Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-24 00:00:00

NUISANCES.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Evening.
The sales of Cotton to-day -were. rather limited,
put prices on the whole were very firm. The trans-
actions sum up 5000 bales, including 500 on specu-
lation, and for export.
The Liverpool Share Market continues very dull.
To-day exceedingly little busines was transacted,
and prices were not maintained. The following
were the transactions :—Bristol and Exeter,
911; Caledoniae, 371, R 1 ; East Lancashire,
961; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1001, 1,1;
London and North Western, one-eighth
shares, 7-1.6 d ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 43f. 4 ; Midland, 831; North
Eastern, 234; Dovers, 221, te 9-16 ; Grand Trunk
of Canada, 141, 11, 13-16 ; Great Luxemburg,
22i; , Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
10!. shares, 12. The following were the
closing prices :—Blackburn, 71, 8; Chester and
Birkenhead, 70t, 71 ; Caledonian, 87 7-16, 374 ;
Chester and. Holyhead, 181, 181 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 11 11-16, 111 ; East Lancashire, 97, 971 ;
Ditto £9 shares, 13-16, 1 p ; Great Northern, 241,
25 ; Great Western, 641, 641; Lancashire and
Yorkshire Stock, 1001, 1008 ; Do, £9 shares, 1,
1 1-16 p ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 191,
191 ; London and North Western Stock, 1031
1031; Ditto one-eigthth shares, 3-16, 1 d; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 431, 44 ;
Midland Stock, 831, 831; North British, 101, 101 ;
North Staffordshire, 5, 41 d; North Eastern—Ber-
wick, 23, 234 ; York and North Midland, 351,
351; Leeds Capital Stock, 221-, 221; South Eastern
and Dover, 224, 22 9-16 ; Scottish North Eastern,
121, 12,1; Buffalo and Lake Huron, 2, 11 d; Ditto
New Shares, 14, 1d ; Dutch Rhenish, 21, 21 d ;
Great --Western of Canada, • 221, 231 ; Ditto
New Shares, 11, lj p ; Great Luxembourg,
11 5-16, 11 31 d ; Grand Trunk of Canada,
141, 14 13-16.
The Market for the Public Funds and Securities
to-day was very steady, and with a moderate busi-
ness doing. No change occurred in prices. The
closing quotations were for Consuls on Account,
93 to 931; Exchequer Bills, 3 dis to 1 pm, and the
New Throe per Cents, 921 to 931 ; Messrs. Brown,
Hunter, and Co., in their circular, dated this after-
noon, make the following remarks upon the
state of trade generally, and the Money Market
particularly :
The effects of dear Money and high prices are clearly
seen by a contraction of business, ands growing indisposi-
tion on the part of buyers to enter into operations, except
to meet their present requirements ; hence in our Produce,
Market during the past month less activity has been'
observable, and prices have been supported only in conse-
quence of the supply having proved inadequate to -the
demand. The state of the Money Market has been watched
with some anxiety ; still, notwithstanding the efflux of gold
has continued to a greet extent, the large arrival of specie,
together with the improved position of the Bank of France,
Which has lowered its premium for gold, the more favour-
able returns of the Bank of England, and the propitious
weather for the growing crops have induced a more hopeful
feeling that some relaxation would shortly take place ; the
public, however, were taken by surprise by the directors at
their last meeting reducing the rate of discount from 64 to
6 per cent,—a step which must be regarded with satisfac-
tion, and as calculated to inspire confidence in the fature.
The stock of Bullion in both departments of the Bank of
England. by the last returns, was £10,909,255, against
£9,853,609 last month. The course of business during the
past six month@ has not been characterised by any peculiar
events ; the prospects at the commencement of the year
were certainly encouraging, and it is satisfactery to observe
that the retrospect of the first half must have realised the
most sanguine expectations,for whilst there have b:en'some
temporary checks, business generally has been profitable
to most engaged therein. The supplies of Produce having
been incommensnrate with the increasing consumption of
the country, have not only sufficed to maintain the late high
prices, but, with few exceptions, an upward tendency has
prevailed, notwithstanding the adverse circumstances of re-
stricted facilities and dear money.had to be contended with,
the demand for money for several months has been excessive,
and although large importations of specie have taken place,
the continuous efflux of bullion, and the unfavourable
position of the Bank of France have not only absorbed the
increased supplies, but caused greater stringency in
monetary affairs than before existed, and in April the rate
of discount was further raised from 6 per cent., at which
it had stood since December last, to 64 per cent., at -which
it remained until last week ; the stock of bullion in April
having been diminished to a lower amount than since 1847.
Taking these facts into consideration, it must be evident
that the provisions of the Bank Act of 1841 are obortive ;
for whilst the value of money is so much increased by the
imposition of an exorbitant rate of interest, which fetters
commerce, and causes serious inconvenience and loss to
the trading community, the restrictions have failed to
arrest the export of gold, and for a trifling diminution in
the stock of bullion, although with plenty of money in the
country for all legitimate purposes, produce, under ordinary
circumstances, and property become depreciated in value,
and commerce unduly taxed thereby. It is to be hoped
that the inquiry now going on into the principles and
operations of this act will be productive of measures
ensuring a more uniform value of money and preventing
such oscillations in the rates of interest, -which would not
only establish the commerce of this country upon a sounder
basis, but be highly beneficial to the interests of those
engaged in business.
In the London Share Market there was very
little doing to-day, but prices were unchanged.
Tus CORNISH FISHERIES,—At St. Ives, on Wednesday The following were the closing quotations :
ast, several boats brought on shore from 3,000 down to Caledonian, 741, 751 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
100 mackerel, which sold at 17s per 100. One boat brought 62, 64 ; Eastern Counties, 111, 111 ; East Lance-
in 1,000 fine herrings, which sold at 58 per 100 of six shire, 96, 98 ; Great Northern, 981, 99 ; Ditto A,
score. During the greater apart of the week the boats ej, 92 ; Great Western, 641, 641; Lancashire and
were prevented from going to sea on account of the bolt- Yorkshire, 1001, 100 f ; Leeds Northern, 444, 45;
terous weather. . London and North Western, 1031, 1031 • ' Lon
ROBBERY AT A POST-OFFICE, NEAR BRADFORD.—VaII- don and South -Western, 1014; Manchester,
ens complaints having been made of letters either having Sheffield, and. Lincolnshire, 431, 444; Midland
been abstracted from the post-office at East Morton near
Stock, 83-k 831 ; North British, 43, 44; South
Bradford, or otherwise never having arrived there, repre-
Eastern and Dover, 754; York, Newcastle and
sentations of the matter were made at the General Post-
k, 92, 93 ; York and North Midland,
office, Lond -n, and in consequence one of the inspectors, Berwic
Mr. Windsor, came down at the latter end of last week to 701, 714.1
mike inquiries. Suspicions against Cyrus Sonderland,• After official hours the following were the
the postmaster of East Morton, having been excited, Mr. prices pait:—Caledonian, 741, 754; Eastern. Conn-
Windsor resolved to test his honesty, and gave to Mr. ties, 111, 111; East Lancashire, 964. 971 ; Great
Thomas Cowburn, another official, a letter addressed to Northern, 983. 994; Ditto A, 91, 92 ; Great
" lilr. Henry Wilson, tobacconist, Broadway, New York," Western, 644, 641; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1001,
and marked "paid," and a shilling to pay the postage, 1008; London and North Western, 1034, 1031; Man-
peculiarly marked with two dots under the crown.
.hester, theffield. and Lincolnshire 43/ 441 -
After this had been done, Mr. Cowburn went to Leeds ' 4' 4
Midland Stock, 831, 831 ; North British, 43, 44
and. was at the poet-office there on Saturday evening,'
when York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 924, 93 ; York and
the bag which had coetainedthe letter thus
addressed arrived. When searched, the letter could North Midland, 701, 711.
not be found, and, in consequence, a warrant to s,arch The General Produce Markets remain' quiet.
Sunderland's house, was immediately issued, Armed The circular aoove quoted thus alludes to the
with this, Mr. Cowburn, accompanied by the Leeds article of Sugar :
constable, James Jewitt, and John Ingleby, of the West
The excitement noticed in our circular of 23rd ultimo
Riding force, proceeded to Sunderland's house. When
subsided towards the close of the month, and prices gave
they arrived there he was not in, but they followed his wayls. per cwt., and the article continued very dull of
son, who appeared somewhat anxious, upstairs, and sale until the end of the first week of June, when the
snatched from his hand a coat of his father's, which he speculative feeling again revived, and the decline was
was evidently anxious to place elsewhere, and on searching
the breast pocket, Ingleby found the missing letter, and recovered; since then dulness has again ensued, and to
effect sales lower prices would have to be accepted. It
Jewett the marked shilling in a small purse, with five other would appear, from these fluctuations in the market, that
shilling 3. In the pocket of another coat, Jowett also found prices had attained their maximum; for although it is
part of the envelope of another letter, stamped, and bearinge
admitted that there is every prospect or a good fruit season,
the Manchester post-mark, September, 1856, and addressed
to Miss Snsannah Whitham, Eldwick New Road, Bingley. it must be borne in mind that prices at present are about
an average of 12s. per cwt. higher than those last year.
By this time Sunderland had come in, and on Mr. Windsor, The imports into the 'United Kingdom to 30th April are
who was also present, asking him if the coats were his, he 1,000,022 tons, against 87,066 tons ; the consumption,
admitted that they were, and was then taken into custody, 124,62/ tons, against 104,152 tons, compared with last
and brought to Bradford lock-up. The facts, as brif fly
year. he stock at this port is 12,196 tons, against 19,487
narrated, were given against him in the West Riding
tons in 1856, and 10
.500 tons in 1855. The transactions
Magistrates' Court on Monday. He made no defenee, and amount to 2,500 hlids. B.P. at 56s 6d. to 60s. 6d. for
he was committed for trial at the next York assts-s. The
Antigua 545. to 545. 6d. for Trinidad ; 551. 6d. to 638 6d.
bench offered to accept bail, the prisoner himself in £lOO,
for Barbadoes ; 57e. 3d. to 625. 2d. for Jamaica; 535. 3d.
and two sureties in £5O each. He has hitherto held a
to 625. 6d. for Demerara; 61s. 9d. to 644. 6d. for grainy.
good character, and is respectably connected.
5,000 bags Bengal, at 565. to 565. 6d. for Dummah, and
Mnnuanous ASSAULT AT IiALIFAZ,—On Srturtiay, at
58s. for Gurpntta Dates; 625. to 635. for Benares. 800
midnight, a murderous assault was committed at Halifax,
bags Siam, at 48s. 9d. 1,800 tons Manilla, on the spot
by a party of Irishmen, numbering about a dozen, upon a'
and for arrival, at 495. to 503. 6d.- for unettyed, 565. for
less numerous party of Englishmen. The Irishmen, all
clayed. 2,000 bags Mauritius, at 61s. to 634. for grainy.
more or less intoxicated, were quarrelling with each other 12000 bags Breen, at 38s. to 415., in lend, for Paraiba
in King Croes-street, near the Bee Hive Inn, when the
and Pernatn ; 500 tons 13ahia, at 41s. per cwt. ; 300 tone
Englishmen came up. The latter had been to the market,
Pernams, at 395. 6d.; and 600 tons Mattel°, at 40a, in
and were returning home to So werby Bridge and other
bond.
places in the same direction, with the provisions they had
purchased. The disturbance in the street caused them to The weallier is most favourable, and the crops
make a pause, and then the Irishmen, without any prove- everywhere present a most luxuriant, appearance.
cation whatever (so far as we could learn), fell upon them, During the past few days the tritsaotions iii Wheat,
and beat them with sticks and other weapons. One of the though not extensive, are reported at Friday's
Englishmen, a plumber, named James Clough, who comes prices. Barrel Flour has met a moderately good
from Ratcliffe Bridge, near Bury, but is working in this
demand, and commanded extreme rates. Oats have
neighbourhood, received a stab on the right side of the
had some inquiry for export at previous figures.
breast, near the collar bone, and he was so exhausted from
been.
restrieted.,
, Egyptian Beans, and Barley, have all
loss of blood, that his party, after setting out again for ,
home, had to " put in', at the Brown Cow, Burnley Road. The bu,iness in Indian Corn has been
Another Englishman was barbarously kicked about the and at a marked decline frs,rn the quota-
head, and a third had an eye severely injured. The police tiona tf Friday. Linseed Cake is in large demand
are now on the look-out for the offenders, but the injured for present delivery ; for forward, crushers decline
parties seem more disposed .to. pay their Irish assailants selling. The attendance at to-day's market was
"in their own coin," than to leave their riliabilnDP, to much smaller than usual, and the business through-
the maoOrstes, out limited and devoid of all activity. The prices

TO VII EDITOR OP THE NORTHERS", TIMM.
Sir,—ln the Health Committee, yesterday, Dr
Duncan is reported to have said that " the most of
the nuisances complained of did not last more
than a quarter of an hour, in two or three days,
and he did not see how he could certify that they
were injurious to the health of the inhabitants."
With reference to one of the two cases then
under the consideration of the committee, Dr.
Duncan ought to have known he was giving utter-
ance to that which was not correct. The manure
manufoctory, in Great Howard-street, emits the
most horrid and disgusting smells it is possible to
imagine. Its operations are not confined to any
particular hour, but from " rosy morn to dewy eve,"
and sometimes into the hours of the night, it con-
tinues, at intervals, to send forth its deleterious
gases and vapours to such an extent, that often-
times( the stench is intolerable at a distance of
three hundred yards from the works.
If Mr. Duncan will venture to assert that a viti-
ated atmosphere such as this must naturally pro
duce is not injurious to health, then I would ask
him why pull down the poor man's pig-stye in the
brick fields, or-close the marine store dealer's cel-
lar with its hundred weight of bones, and yet per-
mit in a great .thoroughfare like Great Howard-
street—a place consuming its hundreds of tor* of
boned, and by the application of chemical fluids
generating noxious smells and vapours to the
injury of the surrounding population—is it
because the one is a rich and the other a poor
man, that the greater evil is deemed the lesser?
"What in the captain is but a choleric word, is in
tho common soldier rankest blasphemy."
The Chairman, Alderman , Dover, thinks it
should be looked at in a Pecuniary light, and that
manufacturers are deserving of consideration from
the benefits arising to the town from the renting
of cottages, wages, circulation of money, &c.
So long as a m inufactory is conducted with-
out injury or annoyance to the neighbour-
hood, it is right that the authorities give
every due facility for carrying it on ;
but when it becomes, as in the case of the
manure manufactory. a gigantic nuisance and dis-
grace to the locality,
,the pecunialtty gain of one
man ought 'net to be permitted to stand in. the
way of the health and comfort of a thottsiind men;
but those to whom is delegated the preservation of
the public health shouldexercise the powers vested
in them, and at once take effectual means to put
a stop to so intolerable and objectionable a
nuisance.—l am, sir, yours, &c.,
Liverpool, June 19, 1857. ANTITITOSPRAT.E.

THE WATER QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES,

Sir,— The Memorialists have engaged the atten-
tion ot the Council on the water question, but their
request is, for the, present, denied. It appears that
a councillor can snap his fingers at us when he gets
through the doors of the Town•hall, and an alder-
man is completely independent. We have had a
good illustration of this, of late, at the " waters of
strife" in the Council chamber. But we are denied
pure spring water from the wells; and where is
our remedy, or how can we help ourselves ?
Mr. George Holt retired ere the " waters" came
on ; Mr. William Earle was placed for some time
on the stool of repentance ; and Mr. Buck Lloyd is
now an exile from the Council chamber. These
are public testimonials which our Council ought to
place before them when they set their faces against
the requests of the people. But this is a tedious
.remedy, however effectual as it regards our coup
cillors, but so remote in. respect to aldermen that
we must regard them as an offspring with whom
we have positively nothing to do. In cases of great
emergency, such as the case at issue on the water
question, we are laid by them perfectly prostrate,
without power and without remedy.
We shall, ere long, come into the Dog Days. Let
them take care what they are about ; the public
are soon excited. They may save themselves by
giving the spring water only to the people ; but if
they refuse this in time, let them take themselves
off to the Highlands, lest an excited people should
take the case into their own hands, and their escape
be after the fashion, and as perilous, as that of the
late Sir Charles Wetherell over the house-tops of
Bristol. This is no menace—it is a caution ; and
everything can now be put right without outraging
the feelings and endangering the lives of the people.
—Yours, &c.,
A LOVER OF PEACE AND PURE WATER.

THE CLOSING OF PRINCE'S PARK:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES,

SlR,—Allow me to suggest through your columns
the propriety of the curators or keepers of the
Prince's Park being ordered to ring a bell, or give
some other significant signal before closing the
_gates in the evening. Parties, for the want of
such notice, are occasionally put to great incon-
venience. The worthy proprietor of the Park
would, I am sure, at once remedy the evil if it was
pointed out —Yours, &c. _ B.