The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-27 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS

The contest for the representation of the
borough of Southampton is daily increasing in
intensity. The Liberal party has been completely
split in twain by the appearance of two candi-
dates, soliciting the same interest. A most
excited public meeting was held on Tuesday
night, by the .Liberals, for the purpose of
deciding whether Mr. Edwin James or Mr.
Weguelin should be adopted, and conducted to
the hustings. After both candidates had given a
detailed statement of their respective political
creeds, the Chairman called for a show of hands,
when he declared the choice of the meeting had
fallen upon Mr. James, but this the meeting
would not tolerate ; and, another gentleman taking.
Abe chair, it was resolved that Mr. Weguelin should
have the support of the Liberal party. Our latest
Southampton advices inform us that, if some
right understanding be not agreed to between
these two candidates, and if both persist in going
to the poll, Sir Edward Butler, the Conservative
candidate, will poll between them, and, in all like-
!Blood, be the successful competitor.

The murder of Mr. Little, at the terminus of
the Irish Midland Great Western Railway, in
Dublin, still baffles the cleverest of the detective
police. At the same time, no effort is being left
untried to find out the barbarous miscreant ;
and, according to advices received from Dublin,
hopes are still entertained that ere many days
elapse the suspected culprit will be iu the hands
of justice. The following are the latest particulars
which have reached us ;—lt appears that from a
number ofcirenmstances which gradually transpired
in the course of the investigation the attention of
the police was especially fixed on one or two per-
.sons. Every day's enquiry served to strengthen
suspicion, which has now, we understand, become
all but certainty. We have already stated that the
murderer must have been well known to Mr.
Little, and must have been in conversation with
him at the time the fatal blow was given ; and we
may now add that oue of the persons on whom
suspicion has fallen was well known to the urifor
tunate gentleman, and was frequently in commu-
nication with the deceased. Diligent search
has been made for the money which was car-
gielaway by the assassin, as well as for the razor
to Match the due found in the canal, but what
the result Ails been we are unable to say.
Information was voluntarily tendered on Monday
to the parties bY who'm the investigation is being
note d by a person who stated the circumstance
,
-ng on his mind, and he could not do
than disclose it, to the effect that on the
evening of the murder he saw a man dressed in a
fustian jacket cross the boundary wall of the
railway, near the ear entrance; that the man then
proceeded to the canal, crossed the wooden bridge,
and dropped some heavy matter into it, which, in
the opinion of the informant, might have been the
money stolen, and capable of being removed befOre
the discovery was made that a murder had been
committed. Further particulars of This strange
revelation have not transpired, nor, supposing it
to be accurate, is it thought to narrow the search
materially, as the police believe that the jacket was
probably assumed for the occasion, and effectually
destroyed before the illusion that the unfortunate
deceased had committed suicide was dissipated.
An accurate sketch of the building, particularly of
the room and corridor, intended to be made use of

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tit Amy futtite ttiki, has beet' odtripleted by Me
Mulvany. It is stated that some persons in the
employment of the company are wider the stir.
veillance of the police; -
The political soirees of Mr, Ernest Jones have
not yet been given up. On Tuesday night he met
a large number of the working classes in St.
Martin's Hall, London, when he addressed
them .on the subject of an Established Church,
arid for once his reasoning was calm and
legitimate, and his language free from
that frantic and exciting strain which has too often
characterised his political harrangues. One of our
London daily cotemporaries, alluding to this move-
ment, remarks :—" The object of Mr. Jones
evidently is to win political- power for those who
are unenfranchised, but it is remarkable that, as
yet, he appears to stand alone in the tribune. : The
consequence is, that, the assembly becomes entirely
his own disciples. They have not the chance of
that which the ancient Christians called a diver-.
situ of gifts,' and unless there be a change in this'
respect, we may well suppose that the Chartist
agitation will divide into a political sect, and
become inoperative for want of intellectual
vivacity."

The local intelligence in this day's NORTHERN
TIMES, is not only full and varied, but interest-
ing. The Town Co-ineil held a special meeting
yesterday, for the purpose of electing a treasurer-
in the room of Mr. Wybergh resigned, and also a
successor to Mr. Capes Ashlin deceased. On this
occasion, Mr. J..R.
_Jeffery made his maiden speech
as a local senator, and we are -glad to find that he
had, as we expected he would, an eye to•the purse
strings of the corporation. He -made a few
practical remarks upon the impolicy in these days
of extraordinary railway and other monster defalca-
tions, of allowing their treasurer to draw upon the
bankers of the corporation, by his individual
cheque. Mr. Jeffery, as an able financer, would
diminish the responsibility of the treasurer,
lesson the amount of his bond ; and, there-
fore, pay him a smaller salary, and moved
a resolution to the effect that the salary of the
treasurer to the corporation be £5OO a year, that
the bond be reduced to £5.000, and that each '!
cheque be countersigned by the chairman or deputy
chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Robertson
Gladstone warmly supported Mr. Jcffery's motion
on the ground of economy, and keeping in mind
the precarious position of the Town Dues, and other
questions bearing directly upon the financial
resources of the corporation. After some
discussion Mr. Alderman Holme replied to
theld speech of Mr. Jeffery, acquiescing in
the motion to have_ the cheques countersigned, but
opposing the reduction of the treasurer's salary;
Ultimately, Mr. Tweedie was appointed Treasurer
to the Corporation, at a salary of £6OO, and. Mr.
White Treasurer to the Health Committee, at a
salary of £5OO, the former gentleman to find
security for £B,OOO, and the latter for £5,000. The
question of the attendance of the Borough Magis-
trates was considered, and, from what transpired,
there is little doubt but an additional number
will be appointed, so that the business of the Police
Court will be disposed of with. punctuality, and'
the public will no longer be subjected to the
delays and inconvenience which we haVe had to
expose on more than one occasion. _

The West Derby Guardians held their weeklx,.
meeting yesterday, but the proceedings_ did not
contain any matters of moment. It would, how-
ever, be somewhat strange if no charges or com-
plaints against some of the officials connected with
the Union were not on the tapis. The
Rev. Mr. Postaince, incumbent of St. .Tame-i's,
Toxteth Park, complained of Mr. Latham,
the relieving officer, charging him. with
neglecting and refusing to afford relief to
several parties, although they were in great dis
tress, and deserving of it. The reverend gentle
man also charged Mr. Latham with drunkenness.
A committee was appointed to investigate the
charges.

An interesting meeting was held at the Adelphi
Hotel, yesterday, the friends of the Church Educa-
tion Society, in Liverpool, having assembled at a
public breakfast, to hear an address from J. C.
Colquhoun, Esq., of Killermont, on the subject
of public instruction. We have reported the
proceedings at length, and reserve to another
occasion our remarks thereon.
Our columns, this morning, contain interesting
news from several of the leading Continental
Froin Constantinople WA learn that, as
regards the new Ministry, matters are neither so

settled or smooth as many parties would fain

believe. The Russian difficulties, as left
by the late Ministry, are a source of
annoyance _ and perplexity to their sue

cessors. It is said that no positive answer
has been, as yet, given to the proposal of the Porte
to refer the disputed points to the decision of
Austria, England, and France ; but as the telegraph
was daily employed in carrying questions and
explanatory answers between Constantinople, Paris,
and London, a solution, one way or the another,
was hourly anticipated. We are informed that on
the sitting of the German Diet, on the 200} inst.,
the Governments of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and
Baden notified to the Assembly that, in execution
of the resolution of the 6th instant, relative to the
affair of Neuchatel, they had forwarded, instructions
to their diplomatic agents accredited to the Swiss
Confederation, couched in the sense of that resolu-
tion. Le Nord publishes a long state doeuinent
from the Greek Ministry of Finance, dated last
July, giving an exposition sufficiently flattering of
the state of Greece, political, financial, and social.
It is addressed to M. Tricoupi, to be laid before
the English Government.

The existence of a Russian diplomatiC circular
offering to give up the Serpents' Island, but per-
sisting in the claim to Bolgrad; has been denied
by our Ministerial papers, while the French press
continues to affirm it. It is possible that the
document in question is not in the form of a
circular, but that such a proposal has been made
to the Cabinets of London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin,
and Constantinople, in some form or other,
would appear certain from the simultaneous
mention of it in the press of Paris, Brussels, and

The Emperor of the French is said to have
addressed a private letter to the Emperor of Russia,
pointing out the necessity for the maintenance of
the peace of Europe, of his co-operating with
England in carrying out the treaty of the 30th-
March, even should he be unable to approve of the
construction on every point which his allies put
upon the treaty. A telegraphic despatch, dated
Paris, Wednesday night, has reached us. It is to
the following effect :—The Prussian correspond.
ence states that the general opinion of Europe
acknowledges the legitimate right, le von droit, of
Prussia upon Neufchatel, and concludes by
calling to mind the great military power of Prussia
We observe that, on the application of Mr.
Sleigh, the counsel for Afarley, the Parliament•
street murderer, the trial, is fixed to take place on
Friday morning.

RUSSIA has been foiled in war. Her strongest
citadels have been blown about her ears. The
vastness of her territorial dimensions has proved
the weakness of her empire. Military despotism
has its limit, beyond which it eannot go without
the aid of the great elements of civil life, and extra-
ordinary material prosperity, which belongs to an
advanced stage of civilisation; - As the Russia of a

million bayonets, she can be invaded, her fortresses
besieged, and her power overthrown. To be able
to bear the shocks of war she must cultivate the
arts of peace. Defenceless as she is, without rail-
ways, she finds she would be nowhere without
steam-boats at command, as we have them. The
number of armed vessels the CZAR Will be allowed
to keep in the Black Sea henceforth would not
admit of his making any very formidable descent
on neighbouring States. No sudden irruption
of his hordes of Cossacks can take place
in the absence of those facilities of transport
which our mercantile fleet can always afford
us, when we are driven to take up arms.
This self-
evident military and political in-
feriority has no doubt become exceeding'y
painful to the 'Muscovite iu his moments of sober
reflection. Ris grand trunk lines would be of
little service unities he secures the through transit
fO. his troops tor tlleir 4n-al destination. The

NORTRERN

SOPPONI

steam tonnage reitthed to goat them from Odessa
to anitantinopie or 'ficird .9.etiastopor cr TrObi:
zond, would stilt be wanted to secure the accom-
-Plairient of a - great military design. To
supply this want, the Russian Government have
projected no less than eleven lines of steam com-
munication in the Black Sea and Mediterranean 3
with thMr termini atOcle'ssa.

Of, this'shameleislanbble We can only speakin
the same language we-employed some months
since, when commenting on the AUTOCRAT'S railway
schemes. They are all based on the same sanguin-
ary and brutal designs against the lives and liber-
ties of Eastern Europe. The CZAR wants transports
for his lawless invaders. Though another 100
yearsi must elapse before he can exercise sovereign
sviay -OVer.the East, he would rather lay the entire
'shores of the Danube and Black Sea waste for a .
century than allow the rich priie to escape his
despotic grasp ; and to carry out his perfidious
plot, he calls on the capitalists of. Western Europe
—the directors of those new diplomatic creations,
the Credit :Mobilier, stock jobbing shops, to help
him out with his plans. Some of our ablest poli-
cians have told us that there are other passions in
the human breast besides the auri sacra fames, and
other devils besides Mammon, and we hope that
the people of this country will show the
crafty despot, that these allegations are true, and
that there are other virtues in the British nation
besides the .friedom with which they grant a
political pardon to those who rob them of their
blood and treasure ; that our patriotism, as a
people, is stronger than our cravingS after gold.
Treachery towards ourselves and our children, is a
far worse devil than Mammon; and the British
subject who would advance one penny piece to
Russia to enable her to strengthen the position she
has taken np against civilisation, would be a traitor
towards his country, and an enemy of the whole
`huMan-race.. Should any such maniac be found
in the " money-world," the Legislature ought to
step in and bind his hands.
If Russia be really a " great Power," she can
make her own railways, and build her own steam_
boats, with her paper roubles. The value of her
legal:tenders system ,would speedily exhibit itself,
if it were set in operation on reproductive works.
When used for military chests only, the employ-
ment of the flimsy rouble leaves nothing behind
it. If employed as the instrument to create
railways and establish lines of steam-boats
which would yield a profit to. the whole com-
munity, it would prove an immense blessing to
the CZAR'S dominions. When paper money 'is
employed for military parades and courtly fetes,
which leave nothing after them, it then becomes a
curse to a people. But when it is resorted to to
-carry-on great- national-works, -as-we employ bills
of exchange, on which the producer has to pay a
heavy discount, what an unbroken chain of pro-
sperity would follow in its wake. While Russia,
then, has her printing presses ready to throW off
millions of paper roubles, can get land for rail.
ways for nothing, and timber and iron for her

locoinotiTes and steamers by employing labour
only, why does she come to the Western Powers
fOr money ? There must be some millions of
specie in her government coffers, or national banks,
and why.not exhaust that before they commence
borrowing ? The CZAR likes patronage, and his
capitalists love good dividends, punctually paid,
quite as much as French and British subjects.
Can it be that:the prospects of a return from such
grand enterprises as those which have issued from
the Kremlin are too far off—too much obscured by
_.the clouds which hang over the future of the Rue-.
sian Empire—so vast that the Muscovite mind
connot comprehend them, or so stupendous that
it must take fifty years to complete them?

The serf evidently has but little faith in his rail.
way Emperor. He knows full well what the iron
rule of despotism means. But his heart seems to
recoil at the thoughts of the extraordinary develop
ment iron roads would give to the spirit and power
of the oppressor. The CZAR is driven to come
abroad and declare the weakness of absolute rule,
and to submit to the agonising reproach of being
quoted at a discount. Imperial ALEXINDRIA'N
Five per cent Railway Stock, and O'DoNNELL's
coup d'etat Stock, endorsed by NARVAEZ, would.
stand at about the same figure in our Stock
Exchange lists. Russian coupons and Spanish
bonds of_lBstl, should they ever appear, will supply
our butter-shops and cheesemongers with waste
paper, bearing the, Royal arms of the great and
little tyrants of our time. This is how treason
towards the peace and progress of our kind has
invariably been rewarded. If the CZAR wants to
make railways and build steam fleets for his
purposes, he knows how to go about the work
without the help of this or any other country ;
but he cannot pledge the honour of his crown,
or his word as a man worthy to rule over an
Empire, that he can pay a dividend in metallic
money on the 40,000,000/. of foreign capital he is
seeking to obtain. •To get possession of a majestic
sum, he makes princely promises. All this is
natural enough. There is a professional way of
wiel ling a sceptre,' and for so young an Emperor
it is somewhat promising to find that the dawning
ALEXANDER is such an adept at his business. We
have always admired the political philosophy of
making an enemy supplythe funds for his own
destruction, and we cannot withhold our humble
praise from the AUTOCRAT whom we find labouring
to bring the art of war to the highest perfection in
the time of peace. We were the first to scout the
the idea of any Englishman's advancing money to
a Government who are opposed'to us in every step
we take for the material, moral, religious, and civil
advancement of the human family, and we have
only to add that, the man who would lend money on
any terms to the bitterest foes, of his country
ought be expelled from society.

THE Ray. MR. MACHATIGHT'S 'LETTER TO THE Bsawnp
or CHESTER.—We can only at this moment call attention
to the remarkable pamphlet published by the Rev. Mr.
Macnaught in reply to the work of the Rev. 3. B. Lowe.
The latter gentlemen's book—a stricture on Mr. Mac.
naught's " Doctrine of Inspiration "—having been dedi-
cated by, permission to the Lord Bishop of Chester, and
thus receiving, in appearance at least. the countenance of
his lordship's authority, Mr. Machaught haifelt himself
bound to address his defence against the ettack made on
him to the Bishop of Chester personally, It is an eloquent
and indignant protest, deserving full consideration, and
which cannot fail to produce considerable effect, even on
the minds of prejudiced opponents. We shaU take an
early occasion of noticing it at some length.
Coitoma[t's Initrasrs.—The borough Coroner, held the
following inquests :-'-On the body of Thomas Rooney, 37
years of age, who died suddenly in bed, at his residence,
Freemason's-cow, •on Monday night. The deceased was a
wheelwright, and used sometimes to complain of his head,
when a change inj the weather took. place. He was well
enough when he went to bed, at ten, brit died shortly
afterwards. Verdict, died- by the visitation of God.—On
the body of Ralph Jephson, a labourer, who was employed
at the new buildings in Water-street. On the lElth instant
he was passing along a wall fifty feet high, when a brick,
on which he Stood, turned under his foot, and he fell to the
ground; .the injuries he received caused death,
.and the
jury found a verdipt of accidental death.—On the body of
a child, apparently about two years old, or more, that was
found in the ash-pit of the house, 6, Upper Huskisson-
street, occupied by Mr. A. Cassella. Burgeon Kemp said
ha had examined the body, and was ;of, opinion the child
was a female, and that it was over two years old, but from
the advanced stage of decomposition in, which it was, he
could not tell the cause of ,desth ; none cf the bones
were hovieveilrastureB, The verdict wa§ wilful murder
against some one unknown. Lit was stated that a clue l}ad
been obtained to the person or persona likely to be im-
plicated in this, affair.]

TIVES.*AwLIVP:IttPOOI.),

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDIY. EVENING,

The demand for Cotton continues quiet,- and
holders supply the market plentifully ; prices,
therefore, are supported and nothing more. The
sales to-day were 6,000 bales, of which 500 'were
taken for Export and on Speculation ;- some light
Imports have come to hand to=day.
Although-we are now about " settling the accOunt,"o
as itis termed, the Liverpool Stockand Share Market
continues to maintain its late improvement.' To-
day the market was tolerably steady, and prices
closed with firmness. The business comprised
Chaster and Birkenhead, 16. Blackburn,
Eastern Counties, 9 3-16 5 16. Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 96. London and North WeOtern,
104/, 104. 105. Manchester, Sheffield, and . Lin-
coln, 351, 1,1., I, 1, -a. Midland Stock, 82/.
Berwick Capital Stock, 21. South East
ern, 211 228 North StOek, 239„
From the foregoing quotailong,'-it will be
ob-
served that, towards the close of business, prices
had an upward tendency. The following are the last
quotations of the day : Aberdeen, 121 121. Black-
burn, 77,- 71. Chester and Birkenhead, 10 161. Cale-
donian, 288 29/. Chester and Holyhead, 18.1 19
Eastern Counties, 9:1 Q-3. East Lancashire, 20/ 201.
Great Northern, 22,1 231. Ditto A Shares, 9/ 9i
Great Western, 681 681 Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 951 96 - Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
187-, 184. London and North Western Stock, 1041
1041. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 351 3515 S
Midland Stock, 81 811. North British, 9,1
North Staffordshire, 51 50. South Eastern and
DDver, 22 22/. York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 21 211. York. and 'North -Midland-, 30 301.
Leeds Capital Stock, 18? 19. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, Dutch Rhenish. 11, lip. Great
Western of Canada, 241 241. Do.' New Shares,
21 21p. Great Luxembourg, 1011 lOad. The
following were the rates of continuation paid
during the day :—Caledonian, 2k. Eastern
Counties 9d. Great Western, a. Lancashire and
Yorkshire Stock, London and North Western
Sto:!k, I, a, 1. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
1-16. Midland Stock, 5.16. South Eastern, is
9d. is 6d even. Duteh Rhenish, is

We are glad to state that the prospects of the
Money Market have so far improved as to warrant
the expectation that a reduction in the minimum
rate of interest by the Bank of England will soon
be made. This impression stimulates the upward
movement in the Funds, and, at the same time,
checks the demand for money, because parties
defer obtaining more accommodation than they
inimediately. .reqiiire. in the, hope of procuring it,
ere long, upon easier terms. At the same time
the Lombari-street houses are charging within a
fraction of the Bank rate for the negotiation of 60
days' bills, and as.the directors arelikely to proceed
in the most cautious inanner,.the idea. that a,,reduc-
tion will be made at the sitting' to morrow is not
shared in by the. majority of those interested in the
course of monetary events. The bullion has received
some very material additions, and the Reserve has
probably also been augmented, but the demand
for money is still active, and several other circum
stances of minor importance will have to be care-
fully considered before the directors will be
induced to relax their restrictive. policy. To-day
the enquiry for discounts is quieter, and the
quotations rather tend downwards. On the Stock
Exchange the demand for money is not very
active. The rates of c` continuation" in the Share
Market, however, are heavy, and for Consols the
quotation is still 4 per cent.
The city article contained, in the leading journal
of to day, the following reSpecting the Bank
Discount :

The question now occupying attention is whether the
Bank of .England will i.rmediatelv reduce their rate of
interest to 6 per cent. An impression is generally enter-
tained that the step should be adopted without delay. Sine()
the publication of the last Gazette return many persons have
been disposed to consider that the advance to 7- per cent was
not justified by the position of the Bank accounts ; and,
although the majority of prudent persons do not join in
that opinion since the heavy appearance of the foreign ex-
changes, the absence of recovery in Paris, the further rise in
the price of silver at Sbanghee, and the doubts regarding
the overdue Australian vessels, afforded at that time every
stimulus to increased caution, there is tow a total change of
prospect on each point, ex ept as regards the Eastern
exchanges,- for _which we must wait -the- next mail from
China. In alt parts of the continent the rate of discount is
from 1 to 14 per cent. below that of the Bank of England,
and in this state of affairs our traders are necessarily at the
disadvantage of competing with rivals who can work with

cheaper capital. The entire industry of the country is thus
affected, and hence promt action is indispensable. No one
supposes that if the James Baines and the Lightning had
arrived a fortnight back, and £400,000 of their gold had
been taken to the bank, the movement to 7 per cent. would
ever have been resolved upon; and these supplies having
now been received, matters should be restored to the point
at which they would then have been allowed to
remain. It may be urged that if the bank were to
defer a reduction it would not materially affect com-
mercial interests, since, if there was inherently a
downward tendency in the money market, the other esta—
blishments would soon lower their rates, and the result
would be simply that the Bank would have no custom. But
this-argument would be incorrect. The amounts falling due
at the Bank are so heavy, and will be so much increased by
the revenue payments towards the end of the quarter, that
they will virtually have the command of the market in
their own hands. They are therefore bound to act upon a
broad view of the'legitimate wants of the country; and it
is the more important that there should be no hesitation
in this respect, since it is desirable fer the public to rely-
th- t, while under the Bank Charter Act there is •no
escape from such wholesome and instantaneous pressure
as may be necessary for the general safety, the relief is
equally certain as soon as that pressure has answered its

olid,
To-day the Market for Public Securities was firm,
and although the extent of business transacted was
limited prices were well sustained. During the
next day or two the arranvement of the Foreign
Stock and Railway Share Accounts will occupy the
chief attention, and the consol settlement will also
soon have to be effected. Consols for Money were
done to-day at, 938, 94, and 941- ; for December
Account, 94, 94k, and 9q; and for January, 941
95. The New Three per Cents were marked .93 to
931-; the Reduced, 921 93 ; and Exchequer Bills,
is to 33 premium ; the Bonds were 981 99 ; Bank
Stock, 2151- to 217 ; and India Stock, 225.
In the London Railway Share Market the:busi
ness done to-day was limited, and, with one or two
exceptions, the quotations of most, of the principal

tines have undirgane- no inaterial-afiteration fion3

yesterday's closing rates. Caledonian improved
53 ; East Lancashire, ns ; North Western, ss; and
Great Western, 10s. Great Northern declined
10s. The French and Canadian lines have also
exhibited a downward tendency Great Central
of France declined 1/ , and Paris and Lyoni 10s

Grand Trunk of Canaria and Great Western of
Canada about ss. The sales include—Caledonian,
57-1 East Lancashire, 811; Great Northern, 91;

eit:edt Western, 68k, f, ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 94: 5 ; London and North Western, 1034 4 ;
London and South Western, 1061 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 341; Midland, soa 1; North
Eastern, Berwick, 83: ; North Stafford,l2l; Dover,
711, 2,1.
Our usual semi-weekly. reports from the manu-

_
factuying h
districts are to and. In one of the
Manchester circulars, issued for transmission to
India by • the. Overland mail, we find th 3 follow-

The ' comparative firmness of prices for
goods and yarns is mainly attributable to the
position of the Cotton market at Liverpool, where
the stock is gradually diminishing week by week,
notwithstanding the small sales to the trade,
which have only averaged about 30,387 bales per
week for the last nionth. The total stock, as given
in the Brokers' Circular, is only 371,040 bales
against 482,740 bales at the same period last year,
the deficiency being almost entirely in East India
Cotton. .The quantity at sea is also small, being
32,600 bales against 91,000 bales last year of
American, and • 61,500 against 96,000 bales last
year of East Indian, so that the stock in Liverpool
must gradually dWindle down during the remainder
of the year. ' Bat this need not occasion much
anxiety to the trade for the time being, as the-new
crop is now coming ,rapidly down to the -United
States shipping 'ports, the quantity received
having at length surpassed that at the corres-
ponding period of last yearn, when so large a quan -
tity came down of, the growth of the previous year,
At 'Huddersfield, yesterdaY,' there was a better
attendance of buyers, principally from Dublin and
,Glasgow. There was a greater disposition to
.purchase regular -niarLet goods, at a reduction in
price if
_possible; which, in every instance was
rejected-to',
and;prices remained firm, with a ten-
dency to a4"nitice•
Although stocks are increasing,
:
Manufactures do not appear 4o be inclined to sell,
except at fair remunerative prices, in face of the
advance in dig wool-market, Ic.ersey's, in blacks

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Landon and Scotch-houses, at prices varying from
4s 9d to.ss ed a yard. Fancy trowserings with
smart -borders ,are also in good request,- and there
is a fair amount of business done in mohair and
Himalaya cloths for cloakings. Altogether there
is more doing than is usual at this season of the
year. The local wool market has partaken of the
ttpward movement ofthe London wool sales. -
Qhr Leeds advices inform us that although there
•Was'inat a large •attendanee at the Cloth Halls'
yesthrday, the tone of:the market was animated,
and a better business transacted.
There is still adult and inanimate trade going,
forward in all descriptions of grain and grain pro-
duce. The business transacted in Mark lane
today, was not only limited, but prices were
barely sustained. A telegraph report speaks of a
similar state of things in the Glasgow market.
.Adt,loe9 from the Foreign Wool markets, state
that at Pesth -there has been a good demand at
firm,prices, and medium, as well as fine sorts have
risen 2to 5 florins. From Breslau, we learn that
the price of the raw material has suffered a decline,
and at Moscow there has,, been a good deal of
activity, in consequence of the shertness of the
stock. Washed wools of fine quality, realised 33
to 34-.roubles; and middling kinds, 29' to 32
renbleS. At Chardow, during the October fair, the
supply was.'about 21,000 pOods; and, in conse-
quence of the active demand, quotations had ad
vanced. The Marseilles Silk market, is described
in the advices as being .dull, with a downvtard
tendency in prices. At Milan, on the 15th instant,
there was very little activity in this article, but an
improvement in this respect was soon expected.
Prices; howeVer, were well supported.
_The amount Of bills drawn by the Honourable
East _lndia Company, on the three Presidencies of
Bengal, Madras,- and Bombay, from the 9th to the
25th November, has been
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On Madras
On Bombay

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Further parcels of gold, to the amount of 100,0004
have been sent into the Bank of England. The
total purchased-by theinstitution., out of the recent
arrivals, is upwards of half a million sterling. The
residue has been taken for the Continent, chiefly for
the Bank of France,which is now sending to London
large masses of bills against these bullion remit-
tances. Nearly the whole of the recent heavy
supplies of gold have now been cleared off the
market. It is scarcely necessary to point out that
the retention of so large a sum as half a million
and upwalAs forms a very important feature at the
present juncture. Against this- amount of gold
deposited in the Bank, notes to a corresponding
value have,-of course, been issued, and form an
addition to the total available for employment.
,But the stimulus which is given to public confidence
by this influx of gold into the Bank is a gain of
still greater importance.

ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCH/EOLOGICAL Swim-sr.—The
fifth meeting of the present session, was held last night at
the society's rooms, Colquitt-street. After the routine
business and a desultory conversation, the paper of the
evening was on " Alexandria in 47 and 48," by Mr. Cox ;
an interesting subject, and ably handled. The following
donations were received :—" Minutes of the Meeting of
the Royal Institute of British Architects, on the 3rd of
November," from the institute. " Proceedings :of the
Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, No. 10,"
from the society. " Reports to the Right Hon. William
Cowper, M.P., on. the Metropolis Water Supply," from
R. Rawlinson, Esq. " The Building Chronicle, No. 32,"
and " The Land and Building News, Nos. 33 and 34,' from
the ;editors; and " Remarks on the Liverpool Building
Act," from Mr. J. Boult.
LECTURE By P. E. DOVE, ESQ IN HOPE HAIL,—Of
the various luminaries in the intellectual firmament who
have been, or are to be, shining this winter upon our town,
P. E. Dave, Esq., is neither the least nor the dimmest.
This, gentleman, - who is to lecture to-night in Hope Hall
on " Louis and the Waldenses," occupies a foremost
place in the ranks of philosophical champions. His
acquaintance with subjects, political, philosophical, and
religions, is of no common extent, variety, and accuracy.
Great is his power of concentrating his, thoughts upon a
'subject, of taking an intellectual cast from its mould, and
of framing in appropriate language a striking and faithful
verbal portraiture of the original. As an author, his work
upon the Theory of Human Progression has won for him a
high celebrity as one of the profoundest and ablest" thinkers
of the age. He has also acquired a high reputation as an
interesting and popular lecturer.
THE JEWEL ROBBERY. ISCOYERED.—DISCOVERY OF THE
OWNER.-In our 'impression of yesterday we gave the de
tails of the capture of three persons in Liverpool on suspicion
of being concerned in a robbery of jewellery, and other
valuable property found in their possession, as described in
the paper. Since the arrest of the prisoners, it has been
ascertained that the shop of Mr. Holmes, of Market street,
Manchester, wao'bioken into, between Saturday night 'and
Monday morning, by some person, who made an entrance
by getting into the house, through a hole made in the roof,'
and property to the amount of from £250 to £3OO was ab-
stracted. The greater portion of the property so stolen, has
been identified amongst the property found by 'Aycock,
the officer, in the trunk which he got in the room, where he
arrested the prisoners in Standish street. The prisoners
will be transmitted for examination to Manchester, and will
then probably be committed for trial at the assizes, which
commence here next week. The officer deserves credit for
his activity in this affair.

It is stated that Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart, of
Blagdon, near Newcastle, has, in consequence of the lata
bad harvest, given notice to his farm tenants, in order that
they- may_get their eorn into condition, that he does not
require their rents to be liaid.until February next.
NARROW ESCAPE OF OSTEND. —A letter, dated Ostend,
the 20th inst., says " that a heavy gale had visited that
coast. - It 'caused the sea to break with such force on our
sea-dike as to open a large and yawning breach in one part,
and leave us in the greatest fear of a complete inundation of
the whole town. The whole of the garrison were occupied
during the night of the 12th and 13th. endeavouring to stop
this gap with sandbags and turf. Thanks to their efforts,
the complete destruction of the sea bank has been averted ;
but a very little nine and the town would have suffered the
fate of the many ancient villages which were swallowed up
by the sea, and buried beneath the sands on which modern
Ostend is

THE CATIta-ICS AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.—
Every single vote at and about the Jesuit College at Ferd-
ham,'fromthe chief priests to the boot blacks, was dragged
out and polled for Buchanan and slavery. We don't
complain of this--they voted as they saw fit, as was their
right ; but is it not monstrous that thousands of free soil
voters should have been scared off from voting for Fremont
by utterly false and baseless pretences that he was a
Catholic, nominated to c Itch the Catholic votes and that
Bishop Hughes and all the Romish hierarchy were hard at
work for him ? In this city there were not lea than 20,000
votes cast by Catholics, and not one in every fifty,of them
for Fremont. Yet thousatids voted against him because of
the Dog Noble's knavish bow-wowing, fearing that his
election would give us all over to the tender mercies of the
Pope ! Shall we never outgrovr these puerilities ;—./Vetv
York Tribune.

MURDER AT STONEY CREEIC.--Much sensation has bden
created at' Stoney Creek by the prepetration of a horrible
murder on the morning of the 29th ult. A man named
Brinley
'(from Newtown), in a paroxysm of jealousy cut
his wife s throat in a most shocking manner. The unfor-
tunate woman rushed to an adjoining tent and immediately
fell down and expired. Brinley then inflicted a wound on
his own throat, which, however, did not prove fatal. The
coroner for the district attended on the following day and
impannelled a jury, which returned a verdict of " wilful
murder," and the murderer was removed in custody of the
police. The unhappy couple were both natives of the
colony, and both young ; they had been but a short time
married. The necessity for the establishment of police
protection here is becoming very urgent. On the night of
Sunday, the 27th July, an Irishman, in a fit of intoxica-'
Lion, knocked down his mate and heat him in a terrible
manner about the head with a lump of quartz. The
wounded man, however, is now in a fair way of recovery.
—Sydney Empire, August 11,
THE DANCER OE DEALING WITH QUACK DOCTORS.—An
inquest was held on Tuesday morning, before Mr. T. Ff.
Dearden, coroner, on the body of John Winterbottorn, a
self acting minder at Wallshaw Mill, who died on the
previous night of inflammation of the brain, reselting frem
a spindle having accidentallyrnn -into his heel on the 6th
instant. The deceased was oiling his "jenny" during the
dinner hour on Thursday the Bth instant, and whilst
stepping down to the floor, and being without shoes, he set
his foot on the point of a spindle which bad got fast
between the boards of the floor, and which entered his heel.
The wound appeared trifling, awl he paid little attention to
it until Saturday, when it bec`arne so painful that he could
not work, About two years ago he met with an acci !ent of
a precisely similar nature in the same way, and he now
followed the same means of cure which had then proved
effectual—viz., fomentation and poultices: No' improve-
ment taking place, on Moitday-kte called in. a, 4‘ quack
doctor" in the neighbouillood in which he resided, who
attended him for a week, supplying him with his nostrums
during that time, but his foot got rapidly worse. On the
15th, Mr. Staveacre, surgeon, was called in, but inflam-
mation had set in. Remedies to check it were, of course),
resorted to, but without effect, for it gradually spread until
it attacked the brain, and he died on Friday tight. 'lt was
stated that, had the am:gm 46)1.2 called 'in in time, the wound
might have beep cured with little trouble ; and the coroner
remarked that this was another instance of the danger •of
people trying experiments with quacks, instead of going at
once to men who were properly qualified. The jury
returned a verdict of "Accidental death." ,

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