The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-07 00:00:00

SAFFLOWER : The advance is well supported. The
stock is reduced to about 100 bales only.

business,

prominent circular gives the quotations
a criterion of the market at present, we
follow with the reliable prices of the day, which are—viz.,
Galipoli and Neapolitan, £53 to £53 10s, and no buyers ;
Taranto, £53 ; Seville and Malaga (to effect sales) £5l ;
35 tons of Portugal sold at £5O, a portion of it resold at
£5l ; Sicily, £5l 12s 6d ; Barbary, £5O, or less. How
parties can quote Galipoli and Neapolitan, £53 IN to £55
10s, and Portugal, £5l lOs to £52, knowing the above to
be the real state of the case, is a matter of surprise. The
same authority assures us, that if we had peace, the direct
Russian trade would release us of large supplies; no,t
reminding us, meanwhile, that not having peace, it is
coming here in such overwhelming quantities. The imports
in 18.55 were 23,990 tuns, against 10,675 tuns in 1854, and
9,720 tuns in 1863.

OLIVE On

NOTTINGHAM.—Mr. J. F. Saville, the proprietor and
manager of the Nottingham theatre, died suddenly on
Monday last.

RE PRE- SENTATION OF THE VEST RIDING.—There is no
truth in the statement that Mr. Denison intends to retire at
the end of the parliament into private life.—Doncaster
Chronicle.

Colonel McMurdo has arrived in London from the Crimea,
'and is in an ill state of health, but was well enough on
Thursday to have interviews both with Lord Hardinge,
Commanding-in-Chief, and Lord Panmure, Secretary of
State for War.

THE SOUTHAMPTON MURDEIL—The execution of Abra-
ham Baker, under sentence at Winchester, for the murder
of his fellow servant at Southampton, which was fixed to
fixed to take place on Saturday, has been postponed until
to morrow, when the extreme penalty of the law will be
carried out.

SHOCKING MURDER IN SLicio.—A shocking murder was
perpetrated at Ballinakill, in the county of Sligo, on the
28th ult. The victim was a woman named Mary Spread,
who was strangled to death by her husband, only a few
days after her being confined. The murderer is fully com-
mitted on the charge.

Tit E LATE QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL.—Ma j or-gen eral
Freeth, K.H., who has just vacated the post of Quartermas-
ter-General in favour of Sir Richard Airey, was presented,
on liaving the office, with a superb silver inkstand, as a
tribute of the respect and esteem of the gentlemen employed
in the civil branch of the department.

INCOME-TAX ELECTIVE IN FRANCHISE.-3fai or Reed, Mr.
Apsley Pellatt, and Mr. Olivera have determined to apply in
the coming session for leave to re-introduce the bill which
they brought forward last year, for conferring the elective
franchise upon persona, not being aliens, who are assessed
with income-tax, but are not upon a register of electors for
any part of Great Britain or Ireland.

THE LATE CATASTROPHE, JAT KILKEE.--The Nenagh
Guardian says :—" We under-stand that the body of Miss
Smithwick has been washed ashore at Kilkee, and that this
day her afflicted father, accompanied by his son, left Nenagh
for the purpose of conveying. home threm remains of the ill-
fated young lady for interment in the family burial-ground
in this county." The body of Colonel Pepper has not been
found.
LEGAL PRIMOTION.—It is understood in well-informed
circles, that Matthew R, Sausse, Esq., one of her Majesty's
counsel, and formerly crown
prosecutor on the Leinster
circuit, has been appointed to a seat on the judicial bench at
Bombay. The salary is £6,000 a year. Mr. Sausse is
assistant-barrister for the County Wexford, a judicial office
which he has filled with very great satisfaction to the suitors
of the court and the public.—Satmders's News. Letter.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. —lt is understood that a
matrimonial alliance is arranged, and will shortly take
place, between the Lady Emily Curzon, daughter of the Earl
Howe, and Lieutenant-colonel Kingscote, of Kingscote-
park, Gloucestershire. Mr. William Rose, brother of
Major-general Sir Hugh Rose, is about to form a matrimo-
nial alliance with the Hon. Miss Thellnsont,de Grenadieraughterof
Lady Rendlesham, and sister of Lady Walsingham. It is
said that the Hon. Wyndham Quin, late of the
Guards, only brother of the Farl of Dunraven, is about to
form a matrimonial alliance with Caroline, third daughter
of Admiral Sir George Tyler, MX., of Cottsell, Glamorgan-
shire. Miss Harriet Tyler, eldest daughter of the admiral,
will be married at the same time to Mr. E. P. Richards, of
Plas Newydd, in the same county.
DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF AILFSBURY, 11. T.—We
regret to announce the demise of the Marquis of Ailes-
bury, who expired on Thursday morning, at a quarter
past four o'clock, at Tottenbam-park, the family seat,
Marlborough, Wilts. The marquis had been in
declininghealth
for the last three years, so that the
members of his lordship's family were not unprepared for
the mournful event. He is succeeded in the family
honours by his eldest son, George William Frederick,
Earl Bruce, Lieut.-Colonel Commandant of the Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry, born 20th November, 1804,
and married 11th May, 1837, Lady Mary Caroline Her-
bert, third daughter of the late Earl of Pembroke.