The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

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ORMSKIRK BOARD OF GUARDIANS —At the meeting of
this board, =on Thursday, there were present—Messrs.
Maudesley (chairman), Tilsley (vice-chairman), Hunt, Atty,
Jenkinson, Bromley, Oldcroft, Clare, Stoner, Parr, and
M-rcer. Before the business commenced, Mr. Stoner

~savoured to move a resolution which he was about to
propose at the last meeting when the board broke up. The
guardians insisted that the motion had been abandoned,
and that the regular business should be gone on with. Mc.
Stoner then insisted that every cheque should be moved and
seconded before it was signed ; and declared that he would
,thing, if they thus attempted
Amongst the cheques to be signed was
tof insurance upon the workhouse. In
.sued, it transpired that the policy had
expired on the previous day, and Mr. Stoner commented
strongly on thu negligence of the clerk, who, he said, had
caused them loss by a fire, through a similar omission, pre-
viously. The clerk declared that he had given the necessary
directions to have the insurance renewed on the previous
day. After the various cheques had been sired, Mr.
Stoner Ended in five notices of motions for the next board,
the leading one of which was declarations of opposition to
the system of centralization, and recommending the board
to petition her Majesty to dismiss the present " anti
English government." Mr. Stoner, in reference to the
dispute with the vicar of Ormskirk, read a letter which he
had received from Mr. Cheetham, M.P., upon the subject.
The letter stated that Mr. Cheetham had applied at the
office of the Poor-law Board for their correspondence with
the vicar, but it had been refused ; and as Mr. Bouverie,
the president of the board, had said he should strongly
oppose any motion for its production, Mr. Cheetham
complained,toho
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tahna
th eh a d Mr . Stoner
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recovering a sum of nearly £3OO to the township, peaet
accounted legacy
bay pauperthe t
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s lunatic,tee.
He sometimeexplained
cir-
cumstances of the case at great length, and appealehadpol
inti
clerk as to whether he had not originated the steps taken
to recover the money, and carried them out solely by his
Toe clerk confirmed, generally, Mr. Stoaer's
id several guardians expressed their opinion
.rnsuip was greatly indebted to Mr. Stoner for
~a 1 in the affair. The Chairman announced that they
would be a new board when next they met, and he hoped
they would get on harmoniously in future.

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Shares,

Uanada,- 26- .26k. • •Ditto
Ditto 2nd issue, 2 13-16 4„

G 6 13.16 d

Debit.
Notes issued

Proprietors' ca-

£23,915,280

£14,553,000

Seven day, and
other bills.,

757,025

T0ta1.... £36,670,798

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAI

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING

The sales of Cotton to-day are large, amounting
to 12,000-bales, of which two-thirds have been taken
by the trade. The tone of the market is still firm,
and prices are about 1-16th to Bth of a penny per
pound higher than on Friday last, for the medium
and common qualities of American. The total
sales of the week reach 70,540 bales, of which
22,320 have been taken for speculation, and 4,230
for export.

There has been no important change. in the
Liverpool` Share' Market, which opened firm at
yesterday's prices, and continued steady until the
close, when it was a little easier, the quotations
being :—Aberdeen, 138 14. Chester and Bir-
kenhead, 16 161. Caledonian, 30a xd 34 Chester
and Holyhead, 16g 168. Eastern 'Counties, 101
10i. East Lancashire, 194 191. Great Northern,
231 231. Ditto A, 98 108. Great Western,
641 65. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
88+ 881. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
161 17. LondOn. and North Western
Stock, 101 1011, Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 44.29. Ditto Prof., 11g 111. Ditto
NeW 6 per cent. Pref., .7T16 9-46 p.. Midland Stock,
•" 74g. North British, .8 9-16 8 11-16. North
brdshire,. 6 sid. ,South Eastern, 2 L 11-16 211.
and Berwick, 19 1116 19 13-16.
Bi. Leeds Capital
113-1 G 1 151.6 p.
Ip. • Great Western of
New— Shafes, 3 31, p
Great Luxembourg,

*ewcastle
and .North Midland
Stock, 15,i 16, -Dutch Rhenish
Ditto New

Mr. F. Eaton's circular gives the following
report-iif. the Tallow Market for the week :
The improved demand, noted last week, still continues,
and a good business has -again -been done, consumers
buying freely ; and in some cases a slight advance upon
late rates has been obtained, P.Y.C. bringing 49s for
inferior, and 50 to 51s per cwt for good, S. American 41s
for low, to 51s per cwt as in quality, Odessa 48s 6d, good
firm quality New Orleans 475, and home melted 46s per cwt.
The soap trade are full of orders, and there is a prospect of
a continuous demand. The increasing deliveries in London
(967 casks for the half week, against 1050 casks last year),
have caused an advance of is to is 6d per cwt, the
closing prices last night were 48s to 3d spot. and 49s for
last 3 months. The stock there on the 7th inst. was
24,019 casks against 34,699 casks in 1855.
The Colonial Produce Markets this week have
been very quiet, and the tendency in prices for
some of the leading staples have been in the direc-
tion of a decline. Sugar has been particularly
heavy, and the amount offered by public auction
has been limited. The inferior kinds of Plantation
Ceylon coffee has been rather cheaper, but the mid-
ling and good coloury sorts have realised full
prices. Grenada cocoa has receded is to 2s per
cwt. Rice has been steady, at full rates for the
superior descriptions, and tea dull. For spices
there has been very little enquiry. Nutmegs are
rather lower. Saltpetre has ruled firm, but quiet.
In tallow there has been more business transacted,
at slightly improved rates.

From authentic financial, documents, published
at Lisbon, it appears that the Portuguese National
Debt, including the floating debt of the State, is
greater by about one million sterling than has been
generally computed. It is comprised Ist. of the.
Consolidated or Funded Debt, corresponding to
the French Rentes ; and held in bonds by Portu-
guese and foreign capitalists. 2nd. The current
debt, that is—payments which may be demanded
at fixed terms ; and 3rd. The Floating Debt, which
consists of State paper money, admissible in pay-
ment of lands purchased from the State.. The
nominal capital of the External Debt is as follows:
Ist. In 5 per:Cent. Stock of 1841 ... £3,506,875
2nd. In 4 ditto ditto 1845 ... 6,172,252

The current and floating debts about

X st 9,679 127
16,320,873

Total ... ...X26,000,000
At a meeting of the creditors of Saunders and
garrison yesterday, a composition of 10s. in the
pound was proposed, payable by instalments at six,
nine, and twelve months, but the meeting separated
without coming to any final decision.

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap
32, for the Week ending April 5, 1856.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Credit.
£23,915,280 Government
Debt ....

Other securities
Gold Coin and

£11,015.100
3,459,900

Bullion

The Berlin telegraph

Government

FRANCE

9,449,280

Total .... £23,915,280

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Credit.
Government se-

curities

£11,871,778

3,840,005 Other securities 19;711;726
Public deposits 6,010,439 Notes 4,470,475
11,510,329 Gold and silver
coin

616,825

£36,670,798

The foregoing Bank Returns show the following
results when compared with those of the preceding
week:—Notes issued, decrease 391,6901; bullion in
both departments, increase 404,2281; rest, increase
12,1401; public deposits, decrease 128,4031; other
deposits, decrease 246,8011; seven days' and other
bills, decrease 8,2801. On the credit side govern-
ment securities show a decrease of only 431; other
securities, decrease 35,4581. Notes unemployed,
increase 810,3051. Actual circulation, 19,444,8051;
increase, 327,615/.

Foreign Exchanges : Amsterdam short, 11 191 to
12 0. Do., 3 months, 12 24 to 12 21. Rotterdam,
do. 12 24 to 12 24. Antwerp do., 25 60 to 25 674
Brussels, do., 25 60 to 25 674. Hamburg do, 13 111
to 13 12. Paris, short, 25 374 to 25 45. Do., three
months, 25 721 to 25 774. Marseilles, do, 25 721 to
25 771. Frankfort, do., 1214 to 1214. Vienna, do.
10 21 to 10 25. Trieste, do., 10 23 to 10 27.
Petersburg, 364 to 364. Madrid, do., 492- to 494.
The Funds are flatter to-day, owing chiefly to
the anticipation of an unfavourable Bank return.
The abundant supply of floating stocks shown
at the Stock Exchange checks the upward ten-
dency, notwithstanding considerable steadiness is
evinced. In the morning a reaction of 4 per cent.
was temporarily quoted, but the closing quotations
were only 4 per ceat. below those of yesterday.
We give the last quotations, which stood at 934
934. In the Stock Exchange, the requirements
were considerable This was pay-day, when the
differences resulting from the last monthly
account in Consols were liquidated. To morrow,
the arrangements incidental to the fortnightly
share settlement will be commenced. At Paris,
to-day, the Three per Cent Rentes closed at about
1 better. Some discussion is beginning to arise
with reference to the delay in the arrival
of the Blackwall. This vessel sailed from
Melbourne on the 27th December, for London,
with 87,281 ozs of gold on freight, worth about
349,200/, she having been at sea 106 days. The
monthly return of the Bank of France is in many
respects a most satisfactory balance sheet, the gra-
tifying feature is the enormous increase of
upwards of two millions in the coin and bullion.
A considerable portion of this increase has been
occasioned by the influx of treasure and deposits.
It is most encouraging to find that the cessation
of
the war leads so quickly to this important improve-
ment in the position of the bank. Looking,
however, at the item of bills discounted, the trade
of France seems by no means so active as could
be wished. The Railway Share Market to day was
generally lower. We conclude our commentaries
by giving the last quotations in Railway Shares
Caledonian, 61614. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10 3-16
East Lancashire, 76 78. Great Northern, 94 941,
Ditto A, 781 794. Great Western, 644 641. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 884 884. London and
North Western, 1014 1014. Manchester Shef
field, and Lincolnshire, 284 284 Midland Stock, 741
744. North British, 341 35. South Eastern and
Dover, 724 73. York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
78 79. York and North Midland, 562 57.

FRIGHTFUL ASSAULT ON A WlFE.—Yesterday morning,
at the early sittings of the police court, before Mr.
Smith, a man, named John Robert Gibson, who resides at
No. 13, Crosshall-street, was brought up on a charge of
having nearly killed his wife, Mary Gibson. From the
evidence, it appeared that, without any provocation, the
prisoner, on returning home from work on Thursday night,
took a belt, which he wore round his tyCy, aud with it gave
the unfortunate woman a frightful beating. She had one
of her arms broken, and her whole body covered with
serious bruises. His worship committed the prisoner for
trial at the sessions.

TiriIg&—LIVZEPCOL, sATUED.,4..Y2 AP -HL 12, 18Z3

T'D it CE

(PROM OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY' EVENING

The budget of the day's news is scanty, and not
very important. The papers contain literally none
at all ; and all that I have learned from any private
sources, are a few items. The COngress has not
held any sitting to-day, and I understand it will
not hold one to-morrow.
Count Orloff, and all the members of his mission,
have refused an invitation to attend the grand ball
which the Ottoman Embassy is about to give in
honour of peace. The
_pretext is, that one of the
n gentleme of the Mission is laid up with the small-
pox, but the real reason is. that the Russians are
anxious to be impertinent to the Turks.

The Emperorineina, as you are aware, to visit
Algeria, and I hear thathis visit will, most likely,
be made towards September.
Preparations are decidedly making in the marine
department for an expedition against Madagascar,
but it will not take place for some months.
A decree of the Emperor withdraws all the decrees
prohibiting the'exportation or transit of mate
riel.

says that the Prussian

intends to negociate a treaty of com-
merce between the Zollverein and Naples-
The Patrie of this evening says
Austrian. Government ratified the treaty of peace
on the 6th, and immediately sent off the ratifica-
tions to Paris.

that the

The Paris journals of Thursday are wholly desti•
tute of news of political interest.

It is asserted that the Congress is still sitting,
and that its deliberations are •ocoupied with the
Italian question, though it is not well known what
can be done beyond giving advice to the Pope and
the King of Naples.

I. The Iltoniteur publishes the monthly account of
the Bank of France. The cash in the Bank, and
in the Branch Banks, shows an increase of up-
wards of two millions sterling since the last return.
The amounts advanced on railway securities
exhibit a slight increase, and there is a small
decline in the amount of commercial bills dis-
counted at Paris, though at the Branch Banks
there has been an increase. The Russian diplo-
matists in Paris have excused themselves from
attending the ball given by the Turkish plenipo-
tentiary, on the plea that one of their attaches has
the measles. Two vessels at Marseilles are load-
ing for the Black Sea, and one for the Baltic.
A Concordat between Russia and Rome is spoken
of as very shortly to appear.