The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-17 00:00:00

pws :—Aberdeen, 131

head 15i 151

?6 261

Caledonian, ,

ahead, 11 16. Eastern Counties, 8 13-16 8
t Lancashire, 104 20. Great Northern,
Do. A, 101 10k. Great Western,
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 954

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Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 178 17,7,-. Lon-
don and North Western Stock, 102.., 1021.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 327 321.
Midland Stock, 78 781. North British, 98
North Staffordshire, 51 sd. South Eastern and
Dover, 21 21.1. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19
191. York and North Midland, 278 28. Leeds
Capital Stock, 17,1 178. Buffalo and Lake Huron,
1-16 d 1-16 p Dutch Rhenish, 1 15.16 2p. Great
Western of Canada, 24 24 Ditto New Shares,
2 24. p. Great Luxembourg, 101 104 d.
There was more activity, and better prices paid
for Railway Stocks and Shares at Mandhester to-
day. We quote :—Leeds Stock, 94, ;
Sheffields, 32k; Blackburns, 71; Midlands, 771 -§;

Dovers, 21 13 16
The London Money Market is somewhat quieter;
there seems to be rather less stringency, but, with
the general demand for discount accommodation.
the rates of interest are unchanged. The Consol
Market, under this slightly improved aspect of
monetary affairs, has received a check to the dull
and drooping tendency of the previous week.
To-day, Consols for Account opened at 93t, and
then rose to 938, and eventually sold at 94, closing
firm at 94 to 948. There was also a good demand
for transfers, sales being made at 93-71, 1, -I, and clos-
ing steadily at 931 to 938. The New Three per
Cents continue shut ; Exchequer Bills were
steady, the last rates being 13s to 16s premium.
The tone of the London Railway Share Market
to-day partook of the improved feeling manifested
in the public securities. The demand for shares
and stocks in the leading lines was more general,
and prices against the buyers. Sales were made in
Caledonian, 51 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95 951-
ex div ; London and North !Western, 1021,; Mid-
land Stock, 77.1 n„ 77; Dover, 701; York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 79, 79-i ; York and North Midland,
551. The closing rates were reported as follows :-
Caledonian, 524. Eastern Counties, 8,1 I. East
Lancashire, 79 81. Great Northern, 93 44. Ditto
A, 82 4. Great Western, 6311. Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 951 6. London and North Western,
1021 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
32 3. Midland Stock, 78,1 1. North British, 374
81. South Eastern and Dover, 72 4. York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 79 80. York and North Mid-
land, 551 561.
From Manchester we learn that the market there
to-day was quiet but steady, producers demanding
full prices for all descriptions of goods. At
Bradford, yesterday, the market was quiet, manu-
facturers having few orders to go on with. Prices,
however, were firm, with an improving tendency.
Business at Rochdale is steady, but Yorkshire
goods are in improved request.
The Corn Market has been steady to-day, and,
following the tone prevalent in Mark-lane yester-
day, prices of wheat and flour advanced- rrliu
foreign imports during the week were small, being
chiefly wheat from the United States. The harvest
in this district is now drawing rapidly to a close,
and, upon a strong drying wind from the west, the
remnant of the cereal crops is at length being
housed in excellent order. Balancing the different
reports with the latest data furnishes, we should
say that the wheat crop of England is beyond an
average; so also is oats. Our reports from the
continent are generally encouraging, as to the
probable yield of the grain crops.
The specie by the West India steamer Atrato
is 166,0001, of which 92,0001 is gold, and 74,0001
silver. The commercial letters from the continent
contain nothing of interest, but it is believed
the silver question is occupying much attention
among the various Governments, and that a
conviction is growing in France and elsewhere
that a gold standard must soon exclusively be
resorted to• Advices from Marseilles mention that,
in addition to the 835,4001 sent from London, silver
to the amount of 160,0001 was shipped from that
port on board the last Peninsular and Oriental
steamer for China.
The departures from the port of London for the
Australian colonies, during the past week, have
comprised eight vessels-three to Port Phillip, one
to Sydney, one to New Zealand, one to Portland
Bay, one to Launceston, and one to Moreton Bay,
with an aggregate capacity of 5,591 tons. The rates
of freight continue to exhibit heaviness.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company held to-day, at the
Euston-square Station, the report was adopted.
In reply to a question, the Chairman, Sir S. Peto,
stated that, until Parliament re-assembled, he sup.
posed nothing further would be done relative to an
improved communication with Ireland.
The following is a statement of traffic receipts
by passenger and goods trains on the Great
Western Railway of Canada, for the week ending
29th August, 1856, and for the corresponding
period last year :-Week ending 29th August, 1856,
total receipts, 10 4981. 7s. 11d. Week ending 31st
August, 1855. total receipts, 8,0121 ls. Bd. In-
crease, 2,4861. Os. 3d. Aggregate gross receipts
from the commencement of the current half-year
to date, 39,3461. 4s. 9d. ; for the corresponding
period last year, 30,5741. Is. Od -all sterling.
The latest quotations of the Foreign Exchanges
this evening were as follows :-Amsterdam, short,
11 151 to 11 16. Do. three months, 11 171 to
11 181. Rotterdam, do., 11 171 to 11. 18-1-. Ant-
werp, do., 25 30 to 25 35. Brussels, do., 25 30
to 25 35. Hamburg, do., 13 71,- to 13 71. Paris,
short, 25 27;1 to 25 35. Do., three months, 25 65
to 25 671. Marseilles, do., 25 65 to 25 70.
Frankfort, Flo , 1191 to 1191. Vienna, do., 10 21 to
10 26. Trieste, do., 10 22 to 10 28. Petersburg,
do., 372 to 371. Madrid, do., 491 to 491

LONDON GAZETTE

BANKRUPTS.—Josxua FOOLEY, Brighton, milliner.
JOSEPH BEEBERS, Leeds, engraver, lithographer, and
dyer. EDWIN DENBY, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire,
chemist and druggist. ROBERT SAUL, and THOMAS KIRBY,
Preston, Lancashire, joiners and builders. WILLIAM
HENRY DUDDEN, Paulton, Somersetshire, wine and spirit
merchant. WILLIAM FAWCETT, Kidderminster, carpet
manufacturer. MICHAEL BYERS, and THOMAS BYERS,
Sunderland, ship builders, ship repairers, rope manufacturers,
and mast and block makers.

HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE..-Mr.
W. W. Rundell, secretary of the Compass Committee of
Liverpool, has been appointed to the
.office of assistant-
secretary of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Mr. Rundell was for ten years secretary of the Royal Poly-
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THE LATE MESSENGER OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.—
We understand that W. F. A. Delane, Esq., of Eaton-
place, Belgravia, who was manager of the Times newspaper
during Mr. Gaskilys connection with that journal, has
transmitted a contribution of £lO in aid of the subscription
set on foot by Mr. Gaskill's iris-ids, who consider him to
have been unjustly dismissed from his office of messenger of
the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. In his pub.
lished statement Mr. Gaskill denies having neglected his
duties during the fourteen years he held the office; and the
spontaneous donation above recorded, is a convincing proof
that in another equally important capacity, the duties with
which he was charged for many years, were zealously and
effectually performed by that gentleman.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING

Some days back I informed you that England
and France would probably not reply to the second
note of the King of the Two Sicilies, which, as is
known, was much milder than the first one. I
have again to-day received intelligence to the same

effect. The two powers, it seems, mean to cause
their ministers at Naples to speak for them. They
are reluctant to honour the King of Naples with

any more writing.

I hear that Russia, like England, is not so
favourable as she was to the union of the Princi-

panties.
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria and his Spanish
bride have arrived here, and are to go to London.
The Directors of the Northern Railway have
sent several active police agents after their run-
away cashiers ; they have also applied to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs to demand their
extradition from the United States, whither they
have fled. But it is very doubtful that they will
allow themselves to be caught.
It has been reported for some days past that the
Municipality of Paris contemplated imposing a price
of admission to the Bourse. From a report from
the Prefect to the Municipal Council, it appears
that the design is really to be carried into execu-
tion, and that it is expected to yield a revenue of
£12,000 in English money. In addition to the
revenue, it will, says the Prefect, have the advan-
tage of keeping away workmen and petty capi-
talists, who too often become the victims of the
prevailing mania for speculation.
According to the Madrid papers received to-day,
the Government has refused to allow General
Narvaez to return to Spain, but has offered him a
foreign mission ; Narvaez, however, indignant at
the continuance of his exile, has refused to accept
it, or anything else from the Government.
A Vienna paper says, that the peasants of South•
ern Russia have shown a disposition to emigrate
era masse, but that the Government has peremptorily
forbidden them to go. A good many have,
however, in spite of the prohibition, fled, and such
of them as have been caught have been flogged,
and had half of their heads shaved.
From St. Petersburg we learn that the Czar has
decreed that Poles, who are sufficiently acquainted
with Russian ways, be admitted to civil employ-
ments in Russia, and that, on the other hand,
Russians shall be admitted to civil functions in
Poland. The meaning of this measure is, that
Poland will no longer be allowed to possess Polish
functionaries, but, even in ordinary civil affairs,
will be Russianised. Thus the last vestige of her
independent nationality has departed.

TEE WEATHER.—EQUINOXIAL GALES.—The eqninoxial
gales have set in this year very near the true day, namely,
the 21st, for on Monday night there was a tempest of no
small magnitude, which lasted from about eight o'clock in
the evening to seven yesterday morning. We have not
heard, however, of any damage as yet. Yesterday was very
fine and warm, and for the last three nights the " real
harvest moon" shone out in all its beautiful splendour.
A WHOLE FAMILY NEARLY SCALDED TO DEATH.--.A.
frightful accident occurred on Monday to a family cf six
children, named Sorrell, residing in the Kingsland road,
London. It appears the mother left the room for a few
moments, and during the time a large kettle of boiling water
fell off the fire, in the centre of the children, who were
sitting on the hearth-rug. An alarm being given, some of
the neighbours rushed in, when they were conveyed to the
hospital in cabs, where they now remain in a most pre-
carious state.
SUICIDE OF A LADY IT OIL OF BITTER ALMONDS.—MT.
W. J. Payne, deputy coroner for the City of London and
Southwark, held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body
of Mrs. Sarah Ann Phillips, aged 39, a lady of independent
property, who committed suicide on Saturday morning last
by tsking a qn.ntity of an esseroo sold by chemists to
flavour pastry, as oil of bitter almonds. Mr. Valentine,
house surgeon, deposed that the unfortunate lady was
brought into the hospital on Sunday last, and although the
stomach pump was resorted to, she expired in about an hour
afterwards. He had no doubt that death was caused by
the poison known as the oil of bitter almonds. The jury
returned a verdict of " temporary insanity."_

ALLEGED MURDER BY SYSTEMATIC CRUELTY AND
STARVATION.--011 Monday afternoon, Mr. Bent, deputy
coroner, and a jury, assembled at the Elephant and Castle,
King's road, Camden town, London, to investigate the cir-
cumstances attending the death of three unfortunate
children, which were enveloped in much mystery and sus-
picion, two of the children having been alleged to have
fallen victims to systematic cruelty and starvation. After a
patient investigation of the whole of the circumstances of
the case, the jury returned the following open verdict :
" That the deceased died from the mortal effects of exhauss
tion, caused by the want of proper nourishment, but
whether the said exhaustion arose from the nourishment
being wilfully withheld from the deceased, or otherwise,
there is not sufficient evidence to prove."
TESTIMONIAL TO MISS NIGHTINGALE.—The inhabitants
of the neighbourhood in which Miss Nightingale resides,
desirous of testifying their gratification at her return, have
purchased a handsome papier macho writing desk, ex-
quisitely inlaid with pearl, and furnished with stationery,
&c. On the front of the desk is a silver plate, bearing the
following inscription :—" Presented to Florence Nightingale,
on her safe arrival at Lea Hurst from the Crimea, August 8,
1856, as a token of esteem from the inhabitants of Lea,
Holloway, and Crich." Miss Nightingale was communicated
with, and expressed a wish that the presentation might be
made in as private a manner as possible ; and, in accordance
with that wish, only a very small deputation will wait upon
her, and, in the name of the subscribers, present to her the
desk and an address.
S VAGE ASSAULT.—A gentleman of property, M. de la
C—, who resides at Moulins, had in his service a valet
de chambre and a housemaid, with both of whom he was
perfectly satisfied. They, however, were on bad terms,
owing to each being jealous of any marks of kindness which
their master displayed to the other. The man at length
became so irritated against the young woman, that he de-
clared that it was impossible for both of them to remain in
the house ; and as she showed no disposition to leave, he,
after a while, determined on murdering her. Four nights
ago he knocked at her chamber door, and said that her
master had called her, but as she had heard no bell ring she
refused to get up. The man thereupon secreted himself, armed
with a double-barrelled gun, in a passage, end when the
young woman left her room in the morning, he deliberately
took aim at her, and pulled both triggers, but the gun did
not go off. He thereupon rushed on her, and beat her in
the most savage way with the butt end of the weapon, until
he broke it in two. He then took to flight. The girl's
cries awoke the people in the house, and medical assistance
was procured ; she was found to las s 3i iously but not mortally
injured. In the man's bedroom were two letters, one
addressed to his master, the other to his mother, and in both
he announced his intention of murdering the girl, and then
of committing suicide. He was sought for, and it turned
out that, instead of laying violent hands on himself, he had
fled for refuge to one of the islands in the Allier.
CORONER'S INQUESTS,—The borough coroner held the
following inquests yesterday :—On the body of Hugh
Thomas, 58 years of age, who resided at Bright-street,
Everton. He had been ailing for a long time under disease
of the heart, and on Monday he fell dead at Walton-road.
Verdict, died by the visitation of God.—On the body of
John Bennett, aged 30, an able seaman on board the ship
William Jackson. The deceased fell by accident from sonic
of the rigging, and was killed. Verdict, accidental death.
—On the body of a child, named Watt, 8 weeks old, that
was smothered in bed in consequence of a drunken fit of its
mother. 'Verdict accordingly.—On the body of Sarah
Williamson, the wife of a ship steward. The deceased,
with her two sisters, was passing Old Hall-street Bridge,
when she was crossing the street a lorry by accident knocked
her down, and the wheel passing over her body killed her
on the spot. There was no blame attached to any one.
Verdict, accidental death.— On the body of William Herrod,
a boy who died on board the ship John Bright, under what
was considered suspicious circumstance;. It did appear
that the captain of the ship gave the deceased some blows
of a rope's end, but nothing to cause death. The deceased
was found under the small main hatch by the kelson, and
died shortly after. The second mate of the ship said the
deceased told him he hcd fallen through the hatch. Sir.
Hill, a surgeon, said he made a post mortein examination of
the body, and found that death was the result of effusion of
blood on the brain from violence. A fall would be most
likely to produce it. Found no injuries from blows on the
body. A fall would be more likely to produce effusion of
the brain, such as was found, rather than blows. Verdict,
accidental death.—On the body of a child, named Mary
Cain, 16 months old. The mother of the child stated as
' follows : That she rented a room from a man, named John
Dunne, at 48, Freeman's-row. That on Monday, the Ist inst.,
Dunne flung her into the street, with her child, as she could
not pay the rent, and when she came to herself she was in
' the infirmary, and found a wound on the temple of the
child, and it died on Saturday last. The inquest was
adjourned to this day, in order to have a medical examina-
tion of the body made.