Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL AVERAGES,

Wheat.l Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Pease.
55s led 43s Oi 25s 6d 3531 4d 453 6d 433 7d
55s 6d143s 5d 25s 3d 37s 4d 463 ld 443; 5d
,53s lid 13s id 25s Od 368 10d Ors 9d:44s 72
1528 6d'42s 3d 26s 4,136 s 3d 458 0d,45s 3d
151 s Bcl 41s 3 25s 3d 34s 7d144s 9d 448 ld
51s 3d139s 10d 24s Id 35s 2d143s gr43s 31
6wk'sAg.Av. 153 s 611425 2d 25s 3d 35s 11,';45s 21144 s 3d

Oct. 17 ..

Nov. 7

Duty.—Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye, Beans, and Peas, Is.

LONDON CATTLE MARKET.-- Nov 27.
The number of beasts is not large and the weather is more favour-
able, consequently trade is more active for choicest kinds, but prices
cannot be cuoted higher. The supply of sheep is shorter. The
demand is sdßill; however, in a few instances, advanced rates are
realised. Calf trade is dull. and prices rath r lower. From Germany
and Holand there aro 103 beasts, 920 sheep, and 180 calves. 500
beasts from the Northern and Midland, and 110 milch cows from the
Home Counties.

Per stone of 81bs. s. d. s, d. Per stone of 81bs. e. d. s. d
Best Scots, Herefords .4 6 410 Best Din & Hf-bred 0 0 0 0
Best Short-horns 4 4 4 8 Best Long-wools .... 4 10 5 2
Second quality beasts 3 8 4 8 Do. do. Shorn .... 0 0 0 0
Calves 4 0 5 0 Ewes and 2nd quality 4 0 4 6
Pigs
Best Dns & Hf-breds 5 2 5 6 Lambs 0 0 0 0
Beasts at market, 1,029 ; sheep and lambs, 3,010 ; calves
242 ; pigs, 185,

LONDON HIDE MARKET.—Nov. 27.
LEADENITALL.—The following are the prices :-56 lb, to 64 lbs,
4d :o Od ; 64 lbs to 72 lbs. 4d to 44cl ; 72 lbs to 80 Ibs, 4ld to Od ; 80
lbs 88 lbs, 434 to 414; 88 lbs to g 6 lbs, 4id to 43d ; 96 lbs to 104 lbs,
to Od; 104 lbs to 112 Ibs, 414 to sd. Horse hides, 103 to ;Is.
Calf skins, light, 2s fid to 4s ; full, 8s to 8s 6d.
BERMONDSEY.—Sheep skins, polled, 5s Od to 63 6d ; Bents and
half-breds, 4s to 53 ; Downs, 3s 3d to 33 10d.

LONDON WOOL MARKET—Nov. 27.
Mr. H. G. Hughes has today dispo,ed of nearly two thousand
bales, after a very moderate competition. Nearly the wflole of tha
quantity has been taken for home consumption. In pricas we have
no improvement to notice, and it is pJEsible that the sales will be
brought to an earlier termination than was originally antic'pated.
LONDON MINING MARKET.—Nov 27.
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Business in home mining stocks to-day is again extremely langnid.
The only transactions officially reported in the Stock Exchange are
in Sortridge Consols Shares at 2 and Wheel Edward at 7+. The
Inquiries are still limited L4nari mining shires have met with some
Inquiry, and are maiked 8+ ; Unit d Mexican have been dealt in at
31. In other foreign descriptions the 'e is no a'teration of impor.
tance. Condurrow, 110, 115 ; East Russell, 21; La iy Bertha, 225,
22s 6d ; North Frances, 10 , Rosewarne United, 22i, 23+ ; Sortridge
Consols, 2, 2+, .t 1 183 9d, 2 ; West Grenville, 3s 9d, 4s 3d, 3s 6d,
3s 9d, 4s ; Wheal Edward, 7, 7+ : Wheal Luilcott, 17s 6d, 20s.
A call or 103 is ti be paid on the shares of the Ea ,t Indian Iron
Company by he 19th December. A dividend of lOs per share was
declared on Wednesday at South Caradon mine meeting. At a
meeting of adventurers in West B tisse`, held on Wednesday,
the accounts showed a balance of £3,055 15s 51:1 in favour of the mine,
out of which a dividend of lOs per share (E 3,030) was declared,
leaving a sum of .656 151 5d to be carried forward. The next
meeting will be held on the 27th of January.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKEr.—Nov. 27.
There wa, a fair demand for the leading articles of ne tr We, and
prices of wheat adva. ced about Is per qr. Ba-ley, Brans, Oats, and
Shelling were rAher dearer, but other articles remains anchanget.

DUBLIN CORN MARKET.—Noy. 27.
Th 3 market was much more firm to-day, but wa do not notice
any change in prices, excepting in wheat and cats, which were, per-
haps, rather higher. In Indian corn there was a good business dlne
at full prices.

BELFAST CORN MARKET.—Nov. 27.
There was but a small attendance at our Cern Exchange this
morning, and little business was done. Prices, however, were very
firm. In the farmers' market prices of wheat advanced 31 per
quarter.

CORK BUTTER MARKET.—Nov. 27.
There were 1,800 kegs and firkins offered for sale to-day, but the
market was lemost deserted, and we do not hear of any business
being done. Prices are merely nominal.

GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET —Nov. 27.
There is r o change to notice in the market, and the followieg
prices were current to-day : —Mixcd Nos., 52s to 528 91 ; No. 1,53 s
to 53s 6d; and No. 3, 498 to 498 6d per ton.

STEALING FROlt A LETTER.—CURIOUS QUESTION OF
LAW.—William Huggins, charged with having stolen a
letter addressed by the firm of Frederick Helmsing and
Co., of Hull, to their correspondent at Manchester, Mr.
Thomas Swallow, corn merchant, of Cannon-street, was
tried before the recorder on Thursday, at the city sessions.
Mr. Owens was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Wheeler for the prisoner. The letter in question con-
taining the half of a £2O and a £lO Bank of England no`e
respectively, was posted at Hull on the 15th May last,
and in due course should have been, and the postman
believed it was, delivered to Mr. Swallow, by being
left in a letter-box attached to his office door in Cannon-
street. No ackno vledgmeat of the letter or inclosures
reaching Hull, on the 201 of May the loss was discovered,
but it was not till the latter end of October that the
prisoner was taken into custody. He and his family
lived in the upper part of Mr. Swallow's premises, and
his daughter had a key which opened the door to which
the letter box was attached, for the purp Ise of cleaning
the offices. On Sunday, the 24th May, the prisoner and
a paper dealer, named Thomas Coy, were in conversation,
and the former showed a half note for £2O, on which
he desired t) get some money until, as he said, the other
half arrived. Coy recommended him to go to John Port,
a letterpress printer ; but he, on being asked, could not
advance the money, but procured £lO for the prisoner
from Mrs. Lorriman, the landlady of the Crown and
Anchor, Cateaton-street. Several days elapsed, but the
second half was not fo'thcoming and the prisoner, on
being remonstrated with, said the parties refused to
forward it till he had completed some work he had then in
hand for them, and offered 10s. for interest if Mrs.
Lorriman would let the matter stand over. Some months
elapsed, and nothing satisfactory being done, Mr.
Lorriman went to the bank and gave notice that he
was the owner of the half note he produced, and
' gave the number and date, &c , and on the 19th October
the missing half was procured from London, together
with the half of the £lO note which corresponded
with the other part of Messrs Helmsing's enclosure. The
latter, it appeared, was paid by prisoner's wife to Mr. Wm.
Brooks, of Cottenham-street, the landlord of the premises
in Cannon-street occupied by prisoner, fear arrears of rent.
This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Wheeler took
the objection that the court had no jurisdiction to try the
case, inasmuch as the Post office Act (7 Wm. IV.. and 1
Vic., c 3G, s. 27) gave a power to transport for life any
person guilty of stealing a post letter, even if it were a first
offence while the Quarter Sessions Act expressly forbad
such cases to be triable at sessions. The learned counsel
contended that the evidence of the postman did not
establish such a delivery as was mentioned in the 47th
section of the first-mentioned act, and that as,
in all cases, jurisdiction cannot be assumed, but must be
proved affirmatively, the prisoner was erititl-d to have the
benefit of the objection, especially as he stated that his
daughter found the notes in the street, where they might
have been lost by the postman.—Mr Ovens suggested that
the fact of such a dalivery having actually occurred as came
within the 47th section, was a question for the jury, and
until they decided in the negative, jurisdiction existed.
The Recorder, after a long legal argument, said be con-
sidered that there was evidence for the jury whether or not
the letter had been in fact delivered, and he should take
their opinion on that question.—Mr. Wheeler strongly
objected to this, sayirg that a verdict of a jury could not
be resorted to for the purpose of giving jurisdiction, and
when the recorder repeated his resolution, the learned
counsel declined to address the jury, and intimated his
intention of taking the opinion ci the judges on the pri-
soner's behalf. The jury therefore found that the letter
had, in their opinion, come to the prisoner's hands after
it had been delivered by the postman, and returned a
verdict of guilty. Mr. Wheeler, in arrest of judgment,
again urged the objection he had taken, and the Recorder,
admitting that the point required consideration, and that
it might be desirable that it should be brought before a
snperior tribunal, postponed giving sentence.