The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

A LEGAL ADVICE GIVEN WITH IDT A FEE.—Patrick
Ryan, and James Nealy, were charged with stealing a
quantity of ropes from a ship in the docks. The most
remarkable feature about the case was this.—Mr. Goodier
appeared for the prisoners, and, on cross-examination of the
officer, he said the prisoners were leaving the dock with a
donkey cart, and in it, under some rubbish, he found the
ropes. Mr. Gaodier : They told you they h,,d the ropes ?
No ; but they told me they had rubbish, and after I found
the ropes they told me. (Laughter.) Mr. G.)odit-:r : Then
I should advise all men to he dishonest in future, for there
is no use in a man telling the truth to policemen to render
them assistance ! The prisoners were remanded.
Ax ESCAVE.—Robert Sutcliffe, and Mary Bralie, two
persons who were very well dressed, were brought up by
Scaife and Thompson on the following charge.—lt appeared
tha►, about ten o'clock the previous night, the officers saw
the woman in Soho-street, in campany of a gentleman
The male prisoner, and another man not in custod

fallowing them. They knew the woman to be a" sweetner,"
and the men " bludgetters," and they suspected all was not
right—they watched their movements. The woman, after
a good deal of " parley," induced the gentleman
to go into Soho-square, out of which tl•lere was
no egress. The two men stole on " tip toe" after
them, and, in a few moments, the woman ga-re a
loud cough, and the gentleman then made his appeara! ce,
when the officers rushed on the parties and arrested the
prisoners, but the second man got away. They asked the
gentleman if he had lost anything ? and he at first replied
that he had not, but, in a few minutes after, he came and
said his purse was gone. Mr. Muck (for the prisoners):
`Where is the gentleman ? He lives in Bi,kenhesd, arid
will suffer the loss rather than come here ; he is afraid his
name would get into the papers. Hr. Blink : Then there
is an end to the case. In reply to his Worship, the officers
said the purse was not found, but they had no doubt that
the man who got off had the purse. Mr. Black: That is
not evidence ; the prisoners must be discharged, as the
charge is one of felony, and there is no evidence to sustain
it. Thompson said that the prisoners were locked up as
suspicious persons. Mr. Bluck : That won't do. Mr.
Alderman Turner : They have had a very narrow escape.
Discharge them. If they come here again, they will be
severely punished,
AN INGENIOUS DEFENCE.—John Thompson, with about
sixty aliases, was charged with having stolen five sheets of
copper from the ship Lady Blessington, in the
Clarence Graving dock. The prisoner was stopped leaving
the dockgate, with the copper tied round his body. The
defence set un by the prisoner was as follows :—" Yester-
day evening I went into the docks, where I met the officir
674, and he told me to go and steal the copper, and he
would make it all right by passing me out of the dock.
There was a woman in the hut with him drinking whiskey ;
and I went and got another bottle of whiskey, and we had
a pull at it. I went and got the copper; and whilst I
was away the woman and officer quarrelled, and she said
she would "peach" on him, and then, in order to screen
himself, he arrested me." This story, well told as it was,
was proved to be a pure invention ; and it was shown that
the prisoner was a weekly visitor to the court for the last
three years. lie was fully committed for trial.

BEFORE MESSRS. TURNER AND R. BENN

VIOLENT ASSAULT.--A young man, who would come
under the common designation of " a highly respectable
gentleman," who gave his name as James Tunstall, a
salesman, residing in Canning street,was charged by a young
female, named Elizabeth M'Convery, for having committed
a violent assault upon her. From the evidence it appeared
that, about two o'clock in the morning, the prisoner met the
prosecutor in North street, and, without any provocation, as
she stated, he struck her several violent blows on the face
with a stick, which he held in his hand. An alarm was
raised, and the prisoner, after a sharp chase, was captured
in Williamson square. The girl's face had marks of very
severe usage. In reply to the cilarge, the prisoner alleged
that the girl had robbed him, and he gave her a tap of a
stick, when she returned him half a crown, and then he gave
her another, when she returned him a second half crown,
and, out of revenge, she charged him. The girl denied the
statement as utterly untrue. Tne Magistrates said the
assault was an atrocious one, and they therefore infFcted a
fine of £5, or, in default of payment, two months'
imprisonment.

MR. ERNEST JONES' NEW POLITICAL
DODGE.

OUR TRADE WITH BRAZIL.

From an annual Blue Book of the trade of various
countries, just issued, we have an interesting return of the
commerce of the empire of the Brazils. In reference to the
export trade, the relative value and position of the same
.
countries stands thus : Great Britain, 42 per cent',
Hanseatic towns, 12 per cent. ; France, 11 per cent.; and
Portugal 10 per cent. From the table of the exports of
sugar it appears that the production of that staple has net
as yet been influenced by the abolition of the slave trade, al.l
the increase or decrease seems to have depended upon local
circumstances, or influences of climate and seasons. Fon'
1811 to 1845, inclusive, the average annual export was
36,000 tons; from 1846 to 1850 it was 47,500 tons ; aeu
from 1851 to 1835 it was 48,100 tons. The Warta"
tion of the next meet valuable of Brazilian products—coffee
—has also increased c-msiderably, the average of the three
yea's from 1841 to 1843 being 9,748 bags annually;
1844 to 1846, 16,435 bags ; from 1847 to 1849, 21,45
bag- ; from 1850 to 1852, 25,084 bags ; and from
1853 to 1855, 33,558 bags. Toe production of coifee
has increased as that of cotton has diminished;
and was fostered by the gradual rise of priees, WhiL
continued from 1841 to 1854. In 1855 the exports rur
to no less than 56,476 bags, and hence the high everfe.
of the last triennial period. Of this large quant,„l?
12,193 bags were exported to Great Britain. .1
thoug
exports of cocoa shows a progressive increase,
1841 tonot so remarkably as those of coffee. From
1843, the annual average exportation was 1,380 bet'
from 1844 to 1846, it was 2,780 bags ; from 1847 to 18"
3,860 bags ; from 1850 to 1852 , 5,150 bags ; and from
1853 to 1855, 6,820 bags. In the last ag
mentioned Year
the quantity exported was 7,100 bags, of which 4,144 beg"
or considerably more than half, came to this wenn
The exportation of hides rose progressively during the Is
Greet Britain increasing in the same period from 2,87'!
five years from 90,040, to 134,231, the proportion taken etio
12,921. The production of rum is also steadily increasing
and has more than doui,led within the last fourteen Ye
l:
was 4,300 pipes ; from 1844 tt",' 1846 it was 7,700 PJPaes2e
From 1841 to 1843 the average annual exportt
from 1847 to 1849, 7,300
pipes; from 1850 to ee
rislere
8,000 pipes ; and from 1333 to 1855, 9,500 pipes ; d
in the lest-mentioned year to 10,575 pipes,. The reeet
in
pricing feature of this article is, that ite .
increase
ale
value has far more than kept pace with the Pere-ly
of production, the former, at the end of 185,5, being 11"*.4
treble what it was at the beginning of 18.51. 'the export:o
tion of. tobacco does not show so large an increase es d
foregoing articles, nor does much of what is etported eoel
to England; but the British trade in Bahia tobaCco
increasing at a much greater rate than that of any 06.11's
country, for while the total'exports of leaf tobacco dal'
the last five years only rose from 60,027 bales to 8893,
bales, the quantity taken by Great Brtain increased frri
366 bales to 3,188 bales. '!'here 6 appears o'oboi raw)°,
believing that tobacco will, before many years, be the eisred
product of Bahia, its cultivation being much better adeP.toie
than that of the sug '
ar cane to the labour' of free lAt
migrants from Europe. The ' rosewood trade, tb6tl,Citr
fluctuating, has, on the whole, been seraimp roving • an
Great Britain is by far the lyst customer. e
annual exportation tram 1841 to 1843 was 5,685 logg ; "di
1844 to 1846, 9,295 logs;
from 1847 to 1849, 14,870 loszo
from 1850 to 1852, 20,425 logs • and from 1853 to 11%1;
21,850. Daring the last five years more than half the w.`ll,
Quantity exported has been taken by Great•
The value of the exports of diamonds from Bahia i° e'tio
mated at £300,000 per aunum ; but there are nod ata upon
which to f th
e
which an accurate calculation, or to arrive et
pe
number or value of those exported to this country. Brasil,
are the largest consumers of the principal staple of 1.3';;;,4
so also. is England the country from which that flourish
empire draws the manufactured goods which she "qui aria
The prosperous state of Brazilian commerce, disclose
ths
this official report, is, therefore, doubly gratifying, 811,,a and
more so as there is every prospect of its conticeeee'
permanency.

TRADE REPORT,

-WEDNESDAY,

LIVERPOOL