The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-27 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FBI DAY.

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subject, named several distant places where he had
been called upon to hold coroner's inquests, those
places being held to be within the limits of the
Port of Liverpool, and if the discharge of such
duties was forced on the Corporation as a right,
there can be no disputing their title to the exercise
of all other corporate powers over those localities.
But the Committee's having devoted three whole
days to the question of boundaries shows that they
find their ground untenable with respect to our
right to levy Dues, and that they now seek to make
out a case against the Corporation by proving that
they have made those charges beyond the specified
boundaries of the Lordships and Port. In this
they will fail, as they have in everything else they
have attempted thus far. For we may rest assured
that, if the Corporation had gone in any instance,
beyond their lawful jurisdiction, their encroach'

ents would have been met by the cry,—suum

cuique, and law or main force resorted to to decide

the issue

What then is Mr

,OWE driving at? Does he

think that he can command sufficient power in the
Imperial Parliament to subvert all written and
prescriptive titles to the property of these realms ?
The squatter annihilator was not sufficiently suc-
cessful at the Antipodes, when grappling with a
monster abuse and land jobbery in a valuable
Colony, to justify a belief that he will succeed in
outraging a public virtue, and subverting all
vested rights at home. Mr. LowE can look back
- stone to his
present position, with great satisfaction, no doubt;
but his future appears to be chequered and cloudy
enough. The British nations loathe a dastardly
pretext, petty tricks, and attempts at snivelling
deception. The man who really has a boon to
bestow on trade must' always be welcome in a
commercial country. But the man who tells a
people he has an incalculable benefit to confer on
them, iu order to get them to surrender the time-
honoured privileges of self-government, when he
really has nothing but additional cost and trouble
to bestow on the great interests he says be desires
to conserve, condescends to a most lamentable and

upon his past career as the stepping

lost atatus. Such men may be necessary as
beacons, not to lead us, but to show who we ought
to avoid—to keep alive that spirit of national con-
tempt and disgust, which have always overtaken
the public men of this country, who have departed
from honest and straightforward dealing with an
enlightened and far-seeing community.

THE COURT

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING

There was a good demand at the Liverpool
Cotton Market to-day, and the supply liberal. The
sales haVe been large—at firm prices—viz., 12,000
bales, of which 5,000 were for speculation and

export.
A large business has been done in the Man-
chester Cotton Market to-day, at an advance of ad

per lb, on Tuesday's rates
The Liverpool Share Market to-day opened firm,
and continued so up to the close, but only a very
moderate basiness doing. The following are the
closing prices :—Aberdeen, 14 141. Chester and
Birkenhead, 171 171. Caledonian, 311 311. Chester
and Holyhead, 161 14 Eastern Counties, 108
11. East Lancashire, 20.1 21. Great Northern,
24 24k. Ditto A, 91 10. Great Western, 61 611
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 961 961. Liver
pool, Crosby, and Southport, 18 181. London art
c
North Western Stock, 104/ 1051. Manchester
Sheffield,'and Lincoln, 331 331. Ditto Preference
llf, 12. New 6 per cent. Pref., 8 1-p. Midlanc
Stock, 82 821. North British, 91 Norti
Staffordshire, 6 sid. South Eastern and Dover
221 221. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21
211. York and North Midland, 301 301. Leed
Capital Stock, 191 191. Buffalo and Lake Huror
1 7-16 19-16 p. Dutch Rhenish, 2 21p. Great
Western of Canada, 26 261. Ditto New Shares
3 3-16 3 5-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 8/ 81d.
The opinion generally expressed in the Cit 3
yesterday afternoon, that the Bank of England
Directors, at their meeting to-day, would make a
change in the minimum rate of discount, has
proved correct—a reduction of Q per cent. having
been announced. Some parties went so far as to
assert that an alteration of one per cent. would be
resolved upon, but this could scarcely be thought
probable; still it must be admitted, considering the
favourable prospects of the money market, that
the present rate, viz., 44 per cent., is cot likely to
be long maintained, The effect of the measure
adopted to day will be productive of great benefit
to all branches of business.
The following return of the value of the total
exports of the United Kingdom and the United
States, in the year 1855 ; also of the value of the
exports from the United Kingdom to the United
States, and from the United States to the United
Kingdom, in the year 1855, was issued yesterday :
—Total exports from the United Kingdom (exclu-
sive of specie and bullion), year 1855, 116,701,0451;
total exports from the United States (including
11,718,1961 of specie and bullion), year to 30th
June, 1855, 57,324,3431; total exports from the
United Kingdom to the United States (exclusive of
specie and bullion), year 1855, 18,064,7631 (15
per cent of total exports.) Total exports from the
United States to the United Kingdo(including
9,970,4191 of specie and bullion), year to 30th
June, 1855, 29,081,8471. (50 per cent of total

exports). •
The funds remained very strong. The immediate
result of the Bank measure was a temporary de-
cline of a per cent, sales being pressed as usual in
realisation of profits. The final quotations were
94 13-16-04 15-16. In the Discount Market,
money to day was abundant, and general ease pre-
vails. At Paris to day, the Bourse was better,
and the Three • per cent. Rentes closed
to / per cent higher than yesterday.
In Railway Shares the final quotations were
Caledonian, 62i 62k. Eastern Counties, 101 IOZ,-.
East Lancashire, 83 85. Great Northern, 951 96k.
Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western, 621 62g.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 961 961. London
and North Western, 1041 1041-. Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 331 332. Midland Stock,
82 821 North British, 371; 381. South Eastern
and Dover, 73/. York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
85/ 86/. York and North Midland, 614
The Railway Traffic Returns for the past week,
as compared with those of the same period last
year, show the following results :

1856. Corresponding 1
ENGLISH LINES. week last year.
Bristol and Exeter
Blyth and Tyne
Chester and Holyhead
Doeside
Great Northern
Great Western
Kendal and Windermere
Llanelly .. 371 .... 336
Lancashire and Yorkshire 24,007 .... 21,506
London and North Western..
London and South Western
London and Brighton
Manchester, Sheffield, &c.
Manchester and S. Junction ....
Midland
Newport, Abergavenny, kc 983 .....
North Eastern
North London
North Stafford
North Devon
Oxford, Worcester, &c 4,009 ....
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .... 1,789
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury and Hereford 1,212
South Eastern • .. 26,651
South Yorkshire
South Devon
Shropshire Union .. .......
Taff Vale
West Hartlepool
West Cornwall
IRISH LINES
Belfast and Ballymena
Cork and Bandon ...
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Ulster
Waterford and Limerick
Waterford and Kilkenny
SCOTCH LINES

796
34,633
2,196
6,430

1,457
2,663
1,200
19,637
1,805

Aberdeen—
Caledonian
Dundee and Arbroath ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow .... 5,221 ....
Glasgow and South Western....... 6,058 .....
Great North of Scotland .. 908 " ....
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Grand Trunk of Canada.. • 4,514 ....
Great Western of Canada
Great Luxembourg. 636 ....
Northern of France
Norwegian .. ...... .. .• •• • .
Ontario and Simone
Sambre and Meuse 1,247 .....
West Flanders

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS

215
280
1,209
868
215

3,431
11,667

4,945
6,205
770

37,874

'589
2,006
1,395
2,908

Yesterday morning the monthly returns of the
Board of Trade for the month ending 31st May
last were issued. From the returns it appears that
the total value of the exports has amounted to
8,733,3001. against 8,049,2461. in the same month last
year, being an increase of 684,0541. The increase
has principally been in beer, ale, gloves, haber-
dashery and millinery, hardwares and cutlery,
saddlery and harness, metals, silk and silk manu-
factures, stationery, refined sugar, and woollen and
worsted yarn. For the fiveX3r.tais ending with '
May 31, 1856, th,,,,,freiurns for all articles were
43,307,329/ a. '0,7,-npared with 34,943,7271. in 1855,
and 40,425,6891 in 1854:
In the retarn of imports we find, contrasting
the months of May, 1855, and May, 1856, as
regards the quantities entered for home consump-
tion, a large decrease in cocoa, a slight decrease
in coffee, the consumption of spirit about the
same, a large increase in sugar, a decrease in tea,
and a very slight decrease in wine.
From the present returns it appears that the
vessels employed in the foreign trade of the United
Kingdom shows a falling off of 76,760 tons for
those outwards, and an augmentation of 34,391
tons for those entered inwards for the month as
compared with the like period of last year.

INctuEsT.-7-The borough coroner, P. F. Currie, Esq.,
held an incrust yesterday on the body of Mr. John Aititen
Henderson, aged 36, an architect, who died suddenly, at the
Victoria Hotel, Islington Flags, on the night of last Tues-
day. It appeared that the deceased, who was for a long
time under medical treatment at Dumfries, for disease of.
the lungs, arrived at the hotel late on Tuesday night, in a
very exhausted state, and that he was found by the land.
lord lying on the floor dead in the morning. A verdict in
accordance with these facts was returned.
THE HARVEST.—The late rains have done an immense
amount of benefit to our crops—so the agriculturists state—
and that an abundant yield may be expected, should the
weather continue as it has done for the last few days. If
we need any better proof of the fulfilment of the prophecy
of the agriculturists themselves, we need only refer to the
immense number of Irish labourers who daily arrive by the
steamboats, and who take various routes to assist in getting
in the grain. Within the last few days no fewer than five
hundred have landed on this side of the Mersey, while
nearly an equal number have landed at Birkenhead.

OVERLAND ,MAIL.

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TRIESTE, Thursday.—The steamer America
arrived this morning with the Alexandria Mail.
ALEXANDRIA, June 20th.—The India and China
mails leave here to-morrow, with advices from Cif.-
cutta to May 17th ; Bombay, 27th ; Hong Kong,
10th; Shanghai, 2nd; and Manilla, 6th.
The Santhals are again unquiet. An insurrec-
is on foot.

Exchange at Bombay 2s. 1-1-(1.
Freights have risen.
Cotton market active. Sugar held at high prices

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

Two other speculators have been " executed" on
the Bourse to-day, owing to their inability to meet
their engagements,—one of them for somewhere
about £lO,OOO. These new disasters added to the
many that have recently taken place, and to the
very embarrassed state of the market, caused great
discouragement amongst the frequenters of the
Bourse, and led to a heavy fall in all kinds of
securities. The Threes have left off at 50c. lower
for cash than they were yesterday, the Credit
Mobilier 201. lower, the Orleans Railway 151., the
Lyons Railway 12if, the Mediterranean 15f., the
Northern 71f., and so on. The liquidation, at the
end of this month, is looked forward to with appre-
hension, and many of the more prudent specula-
tors have determined on realising their losses
rather than again pay exorbitant rates for conti-

nuation.
The present extraordinary low price of the
Three per Cents—between 70f. and 71f.—have
attracted the serious attention of the English
capitalists to that stock; and, it is alleged, that
orders to purchase largely have been sent by them
to Paris. This may be only a " bruit de Bourse,"
intended to raise the drooping market, but it is
clear that when English Threes are at 95, capi-
talists cannot be far wrong if they buy into the
French Threes at 71.
The Legislative Body has authorised the city
of Paris to borrow 50,000,000 f. (£2,000,000.)
The government, I am told, receives every day
news from Italy of an alarming kind.
The Emperor has addressed a letter to Ponsard,
the well-known dramatic poet, praising him for
having in his comedy called the Bourse, which for
some time past has been performed at the Odeon
Theatre with great success—courageously branded
the " fatal passion" for Stock Exchange gamb-
ling which at present characterises the French.
His Majesty seems to regret that it was his
government, which from political considerations
gave the greatest encouragement to this passion.
There is a talk that the Emperor in the course
of his visit to Plombieres will go into Switzerland,
for the purpose of having an interview at some
frontier town with the Emperor of Austria. But
the thing is not generally credited. It• is, however,
certain that, as I told you some time back, the
relations between France and Austria become more
and more intimate. It is even said that Russia
has taken offence at them. It is alleged, too, that
France carries deference for Austria so far, that,
to oblige her, she has, contrary to the wishes both
of England and Russia, undertaken to oppose the
union of the Danubian Principalities, to which
she was recently favourable.
A Madrid despatch, announces that rinta have
taken place at Valladolid, Palencia, and Rioseco
owing to the dearness of food ; but that they had
been put down by the strong hand. At Valladolid
the insurgents, who were captured, had been
handed over to the tender mercies of courts

martial.
A Berlin letter asserts that, by the intervention
of Russia, Denmark has made concessions in the

Sound dues question, and that it is, consequently
in a fair way of settlement.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON,

In answer to Mr. Ilankey,
Sir G. GREY said that considering the late period of the
segsion, it was not his intention to proceed further with
the bill for the reform of the corporation of the city of
London