The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

THE FUND, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKET.

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From the confident statements circulated this morning,
that the loan would not be one-half of the amount previously
anticipated, English Funds opened per cent. higher, but
were subsequently disturbed by a pressure of money sales.
At 10 46, however, the terms of the loan were announced, and
Consols rapidly rose per cent.. touching 91k, but from the
suddenness of the advance the highest price was not sup-
ported. The bidding for the loan takes place on Friday next,
at 10 a.m. Railways have shown increased activity, anltlie
principal Stocks a marked advance. Land, Bank, and Foreign
Stocks participate in the improvement.

CLOSING PRICES.
Consols, Account 9l* Bank Stock 212 14
Do. Money 9Ol 1 Exqr. Bills, L. 5.... 2 dis. 2 pm.
Three per Cents.

FOREIGN STOCKS.

20! !Turkish
. 104 6 Do. (new) lOOl f
. 92 4 Great West. Canada 25-K 6f
. 128 35 Do. (new)
RAILWAY SHARES.
A mbergate,Nottinghani, London, Brighton, and
and E. Junction 44 j South Coast 97 8
Caledonian
Do. Preference
Eastern Counties ....
East Lancashire 7l 3 Lincolnshire 2ll 5
Edinburgh & Glasgow.. 52 4 Midland Stock
Great Northern 9lf 2f North British . 29 30
Do. A. 76 7 Do. Preference.. 98 100'
Do. B. 123 5 North Staffordshire.... 7 6t
Great Western
Lanc.and Yorkshire iiili 24 York, Newcastle, and
Do. Fifths — Berwick ... 74f 5f
Leeds Northern .....
On 'Change, Tallow, 595. 6d. to 655. ; for speculative con-
tracts, 535. to 545. middle of the year, and 51s. 6d. to 525. at
the end of the year. Hemp, £33. Linseed Oil, 335. Gd. to
345. Scotch Pig Iron, 655. 6d. to 665. No particular sales in
Colonial produce.

Mexicans
Russian
Do.
Canada Land

LONDON Com; MARKET.—(From Kingsford and Lay's Cir.
cular.)—Supply of English Wheat moderate ; the condition
is still bad, yet the whole was cleared out at au improvement
of Is. to 2s. upon the prices of this day week. Old Foreign
met a much more general, although retail enquiry, at the
prices of last week, or about 2s. advance. But the demand
was limited to finest sorts. Barley, Beans, and Hog Peas,
bring last week's prices, but White Peas, 2s. cheaper. A fair
demand for Oats, at an advance of 6d. per qr. In Flour little
doing ; last week's rates are barely supported.

ARRIVALS.
English. Irish. Scotch. Foreiza.
Wheat 5167 23157
Barley
Malt 10957 57 50
Oats ISSO 5210 228 4265
Beans
Peas —
Flour

250 sks. &

25179 brls.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—The supply of Beasts
and Sheep being small, trade is better. Calves in demand.—
Beef, 2s 8d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Veal, 5s to 6s ;
Pork, 4s to ss. Beasts, 3,985 ; Sheep and Lambs, 19,670;
Calves, 33 ; Pigs, 205. Arrivals :—Holland Beasts, 285 ;
Sheep, 50 ; Calves, 11; Spanish Beasts, 315 ; Scotch Beasts,
451; Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts, 2,000; Cambridge, Leices-
ter, Lincoln, and Northampton Beasts, 100 ; Irish Beasts, 200.
LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—Sugar dull at previous rates.
Coffee sells slowly, but is not cheaper. Rice : Several sales.
and full terms. Cotton wanted and scarce. Rum active.
COLONIAL WooL SALES.—SaIes improving : Prices 2d. to
3d. above last series.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET.—Business has not been-
brisk to-day, and prices continue to have a drooping tendency.
Some sales were made this forenoon at 665. for Mixed Num-
bers, although, at the close, rather a better feeling was mani-
fested. No. 1., G. M. 8., is quoted at 675. 6d.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Eastern Counties, 10;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 81i 821 ; Midland, 80k ; Dovers,
19i 7-16 I.
LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—North Eastern, Leeds, 15 1-16
; Ditto, No. 1,3 i pm. ; Ditto, Berwick, £lB 18s. 6d. ' • Mid-
land, 691 701 ; Eastern Union, 8., n ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 82 ; Dovers, 19g.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—Tms DAT.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.— 8 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie;
tk ; 9 to 1 agst Emigrant, tk ; 25 to 1 agst Jemmy the
Black, tk ; 100 to 1 agst Minerva, tk ; 25 to 1 agst Jean du
Quesne, tk ; 20 to 1 agst Seaman, tk ; 30 to 1 agst Potter, tk
25 to 1 agst Free-trader, tk.
GREAT METROPOLITAN.-15 to 1 agst Phyrra, tk.
GREAT NORTHERN.-7 to 1 agst Fandango, tk.
LIVERPOOL SPRING Cm-9 to 1 agst Glimkel, tk; 9 to 1
agst Omar Pasha, tk.
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS.-10 to 3 agst Yellow Jack, tk;
7 to 2 agst Fly-by-Night, had the call.
CHESTER Cur.-500 to 15 ngst Courtenay, tk ; 15 to 1
agst Yellow Jack, tk ; 1,000 to 15 agst Cockatoo, tk.
DEBBY.-7 to 1 agst Wentworth ; 10 to 1 agst Fly-by-
Night ; 8 to 1 agst Eglington, tk ; 16 to 1 agst Rogerthorpe,
tk ; 100 to 10 agst Barbarian Colt, tk.

MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—A few days
before the departure of Lord Clarendon for Paris, the direc-
tors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce sent a memo-
rial to his lordship, in which they referred to the gross and
culpable neglect of the interests of commerce at the Vienna
conference of 1815, and expressed a hope that during the
coming negotiations at Paris advantage would be taken by
his lordship of any opportunity that might arise to increase
the number of outlets for British commerce, and promote its
interests in any other way. A reply, promising most careful
consideration to the suggestion, has been received.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS IN THE LIVERPOOL
CIISTOMS.—Mr. James Griffin has been promoted from the
second to the first-class of lockers ; Mr. James M. Hume from
the third to the second-class ; Mr. Robert J. Russell from
second-class weigher to be third-class locker ; Mr. Stephen
Corcoran, from the third-class to the second-class of weighers ;
Mr. Henry Wright from the inspectorship of patrol to be tide-
surveyor; and Mr. David M'Clure, tide-surveyor at Passage,
Waterford, to be tide-surveyor at this port. Mr. Henry
Sathest has been promoted from boatman of the first-class to
be tide-surveyor at Milford ; and Mr. John Gilliland, extra
clerk, to be third clerk at Londonderry.
Asse.uvr.—Yesterday, James Quin, or James De Quin, who
has opened an establishment in York-chambers, North John-
street, in which he professes to carry on business as a general
merchant and commission agent, was charged before Mr.
Mansfield with assaulting David Rose, a young man in the
employment of Mr. Clegg, a tradesman of this town, from
whom Quinn had obtained goods to the value of £5, but which
Mr. Clegg was unable to obtain payment of. From the evi-
dence, it appeared that the lad had been sent repeatedly for
payment of the account, but had been unable to obtain it. On
Friday last, when at the office of Quinn's, the latter assaulted
him, and struck him severely. The assault was clearly proved,
and Quinn, who declared the whole was a conspiracy to ruin
him, was rdered to pay a fine of 10s. and costs, or to be kilt
prisoned one month.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday week John Hardie, a joiner-
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lodging with hisbrother-in-law in Victoria-street, Ever Eon, in,
passing along Boundary-place, slipped on a piece of orange-
peel, and fell backward, striking the back of his head against
the projecting curb, and %staining a severe injury of the
upper part of the vertebrae. He was found in a state of in-
sensibility, and removed first to the Bridewell and then to the
Workhouse, where he recovered sufficiently to state who
he was, and where he lodged. He was then suffering from
paralysis. He was taken home, and surgical attendance was
called in, but he continued to grow worse, and died on Friday
morning.
LIVEUPOOL CUSTOM-110IISE.—Appended to the estimates
of the revenue departments for the financial year ending the
31st March, 1857, is an explanatory paper, setting forth in
detail the salaries and allowances of the officers of Customs of
the port of Liverpool, the pay of extra and glut officers, and
incidental charges. The total amount required is estimatedat
£115,610, being an advance of £3,322 on the cost of the esta-
blishment for the year now drawing to a close. One of the
principal items in this addition is an increase of £6OO in the
salary of the collector, which is fixed for the ensuing year at
£l,BOO. The addition of six clerks in the Long Room raises
the estimated cost of that department from £5,605, the amount
voted last year, to £6,615. This part of the establishment
has been subjected to revision, partly to provide for the in-
creased business, and partly for the collection of the light
dues, a duty which has been transferred to this department.
The light dues will now be collected at an expense of about
£650 per annum, whereas until recently the charge was
£3,600; the difference will consequently go to the public ac-
count, and more than balance the increased charge for extra
clerks' salaries in this department. In the warehousing
department, also, the estimates indicate considerable altera-
tions. The salaries of the comptroller and assistant-comp-
troller of accounts receive each an advance of £2O per an-
num ; and there are to be two additional principal clerks,
while the number of subordinate clerks is increased from
fifty to fifty-seven. The estimate for this department, there-
fore, is £9,350, being an advance of £375 upon the vote of
last year. In the water-guard department there is an
addition of £5O per annum to the salary of the chief inspector
of the river, now raised to £3BO ; and two additional tide-sur-
veyors of the fourth class increase the cost of that branch of
the service from £4,355, the amount voted last year, to £4,595.
In the incidental charges, a saving of £3OO in the pay of extra,
officers and clerks, of £lOO in travelling charges and sub-
sistence allowances, of £7O in boats' stores and repirs, and of
£460 in tradesmen's bills is anticipated ;. but provision is made
for an increase of £487 for rent and repairs of buildings, of £4O
for fuel and gas, of £lO for postage, and of £2lO for miscel-
laneous expences, including carriage of parcels. In those
servicebtriaonchweisuofbtehewadein
either the number or salaries of the
which we have not mentioned no alter-
s
officials.n The establishment for the ensuing year, therefore,
will comprise the collector, £1800; the comptroller, £700; 36
Long Room clerks, at salaries from £7O to £500: the comp..
troller of accounts in the Warehousing Department, £460; the
assistant-comptroller, £360 ; 60 clerks, at salaries from £75 to
£300; the inspector-general of the Out-door Department, £600;
, 9 landing-surveyors, at from £4OO to £500; 85 searchers and
landing-waiters, at from £l5O to £350; the inspector of
gaugers, £4OO ; 2 assistant-inspectors, £350 each ; 12 gaugers,
at from £125 to £300; 2 timber-measurers, at £l5O to £l2O
respectively ; '7 messengers, at £6O each ; 24 superintendent
lockers and re-dipping officers, at from £lO7 to £127 • 140
1 lockers, at from £77 to £92; 100 weighers, at from £4,3 'to
£5B, with ls. per day extra when employed; 2 inspectors- of
the river, at £3BO and £3OO respectively ; 29 tide-surveyors, at
from £l2O to £200; 28 inspectors of patrol, at from £9O to
£lOO ; 240 tide-waiters and patrol, at from £43 to £7O, with
ls. per day extra when employed ; 65 boatmen, at from £3B to
£4B, with is. per day extra when employed; the coast officer
and landing-waiter at Runcorn, £100; tide-waiter and boat.
man at Runcorn, 01; and the coast officer at Oarston,