The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

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all quarters preparations are being made. At
Paris to-day the Three Per Cent Rentes quieldy
improved a per cent higher than the closing quota-
tions of Tile Railway Share

Saturday

Market to-day was better, and this after
noon considerable buoyancy prevailed. The
following are the closing quotations :
Caledonian, 55 51. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10
3-16. East Lancashire, 71} Great Northern, 91.1
021. Do. A, 76 77. Great, Western, 57 574. Lan-
shiro and Yorkshire, 811 82. London and North
Western, 10q- Ma.noheste,l Sheffield, and Lin.
nshire, 24 25 Mi.lla.nd Stock, 691 70.

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North British, 21) 30. South Eastern and hover,
69 691 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 75 76.
York and North Midland, 51 52,

THE PROPOSED GOVERNMENT LOAN.

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Yesterday afternoon a large number of gentlemen con-
nected with the City assembled at the Treasury, for the
purpose of hearing from the Chancellor of the Exchequer
the particulars of the proposed loan. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, who was attende l by Lord Palmer-
ston and Mr. Wilson, read the following document :-
1. The Loan to be for the sum of five million pounds. 2.
Fir every £lOO subt,crihed in money, the contractors to re-
ceive 3 per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, and the biddings
to be made in such annuities. 3. The interest on the 3 per
Cent. Consolidated Annuities to commence from tha sth of
January, 1850. 4. The days of payment, and the propor-
tions of the contributions to he to be as follows:
On Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1856, deposit of £2O per cent.
Thursday, Mar. 13, „ payment of 25 „
Saturday, M:a. 29, „
• Thursday, April 10, „ )2 15 If
Thursday, April 24, „ 15 ~
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5. For each instalment after the deposit a proportional
amount of stock to be created for the contributors. The
stock for the deposit to be created at the same time
with that which will be due on the last instalment. 6.
Scrip receipts will be issued by the Bank in the usual manner.
7. The bddin.ss to he maee at the Treasury on Friday
morning, the 22nd Fib., 18.56, at 10 o'clock.
In answer to Baron Rothschild, the Chancellor of the
Esch( quoit stated, that no loan of any kind would be raised
pending the instalments. After some further conversation,
hut which elicited no fact of importance, the gentlemen
from the city reired.

MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMEILCE.—A few days
before the departure of Lo'd Clarendon for Pais, the
directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce sent a
memorial to his lordship, in which they referred to the
gross and culpable neglect of the interests of commerce at
the Vienna Conference of 1815, and expressed a hope that
during the coming negotiations at Paris advantage would
be taken by his lordship of any opportunity that might
arise to increase the number of outlets fir British com-
merce, and promoi.e its interests in any other way. A reply
promising most careful consideration of the suggestion has
been received.

The London Committee for promoting the establishment
of baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes has just
published a return showing the number of bathers and washers
at the establishments in town and country during the year
ending 31st December. From the document we extract the
information ea three heads, with respect to Liverpool :
At the establishment in Cornwallis-street there were during
the last year 144,527 bathers producing a return of
£1,902 14s. 6d ; at Paul-street, 55,401 bathers ; 12,381
washers, return £906 ; at St. George's Pier-head baths
54.460 bathers, return £1,911 53., and at Frederick-street,
16 463 washers, return £402 14s. 101
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday night an acci-
dent occurred near Doncaster on the Great Northern
Railway, which has terminated fatally. Immediately after
the -ap-express train leaves Doncaster, a train is despatched
to Retford and Lincoln. That train left, at the usual time,
5 20 p.m., and on approaching the Decoy-crossing, one
mile from Doncaster, the driver perceived something on
the no-line, but, it being dusk, was unable to make out
what it was. For safety he opened his whistle, as a warning
of the train's approach. On getting nearer he found that
it was a child, between two or three years old, upon the
railway, and, at the same moment, saw its mother, Mrs.
Gibbons, the gatekeeper's wife, cross over, and run after it,
she walking on the six foot. On seeing the danger in
which the child was placed the steam was turned off, and
the engine reversed as quickly as possible, but it was too
late. Mrs. Gibbons had just seized hold of the child when
the buffer struck them both at the same moment, killed the
cl ill en the spot, and the woman was knocked down.
When the train was brought to a stand, the guard returned
to the spot, and found the woman and child lying bleeding
on the line. Assistance was speedily procared from
Doncaster, and H. C. Fairbank, Esq., the company's
surgeon. was soon in attendance. He found that the poor
woman had been run over by the wheels of the train, which
had cut off her left foot below the knee, broken her collar
bone, two of her ribs, and the toes of her right foot, and
severely fractured her thigh. Not the slightest hope is
entertained of her recovery. as, beyond the injuries above-
narre-I, she is bruised internally
FXTRAORDINATIY Bumf.-

—The Siecle publishes the
ing extraordinary narrative :—" The Roe de Fau.
du Temple has been thrown into a state of great ex-
citement by an event of the most extraordinary kind. At
noun yesterday, at the moment when the corpse of a womln
named Aignenl, who had died at No. 65 in the street, was
being removed for interment, drops of blood were seen to
ooze out from the coffin. The undertaker ordered the
bearers to stop, and on the coffin being opened cries were
heard issuing from the bloody shroud with which the body
was enveloped. The spectators of this appalling scene were
deeply moved. Bat what was their astonishment, when on
the graveclot.hes being torn they saw that the deceased had
given birth to a child of the male sex. The child, nerfectly
well formed, was living. It was immediately consigner] to
the care of a nurse, and the interment of the mother• was
postponed far 24 hours."
Baron Rronow has had an interview with the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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Mr. Behnes has received a commission to execute a statue
of the late Mr. Edward B tines, of Leeds. The figure is to
he eiTht feet high. and the price is 700 guineas.

DIARILICAL C aIM s. —Notwithstanding the many contra-
dictions given to the report that a race-horse, named
Aclrifer, in training at Mr. John Scott's stables, at Mahon,
ha been destroyed by poison, which it is suspected was
intended for the horse Fly-by-Nieht, the fact is now placed
beveng doubt by a reward of X 2,00 being offered by Mr.
Scott for such information as shall lead to the apprehension
and conviction of the p3rson or persons by whom the poison
was administered, or especially of the person or persons
who caused it to be administered.
MALT Faanns.—Last week, at Enniscorthy, a discovery
of fraudulent malt manufacture was made in a singular
manner, by the revenue officers, at the house of John
Maguire, a schoolmaster. The manufactory in Maguire's
house was so inTeniously concealed that. notwithstanding
one of the officer's tact and great experience, the first
search proved unsu,cessful On their return the officers
observed, in passing through the school, that Maguire
had written for a cO,y, " Fear attends guilt," and the
trembling of his hand appearing to indicate that he had
written the sentiment feelingly, they determined to search
until they found, if that was NN ithin the range of possi-
bility. One stray barleycorn pointed out the way, and
a rack with a boarded back and duly laden with sundry
crocks was removed, an opening in the wall was dis-
covered, and then a cistern containing grain in operation,
and capable of holding 200 bushels.
MADAME GOLD4CTIMIDT'S CONCERTS AT BIRMINGHAM.—
At'the ballot on Wednesday for secured places for these
concerts, seventeen-hundred guinea seats were taken.
Lord Ward has accepted tha invitation of the Festival
Committee to become the President at both concerts.
his lordship is staying at Himley, and has intimated his
intention to take a large party to both performances.

"A reading room for the exclusive use of ladies has been
added to the Leeds library. The ladies entitled to the
privileges are the wives of the propietors and such ladies
of their families as subscribe ss. per annum.
Count de Lowenbjelm, Minister of Sweden and Norway
in Paris, has given in his resignation, which has been
accepted by King Oscar. He has occupied the post of
rogilent minister at Paris for 30 years.

'Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling, commanding the RIO
Indian station, is recalled from his command. it is stated
that this step has been taken at the pliant °Meer's ow•n
soli"itation.

COURAGEOUS CoprzucT.—An occurrence which recently
took place in the roads of Smyrna proves that our sailors
are not merely courageous before the enemy. The Ranni-
bal, Admiral Sir Houston Stewart's flagship, was in the
roads of Smyrna during a dark and squally night, when
one of the seamen aloft lost his footing and fell overboard.
Two of his messmates immediately sprang after him to
save him. One of the two was immediately carried by
the wind round the ship, into which he clambered on the
opposite side ; the other was seized with cramp, and must
have perished with his messmate had not the commander,
Captain Charles Wake, s^-rung to the rescue. The dark-
ness was so intense that it was impossible even to throw
the life-buoy with any certainty, and the noise of the
thunder and the wind so great that the shoats of the men
could not he heard. Fortunately a Sardinian boat was at
hand, and had lights on bo 4rd, by which they distinctly
saw Captain Wake in the water holding up both men.
Three persons were thus rescued from the death which
would otherwise hive been inevitable. _

"HE T{UCIELEY Porsortmo CASES.—Since the termina-
tion of the inquiries before thy Coroner, into the circum-
stances attendant upon t'e death of the persons, f r the
murder of whom William Rdmer has been
additionaleencommittedfo
trial on the C.;roner's inquisition, touch
infor-
mation has, we are informed, been obtained, and which will
of course, be produced at the trial. In order that the
prisoner trriy have every opportunity of knowing the
nature of this additional evidence, it is intended that the
elamination of the prisoner shall take Place before the
magistrates, on a day yet to be fixed, when the whole 'of
the evidence will be gone into, and the cases completed
for the presentation of bills of indictment to the Grand
Jury, at the ap-,roaching assizes. The hearing will take
place, we believe, in the County prison.-Begjordshirs
delvertiser.