Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-17 00:00:00

DUBLIN CORN MARKET.-JuNE 16.

The improvement in the London Corn Erehange produced a cor-
responding activity in the Dublin market. An advance of Is. on
wheat was demanded, and fully 6d. was realised. All other things
remained ste,:dy at the currencies of Friday, bnt the tone of the market
was firm, with a tendency to higher rates.

CORK BU'T'TER MARKET.-JuNB 16

Although there was a good supply of butter at to-day's market, fully
1,600 kegs and firkins, prices again advanced, the quotations beinz :
Firsts, 99s : Seconds, 98s ; Thirds, Siis ; Fourths, 78s ; Fifths 68s ;
eud Sixths 583 per cwt.

GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET.—JorrP. 16.

The market was quiet to—day, at the following prices : —Mixed Nos.,
buyers 77s 6d, sellers 78s; No. 1, buyers 78s 6d, sellers 795; No.
3, buyers 745, and sellers 74s 6d pa ton.

A Cua'ocs T.6Tc SOON SITI3FI ED.—On Friday, at the New
Bailey, Manchester, a man with his face much scratched, was placel
in the dock under the fol'owing circumstances:—A police-officer
stated that, on Thursday night, abou, ten o'clo .k, he saw the prisoner
(who represented himself as William spinal], surgeon, in Oldham-
road), along with another man, at the Crum peal' toll-bar. They had
a gig, and the prisoner was effected with liquor, and contending about
somethingat the bar. Witness told him he had better go on, and he
did so a little way, then asked witness to put the handcuffs on him as
he had a nice pair of wrists. Witness would not do that, upon which,
the prisoner struck hire, saying that ho wanted to see what sort of a
place the lock-up was. Mr. Trafford: Well, what do you think of
them ? Prisoner :I am quite satisfied. Mr. Trafford : Perhaps you
would like to see the gaol? Prisoner : No, s'r, lam quite satisfied.
Mr. Trafford : How were you behaved to in the lock-up ; have you had
your breakfast? Prisoner: Yes, I have had some good coffee. Mr.
Trafford: Weil, I think that ought not to be at the county's expense,
for if peop'e are to be allowed to enter es an experiment to see the
place, and have good coffee, we shall have a great deed coming. He
was fined les., or be committed for one month.
SWINDLING OF HOTEL KEEPERS IN DEVONSIIIRE,—A few days ago,
a well-dressed man, of gentlemanly deportment, calling himself the
Hon. J. Dawson, came to the Half-Moon Hotel, Exeter, where he
stopped for three days. Just before he left, he asked the landlord to
cash a cheque for 101., saying he had overstaid his time at the meeting
Of the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, held at New-
ton Abbot, and he was short of cash. The landlord readily consented
and the " Hon. J. Dawson " paid his tavern bill out of the WI, and
liberally rewarded the waiters who had attended upon him. The
cheque was drawn on Messrs Ransome and Co., London. It was paid
by the landlord to his banking account in Exeter, and was forwarded
in due course to London. In the meantime, the " Hon. J. Dawson"
went to the London Inn, Exefer, and there called himself Major
Grant. He staid there for a few days, and, on pretences similar to
those used at the Half-moon, he got another cheque for 101., drawn
on Hoare and Co. by "Major Grant," cashed by the landlord, and
before the other cheque could be returned he had decamped. The
result was that both cheques were returned dishonoured. Efforts
have been made to discover the " Major's " whereabouts. but as yet
they have proved fruitless.
Tue PLANO TONING ',,ODGs.—At the Worship-street Police-court,
London, en Thursday, John Ellis and Daniel Hagerty, two young
men about 20, were charged before Mr. D'Eyncotirt with the following
robbery :—At a quarter-past four on Wednesday afternoon, a loud
knock was given at the door of a gentlemen named Gooch, residing
in Shrubland-road, Dalston, and on its being answered by the house-
=set she found Haga'ty, who said he had come f. om Mr. Davis, and
handed her this note: "Sir, he kind enough to tell the bearer when it
will be convenient to you to let me send a man to tune your piano-
forte. I would hare sent before, but have-been too busy, and hope
you will excuse it This was signed " George Davis," and directed
from Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars Road. The girl took the note
to her mistress in the kitchen, who said it must be a mistake, and went
up to explain that it was so, but on both gettingto the door they found
the messenger had left, though he had said ho would wait for an
answer. Mr. Goech came home shortly after, and his wife asked him
about the tuning. " Ah, my dear," said he, " this is a planned thing
for a robbery; you had better look about the place ;" and on the
mistress and girl so doing two coats and a cloak were found to have
been stolen. Exactly an hour after this, Sergeant Crisp, of the N
division, was on duty in the Kingsland Road, when the two prisoners
passed him close to the Canal Bridge. He had no particular reason
for doing so, bat he thought Ellis looked stouter than he naturally
would do, and therefore stopped him and unbuttoned his coat, a
liberty the prisoner resented. This operation of unbuttoning,
however, he had to perform three times, the prisoner bang eacased in
as many coats. " Why," said Crisp, "it's rather warm for three coats,
isn't it ?" " Well, it is," said Ellis, "rather, but I bought them
of a man cheap, and thought I might as well put them on for con-
venience." The prisoner, however,neither knew the seller nor where
he lived, and aas therefore transferred to the station, to which also
shortly after was Hacarty brought, he having been pursued and
captured by another officer, together with the clos.k, which had been
flung into an empty house in Hayfield-street, and on searching Ellis,
another of Mr. Davis's pianoforte letters 'eras found upon him. In-
spector Langdon.said these robberies were becoming sorne Nhat serious,
el this was the sixth committed in his dist:let of Kingsland within a
fortnight, and all by means of fictition; letters similar to those pro-
duced. Neither prisoner hed 4 vr9ro. to say, and they were both fully
committed for trig

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 17.
Man WATER—Morn. 6 37—Even. 7 12—Hetelit, 13 ft. S in

OFF THE PORT AND INWARD BOUND.

Mary Clark, and Louisa.

ARRIVED.

Juno 16.

........ ....Bridgewater
ilVfayflower .. Newport
New Thomas ......Ulver.tone
Cousins ................ • • seath
IVictoria
NuEget - • ........Newport
Katty Darling ........ —Newport
Castle Raynard .... Port Talbot
ißristow ...... .....London

June 16.

Oberon ...... ....Pernambuco
lelegriph ......Point de Galle
Gannymed . . Lubtek
W. F. Safford ....... ..Labrador
Challenger ............ ..... Dora
P. Schoemackers •• Batavia

..........Havannnh
..Marseill,s
Narva
Pernam, &c.
. ..... Archangel, Sze

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