Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-13 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 1869

COURT OF PASSAGE--Thirnapay.
BEFORE EDWARD JAMES, ESQ.., Q.C., ASSESSOR.
DROADDRIDGE v. Mamas. This action was brought
to recover the. rent of a yard which was occupied by the
defendant, who is a plasterer, as the tenant of the plaintiff.
Mr. Temple appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Brett on behalf of the defendant. The defendant admitted
the use and occupation of thelard, but pleaded, as a 'set-off,
that he had left a shed in the yard, which he had sold to
the plaintiff for the sum of 'lO. The plaintiff denied having
purchased the shed, and said he had merely undertaken to,
try and sell it for the defendant to an in-eoming tenant. On.
this point the dispute arose, .as to the legal claim of the
plaintiff. The iirry found a verdict for the defendant.
YATES V. DAlToll.—James Yates was the plaintiff in
this action, which was brought against J. J. Dalton for the
recovery of £l6ess, the amount of a bill of exchange'whieh
the plaintiff had -discounted for J. Ogden, who was alleged
to be the partner of the defendant. Mr. Temple was for
the plaintiff, and Mr. Brett was for the defence. It was
alleged that when the transaction took place a partnership
existed between the defendant and Mr. Ogden. A:letter
from plaintiff was put in, calling on Mr. Ogden to dissolve
that partnership. Several witnesses were examined, but
failed to prove that there was a partnership existing at the
time of tire transaction, and Cie case was accordingly none
uited.
CARROLL V. PENNALL. —ln this action the plaintiff was.
a dock labourer, and the defendant a merchant, fin Liver-
pool. The action was brought for compensation for personal
injuries sustained from the negligence of the ddrendant's
servants. Mr. Deighton appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Brett was -for the defendant. From the evidence of the
plaintiff it-appeared that on the 10th September lest he was
assisting in discharging the cargo of the ship Oden, which:
was the property of the defendant. It was necessary to have
a stage erected to assist in discharging the cargo, but eon-'
atramto,`-tire usual custom'ethe stevedore did not erect the',
stage, but allowed it to ben:lone by the ship-keeper who was.
a servant of the defendant. The spar on which the stage':
was made was too short, which the plaintiff painted oat
iit was not remedied, and r consequence it slipped and the`?
plaintiff,was precipitated; rat° the bolt The defence was
that the ship-keeper erected this stage en his oxen respond- •
bility, and without orders from the defendant. This being
established a verdict was given for the defendant. •
Salmi v. BLaennuan.—This action was brought be
recover /10, the amount of a promissory note. This -note
passed from the defendant to a man called Mooney, and
from filooney to Hamilton'and Co., and fromthe last-named
to the plaintiff. There was no defence made out, and a
verdict was given for the vielaintiff, under the direction.tf
4 to learned Assessor.
Nett v. GRIFFITHS AeND OTHERR.—In this actionethe
plaintiff was a poor woman, named Elizabeth :Nall, :and' the
defendant was a house owner, and the action was brought
to recover certain goods and furniture which the defendant
had taken out of her house for arrears of rent due by the
last tenant. The plaintiff, had made an arrangement .with
the late tenant of the house to give a Mall sum for the
good will of the house. She went to Mr. Qrriffiths, and
Mr. :-Jones, his agent, :and they agreed to take her as
tenant, at 3s. a week, ifJsile could settle with the ,then
tenant. She entered intee,the house almost immediately,
and paid her rent for the first week, and tendered it regularly
.after, but the end of the matter was that the defendant put
bailiffs into the house and swept away the plaintiff's
property, she not owing <him any rent, There was not
evidence to support the case and a nonsuit was directed.
Smrrn v. COWLEY.-In .this action, Peter Smith, the
plaintiff, was the captain of, the ship called the Lizzie and
Kate, which was the property of John Phillip Cowley, and
the action was brought to recover wages of £l2, together
'with board wages at /1 -.ls a week, for four months

three weeks and two days. 'The full amonnt claimed was
."4168 Id. Mr. Lushingten appeared on behalf of the
plaintiff, and Mr. Brett was ler the defence. It appeared
that Captain Smith had been in the employment of Messrs.
James ;Baines and Co. in the capacity of captain, and 'had
left their employment in PM. In August last, he was
introduced to William Cowley, brother to the defendant;
and in September, he was engaged by him to go as captain
of the 'Lizzie and Kate, and :said he would give him
M 2 'month. He went on board the vessel, which was
then under repairs, and superintended the repairing of the
vessel up to the 22nd January, 'und day by day during that
time he was there as captainof that vessel. Some time
after he •was engaged, he got from Wm. Cowley the sum of
1 lOs : and after that, he got from the defendant £l, all
of which he considered as wages. At the time he left the
vessel, heivas given to understand that Mr. Cowley, the
defendant, .as looking for another man, that he would get
cheaper than the plaintiff. Plaintiff, on hearing this, at
once demanded his wages, which • the defendant refused,
on the ..plea of never having employed him, and
having given no authority to ads brother to employ
him. It was urged for the defence that the defendant was
merely a timber dealer and saw-mill proprietor. 'He was
induced, on account of his brother ',becoming embarrassed,
to purchase the vessel Lizzie and :Nate, which had been
just built atliirkcudbright. The defendant did not intend
to sail the vessel and had advertised her for sale. William
Cowley denied-ever having made any arrangement with the
plaintiffs such:, as he had spoken of, but, merely told him if
he could .borrow money on the security of the
ship, to purchase her back from his brother,
he would talk about engaging him as captain. The
defendantentirely denied having ratifiechany such engage-
ment which his brother might have made, and never paid
him any moneyon account of wages. The jury gave their
verdict for, the plaintiff for £3O compensation.
SLANDER.—RAFFERTY V. SAMPSON. —This was an action
for slanderous-language being used to Michael Rafferty, an
emigrant runner,; hy the defendant, Thomas H. Sampson,
ehipstore &ealer. ~The declaration stated that the defendant
had falsely and -maliciously uttered the false statement,
"you are aretureed convict, I can prove you.so, after serving
14 years," in . consequence of which the plaintiff lost his
situation, for which he claimed £5O as damages. Mr.
M'Coubrey was,retained on behalf of plaintiff, and Mr. Brett
for the defendant. The plaintiff stated that at the time this
slander was uttered he was in the employment of Mr.
Hart, ship-store .dealer, and was soliciting orders for him
among passengers atthe 'White Star line emigration office,
when the words -were used as stated in the deelaration.
A great many witnesses,wece examined on both sides, and,
from the evidence, it appeared that ill names had Teen
called by Rafferty as well .as Sampson. The jury found a
verdict for the defendant.

This concluded the business, and the learned Assessor
briefly thanked the jury for their services, and retired,

LIVERPOOL POLICE IN'.MLLIGENCE.—YESTERI2IAIc.
BEEQUE C..RESTON
TINKERLY CoNnucr--4•Iln Sidlev, a tinker, was ekarged
by a tinplate worker, named Williitm Oates: who lives in
Norris-street, for having broken his windows, and for
having committed divers ether misdemeanours and depreda-
tions, too numerous to mention. It appeared that tome
time since the prisoner was employed. by the complainant as
a workman, but was discharged. •Since that time he called
frequently at the house, and broke sey6ral articles, including
a flute. The previous night, ht eleven o'clock, he called at
the house, and broke ten shillings worth of glass in the
windows. He was fined is, or to.be imprisoned for one
month.

A MYTH.—James McDonnell, .a .earpenter, living in
Pembroke-street, was charged by officer gassed, 158, with
having assaulted him. The officer said, , at half-past four
the previous day, he was going eg duty, *hen he, saw a
drunken man acting in a very disgusting manner. He put
him away, when the prisoner came up, and, " without rhyme
or reason," gave him ~a " bat" on the lip, -which split it.
The prisoner, in, reply to the charge, declared it was
a pure mistake on the part of the officer, and
assured His Worship that the "babe unborn" was
just as guilty as he was. In fact, he was not there at all,
and it was a pure invention on the part of the policemen.
He (the prisoner) could not account for having been taken
into custody at all ; and although he was perfectly satisfied
they could not put him into the "tole-hole," yet he found
himself there. It was the strangest thing he had .erer
known in all his life-time. He again assured hie Worship
that he was not the man, no more than Adam.
His Worship, however, could not go back as far
as our great progenitor, and notwithstanding the nivtby tale
. told by the prisoner, inflicted a line of £1 and costs- on him.
Perhaps he will
creep out through the key-hole of the
bridewell.
PAGANISM IN JENRINsoN-STREET.—Mary APBride, a
rather decent-looking person; who livels. in Jenkinson-street,
was charged with having assaulteaephozed officer242. Mr.
Cobb defended. The officer said h
dancing in ,the street, and on going to great fiddling and
see what it was, he
saw six couple dancing on the flags, and making a noise ; he
wanted them to go away, telling them the street was not a
dancing house. The prisoner came out of her house, and
at once gave him a blow on the cheek bone, mark of
which remained on Oat spot. On cross-examination mark
Mr. Cobb, the officer said there was a party in the prison's by
was going on inside, andPnotonoerut's
louse, and the fiddling
side, but the six couple were dancing on the street to the
tune of " Paddy Carey."” Mr. Cobb : And you did
not like " Paddy Carey? I don't know the gentle-
man at all. He denied having nearly twisted
the arm out of the woman before she hit him on
the face. Mr. Cobb said he could bring several persons
to prove that the woman was very badly used, and that, in
defence, she gave the fellow a slap in the face. She was let
out on her own recognizances to this day, in order to have
the witnesses present.
CHARGE AGAINST A POLICEMAN.—PoIice-officer Simpson,
358, was charged with having assaulted John May, beer-
house keeper, of Chatsworth-street, and also for an assault
on bridewell-keeper Swain, at Olive-street station. Mr.
Cobb defended. From the statement of Mr. Mit.), (whose
temper did riot accord with the notion we entertain or
,sweet

May), it appeared that bc.tween, 6 and 7 on Monday evening 1
the prisoner and anotlaer officer, both in plain clothes,
entered house to get some ale ; some dozen persons ,
came iin, when a-fight took i,lace between them. May, it .
seemed, wanted the of,ficers Ito put out the parties who were
fighting, but tkey ref used, stud, as • May ntated, the officers
shut the door, and would not let the fighters out. The
officers were drunk at the time; and at length the parties.
were got out of the hens; when the piisoner assaulted May,
in the street, in presence 'of another officer. He was then,
taken to the station, and Mr. May there agreed to leave the
-case to Major Greig and the charge, was entered in the:
"refused charge-boa." The prisoner was, however, so'l
I drunk, that Mr. Swain 'thought dt right, for the man's.l
safety, to detain nim until he got•sober. At 11 o'clock the'
prisoner's wife 'name to the -station, and then Mr. Swain.
called. he prisoner from where lin was asleep, but finding,
him tall too drunk to let hintgo, some words took place
when the prisoner caught Mciiwain by the neck andtore
himiancl also kicked bim• in the abdomen. These were the,
'facts, as proved by Mr. May anti Mr Swain. Mr. Cobb'.
cross-examined both the witnesses at great length, and put •
Mr. May into a towering passion—the gentleman with the
name of the "-merry sweet month," showed that he was
very much more like a wild ,Deceinber day, than a "'May
Trierning," in fact, he got -so furious during a speech:of,
Mr. Cobb, that he was anlyfrestrained by the physical force
• of several policemen, 'from ,really "pitching into" the
learned advocate. The gesticulations of Mr. May, and the
terrible cantortions.of his face,the clenching of his hands,-nnd
grindiri!, of his teetluat Mr. Cobb, showed plainly enough
what Mr. May wonad have -done if he could. Mr. Chief
'Superintendent Quick was.eramined in the case, and after
a speech by Mr. Cobb, upon which he was complimented,
• 'the charge, as far ,as the bridewell-keeper was
*concerned, was dismissed; but the prisoner was fined £1
for the assault on Mr. Slay.

THE ROBBER./ JOT' A PoLICM-OFFICER.-Mr. Herne; who
was remanded on a charge-of havinc, stolen £lO from police-
officer Parkinson, 749, was brought up. Mr. Cobb ap-
peared for the prisoner. 'The full details of this case
appeared in our paper a "few days ago. Mr. Cobb, for.the
prisoner, showed that .several persons besides the prisoner,
had access to the prosecnteg room, and box, and on this he
founded an argament favour of the prisoner, which
his Worship blieved, and-he said no jury could convict'
the prisoner, and he therefore discharged her.

DiSPERATE AgSAULC ,11Y, A HUSBA;iD.—John Williams,
of 20, Kirkdale-road, was charged with having aiearly
murdered his wife. Mr. Black defended. It appearedlhat
the prisoner struck his wife a deadly blow on the head
with the shutter off a window, and from the evidence df
surgeon Hawkins, it seemed that the woman was in a
most dangerous state. The prisoner was remanded until
the result of the injury Can be ascertained, but from what
was stated, it would appear that the life of the woman
was in great peril.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY.
BEFORE W. A. MILTON, ESQ., JUDGE.

INSOLVENCY CASES.—The following insolvency eases
were heard and disposed of :
William Bell, supported 'by Mr. Henry, and unopposed.
His final order was granted.
William Hockley, supported by Mr., Campbell, and tua-
opposed. Final order granted.
Joseph Barnes, unopposed, had his final order granted.
John Butcher, supported by Mr. Husband, and unopposed.
Final order granted.

Henry Steffens Grocott, corn merchant, Drury-lane,
in this town. Caine up on his first hearing.
He was supported by Mr. Grocott, and opposed by
by Mr. Anderson, on behalf ,of'Messrs. Horsman and Son,
of Leeds, who were creditors to the amount of 3s 10d.
Mr. Grocott objected to Mr. Anderson appearing to oppose,
on the grounds that he was not directly, authorised by the
creditors, or by any one directly authorised by -them, and
that his instructions were only from Mr. Longmoor, an agent
. for the Mercantile Record and Trade Protection Society,
.and Mr. Longmoor was only himself instructed by Mr.
Richardson, agent of the same society in Leeds. His
,Honour overruled the objection, stating that if it was sus-
tained, it would only have the effect of causing an adjourn-
:A:lent of the hearing. He was the more inclined
to overrule the objection, as there appeared to be
.some communication between Mr. Richardson and
,the opposing creditors, " such as might fairly be
presumed to entitle Mr. Richardson to authorise Mr. Long-
moor to act as their agent. The opposition was accordingly
Admitted. After a lengthened examination, the further
hearing of the case was adjourned for two months, with
protection.
Horatio Wilson M'Grath, a ship-broker's clerk, supported
by Mr Chilton, and opposed by Mr. Worship, came up on
his first examination. The day for granting the final order
is fixed for the 10th May.

THE ANTI-INCOME TAX ASSOCIATION.
The monthly meeting of the committee of the Anti-
Income Tax Association was held on Tuesday evening, at
Mr. Rigby's, James-street, Mr. William York, in the
diair. Tire other meMbers present were—Messrs. Lath-
bury, Mills, Kerr, Inman, Canis, Rigby, Neilson, Anderson, -
Curshod, Paterson, &c., &e.
The Chairman called attention to the expected dissolu-
tion of Parliament, and suggested that they should only
support those candidates who would advocate 'a repeal of
the income tax, irrespective of party politics.
Mr. Inman and Mr. Callis concurred in the views
expressed by the chairman. •
Mr. Neilson stated that in the Financial _Wormer for this c
month a copy of the petition from the Financial Reform
Association to the House of *Commons is -published, from
which it appears " that the total revenue of Great Btitain
and Ireland for the year ending March 31, 1858, was
£68,257,000, of which sum no less than £41,186,357, or
very nearly five-eights of the whole amount, proceeded
from duties of the customs and excise on articles of general
consumption which are necessaries or luxuries of life
to the great masses 'of the people, and on inateriak: of
manufacture which aford employment for labour ;"
and that, "in the opinion of 'your petitioners, -such
duties are contrary to all sound principles of taxation,
because they obstruct commerce and manufactures,
thus preventing 'the profitable use, and consequently
increase of capital;" &c. In the same paper an
analysis of the customs tariff is also given under-heads pro-
ducing from £2,000 to £lOO,OOO and-upwards annually; and
yet, when glancing over the items, assuming that the duties
were redealed, as suggested, on eve , figs, hops, rice, tea,
tobacco, snuff, wine, &c., the question arises,. Would the
consumers or the importers and wholesale dealers derive
the greatest benefit by the repeal of these and other duties
enumerated ? In this respect the public would be at no
loss in determining the point, and yet, whilst such efforts
are being made to carry the principle of direct taxation into
effect, it is amusing to notice that those who are its
strongest advocates meet with opposition in their own body.
Mr. Neilson, in closing his remarks, said that he had con-
sidered it his ditty to open a correspendence With James
Hayman, Esq., Secretary to the London Society for Pro-
moting the Interests of the Trading Community. That
society was established in 1854, and amongst many other
laudable objects the society had presented a petition to the
House of Commons against the income-tax, in which they
set forth its great inequality and injustice, as being not
only unequal 'in its application and unjust in its principle,
but in many cases extremely oppressive and objectionable by
reason of its inquisitorial character.
Mr. Lathbury objected to some remarks made by the
secretary in reference to the Financial Reform Association.
It might be bringing a correspondence upon Ahem which
would not be agreeable, and he was, as an individual,
-Opposed to such a course.
Mr. Inman thought it undesirable to mention other asso-
ciations, though he approved of great principles as regarded
taxation being taken up.
The Secretary thought as they were opposed to all in
favour of direct taxation, he felt it 'his duty to use all the
power he could in exposing the fallacy that direct taxation
' should be the rule.

The matter then dropped.
Mr Lathbury, the honorary treasurer, in submitting his
monthly report, said he had again the pleasing duty to
announce the accession of new members, and he was sure
they would hear with much pleasure that the 500 circulars
which had been issued monthly were producing the very
best results to the association. They ought undoubtedly to
increase that number at least to 1,000 monthly. The
finances of the society were in a most flourishing condition,
and the many letters of congratulation which he had re-
ceived proved to demonstration that their fellow townsmen
and their fellow countrymen were taking a deep interest
in their labours. Since the society's inauguration it had
indeed been a work of labour, of trouble, and, perhaps, of
some little disappointment ; but at last their efforts were
being felt and recognised, and he (Mr. Lathbury) trusted that
their efforts would be crowned with ultimate success. It only
required them to pursue that untiring energy, that calm and
steady indifference to every opposition, and that fixed resolve to
accomplish all that men could do in their endeavours to get
abolished one of the most degrading taxes that ever
assailed the independence of Englishmen. The people of
England had indured much since the income tax was im-
posed upon them—at first ingeniously styled a great trial.
The Whigs, those apostles of reform, had ever inflicted the
greatest trials on the pockets of the people ; and he would
ask the great middle classes of England what equivalent
they had gained by this great trial - this endless change and
.reform in the fiscal arrangements of the country, of which the
Whigs have been boasting so much, but which the unfortu-
nate recipients have never seen beneficially realised. He
(Mr. Lathbury) trusted that this imposture upon the
country—this income-tax robbery, with its three years
Whig trial- - would soon be expunged from the records of
England. It was a convenient word in its truest sense, for
trial it had been, and to many a man of liniited means a sad
and harassing one. Thousands of deserving young men
and others, with their £l6O or their £l5O per year, with
wives and families depending on these precarious incomes,
have been made to pay their exact fraction, while others,
again, have scarcely been reached, and may have escaped
the impost altogether. The very evidence taken
before a select committee of the House of Commons
on the property and income tax question sufficiently
reveals its iniquities 'Was this the boasted freedom
of England's soil ? This the Whig rule by which her
poorer sons were made to bleed ? ewes. Let the middle
classes ponder over it; let them never forget the fact that
it was the Whigs who first imposed this hated tax upon
them—the Whigs, the friends of the people, alas ! He
(Mr. Lathhury) could furnish them with an elaborate statis-
tical acconnt of the evidence taken before the select com-
mittee of the House of Commons on the inequalities and eva-
sions of the income tax ; but he found that few persons waded
through these odious and startling details, consequently it
was a waste of time as well as of space. He had also to
inform them that they now enrolled a many respectable
lodging-house keepers, ladies who had moved in different
spheres of life, and who were doubly entitled to every con-
sideration at their hands, not only from their defenceless
position, but from their physical inability to grapple with
the oppressor ; and he trusted that no false delicacy on their
part would prevent them 'from allowing the association to
bring before the public every case of hardship or injustice.
Oppression and wrong did more to bring down upon
its authors a just retribution, be the oppressors whom they
may rich or pooh ; and he (Mr. Lathbury) fervently hoped
that the feast of Belshazzar, revelling as it had done for so
long a period in surcharge and poundage, would ere long be
utterly destroyed, broken up, the revellrs' occupation gone.
There was no doubt that poundage money had been a right
royal prerogative amongst England's ancient kings,
and it was scarcely to be wondered at that the
smaller cormorants of the present age should use
their best endeavours to fatten on a similar fare.
But its tyrannical and unjust exactions upon the
people have ever been the cause of serious calamities to the
country. It has led to the destruction of tax collectors as
well as the monarch. It was undoubtedly the arbitrary
collection of poundage and ship money that brought the
Popish Charles to the scaffold. His exactions upon the
merchants and traders of England, without the consent
of his Parliament, brought flestruction to the throne,
inflicted misery on his people, and created civil war through-
out his own dominions. Again, they would find, about
630 years previous to the decapitation of the treacherous
Charles, that a frightful disturbance had taken place in the
ancient city of Worcester. The King (Ilardicanute) being
determined to renew the imposition of Danegelt (a tax
notoriously odious to the English people) caused great con-
sternation. It was levied with such fearful severity that
the inhabitants assembled in masses, and at once put to
death two of the tax collectors Well, this was no very
great national loss -at least history does not point to it
as being such. Bat what was the result of all this ?
Why, the King, enraged and foiled, swore vengeance.
and ordered three noblemen, the Duke of Wessex, the Duke
of Northnmberland, and the Duke of Mercia, to set fire to
and totally destroy the city, and deliver it up to be plun-
dered by a brutal soldiery. Now, he (Mr. Lathbiiry)
thought these facts ought to operate as warnings ; they
were immutable truths ; and the serious riot at Tynemouth
a short time ago on the income tax injustice, was but the
type of popular feeling in this country when outraged or
oppressed. .
The reports were adopted, and after some formal business
had been transacted, the meeting separated.

WHY is a contented man of great wealth like a ghost ?
because he's a happy rich' un (apparition).
IVRY is a fashionable lady like a rig'd economist ?
Because she makes a great deal of bustle about a little
waist.

•
"Do you know who built this bridge ? said a person to
Hook. " No," replied the wit ; " but if you go over you'll
be tolled !" _ _ _

Louts XIV, asked Count Mahoney if he understood
Italian? "Yes, please your Majesty," said the Count,
" if it is spoke in Irish. "
IN AN ADDRESS to a French electoral community. the
candidate said that he had shed all his blood for his country,
and was ready to shed it again !
THE LATEST style of ladies' hoops is guaranteed "to be
of feminine lightness and delicacy, and warranted not to
out the limbs of attendant gentl:3men. "
The brother of Beethoven signed his name, to distinguish
himself from his landless brother, "--von Beethoven land-
owner. " The immortal composer retorted by signing his,
" Ludwig von Beethoven, brain-owner. "
No SHIP SHOULD OD TO SEA without one of Saunders
and Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
jtted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address,
MAUNDERS & CO., 16, Parker-street, LiTerpool.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Evening.

The tone of the Liverpool Cotton Market has im-
proved to-day, and the prices have been steady, but
only, a limited amount of business has been done,
the sales reaching only 5;000 bales, of which about
1)000 were for speculation anti export.
The Liverpool Share 'Market has not been so
heavy to-day, but still the -amount of business done
has been small, and prices show only, a slight im-
provement. The transactions were : --Eastern Coun-
ties, 114; Great Western, 571; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 931 ; London and North-Western, 934;
Midland, 1001 ; South Eastern, 204, '2O 11-16, 201;
Dutch Rhenish 5 d ; 'Great Western of Canada, 15,1-;
Royal Insurance, 4 p.

The Manchester Good's Market has been very
lifeless to-day, and the amount of business done
very small, but a better feeling generally prevailed
in reference to Continental affairs than obtained
yesterday. Still, operations for Continental markets
were almost entirely suspended.
The more hopeful tone of the foreign telegraphs
which have been received, since yesterday, from
Paris and Vienna, has in some degree dispelled the
gloomy feeling which characterised the London
Stock Market yesterday ; still, it must be observed
that a very uneasy feeling continues to prevail, and
there is a very strong opinion entertained that war
is inevitable. Consols opened steadily, and con-
tinued tolerably firm at yesterday's closing prices,
until late in the day, when they became rather
weaker, and finally left off—Consols Money, 951.;
Ditto Account, 95-g-; Three Per Cents, 94k. We
may mention that the amount of business done was
perhaps larger than for some days past.
The London Railway Share Market evinced much
the same feeling as the Stock Exchange, and a fair
amount of business was done, prices continuing
steady throughout the day and closing finally
at the following quotations :—Caledonians, 801,
811 ; Eastern Counties, 581 ; East Lancashire,
91, 92 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 72, 73 ; Great
Northern, 1011,- ; Ditto A, 84, 86 ; Great
Westerns, 571, 571; Great Western of Canada, 152-,
15:14; Grand Trunk of Canada, 81, 8; ; Great
Southern and Western, 105, 106 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 931; London and orth-Western,
93J, 931 ; London and South-Western, 911; Leeds
Northern, 45-, 46 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 374, 381 ; Midland Stock, 1001, 1001 ;
North British, 561 • South Eastern and Dover, 181,
181 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 901 ; York and
North Midland, 741, 75t.
Mr. R. Procter, in his Corn Circular issued in
Liverpool to-day, remarks that the chief feature of
the trade during the past week is the unusual extent
of the exports to Foreign Ports, which has no
parallel for upwards of two and twenty years.
Since Tuesday last they stand thus : to Canada and
the United States, about 3,750 quarters of Wheat,
and 2,775 sacks of Flour ; to Australia and the
West Indies 2,456 quarters of Oats ; and 1,586
quarters of Indian Corn to Portugal and South
America. The week's imports are insignificant,
excepting about 16,000 sacks of Flour from France,
and 20,000 quarters from Europe and Egypt. Ire-
land has taken from us this week, about 2,000 quar-
ters of Wheat ; 674 barrels, and 265 sacks of Flour ;
and 2,560 quarters of Indian Corn. The exports
Coastwise comprise moderate quantities of sack and
barrel Flour, Wheat, Indian Corn, and Beans. A
fair amount of business was done at to-day's market,
and prices generally were firm, but not highrer.
• Advices from Paris announce that the General
Bank of Switzerland has stopped payment. This
establishment, which was started in April, 1856, is
a kind of Inter-National Credit Mobilier Society,
and has branches in Paris, London, and Geneva. The
London branch met its engagements in due course
yesterday. Its nominal capital was 60,000,000 f., or
2,400,000/. sterling. of which the first issue con-
sisted of 20,000,000 f., or 800,0001. The shares are of
201. each, fully paid, and commanded until last week
about 101 to 11/ per share. The amount of share capital
afloat is not exactly known, owing to circumstances
requiring explanation. Respecting the prospects
of the shareholders an unfavourable impression pre-
vails, it being known that the " Bank" has been
committed to various speculations, including Dutch
and Italian railways, Belgian Canals, Paris Gas-
works, &c. There is, however, one consoling
feature—the shareholders are exempt from any
further liability. Upon one point, the necessity
of explanation is urgent ; only a fortnight
ago, the Bank declared a dividend at the
rate of four per cent. per annum, The
English gentlemen—men of mark—who are
identified with the " Council" of Administration,
owe it to themselves as well as to the public, to
institute an immediate and searching investigation.
A telegram from St. Petersburgh announces that
the exchange on London has fallen to 35 7-16 d, it
being probably feared that the critical state of poli-
ties may induce the postponement of the Russian
loan. The pride of Tallow had advanced to 185 ro.
for delivery in August.
A steady demand for discount accomodation is
still experienced, both in Lombard-street and at the
Bank of England. Full rates consequently prevail,
but no difficulty whatever is experienced in obtain-
ing money on approved security. The Eastern
Exchanges are now rather more favourable, and the
efflux of bullion from the national establishment has
received a temporary check, but further withdrawals
are considered probable.
There was no bullion operations of magnitude at
the Bank yesterday, the late supplies of Australian
having provided for the Continental exports. The
gold by the Roxburgh Castle, 166,0561., has arrived,
but has not yet been delivered, though it is, fully
understood that it will be sent away. The Silver
Market remains quiet at ss. 21d. per ounce.

Amsterdam Short .
Ditto, 3 months ....

Rotte:rdam..
Antwerp
Brussels
Hamburgh
Paris Short
Ditto, 3 months
Marseilles
Frankfort .
Vienna
Trieste
St. Petersburg
Madrid

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

f to 111.

11 .. 167; .. 11 .. 17
25 ... 15 ... 25 ... 20
2.5 ... 15 .. 25 .. 20
13 •
2 .. ....
... 13
.. ..•
....
1g
25 ... 27 ... 25 ... 32i
25 ... 27 ... 25 ...32i
- ... 117 ... - ... 118
...

, The English Funds opened this morning without recovery,
and soon experienced a further slight decline, but in the
afternoon a number of purchases by brokers, who frequently
act for parties receiving good foreign intelligence, caused an
improvement. The telegram from India to-day shows an
improvement of about 1 per cent. in government securities.
The rate of Exchange was without alteration.—Times City
Article, Monday Evening.
This has been another day of great agitation in the
Stock Markets. The English Funds opened with unre-
lieved heaviness, and a fresh fall of 1 per cent. was soon
established, making a reduction of fully 1 per cent. since
Friday afternoon. Tori;hrds the middle of the day, how-
ever, a sudden rebound of per cent. occurred. A report
of the receipt of some favourable intelligence from Vienna
was quickly circulated. The effect of this and other flying
rumours would probably have been evanescent but for a
continuance of speculative purchases by a house which has
extensive continental connections, and the still more remark-
able fact of a great rally ou the Paris Bourse. In other
departments of the Stock Exchange great excitement and
agitation likewise prevailed, owing to the general impression
that the political crisis will be solved, either in a warlike or
pacific sense, within a week or two. At Amsterdam, this day,
a fall of no less than 4, per cent. took place in the Austrian
Funds, making the extraordinary reduction of 9 percent. since
Thursday. The panic extends to the other Continental
Markets, all of which are excessively agitated e In the
Discount Market to-day the demand was active, but not
pressing. Good bills are still taken at the Bank minimum.
There were no gold operations at the Bank to-day.—Daily
News City Article, Monday Evening.
THE INDIAN LOAN OF £7,000,000,—Late on Monday
night, the official notification of the Indian Loan was
made. The tenders are to be on or before next Tuesday,
for sums not less than £5OO. The loan is for seven years,
secured on debentures bearing interest at 4 per cent. One-
half of the seven millions is to be paid up by May 3rd, and
the remainder in June and July.- The debentures are
transferable by delivery or deed. The Daily News remarks
that the present loan may very shortly be followed by a
supplemental one of £5,000,000.
A telegram from St. Petersburg announces that the
exchange on London has fallen to 35 7-16 d, it being
probably feared that the critical state of politics may induce
the postponement of the Russian loan. The price of tallow
had advanced to 185 ro. for delivery in August.
FAILURE OF A PAWS BANX.—Advices from Paris an-
nounce the suspension of the Bank of Switzerland. It has
a branch in London. Only a fortnight ago a dividend of .

4 per cent. was declared ; and the Daily News says the
English gentlemen connected with the Bank should insist
on an inTestigation.

TRADE IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, Tuesday.—Not a large business doing for
the Continent, but the East India demand is improved, and
the generality of the market better than could reasonably
have been expected.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—APRIL 12.

Colonial, &c : There has been a very quiet market for
Sugar, only 4,000 bags clayed Manilla being reported at
38s to 38s 6el per cwt., chiefly at the former price. No
further sales to notice in Molasses or Rum. The business
in Rice is limited to 1,600 bags old weavily Necrartsie, by
auction, at 6s 6d per cwt. We have nothing to notice in
_Dgewoo ds. Of Ashes, 76 barrels Pots sold at 30s to 30s 3d,
Pearls quoted at 32s per cwt. ; 6,000 bags Nitrate of Soda
taken on private terms, and nothing done in Saltpetre No
business in Brimstone. Small sales of discoloured Tartar
reported at 105 s ; 150 bags Palermo Sumac at lOs 6d to
12s 9d ; and small sales of Pearl Sago at 17s 6d per cwt.
for small. Oils, &c : Palm firm at £44 10s per tun. In
Olive nothing to report. Tallow at 54s 9d to 55s for P.Y.C.,
and Lard nominally worth 59s to 60s. Of Rosin, retail
sales of common at 4s 6d to 4s 10d ; 42s per cwt. asked for
Spirits of Turpentine. In Seeds, we have to notice 150
bags Bombay Linseed at 52s per quarter ; and 175 bags
American Red Cloverseed at 52s to 53s per cwt.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—APRIL 12.
An improved feeling has prevailed in the cotton market
to-day, and prices are steady. The sales—includinr, 20
Pernambuco, 9d ; 10 Maranham, 81d ; 50 Egyptian, 81,d to
81d ; and 300 Surat, svi to 6d—are reported 5,000 bales,
of which 1,000 are on speculation and for export.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-APRIL 12.

This morning's market was better attended than for some
time past : we note an increased firmness on the part of
wheat holders; and though in some instances rather more
money was obtained for French, yet we can scarcely quote
any general advance, but the trade closed firm at fully
previous rates. Not any change in oats, barley, peas,
beans, or maize. Sack flour, as also oatmeal, to a moderate
extent, brought previous prices. FOWLER & FILEAN.

LIVERPOOL SCOTCH (Pia InoN) MARBET.—APRIL 12.
Our market for warrants closes quiet at 51s 3d cash. No
business reported..
Shipments from Glasgow last week
Do. Do. corresponding week, 1858 10,319
Do. Do. Do. 1857
Total shipments from Glasgow from Ist Jan. 1859, to date 143x816
Same period, 1858

Decrease ......... .

Price this time last year........... ..... ...535. 6d.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-APRIL 12

Sugar : The large public sales are progressing without
spirit, and the article ha., a heavy appearance. Refined
without alteration ; lumps, 52s 6d to 545.
Coffee : This article continues very firm.
Tea : Opinion remains in favour of this article. Large
public sales are advertised for Thursday, which prevent
business to any extent in the private contract market.
Rice : The public sales went off briskly, at prices which
confirmed an advance of fully 6d on last week's prices.
Saltpetre : The closing prices after an excited day last
evening—refraction 61, 41s ; refraction 5,42 s ; refraction
3,42 s 6d. The market is less active to-day.
Rum : Demerara proof sold at 2s to 2s Id.
In other articles no material alteration.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—APRIL 12.
New hops continue in good demand at very full prices.
Yearlings steady, but old hops are very dull. The total
number of acres, devoted in England to the cultivation of
hops is 47,601, and the total number of pounds' weight
charged with duty, 53,125,100. The " collection" of
Rochester contains the greatest number of acres of hops,
17,974. That of Sussex comes next with 9,640 acres, then
Canterbury with 9,552, then Hereford with 4,089. The
total quantity of foreign hops imported into England durinc,
the year 1858 was 13,000 cwt., nearly 11,000 coming into'
the port of London. The places from which almost the
whole quantity came were the Hanse Towns, 11,819 cwt.
coming from this source. 2,963 cwt. were again exported ;
2,077 cwt. going to Belgium_; and, stranger still, 384 cwt.
back again to the Hanse Towns.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—APRIL 12.
The market is quiet. Annexed are the quotations :
Town tallow, 52s 9d net cash ; Petersburgh YC on the spot,
63s 9d ; all the month, 53s 6d to 53s 9d; June only, 53s 9d;
July to September, 54s ; -and October to December, 54s to
64s 3d.