The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-11 00:00:00

TO COFFEE DRINKERS

COMPARE SHARPE and CO.'S COFFEE
14, EXCHANGE-STREET EAST,
With any other, and you will admit it to be the best you
have ever tasted. Only one quality.—ls 6d per lb. No
other article sold.

PAPER HANGINGS, DECORATIONS, &c.
London, French, and own Manufacture.—W. SHIERS
and Co., Proprietors, 3, Deansgate, (Old Church-end), Man-
chester.

ARESPECTABLE HOUSE can be regularly
supplied with good Engine Coal.
Apply to Box C. A. this office.
Liverpool, 8 Nov., 1853.

PORT.—J. MOTT & SONS have now ready
for bottling the choicest WINES, of 1847 and 1851.
Samples may be tasted at their counting-house, or sample
bottles forwarded to the country.

SHERRY.—J. MOTT & SONS have recently imported
several varieties of very splendid SHERRIES, which they can
offer to connoisseurs at 50s. per dozan.
SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

MARBLE WORKS, 32, NORTON-STREET, LIVER-
POOL—J. BItANSON begs to announce that he has
on hand a large STOCK of superior MARBLE CHIM-
NEY-PIECES, in the newest designs, from £2 to £25 each.
MONUMENTS, TOMBS, BATHS, &c.,
at very low prices.

Fr HE STRANGWAYS-HALL COAL COM
PANY, WIGAN.—The above Company, have Re-
moved their Offices, from 41, Oldhall-street, to DERBY-
BUILDINGS, Fenwick-street, and are in a position to supply
the best quality of steam or house Coal without delay.
Vesselsloaded in GarstonDoek, if required. Orders also taken
for Rock and White Salt, for shipment in Liverpool or
Runcorn. JAMES H. JOHNSON, Agent.
Derby-buildings, Fenwick-street, Liverpool.

FRIDAY.

NOVEMBER 11, 1853

WE are enabled to give to-clay those Returns of
Trade and Navigation which we were compelled to
omit in our publication of yesterday, owing to the

crowded state of our columns. In discharge of
this duty we feel no small pride and satisfaction at
the strong testimony they bear to the correctness
of tkose views and opinions we have so repeatedly
advanced on the subject of our import and export
trade. When alluding to the fiscal and other

monetary affairs of this country, we have instanced
the growing prosperity of trade generally in sup-
)ort of those arguments we have used in opposition
,o the sudden interruptions and tamperings with

the currency and circulation which have taken
place within the last few months. The increased
influx of bullion into this market having become a
paramount, commercial necessity with nearly all

the gold producers, we have contended that the
imports and exports of that metal can no longer
be taken as a basis whereby we can form anything
like an estimate of the actual stability or instabi-
lity of trade.

The only true test we have now remaining is the
actual state of production. If we go on producing
continuously, and receiving the productions of
other countries in exchange to the full extent of
our internal and external demands, then trade and

ommerce may be said to be in a prosperous con-

dition. And as it is from the excess of our exports
of production over our imports of those of other
countries that we derive our largest profit., the
tables under review give a clearer insight into the
real condition of trade, than the banking returns
which show merely the state of the bullion market

and the vast ramifications of the monetary trans

actions of the community at large

The aggregate value of our exports during the
first nine months of the year has been 66,987,7291.,
against 54,391,4381., in the like period of 1852,
showing an increase of 12,597,291/., or upwards of
23 per cent., which has occurred in the following
order :

Month ending Increase.
February 5 £1,410,060
March 5
April 6 1,486,818
May 5 2,309,995
June 5 1,187,558
July 5
August 5 1,405,918
September 5
October 10
As compared with the same period of 1851, there
has been an increase of 13,482,7511. But we lament

to say that, owing to the constant agitation of the
war question, and the disordered state of the produc-
tive labour-market—these returns show a consider-
able decrease in the export of Cotton Manufac-
tures. This is, however, made up from the increas-
ed exports of haberdashery and ready-made cloth-
ing of all kinds. These have been met by a
corresponding increase in the articles of food
imported and taken for consumption. The quan-
ties of wheat and flour have been large, and the
consumption of all other items of food, with the
ption of sugar and spices, which show scarcely

any alteration, has been considerably in excess of
former years. Coffee maintains the advance it has
shown ever since the adoption of the regulation
against surreptitious use of chicory.

Subjoined are the specific quantities imported
and taken for home consumption : _

Taken for Rome
Imported. Consumption.
Month ending Oct. 10 Month ending Oct. 10
1852. 1 553. 1852. 1853.
Grain, wheat, qrs. 315,504 468,468 315,654 468,888
Grains of other de-

scriptions, qrs... 233,586 263,806 234,936 263,836
Indian Corn, qrs. 192,863 125,512 192,863 125,612
Flour & meal, cwt 298,563 464,092 298,563 464,392
Provisions. —Ba-
con, pork, lard,
&c., cwt
Butter and cheese,
cwt

21,270

32,211 Free. Free

62,942 111,825 66,048 106,049
Animals, N 0.... 60,361 47,608 Free. Free.
Eggs, No 7,175,676 10,724,170 7,193,616 10,724,170
Cocoa, lb ...... .. 324,185 967,951 333,228 356,820

Coffee, British,lb 6,733,895 4,633,042 2,427,760 2,631,911
Do. foreign. lb.. 395,007 3,631,094 764,656 750,383

Total coffee.. 7,128,902 8,264,136 3,192,416 3,382,294

Sugar—
West India cwt 315,761 395,897 434,909 297,278
Mauritius, cwt. 49,078 63,540 93,843 72,609
East India, cwt 93,250 102,269 136,605 85,722
Foreign, cwt.. 108,636 279,418 81,438 263,692

Total sugar... 566,725 841,124 745,795 719,301

Tea, lb 3,072,372 4,862,989 5,496,224 5,535,723
Rice, cwt....... 151,618 197,084 42,922 91,206
Spirits, gallons 950,465 876,847 487,777 623,396
Wines, gallons.. 227,918 848,601 684,000 762,838
Opium, lb 23,863 36,759 7,072 7,330
Tobacco, 1b....2,608,242 5,652,037 2,777,991 2,874,944
Currants, figs, &
raisins, cwt 107,495 86,005 82,270 39,155
Spices, lb 1,222.744 1,089,666 498,207 493,870
Ditto, cwt....... 2,128 128 446 613

The comparative statement of imports and ex-
ports of raw materials are not quite as satisfactory
as the foregoing, considering that they embrace

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

large imports of flax and hemp which might be ? nostrums, the after-dinner speeches of the former
grown in increased quantities to the greatest advan• can only be so much dangerous folly, which would
tape both in England and Ireland : allow an avowed enemy time to collect his forces,
Imported. Exported.
Las hostile and throw up entrenchments, which would render
Month ending Oct. 10, Month ending Oct. 10, b • •
1852. 1853. his position daily more formidable. If
Flax, cwt 181,775 321,340 1_852. 1853.
Russia needed an ally, she could ask for no more
Hemp, cwt 221,020 324,986 than a Ministry that would preach peace, and
Raw silk, lb 575,926 463,069 60,070 47,426
Cotton, cwt 296,527 395,772 99,807 143,763 people who would remain passive while she was
Wool, lb 7,806,614 14,919,871 514,555 434,378 replenishing her treasury, recruiting her army, and
Tallow, cwt 91,021 173,599 concentrating the whole of her available force on
Of silk manufactures the totals stand thus : the point of attack.
Taken for Home' Victory is more than half accomplished in a
Imported Consumption.
Month ending Oct.lo, Month ending Oct.lo. campaign commenced under such advantages.

1853. Fortunately for humanity the Ottomans have not
Silk, manufactures suffered themselves to be deluded. They see the
of Europe, lb.. 77,530 111,698 75,956 104,395
marauding enemy on their soil: The know his
Do. of India pieces 74,967 29,374 13,411 10,218 y
Great activity is also shown in the imports of character, and with a noble enthusiastic love of
metals, glass, leather manufactures, palm oil and country and creed, they hasten on events, and
timber, and the increase in each of these commo-
marched forward to battle, and with no mean pros-
dities is unusually large. The returns of breadstiiffs pectS of success ! But we repeat the question we
imported are equally satisfactory, and we have here have so emphatically urged before. How will Europereceive the defeat of either Russia or Turkey
the comparative imports of grain and flour for the
Continental countries have vast interests pending
first nine months of 1851, 1852, and the present
on their success, and here lies the danger of defeat
Eight months ending Oct. 10. on either side. If Russia gains a victory, the
1851. 1852. 1853. sympathies of liberal Europe will be aroused to
Wheat, quarters 3,377,208 .. 1,994,734 .. 3,770,920 vengeance in favour of the Turks. And if Turkey
Indian corn, ditto 1,435,094 .. 1,006,239 .. 1,408,062 sustains her cause by victory, the despotic states,
Other grain, ditto 2,165,853 .. 1,668,609 .. 1,914,471
Flour, cwt 4,461,517 .. 3,197,587 .. 3,802,745 must, in self-defence, take up the Russian flag, and
r
Taken as a whole these returns show a degree of reinstate it in all its power. Looking at these
dangers, as they hang at this instant over the des-
stability and prosperity which it is difficult to un-
tithes of Europe, let
_us hope that the silence of
derstand when we consider the intensity with which
t
the great " screw" of the Bank has been employed the British Cabinet is not a tame feeling of som
for the express purpose of limiting trade and nolency, but that it is the result of statesmanlike
checking production, which is the ruling crochet considerations, which will bear the strict scrutiny Of
of our Threadneedle-street money-mongers. . Parliament, as well as of Time itself.____ •

The Navigation returns also exhibit very favour—. HONOUR among Thieves !—So the proverb goes.
able results. The number of vessels and amount And we only wish that a similar commendation
of tonnage, employed in our foreign trade and could •be legitimately bestowed upon Town Coun-
entered inwards for the nine months ending the cillors—not, however, so much for their own sakes
10th of October, are ships, 26,677; tonnage, as for the public welfare.
5,869,701, being an increase over the same period A Town Council meeting was held on Wednesday,
of 1852, ships, 4,804; tonnage, 26,860. The num- ostensibly to transact the business of the Borough,
a
ber of vessels and amount of tonnage cleared out-
lengthy report of which appeared in our columns
wards, for the same period, are, ships, 27,056 ; of yesterday; but as to the manner in which that
tonnage, 5,880,745 ; being an increase of 1,573 business was performed is quite a different thing.
We think we may safely assert, that the conduct
ships; 427,836 tonnage. The returns of vessels
employed in our coasting trade, exhibit about the pursued by some of the Councillors on that occa-
same ratio of increase. The number of ships and sion is without a parallel in modern times. Ii
amount of tonnage entered inwards, are as follows: Billingsgate had been transferred to the civic
—vessels, 103,369 ; tonnage, 9,905,042 ; being an Olympus, and the fishy declaimers had uttered
increase of 2,163 ships; 403,151 tonnage. The some of their coarsest tropes and ribald rhetoric,
figures relating to the outward clearances, are ships, we could not have well had a more scaly or be-
-112,731; tonnage, 10,317,291; being an increase of grimed oratorical display. The chief actors were
183,327 tonnage; and a decrease of 2,126 ships. Messrs. BRADLEY and HODSON, who haplessly veri-
fied the truth of the adage that " two of a trade

AT a moment when the whole empire is waiting
in breathless anxiety, to hear something really
comprehensible on the subject of the War, now
actually raging in all its horrors in Eastern Europe,
and which threatens to spread over the Continents
of Europe and Asia, her Majesty's Ministers
appear at the public banquet of the Lord Mayor
of London. They again speak on public topics,
but not a word is suffered to escape their lips on
this vital imperial question. After heaping a great-
deal of twaddling flattery on the vain-glorious mul-
titude assembled at the civic feast, Lord ABERDEEN
goes on to say :—" My Lord Mayor, some time
ago, and when I last had the honour of being the
guest of your predecessor in office, I declared—,
perhitps in the hearing of some who are here

can never agree." One gentleman aspersed the
character of the other, and that other retorted, by
characterising his opponent as being " nothing
more than a gamblei• and blackleg on the town."
Then indescribable confusion ensued, whilst the
efforts of other members to restore order only
made " confusion worse confounded." Altogether
it was a rare sight, which BURKE would conclude
partook more of the sublime than the beautiful ; but
in our opinion savoured more of the ridiculous than
either !

LUCIAN paints the belligerent philosophers of his
day as wiping the perspiration from their brow
with a bent finger while uttering their vociferations,
and as separating after having done little else than

present—that the policy of her Majesty's Govern-
ment was a policy of peace. "My lord, I desire
on this occasion to repeat that declaration. I
would go farther, and say that no other principle
of policy will ever be announced by me. But, my
Lord, emphatic as these words may be, they are
not to be understood as signifying that it is im-
possible we should have war. On the contrary,
we know full well that this cannot be the case;
but they signify, as far as I am concerned, that
war will never be undertaken by me but with
reluctance, and never but when it is demanded—
plainly demanded—by a sense of what is due to
the honour and interests of this country. This
I believe to be the duty of an English Minister—l
am quite certain it is the duty of a Christian
man."

abuse each other to the utmost; that man being
generally regarded as the victor who had exceeded
in the boldness and loudness of his denunciations !
It is plain that our Town Councillors have faith-
fully copied their " manners and customs" from
this classical original.

Tiny mortals ! " dressed in a little brief autho-
rity." How they thunder !

" Si quotics peccant homines sua fulmina mittat.
Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit."
They will, most assuredly, bark, and foam, and
abuse each other to death, ere long. What a
splendid opportunity for the Peace Society to
test its practical utility—in a small way. Surely,
if it cannot effect some good in such a quarter, it
had as well been given up as a bad " spec."
But, in grave earnestness, let us ask, How long
is the character of the Corporation to be disgraced,
and the respectability of the town compromised,
by such unseemly, unwise, and unpardonable oc-
currences ? In such cases, unfortunately, the
belligerents themselves are not the only individu-
als who suffer in reputation and position. The
innocent share in the opprobrium as well as the
guilty. In all public and corporate bodies the mis-
conduct of a few becomes reflected on the whole—
so that all the members suffer together.. Doubt-
less, there are manifest advantages, as well as the
reverse, to be gained by this. And it only shows how
extremely cautious constituencies should be, in
placing municipal power in the hands of unworthy,
quarrelsome, or disreputable parties. All men.
learn best by experience. We trust that the
Burgesses of this important town will profit by
that which has just been afforded them.

Here the Premier seems to forget that it is the
duty of every Christian man to deplore the calami-
ties of war when they actually exist; and he goes
on speaking of what his individual policy would be
in case war was " demanded—plainly demanded—
by a sense of what is due to the honour and, inte-
rests of this country." This is simply a most
painful evasion of a question in which both the
honor and interests of this country have already
suffered, and which are at this moment most dis-
tinctly and disastrously threatened.
In preparing the toast to which Lord CLABENDON
was to respond, care was taken not to couple our
Foreign Secretary's name with the diplomatic
affairs of Europe. Such a course must have com-
promised an unwilling minister. His name was,
therefore, proposed in connection with the House
of Lords, whose high attributes he very appropri-
ately extolled, when the able propounder of diplo-
matic mysteries makes a hurried bow and resumes
his seat.

O Tempora! 0 Mayor! So the ex-chief magis-
trate of Liverpool, upon his own testimony, had
not, until Monday evening last, been aware of the
existence of the NORTHERN DAILY Tams ! The
first daily provincial newspaper ever published in
this country, to be circulating far and wide for
nearly two months,—drawing forth encomiums
from its London, Irish, and even American, con-
temporaries—and yet the very Mayor of the town
wherein it is published, to be ignorant of the
fact !! ! And this in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-three,—when
Mayors do read and Aldermen can sign their
names ! Incredible ! Really " charity" which
" believeth all things," can scarcely accredit this.
It is always wise to be prudent. It would appear,
it was:sometimes imprudent to be wise ! i. e., if one
confess it. No doubt

We next find Lord JOHN RUSSELL on his legs,
responding to a toast in which his Lordship's name
is linked with " every measure of public improve-
ment ;" and in order to keep as far away as pos-
sible from matters which interest the whole
commercial community of the United Kingdom,
he travels back to the foundation of the Corpora-
tion of London, and concludes a remarkably short
speech, for a leader of the House of Commons, by
stating, that he thought his hearers " should pro-
ceed upon the principle on which the Corporation
was founded—the free election by the citizens of
their own magistrates."
The next, and indeed the last, of the Ministers
who spoke, was Viscount PALMERSTON, who, after
dealing somewhat facetiously with the American
Minister's assumed amazement at what he saw
before him, passes by Turkey and Russia as if he
had never heard of those countries, and, being
struck by the galaxy of beauty around him, he calls
on "the gentlemen present, to join him in drinking
the health of the Lady Mayoress and the ladies."
Thus in these few lines we have given a perfect
review of the speeches of the Cabinet Ministers of
this country, who, although they have not gone
through the mere form of declaring war,—have
taken steps which nothing short of a state of actual
war could justify. When the Peace Conference
talked of peace, as a result which might be attained
at any time by the employment of moral means,
they were absolutely scouted by the most rabid of
the Ministerial journals, and now, when our fleet
is in the 'Dardanelles, merely waiting upon some
trifling accident to bring it into action—while the
territory of an unoffending and allied power is
threatened with usurpation, and while our honor,
trade, and industry have all been disregarded by
the perfidious AUTOCRAT, Lord ABERDEEN comes
forward with a second hand addition of " the
whole duties of man," and endeavours to make the
world believe that he is more a peace-man, than
any member of the Peace Congress itself.
To exclude the Premier of Peace at a moment when
the country is really at war, from the castigation
which was bestowed on the Congressional peace-
makers, would be acting unfairly towards both. If
the arguments of the latter are merely so many

"Where Ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise,"

and 'twould be a pity to disturb the calm quietude
of mortals so disposed ; but we have grave suspi-
cions that, in the present case, the language:of the
jolly Duke of BUCKINGHAM. to his boon companion,
CHARLES 11., would neither be inapplicable nor
misplaced : " He could know things if he would !"

On the day preceding the civic banquet at the
Town Hall, one of the gentlemen from our office
waited upon the Mayor, at his official residence, to
request the privilege in such cases generally con-
ferred, without being put to the trouble of asking.
His civic majesty then replied, that invitations had
been sent to the Courier and Mercury; that it
would not be convenient to extend them further,

and confessed his unacquaintance with such a
journal as that gentleman represented, until by
mere casualty, on " the previous evening," he had
acquired the information !

The refusal of such an ordinary priVilege on the
part of the ex-Mayor was most unusual, evidently
partial, and manifestly unjust. Ours being a daily
newspaper we could not,—if we would,—copy the
report of the proceedings from our local contempo-
raries, and hence the paper which possessed the
intelligence would certainly have the advantage
over our own. In the metropolis, the daily papers
are the most favored on such occasions. But we
only asked to be placed precisely on an equality of
privilege with the other journals of the town—a

privilege respectfully asked ; but very improperly
denied: We had no object in view beyond that of
serving the public—a most laudable one, truly.
Had we received an invitation we could not our-
selves have accepted it—having more important
business to perform than drinking and dancing a
Mayor out of office—the most we could have done,
under the circumstances, would have been to send

one of our police reporters, and let him give as
graphic a description as he was able of
" Such a row, such a rumpus, and a bobbery :"

though, probably, we may feel disposed to deck it
out, like the tale of PSYCHE, with a little meretri-
cious ornament of our own, as few things now-a-
days—from " Lord SID-NEE'S show" to a Mayor's
Soiree, can meet the public eye, in puris naturalibus,
without eliciting sentiments anything but laudatory.
Nevertheless there are " CHING-BANG-BUNGS" in
the world, and plenty of them, ever ready to

observe carefully, and report fully; and " LoLLum
SQUINNYIS." in abundance, who will afford a ready
ear to every particle of information thus conveyed.
Tomfooleries are not rare things in this planet of
The present time is like the foreworld.

" Punch and Judy" are types of many a reality,
which we have only to open our eyes to see. GOGS
and MAGOGS are to be found outside of the Guildhall;
and those divinities have other worshippers beside
the London Aldermen ! But " none are so blind
as those that will not see." When DEMOSTHENES
could.not prevail upon the Athenians to give atten-
tion to him when their safety was concerned, he
at once abandoned his seriousness, and told them
a story about an ass! Thus has " humbug

been successful, and shadows and " shams " taken
the places of substances and realities.

But there is little use in ta,lking over the past.
The ex-mayor, and his banquet, are of no manner
of importance to us now—" What is honour to him
who died o' Wednesday ?" Nor should we have
noticed either, were our individual tastes to be
consulted. As it is, we feel grieved that Liver-
pool should have possessed a chief magistrate, so
deeply bound up and interested in the general
progress and welfare of the borough, as to be un-
acquainted with one of the main agencies calcula-
ted to promote them, although that power had
been a considerable time in successful operation.
But, " better late than never!" and we trust that,
in the exercise of his aldermanic functions he
will not be so slow to learn, or so dull to hear !
Unfortunately, it is to be feared that, in too many
instances, public men cause Truth itself to " make
court'sy to their will ;" and under the mask of
specious ignorance, - would fain hide miserable
party feelings, and contemptible petty prejudices.
The language of ANGELO, in Measure for Measure,
is not an inapt illustration of the duplicity of
office—

How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls
To thy false seeming ?"

THE NEW MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—We stated in our
impression of yesterday the probability of Mr. J. H. Brancker
becoming a candidate for the representation of Abercromby
Ward, rendered vacant by Mr. R. C. Gardner having been
appointed an Alderman. We are now, however, enabled to
state that Mr. William Earle will be the candidate in the
liberal interest. A highly respectable and numerously at-
tended meeting of the Electors of the Ward was held last
evening, at the house of Mr. Craig, Mulberry-street, when
Mr. Earle's candidature was unanimously agreed upon. His
address appears in our advertising columns, and we have much
gratification in referring our readers to the purely straight-
forward and independent sentiments there enunciated. We
understand that Mr. Thomas Lee is to be brought forward
by the Conservative party. In Pitt-street Ward we leans
that Mr. John Smith is to be opposed by Mr. William
Mann, an ultra " Protectionist," who comes forward under
the cry of the old protective hulk of " ships, colonies, and
commerce," his opponent, Mr. Smith, being, on the other
hand, captain of the :free-trade barque, which has brought
prosperity and happiness to all classes in the country. The
elections will take place on Saturday.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign
Office, at two o'clock. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
arrived in town yesterday morning, from Windsor, to attend
the Council, and returned to the Castle in the evening.
Despatches were received at the Colonial Office, yesterday
morning from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands.

DISCOVERY OF A NEW PLANET.-Mr. J. R. Hinde, of Mr.
Bishop's Observatory, made the following announcement
yesterday :—At 7h. 50m. mean time last evening, I disco-
vered a new planet in the constellation Taurus, about 2 dg.
south of the ecliptic. It is rather brighter than stars of the
ninth magnitude. This planet is the ninth which I have
discovered since the commencement of a systematic search in
1845, and raises the number of that extraordinary group of
worlds between Mars and Jupiter to 27.

VEGETARIAN BANQUET.—The members of the Liverpool
Vegetarian Society assembled in the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street, last night, to partake of their first vegetarian
dinner for the season. Mr. James Simpson, president of
the society presided, and he was supported by Mr. James
Larner, Framlingham, Suffolk. There were upwards of 200
persons, male and female, present. After dinner, the com-
pany was addressed by the chairman and other parties in
support of the system.

THE LIVERPOOL V: LONDON MUNICIPALITY.-Mr. John
Dillon, of the firm of Morrison Dillon, and Co., whilst
under examination, yesterday, before the London City Com-
missioner, stated that many of the London merchans would
not devote themselves to city matters. There was a great
difference between the municipality of London and that of
Liverpool, for what reason he could not say.
THE LATE FAILURE OF AN INTENDED BALLOON ASCENT.
—We gave in our Saturday's publication, a report of the
particulars of this case, which came on for heanirg last
Thursday, before Robert Brandt, Esq., Judge of the Man-
chester County Court. The plaintiff, it will be remem-
bered, was Mrs. Graham, the well-known aeronaut, and the
defendant was Mr. Beardsley, of the Pomona Gardens.
The action was brought to recover a sum of money for
fog two intended ascents, and expenses. The case was re-
sumed yesterday, when the learned judge gave a verdict for
the plaintiff.

Joseph Acton, Esq., a country magistrate, was elected
Mayor of Wigan, on Wednesday. .

In the London civic tableau, on Wednesday, of "Peace
and Prosperity," the chief features were two ladies, seated
almost in mid-air, over the representation of a globe—a
sleeping lion reposing below them. The exigencies of
threatrical life may be judged from the fact, that one of
these ladies, who was expected to be all " smiles and sun-
shine" to the world, was actually secretly mourning the loss
of a husband, whose corpse was scarcely buried.
The Rev. Dr. Aspinall, late curate of St. Matthias' church,
Liverpool, has been licensed by the Bishop of Moray and
Ross to the incumbency of the Episcopal Church at Duffus,
Morayshire, vice the Rev. D. W. Cameron.
THE LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNERS.—On Wednesday, Mr. S.
R. Graves and Mr. Fernie, of Liverpool, on behalf of the
Shipowners' Association, had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, at the Board of Trade.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM AND STOUR VALLEY
RAILWAYS. —The question of tolls and station accommoda-
tion between these companies has been referred to the arbi-
tration of Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Company, who is deputed to hear both
parties.

DEATH OF AN INFANT FROM OVERLAYING.— A child
named Margaret Hamilton, only 3 weeks old, whose parents
live at 14, Back Parliament-street, was found by its mother
in a dying state yesterday morning, and soon afterwards
expired,_by suffocation from overlaying.

.THE .Nivc, MAYOR OF MANCRFIEEbt; Benjamin Nicholls,
Esq., qualified yesterday morning as Chief Magistrate of the
city.

THE NEW MAYOR OF SALFORD, William Ross, Esq., qua-
lified as the Chief Magistrate of the borough, yesterday
morning, and then took his seat in the Borough Court.
DEATH BY DROWNING.—Between nine and ten yesterday
morning a man named Hugh Johnson, whilst trawling his
flat in the locks, picked np kthe dead body of a man, name
unknown, floating in the canal locks at the entrance to
Stanley Dock. He appeared to have been between 40 and
50 years, was 5 feet 7 inches in height, with sandy whiskers,
and had on an oil skin coat.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Catherine Boland, who
was taken to the Northern Hospital on Monday, suffering
fiorn injuries caused by a blow inflicted by her husband,
Thomas Boland, at 19 court, Chisenhale-street, as: detailed
in our issue of Tuesday, died at half-past tour yesterday
morning. The operation of trepanning was performed
before her death. The unhnppy husband was yesterday
arrested in bed at his lodgings, and was conveyed to the
Main Bridewell to 'await the issue of a coroner's inquest, to
be held this day.