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

Entrance up the Sieps

Leading to the Royal Rank
TO SMOKERS:
T EWIS'S YACHTING

EQUAL IN FRAGRANCE TO A FINE CIGAR,

SOLD IN QUARTER POUND OAK CASKS, 28. EACH.

Mal dal. were "incompeter'
T~TANTED, a respectable YO ITTII, who writes a good hand, their duties t-
.it and unfit for the discharge of
aged from 15 to 16 years .—Apply at Eleven o'clock in the r ,
-o the town." The arbitrary conduct
forenoon only, at the Offices of Mr. Alfred Jacob, Auctioneer and 01 nec+-
Estate Agent, 13A, Basnett-street , corner of Leigh-street. ..or Campbell is indefensible in every
rep-
ARESPECTABLE PERSON wishes to tneet with a SITUATION pect. He would have manifested more good
as HOUSEKEEPER in a in nall Family; she has been six y es-
' - nresent situation.—Address R. W., 60, Alount Pie-

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'.—TO be LET, most desirable PREMISES (where
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account of its narrownea;,

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tiguous to Bold Street, is well
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sense, and earned the best wishes of the people of
Liverpool, had he listened to the reasonable
suggestions and request of the leading members of
the board, and postponed the closing of St. Martin's
Cemetery for the period proposed. Looking at the
question in all its bearings, one cannot help thinking
that the love of lucre and the securing a high rate of
fees have had more to do with Rector Campbell's
conduct in the affair than any dread of
disobeying the Order in Council. We are
glad that the Burial Board acted in a spirit of
becoming independence, and determined not to be
compelled to adopt an injurious cours3, but to take
steps to obtain suitable land for a cemetery in the
most eligible locality. The Wavertree local Board
of Health held its usual monthly meeting last
night, and, among other matters, resolved that
the fire hose of the district should be renewed, and
Mr. Hewitt consulted on the subject.

News from the United States somewhat later
than that brought by the Canada, and published in
yesterday's NORTIIERN TIMES, reached the Mersey
yesterday by the Cunard screw steamer Etna.
The civil war in Kansas was still raging,
and the entire territory was in a state of
the utmost commotion. Advice® from San
to the Bth ultimo had reached New
4-o be rife in California, as

ime appear

s had be.,

91 made to set fire to Saeram

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING

Business affairs are rather tame just now. The
failure of the Royal British Bank has caused a want
of confidence in monetary circles, and, as a matter
of course, much stringency is observed in discount-
ing bills for commercial purposes. Notwithstand-
ing this drawback our Cotton Market continues to
manifest symptoms of increased activity. The
demand is good, and both speculators and
exporters operate to some extent. Today very full
prices were paid, and sales footing up 10,000 bales
were reported, the market closing with firmness.
For the reasons alluded to above, and following
in the wake of the Consul Market, our Railway
Stock and Share Market has been rather depressed
today. Towards the close of business more con-
fidence sprung up, and the market closed with a
slightly improved tendency. Referring to the
official report of the actual sales, we note the fol-
lowing :-Caledonian, 26, 25,1. Eastern Counties,
94, 9. Great Western, 64k. Lancashire and York-
shire, 97, 968, 7-„ 7. Lancaster and Carlisle, 758.
London and North Western, 102/, 103. Do.
Shares, ad. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
334 Midland Stock, 79f53, 1, 1. North Eastern,
10. South Eastern, 22,1,-, 22, t. Liverpool Com-
mercial Bank, 121. North and South Wales, 8.
Magnetic Telegraph, 46. As will be observed from
the following quotations the market closed better
than it opened, the last nominal rates being :-
Aberdeen, 131 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 151
16. Caledonian, 251 25 15-16. Chester and Holy-
head, 161- 17. Eastern Counties, 9 91. East Lan-
cashire, 201 20-a. Great Northern, 231 xd 24. Do.
A, 1q- 101. Great Western, 64i xd 64,1. Lancashire
and Yorkshire Stock, 961 978. Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport, 18 18i. London and North
Western Stock, 1021 xd 1028. Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 3311 337,-,. Midland Stock,
79L- xd 79t. North British, 10 10k. North Stafford-
shire, 5 41d. South Eastern and Dover, 22 1-16
22k. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 20 xd 20k.
York and North Midland, 28,1 xd 284. Leeds
Capital Stock, 17-i- 174. Buffalo, and Lake Huron,
lid Dutch Rhenish, 281 2 3-16 p. Great Western
of Canada, 24Z 24a. Ditto New Shares, 2 3-16
2 5-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 10 91-d.
"No particular change has occurred in the
Money Market since our last circular," say Messrs.
T. and H. Littledale, in their monthly report issued
this morning :-" The demand for commercial
purposes, as well as on the Stock Exchange, has
been active, and the rates of discount fully sup-
ported, but the supply appears equal to the
demand, and short first class bills have been done
under the Bank rate. The movement in bullion
for the month has again been extraordinary in
extent-the drain still going to France, China, and
the East Indies, the export by the last overland
mail being 800,0001-but so long as the supply
continues on its present scale (and there appears
little fear of its diminution) these movements do
not create the apprehension of derangement in our
finances as formerly." We may here quote the
general remarks contained in this elaborate corn-
menial epitome :-" The past month has been
particularly free from excitement or even movement
of any kind, political, social, or commercial ; after
the first week the weather became wet and broken,
and continued so to the beginning of the past week,
which put a check to operations of all kinds, and
tended to moderate the sanguine opinions enter
tamed of the result of the harvest. The last week
has been fine, and the damage checked at the
moment it was becoming serious- a large breadth
of land is now being cleared every day, and though
the quality of the Corn will be injured, the quan-
tity, taking Wheat, Barley, and Oats together, for
the United Kingdom, will be above an average.
The Potato crop is no doubt greatly injured,
probably much more so than last year, and there
have been some speculative purchases of Rice in
consequence. The general trade of the country is
healthy and active, but without excitement of any
kind. The exports of the first seven months of
the year have exceeded those of any previous
period, and are 12,673,937/. in excess of those of
1855."

The Consol Market has been heavy:•all day, and
the dealings limited, but prices did not undergo

any material decline. Consols fur the account
opened at 941 and were done at 944. For money
the opening price was marked at 941. They then
rose to 95, but afterwards receded to 941, few
buyers being inclined to operate at that quotation.
There was a fall in the new Throe per Cents. The
first price of the day was 958, then 951 was paid,
after which they fell to 951, few dealings being
effected at that rate. Exchequer Bills were held
at 13 to 16 premium. The closing prices were
04 11-16 to 94 13-16 for money and account. New
Three per Cents, 951 to 958. Exchequer Bills, 13s
to 16s premium.

In the London Share Market the business trans_
acted was limited. In some instances, better
prices were paid than in Liverpool. Among the
transactions reported we note Caledonians at 511
to 52. Eastern Counties, 9. Great Western, 644
64. London and North Western, 104. Midland
Stock, 79-?,-, t, 1. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 801
York and North Midland, 57. The market closed
firmly at the prices annexed :—Caledonian,
511 52. Edinburgh and Glasgow, ,53 56.
Eastern Counties, 81 9. East Lancashire,
80 82. Great Northern, 95 96. Ditto A., 83 85.
Great Western, 641 64-. Z. Lancashire and York-
shire, 961 971. Leeds Northern, 171 18.
London and North Western, 1021 103 .
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 331
33g. Midland Stock, 79/ 794. North British,
40 40k. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 80 82
York and North Midland, 57 58. South Eastern
and Dover, 72 721.

The Produce Markets, both in Liverpool and
London, are exceedingly quiet, and sales of Tea,
Sugar, and Coffee, at either places limited.
Respecting the Sugar Trade, we quote from Messrs.
T. and H. Littledale's circular as follows
The Sugar Market has been extremely dull throughout
the month, and brown descriptions have declined is to 2s
per cwt. The high prices which have, ruled for some
months have influenced larger supplies than were generally
looked for, and the stocks in the tour ports maintain the
excess of 20,000 tons, which we mentioned in our last
circular. The trade generally hold light stocks, and
with the experience of last autumn, and an indifferent
fruit season, they will, most likely, continue to do so.
The consumption is admitted to be under that of last
year, but we look for a steady consumptive demand,
and with anything like judgment on the part
of the London holders, present prices may be
maintained for some months. We understand the
customs are demanding 17s Gd per cwt duty on white
Benares ; this is a direct breach of faith, and an unwar-
ranted imposition—the matter having been freely dis-
cussed and settled five years ago, and should be resisted
to the utmost. The season is now on for this class of
sugar arriving in this country, and the unfortunate
importer is to be mulct to the extent of 2s 6d per cwt
without any notice, at the caprice of some London
official. The-arrivals of Molasses have been heavy, and
prices have declined Is per cwt;' middling West India
worth 21s, and good Barbadoes and Antigua, 22s Bd.

According to the same authorities, the stocks of
tea in this country are excessive, viz-10,387,739 lbs
in Liverpool, against 9,180,503 lbs same time last
year ; and 63,030,730 lbs in London, against
56,122,937 lbs same time in 1855.

the port of Liverpool. The figures therein con-
tained are as follows :

ENTERED INWARDS

Ships. Tonnage.
Week ending Sept 6, 1856 B3 6,1107
If " 1855 35 1,9051

Increase

48 42,056
CLEARED OUTWARDS.

Ships. Tonnage.
Week ending Sept. 6, 1856 124 70,980
it " 1855 129 57,006

Decrease .

.
REPORTED INWARDS.

Ships. Tonnage.
lst Jan. to 6th Sept., 1856
" 1855 2,937 1,451,566

Increase

252,1,44

In the London Bankruptcy Court to day, the
petition for an adjudication against the Royal
British Bank has been dismissed, as being
wrongly founded on the Bankrupt Law Consolida-
tion Act.

The Consul General of Buenos Ayres in London
has advertised the regulations resolved upon by
the Government of Buenos Ayres for the colonisa-
tion of Bahia Blanca and Patagoni z. C-rauts of
land are to be made, and the immigration of
marriedl settlers is especially encouraged. At the
same time Bahia Blanca is declared a free port for
merchant vessels under all flags, and is to enjoy
free trade for five years.
On examining more closely the late files of papers
from Victoria, we find some curious results as to
the import trade of the colony. The necessaries
of lifehave increased with most surprising rapidity.
The value of the butter and cheese imported in
1850 was but 6601, last year the value was 466,0001;
candles amounted to but 1,0111 in 1850, in six years
the demand had increased to 244,0001. Wheat,
flour, and bread were not imported in the first year
of the existence of the colony, or, if at all, to a
very limited extent, and they are not entered in the
official returns, but last year the consumption of
the colony was equal to 1,550,0001 of these articles.
Tho importation of oats increased in value from
2,5791 in 1850 to 316,0001 last year, and potatoes
from 2,1701 to 316,0001 in the same period. In
articles of luxury the increase in the value of the
imports affords a good test of the growing wealth
of the country; thus in 1850, carriages to the value
of 1,7131 sufficed for the wants of the Victorians,
but in 1855 the demand for these articles was sup-
plied by carriages of the value of 69,5361; jewellery
was imported to the value of but 6501 in the earlier
period, but in the latter the supply was equal to
47,6951, while clocks and watches increased from
688/ to 21,214/,

The directors of the Royal Bank of Ireland have
declared the usual dividend at the rate of six per
cent. per annum, with an increased bonus of six
per cent., which makes the amount for division
amongst the shareholders twelve per cent. for the
current year. This very prosperous bank divided
five per cent. in the first years of its existence, and
has since been steadily augmenting its dividends
and increasing its reserved fund.

SUSPECTED ROBBERY BY A YOUNG LADY.
MYSTERIOUS CASE.

Emma Forman, the young woman who stood remanded
on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery committed
in March last, at the chambers of J. B. Holdsworth, of
5, Clement's Inn, Strand, was placed at the bar of Bow.
street Police-court on Saturday, before Mr. Jardine, for
further examination. Mr. Humphries, solicitor, stated
that he attended to watch the case on behalf of Miss
Arnott, the daughter of the head lodge-keeper of the inn,
who was implicated by certain statements made by the
prisoner at the last examination. The court was crowded
to excess. The prosecutor's chambers were entered
during his absence on the evening of the 28th March.
One of the drawers in his bedroom had been forced open,
and a pocket-book inside, containing a £2O note of the
Bank of England and six sovereigns, robbed of its
contents. Four months afterwards the note was paid
into the Bank of England, and, upon enquiry, traced
back to the possession of Mrs. Barnes, baker, in Chandos-
street, whose daughter, Isabella Barnes, deposed to
having received it from the prisoner when she called to
pay an account for her father, a respectable man, living
in Harvey's-buildings, Strand, in June or July last. The
prisoner, in answer to the charge, made a very extra-
ordinary statement respecting the daughter of Arnott,
the lodge-keeper of the inn, at whose house Mr. Holds-
worth had left the key of his chambers on the night of the
robbery. The following additional evidence was now
taken :—Sergeant Thomas, of the F division, sworn : I
apprehended the prisoner Forman on the 29th of August,
in Harvey's-buildings, Strand, in consequence of a state-
ment made by Miss Barnes. I charged her with stealing
a £2O note belonging to Mr. Holdsworth, of Clement's
Inn. She said, " I did not do it." On our way to the
police-station she said, " About the beginning of April
last, as near as she could recollect, a young girl of the
name of Betsy Arnott came to her in Harvey's-buildings,
and gave her a parcel to mind : it was sealed with black
wax and stamped in five different places. Arnott said it
contained a brooch, given to her by a young man in the
Temple-gardens. She (prisoner) kept the parcel by her
three weeks, till one Sunday, on going up to dress for
church, she missed it from her box. She told Miss Arnott
this, when she called upon her next day, and she appeared
much distressed at the loss of the parcel, saying it con-
tained a £2O note. After this they went together to a
fortune-telling woman, named Dent, in Brydges-street, to
confer with her about the loss of the note." Witness
added that Dent was now in attendance. Mr. Jardine:
Let her be examined. Alice Dent, a peculiar-looking,
elderly woman, who stated she was a widow and a char-
woman, living at 7, Brydges.street, Covent-garden, then
deposed as follows :—I know the prisoner Forman by the
name of Emma. Some time in April last she came to me
for advice, with the young lady now present (Miss Arnott),
whom I had seen once before, but whose name I never
knew till now. Emma said, "We have come for advice
about a parcel which was taken out of mybox." Miss Arnott
then said, "Emma never knew till this morning what was
in the parcel. There was a £2O note and a sovereign.
The note belongs to a French lady, a friend of mine, and
I gave the parcel to Emma to take care of." I said,
" God bless me ! How could you put a .t'2o note in a
parcel in that way ? Do you know the number of it ? "
Miss Arnott said, "No; hut I dare say the lady in France
does." "Dear me I " I said, "France is a long way off,
and what must be done? Is there anybody you suspect,
or any one in the house who would take it for a lark ? "
Emma (the prisoner) said, " Oh, no ; there is only my
sister, and she would not do it." I said to Miss Arnott,
"Why did you not go at once to your mother, and tell
her.? She replied, "My mother knows nothing about
it, and I would not have her know it for the world. If
father and mother knew it, I would never go home again."
By Mr. Jardine : She distinctly stated that Emma never
knew what was in the parcel till that day. Mr. Jardine :
This is a very painful matter, but Miss Arnott must be
placed at the bar. (Sensation in court.) Mr Humphries:
Are you aware, sir, that Miss Arnott was examined as a
witness in this case on a former day ? Mr. Jardine : I
am perfectly aware of that. What she has stated as a
witness, will not be received as evidence against herself.
An officer then conducted Miss Arnott to the bar. She
was dressed extremely well, and did not look more
than seventeen. There was no ;appearance ;of distress
in her manner. She walked firmly in the dock,
and fixed her eye upon the witness somewhat viciously.
Examination resumed : That is the young lady, Miss
Arnott, to whom 1 have referred. I have never seen either
of the girls since till now. Mrs. Dent was then cross-
examined at considerable length by Mr. Humphries. She
said : The girls were both strangers to me by name, but I
know them both by sight. Miss Arnott has been to me
once before, but did not stop long, stating that her music
master was waiting for her, and that she was in a hurry.
The girls came to me for advice, because I am a motherly
woman. They are not related to rile. I have no relations.
Ido not profess to foretell the future. How could any
one do that ? I earn my living by hard work. I have as
a week coming in, and I make up the rest by oharing. I
lost my husband and my daughter all the many years
come May last, and it is well known how I struggled to
rear his two children, who would not have had a morsel
of food but for me, sir (crying.) I have lived a great
many years in Brydges.street. I am universally known
and universally respected. I never heard till now that I
was called a fortune-teller, whoever said so. I certainly
have told fortunes by turning the cards or the tea-cups,
in a social way for a bit of fun. Women and girls
like it. And if you came to me with your wife I
might do the same for you—but only in fun. Of
course you could believe what I told you if you
were fool enough to do it. (Laughter.) The prisoner
Arnott : Long before the robbery I went to this woman
to have my fortune told, and she told me the most
scandalous things. May I say what she told me?
Mr. Jardine (to witness): Let me tell you that if you
profess to tell fortunes you are liable to three months'
imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond. Therefore you
need not answer these questions without you like, or you
may criminate yourself. Mr. Humphries: I suppose you
knew this before, Mrs. Dent ? Witness : No, I did not.
Miss Arnott : Yes she did, for she told me so. Witness :
I never thought there was any harm in it. you (to Mr.
Humphries) were a young man yourself once. Mr.
Humperies : But lam an old man now. Witness : And
old men like their fortunes told as well as the young
ones. (A. laugh.)
But I will never, never do it
again,
now that I know it is dangerous. Sergeant Thomas
stated that Miss Arnott admitted to him that she
had been with Forman to the old woman's in Brydges-
street, bnt she denied all knowledge of the note.
She said that Forman was servant to her mother at the
lodge formerly. Air. Holdsworth, the proQecutor, said
that Arnott's mother acted as laundress to him,' and
Forman had formerly assisted her at his chambers. Mr.
Jardine said, I shall commit this case for trial, but there
are two or three points about which I shall direct 'further
enquiry, and for this purpose the prisoners must be
remanded till Tuesday next. His Worship refused to
accept bail for either.

The weather continues to favour the completion
of the harvest, and every where we hear of abun-
dant crops which are being rapidly secured, In-
fluenced by these considerations the grain trade
is dull and depressed. To-day Mark Lane gave way
in the price of Wheat to the extent of 4s. to Ds•
per quarter, and Flour also was disposed of on
lower terms. Owing to the uncertainty which pre-
vails as to whether the French Government will
enlarge the term for allowing the freo importa-
tion of Corn, which expires on the first of January
next, the Corn trade at Marseilles is somewhat
paralysed, although two millions hectolitres of
Wheat have been imported into Marseilles within
the last two months, it will be impossible, it is said,
to supply the deficiency which exists in France, and
to execute the orders already received, by the end
of the year. In the meantime, holders of Wheat
keep back their stocks from market, and the pre
sent high prices are maintained. Large quantities
of Grain, we are told, continue to arrive on the
coasts of Spain, and all apprehension of a scarcity
has vanished.
We understand that Mr. Robert McKean, of New
City Chambers, Bishopsgate street, London,
formerly connected with the firm of Lamont,
McLarty & Co., whose suspension and bankruptcy
was announced last week, has not been connected
with that house since 1854.
The Custom Bill of Entry, issued this morning,
gives the usual weekly return of the commerce of

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur contains another telegraphic des-
patch from the French 111;nister at Berne, on the
Neufchatel affair, which having been forwarded
this morning must have reached you before this.
According to it you will see that the republicans of
La Chaux de Ford, with assistance of a squadron
of federal cavalry in garrison at Colombier, de-
feated the royalist insurgents, after half an hour's
combat, but it appears that the loss of the latter
was much greater than at first supposed, fifteen,
not twelve, having been killed, thirty wounded, and
300 made prisoners. The federal troops, the des.
patch adds, did not arrive till after the republicans
of Le Chaux had triumphed.

The Swiss papers that have arrived today do
not give any long account of the affair. It
appears, however, that the insurgents were aston-
ished at being so promptly attacked by the
republicans. The latter were under the orders
of Colonel Denzler, On setting out they were
only five hundred strong, but they were
joined by large reinforcements before reaching the
town. The conflict between them and the
royalists is represented to have been very san-
guinary, but no details of it are given. One of the
papers, the Swisse. says, that the loss of the
royalists was twelve killed and fifty wounded, and
that of the republicans was not known. Count
de Pourtales, the chief of the insurrection, was
wounded. When the Federal authorities arrived,
the members of the local government who had
been arrested were set at liberty, and re-established
in their places. The Federal.. Council of Switzer-
land has decided that the insurgents shall be
brought to trial for high treason. Although the
insurrection was so promptly put down, the Federal
troops were to remain in occupation of Neutchatel.
The following were the proclamations of the in-
surgent chiefs :