The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-30 00:00:00

are over a change nay altogether coma over the market
and we may have more business to report and more
mining news to chronicle. Just now the mining districts
are either barren of exciting incidents, or the agents are
too much occupied in-canvassing to report upon them.
In the General Produce Markets this week the
transactions have been very limited, owing to the
continued dearness of Money and the election
proceedings. For Sugar there has been little
enquiry, but holders have evinced great firmness,
and previous rates have been supported. There
have been no public sales of Bengal oreforeign, and
refined has been at rather lower rates. The stock
of this article in London at the end of last week
was 37,310 tons, against 49,264 tons at the same
date last year. Owing to the favourable result
of the Dutch Trading Company's sale at Amster.
dam, the market for Coffee has imprdved, and
numerous purchases have taken place at higher
rates: Cocoa has ruled dull and cheaper, Tea
steady, and Rice has been taken readily by exporters
and speculators at a rise of 3d to 6,1 per cwt. The
market for Ilum is rather quieter, as the importers
have demanded such high rates, but a good busi-
ness has, nevertheless, been done at 2d per gallon
advance. Pepper, Pimento, and Cloves have been
rather dearer. Saltpetre is inactive. Tallow has
advanced to 82s 6:1 per cwt. for March, while the
price for April is 55s per cwt.
A few Joint Stock Companies have held their
meetings. At that of the Bank of Egypt a favour•
able report was adoptel, but in accordance with
the recommendations of the Directors no dividend
was agreed to. The Ottoman Bank have deter•
mined upon a Dividend of 15s per Share, equal
to 10 per cent. The North of Europe Steam
Navigation Company have had a meeting, but t he
report and accounts not being ready, caused an
expression of feeling in no way complimentary to
the Directors, and more particularly When facts
were elicited which showed that since the last
Dividend was declared a loss of about 50,0001. had
occurred, and meraover, that about half the fleet
was at this time unemployed. A Committee of
Shareholders was appointed to enquire into the
actual state of the concern, and to areport to the
Shareholders. It is presumed that great blame
will attach to some of the subordinates, in whom
the Directors
(men of high standing) have been
too confiding.
The following resolution has been passed by the
committee, and will in future form part of the
law of the Stock Exchange :—" In settlements of
shares of companies under the Limited Liability
Act, when the allottees have signed articles of
association, the delivery of shares must be by
deed of trasfer ; and in case where no such articles
have been signed, and scrip certificates only hare
been issued, the committee will not fix a settling
day in such scrip unless they bear a stamp of one
penny, and a limited period be stipulated on the
scrip certificates for their registration."
The Committee of consultation appointed to
investigate the affairs of the Australian Agricul-
tural Company have issued their report, from which
it appears that with a paid up capital of 380,0001.,
and a grant of 690,702 acres of land from the Crown,
have resulted in a loss of several thousand pounds.
What reply the directors will give to the report
remains to be seen.

TO LICE INTELLIGENCE,—Saturday,

lIEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT.—A curious looking man, dressed
in a light grey coat, and having long black hair, and very
smooth face, wai put to the bar, and charged under the
following Circumstances --The name of the prisoner ap-
peared on the charge sheet as Patrick Clarke, and Mrs
Elizabath France, of 16, Regent-street, stated that the
prisoner called at her house in the morning, and said he
was a traveller, at the same time asking if he could
hare a bed She replied that he could, and sent
two boys with him up stairs, to show him to
his room. On entering the room the prisoner drew
a revolver pistol from his pocket, and swore he would
shoot the boys. They ran down and told her, and she
sent for the police. Three officers arrived, but they were
afraid to enter the room, as the prisoner made use of the
most fearful threats, and swore he would blow the heads
of r them if they attempted to enter. At Lag unc constable,
ro ookar"et..,.so khan h;co fv11..., Tv oil Llit,
and boldly grappled with the prisoner, wresting
the pistol from him ; and, on examination, the
Weapon was found to be unloaded. The prisoner
all the time was smashing everything in the
room, and broke tables, chairs, glasses, and other
things to the value of £5 2s. Mr. Mansfield said he had
received a report of a doctor in this ease, as to the state of
the prisoner's mind, bat as he did not think that report
satisfactory he would terriand him; and have further enquiry
made about hird. The prisoner was remanded.

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A I.4%..mai.n.—Officers Scaife
and Thompson brought up, on warrant, a female named
Margaret Jones, alias Joynson' on the following charge :
The prisoner was well dreesed, and apparently about 40
years old, but there Wag nothing interesting about her appear-
ance. The following is a history of the case, as collected
from the statements and evidence in the case. Several
ye-a-3 ag ), the prisoner was married to a man named
Jones, and they lived at the time in Port Maddock. Some
years after the marriage, the prisoner was discovered
holding an improper intimacy with a doctor who lived
in the same place, her husband left her and went to
America, and has not since been heard of. Me had three
children at the time ; and soon after the affair alluded to,
she went to reside at Ruthin. From this place she
absconded, leaving the children destitute, and the parish
had to support them for nearly seven years. It appeared
that she went to Chester, and there met a man with whom
she set up a house of ill fame, which she kept for some
time. She then removed to Liverpool, and for some time
past has resided with a man named Joynson, at 170, Bur—
lington street. This man is described as foreman to a
master lumper, and has large wages Some time since she
got over too of her children from Wales, but the oldest
child, a fair handsome girl of about 17 years, had to run
away in consequence of the terrible treatment she received
from the prisoner, and is at present in service. The charge
against the prisoner now was for having ;ill treated
her second child, a small intelligent girl, who said
she was sixteen years of age, but from her
appearance, she could not be more than 13. It appeared
that the prisoner had treated this poor child in the most
awful manner, and a benevolent person in the neighbour-
hood hearing of the transaction, took the poor ohild into
her house, and found her b:dy all over bruises. She
communicated with the authorities, and the result was the
arrest of the prisoner on the warrant. Dr. Davis, of the
Northern Dispensary, stated that the shoulders and back
of the child were all over bruises, in consequence of
injuries inflicted on ben The police found twisted ropes
and canes in the house, and it seemed that the pri-
soner used to beat the child with these things.
Mr. Mansfield said it was a shocking case, and no doubt the
object of the prisoner was to got rid of the child, by beating it
to death after the manner described. He would not allow
the prisoner an opportunity of putting her intention into force,
as ho would hold her to bail in two good sureties of £lO each,
or in default send her to gaol for six month's. She was
committed.

FRIGHTFUL ASSAULT BY A YOUNG FEAIALE.—A good-
looking young female, named Ellen Kennedy, was charged
with having committed a desperate assault on another female,
named Elizabeth Ridgeway. The parties reside in a house of
ill-repute in Preston street, and it appeared that they
had some drink the previous night, when the complainant
Wits seized by the hair of the head by the prisoner, who
struck her with a knife on the lower part of the nose and
upper lip, inflicting a terrible wound. Surgeon Grimes
proved that there was a serious oblique wound on the
lower part of the nose and upper lip of the complainant,
and that she would be utterly disfigured for life. The
prisoner was sent for trial.

PRESENTS FOR HER MAJESTY.—We understand that a
number of Hill birds are shortly to be transmitted to
England as a present to her Majesty. The donor is Mr.
Wilson, more commonly known in the Hills north of
Deyran as Rajah Wilson, the celebrated Selkaree. The
birds have arrived at Roorkee, and will be sent down
immediately by boat on the canal to Cawnpore. Mr.
Wilson does not accompany them, but has placed the gift
in charge of Lord W. Hay, the superintendent of the Hill
States, who will make all necessary arrangements for their
transmission to England. The collection contains about
a hundred birds, principally of the partridge and pheasant
species. The plumage of some is magnificent, and we
doubt not the offering will be highly appreciated by the
royal receiver. It may be interesting to our readers to
have some particulars of the donor. Mr. Wilson was,
we believe, a non-commissionerd officer in the third
Dragoons, and accompanied that regiment to England in
1854. He afterwards returned to India, and travelled to
the upper provinces in search of a fortune. He left Cawn-
pore, it is said on his way up, with a single rupee in his
pocket. The whole distance thence was passed on foot,
his food obtained by the assistance of a gun. He thus
found his way to the hills, fixed his residence there,
became a Selkaree, traded with the produce of his game,
sold stuffed birds, speculated in the imports of musk and
borax, &e., and after a time began to realise money. He
is now a man of wealth, and generally respected both by
European residents and by the Paharees, with whom he
has extensive:dealings. His indefatigableness must have
beem extraordinary, and his having so soon amassed
wealth, only shows what can be done by a man—if he only
has the will.—Central Star,