The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

AMERICAN TIMBER.

At the date of our last circular we stated that the amount
of import was in excess of that for the same period of the
previous year, and since then the arrivals have still conti.
nued very large. • This, as might have been expected, has
had a depressing influence on the market, which, without
doubt, would have been felt to a greater extent than it has
been, if some relaxation in the money market had not in-
terposed to re-establish confidence. The rate of discount
has already been reduced one-half per cent., and the expec
tation of easier terms at the Bank of England has led to
greater accommodation on respectable securities : good paper
is now negotiable for periods to run which only a short time
since no one would accede to. The advantages thus
afforded, added to the prudent forethought of those who,
confident of an early return of better times, preferred storing
cargoes instead of pressing them on a dull market, have
been the means of maintaining a comparatively healthy and
hopeful condition of the trade. In these views they were
encouraged by a knowledge of the fact that cheap markets
induce a large consumption, and the further information
that the chief imports of the season have already arrived,
while the facilities for procuring money and the general
condition of the manufacturing interests of the country
furnish the best reason for anticipating a better trade after
the turn of the year.
PINE TIMBER : From Qttebeo 64,516 logs have been
imported against 50,749 logs at the same date last year, the
supply is fully equal to the demand; the chief portion of the
late arrivals are for account of the retail dealers, and conse-
quently few entire cargo's are on sale ; there is but little
variation in the value to note.

From St. John, N. B , the import is 31,553 legs, against
33,698 last year; the demand has been fair, and for good
quality steady prices have been realized ; 18 inch average is
worth from 4d to 6d over the average girth.
Of LOWER PORT the supply is 6,857 loge against 4,866 ;
there are no sales of the latter to report,
RED PINE : The stock is heavy, 40 feet average is sale.
able at 21d per foot,
OAK AND Ear : The former is worth 22d to 2s 41 as in
quality, the latter at 21d to 22d per foot with the cargo.
HARDWOOD St. John of large average has been Kid at
full prices in small lots ; 14 to 15 inch is worth 18d to 19d
per foot. Of Lower port there has been several parcels
sold at various prices, as in quality and size, from 14d to
18d per foot.
N. B. AND N. S. PINE • AND SERVOS DEALS : Since the
Ist February, the import sums up to 4,463,814 pieces of
Pine and Spruce, against 4,351,820 pieces at same date last
year. A large quantity has arrived during the last fiat.
night, and prices are again decidedly in favour of the buyer.
Yarding bas been to a considerable extent resorted to, or in
all probabilty the market would have been still further
depressed ; prices do not generally transpire when entire
cargoes are sold. The late auction sales will give some
idea of the value of these articles. On the sth instant, the
cargo ex lonian, from St. John, N. 8., was sold from the
quay by auction, in small lots, at from £8 to £9, and aboat
an average of £8 lis per standard.
QUEBEC DEALS have been sold at £l5 17s 6d per stan-
dard, for first quality, with the usual reduction for the lower
grades. _ _

SPRUCE SPARS are sold, when of proper sizes and fresh in
quality, at 14d per foot ; they have been sold at 10d when
wanting in quality.
PITCH PINE : A cargo from Ship Island has been sold
at 23d. per foot.
TEAK Woon : No sales to report ; the stock small.
Since our annual circular, dated Ist February, 392 ves-
sels, 296,346 tons register, wood laden, have arrived from
British North America, TiZ., 107 from Quebec, 141 from

St. Jan, N. B. and 144 froi
date last year, 330 vessels, 295.
TABLE OF
From Ist F-bruarv, 1

n other ports ;
,296 had arrived,
I at PORTS.

18r.6. to thia date.

A the same

. . ..
IMPORTED bo ° „, - 4 a" 0 a- ra,t
ea. 0 M 11 :".• op PROM . .-1.1 441 ..tt Ase.=
rft.
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Quebec 54515 6347 3605 5097 969 437 I 329531 ..
St. John, 19.13 34553 8739 2665449 2592
Other Ports_ 6857 • • .. • . 9159 1728365
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Total 95925 6347 3605 5097 969 18335 4791345 2592
Same time last year.
ai
IMPORTED ro Cb 3 G OOY re A rt I .5f
0 -7. 0 at O 5
FROM Oa. •••7 71
. P.l
-- - -
50749 2602 4402 3607 31 36 341801
St. John, N. 8., 33698 .. • . • • 16874 2640068
Other Ports..., 4866 .. 6959 1711752
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Tots' 89313 2602 4402 3607 31 176E9 4693(121

BALTIC TIMB tit.

The imports from the north of Europe have employed,
22,908 tons register this season against 10,117 last year.
A few small parcels have been sold, prices do not transpire.
Tne stock on the. let instant exceeds that of the same date
last year about 80 per cent, "

Si,Aus are dull Of sale, unless of good quality and suit-
able sizes.

DEALS AND BATTENS : The supply exceeds the demand
and prices are lower. Several parcels have been yarded by
the importers

LATHWOOD is worth 355. to 40s. per fy)t.
STAVES: Riga Crown Pipe have been sold at £l4O
per M.

Since lat February 74 vessels, 22,908 tons have arrived,
against 35 vessels, 10,117 tons, to date last year.

A. F. SCD. MACKAY.

EXTRACT FROM A WOOD SALE CATALOGUE.
SALE TOOK PLACE, IN LIVERPOOL, ON THE 18TH
DECEMBER, 1856.
" From a Circular (v;z., Mr. Edward Cbaloner's own)
relating to the last auction of Whitewoods, I beg to refer
as follows :

- "Liverpool; Qleen's Dock, Dec. 2, 1856.
" If the measurement was always uniform, or the party
performing_ this quay measure disinterested, cargoes would
not be destined from British America ti the Liverpool
market under a guarantee that they are not to lose more
than 3} per cent. from the in-take measure, partieularly
when taking into account that, in the thickness alone of
certain deals shipped as two or three inches, the buyer
may be legally entitled to from 161 to 25 per cent. tare,
irrespective of further allowance in his favour for all wanes
and shortness of lengths, (in which nothing under the foot
is chargeable), and these condemned deals, as it were, may,
perhaps, be as convertible for most purposes, as those that
do not admit of any reduction whatever from the original
measure. .

" I do not mean to assert that there are not others in
the wholesale trade, who give an honest quay measurement ;
but when we see woods used for the same purpose, varying
in their mode of measorement to the extent of sixty seven
per cent., it shows that it is as needful to know the meaFure
as the prig, and the desirability of a more uniform system
of measurement."

In reference to the preceding, which which we find quoted
in a catalogue published by Mr. Edward Chaloner, and
with which we cannot believe there is more than one man
in Liverpool who would associate his name, we can only
say we should have taken no notice of it, its worthless
absurdity being its best refutation ; were it not that such
statements, falling into the hands of uninformed parties,
are apt to cleat° prejudices, to obviate this evil effect, we
can only say that a tissue of more ridiculous insinuations
against the character of a respectable trade, never were
strung together; parties at all conversant with the Timber
Trade of Liverpool (and they are numerous), know that
each particular kind of Wood, whether Hard or Soft, is
measured by a standard peculiar to itself, which standard is
uniformly applied in all instances, unless, indeed, the author
of the circular referred to, prove an exception to the rule,
and apply an auctioneer's " eiding scale" in particular in-
stances, instead of the standard and established rule of
measurement.

TRIAL OF A SOLDIER FOR SHOOTING HIS
COMRADE.

At the Maidstone assizes, o❑ Wednesday, Thomas Mansell,
a private in the 49th regiment, was indicted- fur the wilful
murder of Alexander M'Burney, at Hougham, in Dover, on
the 27th of August last. It appeared from the evidence
adduced that M'Burney had been a lance corporal in the regi-
ment in which the prisoner served as a private. They had
been on bad terms for some time previous to the death of the
deceased, in consequence of a charge which had been preferred
by the prisoner against M'Burney, of having appropriated to
his own use a pair of new boots which had been delivered to
the prisoner in the Crimea. On the 27th of August the
regiment was encamped in the Hospital Meadows, at Dover;
and early on the morning of that day Mansell Was seen to
leave his tent, and approach that in which M'Burney was
stationed. On nearing the tent he deliberately raised his rifle
and presented it at M'Burney, who was engaged at the time in
cleaning his accoutrements. A soldier in the same tent acci-
dentally stepped between the prisoner and M'Burney, and
Mansell then. lowered the gun, and walked nearer to the tent
On approaching to within three yards of M'Bnrney he again
raised the rifle and fired. M'Burney received the charge in
his side, and exclaiming, "Mansell has shot me," he fell to
the ground. He was conveyed to the hospital, but expired
almost immediately. Mansell was at once secured, and made
no attempt to deny the crime which he had committed. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the judge passed sentence
of death upon the prisoner in the usual form.

SERIOUS CASE OF STABBING AT BRIGHTON-

A t the Brighton Borough Bench, on Wednesday, a tail,
gentlemanly youth, who gave the name of Charles Henri*
and who is 19 years' of age, and son of Lady Girdlestone,
was charged with stabbing a girl of the town, named Julia
Blundel Paine. The girl had been removed to the hospital,
and, owing to the injuries received, was not in a condition to
he present to give evidence. It appeared, from the evidence,
that the prisoner had been seen parading the streets, brandish-
ing a knife, and threatening to stab the first who interfered
with him. Having met the unfortunate girl, Paine, the
prisoner went up to her, and said, " llolloa, old girl, how do
you get on ?" making use of very obscene language. The
female said, "I do not know you, sir." The prisoner hid
got a knife open in his hull and he mado an underhand stab
at the girl, saying, " How do you like this ?" Tho female
stood for a moment, when she cried out, " Oh, you have mur-
dered me." He was then taken into custody, and the female,
who was found to have sustained a wound in the left groin,
about three-quarters of an inch in length, was removed to the
hospital. The prisoner was remanded t) Saturday, when it is
expected the girl will be able to attend, bail being refused.

ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE BATH

JUDGMENT.

It has been discovered that the judgment of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury pronounced upon Archdeacon.
Denison, even if it be confirmed by the Judicial Committee
of Privy Council, will only apply to the vicarage which
he holds, and will not deprive him of his higher offiee,
that of Archdeacon of Taunton. Burn, in his " Eccles-
iastical Law," vol. i., p. 69, has this sentence, " Arch-
deacons, by the 13th and 14th, c. 2, c. 4, are to read the
Common 'Prayer, and declare their assent thereunto, as
other persons admitted to ecclesiastical benefices, and
also must subscribe the same before the Ordinary, but
they are not obliged by the 13th Elizabeth to subscribe,
and read the-Thirty-nine Articles, for although an
arebdeaconry be a benefice with cure, yet it is not such
a benefice with cure as seems to be intended by that
statute, but only such benefices with cure as have
particular churches belonging to them." The Arch-
deacon's friends will rely upon the non-napplicability of
ehe statute to the office of an archdeacon, to vitiate the whole
judgment of the Archbishop. A committee, consisting
of the Earl Nelson, Mr. A. J. Beresford Hope, Mr. T.
Gambier Parry, Mr. F. H. Dickinson, and the Rev. J.
Keble, has been formed for the purpose of collecting and
disbursing the funds required for' the prosecution of the
Archdeacon's defence in its future stages.

SCREW CoLuaus. —Arrangements are being made on the
Tyne to introduce a class of vessels into the coal trade which
if the experiment prove successful, mu t materially affect
the fortunes of this branch of our mercantile marine. The
present class of screw colliers carry from five to six hundred
tons ; but Mr. Hugh Taylor, the chairman of the London
Coal Exchange, and other gentlemen engaged in similar
operations, hai e determined to build a fl?et of vessels to be
employed in this trade, capable of doing more than double
the duty performed by the moderately sized vessels now in
use; and, from the standing of the parties, and their great
experience in this trade, there is just reason for believing
that the movement is in the right direction. Messrs. Chas
Mitchell and Co of Walker, are building the first of these
vessels. She will be 250 feet long, 35 feet broad, and of
corresponding depth, and will carry 1500 tons of cargo, and
snfficient fuel for the voyage. The bottom of the ship will
be made double, end will be constructed on the cellular
tubular principle, the same as adopted in the Great Eastern
steamship building at Millwall. The space between the
double bottom will be made available for carrying water
ballast on the return voyage, of which there will be 450
tons. Messrs. Mitchell and Co. are also building another
class of iron screw colliers, to gp with cargoes above bridge
n the Thames,