The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-25 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING

There has been a good speculative demand for
Cotton to-day, and a good business has been the
result, the sales reaching 7,000 bales, one half
of which was taken for speculation. Prices

remain steady.
The Liverpool Share Market opened with a very
firm tone this morning, but dropped a little during
the day, and subsequently rallying and closing
firm at the following quotations :—Aberdeen, 14
141. Chester and Birkenhead, 161 161. Cale_
donian, 31i 317,-. Chester and Holyhead, 161 161,
Eastern Counties, 10 11. East_ Lancashire.

20-Z. 21. Great Northern, 24 24k. Ditto A, 91
ICt. Great Western, 62t 63. Lancashire and
Yorkshire Stock, 95 961. Liverpool, Crosby,
and Southport, 171 18. London and North
Western Stock, 1041 1041_ Manchester, Sheffield,

and Lincoln, 32 321-, Ditto New 6 per cent.
Pref , 9-16 ap. Ditto Pref., 11',1, 12. Midland
Stock, 811, 811. North British, 98 91-
North Staffordshire, 6 50. South Eastern and
Dover, 22i 22 5-16 . York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 211 211. York and North Midland, 3011
30,1-. Leeds Capital Stock, 19 191. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 1Z lap. Dutch Rhenish, 1 13-16 lip,
Great Western of Canada, 20 5-16 26 7 16. Ditto
New Shares, 31 3 9-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 81
81d.
The Corn Alarket maintains its firmness, but the
higher rates demanded this morning had the effect
of checking business, the amount of which was
small in consequence.
Messrs. Brown, Hunter, and Company, in their
monthly circular issued this day, remark :
The increased activity that was observable in our Produce
Markets last month has been fully maintained since, and a
more healthy tone pervades business generally. The trans-
actions, which have been on an extensive scale, have been
confined chiefly to the trade, with the exception of Sugar
and Rice, which, assisted by speculation, show an improve.
ment in value; the stock of the latter, however, being so
much in excess of last year, and a continuance of further
heavy supplies being expected, it is doubtful whether the
upward tendency will continue, unless the prospects of the
forthcoming harvest should prove:less propitious than they
are regarded at present. In the early part of the month
considerable uneasiness prevailed in consequence of the
unfavourable aspect of our diplomatic relations with the
United States, and the dismissal of our Minister from
Washington, which had a temporary effect in causing a
speculation in the Cotton Market, and raising prices of Ame-
can -,td to id per lb. ; on the other hand, it retarded a more
decided improvement in other branches of business, which
might otherwise have been expected from the beneficial
change that has taken place in monetery affairs. Happily
the differences between the two governments appear likely
to be arranged without disturbing the friendly intercourse
and interrupting commercial relations between the two
countries. The great increase in the stock of bullion at the
Bank of England, which is now £11,437,210, against
£9,158,820 at the same period last month, has created
more confidence in commercial circles. The equalisation of
the rate of discount on bills from 7 to 6 per cent. on the
22nd ultimo, was followed by a further reduction to 5 per
cent. on the 29th ultimo ; and from the large arrivals of
specie which have taken place, amounting to upwards of a
million during the past week, a further reduction must of
necessity be made shortly,—deferred probably until after the
payment of the next instalment of ORO million on the late
loan is completed, which becomes due on the 28th instant ;
the monetary restrictions which have fettered trade for so
long being thus removed, a more permanent amendment in
business generally is likely soon to be established.
Messrs. Hughes and Ronald's sale of 2,146 bales
of East India Wool took place this afternoon, and
attendance being good an active competition was
created, and with the exception of three lots the
whole was disposed of at very good prices.
There has been a buoyant feeling in the Man-
chester Goods Market to-day, and a better business
has been done in both goods and yarns, at prices
higher than could have been obtained a week ago.
The following is a statement of the Traffic
Receipts of the Great Western Railway of Cannda,
by passenger and goods trains, for the week ending
the 6th of June, 1856, and for the corresponding
period last year :—Week ending 6th June, 1856,
total receipts, £10,197 is 5d ; week ending Bth
June, 1855, total receipts, £7,948 Ils 8d; increase,
£2,248 9s 9d. Aggregate gross receipts from the
commencement of the current half-year to date
£215,477 13s 2d sterling ; do. for the corresponding
period last year, £152,693 16s 10d, do.
Accounts from St. Petersburg state that, in con-
sequence of advices from Western Europe of a rise
in wheat, the grain market there has suddenly
become active, and wheat has advanced in price.
On the arrival of the news, 30,000 tchetwerts were
sold for export, and the prices obtained was a
slight improvement on previous rates.
The movement in France in the precious metals
during the three years, 1853, 1854, and 1855,
shows that there has been an unceasing drain of
money from France, chiefly in gold imported from

England. Thus during that period the import of
gold amounted to 1,180,400,000 f, of whirth
256,800,000 f left the country, and 923,600,000 f

remained in circulation ; while the amount of
silver exported during that period was 811,100,000 f,
and only 333,300,000 f received. The result of this
has been'to decrease the circulation of silver, and
increase that of gold.

The principal topic of conversation among par-
ties interested in the Australian tra le is the deci-
sion of the government now hourly expected
relative to the tenders recently submitted for the
conveyance of the mails to and from the colonies
Very few offers it is believed have been made, and
a fear is freely expressed that none of them
embrace the Panama route, which every one seems
ready to admit is the easiest and most advanta-
geous. The Point de Galle route, which appears
the pet scheme of the government, bears no corn
parison with that by way of Panama, and the latter
has this most striking advantage, namely that half
the distance to Australia is regularly performed by
the Royal Mail Steam Company's West India
vessels ; so that a line of steamers is only requisite
to trade between Panama and Victoria to complete
the entire line of communication. Most parties
are in favour of this course, and, above all, its
eligibility is recognised by the Australian people.
The result of the tenders is natually waited for
with much anxiety.
The annexed are the closing quotations of
the Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11
18 to 11 181. Do., three months, 12 181 to 12 181
Rotterdam, do ,12 l 8 to 12 181. Antwerp, do.,
25 5711 to 25 621. Brussels, do., 25 57i to 25 621.
Hamburg, do., 13 91 to 13 91. Paris, short,
25 30 to 25 35. Do., three months, 25 671
to 25 721. Marseilles, do., 25 07i to 25 72k.
Frankfort, ilo , 120 to 1201. Vienna, do., 10
17 to 10 20. Trieste, do., 10 18 to 10 22•
Petersburg, do., 37/ to 371. Madrid, do., 401 to 49k.
The Funds are maintained at the extreme point of
the late improvement, but the upward tendency is
restrained by the diversion of speculator's atten-
tion to other departments of the .Stock Exchange,
and by the supply of stock from the new. loan.
Consols closed to-day the same as yesterday, being
almost stationary throughout the day. The final
quotations were, 94 94. In some of the markets
there was a little disposition this afternoon to
realize the profits presented by the recent
rise, but, on the whole, the reaction
is unusually trifling, the satisfactory appear-
ance of monetary affairs giving the market
a very strong basis. In the Stock Exchange to-day
money continued easy, notwithstanding the prepa-
ration for Saturday's instalment of 1,000,0001. on
the New Loan. Out of doors the general corn
menial demand was more active, but the current
rates are still decidedly below the Bank minimum.
The Faris Bourse at length exhibits a rally of
about 1 per cent. Railway Shares generally have
slightly given way from the previous high prices.
The following were the closing quotations :
Caledonian, 621 622. Eastern Counties, 101 10Z-.
East Lancashire, 83 85. Great Northern, 951 96.
Ditto A, 78 79. Lancashire and Yorkshire, osk 968.
London and North Western, 104 1041. Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 31 321. Midland Stock,
814 82. North British, 371 381. South Eastern
and Dover, 74 741. York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
851 86. York and North Midland, 001. 611.

LONDON GAZETTE.

BANKRUPT S.—CHANNON SEARLE, Warwick-street,
Pimlico, baker. GEORGE WEST, Cythorne, Kent, grocer.
THOMAS ALFRED YOUNGS, Hastings, hotel-keeper, and
wholesale wine and spirit merchant. JAMES BENTALL,
Great Bettley, Essex, grocer and draper. SAMUEL
BENNETT, Wellington-place, Southampton-street, Cam-
berwell, tailor and draper. THOMAS GEORGE WATTS,
Manor-terrace, Manor-street, Clapham, coal merchant.
WILLIAM COPELAND STRANGE, Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire, bricklayer, and builder. THOMAS TRUMAN,
Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, ironmonger.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

DEATH OF COUNT ESTERHAZY.

A despatch dated Berlin, yesterday, announces
the death of Count Esterhazy, the Ambassador of
Austria at the Prussian court.

. ,
The melancholy event took place yesterday, and
inflamation of the lungs is assigned as the
proximate cause of the decease of his Excellency.

PENINSULAR MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Tagus, with the Peninsular mails, has arrived.
Her dates are Gibraltar, June 15; Cadiz, June
16 ; Lisbon, June 19 ; Oporto, Juno 20 ; and Vigo,
June 21. .

The Tagus brings X 2,200 in specie, and sixty
eight passengers.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING

The Emperor will, I hear, leav e Paris for Plom-
bieres on the 28th, or the 2nd July. Count de
Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is to go to
Wiesbaden to take the waters the day after
to-morrow. The approaching departure from
Paris both of the Emperor and of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs is a proof that no important
political question is on the tapis, or is expected to
arise.

The Emperor and Empress to-day took the
Prince Regent of Baden and the Duchess Ste-
phanie of Baden to Versailles, to show them the
palace and grounds, and to pass a review of the
numerous regiments of cavalry stationed in that
town. Lord Rokeby, one of our Crimean generals,
was present at the review. A breakfast at the
Trianon followed, and Lord Rokeby was invited
to it. After it, the Emperor walked for some time,
arm in arm with his lordship.
The Prince Regent of Baden is to go to the
opera to-night, and he is to leave Paris on
Wednesday.

Another delay will, it is said, take place in the
departure of Count de Morny for St. Petersburg,
as Ambassador Extraordinary ; instead of going
at the beginning of next month, it is alleged that
he will not leave before the 10th or 12th.

A company, with a capital of 20,000,000 fr.
(X 800,000), in 500 fr. shares, for bringing English
coal to Paris and the valley of the Seine, by means
of vessels of a peculiar construction, for which a
patent has been taken out—is advertised in the
papers to-day.
A trifling improvement has taken place on the
Bourse, but things still continue in a bad state.

The absence of Lady Cowley, our Ambassadress,
from several recent court receptions, balls, and
dinners, has been a good (I,=!al talked of. The
reason of it is believed to be, that she objects to
the Duchess of Hamilton taking precedence of
her—a thing she has been allowed to do, as a
Princess of Baden and a relative of the Imperial
family. Lady Cowley thinks, it appears, that as
the wife of an ambassador who represents the
person of the Sovereign, she ought to take the lead
of the wife of one of that Sovereign's subjects.
The matter may be of stupendous, and even awful
importance in courtly eyes, but to the ordinary
public, I fear it will appear very silly.
The public has been not a little surprised, on
learning, this morning through a Brussels news-
paper, that the Emperor (on Friday) caused a bill
to be presented to the Council of State, preparatory
to its transmission to the Legislative Body, for
granting a pension of 200,000 fr (8,0001) to each of
the daughters of King Louis Philippe, or the
children or representatives of such as are dead.
The Emperor was supposed to entertain such a
bitter hatred of the Orleans family in general,
and of each member of it in particular, as to bo
incapable of doing them, or any of them, any act
of kindness, or even of justice; but, in this respect,
as in so many others that concern him, he has
proved the public to be mistaken. The ostensible
object of the grant is, that some reparation is due
to the Princesses for the serious loss they have sus-
tained by the confiscation of their royal father's
property, immediately after the coup d'etat of
December. As usual in such cases, the Emperor's
motives are diversely interpreted. Some say that
he-has made the grant from an impulse of the
noblest generosity ; others, that it is nothing
better than a piece of cold political calculation, to
humiliate the Orleans family with the acceptance
of a favour;at his hands—or, by refusing it, to suffer
distress.
The Free Trade Association of Brussels has
summoned,a grand International Congress, for the
purpose of promoting Customs' Reform, to be held
in that city for the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th September
next.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.

The Rev. Patrick King, curate of Aston, is now in
custody at Solihull, ne tr Birmingham, on a very serious
charge. He is accused of having, on the 30th day of May
last, wilfully and maliciously attempted to murder a male
child named Arthur ; and a half sister of the rev. defendant,
the mother of the child in question, is also in custody, on
the charge of allowing her illegitimate child to become
chargeable to the parish of Solihull.
Strange rumours are afloat as to the paternity of the
child, which, however, in the absence of positive confirma-
tion, it may be premature to mention. Of the antecedents
of the prisoner but little is known, though we have been
informed that he at one time was connected with the
Church of Rome, from which he seceded, and became
connected with the Established Church of this country, as
one of the curates of the parish of Aston, near Birmingham.
It appears that some months back, the mother of the
child in question,
in the
is a Miss Downes, late of Coventry,
came to reside the Park-road, Aston, near to the
apartments occupied by the prisoner, who is a single
man. It was represented in the neighbourhood th it Miss
Downes was a married lady, and about seven weeks ago
she gave birth to a male child, the subject of the present
enquiry. During her confinement she was waited upon
by Mrs. Jones, a widow, residing in Aston, who having
the entire management of the infant, it was nursed by her
daughter, an intelligent girl of about twelve years of age.
On the 30th May, the prisoner called at the house of Mrs.
Jones for the child, stating that he was going to take it
to its mother, who was in the country. Mrs. Jones, with
a kindly feeling for the child, offered to accompany Mr.
King with it, and see the mother, but he declined her
assistance, and added that the daughter could carry the
child for him. He then placed the infant and the
daughter of Mrs. Jones in a cab, which he
engaged from Mr. Clamps, of the Aston-road,
ordering the driver to take the road:leading to Stratford-
upon-Avon. When about two miles beyond Hockley
House, and about twelve miles from Birmingham, he
ordered the man, Frederick Edwards, who was driving, to
pull up. He then got out of the cab with the girl and the
infant in her charge, and they proceeded some little dis—
tance along the road. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Jones's
daughter returned by herself, stating that Mr. King had
sent her back to sit in the cab and wait till he returned.
No notice was taken of this ; but on her return Mrs.
Jones asked her daughter where the child was, to which
she replied that Mr. King had taken it from her in the
road after leaving the cab, pointing out to her the house
where the mother of the child was then living. The matter
remained in statu quo for some days, till Mr. King having
hurriedly left the neighbourhood, the cabman, Edwards,'
who had not been paid his fare, finding that Mr. King was a
single gentleman, intimated his suspicion to his master,
that the child had not been fairly dealt with. Mr. Clamp
then waited upon Mr. Peake, the Vicar of Aston, and
also upon Mr. Roberts, the parish clerk, and com.
mnnicated the information he had received from Edwards,
and on Saturday last those gentlemen went over to the
spot shown to them by the cabman as that where Mr.
King left the cab with the child, and returned without it.
Enquiries were then made by them, and they found that
within a quarter of an hour of the time stated by
Edwards, a child, answering the description of the one
taken by Mr. King, was discovered close to the bank. of
a brook. Enquiries were then made, resulting in the tact
being ascertained that the infant was at the time an inmate
of the Solihull Workhouse, having been conveyed there
when found in the unprotected state in which it had
been left. On Sunday, Mrs. Jones and her daughter
infant
was sent to Solihull Workhouse, when the
was at once identified by the former as the child,
at whose birth she had been present ; the clothes,
also, in which it was dressed when found on ,the brook
side, being the same worn by the infant when taken
from her house by the prisoner. A warrant was then
issued for the apprehension of Mr. King for the attempted
murder of the child, and another against Miss Downes for
allowing it to become chargeable to the parish. These
warrants were placed in the hands of Superintendent
William Hall, of the Aston Manor police force, and on
Monday night he apprehended both parties at Coventry.
Yes erday they were taken to Solihull, but in the absence
of the boy who found the child by the brook, and some
other important witnesses in the case, the enquiry was
adjourned:to one o'clock this day (Wednesday).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY,
The House met at five o'clock.
LAW OE DIVORCE.

Lord LYNDHURST brought up the report of the select
committee on the law of divorce, and gave notice that on
Thursday next he should move to refer the subject to a
committee of the whole House. _ _

The Joint Stock Companies' Bill went through com-
mittee.
The Factories Bill also went through committee.
The report of amendments to the Police Counties and
Boroughs Bill was received.

SLEEPING STATUTES BILL.
Earl FORTESCUE moved the second reading of the
Sleeping Statutes Bill.
Lord CAMPBELL and the Lord CHANCELLOR supported
the motion, which was agreed to without opposition.
The Annuities Redemption Bill and the Transfer of
Works (Ireland) Bill went through committee.
The West India Loans Bill was read a third time and
passed

OATEI OF ABJITRXTION (No. 2) BILL.
The Earl of DERRY moved the second reading of the
Oath of Abjuration Bill, and stated that it was introduced
in consequence of the rejection of the bill on the subject
on the previous evening. Its object was to provide an'
Oath of Abjuration in which no mention was made of the
family of the Pretender There was now no member of
the Stuart family living, and it was not only unnecessary
but blasphemous to continue the bill as it then was
framed. _ _ _ _

4.44.0-•,••
Lord CAMPBELL supported, and the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE objected to the measure:

The bill was then read a second time
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Cleobury North, &c., District Roads Bill, the Con-
way and Llandudno Road Bill, and Rhosydd Railway
Bill, were read a third time and passed.

NAWAB OF SURAT TREATY BILL.

Sir F. KELLY moved the third reading of this bill, and
in doing so said her Majesty's Government, by the com-
promise they had offered, acceded to the justness of the
claim—the only opposers now to the bill being the East
India Company. _ _ _

Sir J. W. HOGG moved the third reading of the bill that
day six months. He said that if her Majesty's Govern-
ment had come to the conclusion on this claim mentioned
by the hon. and- learned gentleman they ought to be
ashamed of themselves, having for ten years past
maintained an opposite opinion. (Laughter.) The case
was first decided by Lord Ellenborough in India, and
that decision had been acted on by Lord Ripon, Lord
Roden, Lord Dalhousie, Sir C. Wood, and his right hon.
friend the President of the Board of Control (Mr. V.
Smith). He contended that under this treaty the
present claimants had no right in law or equity, and it
was never eontemplated they should. The compromise
of the Government, to use no harsher term, was
discreditable. The hon. and learned gentleman again
complained that the proper course had not been
taken by the promoters of the bill to decide this claim, and
said the committee were divided on it, and the preamble of
the bill stated that the amounts should be paid to the
heirs under the treaty, to which he agreed, but the com-
mittee declined to decide who were the heirs. After
adverting to the historical part of the question, and enter-
ing fully into the general circumstances of the claim, he
said his experience in this case would make him cautious
in future how he trusted to the slippery support of the
Government. This was not a private treaty for private
purposes, but a treaty between two political parties for
political purposes, and did not give rights to heirs natural,
but to " heirs and successors " to the political authority
the Nawab possessed at the time of signing the treaty.
Mr. V. SMITH defended the conduct of the Government
in reference to this question, which he said had been
dictated with moderation and a desire to do justice to all
parties interested. The hon. and learned baronet had
taunted him (Mr. Smith) with receding from the opinions
of his predecessors on this question, but he begged to
inform him and the house that he (Mr. Smith) did not
consider himself bound by their opinions, and with regard
to the opinion expressed by the hon. and learned baronet
on the conduct of the Government, the greatest embar-
rassment he (Mr. Smith) felt was in bandying compli-
ments with him, or he might have retorted on him that
he much regretted he had rested on the slippery support
of the Directors of the East India Company. (Laughter.)
The right lion. gentleman again entered at length into the
course he had adopted and the opinions he had formed on
this claim, and said that he proposed a compromise last
week, becausejt had hitherto been treated in that manner,
and reiterated his opinion that this question ought not to
be settled by a private bill, but by an address to the
Crown.
Mr. G. BUTT and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL supported,
and Mr. LowE opposed the bill.

Upon a division, there appeared—
For the bill
Against it

Majority lB5
The bill was accordingly read a third time and passed,
The sitting was then suspended.
On resuming, at six o'clock, a motion was made that
the House be counted, and there being only 38 members
present, the House was adjourned until to-morrow (this
day), at twelve o'clock.