The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
THE Eastern question, and I am ashnmed as I pencil
the words, remains,' as car as I know—which means all
Downing-street—in stidu quo ; therefore, the least said
about it the better this week. Tho members of the
Imperial Family of Russia, now ahJut town, are seen
everywhere, on the best terms certainly with , themselves,

and apparently so with the rest of the world. ABERDEEN

hurried to Windsor, to see the QUEEN, as soon as he could
after her return from the North, but there was nothing
in that ;—he went to pay his "humble duty"—the phrase
in such cases—to the SOVEREIGN, as he had not had an
opportunity of doing so for several weeks; the PREMIER
passing his days alternately in Argyle House, at the West
End, or at the Ranger's, Blackheath. The Turks and
Russians kept the Earl of ABERDEEN in London this
season; he is a great and respected man in the neigh-
bourhood of the QUEEN'S pet residence, Balmoral, and
there he would have been, but for —it Turco. ABERDEEN
is not looking very healthy ; —LANSDOWNE totters ; JOHN-
• NIE RUSSELL is Unwell; CLARENDON thin, and apps-
. rently thinking; MOLESWORTH—"rudier than the cherry,"
thanks to the air and exercise of the woods and forests,—
and the no thought—all done by clerks—of the office.
With the exception of Sir WILLIAM of the Woods, the
never-ending, still-beginning negociations anent Turkey
and Russia, together with murkey weather, don't seem
- to tell in favour of the Ministers with whom we
have met lately, if I except PALMERSTON, who looks
smart and well for a young man of his years. The
" subs " at the three great Government offices have been
very busy lately ; the Board of Trade, with dyspeptic
EMMERSON TENNANT, especially so. EMALERSON, as he
grows older, gets more gay in his outward man ; but he
don't look . in rude health; he was seen examining a new-
Jangled pill-box the other day, a sure symptom of stomach
out of order; judging from the length of the box and its
subdivisions, there was room enough in it to hold pills for
every ill that flesh is heir to.
Of course, mentioning Sir Em AIERSON TENNANT reminds
one of Ceylon ;—the puffing and blowing at the Mint the
'last two or three weeks—set down' to the score of the
decimal coinage—was occasioned by a new issue of silver
bits, for the Ceylonese, several tons of which were carted_
off the other day to be shipped from Southampton.

Intelligence came to town yesterday of the death of one
of the richest C.ommonets of England, BARING WALL,
M.P. for Salisbury, This gentleman, one of the most
popular some years ago, at once sank deserted. I have
seen him sit a whole night in the House of Commons
without a creature speaking to him.. Full of health, he
withered,—by no meaus.old—he died with the fortune of
an FA-stern monarch.
The tedium of the week—wet weather and no sunshine
—was relieved, a little towards the middle, by the doings
at Manchester and the speeches of Mr. GLADSTONE, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is not difficult to get
Mr. GLADSTONE to open his mouth, and when he begins
a speech, he don't know when he shall have done with it.
He cannot help himself. Without an infelicitous rapidity
of elocution, as used to be said of RIM:CARD LALOR SRIEL,
the Right Hon. gentleman holds on the even tenor of his
way, and never leaves his subject until it is exhausted. A
good many people in town think lie " laid it on too thick"
at the Manchester gathering. Certainly it becomes a pupil
to speak well of his master, and Mr. GLADSTONE has shown
that he is the man. I'll go every inch with Mr. GLAD-
STONE in his eulogies on the late Si& ROBERT PEEL'S
qualities as a man,—a more virtuous, social creature, I
never met ;—perhaps, owing to his vulgar birth and aris-
tocratic education, he talked too frequently about fine arts
and their effect on the manners or morals of a people.
This was amiable, at all events. At his dinner table he
always had men of genius ; some of them poor—this was
generous—but he higgled awfully for those fine pictures
in the gallery at Whitehall and the other at Drayton—
mostly Flemish pictures in the former, and portraits of
Statesmen in the latter. Unlike the Duke of WELLING-
TON in this regard, who rarely asked the price, but paid.
I have seen Sir ROBERT PEEL prefer the arm of a very
poor literary workman to that of---
"Marquis, Duke, an' a' that."
It has been stated also that his humility was so extensive,
that he hesitated not to say he was the son of a cot-

i.;;;;:sii1;;;,- and that his wife was the daughter of a corn-
mon soldier, which in some sort was true. A hundred
times I have heard him say in adulation—" Sprung from
the working classes, I, &e: All these, and more I could
mention, form amiable traits, whether real or assumed.
The love of virtue is there. The memory of Sir ROBERT
PEEL is " most consecrate" in the hearts, not only of the
members of his own family, but in the affections of every
one who had the singular good fortune of being on visiting
terms with the late Minister. That he is yet remembered
with sweet and bitter tears by his family, I know. The
inheritor of his name and title, all giddy and bent on plea-
sure as he is, has not once raised the curtains of his man-
sion,—there they hang as they did the day Sir ROBERT
died ! Therefore all that Mr. GLADSTONE said about

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private virtue was well-merited—true—and in excellent
- taste. But to beggar our language, as Mr. GLADSTONB
did, in praising Sir ROBERT PEEL the politician—states-
man stern—out with it! Apply such words as " the im-
-mense breadth and comprehensiveness of his understand-
ing" to him, why it is enough to raise a blush on the dead
man's cheek ! Expediency was Sir ROBERT PEEL'S ful-
crum. Expediency,—a word not recognised by our elder
and more thorough politicians. But we'll let that pass.
Mr. GLADSTONE went, on to talk about Sir ROBERT'S
name being engraven upon every heart because of the
benefits he conferred. Where are they ? Every necessary
of life is double the price they ought to be ! Whereas his
boasted tariff? Rubbish ! a hoax ! a delusion ! a snare!
The income-tax remains. That is PEEL'S lasting monu-
ment ! I only remember him by it. Again, quoth Mr.
GLADSTONE, the pupil of Sir ROBERT, he allowed no diffi-
culty, no obstacle, to stand between him and the perform-
•stnee of his duty —. These be brave words ; but I beg
to state that Sir ROBERT bent his head to the obstacles
submitted to them—swallowed them—like Roman Catholic
Emancipation.
The last two days of the past week have inundated
newspaper readers in the metropolis with the vagaries of
the Peace Society " doves," down in Edinburgh all the
way,—the PROVOST, a worthy man enough, giving the
broad light of his countenance to the affair ; ELIHU Bun-
RITT and JOHN BURNETT backing up the gathering;
Admiral NAPIER also throwing in a random shot from
his now little used locker. Maim strolls about anywhere.
Eccentric in his wanderings as in his manners—l never
knew a great linguist otherwise—his appearance in Mo-
dern Athens was to be expected. The Rev. Joni{ BUR-
NETT being a native of Perth, forty miles to the north-
ward, might like to " sniff the caller air". of his native
home, and hold forth in. his usual quaint but mistaken
way. I suppose many of your clerical readers can tell
what constitutes a legitimate right to the title " Reverend."
Joint Bunzisrr, for years one of the greatest guns among
the dissenters, in his manhood picked up a few Greek
roots and Latin derivatives from a country clergyman,
straightway went to Ireland as a missionary—preached—
preaches—and is sometimes called " the Rev. Dr. Bus-

NETT r Oh, deaii if we must put up with humbug,
it is surely out of place when ministering in " holy things."
This reverend gentleman, at the peace meeting, uttered
absolutely childish nonsense. After moving a resolution
touching standing armaments, which he and others wished
to see equalized—like the spirit duty, or any other com-
modity—maintained that, as far as military fame could
make us renowned, we were renowned throughout the
world—that as far as slaughter might make us great,
we were already very great—and that as far as a
successful butchering was concerned, we were amongst
the most successful butchers in the world; and this " bla-
therumskite," to use a vulgar but expressive and favourite
word of DANIEL O'CONNELL, was cheered by the inha-
bitants of one of the most intellectual and learned cities in
Europe ! I remember the time when the boys of the
University,—the students of the Royal Infirmary,—the
lads of the register-office, and eke the W.S. clerks,—when
GEORGE THE THIRD was king,—would have had a bit
of fun with such vapourers as Mr. BURNETT, malgre his
sacerdotal character. Apart from the foolish reasoning of
Mr. COBDEN, whose reasoning powers are lower than
those of an ape—no offence in the world, RICHARD.
COBDEN has great qualities, but they are not of the higher
order of intellect—reasoning—and he must know it by
this time. Deduct this, and the hon. gentleman's speech
is really worth perusing in these fallow days, when even
I do not think it infra dig. to notice the Peace Society at
Edinburgh. In the metropolis the body, somehow or
other, is losing ground fast ; falling, probably, by its
inherent absurdity. SAMUEL GURNEY—honest broad-
brim—is busier, apparently, with his bill-brokery than
with peace-mongery ; and others of his brothers of the
drab and buttonless coat seem to have followed his wise
example, for there is not in the city of London a longer-
headed man than smug SAMUEL GURNEY.
Of course hundreds of your readers have dined at the
United Service Club-house; certainly the most convenient
—in all its appointments—of the lot. The chef is superb,
displaying great ingenuity in his dishes, without the
slightest approximation to vulgarity. Now and then you
have, a soldier's or a sailor's bit of victuals,— Barge°, it is
so pronounced, but I do not vouch for the spelling—of the
latter service. How cheap they dine there,—but it is
difficult to get in. I have known THE DUKE, at the little
table close to the inner window, have wine at dinner—for
fifteen pence,—put down his shilling and a fourpenny bit,
pocket the penny, and toddle down the steps by the Duke
of YORK'S monument, across, the park to t. House of
Peers, and sit there till two in the more. 2--having
spoken a column of the Times, all upon that ii teen-penny
dinner. Brave old DUKE! There are two prime favorites
of the Dux now much in the world's eye, I refer to
GEORGE Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and JAMES THOMAS
lIEUDENELL, Earl of CARDIGAN. A bird of a good
'lest ; the first Earl was a zealous supporter of the royal
cause (how I like such !) during the civil wars, and ssuf-
feredl!, long imprisonment in the Tower. Well, the pre-
FArl Colonel of the most elegant and soldierlike
regltnent
of
men and horse in the world—the 11th
inspeligo—r los., leaving it; having been all but gazetted
Duke of c4i Cavalry in lieu of that expressed essence the
troops in Ireland The
is to have the command of the
shot in anger io t. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE never fired a
a plaything,
yet
he
life—never smelt pow der,indeed, save as
soldier, the pet
of
Los a thorough disciplinanan,—a capital
Lord HARDINGE; much of this is owing

to the lad's own affections, and his splendid military educa-
tion under JAMIE MACDONALD at Corfu, the greatest adju-
tant-general that ever lived or drilled since the days of the
Romans. Soldiers are delighted with the move. As
Inspector of Cavalry, CARDIGAN will have many opportuni-
ties for the exercise of his unbounded liberality, and, I
had almost said, measureless purse. CAMBRIDGE is by
fax too careful ; he has lots of money, and don't show the
froth of his Sillery very often. In the ample range of the
peerage, there is certainly not a greater favourite than the
Earl of CARDIGAN : in his regiment, it is a curious fact,
that he is adored by his men and by his officers.
He is capable of much endurance ; at the opera on a Satur-
day night, he has supped—gone to bed—to church in the
morning—turned into barracks ninety miles from London
before two o'clock, p.m.—caught his officers—smoking
cigars. "Didn't they catch it, just ?" The great respect
shown to CARIDGAN when he was tried by his peers, some
years ago, in the HARVEY TUCKETT affair, was noteable ;
CARDIGAN sat on a stool inside the bar of the house bare-
headed ; not a creature spoke to him ; now and again, as
the proceedings went on, he appeared to mutter to himself,
" What the could I do ?" He was acquitted, and
duelling has been out of fashion ever since. CARDIGAN is
fond of music ' • the band of the Hussars is chiefly, if not
entirely, paid by himself; it is a remarkably fine one.
So poor old, dreary yet dear Temple-bar is condemned
y city utilitarians to go the way of all doomed stone and
mortar. But the Temple-bar of the present day is only a
bit of humbug after all; true, human heads have been
stuck, three or four at once, on the top of it ; heads of
men called traitors,—probably they might be deemed in
part reformers now. Temple-bar is not two hundred years
old, nor anything like it ; hence the plea of antiquity on
its behalf goes for nix, or next to nothing. The law sta-
tioners in its proximity are eager for its demolition ; many
elderly citizens, on the other hand, regard it with feelings
akin to sacredness ; the closing of the bar when the
SOVEREIGN visits the city,—the opening of it after three
distinct " raps" from the west side,—the citizens aforesaid
view as the last and greatest recognition by Queen VIC-
TORIA. of civic rights and dominion. The ceremony itself
is pretty enough,—you have lord mayor and sheriffs,
common crier and recorder, town-clerk and chamberlain,
aldermen and common councilmen not a few, en grande
tenue, the big, rusty key, on a regal velvet cushion, handed
by the civic monarch to England'a Sovereign, and returned
graciously with nod and beck and wreathed smile —as much
as to say—" The key could not be in better keeping." The
barber's shop on one side of the bar, and the banker's on
the other, were these and two or three besides knocked
down, increased traffic might be aided. Temple-bar of
itself being removed, will not add an inch of facility. The
barber's shop is a curious one in its way. Il Barbiere
places the chair upon which his customer is to be seated
with its fore legs resting in the city of London, its hind
ones in the city of Westminster ; so that if there be a writ
against the customer, held by any of the numerous bailiffs
in the neighbourhood, the party is safe. A city writ can't
touch him in Westminster, and vice versa. Many a de-
cent, hard-up gentleman has been shaved under such dif-
ficulties. The spacious and well-lighted room which
occupies the upper region of Temple-bar is used as a
receptacle for the books of the banking firm adjoining.
The books are placed there for greater security against
fire. The bankers pay a rent of, I think, fifty pounds a
year to the city for the accommodation. Covered with
black velvet, studded with silver stars, and surmounted
with the Grecian incense pots of gold, ever and anon
sending up perfumed smoke, Temple-bar presented a mystic
appearance on the memorable day of the Duke's funeral.
The incense ascended to heaven, and, of the millions who
witnessed the funeral, scarce twenty persons thought any-.
thing of the classic honour.
Our publishers are now on the qui vive, and will con-
tinue so beyond Christmas. Two or three excellent works
have made their appearance since my last, and two or
three better are promised. Ido not hesitate to state, that
for many years the publishing trade has not been in so
healthful a state as at present. One publisher, whose
name I do not give, has offered BULWER no less a sum
than £20,000 for the copyright of those works of the Hon.
Baronet which remain undisposed of. At the Garrick
Club,- and the Fielding, the two establishments par
excellence devoted to the service of the lovers of the
drama and light literature, ALFRED Bumf's forthcoming
couple of volumes have been the source of some, pleasant
gossip. It is known to all, that the author has been the
best part of the last tweire months in the United States,
and it is equally known that Mr. BURN is no common
observer; we may, therefore, expect a fund of informa-
tion and humour, for, the Stage before and behind the
Curtain is a guarantee for the one, and A word with
Punch, for the other. The title, Old England and New
England, is suggestive of the characteristics of one coun-
try being brought into contrast with the other, in the
course of which, Bumf's taste, judgment, and expe-
-1 rience will naturally induce him to substitute pleasantry
for scarcasm. The great success he met with in the
United States, and the hospitality extended to him
in every quarter of the Union, will have enabled him
to observe very minutely and dilate very faithfully. I hear
of a fine, racy display of character, of anecdote, and of broad
fun, and those are ingredients the public look for in books
now-a-days. While dealing with travelling lords, itinerant
strangers, and denizens whom he has encountered, I have
heard that ALFRED gives a succinct history of the American
stage and facetiie of the various foreign and native per-
formers who have figured thereon,--a matter about which
the dwellers on this side of the Atlantic desire to know
much, but in reality know little. I have already said that
a great deal is expected from these volumes, and the sooner
that prince of publishers—RlCHAßD BENTLEY—gives the
public a peep at them, the better, say I.
On Saturday evening I passed a couple of hours in
Drury-lane, witnessing BROOKE in " Richard." A won-
derful performance—physically—such energy—such a
voice ! Sound as a bell at the close, notwithstanding the
tremendous work it had had to go through. His Richard
is no copy, but I do not say it is an improvement in every
regard on the conventional Richard of the last half cen-
tury. Here and there it was most masterly,—the scenes
immediately before the battle of Bosworth Field, and his
dying scene, were grand, with scarcely a particle of vul-
garity. DAVENPORT'S Richmond would have done for
EDMUND KEAN, or, further back, DAVID GARRICK. Both
actors (Bitoofol and DAVENPORT) were vociferously ap-
plauded by a hou-se crammed from floor to ceiling. Every
word of WILLIAM SRAICSPEARB drunk in with avidity,
even by the boys in the upper gallery.

THE APPROACHING MUNICIPAL

ELECTION.

ABERCROMBY WARD.—On Tuesday, a deputation of
gentlemen waited upon Mr. R. C. Gardner, the retiring
member for Abercromby Ward, for the purpose of present-
ing him with a most numerously-signed requisition, re-
questing him to allow himself to be again nominated at
the ensuing municipal election. Mr. Gardner replied in
feeling and suitable terms to the courteous and pressing
manner in which he had been addressed, and the deputa-
tion retired with a full determination to use every legal
effort to secure his return. Any opposition to Mr. Gardner
would prove futile.
TT-STREET WARD.—The same evening a meeting of
thet friends of Mr. W. P. Jeffreys, the retiring member for
I'W-street Ward, was held at the Vine Tavern, Pitt-street.
The.chair was occupied by Mr. Councillor Toulmin, and
Councillors J. Gladstone, Wagstaff, and Henderson were
also present. A resolution, proposed by Mr. Rimmer, and
seconded by Mr. Rigby, was unanimously carried in favour
of Mr. Jeffreys' re-election, after which that gentleman
addressed the meeting. Mr. Councillor Wagstaff, Mr.
Councillor Henderson, and Mr. Councillor J. Gladstone,
highly eulogised the conduct of Mr. Jeffreys in his official
capacity, both as a councillor and a committee-man. Mr.
Jeffreys is one of those who have taken a deep interest in
the proposed town improvements, and we understand that
he has been mainly instrumental in inducing the improve-
ment committee to recommend the widening of Park-lane,
to the extent of 18 feet, from the bottom as far up as St.
Thomas's Church. The radicals, however, notwithstand-
ing Mr. Jeffreys' usefulness, have been endeavouring to
get up an opposition to him ; but out of four candidates
invited, viz., Mr. George Maxwell, Mr. George Hall Law-
rence, Mr. Eyre Evans, and Mr. James Aikin, not one has
been found who will stand a contest.
WEST DERBY WARD.—We are glad to see that the
Conservatives of this ward are up and doing, and that Mr.
William Earle, whom the radicals have nominated, will
not enjoy the pleasure he has been anticipating of an
unopposed return. Mr. Francis A. Clint, a gentleman of
staunch constitutional principles, and whose local know-
ledge will render him a most valuable representative, has
been put in nomination. His address will be found in
our advertising columns. A meeting of Mr. Clint's friends
is to take place this evening, at Marshall's Coffee-house,
Edgehill.
VAUXHALL WARD is to be contested, the Radicals
having put forward Mr. Daniel Powell, a Roman Catholic,
in opposition to Mr. William Nicholson, the retiring
member. Mr. Nicholson's candid and able address will
be found in another column. It is stated that a most
disreputable ruse was attempted to be played on Mr.
Nicholson, by two councillors of some notoriety, connected
with the Radicals. They persuaded him that, to save
expense, it would be wise to delay his address, and then
busied themselves in getting up a requisition to his oppo-
nent, to which they are said to have obtained many sig-
natures by the statement that Mr. Nicholson intended to
retire from the representation of the ward. Such acts of
meanness and duplicity invariably recoil upon their
authors, and we are rejoiced to learn that Mr. Nicholson's
re-election is secure.

WE have great pleasure in noticing the distinguished
honour just acquired by our fellow-townsman, Mr. Matthew
Collins, 8.A., of the Mechanics' Institution, whose inge-
nious pamphlet on "Attractions, and on Clairaut's cele-
brated Thorem on the Agure of the Earth," has been
considered by the Royal Society of London worthy of
publication in their " Transactions," whence an abstract
of it has been copied into " The London, Edinburgh, and
Dublin Philosophical Magazine" for the present month.
MR. BOLENO'S BENEFIT.---It will be seen that Mr.
Bolen is to take a farewell benefit in the Royal Amphi-
theatre. The programme includes many novelties, among
the rest, a pantomime with three harlequins, three colum-
bines, three pantaloons, and three clowns.
MUNICIPAL REGISTRATION--The revision of the list
of municipal voters was concluded on Wednesday night,
with apparently a small gain only to the radicals. The
business did not terminate till a quarter past eight o'clock,
when Mr. Bretherton thanked the Mayor and the Assess-
ors for their patience, urbanity, and general impartiality,
Mr Buckmaster coinciding in his remarks. His worship
briefly replied to the compliment, and said that great
credit was due to both gentlemen for the manner in which
they had conducted the revision, so far as it concerned
them. He trusted, however, that their duties next year
would be rendered lighter, not by mutual agreement, by
'legislative enactment.
SHORT-HORNED CATTLE.-3/IeSSTS. Bagge and Crockett,
of Kentucky, shipped from this port, on Saturday last, in
the ship Queen of England, for New York, an unusually
fine collection of short-horned cattle, which had been
obtained, after the most careful selection, at extraordinary
high prices. These Kentuckian farmers express their
determination to spare no expense or trouble in improving
their breed of cattle. The shipment consists of about
twenty cows and bulls, and the same number of sheep
Southdowns and Cotswolds • also, three fine horses
(entire) ; two adapted for the field, and one for the car-
riage. Several respectable farmers and influential inhabi-
tants of the town inspected them previous to their depar-
ture, and unhesitatingly pronounced them superior to any
shipment they had before seen.

COMMERCIAL 4. MONETARY NEWS.

MONDAY NIGHT.

THE money market during the week appears
to have been ruled by the reports from the East,
and fluctuated accordingly ; the prevailing ten-
dency being downward, or rather against a rase,
and very little improvement being manifest from
the favourable appearance of the revenue returns,
which examination has somewhat shorn of the
glittering aspect which theypresented at first sight.
Most of this unpleasant feeling is owing to the
uncertainty which prevails as to the great question
at issue, as there is little in commercial affairs, at
present, to create doubts as to mercantile credit.
Thursday passed over without the Bank Directors
making any further change in the rate of discount;
and the London Gazette of Friday announced, for
the first time for many weeks, an increase in the
stock of bullion, the change no doubt owing,
to the recent receipts from Australia being inclu-
ded in the amount. In the mean time money has
not been less easy for commercial purposes, and
the markets for foreign and colonial produce have
displayed, on the whole, greater firmness, and
prices have been well maintained.
In the absence, however, of any positive signs
of a reverse from that state of general prosperity
which prevailed a short time since, it must be ad-
mitted that the idea of a change looming in the
future is written in the catalogue of possibilities,
though it may not be so easy to define precisely the
cause or the particular direction which it may
take. The enormous augmentation of exports must
have tended to limit the command of capital, and
there are no doubt many instances in which the
delay of returns will compel a resort to resources
which may tend to cripple future operations. The
extensive importations of foreign corn must also
have tended to absorb a great portion of available
capital, and though prices have as yet been fairly
sustained, it is not difficult to foresee that the en-
gagements of large holders may have the effect of
forcing sales, which would operate injuriously upon
the markets, particularly as the present rates for
wheat and flour will induce a diminished consump-
tion, which will be further influenced by the great
number of operatives out on strike. Such was the
result of the great corn speculation of 1828, which
was stopped by the Bank refusing to discount
their acceptances ; and a similar end was put to
the speculation of 1847. The market has been
buoyed by reports of damage to our own harvest,
strengthened by the small receipts of English
wheat at market, but farmers are rarely sellers
when prices are on the advance ; and it is well
known that there was little unfavourable weather
until the greater part of the wheat crop had been
saved. On the other side the Atlantic, both in
Canada and the United States, the crops have been
enormously large, and it only requires some of the
shipping now locked up in Australia to be disen-
gaged, for our markets to be inundated with an
abundance of wheat and flour, for which there is
no other outlet.

The reports which have been recently received
from Australia confirm the view which we took of
previous advices, that they were not so desponding
as at first sight might appear. It is true that sales
have been made without those exorbitant profits
which former accounts had represented as prevail-
ing, but the change was owing more to the defi-
ciency of accommodation for storage than to any
falling off in the demand for consumption. Wines
and Spirits were, however, selling at good prices,
other goods, with the exception of Flour, which is
an American speculation, were in fair request, and
the demand for building materials was still so great
that the supply was totally inadequate to meet it.
The account just settled in our SHARE MARKET
has exhibited a greater scarcity of stock than any
for years past. From 7s. 6d. to 20s. per share
has been paid by the speculators for the loan of
stock to deliver. Such being the case, no wonder
that the electric telegraph has been and is so
prolific in lying rumours. We predicted two
weeks back that such would be the tactics of the
Stock Exchange gentry, which prophecy has been
amply verified. There is daily some good • whole-
some buying, with very little selling. Our local
stocks have given way a little from the increased
value of money, but are still steady. Insurance
shares, profiting by the higher rates at which they
can lend their capital, are firm and slightly im-
proving. We hear that a grand dv'euner a la
fourchette is to be given at our Stock Exchange
to-morrow, in honour of the marriage of one of
the body. We annex this day's prices :
Caledonians, 24} -k 4 s 5 - Eastern Counties,
11 13-16 s; East Lancashire, 151 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 62 1,-; 'London Stock, 1021 c 4c 2 ;
Ditto Fifths, Jgd ; Ditto Eighths, 7-16 d; Midland
Stock, 588 4I 9 fc ; North British, 61 ; Dover
Stock, 1711 1.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the Bth of Oct., gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits ... £6,857,398; Increase £118,643
Other deposits ... 11,633,687; Decrease 251,878
Rest ... ... 3,691,119; Increase 9,006
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £12,339,083; the same as before.
Other securities ... 18,941,549; Decrease. 183,250
Notes unemployed ... 6,361,900; Increase 103,380
The amount of notes in circulation is £22,840,565,
being an increase of £67,190 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £15,749,089, showing
an increase of £136,527, when compared with the
preceding return.

SALES. IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION. PRICKS. Week Previ. Week i This
.. STOCK
ending ously ending V,
Oct. 14 this yr. Oct. 14 a `"" Oct. 14
I_
Sea Island l5 0 25 140 16800 452161
Stained 8 10 1470 1 4540' 473774 ....
Boweds 3,1 61 8370 393810 •—•
Mobile 3l 6i 4320 246670 } 844 919718 "• •
New Orleans. 32 72 13610 825670
Pernams, &c. isir 7/ 780 58370 .... 48406 11390
Bahia, &c.
Maranham
Demerara,&c 84 20, 630 .... 505 520
Egyptian 5/ 10 1830 105610 .... 91893 88380
Com.W.l.&c. 42 9i 40 10670 .... 6983 3620
Surat
Madras
.... 3450
Bengal — .... 4620 ....I 5313 2250
----,-- --
37309 1936030 14122 1855541 753800

PRonucE.- -The markets for almost all descriptions
of Foreign and Colonial produce have shown consider-
able firmness during the week, and a fair amount of
business has been doing, particularly in Sugar for
refining purposes, Rum, Rice, Tea, Palm Oil, and
Tallow, for which the demand has been good and
prices rather on the advance. TO-DA.Y the refiners
have taken about 100 hhds. Jamaica Sugar at
335. 3d. to 345. 3d., and the grocers 1000 bags
Benares at 375. 3d. to 40s. 3d., and 550 bags Dates
at 365. per cwt., being previous rates. Of
Molasses 200 puns. Barbadoes have been sold at
18s. per cwt.; 25 puns. Demerara Rum are reported
at previous prices, and 200 bags St. Domingo Coffee
at 445. per cwt. There are some few export orders
in the Tea market for common Congou at 111 d.
per lb. ; with this exception we have nothing of
moment to report. Sales are advertised for Thurs-
day next. There continues a good inquiry for
Rice, 1400 bags Bengal being taken at 14s. 6d. to
14s. 9d., and a cargo of Arracan (350 tons) to arrive,
at 12s. per cwt. We have also to notice a few
chests of Shell Lac at 475., 70 boxes Pearl Sago at
19s. per cwt., 10 tons Lima Wood, with all faults,
at £l2 15s. per ton, and 20 chests Castor Oil at
4d. per lb.
WOOL,—The market has been decidedly quiet

this week for all descriptions of Wool, and holders
are now getting anxious to sell, but to force sales
in the present unsettled state of affairs considerably
lower prices must be submitted to. Stocks gene-
rally, but particularly from the Levant and Black
Sea, are now very extensive, and in the face of the
London sales and the more warlike appearance of
the Eastern question, we cannot expect to see any
particular animation in low Wools for some time to
come ; the only favourable prospect is that stocks
in the manufacturers' hands are very light. Im-
ports for the week, 1,665 bales. English Fleece
and Skin Wools can only be sold in quantity at a
reduction of ld. to 2d. per lb. on rates current two
months ago, and even at this buyers are not anxious
to lay in stock.
METALS.—At the recent quarterly meetings of
the Staffordshire Ironmasters, the prices of manu-
factured iron were well maintained. The demand
was active ; but owing to. the uncertainty which
exists as to wages, particularly among the colliers,
new orders were received on terms conditional with
the present rates being maintained. For pig-iron
there is an active demand, and the quotations from
Glasgow to-day are 645. 9d. to 655. In other
metals there is not much to notice.
TIMBER.—The demand for all kinds suitable for
building purposes is still very good, and notwith-
standing the additional amount of shipping em-
ployed in this trade, the advance in prices is fully
sustained. From Messrs. A. F. and D. Mackay 's
circular of Friday last, we extract the following :
Since our annual circular, dated February Ist, there has
been an increase of 20 per cent. in the tonnage employed
conveying timber, &c., to this port, when compared with
same date last year ; at the same time prices of all de-
scriptions of wood have advanced fully 20 to 25 per cent.
The consumption has been on a very extensive scale ; and
at the present time the whole stock in the port of Liver-
pool is computed to be less than an average one. Cargoes
are all readily placed on arrival, and to arrive at full prices
where confidence is had in the shipper, the general im-
pression now being that the import to the Ist February,
1864, will be much less than at one time anticipated.—Of
Baltic timber, the arrivals since Ist February are 73
vessels, 20,218 tons register, against 63 vessels, 16,114 tons
last year. This article is very light in stock, and will
command a high figure.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.-

YESTERDAY.

(Before JOSEPII POLLOCK, Esq., the Judge.)
One hundred plaints were heard.

AN IMPUDENT TRANSACTION.—LEWIS V. WICKSTEA.D.
—The plaintiff in this case, Thomas Miller Lewis, is a
butcher in Wellington-road, Toxteth-park ; the defendant.
Joseph Wickstead, a member of the same trade, residing
in No. 3, Court, Combermere-street, also in the Park, and
the action was brought to recover £1 55., the value of a
calf. Mr. Lewis stated that he bought a calf from the
defendant, and gave him the money for it, but instead of
his delivering the animal, he had taken it down town and
sold it ! He was a butcher knocking about the country.
—The Judge : What does he say about it ?—The Plaintiff:
He says that he will never pay me.—The Judge : Well, you
may have either an order for execution, or committal for 30
days —whichever you think likeliest to get the money.—The
plaintiff : He has said that he would settle his goods upon
his son, but whether he has done so or not, I cannot tell.
What are the expenses of sending a person to Lancaster ?
—The judge : I am sorry to say that the expenses at
present are considerable. Shortly they will be very
trifling.—Mr. Wheeler, solicitor : The cost would be
about £2 12s.—The Judge : Well, it will not be worth
your while. I will give you an order in the usual way.
In a short time, when the gaol is built, you can come at
less expense. I will give you an order for ss. a-week.
CAUTION TO WITNESSES.—The stupidity of plaintiffs
and witnesses is often very trying to the patience of the
court. To-day, in an action brought to recover the
amount of a coal bill, the clerk who appeared on behalf of
the plaintiffs did not give prompt and direct answers to
the questions of the Judge, and handed in an alleged
admission of the debt, but which he was not prepared to
prove was in the defendant's handwriting. His Honour
ordered a nonsuit, and said,—" I must really make an
example in these cases. I intend that you and others
shall come properly prepared. I have lost more time than
has been lost in any other court in the kingdom by the
efforts I have made to teach you what evidence to give.
You must have been at least thirty times here when I
have complained of parties under similar circumstances,
but you do not profit from what I say, and now you must
suffer what you should have done months ago. Nothing but
my anxiety to gave you and others the fees, has caused me
to delay doing it before. You must suffer the consequence
of your negligence by a nonsuit." The party begged his
honour to postpone the case, but he refused to entertain
the application.—ln another case, at a subsequent part of
the day, his honour observed to the person appearing for
the plaintiff:—" I have been advised long since, and have
resisted it strenuously, to make you and others come pre-
pared with your cases. I have taken a deal of trouble, a
deal more, I believe, than any other person in England
has, and adjourned cases from time to time. I am now
determined that if well-to-do persons, who appear here by
their collectors or clerks, do not come prepared with their
evidence, I shall strike out the fees ; but if they are poor
and ignorant people, I will endeavour to serve them."
Yesterday, a Jew broker claimed against the person in
whose house he lives for the recovery of 9s. as commission.
According to his statement, the landlord was unwilling to
let the house to the defendant, and he offered him (the
plaintiff) ls. a month if he would take it for him. After
cross-examining the plaintiff at some length, and involv-
ing him in contradictions, his Honour said he was not at
all satisfied as to the transaction, and directed a non-suit.
CURIOUS CLAIM AGAINST A. PUBLICAN.—FOWLER V.
BURNS--Wm. Fowler, plumber, of 22, Great Newton-
street, was the plaintiff; the defendant. John Burne, a
publican, in Lambert-street ; and the summons charged
that the defendant had " converted an over-coat of the
plaintiff, and disposed of the same to his own use, whereby
the plaintiff had sustained damage to the amount of 305."
The case was of a curious eharacter. The plaintiff stated
that some time ago he went with a friend into the defen-
dant's house, and had a glass of ale. He pulled off his over-
coat, and, laying it over a chair-back, behind the counter,
in the bar, said, " Burne, I will leave this coat in your
care." He then went out, and saw a tall man (present in
the court), afterwards come out with his coat upon his
back. He said to his friend, " What is that man doing
with my coat on ?" but he said nothing to the man, as he
felt satisfied, having left it in Burne's care. He went at
night to Burne's to ask about it, when the defendant said,
"He would see it right." It was not forthcoming, how-
ever, and he went on Saturday, a week after, and asked
Burne for the coat ; he applied again two Saturdays after
that, but received only the same answer from Burne, that
he would see that the coat was right. He then wrote
him a note, telling him that if he did not return
him the coat, he should put him into the Court. He
had bought the coat about six months ago, and had
paid 305.—The defendant, upon being called on for his
version of the tale, said the plaintiff was with two
other men in the snug, when he said it was very hot,
and he would take off his coat. He did so, when one
of the men who was with him, and who was more
a friend of his than of him (the landlord), took it up
and put it on in his presence, saying, " Well, I may as
well be a swell to-night." The three then went out to-
gether to some sparring exhibition in Crosshall-street,
and the plaintiff sat drinking the same night there with
the man who had his coat on. He did not put the coat
on a chair, nor hand it into his charge. At half-past 12
o'clock that night, there was a "row," in the street, and
he observed the man with the coat on there, when the
plaintiff came up to him (the defendant), and demanded
the coat.—The Judge (to the plaintiff) : I want to know
how it was, when you saw a man walking off with your
coat, that you did not at once call on Barrie ? Plaintiff:
Well, I thought it was enough that I had left it in his
care. The Judge :He had your property on him, and you
were drinking afterwards in company with him ? Plain-
tiff: No; but I was in the same house. I said to my
friend that I should look to Burne for the coat. His
Honour : Then, I don't think you had a right to do so.
The 'young man who took the coat was then called as a
witness by the defendant, and corroborated his statement
in everyparticular. When they came out from the sparring,
the plaintiff said to him, " Fred, let us have that coat,"but
he told him that he had no other coat on. The Judge: What
did you do with it ? Witness : There were a lot of us
on the spree next day, and we pawned the coat that morn-
ing. The Judge : How came it to be pawned ? Witness :
I forget the man's name. The Judge : You had better
remember. Witness : I could find the man, but I don't
know his name exactly. The Judge : Who gave it to
him ? Witness : I don't know, sir. The Judge : You
had better answer my question at once, or I will direct
you to be taken into custody. Who gave him the coat ?
Witness : I had possession of the coat. The Judge :
Who gave it to the man ? Witness : Well, I think I
must have given it to him, but I had pulled it 6ff before.
The Judge : So I think.—His Honour then, turning to
the plaintiff, said—lf you choose to see your own coat
taken away, and don't interfere, I will not allow
you to make the landlord responsible. There must be a
nonsuit. As the parties were retiring, his honour obser-
ved to the plaintiff that that man (the witness) was liable
for the coat, and he was also liable for illegally pledging,
and might be brought before the magistrates on the evi-
dence adduced, if it were correct.
The court rose early. It will be open all this week,
with the exception of Saturday.

HOTEL V. STEAMBOAT CHAEGES.—A solicitor of this
town, in a letter to the Albion, contrasts the excessive
hotel charges to travellers, of which he adduces several
glaring instances, with the more moderate charge made
for equally good accommodation on board of some of our
coasting steamers. He says :—" On board of the Princess
Royal, (a steamer equal, if not superior, to any other
coasting steamer in the kingdom,) on a late voyage I made
by her from this port to Glasgow, we dined shortly after
leaving Liverpool. The fare at the table was such as, on
shore, could only be had at a first-class hotel; everything
was beautifully clean ; the service solid silver ; and the
attendance all that could be desired. After dinner, des-
sert, consisting both of dried fruits and those in season,
were placed on the table; and, after that, I corrected the
good things by a tumbler of whisky toddy. Now, mark
the difference between the sea and land charges. The
charge for dinner was only 2s. 6d.; toddy, 6d. No extra
charge was made for a dessert which, at an hotel, would
have added two or three shillings to the bill. The charge
for breakfast next morning was is. 6d., for those who
chose to eat at a table better supplied than many an hotel
dinner-table ; and, for those who only took coffee and
bread, 6d.
,On board the Princess Royal nearly every
passenger dined, and every one who did so praised the
dinner and the ship. I am sure that, if hotel-keepers
studied their own interests, they would, like the owners of
this splendid steamer, try, by moderate fixed charges, and
no extras, to please the public, and would find themselves
more than repaid by the increase of their business, I
may add that there were waxlights in the Princess Royal,
not only in the saloon, but in all the state-rooms, and that
mine was allowed to burn all night without any charge
being made for "

POLICE COURT ..-YESTERDAY. ESTERDA Y.

ROBBERY OF Two SOVEREIGNS, AND OTHER MONEY.—
Bridget O'Brien was charged with having stolen from an
elderly man, an Irishman, whose name did not transpire,
money to the amount of about £4, consisting of two sove-
reigns, five dollars, and other money. It appeared that
the 'complainant, who had been drinking most of the day
on Saturday last, had become much intoxicated, and
meeting with the prisoner in the neighbourhood of the
police-office, invited her and another woman to have a glass
of ale with him, which invitation they complied with. In
return, the prisoner invited him to accompany her to her
lodgings, which he did, and had some more drink. The
result of his sojourn with his new acquaintance was, that
on counting his cash he discovered himself minus the
amount stated to be stolen. No money was found on
the prisoner, who, of course, denied all knowledge of the
robbery, and as the complainant could not give a detailed
account of it, the prisoner was discharged.
ANOTHER ROBBERY OF MONEY.—Mary Murphy was
charged with robbing a man who did not give his name,
on Wednesday evening, of £ll 10s. The complainant,
who described himself as not being properly drunk nor
properly sober at the time of the transaction, having met
the prisoner, at her request treated her to a glass of ale.
On leaving her, he discovered his money was gone, and
shortly afterwards gave information to the police, and the
prisoner was taken into custody on Saturday. The com-
plainant admitted that there was another woman in com-
pany with him besides the prisoner, and expressed his
wish that no further proceedings should be taken in the
case. With this desire the magistrate refused to comply ;
and the prisoner, who had on three previous occasions
been brought up on charges of robbery but discharged,
was sentenced to be imprisoned for two months.

STEALING SIX BALES OF COTTON.--Jaraes Powell
and Richard Shea were brought up on remand from last
Monday, charged with stealing six bales of cotton, the
property of Mr. Gregory. Powell admitted his compli-
city in the robbery, but it was stated that no case what-
ever had been made out against Shea, who was forthwith
discharged. Powell was remanded for another week,•in
order to afford time for the apprehension of other parties
who are implicated in the robbery.
ABSCONDING WITH MONEY.—Michael Bulger, a young
man, who was employed in the shop of Messrs. M'Cor-
qoudale and Co., in Castle-street,:was charged with having
absconded on Saturday last with the sum of £l7. 16s. 6d.
with which he had been entrusted. From the evidence it
appeared that Mr. M'Corquodale, who is treasurer to the
Newton Branch of the Savings' Bank, had entrusted the
prisoner with the money to deposit it in the bank in
Bold-street. For this purpose Bulger left the premises
in Castle-street, about half-past twelve o'clock ; but on
its being ascertained that he had not reached the bank
with the money, further inquiry was made, and it was dis-
covered that he had absconded. Information was given
at the Police-office, and Cousins, the detective officer,
traced Bulger to Birkenhead, and discovered him at the
Railway-station, where he took him into custody. On
being searched, nearly all the money was found on the
prisoner, hehaving, however, expended £l. 17s.—in the
purchase of a pair of trousers and other articles. The
prisioner, on being questioned, burst into tears, and said
he wished to go to Dublin, where his relatives live, that
he did not intend to steal the money, but to have had it
returned so soon as he got home. He was remanded for
seven days.
TRYING THE WRONG Pocicrr.—A boy named Coleman
was charged with attempting to pick pockets in Lord-
street, on Saturday evening. Inspector Bates said,
on passing along Lord-street, where preparations are
being made for rebuilding the corner of Lord-street and
Whitechapel, he felt a hand thrust into his outer coat-
pocket, when putting round his hand he caught the pri-
soner by the wrist and secured him. Patrick, the victim
of this misplaced confidence, assured his worship that• it
was all a mistake ; notwithstanding which assurance, how-
ever, his worship, probably uncertain as to the nature of
the mistake, sentenced Master Coleman to three months'
imprisonment.
THE LATE HOCUSSING AND ROBBERY.—John Morgan,
on remand from last Monday, and Joseph Grimshaw, newly
taken into custody, were arraigned on a charge of drugging
the liquor of a Scotch gentleman, and robbing him of
55., a silver watch, and some other valuables, on the
night of Friday, the 30th ult. We gave an outline of the
case last week. On the case being called it was found that
the gentleman who had been robbed had sailed last Wed-
nesday in the City of Manchester, steamer, for Philadel-
phia. So far as it could be gone into in the absence of
prosecutor, the inquiry was proceeded with, and the case, as
to both of the prisoners having been in the victim's com-
pany under most suspicious circumstances was satis-
factorily proved ; indeed, it was not denied by either of
them, although both, in vehement terms, protesting their
innocence of all crime, indignantly denied the robbery.
Both being known to the police as suspected characters,
however, their protestations did not go for much, and
they were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
a result which evidently took Morgan by surprise, and
he stammered out in impudent, though faltering terms,
" Three m-mon-ths ! I wish it may do you good,' .address-
ing himself to the magistrate.
STEALING AND PAWNlNG.—Catherine Brien. pleaded
guilty to a charge of stealing a waistcoat, which she also
admitted she had pawned for 3s. 6d. Ordered to repay
the 3s. 6d., and to pay a fine of 20s. for illegally pawning,
or be imprisoned for fourteen days.
STABBING A POLICEMAN.—David Irvine, beerhouse-
keeper in Boundary-place, was brought up on remand
from last Monday, charged with stabbing a policeman
with a bayonet, on the morning of Monday week. Stephen.
Thompson, the constable who was wounded, was in at-
tendance, and proved that the prisoner stabbed him in
the thigh with a bayonet on the morning stated. Medical
testimony was adduced, by which it was proved that there
were two wounds inflicted,—one in the abdomen, the
other in the thigh, and both of a serious as well as a
dangerous character. The prisoner, who offered no re-
marks, was committed for trial al the assizes.
PIGS AND PHILANTHROPY.—A garrulous little old NM-
I man, who was in vain tried to be kept silent by the
officers, pressed forward, as she said she had a complaint
to make against the Corporation and its officers, which
she insisted on his worship hearing and redressing.
Having obtained permission of the bench, she proceeded
in a style of rapid volubility to state that she holds a
piece of land near the gas-works, which, from motives
of the purest and most disinterested philanthropy, she
permits sundry individuals, whom she took pains to repre-.
sent as very poor people, to apply to the purposes of pig-
rearing. This porcine nursery, it would seem, like other
philanthropic institutions, had fallen under evil influences,
and was assailed by antagonists no less formidable than
the officers of the Corporation, who, armed with the power
of the law, and, as she averred, ever opposed to the plea-
sures and profits of the poor, insisted on dislodging the
colony of" grunters:' Such a proceeding, she insisted, was
not only a violation of the rights of property, but a gross
intrusion of the comforts of the poor. She went on to
demonstrate that so well-regulated a piggery as the one
which flourished on the estate owning her sway, so far
from being a nuisance was a credit to the neighbourhood,
and an establishment which she patronised solely on
account of the benefits it conferred on the poor.—His wor-
ship, with difficulty interrupting her so far as to say a
word, acknowledged his willingness to look on her as " a
whole-hog humanitarian," but regretted his inability
to assist her, as the matter was out of his province. He
advised her to apply at the Town Hall ; which she pro-
mised she would do, and retired.
A DISHONEST SEOPMAN.—Peter Pearson, in the em-
ployment of Mr. Richmond, mercer, Church-street, was
committed for trial on a charge of purloining a number
of silk neck-ties, handkerchiefs, and other property.
SINGULAR CA.BE.—CHARGE or PERJURY.—An inquest
on the body of Samuel Webster, master of a steam-tug,
who died suddenly at his house in Edmond-street, on Fri=
day morning, was held on Saturday. The jury had viewed
the body, the evidence had been taken, and a verdict was
about to be returned to the effect that the deceased had
died of disease of the heart, a decision at which the coroner
and jury seemed to have arrived chiefly from the evidence
of a respectable-looking woman, dressed in mourning, who
deposed that she was the widow of the deceased, when an
incident occurred entirely changing the result of the deli-
berations. A few minutes after the whole of the witnesses
had left the court, another woman presented herself as
the identical Mrs. Webster, her object being to obtain the
coroner's certificate of the death of her husband, to entitle
her to receive £lO from a benefit society, of which Webster
was a member. To prove her claim she produced her
marriage lines, which left no doubt as to the truth of
her statement, and the beadle was sent after the
pseudo Mrs. Webster. In a short time he re-appeared
with the woman, who was called into the witness-
box, and interrogated by the coroner :—" Are you
Winifred Webster ?" " Yes." "Is that your mark ?"

Pointing to the 4. which she had appended to her deposi-
tion.) " Yes, sir ; I put that cross there." " Were you
sober ?" " Yes." " Did you hear the clerk read what
you had sworn to be true ?" " Yes, sir." "Do you still
deliberately tell the jury that you are the lawful wife of
the deceased ?" " I did not understand that it was law-
ful' wife." " Did you consider yourself to be the unlawful
wife ?" " I don't know ; I considered myself more so than
the one he married." She was ordered into custody, and,
after she had been taken away, the coroner, addressing the
jury, said, " The statement of this woman, as she has sworn
falsely, cannot be relied on, and it is now a question whe-
ther it would not be desirable to have the body opened.
You see the deceased was in a burial society, and if the
real wife had not appeared so opportunely, should have
given the prisoner the usual certificate, and she would
have received the £lO from the society." The jury coin-
cided with the coroner, and the inquest was adjourned
until Monday, at noon, in order that a post-mortem ex-
amination of the body might be made. At the adjourned
inquest, after hearing the medical evidence, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy, caused by ex-
cessive drinking." The woman claiming to be the wife,
whose name is Winifred Howard, was brought before the
sitting magistrate on a charge of perjury, which was dis-
missed, on the ground that in the alleged perjury there
was nothing material to the issue. She was discharged.

BANKRUPTCY COURT, MONDAY.—In re Dagnal and
Fairclough. The court was engaged nearly all day in
hearing an adjourned examination in this case, which was
further adjourned till Friday next.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning, an aged woman,
named Preston, who lived at No. 43, Fontenoy-street, was
found dead upon her bed-room floor. She had been pre-
viously complaining of illness. An inquest will be held
upon the body to-day.
OVERLAIN On Sunday morning last, William Evans,
an infant, four months old, whose friends reside in
Wetherall-place, Chapel-lane, Bedford-street, Toxteth-park,
was found dead in bed by the side of its mother. It is
supposed to have been overlain.
THE CABINET.—Since the Cabinet Council, on Wed-
nesday last, several of the Ministers have left London, in-
cluding the Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmerston, Lord
Granville, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth,
and Mr. Sidney Herbert. The Duke of Argyle, Lord
Lansdowne, and Mr. Gladstone remained absent from
town, the last named having, on leaving Manchester, pro-
ceeded to Hawarden Castle, where he is staying. Lord
John Russell had intended to have left London early on
Friday, but being slightly indisposed he remained in town.
The Duke of Newcastle reached London on Friday night.
Lord Clarendon remains in town, and received a visit, on
Saturday, at the Foreign-office, from his Excellency the
Turkish Minister. In the course of ten days a Privy
Council will be held by Her Majesty, for the purpose of
settling the period of the further prorogation of Parliament,
which at present stands for the 27th of the present month.

MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL
From the Commercial Daily List.--Since the depres-
sion in the Stock and Share markets, there is a disposition
evinced to purchase Produce, and we have to report a
greater inquiry for Tea, Iron, and Tallow. Iron is quoted
645.'6d. per ton.
FEANCE.-3,000,000 hectolitres of Wheat have, under
the late decree of the government, been imported into
France.
SPAIN.—The abundance of Corn is said to be so great
that it is in contemplation to adopt measures calculated
to facilitate exportation of the surplus to France. A de-
cline has taken place in all the Spanish markets.