The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

illustrations, concluded with an eloquent defence of the tem-
perance cause as a truly Scriptural movement, and a warm
invocation for the sympathy and the advocacy of the christian
church. Enthusiastic applause greeted him as he resumed
his seat. _ _

It was annonnced by the chairman, that Mr. Gough would
address a meeting of ladies in that room, at twelve o'clock this
day.
The chairman proposed the thanks of the meeting to Mr.
Gough, which were accorded by acclamation.
Thanks were also passed, on the motion of Rev. Francis
Bishop, to the chairman.
The assembly then dispersed.

MEETING OF CREDITORS AT THE MALVCHES-
THE DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

MONDAY, 19th DECEMBER. :—Bladon and Coates, Stuff
Merchants, Manchester, assignees, 12; John Lowther Ward,
Cotton Spinner, Fullage, Burnley, assignees, 12.
TUESDAY, 20th :--William Bennett, Cotton-spinner,

Hebden Bridge, Horwich, petition, 11 ; Isaac Fineberg,
Jeweller, &c., Manchester, adjd. last examination, 12 ; Joiihua
Bowker, Innkeeper, Hyde, dividend, 12.
WEDNESDAY, 2lst :—Hetherington and Scholes, Joiners
and Builders, Manchester, certificate, 12 ; Thomas Lawson,
Draper, Bury, dividend, 12 ; Peter Bury, Calico Printer,
Manchester, audit, 12; William Salmon, Leather-seller, ditto
12; Wm. Hough, Joiner and Builder, Rochdale, adjourned
audit, 12.
FRIDAY, 23rd :—William Holme, Cotton Manufacturer,
Manchester, choice of assignees g,12.

BANKRUPTS.
(From the London Gazette of Last Night.)
CLAUDIUS ALFRED, serivenerOlillins, Old Change London.
—Tmomes ARCHER, woollen draper, Braintree, Essex.—
DAVID EDWARDS and WM. BISHOPS, builders, llantland-
road, Camden-town, Middlesex.—DAzarz ANTROBUS, share-
broker, Mandl ester.

THE FUNDS, STOCK AND
CLOSI

SNARE MARKET, LONDON
G PRICES.
Friday, December 16th, 1853.
London and N. W 1031 4
London and S. W 774 Si
Manchester, Sheffield, &
Lincolnshire 1
Midland Stock 63i 4i
North British 34 5

ENGLISH MARKET.

Consols Account :: 94}
Do. Money
Bank Stock
Exchequer Bills, L. :: )3 6 pm
Do-
Three and a Quarter per
cent. 6si 6}
RAILWAY SHARES.

Do. Preference
Norfolks
North Staffordshire
Shrewsbury and Birm.
Do. L. and N. W. guar.
South E. and Dover 63 4
York. New., and Ber 64 5

Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Eastern Junction .. 5i I
Caledonian

Do. Preference
Bristol and Exeter

Do. Extension
Yorkpo
Do.
andPreferenceFPreferenceoitE Northi FOREIGN
NM
STOCKS.i d :. 4489 id i s
Mexican 241 1
Spanish New Deferred 46* 1
Do. Passives 22
Do. Threes 41
Russians
Do. U7 a
LAND SHARES.
Agricultural 45 7
North B. Australian ... • I I
Peel River
South Australia

East Anglian
astern Counties 131 i
East Lancashire 65 7
Eastern Union, A
Do B. & C
Edinbro' & Glasgow ..
Great Northern B4l 5i
A.

Great Western 83a 4
Lancashire & Yorkshire 671 8/

Do. Fifths
Leeds Northern 134
London Brighton and
South Coast

SHARE MARKETS.—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL.—We have had a fair market to-day,
and prices have been tolerably steady, and closed firm. The
following were the transactions :—Blackburn, SA--; Caledo-
nian, 28 281; Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 671 68.;
London and North Western, 1031 ; Ditto Fifths, p 1 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Stock, 251; Midland,
631 64 641.8 ; North British, 8a; South Eastern Stock,
19 1-16 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 161. The closing
prices were as follow :—Caledonian, 211 a ; Eastern
Counties, 13-s- 2 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 68 1 ; London
and North Western, 1031 4; Midland, 64 1 ; North British,
85 ; South Eastern, 19 1-16 ; York and North, 241 ;
Sheffield Stock, 251 Q.
MANCHESTER.—The following was the business done
to-day :—Caledonian, 281 1; Cork, Blackrock, and Passage,
x.d. ; East Lancashire, 161; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
68 8 8 1; Ditto, Fifths, 62d ; London and North Western
M and B Qrs C, 5-16 p; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, 251 ; Ditto, pref. 71- per cent., 101 ; Ditto, new
£6 pref., 5-16 p ; Midland, 641 4 1 4 ; North British, 88 ;
North Staffordshire, 5-14 ; South Eastern, 19 1-16 8.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The supply of BEASTS yesterday was very extensive and
in good condition. The BEEF trade ruled heavy, at barely
Monday's prices. SHEEP moved off slowly, but we have no
change to notice in their value. CALVES, the supply of
which was very limited, moved off steadily, and prime VEAL
advanced 2d ig 8 lbs. There was a fair inquiry for PIGS, at
full currencies. Mimi' Cows was very dull, at from £l4
to El 9 each, including their small calf.

A respectably dressed lady was knocked down by a horse
and cart in Parliament-street, on Thursday. Fortunately
she escaped with a slight bruise.
AcciDENT.—Yesterdav James Davies, bricklayer, living:
in Peacock court, Newsham-street,
m a staircase while
employed in a building recently erected in Cable-street, and
severely fractured his ribs. He is at present an inmate of
the Northern Hospital.
Canurrr MOVEMENTS.-A cabinet council will be held at
the foreign office to. day. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in
London, from Osborne, yesterday evening. Sir James
Graham arrived in London on Thursday night. The Chan:
cellor of the Exchequer was expected last evening.
Dispatches were] sent off last evening from the colonial
office to the governors of the West India Islands and
the governor-general of Canada. Dispatches were received
yesterday morning from the governors of the West India
Islands. _ _ _ _ _

On Thursday night, a warehouse in Duke-street, Cannon-
street, Manchester, was discovered to be on fire,.but from
the well-directed exertions of the police, it was extinguished
without doing much injury.
COMPLIMENTARY AND SELF-DENYING.—The New York
Freeman's Journal, in announcing the election of Mr. Peter
Dawson, the democratic member elect to the Assembly for
the twelfth district, says, "We congratulate Mr, Dawson
on his election, though we thereby lose a most reliable and
excellent carrier of our paper."
There are in the Manchester Royal Infirmary, 172
patients, as many out door, and 61 home patients. The
lunatic infirmary holds 51.
An elderly man, named Wardle, was fined £2O yesterday
at the Manchester police court, for having a quantity.
of silk in his possession, for which he could not account. He
was a cotton shawl weaver from Stockport. The silk protec-
tive society prosecuted.
A tradesman, named Mathew Coulters, in Strand-street,
Deansgate, Manchester, has been fined £2 10s., for having
in his possession what purported to be a 21b. weight, but
which weighed only 11 ounces.
POSTAL ECONOMY.—By the withdrawal of the Rotterdam
and Hamburg mail packets, £17,000 a year will be saved to
the country. The whole of the correspondence for the con-
tinent will now enter by two ports only—viz., Calais and
Ostend. The withdrawal of the above-named packets has
been rendered practicable, owing to the increase of railroads
on the continent. A large number of countries in Europe
which used to have a communication with England twice a
week only, have now a daily communication, in consequence
of the new arrangements.
ALLOWANCE FOR SPOILED STAMPS.—The following im-
portant notice was issued yesterday by order of the Commission-
ers of stamps (inland revenue), that, after Saturday, the 24th
inst., all receipt stamps rendered useless by the new penny re-
ceipt stamp act, wil only bel allowed for as spoiled stamps on
the following days, viz., Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
between the home of twelve and two o'clock in the afternoon.
Until the 14th inst., persons having any quantity of the old
stamps (which have become useless by the new penny stamp)
may have them exchanged daily (Monday excepted), from
twelve till two p.m. The greatest:activity still prevails in what
is called the " dry stamping department" of the stamp-office in
taking off the new stamps, and several extra hands are employed,
so as to enable the commissioners to comply with the large or-
ders they receive daily from every part of the country.
CARDINAL WisEmAx.—An important ceremony is about
to take place at Rome in regard to two clergymen from
England, for the first time, it is believed, since the period of
the Reformation. His Holiness has, at the instance of
Cardinal Wiseman, granted them a personal private
audience. It is understood to be at present arranged for the
Cardinal to return to England after Christmas for the
purpose of actively resuming his sacerdotal functions in this
country.
A BOY DROWNED THROUGH THE ICE.—An inquest was
held, on Thursday, at Aspull, near Wigan, by Mr. Rutter,
county coroner, on view of the body of a boy named John
Stock, 9 years of age. On Monday the deceased and some
other boys were sliding on an old pit, called Scrafe's Lode,
which was frozen over. The deceased remained on the ice
longer than the rest of the boys, and as he was getting, off
the ice gave way, and he fell through. He succeeded in
keeping himself up some time, during which his brother,
who is only 12 years old, went into the water and endeavored
to pull him out. Unfortunately, however, he could not,
and but for the aid of some other boys who were on the
bank, he also would have been drowned. The deceased,
was seen to sink under the ice, and his body was not re-
covered until some time after the accident.—Verdict,
"Accidental Death."

ROBBERY BY A PORTER AT THE PALATINE HOTEL,
MANCHESTER.—Yesterday, at the Manchester city police
court, porter at the Palatine Hotel, Hant's Bank, was
brought before the magistrates on a charge of having robbed
his employer, Mr. Wm. Smith, the proprietor of the hotel.
On the previous night, in consequence of some suspicion
entertained against the prisoner, a detective officer of police
was concealed, by instructions of Mr. Boswick, Chief Super-
intendent of Police, in a closet in the bar of the hotel.
After all the inmates had gone to bed the prisoner came
down stairs, forced up the bar window, with a table-knife,
opened the till, and took out some money. The officer then
came from his hiding place and pounced upon the prisoner.
On searching him he found that the prisoner had taken 255. in
silver, which Mr. Smith had marked before he went up
stairs to bed. On a further search he found upon him sonic
cigars, a glass, and some other property. The table-knife
with which the window was forced open was bent. Com-
mitted to the sessions.