The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-04 00:00:00

PENINSULAR MAILS

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Madrid, Captain Bradshaw, with the usual
Peninsular mail, arrived this morning at 6.35. _ _

Her dates are—Gibraltar, May 25 ; Cadiz, May
26 ; Lisbon, May 29 ; Oporto, May 30; and Vigo,
May 31,

The l\tadrid brings sixty-eight passengers, and
a cargo comprising 7 packages of specie (value
unknown) ; 75 cases eggs; 17 casks wine; 358
half chests oranges ; 58 elephants' tusks ; 153
boxes dates, and 20 packages sundries.
During the voyage outward and homeward the
Madrid experienced strong head winds to Vigo,
and from Vigo light airs and calms.

Intelligence fiCorn. Gibraltar reported that her
Majesty's steam-transport Transit, from Ports•
mouth for the East, put into the port to repair
some trifling defects in the machinery.
On the 24th ult. her Majesty's troop-ship Vulcan,
from the Crimea, with the 17th Regiment of Foot
on board, bound to Quebec, arrived same day.
The Simoom, with the 39th Regiment, for Que-
bec, sailed from Gibraltar on the 23rd:

The Himalaya left Gibraltar for Halifax on the
21st ult., with the 62nd and 63rd Regiments from
the Crimea.

Several transports have passed Gibraltar on their
outward and homeward voyages to and from the
Crimea.

Exchanges were quoted for bills on London at
90 days, 51 ; Paris, 5f 38c.
From Lisbon we learn that the English schooner
William, Captain Williams, which had arrived
there from Gibraltar, reported having been fired at
by the Portuguese revenue steamer Lynk, on the
20th ult., near Cape St. Mary., on the coast of
Algrave. It appents that the steamer remained at
anchor about a mile and a half from the shore and
amused itself by firing at any vessel passing,
instead of getting up steam and boarding those it
may suspect. The schooner escaped without injury,
but a brig, also under English colours, was struck
by a shot. The latter was reported to the British
Consul, who, it was expected, would cause the
matter to be fully investigated.
Several clauses of the new Loan Bill had been
approved by the Deputies at Lisbon. _

The Lisbon exchanges for the month are quoted
this mail at 54-1 to 8, on Lon ion; Paris, 519 to
520 ; Amsterdam, 438; Hamburg, 498 ; and Genoa,
517.

There were few takes on London, and transac-
tions were generally limited, as also on Paris and
Hamburg. Other quotations are nominal.
Stocks were looking up, Three per Cents being
411 to 42 ex div. ; Bank of Portugal shares 499 to
502 milreis each ; and Oporto Bank shares, 18 to
20 per cent premium.

On the 30th ult. the Madrid spoke the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental steam-ship Sultan, off Oporto;
31st, off Finisterre, the steamer Queen ; June lst,
in lat. 46.26, long. 6.56 W., saw an English screw
line of battle ship, steering S.S.W. ; and on the 2nd
passed the Royal Mail transport ship Orinoco, off
Ushant, bound to the Crimea.
The Madrid left at Lisbon her Majesty's steamer
Basilisk, coaling, en route from Spithead for the
West Indies.

GIBRALTAR SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS, May 15.—Steamer Milita, J. Anderson, 5}
days from Liverpool, for Constantinople, (cleared.) May
18.—Steamer Mceander, J. Brooking, 51 days from Liver-
pool, for Palermo, Messina, and Alexandria, (cleared.)
May 18.—Steamer Taurus, G. R. Langlands, 9 days from
Smyrna, and 5 from Malta, for Liverpool,((cleared.) May
20.—Steamer Calpe, S. T. Downes, 51 days from Palermo,
with sumach, for Liverpool, (cleared.) May 22.—Steamer
Arno, R. Jay, 61 days from Liverpool for Naples, (cleared.)
May 23.—Steamer Corinthian, H. Campbell, 6t days from
Liverpool, for Corfu and Trieste, (cleared.) May 24.
Steamer Italian, W. Hamilton, 8 days from Liverpool,
for Genoa, (cleared.)

ALLEGED FORGERY BY A SHAREBROKER

On Monday, a sharebrober, named David Faulkner,
was charged before the Manchester magistrates with
forging the signature of Mrs. Mary Ann Irving, widow, to
a transfer of forty South Eastern and Dover railway
shares. The prisoner had made her acquaintance in
1852, when she purchased the shares through a
broker, in whose service Faulkner was a c:erk. He
afterwards called upon her, and ' borrowed several
sums of money from her, and at length she changed
her residence, and concealed it from him, in hopes of
breaking the acquaintance. Faulkner, however, was not
to be got rid of in this way, and having found her out, he
renewed his visits, and knowing she possessed the forty
South Eastern Shares he sought to borrow them as a
means of enabling him to become a member of the Stock
Exchange, stating to her that a certain security had to be
given. She declined at first, but he offered to give her 5
per cent. for the use of them in addition to handing over
the dividends. She then signed an agreement to lend them
on the condihion that she could recall them at any time on
a month's notice. Towards the close of last year she
gave notice to recover the shares, and as the scrip was
not then forthcoming, she sued the prisoner in the County
Court for the amount. The case was decided in her favour
on the 18th February, but the prisoner treating the matter
as a debt, went to Lancaster Castle as an insolvent, and
passed the court. The discovery had since been made by
going to London, that the prisoner had sold the shares
through a broker there, for £750 cash, on the very day he
borrowed them. Mrs. Irving had since been in the South
Eastern and Dover Railway offices, and seen the transfer,
to which her signature had been forged. The transfer
and forged signature had been sent to the London broker
by the prisoner. In cross examination by Mr. Fernley,
counsel for the prisoner, Mrs. Irving, after swearing the
signature was a forgery, made admissions tending to
shake the reliance of the court upon her evidence, and the
case was dismissed.