The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

white do. Oats are plenty, and the market is rather easier,
State 39 to 42c. Western 40 to 42c 33 to 38cfor Jersey,
and 31 to 33 for Southern. Beans are steady, with sales of
350 to 400 brls. prime State at 2 dole 50c. Canada peas
remain quiet; 300 bags black eye sold from vessels at
2 dole 124 c to 2 dole 25c, cash.
FLOUR AND MEAL.—The adverse accounts per Arabia

and the difficulty of despatching freights to the Eastward,
have combined to limit the demand for State and West-
ern flour to the actual necessities of the local trade, and
with increased desire on the part of many holders to realize,
prices of the low grades have receded 25 to 371 c. Good
and extra brands, on the contrary, are firmly supported at
the currency of Tuesday last, owing to the fact that +he
demand is almost wholly for these. The bad repute in
which all the common grades are heir', causes their neglect.
The committee on inspection reform have not yet submitted
the result of their deliberations. The sales of three days do
not exceed 16,000 barrels, the market closing irregular and
dull. Canada flour has also declined 121 c, with a moderate
business ; sales 2,200 brls, closing at 7 dols 25c to 9 dols 25c,
as in quality.
FREIGHTS.—The market generally:remains firm, though
the offerings to Great Britain and the Continent have
materially fallen off; nearly all kinds of sea-going vessels
are wanted, and the supply of unengaged tonnage is small.
To Liverpool, the engagements include 40,000 to 45,000
bushels. Corn at 8d to 9d ; 2000 bales otton, id 9-32 d ; 30
tons Brazil nuts, 35s • 700 bxs bacon, 20s ; 130 tierces beef,
3s 6d; and by the Baltic, 100 brls lard, 50 tons and 100 bks
bacon, 50s per ton • and 32 bales tobacco, 60s, measurement.
COTTON.--With large receipts at the South, and rather
unfavourable accounts from Europe, per Arabia, at Boston,
a further decline of one-eighth of a cent has been established
with a very limited business at our revised quotations. Some
lots have been sold from the wharf at prices rather below
our range, but which are no guide to the market. Sales for
the three days 5000 and for the week about 10,000 bales;
also, 3000 in transitu from Mobile to Liverpool, at 9AO with
17-32 d freight. The market closed quiet.

CENTRAL AMERICA

We learn, by perfectly trustworthy private intelligence
received through a mercantile house in New York, that a
combined movement is about to be made by the govern-
ments of Guatemala, San Salvador, and Costa Rica, for
the purpose of expelling Walker and his American fol-
lowers by force from Nicaragua. Guatemala has already
raised 3,000 men for that purpose, and they are now in
marching order. San Salvador has engaged to raise 2,000
and Costa Rica 1,500. It is also stated, by the same re-
liable authority, that great hostility exists towards
Walker among the native population of Nicaragua, and
that a general popular rising against him is inevitable, so
soon as active support is rendered by the' neighbouring
States. These facts, in connection with the opposition of
the American and English Govern:rents, greatly increased
as it must be by the recent demonstrations of Walker
against the Nicaragua Transit Company, whose interests
are protected by the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, make it very
improbable that the Rivas-Walker Government can pre-
serve Itself much longer. To all appearance, this filibus-
tering drama has now been played nearly to the end.
It is also reported through another source that a com-
mission of British and Nicaraguan agents has met at
Greytown, and settled the Mosquito dispute on a basis
satisfactory to both parties, and that a treaty is now on
its way to England for ratification. Alluding to this
matter, the New York Herald,says :—" If Great Britain
agrees to this treaty--and there seems to be pretty good
evidence that she will do so—Mr. Marcy is completely
fooled, as he always is on diplomatic questions. Then
there will be no war with England—then the ports on
Long Island Sound' are sate, and New York is in no
danger."

CHILD MURDER.-CAPITAL CONVICTION

On Thursday, at the Suffolk assizes, before Lord Chief
Justice Jervis, Emma Mussett, a married woman, was
indicted for the wilful murder of her male infant, at
Nayland, on the 29th of February.
Mr. Couch appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Dasent,
at the request of the learned judge, undertook the defence of
the prisoner.

The prisoner is the wife of a labouring man at Nayland,
and for some time before the 29th of February had been
observed by her neighbours to be in the family way. She
did not deny that she was enciente, and stated that she
expected to be confined in May. On the afterno )n of the
29th of February she sent for Mrs. P:essney and Mrs.
Oakes, two of her neighbours, and requested them to clean
up the house. From what they observed, Mr. Fenn, a local
surgeon, expressed his conviction, after examining her, that
she had been delivered of a child. She at first denied it, but
afterwards opened a box and produced the dead body of an
infant, which she said was still-born. It was a full grown
child, but had sustained severe injuries on the head. The
principal questions for the jury were—first, whether the
child was born alive? and, secondly, whether the injuries
observed on it were inflicted intentionally or accidentally.
Mr. Dasent, for the defenca, remarked strongly on the
absence of any apparent motive for the murder, It was an
undoubted medical fact that many women were affected in
the most extraordinary way, not only during their confine-
ments, but daring the whole period of gestation, and per-
haps the prisoner, suffering under intense agony, and unat-
tended by any one, might have accidentally and uninten-
tionally injured the child. She appeared to have behaved
with decency and propriety in all the relations of life ; her
husband seemed to have been fond of her, and it was
notorious to all the gossips of the neighbourhood that she

flceinte ; what reason, then, was there to induce her to

murder her own offspring ?
The Chief Justice, in summing up, said he was sure the
jury would be only too glad to take this merciful vie ,v of
the case, but there were unfortunately some very serious
facts against the prisoner. If the jury believed that the
child was born alive, and that the unfortunate prisoner
killed it, then, whatever might be the consevences, they
must find her guilty of murder; if they thought that it was
born dead, she would be guilty of the offence of concealing
the birth. At the same time thcy must not find her guilty
of concealing the birth, in order to escape the responsibility
of finding her guilty of murder.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
wilful murder against the prisoner.
The Chiet Justice, in passing sentence, said his duty was
most painful, but at the same time plain and simple. It
would rest with others, in whose hands the merciful prero-
gative of the crown was vested, to take the prisoner's case
hereafter into considel Eldon ; he could only pass upon her
the awful sentence of death.

Tne prisoner, who had suffered throughout the proceed-
ings from a fit of trembling, to which, it was said, she was
continually subject, heard the dread sentence, which was
pronounced in the usual terms, without making any excla-
mation, and was removed in a kind of stupor.

HAMBURG, Thursday.—The Assembly Burghers has
rejected the project for a new Constitution recom-
mended by the Germanic Diet__

THE FORTHCOMING BUDGET.—The Belfast spirit•dealers
have been all again on the alert to have the foreway of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer ; one house alone having,
during the last two days, paid £lO,OOO on whisky, in
anticipation of an equalisation of the duty between this
country and England.

n- •
E EAST INDIA COMPANY.—An account respecting the
annual territorial revenues and disbursements of the East
India Company, for the years 1851-52, 1852-53, 1853-34,
and 1854-55 (estimated) was published on Thursday. It
contains very comprehensive statements regarding the dif-
ferent presidencies, from which we gather that during the
four years named the net revenue of India amounted in
English money to £20,404,230 in 1851-52 ; £20,047,425 in
1852-53 ; £20,328,862 in 1853-54 ; and (estimated)
£20,371,450 in 1854-55. The total charges on these years
were successively £19,872,965, £20,523,158, £22,372,979,
and £22,915,160. There was thus in 1851-52 an increase
of income over expenditure of £531,265 ; in 1852.53, this
increase amounted to the sum of £424,257. In 1853-54,
however, there was a deficit of £2,044,117, and according
to the estimate for 1854-55, this deficit was further increased
to the sum of £2,543,710.
THE PACIFIC NOT HEARD OF YET.—The Pacific has now
been out exactly fifty days, and still there are no tidings of
her. By many it was expected that something would have
been heard of her by the Arabia, but that anticipation has
la( en disappointed. A little reflection would have shown
that there was but slight probability of the latter vessel
either falling in with, or bringing any intelligence of, her.
If, as we believe, she is blocked up in the ice as far north as
between latitude 45 and 47, it was not likely that the
Arabia, running five or seven degrees to the south of her
usual course, as she was compelled to do, could have
approached within several hund• ed miles of her
track. In the case of this arrival, we look upon
Pacificmew ha tt
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indications of it would, in all probability, have been fallen
in with by this time. The long interval that has elapsed
since she has been heard of, is by no means incompatible
with the safety of the vessel ; although, of course, that of
her passengers will, under such circumstances, still depend
on the ample provisioning of the ship, and the length of
time that she may continue to be ice-bound. Weeks may
stil. elapse before any certain calculations can be formed as
to her tate, for as long as the extensive fields of ice, tracked
by the steamers Ar igo, Atlantic, and Baltic, hold
together, so long will there be a chance of her
safety. The fact of nothing having been heard
of the movements of the Arctic since she left,
confirms, we think, this view of the case. That vessel, it
will be recollected, was specially constructed for the navi-
gation of ice, is capable of resisting almost any amount of
pressure, and has therefore been able to penetrate pretty far
north. Had he met with any certain indications of the loss
of the Pacific, Lieutenant Hartstein would have immediately
returned to the nearest port. It may be that be has discov_
ere I her whereabouts but has been unable to reach her. It
may be that he is himself embargoed and cannot move. In
any case we look upon the non-return of Lieutenant Hart-
stein as confirming the hopes that we still continue to enter-
tain, of the safety of the Pacific, With the transference to
our latitude of an arctic climate, it is to be expected that we
should make acquaintance with some of the phenomenal
incidents of arctic adventure,—Noto York Iterald, March. 16.