Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL FAILURES.

[Fhe following appeared in our Second Editi n of
Saturday morning : --]
On Friday, the bills were returned of Messrs. William
Dray and Co., engineers and agricultural implement
makers

It is stated that the liabilities of Messrs. Jonathan Hills
and Sons, bankers, of Dartford and Gravesend, amonnt to
about £40,000.

The Times gives a list of the principal suspensions
announced in London since the beginning of October. The
number is fifty five, and the liabilities are estimated at
£15,000,000 to £16,000,000. The liabilities of houses
suspended in the provinces are computed to amount to
£35,000,000 at a very moderate calculation, but this
includes the debts of five banks, amounting to £23,000,000.
The total is £50,000,000.

Mr. George Lyall, a director of the Bank of England,
has been elected member for Whitehaven, without oppo-
sition.
M. Verhagen, a distinguished Liberal, has been elected
President of the Legislature. A moderate course of action
is expected from the victorious liberals.
A MURDER IN NORTH DEvON.—A. young man, residing
at Lynton, in North Devon, has murdered his sweetheart
in cold blood. No cause of provocation is stated.
Tim REFORM 13,LL —The memorial is signed by the
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford,
several noblemen and a large number of gentlemen con-
nected with the Universities.
SUICIDE ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—A few
evenings ago a man about 60 years of age, whore name
has not yet been ascertained, committed suicide by placing
himself in front of a train on the Staines. Woking, and
Wokingham branch of the South Western Railway. The
driver hallooed to the man, and gave warning by the
whistle, but in an instant the train was upon him, and
he was knocked down. On the train reaching the next
station the driver communicated to the station master what

had occurred, and some men were sent back to look after
the unfortunate man. After proceedicg a little distance
the man was found on the up line, lying wish his face
downwards, and life was extinct. He had not been
injured by the wheels of the carriages or engine, and death
appeared to have been instantaneous from a severe blow
on the chest. Both leg were broken, and h 3 was much
bruised about the face. The decased had been seen in the
neighbourhood a few days previously, aid, though his
appearance was neat and clean, it was evident to those
who saw him th It he was in circumstances of weat distress,
and was travelling through the country soliciting alms.
He was very dejected and melancholy, probably in con-
sequence of his destitute posi6en. The only money he
bad in h's possession was a sixpence. There was no
footpath or public right of way across the line of railway,
so that the deceased must have gone there for the purpose
of committing suicide.
HOLYWEL 1,-STREET IN DUBLIN.—On Wednesday a search
for books and prints of an immoral and debasing tendency,
such as was recently instituted in London under the new
Act of Lord Campbell, took place in this city with most
successful results. For months past it had been known to
the police that prints and publications of a character
-opposed to all propriety and decency had been vended in
particular establishments, but the traffic had been so skil-
fully conducted as to render detection impossible under the
terms of the original Act, which merely applied in cases
where these productions were exposed to the public gaze.
More I ecently, 11, wever, upon the passing of the Act intro.
decal by Lord Campbell in the late session of Parliament,
the provisions of which were found to apply to this city,
active measures were taken by the authorities to suppress
the evil. The information pointed chiefly to shops in
Brunswick-street, Wellington-quay, and Wtnetavern-street,
owned by the same person; and to another house in 11' Olier-
street, the proprietor of which, from having no regular con
nexion with the business of publication, was less liable to
be suspected. Search warrants, however, could not be
obtained unless an actual sale was proved but this difficulty
having been overcome, the entire of the men of the G
division, armed with the requisite legal authority, proceeded
in detachments shortly after 10 o'clock a.m. on Wednesday,
to search these different premises. In the house in Bruns
wick-street alone were found piles of books, prints. &c ,
composing in the aggregate as much as could be carried by
two men—all being of the most disgraceful nature ; but in
addition to these vicious productions of a more ordinary
charac'er were plaster casts and other objects revealing a
degree c f infamy and moral degradation as to which it
would have been impossible previously to have formed
even a surmise. The c llection likewise included two
copper plates, through the instrumentality of which the
proprietor could reprint his stock ad libitum without the
necessity and risk of importation. The search was of the
most prolonged and harassing nature, the specimens of
moral filth being concealed in bags, under heaps of rags,
and in the most unlikely and intricate hiding places. The
detective police were occupied in this quarter alone until
after G o'clock. In Winetavern-street, a number of books,
pamphlets, and " choice illustrations " were pounced upon
and carried away. In D'Olier-street, however, the art was
of "a higher " class, bespeaking its continental origin.
The spoils having been duly seized and carried off, sum-
monses were served upon the proprietors of these several
establishments, enforcing their attendance at College-
street police-office before the magistrates, who have the
power of remanding them to stand their trial for a misde-
meanour. The prints, &c., will be destroyed when the
proper time arrives.

THE GRAND PANORAMIC MAP OF INDIA AND CASSILL'S ILLUS-
TRATED FAMILY PAPER.—IMPORTANT NuTICE.—The publication of
this Panoramic Map, measuring i.iches by 18, and accompanied by
a Chronological Hi-tory of India, and No. 1, New Series, of " Cassell's
Illustrated Family Paper," at the price of three-halfpence, will cease
on the sth of January ; beyond which time the price of the Map will
b, Gd., cad that of the Fami y Paper, Id. t'n December 13, for
January 1, will be published, pr ce 6d., Part 1, New series of Cassell's
Illustrated Family Paper. Nothing can be mere suitable for Christ-
n- as reading This Part will conclude, besides the Panoramic Map
and Chit°, °logical II story of India, 1:4 pages of letter-press, Demy
Quar!o, an the whole will be inclosed in a handsome wrapper. In
this int-resting Tale, by J. F. Smith entitled " Smiles and Tears :" a
Tate of our own Times ; a'so thirteen chapters of a new and original
Tale, by Felix Stowe, entitled " Latson." The series of Portraits,
engraved in the first style of art, includes 11.R.H. the Duke of Cam-
bridge; bir Samuel M. Pete, Bart.; Rev. Dr. Guthrie; and Wood,
The Fire-Escape Man. 'l he other engravings are, four illustrations
of Air. Smith's Tale—Xsop in Search of a Man—View on the banks
<,l the Ganges—Rood, the Fire-Escape Man, re.cuing a Family—
View in Calcutta— Hungarian Gipsies—Tha Maseaare at Cawnpore—
The Final Assault on Delhi—lnterior of a Russian Cabin on Christmas
Eve, &c. Order of any Bookseller.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—Dec 19.
The tone of the cotton market has completely changed,
buoynncy has toeysiled, and with considerable wi•hdrawal cm,oo
offering stack, psices are id a ib hither. The sale —in 2;u 'sd
Bahia sid to %I, 21 1" ernambneo 7.1 d, 50 Egyptians 7i t°,4
1,500 Surat., 201 to 41—are reported 10,000 bales, of which 5,v•
are on spscalatton and for export.

A.GRICULTUR&L PRODTJOE MARKF,T.—PEc. v•
d. II• fi
Per stone, 20P;s. Per go r 4.. s. i 0
s. d. 8. 4 Potatoes, Seedlings 310t^ , 5
Hey, 01d...... o6to 0 ',', Ditto, Kemps .... 40tO 11 I
DAto, new
Ditto, clover
Green Clover
Grass 0 0 to U of Ditto. cattle 0 0 t° °
Straw, wheat 0 21 to 0 .1i: 0
Ditto, oat o2lto 0 34. Turnips Per t
2”, 0 tO 2* 0
Ditto, barley .... 024t0 0 3Carrots
Oats, in straw . ... 00to 0 0 Mangle wurzel . 4, W
22 - -° d 6
1 Manure 5 0

LONI►ON TALLOW MAIMET—DEc 19. 1,
The market is steady at the annexed quotations :—Tert
nett cash ; retersburg Y.O on the spot, 525-6 d ; recember, 5"
to 523 63; Januar,' tt,d Merch, 52i ; March. 533 61
MARKET AVERAGES.—Town Tal'ow, 55s 9d; fat by die'', -I,llo‘
Yellow Russian, 54a ; melted stuff, 39s ; rough ditto, 233 6d ;
graves, 17s ; good dregs, is. ;allot 3d

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