The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The Paris Journal Patric has a Constantinople.
letter: of 29th, ..stating that the Turkish fleet had
chased some Russian vessels and driven theminto
SabaStopol-=they were a flotilla of gun boats,-.
• It is stated that. in the CauCasus the Russians
were driven three leagues from their position and
the Turks now occupy the Russian frontier.
PARIS, SATURDAY,---7Bourse very firm, consider-
ing the state of affairs, but the circulation of a re-
port, by Russian, agents, that the Turks had been
completely routed, caused a decline. Four and
a-half per cents closed 901 ; threes,. 73.55. On
Sunday threes done 73:50.
The Paris Correspondent of the Tunes writes, " On-
Saturday thatureport was current in political circles
that the Turks had been compelled to, reeioss the
Danube, With immense loss, having been defeated
under the walls of Bucharest, by Gortschakoff,
with whOM Darmenberg had formed a junction.
Ou enquiring in a quaff ter generally Well-
informed, the writer was told that a private tele-
graphic despatch was' said to have been received,
and that no such news had been obtained in
official quarters. The report had met with a
certain degree of credit.
The article in the Moniteur, in reply to the

Emperor of Russia's- manifesto, hds created great
sensation in Paris.

The. Paris Cot-respondent of the Chronicle states
that the French (i-oernment received on Friday
night a telegraphic despatch from its Consul at
Bucharest, announcing a serious engagement-in
Le neighbourhdod of that place; in witich, says the
despatch, `.` the Russians attribute to themselves
the victory."

,
FALMOUTH, SCDII7.
•
Arrived of the Rusian frigate Diana, 52 gufts,
from the:.Baltie, and after landing two pilots, aiid
despatches for the Russian minister in Louden,
proceeded westward. . '' ' •-•

- The Times, of to-day, in a Jeading articlC, attacks
the liusian.manifeato in detail, concluding with' a
remark, that the verdictof the world upon it
may be safely anticipated- -• "

LIVERPOOL- MARKETS. -YESTERDAY.
• Written . expressly for the • Northern .Daily
SuGAu. —Rather a better feeling has prevailed „in the
market to-day, and prices have been realised not previously
obtainable. The sales consists. of 140 lihds Barbadoes, at
32s to 395,; 5.00 bags white
.Benares, at 37s 6d to 405.64;
and 450 bags Dates,,at 33s to 33s 6th • •
Of Molasses 80 puncheons St. Lucia have been taken at
15s 6d t Cwt. _ .

-A small lot of Deinerara Rum is also reported at pfevions
utes.

Large sales continue to be-made in Arracau Rice, upwards
of 20,000 bags having chanted hands at 12s 9d to .13s ;
besides 800 ban Bengal, at:lss to 15s 3d cwt; 300 bags
Sumatra black Pepper are reported at 4-,d ; 40 tons of
Linia,wood went at auCtion, to-day, at £12•12s to £l2 17s
Od ton,
TEA.—Sinee, the arrival of Mail this morning' an ac-
tive inquiry. has prevailed for both common and blackish
leaf Cello-Otis, at Is and at ls Od to is 8d for the latter;
with-but few sellers, otherwise a -very large business would
have been done.

Corrox.—We have had a quiet. market to-day. , The
sales are 6,000 bales, of vhich 1,000 hitve been taken on
speculation and for'ciport.

SMITIIFTELD MARKET.- :ESTERDAY,

To-day's market was very extensively supplied with each
kind of. foreign Stock, the,quality of which- as inferior, if
we except the Sheep from Botterdam.
With hom:?.-fcd beasts we
,were tolerably Well, but not-.to:
sny heavily, supplied, and there Was a decided improvement
in their general weight-and condition. The attendance of
both town and country buyers being good, the Beef trade
ruled firm at Fridays prices, being an'advance in tliO,se
Monday last of. 2d 8 Ibs; The primest Scots realised -
4s 6,1 B.lbs. • .

From Lincolnshire, ,Leicesteishire,-and Northamptonshire,
we received 2,400 short horns ; from other parts of England
400 of various kinds; and, from Scotland, 42 horned and
polled Scots,
The supply of sheep was tolerably good.' Prime breeds":
were in request, and the turn higher, the • primest - Downsl
having sold at ss'6d, 'and the best half-breds 5s V 8' Ihs:;_l
but the sale for other breeds was by no means active. lA'.
their-quotations no change tcbk place. 1
Calves—the numbers .of which were moderate--:---sold
slowly, but we have no alteration to note in their valtie:
The top figure for veal was 4s 8d ty 8 lbs.
We had a fair inquiry for pigs, at full currencies.

LONDON CORN
The supply of English . wheat to this morning's market
was small, and sold at the prices of this.day.
arrivals of foreibm. continue large, but having -a good attend :.1.
.ante of country buyers, the improved tone and priec. c),t`
Friday's market, being in some Instances Is to 2s tg- quarter
over the prices of Monday last, were sustained, and a 045(1
.businesS was transacted.

Barley is a slow sale, and Is to 2s V quarter cheaper'
Beans bring an advance of 2s V quarter. Peas are un
altered in value.

Oath are dull, and new corn rather lower.
cots a fair inquiry at late prices.

Barrel-flour

SHARE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL—We ha,e had a steady market all day,
.which closes firmly at the quotation. The , sales arc :
Caledonian, 27% ; East Lancashire, l 6!; Lancashire. and
Yorkshire, G 4 -;14- Lancaster and Preston, pill; Lon-
don
and North Western, 1024 ; Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincoln, 201; Midland, 611 South Eastern Stock - •
18.1 The following are the closing prices :--Caledonians,
27,,1 Eastern Counties, 12 16 3 18 9:'
Eastern,acid Yorkshire, 64a T:~ha-~ • --1;48r111: ; Western,
; Sheffield.
:201 •
211ANCHEST.ER,—To-day prices are rather lower,, 'and.
bat little business' has been transacted. Caledonian, 27 -
East Lancashire, 161 ;- tancashirc and Yorkshire, ti4l;
Ditto,: Pref. 6 per cent., 13.15-16 ; Manchester, Slieffield, -
and .Lincoln, 2OA ; Ditto, new £6 '?ref., ip; Midland'
Railway Cousols, 61:1- ; SOuth Eastern,, 148-16 a ; South'. •
Wales, x.d.

LOiiD-0-Ar--The,_sales are :—Bristol and Exeter, 961
Caledonian, 54. 1; Eastern ovmr.ti.... 13; Eastern Uniph,.
A, 43 ; East Lancashire,- 641; • Great :Northern,- ea '1:4;,
Ditto, B, 127; LancaShire and Yorkshire, .641
Fifths, 10'1 ' • London and Blackwall, 71- 8 ; London and
North Western, 1022:1 Date., Fifths, .121 12 ; London
and South Western,- 75 ; Midland, 61t 2-; Newport and
Hereford, 121 ; North British, 29 8 ; North- Staffordshire,
Ill; Scottish Central; -894; South Devon, 15; South
Eastern, 11; York and Berwick, 641 5 ; Ditto, G.N.R. •
Purchase, 7=',, '•• York and North Midland, 48. Lines leasA
at fixed Rentals.—Hull and Selby, 1 .shares, 54; South.'
' Staffordshire, Di • Wear Valley,. £25. paid, 1) 31 304. ~.cm
ference Shares.—Caledonian. £lO, 99 ; East Anglial, 7 per
cent., 5 ; Eastern. Counties, No. 2, 11, pm ; Great Northern,
Redeemable 10 per cent., 1084 ; Ditto, 41 per .cent. Scrip,
101 • London and Brighton, 6 per cent. Stock, 120 ; Mid-
land' Consolidated, Bristol and Birmingham, 140 ; South
Devon,l3 ; South Eastern, .41 per cent., 1021. Foreike,
—:Great Indian Peninsula, 6 ; Luxembourg, £l5 paid, 9.1;
Ditto, £lO paid, 61 ; Paris and Lyons, 251 6 ; Sambre and
Meuse 8. •
. _ _ _

LEEDS.—The sales are: Eastern Union. (B,) 8 1-1 a
; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 64g- ; Midland, 611; North
Western, 7 13-16; Preference, 15. •

BURGLAR-V.—On Sunday night, a joiner's shop in Grog-
yenor-street, was broken open. There was a large quantit y
of tools upon the premise, which were taken away, but there
was fortunately no property of any other deecription.
Tun GREAT IVETERN ItA.thwax.--,We understand-that,
so far as present appearances go, the state of the money-.
market, and the prospects Of war, are likely to produce a
very great dearth in parliamentary bills for the next session ;
so great; indeed, as to render a famine among the engineers,
attorneys, and barristers very probable. The Great. Wes-
tern are said to go for but one.bill—the amalgamation with
the Shrewsbury

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Corrt4pontrtnce

THE FRUIT STEALING CASE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

Sin,—The necessity, as I presume, of abridging
your reporter's notes, has led you to give the case
of fruit stealing in such a condensed form as to
deprive it of most of its public intert:A. Ina late
paper you commented most justly on the import-
ance of publicity in all the proceedings of our
courts; but the privilege loses half its value if the
daily press does not act upon it. Nothing could
apparently be more trivial than this charge against
a man of stealing- half a dozen pears from a fruit-
stall ; but, in fact, this trivial case involves matter
of the deepest interest, not simply to the parties
engaged in it, but to all the public ; for, who is not
interested in the question whether legal prosecu
tions shall be perverted into the means of impeding
the administration of justice ? This was the issue
raised in this charge against one Riley. Whether
justly raised or not is a point with which another
tribunal must hereafter deal ; but the evidence at
the Police Court yesterday distinctly showed that
this is the question to be tried, and that evidence
disclosed matter so singularly mysterious, that on
this account alone it is probable that the bulk of
your readers will be gratified by a brief notice of
it. Riley was accused of plundering the stalls of a
fruiterer of the name of Reeves, and of taking
eight pears from it at five minutes past twelve on
Wednesday night; and, undoubtedly, if the evi-
dence of Lloyd, a detective, is to be credited, the
charge was proved, for Lloyd swore that he saw
him in the act.
The defence was that this charge was preferred
for the sole purpose of damaging the evidence of
Riley, first in an inquiry, by the market committee,
into the conduct of Mr. Luya, the superintendent
of the market, and then in a heavy litigation still
pending in the civil courts.
In proof of this the prisoner's counsel relied
principally upon an extraordinary circumstance
which your report leaves wholly unnoticed. It ap-
peared that after Riley was given in charge, and
locked up in the Bridewell, about a dozen more
pears were thrown down the area of the house of a
publican named Sykes, by whom the complaint
against Luya was preferred to the market com-
mittee, and who is also, unfortunately for him, the
principal in the heavy litigation that has been men-
tioned. Riley is Sykes's chief witness in both
matters. These pears could not have been thrown
there by Riley, at all events ; it being proved
beyond dispute that the time when they were forced
through a hole in the cellar must have been after
his arrest ; they were found there in the course of
the following day, and Sykes proved that the cellar
was locked, and nobody could have access to it un-
known to himself ! The inference on which Riley's
counsel insisted, was that they were purposely
placed there to found a similar charge of plunder-
ing against Sykes himself. In support of this in-
ference, he urged the following facts, which were
extracted from the witnesses on cross-examination :
Lloyd had been placed on the spot by Luya, at
the instance of Mrs. Reeves, at ten o clock on Wed-
nesday night, to watch. Instead of watching, he
spent his time, from ten till nearly twelve, drinking
at Porter's public house, next door to Sykes's, on the
one side, and to Mrs. Reeves's on the other ;
Riley was asleep at Sykes's from ten till twelve,
when he left, and was seen by the barmaid to take
the proper road home : he was perfectly sober.
Lloyd, therefore, must have left Porter's, and Riley
have left Sykes's almost at the same instant,
for he was apprehended in less than five minutes
afterwards.

Mrs. Reeves admitted that she was so very inti-
mate with Mrs. Porter, that she was constantly at the
hoase. It is with 'Mr. Porter's customers that
Sykes is involved in litigation, and Porter was
their principal witness. The origin of the litiga-
gation being the breaking of Sykes 's windows, and
abstracting some wine by some of a drunken party
at Porter's house, at one in the morning, of the Ist
of June. Mrs. Reeves admitted that she had ar-
ranged with Luya for the detection of the offender,
that she had no suspicion of Riley, nor ever men-
tioned his name, and that she put the matterinto the
hands of the same attorney employed in the litiga-
tion with Sykes, though that gentleman was wholly

moznnwn to her.
She had employ ,a 4'.‘r gPvpral years, and
other witnesses gave -him the higneSt eumau-
ter:

With the merits of the case the public have at
present no concern ; but it is of much concern to
all whether witnesses are to be ensnared by inge-
nious devices, artfully arranged to criminate them ;
and whatever may be Riley's innocence or guilt,
it cannot be denied that the subsequent deposit of
other pears in Sykes's cellar, looks roost supieious,
and the extreme intimacy between the prosecutrix
and Sykes's opponents, scarcely less so.
Under such circumstances, and having regard to
the character of the accused, and the trumpery
nature of the charge, in my opinion, as an indivi-
dual, Mr. Aikin came to an erroneous decision.
He ought to have taken the course always taken by-
the London magistrates under such circumstances,
and have dismissed the case, binding over: the ac-
cused in his own recognizances to appear to any
indictment that might be found against him. As
it is, the magistrate has, in appearance, sided with
one party, when it is impossible to say whether that
party is not more open to suspicion of conduct yet,
more culpable; for I can conceive no greater cul-
pability than conspiring to prefer a false accusation
to frustrate the ends of justice. Such was the
counter-charge, and without going so far as even
to insinuate that it was borne out by proof, there
was, at least, enough of suspicion to justify the
middle course suggested; a course which any ma-
gistrate of common experience and knowledge of
police matters would have taken. When shall we
have our magistracy reformed?
Yours obediently,
November, 12. FAIR PLAY.

COURT OP QUEEN'S BENCH—SATURDAY.
Before Lord Campbell and Justices Coleridge and Erie.

BINGHAM V. CORA.S.

This case came before the Court upon appeal from the
County Court of Liverpool. In the court below, the judge
had decided in favour of the plaintiff. The question arose
upon the construction of a contract, which the defendant
had entered into with the plaintiff, for the sale of a cargo of
corn from Ibraila. At the time of the contract the corn
was lying on board a vessel at Queenstown, the precise
quantity being unknown. It was, however, stated in the
contract to be about 1,300 quarters ; but it was agreed that
the quantity should be ascertained by the bill of lading.
The price agreed upon was 30s. per quarter, payment to be
made in cash on handing over the shipping, documents and
policy of insurance. According to the bill of lading, there
should have been 1.667 quarters, and the plaintiff paid upon
that presumed quantity, but in point of fact there were only.
1,614 quarters. The plaintiff, upon discovering this de-
ficiency, sued the vendor_ to recover the value of the 53
quarters which were deficient, and obtained the decision of
the judge of the County Court in his favour. The defend-
ant brought this appeal.
Mr. MILL IV AHD, tor the defendant, contended that, ac-
cording to the true construction of the contract, the defen-
dant and the plaintiff had agreed to be bound by the quan-
tity stated in the bill of lading. If there bad been more
than the quantity stated, the plaintiff would have had the
benefit of it ; as it so happened there was less, the plaintiff
must bear the loss.

Mr. WILLES, for the plaintiff, contended that he was
entitled to recover the value of the deficiency, and there
must be a readjustment.
Lord CAMPBELL said, his opinion was that judgment
should be given for the defendant—the vendor. Looking
at the *hole of the contract, it seemed that the intention
was, that the cargo should be sold for better or for worse,
for less or for more. The parties might fairly suppose that
the quantity would be fairly represented in the bill of
lading ; and they might well agree that the purchaser should
take the risk of that being the quantity. If there should
be less, the purchaser would suffer; if more, he would have
the benefit of the excess. He (Lord Campbell) was of
opinion that there ought to be no return of the money
which had been paid, and that the action could not be
maintained.

Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Justice ERLE expressed
similar opinions.
Appeal allowed, and judgment of the Court below re-
versed, with costs.

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not only strong evidence of his want of intelligence, but
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