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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

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
bad almost said, measureless purse. CAMBRIDGE is by
far 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 CA RIDGAN 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's 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. Ii 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 vice, 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 BUMPER 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 BUNN'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 twelve months in the United States,
and it is equally known that Mr. Buitzr 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, Buzus's taste, judgment, and expe-
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 ALPRED 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 BRooics 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 Ido 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 GABRICK. Both
actors (Bitooics and DAVENPORT) were vociferously ap-
plauded by a house crammed from floor to ceiling. Every
word of WILLIAM SIIAKSPBARB drunk in with avidity,
even by the boys in the upper gallery.

THE APPROACHING MUNICIPAL

ELECTION.

ABERCROMBIE' 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.
• PITT-STREET WARD.—The same evening a meeting of
the friends of Mr. W. P. Jeffreys, the retiring member for
Pitt-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, propcTed 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, B.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 BENEPIT.—It will be seen that Mr.
Boleno 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. .
MuNiclpla REGisTRA.mN--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 .car as it concerned
them. He trusted, however, that their duties next year
would be rendered lighter, if not by mutual agreement, by
legislative enactment.
SHORT-HORNED CATTLE.—Messrs. 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 rise,
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
a that the electric telexph 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 clejluner ala
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, 241 14 -I 5 • Eastern Counties,
11 13-16 1; East ,Lancashire, 151 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 62 2 ; London Stock, 1021 c fc 1 ;
Ditto Fifths, 1d ; Ditto Eighths, 7-16 d ; Midland
Stock, 581 119 fc ; North British, 61; Dover
Stock, 171-
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. PRICES.
ending i
ousi
y Previ- Week
This
ending Week STOCK
•- , ~.---.A.,--_,
, --
Oct. 14 this yr. Oct. 14 Yea'. Oct. 14
-- --, -- --
Sea Island l5 @ 25 140 16800 452169
Stained 8 10 1470 1 4540 473774 ....
Boweds 3if 6.1 8370 393810 •—•
Mobile n 6i 4320 246670
844 919718
New Orleans. 3f 71 13610' 825670 1
Pernarns, &c. 6f 7} 780' 58370 .... 48406 i. 1.3.90
Bahia, &c.
Maranhatn
Demerara,&c 84 20, 630 .... 505 520
. Egyptian.. .51 10 1830' 105610 .... 91893 88380
Com.W.l.Bcc. 41 9a 40 10670 .... 6983 3620
Surat
Madras
Bengal — .... 4620 .... 5313 2250
-- -- —,—
373001936030 141221855541 753800

PRoDucE. -- 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-DAY 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 Did.
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 foi. 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.
TIMBEL—The demand for all kinds suitable for
building purposes is still very good, and notwith-
standing the additional amount of shipping ern
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,
1854, 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 53 vessels, 16,114 tons
last year. This article is very light in stack, and will
command a high figure.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT-
YESTERDAY.

(Before JOSEPH POLLOCK,
,Esq., the Judge.)

One hundred plaints were heard.

AN IMPUDENT TRANSACTION.-LEW/8 v. WICICEITEAD.

—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 WITNEBSES.—The stupidity of plaintiff's
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,—"l 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 save 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. lam 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 Ps. as commission.
According to his statement, the landlord was unwilling to
let the house to the defendant, and he offered him (the
plaintiff) Is. 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 nine 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 30s.—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 Burne ? 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 theycame outfrom the sparring,
the plaintiff said to him, " Fred, let us have that coat,"but
he told bim 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 ve 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 off 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 CHARGES.-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,g both of dried fruits and those in season,
placed on the table ; and, after that, I corrected the
by a tumbler of whisky toddy. Now, mark
tgrdedifferencebetween 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 ls. 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 bedlight.' "

POLICE COURT. -YESTERDAY.

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.—James 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-
qoutale and Co., in Castle-street,:was charged with having
absconded on Saturday last, with the sum of £47. 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, he having, 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 POCEET.—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.—JOhII 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
£9 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-
factonly 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 falterins terms,
" Three m-mon-ths ! I wish it may do you good, Address-
ing himself to the magistrate.
STZALING 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 wo-
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 SHOPMAN.—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 Cass.— 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, I 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 dischaiged.

BARICRUPTCT 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.
TUN 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.
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 T.ELEGRAPIL
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.
FRANCE.-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 b.a.s taken place in all the Spanish markets.