The Press. — London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

MAY 31, 1856. was heavy and inactive, without any material reduction in quotations. In other securities there has not been any great activity during the week ; and for the most part they were in. g ue ocei to 80.110 extent by the same causes which affected railways and Consols . The trade reports from the country are tolerably f a vorable. Employment is general in the manufacturing districts. The Board of Trade returns for the month of April show a largely increased export trade ; and they clearly indicate a revival of those branches which more immediately refer to our Australian dependencies. BANE OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Rtb Victoria, cap. 32 for the week ending on Saturday, the 24th day of May, 1856. 311111011 DBI ►iotes Issued .... 144,413,576 £24,413,875 BANKING D Proprletors'Capi tal X 14,533.0410 Rest Public Deposita' Other Deposits . 11,47201 Seven Day .t other Bills FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, May 27 . BANKRUPTS.—WIL RAWKR, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's. inn-tields, builder-01%mA. PAWLEY, Stock Orchard-crescent, Holloway. builder--Ogoaoh R CAD, H gh-street, Snoreditch. corn dealer—Jaime WALKER MIN tots, Tunbridge Wells, wamainakei —Gr;ottoe WILLIAMS, Wolverhampton, paper dealer—Joni YOUIL, Burton-npot -Trent, brewer—Jawas GIBS RD, ear.iiff, victualler—CHAßLES 013MBY. Leeds, cabinetmaker —Tnowas FEARNEROUOR, Dure, Derbyshire. scitbe manufacturer—Joun ROSE, St. Helen's. miller—Owsx Owe NS, Bangor. dour dealer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.— A. MILK( and J. H. Dirs. CAN. Glasgow, tailors—W. P. MACKE:nit, Aviemore, Lynvailg, tackeman. Friday, May SO. BANKRUPTS—SA.Ins WALKER NINNES (and not James Walker Minnes, as formerly advertised), Tonbridge.wells, watch• maker—Be sus tx RIDGE, Putney, apothetary —0 Emma TIN• DALL and RANNON Geotios WILKINSON, Great St. Helen's, in. surtax* brokers—MAlMED QUILTIR, grocer—linicAan Ps al I JONER, Wbachurch, Salop, ecrivener —Gsosos Vita tc, BottesforA, Leicestershire, builder—James SEDDON, Liverpool, sculptor —Auousvus BccaANAK, Plonouth, baker—Geoaoa BINNs and GODFREY RUINS, Elartaheactmoor, Popplewell•mill, Yorkshire. cloth manufacturers--CAmiatas SoLomos, Bristol, outfitter—Fast:mans G). mina BEALE, Gloucester , billbroker— : WILLIAM DODDS, Leadellllll-SISOSI: irunfounder GEORO ROWLAND. Frill, brewer—THomas CRAVEN, Birmingham, builder—Witmeit HctL, Cleobury, Salop, timber merchant SCOTCH S N.QU EST RATIO S.—Taoxas J crts , Dumfries', contractor—Howl, KERNEDY, end Co., Glasgow, engineers—Wmarem KLNNIEDT and MERSA/MT KENNRDT, Glaa- 525 Java, 436 to 536. Sumatra, Padang, and Batavia Lind, lie to 465. Manilla, 44s to 4es. Mysore, 45s to 79s Id. Mocha, garbled. 70s to to s ; trogarbled, 56s to 626. Ceylon native sorts, ordinary to good ordinary. 496 to 558; ilantetion kinds, good ordinary, 51s to 548; One to hue tineerdinory, Nato no.; middling to good middlit.g, cis to Ti'.. Jamaica ordinary. 4116 to 49s ; good to tine oidiuery, 50s to 536 ; low middling to middling, 55s to 64s ; good to tine middling, 656 to Os. Oesna Rica, onlimuy to good orciinary, 476 to 525; tine ordinary, Us lo ti6s 6d ; tine tine ordinary to colory, tas to Gos Sd. ML Domingo, 45s to 495. Rosana and Cubs, oreroory to good ordi nary. 446 to 475; line ordinary to middling, ors to 6es. 1 orto Rico, 466 to 61s. Rio, 406 to i6s. La Osayra, good ordbMl yto middling coloury, 506 to 692. RlCE—About 1,000 tons Bengal have *hanged hest& this week, at previous rates. Carolina, iris to 45e; Bongo% fa lid to 12s 6d ; Madras, Vs bid to N 6d ; and Java, tit td to lie id per cwt. Tnestock is over 26.000 tons. COTTON—Great iota/ray pr2vailo in Ibl demsad tilt obi kinds of cotton, and to etfect sales lower rates must be sub mitted to. HEMP AND FLAX—Baltie hemp is that, at 111 to 11l per ton for Petersburg clean. In Mood.* qualities only a Ranked business is doing. The inquiry for bat is contiatd to mall parcels, at late currencies. V 1 00L —Owing to the late immense importations—About 30,000 bales—and the prospect of large supplies be ng brought forward at the next series, the public sales hive become heavy, and the &thanes in prices noticed at their opining has not b..en s ipported. In the private market scarcely any busineei is doing. This week'. imports are over i,utar bales. INDIGO—Our market contitattes very Bat, at the late reduo tion in the quotations. METALS—ticotch pig iron has changed bands steadily, at 78a 641 to 79s 6d. Manufactured parcels rule about a Rails, at the yolks, el is to Si 15a ; common hers, ° :.n . to 4 158; slows, single, in London, ill is to 11l 7.6 d; hoops, fist quality, 101 10a to 1.1; and nail rod s, _ 61 10e to 9115 s per tau. Tiu is still SCLI72O—BSAICII at 1328 to 1408; straits, 137. to 13-8; British, 13 as w 133., and refined, 1322 to 1408. Tin plates are steeriy, but not high. r. 1.0. ooke Sls to 311. 6d ; LX. ditto, 378 to 1178 ed ; I.C. chin Doak Mt 6d to 37s ; and 1.X., 42S to 4:411 per box. Lead motes ,tr a* barely late rates. pig, 261 101 to 271; milled tdamt, 26115. to 271 per ton. Copper is rather brisk. Enghab ti • end cake, 12.4; Russian, 1201; South America,' 1101 to 1111 per ton; sheet, Is 2d per lb. Zinc, Sit Speller, en the MA 231 178 Gd to 241 per ton. SPIRITS—There is a fair demand for rum, at aim* etatine ary prices. Proof Leeward., 2s 14 to 2s Id; line 'Mk 2s to is Id per gallou. Foreign, proof to 10 ant net, is selling at is bud to 28 2d. Brandy contes wog 11116 Sales of Corpse, beat broods of 1646, 108 3d in l al MN, 10. 6d to 10s rod; older, lOs 7d to 118 Gd ; and law le 9s 4d to 10. ad per gallon. Gin, 17 waliarprad. ION; IS ditto, 94 (id; raw spirit, proof, los 7d; Germs, Os kill 10 Ss Od per gallon. HOPS—There has been a moderate assnand for mod Weis of hops—the supply of which is moderate —at full prima. and East Kent pockets, 31 to 61 hs; Weald of Kents‘ N toolle ; &Mini. 21 Hie to 41 .56 per cwt. POTATOES—The supplies are bessaing less mo t kinds are rather dearer. rreasst ratati o d ia ra li nt per too. OlLS—This market is very inactive, sad primers Linseed oil, on the spot, 11 11. 641 pat slot Tnoption lilliiii t steady. Spirits, at .10. 64 to Sas; sod no" is a• is Id per cwt. FALL° 27—Very little change has taw plane In the eiseelw lions, and the deinaud is waned to ialmediate wants. P.Y.C., 011 the spot, as 458 9.1 to Cis per cwt Town tallow, 46s net cash. COALS—Stewart',, Ids; Hartlepool, 17e 64; Kellee, 178; ambton, 178 64; Riddell, Its 6d; Hartley, lie ltd; lts ; Hetton, 168 nd per ton. METROPOLITAN CATTLE—on Monday the supplies of stock w.'re seasonably good. yet the general demand ruled steady. and very little change took plac in prices. There was an active business done in beasts and • beep .in Friday, and the 'otations were higher. Lambs, nivel., and pigs, however, were dull. Beet sold at from Is 2d to 48 ; mutton, is 10d to is 4d ; lamb, Cs 2d to 6s 2d; veal, Is dd to is 111; pelt, as 2 t to 4a ad per 81b8 to sink toe offal. NEWGATE AND LFADENHALL— about an 'verso* business has been doing in these markets, as foll•iws:—Beef„ from 2s 104 to 48 2d ; mutton, is ad Isle Id; lamb, es rod 58 rd ; veal, Ss 64 to ls dd ; pork, is M fir 45 ed per filbe by 'he OST(11"111. Government Debt 511.015.10 e Other Securities .. 3,469,iinn Gold Coin .t Bullion 9,938,873 Silver Bullion .... --- Government Seen- rities (including Dead Weight An.) 42.479 416 Other Securities lb 377,016 Notes b 081 9C.0 Gold & Silver Coin dl9 92 ASS,W,SSI of National Debt, • Including Exchequer, Commissione Saving's Raub, and Dividend ACCOlUltil. BRITISH FUNDS.— Closing Pima. OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS. Mond. Timid. Wed. Titers. Friday. —l—. ----' $ per Cent. Consols 341 ;%; !94; 51: 941 I 10411 i Ditto for Account 9 per Cents Reduced .. • • 9 3, t 9s=ten 1 13 1 ii 9 li e 9 per Cents Long Annuities -i d, si 3 3-16 Hank Stook, 7 per Cent '2161 6 216 7 217 I 11174 6t O ion i um I i 1 Ir.xeS. Rills, 20. 0 /tine. •B‘l per $d per $4 psi diper ld India Bouds,(1,0001.) 1 ' I— di d FOREIGN FUNDS. Per Cent. Moad Brazilian 5 100 1 Danish 5 1 Dtch. ( F.z 12 Gutl )24 94/ French 3 76f ISe' Do. 4l f e t Do. Bank Stock f.I Mni can 3 131 Peruvian 44 I Portuguese 4 1 Russian 5 Spanish 3 1 Turkish &cc. 8 99 81 Tursd. Wed. Timor.. lat . 1 I . I — I Si / 7tr 2le V t 25e .5* 4 20e 1 1141f20ej f e r V. I . I —t— i. 23L 1 23/ 2s/ -- -- -- IoOS B ost 7 1 1 ' . 1 i vez 413/ 99 993 i 651 47 99 i li Friday 8 ( I . id tp 4i 29 114 sue 73 46 8} 8 9 ! 117 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Monet. Tuesday. (rams Thurs. I 4ntw.d Rttrdui. at t. 8j 4 84 1 . si 4 Belgian East. J. a 4 d 2 d 2 ILL! . 4 Dutch Famish 14 1p 1i f i p 14 p ki s _ fp East Indian A 1 4 .231 44 . :31 44i 11_1_1 41 Gt Indian Pan $ll I 121 al 98 4.. 98 .1 0 w.orcan.,Sh. 2.1 f !3111 364 g tat I Lyons it Gen•vs,l* 4 co; p' p e Madras Ns.* Lie.( w.in )74 171 4 .1 4 “ t Nrthrn.ofFruo . 144 54 411 Si 46 4 464 61 Norw. Trnk.Prf. 6 9 1 8 9 I 8 9 8 9 Paris & Lyons 5ll 601 594 1 ' 410 4 601 11 ! Paris * Orleans 47 9 ,67 9) 67 9 67 9 i Paris A Rouen — 1 — 1 SHARES. THE PRESS. COMMERCIAL PUBLICATIONS. A Voxmax has been forwarded to us on the advantages of the proposed Scinde Railway,• extending from the port of Kurrachee to Hyderabad on the Indus, by which all the inconveniences attending the navigation of the mouths of that river will be avoided. The line is to be 110 miles in length, and by terminating at a magnificent navigable stream, will tend to facilitate commerce through Central Asia. Mr. Andrew, the author of the volume, is chairman of the company. He has been indefatigable in his advo cacy of railways for India, and has fixed on a line emi nently calculated to be useful to trading enterprise and to prove remunerative to the shaieholders. The terms con ceded to the company by the East India Court are liberal, and we shall be glad to hear that the works are actually in progress. Direct telegraphic communication with Calcutta, and ultimately with Australia, is likely to make rapid pro gress, as the French line by the bed of the Mediterranean to Corsica and Sardinia is now in operation, and found to answer perfectly. The Mediterranean cable is the strongest yet laid down, consisting of six electric wires, and weighing eight tons to the mile. * The Scinde Railway. By W. P. Andrew, Esq. London Allen. Alitropolitin Markets. (Reported sowirstoeli, for "Tali Pases.": CORN EXCHANGE—The arrivals of English up to our market his week have been very moderate; yet the demand for most kinds has ivied heavy, and prices have given way is per quarter. Forel4n wheat—the impor •of wit ch have been limited—has moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Floating cargoes have realised extreme rates. We have bad a slight improvement in the demand for barley, on f ruler terms : malt, however, has continued dull There has teen a mach better demand for oats, and prices have advanced Is per quarter. Both beans and peas have changed hands at &lily, at is per quarter mote money. Flour has met a until itiqtary, stud Norfolk qualities have given way is per 28i,lba. Fair supphes of foreign have come to hand. FAH:miss—Wheat, Essex and Kent red. 58s to 70s; white, 61s to 745; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 59s to 695. Malting barley. 35a to 891; grinding ditto, 331 to 35s distilling, 34e to soe Malt, 85s to ills. Feed oats, 20s to Vs; potato, 23a to 270 Rye, 118 s to 40s. Tick beans, 335 to 38a, Harrow, Nis to 395; pigeon, Us to 41s. Grey peas, 3:as to 88s ; maple. 57a to Ms; white boilers, 40s to 45e per. quatter. Town-made flour. ells to 85s: country marks, 45s to bla ; households, tubs to We pe. tdOlbs. r If! T di a iits 90 611 i 15i 6 e d 14 74 24 4 79 80 10 i VS 6 106 6 bit 93 - i i In 3 104 0} 71 102} 79} 55 7 1 35j 6i 6 * 6i I 27 8 101 76 8 14 5 98* 9i 71* 2* nosed. Treed. Wed. 28 7'.4 726 7 .$j OA 98j 9 , 7 9 167 9187 9 61 * 61 * 181* 15e 69114 41112 d t ,16* 7*,16* 74 1 16* . 22 1 4 22 4 124 • . 00 2 Til 9 176 6 2* 1029* 1410 * 95 4 lOS $ 6 :116 7 1 10$ 7'185 7 9 0 1* 1 f 94 80* * 9 2 1121 .61* f 1 . 1 -- -- 102 3 102 _BlO2 _3, IBC 75 8i 7014 lillidi 104 8102 771 135 78 I :9 I 35 7 53 7 56 7 i $ /.1 35 id it id 35 a; 45 635 6 $ sid 8 51'1 Si iti . -- 17 —. 43 103 516$ 8106 6 75 8 7$ 6 - s 6 14 614 I 14 4, .71 71.71 j $I 31 8 14 7 !1141 7 97$ St at 8014 8I Tll 24 130 5 $1 3 41 $ 31 8 138 7 136 7 134 8 134 ( i 3 1 111 i VII ill i i 1 ,i ;e le I 4 1 4 114 p i ;, 3a i 8 • ' 16 Bll6 3 6 8 6 8 13i *ell 0 27 f Ilos 4 i 7 • 8 14 172$ I 98 9 711 2 Rh I LW•111-. Aberdeen Wolv.A Stonr Val Bristol cid Exeter Caledonian aieZiand • fL Cork and Bandon , ... Dub:lo / Belfast Just East Anglian -^ Eastern I Iti lot (B) East Lancashire Eastern Counties Great Northern Gt. Sib. and Wet of Ire Greet Western Lancashire it Yorkshire Lou., Tilbury, t Sthend Lon., Brighton, de London and Blackwell London and Nrth- West. Midland Newmarket. Newry and Enniskillen, Norfolk Nrthrn. Counties Union North British North Staffordshire.. North-Western Wrestr., and Note. Scottish Central Scottish Midland South Devon .... Lb - 0v - -. I Sotuit•tiTst;;; South Wales Waterford a Limerick NI ISCIILLIIIIKOCIS Canada Crystal Palace Crystal Palace oft?, acre North British Aut. Laud ' real Kiser Land t la id. Scottish Aust. incest_ , South Australian Land Van Diemen' Land 1 imu►. In )8$ 9 187 I,Ble 3;14 el ,116 e 7• 22 4 174 AO 110 35i 1114 ! ' ; 6l i .11 1103 4 /011 i 3 ,7+tll '46 7 71 4 ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. nalish ....1610 .. 720 .. 730 .. 20 .. 700 Irish .. —27 nu .. Foreign .. 3.60 .. 6:.30 .. 4070 his 1840.1.. LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—Wheat, 4.415 q :amen, 71s $4: barley 645 quarters. 37a 6d : oats. 2,401 quarters, 92s tii ; rye, 94 quarters, stie Id ; beans, £23 quarters, 119 s Id; peas. 30 quarters. e3B 44. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, 69s 24; bar ley, 39s ed ; oats, 23a 104 ; rye, Cs ed ; beans, 41. ; 38s ;M. rip: six WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat:CPI 391 Ild; oats, 22s 6d ; rye, 42s 8d; beans, 41$ 64; peal. U • 94. FNGI 'SF' GRAIN SOLD LAST WEER—Wheat, 112.211: barley. 112.179; oats. 10,04; rye, 23; beans, 4.763; peas, 286 quarters BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 9d to 94c1; of household ditto, 74d to 844 per Alba :oaf TEA—Oar market *endow.e to be well supplied. Generally speakieg tbeismand is inactive, as follows :—Congou, bid to u sd Nisi Yong and Ooleug, led to Is 10d; nonchong, 94d to 2s 6d ; Flowery Pekoe, Is 1.1 to 118104; Caper,— to— ; Scented Caper, Is 3d to Is Ild; Orange Pekoe, to : Scented Orange Pekoe, Is 4d to te 6d ; Teenkay, tii to Is 24 ; Hyson Skin. 84 to Is 94: Hylton, ls 2d to 41 : Young Hyson, 84.1 to 2. 6d; Imperial, 114 to 2. id; Gunpowder, if 4 to is 6d; Assam, Is 64 to 41 44 per lb. SUGAR—AII raw sugars have commanded rather more attemiou, and a steady busiuess is doing, at tull prices, to 6d per cwt advance. B .rbadoee LAS realised VI to 465; Bengal, 39s 8d t 0 419 6d; Mauritius, 37s to %Zia ; and Madras, 33. to 44. per cwt. Reaped goods move o6' slowly, at s;a Gd to she per ewt for grocery lumps. The total clearane. sto the 24th inst. were 2.245.716 cwts, against :1,9;6,038 cwts in 1853. MOLASSES—The supply continues very moderate, and the demand is steely, at from lits to 221 per OWL COCOA—Our market is firm. at %ery lull priccs. Importers are not free sealers at preent rates. West India, etre to Its.; Guayaquil. Abs to eis ; Brazil, Us to 41. per cwt. COFFEE—Our market continues very dull, and Pate rates are with di/Acuity supported. Present rates are as follows ABINGDON—In of a son. the Cowden et Able'doh. BEN - NETT—On the 21st itivtant, at Cadbury Wynn, floserset. shire. the wife of Contain Fred. Wentworth Bennett. of a sou. BOORD—On the 2bth instant, at Verulain How. St. John's. wood, the wife of J. Booed, Esq., of a soli, etillbora. CAVK—On the 23rd i patent, at the Itewerke, Leicester. the wife of Sir !Aviles Cave Browne Cave, Bart., of • daughter. COULTON—Ou the 29th instant, at 2, Paik-prompeet, St. James's-park, the wife of D. T. Coulwn. , of a den liter. LUSHI NGTO N-011 the Nth instant, at Ljnahia.st, Lady Mar garet Luehington, of a eon. VIA LLS—On the 2'th instant, at Ashley Lodge, Tiverton. Mao wife of Major Vialla, of a daLukter. COCXCRAFT—PAYNE —Ou the 9 and instant, at Wyke lte Colonel Cockcraft. to Annie A. Payne, daughter of that Adeolral Charles Payne, of Weymouth. HO DD—tiNi ITH —On the zt;th inatant, at St. Pancras Church. ?,edertck Henry liodd, Esq., R.N., to Amelia, daughter of Captain einoith. MACLEAN—AUBREY—On the 2)th of March. at Sit Johosto Church, Meerut Lachlan H. J. Niaelean, Eaq., Bengal Horse Artillery, to Elizabeth Anne Amelia Winne Aubrey. daashisa of the late Frederick Wynne Aubrey, Eaq., of tisongharvaiik. H ereford. POULTti N-910 RG A N —OO the 90th instant, at Jersey, Omaha Walter Poulton, Esq., M.D., to Mary ,dseglter of Captain JO. Morgan. kt. N.. H.H. Woolf —IILA E— On the Rtild instant, at Seth, Archibald Oliver Wood. Captain 1 tth N. 1., to Motu lOW, daughter of the late Archibald Witt. Rhine, Earl. BOUGHTON—On the Wind Mauna, in London, Sir 11111 lain Edward House Boughton, Bart, aged liit. BAS I) EN—On the and instant at Newwn Ylila, Westboerse. grove, Colonel Janice Lewis Hamden, C. 8., formerly of Ise 89th Foot. CATER—On the 48th instant, at Maids-hill, the wife of BAUM Cater, Ro)al Artillery. DE MORGAN—On the fah instant, at Baesseider, whiner of the late Lieut.-Colonel Jchn De Illioiten, aged 4. DREW E—on the 40th Mama, a Chestar, Mahal* Alias, millet of Colonel Richard Dreere,74rd Rep LITTLE—On the 25th Instant, atTeigusnautit,CllSMlt bargent Little, late 11,th itusams, aged 3:". 31 3 133 4 31 3 ii '1 ii 6