The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-09 00:00:00

Z,te Stare Marta.

In the Liverpool Share Market to-day there
has again been very little business going on; but
the tone has been good, and prices rather firmer,
closing at their best point, with an improving
tendency. The transactions included Caledonian,
91 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1051 ; London
and North Western, 1011 2 1-; Eighth Shares,
par 1-16 p ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
42?, ; Midland, 117-1 18; North Eastern, Leeds
Capital Stock, 492 50 ; South Eastern, 26 3-16;
Grand Trunk of Canada, Seven per Cent., 1867,
cum int., 71 ; Great Western of Canada, 13 7-16;
St. Helen's Railway and Canal, Six per Cent.
(C), 125 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cent. (D),
941; Pacific Steam Company, 63.

The Share Market closed today at the following

paces :

Sales after
Closing Prices. 3 o'cloek.

Railway.%
Blackburn,
Birkenhead&CheshireJn. 691 70
Caledonian 9l 911
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
if-Ir on f Newt-II orn . 11P. 117
Great Westerns
Lancashire & Yorkshire . lO5l 1051 105 i
London & North Westernlo2l 102! 102+
Ditto 4--shares -16 kp p 1-16
Manchester, Shef., & Lin. 423 —42 k
Midland Stock ll7i —118 k
North British 691 —62 f
North Staffordshire d
North Eastern—Berwick
Do. York and N. Midland 80+ 80!
Do. Leeds Northern
Oxford, W. & Wolverhptn 451 461
South Eastern
Dutch Rhenish
0,
Great Luxembourg 6 15-16 7 1-16
Grand Trunk of Canada
Gt. W. of Canada
Ditto iew shares .....- 7 6d
Buffalo and Lake Huron.: 6 1
Lombardo-Venetian
Great Ship

Abe Cont (Market.
At the Liverpool Corn Market to-day there was
again a limited attendance of local as well as
country millers and the demand for Wheat is
little more than retail; notwithstanding, the tone
of the trade is on the whole somewhat more firm,
without any large quantity offering for sale ; the
reduction quotable is 2d on red, and 2d to 3d per
cental on white Wheats since this day week. We
have also only a retail inquiry for Flour, at a
decline of 6d per barrel and is per sack. Egyptian
Beans inactive at the reduction noted in our last.
Oats and Oatmeal unchanged. Yellow Indian
Corn must be noted 6d to 9d, and white is 6d per
quarter lower on the week, with scarcely any
business done. The weather has remained fine
and dry with hot sunshine during the days and
cold nights, so that vegetation has not progressed
much last week ; still sonic advance is perceptiblee
moisture and warmth together being only wanted
to restore the country in a good measure from the
untoward effects of an almost unprecedentedly
harsh and backward season. In the hope of such
a favourable change, and a consequent influence
on prices, consumers at all our country markets
have operated much less actively, and the tendency
in the value of Wheats has been towards a slight
decline, in some cases to the extent of is per
quarter. Our prices are relatively lower than the
Continental districts from which good supplies
are on the way, and leave also scarcely a margin
on the latest American quotations. These supplies
may for a while fill up part of the void caused by
an extensive reduction of stocks at outports, but 2
as operations abroad cannot be renewed except
to manifest disadvantage, the trade must again
depend much on home resources in farmers' hands,
which, though there are conflicting opinions, are
more generally believed to be rather small than
otherwise. Business here since Friday has been
very inactive in all its branches. Imports of the

week are to a fair extent of grain, and large of
Flour; there is a considerable export of Wheat
and Indian Corn to Ireland. There was some
quantity of rain early this morning in this locality,
as well as in many other parts of the country.

ARRIVALS AND EXPORTS

From the Ist to the 7th May, 1880, inclusive.

INTO
LIVERPOOL,
PROIE
Ireland •
Coastwise .
Canada,Stc.
U. States
Europe,&c.
Egypt

INTO
RuNcozw..,

T0ta1....

/EXPORTS TO
For. Parts
Ireland

Coastwise

Qr,.
• • •
469 30
590 ...
3900 ...
310.
5269 30
3652 •• •
203 233

4564;10551
._.. 35,
69 20
142 5181

Bpi
LA n,

I Flo,
0

r.
.75
... 122

4186 1148321

79 612
779 770

tte Cohnial trotrute Markt.
The Liverpool Colonial Produce Market to-day
was tolerably active and firm.

SUGAR.—There continues a fair enquiry, and
steady prices are realised; 90 hhds. Jamaica are
reported at 39s to 40s 6d, 139 hhds. Antigua at
37s 6d to 41s, 2,800 bags low brown Mauritius at
345, and a floating cargo of Paraiba, for an out-
port, at 23s 9d per cwt.

MOLASSES and RUM.—We have nothing further

to notice.

COFFEE.—At the public sales, held to-day, 200
tierces; of Plantation Ceylon were offered, and sold
with fair competition, bringing chiefly 69s to
73s for low to middling coloury, up to 76s 6d for
good middling bold; 1,400 bags Native were
also put up, but only 250 bags were disposed of,
at 62s to 62s 6d per cwt. for fine ordinary picked.
RICE.—The Bengal offered by auction sold
readily, 550 bags realising 14s 7id to 15s. per
cwt. for good to fine table.

LINSEED.—Nearly 2,000 bags have found bUyeys
at 51s 3d to 51s 6d for Bombay, and at 49s per
quarter for Bengal. : -

(Extracts from Messrs. T.'4, H Littledale's
Circular, Bth May.

TEA.—After the date of our last circular a
little firmer tone was Manifested, and a few trans-
actions were 'entered into in blackish-leaf kinds
up to is Bd—in the past week the dealers have
bought rather more freely in- most sorts, of con-
gou at full to a shade advance in prices. There
have been two mails from. China, letters by the
last were delivered on 27th ult., with dates from
Hong Kong 15th and Foo-chow-Foo and Shan-
ghee sth March, stating total exports 69,000,000
lbs against-48,000,000.1b1 same period last year,
and the stocks at the shipping ports were getting
into a small compass, which has however
had no effect on the home market. Blacks :
Common sound shipping qualities may be
quoted as is 41d, and the broken leaf
dusty kinds at is 3d to is 4d,—there is a
fair demand for blackish-leaf Ho-How sorts from
is 6d to is 7d, and medium kinds from is 8d to
is 9d—stocks of which are light. Very few sales
to report in the fine to finest Monings, Oopacks
and Kaisows, and prices are. without change—
the same will apply to Oolongs and Souchongs.
Scented Capers and Orange Pekoes have been
neglected—the common grades of each are rather
cheaper. Greens : Canton made sorts are in-
quired for, but there is no 'change to notice in the
good to fine Moyune Gunpowder and Young
Hyson. On comparing prices with 7th ult, all
kinds of Congou maintain full previous rates,
whilst common scented Capers and Orange
Pekoes are a little easier. We estimate the stock
in the United Kingdom at 71,700,000 lbs, against.
64,500,000 lbs,—quantity afloat 14,000,000 lbs,
against 19,000,000 lbs same period last year.
SILK.—The greater part of last month passed
over without any business of. importance
.being
transacted ; but, towards the close, importers and
dealers showed more disposition to sell; and a
concession of is to is 6d per lb. from the
highest point being made, a considerable business
was done, though the deliveries for the last
month are less than for some years past, being
only 3,930 bales, in which is included 270 bales
Japan Silk. Manufacturers are unable to dispose
of their goods,'and Silk Throwsters are much in
the same sitdatiOn. In Bengal Silks there hai
hardly been any .inquiry, and the transactions
that, have taken place have been confined
entirely to the best European Filatures, at
previous rates.. In Italian, Brussa, and Per-
sian Silks there is no new feature, and prices
nominal. East India and China Silk Piece
Goods At the public sales, held on the 2nd and
3rd inst. 63,900 pieces of Corahs were brought
forward, of which only 8,700 pieces were sold,
and these of the best qualities ; the ' remaining
55,200 pieces were withdrawn, as there was no
disposition shown to purchase, either by the home
trade or by exporters ; and a more depressed state
for all descriptions of East India and China Silk
Goods we have not known for many years.
Knubbs and Husks and Gum Silk Waste : Waste
Silk Spinners, though entirely distinct from the
Net Silk trade, have experienced the same sus-
pense and depression. One great feature in their
business—the supply of the French market—has
for some months past nearly snhsided- The con-
sequences have been that Waste Silk spinners
have greatly contracted their productions;- and,
to make sales of either Knubbs and Husks; foreign
Gum Waste or home-made, a reduction of 3d. to
6d. per lb. has been submitted to.
WooL.—The announcement of the Liverpool
public sales at the early part of last month had
the effect of arresting business by private con..
tract, and no transactions worthy of note' were
entered into. The public sales commenced on the
18th and closed on the 27th ultimo, comprising
a total of 22,826 bales, viz.,-9,503 bales Australian
and 'Cape, 11,698 bales East. India, 7,337 bales
sundries, and. .1,288 sheets English. The first
day was set apart exclusively for Australian and
other fine wools, and although we were favoured
by a very' large attendance of buyers 'and brisk
competition, so far as it went, we /levet° report

an average decline of ld. per lb. upon good, and
I,ld. to 2d. per lb. on inferior and ill-conditioned
wools, compared with the London March series;

to be accounted for by the stringent money

market then prevailing, by the expected enor.

mous supplies for the London May' and July
series, by the feelings of suspense and uncer-
tainty as to the French tariff (which prevented
the attendance of many foreign buyers) ; and
lastly, though chiefly, from the conviction per-
vading the whole body of buyers, that prices are
unprofitably
and dangerously high—that when-
ever, during the last seven years of unrivalled
manufacturing expansion, they have attained to,
or verged upon, so high a level, they have inva-
riably met with a sudden and serious drop,
arising from either the mere fact itself of too
Aigh pries, as in the Loudon May sales of
F 56, or from some extraneous incident—as a

Cri:nean or Italian war, an American panic, or

the ithousand-and-one adverse contingencies to

which all mercantile adventutes are a pray to.
East In dia Wools brought together an unusually

large concourse of buyers, and the whole sold
briskly and uniformly at the following rates:—
Best whites, yellows, and greys, dto id lower;

second whites and yellows, without change ; low

to fair greys and yellows, and coarse, middle,
and medium white (which qualities made up the
bulk of the sales) id to Id per lb. higher'

P ersians and natives slightly dearer,—making
,
together quite as high an average as for the
sales in January. A fair proportion of this mis-
cellaneous Wools were disposed of at current
rates, and the Liverpool market is at present quite
denuded of all useful qualities of low foreign
Wools. English Wools also commanded much

attention, and the great bulk of it wato disposed