The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

New York Centrals, 72 per cent. The Bank
return was alsd favddrably construed, The
Foreign EXchiinges lovier; arid ddriiestie Corse in
Philadelphia • Raltiniotd; and Riehnidrid; °Wring
to the iiidleiiienCy of the li'dithei yesterday, Com-
bined with the direVailirtg iita:gilatidn in trade
transactiotis. _ descriptions Of pidliiee,Were
extremely light; and very hide/ q tiny' Cdtton
sold ; while middling Uplands, in the. al sence of
transactions, were nominal at. 10e: • holders for
fdr the Mediu:ll-i kinds of Odd briinds
displayed more Armnesi, and then
an exception. Prices did not vary materidly
from Saturday's rates. Southern was in better
request for export to tropical ports. The sales of
all corns were moderate. "Wheat was also held
with more show of firmness, especially for Wes-
tern red, while sales were moderate. Corn in fair
request at OM tei Mc, far Westerns mixed in
store and afloat: Pork heavy; arid srrtall sales at
$l7 for neW mess; and at Xlt"i 1"21.e. to $l6 WC: for
old mess; arid 010 2ose. for prime, Mess: Sugars
were Witliot sales of Moment: Coffee alsd quiet;
small sales of Rio made, at 10k. Cash freights
steady, with moderate engagements.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 11.—Cotton irregular:
Sales to-day, 10,000 bales; piddling Upland, 9,1 c.
to 9'4 e.

COTTON.
(From 1P P. Irright 4. Co ' a Circular.)
IcEW YORX, Dec. 11.
In this City we hare had ti lintite4 demand for cotton,
and the sales,. which amount to 4,00 bales; hare hien
to our Own spinners aiid for export; hoiden ate shipping
some piAtion of their.' stoat to Europe, and dp not press
for rialihi heresteepfs graddaltY reduced,
and will soon be Nyanja a siliall iSdrnriasit Spinners- tidy
only for their pressing wants, and exporters only *hen
an inducement in price is offered. We make no change
from our quotations of last week, with the remark that
it would be as difficult to buy as to sell any amount of
consequence at the range. The export for the week has
been-To Liverpool, 3.707 bales; GlasgoW, 263; Naples,
1,000; Bremen, 892, Total, 5,862 bales.
Crop i The weather at the South for the past three
weeks has been nnfafourable for picking, much rain has
falien, &triaging quality and destroying quantity, Such
aceoUnti as we are now receiving in relation to crop
would hd+6 had an ififfuence on pride, were it
,not for
poiitidal itch:Dile 4 ds it is; little or no attention is given
to the subject. the tefideney of the accounts' from the
South is in favour of a crop below fOtir millions of bales.
The more important fact of how much may reach the
ports, and what are prospects for the next crop, occupies
a large portion of public attention. Everything depends •
upon the turn politics may take, many parties insisting
that even in case of an amicable settlement of the ques-
tion of secession, the growth of a year or two must be
interfered with .bq the determination of the planters to
put inoie land in grain, and to depend upon themselves
for their sup'p'ly oi can and proiisions.
Receipts this Week 9V,000, against 105,000 same
week last year; deficit as dompared with last year,
299.000 bales. Next week a further deficit will beshoWn.
So far the receipts at New Orleans and Mobile keep well
up, because there is a larger snrfacn ,of country to dr+._
to those ports, and it wore difficult to dmie receip s
at a long distance; from the accounts we are receiving
we expect a more marked falling off in the receipts at
these ports after another week or so. At the Atlantic
ports the decrease continues, and planters seem deter-
mined to resist the decline in price. The receipts at
the interior towns ate very light.
Exports keep on a libeLl scale for the week under
review, and prospectively for the next week ; this was
eipected, as a portion of the stock in the ports was
already sold and in course of shipment. The check to
businesi during the past three weeks will soon show
itself in decreased exports.
The following is a statement or the movement in cot-
ton since the Ist September last, as compared with the
previous four years:-
1860. 1859. 1858. 1857. 1856.
Red. a' rofts.,, 1296,000 1,595,000 1355,000 726,000 1076,000
Ex. to C. 11, 445,000 596,000 369,000 263,000 211,000
France 114,000 140,000 182,000 67,000 102,000
„ other F. P. 70,600' 70,000 72,000 43,000 48,000
Total*Exports... 629,000 806,000 623,000 373,000 301,000
Stock on hand 671,000 762,000 644,000 379,000 550,001
Of which, during the past week, included in the above.: .
Rec. at Ports 96,000 193,000 132,000 112,000 129,00
Ex to G. B.
„ France
„ other F. P lO,OOO 6,000 7,000 . 5,000 5,000
Total Exports 79,000 108,000 81,000 56,000 57,000
Summary.-Receipts : Decrease at the ports compared
with last year, 299,000 bales. Exports :i Decrease to
Great Britain, 151,000 bales; decrease to France,
26,000 bales ; to other foreign ports the clearances are
the same. Total decrease in exports, 177,000 bales.
Freights to Liverpool, 5-16 d. to ',id. per lb., and lc. to
Havre.

Exchanges are dull and difficult to negotiate. On
London, bankers ask 103 to 104, but sales are made below
the inside quotation. Commercial bills are nominal, and
may be quuted from 98 to 100. Franc, 5,571 to 5,60.

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. ARARIA.-Mr.
Hosmer, Mr. Heron, Miss Boit, Mr. Codman, lady,
three children, and two servants, Mr. Roberts, Mr. G.
Warren, Mr. J. Warren, Mrs. J. M. Warren, Mr.
Rondanina, Mrs. C. Livingston, Miss Church, Mr. W.
Church, Miss Shaw, Mr. Grinnell, Mr. Walker, Mr.
Mosley, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Millar, Mr. C. Livingston,
jun., Mr. B. Livingston, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Sampson,
Mr. J. Best, Mrs. Atwood, Mr. Westhead, Mr. Butter-
"
worth, Mrs. M. Campbell and child, Mr. Royce, Mr.
White, Mr. Carras, Mr. Lockwood, lady, and three
children, Miss Lockwood, Miss M. Mooney, Mr. Whit-
ney, Mr. Holcomb, Mr. Ward, Mr. Do La Sange, Mr.
Scott, Mr. Jones, Mr. Garside, Miss Ross, Mr. Wil-
liamson, lady, and infant, Mr. Nichols, .Mr. Levi, Mr.
West, Mr. Toffany, Mr. Rechardt, Mr. Gabaroch, Mr.
Morrane, Mr. Burn, Dr. Stratton and lady, Miss
Stratton, Mr. Lewin, Mr. Harding, Mr. Duncan, Mr.
Dawson, Mr. Westcot, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Crocker, Mrs.
Alexander and infant, four disabled seaman, one ditto
soldier, and Mr. F. Britten ; the last-named gentleman
landed at Queenstown. Total, 81.

GRAND TRUNK RAJLWAY COMPANY OF CANADA.—
Traffic for the week ending December Ist, 1860, and
corresponding weEk in 1859 :
Passengers, &c. Merchandise, &c. Total Miles
Date. No. Amount. Tons. Amount. Sterling. Open.
1860 14085 £4521 0 0 13630 £10896 15 4 £15417 15 4 970
1859 13067 4039 5 6 12849 10032 12 4 14071 17 10 970

Increah
Gross receipts for 21 weeks, from July 1, 1860—L313,490 16
Ditto corresponding period last year 234,547 13 3

Increase £78,943 210}
The Warrior is to be launched from the Thames ship-
building yard on Saturday next, at 2.30 p.m.
SMOKING CARRIAGES ON RAILWAYS.—A meeting of
gentlemen travelling daily on the Eastern Counties Rail-
way was held at the Ship Inn, Tottenham, a day or two
since, for the purpose of memorialising the directors of
the Eastern Counties Railway to set apart carriages of
the second and third class for the convenience of those
passengers desirous of smoking.
COAST-GUARD CHANGES.—It is understood that the
following changes in the coast-guard will take place
from the Ist of January next :—Captain James Willcox,
C.B. (1850), who commanded the Dragon during the
Russian war, will supersede Captain Leopold G. Heath,
C. 8., in command of the Dauntless, 31, screw steam-
frigate, in Southampton Water ; Captain George E.
Patey (1851), will join the Pembroke, 60, screw block-
ship, at Harwich, vice Captain Ed ward P. Charlewood ;
and Captain Edward A. Inglefield (1853) will be ap-
pointed to the Majestic, 80, screw liner, in the Mersey,
vice Captain "William R. Mends, C. 8., nominated to be
Deputy-Comptroller-General of Coast-guard, vice Cap-
tain W. H. Kennedy, whose period of service has
expired.
PRIVATE TELEGRAPHS.—AII interesting morning was
spent on Friday at Mr. Renter's house by a number
of gentlemen invited to inspect a private tele-
graph, one of those which the Universal Private
Telegraph Compaxy propose to establish in offices
and elsewhere. For this purpose the company
extend a rope, containing a great number of fine
insulated wires, over the streets and houses, and any one
of those wires may be rented. To render such arrange-
ments practicable, it was essential, in the first place,
that the wire connections should be effectually made
made at a comparatively small cost. This object is ob-
tained by Mr. Silver's process for insulating wires by
coating them with India rubber. The wires are very
much thinner than bell-wires, and a rope containing
upwards of thirty of them properly insulated is barely
half-an-inch in diameter. The rope is fixed on poles at
the top of the houses, about 200 yards apart, and it is
said that the company have experienced no difficulty in
obtaining the consent of the occupiers to have the poles
fixed on their dwellings. This arrangement is so econo-
mical that the company offer to let out each wire at the
rent of £4 per mile per annum. The instruments to be
applied are the magneto-electric telegraphs, invented by
Professor Wheatstone, its mechanism being slightly
modified to adapt it to its new duties.