The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

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MOAT TA R, Y AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING

• Great efforts are being made on the, Continent to
economise food, and keep down the pricb of corn.
The legislative body at Frankfort have just forbid-
den the purchase of potatoes for• distilleries and
starch factories, and the free import of grain in the
Zollverein is prolonged to the .30th September, 1854.
French newspapers publish the usual Monthly re-
turn, which fixes the duty on the importation of corn
for the next fortnight. The average price for all.
France is 27. 92c. per hectolitre. The price of bread
in Paris for the first fortnight of the present month
is maintained at 40c.

£he Pays says :—" The movement of importation
amply respond to the wants of our market. The
deficiency in the harvest this year is, it is well
-,own, less than it was in 184(i. At the latter
h. and dUring the period of supply. of 1846-47,
antity imported was 16,081,029 hecto-
-, But, as has been several times. remarked,
it must not be forgotten that a considerable por-
tion of this enormous quantity, to the amount of a
quarter or a fifth part, remained unemployed for
the wants of 1847. There will be, therefore, no
advantage, in the' arrivals exceeding the actual
quantities, and there would not even be any incon-
venience in their diminishing in a short time. In
fact, what is desirable is that the import should be
sufficient to satisfy the wants.. without causing a
definite surplus in the market, in the event of the
year 1854 furnishing a good harvest, as there is
every reason to hope it will. Supposing that the
quantity of 50,000 hectolitres a day, or near it, be
maintained, -the import at the end of December,
1853, will amount to six millions of hectolitres of
corn, including the three millions already imported.
If it continue in the same portions to the end of
June next. France will have received about 15
millions of hectolitres in ten months." It is con-
sidered probable that the ships now 'loading at
Odessa will bring away not less than 600,000 quar-
text of wheat.

the total q u

.These„ satisfactory advices from the Continent,
added to those of a still more encouraging charac-
ter from America, caused the London speculators
to pause before it was too late, and consequently
the Market closed yesterday in a languid state,
and if the Liverpool Trade act with equal caution,
little harm can be done. The large exports of
grain which have taken place to Ireland within the
last few weeks are nothing more than what is usual
at this season. In the autumn, the Irish millers
impoil grain for the purpose of keeping down
prices in their own markets, and when this has
been accomplished, they commence milling and
keep up a regular export of flour to this country.
In a few weeks, therefore, we may expect heavy
arrivals from the Irish ports.
The Tagus steam-ship from Gibraltar brings
£5,000 in specie on freight. The Lisbon Board of
Health had declared Liverpool an infected port
from the sth of November, and had compelled the
Rattler to discharge into the Lazaretto. The Tagus
brings a large cargo of fruits and a variety of other
merchandise. Bills upon London were scarce at
Lisbon, and money remained over at 54 for three
monthS. Oporto Bank Shares were quoted sto 6
per cent. premium in metal.
The Commercial- advices from South America by
the Magdalena are not important. A second remit-
tance of gold, value 45,000 dollars, had been re-
ceived at Panama, from Australia for New York.
The net profits of the railways of Chili amount to
223,000 dollars, or about 12 per cent, upon a capi-
talAonf .1,8.
advertisements , dollars.nO
appears in the London papers,
which states that the Bank of England
is autho
rised to pay forthwith, upon the application of
such holders as may have dissented from the
pro
posed con Version, the amount of the various petty'
stocks known as New South Sea Annuities, Three
per Cents. 1751, and Three per Cents. 1726, which
will fall due .on the sth of- January next. The
discount to be charged is' four per cent., and no

sums of stock will be received less than 10001.
The total which may thus be called for is 2,380,001/.,
the aggregate amount of the three stocks having
been 3,134;240/., of which the portion to be con-
verted is only 754,2391. This measure is generally
looked on with satisfaction, as it will throw a con-
siderable sum into the Money-market, where it is
much needed at the present moment. Under the
influence of this timely relief, Consols closed at
At 4 to. or, for account, and 947,- to 95* for money.
Three-amba-quarter per Cents., 99 *• ' Bank Stock,
21.5 to 216; Exchequer Bills, ls. to ss. premium.
In the Foreign House, a good amount of busi-
ness was -transacted at the following quotations
Mexican, 26. t, to Hi; Spanish -New deferred, 20i
io 22; Passive, 41 to 5; Ditto Three per cents,
44 to 45.

The Liverpool Cotton-Market was flat again to-
day. The sales amounted to 5000 bales, of which
1000 were taken on speculation and for export.
Our Share Market has been remarkable firm
again to-day, and closed nearly at its highest point.

THE RIOTS AT WIGAN.
[FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.]

WIGAN, THURSDAY NIGHT

1.1 •
An outrage was committed last night, but it was fortu-
nately not attended with any serious results. About six
o'clock, an attempt was made to blow up the engine shed of
a pit belonging to the Moss Hall Coal Company, on Am-
berswood .Common, Ince, about a mile-and-a-half from
Wigan. The roof was destroyed; and a portion of a wall,
fifteen feet long and nine feet high, was thrown down by
the blast. One of the company's servants had just left the
place, when he heard a report of gunpowder, but did not re-
turn to ascertain whence the noise proceeded ; and it was
not until this morning that it was discovered the outrage
had been committed. Nothing of a suspicious nature was
found in or near the shed, but a small piece of a fusee such
as colliers use to blast with. No person was seen lurking
about the place, and as yet the police have been unable to
obtain any clue to the perpetrators of the act. The damage
is estimated at from £8 to £lO. The engine is not injured.
During last night, mounted messengers were employed to
carry reports as to the state of feeling from three of the out
townships, to, the mayor and magistrates assembled at the
public hall. The places from which they started were the
Sawmill at Haigh, the police office at Pemberton, and the
police office at Ince ; but there was no attempt to create a
disturbance.

This morning, the men employed at the Pemberton col-
liery, belonging to Messrs. J. Blundell & Son, again turned
out, without assigning any reason for refusing to comply
with the terms agreed to by them the day before. At noon
to-day, the forty men of the 34th regiment of infantry, left
on Monday night at the sawmill, under the command of
Lieutenant Westhead, were relieved by the same number of
rank and file 'under the command of Captain Sfaxwell, from
the public

The usual county o tabulary force for the district around
Wigan has been strengthened by seventy or eighty addi-
tional officers, and all the constables carry cutlasses. Captain
Woodford,',chiefconstnble of the county, and Captain SheppFd,
assistant chief constable, have been in Wigan and the neigh-
bourhood the greater part of the week. This morning two
carts, each drawn by a number of colliers, were takenthrough
the town attended by a number of men, who entered shops
and other places and asked for relief, which the people at
once gave them, being afraid to refuse. The bread, pota-
toes, and other provisions which they received they put in
the carts. Both parties were stopped by the police, and told
that if they did not desist, they would be taken into custrdy.
The warning had the desired effect: Two carts were out at
Pemberton in a similar manner, and one at Ashton-in-
Mackerfield. The Mayor, on hearing of it, sent a request
to the superintendents of the constabulary to put a stop to
it in their respective districts.
This day is the last day onwhich the magistrates will
receive claims under £3O in amount, from parties whose
property suffered by the riot von which they have the
power: to adjudicate. Parties who claim more Phan that
sum must bring an action at large."
W hen my report left to-night all was peaceable in the
town and neighbourhood.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A BOY.—Edward Dunne, a
boy of 11 years of age, fell into a teller at No. 1 Court,
Manesty-lane, on Saturday, and died on Wednesday morn-
ing, from the injuries le had received.
The Floating Mariner's Church has been re-
move into the Canning Dock, and a large bank of mud
marks the spot where it was formerly moored. This is. be-
cause the dredging machine could not be brought back
under it while afloat.

DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING. Sylvester
Mc Conachie, a man 40 years old, residing at 41, Bridge-
water-street, died suddenly in bed, on Wednesday evening.
His death was caused by excessive drinking.
ACCIDENT TO THE LIISITANIA. - Yesterday, the
trial trip of this fine screw steamer was to have taken place, but
unfortunately, in crossing the river opposite to Mr. Laird's
building yard, she ran aground between Rock Ferry and New
Ferry. She was got off on this morning's tido without

damage.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.—MiChaeLAPLeaD,
a dock labourer, on Monday afternoon, was stowing salt in
bags on board the American ship " Western Continent,"
when one of the bags slipped from the slings, and struck
deceased on the head. He died on Tuesday, and aninquest
was held on the body yesterday, when a verdict of acciden-
tal death was returned,