The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPARTMBNT.

Notes issued ... £29,406,690:G0vernmt. Debt £11,015,100
(Other Securities 2,984,900
iGold coin & bu1rn.16,406,690
iSilver hellion _ _

£29,406,6
BANKING

£29,406,690

iSP./31TILENT.

Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000 Gov. Securities £13,537,638
Rest ... ... 3,333,7 Other Securities 14,297,849
Public Deposits 2,646,783 Notes ... 7,135,195
Other Deposits 13,894,599 Gold & Silver Coin 689,676
7-day & other bills 1,232,096

£35,660,2581

£35,660,258

Notwithstanding threatening appearances, the
SHARE MARKET continues pretty firm. The con-
stant tendency to depression is solely the act of
speculators, which they are allowed to create in the
absence of any extensive buyers. Stock was very
scarce for the settlement just paid, and a back had
to be paid on most stocks. We annex this day's
prices :—Chester and Birkenhead,lsl; Caledonians,
251 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62 • London
Stock, 10014 1-; Midland Stock, 61 60Z- 1; North
British, 71.
PRODUCE,—The markets generally during the
week have been very inactive, without much altera-
tion in prices. Rice, Palm Oil, and Tallow, were,
however, dearer, and Tea ld. per lb. lower. To-
DAY there are no transactions to notice in Sugar,
but on Saturday the sales consisted of 50 hhds.
Antigua at 335. to 345., 95 hhds. St. Lucia at 335.
to 345. 6d., and 70 hhds. Trinidad at 345. 6d. to
the Refiners, with 100 hhds. Antigua at 355. 6d.
to 365. 9d., 2,500 bags good middling to fine white
Benares at 38s. 6d. to 415., 1,100 bags low to fine
yellow Dates at 335. 6d. to 375., and 200 hhds. 70
brls. Porto Rico and Cuba at 375. 6d. to 395. 6d.
per cwt. to the grocers ; 50 puns. St. Lucia Mo-
lasses are reported at 16s. per cwt., and 50 puns.
Demerara Rum at previous rates. The Tea market
continues active, and there are buyers of common
Congou at former rates. There is nothing to notice
in East India Rice, and only 20 tces. Carolina at
235. 6d. per cwt. We have also to report 300 bags
Sago Flour at 235., 60 bags Plate Lac at 555. per
cwt., and a small lot of green Ebony at the ex-
treme rate of £lO 7s. 6d. per ton.
COTTON.—The business during the week has
been very irregular, owing to large arrivals and
apprehensions of war, inducing some holders to
realise. Prices were, in consequence, rather lower,
varying from -id. to id. per lb., but chiefly on the
better qualities. The weekly sales up to Friday
were 36,620 bales, of which 7,280 bales were taken
on speculation and for export, leaving below 30,000
for the trade ; but this is not a correct test of con-

sumption, as several parcels of recent imports are
on spinners' account. To-DAY the advices per Ca-
nada were received, *but had little effect on this
market, which is quiet. The sales were 6,000 bales,
of which about 1,000 were on speculation and for
export, and previous quotations were unaltered.
The following is a comparison of present rates
with those of the corresponding period last year
1863. 1854.
New Orleans, middling 6 13-16 d.... 60.
fair
-1
Uplands, middling.
fair
DESCRIPTIONJ PRICES

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

BY the British and North American Royal Mail Steam
Ship Canada, Captain Stone, which arrived here yesterday
morning, we have intelligence from New York to the 17th
and Boston to the 18th instant.

The Canada also brings $232,539 in specie on freight
and 108 passengers.
PASSENGERS.—From Boston : Mr. Store and Lady, Mr.
John Kay, Mr. Robert Roy, Mr. J. R. Macdonald, Mr.
Johnson, Mr. P. Valin, Mr. L. Maros, Mr. S. Levi, Mr.
James Hewitt, Mr. F. Boisvers, Mr. Latulippe, Mr. David
Gilmond, Mr. R. Leckie, Mr. John Fraser, Mr. W.
Steward, Mr. Lemontagne. Mr. George Knox, Mr. Robert-
son, Mr. W. Bradreaux, Mr. Boyviu, Mr. S. Gilbert, Mr. D.
Aikin, Mr. Frederick H. Leaf, Mr. W. G. Kingston and
Lady, Mr. James Burns, Mr. H. Ramsey, Mr. L. Africain,
Mr. Gerome Grienio, Mr. P. B. Badeaux, Mr. J. Beandry,
Mr. Hastings, Mr. Crozin, Mr. Pilarim, Mr. Tobin, Mr.
Chamberlain, Mr. Ranard, Mr. Authee Ayres, Mr. Polak,
Mr. Waugh, Mr. Muzard, Mrs. Seddon, Mr. Weippert, Mr.
Ravencroft, Mr. Francis Mill, Mr. Rudolph Reid, Mr.
Macklin, Mr. David Jones, Mr. Baylis and lady, Mr. I.
Fuchs, Mr. J. Hickey, MrKnowles, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Gran-
ger, Mr. Millitage, Mr. Tobin Mr. Kearman, Mr. Kemp,
Mr. Joseph Dison, Mr. Dickinson, R. B. Myhes, Mr. D.
Richards, Mr. Readman, Mr. Berger, Mr. Hardy Mr.
Crawford, Mr. John Sennant.—From Halifax : Mr. R.
Vassey, Mr. Harris and lady, Mr. Beatty, lady, three
children, and two servants, Mr. Stone, Mr. Campbell, Mr.
Martineau, Mr. Steinhauser, Mr. Burke, Hon. Mr. Robert-
son, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Hegan, Mr. Rennie, Mr. J. de
Wolfe Spurr, Mr. Wisswell, Mr. King, Major Byles, 56th
Regiment, Mr. John Firth, Mr. Payne, Mr, Hayes, Mr.
Constance, Mr. Shannon and lady, Mr. King, Mr. Thom-
son, Mr. and Mrs. Duggan, Mr. Crocker, Mr. Richardson,
Mr. Muirhead, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Riddle,
Mr. Kendall.

The Canada sailed from Boston at 0.15 on the 18th, and
from Halifax at 2.40, a.m., on the 20th. On the 21st, at
3, p.m., in lat. 45 40, lon. 66, 30, she passed the Niagara,
hence for Halifax and Boston; on the 27th, at 1 a.m.,
signals were exchanged with a steamer supposed to be the
Arabia, hence for Boston ; and on the 29th, at 2 p.m.,
passed the Africa, hence for New York.
The steamer Nashville sailed from New York for South-
ampton and Havre, on the 16th, in place of the Humboldt.
The royal mail steam-ship Europa, hence, arrived at
New York on the 16th inst. _ _ _

The remaining survivors, with the exception of sixteen
soldiers and two seamen, of the wrecked steamer San
Francisco, had arrived at New York in the ship Lucy
Thompson, having been transferred from the Kilby. The
Kilby, with the remainder, arrived at Boston on the 17th.
The Brazilian consul at New York had given notice
that, in consequence of a company having been incorpor-
ated for the alleged specific objects of transporting passen-
gers and freight between the port of New York and the
various ports on the river Amazon, no foreign flag is per-
mitted to enter the said river Amazon.

Galveston advices of the 6th state that Caravajal had
been acquitted by the United States Court. Colonel Sloo
had effected a contract with the firm of Sykes and Co., of
England, for the construction of a plank road across tb,e
Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Further violation of the revenue laws came to
light upon the arrival of the Europa at Jersey city, the re-
sult of which was the arrest of the surgeon and the bar- '
tender of the Europa, and the seizure of a large amount of
goods—probably not less than s3,ooo—found in their pos-
session upon which no duties were paid. The Custom-
house authorities have been stimulated to greater vigi-
lance by the late discoveries. In addition to that, Mr.
Cunard, the agent and part owner of this line of steamers,
came into possession of information received by the last
steamer that goods had been received at Liverpool, by
steamers from Glasgow and Greenock, to be sent to the
United States by the Europa, by parties engaged in smug-
gling. Mr. Cunard communicated this fact to the proper
person, and measures were taken for the detection of the
smugglers.
In the Senate, Mr. Pearce offered a resolution instruct-
ing the committee on naval affairs to report measures ex-
pressive of the estimation entertained for the gallantry of
of the captains of the ships Antartic, of New York, Three
Bells, of Glasgow, and bark Kilby, of Boston, in rescuing
the officers, crew, and passengers of the wrecked steam-
ship San Francisco, and advocated at some length the pas-
sage of the resolution, paying an effective tribute to the
noble heroism of the act which, after some debate, was
adopted. In the course of the debate allusion was made
to the manner in which Captain Nye, of the Collins
steamer, Pacific, had been rewarded for his exertions in
saving the crew of a British vessel.
The steamer Texas had arrived at New Orleans from
Vera Cruz, bringing dates from the city of Mexico to the
6th instant. An important treaty had been concluded
between Mr. Gadsden, the American minister, and the
Mexican Government. The Mexico treaty agreed to
give 39,000,000 acres in Mesilla Valley for $20,000,000, of
which $5,000,000 were to be reserved for paying claims,
including the Garay grant, &c. It was understood that
Mr. Sloo pays the Tehuantepec Company $2,000,000 for
the relinquishment of all their rights. The Trait d' Union
notices the Gadsden treaty favourably, and says it was
received with joy by the public. General Lombardini
was dead, and General Almonte had succeeded him in
command of the army. General Alcosta, the Minister of
War, had resigned on account of ill health. The details
concerning the destruction of the Walker expedition to
Sonora were received, but nothing later except the reported
capture of the Caroline.
The packet-ship America, arrived from Liverpool on the
15th, and had very bad weather. On the 27th a wave
broke over the deck, washing away James Quenet, sea-
man of Dundee, and damaged the ship so badly that she
had to lay to and repair. On the 4th inst. she was again
washed. She had been four days getting in from Fire
Island.
The packet ship Continent, arrived on the 14th from
Liverpool, lost 54 of her steerage passengers by cholera.
The continent had a boisterous passage of 42 days.
The ship Great Republic proves, upon examination, to
be in not so bad a condition as was at first supposed. The
hull is entirely good, and all her timbers as sound as
when she was launched.
Havanna advices of the Bth state that a decree was
passed on the 29th ult., regulating telegraphic despatches,
obliging all employees to' observe an inviolable secresy,
but reserving to the Governor the right of stopping this
mode of correspondence whenever:he may choose. Very
little business doing in sugars, owing to the small stocks.
The stock on hand was about 35,000 boxes. No material
alteration in other products.

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' SALES. IMPORTS.
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DESCRIPTION) PRICES. Week Prey'. Week This STOCK
ending ously ending This
. Year.
Jan. 27. this yr. Jan. 27. Jan. 27
--
Sea Island .. 9 4)33 780, 1130 ••••
Stained .... 4 10i 120' 80 1 3215 48393 ....
Boweds .... 4 7 6190' 20460 325030
Mobile 4l sa 1530 9420 } 8303 86058 "' •
New Orleans. 3i sa 166201 50970 •—•
Pernams, &c. 6,1 8 720, 3350 1247 6456 24650
Bahia, &c.
Maranham
Demerara,&c .... I 80 .... 104 280
Egyptian 6 11 19301 9860 838 1965 73970
Com.W.l.Bic. .... i 100 225 225 3700
Surat
Madras
Bengal — ....I 210 442 565 3540
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36620' 114030 18163' 187236'656460
WooL.—Since the close of our public sales, on
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
____ _ NEW YORK, JAN. 17.

MONEY AND STOCK—The demand at present for ex-
change for remittances is by no means large, and the quota-
tions on London have been irregular. The best banker's
bills have been done at 109.1. The stock market on Satur-
day exhibited a lowering aspect. On Monday there was a
better feeling at the board, and prices were maintained as
at the close on Saturday. To-day business to a fair
amount was done, without change to note from yester-
day's rates.
COTTON.—(From W. P. Wright's. Circular, of Janu-
ary 17.)—0n Wednesday and Thursday last week this
market was dull, with a tendency to decline. After the
arrival of the Baltic, however, more activity prevailed,
and holders were unwilling to accept the low offers of
buyers. Yesterday a fair business was done. In mid-
dling to good middling there has been no change in price,
but for middling fair they are lc. to lc. per lb. lower than
last week, owing to our increased stock of these descrip-
tions. The total sales for the week have been 11,312
bales : namely, export, 4,914 ; home use, 3,862 ; specula-
tion, 1,674 ; in transitn, 862. The export during the
same time has been,- to Liverpool, 5,872 ; Havre, 1,158 ;
Bremen, 66 ; Antwerp, 180. Total, 7,266 bales. The
receipts at the ports, owing to a fall in the southern
rivers, are again light for the week under review, and the
total deficit, as compared with last year, now amounts to
558,000 bales.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist September last, as compared with the pre-
vious three years :

the 21st instant, there has been but little anima-
tion manifested in the market. Manufacturers
having stocked themselves for the present, do not
seem anxious to operate further ; prices, however,
continue very firm, with every prospect of being
firmly maintained for some time to come. The
next series of auction sales in London are fixed to
commence on the 9th proximo, when about 40,000
bales, foreign and colonial, will be brought for-
ward. In English and Irish there is a little more
doing, and prices are looking up. Scotch, for the
moment, is neglected ; prices nominal. Imports
for the week, 2,234 bales, viz., 1,488 Pernam and
Alpaca ; 584 Mediterranean ports ;
55 14144 India;
40 Portugal; 20 Scotch ; 25 Irish ; and 22 coastwise.
TIMBER.—We give the following extracts from
the annual circular just published by Messrs.
A. F. and D. MACKAY

1854. 1853. 1852. . 1851.
Receipts at the Ports, 1,036,000 1,594,000 1,141,000 1,037,000
Exports to Gt. Britain, 299,000 641,000 394,000 309,000
France .. • . 91,000 105,000 134,000 144,000
, other For. Ports, 66,000 94,000 58,000 78,000
Tot's! Exports ........ 456,000 840,000 586,000 531,000
Stock on hand ...... 516,000 570,000 422,000 489,000
BuElnsTurps,—There has been considerable excite-
ment manifested since the arrival of the Europa. Report-
ing increased rates in Liverpool, flour has in consequence
advanced considerably. Prices went up to ',eight dollars

• With regard t) Mils' Wood, the business at the
commencement of the,season was in a fair condition.

There was a good average demand:, stocks moderate, with I for common state brands, and even higher, say 8 dots. 121
no immediate prospect of excessive importations, owing to cents. The rise on wheat was comparatively greater, say
the scarcity of tonnage. This state of things continued 10 cents per bushel.
for some time, prices of St. John Spruce Deals ruling at PROVISIONS. —Pork firm : sales 700 barrels ; mess, $l4
about £lO per standard. In the beginning of July there to 14,25 ; new prime, $12,75 to 12,87. Beef firm : sales
was an indisposition on the part of buyers to lay in stocks 400 barrels ; country mess, $8,25 to 11 • prime, $5 to 5,50;
at the rates which then prevailed, and for a short time repacked Chicago, $l3 to $13,50. Lard steady : sales 400
prices were somewhat lower, one cargo having been sold kegs, at 11c. ; barrels. at 9c to 10c. Cut meats heavy.
as low as £9 14s. per standard. There was, however, an Hams, Bic. to 81c.; shoulders, 61c.
active consumption going on through the country, build- FnEinnxs.—Shipowners and consignees were firmer in
ing being pretty general, and towards the close of the their views, which checked transactions. About 1,000
month confidence revived, and the attention of the trade barrels. Flour were engaged at 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d., and
was directed towards the necessity of providing for the 15,000 to 18,000 bushels grain were taken at 12d in bulk.
evidently increasing wants of the community. By the NEW ORLEANS, January 14.—Receipts of Cotton for
middle ofAugust, Deals commanded £lO 15s. per standard, the week, 40,000 bales. Sales for the week, 26,000 bales.
which was an advance on the opening prices of the season ; Middling, 94c.. Freight to Liverpool, id.—dull. Exchange
but so active was the demand both for shipping and home on London, st to st per cent. Decreased receipts at all
consumption, and the importers being firm in their deter- the ports, 562,000 bales.
urination to hold—as the first cost and freights had in the i MOBILE, January 14.—Middling, Bc. per lb. Freight
meantime considerably increased—the prices here conti- to Liverpool, eleven-sixteenths of a penny per lb. Decrease
nued to advance, and by the middle of September several by table to day, 571,000 bales. Decrease in total export.
large cargoes were sold as high as £l2 10s. per standard, 389,000 bales. Decrease in exports to Great Britain
and before the close of September the highest point of the 351,000 bales
year was reached, St. John Spruce Deals having been sold
at £l4 10s., with Yellow Pine at £l7 per standard, or an
advance of 45 per cent. from the commencement of the
season. The price of Deals from other ports being
governed chiefly by those from St. John, they experienced
similar fluctuations. The price of Quebec Pine, at the
opening of the season, was about 20d. per foot for 70 feet
average. After various fluctuations, it reached the highest
point in the month of November, when 80 feet average
sold at 2s. 3d. per foot. St. John Pine at the commence-
ment was 6d. per foot over the average girth, owing to
the short stock, and gradually advanced until the month
of September, when it reached the unprecedented figure
of 10d. per foot over the average, or equal to 2s. sd. per
foot for 19-inch average girth, being the highest price
ever attained in this market for an entire cargo of like
average. Of Baltic Timber the stocks held over from the
previous year were very small. In the month of June,
notwithstanding the small increase of arrivals as compared
with the corresponding period of the previous year, the
supply was insufficient for the demand, and prices in con-
sequence continued to advance from 18d. to 20d. per foot
for common Timber, which were the current rates in the
early part of the year, until they reached 2s. 3d. per foot
in the month of November. This continuous rise of
prices, and the large profits which had been made by
importers, excited attention towards fresh imports and
large increase of shipments, particularly from the Baltic
ports ; and owing to the long continuance of easterly
winds, the arrivals were very numerous within the last
two months. This unprecedented quantity, which was
altogether unexpected, amounting to nearly fifty cargoes,
has operated in a very material degree to depress the
market value for this description of Wood, and common
Timber has been sold this month at 21d. per foot.

EXTENSIVE FORGERY.

APPREHENSION AND COMMITAL OF THE

FORGER.

YESTERDAY, a well-dressed and respectable-looking
man, about thirty years of age, was brought up at the
police court, charged with forging a cheque for £1,500
From the investigation, it appeared the prisoner, who
gave his name as John Timpson, went to the Bank
of Liverpool yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, where
he presented a cheque for £1,500, purporting to be drawn
by Messrs. Glynn and Co., bankers, London. To ac-
count for presentation of the cheque without previous
advice of it having been made, Timpson said Mr. Ledger
Glynn had occasion to be in the north on some business,
for the purposes of which he had taken funds with him ;
that Mr. Glynn, senior, being afraid that some mistake
might happen' had sent him, Timpson, with this cheque.
Such was the tale he told to Mr. G. M. Brown, sub-ma-
nager of the bank. That gentleman having gone to consult
Mr. Langton on the subject of the cheque, Timpson
became evidently uneasy, and endeavoured to leave the
place. This being observed, he was stopped, when he
immediately confessed the forgery of the cheque, adding
that he should adhere to the statement all through. He
was then given into custody, and at the Bridewell he re-
peated his admission of being the forger of the cheque,
stating, further, that he was glad he had not got the
money, as, in that event, he should have been miserable
all his days. When before the magistrates, he once more
admitted his guilt, and was committed for trial at the
next assizes.

THE SCREW STEAM SHIP CHARITY.

THE Charity (s.s.) Paton, hence for Portland (Maine),
put into Greenock on Saturday morning, last week, decks
swept. The Charity left the Mersey early on the morning
of the 17th instant, and had proceeded as far as 15 west
longitude, when she was overtaken by the terrific gale of
the 20th and 21st.

Captain Paton writes : " The sails were reduced gradu-
ally until very stitch was taken in, and the ship hove to
under bare poles, with engine going dead slow to keep
enough way on the ship, to keep her head up to the 'sea.
She was in this position, and about four points from the
wind, when an immense sea struck her, and swept almost
everything off the decks, including the funnel, three boats,
taking several davits with them, the galley, companion,
&c., &c."
Much water, of course went down into the cabins and
engine-room, causing considerable alarm amongst the
passengers. The donkey engine was set to work to pump
the water out. Although without a funnel, the engineers
succeeded in raising as much steam as kept the engine
moving slowly. Captain Paton put about, and the wind
being from the southward, made for Greenock, where they
arrived on Saturday morning at three o'clock.
The Sarah Sands, (s.s.) which should have sailed yester-
day for Portland, is detained in the river for the passengers
ex " Charity," who are to arrive here from Greenock by
railway early this morning. It is intended that the
Charity shall come round here for repairs to the deckwork,
&c., as soon as a funnel has been fitted to her in the
Clyde.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.-
YESTERDAY.

(Before JOSEPH POLLOCK, Beg., Judge)

CLAIM BY A DOMESTIC.—HALL v. CHURCHOD.—
Margaret Hall, a domestic servant, residing at 45, Great
Crosshall-street, summoned Mrs. Churchod, of the Queen's
Hotel, Lime-street, for 19s. 2d., a month's wages. It ap-
peared that plaintiff had been engaged as chambermaid,
at £lO a-year wages, but after she had been there a week
she was dismissed, the reason being according to her own
statement that "she could not answer two bells at once."
Nothing had been said on either side as to any notice,
although evidence was given that the defendant generally
engaged servants subject to a week's notice. Plaintiff had
been offered 3s. 10d. as a week's wages, but had refused
the money. In the absence of any specific agreement as
to a notice, his honour held that the plaintiff was entitled
to a month's notice, and directed a verdict for the plaintiff
for the amount claimed.
ALLEGED BREAKAGE FROM NEGLIGENT DELIVERY.—
Mr. Edwin Salt, baker and flour dealer, Soho-street, (at
the corner of Queen Anne-street,) preferred a claim
against. Mr. Samuel Radford, corn merchant, of £1 18s.
3d., owing to his window having been broken through the
iiegllgunce tit dcfetiklaut'a earlier. I 4 appeared mat xne
plaintiff dealt with defendant for his supplies of flour. A
lorry containing fifty barrels had been sent up to plaintiff's
shop, and they were in course of being discharged on the
footpath, when the first lot having been piled up, the
ladder-slide was placed from the top of the first tier to the
cart. The carter was delivering them to a person in the
employ of the plaintiff, who stood at the foot of the slide,
when, as the latter was stooping down (according to the
evidence for the plaintiff), the carter let one barrel slip,
and it went right through the window into plaintiff's shop,
causing damage to the extent sued for. The defence was
that the barrels should have been hoisted up into an upper
room at once, but that the plaintiff had not sufficient
hands engaged for the purpose, and that the carter had no
further responsibility than simply delivering them from
the lorry, leaving on the servants of the plaintiff the onus
of seeing that they were safely received. His honour,
after carefully sifting the evidence, and attaching evident
weight to the equivocating manner in which the carter
himself had given his testimony, directed a verdict for the
plaintiff, with costs out of pocket.
SPOILING A CHRISTMAS DINNER.—James Leicester,
whitesmith, of 14, Byrom-terrace, Byrom-street, sued
Thomas Turner, public bake-house keeper, of Primrose-
hill, Fontenoy-street, " for having," according to his sum-
mons, " spoiled a goose of the plaintiff's, whereby he has
sustained damage to the amount of 55." Mrs. Leicester
said that the goose, which was the interesting subject of
dispute, was bought for Christmas. She took it to the
defendant's to be baked, and asked him when it would be
done. He said at one o'clock. She went for it at that
time, and found that it had been converted to a cinder,
" so that it was not fit to be placed upon a table at all."
She added that she had cautioned him on leaving not to
do it too much. In answer to the Judge, she said she did
not take it away : she left it there, and did not know what
had become of it. She had pieces of the bone which she
had broken off, to show that it had been reduced to a cin-
der. [A small package of calcined remains was here
opened and produced.] Her husband had paid ss. for the
goose. She had witnesses present, one of whom could
speak to the goose before it went into the bake-house,
and a second,.who was a cook, that had immediately
seen it after it came out. Witness No. 1 was called.
The Judge : Was it a fine one ? (Laughter.) It was as
fine a goose as ever I saw. I saw it afterwards ; it was
burned, and not fit to go to anybody's table. I saw the
journeyman at the bakehouse, and showed him that it was
spoiled, when he said it could not be helped, that it was
not done a bit too much for any one, and that it was not
spoiled. Witness No. 2 was then called. She said " she
saw the goose after it was cooked." The Judge : Was it
well done ? Witness : It was done too much for any one ;
it was as dry as a stick. I said this is such a goose as I
never saw before. (Laughter.) He said none of your im-
pertinence. The gentleman who officiated, (the foreman)
shoved his peel at a woman who had a child in her arms,
and he refused to apologise, as he said it was Christ-
mas time. The goose was not fit for any one ; it was
not worth a penny. The defendant : You were very
tipsy when you came. Witness No. 2: No, sir, bat
you were. (Loud laughter.) The defendant said the
goose was done very properly, but as a disturbance
was made about it, he had offered to pay 45., which
he considered its fair value. Plaintiff's wife, however, had
gone on that it was not eatable, but the goose was in
court. (Sensation.) The Judge : I shan't eat any part of
it. Defendant : But it is here, properly done, and very
sweet, too. The Judge This was in December. We are
now at the end of January. I shall be very sorry to eat
any of it. The foreman was then called, who said that the
goose had been "done" the same as other people's, and
that there had never been any complaint. The Judge (to

Mrs. Leicester) : What did you do for your dinner': that
day ? She said they had to do without. His Honour
said : I think you are entitled to a verdict for &s. If it is
a little above the value of the goose, no doubt you lost
your dinner for some time. Verdict for plaintiff. The
case created considerable amusement in court.

An action, by Mr. T. J. Halton against the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company, for damage caused by
water percolating from the railway on to the premises of
pursuer, in which a carious question of law will be raised,
was adjourned till the 21st of February.
RABBIT COUOING.—A WAGER..—John Rowbottom,
labourer, of No. 125, Upper Mann-street, brought an
action against Joseph Orme, beerseller, of Clive-street, to
recover £3, which had been deposited in his hands as a
stake to depend the issue of a wager. It appeared that in
the course of last month the plaintiff made a match with
one John Dwerryhouse, of this town, who undertook to
run his " Jack," at rabbit-hunting, against plaintiff's
" Rose," for £3 a-side. The match was to come off on
on the 2nd of January, at some place to be agreed upon,
and the stakes were deposited with the defendant. The
dog that caught and held the first five out of nine
rabbits was to be held the winner, "the rabbits to have
4.5 yards law." Each dog to weigh 19 lbs. There was
a condition that the match should come off between one and
two o'clock on the day appointed. The plaintiff stated
that it was mutually agreed that they should go and ask
Mr. Tilburn, inn-keeper, Cattle-market, for a field. He
got to Mr. Tilburn's at five minutes to two o'clock, when
a boy told him that the others had been, and had gone off
to the field. On his way there, he found them returning.
They had let a rabbit loose, and killed it, and, as he was
not present at the time, claimed the wager. He contended
that he was there in sufficient time, and that the other
parties had no right to act, according to the articles of
agreement (a long, formal, printed document), till the
field had been mutually agreed on. It also appeared that
the matter had been referred to Bell's Life (but plaintiff
said without his consent) and the money paid over to
Dwerryhouse.—Mr. Grocott., who appeared for the defen-
dant, pleaded non-liability, first, under the Bth
and 9th Victoria, cap. 109, for the suppression of
betting, &c. ; but his honour, however, decided that
the stakes were held for an " event" which had not come
off, and therefore that the clause was not applicable. He
thought the only real point in the case was, whether or not
the plaintiff really reached Tilburn's before two o'clock,

Henry Edwards, who was called on behalf of the defend-
ant, said he had waited till two o'clock for the plaintiff, at
Tilburn's. The _plaintiff, on the other hand, reiterated
that he was there five minutes before two—both parties
appealing to Mr. Tilburn's clock. To have more satisfac-
tory evidence on this point, his Honour adjourned the case
till Friday.
MISSING PLATE.—Catherine Cornell, a domestic ser-
vant, sued Mr. Rigby, publican, St. James'-street, for
£1 14s. 6d., which had been stopped out of her wages on
leaving, in consequence of two silver spoons and a fork
having been missed. The fork had been lost some time
previously, but the two spoons about ten days only before
she left. She had nut till then told Mrs. Rigby of the
loss, as she had still thought they would turn up. The
defence was that she was, by the agreement made on her
entering the service, to be held responsible for the plate
and linen, but that was not satisfactorily proved. His
honour thought she was to blame in not having told of
the lost spoons sooner, as otherwise they might have been
recovered, but as she had been paid wages after the fork
had been missed, directed a verdict for her of its stated
value, 4s. 6d. with costs.