The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL;

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Stocks lower and less
active, closing, however, firmer. Money rather
more in demand and firmer, at 61 to 7 on call,
and 7 to 8 for short bills. Sterling exchange
quiet, and nominally unchanged. Cotton firm ;
sales, 12 000 bales ; middling Uplands, 3s 9d.
Flour : Superfine State, at $5 15c to $5 35c ;
Western, extra, $5 45c to $5 75c ; Canada firm ;
Wheat tlperted at, an advance of lc to 2c, but
closed heaq; declining an advance ;
Chicago spring, $1 22c to 1231 e dirri has. had
an advancing tendency; sales, 58,00 bushels;
mixed Western, $6 661 c to $6 674-c ; Beef un-
changed; Pork dull—Prime, $l3 2c to $l4; Lard
dull; Whiskey dull; Rice firm; Sugar steady
sales, 2,000 hogsheads. • Coffee firm; Molasses
unchanged ; Rum firm. Freights: Cotton to
Liverpool, drooping; Flour, 3s 6d.
MONTREAL, Sept. 29.—The weather during
the week has been stormy and cold ; frost last
night in the neighbourhood of the city. Heward
and gdipti repott flour firm, Ns ith fair demand,
at sl6.4ne to g 5 SOC fd,i' good. no. 1, superfine ;
$5 60c for fancy ; and %5 80 to y G 40c for extra.
The receipts have been moderate. Wheat inac-
tive, peas steady; in oats there has been nothing
doing. The receipts of ashes have been moderate ;
pots in good demand.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday:—
, THE PRISONS OF NAPLES. _

, tdra I,llanoyer has sent to the Times a descrip-
tion Pies Litid Sicily, which,
of the prisons of ga
it is remarked, will enable the people of Europe
to realise the fact that Italian patriots are not
fighting for an idea, but grappling with one of
the deadliest agencies of evil that was ever the
curse of a nation. One place of incarceration
was so low as not to admit of an upright posture.
At St. Elmo Lord Llanover was shown a sort of
well in -Mitch n man could only just stand
without moving froni right to lefts and which, he
was told, was constructed by order of the Ting.
Lord Llanover concludes by remarking that
though many difficulties still surround the state
of affairs of Naples, the people were unanimous
in the earnest hope that the Bourbon dynasty be
brought to a close.

The Herald says the bills of Lambichi Brothers,
Greek merchants, of .Manchester, were returned on
Baturclity:
The Unsettled state of 'Piticeyoncl the depression of
trade in the markets connected with that (Natter of the
world, have, it is believed, greatly compromised the
success of recent shipments.
The Herald remarks that at present the state of credit
in the corn trade is satisfactory, and since the late sus-
pension of three weak houses no discouraging rumours
have even, been circulated.
At the half-yearly inspection of the Tipperary
artillery Major-General Eyre, speaking of the conduct
df the Men said that good was too weak a 'word, and
that he ihoilid desigiiate it as exemplary.
There was a felietitidli last,_ night df the disgraceful
scenes at St. George's:iri-the-East. As sheer riffilanism
s miW the great eiciting cause df these distiifbandes a
hope is expressed that it will be dealt with severely.
The mass celebrated at Notre Dame, by the Archbishop
of Paris, in honour of the Marquis de Pimodan and
his companions, who fell at Castelfidardo, was well
'attended. The child of the marquis, a fine boy of four
or five years old, attracted much attention. Many
superior offieers of the army went up to him to press his
hand, and the crowd accompanied hinto the carriage.