The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

MANCHESTER CORN MARKET,-YESTERDAY,

The articles in the market to-day realised advanced rates.
The following remarks we extract from the circular of Mi.
Thomas Swallow, Old Corn Exchange :—The advance quoted
in London and Liverpool, since the dato of my last respects,
has in the same period enabled holders of wheat and flour here,
to obtain higher prices, but the sale has been for consumption,
and of much less extent than in the preceding week. A
speculative feeling has sent up the value of Indian corn and
Egyptian beans ; meal has rallied from the same cause, and
oats have brought extreme rates.
The foregoing remarks apply equally to the trade on this
morning's market ; in accordance with the improvement real-
ized, wheat must be written fully 4d. per 701b5.; flour, 2s. per
sack and barrel; oats, Id. per 451bs. ; meals, Is. per load;
beans, 2s. per quarter ; and Indian corn, 3s. per 4801b5., dearer
than on this day se'nnight. The scat city of fine malt enables
holders to obtain higher prices for such, and such only,

GLASGOW MA RK ETS. —YESTERDAY.
COTTON YARNS —There is little in our cotton yarns
market this week, and prices are rather in favour of buyers.
PIG IRON.—The excitement experienced on Tuesday con-
tinued all day yesterday, there having been a strange demand
and large sales, at 71s. to 725. for mixed Nos., closing sellers
at 725.; No. 1. g. m. h. is now quoted at 745. 6d.

GLASGOW WEEKLY CORN MARKET.
GLASGOW, 26th OcToBER, 1853.
We have again to advise a good arrival of wheat, chiefly
from the Black Sea, with 1760 bolls from America. The
supply of oats is also good, and barley and beans to a fair extent.
On wheat we have to note a fresh advance of Is. to Is. 6d.
per boll, and on flour of Is. to 2s. per sack and barrel, with •
good business in both to the trade and on speculation. Oats
are more inquired for, and the full quotations of last week are
obtained. Holders now looking for more money.
The few fine days of last week were followed by even heavier
rains and higher winds than before, and the ground is perfectly
saturated.

At this day's market the advanced prices rather checked tho
tendency to an extensive bueineeo, ball sales were effected at
ls. to 2s. per boll advance on the week, and at a corresponding
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TIDE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
TO THE BURGESSES OF PITT-STREET WARD

Permit me again earnestly to address you with
a few remarks bearing upon those principles that
should govern high-souled men in the exercise of
their franchise-, and which, I hope, nay have some
little effect in inducing, not only you, but also your
future representatives in the Council, fearlessly to
unfurl aloft the standard of independence ; in fact,
to break up those cliques, those bar-parlour deter-
minations, and those shameless derelictions from
integrity of purpose, which have disgraced, and
continue to disgrace, the nominees, not of Wards,
but of secret and self-interested cabals.
" Those who sow the wind, shall reap the whirl
wind ;" those who suffer corrupt motives to influ-
ence them, shall justly reap contempt. The trite-
ness of the European adage, borne out by a

concordance of historical -facts, that " Paris is
France," is fully acknowledged. Let the Parisian
canaille want bread, and they quickly dethrone
and behead a Louis the XVI.

Shrinking ;horrified from the guillotine, the
demon raised by their own incantations, and their
demagogues' sole law, in the avalanche of their
terror and rage, the first Napoleon is heaved up.
Gifted with a mind of almost universal greatness,
and, like the warlike monk, Richelieu, embodying
into a fixed idea the Glory of France, he still lives
the idol of their affections, although in his birth
and death he was an alien to their soil. Another
age fleets away, and its vitality quickens a new
generation into life, and again the same episode
is repeated. The destiny of monarchs is seen to
hang upon as frail a thread as the sword suspended
over the head of the crouching Damocles. This
unit amongst numbers—this city of an empire
will exalt no deity but he who reflects the symbol
of their principle. Contented with a shadow,
Frenchmen can cheerfully see their rights of
freedom trampled in the dust—their patriots
exiles in distant lands—a mortal's will their sole
law—and a venal press completing the sum of
their degradation. Happily, such is not the case
in England. .In this comparatively favoured land,
the metropolis no more rules the destiny of the
country than the Prime Minister the Cabinet, or
the Cabinet the House of Commons.
Whence owe we this liberty ? I answer—mainly
to the honest exercise of the elective power of the
people. - - -
Slrall •
we fall back upon history, and trace its
progress onwards ? Shall we see how a series of
oppressions, ending in the illegal taxation of ship-
money, and resisted to the death by a gallant and
resolved House of Commons, freed England, at a
blow, from Charles I. and the . terrors of absolu-
tism? But why recount facts of history already
patent to all reflective minds ? Why trace the down-
fall of state-pensioners and hereditary law-givers,
and their bill of claims, dishonoured by the
people ? Why speak of the noble minds, imbued
with talent, energy, and fearless rectitude of
purpose, daily recruited from their ranks ? Such
men were those, at first a small unheeded band,
but gathering force as they proceeded, from the
goodness of their cause and the grandeur of the
truths they proclaimed, who carried, against the
most selfish of oppositions, the repeal of the corn-
laws of Great Britain.
These changes, wonderful in their effects, and
beautiful in their nature, have been brought about
by the intelligence of the people, and by the use,
not the abuse, of their franchise.-

But if great truths and principleS are not only
enunciated, but also carried into operation, it is be-
cause men of iron energy and determined will, seize
upon them and wield them like .a flail, to rouse, up
the lazy apathy and self-prostration of the masses.
Through the Press, and on the rostrum, do they
appeal unremittingly for their sympathy and sup-
port—endeavouring to educate them not only to
know, but to maintain, the rights so hardly won for
them. Their preaching has caused close boroughs,
corporate jobbery, sinecures, and place-men, to
stink in the nostrils of the people Acknowledg-
ing these to be home-truths, why do we suffer them
to exist ? Why not strike a blow for principle ?
Why suffer longff, small coteries to thrust upon us
their own creatures to be our representatives in the
council-chamber—endeavouring, by subterfuge,
artifice, and private flattery, to place them in a
..11 ..*lt V V ...11Jvhadl..1, VLad
only blazon their shame ? It is for the Electors
to :decide whether this system shall longer con-
tinue ; for it is in their power to render a council
membership truly a post of honour and dignity.
Therefore, I call upon the burgesses of Pitt-street
Ward, to show an example to Liverpool, by the re-
cord of their votes on Tuesday, ignoring anything
but constitutional principle..
Two addresses are before them, and also two
candidates. Let them then, without fear, prejudice,
or favour, exercise the power of suffrage in favour
of the best and most able man. If Mr. Jeffreys
possesses the business talent, the eloquence, or
the energy of his opponent—if, through a long life,
he has been known to range himself on the people's
side, to struggle for their claims—if he has exposed
fearlessly combinations to do wrong—if, where vast
schemes of finance, education, or works of public
utility have bean on the tapis, his voice has been
heard in. the war of words, or his pen most active
for the right—then vote for him.
But if not, as burgesses, as conscientious citizens,
you are bound by the laws of public duty and pri-
vate morality, to vote for Mr. John Smith, whose
actions and character will reflect lasting honour on
your choice.

At the same time, you will assert the great pre-
rogative of an Englishman—his right to form an
unbiassed and upright Judgment, joined to an ear-
nestness of purpose that nothing but what is open,
manly, and English, can influence.

A COSMOPOLITAN,
BUT NOT A BURGESS OF PITT-STREET WARD
Liverpool, Oct. 28, 1853.

COUNTY' COURT.--YEBTET DAY

The County Court sat at the usual hour yesterday

HAGAR v. RICHARDSON. This was an action brought to
recover £lO, for damage done to the plaintiff, Mrs; Hagar,
by a cart belonging to the defendant having come into
collision with a car in which she was driving. Mr.
Grocott appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hime for the
defendant. It appeared that between eight and nine o'clock
on the 30th of July, the plaintiff was driving along
Hatton-garden, from Tithebarn-street to Dale-street, when
the cart belonging to the defendant came into collision, and
plaintiff was thrown out and injured. The action was
brought to recover the amount of a surgeon's bill, and
compensation for loss of time. The defence raised was that
the occurrence had not taken place through negligence, and
also that the defendant was not liable, as the cart was at
the time in the use of another party, who was a sub-con-
tractor to defendant. The court deferred judgment until
Monday next.

314EORGE v. HOBS.—In this case an action was brought
by Miss Margaret M'George, to recover £ll 18s. 3d., rent
of a house, from Mr. George Dixon Hore, executor of the
will of Mr. Ralph Abram. Mr. Grocott appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Greatley for the defence. The question
raised in the case was whether the defendant having given
up the house without the consent of the owner, was liable
for the rent accruing after quitting it, and upon the
part of the defence it was stated that Mr. Cobb, agent for
the plaintiff, had undertaken upon his own authority that
plaintiff would consent to take the houses off defendant's
hands at once. The Court expressed a wish to have the
evidence of Miss M'George herself produced, in order to as-
certain what authority she had given to the agent. His
Honor added that the argument brought forward 'by Mr.
Greatley had a great deal of weight. Mr. Greatley said
true it was, that the agent had made a statement inconsis-
tent with that of Mr. Hore. Mr. Hore stated that Mr.
Cobb told him that Miss M‘George would release him, and
as Mr. Hore had certainly given his evidence in a clearer
manner, he should give the preference to him. It was then
argued very fairly that if Mr. Cobb could not be relied upon
for the one statement he could not be relied upon for the
other, and therefore Miss M'George ought to be produced
herself to say what authority she gave him. He thought
it right to say that he did not attribute the manner in
which Mr. Cobb gave his evidence to any, desire to mislead,
but merely that there was some confusion in it. His present
opinion was, that even if Miss M'George's agent,did com-

rriunicate to'the defendant that his principal would release
them from the house, it did not bind the principal, unless it
could be shown that the agent was especially authorized to
make such an arrangement. The ordinary duties of an
agent might be performed without such an arrangement,
and the principal would be bound by them, but in such a
case as that it was his opinion that a special authority
should be shown. The case was therefore ordered to stand
over to the 11th of November, for the production of Miss
M‘George's evidence.