The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—The extraordinary quiet state of the cotton market
at the present moment excites the surprise of many, and
the firmness of holders, in spite of the very limited demand,
is perhaps the most remarkable feature that has been
witnessed for a long time.
Let us, however, enquire why ? The last crop has been
the largest grown —but what has become of it? The
total receipts will probably reach 3,550,000 bales, the
actual crop 3,300,000, and the stock held back by planters
in consequence of low rivers last year, 250,000 bales.
Now, let us give a tabular statement of the whereabouts
of the stock now, as compared with this time last year:—

1855. 1856.
-2,830,000.-3,550,000

Receipts from this date to Ist Sept.
Left in Planters' hands
Stock in the United States ports
At sea
Stock in Liverpool
Do. in spinners' hands

424,000.... 263.000
250,000.... Nil.
325,000.... 404,000
140,000.... 140,000
343,000.... 537,000
200,000... Nil.

1,682,000-.1,344,000

Deficiency

338,000

Of the fact of the planters having this year sent into
the ports every bale of cotton they could pack there is
not the slighthst doubt, and also that spinners hold now
scarcely a week's supply, and certainly 200,000 bales less
than at this time last year. These are admitted by all.
So much for stocks. Now let us look at the position of
money, last year going dearer rapidly, now going cheaper—
war over—trade never healthier—food tending downwards,
and the prospects of the harvest never more hopeful.
As to the paltry electioneering tricks of Mr. ex-Presi—
dent Pierce, producing a war between this country and the
United States—bosh! The people of the two countries
have more sense than to allow it.

One moment's reflection will suggest the uncertainty of
the supply for the next year; half a moment's reflection
will suggest the certainty of a short supply for this year.—

Yours, &c.,

IMPORTANT TO AGRICULTURISTS.

NEW GUANO ISLANDS

The appendix to the Official Report of the
Emigration Commissioners (just published), con-
tains a copy of the Royal License, granting to
Messrs. 3.ohn Ord, Joseph Hindson, and J. H.
Hayes, of Liverpool, merchants and brokers, the
sole and exclusive right, for a term of years, to
raise and take away the guano from the three
islands of Jibleea, Haski, and Ghurzoad, situate
in the Kooria Mooria Bay, on the south-east coast
of Arabia.

These islands, with two others, have recently
been ceded to the crown by His Highness the
Imaum of Muscat, and the guano has been
ascertained, by a careful analysis, to be of good
quality.
The license authorises Messrs. Ord, Hindson, and
Hayes, to construct all such sheds, stores, jetties,
and other buildings, as may be necessary for their
purposes, and stipulates that all the guano which
shall he raised from these islands, shall be shipped
direct to the port of Liverpool, or such other port
in the United Kingdom as may be approved on
the application of the licensers.

VIENNA, June 3.—The correspondent of the Times says,
that during the last three or four days, the inhabitants of
this city have been almost broiled alive ; the thermometer
has now and then been at 104 deg.
OPEN AIR PREACHlNG.—Yesterday afternoon the Rev.
Mr. White addressed a very large assemblage of persons,
chiefly of the working classes, on the space of ground
near the foundry, Windsor. The address was listened
to with marked attention. This is the first of a series of
addresses intended to be delivered in the same place
every Sunday afternoon, during the summer months.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP.—T. Denison and H.
C. Poole, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff merchants. R;
Hindle, A. L. Calman, and J. Scurrab, Padiharn, Lanca-
shire, cotton spinners. C. Rider and D. Atkinson,
Leeds, stone merchants L. Moss and W. Cohen,
Sheffield, jewellers. J. Holmes and T. Dawson, Bolton,
Yorkshire, quarry masters. R. Carter and I. Booth,
Halifax, Yorkshire, land agents. Adamson Harvey and
Co., Melbourne, Australia, merchants.
DAMAGE CAUSED BY VIBRATION FROM RAILWAY
TRAINS.—In the Sheriff's court, at Greenwich, on Satur-
day, Mr. Penny, a builder, at Lewisham, brought an action
against the London and South Eastern railway company, for
injury to his property, caused by the pissin of their heavy
goods train along the line close to a house belonging to him.
he claim was made under the Land Clauses Consolidation
Act, Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 20, the sixth clause of
which provides compensation to be given by railway com-
panies to owners and occupiers of premises "injuriously
affected" by the construction of the railway. The walls
had been cracked by the vibration which the trains created,
and the noise, the overlooking, and the nuisance of letting
off waste steam, were also complained of. The jury gave
Mr. Penny £lO5 damages.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP Or GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL.
BRISTOL, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FOUR O'CLOCK.—lntelli-
gence has just been received in this city of the death of the
Right Reverend Dr. James Henry Monk, Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol, which took place this afternoon at the
Episcopal Palace, Stapleton. The right reverend prelate,
who was seventy-three years of age, had been ill for some
considerable time from the effect of heart disease, and his
life was at all times uncertain, but until within about a day
of his demise he had not (judging from such accounts as
have reached) appeared worse than usual. Dr. Monk was a
prebendary of Westminster, and was consecrated in 1830, to
the see of Gloucester, which, upon the demise of Dr. Gray,
Bishop of Bristol, had the last named see combined with it.
whereby Dr. Monk became Bishop of Gloucester and Bris-
tol. The right reverend prelate was formerly ltegius Pro-
fessor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He was
accounted a Grcek scholar of great eminence, and was a
translator and editor of some of the old Greek poets. His
son is Chancellor of the diocese of Bristol.
CORONERS INQUESTS.—On Saturday, the borough
coroner held the following inquests :—On the body of
Anthony Bulack, aged 50, who was in the employment
of Messrs. H. Moore and Co., Rumford-place. The
deceased was working at a ship in the Clarence-dock,
and on Friday last, a spar fell upon his head and
killed him on the spot Verdict, accidental death.—On
the body of Maria Foulkes, who had been formerly a
nurse in the Lady's Charity, but who was discharged
about a year ago, in consequence of her habits of drink-
ing. She was about 51 years of age, and died suddenly
a day or two ago, in the house of a friend. The jury
found a verdict of died from natural causes.—Also on
the body of a man, name unknown, found in the river
Mersey. Verdict, found drowned.—Also on the body of
William Parrott, of Raymond -street. In this case, it
was alleged, that the deceased had died through the
neglect of the relieving officer, Williams, who had not
supplied him with the necessaries of life. This allega-
tion was distinctly disproved by the evidence of the
district surgeon, Mr. Kelly, who stated that be died
from natural causes, and the jary found a verdict accord-
ingly. _

lit& LATE SUICIDE IN CROWN-STREET.-iIl our im-
pression of Saturday, we announced that a man had
committed suicide in Crown-street. On Saturday, an
inquest was held on the body, before Mr. Curry, the
borough coroner, and a respectable jury. The deceased,
whose name was John Sutton, was 70 years of age, and
resided for the last nine months with his son, a joiner,
at No. 300, Crown•street. lie had, for a number of
Years, been coachman to Mr. William Rosson, of
Present, but had been discharged in consequence of his
exhibiting symptoms of melancholy. He subsequently
got much worse, had many strange fancies, and talked
very incoherently, and it was all but necessary that he
should he sent to an asylum. On Friday, about noon,
he was in the joiner's shop, when his son asked him what
he was after there, when he replied that he was rubbing
some stains out of his garters, and that it was so warm,
he would stop there. Shortly after the son returned to
the shop, when he found the deceased hanging from one
of the beams quite dead. The jury found a verdict that.
the deceased hanged himself while in a fit of insanity,
but at the same time, expressed it as their opinion, that
he should have had more attention paid to him

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