Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET...-JAN 4.

SUGAR. ^ The market keeps steady; 5,000 bags
Cossipore are reported, at 445. 6d. to 465. 6d., and 1,400
bags Pernams, at 245. 6d. per cwt., ex quay, in bond.
MOLASSES, Rum, Corrr.E.-No transactions to notice.
_RICE.-Nothing has occurred in this article.
SAGO Fr.oun.-1,400 bags at 16s. per cwt. for sound.
JUTE.-550 bales at £l3 10s. to £l5 per ton.
DYEWOGDS.-100 tons Jamaica Logwood at £4 17s.
6d.; 80 tons Jamaica Fusticat £5 155.; 10 tons St.
Domipgo Logwood at £5; 140 tons Maracaibo Fustic
at £5 7s. 6d.; 35 tons Red Sanderswood at £5 10s..
per. ton.
DRYSALTERIES, Stc.---Small sales of white Perugia
Argols, at 117 s. 6d. 2 tons Tartaric Acid, at ls. 9,3 d.
to Is. 94d.. In Madder Roots, 150 bales BOmbay sold
at 305.; 100 bales eighteen months' Naples, at 445. to
458.; and 100 hales Syria, at 425. 230 bags Baltimore
Bark, at Bs. 3d. 600 bales Gambier, to arrive, all faults,,
at 16s. 9d. 250 Barons Gum sorts, at 31s. to 335. 2
bar Tels St. Domingo Beeswax, at £8 7s. 6d. 20 tons
Brimstone, best seconds, at £8 17s. 6d. to £9 per ton.
100 bags Nitrate of Soda, at 15s. 6d. Nothing done in
the Saltpetre offered at auction. 20 tons American Lin-
seed Cakes, at £9 ss. 400 bags Curaeoa Dividivi, at
£l2 10s. 340 tons Bones, very common at £4 17s. 6d.,
good cattle at £5 7s. 6d., and shanks at £8 2s. 6d. 20
tons Scotch Farina, at £l6 12s. per ton. 9,800 bundles
Rattans, at 3s. 2d.-per 100 for sound, and 2s. 7d. for
first-class damaged,
Bce.-Palixi, nominal, £44. Tallow, unchanged,
P.Y.C., 58s. 6d. Olive Oil meets a retail sale at full
prices ; Toronto, £57. Linseed Oil, 295. in export
casks. Small sales of common Rosin at 4s. 4d., and 30
barrels Spirits of Turpentine, 345. per cwt.

A TICKET OF LEAVE USED IN A NEW WAY.-
-Among the prints I forward you are many which include
some morh or less ragged figures; these were beggars,
- whom-I-utilised-at the average cost of-about threepence
each. There is one print to which I would. call your
special attention, for it includes a portrait of a vagabond
of the coolest impudence, who has hit upon a novel ex-
pedient for extracting alms from the pockects of the
Queen's lieges by appealing to two of the strongest feelings
of their nature—pity and terror. The circumstances
under which I made his acquaintance were Iheie
had just focused a couple of old thatched cottages almost
buried in ivy and rose bushes, when a man who had
been standing at the door of one of them began to
move towards me. I called out to him not to move
until,l told him he might do so. •He was good enough
to do as I told him, and that is how you come to have
his portrait. Well, as soon as I had given him leave to
move from his position, he came to me and began telling
me that he was an unfortunate "ticket-of-leave" man,
who could get no work, and that he was forced to beg,
as otherwise he must steal, and he had a conscientious
objection to doing that, although he had had the misfor-
tune to be convicted of burglary. While he was telling
Me this he pulled out his ticket-of-leave and held it close
under my nose, that I might verify for myself the truth
of his statement ; and there was that in the way in
which he did this extremely well calculated to excite
the charity of a nervous individual, especially as he was
a burly.,,reckless-looking ruffian. I coqld•not
.get him,
to tell me how he found his ingenious dodge to answer,
but I have no doubt he makes a deal of money by it.
Only imagine how the charitable feelings of men, and
especially of women, must be stimulated, when the plea
for charity is backed by an undoubted certificate that
the beggar is a ruffian who has broken into a house at
midnight, or has murdered a man by beating him to
death under circumstances which have induced a merci-
ful jury to pronounce his crime to be that. of man-
slaughter only.—Photographic

The Hudson's, Bay Seal Skin Cloaks and Jackets,
°II° Guinea eaiihr at the New Shawl and Mantle-Ware-
house, 40, BR ild-street.—,Shellard and Hodgson, Pro-
prietors.
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