The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

SALFORD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

There was a large supply. The market was heavy, and
some articles remained unsold. The best qualities sold well
at full prices. Beasts, 1,769; sheep, 6,200 ; beef, 4to 6 ;
mutton, .6 to 74; calves, 5 to 6A-.

GLASGOW CORN MARKETS.----YESTERDAY.
Fresh supplies liberal during the week. Weather on the
whole favourable. Trade dull, with however a slight
revival in the last few days. At to-day's market attendance
small, and though wheat and flour were held for full prices,
yet the business done was limited, and last week's rates not
exceeded. Barley dull, and sixpence lower. Beans a small
sale, and in favour of buyer. Peas without change. Oats
and oatmeal each sixpence cheaper, with little inquiry.

DUBLIN CORN EXCIIA.NGE.—TUESDA.; Nov. 15.
There was but a moderate supply of home-grown grain
at market to-day, and a considerable portion in very
bad condition. Although we do not alter our quotations
of Friday last, the market was rather sharper for the
best qualities of wheat and barley. Middling and inferior
descriptions of everything met a very dull sale. Nothing
doing in Indian corn. White wheat, 38s Gd to 42s ; red
ditto, 36s to 40s; barley, 16s to 20s ; bere, Iss to 16s ;
oats, white, 13s 6d to 15s 6d; ditto tawny, 12s to 14s ;
rapeseed, 27s Gd to 29s 6d; oatmeal, 14s 6d to 16s; bakers'
flour, 22s to 265; Indian corn, 480 lbs, 40s to 45s 6d.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office yester-
day, at half-past two.
THE UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—A
prospectus has been issued of a new company, " The Uni-
versal Electric Telegraph Company," which proposes to
effect a further material reduction of charge, by using the
improvements recently patented by Mr. J. W. Wilkins. It
is proposed to convey a message between any point of the
company's line, which is to be extended throughout the
United Kingdom, for an uniform charge of 6d per message
of 20 words, and one-halfpenny for each word extra. The
proposed capital is £300,000., in £2. shares.

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POSTAGE OF PRINTED BOOKS TO THE EAST INDIES, NEW
SOUTH WALES, &c.—The following notice has been issued
by the General Post Office :—" In consequence of the great
difficulty and expense attending the transmission of heavy
packages across the Isthmus of Suez, it has become neces-
sary to rescind the regulations under which printed books,
magazines, reviews, and pamphlets addressed to the East
Indies, Ceylon, Mauritius, and New South Wales, are at
present forwarded via Egypt, and to restrict the conveyance
of such becks, &c., to the direct mail-packets proceeding to
those Places. In future, therefore,
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rams, intended to be forwarded through the post, under the
privileges of the colonial book post, will be conveyed by the
contract mail-packets, via the Cape of Good Hope, leaving
Plymouth on the 15th of each month; and books, &c., for
New South Wales, will be sent by the contract packetsdes-
P"'"' -."'"'"VT,angle. in go months of the sailing
of which notice is issuea irom tn
postage on books for the above-mentioned British colonies
and possessions, and the regulations for their conveyance,
will remain as heretofore, with the exception of the restric-
tion as to route laid down iu this notice."
A CHOLERA PATIENT "AT HOME"— HEARTLESS TREAT-
MENT BY RELATIVES.—An inquest was held at London, on
Tuesday, before Mr. Baker, coroner, on the body of a
woman named Mary Bryant, who had died from cholera..
The deceased was the wife of an industrious labourer, who
occupied a damp room in a densely populated district,
where a great number of persons had died frem cholera.
The evidence adduced at the inquest disclosed most un-
natural conduct on the part of certain relatives of the
deceased. It appears that, on Friday last the deceased was
seized with cramp in the legs, sickness and diarrhem Her
feet were placed in a warm bath, and she was afterwards
put to bed. Her husband came home, and, on finding her
in a dangerous condition, gave the attendants 10s. to pro-
cure food, firing, and medical aid. The son also pledged
his coat for 55., and a clergyman who was called in, gave
them 2s. more, making a total of 175., the whole of which
the sister and mother of the deceased took away, although
there was not a particle of food in the house, or nourishment
for the deceased or her children. They were afterwards
found rolling about in a state of beastly intoxication in a
public-house in the neighbourhood, and, when asked for
some cash by the dereased's daughter, it was ascertained
that the money had been squandered away. A surgeon was
called, and after seeing the deceased, gave a mixture. Tho
drunken mother and sister afterwards came into the room,
and when spoken to about the money, ill-used the deceased
in a shameful manner, and it required some force to eject
them. The deceased was supplied with a little warm brandy
by Mr. Morgan, a publican, but she gradually sunk, and
died on Saturday morning, at two o'clock. Mr. Baker said
he had never heard of so gross a case of brutality during the
whole of the thirty years he had been a coroner. Unfor-
tunately, however, the evidence would not warrant a verdict
of manslaughter. The jury therefore found one of "Asiatic
cholera ; " but at their request, the two female drunkards
were called into the room, and received a severe reprimand
from the coroner.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OP THE TOWN CLERK OP
NEWBURY.—Much surprise has been excited amongst the
inhabitants of Newbury, by the somewnat sudden dis-
appearance.of their tows clerk. It appears that Mr. Henry
Bunny, the gentleman alluded to, is the son of a Mr.
Jere Bunny, who has for a great many years held a
most respectable position in the town as a solicitor. It has
been for some time suspected that the town clerk's pecu-
niary affairs were in an unsatisfactory state. Special
attention was directed to the circumstance in conse-
quence of information which reached the ears of some
of the townspeople that Mr. Bunny had engaged a
shepherd and a bailiff to proceed with him to New Zealand.
As soon as this became generally known, Mr. Bunny dis-
appeared, and all attempts to capture him have been
ineffectual. Some of the creditors sent a special mes-
ssenger to Plymouth, in order to ascertain whether he was
on board a vessel called the Duke of Portland, about pro-
ceeding to New Zealand. The messenger found Mrs. Bunny
and her children there, but the absconding town clerk could
not be traced, although a suspicion still prevails in the town
that he was on board at the time, attired in female's clothes.
On Saturday a letter was received from Mr. henry Bunnr,
addressed to the mayor of Newbury, giving in his resinali ion
of the town clerkship, as well as three other offices which he
held, namely the clerkship to the local board of health, the
clerkship to the justices, and the clerkship to the commis-
missioners of taxes. At the same time a letter was received
from Mr. Jeremiah Bunny, the father, stating his belief
that his son would never again voluntarily appear in New-
bury, and expressing his deep regret at what had occurred.
It is said that the town clerk's defalcations have arisen
from undue speculation.