The Press. — London, England, 1857-02-28 00:00:00

212 About 300,0001. in gold has arrived since our last, of which 288,0001. arrived from Australia. Most of it has been sent away, the Bank of France having bought the whole of the Australian arrivals. The Bank has also lost about 30,000/. by withdrawals. About 400,0001. are now due from Australia, and may arrive any hour; but it is understood that, when it does come, only a very moderate proportion is likely to be retained here, as the French demand is not yet supplied. About 800,0001. is likely to be sent to India and China next week, most of which is in silver. Silver, however, owing to the improvement in the Indian exchanges, is but in s'ow demand. The bullion in the Bank of France has increased to 8,050,0001. The Bank of France have returned to their usual practice of discount ing three months' bills. The Foreign Exchanges continue of a favourable character. English Securities have been totally destitute of animation all the week, and very slight fluctuations have occurred. This is attributed by some to the state of the account preventing speculative operations for the rise, while the prospects of the Money Market deter parties from risking the chances of a fall. It may, however, be attributed with more probability to the transfer of business, bond tide and speculative, to the ItAilway Market. Indeed, those securities have absorbed attention to the exclusion of all others. But when the maximiurn range of prices for them has been attained, and it cannot now be far off, attention will again be given to Consols, and they will experience the benefit which railways have in this instance been the first to realise. Consols, which left off last Friday at 9f3i to A for account, have remained at about that price all the week. Last night they closed at 93A to 9.t. Fur the new account on the gt.h April the last price yeaterday was 94 to To day they opened at NA to 94, and closed at 1131 just. The market was depressed all day, partly through the dearness of money and partly from anticipations of a Ministerial crisis. Exchequer Bills are rather lower. They are quoted at par to :Is. prew. The March descriptions are 29. dia. to 2s. prem. Railway Shares are fully two and a half per cent. higher than they were quoted at in our last, and the market is still manifesting great firmness. Country purchasers for investment have preponderated, but there has also been a considerable amount of speculative business. These secu rities are now attaining their natural position, but there is sonic danger of a reaction if the expected improvement in the Money Market should by any unforeseen circum stances be interrupted or delayed. The northern lines, especially those converging in Manchester and the mann facturing districts, have advanced in a greater proportion than any others. To•day the prices of most descriptions receded along with Consols, bat the tone was steady. In the Foreign Market there has been the same tendency to improvement, though in a less degree. There is also the same dangers of a reaction—indeed, to-d iy prices rather gave way. Turkish Six per Cents. are one per cent. better than last week. Joint-sock Hank, Mining, and Miscellaneous Securities have all been firm. Several new companies under the Limited Liability Act have been announced during the week. The Colonial Wool Sales have commenced. About 38,206 bales are to be disposed of. Cape wools have ad. vanced 21. per lb. and Australian 3d. Wools are now considerably higher than at this period last year,—ill this respect following the rule of advance which seems uow to apply to raw materials of nearly all descriptions. The January accounts of the Board of Trade have been issued, and they again bear evidence of the expansion of trade both home and foreign. Our exports have largely increased in the month, though at present they scarcely promise to improve in the same ratio as those of 18, - )ti. January, however, is not a favourable month for compari- sons of this sort. The following shows the total declared value of the enumerated and unenumerated articles in the month for three years :- 1855 I Mti 1E137 The statistical department of the Board have in the pre sent tables introduced several improvements calculated to increase their value and their authority. For example, the countries are distinguished by name to which the principal articles of British produce have been exported ; while, on the other hand, the countries from whence the principal imports are received are specially designated. it has taken the Board of Trade some years to discover the utility, obvious to all the mercantile interest, of this change; but we hope, now that a beginning has been made, that other improvements will follow. Coal, likely to be made available for commercial pur. poses, has been discovered in Smyrna. Several Greek houses have stopped payment during the week. Four are in Manchester, two in London, and one in Live pool. The meetings of the railway companies are drawing to a close. They have generally been of a satisfactory character. The amount paid into tho Treasury of the East India House for bills on India, from the Idth to the '2sth inst., was 48,850 i. We beg to call attention to the report of the directors of the Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Compin., publishel a few ila3s ago. The success of the instill, 1 n is due to the excellence of its principles and the en r:9 of its officers, and it only needs a perusal of the retort to ascertain the amazing results which hare been .ec wed within a moderate space of time by this highly ospectable office. The Provincial Trsde Reports are uniformly better, though =pigment is in some districts not quite general THE PRESS. BRITISH FM OFFICIA INDS. Closing Pubes. AL QUOTATIONS. Mond. Trod. Wed. Thurs. Friday S per Cent.Consols 931 1, 1 931 4 931 G 93; j 933 g Ditto for Acoount 3 per Cents Reduced ,93i 4, 94 34 . e 4. 94 31 3 per Ceuta Long Ant. ides Hank Stook. 7 per Cent —1218 j 2184 1218 90 Otnnium Feaoh. 131116,2 Sp Sp Sp ;par 3p 2 4d. par India I ' par BANK OF ENGLANis. Al Account, purattent to the Aot 7th and nth Viotoris, esp. 32 tor the week eluding on Satunlay, the 21.1 day of Feb., 1857. iSRUC IwPitiLTAIENT. Votes issued 1 24 164 633 ' Government Debt X 11,015,106 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin Bullion 9 003.680 Bllver Bullion .... 9:24,168,360 imaxivo DISPAITIIIIIIT. Proprietors'Ospitsol4,o3,o o o ; Government Seen- Rest Public Depositx• 7,40.290 : DeadWeightAn.) 611,510.219 Other Deposits Seven Day .t othet ' Notes 9,553,624 Bills -- 413:050,61i 435,050,941 • Including Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Savings' 13anks. sod Dividend Accounts. 424,104,680 FOREIGN FUNDS. MowllThesd. Wed. ,774mr5., 7rldn,. 036,70'13e 6.9f804' t e'tefs t. f. 11, . 8 0 —40 i I e 94 19a ; 69 4 6i Per Cent., Brazilian Darnall Dtch. ( I.lz 12 tnl )2e French 3. Do. _ _4e Do. Dank Stock Nt , ..xican 3 Peruvian 44 Portuguese 4 Russian Spanish S rurkish 4c0.11 r 2 1 - r. 22i RslLWLte— Aberdeen itirin.Wolv..tStourVal Bristol a:sd Exeter Caledontan Chester and Holyneadl Cork and Bandon I Cub:in A Belfast Juno.l East Anglian Eastern tluiot(B) East Lancashire Eastern Counties Great Northern SHARES Mond. Tuesd. Wed. nor. 81 91,81 91,81 91,81 91 4 4 634 0 :94 6 '94 16 601 71 1 671 8;881 91134 91 30_7 3ti• — 7'36 7 30a 7! P 1 P P P 19 20'19 20 19 20110 20 1 34 3132 4 39 4,33 4 97 9 198 9,198 100 98 iw lot i;10! ,!101 I.loe 94 3 ;va 4,94 5,25 11 111 3,11 3illl 31111 3 681 169 1 lOof 9139 k 1 99110111001 11001 1101 ► P P j 10i1 9.10803 104j9j A:loBi9ir .ei j 16 : i 1 6 1 1081 11081 9,1061 9,1091 83t 4 841 •441 1 841 51 I — NI 8 67 9 37 9 53 9 34 14 . 34 Id 31 Id 3i 1,1 43 4 '44 6 1441 61;45 6 51 414 51 411151 41d.51 41J 71 871 8 171 41 s 371 bj 28 9 ( 28 9 '2B 9 106 8 106 8 70 3 170 9 70 9 70 16 9 1 18 9 181 91,181 31 701_ 777 8 . ,77, 81178 1 91 1P416105 4'106 tilosl 8 8111 6 1 31/1 011841 6036 7 I -- I -- Gt. 9th. and Wit of Ire ' Great Western Lancashire& Yorkshire Lon.,Tilbnry o t S. Brkg. Lou., Brighton otc London and Blackwall London and Nrth- West Vidlend Newmarket Newry and Enniskillen Norfolk Nrthrn. Counties Union North British North Staffordshire North-Western Wrcstr., and Wole. scottish Central Scottish Midland South Devon south- Eastern and Dor. South. Western south Wales Waterford & Limerick ISCELLANI:OIIS- A ustralian Agricultural Canada 1 22 4 122 422 4 112 4 us 40 113 43 138 43118 43 Ilk a 22 } i 31 I' 2 l 1 l e i . 1 21 1 2i 21 1.21 1 11 1 1k Lle Ills :15 735 7 1 36 7;35 I 14 3 14 R is r. Crystal Pa1ace...... .. Crystal Palace ofFrans•e Korth BritishAur. Laud Peel River Land & Min. 4cottish Aust. Invest. South Australian I.and Van Iliernon's Land .1 Ca f a f a 801 110 40i 96j i Frid. 86 9 Hi 24 Crif 9i 37 19 20 32 4 9R 100 10i 94 oi 11 3 d7i 8 101 1 01 03i 91 61 82j S 58 80 3 2 2 1 45 5i a id Te 8 29 30 1103 8 I.s 9 76 7 1051 6 84 5 23 5 MS 43 2 1 4 I !* 1 33 I' 14 n FROM THE LoN UoN IiALL 1 1 Tueitelay, February 24. BANKRUPTS.--Enwim 8111PHERD and WALTER Siff P• HERD, CI ane-oourt. Fleet street, City, lozenge manufacturers— WILLIAM NADOROVC, the younger. and RICHARD KAGO, Eldon. street, Finsbury, and Duunings-alley, Bishopsgatelitreet, City, cabinetmakers and upholsterers—FatowarcE FRANCIS finaw, Illsekfriars.road, Surrey, Ironmonger—Su:aria GIOGROMAN, Fals4rave.place. htrand, Middlesex, printer, engraver, and *winner—Homy GRAVES, Windmill street. Grevesend, corn at d dour merchant—Josims D. STARDUST, Richmond, Surrey, d.aiier—Twowss WRITE, the younger. Portsmouth and Gosport, ship builder and engineer—FRLDSRICE MORS'S. Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, City. rice and spice merchant—SAMUEL SMITH Derby, iron merchant—THOMAS KING, Spalding, Lincolnshire, licensed victualler—WlLLl...it SMITH, Mansfield, Notts, licensed vicitulier—JAwEs Ofurrivirs. Bristol and Cardiff, builder-- Ronk:air SEENDLovs, Sheffield, horseand cattle dealer—Far:cm Bag, Sheffield, table knife manufacturer—LOßENE THEODOR WANG, Sunderland, timber merchant—JAMES ARMSTROSO, Berwick-upon-Tweed, linen and woollen draper. Friday February 27. DANKRUPTS.—WILLLim PRowiewoun CUORLET, slate and slab merchant, Hart-street, Bloouishury—JOHN WALKER, com mission agent, Blackburn—EDwAßD WILLtAms. glazier, Ches ter—CAROLINE LIDDLE, common brewer, Great Driflield, York shire—Gi:mot WooD, coal merchant, Loughborough, Leicester shire—Jomn WEST, miller, Becktngtou, Somersetshire— WILLIAM SKINNER the younger, tailor, Bristol—DAVlD LLOYD, merchant, Cannon-street—Manua DREARY VAtsvoß, rsddler, Baker-street, Portman-square—DAVlD CIiERTHAR, co:ton. spinner. Rochdale—HENßY MARTIN MANwARINO, grocer, 'fox teth-park, near Liverpool—Thom/is OWEN, joiner and builder, Liverpool—WlLLlAM HADFIELD. merchant, Cockspur street, Middlesex—U.7Ra WARD, plumber, Wisbeach, tit. Peter, Cambridgeshire—TnomAs HORNER, house-decorator, Hart street, Bloomsbury—WlLL.Lam BAYLEY, jun., carver and gilder, liuttealand•street, Holton-14w) Jlosaies, grocer, Wisbesch. SATURDAY, Vttropolitan Blarlats. (ReperUdesselestrely for "THR Passe." CORN EXCHANGE—The arrivals of English wheat, coast. wise and by land carriage, continue on a limited scale, and greatly out of condition; )et the demand for all kinds has been in a depressed state, and previous rates have been with difficulty supported. All foreign wheats--owing to t h e arrival of nume rous floating cargoes off the coast—•have moved off slowly, but we have no actual change to notice in their value. The show of barley has been limited, and good clearances have been effected, at extreme quotations. Malt, however, has moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. There has been a fair in quiry for oats, beans, and peas, at full quotations; but flour has met a dull inquiry, at barely last week's prices. Several parcels have come to hand from the United States. ENot.tsit—Wheat, Essex and Kent red, 498 to 608; white, 50s to 70e; Norfolk awl Lincoln red, 488 to 608. Malting barley, 37s to 495; grinding ditto, 30. to 32s : distilling, 361 to 388. Malt, 62s to :78. Feed oats, 248 to 258; potato, 258 to 325. Km 388 to 40s. Tick beans, 328 to 345; Harrow, Ms to 38a; pigeon, 381 to 41s. Grey peas, 3CB to:itis ; maple, 38. to 391; white boilers, 381 to 40s per quarter. Town•made flour, Ms to 575; country marks, 408 to 438; householdB,44s to 47e per 2801b8. ARRIVALS THIS WHEY. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 1510 .. MO .. 1710 .. 1740 .. 1120 Irish Foreign .. 477 U .. 1620 .. .. 1080 .. mks. 4840 LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRlUtY—Wheat, 3.019 quarters, b9s bd; barley 1,379 quarters, 48s 10d ; oats. 2,603 quarters, 24s 10d ; rye, 13 $ quarters, 39a 21; beaus, 7111 quarters, 375; peas. 253 quarters, 37s 7d. IMPERI AL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat , 555101 , bar- ley, 45s 41; oats, 22s 101; rye, 37s 71; beaus, 39s 81; peas, 39s 31. • THI el X WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 57.6 d; barley, 45s 8d ; oats, 234 3d; rye, 39s Od; beans, Os; peas, 596 sd. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, 108.890 • barley, 78,030 ; t eats, 15,978 ; rye, 90; beans, 8,075 ; peas ,2,•184 quarters, BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Bid to 9d; of household ditto, id to 8d per 4lbs loaf TEA—A decided check has been given the to demand for all kinds of tea, owing to the retention of a portion of the war duties. Very few sales have been effected, and our quotations are almost nominal. Conguu, is Id to 2■ 4d; Niug Yong and Oolong, Is 24 to 2s; Souchoug, is Id to 2s ; Flowery Pekoe, 2s to 4s; Caper, -- to —; Scented Caper, Is Id to is 104; Orange Pekoe, is 24 to is 41: Scented Orange Pekoe, Is 4d to 2s 41; Twsnkay, Ad to is 3d ; Hyson Skin, d 1 to Is 2d: Hyson, is 53 to 4s ; Young Hyson, 104 to 2s 4il; Imperial, is to 2s 4d; Gunpowder, 1144 to 3s dd; Assam, is Id to 48 . 41:1 per lb. SUGAR—Nearly all descriptions of raw sugar have sold briskly, at fuUy last week's currency, and the supply in the market is very moderate. West India has sold at 52s to 58s 6d; Mauritius, 51s to 57. EA: Bengal, 47e to 59s per cwt. Refined goods are in request, at from 64,, to flis per cwt. COFFEE—The late improvement in value is well supported, and the market generally is firm. Ceylon, relive. 54:s 64 to sis6d ; plantation, fine, "Os to tits; fine middling, 77s to 795; good middling, 74s ed to 765; middling, 701 to 735; tine ordinary to middling, t36s to Os; triage, 52s to 651. Mocha, tine, ells to 925; garbled, 741 to ses ; ungarbled, Ms to 635. Costa Rica, mid to fine, 66s to 775; good and fine ordinary, bus to Bas. Jamaica, good mid to fine, 67s to 85s; flue ordinary, 01s to 66s per cwt. COCOA—Higher rates have been paid for this article, for which the demand is active. red Trinidad is now worth 748 to 008; and Granada, 72s to 768 per cwt. RICE—The stock is now reduced to 54,400 tons, against 18.000 tons in Id3G. For most kinds we have to report an active demand, at full quotations. Broken white Bengal, 10i ; low to middling, 10s 2d to 103 6d; good and tine, lls tid to Vis per cwt. PROVISIONS—There is much less activity in the demand for Irish butter, and prices are drooping. Foreign qualities have given way in price fron 6s to is per cwt. In the value of English very little change has taken place. The bacon market is firm, but not dearer. COTTON—only moderate sales have taken place this week. In prices we have nochange to notice. WOOL—The public sales of colonial wool have commenced with great brisxness. Cape qualities have advanced 2d to 211, 41,1 Australian 2d to 3d per lb. Privately, very little is doing. HEMP AND FLAX—Baltic hemp has moved off slowly, at 3C/ to 361 los per ton for Petersburg clean. Manilla parcels continue steady; but flax is much neglected SALTPETRE—The business doing in this article is com paratively trifling, yet the late improvement in value is sup porteil. SPIRITS—There is only a limited demand far rum, at the late decline in ialue. Proof Leewards, 2s 5d to 2. 6d; situ East India. 2. 4d to 2s bii per gallon. Brandy continues very firm. Sales of Cognac, best brands of 1.455, 134 ld to 134 3d ; Ixso ditto, 13s lOs to 14s 34 ; older, 14e 3d to 141 9d per gallon. Geneva, 2s 10s to 3. 6tl per gallon. METALS—Scotch pig iron has soli steadily, at 753 cash. Manufactured parcels support previous quotations. Tin is in request. Bence. 149. to 150.; Straits, 149 s per cwt. Tin plates are quite as dear as last week. Speller and other metals support late rates. INDIGO—Since the close of the public sales the demand has been trifling, on former terms. HOPS—The show of samples continues good, and most kinds of hops are firm, as follows:—Mid and East Kent pockets, Si to Si : Weald of Rents. 31 bs to 51 be; Sussex, 31 3. to 41; Worcester., 41 4. to 51 ss; yearlings, 11 10a to 31 15. per cwt. POTATOES- 7 1he supplies are considerably on the increase, and the trade ia. heavy. at drooping prices. Present rates vary from 66s to Ms per ton. OlLS—Linseed oil. on the spot, has declined to 41s per cwt. Rape rather drooping ; but sperm is held at 1001 per tun. Common fish oils and turpentine are heavy. TALLOW—The demand has fallen off, and prices are rather lower. P. Y. C., on the spot, has sold at 6es 6d and 65s 6d per ewt, with sellers for May at Sla 6d per cwt. Town tallow, :43s (id net eaah. COALS—Bell's Primrose, 12s; Hasting's Hartley, lis :Id: Wain, 119 3d; Oosf o rth , 14 s; Ridd e ll , 141; Eden Main, lbs; Tees, Prs Od per ton. METROPOLITAN CATTLE The supplies of stock on sale this week have been very moderate. and the trade generally has ruled firm, asfullows :—Beef, from 3s 2J to Is 104; mutton, 4s 4d to 51 10d; veal, Is 2d to ris led; pork, Is lid to 5* 2d per 81bs to slid: the offal. NEWGATE AND T.EADF.NHALL—The trade has con tinued steady, at full quotations. Beef, from 3i to 4s 6.1 ; mutton, 38 8d to 49 10d; veal, is 104 to Os; pork, 3* 84 10 Os id perBlbs by the carcase. '