident, the fatal consequences of which have
plunged a most estimable clergyman, the Rev. Mr. St.
George, rector of St. Paul's parish, Cork, and his family,
into profound grief, occurred at the Little Island, where the
reverend gentleman has resided for some time past. The
particulars are these :—Mr. St. George. accompanied by his
second son, a fine manly boy of about fifteen years of age,
who was about to enter the royal navy, had been out in a
small boat in Foaty bay, and had in the boat a gun, with
which the young lad had amused himself shooting waterfowl.
They had returned to the island and landed, and Master St.
George was in the act of taking the loaded gun from the
boat, when, owing to the trigger being caught by some-
thing on board, it went off, and, melancholy to relate, the
entire charge passed through his body, causing, we under-
stand, his immediate death, in the presence of his agonised
father.— Cork Reporter.
A " BARON " AND AN HEIRESS.—A man calling him-
self Baron de Selhausen, was tried on Saturday by the
Paris Tribunal of Correctional Police for swindling.
The following facts were stated :—ln the evening of the
25th of October last, a family of distinction, residing in
the Chaussee d'Antin, gave a grand banquet in honour of
the signing of a contract for the marriage of their
daughter, a young lady of great beauty, and possessed of
not less than 28,C00fr. a year, with Louis Elie Adolphus,
Baron de Selhausen, a young man of twenty-five, chief
of one of the most ancient and distinguished baronial
houses of the province of Silesia. In the midst of the
banquet, a rude-looking stranger arrived, and demanded
to see the baron. The concierge told him that: on
account of the joyful event of the day, the family had
given orders that no visitors should be admitted. The
stranger insisted, and the concierge getting angry
threatened to turn him out by force. At length, after a
good deal of altercation, the stranger espied a large bell,
and began ringing it furiously. This drew all the
inhabitants of the house to the windows, and the man
then cried in a loud voice that he wanted to see Baron
de Selhausen— at the same time threatening to ring the
bell until his request should be complied with. The
concierge at last allowed him to go up stairs to the
family with whom the baron was. Stalking into the
middle of the room, the man cried out " My name is
Bozeluc, and I let out carriages for hire. I have let out
carriages to the Baron de Selhausen, and he owes me
700 fr. ; but he will never pay me, for he is a swindler,
and not a baron at all ! lam not the only man he has
cheated—tailors, glovers, hotel-keepers, upholsterers,
painters, gilders, all sorts of tradesmen, in _fact, have
been swindled by him ! Good people," added Bozeluc
solemnly, turning to the young lady's parents, " you had
better put off the marriage, for I tell you again the man
is no baron, but a swindler!" The marriage was post-
poned, and the soi.disont baron was, after some explana-
tion, handed over to the custody of the police, until
inquiries could be made about him. It was then ascer-
tained that, instead of being a baron and a German, he
was only the son of a ruined tradesman of the Ile de la
Reunion (Bourbon) ; that be had come to Paris to
accept a place as clerk in a bank ; and that, finding his
salary insufficient, he had takes to swindling, and had
carried it on with such skill that he not only made a
vast number of dupes, but contrived to gain access to
very good society. It further appeared that, though
without a farthing he could honestly call his own, he
occupied, when arrested, an apartment of 6,000 fr. a year
in the Rue de la Victoire, and bad caused it to be
furnished in the most sumptuous style on credit; also,
that he had a house at Ville d'Avray, which he had
undertaken to purchase for 180,000 fr.; and that he. had
a train domestics in splendid liveries, horses, carriages,
&c. The soi-disant baron, when called on for his defence,
said that he had nothing to say, and the Tribunal sen-
tenced him to two years' imprisonment and 50fr. fine.—
Galignasi.