Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

LIEGE RECEIPTS OF GRAM

it."fair wind on Saturday last brought into port a large
fUet of grain vessels, mostly fiom Chicago. Our marine
list shows the receipts of wheat to have h .en 318,154
bushels, corn 9.5,8011 bushels, and oats 63.600 bushels.
making a total of 531,g3.5 bushels, which is tl.e largest
receipts of any one day this season. From the plthlahed
clearances in the Chicago papers, there are still over
300,000 bushels of wheat afilat from that port for Buffalo,
most of which is now due. and may be in within a day or
two, should the wind prove favourable. The receipts at
kllfcago from the interior continut large, and w-a may yet
look for liberal receip's of wheat at this pia from now
to the close of navigation. Oar market on Friday and
Saturday exhibited a market irnprovenvnt, and large
sales were effected, and at better prices than' for several
days previous.—Bufalo Courier, 19th.

PENALTY FOR DEFAULT OF SPECIE

PAYMENT.

It may not be generally known that 24 percent. interest
accrues to the holder of every bank bill on, which specie
payment is refused. See. 29, chap. 36,, of the Massa-
chus tts Revisal Statutes, which is still in force; reads as
follows.:—.
"If the officers of any bank shall refuse or delay
payment, in gold or silver money,, of any, note or bill of
such bank, presented for payment in their usual hours of
business, the said bank shall be liable to pay to the holder
of such note or bill, as damages. at the rate of twenty-
four per cent. a yea; foe the time during which hunit
payment shall be delayed or re fused."-
B)' an Act of April 25, 1633, the onerali ,n of the ab Ara
section was suspended till Jan. I, 183.9, with five provisos,
which we need not quote, as the section has so long again
neon io. n•-a--- 1-..--1

THE WESTERN B&NK OF SCOTEANI AND THE
BOROUGH BANK OF LIVEaPOOL.

The following statements appall. in the Times 6ty
article :—Tt is officiary sta-ed thit the assistaiee granted
to the Western Bank of Scotian' by the other Scotch
banks don not involve a condition that that establishment
shall be wound up. It has an excellent business aid a
wealthy propnetory and uoler a thorou3h reform of
management now instituted, is likely, in the opinion of
many well•informed persons apart from those who are
• interested in its fate, to regain a position of perfect soliiitr.
Lettere from Liverpool, explain that the failure of the
negociations for the rellef of the Borcugh Bank was caused
not by any withdrawal of the Liverpool bauki from their
offer to give guarantees, bit from a dierence of vieV
between themselves and the Bank of England, when the
precibe terms of those guarantees came to be discussed.

Ma Cakaux OF'CONSPIRACY AGAIN T LORD CHARLES
PZLHAM CLINTON, AND MR. ALFRRD JEFFaBs,—Mr. T.
J. Stubbs, acting on behalf cf Mr. F. W. Sto2kwell,
mining agent,of Old Broad-street, hiving preferred a bill
of indictment, entaining seven eonot3 and four yards of
parchment, against Lord Clinton ,Ind Mr. J: (free, in res-
pect of the transactions in the Wheal Zion Mine, which
have recen.ly created walla sensation in mining circles, and
formed the subject of proceeditio.4 at the Mann.house
true
,
the Grand Jury, after bearing the cvidenoe, return, cl a
bill on all the counts in the indictment. The trial with
l, in
all probability, not take place sili next session, ait
understood an application is to ha made 14 a warrollt %cs
arrest Messrs, Clinton and Jcaree.