The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

FOX v. DALE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOIZYHERN TIMES.
Sir,—My attention having been called to the
report in the NORTHERN TIMES, of AlcuillaY
last, of
' the trial in the Court of Passage, Fox v. Di le, and
the Assessor's remarks thereon, and which have .an
injurious and prejudicial tendency, I will feel
obliged if you will invert in your next paper the
following explanatory statement :--
1 —The cotton was bought, entered on the
books, and the order for delivery sent in by
Messrs Porter, Vernon, and Co., as purchased
on their own account.
2 —That it is the custom of the trade to charge
itd per pound on cotton supplied to spin-
ners, to whom the broker gives accommoda-
tion, and that such charge is made with the
spinner's knowledge and consent.
3.--;['hat Mr Dale was fully aware that such
charge was being made on the two bales.
Therefore I do not consider that there was any
thing dishonourable in the conduct of Messrs.
Porter, Vernon, and Co., as stated by the assessor.
Had an opportunity been given me, I would have
made this explanation from the witness box, and
so saved this trouble of trespassing on your valua-
ble space.--I remain, yours respectfully,
F. W. B. VERNON.
Walton-on the-Hill, April 17, 1857.

The following is contained in a letter from Coburg to
the Kreuz Zeitt6ng According to our fundamental law,
Prince Alfred of England is destined to succeed to the
united sovereignty of the duchies of Coburg-Gotha. His
Royal Highness is now in Switzerland, but it appears will
arrive at GWha on the Gth May, and after a short sojourn
there will come to this place, and remain at the ducal
conntry mansion of Rosenau. He will subsequently
remove to Bonn, where his father, Prince Albert com-
pleted his studies." ,

EXTRAORDINARY DESPATCH.—The City of Dublin
iron ship, (bniit by Messrs. R. Steel cnd Co., Greenock,
commanded by Captain John D'ck), left Clyde on .sth
September last, for Calcutta, with a large general cargo,
which she discharged there ; took on board another, and
arrived off the Isle of Wight on the 4th current, thus
completing the voyage out and home in six months and
twenty nine days. The cargoes discharged and loaded
amaunted to nearly 2,800 tons.—Glaspoto Mail.
It is stated (says the Pafrie) that the government
intends again to take into consideration a bill for im-
posing a tax on carriages and horses in Paris. It may
be remembered that the government proposed to the
Legislative Body in 1855 the esablishment of this tax,
which was adopted after a long and serious discussion.
The Senate, however, using for the first time its right of
veto, opposed the promulgation of the law. There
are in Paris five kinds of carriages ❑sed for the
conveyance of passengers—omnibuses, hackney coaches,
small carriages de remise, carriages let by the day,
the week, or the month, and carriages belonging to private
persons. At the present time it is only oranibusses and the
hackney coaches which pay a tax, Each omnibus pays
I,ooof a year, producing 610,000 f; and each hackney coac
365 f, or if a day, for the right of standing. The object now
is to have a fixed tax on all other carriages. It is calcu-
lated that this tax, if established, will produce nearly a
million of francs, supposing it to be fixed at 120 f for a
carriage with two horses, and 80f with one horse, including
the duty on the horses thetnselv s.

THE °INDIAN MATERIA AIEDICA.—The government of
India pays upwards of £40,000 a year for quinine alone.
Notwithstanding this vast expenditure, the supply might
be tripled with advantage. Indents for quinine are
jealously watched. At civil stations it is almost refused,
and during an outbreak of fever it is always the first
article to fall short, and the last to be sufficiently
replaced. Of the cost of the remaining drugs we are not
informed, but it can searce'v fall short of something like
30 lacs of rupees a year. These two figures are sufficient
to prove the importance, in an economical view, of the
substitution of native drugs. There is probably not a
medicine imported from Europe, not a costly drug from
South America, which has not its counterpart in India.
A skilled chemist, communicating with all India,
testing every drug, and bringing all expetience into one
focus, would do more in a year to ascertain the true
qualities of theinative pharmacopoeia than the Boards will
accomplish in a century. Such an officer would be no
very expensive addition to the staff of the medical
service.—Bombay Telegraph.