The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

MELBOURNE NIARKETS.

LTQUORS.—Brandy : The advices from England by the
European intimate a decrease of shipments, and an ad-
vance in the value of the best brands. There is an
improveemnq here, in consequence, in the value of the
best brandy, to the Extent o f about 3d per gallon.
Renault's brandy now realises the same price as the U.V.
Rum has slightly improved since our last, also tha best
brands of Geneva. Old Tom in case is ratter lower, but
in bulk sal, s have been made as high as 6s 6d. Scotch
whiskey in bulk has improved, but in case, the quotations
are hardly maintained. It is difficult to quote the prices
of port correctly, as there is a difference of £3 per pipe
between divot importation and the blended ports from
London. We quote the following sales of Hunt's port :
Single diamond, £5B ; double diamond, 64; treble
diamond, £6B ; quadruple, £74. The best qualities of

sherry may be quoted higher. Sherry in case is sold
according to quality, from 2ls to 38s per dozen. Sales
are made of Leoville Delbruck et Fils claret at 50s per
dozen, and of ordinary claret at 18s to 20s. There is
enquiry for a superior quality of champagne. Ale : The
extreme price for Bass No. 3 Burton is now £lO. Ship-
ments of the October brewing are advised, and may be
shortly expected. This will cause a depreciation in value
of the stocks on hand. In bottle prices have receded.
Byass's ale is sold at 13s, and half porter and half ale at
12s Gd The late scarcity of this brand has brought
others hitherto in lese repute into notice, and shaken in
some degree the exclusive preference which it has hitherto
maintained. Porter ; This article is still very dull. Sales
are reported of Tooth's at £6 12s 6d, and Taylor's at
108. In bottled we report sales of Hilbert's at Ils 6d,
of Dumphy's Dublin at 12s 6d, and of Byass's at 12s Gd
to 12s 9d.
GROCERIES, OILMEN'S Storms, &c.—Candles : Sales
are reported of Nevas at is 7d ; Belmont's sperm are in
low request, and late prices are barely maintained. The
arrivals of hops have been excessive, and the best new
Kent have been offered for 72d to Bd. Salt has rallied,
and £2 lOs for 100 tons coarse Liverpool, on the wharf,
has been refused. Steele's crown Liverpool sohp has
only realised 28s, and yellow 18s per cwt. Oilmen's
stores are generally lower, the stocks being very large.
The following sales reported :—Jams and jellies, 13s to
14s ; lobsters, 1 lb. tins, lls; Scotch do., 131 to 14s ;
mustard, in 2 lb. bottles, 7s to 7s 6d ; oysters, Scotch, in
2 lb. tins, £1 15s to £1 17s. Preserved meats are
unsaleable. Salad oil in pints is worth I Is, and half
' pints 75. Colman's starch is worth 6d per 114; Cham-
pion's 24 vinegar, 2s per gallon.
SUGAR : Refined sugars are still scarce, an'; fully main-
tain prices. Notwithstanding arrivals, sugars generally
are firm, being in the hands of houses that will hold.
Cossipore, No. 1, is worth £53 to £54 ; Crystallised
Mauritius, £4O lOs to £42103; bright yellow counter,
£3B to £4O; middling to fine brown, £35 to £3B ; China
white, £3B to £4O.
TEA: Considerable arrivals are to hand, and more
expected, but the holders are few, and are demanding
an advance. Sales have been made of ordinary Congou
at £6 to £6 ss. The finer sorts of Congou realise cor-
responding prices, but the demand is limited.
BREAD SIUFFS : This market is very dull. With the
exception of Adelaide, all kinds of flour are nominal.
The best brands of Adelaide are offered at £lB, but few
sales are making. The late heavy rains have
prevented loading, and checked operations. Bran is
very abundant, There are sales at 2s 4d to 2s 6d,
but these prices were not expected to be main-
tained. Scotch oats are worth 63 to 63 Gd, with au
improved demand • but the market has been lately well
supplied from Calcutta, The oats from that port are
well liked. Rice : The stocks are very heavy, and this
article has declined. Patna has been sold at £l7 to
£lB ; and colonial dressed at £2O ; common Java £9 to
£lO ; and China £7 to £B.
Paortstoets : Really prime articles are saleable in
moderate parcels at our prices, but if forced on the
market they would not sustain quotations. Butter : A
large proportion of the stocks on hand are inferior. For
this there is no sale. Really good stocks are not large ;
and as Cork shippers have been for some time (say tat o
months) in possession of our low quotations and dis-
couraging advices of last September, we look for smaller
shipments and improved quotations. Thornton's butter
has been sold at is Id. Bacon and Hams : The very
best qualities are in good demand. Sinclair's hams have
been sold at is 2d. Middles of Bacon : Small are sale-
able; large sides are not wanted. Pork is completely
overstocked, and prices are nominal. Cheese : Large
parcels of inferior have been forced at auction at low
rates. First class English, in prime condition, is worth
lid to is re-weighed. American provisions are still
very dull. American hams are not worth more than 8d
to 94d,
PAINTS, OILS, AND COLOURS : The best white lead has
rather improved, and is worth 36s to 40s. Inferior is
very dull of sale, and cannot be quoted above 20s to
30s. Linseed oil is in improved demand, and is sale-
able at bs 3d to Sc 6d. Vareishes are dull.

METALS : Sheathing it not worth more than Is
Morewoofs corrugated and galvanised tinned, 24 to 26
gauge is worth £4B, and Scotch do., £37 10s. Boiler
plate, B best, is sold at £lB to £22. The market is sup-
plied with bar iron, and the best assorted cannot be quoted
over £l4 to £l4 10s. Swedish is unsaleable. Tire iron
is worth £l5. Galvanised wire, Nos. Ito 5, have been
sold at £2B. Tire plates have fallen in value, and have
been sold at 28 to 30 p,:.r cent. on invoice. Lead of light
weight is worth £3l to £32 per ton.
BUILDING MATERIALS : Slates are in better demand,
but large parcels arc difficult of sale beyond quotations.
We report sales of duchess at £l4 ; countess at £lO 15s
to £ll 10s; and ladies at £4. Roman cement has been
sold at 12s 6d.

TIMBER : This market is gloomy, The arrivals have
been very large here and at Adelaide. At Adelaide
the shipments were all forced at auction. Oar country
trade is active, and will continue so for two or three
months ; but the supp:ies are even greater than the
demand, and are likely to continue so; and dealers are
holding back from fear of a further depreciation. There
seems very little prospect of any improvement in this
market.

DRUGS AND CHEMICALS : We report sales as follows :
Tartaric acid, is 2d to is 4d ; cream of tartar, is id to
Is 2d. Opium is not worth more than £l2O. Epsom
salts have been sold at £l2. Soda crystals at £ll to
£ll 10s.

BOOTS AND SHOES : Quotations are unchanged. The
supplies are immense ; and Women's and girls' bLots and
shoes are alone in demand.

SOFT GOODS are arriving in excess, and prices are not
maintained ; but until the arrival of the Champion of the
Seas, Cyclone, and other vessels likely to arrive in
February, the qnantity of goods for the opening of our
winter trade cannot be generally known. Should it be
found that shipments are not being continued from
England beyond the middle of Decembor, we entertain
no fear as to the result of the earlier ventures.
SUNDRIES : Soda water holies are lower, sales being
made with difficulty at 30s. Earthenware, ordinary
assortments are worth 50 to 75 per cent., and good
assortments are worth as high as 120 per cent. sdvance,
bat many invoices are spoiled by the existing over supply
of particular articles of ordinary use. China matting of
wide widths is rather scares-5 4is worth is 2d and 6.4
is 6d per yard. China chairs and camphor trunks are
at 50 per cent discount. Writing and printing papers are
slightly improved. Fowling pieces, &c., are n worth
more than 10 per cent, on invoice. Clout nails are worth
9d to 9id ; blasting gunpowder 7td. Canvass is
excessively over supplied; and assorted numbers have
been sold at 8-L-d. The demand for troolpacks is declining,
and sales are reported at 4s, 4s 3d, and 43 Oct
Three bushel sacks are also in less demand ; gunnies are
not saleable higher than 6s to Os 6d. Cordage, Europe,
is lower, and has been sold at £35. Spun yarn is nominal
at £3O, and oakum at £2O. Ordinary Panama hats are
worth ss, and fine 6s. Peruvian guano realises £l3 in the
Bay, and in town £l3 10s.

liiensourtm WOOL MARKET : Since our last per
Oneida, on the 26th ult., our market prices have been
firmer, the attendance of buyers at the various sales has
been good and the competition brisk. The qulntity
offered at four public sales has been 1,547 bales. The
bulk of the wool is already shipped, and very little is now
coming down. Since our last the following vessels have
sailed :—January 31, Anglesey, having on board 1,226
bales ; Do., South Carolina, 1.503; Feb. 4, Sydenham,
2,919 ; 10, Morning Star, 1,634; previous shipments by
12 vessels since Oct. 10, 1856, 20,656 ; total, 27,938
b%ies. The quantity passed entry at the Customs bang
from October 10 to January 3, 5,349,67,5 lbs., value
£366,567 ; Jan. 3 to 31, 2,404,976 lbs., value £185,256 ;
tool, 7,754 651 lbs,, value, £551,823. We still quote our
la,t rates as below, viz :—Suparior clips, 20d to 233 par
lb. ; fair to good, 172 el to 19d; inferior to average, 17d
to 18d ; greasy 10d to 12d ; scoured, 20 to 23d. The
sale of this day having gone off briskly, though without
any decided alteration in prices, notwithstanding the
favourable reports of November sales per European.
Tallow and Hides are without alteration, though both
are firmer.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
Our dates are to the 11th February :—The Par-
liament continued sitting, and but very slowly
progressed with the actual business of the colony.
The anneuincement that the coins of the Sydney
Mint had been made a legal tender in Ceylon, the
Mauritius, and Hong Kong was made to both
Houses of the Legislature, and caused considera-
ble satisfaction, and would, doubless, tend to the
recognition of such coin as legal tender in the
sister colonies of Victoria and South Australia. The

bill to confer a Corporation on the City of Sydney
might • now be considered as passed. The council
would consist of sixteen aldermen, to be elected
by ballot, and who would choose their own
Mayor. Although two temporary measures for
the regulation of the sale and occupation of the
wilste lands of the colony had been introduced, it was
not intended to take the question of the reform of the
whole system into consideration during the pre-
sent year. Although not formally passed, the gold
bids, assimilating the policy for the regulation of
th:3 gold fields of the colony to that of Victoria,
had been assented to by both branches of the
Legislature. A strong expression of opinion had
been made in both Houses of the Legislature that

the existing system for the management of immi-
gration should be reformed, and that emigration
should he superintended in England by an agent
or aw:lts appointed by the colony. A bill to
increase the amount of the Civil. List was passed
in the Legislative Assembly by a majority of 19 to
14. The Loan Bill, to meet the accumulated
deficiency of revenue, to meet expenditure for the
past year, was passed with little opposition.
The idea, long entertained, that the climate and
soil of New South 'Wales were only one degree
batter than those of the regions of the sun which
have been proverbial for sultriness and aridity has
been for a considerable period exploded. It
remained, however, to the present season to prove
that not only is the climate of Australia temperate,
and its soil fertile, but that, there, also they have
the cloud and the mist and the shower which are

so effective in calling forth the rich spirit of
fragrancy, and diffusing fertility throughout the
land. The three months which have just expired,
and which are usually known as the warmest months
in that climate, had been marked by a degree of
moisture such as has seldom favoured the colony.
Nor have the beneficent rains been confined, as
they sometimes are, to a particular locality. From
the west, the south, and the north, the intelligence
is fraught with the accounts of the swelling of
rivers, the overflowing of creeks and the fertilising
of entire districts.

The result of this state of things is that the
present was literally a golden season for the far-
mer. If this class of the colonists had any cause
to complain, it was that their crops were too abun-
dant—that the greatness of the production had
;tad the effect of limiting the demand. In some
parts of the colony the price of wheat, according
to our latest intelligence, was unquestionably
below the remunerating standard. The prices
paid in some localities were so low that, here not
all experience opposed to the principle of protec-
tion, the advocates for a protective duty in favour
of the farmer would be likely to receive many
converts to their ranks. In one district we have
wheat quoted at 4s per bushel; in another at Os.
These are discouraging prices when we consider
that two years ago wheat was purchased at many
mills in the interior at 20s ; and low as is the
present price of grain a further red action is
anticipated. The Sydney Morning Herald says :
It is encouraging to perceive that the result of the
abundance which has characterised the present season
has been to show the settlers and the public generally
the urgent necessity which exists for that ready communi-
cation between the metropolis and the distant interior,
which railways alone can supply. One or two more such
agricultural seasons and the demand for railway com-
munication will b 3 loud and long—from one extreme of
the colony to the oth,r. The pressure for an improved
system of communication is already, indeed, beginning
to make itself felt. The communication established by
the successful navigation of the Murray, has effectively
directed the attention of the colonists to the value of the
hitherto neglected rivers of the country. Already the
Murrumbidgee has been surveyed, preparatory to the
ascent of steamers during the approaching season. This
stream, we are told, has rive feet of water in the shallowest
part during the dry portion of the year. Then the
F'lward River is to be made one of the highways of
commerce. A meeting, numerously and influentially
attended, has been held, at which it was resolved to
memorialise the government for a sum of money sufficient
to clear this stream of its obstructions, with the view to
its navigation by steamboats.
From the same paper we mike the following
extracts :
Everything tends to show that the colony is beginning
to assume the character of a great agricultural country.
One fact, however, which has been established by the
remarkable diversity in the seasons is that in this colony
the farmer must not look to the produce of his farm merely
as a mean, of subsistence. To be successful the agricul-
turist must be sufficiently independent to be capable of
occasionally hoarding the produce of one year for the
market of the next. If he does not act thus, it is quite
evident that be will not be true to himself. Indeed, the
interests of the country, not less than the interests of the
individual, demand the exercise of some management of this
sort. If the farmer sell his wheat one year for 4s a bushel, and
the next year, when the price is 20s, has none to sell, it is
evident that agriculture would soon come to a standstill.
Another fact which is now clearly demonstrated is that
New South Wales must eventually become an exporter of
gain. If, with our defective internal communication, the
comeetition of the gold fields, and various other drawbacks,
we can already produce a superabundance of breadstuffs,
what may we do when eve have railways intersecting every
agricultural distri,,t in the colony, and when our population
is doubled ? When that period arrives, the colony, aided
' by such seasons as the present, will become a vast granary,
as remarkable for her golden grain as she already
is for her golden fleece. Nor will a market ever
be wanting, whether a cluster of European colonies,
such as the French settlement at New Caledonia, stretch-
ing across the great Pacific, or new Sydneys studding
the yet untrodden shores of New Holland ; whichever
of these may happen to call for our extra prod ace, the
demand will infallibly be created. But far beyond even
this vista does the mind's eye see those who will yet look
to New Holland as their hope against want. Already
does China, our near neighbour, begin to feel the pressure
of superabundant population. Who wig say that in fifty
yeas she may not strip her heathen temples to purchase
for her swarming mil'ions the harvest of the Murray and
the Murrumbidgee ? The races of India, too—lndia, which
lies at our door—may not always be -content to subsis►.
on rice and such meagre diet, if indeed the'l overwrought
soil will continue to supply an abundance even of their
present dietary commodities. Here is another market
which will receive more than we can give. Here is
another hope for the Australian farmer.

The amount of gold dust imported into the
Sydney branch of the Royal Mint for the purpose
of coinage during the month of January, had been
about 18,285 ounces, and the quantity of sovereigns
paid during the same period £84,000. The revenue
would therefore be between £BOO and £9OO. During
the first week of February 4,065 ounces of gold
dust had been received, but there was no delivery
of gold coin. The total amount of gold dust
received from the commencement of the year to
the 7th of February had been 17,350 ounces,
and the the value of gold coin issued £84,000.
The quantity of gold dust received by the escorts
from the goldfields during the month of January
had been 14,087 oz 19 dwt. 12 gr.; during the
corresponding month of 1856, 5,578 oz. 18 dwt.
11 gr. This shows an increase of 8,509 oz. 1 dwt.

1 gr. ; or more than 150 per cent.'on the receipts of
gold dust for the month of January. The following
are the amounts delivered by each escort :

1856. 1857.
oz. dwt. g,r. oz. dwt. gr.
Western 4 BO3 18 19 .. 8,428 8 6

S nithern 77,1 19 16 . . 1.297 18 9
Northern

5,578 18 11 14,087 19 12

The Western and Southern escorts delivered
during the first week of February. 1,7450 z 9dwt
9gr of gold dust, making the total quantity received
by escort from the gold fields during the present
year amount to 17,8330 z Bdwt 21gr.
The amount of revenue collected by the Customs
for the port of Sydney during the month of January
was £44 857 19s 5d ; for the same month of 1850,
£31,592 14s 2d ; this, therefore, shows an increase
of £13,355 5s 3d.

We regret to see announced the death of L. 11. J. Tonna,
Esq., F.A.S., F.R.G.S., at the United Service Institution,
of which he was secretary.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A few days since, a warder of
convicts, named Fraser, late of the Warrior hulk, Wool-
wich, and since employed in the new convict prison, at
Chatham, was discovered lying upon the grave of his first
wife, at Plumstead, with his throat cut in a most fearful
manner. The reason assigned by the unhappy man for
this dreadful attempt on his life is, that he was informed
by Captain Gambier, the director of convict prisons, that
he was to be dismissed the convict service at the end of
the month, for having been overheard, in a conversation
with his brother officer, to say something that was con-
sidered to reflect upon the governor of Chatham prison.
Fraser further stated that he believed a fixed intention
existed to single out all the warders who had served in
the hulks, and dismiss or drive them from the service,
and that after h -ving performed his duties as convict
warder for more than fifteen years without a stain upon
his character, the idea of dismissal without any just
grounds was more than he could bear. The correspondent
who forwarded us an account of the occurrence considers
that the statement of the warder demands enquiry on the
part of Sir George Grey, and that the sooner he investi_
gates the management of the convict prison at Chatham
the better, more especially as strange rumours are afloat
concerning the system pursued in that establishment.
Fraser still lies dangerously ill at Plumstead, whither he
was removed after the suicidal act.

CAUSE-LIST

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North
H Forshaw
Milne and Son

Turner and Son
Pickop

SPRING ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.
LSI FRIUS CASES.
BEFORE MR. BARON MARTIN.
BRENNAND v. KER AND OTHERS.—NON EXECUTION
OF AN ORDER.— This was an action to recover com-
pensation to the amount of £2,309, being the supposed
loss sustained by the non execution of an order for
400 tons of Manilla sugar. Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and Mr.
Milward were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. ugh Hill, Q.C.,
and Mr. Manesty appeared for the defendants. The particulars
of the case were, that the plaintiff is a merchant in Liverpool,
and the defendants also, the latter having establishments at
Manilla, Liverpool, Glasgow, Singapore, Batavia, and other
places abroad. The house in Liverpool is carried on under
the firm of M‘Vittie, and Co. In August 1855,
the plaintiff met with Mr. MTittie on 'Change, and Mr.
M'Vittie suggested that it was a good opportunity to send out
an order for sugar, as they were sending out a vessel for
Australia called the Crimea, which would call at Manilla on
its return voyage, and he might have interest in her to the
extent of 400 tons. The plaintiff acted upon this suggestion,
and in September he wrote a letter to Messrs. Ker and Co.,
at Manilla, informing them that he had freighted a portion of
the Crimea, which would be at Manilla in May or June
ensuing, as he wished them to contract for the supply of three
or four hundred tons of clayed sugar, on his account, to be
shipped by the Crimea. If the vessel did not arrive by the
first of July, the defendants, Ker & Co., would be at. liberty
not to complete the contract. This letter was received by
Messrs. Ker and Co., in November, and they
acknowledged it, thanking him for the order. On
the 9th of February, 1856, the plaintiff wrote
a definite order, stating that it would be near time to prepare
the cargo, to be ready for the arrival of the Crimea, at not
more than £ll lOs., unclayed. This order would arrive at
Messrs. Ker and Co.'s about the beginning of April, and at
tiat time the order might have been easily completed. An
advance in the price of sugar took place in May, and the
Messrs. Ker wrote to the plaintiff informing him of this, and
that they could not fulfil their contract, as they would have to
make a large allowance for leakage—five or six per cent—in
addition, as well as storeage. Tho plaintiff replied, expressing
his disappointment that the order was not fulfilled at once, and
urging that their rate of per centage for waste was extravagant.
On the 2nd of August the plaintiff was informed by
them that they had shipped him no produce. Had the
sugar been sent, the plaintiff calculated that lie would
have made a profit of £2,000 in November,
but the ship arrived in January, when sugar had advanced from
41s to 449, and thus he could have realised nearly £3,000.
The plaintiff alleged that he had not only lost the £2,000
which he calculated upon, but the cost of freight, amounting
to £309. The Judge said that his opinion was that the present
case was a proper one for arrangement, or for a merchant to
decide. The counsel, however, for the defendant wished the
trial to proceed. Subsequently a consultation took place
between the counsel on both sides, when it was agreed that a
nominal verdict for the plaintiff should be taken, damages
£4,000, the case being subject to a reference.
NON FULFI)LENT OF CONTRACT.—GRAINGER A ND OTHERS
v. KIRKPATRICK.—SPECIAL JURY.—This was an action
to recover £5OO for loss alleged to have been sustained
by a breach of contract on the part of defendant, Charles
Kirkpatrick, a produce merchant, of New York, whose
house is represented in Liverpool by Mr. John Kirk•
patrick, brother to the defendant. The plaintiffs are
provision dealers at Liverpool. Mr. Millward and Mr.
Turner appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Hugh Hill,
Q.O , for the defendant. It appeared that in April, last
year, Mr. John Kirkpatrick, acting for and on behalf of
his brother Charles, at New York, in pursuance of
instructions received from him, caused a Mr. William
Gardner, a broker, of Liverpool, to sell for the defendant
1,000 boxes of short middle bacon, at nut less than 48s
per box, including cost, freight, and insurance, weight and
quality guaranteed. An offer for the same was
made to Mr. Gardner, who submitted it
to Mr. John Kirkpatrick, as the agent of Mr. Charles
Kirkpatrick, who accepted the offer, and in pursuance thereto
the contract was closed with Messrs Grainger and Co. at 49s
per box. The defendant had repudiated the contract, and
denied all authority on his part to his brother John to make
any absolute contract, he never having acted in any other
capacity than as a casual agent for the disposal of property
entrusted to him at different times. It was alleged on the'part
of Mr. John Kirkpa,rick that he had stipulated with Mr.
Gardner, the broker, that he must undertake all risks as to

the interpretation of his brother's instructions.' The defend-
ant's brother, in his examination, stated that he had no general
authority from Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick to buy or sell on his
account, and that he had distinctly informed the Parties that he
would only act as a medium of communication between the
principals, and would not take upon himself any responsibility
in the sale. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
the amount claimed.

BOTTOHLEY V. NUTTA.LL.—This case, involving only a
question of law, the nature of which did not transpire, the
learned judge directed the jury to enter a verdict for the
plaintiff, subject to the decision of the court above.
ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY—►SWINNERTON V. THE LONDON AND NORTH
WESTERN RAILWAY.—This was an action to recover da-
mages for injuries sustained on the person of the plaintiff, a
child eight years old. It appeared that tho plaintiff, with her
mother, who is the wife of a very respectable farmer,
residing in Staffordshire, was travelling on the 13th
of October last, in one of the above company's carriages,
and that while at the Warrington station, the carriage
door was opened to admit two additional passengers, and
in consequence of the neglect of the company's servants to
close and secure the door on the departure of the train
from Warrington terminus, the plaintiff leaned against the
door, and at a distance of about a mile and a quarter from
Warrington, towards the junction, the door flew opan,
find the child fell out on to the line, and sustained such
serious injuries that she had subsequently one of her I gs
amputated. Mr. James and Mr. Brett appeared for the
plaintiff, Mr. Monk and Mr. Blackburn appeared for the
defendants. In the cross-ezaminition of the witnesses it was
attempted to be shown that the child was continually
pulling up the windows, which caused the door to
open. It further appeared in evidence that the
plaintiff had been put into the expense of £l3O
for medical attendance, &c. Several witnesses, pass-
engers, were called to prove the facts stated, and the
medical witnesses to the injuries sustained. The judge, in
summing up the evidence, said that many persons supposed
that railway companies were liable for• the safety of the persons
whom they carried ; but they were not so, unless it could be
shewn that any negligence had been exhibited by the company
or their servants. It was for the jury to decide whether in
this case there had been any negligence, and when so satisfied,
to award such damages only as would compensate for the
injuries inflicted. The jury, after a short deliberation, re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, £G3O.
HARRISON AND ANOTHER v. LEE.—This case, No, 25 in
the special jury list, was an action brought against John Yate
Lee, one of the registrars of the Liverpool District Court of
Bankruptcy. It did not come before the court. The cause
arose from transactions that had taken place between the
defendant and his brother in law, Lawford, who somo time
since passed through the Liverpool Court of Bankruptcy.
A claim was made upon Lee for about £3,000. The case
was ❑ot tried, as the plaintiff agreed to take the sum of £750
by way of arrangement and settlement. The Mr. Lawford
alluded to is the son of Mr. Lawford, late one of the solicitors
to the East India Company.

NISI PRIUS COURT.
BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CROMPTON AND A SPECIAL JURY.
BELLHOUSE AND ANOTHER 2/. THE CORPORATION OP
MANCHESTER.— Mr. Atherton, Q.C., with Mr. Wheeler
and Mr. Maneaty, appeared for the plaintiffs; a❑d Sir

FIRST LIST.—SALFORD HUNDRED.
Plaintiffs' Attorneys. Plaintiffs. Defendants.
14 QB...Worthington & E Duncan v Harding and ano
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16 CP ...W K Taylor Lawton (sa) v:Whitaker
17 Ex ...Sale,and Co Fanshaw (sa) v Peet P 0
SECOND LIST.—WEST DERBY HUNDRED,
2 Ex ...Rowe Waring Junr v Everth
6 Ex ...Hodgson Allen v Gibson
7 CP...Barnett and M Stubbs (sJ) v Baker
11 CP...Yates Jun French and ors . v McHenry
14 CP...Bolton Baker (sJ) v Stubbs
16 Ex ...Pye and Co Burgoyne v Jackson
21 Ex ...Same Same (sJ) v Smith and ano
23 CP...Yates Jun Jones admor &c (sa) v Provincial Insurance Co
25 CP...Dodge b Harrison and anr (5.7) v Lee
27 CPL.Johnson Hignett i 1 ' v Blundell
32 CP...Roscoe Allan ' (5.7) v Walters
39 Ex ...Neal and M i Ford and anr yr Hannay
40 Ex ...Lace and Co '; Neilson v Andersson 1
42 CPL.Roby , Houghton and ux admix &e v Hignett and anr
47 Ex ...H Forshaw -,, . • Cotesworth and ors (m) v Wood and ors ;
48 CPL.Johnson Parkinson ~. v Jackson
53 QB...Hassal 7 Penny and ano exors . v Pollard and ors
54 QB...Wills and S , ' Fraser v Jordan
55 QB...Shattock '') ' Deane CT v Littledale and ors'
58 CPL.Deane Preston and ors v Tamplin and:ano/
61 QB—Swift &Co The March. of Londonderry [(B,i) v The Sunderland Dock Co
62 UPL.Backhouse Dean v Wright
63 CPL.Same :1:, Dean and ors v Wright
64 Ex ...Haigh and T' Bredin , (sJ) v Eatough
66 CP L.T and R Radcliffe Aspden v Fielding and ano
, .
67 Ex .. North and Co Whitley and ano (sJ) v Parr and ano
68 QB .. Lowndes and Co Johnson and ano (e.r) v Croft ussell
69 QB...Shattock Tapson v Swift Blaekhurst
70 Ex ...Pemberton Blundell v Gossage J Ansdell
72 CPL. Same W Hartley v Same Same
73 Ex ...Kaye .' Goddefroy,and ors 't (sJ) v Began J B Lloyd
761CP ...H Forshaw ^ Whitaker . v Lawton W K Taylor
77 QB...Lowndes and:Co Parry and ano v Trustees Birkenhead Dock Bircham and Co
78 QB—Same Crosby and ors (5.7) v Wilcox and ano II Forshaw

Same
Edgworth and P
Yates Jun
II Forshaw
Mewburn andiCo I

J and W Clare
Shattock
Lo wndes and Co
H Forshaw

Littledale and B
ittledale and B

Defendants' Attorneys.

Holden and Son ;

IFitzroy Kelly, who was specially retained, and Mr.
j Hill, Q.C., with Mr. Monck, for the defendants ;
and the action was brought to recover compensation
' for injury sustained by the plaintiffs, by the defendants
diverting the river Medlock, by means of which the water
flowed into the plaintiff's mill, and damaged it and the goods
in process of manufacture. The plaintiffs, Mr. James Bell-
house and Mr. Wainwright Bellhouse, are spinners of Cotton
yarn, carrying on business in Manchester. Their premises are
situate on the river Medlock, and consist of two mills, known
as the old mill and the new mill. The old mill was erected
in 1806, by Mr. David Bellhouse, the plaintiffs' father, but he
did not enter into occupation of it until 1819, it having been
let to a succession of tenants in the interim. In 1836 he
built the new mill, and his sons, the plaintiffs, who had
previously become his partners, continued in occupation of
both mills up to the present time. The mills are situate upon
the south, or Charlton-upon-Medlock side of the stream, and
were for twenty years or more divided from the river by a
wall of considerable height, which, until the 9th of last
August, when the circumstance out of which the present
action arose, was found to be a sufficient protection against any
incursion of the water. On that occasion there was a con-
siderable downfall of rain. The stream of the Medlock
became very much swollen, and owing to certain works
constructed by the defendants, the Corporation of Manchester,
its course, as the plaintiff's alleged, was obstructed, and the
consequence was that the water rose as much as twenty two
inches above the top of the wall, got on to the ground floors
of the mills, and did considerable damage. In 1854
the defendants commenced the construction of the work in
qnestion, and up to that time no serious overflow of thy' river
causing any great damage, had taken place. Occasionelly the
water rose to the level of the flooring, and getting into the
ashpits put out the fires by which the engine was worked
When, however, the corporation work was constructed, and
which consisted of a tunnel, this state of things was completely
altered. The overflows were greater. and more frequent, and
the attention of the corporation was called to the circumstance
by some millowners while the tunnel was in course of con-
struction.
Some alteration was in consequence made in it,
but still in its construction the course of the stream was not
preserved, but was thrown more to the north than it originally
ran. It also did not join another tunnel on an even surface,
which, for the free flow of water, it was necessary that it
should do, and the consequence was that this error in construc-
tion also caused groat obstruction to the stream. When the flood
in August last occurred this obstruction was most felt, The water
rose 3 feet 7 inches above the crown of the arch of the
tunnel, and rising also twenty_two inches over the wall
which protected the premises from the mill, fib )ded the
plaintiff's mills as well as those of other parties which
were adjoining. It rose to 3 feet 4 inches on the floor of
the new mill, and to 4 feet 14 inch on the floor of the
old mill ; and it did not subside until some time the
following day, the 10th of August. All the property,
consisting of expensive carding engines, yarn, &c., was
seriously damaged, and the present action was brought to
recover compensation for the injury so sustained. The
plaintiffs did not deny that in a sanitory point of view the
tunnel was a great improvement, but they alleged that it
was improperly constructed, and to prevented the free
flow of the stream. A number of witnesses were examined
to prove these facts, and they all concurred
in the statement, that there never had been such
an overflow in the river as that which occurred
after the tunnel was made. Two civil engineers were
examined, and they gave it as their opinion that the
obstruction presented by the tunnel caused the overflow
which damaged the plaintiff's premises. Mr. Wainwright
Bellhouse was examined as to the amount of the damage
sustained. He estimated it at £6,422 17s Bd, including
£1,689 absolute loss upon the whole year 1856, consequent
upon the extra waste, deterioration of quality and stoppage
of two-thirds of the mill for a certain time, and £2,300 loss
of profit which would have resulted from uninterrupted
business, calculated on the profits of previous years. For
the defence, it was admitted that the tunnel constructed by
the Corporation had to a certain extent thrown back and
confined the water, but it Was conteeded at the same time,
that even if there was no tunnel in existence at all, the
flood in question would have risen seven inches over the
wall which protected the plaintiff's premises from the river.
and would have occasioned almost as much injury as had been
caused by the overflow complained of'. It exceeded In
volume and destructiveness the flood which in 1853 visited
Manchester, and which was a very violent one; and
though an overflow sufficient to flood the mill would have
taken place even if the tunnel had not been constructed,
still the defendant's were willing to pay whatever propor-
tion of the damage the jary might think them liable for.
The case had not concluded on the rising of tae court
at a quarter past six o'clock.

THE PERSIAN AMBASSADORS SUlTE.—Recent accounts
of the victory gained by General Outram over the Persians
give great credit to the Persian artillery. We believe
that one, if not more, of the suite cf Ferouk Khan were
officers of that arm. The bearing of the three military
attaches to the ambassadors is thoroughly soldier like, and
their uniform and appointments are completely European
in every respect but the cap. The uniform seems copied
chiefly from the French, only the tunic is a much lighter
blue, and the trousers are either dark blue or white, instead
of red; but with cocked hats, instead of high conical caps,
any one might take these Persians for Europeans, as far as
style and appearance are concerned.—Court Journal.
A NEW IRISH BRIOADE.--:At the Guildhall Police Court
on Saturday, Pat Collins, Bill Collins, Jack Collins, Ann
Collins, and Mary Collins all tumbled into Court together
when the summonses were called on, and for some twenty
minutes created a confusion of tongues which Babel could
hardly have excelled. Pat and Bill were charged with having
assaulted Jack, and Ann and Mary were rival witnesses ; the
whole party were cousins in the first degree, and gloriously
funny with the brogue. Says Jack, " May it place yer honor,
them there two men, Pat Collins and Bill Collins, came up to
my place t'other night, and almost put the life out o' my body,
and kilt me intirely quite. They come up into my room and
axed to come down into the court, bekase they wanted to
spake to me ; but, says I, ' Can't ye spake to me here,' and
they says ' No, we can't,' then says I, ' Well I shan't go down
stairs.' Oh, won't you,' says Pat, and ho pitches into me,
and catches me by the shoulders, and Bill catches me by the
legs, and they kicks me and cuffs me, and cracks me all over,
while I helps myself as well as I can, and mo wife hollers
' Murder!' out of the winder, but they lugs me down stairs,
and if they didn't wollop me I'm blowed. (Laughter.) And all
I could make out was that my brother and my wife somehow
hadn't pleased 'em, but that didn't matter to me." Pat and
Bill then told their tale, from which it appeared that some
time r„ago, they bought good character dock tickets of the
prisoners brother for 2s. each, with which they were able to
get work and keep themselves comfortable, until last Tuesday,
When the complainant's wife wrote to the Dock Company
about it, and the tickets were slopped, since when they (Pit
and Bill) had wanted bread, so they just went to Jack's
lodgings to tell him about it, " when his wite, who was not his
wife, but a rank bad woman, up's with the poker and cracks
Jack over the nose." (Laughter.) Ann Collins thereupon
got into the witness box, and said she was Jack's lawful wife,
and as for the dock tickets she knew nothing about them at
all at all, and them cousins was had uns. (Laughter.) Mary
Collins, however, said the last witness had told her that she
had got her brothers so❑ to write to the Dock Company about
the tickets, and added her " sartin knowledge that her cousin
Ann wasn't lawful married to her cousin Jack." (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor : Well, whom do you mean to marry ? One
of the defendants, I suppose, as they are your cousins ?
Witness : Oh, I'll wait till I have the choose, arid then I'll
settle that. (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor said it was very
improper for the complainant's brother to sell the tickets at all,
but the witness said there were hundreds ofthese tickets about
the docks. After a good deal of fuss, all the parties were bound
over to keep the peace.

LIVERPOOL:

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—Yesterday.

STREET OUTRAGE—JACK SHEPPARD, JUN.—A WiC;
looking fellow, named John Sheppard, was chare'l
having attempted to rob a man named Peter bi‘Mine/1
cooper, and also with being concerned in an assault comb!
on Constable 245. Tile complainant was passing along
oi
street, on Sunday morning, when he was attacked Th,
garrotted by three men, of whom the prisoner was one.
to
officer came up, and a scuffle followed, when thi polic°ol
was knocked down by a blow with a stone, and lad his r
severely injured. Tine prisoner, after a 6' battle," Wasooth
tired, but the other prisoners got away. They are, how-to
known to the police, and the prisoner was remanded for litivi
days, previous to being committed for trial, as it Was 6
that the police would be able to capture the other pera°Zo.
Winen 13 IT P—A young woman, named Margaret
_0
nagh, was charged with having broken a square of glasge'r,
£2, in the shop door of Thomas Rogers's public eousei:to
ington hill. The complainant said the prisoner called 'l'o6
house on Saturday evening, kicked up a row, and brake!!!
glass. The girl, in reply to the charge, said Mr, Rogelto
the father of her illegitimate child, and that in Jnls, 185:ii0
magistrates made an order of is a week only on hitnleoi
support. Even that small sum he paid her very hadllf s
she had to work very hard for her suoport. She 101006
treated very badly by him, and on S Itaarday she got d 0
summons against him for arrears of mousy due to ber, a° fr
went there to ask him would he pay, and she wend o°t to
teed against him, when he flung water on her, dans/
doors together, and broke the glass against the counter.
prisoner was held to bail.
STABBING.—David Burke, who resides in a coutttJl
street, was charged with having stabbed a wornanirOr
Elizabeth Salchow. It appears that there was some roroor
court, when the prisoner stabbed complainant wii iY
sharp instrument, about the forehead and right e;* 0t
wounds at present are rather serious. The prisoner f P
1 i
for trial.
CHARGE OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON A SISTER-TN..(At
A. person of respectable exterior, named Nathaniel Pr
described as a commercial traveller, living at Anson,
Anson street, was charged with having committed a
assault on Catherine Richison, an interesting looking;
thirteen years' of age, the sister of his wife. Tit i
were very disgusting, and exhibited a lamentable 1 .j,
morality. Mr. Goodere for the defence said it was
spiracy. Mr. Mansfield characterised the affair as aboriP;ii

and although he had no doubt that the offence was coinb
the evidence would not justify him in sending the case
The prisoner was discharged.

The coroner held the following inquests yestercisf
On the body of Mary Downing, 28 years of age, thel
of a tailor, residing at 131, Salisbury street.
deceased was generally a healthy woman, but for tln
fortnight complained of heartburn and palpitation,
died suddenly on Sunday night. Verdict, " died hi
tation of God."

On. the body of Junes Dickenson, aged 55, who
locker in the Customs, and stationed at Glaseurei
pain in the head for some time past, and on
bonded spirit warehouse, Old Ropery. He aomPlain
satur;
whilst on duty, be suddenly fell down and died inslig:l
Verdict, " Died of apoplexy, the visitation of GOZIti
On the body of Catherine Daffy, avd 25 yew's, fe
of John Duffy, of Wavertree, who died in the RV' -ng
11
mart' on Saturday. Oa Saturday week the deceased g
the farm of Mr. Ashcroft, in Cow lane, Wavertree, and,
seemed that by the breaking dawn of a door, which it it
alleged was not properly fastened on. the deceased fellik.
her foot corning under a thrashing machine that was wor.cell,
at the tine, she was so much injured that she died. ',lb
dict according to the facts, namely, " Accidental deao
but at the same time the jury would advise Mr. Ashcroft°ol
secure the machinery so as to prevent future acciden"ase
would also strongly recommend the husband of the dece
to the kind consideration of Mr. Ashcroft.

TROPHY OF THE LATE WAR.—The well riddled enge.°
he renowned Twelve Apostles, once the pride of S t 7,
topol harbour, is now in the hands of a person at gala),
who occasionally hoists it to shake out the moths, t° the
great indignation of the Russian Consul. We triage:o
to present it to the United Service Museum.
patriotism of the possessor of this trophy
elide
THE CATTLE DISEASE.—A supplement to the -io
issued on Saturday afternoon, contains an Ordettio
Council, dated the 2nd April, prohibiting the inVertagee
into the United Kingdom of cattle, raw hides,
_pi
which shall come from, or shall have been at ,`el
place within, those territories of the Emperor
the
Russia, or of the King of Prussia, or I. ea.
reSp"
Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin %Otte or en;
ofiFin lan
tively, are in or border upon the Gulf E'nlant
other part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of hicb
and the terri orias of the Free City of Lubeck, or NV..
wilnw
shall come from or shell have been at any lso 911
will induce I"
the territories of the Free City of Lubeck ; ane,eae seal,
cattle, &c., no matter where corning froel, "I'l' cattle
have been on board vessels at the same sawe as
above described. , „noir/
THE CHORLEY POISONING CASE.—An adjourneu eio
into the recent suspicious death of Ellen' den
of Edward Hardman, took p'ace at Cherie'''. 4b,
Friday. Mr. Walsh, solicitor of Chorley,
proceedings on behalf of Edward Hardman,, festot
apprehended on the 18th ult., and conveyed to the Aeifole
House of Correction on suspicion of having wilooy
poisoned his wife by administering arsenic and ant' been
to her in her food, both of which poisons heerest el
detected by Mr. H. H. Watson, analytical chemist'
Bolton, to whom the contents of the stomach had eieg
delivered for analysis. A great deal of evidence Oboe
been adduced, the coroner summed up, and after areict
ten minutes' deliberation, the jury returned ape The
of " wilful murder" against Edward Hardreane et?
coroner issued his warrant for the committal of the '
soner to gaol. efe
JeILOIJSY AND SUICIDE —On Saturday forenoon; ryl
William Baker, the coroner, issued hie warreattjeli,
inquest on the body of a fine young woman, lianleureet
Bake, aged 23 years, lately residing in Upper Bakes"
Bedford square, Stepney, London, who committ sr,
destruction under the following painful circurnataaaeeetn
It appears that the deceased had been cohabiting' "el el
young man to whom she was devotedly attached, °nable
Wednesday night last she quarrelled with him al 8 ratite
house in Whitechapei, when angry words ensued resP",-g 6
his conduct towards her, and forming an attache' bony
another female. She left the house and proceeded oee
watched
01,0
wiere she passed to her bedroom. Nothing more wasreiol
or heard of her that night, but on the following 11°
el
she was found hanging by a silk handkerchief, Yen-etiti
been fastened to the top of the room door. Dr. l'a9oo
of Mile End road, watt called, but life was quite e'eeett°
A number of duplicates were found in her spar
relating to property pledged by the deceased.
TIIE SPEAKERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONV;ft-
pretty generally understood at the Clubs—and hag Pe the
one of the principal topics of conversation
last day or two—that ministers are in 0)0'1':eel;
difficulty with regard to the speakership, an elect! tie';
which high office will be the first business of t"-terre
parliament. On the ministerial side there are, Of
aspirants for the honour, neither or whom, it aPristug',
willing to give way. First on the list is 31rTheer4;
Wortley, who refused the judgeship in the era" Iv
few weeks since, on the understanding that ~,11.100/'
looking to the speakership. Second, there is Mr. ri,ll6l'
who has acted for some time as chairman of conete'le 0
and who has publicly announced that he is destradit'
eT Duchyhe
ai
g of
r' Lane
and
Mr.ste pt'
e
r
Walpole are sP ee
attaining to the higher office ; and Srd, there bon"
Matthew Talbot Baines, Q.C., who is at presentee 5;1
On the oprieg
. llf
SceirikErreocicli of
the
rFrederick
as candidates, Probably only one of them will beS oftl
nomination, and in the event of the ministerial of
continuing, the Conservative candidate will have 4 ,
chance of success.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH A THlEP.—ThoLliag, ,e/I°
an athletic and determined looking fellow, was felli", gr'
the bar of the Worship street PJlice Court, bef°,,r",,/j4.;
D'Eyncourt, charged with having been concern,e'erte%
others in violently assaulting and robbing a nentrc
courier, named Abraham Schwadr, at present resi-e the
Market street, Finsbury. The prosecutor s'ata-esPA!‘
while passimthrough Commercial street, white
on the previous eve ning, accompanied by 008 °Aril,
countrymen, who had only recently arrived in P.)01!
they were accosted by a woman, who addressed tbch et 4
language which they were unable to cornprehelei
with an evident desire of forcing herself into t,"e3-oeo 4
ciety. They were endeavouring to repel her 01;401
when several men suddenly rushed ont from an adi t
court, one of whom seized his friend by the thre3',ek
commenced beating him about the face. ea;
about to expostulate with them upon their violee r So,
dect, when he cv's himself attacked by the prisenet ttl°
another of the gang, who forced him back ag3il3:cteeet'
wall, and dragged his watch out of his waistcoat
which they passed to one of their confederate!'b the
started off with it. He immediately grappled "?:e•
man who had robbed him, and, netwithstandietrl the
desperate (flirts to escape, he held him fast alle.tby
arrival of a policeman. In answer to the charger; the
prisoner emphatically denied all participation r
robbery, but he was ordered to be remanded "/
formal completion of the depositions.