The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-09 00:00:00

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-

SUGAR.—West India sales 600 hhds, at pr,
Refined sells more freely, brown lumps, 43s
44s to 475. Foreign : Porto Rico, low to fine
to 405.. COFFEE brisk ; plantation Ceylon, 68s
native quiet, at 46s 6d to 47s 6d. TEA very f 1
Conguu, is 2-1-d to is 3d. RICE flat and °hear
rather more in demand, at former prices.
P.Y.C., 565, on spot.

MANCHESTER CORN EXCHANGE.--
A fair business has been transacted in Amerii
at the full prices of last week. Purchasers of
cautiously; and prices have not changed. The
OATS and MEAL was exceedingly limited, but tl
changed. BEANS and PEAS we again quote 15
All other articles as before.

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET.—A
At this day's market there was a fair supplY
and the sales made were at a decline of Is V 41
again is qr lower; and OATS were taken
similar decline. BEANS still 2s tt/ qr cheaper.
changed. The millers reduced the retail pric(
3s 4d sack.

GLASGOW CATTLE MARICET.—Yrs°,
CArrLEThrisk, about 500 extreme top; for
cwt; current, 60s to 625; middling, 56s to 5
53s to 555. SHEEP brisk ; aged, 7d lb.; cui
61-d. EWES, 5d to 6d. CALVES brisk, 60s to
PHIS very brisk, from 44s to 50s.

THE FREE LIBRARY CoMPL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DA"'

Sin, Wishing the loan,-of a book
lending, library, I was given a form to
take to Duke-street. On presenting the
the'. signatures of two
.respectablello;os
after waiting the. week as required, I
could not have one, as my securities.wer
the burgess' list. Now sir, I believe ti 4
ties do not forget to enforce the rate °0,130',
keepers alike for the library, and
respectfully ask them if it i 9
order of exclusion like t_lire
burgesses were made th
or do they intend to c°
nv:y that the h.
housekeepers are a whit ELI p
the less 3:ort of
fuin- nocipti.L._.treing on the immaculate
I will forward you a few more remarks
two. ieaseci t
obiunrsgeersts
Liverpool, December 8, 1853.

SPORTING INTELLIGEY°
LATEST BETTING.
TATTERSALLS—THIMSDAY EVF•l4l''
DERBY.
9 to l against King Tom, (taken.)
30 to 1 against Bojardo, (taken.)
40 to 1 against Victoria, and Knight of
(both taken.)
2000 to 35 against Hesse Cassel, (taken.)
100 to 1 against Alembic, and Reel Colt, (bOl
500 on Corim against Hesse Cassell.

FATAL FOG ACCIDENT.—On Saturday nix'
Wharham, a respectable farmer residing at
miles from Doncaster, lost his life in consep-
dense fog which prevailed. He had returned II:
Doncaster market quite sober, and was proceed'
to the Sandell lock-house to ascertain that all "
he farms the river tolls at this point, when lb
have missed his way, notwithstanding he had a
him, and to have stumbled into the Don and pe
CAUSES OF INSANITY.—In a paper read bef'
ety for Improving the Condition of the Insane,
account of 2,392 cases of recovery, under thy.
Alexander Morison, is given. In 1,428 of these
of the disorder are stated, of which the fol
summary :—ln 386 hereditary predisposition, in
perance, in 172 pregnancy, childbearing, abortion'
&c. ; in 116 disappointments, reverses, embf
losses, and privations;
_in 76 religious exeitel
grief, in 50 disappointed affection, in 43 anxi(
ation ; in 39 terror, in 63 epilepsy, in 23 falls/
the head &c.; in 8 paralysis, m 29 causes ,0,4;
occurence. Of the remaining cases, for which
assigned, the disorder had previously occurred
Ifedical Times and Gazete. .
THE " TIMES." --THE FUNDS.—On Tuesday sale
in a-London journal, the public, in a leading arlll.ol
Times was informed that " the definite concert°;cier,l
great powers, which has at length been establisheu,oiio/
the Eastern contest of the principal dangers attestpij,
prolongation. 'With Great Britain, France, Ati „r
Prussia combined in a firm and deliberate 11111°.edi,
regulation of affairs upon bases previously arraik7f "jrt
altogether improbable that the general security
sutot/40,
should be Materially, disturbed." Upon these
so unhesitatingly made, Consols went up half lict,bol:4
which price there were, no doubt, sellers. In,s,otlgy
comes the second edition of the Times with an 4",.
statement, that all the concord which exists is c°oo4 eco`,
" a collective note," without any pledge to editr4i.o,
ceptance. Wherenpon down'went Consols a hs6ocvoet,
W ORKING MIN'S BRANCH REFORMATION of t
A public meeting of the members and suppottelfill' "
ciety was held last night in the Toxteth Hall, itss9':;j
Mr. Parnell in the chair. The meetingsd
dressed by Messrs. Parsonage, Clark, Warrall, ;el
in speeches in which they fully advocated tlie,sioeLY 0.1
such a society as that • which they had now estauot. oar,,Al
first resolution was to the effect that the events oily
times and in our own country bear conclusive the lbet,:i
the fact, that the system of the Papal power 011 whir,
religion remains unchanged in all those
meetingfeatuoo..,/
der•it dangerous to civil ro
resolution was to the effect that the meeting bee co utele"
suaded that popery is the great apoitacy, anto reswell
ing the large amount of good which is likely boll it 1,
the operations of the Liverpool working urn, giviei,
formation society in exposing- the same desit`nicaoto`
cordial support. Both resolutions were una Tor,
dopted, after which the meeting separated. „lit;
THE Lusa CHURCH MISSIONS SOCIV11,;, cOO,
day last, the 6th instant, a deputation frona,lf Be oo" l'tt
of the society for Irish church missions tot 1,4
tholics waited by appointment upon the RI
ig;t: „tatF:'s lorj
count Palmerston, her majesty's secretarY„ to o.lt, v."
home department, for the purpose of presem!..7,7esideteo
ship the memorial of the president,
,r_c_eastip to 11;oreiy,
committee of the society, praying his '„",,lve takeoPPl
an inquiTy into the circumstances whieh,;rr. "'ugh 0')
Dublin, in reference to the decision of o'f,
ghan, the police magistrate, in the case 0 viscount ,
The members of the deputation were-13
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, G. C.coionci
naird, M.P,, Admiral Hope, C. 8., Res, -PR,
Mr. John Bockgt Rev. R. Bickerstetb, Be , d
Goodhart, Captain Kelly, Rev. Dr. Arni J. b r. 4,
Rev. H. H. eamisli, Mr. John Br
mas Nolan, Rev. M. M. Preston, Rev•_:sig.ned_d
Rev. W. Marrable. The memorial Ivsa.'_„o., stea_. Jibe
Duke of Manchester president of the
oTin'rutt,,i,' 011,
five of the vice-presidents and membersthtecu
partigi''
Palmerston promised to inquire t 9 isatfon
memorial, which we have already ij)lublished.