Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-16 00:00:00

POET OFFICE ROBBERY AT BERKENFIEA.D.

Oa Tuesday last, Andrew Wil lam Tucker, one of the emp'Q,ees at
the Birkenhead General Post-office, was charge I before J. S. Jackson,
Esq., at the Birkenhead police-coal, with having, on the Inorning of
that day, stolen a letzer containing a half-soverei_pn and a stamped
envelope. Mr. Ja net Motile, of the Missing Letter Branch of the
General Post-office, Loudon, was in-attendance to support the charge
against the prisoner, and stated th it, in consequence r f the nu-
merous complaints having been addressed to her -Majesty's Post-
master-General of the non-delivery of letters, containing money and
articles of stelae, in their transit tin' ough the Birkenhead Post-office,
he had been directed to test the honesty at the offiters employed
there. Accordingly, on Monday evening !ast. a letter was posted at
Blanchester, which he saw pat into the Birkenheai big, containing a
marked half-eotereign and also a marked stamped envelope. The
letter• was addressed to Mrs. Jellicoo, Park-gat near Birkenhead.
On th• following morning he was In attendance at the Birkenhead
Post•office, and enquired for the letter. I. could not, however, be
' found, when suspicion fell upon the prisoner, whose duty it was that
morning to stamp or post-mark all the letters arriving at Birkenhead,
upon which he was taken into the limn* office and searched, when
the sum of gs 8d and the marked envelope was found in his pocket,
upon which the p ironer sa d he had had the envelope in his pocket
since Friday last. Mr. Monte said he had to apply for a remand, the
prisoner having been aprrehrnded but a short time previous to his
appearance before the Magistrat-, as he (gr. Moule) had no doubt he
should, in the tour e of a few days, be able to bring other charges
against him,—The prisoner was then remanded fo: a week.

POST-OFFICE ROBBERY AT CHESTER,

On Wednesday last, John Owen Jepson, one of the clerks in the
Chester Post-office, was brought before Feta Eytin, Esq , the
Mayor oft e city, on a charge of stealing a letter, and embezzling
a penny t tat had been tat I him far a stamp to be put on it. Mr.
Mollie from the General Post-offlee, Lon ion, • was i attea an^e to
support the charge, and hiving states the f ccts of the case, applied
f.,r a remand to comp ete the evi !sue is the case, acid also to enable
him to get evidence in soppirt of other charges of a graver nature
that he hod to bring against the prisoner. The prisoner, who his
been upwaris of thirty years in the Chester Poet-oill:e, was then
remanded for a weak, bet admitted to ball.

THE AMERICAN MONEY PANIC,

SONG- OF TEE STREET

(Fran the 11',,u, Yt

rK Ete.ning Pre.)

Rushing round the corners,
Chasing every friend,
Plunging into binks—
Nothing there to lend—
Piteously b, gfing
Of every man you meet.
Wets me! thi, is pleasant,
“Shiunins" on the street.
Merchants very short
lt2nning neck and necT7,
Want to ke-p a'going—
Pr.ying fur a c:leds ;
De)blars to stocks,
Blue us blue can be
Evl leatly wi• hing
They were " fancy free."

Banking institutions,
Companies of " trust,"
WWI other poop e's money
Go off on a bust;

Houses of long stinting
Ccumbling in a night—
With to n►any " solstitial"
Nu wonder pauney's.lijht.

or
Having loti to spend—
,ave a littl. ern .athy,
Nothing have to lend ;
Gentlemen in watt
Wiling to pay double—
Find they can bor. ow
Notting bow bat trouble.

All our splendid rsilroids
Got such dreadful knoclo,
Twenty thousand Bits
Co ildn't r ,ise their btecks ;
Many of the Bears
In the trouble sharing,
Now begin to feel
They've been over-Bearing.

Half our men of business
Wanting an ex ension,
Whil, nearly all the oth •rs
Coltemplate ,uspsusloa ;
Many of them, though,
Don't appear to dr2s,l i ;
Every cent they owe
Is so much to their credit.

Riau speculators
Trtmlling with the shock,
Never mind stopping
Mare than any clock ;
Still they give big dinners,
smoke and drink and sqp,
Going all the better
For a wlnd:ng up.

Brokers al are breaking,
Cr.-dit all is era:lied,
Women all expanding
As the Rank' contra• t.
}'ante still inzrea• ing—
Where will the trouble end,
While all hauls want to borrow,
And aob_dy can lend ?

Running round ilia corners,
Trying every soare.., ;
Asking at thn Bank
Nothing there, of course;
Money getting tighter,
Misery complete
B ess me 1 thin is pleasant,
"Shinning" on tpe street.

WALL- STREET.

Re HARRISON, WATSON, AND CO.

A meeting for the, choice' of assignees and proof of
debts under this bankruptcy, was held on Wednesday, in
the Bankruptcy Court, at, Hull, before Mr. Payne, the
regisirar, officiating for Mr. Commissioner Ayrton. A.
large body of creditors and so'icitors attended to take
part in the proceedings. The principal suhjsct of
discussion arose upon the tender of a proof by Mr. John
Sco t. on behalf of the Union B ink of London, amounting
to £26 000, upon certain bills of exchange drawn • by
Burstall and Co., of Quebec, and accepted by the bank-
rupts. These bills were endorsed by Burstall and Co. to
the Bank of Montreal, and by that bank endorsed and
delivered to the Union &ink of Loudon, the consideration
for the latter endorsement being the acceptance by the
Union Bank of certain bills drawn on them by the Mon-
trival Bulk to a like amount. It was contended in
opposition to the proOf that these mutual acceptances
amoun ed to a mere exchange ofpaper, and that no money
consideration having passed, the proof ought not to be
admitted. In reply to this argument, it was alleged that
the Union Bank were the bowt, fide holders of the bank-
rupts' dishonoured .acceptances, and that it was not
imperatively necessury.that there shuald be a money con-
valuable one being quite sufficient. His
honour assented to this view of the matter, and the proof
was admitted. A long list of debts was proved, amounting
in the whole to £3OB 031 lls 21; the a'oount of claims by
creditors not yet proved is £13,000. Among the proofs
were the Bank of Upper Canada for .€6,000 ; •Bank of
British North America, £47,420 ; Union Bank of London,
£21,000; City Bank of Mon•real, £5,000; Lo ;don Joint-
Stock Bank, £23,450; Bink of England, £15,711 ; the
executers of Mr. C. Bamford; jin , £23 312 ; and Mr. C.
Bamford, £35,327. Tne assignees chosen are Messrs. J.
B. Barkworth, of Cottingbain ;- Ur- Chap.nan, L-ntden-
hall-street, London; and Mr. Christopher Simpson, of
Hull.

TILE FATE OF T3E AM 811ICAN

PACIFIC.

(From the Paris Monitear.)
The Maritime Prefect a' Brest has transmitted to the
Minister Secretary of State for the Navy and the
Colonies a note written with a pencil in English, and
which was enclosed in a glass battle, found on the 14th
of September, 1857, on the strand of Melon, in the
,yndic ate of Porspoder (department of the F►nistere )
Great interest is attached to this note, which appears
to have been written by a passenger on board the Ameri-
can steamer-Pacific, supposed to be wholly lost, with all
hands, in 1856; and we think it our duty to publish its
contents, verbatim :
" Steam-ship Pacific, Eldridge, commander. Smith,
passenger. Steam-ship P -wine run between two icebergs
All hands lost. On the lat of April, 1356. Just going
down, 2 p.m."
The word " April" 13 written over a word effaced, fur
the author of the note had first commenced with a capital
M, as if about to write March.

FIRST LOVE —What more precious cif,rings can b,.!
!aid .upon the altar of a mm's heart than the fi st love o'
a Lu e, eariost, and aff ejanate gir:, with an Lndiviled
inferefit in eight corner lots and !our etn threc-sorry
houses.