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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

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I A Special Meeting of the Proprietors will be held in
the Institution, on FRIDAY, the 4th A: rd next, at One o'clock. to
take into consideration the propriety of presenting Shares to the
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which the law declares fraudulent, and the commer-
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in that frightfully morbid social condition in
which, if a mercantile epidemic should be raging,
no one would venture to approach its victims but
sharks and vultures. The one swallows any little
amount of public securities the'trading classes may
hold as a reserve, while the others fly off with his
stock in trade. And on what terms we will leave
Lord OVERSTONE, and others, who have made their
7,000,0001. within a half century which will be ever
memorable for its frequent and sudden commercial
1 1 0 revulsions, to explain.

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WHOLESALE STATIONER AND PRINTER,
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Lord OVERSTONE labours under a very grave
misconception if he believes that the measure of
the Government owes its origin. to a mere flight
of fancy, or a paltry spirit of pandering to
popular clamour. The crotchets for which the
noble lord contends have exploded spon-
taneously, and what has the continuance of
unlimited liability in favour of Banks and In-
surance Companies done for the public ? We
have had no remarkable failures of late among
Insurance Offices ; but mark what has taken
place in both the private and joint stock banking
world. How far did unlimited liability avail
depositors in STRAHAN and Company's case ? And
how far will it relieve the dupes in SADLEIR'S ?
The former has ruined hundreds, the latter the
half of a country. The law, it is true, has not
been enforced in one case as it was in the other.
STRAHAN and his partners were seized, brought

before the magistrates, and the charges against
them heard in open court. SADLEIR makes away
with himself in a perfectly sound state of mind,
after confessing to the commission of crimes
of a much deeper dye than those of
STRAHAN, PAUL, and BATES, and yet his partners or
partner is brought privately before a master in
Chancery, at his dwelling-house, and the public
are not allowed to know what transpired at the
examination of the partner of such a man as JOHN
SADLEIR ! This may be law, but certainly it is not
even handed justice. Had STRAHAN, put an end
to his existence, the chances are, that PAUL and
BATES would have escaped the punishment they
are now undergoing; and where exposure is dreaded,
it is as well that the commercial community should
remember that it is only necessary for one of a firm
to commit suicide for the rest to avoid publicity.
Apart, however, from the law, in one instance,
and the practice in the second, we need only take
the failure of those banking concerns to illustrate
the folly and manifest danger of continuing to hold
out the bugbear—" unlimited liability." In STRAHAN
and his partners downfall, there was fortunately no
one to suffer but them and their customers. Their
victims must therefore be satisfied with whatever
dividend their joint estates will pay. But what
will the unlucky depositors in the Tipperary Joint
Stock Bank get ? They may sue a few respectable
shareholders, but how are they to fix them with
the liability to pay ? We know this question is
easily answered by an attorney well versed in the
fiction of our joint stock legislation on unlimited
liability, but what will the net dividend be when
each claimant has obtained judgment and
paid his costs ? Those who may like to test the
extraordinary virtue of our unlimited
liability system, as regards Joint Stock
Banks, will be able to pick up some
claims against the Tipperary Bank at
a moderate rate, but before they go into the
market we beg to tell them that the whale thing is
a perfect chimera. There is no fixing those who

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY

A.NINIAL CHARCOAL,

To be SOLD by AUCTION, at Binyon and Fryer's Sugar
Refinery, Chester-street, Oxford-road, Manchester, on
2nd day (Monday), 3rd month (March) 31st, 1856, at
Twelve o'clock noon,
About 200 Tons ANIMAL. CHARCOAL, all faults.
Samples may be obtained, and further particulars learned, by
application to FRANCIS REID & CO., Brokers,
16, Exchange-alley North.

TUESDAY

On account of whom it may concern

Oa TUESDAY next, the Ist April, at Half-past One o'clock,
at the Brokers' office, Corn Exehange•buildings, Bruns-

wick-street,

About 1270 Bag 3 Sour FLOUR,
~ 150 Barrels Stained DITTO,
ex Druid, from Coquimbo ; lying in the Albert Dock Ware-
houses.—For particulars apply to
GOLDING & NASH, Brokers.

On TUESDAY next, the Ist April, at H df-past One o'clock,
at the Commercial saleroom, Temple-court,
2000 Boxes American BACON,
now landing ex sundry vessels, from New York ;
1000 Boxes American CHEESE.
TRIMMER & GRAINGER, Brokers,
Bank Chambers, Cook-street.

i'dtYILSO9IIYN A%Vq.i.igt

vereci in other mercantile failures, and hence the
sham has exploded. The public have been made
alive to the imposture, by the almost uniform
exposure of the impractibility, of obtaining
a verdict against ordinary shareholders, and even
in joint stock undertakings. Let us
hope, then, that when ML'. LOWE'S Partnership
Bill is again brought prominently before the
Elou e of Commons, that some member will move
that its provisions be extended to banking and
insurance enterprises, that the public may be no
longer gulled by professions of safety which have
no foundation in fact, and which can only be main-
tained to bolster up concerns which may be as
rotten and deceptive as the two banks we have
named.

Erectors

rase ithattittu 'Titues

THURSDAY, MARCH

27, 1856

LORD OvERSTONE is not infallible. The noble
lord views Limited Liability as a holocaust,
which could never have been dreamt of except in
a season of the grossest commercial profligacy and
national degradation. The enlightened Peer
thinks it will let in capital in this direction, money
out in that quarter, credit in at the front window,
and debt and fraud in and out of every door with
perfect impunity. But, like all men who
overstrain their intellect, and endeavour to grasp
more than their comprehension can encompass,
the bullion lord becomes weak, metaphysical,
obtuse, digressive, and at last utterly unintelligi-
ble. The Limited Liability Bill now before
Parliament is, in Lord 0 verstone's opinion, a
monstrous measure, not because it will bring more
money into the legitimate channels of trade, but
because it fixes the amount of capital, so that
the public may know what they are dealing with,
and releases men from all liability beyond

the actual sum they may invest in any
undertaking. Should any bona fide concern
be overtaken by a commercial hurricane—such as
the noble lord knows well how to appreciate—and
shipwreck ensue ; the legislature are about to
declare that all hands shall not be lost ; that
there shall be some hope of escape for honest and
innocent parties. There is something so just
and intelligible about such a proposition, that it
would take more logic than the whole of the
two houses of parliament can command to defeat its

becoming law .
It is well, however, that an opposition has been
raised to the Government bill, as we might other-

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, MARCH 27 1860.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The Liverpool Cotton Market has not undergone
any change to-day. The sales reach 8,000 bales,
and include 2,000 on speculation.
The Liverpool Share Market opened this morn-

ing with firmness, and gradually hardened during
the day, particularly for Leeds and Dover Stocks.
Prices closed firm as follows :—Aberdeen, 13413;.
Chester and Birkenhead, 15/ 151. Caledonian, 30/
301. Chester and Holyhead, 141 141 Eastern Coun-
ties, 9i 91. East Lancashire, 181 181. Great
Northern, 23 23/. Ditto A 91 10. Great
Western, 621
.03/. Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 84/ 84k. Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, 15i 16, London and North Western
Stock, 100 100/. MancheSter, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 271 27?,-. Ditto Preference, 118 11a.
Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref, , hip. Midland Stock,
718 72. North British, 8 Bk. North Staffordshire,
6 51d. South Eastern and Dover, 20'4 20 13-16.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191 Ma. York
and North Midland, 27,1271. Leeds Capital Stock,
.15-8- 157. Dutch Rhenish, Ditto New
Shares, 2i 2Zp. Great Western of Canada, 256
25a. Ditto New Shares, 4 21p. Ditto 2nd issue,
2 5-16 2 7-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 71 7Zd.
Commercial accounts from Holland state that
trade generally throughout the country is steady,
with a slight improvement in the prices of the chief
articles of Colonial produce, but there are few
large transactions taking place, either for home
consumption or on foreign account, so that the
socks on hand are greater than they usually are
at this season of the year. At Amsterdam the
supply of coffee is ample, but sales are limited to
actual requirements. Good ordinary Java is 32e
per kilo, and Brazil 28c to 30c for fine ordinary, 25
to 271 e for middling, and inferior sorts from 23c, but
there is not much demand. In sugars the tendency
of the market is to be easier. A. sale of 3,000
kranjangs of Java averaged one florin per kilo.
Refined Sugar is firm in price, but purchasers are
few at the present rates. A sale of 560,000 kilos.
by auction, brought from 361 to 371 florins per 50
kilos. The market in Rice is without much varia-
tion. Sales of A rraean, of middling qualities, have
been effected at 3 florins to 6: florins, and in other
kinds prices are firm. In Spices not many large
transactions have taken place. Nutmegs are rather
heavy, at 156 e per kilo. ; mace, 140 c ; and cloves
at 39c to 40c.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE PRINCIPALITIES

Advices from Marseilles, of the 24th instant,

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes an imperial
decree, which postpones the reduction of the duties
on French Colonial Sugars imported into France,
according to the ordinance of the 27th March,
1.852, until a special law is promulgated for the
purpose.
Accounts from Lisbon state that the new law
proposed by the Government, which regulates - the
import and export dutieS on grain and othercereais
upon free trade principles has met with the unani-
mous approbation of the country, excepting a few
landed proprietors who adhere to the protection
system. In all other commercial regulations the
Ministry of the young King of Portugal shows the
utmost degree of liberality, and especially in those
departments relating to international treaties with
the neighbouring kingdom of Spain.
A telegraphic despatch from Madrid mentions
that an error had crept into a recent announce-
ment, stating that the Cortes had finally agreed
upon the question of finance brought forward
by the government, as the point at issue is
still under discussion ; but it is very probable that
a majority will vote in favour of the measure. The
Official Gazette has published the statutes regulat-
ing the new Spanish Credit Mobilier Society, as
approved of by the government ; and the duration
of the concession is fixed at 99 years, with its head-
quarters at Madrid.
The Funds declined & to 4 per cent this morn
ing, owing to the delay in the signature of the
treaty of peace. In the afternoon, however, a re-
covery took place, and the closing quotations were
a shade better than those of yesterday. Upon the
whole the market is steady although business is
1121: Tii'die pproac of
:1151
Satur ay's instalment on the new loan has not yet
occasioned any pressure whatever. At Paris to-day
the three por cents rentes exhibited a further
trifling declin-'. The Corn Market to-day was quiet
at Monday's decline. The total number of cargoes
reported since the 14th inst., however, is no less
than 115, viz , 66 of wheat, 41 of Indian Corn, 6 of
Beans, and 2 of Rye. Few of these cargoes
having been disposed of, there is a large number
pressing on the market. A project of a novel
character is announced under the title of the
Sunken Vessels Recovery Company. Inactivity
still continues to prevail in the Railway
Share Market, which however, remains steady.
The closing prices of the day were thus quoted :
Caledonian, 61 61/ Eastern Counties, 91 9a
East Lancashire, 731 74. Great Northern,
94 941.- Do_ Class A, 79 80. Great Western, 62
63. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 81+ 84i. London
and North Western, 100 100-,1- Manchester Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 27 27* Midland Stock, 71
711. South Eastern and Dover, 691 69i. York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 761 77i. York and North
Midland, 55 551.

bring news from. Constantinople of the 18th

Sixty Moldavian Boyards had petitioned against
the local Divan of the Principality, and the
Government of the Porte had rejected the petition.

Prince Mohiki had, moreover, in the name of

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER RoTtL MAII SHIP AMERICA,
FROM BOST,N AND HALIFAX TO LIVERPOOL.—Mr. G
Young, lady, infant, and nurse, Miss M. Armstrong, Miss
Hill, Mr. E. L. Parker, Mr. G. Goldie, Captain J. B
Breck, Mr. H. Cummings, Mr. W. Starner Captain E. J.
Colby, Mr. Ferguson, DI A. Hill and lady, Mr. G. G.
Tucker, Mr. L. Lambert, Mr. J. J. Carmichael, Mr. L.
Fowle, Mr. F• H. Fowler, Mr. J. D. Heywood, Mrs. A.
Bradley, Captain S. G. Davis, Mr. S. J. Stratton, Mr. S. D.
Marsh, Mr. T. Robertson and lady, Miss L. S. Robertson,
Mr. A. Anset, Mr. A. G. Ybanez, Mr. li. W. Austin, Air.
M. J. Lewis, Mr. T. B. Ullinan, Mr. Ewes, Mr. R. Derby-
shire, Mr. Hetten, Mr. J. Duke, Mr. G. Lamer, Mr. J,
Maxwell, lady and child, Lieut. Berchard, Lieut. J. Rendal,
Mr. W. H. Robertson, Miss Crawley, D. C. G. Mylrea,
Col Poole, Mr. West and lady, Captain Wallace,, Mr.
Morton, r. Warrington.

the Sultan, threatened to repress every new
demonstration on the part of the King.

Two Chamberlains had been dismissed for

having acted in contravention of the forms decreed

by the Sultan

In consequence of prevailing tempests there had
been more shipwrecks of transports laden with
materials, and steam vessels taking Russian pri-

soners to Odessa had been obliged to re-enter the

Bosphorus

Eight thousand men had arrived from England

to reinforce the army, and Admiral Stewart's

squadron of the fleet was expected at Constanti-

THE COST OF SHRIEVALTY. —At the Carmarthen
assizes, it will be remembered that the judge, Mr.
Justice Vaughan:Williams, imposed a penalty of RlOO on
the High Sheriff of that county, for not providing a
suitable carriage, and retinue to receive him on enter-
ing the bailwick, with the dignity requisite for the bearer
of the Queen's commission. We find that at Bury St.
Edmunds, the High Sheriff of Suffolk, A. Arcedeckne,
was visited with a similar penalty by Chief Justice
Jervis, who, in the course of his charge to the grand
jury said :—I am sorry to be obliged to make an obser-
vation upon a subject which gives me great pain. I
allude to the manner in which her Majesty's judges, the
representatives of the Queen, have been received upon this
occasion. I have no ground whatever of complaint
against the High Sheriff, who has supplied adequate and
handsome accommodation for the judges, and who,
I believe, from what I. hear, has bein desirous of
attending them with the retinue usual on these
occasions—the retinue, in fact, which the law requires.
I am told he has been persuaded by an association
which he has joined to, take the course which has been
followed on this occasion, and I'hope and trust the :asso-
ciation will support him as men of honour and gentlemen
in that course. I find there are no javelin-teen or atten•
dants of the sheriff to keep order in the court and neigh-
bourhood The judges of course care not how their
attendants are dressed, and how few they are, if there be
an adequate number of them to preserve order in the
court, and to keep up the respect which is due to the
administration of justice. In answer to my inquiries, I
am furnished with a paper, which purports to be the rules
of an association to diminish' the expenses of gentle-
men who are to serve the office of sheriff; and amongst
others I find this rule, which calls for serious
observation:—" The keeping of order in the courts
of sessions and assizes being essential to the due admini-
stration of justice, and the proper conduct of county
business, an arrangement may be made by which the
county police may he employed in lieu of javelin men, and
be paid by the county for such extra duty." In other
words, the ratepayers of the county of are to
relieve the gentry of the county from the burden of an
office which it is their duty to serve, tie property and
lives of the public are to be deprived of the natural pro-
tectors which the law affords, and those who are so
inclined—knowing that the police are engaged at
the assizes, as it may be upon this occasion for a
whole week—may make an inroadinto the county,
and commit their depredations without check or con-
trol. The thing cannot bear inquiry or investigation
for a single moment ; it is wholly illegal. If it be said
that policemen are here as witnesses, tho answer is that
they cannot fill the double office of witnesses and attend-
ants upon the court; they cannot be looking after the
witnesses, and conducting the public business, and at the
same time keep order in the court. The object of the
association—l entirely absolve the Sheriff from any par-
ticip Ltion in it—is to save the pockets of its memb .rs from
the expense of javelin men. It is my duty to take care
that that is not done, and I therefore fine the Sheriff £lOO,
which I trust the committee of the association who per-
suaded him not to have the ordinary attendants will pay
for him.

nople

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The transactions on the Bourse to-day closed
at the following quotations :—Four and a Half per
Cents., 94f. Three per Cents, 72f. 50c.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

The Congress has held another sitting to•d ay
This is the first time that it has met on two days
consequtively, and its doing so must undoubtedly
be considered a proof of its desire to bring matters
to a conclusion as quickly as possible. I have not
heard anything calculated to cause it to be believed

that any serious difficulties to the conclusion of

peace have arisen, or will arise ; but some persons

pretend to know that England shews no very

great desire to smooth down such difficulties as

unavoidably present themselves. The sub-com-
mittee of the Congress continues its labours, and

I am told that Prussia, which was at one time

excluded, is now permitted to take part in

them,

The affair of foreign securities on the Bourse has
created a good deal of dissatisfaction. I understand

that the courtiers who deal in them, and some

of the principal capitalists who hold them, have

made energetic representations to the government
on the gross injustice of preventing them from
being negotiated, and that the government has, in
consequence, been obliged to promise to take their
representations into consideration. The amount
of French capital invested in foreign enterprise is,
it is said, not less than £6,000,000 sterling.

.01. La, L)avlj, F 1.1,11,3./ 1,-11,/1 4-/ DV ((GO, I.ICI,
been summoned before the Director General of
the Press this morning, to be blamed for having
presumed to comment in rather sharp terms on a
very insolent article in the Constitutionnel, on the
birth of the Emperor's child.

A very romantic adventure has, it appears,
befallen Count Buol, the Austrian plenipotentiary
in the Congress. A few days ago he received a
letter informing him that a nephew of his held the
humble situation of switchman on the Orleans
railway, and requested to see him at his post on
the line. The count had the good sense to go to
see the young man, and he found that he was
really his nephew. The young man, it seems,
after squandering all his fortune in gambling,
was reduced to such distress that he was glad to
accept that humble place on the railway. It is
added that ho invited his uncle to breakfast with
his comrades, and that the Austrian Prime
Minister went with him to a low public house and
breakfasted with him along with a number of
watchmen, stokers, engine drivers, &c. Of course
he will not allow the young man to remain in his
present lowly station.

Some attention has been excited to-day by the
Moniteur having given a positive denial to certain
statements of the Tine as to the French army in
the Crimea being in great want and suffering.
The official journal publishes a detail of what was
supplied in food and clothing, to show that the
army wants for nothing, and suffers nothing except
sickness. It remarks, somewhat maliciously, that
if it had been in the position described, the
English, who have abundance of everything,
would have assisted them as they assisted the
English.

DISTURBANCE AT THE COLCHESTER CAMP.—We (Essex
Herald) regret to announce that a somewhat serious- dis-
turbance has taken place amongst a number of soldiers of
the militia and line regiments in garrison, and which it was
at one time feared would result in the most disastrous
consequences. It is stated that some unpleasant reflections
were cast upon the 88 h (Connaught Rangers), on their
march into the camp, by some of the militiamen, and which
speedily raised the indignation of the 88th. In the evening a
"row" took place in the street between the 88th, who were
the most part Irishmen, and the Essex Rifles, when broken
heads and bloody noses were the result, and six men of
the 88th, and three of the Rifles, were taken into hospital.
Some men of the 11th Regiment sallied forth to the
assistance of the 88th against the Essex Rifles, although
the best understanding had previously existed between
them, as many of the Rifles had volunteered to the ranks of
the 11th, and a fight took place, which lasted some little
time, notwithstanding the efforts of Colonel Herbert, the
adjutant-general, and the officers in camp to subdue it.
The delinquents wore taken into arrest, and the injured
men sent into hospital. The affair has occasioned
considerable excitement in camp, and much talk in the
town.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY, —At the Worship-street police
court, yesterday, a respectably attired young man, who
stated his name to be Robert Hughes, was charged with the
following impudent robbery. The. prosecutrix stated that
she lived in Curtain-road, Shoreditch, and that on Monday
morning the prisoner engaged a furnished apartment, and
gave a reference at the west end of the town, stating that
he had just been appointed to a responsible situation at the
docks or customs, and must sleep at her house that night.
tits appearance and general manner were of such apparent
respectability that she did not trouble herself to make any
inquiry, and, unsuspectingly, he was permitted
to take up his quarters there. At an early hour
that morning she heard some person creeping stealthily
down stairs, and opening a door by which the
prisoner must pass, she saw him with two bundles
beneath his arms, and instantly intercepted him, with an
accusation of robbery. He begged to be forgiven, but he
was given into custody. The bundles contained all the
bed linen and other articles were attached to a string
fastened under his clothing. In fact, he had stripped the
room of all the linen. In answer to the Magistrate, the
prisoner said :—I am an engineer by trade, sir. Family
dissension occasioned me to leave my relatives, who aro
Very respectable inhabitants of Liverpool, and seek work
in London, but failing, I resolved to return. Being with-
out the means of so doing, I certainly committed myself
as stated, but would have sent tb,l value of the property
back on reaching there. The magistrate committed the
prisoner for two months, with hard labour, to the House
of Correction.