The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

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UGUST 27, 1856

THE DAY'S NEWS

There appears to be a perfect calm in the poli•
tical circles of the Continent. Spain continues

tranquil, and France is motionless, as far as public
opinion is concerned. O'Donnell is resting on his

or rather bayonet

allowed to rer
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to solve; but

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Spanish credit

do-nothing Governm

movements of

influence the Funds
nals abundant ma

amusement

Bayonne, and

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the buried dust

a problem we cannot pretend
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id Empress were at

to return

the Imperial

s presided over by

Prince Louis

St. Sebastian

out at 'Ma-

esired by the Emperor

France, is

bout to re-enter

it appears, the Spanish Basque provinces, with the
object of studying their language, antiquities, and
He is anxious to compare the various
dialects of the Baseuense, which are very numerous,
and differ widely from each other. His rambles
are not expected to extend beyond the three
provinces and Navarre. The Prefects of Depart-
ments have been directed to obtain from the chief

persons

attaining an amount of defensive strength that
would relieve her from all fear of her overpowering

The Piedmontese continue to arm and make
warlike preparations. Letters from Turin state
that the fortifications of Alessandria and Casale
idvancing. The troops are employed

n constructing the works. Grand military
nanceuvres are about to take place. Furloughs
en suspended. General Trotti has assumed

the command of the fortress of Alessandria. The
subscriptions opened for the purpose of purchasing
100 guns, to arm the new fortifications of Ales-
sandria, already amount to a considerable sum.
Mazzini was said to be in Piedmont, but others
considered it more likely that he remained con-
cealed in Switzerland, whence he continually for-
wards proclamations to his partisans in Central
Italy, where he still exercises some influence.

The meeting of the Special General Vestry, and
the difference of opinion between Mr. Mansfield
and the Coroner's Jury in. the case of the Bond-
street_murder, constitute the most prominent fea-
tures in our local intelligence. The Vestry think
that 21 acres of burial ground is not enough for
this populous Borough, and; as Mr. Woodruff stated,
" the meeting was called together for the purpose
" of considering the desirability of appointing a
burial board, and either to have Walton Ceme-
" tery or to make such other arrangements as may
"be thought proper for the burial of the dead,
" upon a scale becoming the importance of a parish
" like Liverpool." There was no objection raised to
the rector or the burial board ; the' object being
ply to adopt a plan which would give greater
In the course of the

ua to the public

debate the right of dissenters to a separate burial
ground was warmly advocated ; and the meeting
was reminded that if a dissenter intered his

friends at Walton, no religious service other than
that of the Church of England could be read over
the body. This is certainly a great grievance, and
we are happy to find that the advocates of the
dissenters' rights gained a signal triumph over
their adversaries.

Howthe Stipendiary Magistrate and the Coroner
will adjust their differences of opinion—the former
having committed a prisoner for wilful murder,
and the latter having returned a verdict of man-
slaughter—remains for time to decide. Meanwhile,
we congratulate the learned judges who have pre-
sided at the Assizes, and the numerous jurymen
who have devoted so much of their valuable time
to the service of the public, on being released from
their protracted and onerous duties.

THE criminal business of the Assizes having
terminated on Saturday, we cannot be thought
premature in offering some remarks on the numer-

ous cases of a diabolical character which were
brought before the Court. The calendar was
unusually heavy, and murders of the most frightful
kind formed its leading and most deplorable
features. We never before read such a mass of
crimp dating from unbridled passion, jealousy,

petty revenge, and those vices one meets in every
circle and in every-day life. There was not one
case tried in which the incentive to murder was
traced to its old associate—plunder. In no instance
could cool premeditation be brought home to the
murderer. The deaths of the victims of the
accused were caused by some outburst of passion,
or some savage practice but too common in the
ordinary walks of society. A tongue too ready to
provoke—a hand too ready to strike—a mind
too apt to conceive an insult where none was
meant, and too prone to recollect paltry wrongs
when inflicted, filled our dock with murderers of
both sexes at the Assizes. Let those who
doubt this statement turn' to th 3 reports
of ,the late trials, and let the multitude
be on their guard, and remember the little it takes
to place any one of them in the felon's dock, as
an assassin and murderer. The trials of MART
STRINGER, for child murder ; the brute JAMES
POWER, for killing a brother seaman ; JAMES and
ANDREW BRACKEN, the latter of whom is sentenced
to be hanged for killing a man in a drunken row ;
MILES MELIA, for murdering an old fellow.
labourer ; JAMES HODSON JONES, for killing a
woman ; THOMAS FAY, and lastly BETSY MCMULLEN,
for killing her husband, by giving him " quietness"
powders when intoxicated, are full of salutary
warnings to drunkards, and vicious and incautious

Of the ten cases of manslaughter, and four of
murder, brought to trial, there is not one which
is not directly attributable to drunkenness and
unchecked ferosity. Burglars and highwaymen
are bloodless criminals in these days. Murder
has taken up its abode in ordinary life. It has
become the scourge of those who allow the savage
impulses of their nature to overcome their reason

I attachment to life, and the ever present danger
to all who associate with such characters. Young
boys and old men, thoughtless girls and staid
married women, are all liable at any moment to be
engulfedin the ocean of misery which deluges our
prisons, if they throw off their self respect, if but
for a moment, and suffer themselves to become the
companions of desperate men and women. The
records of the present Assizes show, as we have
before observed, how a small and apparently insig-
nifi3ant difference of opinion, a hasty word, a base
thought, or a hurried blow, will reduce a woman
in the bloom of life to the condition of a lost and
hopeless slave; and how quickly it carries men to
the convict ship and to the scaffold. Brief
and painful as these records are, would to Heaven
it were in our power to keep them constantly
before the great masses of our fellow-men. It is
well, however, that the cause of the crime of
murder can be so distinctly traced that there is no
longer a doubt that it can be grappled with, and
may, eventually, be materially diminished, if not
in opposition to I
I entirely overcome.

Drunkenness, we are proud to say, is decreas-
ing, and if every man who retains possession of
his senses, and can curb his passions, will keep
but of the company of violent and dangerous
characters, and will use his influence in persuading
others to be peaceable and orderly in their con-
duct both in and out of doors, much may be done
to arrest the growth of that ferocity which leads
commission of murder and other heinous

offences. The annals of living crime before us
are not so bad that we should despair, .if every
sober and thinking man did his duty towards

his less enlightened and even heartless neigh-
bour. Had any friend stood near the wretched
captives who have just been found guilty and
sentenced to transportation and death, and
whispered one word of friendly counsel in
their ears at the moment they were about
to outrage the laws of God and man,
they would now, in all probability, be free
and deserving members of society. Let us hope
then, that while we have able and merciful judges
and juries to administer the law, that we shall
also find legions of " good men and true" to work'
against the torrent of crime which springs from
sources which are no longer unknown, and cannot
be disguised. And when commencing the good
should remember the proverb—laborownionrkia

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING.

The Cotton Market has been quiet to-day, the
sales amounting to 4,000 bales, of which 1,000 have I
been taken for speculation and export :—The Cot-
ton Trade, its condition at the present moment,
and its future prospects, call for the serious atten-
tion, not only to thoselengaged in the trade, but
every individual interested in the prosperity of
this country. We say so advisedly, for all will
admit the magnitude of the trade itself, and the
wide-spread influence that it exercises not only at
home, but in our commercial relations with the
whole world. The increase in it has been so rapid
that it is within the recollection of many when
the annual consumption of the raw material was a
mere trifle, nay, if we will only look back to the year
1841, we find the consumption to have been only
about one-half of what it is now. We may, there-
fore, be excused if we place before our readers a
few statistics of the present stock and probable
supply to meet the growing consumption. All we
desire is to render a plain indisputable statement,
so that all may know as clear as figures can show,
what are the prospects of the trade. Statistics are
sought after eagerly—sought after, and strange to
say, ridiculed—and stranger still, followed in
spite of the ridicule—laughed at in public, yet in
private checked over most carefully, and secretly
acted upon, sneered at for the pure love of con-
tradiction, yet quietly guided and influenced by the
solid truth that there is no better guide at hand.
In the first place we find by the general brokers
Price Current of 22nd August, the total stockin
Liverpool was bales ; hut it is generally
admitted that at least 40,000 bales have been
forwarded from the quay direct into the country,
and not included in the brokers returns made
weekly, we shall therefore deduct this amount,
and of course add it to our estimate of consump-
tion. For the import to the close of the year we
shall estimate the quantity at sea, 40,000 bales ; to

and of the new crop to arrive prior to 31st
December, 180,000 bales ; making a total of
250,000 bales of American to receive to 31st
December. And for other descriptions we shall
take it at the same as last year, which will ap-
proximate near enough for our purpose. Say :
Total stock, 22nd August.
Import, American 250,000
„ other kinds ...

Total supply

.. 1,217,600

As to consumption and export we find that
adding, as we before stated, 40,000 bales to the
brokers' estimate, the total outgoings for the first
thirty-four weeks of the year reach 1,508,500 bales,
and in the same proportion for the remaining
eighteen weeks of the year will take 830,380 bales,
reducing the stock on the 31st December, 1850, to
386,620 bales, against 428,810 bales on the 31st
December, 1855.

Now, the question arises, are we correct in
surmising that the trade will require for the
rest of the year in proportion with the past.
We believe we are rather below than above
the mark, for new machinery is being weekly
set in motion, and the trade in Manchester
is so profitable at the present time, that there can
be little doubt the consumption now going forward
is as great as at any time in the history of the
trade. To justify us also in this estimate, we may
state, what is admitted on all hands, that spinners
hold very small stocks at the mills, and that, there-
fore, their supplies must be drawn from this
market. We have thus far confined our attention
to the supply and demand. for this year out—we
will now look forward to the year 1857; and, first,
let us ask as to the probability of the amount
required for our consumption. We have peace
with all the world ; we have the world as our cus-
tomers ; and if we are favoured with a favourable
gathering in of our harvest, we shall have a well-
fed busy population at home to clothe. The
number of new mills now building is, perhaps,
larger than ever known—so much so, that there is
an estimate very generally made that these new
mills will require as much as 4,000 bales of cotton
per week. This, added to our present large con-
sumption, will swell the requirements of the trade
of this country to at least 45,000 bales per week.
Surely, we may ask, where is the supply to
come from? Can we expect another crop in
the United States of 3,500,000? We shall
require 3,700,000, and even that will leave
us with a smaller stock at the end of 1857, than at
the close o f this year. We may turn to India, and
ask for a supply from thence. Brazil is giving us
less rather than an increase. Egypt may furnish
us with a few bags more, but it is to the United
States alone, that we can look for any hope of
supply. Truly, consumption has outstripped pro-
duction, and machinery is constructed faster than
the raw material can be produced to keep it in
motion. No wonder the trade are so anxious to
hear of favourable reports of the cotton crop, for
they well know the effect of bad weather, insects,
bad picking season, or an early frost, all of which
the crop is endangered by. The trade require an
enormous quantity to keep prices moderate, and
it remains to be seen whether their requirements
will be supplied. We have seen that the large
crop of this year has failed to maintain the stock
on a par with last year. What will be the result
if any accident to the growing crop ?—it is easy to
imagine. We append Messrs. Neill Brothers and
Co.'s report of the crop, received per Arabia:—
Since I wrote you last, no further receipts of the new
crop have reached us which, with the accounts now coming
from the country, confirm the reports that this crop, as an
average, is fully a fortnight later than last season. We do
not hear more than the usual complaints from the planters,
and for the past two weeks there has not appeared a para-
graph in print on the subject, indicating that all is goinr
on well thus far. But it must be borne in mind that, unless
we have a very fine season for picking, and also a late fall,
the crop will fall further short of the last season's than is at
present anticipated. We shall commence the new season
without any arrears of old cotton in the country, while last
season was commenced with a stock of fully 200,000 bales
in the interior. The stocks at all the shipping ports will be
the lowest ever known, and from present appearances, prices
will rule higher at the opening of the coming season than
last year. It will be well for operators on the other side to
keep this in view, and arrange their orders and limits
accordingly. Another fact not to be lost sight of is, that
even under the most favourable circumstances we cannot
expect as large a crap as the last, and should the next three
months be not as good for picking or maturing the cotton
as last season, a considerable deficiency may occur. For the
first three days of this month we have had drenching
showers, but it is the general opition that they were
confined to the Gulf shores. NEILL BROS. & Co.
The Liverpool Share Market opened flat, but
improved during the day, and closed steadily
at the following quotations : Aberdeen, 13
13!. Chester and Birkenhead, 158 161. Cale-
donian, 28k 281. Chester and Holyhead,
17 17k. Eastern Counties, 9-1 91. East
Lancashire, 20.!,- 20k. Great Northern, 241
24. Ditto A, lo'4 108. Great Western, 65 651, Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Stock, 98k 984. Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 188 18k. London and
North Western, 1071 107 k. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, :34k 341 Ditto New 6 per cent.
Pref 11-16 13-16 p. Ditto Pref., 121 12g. Mid•
land Stock, 834 84. North British, 9 ok.
North Staffordshire, 41 41d. South Eastern
and Dover, 22 7-16 22. York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 21 21k. York and North Midland, 291
30. Leeds Capital Stock, lir 15-16 18 1-16
Buffalo and Lake Huron, id. Dutch Rhenish,
28 21p. Great Western of Canada, 251 25g.
Ditto New Shares, 21 2 11-16 p. Great Luxem-
bourg, 9 9-16 Sid.
The Corn Market has been firm to day, and
prices have shown an upward movement, Wheat
being from 3d to 4d per bushel dearer.

The Manchester Goods Market, although not
very active, has been firm, and prices show a
tendency to harden.

This has been a very active day in the London
Stock Market. Discounts were easy and money
plentiful in the Stock Exchange. Consols, how.
ever, opened heavily, and receded about 1. To-
wards the latter part of the day they rallied again,
but finally closed at about the midday quotations
owing to the unfavourable news received from
Paris. We annex the latest prices :—Three per
Cent Consols, for money, 954, 4, 4 ; do. for account,
10th Sept., 95Z, 4,4; Three per Cent Reduced, 954,
4; Ne,w Three per Cents, 964, 96 ; India Stock,
.238#1Bank Stock, 2174, 2184; Three and a Half
per Cent Exchequer Bonds, falling payable in 1858,
1004, 4, Exchequer Bills, lls to 14s premium ;
and Exchequer Bonds, 1004 to 4.
The London Railway Share Market was
tolerably active to-day, at a decline of about !to 1.
The following are the latest quotations :
Caledonian, 58 584. Eastern Counties, 94 9a. East

between winch p

Lancashire, 83i 841 Great Northern, 971 981. Do
A, 86 87. Great Western, 657.,,- 65--„. Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 981, 98k. London and North Western,
1071 1073. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
34 342. Midland Stock, 83 84,14. North British,
363 37. South Eastern and Dover, 741- 751. York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 83 841. York and North
Midland, 59 593.
The Miscellaneous Share Market was dull but
firm.

From the 9th to the 25th inst. the amount paid
into the Treasury of the. East India Company for
bills upon India was 24,9881.
The public sales of Colonial Wool terminated
yesterday. The second series of sales of Colonial
Wool of the season commenced the 17th ult., and
concluded this day, comprising :-23,950 bales
Sydney, 26,729 bales Port Phillip, 8,037 bales Van
Dieman's Land, 10,010 bales South Australian,
3,429 bales New Zealand, 837 bales Swan River,
6,360 bales Cape of Good Hope-79,38 ; 4,226
bales East Indian. The quantity of wool sold on
this occasion, as above shown, exceeds all former
sales. The opening prices were ld to lid lower
than the latter sales in May, and no improvement
was observable till early in the present month,
when prices advanced to the closing rates of the
last series of sales, and continued firm to the end,
notwithstanding the unfavourable change of the
weather. Operations for foreign account were
extensive ; probably about 15,000 bales were taken.
About 4,000 bales of Australian wool, which arrived
in time for these sales, are held over for ensuing
sales.

The departures from the port of London for the
Australian colonies during the past week have
comprised seven vessels—three to Adelaide, two
to Sydney, one to Port Phillip, and one to Hobart
Town, with an aggregate capacity of 5,026 tons.
The rates of freight exhibit no material variation.

The Sir James Brooke, iron screw steamer, of
550 tons, belonging to the Borneo Company, left
London to-clay for Sarawak, calling at Singapore,

Mr. Harding, the official manager of the London
and Mercantile Life Assurance Company, reports
that the amount of capital, for which the deed was
subscribed for and shares allotted, was 60,6701.,
but that the total amount paid up was only 2.8311.,
being 5s per share on 11,325 shares, leaving there-
fore a balance of 4,7521. due in respect of deposits
upon 19,010 shares, and 53,0861. as the amount of
capital still uncalled for.
The Dublin Produce Markets have been
depressed for the last week, as may be seen by the
official customs returns, which we subjoin --The
total sum paid since June 30, 144.6051; same
period last year, 174,0951; decrease, 29,490/. The
exports of beer and porter, have been very large,
the total amounting to 3,265 hhds for the week.
Extent of flax grown in Ireland in each of the
following years :—ln 1850, 91,040 acres ; in 1851,
140,536 acres; 1852, 137,008 acres ; 1833, 174,579
acres; 1854, 151,403 acres; 1855, 97,041 acres;
1856, 106,826 acres. _

The following were the quotations of Foreign
Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 151 to 11
16-1. Do., three months, 11 181 to 11 19.
Rotterdam, do., 11 18! to 11 191. Antwerp, do., 25
40 to 25 50. Brussels, do., 25 40 to 25 50.
Hamburg, do., 13 7:71 to 13 8. Paris, short.
25 272 to 25 35. Do., three months, 25,
571 to 25 671, Marseilles, do., 25 60 to 25 67
Frankfort, do , 1191 to 1191. Vienna, do., 10 19 to
10 21. Trieste, do., 10 22 to 10 23. Petersburg,
do., 371 37g. Madrid, do., 494 to 49i.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A' correspondence from Tuscany, in the Genoa
Corriere Mercantile of the 18th, gives an account of
the moral condition and state of parties in the
Grand Duchy. The writer says that the national
and constitutional party is by far more numerous
than the reactionary faction and the Republican
coterie, and that all the talented and distinguished
men of the country belong to it. As to the man-
ners of the population, the correspondent was
happy to state they were distinguished by that
gentleness which had become proverbial in Europe.
As a proof of it, he observed that the penalty of
death, long abolished by the Tuscan code, was
recently on the point of being applied, when the
Grand Duke thought proper to pardon the criminal,
and that this act of clemency met with universal
approbation.
The Roman Journal of the 19th inst., announces
that Prince Flavio Chigi, Archbishop of Mira,
Ambassgdor of the Pope to the Court of the
Emperor Alexander 11., left Rome, with his suite,
for Russia on the 17th.

The Swedish journals continue to repeat with great
pertinacity the confident statement that the Rus-
sians are commencing the conversion of the Island
of Kaskoe, known to be very suitable for the pur-
pose, into a fortified marine establishment. Gen.
von Berg, who was there at the latter end of last
month, accompanied by two engineers, is under-
stood to have inspected the works already in
progress there. The Swedes profess to dread the
future Kaskoe more than they did the past Bomar-
suml, and their papers say that the Government
has taken steps to counteract these plans of the
Russians by sending Capt. Rudberg to Paris,
though how people can expect to counteract Russia
by application in Pal:is is by no means evident.

The new Russian Minister at the Courts of the
Grand Duke and the Elector of Hesse, as, well as
the Senate of Frankfort, M. de Labenski, will
shortly take up his residence in Darmstadt, having
only a bureau in Frankfort, and his predecessor
M. de Glinka, will soon leave Frankfort and pro-
ceed to Rio Janeiro, where he will be accredited to
the Emperor of Brazil.