The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-15 00:00:00

LSE Sinut Sarittt.

In the Liverpool Share Market to-day the tone
was very good, and foyers and Midlands -Were
particularly buoyant, but London and North-
Westerns were flat and somewhat freely offered.
The rates of Contango's were generally rather
higher, .but as the open accort was upon 'a very
limited scale this was not mach felt. The trans-
actions included—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 110;
London and North-Western, 103 k, 3, 21; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 43 ; Midland,
130; North-Eastern, Berwick Stock, 1001; Swath-
Eastern, 27k; Buffalo and Lake Huron, 51 ; Dutch
Rhenish, 3-4, 13-16 d; Grand Trunk of Canada,
; Bank of Liverpool, 201.
The Share Market closed to-day at the following
prices : _ _

sales for act., 31):h Aug
Railways. Closing Prices.
`lfirkenhead&CheshireJn. 801 81 801
Caledonian 94 943 94
Eastern Counties -

Great Northern ll8W 120
Great Westerns
Lancashire & Yorkshire . 110? 1104 1101
London & North Western 104 1031 1031 i
Ditto trshares . •
Manchester, Shef., & Lin. 43 xd 433,
Midland Stock
North British.
North Staffordshire 1d
North Eastern—Berwick
Do. York and N. Midland 83 xd 831
Do. Leeds Northern
South Eastern ...
oxford, W. & Wolverhptn 46.1 47
• Dutch Rhenish
Great Luxembourg -16
Grand Trunk of Canada - 71
Gt. W. of Canada 124 121 13;
Ditto new shares
Buffalo and Lake Huron 5
Great Ship
Thames & Mersey M. Co 1 13-16 p
MEETINGS.

' London and Blackwall Railway.—The half-
- yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at
London to-day, when the report, recommending a
dividend of 3 per cont., was adopted.
The following meetings of shareholders will
take place during the next seven days :
Aug. 15. Lancashire and Yorkshire, at Manchester,
ditto Freston and Wyre ; Coniston, at London (half-
yearly and special) ; Furness, at London ; Hull and
Selby, at Kingston ; South-Eastern of Portiigal, at Lon-
don (special).
Aug. 16. Llynvi Valley, at London ; Northern and
Eastern, at London ; Portadown, Dungannon, and
Omagh, at Dungannon;- Vale of Neath, at London.
Aug. 17. Birkenhead, at Birkenhead (special); Bangor
and Caernarvon, at London ; Buckinghamshire, at
London ; Cork and Kinsale Junction, at London (special);
Great Western, at London; London and North-Western,
at London (half-yearly & specal), ditto Chester and Holy-
head (dividend).
Aug. 18. Great Northern, at London.
Aug. 20. St. Helen's, at St. Helen's.
Aug. 21. Liverpool United Gas, at Newington;
London, Til., and South End, at London.
• • DIVIDENDS PROPOSED.
Dividends at the following rate per annum will
be recommended for the first half-year of 1860 ;
appended also will be found the dividends for the
same period last year :

Great Western.-3 per cent. ; surplus, £5,000. 18591
2 per cent. ; surplus. .813,884-17th inst.
London and North-Western.-3 per cent. ; surplusi
£lsi7BB; 1859, 41 per cent. ; surplus, £10,870-171
inst.

Great Northern.-41 per cent. 1859 3/
' Per Bent.-
18th just; .
,St. per cent. on the A Stock. 1859, ..1
per cent.--20th inst.
Actaryport-' and Carlisle.-6 per cent: 1839, 5 per
cent.22nd just,
Dublin and Belfast Janction.-41 per cent (lesi in-
come tax. 1845, 4 per cent. (free income tax)-22d inst.
Bristol and Exeter.-6 per cent. 1831, J per cent.
—Meeting, 23d inst.
Caledonians.-4i per cent ; surplus, £7,000, , , 1859,
31 per cent.; surplus, £2,547..
Ulster.-5} per cent.; surplus, £5,204.
cent. ; snrplus,

18 '49,,5,
„fer

gilt corn Narita. ,
Iu ,the Liverpool Corn Market; to-day we had
a considerable attendance of buyers, including
millers of the interior and from Ireland. Sales
of Wheat were readily made, and to a .large
extent, at an advance generally of 2d per cental
upon 'the prices of Tuesday last. Flour was
steadily taken by consumerspai 6d per.barrel and
is per sack improvement: Beans were firmly
held at full rates. Oats were Yd per bt4el, and
Oatmeal 3d to 6d per load dearer. Indian Corn
was 6a to 9d per qr. higher on the week, with a
good demand.—The weather all through last week
was veiy variable, heavy rain at times, and when
fair gloomy and sunless under such circum-
stances the crops can make but slow progress
towards maturity, and in many districts they will
he very-late n commencing hofvest ; the accounts