The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

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i kat; 441.,13 MEAL : A very limited demand has prevailed
'kat trade,-a4vi IVestern flour since our last,
cents
mainly for the
lower and the inferior grades are abut 6,
elirre;,:vbile the better descriptions maintain the previous
the NJ. l'clreign orders are limited so low as to preclude
t
isatli sibility of their execution at present, and the export
of t h Xi, , consequently, unimportant. Another meeting
Ithen length ott Flour Inspection was held on Saturday,e
did float lengthy report was submitted. A portion of the trade
vtith %take part in the proceedings, and being dissatisfiedn
aCeolive reaUlt, will speedily hold a meeting on their ow be the ''' t° counteract the late r: oyement. Whatever may
sub;:,, difference of opinion among the trade upon the
e 0 we trust that it will not prevent an early reformbeen
see DervetteA. which the inspection has of late years
matter,b
4tld the `4_, The credit of the city is at stake in. this
._
bee,eBB4:rption of some reliable standard is positively
flout,gre Lo Preserve it intact. The sales for the three days
gate 5,000 brls, the market closing very dull. Canada
the „continues in limited demand, and the market favours
28 cvellarteehtflaer.. Sales 1,400 brls at 7 dohs 25 cents to 9 dols
Seethe or in to choice brands. The market for
Inederartli fictur has declined 121 to 2.5 cents, with only a
elißhto demand at the reduction ; the supplies are
%tz increasing.
titicl ~,.'11: The wheat market has continued extremely
.dull,
and Arise are nominally as last quoted. The stock is light,
and —e'ly of an inferior quality, but holders refuse to make
of a ecMeessions, while buyers are holding off in expectation
ItaiiiirLe(l4ction. The only sales we have to report are 80000
\Phiet4 }led Tennessee, at 1 dol 70c to 1 dol 75c ; and3,l
enti,„l Canada, 1 dol 85c to 1 dol 923 c ; other kinds are
thaCY 40Minal. The rye market is without quotable
!It 1 gdei and the demand is moderate ; sales 4,200 Northern
4llia ?I)! 16c, delivered; and 600 Jersey, 1 dol 12c. Barley
on air request, and the market is firm, with a light supp y
t leie • 4 Priv ,_, ,000 bushels rime Canada sold at 1 dol 300 to
Tli, e oefore 15th April; and 500 good Jersey, 1 dol 20c.
IN eerll market is without material variation, and the
NV is quite moderate. The supply of prime is limited,
this description commands full prices ; sales 77,000
taikme'e at 62 dol to 74 dol for unsound 0 prime Western
R --', ;70 dol to 72 dol for round white and yellow
orith
eostinelitn, and 66 dol to 68 dol for white Southern. Oats
IN , e dull, and prices favour the
.purchaser. Beans
Iltnoeal, are steady and quiet at previous rates.
at RO,' With the exception- of small sales of Scotch pi;
aging, °4lB to 37 dols, six months, we hear of nothing
, k,„
166 t— ' Pig remains quiet, but is held firmly ; a lot of
hit '34 Spanish, sold to arrive, at 6 dols 75c, time and
Aletet- Bar is steady at 61. c to 7c, cash. .
vari,ioszs : The market is dull, but prices have not
I,fzjarticalarly.
is with-
-9 tit
ch AL STORRS : Turpentine has been quiet, and
4ltli ange- It is understand there are some foreign orders
ma Market ; stock 14,000 barrels. Spirits turpentine
Ptic„l:llle4 to be taken or.ly in small parcels, at previous
eeria-ras.
0;
_stock estimated from 18,000 to 21,000 or 22,000 brls.
Ottoa resin is sustained, and No. 1 has sold higher
Itre , the Stock being reduced. Pale, and good No. 1,
ttto/k, ,!. arket. Tar is in sm dl request, and large
end °43? 16,000 brls. Rope is now worth more than Thir.,
i'llt mighti bring 2 dols 50e to 2 dols 75c for large barrels,
T all other kinds are depressed ; sales, 800 brls. Sprits
~ '''Pent'
-or 'fle 40c to 401 c cash, and 40tc to 41c fifteen days,oo
Is.owliolesale parcels, and 41c to 42c cash, by retail ; 1,4 4)N:telt:snit:l, 1 dol 65c per 310 lb, in yard ; 1,000 Wil-
hite `J°l:ornon, 1 dol 60c delivered ; and small lots
014
.within our range.
ttilea • In Crude Whale and Sperm, we have heard of no.
hecifo
rd 500 brls Bleached Winter Whale were purchased
gr?
t. to come here, on terms we did not learn. Olive is
oo Linseed has been less active, but g the market is firm ;
411°118 E nglish brought 85c cash, which is also the

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255,843

price for small lots from sore. The Palm recently arrived
was sold previously. Camphene, 43c.
Pitovisrom : The market for pork has improved 25c, but
the demand continues light ; the receipts continue light, and
the amount on sale is moderate; sales 1,600 brls, closing at
15 dols 8710 for mess, 14 dole 629 for prime, 18 dols to 18
dole 50c (nominal) for clear, including 500 uninspected
prime to arrive, at 14 dole 6210. In beef, there is only a
limited business in progress, and the market favours the
purchaser, but there is no quotable change in rates ; sales,
800 brls, at 8 dols 2:5c to 8 dole 75c for country prime, 9
dols 25c to 11 dole for do mess, 12 dole 50c to 13 dols for
Vermont mess, 11 dols to 13 dols 25c for repacked western,
and 13 dols 50c to 14 dole 75c for extra do. Prime mess
remains inactive ; 160 tee sour sold at 10 dols—the quota-
tions for sound are 18 dole to 22 dole. Beef hams are in
active request, part on speculation, and the market continues
firm ; sales 1,450 brls, at 13 dole to 16 dolssoc for ordinary
to pi ime. Cut meats are active and firm; sales 1,000 pkgs
at 7p for shoulders, and 80 to 94c for hams. Bacon con-
tinues scarce, and in good demand ; sales 300 boxes. Long
and short clear middles at 910. Dressed hogs command 8c
to 84e ; 600 western, to arrive soon, sold yesterday at 81c.
Lard is a shade easier, with sales of 1,000 brls, closing at
10c to 101, with lots of strictly prime at lOic ; also 500
kegs at 1 le. Butter and cheese are in limited demand at
quotations.
SALT : The receipts are still very limited, and the market
is consequently quiet.
SUGAR : There is more steadiness in the market at the
decline noticed in our market, but otherwise we have no
change to notice.

TALLOW remains quiet, and we have only to notice sales
30,000 lbs prime. in lots, at 101 c to 101 c cash.
TIN : Pig remains firm, with rather more inquiry—sales
200 to 300 slabs Banca from store, at 35c to 35 is ; 974 do
to arrive, 33c cash ; and 300 do Straits, 33c 30 days. Plates
still arrive very sparingly, and of some descriptions the
supply is barely sufficient to fix a quotation.
TOBA.CCO : There is a fair demand for most descriptions,
and the market is firm.

FREIGHTS : The market generally is without important
change, and the offerings to Great Britain are, for the
moment, light. The amount of unengaged tonnage in port
is still light, and vessels of all classes find ready employ-
ment at fair rates, which are likely to he maintained during
the Spring months, owing to the large amount of cotton
and other produce to go forward to Europe. New avenues
of employment are constantly being developed, and the
comparatively small number of new vessels launched during
the last year or two, warrants the belief that the supply of
tornage will not be excessive for a lengthened period. To
Liverpool, the engagements include 42,000 bushels corn, at
7d to 72i in bulk and ship's bags, including a small portion
to fill up at 6d, which is no criterion of the market; 1,500
brls flour, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; 400 tcs beef, 3s 64 ; 209 brie
pork, 3s ; 3,000 bales cotton, 9-324 to 5-16 d, including Sea
Island 7-16 d ; 68 hhds tobacco, 30s ; 3,000 staves, 20s ;
several hundred boxes bacon, 30s; and 100 brls oil, 355.

EXCHANGE : The business for the steamer has not been
important—the market closed flatly at our hithest quota-
tions. We quote bills on London at 911 to 91 per cent.
premium.

MONEY AND STOCKS : There has been no important
change in the leading features of the market since our last
report of the 4th March, and except for a few of the more
speculative stocks, the variations in prices have not been
material. The general tendency of the market has been
downward. A disposition to await the result of the peace
negotiations at Paris, and further developments regarding
the differences between Great Britain and this country, have
operated as a check upon business, and the transactions of
the fortnight have consequently been moderate. The effect
of the existing abundance of money is, to some extent,
counteracted by the renewed shipments of specie to Europe,
and the rapid increase of loans by the banks in this city,
which, however, is believed to be warranted by the large
prospective addition to their specie reserve from the pay-
ment by the Treasury in June, on account of
the Texas debt, and the expected receipts of
gold from the interior in the course of the spring..
State Stocks, although inactive, are generally firm at about
our last quotations. The only transactions of any import-
ance have occurred in Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri 6s.
A new:issue of 1,000,000 dols New York State 6s, on
account of the Erie Canal Enlargement, redeemable let
November, 1873, is to be negotiated on the 25th March. As
the stock will be required for banking purposes, it will
probably command a Iprg.e premium. For Uflited States
loans there are occasional private purchasers at a fractional
advance upon the Government offers; but the demand from
this source being limited, the greater part of the certificates
which come into market are forwarded to Washington for
redemption. The aggregate purchases by the Treasury, on
account of the 1,500.000 dols advertised for in the last
proposals of the Secretary, amounted on Bth March to
794,871 dols, of which about 480,000 dols came from
foreign holders. The amount still outstanding of the loan
due 12th November next is 898,713 dols.

CAMMAN & Co,

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH

CHARLESTON, March 17. Cotton : Cotton active ;
sales 4,500 bales.

NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—Cotton Market : The cotton
market is quiet—sales 3,500 hales.

NEW ORLEANs, March 18.—Markets : Cotton quiet.
Sales to-day 3,500 bales at 9,1-,c to 9.-}c for middling. Mess
pork, 16 dole. Cotton freights, to Liverpool, 3d.
CINCINNATI, March 18.—The Pork Trade : The Price
Current of this week publishes full returns of the pork
trade in the West, and also of the shipments East. The
increase in the number packed up to the present. time, as
compared with last year, is 343,000; and the increase in
the shipments East, 155,000.

ABANDONMENT OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP
INQUIRY BY THE BOARD OF TRADE

Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. Mansfield, aided
by Captain Schomberg (emigration officer), held a court
of inquiry in the Nisi Prins Court, Chapel-street, relative
to the abandonment of the ship Europa, of Liverpool.
Mr. Tyndall appeared for the Board of Trade, Mr.
Lowndes was for the owners of the ship (Messrs. Cannon),
and Mr. Squarey was for the master of the vessel, Mr.
William Ridley. Mr. Tyndall, in opening the case, said
it was an inquiry ordered by the Board of Trade, under
the 432nd section of the Merchant Shipping Act, into the
abandonment of the ship Europa, of Liverpool. It would
appear, he said, that the ship sailed from Callao on the
sth or 6th November, 1855, with a cargo of guano for
Queenstown. On the 3rd February, 1856, the ship was
observed off Terceira, and in consequence of her extra-
ordinary movements, she attracted attention, and two
boats were manned and put off towards her. After some
time the boat's crew boarded her, and found she was
abandoned, but not in such a bad state as was at first
imagined. All her sails, masts, and provisions, were
found to be good, but it was found she had three feet of
water in her hold. She was brought into the port, and
surveyed by order of the British consul. It was found
that the pumps were good, but were choked with guano.
The pumps were cleared and a survey made of the ship,
and it was found that the cargo, generally, was in good
order. She was then pumped clear out, and a second
survey made of her, when it was discovered that a hole
bored with an augur had been made in the side of the
ship, and that had the hole been six inches lower down,
the ship would have soon filed with water, so as to sink
her. The Consul then took the depositions of parties
there and sent them home to England ; and the under-
writers having applied to the Board of Trade, the present
investigation was ordered. These were the facts, and he
would now call all the witnesses he could procure on the
subject.

Mr. William Ridley, late master of the ship Europa, of
Liverpool, was then examined by Mr. Tyndall, and said
he left Callao on the sth November with a cargo of guano,
and a crew of 29 men. (The log book was produced.) All
was right and tight to the 26th or 27th of November,
when they experienced very severe weather up to the
2nd December. The ship was injured and strained very
seriously with the excessive rolling and labouring. Water
got into the afterhold. She made more water, and they
found the pumps choked. She made about two feet of
water a day in her bottom. Before the gale she made
very little water in her bottom. The pumps were in good
order then, but they were never able to pump her dry.
After pumping, there would be ten or twelve
inches in her. They had experienced very squally
weather all through. About the 26th or 27th of January
they had very heavy weather, which continued
until they left the ship on the 31st January. The wind
had changed to N.W. ; at that time they were at the
S.E. end of the island of Rico. On the 27th in lat. 33 29
N., and ton. 34 56 W., it was blowing strong, with dirty
weather: there was a fresh gale on the 28th; ship labour-
ing very heavily, and making a deal of water. The
witness went on to describe the position of the ship, and
stated that she shipped heavy seas, and that in bailing
out the water, from sixty to eighty tons of cargo must
have been carried away. The main sail was split and
furl
The captain was examined at much length in reference
to the abandonment of the ship, as opened by Mr. Tyndall,
and from his statement it appeared that the crew com-
pelled him to leave the vessel, although he made two
successful efforts to retain them in the ship, but on the
third occasion they forced him to leave. He was of
opinion that if the crew had stood by him, he
might have got the ship into some neighbouring harbour.
Several other witnesses were examined, and shortly
after four o'clock, the inquiry was adjourned.

WAR HisTontaNs.—Books relating to the war are finding
publishers at St. Petersburg A work now making some
sensation in the capital, is entitled, " An Historical Review
of the Crimean Campaign," and is from the pen of M.
Anitchkof, captain of the staff' attached to the Chancellery
of the ministry of War. The first volume is embellished
with three splendid plans of the battles of the Alma, of
Btlaklava, and Inkermann. Documents in the hands of the
government, and recitals of eye-witnesses, form the chief
portion of the book. The second volume enters into a
narrative of the defence of Sebastopol. At Tiflis a sketch
of the Russian campaign in Asia, and of the seige of Kars,
has appeared.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

CROWN COURT

,-YESTERDAY.

Mr. Baron Martin entered the court at ten o'clock yesterday,

and proceeded with the criminal business

CONCEALING RlRTlL—Elitabeth Evans was charged with
having, at Liverpool, on the 20th of January, 1856, concealed
the birth of a female child of Which the had been delivered.
It appeared that the child was still-born. Mr. Raffles prose-
cuted, and Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended the prisoner. The
jury found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship sentenced her
to be imprisoned for one month.
THE CASE OF ROBERT AND HENRY EYRE.—In this
case (the well known Solith Castle-street attempt at robbery),
Mr. Tindal Atkinson examined several witnesses to show the
general good character of the prisoners, and the great poverty
which they suffered. His Lordship said he did not see how
this evidence could possibly justify such an outrageous offence.
Mr. Atkinson said he wished to shew that the prisoners were
apparently actuated by some sudden fit of madness, caused by
privation. He would show that they had been thirty-six
hours fasting. His Lordship said that could be no possible
justification for a murderous assault with a life-preserver,
which had nearly caused the death of two men. Mr.
Atkinson said he did not mean for a moment to offer
anything like a justification, but he wished to show
that the prisoners were impelled by want to make such a mad
attempt, in a leading thoroughfare, in the open day. His Lord-
ship said it was against such cases that the public most required
the protection of the law. The prisoners were then removed.
THE FRAUDS UPON MESSRS. BROCKLEBANE.—Robert
Wilson, formerly clerk in the employment of Messrs. Brock-
lebank, and charged with having converted to his own use
large sums of money, their property, was put in the dock.
The prisoner withdrew his former plea, and pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins said it was by his advice the prisoner
had taken that course, in order not unnecessarily to waste the
time of the court. Ho proposed to call evidence to show the
high character the prisoner had formerly enjoyed. His Lord-
ship intimated that it was unnecessary to occupy time in calling
witnesses for that purpose. The prisoner was then called on
to say if he had anything to urge why sentence should not be
passed on him ? He made no reply. His Lordship said :
Robert Wilson, you have pleaded guilty of the offence charged
against you, a larceny by a servant of the property of your
masters, Messrs. Brocklebank. As I intimated to the learned
counsel, it would be quite unnecessary for him to occupy time by
calling witnesses as to your character, for there can be no doubt
that you appeared to deserve a good character up to the time of
this occurrence. You were entrusted with property to no less
an amount than upwards of £4,000, and if your masters had
not considered you a trustworthy person, you would not have
been entrusted with property to that extent. Being entrusted
with property consisting of upwards of £2,000 in bank notes,
a considerable amount of gold, and securities to the amount of
£905 odd besides, you at once absconded with that property.
Now, the usual Cases of this kind which we have to deal with
are those in which men, holding a situation such as yours, and
entrusted with money from time to time, begin by taking
small sums to relieve some immediate pressure, and they are
tempted to go on until at last, after some period, the loss of the
money is discovered, and the party is brought to trial, and
punished for it. These are excessively bad cases; because, in
a country like this, where it is absolutely necessary, and cannot
be avoided, that clerks should be entrusted with money, it is no
less absolutely necessary that their masters and the public
should be protected from robberies committed by them.
But this case of yours is nothing more or
less than a pure robbery under the most
atrocious circuurnstances. It is the carrying away at
once of property to the amount of upwards of £4,000, which
was placed in your hands in trust, and in the expectation of
your preserving it. To call witnesses in the hope and exoec-
tation that anything they said could induce me, sitting here
to do other than administer the law to the best of my judg-
ment, would be utterly idle and utterly fruitless. The law in
this as in many other cases provides a punishment varying in
degree. That means that the most severe punishment should
be awarded to the worst cases, and I cannot by possibility
conceive a worse case than yours, taking a sum of money of
this sort at once, a robbery of upwards of £4OOO, under such
circumstances. I cannot conceive that the legislature could
have had in their contemplation a worse offence than this,
where having been in an employment for upwards of twenty-
six years, you make a return to your masters by robbing them
of such an amount. Therefore I apprehend that this is one
of the worst cases which possibly can be, and in the southern
division of Lancashire it would indeed be a very bad example
if the most severe punishment which the law allows were not
imposed upon you for such an offence. The sentence of the
court is, that you be transported for fourteen years. The
prisoner was removed.
DEATH BY AN ACCIDENTAL BLOW.—Etlward Moore was
arraigned on a coroner's warrant on a charge of having caused
the death of a fellow-workman by striking him on the fore-
head with a piece of coal. This was a case which was recently
before the coroner. It appeared that the blow was aimed at
another man. His Lordship stated that the Grand Jury had
ignored the bill, believing that the death might be considered
an accidental one. It was not intended to offer any evidence.
The jury accordingly returned a verdict of not guilty, and the
prisoner was discharged.

BURGLARY.—Thomas Henry, aged 38, weaver, was charged
with having at Wigan, on the 19th March, 1856, burgiariously
broken, and entered the dwelling-house of James Glover, and
stolen from thence 70 lbs. weight of beef and mutton, the
property of the latter. The jury, after more than an hour's
consideration, found the prisoner guilty.
Hot/BEI3IIE AKING BY Boys.—Michael Mulraney, aged 14,
apprentice to a shoemaker, and Patrick Conolly, 14, piercer,
were charged with breaking into the house of Joseph Marland,
at Ashton-under-Lyne, and stealing therefrom a shawl, a
pair of trowsers, a piece of print, and a carrier pigeon.
The prisoners were found guilty. It appeared that
both boys had previously been summarily convicted several
times. His Lordship deferred passing sentence, and stated
that he would endeavour to get the boys placed in some
reformatory.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.—James Ward, aged 20, servant,
and Alice Taylor, 37, housekeeper, were charged with having,
at Manchester, on the 29th of November, 1853, forged a
promissory note, with intent to defraud the treasurer of the
Hulme Atlas Loan Society. The prisoners were acquitted.
BURGLARY.—Jonathan Shaw was found guilty of having,
on the 29th of December, 1855, broke into the house of John
Watkins, Rainhill, and stolen a silver watch.
DEATH CAUSED BY A COLLIERY ExPLOSION•—James
Foster was charged with having, on the 29th of February last,
caused the death of John Hayes. The deceased was killed in
a colliery explosion, which took place in the Blackleyhurst
Colliery, near Billinge. Two other men were seriously
injured by the explosion, of whom one had since died. It was
alleged that the explosion was caused by the carelessness of
the prisoner, in leaving the top of his safety-lamp open. The
evidence, however, was not sufficiently clear as to the cause of
the explosion, and the jury accordingly acquitted the prisoner.
SENTENCES.—Edward Hammond, who had pleaded guilty
to a charge of bigamy, was brought up to receive sentence.
The prisoner made a long and sad statement regarding the
conduct of his wife, who, he said, was idle, dirty, for ever
absent from home, and running into debt everywhere. Isaac
Scholofield, who pleaded guilty to the same offence, was also
placed in the dock. Anne Libor, convicted of bigamy, and
Richard Pickering and George Lamb, who had pleaded guilty
of similar charges, were likewise brought forward. The
prisoner Lamb said he believed his first wife was dead before
ho married again. His Lordship said the case of Lamb was a
very bad one. He married first in the year 1845, and lived
with his wife, and had one child. After that he married a
second time in New York a young woman ho had met on his
way out, and by her he had two children. A third time he
married another young woman, and had a child by her. To
each he had represented himself as unmarried. His Lordship
accordingly sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. He
sentenced Hammond to four months' imprisonment ; the other
two men to twelve months' imprisonment each, and the
female to a fortnight's imprisonment.

CHARGE OF FRAUD.—James Pearson, aged 27, commis-
sion agent, John Livingstone, 48, engraver, and Robert
Halsall, 53, turner, all of Manchester, were charged with
having defrauded John Jackson, a rag merchant in Man-
chester, of £B6 9s sd, on the 12th of February last. Mr.
Crosse and Mr. Monck prosecuted, Mr. Aspinall appeared for
Livingstone, and Mr. T. Atkinson and Mr. Sowler for the other
prisoners. As, howe-,er, the indictment contained a second
charge, of which the prisoners had had no notice, the case
was arranged to stand over until next assizes, the prisoners to
stand out on bail.

OBTAINING GOODS BY FRAUD.—William Filder pleaded
guilty to.having forged an order for goods; by which he sue .
ceeded in obtaining them. He was sentenced to four years'
penal servitude.

SACRILEGE.—Thomas Chambers pleaded guilty to having
broke❑ into St. Paul's church, on the 19th of Oetober last,
and also with having sacrilegiously entered St. Allyn's church.
The prisoner is a cripple. He was sentenced to eighteen
months' imprisonment.
FRAUD ON THE MERSEY STEEL AND IRON COMPANY.—
Patrick Gilligan and John Locke were charged with having
unlawfully endeavoured to defraud the Messrs. Helldal]. The
case has been recently reported in our police column, and is
well known. The charge of conspiracy was not mentioned.
Locke pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud, and was
sentenced to nine months imprisonment for one, and three
months for the other. His Lordship, in passing sentence,
commented severely upon the fact that this was the second
case tried that day, in which a clerk was guilty of fraud upon
his employers. The prisoner Gilligan was acquitted, A third
prisoner, named Murray, was named in the calendar, but no
evidence was offered against him.

FURTHER SENTENCES.— John Jones was sentenced to six
years penal servitude, for burglary. William Jones, four years
penal servitude, for the same offence. Thomas Green, six
years, for the same. Jonathan Shaw, four years, for the same.
Robert Henry, four years, for the same. Elizabeth Siddall,
found guilty of accellerating the death of her step-child, was
sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months, and kept to hard
labour. John Nicklin' convicted of manslaughter at Ashton.
uniler-Lyuc, by stabbing in the belly with a knife, was sen-
tenced to be transported for life.
SENTENCE UPON THE Eirazs.—Robert and Henry Eyre

were then placed in the dock. His Lordship said : Robert
and Henry Eyre, you have pleaded guilty to an outrage which,
so far as my experience goes, is perfectly unparalleled, It
appears that upon the 24th of January last you both went into
the office of Mr. Durandu, who is a bullion broker in this
town,Pand is a person, I presume, who carries on business in an
extensive way, for the box, which I suppose it was your object
to secure, contained no less a sum than £1,500. Upon
going into the place, at ten o'clock in the morning, the
younger knocked down the boy in the office with
a life preserver. The moment this had been done the other
seized him by the throat, and held him up against the wall,
beating him on the head with a poker. The senior clerk came
in, and you attacked him, struck him with a life preserver,
knocked him senseless, jumped upon him, and struck him with
the same poker. Were it not that, by God's mercy, aid came
in you would have murdered that man. All this was done to
a man you had never seen before, a perfect stranger. Such
an outrage as this I have never heard of before. Appeals
have been made to me this morning, and witnesses called to
show that you had been in a state of very great poverty. It
is stated that you were living with your parents, and some of
your neighbours have stated, that, so far as they could judge,
your conduct has been that of peaceable, well.conducted young
men. Ido not, however, sit here to act according to my
feelings, but, as far as I can, to protect the public from outrages
of this kind. It is not to be tolerated for one moment, that men
in an office, in a town like Liverpool, are to beattacked in this way.
It would have been bad enough if you had robbed the place,
but to beat those persons as you did, seeths to be more the
act of savages than of men. Ido not knuw how far applica-
tion to another quarter may be of any advantage to you.
I feel that I sit here to protect the public from outrages such
as this, which only falls short of murder—if, indeed, it be
short of murder, for I dare say these persons might as likely
have been killed as not ; there is little distinction between you,
one is as bad as the other ; and it is, therefore, my duty to pass
such a sentence upon you as will bo an example, I hope, to all
the people of Liverpool that such conduct is not to be
tolerated. You are respectable looking young men, and it
has been urged in your defence that you have been driven to
this act by poverty. I dare say most people aro driven to
acts of similar outrage by poverty, for men do not commit
such acts without some cause. If I were to listen to such an
excuse in, this case, I should listen to it in all. It seems to
me that this is the most atrocious case I ever had before me,
and that it is my duty to pass upon you the heaviest sentence
which the law admits. The sentence of the court is, that you
be transported for the period of your natural lives. The
prisoners, who were deeply affected, were then removed.

BlTlNG.—Michael Wilson, a man of colour, and Mary
Anne Douglas, convicted of biting savagely a man and a
woman, were sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment,
each, with hard labour.

In the case of the boys Mulraney and Conolly, convicted of
burglary, his Lordship intimated that he would recommend
their being taken into the Parkhurst Reformatory.

The court then rose.
The Toxteth•park murder case will he tried this morning,

NISI PRIUS COURT.-YESTERDAY.
(BEFORE MR. JUSTICE WILLES.)

BREWIN AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES V. THE BIRKENHEAD,
LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—Mr. Overend, Q.Ol, with Mr. Kempley, appeared
for the plaintiffs • and the Attorney-general, with Mr.
Monk, for the defendants. The plaintiffs are the assignees
of Messrs. Armitage, Franklish and Co., spring mann-
facturers of Sheffield; in March, 1854, one of the firm
called on Mr. Edward Mawe, engineer, of Seacombe, to
solicit an order. He received an order for fifty sets of
springs, four to each set, and accordingly Armitage and
Co. for warded 160 springs on the 19th of May, and the
remaining forty on the 22d of May, per the Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. They
Were invoiced to Mr. Mawe, and were to be delivered at
Birkenhead. The first lot arrived at Birkenhead on the
22d of .May, and the second on the 24th of May, but in
consequence of information received in the interval by
Armitage and Co., with respect to the circumstances of
Mr. Mawe, it was thought desirable that Mr. Franklish
and Mr. Barker, two members of the firm, should go over
to Seacombe and ascertain how matters stood. They saw
Mr. Mawe, and were informed by him that he believed
the springs had been received at Birkenhead though not
to him, and that if they chose they might go over to the
station and stop them. They did so : they saw their
goods, and gave directions to the manager to detain them
until he had received further orders from their house.
Shortly afterwards they applied to have the goods re-
turned, but the defendants refused compliance, and set up
a lieu on the goods is respect of:a debt of 4001 due by
Mr. Mawe to them. The plaintiffs denied the right of
such a lieu, and brought the present action to recover
damages for the illegal detention of the goods. The
Attorney-general said that the defendants did not in the
main dispute' the facts as set forth on behalf of the
plaintiffs, but that his lordship would have to say whether
in point of law the transactions had not been determined
at the time the notice was given, and whether the goods
were not on the defendants' railway for a different pur-
pose from that of carrying them at that period. Mr.
Overend observed that even supposing the goods had
been delivered there had been no acceptance by the con-
signee, Mr. Mawe, and that, therefore, no claim of lieu in
respect of any debt of his could be set up against him.
After hearing the evidence for the defence. His Lordship
said that he was of opinion the springs had never become
the goods of Mr. Maws, and directed that a verdict should
be entered for the plaintiff for the amount claimed,
174/ 2s 2d, with costs, subject to the opinion of the court
above on the Questions of law raised in the case.

TRADE REPORT.-MONDAY.

LIVERPOOL,

COTTON : There has been a good healthy tone in the
Cotton market to day, and with a moderate active demand,
prices are ]-16d per lb higher. The sales—including 270
Pernambuco, 61d to 71d ; 320 Bahia, 61d to 6icl; 80
Maranham, 61d; 200 Egyptian, 60 to 10d ; 500 Surat, 4-bd
to 41d— are reported 12,000 bales, of which 3,000 are on
speculation and for export.
SUGAR : We continue to have a good market, but without
any change in prices ; 730 hhds Antigua are reported at 38s
3d to 425, and 1,000 bags of Pernams at 22s 6d in bond ;
besides which there have been taken for export 550 bags of
Benares at 45s 6d, and 550 bags grainy Bengal at 46s 6d ;
also 1,100 bags Benares to arrive, and 720 boxes Havana on
the spot, the prices of which have not transpired.
MOLASSES: Small parcels Antigua and St. Lucia sold at
about previous rates.
Rum : Nothing has taken place.
COFFEE : We have to report 50 bags St. Domingo at 48s,
and 350 bags Eastern at 52s per cwt.

TEA : have a plentiful supply of both black and green
upon the market, but the transactions have not been large ;
common Congou 9d to 9fd per lb.

RICE : The sales are 300 bags and 1,000 pockets Bengal
at 9s 6d to 103 3d per cwt for broken to middling.
LINSEED: We have to report 850 bags Bengal, at 60s to
63s per quarter.
RAPESEED: We have also to report 500 bags Bengal at
58s per quarter.
CATurs: To-day we had an average supply of stock,
which, however, met a slow sale at last week's quotations
for beef, and 2s per head decline for sheep. Beasts in the
market, 1,980 ; sheep, 7,163.

LONDON.

CORN : The quantity of English wheat on sale this morn-
in was not large, and notwithstanding the announcement of
peace, its value was well maintained. In some instances
Kentish red wheat realised rather more money, owing to
their improved condition. Foreign wheat on retail sale at
late rates. Norfolk flour was fully as dear. Barley com-
manded extreme rates, but oats of secondary quality were
6d cheaper. Beans and peas the turn dearer. Arrivals
into London from March 24 to March 29 : English, 2,872
qra wheat, 4,121 qrs barley, 8,479 qrs malt, 578 qrs oats,
647 qrs beans, 61 qrs peas, 3,065 sacks flour ; Scotch, 25
qrs barley, 20 qrs malt, 414 qrs oats, 3 qrs peas, 100 sacks
flour ; Irish, 41 qrs malt, 4,122 qrs oats ; foreign, 24,661
qrs wheat, 985 qrs barley, 15,715 qrs oats, 10,121 qrs beans,
t 1,176 sacks flour; E. C. Rail., 2,949 qrs wheat, 681 qrs
barley, 7,391 qrs malt, 800 qrs oats, 79 qrs beans, 449 qrs
peas, 8,812 sacks flour; Gt. N. Rail., 1,033 qrs wheat, 369
qrs malt, 630 qrs oats, 3,039 sacks flour; exported, 170 qrs
wheat, 17 qrs oats. 176 cwts flour.

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PRODUCE: The following public sales are declared for to-
morrow, viz.—Sugar: 500 hhds West India, 11,000 bags
of Mauritius, and 3,000 bags Madras. Saltpetre : 700
bags. Rice : 3,300 bags.
Our markets have generally a more firm appearance, in
consequence of the declaration of peace, but we are at
present without business to report.
Oils : Seal, pale, £54; yellow, £4B ; brown, £4O to
£4l; sperm, £125 to £126 10s; cod, £43 to £45; South
Sea, pale, £44 lOs to £45 ; olive, Gallipoli, £53 ; Spanish
and Sicily, £49 to £5O ; cocoa nut, 37s 6d to 39s ; palm,
35s to 38s 3d ; linseed, 34s 3d ; rape, pale, 50s to 52s ;
brown, 48s.

TALLOW : The market continues quiet, with not much
doing. Town tallow is quoted 45s 6d nett cash ; Petersburg
Y. C. on the spot, 47s : March to April, 47s ; April to June,
47s ; October to December, 47s 6d. Arrivals for the week
ending April 9th last year, 2,586 casks, and delivery 1,830
casks, The arrivals last week comprised 92 casks from
Russia ; 337 from Australia ; 442 from South America ;
and 69 from other places. Total, 940 casks.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE : The supply of beasts is much
larger, and the average quality good. Trade is dull, and
prices are lower for all kinds. There are also more sheep,
but the supply is not excessive. Good Downs in the wool
are readily sold at late rates. For shorn sheep trade is low,
and last Monday's quotations are not supported throughout.
There is very little demand for lamb. Calves are still very
dear. From Germany and Holland there are 238 beasts,
35 sheep, and 33 calves; Scotland, 500 beasts ; Norfolk
and Suffolk, 2,800 ; and 120 from Ireland.
BOROUGH HOP : Messrs. Pattenden and Smith, hop-
factors, report that fine hops are in good demand at fully
late prices.
COAL : Eden Main, 16s; Walls End Penrhyn, 17s 6d ;
Walls End Hetton Lyons, 163 ; Walls End Stewart's 17s
6d. Nine fresh ships at market.
YESTERDAY'S MARKET.
BELFAST CORN; No change.

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