The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-28 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
There has been less activity in the Liverpool
L Cotton Market to-day, and, with only a moderate
demand, there has been a falling off in the amount
of business done. The total sales are only 6,000
bales, including 1,000 taken for speculation and
export. Prices continue very firm.
The Liverpool Share Market opened at an ad-
vance of per cent. upon yesterday's closing
prices, in consequence of the announcement of the
prospect of an immediate signing of preliminaries
of peace, and the improvement Continued to
the close, prices leaving off upwards of one
per cent. better than yesterday, and the tone
firm :—Aberdeen, 111 12. Chester and Birken-
head, 131 131. Caledonian, 281 281. Chester
and Holyhead, 121 131. Eastern Counties,
8 13-16 8 15-16. East Lancashire, 18# 183. Great
Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 91 10:. Great
Western, 561 571. Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock 801804. Liverpool, Crosby: and Southport,
141- 15. London and North Western Stock, 081981.
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 25 251. Ditto
Preference, 131 131. Ditto New 6 per cent
Pref., 1 I.p. Midland Stock, 681 69. North
British, 7 11-16 7 13-16. North Staffordshire, 74 71d.
South Eastern and Dover, 18 5-16 181. York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 18,1 181. York and North Mid-
land, 241 241. Leeds Capital Stock, 131141. Dutch
Rhenish, x all 4p. Ditto New Shares, 2 3.16 21p:
Great Western of Canada, 251 264. Ditto New
Shares, 31 31p. Great Luxembourg, 81 83d.
The steamer Arago has arrived at Southampton,
with dates from Ne,v York to the 12th instant.
She has brought only 15,000 dollars in specie.
There has been no important change in the New
York Money market, and Exchange on London
was still dull at 108.1,. The Cottom 'market was
firm. Wheat was inactive, and Pork in moderate
demand. Freights to Liverpool were steady at full
rates.

The Overland Mail has arrived at Trieste, with
dates from Bombay to the 2nd of January. Trade
was quiet, and Money market tight-and unsettled.
Calcutta on London was quoted at
-Bths, and at Bombay at 2s 21d.
de imports of specie during the week have been
y the:Tagus (s.), from the Mediterranean, 2125/ ;
the Champion of the Seas, from Melbourne, 124,000
ounces of gold, or 496,0001; the Ravensbourne (s.),
from Antwerp, 30 eases of bullion ; the Baron Osy
(s.), from Antwerp, 15 cases of bullion. The exports
have been by the Euxine (s.). for India and China,
255,641/, of which 20,690/ was in gold, and 234,9511
in silver; divided as follows, gold to Alexandria,
17,600/, Ceylon, 2990/, Madras, 1001; silver to
Bombay 200,251/, Madras 25,6001, and Calcutta
9,100/.

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Exchange at

The following is the official return of the exports
of the precious metals from the port of London
for the week ending January, 17th, 1856 :—Gold
coin to Boulogne, 156 ounces; Gold bars to Ham-
burgh, 150 ozs. Total Gold, 306 ozs. Siver Coin
to Belgium, 176,000 ounces; ditto to Rotterdam,
40,000 ozs ; ditto to Boulgne, 400 ozs. Total
silver, 216,400 ozs.
The South Adelaide papers received by the
Champion of the Seas, furnish the official revenue
returns for the year ending the 30th of September.
The ordinary revenue shows a decrease of 10,2041.
on the quarter, and of 31,452/. on the year. - The
Land Fund Revenue shows a decrease of 53,8301
on the quarter, and of 128,383/. on the year. The
total falling off in the revenue is 64,0341. on the
quarter, and 159,8351 on the year.
The Adelaide Register, in noticing the above fact,
says:—

' It will be important to ascertain the elements of this very
heavy deficit. In regard to the ordinary Revenue, the chief
falling off is in the Customs; the receipts from this source
being £27,300 against X 44,179 for the corresponding quar-
ter of the year before, and £137,425 against £177,418 for
the two years respectively. The total deficit upon Customs
is £16,879 on the quarter, and £39,993 on the year. This
heavy amount is partly redeemed by as increase of £7,844
during the year from miscellaneous receipts. The falling
off in our Customs is partly due to the diminished imports,
and partly to the diminished means of consumption conse-
quent upon the failure of the last harvest and the tightness
of the money market. The proceeds of the Government
land sales for the quarter ending September 30th last
k amounted to £63,841 against £118,978 for the correspond-
ing quarter of the year before. Comparing the two years,
we find that the year ending September 30, 1854, realized
£373,009, and 1855, ending at the corresponding period,
only £249,860. The falling off is thus"shown to be£55,137
upon the quarter, and £123,148 upcn the year. This is
most certainly due to the failure of the harvest, the result
have been to preclude many of our farmers from attending
the land sales, and greatly to check competition amongst
those who were present. We have little doubt that the
returns this time next year will present a far different result.
Turning to Expenditure we perceive that the ordinary dis-
bursements of the the. Government have decreased by
£13,850 on the quarter, and have increased by £56,785
on the year. The.greater part of this increase upon the
establishments (including Civil List), the entries
under this head being £137,991 for the year ending Sept.
30th, 1854, and £174,413 for the year ending September
30th 1855. The rest of the excess, under Ordinary Ex-
penditure, consists chiefly of about £21,000 expended on
public works over and above the amount expended on
similar objects in 1854. The decrease upon the quarter is
also found under the same head. The Land Fund Ex-
penditure shows a net increase of £35,376 on the quarter,
and,of £88,563 on the year, for the details of which amounts
we refer to the official tables elsewhere printed in extenso.
We are glad to find that the remittances to the Land and
Emigration Commissioners in England show a smaller
amount for the present year than for the past. The home
guardians of our colonial purse have ample funds for a long
time to come, as a glance at the balances will show. Let
them spend the money cautiously, for it will be long before
they have their coffers similarly replenished.
We have received advices from New Zealand to
the 22nd of September. A public meeting had
been. held at Auckland of persons interested in the
cultivation of flax, and its preparation for the
market, at which a commission was appointed to
inquire into the causes of the failures which have
attended on preparing New Zealand flax for manu-
facturing purposes. The meeting expressed their
determination to proceed in the matter until suc-
cess should crown their efforts. The commercial
operations of the island are reported to be in a
languid condition ; but the flour market was firm,
with prospects of an advance.

The prospectus of a new Joint Stock Bank in
London has been issued. It is to be called the
Western Bank of London. It is intended that it
shall be incorporated by Royal charter, with a
capital of £400,000, with power to increase to
£1,000.000. The number of shares are to be 4000
of £lOO each. Most of the directors are well
known public characters, and they look for
support to their intended establishment from the
fact that the joint-stock banks now in existence in
London have been highly successful, and have
paid a large per-tentage to the shareholders.
The London Wine Company have issued their
prospectus, from which it appears that the capital
is to be 50,0001, in 5000 shares of 101 each. The
company is formed under the Limited Liability
Act, and, the directors confidently entertain the
belief that a dividend of 10 to 15 per cent. will be
realised from the first year's :operations. A gentle-
man of well-known experience in the wine trade
will conduct the business of the company. An
extensive connection with the army, navy, and the
colonies is exected at once to be established.
In the Mincing Lane markets this week there
has been increased firmness for most articles. The
increased demand for sugar, which was noticed last
week, has continued, and a further advance of ls.
to ls. 6cl. per cwt. has been established. The sales
have been large. In the refined markets, also,
there has been a good inquiry, and the business
transaction has increased. The coffee market has
exhibited more firmness, and the public sales have
been numerops, while prices have tended upwards.
In cocoa, rum, rice, and saltpetre, the dealings
have been very limited, and in the case of the lat-
ter, a decline in price has occurred. Pepper has
continued in good demand at full prices, but in
pimento very little business has been transacted.
Cloves have been cheaper, but no change has
been reported in mace and nutmegs.
The following are the Gazette average prices of
Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Jan. 22nd,
1850, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon,
on the importation thereof into Great Britain
:
From the West Indies 26s 10fd per cwt.
Alauritius
~ East Indies 0 0 If
Average price of the three fl
foregoing descriptions 0 0
If
Mr. William Avens, in his weekly report of the
London Stock and Share Market, writes :
The change which I noticed in my last as having come
over the market in consequence of the expectations of
peace, owing to Russia having accepted the terms required
by the Allies as a basis for negotiation, has been con-

firmed: and I have to report a fey— active businest to au
di3scriptions of stock and securities. 'The demand which
hag this arisen is to a great extent from the public for
investment ;d the ,rapld advance of Thursday "reek
has been, on the whole, steadily maintained, With a ten-
dency to further improvement. At the game time one
prominent feature of the market has been' a peculiar
sensibility to rumours and impressions affecting the good
faith of Russia and Austria. Any circumstances, how-
ever unimportant, of a character to throw suspicion upon
the ulterior designs of those powers in so urgently press-
ing for negotiations, would immediately cause a disastrous
fall in prices, and destroy the growing hopes now so
widely entertained. At present, therefore, much caution is
visible in making engagements; still nothing has yet occnred
to justify doubts of the conclusion of peace in a, few months.
The next intelligence ldoked for, is the signing of the pre-
liminaried of peace,.and the declaration of an armistice.
These fortis can scarcely be concluded before the Ist of
February, and in the meantime their effect upon the
market has been partially " discounted ; " but operators
for the rise are now ldoking to the , queen's spedch at the
opening of parliament oil Thursday next, as likely to
contain some definite expressions, not only on these
points, but on the prospect of a safe and durable peace.
The language of the speech must, however, be interpreted
mainly by the explanations of ministers in the debate on
the addreas the
_same evening. About that period we
may anticipate a gdod deal of speculative movement.
Consols, which opened last Saturday at 891 to a and
closed at 891 to 90, after having been: done at 901, closed
yesterday at 901 to 1. There has only been one or two
occasions during the week when they have been so low
as 89/. The range of fluctuation has been confined to
per cent. Comparative steadiness, therefore, has been a
chief feature in the business of the week; but, on the
whole, transactions have not been so numerous as were
expected. Stock has been sold by the Government within
the last few days, and it has been found that the public
haVe been purchasers at about 90. Many parties, how-
ever; are disposed to think this price too high, even though
peace be made, having regard to the commercial' value
of money and the probable necessities of the government.
Railway Shares have been e*ceedingly firm all the week,
and most of the heavy stocks have greatly improved. In
Midlands, the advance up to Thursday was 21 per cent.
upon the prices this day week ; on London and North
Western 2i; on Lancashire and Yorkshire! 11; and
on Great Western 1# per cent. The average has
thus been equal to nearly 2 per cent., which, with the 2
per cent. realised last week, made a rise of between
3/. and 41. within the last eight or ten days, tut a
reaction equal to per cent. occurred yesterday, owing
to the sales, and the market is now weak. Joint
Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have all
advanced, but they are not attracting eery much attention
in the predent State of the market. The money market
was easy in the early part of the week, though ,without
any abatement in the rates; but on Thursday and yes-
terday it was excessivey tightti particularly on the Stock
Exchange. Yesterday as much as 7 per Bent Naas paid for
loans on government security for short periods, This was
owing partly to the preparations for the settlement newt
week of the railway account which is heavy, and to the
payment yesterday of the final instalment and premium of
the Turkish loan. The aggregate was 651,2501. The
demand at the Bank and in Lombard-street, has been con-
siderable for the last day or two, and accommodation has
hardly been so liberally afforded.
The Funds to-day exactly recovered yesterday's
fall of I per cent, Consols, which closed last night
at 901 to .4', opened this morning at 901 to t, and
they immediately showed an improving tendency,
gradually advancing, until at the close the quota-
tions were 911 exactly, after having been buyers at
914. The improvement was owing to the increased
certainty of the preliminaries of peace being
almost immediately signed and an ar-
mistice concluded. This conviction was
strengthened by an announcement that Paris has
been fixed upon as the capital where the pacifica-
tion is to be negotiated, 'and the appointment of
Baron Brunow as the Russian Plenipotentiary.
The selection of Paris is regarded as conclusive as
to peace; and the nomination of Baron Brunow as
a clear proof of the sincerity of the pacific dis-
position of Russia. The Paris Three per Cents.
have again advanced, and the tone on the Bourse
is extremely good, owing to the strong belief
that peace will be arrived at by the Plenipoten-
tiaries of the respective Powers in the Conference
about to be held in that capital. The imports
of the Precious Metals this week have
been about 516,0001. The exports have been
limited. The Railway Share Market to-day
was decidedly buoyant, and prices closed
at the following quotations :—Caledonian, 561
57. Eastern Counties, 8! 8. East a
Lan-
cashire, 73s 744. Great Northern, 95 96. Ditto
A, 80 801. Great Western, 56f1 561. Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 801 801. London and North
Western, 98t, 08f. Nlanchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 241 251. Midland Stock, 681 691.
North British, 301 31. South Eastern and Dover,
60t 61.1. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 73 74
York and North Midland, 484 49

TRADE REPORT..--.SATURDAY.

COTTON : The Cotton market to day has been rather
quicker, the demand has been moderate, the supply sufficient,
and ro prices a firm. The sales, including 350 Pernambuca,
60 to 6°d ; 30 Maranham, 51d ; 100 Egyptian, 6to bid
300 Surat, 31d to 5d ; are reported 6,000 bales, of which
1,000 are on speculation and for export.
PIG IRON : There has been a fair amount of business
done to day, and the sale of about 1,000 tons is reported.
The market closed for warrants at 75s 6d, cash, and 76s Gd
for three months open.
SuumAc : 420 bags sold at lis 91.
TARTARS : 60 casks, about 20 tons, Lisbon Yellow
changed hands at 1063, for export ; 110 s refused for Cream ;
115 s is about the price.
Rospr : The sales comprise 500 barrels Common
American at 4s 3d.

PALM OIL : The market is dull at £43 to £43 108.
TALLOW : The market is heavy at 58s to 58s 4d. The
deliveries are reported at 227 casks.
*BRIMSTONE : 20 tons 2nds have been sold at £5 12s 6d,
and 12 tons lsts at £5 15s.
NITRATE OF SODA : No sales. *
LOGWOOD : £6 17s 6d was refused for 60 tons Honduras.
OLIVE OIL : The business has been confined to 5 tons
Lisbon at £5l.

ROMAN VITRIAL : ►Some small sales at 36s 6d.
TARTARIC ACID : Strong buyers at is 51c1; about 10 tons
offering at Is 61.

ARG-OLS : Firm

ANNATTO easy at 10d to 10id

THE OVERLAND MAIL

The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste, on
Saturday, January 26th, at 1.45 a.m., from Alexan-
dria, which she left on the 20th.
The India and China mails reached Alexandria
on the 19th of January, with dates from Calcutta
to the 22d of December; Bombay, 2d of January ;
Shanghai, Bth of December ; Canton, 12th of
December ; and Hong Kong, 16th of December.
Bills have been passed for turning the Son-
thal country into a non-regulation province.
The kingdom of Oude is to be sequestered, and the
administration entrusted to General Outram.
Trade in India was quiet ; the money market was
tight and unsettled. Exchange at Calcutta,
2s 5;11 ; at Bombay, 2s 21(1. The rebellion still
continues in the interior of China, and paralyses
trade. Another extensive fire had occurred at
Canton. Trade in Canton had been brisker.
Exchange at Canton, 4s. 1011. ; at Hong Kong,
4s. 91d.; at Shanghai, 6s. 9id. The American
Commodore Abbott is dead. Lord Canning left
Suez on the 13th of January for Bombay. The
English steamer, with the London mail of the 10th
of January, arrived at Alexandria on the 20th of
January, and was to leave again on the 22nd.

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITUTION,
9, Rose-hill.—New Patients entered on the books last week,
January 26, viz. :—Relieved at the institution. 162 ; relieved
at their own dwellings, 60 ; total, 222. Visitors : R. P.
Manger and G.:11.. Garratt, Esqrs. ; lion. Sec. and Treasurer,
Joseph Kitchen, Esq.
THE ROYAL CHARTER.—This splendid ship, which left
this port under the command of Captain Boyce, on the
18th instant, on her first voyage to Melbourne, has, we
regret to find, been compelled to put into Plymouth
sound, on Saturday morning, under
stress of weather,
with topsides leaky, and other damages.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE—The first attempt
at supplying a fortnightly mail to Australia by means of
the clipper ships between Liverpool and Melbourne, has
not been very encouraging. The Ben Nevis had not
arrived at Melbourne when the White Swan left, though
she had been out ninety-one days. News from England
to the 21st of June, however, had been received by the
Defence, a cargo ship, which sailed from Liverpool one
day after the Ben Nevis.---Adelaide Observer, Sept. 29.
The Peace Party's Soiree this evening at Manchester will
not be attended, it is expected, by Mr. Cobden. The prin-
cipal speakers will be the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
M. P., Mr. J. Bright, M. P., General Thompson, Mr.
Heywood, M. F. Mr. W. Brown, M. P., and Mr. Crook,
M. P., have also accepted invitations to be present.
Nearly a thousand tickets are said to have been sold.
CHARGE or Ansox.—At the Ashton Borough Sessions
on Friday, Thomas Moore, a tailor and draper, carrying on
buiness in Old-street in that town, was fully committed for
trial at the ensuing assizes, on a charge of having wilfully
set fire to his premises with intent to defraud the Manchester
Fire Assurance Company. An application to admit the
accused to bail was made to, and refused by the
magistrates.

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.1 THE SABBATH DEFENCE MOVEINIENT.

No. 11,

(ntalil A CORRESPONTrENT.)

In our former communication we Ltisposed of the
arguments brought forward at the moeting in St.
George's-hall. Let us now go more ,!;horoughly
iuto the Sunday question, and endeavour to meet
the sincere and honest objections raised Emainst
the measure by persons who, speaking the iortial
views of no special class, are well worthy of- our
respectful attention.

Every Christian and right-minded person will'
agree that the governing and well-educated classes

are responsible, before God and man, for the hap-
piness, and, in so far as lies in their power, for the
morality of the less prosperous members of the
community in which they live. Not only
are -we thus morally responsible, but we
prove that we so consider ourselves by the
expense we go to for the maintenance,. for
the health, for the education, and for
the protection of our poorer neighborrrra—'
every poor-house, i'every hospital, every ragged
school, every prison is a practical acknowledge
ment of that responsibility.
Such being the case, how can we meet statistic%
like the following, unless we are doing all we cart
to repeal the false legislation, and to check the
mistaken zeal, which are the encouragement, if not
the cause of the misery we see around us ?

Painful as it must be to any one interested in
the welfare of his town, to bring forward these
figures, if we would honestly sift the questions
they must be looked steadily in the face.

There are in Liverpool only 70,000 to 80,000 men,
women and children who ever enter a place of worship !
There are 154 places of religious worship in
Liverpool, containing habitually 50,000 unoccupied

There are 1,452 paces in this town where spirits
or ale are sold !
Of the 70,000 to 80,000 persons who go to the;
church or chapel,more than one quarter are school
children.
The small number of people who go to
church or chapel may be accounted for in some
slight measure, (we speak the truth, severe though
It may be), by the peculiar tone of acrimony which
pervades the pulpits of this, perhaps more than any
other town—a spirit of severe and unchristian
criticism, characterises the popular preachers of
Liverpool, (of course, with some exceptions to, them
all praise*), and while they fill their churches with,
an audience who go to " listen to something spicy''
the first time, and afterwards from the fascination
of that peculiar style of oratory, many rendered in-
different, and more utterly disgusted, withdraw'
and the numbers of those who go to church or
chapel is sensibly diminished.
But still 150,000 adult men and. women never
enter a place of religious worship ! This is the
fact with which we must grapple. It is not
denied by any of the speakers at the St. George'
Hall meeting, but the orators on that platfornt
seem determined that if the 150,000 persons will
not spend their evenings in church, at all events
they shall not spend them any where else, always
excepting the publieohouse.
Sermons, on Sunday night, to well dresses
persons, at evening service, pointing out the
sacredness of the Sabbath to those who always
hold it sacred, and the necessity of Church-going
to those who are never absent from Divine wor-
ship, are of no use,—while the spirit vault, with
its glaring gaslight, the beerhouse with. its quiet
taproom, stand invitingly open every ten yard
along our streets, and are crowded to excess by
our less educated population.
And here we must emphatically state that we
are not teetotallers that we are not in favour ot
the introduction of the liquor law which hag
already proved a failure in Maine ; that we believe
the spirit and beer,sellers are as honest, and quite
as respectable as any class of tradesmen in thiS
city, and we are sure that they would, as a body,
agree with the views we are advocating. We are'
opposed to any laws interfering with the freedom`
of any member of this community, in buying, a
in selling anything, at any hour it may suit him;
because we believe such prohibitory laws to V/
false in principle, and we know they have prove()
impossible in practice.
If we hold that excessive drinking is the curse
of this country, and the bane of its pepulation
that drunkenness leads to almost eveTy crime thaD
is committed, and to nearly all the poverty of our
fellow citizens, we also hold that we cannot, by
law, prevent people drinking immoderately'
if they are determined to do so, °.r
..
punish those, who, in the free exercise of their
trade, supply the unnecessary drink; but we etVI,
put down this evil by giving the people higher aua
nobler tastes, a more agreeable and cheaper mode
of spending their evenings, and, above all, amuse.",
ments to which their wives and children can
accompany them.
Holding these views, every peoples' park with
its band of music, every botanical garden with its,,
beauteous flowers, every museum with its interest"
ing collections, every large hall with its cheap, but
good oratorio, are steps in the right direction.
On Sundays, especially, do we advocate the
opening of as many of these places of recreation
as possible. After a hard week of toil, the relaxa"
tion would be physically, and still 'more morally'
most beneficial. The inducement- to econor4
in the pleasure of seeing his family around hinl
in respectable attire, in the afternoon stroll in his
own park, or in the visit to St. George's-hall
Oratorio, would be great to the working man; and
the economical change from the selfish enjoyment
of Sunday afternoon at the spirit vault door, or in
the taproom club, would soon enable . many .fara'
ilies, now debarred from attending divine service
by their want of suitable clothes, to spend the)
Sunday morning in worshipping their God. _ _

* The venerable archdeacon who so lately passed awe
from among us, beloved by every fellow-townsman, wall
one of those whose sermons were no discredit to his read
Christianity.

MILITIA
APPOINTMENT.--The London Gazette, oe
Friday, contains the following :--sth regiment of Roy'
Lancashire Militia, Henry Kirwan Robinson, late Lieut.-,
4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Weld, resigned; Jan. 19.
LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R. M. CANADA, FROM BosTO
AND HALIFAX.—From Boston—Messrs Roy, Dixon, %'
Jackson, A. L. Monk, P. Garneau, C. Creniazie, N. „
Hill, T. E. Robinson, E. J. Heyer, Thompson,
E. Burstall, P. A. Carasco, G. L. Wood,
J. Hewett, R. Galt, D. Gilmour and friend, J. Firth, Hon.
J. S. Wortley, Messrs. A. F. Weld, H. A. Mason,
Chalmers, J. Anderson, W. H. Rockliffe, Captain Wm'
Davidson, Messrs. P. Tracy and child, C. Webster arl
daughter, W. Somerville, J. Christopher, M. Ring;
P. Osbeck, L. Connell, L. Boye, Lady, lino
servant, A. Greene, A. Freeman, J. Aug'o
H. Nathan, Edmondstone, R. Smith, W. Koch, 1, E. Ene
lish, A. A. Nevins, W. W. Bourguin, Carson, 13.'
Foster, J. M`Douzall, D. M‘Dougall, A. Swan'
Y. S. Evans, A. Sellers, G. Hill, J. H. Hardy'
D. C. Hickey, F. Reser,
R. Wilks
T. Martin, L. Shirley and lady, J. Morris, Mrs. J. P. 1111 den. From Halifax—Messrs. Campbell, Ick, Gorda,
Mourillian, and Welsh ; Serjeant Turnbull, wife and Or

DARING BURGLARY AT BIRKENHEAD, LAST NIGH
ROBBERY or £lOO.—A most daring and successfl
burglary was committed at an early hour last evening, 9
the house of Captain iAngell, No. 7, Price-street, Birkell:
head. About half-past six Captain Angell and his villa
left their house and went across the street to evening
service at the Wesleyan (Brunswick) Chapel, leaving.
servant girl and a daughter, about seven years of age,
charge of the house. The servant states that about seve'
o'clock, while sitting in the front parlour with the little
girl, some men (she does not know whether four or flc!.,)
got over the yard wall behind the house, and entered v.;
the back kitchen door, Which she had forgotten to fasten
inside, One man came into the parlour, and holding +1; large dagger over her and the child, threatened them
vir' violence if they moved or spoke. He had a foreign
,
accent, and the upper part of his face was blacked'
He kept them in this state of terror for about half an hoar,
she supposes, having tied them together in a silk handker;
chief to prevent either of them getting out of the room, cit
to the front window. During this time the other men wen
up stairs and ransacked the house. At last all the olea
went out again by the back door, and having released
selves, the servants alarmed the neighbours, and the lift
girl went across to the chapel to inform her parents of
vita
had happened. On searching the house, it was discover`ev,
that eighteen large silver spoons, and
about half a dozd,
smaller ones, to be stolen, and from Captain Angell's 106
room there was about £lOO taken. The money was illo
and £lO Bank of England notes, two old guineas, an ;r0
number of sovereigns and foreign gold coins. The burglio
had also broken into Mrs. Angell's sister's box, but as 10
latter lady had been spending the day in Liverpool it 0.
not known whether any valuable property had been taP
from it.