Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-17 00:00:00

BY TELEGRAPH,

NEW Yoitic, Nov. 3, Evening.—Ashes quiet, pot 7 dols
25e, pearl 6 dots 50c. Cotton—Sales 250 bales, at 121 c
to 13c. Flour steady and in good demand for export ; sales
17,080 brls, common to strait state 4 dole 80c to 4 dole 90e,
extra do 5 dole 5c to 5 dole 20c, common to good Ohio
S dole 70c to 5 dole 75c, extra Genesee 5 dole 50c to 7 dole;
Southern unchanged, sales 1,900 brls, mixed to good 5 dole
30c to 5 dols 50c, fancy and extra 5 dole 600 to 7 dots ;
extra Fredericksburg 6 doh 50e, Richmond City 7 dole ;
Canadian not quoted. extra 5 dols 10e to 6 dole 65c. Oats
—Stale 40 to 44. Western 43 to 46. Corn. small sales
mixed Western 76. Rye—Northern 80 to 81. Pork—
Better inquiry from the trade, sales 200 brls; mess 20 dols
to 20 dole 25c, prime 16 dole to 16 dole 25c. 132.ef, country
mess 10 to 11, prime 6 to 7, repacked Chicago 13 to 14.
Lard firmer and Fcsrce, in brls 101 to 121. But`er, Ohio
13 to 16, State 16 to 23. Whisky, 22i. Clover seed, sales
300 bags 011'o 10a. Coffee very quiet. Sugar, sales 500
hhds, Muscoralo 511 to 8. M slas!es, sales at 41 cash.
Linseed Oil 60 to 61 ; whale and sperm in good demand
for manufactured. Spirits turpentine, sales 1,200 brie 41
to 45, closing bulyant ; crude 3 dole 50c to 3 dols 75e.
I,VO brls r. sin 1 dol 35c. Iron dull, Scotch 29. Tin, sales
100 slabs Bauca 251, cash. Rice 32 to 4. Tallow 94
Freights to Liverpool unchanged, cotton 5-321; flour 2, 61;
grain 70 to 81.
NEW OuLsalvs, Nov. 2.—Ootton unchanged, sales to-day
5,600 bales. S igar firm. Molasses 25. Mess p ,rlr
20 dole. Freights—Cotton to H tyre lc, Exchange oa New
York 5 to 6 dis.

Nov. 3.—Cotton unchangla ; sales to-day 8,500 bales.
Sales fort the three days 21,000 bales. liFeeipts three days
15,000; stock 143,010. Decreased receipts 130;000; do
at all southern ports 242,500. Sagar trill ; common 31c
to 4c; the new cropis now coming in. Four firm at 5 dols
37c to 5 doll 50c. Provisions very dull. Exchange on
London 94 to 93; on New York 5 per cent, d:sconnt.

THE LATEST BY THE EUR►OPA.
(By Telegraph, via Halifax.)
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 5, EVENING.

The screw steam-ship City of Baltimore, from Liverpool,
art ived here to-day. The European advices by the Canada,
which arrived at Halifax on the 4-h, were pablished here
on the afternoon of that day. Oar cotton market tc-day
has been very dull, but pr vs are nominally the same.
Etreadstuffs were iu good demand and tending upwards,
exce,it for Indian corn, which was drooping. Sterling
exchange to-day was quoted 105 to 108. The money
market was decidedly easier, the California mail steamer,
Star of the West, having arrived here with about 1,400,000
dollars in gold.
NEW ORLEANS, Nev. 4, EVENING.

Cotton to-day was (rite buoyant, and prices advanced
3-16;hs per lb. The day's business has been 3,500 bales.
Sterling exchange flat ; but the money market was cer-
tainly easier. The Citizen Bank resumed payment in
specie to-day.
Mrssrs. Neill, Brothers, and Co., of New York, tele-
graph, under date November 5, as follows Oar
despatches from the South to day report the cott-in mar-
kets generally brighter. A large sale of sterling bills has
been made at New Orleans, at 10 disc,unt. Small amounts
are quoted at sto 6 discount. The New Y/rk mirket for
cotton to-day Ehowed no charge."

THE EMIGRATION RUNNERS AND THE

" LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTIIERN TIMES.

Sir,—Will you, in your excellent journal, permit me to
offer a few remarks upon a series of articles being pub-
lished in the Liverpool Chronicle, respecting the immense
frauds committed upon all the emigrants sailing from this
port, for it would seem none of them estate.
Being like the great majority of my town's people, not
in the habit of reading the Chronicle, I had not heard of
those articles until last Saturday, when chaste threw the
number of the 7th inst. in my way, in which I find a sort
of summary of the evils complained of, together with the
outlines of the remedy proposed. Your cotemporary states
" there are 222 runners, or, more properly speaking. man-
catchers in this town. who are mostly men of no reputa-
tion or character." This statement is not correct. That
there are bad men among them lat once admit ; and what
trade, profes ion, or occupation in Liverpool, where so
many men are engaged, in which you will not find some
inferior characters? But, that the great majority are men
of no reputation, is quite at variance with truth
There are men among theee, aye, a large number, whose
character for integrity, sobriety, and straightforward con-
duct, would bear honourable comparison with the philan-
thropist of the Chronicle. Why all this fuss about the
frauds in the emigration now at the eleventh hour ? From
whom do these complaints eminate ? DJ they come from
men actuated solely by a love of their fellow men ? or are
they written for selfish monopalising purposes, by paid
emisaries from a mercantile establishment at New York,
called the Castle Gardens ; but we shall see bye and bye.
In the mean time, permit me to ask, in what trade, carried
on to such an extent as the emigration trade of Liverpool.
have not greater and more frequent frauds been com-
mitted. Rave we not had Our Redpath, our bank and
railway frauds ; our police-courts teem with frauds ; then
why don't our Howard of the Chronicle, our well paid
Philanthropists, Murray and Sullivan, from the Castle
Gardens in New York, "write down" those abuses, and
" write up" a remedy The last named gentleman, it
appears, is a strenuous advocate for a monster Emigrants
Home in connection and co-operation with that at New
York. Let me ask by the way, if he is a descendant
or disciple of .his namesake the Rev. A. Minty ? If he be
better for him not to mind a Home ; he will not get the
Irish peop!e to go into it; they dread pro,elytisieg ;
and perhaps it is not much wonder.
But to return to the runners, the generality of whom
are not what the Chronicle represents them ; they are men
who have licensed lodging houees, and have been in tho
emigration trade for years, and have their regularly esta-
blished cennections in England. Ireland, and Scotland, and
h tve their passengers continually consigned to them, year
after year, by magistrates, rectors, Catholic priests, re-
spectable shopkeepers, and men of influence in the country,
who know the man to whom they are sending them to be
honest and correct. They do not prowl about the docks
night and day, " seeking„' as it were, " whom to devour "
No doubt.they meet the boats, night and day, summer and
winter, and in almost every case have letters from the
parties coming, requesting them to meet, receive, and pro •
t ect them, as they have done their fathers, methers, sisters,
and brothers in times past. Yes, scarcely a passenger
corning, especially from Ireland, who has not had
some friend or acquaintance that passed through our
town on his way to America or the colonie!,
and they invariably stop at the house of the
man with whom their friends had previously lodged,
that is, if his friends had been honestly dealt with, and
not otherwise. It therefore behoves the runner to act
honestly by those who patronise him, else his connection
will fall away from him just as any dishonest tradesman's
would ; and let it be borne in mind, that the last thing in
almost every instance the emigrant does, before going
on board, is to write home to his friends, stating the name
of the ship and the passage money he had paid, the name
of the man with whom he lodged, and whether he was well
treated or not. Notwithstanding, the Chronicle would
make us believe the Irish people are landed on our quays
like so many sheep, not knowing whet to do, where to go,
or with whom to go; such is far from the truth. There
are at present, in the possession of about 90 licensed men
of this town, some 600 letters from lieutenants of counties,
magistrates, clergymen (Protestant and Catholic), chiefs
of police, respectable farmers, and shopkeepers, recom-
mending parties. Will it be begeyed, then, that all these
conspired to rob and defraud the poor emigrant?
Tne Chronicle wants the licensed runners to be done
away with. What substitute does he offer ? who does he
say is to meet the emigrant in the dreary hour of night on
his setting foot on our shores, wet to the skin, sea sick,
and half famished, after a deck passage from Ireland ?
Are they to remain under our dock sheds, or huddled
together on the deck of the steamer, wringing wet, until
morning dawns to light therii to the shipping office. Do
away with the runners, and such will be the inevitable
result, because no man will or could afford to sit up all
night watching boats for the paltry lodging money
of 4d. per night, which, I assert, is the common
charge made upon the Irish emigrant. The Chronicle
would make it penal to receive commission on the
passage money of any emigrant. Well, let us enquire
whether the emigrant will have his passage any cheaper
by doing away with commission ? I recollect that, in 1850,
the passenger brokers of this town, with the sanction of
the Government officials, entered into a written agreement
not to pay any commission, nor did they pay any for two
months in the throngest part of that year ; yet, I find,3n
comparing the rates of passage of those two months with
the rates in the corresponding months of the preceding and
subsequent two years, that the fares were higher when no
, commission was paid.
The ships taking passengers, latterly, are mostly Ameri-
can, and their captains or consignees allow the broker from
121 to 15 per cent. for doing the business of the ship, find-
-1 ing passengers, &e., &c. They know well the runner gets