The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-02 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Ambergate, Not., & East. Junction
Caledonians
Chester and Holyheld
Eastern Counties 531 41
East Lancashire
Edinburgh & Glasgow . . .
Great Northern
0, A
,1 • 107 8
Great Westerns 741 2
Great Western of Canada . . .10 13-16 15-16
Grand Trunk of Canada . . . . 224 3
Great Southern & 'Western . . . 111 13
Lancashire & Yorkshire . . . . 1191
Lombardo-Venetian
London & North-Western . .
London & South-Western . . 95
Leeds Northern 64
Manchester, Shelf., & Lincolnshire 55 1
Midland Stock
North British
South-Eastern & Dover . . .
York, Newcastle, & Berwick .
York & North Midland . . .
The following appeared in our later editions
of yesterday :
The stock markets opened with some tendency to
improvement, but gave way upon the alteration at the
Bank, and closed with general heaviness. The funds
show a fresh fall of 4 per cent., whilst the reduction in
British railway averaged 4 to tper cent., the only excep-
tion of importance being Great Northern and Man-
chester and Sheffield stocks. The latter advanced 1 per
cent. in the afternoon.—Daily News City Article.
The Daily ,iVews considers the state of the revenue
satisfactory, although the returns have often made better
show ; but it is believed the elasticity of the public re-
venue is only concealed by the incidents of a financial
transaction.
The Daily Ncwx suggests that the Bank would have
done better had they refrained from lowering their
charge a month ago from 6 to 5, in the face of adverse
accounts from America. The demand for money yester-
day was of the pressing character usual on the last day
of the year. No business was done in any quarter
below 6 per cent.
The fund, Opened with a tendency to recovery, but
instantly relapsed on the announcement of the alteration
of the Bank rate. The joint stock banks raised their
rate of interest on deposits only 4 per cent., the same
as on the last occasion, when the Bank rate was voted
from sto 6 per cent. The discount houses charge 4to
11 per cent. for money at call, and 44 to 5 per cent. for
money at notice. The French funds show another fall
of 4. An immediate advance in the rate of discount of
the Bank of France, which is now only 41 per cent., is
expected.—Times ity Article.
The Times city article, speaking of the French treaty,
says there is a general concurrence of opinion that the
French authorities have worked it out with a favourable
disposition, and that even before the close of the year
sense great and lasting results before it will have become
observable. About £44,000 in bar gold was taken from the
Bank, it is believed for Spain. The Times does not predict
distre:s, hat :inticipates straitness of means, as the defici-
encies of the harvest are likely to lessen consumption,
and the political troubles in the United States may
shortly affect our main branches of industry. M. Michel
Chevalier has been named Grand Officer of the Legion
of Honour, for his services in preparing the French
commercial treaty. A French manufacturer, just re-
turned to Paris from visiting the manufacturing districts
of Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow, speaks in the
hgeThseheseptipatecirreernse.s of the friendly reception he met with at
th
tors of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada

have issued a report notifying that in consequence of Vtirtir Varriagts, nab.
there not having been sufficient surplus over the working -
expenses during the current half year, the interest on I
the first preference bonds, due this day, must remain in t
abeyance. Ttie rise in the Bank rate yesterdareaused
a general decline of I to a per cent, in the raitway stocks,
from which there is no recovery.

The following aro the rates nt Foreign Fa-

changes :
Amsterdam, short ll 15 to 11 16
Do., three months ll 18 to 11 181
Rotteqhm,-(16:--:
Antwer* do.
Brussels, do
Hamburg, do 212355
323 '
t 025
oo 1
25
45
3 71
Paris, short 25 15 to 25 25
Do., three months
Marseilles, do 25 :50 ' to 25 57}
Frankfort, do ll7l to 118 k
Vienna, do l4 90 to 15 5
Trieste, do
' Petersburg, do 341 —t6 ' 34/ •
Madrid. do 49 to 49f

The LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKET
to-day remained quiet.
Sugar : The market omtVal rather flat, and
crystalised was rather nteady, but Mauritius was
about steady,
Coffee: There were no public sales, and the
market was steady.
Tea: Business was quiet, and the public sales
advertised for to-day were postponed.
Rice : The market was firm but less active.
Saltpetre : The demaud was dull.
In the BOROUGH Hor MARKET to-day we have
to report an improved demand for most kinds of
Hops, show of which is only moderate, at t e
last week's prices.

The LONDOZ TAMOW MARKET to-Tay Was
sceady at the folloWinc, Auottitiolls':—On the
spot, 60s ;on or before the Met Math, 498 941';
April to June, &3s last three months, 57s 6d.

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