Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-04 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES SATURDAI, JUNE 4, 1859

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Yesterday.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
THE BATTLE OF '6 'WAREN*" IN GLLDART' S-GARDENS.
A fellow, whose appearance would have done credit to any
Lunatic-asylum, and whose name was put down as Anthony
Marengo, was charged by police-officer 236, for having
attempted to " Calcraft " him ! The. officer said, I was on
duty last night, in Gildart's-gardens, when I heard a row;
I went to see what it was, and I saw the prisoner, with
three or four others, boxing ; I wanted them to go away
and fight it out some place else. The prisoner ran into a
cellar, brought out a piece of rope, put a noose on it, and
made an attempt to fling it over my neck to hang me like
Calcraft. I avoided him, and then he ran at a brick, which
he threw at me. I " ducked," and the brick struck me on
the finger and nearly knocked it off. The prisoner said,
the policeman had invented the whole case, as he (the
prisoner) was not there at all. In reply to, his Worship,
the officer said he knew the prisoner very well, who, from
his name was called the battle of Marengo." The
prisoner was sent for two months to gaol, so that there will
be no more " Marengo" battles in Gildart's-gardens for
that time to come.

VERY UNUSUAL CASE —THE JEW AND THE GENTILE.—
A woman of a certain age, (in this case there was a cer-
tainty of her being 30,) who gave the false name of Mary
Anne Castor—she has about 365 aliases—one for every day
in the year, was brought up on a charge of having stolen a
purse containing £l5, from the person of Lewis Fergen-
black. Mr. Bluck defended. The prisoner was dressed up
to the "nines," and, so far as appearance went, might have
been " somebody." The following is the tale told by the
prosecutor, who looked like one of the would-be riflemen.
He spoke with a strong German accent, but sufficiently well
to be understood by a Britisher. Last Sunday night I
thought I would go and have some refreshment, so I shut
my shop, putting. from £lO to £l5 in my purse. I went
down Church-street, where I met the prisoner. She spoke
to me, but I said I did not know her. She said she knew
me very well. I thought she was a common person, and
told her that I did not want to have any conversation
with her. She said : I am not what you think I
am. I am a virtuous, honest, respectable lady,
and I have fallen deeply in love with you. (Laughter.)
Mr. Black : What a lucky fellow you are. (Laughter.)
I looked at her, and saw she was a decent-looking person,
and then —. Mr. Bluck : Well, sir, what then ? Witness :
Why, sir, then I thought I had forgot my latch key, at
my shop, and I thought I'd go back for it. (Great
Laughter.) She said she would go with me. Mr. Bluck :
What a lucky fellow you are. Did she say so ? (Laughter.)
She did. I told her I had no money, when she got very
indignant. Mr. Bluck : No wonder she would. Witness :
She said she did not want money. Mr. Black : Lucky
fellow you are again ! Witness : She said she did not
want money—that she was very fond of me. (Laughter.)
I did not like that sort of fondness, so I took my watch and
chain to secure them, when she put her hand in my pocket
and ran off with my purso, that had the money in it. I
knew her at once when I saw her again, with her horrid
grey eyes, and the small-pox on her nose. (Laughter.) So
when I saw her again, last night, when I came
from New Brighton, I knew it was her at once. Mr.
Black : Why did you not run after her ? Oh, a great big
man came up and said, why do you insult my wife ? and
then he held me until she got away, and he got away too.
When I saw her last night I said, you took my purse. No,
says she, I am a respectable, honest, decent married woman,
and live at 15, Dale-street ; come there and I will show you.
I went with her, but she brought me to the back slums of
St. George's Hall, and then I knew she was not the true
woman, so I gave her into custody. Cross-examined by
Mr. Bluck : I keep a shop at 12, Lime-street - a cigar
shop. I have a great many female ladies,—(laughter)—
customers, who come in the evening and night to my shop.
Do you know what sort of "female ladies" they are ?
No, nor I don't care. Mr. Bluck : Well, I believe you in
that. Have you many young men—dandies, who come in
with the female ladies ? I don't know if they are dandies,
all I know or care about any of them is; that they buy
my cigars and pay for them. How . long do you
keep open at night, sir ? As long as I get customers.
Mr. Black : Do you do more business at night than in the
day time ? Yes, a great deal. Mr. Bluck : How do you
know the prisoner ? By her grey eyes, and the small-pox
mark in her nose ? Mr. Black : Did you kiss her ? (Loud
laughter.) The witness became quite indignant, and caused
a storm of laughter by the way he went on in the box.
The question was repeated, when the witness roared out like
a hull, and shouted " NO." Mr. Bluck : Then how did you
go so close as to see her grey eyes and small-pox marked
nose ? (A shout of laughter followed, in which his Worship
joined with right good will.) The witness said, ask her
eye. (This caused more laughter.) Mr. Black : You told
her a lie when you said you had no money ? Yes. What
became of the man who came up to you ? Why, he dis-
appeared like magic. Mr. Black : If you found she had
lived at 15, Dale-street, and that' she was a respectable
woman, would you believe she was the person who had
taken your money ? No, if I found her story correct, and
that she was a respectable woman, I would not believe she
took my money, but 15, Dale-street is Busby's office, and
she is not known there. I told her the lie to get rid of her.
Mr. Black : Are you of the Jewish persuasion ? Yes, and
I glory in it. Mr. Black . I don't think the worse of you
for that, but I seldom find Jewswho—l beg pardon. Do you
now swear she is the woman ? Yes, positively. Mr.
Black : Well, I now say that some Jews will swear any-
thing. Witness : Yes, but lam a foreigner. Mr. Black :
Then, I wish you and all other foreigners would stay away
from Liverpool. Mr. Bluck then addressed the bench in a
very energetic speech, in which he lashed the cigar shop-
keeper, and said there was not a cigar shop in Lime-street,
no matter what outside show might be presented, that was
not a den of infamy and iniquity. He did not mean to
insult any other Jew by his observations, but one was just
as bad as the other, from one end of the street to the other
—all dens of infamy. He went on to punish the Lime-
street cigar shops, and wound up by characterising the Jew
as a liar, and one that could not be believed. Mr. Mans-
field sent the prisoner for trial, and said a jury could decide
on the discrepancy of the prosecutor.
PUNISHMENT.—WiIIiarn Dyson, a carter, was charged
with having stolen a quantity of flowers, from some garden
about Abercrombie-square. Mr. Black appeared for the
prisoner, and made such a case out for him, that his
Worship discharged the prisoner, saying, as he (the prisoner)
had to pay Mr. Black for his attendance, he thought that
sufficient fine for the offence, at the same time, he t'liought,
Mr. Bluck had given excellent value for the fee.
Edward Osbourne was charged with having stolen a
watch, value £6, from Mr. Hayes, Regent-road. Mr.
Bluck defended. The prisoner went into the place on
Saturday night, and took the watch, with which he was
stopped at Mr. Spencer's, in Ilighfield-street. He was
sent for trial.

BEFORE MESSRS. ANDERSON AND HOUGHTON.
There were a number of publicans and beerhouse-keepers
summoned yesterday, for breaches of the law. Henry
Tulloch and George Fazakerly were charged for doing busi-
ness at illegal hours, and permitting drunkenness. Mr.
Block appeared for the defendants, and disproved the com-
plaints, which were dismissed,

DEFENCES OF THE PORT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—ln the TIMES of Tuesday's date appears a
letter signed " John Laird," and dated Birkenhead,
30th ult., in reference to employing tug-boats, &c.,
to defend the various seaports in England. Surely
such a wise suggestion could not emanate from a
gentleman of Mr. John Laird's eminence as a ship-
builder.

If the French have any intention of invading
England—l merely ask the question, as a man of
business—what use would a lot of tug, ferry, and
other steamers and craft be against an agent for
marine warfare, that could steam up the Mersey,
passing the useless forts on each side of the river
without being injured by their guns.
A craft could be built, that would not cost XlOO,OOO,
competent to set fire to the town and shipping with
shell, her crew protected from injury from Minie
rifles fired from behind " bales of cotton," &c. ; and,
after committing great destruction, would, without
injury, steam out of the Mersey, bidding adieu, with
defiance, to the stone structures called forts on the
banks of the Mersey. JOIIN CLARE, jun.
21, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, June 1, 1859.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—The wife of Richard Walton,
of Bowden Close, placed her infant, nine weeks old, in a
press bed, on Friday afteonoon, and retired for a minute or
so to an adjoining room. Her sister being engaged in
cleaning the room, and not knowing that the child was in
bed, put the bed up. On the mother's return the child was
dead.—Stoiderland Times.

ITNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT AT MARRIAGE REJOICINGS.
On Monday, the workmen engaged in an extensive tannery
establishment in Aberdeen, In celebrating the marriage of
their employer, which took place on that day, amongst other
means of rejoicing had obtained the use of an olecannon.
This they continued firing from morning till forenoon,when
the piece becoming over-heated, it unfortunately burst,
fracturing the leg of one of the workmen, severely Injuring
the thigh of another, while a boy also received some hurts,

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Friday. Evening.
The Liverpool Cotton Market has maintained its
improved tone, and the business done to-day amounts
to 'B,OOO bales, of which 2,000 have been taken for
speculation and export. Of the week's business,
Messrs. Wright, jun. & Co., give the following
report :

At the date of making up our circular advices per Africa,
there were symptoms of an improved demand in our Cotton
market, and which have since been realised. The revival
of; and increasing inquiry for, fabrics suitable for the East,
induced the trade to cover their contracts by purchases of
the raw material, resulting in business transfers to an extent
we have until lately been strangers to. Prices daily hard-
ened, and holders seem less eager to press stock, although
the opportunity to effect sales influences a free display, of
samples and a willingness to meet the' inquiry at the
advanced currency. Speculators and exporters having
assisted the movement by operating liberally, has imparted
a character to the market it has recently been deprived of,
and which has been supported by the growing ease in money
matters, good bills being negotiable much below the bank
Minimum rate of interest, until it was yesterday reduced to
31 per cent. Political events overhang the future ; the
scanty details from the seat of war furnish news of several
engagements, but without any decisive results, some
apparently Unfounded rumours of peace negotiations being
in progress serves to inspire the hope of a limited and
confined campaign, whilst popular opinion is antagonistic
from the fact of the belligerent powers being so equally
matched, and which, it is thought, will prolong hostilities
for an indefinite period. Consols and the public securities
have materially advanced in value, and are firm. With
estimated sales of 8,000 bales, 2,000 to speculators and
exporters, to-day's market closes steadily at an advance on
last Friday's quotations of id per lb. in American descrip-
tions, but with free offerings and less animation than
characterised the earlier operations. The total sales of the
week, including what has been forwarded from the ship's
side, amonnt to 97,310 bales, of which 83,890 are American.
Speculators have taken 9,160, and exporters 7,610, leaving
80,540 bales of all kinds to the trade. The imports for the
same time is 15,317 bales, of which 13,942 are American.
The quantity known to be at sea from American ports is
about 276,000 bales.

PRICES TO-DAY :
New Orleans Fair, 8d Middling, 6'd Ordinary, 4d to 6d
Mobile
Atlantic „ 7
7gd ~ ft 6id 45d to 6d
SI
„ id „ 64d „ 41d to 53d
Total taken for consumption, .1859, 941,840 bales. 1858, 923,220 bales.
„ export (actual) ' , 117,612 „ , 86,875 bales.
American Brazil Egyptian E. India W. India. Total
Stock this day... 494,320 14,460 23,480 35, 510 380 565,150
Same time,1858.570,610 15,190 13,101 59,860 3,350 662,020
Messrs. Edmund Jardine and Co., make the follow-
.

ing report :
The news per Niagara from the States, on Monday,
reporting that the accounts from hence, per Persia, had
failed to have that depressing effect on the American mar-
kets which was anticipated, together with the continued
activity of the demand for India, inducing the trade to
extend their purchases, has caused our market throughout
the week to be very animated, the daily sales being large,
amounting on Wednesday to 20,000 bales, 5,000 of which
were for speculation and for export ; holders, consequently,
have been able to obtain an important advance, and we
increase our quotations 11-,d. to -1-d. per lb. in all descriptions
of American. Brazil are unchanged, excepting Maceios,
which are a id. dearer. Egyptian have been in fair request
at a id. per lb. advance. Surats have partaken of the
general improvement, and are -A-d. to id. per lb. higher.
The Liverpool Share Market has been dull and
gloomy to-day, very little business being done, and
and prices 4-2 to 1 per cent lower. The following are
the transactions reported : Birkenhead, Lanchashire,
and Cheshire, 661, 67; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
871 Bn-, 871, 87 ; London and North-western, 88k ;
Ditto y shares, 1 13-16, 1 c d; Midland, 97 ; North
Staffordshire, 4 11-16 ; South-Eastern, 191, 19 316;
Dutch Rhenish, 6 d ; Great Luxembourg, 51; Lan-
cashire Insurance, d.
The Traffic Returns of the Grand Trunk Railroad
of Canada for the week ending May 14, were
8,7301 against 1,480/ corresponding week last year,
showing a decrease of 750/. There are 880 miles
of this line now open, against 849 corresponding
week last year.
The Liverpool Produce Markets during the week
have been moderately active. Ashes are dull, and
prices declining. Sales limited at 30s pots, 31s to
31s 6d pearls per cwt. Small transactions in Bark,
Baltimore at 7s, and 30 hogsheads Philadelphia
firsts at 9s to 9s 6d per cwt. Cloverseed and Timothy-
seed are held above the views of buyers, and
operations are unimportant. , Lard is steady at 60s
per cwt, with sales of fifteen tons. Linseed cake
is very dull, and only small sales at 81, 10s. to
8/. 15s per ton for fine thin oblong. About 70 tierces
Carolina Rice found buyers at 22s per cwt. Rosin
is not animated : sales 2,000 barrels, chiefly common,
at 4s to 4s ld per cwt. Tallow partakes of the
dull feeling, and fine qualities would not realise
more than 55s to 56s per cwt ; no sales of rough.
Turpentine Spirits have been sold to the extent of
300 barrels, at 41s to 42s to arrive, and 43s to 43s 6d I
per cwt on the spot.
The Corn Trade continues inanimate, but in con-
sequence of the firmness of holders, prices have not
declined so much as they otherwise would have
done. In the Liverpool Exchange this morning, sales
were made in Wheat, at a decline of from ld. to 2d.
per cental. Flour was unchanged, but Barley,
Beans, Peas, and Oats, were from 2d. to 3d. per
cental lower than on Tuesday. At Wakefield, fine
Wheat was sold at about the same prices as on
Friday last, but secondary sorts were a shilling per
quarter lower. In London to-day, the tendency of
prices was to decline, for all articles.
There has been a decided improvement in the
tone of the Manchester Goods Market, this week.
The enlarged business of the Eastern buyers has
placed many producers under engagement for the
next two months, and, by tending to enhance the
value of both 'goods and yarns, has influenced
buyers for other quarters to enter upon contracts,
which, though small in the aggregate, nevertheless
impart a buoyant tone and firmness to prices.
In Liverpool the month opened with a very good
demand for Salt, which continued till the River
Weaver went off on the 21st ult. Orders subse-
quently became limited, shippers anticipating lower
prices when fresh supplies were enabled to reach the
market. The price of Common Salt has ranged from
4s to ss, but has now a downward tendency, and to
effect sales the recent highest quotations cannot be
obtained. The total export of Salt from the port of
Liverpool was 53,928 tons, shewing a decrease of
15,218 tons, when compared with those, of the cor-
responding month of last year. The shipments to
the United States were—to New York, 2,953 tons ;
to Boston, 2,890 tons ; and to other ports, only 2,905
tons ; to British America, 8,504 tons ; Quebec, &c.,
taking 2,534, and Halifax 4,406 tons. The Calcutta
trade was more active, being 4,330 tons, but the
African and Australian were dull. The shipments
to the Baltic, &c., were good, being 23,288 tons,
Dantzic taking 5,577 tons, Cronstadt, &c., 3,768
tons; Riga, 2,925 tons ; Narva, 2,784 tons ; Wyberg,
2,814 tons ; and Pernau, 1,916 tons. Exports coast-
wise were—to English ports, 1,785 tons ; Irish,
1,202 tons; and Scotch, 4,790 tons. The present
quotations are :—Common Salt, 48 9d ; Rough Do.,
5s 6d to 8s; Stoved, Ist class, 8s ; Butter, do., 6s ;
River Freight, 3s per ton extra.
The total value of British Goods exported from
Liverpool for the month of April, 1859, was
4,800,712/. ; against 4,069,250/. for corresponding
month last year. The declared value of exports
from this port to the United States for the month
of April, 1859, was 1,241,955/. ; and to the Australian
Colonies, 119,7721.
The continued desire of holders of public securities
to realise at the present improved quotations,
produced heaviness in the London Stock Exchange
to-day, and caused Consols, which opened at the
closing prices of yesterday, to recede to the extent
of nearly a-half per cent, and at noon they stood at
931 to 939, for both Money and the Account.
Subsequently they rallied a little, and finally closed
at 931. The closing quotations for other Securities,
were : —Exchequer Bills, 17, 21 ; Bank Stock, 220,
222 ; Three Per Cents, 91-4, 929.
The London Share Market has been quiet, and,
with a very limited amount of business, prices have
had a downward tendency, closing as folllow :
Ambergate, Nottin ham and Eastern Junction,
54, g ; Caledonians, 76; Eastern Counties, 541 ;
,
East Lancashire, 85, 86 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 71,
73 ; Great Northern, 99/, ; ditto A, 79, 81 ; ()mat

Westerns, 534 ; Great Western of Canada, 141 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 83, 8a; Great Southern
and Western, 104, 106 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
873, 871:; London and North-Western, 873, 88 ;,
London and South Western, 88, 89 ; Leeds
Northern, 44, 45 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, 341, 341 ; Midland Stock, 964, 97; North
British, 53, 54 ; South Eastern and Dover, 631,
644 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 86, 87 ;
York and North Midland, 703, 71.
The Bank of England minimum rate of discount,
which on. the sth ult. was carried up to 43 per
cent., under the influence of an unwarranted panic,
the offspring of false statements, was yesterday
lowered to 33- per cent. It was so evident that the
Bank would be obliged to conform to the movement
of the general market, that the announcement of the
alteration, though awaited with interest, produced
little effect in financial circles. First class bills are.
negotiated in other quarters at a per cent., or
even lower. The business at the Discount Office
yesterday, however, was less scanty than of late.
It may be useful to mention that, by a decision of
the Bank Court, when any alteration is made in the
rate, whether upward or downward, all transactions
effected on that day are charged according to the
new rate. Upon the present occasion the court did
not meet until the unusually late hour of two o'clock.
The alteration was notified twenty-five minutes
afterwards. The Bank of England are now prepared
to make their usual quarterly advances, during the
shutting of the transfer books, on Government
Securities and approved bills having not more than
six months to run. Bill-brokers, as well as other ,
parties, can apply for these advances. The Bank is
not likely, however, to do much business in the shape
of loans on Government Securities, Consols Stock
being so scarce in the market that the dealers in the
Stock Exchange are quite ready to make loans upon
it up to the Bth July without charging any interest
whatever.

Two or three of the joint-stock banks have altered
their terms for deposits. The whole of these
establishments now allow 2 per cent. both for old
and new deposits, with the exception of the London
and Westminster, which gives only 2 per cent. -for
sums above 5001., and 1 per cent. for smaller
amounts.

In some quarters importance is attached to the
announcement of a Prussian loan of 30,000,000
florins, although this operation is the inevitable
sequel of the armaments lately set an foot. It is
scarcely necessary to remark that Prussia raises her
loans at home.

The Ellen Stuart has arrived from Melbourne with
28,4001. in gold. Two other vessels are now due,
with 238,0001., and a third may be looked for within
a week, with an additional sum of 60,0001.
The remittances of specie by the steamer Pera,
for India and China, to-morrow, will amount to
224,875/., all silver, except 6,9481. in gold. The
whole is on private account, and it will be noticed
by the subjoined particulars that the sum for China
is considerably larger than of late :—For Hong Kong,
90,612/. ; for Calcutta, 55,200/. ; for Shanghae,
30,7861. ; for Madras, 26,8291. ; for Singapore,
20,448/. ; and for Alexandria, 1,0001.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co„ as agents for the
Venezuela debt, forwarded to the Stock Exchange,
yesterday, the following notification, which is satis-
factory, as proving the 6072 a fides with which the
government is carrying out the new arrangement.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and. Co., have received notice
from his Excellency Don J. Santiago Rodriguei, Minister
Plenipotentiary of Venezuela, that the remittance for the'
amount of the July dividends. on Venezuela stock has come
by the packet just arrived.
Bishopsgate-street, June 2, 1859.

The position of the market for American securities
is thus noticed by Messrs. D. Bell_ , Son, and Co. :
In American securities generally during the past week
the business has been very limited, whilst the market con-
tinues steady, ,and prices firm.