The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

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COUNTY COURT.—His Honour disposed of 120 cases
yesterday. They were nearly all undefended.
FREEMASONRY. —We understand that the Earl of Elles-
mere, who was appointed grand master for the province of
East Lancashire in the year 1846, has recently tendered his
rcsigrn

ion, and that Stephen Blair, Esq., wh-o has so ably
filled the office of deputy P. G. M., has been appointed in
the place of the noble earl. Brother Blair's appointment

has given great satisfaction to the masonic body- through-
out the province ; and it is expected that the next annual
neeting, at which Brother Biair will be duly installeJ, will
Id in Manchester, abaut the end of July next, when a
3eeting is anticipated from the
hove circumstance, and also that a scheme is under can-
ideration for establishing a local fund of benevolence in
this important province.

very large

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A melancholy c'rcurnstance occurred
about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, to Wil-
liam Liversage, aged fourteen years, a fine intelligent
youth, only son of Mr. Liversage, of Waterloo, Great
Crosby, of the firm of Liversage and Tyrer, brewers, Bur-
lington Street, Liverpool. The unfortunate youth was
fishing in a pit in a field near his father's house, and while
sitting on the bank, he was observed by John Mawdsley, a
lad of nine years' of age, to fall into the water, owing, as it
is supposed, to having been seized with a fir, to which be
had been for some time subjct. The lad Mawdsley met
with Mr. James Rimmer, publican, close at hand, and
informed him of the occurrence. Mr. Rimmer immediately
got assistance, and with a drag succeeded in recovering the
body in about twenty minutes, which he conveyed to his
own hmse, the Liver Inn, Waterloo. Mrsirs. May and
Adams, surgeons, were promptly in attendance, but their
efforts were unavailing as life was extinct. The parents
are plunged into the greatest distress by the melancholy
occurrence.

SUICIDE —An irqnest was held on Monday last, at the
house of Mr. John Routledge, Toxteth-park, before C. E
Duffield, Esq., coroner, on the body of Margaret Lindsay,
aged thirty-eight years, wife of David Lindsay, groom to
J. W. Cropper, E q., of Dingle-bank, who was found
drowned in a pit of water in Ullett-lane, Toxteth-park, on
the ith instant. It appears deceased had been drinking
for about a week, and since Thursday last had been in a
desponding state of mind, and had frequently threatened to
destroy herself. Her husband bad directed his son, a little
boy, to watch her; and through his instrumentality she
was twice, during the day, disturbed when about to throw
herself into a pit in Parliament-fields. About half-past one
o'clock in the afternoon, she was suddenly missed from the
house, and on immediate search being made, her bonnet and
shawl were found by Henry Bowen, of Liverpool, floating
on the water of the same pit to which she had been on the
two previous occasions in the morning. Assistance was
procured, and the body was taken out of the water quite
eeld, and conveyed to the Brookhouse public•house,
Toxteth-park: The jury returned a verdict of " temporary
insanity, arising from recent intemperance."
&oxen Bosco's PERFORMANCE.—Fame had said a good
deal of this gentleman's " magic performance," and
although that good dame is famous for her propensity to
addition, yet, in the present instance, she seems not to have
outqepped the bounds of reason in reference to the Signor.
We have seen a good deal of many clever performers in this
line, and it will not be detracting from the merits of Bosco
to say that he equals many of those, and, in some instances,
su,p s=es them. There is much ease and gracefulness
about his per'ormances ; and, although we are aware that
deception is before us, yet we are pleased that the deception
is so perfect. There are many tricks and sleight-of-hand
introduced that are new ; and, amongst these, the " Punch
trick" bids fair to rival that of the well known " gun
trick." The bait, and, apparently, the most open handed
exploit we ever sax, is the annihilation of a lady's scarf, but
in a few seconds alter, the article is produced ' safe and
sound," out of a bottle held by a perfect stranger. There
are so many and so zoo./ things to be witnessed at this
pretty theatre of the Q iPen's Hall, that we find our space
will not allow us more thaq to glance at them to day. One
feeure,which showed h)w much the Signor was appreciated
at such an early period of his visit to our town, was,
that the house was crowded last I.:.ght by a brilliant

LIVERPOOL,

ET ARIL AN

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ERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING

The Liverpool Cotton Market continues very
quiet, and today the business done does not
exceed 3,000 bales, th 3 whole of which have been
taken by the trade. There has been rather less

firmness in prices.
The amount of business done in the Liverpool
Share Market has been small, and the tone has
been quiet, closing steadily, however, at the follow-
ing quotations : Aberdeen, 13 131. Chester and
Birkenhead, 15.1 16. Caledonian, 301 308,
Chester and Holyhead, 161 161. Eastern Coun-
ties, 10 3.1610,1,. East Lancashire, 191 198 Great
Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 91 91. Great
Western, 61612. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
924 928. Liverpool, Crosby and Southport; 17117 k,
London and North Western Stock, 1021 1021. Man..
Chester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 291 29a Ditto Pref.,
11a 111. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 2 ap. Mid-
land Stock. 78a 781. North British, 8 15.16 9 1 16.
North Staffordshire, 6 54d. South Eastern and
Dover, 214 21.1 York, Newcastle, and BPI'.

wick, 204 204. York and North Midland, 291 294.
Leeds Capital Stock, 174. 171. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 14 lb. Dutch Rhenish, lb. Great
Western of Canada, 24 251 Ditto New Shares,
4 3p. Great Luxembourg, 818$d.
, A very quiet tone prevailed in the Manchester
Goods Market this- morning, and to effect sales in
either Goods or Yarns lOwer prices had to be
submitted to.

Comparative statement of the exports of Wheat,
Flour, and Indian Corn, from the ports of the
United States, to• May 27, New York date, and
latest dates from all.other ports :.
......

-Flour. Wheat.
To British ports, ) 1,78111,87.13 66Q8,r384.8
1853-1864 ..
787 570
Continental

2.499,283

To British por's, 860,746
18551856.... _ _
Continental

275,715

944,063

...515,584

635,815

670,000

.08,000

275,000

Total... 1,496,561

790,584

Less shipped in)
1855-1856 than LC- 1,002,722
in 1853-1854.. 1

...153,479

58,000

More shipped in same periods.
Accounts from Bordeaux, to the 6th inst , state
that at the public sales there 100 bales of Peruvian
wool realised from 116 f to .1971 per 50 kilos ; 250
bales of Buenos Ayres from 116 f to 261 f, and 36
bales of the new clip from 1481 to 1531. In sugar
there was a good business done, and prices show a
tendency to advance, at 54f to 551 per 100 kilos
For spirits the market was generally flat, with
prices firm, at 140 f ner hectolitre for Armagnac ;
150 f per do. for Languedoc, 114 f per do. for beet-,
root, and from 80f to 90f for Tafia. In wines the
sales are still limited, on account of the supplies
being small.
Accounts from Holland state that a public con-
vention has just been concluded, which allows the
admission of Austrian consuls into the Dutch
colonial possessions ; and an additional convention
to the treaty with Sardinia in June, 1851, which
allows to the ships and subjects of the two high
contracting parties an equal facility to trade with
their ports, and along their coasts,,which is not
granted to other nations, This convention, how-
ever, excepts the Dutch colonies in the East
Indies, the trade with which Sardinia enjoys in
common with all other friendly powers.
The advices from St. Petersburg to the 31st May
state that nothing definite has transpired relative
to the government contracting a new loan ; nor on
the subject of founding Credit Mobilier establish-
ments in the great commercial cities of the empire.
As in all such measures the government are said
to act with extreme prudence and caution it is
probable that nothing will be done until the
return of the Emperor from Riga and Revel
to St. Petersburgh, when some important
financial step will be taken. Meanwhile the
Minister of Finance receives a crowd of appli-
cations from foreign parties to establish com-
panies and banks such as hitherto have not
existed. In all such cases it is thought that the
Emperor will consent to a portion of the capitals
required being open to foreign subscription, and
upon this condition two great banking establish-
ments will be formed at Moscow and St. Peters-
burg, as these cities are considered the centres of
commerce and manufacture's throughout the empire.
Up to the close of May there were very few
Russian capitalists who seemed inclined to enter
largely into banking transactions, and there is
little doubt that the greater portion of the capital
to be thus invested will come from foreign
countries.

The meeting of the South Eastern Company,
held to-day, was for the consideration of the bill
in Parliament for making an extension of the
West-End and Crystal Palace line from Bromley
and Farnborough to St. Mary Crag, and for
working the said line by the South Eastern
Company ; and also power to raise under the
act of 1855 further sums not exceeding
253 0001. (being the remnant of 500,0001.) by the
issue of new preference shares not exceeding 5
per cent. After some discussion the acts were
agreed to.

The annexed are the closing quotations of
the Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11
171 to 11 191. Do., three months, 12 to 121.
Rotterdam, do , 12 to 121. Antwerp, do.,
25 60 to 25 65. Brussels, do., 25 60 to 25 65.
Hamburg, do., 13 101 to 13 101. Paris, short
25 35 to 25 421-. Do , three months, 25 70
to 25 75. Marseilles, do., 25 70 to 25 75.
Frankfort, do , 1201 to 1201. Vienna, do , 10
18 to 10 24 Trieste, do., 10 19 to 10 22.
Petersburg, do., 371 to 371. Madrid, do., 491 to 49:.
The Funds, to clay, experienced a reaction. After
opening steady, the Market closed per cent. lower
than yesterday, the final quotations being 99. 1-16 to
94 3-16 The unsatisfactory state of financial
affairs in Paris, and the uncertainty still hanging
over our relations with America, tend to check the
rapid rise which would otherwise
,have resulted
from the progressive improvement in the money
market. The preparations for the payment of
1,000,000 f. on the new loan on Thursday next,
seem to have little influence on the Money
Market, which remains easy. In the Stock
Exchange, loans wero obtainable on Stock
at 4to 5 per cent. The Paris Bourse continues
decidedly weak, any movement in the direction of
a rally has been quickly counteracted by a renewal
of sales, chiefly on account of weak speculative
holders. The Railway Share Market to day was
rather flatter, following the movement in Consols.
The Price of Railway Shares stood thus at the
close : Caledonian, 61/ 611. Eastern Counties,
10 1-16 10 3-16. East Lancashire, 78a 791.
Great Northern, 95 951. Ditto A, 78 79. Great
Western, 611 611. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
92i 931, London and North Western, 1021
104 -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
29 291. Midland Stock, 781 781. North British,
35 361, South Eastern and Dover, 711 721.
YorkNeweastle, and Berwick, 82 83. York and
North Midlawl, 581 59.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.— A
protest against the third reading of the Appellate Juris-
diction bill has been entered upon the journals of the
House of Lords by the Marquis of Clanricarde, on the
grounds (I.) ghat pecuniary payment to members of the
house nominated by the Crown for deliberating and voting
in Parliament, is an innovation calculated to impair the
independence, dignity, and character of the House of
Lords. (2.) Because, to enact the admission to Parlia-
ment of peers for life, and to confine that admission to the
sole case of remedying the inefficiency or consulting the
ease of hereditary peers, is unjust, impolitic, and impos-
sible, (3.) Because the bill wholly fails to establish such
a Supreme Court of Appeal as the opinion and the require-
ments of the couoiry demand.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—On Monday night a public
meeting was held at the London Tavern, convened by
the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Capital
Punishment, for the purpose of adopting a petition 'to
the House of Commons in support of Mr. Ewart's
motion in Parliament on that subject. Edward Web-
ster, Esq., barrister-at-law, was voted to the chair, and,
in opening the proceedings, said they had lately had an
extraordinary trial, and whether a righteous verdict had
been delivered the intelligent public must determine.
It was impossible, however, according to chemical laws;
to say that Cook was murdered. He contended that
capital punishment was contrary to the law of God, did
not prevent or diminish murder, bat tended to increase
it, and was unworthy of a civilised country. The Rev,
Henry Christmas moved a resolution condemning capital
punishments as unchristian, demoralising, and ineffec-
tive. Mr. llii•hards seconded the reiolution, which was
carried with two dissentients. A resolution against
private executions was also agreed to,

WEDNESDAY.

inundations in this (1
His

return to Paris

strict

FRANCE.

The waters, according to
ceived this morning,

siding, and as the

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR

NANT-ES, DYE SDA.Y

His Majesty the Emperor has just arrived hei
to visit the scenes of devastation cause

'd by th

Majesty leaves again to-morrow on hi

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

At the close of business today on the Bourse
the Funds were thus quoted :—Four and a Half
per Cents, 93f 75c; Three per Cents, 71f 50c.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY. EVENING

The French government, I tun assured, has
received information, -that though the English
government says nothing on the subject, it is

making very extensive preparations to be ready
to pay its respects to the United States, in the event
of war being declared. T.

The Emperor again left Paris this morning, by
express train, for Chartres, whence he is to proceed
to Angers, which has also suffered dreadfully from
the inundations

the accounts re-