Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

generally had not an opportunity of examining to see how
far it might be agreeable to the general feelings of the
board. He found that in these committees there were some
gentlemen on three or four of them, while other gentlemen
were on only one, and some on none at all. He did not
think this was exactly fair. He thought the duties ought
(to be equally divided.
Mr. Cooke seconded the motion.
Dr. Bayliss stated that the chairmen of committees had
anticipated thedifficulty, by meeting to draw up a list of
each, in which he believed it would be found that the
wishes of every member had been consulted, and of which
he thought Mr. Gough himself would approve. He,
therefore, urged that the board should at once proceed with
the election of committees, and moved an amendment to
that effect.
Mr. Keightley seconded the amendment, which was
carried by a large majority.

WATCH COMMITTEE.
The following gentlemen were appointed :—Messrs.
Golborne, M'Whirter, Willoughby, Beasley, Gilbertson,
Whittle, Walker.

MARKETS COMMITTEE.
The following names were adopted : Messrs. Bradley,
M‘Whirter, Barnett, Baylis, Beasley, Peek, Aspinall.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT COMMMER.
Messrs. Hind, Bell, Cook, Gough, Verelst, Peck, arld
Whittle were elected.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.
It was agreed that this committee should' be composed of
the following : —Messrs. Go!borne, Bennett, Cooke, Verelst,
Willoughby, Gilbertson, Keightley, and the chairman of the
several committees.

FERRY COMMITTEE.
Messrs. Harrison, Keightley, Hind, Bradl,
Bell, and Whittle were elected.

Aspir►all,

GAS AND WATER commirrEn.
Messrs. M'Whirter, Go'borne, Baylis, Verolst,
Peck, and Walker were elected.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Messrs. M‘Whirter, Barnett, Baylis, Aspinall, .Beasley,
Peck, and Bradley were elected.

LIB RARY CUM:WITTER.
Messrs. Laird, Baylis, Bell, Verelst, Willoughby, and
Beasley, commissioners, were appointed; and Messrs. Ames,
Dove, Higgins, Hadfield, and Beck, ratepayers, added in
conformity with the act.

CEMETERY COMMII.-.VEE.
This was a new committee. The following gentlemen
were appointed : —Messrs. Hind, BradTey, Bell, M'Whirter,
Rae, Gilbertson, and• Walker.

The parliamentary committee, which, consists of the same
members as the finance committee, was also re-appointed.
The Chairman said, Mr. Laird was very anxions that the
board, in accordance with the wishes of the ratepayers, take
immediate steps to form themselves into a burial board.
The following resolution had therefore been prepared :
"That a petition be presented to the Queen in Council to
sanction the appointment of the commissioners as a burial
board under the Burial Acts' Amendment Act of 1858."
The resolution was agreed to with the modification, that
the cemetery committee be instructed to take the necessary
steps for the purpose.
The meeting soon after adjonrned.

THE SOCIAL EVIL

- • -
.00 THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Any person being a constant reader of oar
daily papers, will no doubt notice the great progress
that is being made to put • down the great Social
Evil. Now, sir, may I ask if they have succeeded?
Maybe so, to some extent, as far as closing those
houses. in Lime-street ; but the most important
question in my mind is, have they benefited society
by so doing ? No, sir; they have commenced at the
wrong end—they should first begin with themselves.
The merchants, as a class, have a great deal to
answer for. I may be asked, what have the mer-
chants to do with it ? Why, I will tell you. Many
of them have numbers of young men in their offices,
who are only apprentices, who. receive no, salary,
instead of which they are taught the mysteries, in
commerce and merchandise, and, I am sorry- to say,
think or take no more care of them than if they were
so many pieces of merchandise, They have all a
certain duty to perform during the day, and after
the usual hours of business are over, care little about
them, as long as they appear at their usual places
the next morning. You, gentlemen, then, who are
moving so much in social reform, and are great in
removing this great social evil, have you nothing to
charge your consciences with ? Do you know how
your young men spend their leisure hours? Do you
inquire into their social life ? I fear not. Perhaps
many of you have your'country residences, and can
go home to your family circles, and sit in your easy
cushioned chair, with your little ones prattling round
your knee. In the morning you have your daily
paper; and, on referring to the police news, you
notice an embezzlement of a large amount, by friend
So and So's clerk. Your answer is,—" Ah ! • well I
knew how it would be. I told him so, for working
his clerks so late." At the same time you are even
worse than he is, if a steamer is to be despatched
on such a night. However, you drive to town with
your several servants at 'your command, quite at
your ease. Now,, sir, does one thought ever strike
you when you take the chair at some public meeting,
or perhaps at the hustings—when "fame and honour"
shine upon you:—do you ever think upon those few
words : " Do unto others as you would be done by ?"
Then, instead of engaging in public matters, first
think of your home management. There is your
last apprentice, living in this our smoky, close town,
in lodgings, having left a country home, where
green fields and a fine clear atmosphere hold their
sway ! Let your thoughts go with him for this.
one evening. Follow him ; for in this our hurry-
ing age boys become men by a sort of start or
explosive advance. Impressions upon society must,
therefore, be made upon youth, and if we would
have good merchants we must have good clerks.
For this reason, then, I ask you to follow him. He
arrives home to a lonely room—no sister to cheer
him, no companion to converse with him. He
finishes his meal in silence ; what is he to do for an
hour or two ? Your answer no doubt would be,
" let him subscribe to some lending library and
improve.his mind; there are many ways for him to
spend his evenings rationally." This is all very
well in theory, but I fear would go a very little
way in practice, after, perhaps, being pent up in a
small office and impure air, " although I am glad
to find that many of our leading men are
improving them daily." What, then, is your clerk
to do ? Why, of course, he must seek society.
"Man was not made to be alone." Whose duty is it,
then, to see that he mixes with good society ? Why.
yours. He is bound to you. But, no doubt, you will
say—Oh ! this is only during business. hours; but I
think I shall not be far Wrong, when' I say, that in
some of the indentures there is a clause in which
your apprentice is bound to you by day and night.
Then, if so bound to you for business whenever he is
required, surely you are the proper person to look
after his moral and physical culture ! Encourage
him, then, and take him by the hand ; remem-
ber the days that you were- in his position;
forget not that he still feels the love
for him that will be a kind and good friend, and
that he is banished from a good and kind home, on
:se to serve you. Show him, then, that you
wish him to look up to you as a kind. and generous
employer ; and he must be selfish, indeed, , if he
cannot appreciate your kindness. Certainly in this
town we have many amusements, but I think that
the preponderance of our young men will be found
in the billiard room. Surely, sir, there is no harm
in that, if the betting was put aside altogether. My
object then, sir, in writing these few lines, is to ask our
merchants quietly and good-naturedly to come down
among us, and join in our games of cricket, &c.,
and if they can suggest anything for our amend-
ment during the winter months, so that now we
might form an association for, our mutual benefit and
for recreation. We don't want any high-sounding
name fora patron ; but let the merchants-themselves
come' down from .their. lofty positions, and come
among us. Thus, then, sir, I believe will be the only

1
way of extinguishing Your Social Evil altogether;
and not until the merchant confides more in his own
clerks will you ever expect an improvement in this
great town. With these few remarks, then, allow
me to remain, yours obediently,
Juno 14th, 1859. A MERCHANVS CLERK.

THE NORTHERN TIMES WEDNESDAI, JUNE 15, 1859

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Evening.
There has been no change in the tone of the
Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, and a moderate
business has been done at full quotations of Friday.
The sales reach 6,000 bales, and include 1,000 taken
for speculation and export.
There has been a fair amount of business done in
the Liverpool Share Market, and a very buoyant
feeling has prevailed all day, with prices on the
advance. The sales were :-Belfast and Ballymena
1401 ; Caledonian, 80 • Eastern Counties, 11, 11-16
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 89,4 London and North-
Western,- 901-7, 90;1 ; Do. fshares, 19, 1 11-16 cl
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 35t ; Midland, 999,
991 ; North Staffordshire, 48 d ; South Eastern,
20, 201, 20 3-16 ; Great Western of Canada, 14 5-16.
There was a considerable amount of business done
after official hours, and the sales included Cale-
donians at 81, being an advance of £1 upon
the price paid in the forenoon ; Eastern Counties at
111; Lancashire and Yorkshires at 891; 90, 894 891;
London and North Westerns at 901, 91, 90,-t; 'Man-
chester,. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 354, 36, 351;
Midland, 991, 991,, 991, and South Eastern and
Dover, 24, 20 3.-16, 201, 20 5-16, 201,
20 5-16. The final closing prices were as
follow :-Chestei, and Birkenhead, 69, 70 ;
Caledonian, 801, 81 ; Eastern Counties, 11, 111 ;
East Lancashire, 861, 87; Great Northern; 99,101 ;
Great Western,-54, 541 r Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 891, 90; London and North Western Stock,
90 90k ; Ditto one-ei'g•iith shares, lt; 14 d;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 35k, 36; Midland
Stock, 99:1-, 100 ; North British, 54, 56 ; North
Staffordshire, zlf-,.; 41 d; North Eastern --Berwick,
881 189 • York and North Midland, 72, IS.; Leeds
Capital Stock, 45; 451; South Eastern and Dever,
201, 20 5-16 ; Buffalo and Lake Iluroni_ 41, 51;
Dutch Rhenish, Gz, 61 d; Great Western of Canada,
141, 149 ; Do. New Shares, 61 6d ; Great
Luxembourg, 5;1, 511*; Grand Trunk, of Canada, 81,
9; Lombardo-Venetian, 11, 13-: d-; Do. New Slut:
11, Id. The following were the continuations
paid :-Chester and Birkenhead, 1; Caledonian, -.4.;
Eastern Counties, 6d., 9d. ; Great Western 3 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, evn 1-1 p evn ; Landon
and North Western, evn 4, 1-18, 3-16; Ditto one-
eighth shares, 5d., 6d., 4d..; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, IS., 9d.; Midland Stock, 1-16
evn ; North Eastern-Berwick, 3-16 ; York and
North Midland, 1 ; South Eastern, 6d., 9d.,.
Buffalo and Lake Huron, 5d., 431 d. ; Dutch Rhenish,
Bd., 6d.,. 7d.; Great' Western of Canada, 9d, Is. ;
ditto New- Shares, 7d. ; Great Luxembourg,: 4d. ;
Grand Think of Canada, 4d., 5d., ad.
The Corn Trade continues dull; and prices show a
still downward tendency. At the Liverpool Ex-
change this morning only a small business was done,
and a decline in the value of Wheat of from 3d to 4d
per cental was established, whilst' Flour was from
Is 6d to,2s per sack lower. Other articles declined
in proportion.
There has been a much better feeling in the
.Man-
chester Goods Market to-day, and a revival of orders
for Germany and Italy has given a stirnilus to
prices

Shipments from Glasgow fast week
Do. Db. corresponding week, 1858
Do. Do.. Do. 1857
Total shipments from Glasmw from Ist Rm. ISIS, to date
Same period, l 8 n 8

Deurease

Price this last year;

Sipusnts of pig-iron from Liverpool in
Way, 1859
„ 1858 .

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n a strong position
still of a most meagre description
material•change since Tuesday last.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET
Ths market is steady. Petersburg I
quoted 55s ; alt June, 54s- 9d ; July, 65s ,
tember, 55s 6d; October t December, 66s

-JUNE 14

being steady rates; besides 1,200 bales, by private, at £l6
to £lO 10s.
Oms : Palm at £47; Olive, nothing has transpired.
TZLLO'W: Small sales PYC at 575.
ROSIN: 200 barrels sold at 4s ex quay.
Srxmrs or MRPENTINE : 40 barrels taken at 425.
SEEDS : 300 to 400 bags mixed Guzerat Rapeseed at 48s
6d, and 200 bags brown Bombay ditto at 40s per quarter.
Tam. : 2,000 bales Manilla at £24 per ton.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARICET.—JUNE 14.
There has been a moderate demand for cotton to-day, and
prices are steady. The sales—including 20 Pernambuco, at
80; 50 Egyptian, ; and 1,000 Surat, 4id to 50—are
reported 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 are on speculation and
for export. ----

LIVERPOOL SCOTCH (Pio IRON) MARKET —,hrrE 14.
Our market for warrants closes at 48s 3d to 48s 6d ; cash
in 14 days.

8,433
.257, rso
268,328•

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—JurcE•I4.
There is a fair business for yarns for the East, and good
iernand for the latter places; spinners for the horne•rnarkes
• The continental business for-yarns is-
Prices are- without.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—Jusn 34: -
The public colonial markets are neaxly all closed for the
Whitsun holidays; privately but littib' business has been
done.

COFFEE : A aating eargosof St. Domingo sold at 53s 6
for the Mediterranean.

SALTPETRE : The parcels offered by auction were nearl
all bought in or withdrawn;. a small part of refra&lart 6
sold at 45s 6d.

PEPPER : 120, bags of Penang black sold steadily at 31

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- BOROUGH HOP MARKET..--J-urin 14.
Good and fina hops of lastyear's growth support proviou,
rates; all other kinds moved off heavily. The binalion-
tinues to progress rapidly, both in Kent and Sussex.

13trsphorus, from Calcutta for England, rc
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Mirage, hence to Hong Kong, in lat 1
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AUCKLAND, April 16 —The John Scott, Harrisont:„o S„°', add
weeu
arrived here March 5, passed two icebergs, betlt- i'e'r ovk
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May 25.—The barque Buenos rtoo,eal4 kNo
Thompson, of
Greenock, from Matanzas for Queens ii
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which put in here April 20, leaky, has been eonue,Thef -
and sold, her materials fetching 1,503 dais, 20e1,211: tor
hull 946 dols. A vessel will be chartered to to'"„ap
cargo to Europe. The British brig Sea Lark, Coin'Cob
pleted her repairs tor 1,655 dols., and sailed on the ' reee
for New York. qtaf
YARMOUTH, NS, May 28.—A telegram, from Barren: ali•
dated May 24, reports the brigantine John For' ;01
kison, from Halifax for Weymouth, on shore on "
Island, a wreck.

VESSELS' IMPORTS. •
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June
.I.—Cape Bon, bearing \Y W, and Pentalera biLlea
signalled the- brig Relief, of Newcastle, and the
(barque), both steering SE
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June 5.-1 n lat 36.1 g, lon 4 F, the. Thessalia (i I , s W
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ship in tow, showine, French colours.
June 6. In the Gut of ''Gibraltar, th
the South, from Ancona to Falmouth-
3`; ne 6.—The' Meander (ss), steering SK
June 10.-:—The ship Flora, steering Weg
Juire 10.—The brig Western Star, steering West
Report of the Aurora Australis. at Falmouth
March 25.—1 n lat 66 5, 100:30 W, ship Abu and
from Melbourne for Liverpool Oft
April 22.—1 n lat 20 8, lon- 27 W, barque-Jubilant,
London to Algoa Bay Wall&
April 27.—1 n lat 10.25 S, lon 29 IV, brig Alma;
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