The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

PRODUCE.—There has been a steady trade in
Sugar during the week, chiefly in Madras and
Mauritius. In Coffee little doing. Rice without
alteration. Tea slightly dearer. Saltpetre, ss. to
6s. per cwt. lower. Brimstone steady, at full rates.
Palm Oil in fair request. For Tallow a limited
demand. Nothing doing in Jute. TO-DAY the
sales in Sugar consisted of 3,000 bags Benares at
38s. 6d. to 40s. per cwt. 300 puns. Barbadoes
Molasses, of the old crop, have been sold from store
at 14s. 9d. per cwt. There is nothing to notice in
Coffee. 200 bags Para Cocoa are reported at 275.
6d. per cwt. Tea continues firm, but there is little
doing. The Star of the East has not yet com-
menced to discharge. Of 1,400 bags Java Rice
offered this morning, 700 were sold at 13s. to 13s.
3d. per cwt. 50 bags Saltpetre (2 per cent. refrac-
tion) have brought 40s. per cwt.
WooL.—The Wool market has undergone no
change this week, the trade seems to be holding
back for the next London sales, which commence
this day, about which no ordinary degree of
interest is manifest, as the result will be looked
upon as a guide to future operations. In Irish
Combing Skin there has been more doing, 101-,d.
to lid. ruling price in Dublin; and Fleece-mixed
parcels, which are selling at 14s. 6d. to 155., cannot
be bought in the country at much under 16s. per
stone. In English Skin Wools a fair amount of
business has been done this week for Yorkshire,
at a slight advance on former rates. Donskoy
Wools have also been in good demand, and some
large sales have been made at 9d. Holders are now
rather more firm. Imports for the week, 1,885
bales, viz.: 821 East India ; 157 Buenos Ayres ;
100 West Coast of America ; 430 Mediterranean
Ports ; 327 Russian ; 22 Irish ; and 28 Coast-wise.

METALS.—The demand for manufactured Iron
continues very large, but the price has not in-
creased in the same proportion as that of pig iron,
which has now reached 25 10s. per ton. There is
still a good demand for copper, both for sheathing
and tubing, and prices are firmly maintained.
The demand, however, is chiefly for exportation,
the home trade not being quite so brisk.

RECOVERY OF FIVE THOUSAND
FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS, AND
CAPTURE OF THE THIEVES.

ON Saturday a dexterous exploit was performed by the
London detectives, in capturing two Antwerp merchants,
father and son, and recovering from them no less than
£5,500. It appears that about a month ago a person of
the name of Morris Hartob, a tanner-merchant at Ant-
werp, was entrusted with 57,000 guilders by the banking
establishment of De Coek, for the purpose of taking up
some bills for which that house was liable. Hartob
absconded without taking up the securities, and soon after
his father-in-law, Joseph Hartob Mackneilsone, waited
upon Mr. De Coek, in a state of affected distraction, and
stated that his son had absconded, after robbing him of
20,000 guilders, and that if he could find the delinquent
he would bring him to Holland, and deliver him over to
the bankers. M. Mackneilsone also stated that his son
had gone to America, but he would hand over all he pos-
sessed to De Coek. The style in which Mackneilsone
lived, and his reputation as a merchant, threw M. De Coek
off his guard. Intelligence, however, of the fraud fortu-
nately reached the police of the City of London, and two
of its most able members, Webb and Funnel, undertook
the difficult task of keeping a "sharp look-out" in this
country. After most persevering inquiries they found a
clue at Liverpool, and following it up from place to place
without intermission, they at length discovered that not
only Morris Hartob, but his desponding father-in-law,
were concealed in a Dutch lodging-house, No. 7, Prescott-
street, Whitechapel. The officers immediately telegraphed
for M. De Cock, and he arrived in London on Wednesday
evening. M. Haines, the Dutch consul, was applied to,
and rendered every assistance, and on Friday Mr. Justice
Coleridge granted a capias against the accused.
On Saturday the officers met the offenders in, Swan-
street, Minories, and, after a deperate struggle, succeeded
in taking them into custody. They were taken into a
public-house in John-street, Minories, and upon the son
was found a canvas bag beneath his shirt, containing
£4,500, and upon the afflicted father-in-law £l,OOO. A
mob of nearly 2,000 persons, principally low Jews, col-
lected in the neighbourhood, and the personal safety of
Webb and Funnel was in considerable danger. The
officers' clothes were torn, and they sustained other in-
jury, Both M. De Coek and Mr. Haines, the consul,
witnessed the capture, and the former was so pleased with
the vigilance and courage displayed by Webb and Funnel,
that he has presented each of them with a bonus of 100
guineas. Hartob and his father-in-law were allowed to
make themselves " scarce" after the recovery of the valu-
able booty, as the English law, it was found, would not
reach them. It will be remembered that Webb and Fun-
nel are the same "detectives" who recovered about £2,000
from the bankrupt Graves, of Manchester, and succeeded
in apprehending and bringing to justice Heillsome, the
traveller of Macintosh and Co., who escaped to America
with £7OO.

WAVERTREE BOARD OF HEALTH.

TILE monthly meeting of the Wavertree Board of
Health took place last night, the Rev. W. Badnall, chair-
man of the board, presiding. There were also. present,
Messrs. Halhead, Bowers, Hill, Murray, Davis, Witham,
Gore, Chaffers, Rishton, Anderton, and Picton.