Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

: Our object is, to punish them, and that
ie gained if they do not appear. .

the talk about -ri;Coguisanees seem
I wish to have some proof that the

NV 16LA any mistake, as perhapS we may be there, mcitereid theysuouiti not.
Let them be called into court, that we may•see who. they
are. It is done so ia the Central Criminal Court when a
bench warrant is issued. •
Mr. Simon said that should be. done

The prosecutors

were inspectors O'Brien And Hough;- and. policemen
Edward George and John Griffin.

The defendants and the prosecutors were then. bound
over in their own recog,nisances of £5O, to appear at the
next sessions to answer the charges preferred against
them.

It was understood that fresh proceedings would be
taken against Mr. Barandon. The Court was crowded
during the hearing of the application, and much interest
was manifested in the result.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE-SATURDAY

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

CAUTION TO MILITARY SERGEANTB.—Sergeant Robin:
son, on the recruiting service of the 89th Regiment,
brought up a young man, named Charles Eaton, charged
with having deserted that regiment. He said he enlisted
him in April last, and he deserted soon after, and he
never saw him since until last Wednesday, when he
arrested him. The prisoner said, he was never in
Liverpool until last Wednesday. He was in Stafford-
shire, in one place, from February, '5B, up. to the
present week. He °crave such a circumstantial account
of himself, that Mr. Mansfield said, latterly he had so
many sergeants bringing up alleged deserters, and he
fOund so many false charges of that description' that he
was resolved to use his utmost endeavours to find out
whether such were false or not. A eoaple of days ago a
sergeant brought up an alleged deserter, and it appeared
that he was in New York at the time the sergeant swore
he enlisted him. Sergeant : I have had upwards of 100
recruits, and this is the first I have brought up. Mr.
Mansfield : lam not speaking of yoU, sir. The state-
ments made here are very loose. I shall, in future,
communicate with the military authorities, and when I
find a sergeant making a mistake, either wilfully or
otherwise, I shall take care to have him severely
punished. I find I have been very much deceived in
this case, and many a poor fellow is punished who never
enlisted at all. Mr. Cobb : Both myself and Mr. Bluck
have had several cases where false charges were made by
these sergeants, and we have frequently proved it. Mr.
Mansfield : Yes, I remember you had. Sergeant : A
deserter's word is never taken in the army. Mr. Mansfield :
I know that in the army it is not, but recollect that you
are now sir, in a civil court of justice, and from that
piece of impertinence, I strongly suspect this to be a
false charge. I am of opinion, that the rewards given
for the arrest of deserters is the cause of the loose state-
ments made by sergeants. Let the man be remanded,
and let enquiry be made about him. I shall take care to
have proper representations 'made to tthe military
authorities.

THE CASH Box ROBBERY.—Heron Roberts, Joseph
Eccleston, John Williams, and EdWard Millar,
were brought up on remand, charged with
being concerned in the robbery of the cash box
from Mr. Caddy's public-houSe, Islington. Mr. Snowball
was for Roberts, Mr. Dodd for Millar, and Mr. Cobb for
Eecleston and Williams. The evidence, which has
already been given in full, on two or three occasions, was
gone over de novo. Mr. Cobb succeeded in getting off
Williams, and Mr. Dodd got off his client. The pri-
sone:•s Roberts and Eccleston were sent for trial.

CHARGE AGAINST A SHIPPING AGENT.—A respectable
lOoking person, named' Patrick Kelly, described as.a
licensed shipping argent, at. 18, Barton-street, was brought
Up, by detective officer Laycock, on the following charge :
The officer said,the prisoner was Oivento him in charge, in
consequence of his having shippal some sailors, and for
having received money from them under faLse.pretences.
A coloured sailor, named George Greenwich, said,- I know
the prisoner, who is a shipping master. - I 'went to his
office and asked him to ship me ; that was on the 17th
inst. He shipped me to go in. the Charter Oak, as an
able seaman, at £2 103 a mOnth. I went to the ship,
and went to work there, when I was told he, had shipped
five men too many, and that he knew he had done so.
The mate then sent four of us on shore, and the prisoner
refused to give us back our money. Anne, 'Watson,
of 10, queen-street, boarding house keeper, where
the sailor lodged, said, T took him to Mr. Kelly's
office, and he shipped,, him, and. lifted his'
p "shippine, note dud he (the sailor) paid him 225.

%en he (the man) was sent on• Shore I went and asked
Mr. Kelly for the•money, but he would not 'give it to me,
aild I am at the loss of the money and five week? board.
Layeoek.: After he was locked up, he offered to pay the
money. • Mr, Mansfield (to Mr. Kehoe) You must show,
by evidence,. that the prisoner; at the time he shipped this.
man, did so knowing that he had already shipped more
Men than the _vessel required. This I 'think, if proved,
Would shoW a: false pretence to get the- money and note.
Mr. Kehoe : The American consul is „so much am-laved
by this sort of work, • that there is nothing left
for us but to take up the • first offender.
The prisoner said he had offered the money back, and
also offered to get the.man anothpr Ship. The man was
seat ashore for being" drunk... He (prisoner) had .no
intention to defraud.him, as he offered the money back,
and wanted to provide him with another ship. The
prisoner was remanded to this day, but subsequently; on
the application of Mr. Cobb, ho was admitted to

CURIOU3 PIWNBROKING TRANSACEI'JN. -7- ItLiGAL
respectable,looking young, man, named
Thomas Stedman, described ns a paWnbroker, carrying
on business at_ 334,. Vauxhall-road, and living in Don,
caster-street, was charged by Themas Oldfield with
having stolen a worth £3O, from a" place in
Great Howard-street, Where it was left bY the prisoner.
The case was this : It appeared from the evidence of
several persons, that the prisoner lent Oldfield £25 on
the, car, when be was very ." hard up." Subsequently
Mr. Stedman got repairs done to the vehicle, and paid
for same. He left it at a place in Great Ho:Ward-street,
but finding that Oldfield was trvin ,r: to take it away,
without paying what he owel,. Mr. Stedman,
.that

morning, removed, it to another place, whereon 01dfield
called a policeman, .and gave him into
.custody, on a
charge of felony. These were the facts as proved, when
Mr. Mansfield asked the officer how he took the prisoner
into custody. ? The officer said, he did not know
there, was any dispute about the cab, and Its. the charge
was one of felony, he could .iaot refuse taking it. His
Worship said it was very plain that the prisoner had been
very ill used by being. taken iutosustody_ If lie thought
proper.to brill, an action for false imprisonment lie
could do so, and' if the jury gave ,him damages, they
would give him tremendous damages... Ile diSeharged
the prisoner. , , • , , • ,

BEFORE MESSILS., , AND DIXON

. .
In. the case of Mr. John Fiddler, the lie used person for
a house.in Staaw"s-brow,:who Was on Friday :fined £2O,
and ,ordered to ,close it, Mr, Clarke Aspinall, appeared
on Saturday, and asked,, the latter,part of the order to be
abrogated, as the house had been set to a respectable
person before the summons was issued.,, Mr. Chalkier
said, so far as he was concerned
_he had no objection,. and
the case stood over to have Mr. -Cropper's-opinion, as he
was the other magistrate who heard the
Cuarous AFFILIATION CASE. -A young woman, named
Mary Smith, a native of Scotland, who :_now resides
at 45, Beacon-street,- summoned John Clarke, a man
connected with. the fire department • of. the steamer City
Of Washington, for the support of her-child, of which she
alleged he was the - .father.. Mr. Blink., was ,for
the. defence.- The peculiar features of the case
were these : Tile woman .stated that she, is married,
and believes. her husband to be alive in America.
Ile left her-more than three years ago. She then took
with a." married man,. named Plumbe, and
he maintained her apart from his wife, for some time,
and she became a mother to him. After that he left her
and his wife. She was in search of him one night. on

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board a Glasgow boat, when she met the prisoner,.:and
then took up with him. He is..also a married man,
.and
she lived eighteen months with him as his wife,
without the real wife knowing it. In November
last the affair transpired, and then he left her,

and- it was now for - the support of a fine
child, about eleven months old, that she proceeded
against him. Both Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. Plumbe 'were
were present, and, from' their gestures towards the fair
Smith, they would have made very short work of her,
had they been allowed in fearful proximity to her head-

cress. Mr. Eluck did all he could (and that's not little)
to defeat the claim, bit failel, and an order for is. 61.
a Week was made against Mr.'Clarke.

The Kelso and Veloz have arrived from China with
1,411,50.0 pounds of tea-

_
The Funds sheaved renewed heaviness,. owing almost
exclusively to news received of a decided fall on the Paris
Bourse. The Funds left off, one-eighth to a quarter per
cent. lower than yesterday. The fortnightly :settlement
in. shares and foreign stocks commenced to-day. In the
Discount Market to-day the
.demand is rather more
active ; but -first-chat bills were taken, at 2. to 21 per
The Bank have now commenced to make their
usual quarterly advances, up to the :13th of April; on
approved mercantile bills having as much at six months
to run, and on Government securities. In the Stock
Exchange the rates, for loans: on Government securities
are merely nominal, There were. no operations in geld
at the Bank to-day. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's .steamer Orissa
.will take out £323,690 in
silver, for Bombay, 'on the 27th inst., the whole on private
account. The Bank returns
,of last night afford

The reserve .of notes. and coin exceeds .£14,000,000
sterling, . whilst the coin and
,bullion have reached

£20,000,000.. In consequence of the uneasiness which
prevails in all quarters, a further considerable rise took
place this.afternoon in. the Exchanges on Austria. Bills
on Holland and Hamburgh were euqUired for, and the
tendency of the rates was rather less favourable to this
country.—Daily Hetes City Article, Iriday Evening.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL,- Saturday Evening. -,
The tone of the Liverpool Cotton Market to-day
has been firm, and a fair business has been done,
the sales reaching 8,000 bales, inclusive of 2,000
taken for speculation and export. Prices. have
been steady but not higher.
In sympathy. with the London markets, there
has been considerably buoyancy in the Liverpool
Stock Exchange to-d.ay, and although the amount
of business done has not been large, the prices have
been higher. The transactions were as follow :
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 63; Cale-
donian, 841, 841 ; Eastern Counties, 111 c, xd ;
Great Western, '56, xd ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
94, 941, 941, xd ; London and :Mirth Western,
93.1 e, 931, 931, xd ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 371; Midland, 991, xd ; South Eas-
tern, 21:, 21 5-16, 21'4, 21 7-16, 211 ; Dutch
Rhenish, 4 d ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 7 9-16;
Great Luxembourg, 6P,-. •
The London Stock Market opened this morning
under a spirit of wild excitement, consequent upon
the views entertained on the explanations of Con-
tinental affairs which were made in both houses of
Parliament last night, and which generally

appears to inspire belief in the settlement of all
difficulty without: any appeal to • arms. The
announcement as to the evacuation of the Roman
States,. by the troops of both France and
Austria, was regarded especially as satisfactory.
The fund have risen fi per cent., and in every other
department of the Stock Exchange great buoyancy
prevails. English, French, Lombardo-Venetian
and Indian railway shares exhibit a general and
important advance. The telegrams from Paris,
however, indicate, thus far, little response to the
buoyant feeling shown here. -Consols were first-
marked 951, and, after touching 96,. finally closed
at 951 to 96 both for money and the 9th March.
The Three per cents. Reduced have been. dealt in
at 961 to 961 ; the New Three per Cents., at 951 to
951 ; the Ban Stock at 230; India Stock, at 219
to 220 ; India Four Cents. Debentures, at 981 to
981 ; .Exchequer Bills, June, at 35s prem. ; ditto,
advertised bills, at .34s prem.
The London Railway Share Market underwent
very considerable excitement to-day. Influenced
by the sudden rise in Consols,, there was a general
advance in the quotations for all the leading lines
of railway Shares, to the extent of from ;1 to 1
per cent. London and. North Western Stock is
now quoted 951 to 96; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
95& to 964;, Midland, 1021 to 1021 ;. Caledonian,
421 to 421 per share ; North British, 581 to 59;
Great. Western, 561 to 57 ; Berwick, 931 t0'931;
and South Eastern 221 to 22 per share. All
these prices are for the new Account. French and
Lombardo-Venetian Railway Shares have likewise,
risen considerably.
.Northern of France are
quoted 371 to 371 ; Paris and Lyons, 331
to 334; Lombardo-Venetian old Shares, to 1
prem. ; ditto, new, 5-16 to 7-16 prem. East
Indian Railway Stock has likewise advanced.
The closing prices were as follow : —Ambergates,:
61, ; Caledonians; .851 ; Eastern. Counties,
601, 611 ; East Lancashire, 95, 96 ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 701', 7111 Great
Northern, 1051 ; Do. A., 88, 90'; Great
Westerns,- 571 ; Great Western of Canada, 1.61,
161 ; Grand Trunk.' of Canada, 71, 7(82 ; Great
Southern and Western, 1051, 1051; . Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 96.1 ; London and North
Western, 961; London and South Western, 92*, 93 ;
Leeds Northern, 481 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 371, ,38 ; Midland .Stock, 1021 ;
North British, 581, 59 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 741, 741 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
93, 91; York and. North Midland, 781, 79.

The Board of Trade returns, for the month end-
ing.
.
the 31st of January, were issued this Morning.
The total declared value of the 'exports of. British
arid 'lrish produce, inducting only the enumerated
articles, was 8,796,8291., against 6,723,582/. in
1858, and 8,413,7481. in 1857. .InCluding the
unenumerated articles, the aggregate exports
stand thus : For the
,month. 1857, 9,058,105/ ;
1858, 7,221,600.; 1859, 9,593,423. In- another
column will be found a full abstract of the return.
In the Discount Market yesterday, although the
demand was rather more active, first-class bills
were! -taken at 2 'to 2y per cent. At: the bank,
the applibatiOns were rather more numerous than
'of late, but' were of a somewhat exceptional
charactei%

The Bank have now commenced to make their
usual quarterly advances; up to the 13th April,
on approved mercantile bills having as much as six
months to non, and,on goyernment securities.
The amount of specie to be taken out. by the
Orissa, on the 27th, is £323,690 in silver for
Bombay, and £B5O in gold for Alexandria.
The movements of the Precious Metals during
the paSt week have not been 'very extensive. The
imports have been about £171,080, vornprising
£51,415 from the United States by the Kangaroo;
and £14,000 by the Arabia_; £1,455
.from the
Peninsula by the Tagus, and £1,210 by the Ripon;
'and about £lOO,OOO in silver from the
.Continent.
The exports have been £324,540 to Bombay by
the Orissa, and shipments to the Continent through
the London Custom House, estimated at £17,680—
making a total of £342,220.

The-dividend on the stock of the North British
Railway Company is officially announced at the
rate of 21 per cent. per annum, carryins over
2,500/. The dividend for the corresponding six.
months of 1837 was at the same rate. The coin-
Pany's stock has fallen.
The half-yearly meetiug Of the Norfolk RailWaY
Company took place to-day, Mr. Bidder, in the
chair. The report stated that the revenue of the
associated companies for the past half-year was
710,3971. 7s. 9d., against which were deductions for
Eastern Counties' working expenses, 375,0661.
10s. 10d., leaving a disposable balance between the
three companies of 335,3301. 16s, 11d,, as
follows :-

. .
Eastern Counties Company, 5-7tht .... £239,522 0 0
Eastern Union, 1-7th. 47,004 8 1
And Norfolk Railway Company, 177th 47,904 8 1
As respects the Norfolk Company, this division was
an . increase of . 786/, as compared With. the .cor-
responding period of the year 1857, which would
leave to this company, after•paying the guaranteed
stoCks, a balance of 18,2001 19s 3d'in the Conso-
lidated Stock,• or 11 16s 6d per cent for'the half-
year. The dispute between the associated "com-
panies and the Eastern Counties Company, as to
the terms and principles of the agreement with the
latter, was, still involved in Chancery. After some
discussion, the report was adopted.

The directors of the Midland Great Western
Railway Company have decided upoll
ing to their proprietors, at the forthcoming half-
yearly meeting, a dividend at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum, free of income-tax, for the half-
year ending 31st December last. •

A meeting of the Scottish Australian Invest-
ment Company was. held 'yesterday, when a !'reso-
lution was passed for, raising 200,0001. additional
capital, in 5 per cent. preference stock, for em-
ployment in the colony. The chairmaninentioned
that the directors'-by no means contemplate issuing
anything like that - amount- in the first instances
but that they 'will be guided by the opportunities
that may present themselves of investing addi-
tionhl Capital
,advantageously. At the request of
the proprietors present, the direct Ors .gave the
assurance .theit they will not issue more 'than
100,000/. without previously obtaining the

of the proprietary at a general meeting
On the French Bourse a ris
nearly one per cent. the opening price nem

has occurred. of

g atrou

The Market is described as bein

g• very. firm,

in consequence of Mr. Disraeli's speech. Confi-
dence seems to be expressed in 'a peaceful solution
of the existing difficulty. .
The Press of to-day says : " Sardinia, we believe
we may state, has raised a loan, of £2,000,000 in
Paris, through the medium of the Credit Mobiller,
This circumstance, which before four o'clock yes-
terday must have been regarded as significant, if
not alarming, loses now much of the force which
would have attached to it in the absence of the,
statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in reply to Lord Palnierston."
The-Dundee Warder, speaking of the flax, yarn,
and linen trade, says : —A small amount cf business
in flax has been transacted during the week at last
week's prices. Sales have been made of Riga
P. IS (old) at 5.50 ; St. Petersburgh 12 heads

£59 lOsrand-X6O ; 9 heads, £5O ; Konigsberg coarse
Slanitz, £32 nett cash, - There has been a fair in-
quiry for .firie descriptions of towS and codillas,
and the transactions that have taken place have
been at full prices. Of fine qualities of jute a
considerable number of sales have been made at
firm prices. Tow descriptions are not, so much
wanted. There has been more doing this week in
flax and tow yarns at a slight reduction in price.
For jute yarns there is little demand, and prices
have a downward tendency. No alteration in
either the demand or prices of linens.
The English Funds opened this morning without alte-
ration, and have remained inactive throughout the day,
a tendency to renewed weakness from political causes
being contradicted by the supply of money, and the
prospect of its increase from the favourable appearance of
"the Continental Exchanges. It is represented in semi-
official statements from Paris, that the mission of Lord
Cowley to Vienna is not on. the Italian but on the
Danubian question. A reaction of about s per cent.,
reifo'ited from the Paris Bourse, did not produce much
effect on this side. The Produce Markets during- the week
have undergone little alteration, but the uncertainty with
respect to Continental affairs tends to restrict operations
especially for exportation.--Times City Article, Friday
Evening.