Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

OmiTHsONIAN HOTEL.,
BROADWAY, COMET of HOUSTON-SUMS?, w YeEr.
la...coad in honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Established at WASHING to N, by the U. S. CONGEESS,
with FtiladS bequeathed by JAMES SNITLIS4N, of ENGLAND.
the Friendship 0 f the OFFICERS Of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION
Is conducted on theiSystem of Hotels is ENGLAND.
CHAS. H. SMITH.

AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEEFINGS, &c.

THIS DAY.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER :23, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The Persia arrived here on Saturday with New
York dates to the filth instant, and over<loo,ooo
dollars in specie- The news is of a most favourable
character. The Money Markets in New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Sae, •Ss.c , were
much easier, -and loans were extendiag. The New
York bank returns were considered satisfactory,
inasmuch as on the day the Persia left New York
there was about seventeenraillion dollars ofa metallic
reserve in the banks of that city. It was expected
that iu the course of a month or so the banks
-would be in a position to resume specie,payments.
Meantime there were a large number of workmen
out of employment. They had held several meet-
ings, but their position did net seem to be at all
ameliorated by such displays. It was feared they
would make a " demonstration "—that is, get up a
riot and plunder the shops and stores. .To meet
any emergency of the kind, the police ..force had
been strengthene, and a number of the local
military companies were ready for action at a mo-
ment's call. To endeavour to assuage the pangs of
hunger and starvation that were stalking throughout
the length and breadth-of the city, the Common
Council had voted the suaa of 230,000 dollars for
the purpose of public works, and to give employ-
ment. The other portions of the news are not of
much importance. Soveral freshets had done
much damage to property on the Geneeee and
Susquehana rivers. Seaver.), is now definately fixed
as one of the institutions of Icieses. The Censti-
tutional Convention has adopted a Clause recog-
nising slavery as alreadyestablished in the territory,
and prohibiting the Legislature frAn getting rid of
it. There is a rumour of.SOO United States troops
being massacres by Indians. Merchants oe
'Change, on Saturday, considered the news
from America as most satisfactory, and holders of
cotton and general produce immediately looked for
enhanced prices. The letters per Persia were,
however, delivered at too late an hour to affect
business. To day there will doubtless be sorea
additional activity in commercial circles generally.
The Bank Charter act is doomed ; even the
ministerial organs, seeing that public opinion is so
dead set" against it, are willing that there may
be a certain nan:liaoJ.Lion The .05servar of yester-
day, says Ler. it not be supposed that we are
argu ng fur the Procrustean rule of the at of Ik4t.
No such thing. Let the ac: be extended, it you
will. Let the B tnk of Enel t:id be empewered
enlarge the currency—on the same security as now.
If fourteen milli 'tea plus the ,buition on hand, be
too small, increase the amount, if you will; but do
not lesson the security." and it adds, " above an,
equalise the system of Scotland and Leland with'
that of England Abolish the one pound notes,
issued by banks who have tie real security available
for a crash." •
The atf tirs of the .11,-)ya.l British B tnk were again
before the Court of Qaeen's B -.moil on Saturday. ,
Several of the late directors of that bank instituted
proceedings calling upon the Attorney-General
to show cause why particulars should not be sup-
plied to them in recerenee ti the various counts
in the indictments prepared against them for eon-

spiraey and fraud. After remarks from the
Attorney,-Generali Lord Campbell announced that
the arrangement agreed to by the Crown is, that
it will strike out all the general counts of tIE!
indictment, and give the defendants notice and
particulars of the overt acts relied on, and will no:,

enter or any others at the trial. 'l4ie trials will, in
all probability, take place ac the G-uildhatl in th©
after term sitting.

It will be remembered that same time since,
owing to the frauds of Redpath, the Directa)rs w
the Great Northern Railway Company enterzainel
the opinion that as Parliament heel laid the nuns of
such frauds on the Company, and which would
have to be borne by them, the Direc:ors of that
Company took it into their wise heads that the
Preference Shareholders were liable as well as the
General Shareholders. The former, however,
claimed, that even when no pr,:fi:s were declared
for the half year, they should be still guaranteed
dividend for that half year out of the proti:sof th
next. This was brought to trial, and some mrniths
since Sir W Page Wood decreed in favour of the
Preference Sharehoiderc. An appeal ilgainst this
decision was then made to the Lord Chancellerie
Court, and on Saturday the Judges delivared their
judgment, confirming the decision of Sir W Pege
Wood=so that the Preference Shareholders will
have to be paid their interest no matter what
ocenrs.

The proceedings at the last weakly meeting of
the Council of the Liverpool Financial Rcform
Association, which we publish in another column.
were rather interesting. Several remedies to
prevent a financial crisis ware proposed.—A.mongst
the remedies. su,.Nrsted were the abolition of the
monopoly of the Bank of England, aril the issue
.of a state paper currency, based on government
securities, and receivable in payment of taxes. It
was deemed highly desirable that there should be
an aggregate meeting of members of the Chamber
of Commerce throughout the country, to discuss
and wilco upon some definite course of action.
The manner in which government book-keeping is
carried on was severely condemned ; a communica-
tion from a gentleman in L )radon proves that two
documents issued on the same subject, show a
difference of upwards of live millions sterling, on
the expenditure in the War - Department of the
country. How is this ?
On Saturday, another case of brutal treatment
at sea, resulting in the death of I seaman named
Roderigo, a Spaniard, was before the poliee-cou:t.
The facts of the case are briefly these. The
deceased was a seaman on board the ship Elizabeth,
belonging to Messm. Tobin and Son. The Elizr-
beth was.on her voyage front Old Calabar to this pert,
when on the 60th day cut the deceased accidentally
broke the binnacle lamp The Captain of the v.lssel,
John Anderson Christie, on hearing of the mishap,
brutally attacked Roderigo, knocked him down,
kicked him about ale head, and, so far as appear-
ances went, caused some riLs to protrude—the
captain at the same time expressing himself in very
energetic, if not elegant terms, that the deceased
would not live to see Liverpool again. This,
according to the statement of Mr. Inspector
¶Cehoe, was only the beginning cf a series of
brutal attacks by both the captain and