The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—The Stock Market, yes-
terday, displayed more steadiness than might
have been looked for under the continued exciting
events and rumours from the South. The cash
prices closed firm. New York Central, 74; Erie,
36-!i. Money and Exchange continued easy.
London, 104 to 1041 ; Bunk and Bankers' quota-
tions, 104 to 105 per cent. The Cotton Market
was firm yesterday ; but owing to reduced stock,
and the amount of sales being light, transactions
were less active. The sales embraced about
1,500 bales, closing firm on the basis of 11}
for Middling Uplands. The telegraphic advice,
from southern ports speak of a corresponding
advance there. The amount on sale in this
market is estimated as low as 7,000 bales, sad
the stock in hand about 30,000 bales, the greater
portion of which is held out of market. 'Flour
was firm, and common to medium grade were 5c
per barrel higher. Wheat was in fair demand,
and firmer ; whilst sales were fair, and market
without important change in prices. Corn was
firmer and tolerably active, at 69c. to 70c. for
Western mixed in store, 70c. to 80c. afloat, and
72e. for sound yellow. Red was firm. Coffee :
Rio was quiet. A rumour prevailed that 5,0001
bags Java were sold within the range of 15c. to
16c. Freights were firmer for grain, with more
offering, while articles were without change of
moment.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28.—Cotton firm. Sales
to-day 5,000 bales, at 111 c. to 11/c. for middling.
The sales of the week are 62,000, and the receipts
67,000 bales, as against 80,000 previously. The
receipts at this port are less than last year by
112,500 bales ; at all Southern ports less than last
year by 494,000 bales. The exports of the week
are 53,300 bales, and the total exports to-day
669,500 bales. Stock 344,000 bales. Freights :
cotton to Liverpool 7-16 d.
MOBILE, Dec. 27.—Cotton firm. Sales 12,000
bales, at 101,e. for middling.
LONDONDERRY, Jan. 9.

The Bohemian, from Portland on the 29th ult.,
has arrived, and landed all her mails. She passed
the steamers North American, United Kingdom,
Palestine, and John Bell. The Kangaroo was off
Cape Race on the 27th ult. The political news
brought by the Bohemian has been anticipatedby
the Etna. _ _ _

( Latest by Telegraph.)

The North American passed Cape Race on the
28th of December.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Stocks firm : Illinois
Central, 691 ; New York Central, 75 ; Erie, 37.
Cotton firm and unchanged. Breadstuffs are quiet,
but scarcely so firm. Provisions steady.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec 28.—The Cotton market
is firmer; sales to-day, 5,500 bales ; sales of the
week, 62,000 bales ; receipts during the same
period, 67,000 bales ; receipts below last year,
495,000 bales.

The Arago steamship, which left South-
ampton yesterday, for New York, took aut.
£12,600 in specie.
The Globe attributes the recent railway acci-
dents to the frost, which has made the metals
rigid, and the axles of engines and carriages, and
the tires of wheels extremely brittle ; and sug-
gests a temporary reduction in the speed of
travelling.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday :
LORD PALMERSTON ON AMERICAN
SECESSION.

Lord Palmerston took the opportunity at the dejeuner
yesterday of adverting to political topics. His Lordship
said we have too much reason to fear that that union
which has now existed not much less than a century.
which has conduced to the peace and prosperity of our
kinsmen. of the other side of the Atlantic, is likely to be
broken and disrupted. Whether that union is destined
to remain unimpaired, or whether those states are-
determined to separate into different communities, our
fervent prayer is that the result may be brought about
by amicable means, be it for maintaining or dissolving
the union, and that the world may be spared the
afflicting spectacle of hostile conflicts between brothers
and relations.

The Post's Paris correspondent says, "The Italian
question is about to make a great move." •
The Herald says that Mr. Heygate, Consorvative, who
was only in a minority of twenty at the last election for
Leicester, will again become a candidate.

Letters from Garibaldi, to the end of December;. are
published. They afford abundant proof that het is
holding himself in readiness for the Ist of March.
The Daily Hews remarks that the proclamation of the,
King of Prussia implies nothing less than that liberty in
Prussia is to be progressive and comprehensive.
Maigr-General Sir Robert Napier, Bengal Engineer,,
has been appointed an ordinary member of the Council
of the Governor-General of India, in the room of Sir
James Outram, resigned.
The inquest on the bodies of three men killed on the
London and Chatham railway has terminated in a Ter—
diet of " accidental death," from the breaking of the
horn plate of the engine, bet how it was caused there
was no evidence to show.

5p rung Antritigenct.

HUNTING FIXTURES.
The WYNNSTAY PACK will meet on

Thursday, January 10, at . Cefn
Saturday, January 12, at Selattyn
Each day at half-past ten.

Master, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P. ; Huntsman, J.Walksr.

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet on

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Saturday, January 12, at AM*
Monday. January 14, at Tabley
Wednesday. January 16,:at Highwayside
Thursday, January 17, at
Saturday, January 19, at Wrenbury StatiStation
Monday, January 21, at Beeston Station
Wednesday. January 23, at Beaver
Thursday. January 24, at Arley
Saturday, January 26, at Tale Royal
Each day at half-past ten.

`DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— On Monday morning last,
about four o'clock, a fire was discovered at the Tyne
Dock Offices, Jarrow, which are situated on the south
side of the Jarrow turnpike road, near the toll-bar. The
damage done is very considerable, the premises being
completely gutted, and nothing but the bare walls left
sttOding. It is stated that some books were destroyed,
but foklunately a considerable amount of cash and books,
which were contained in one of Messrs. Milner and
.
Son's fire-resLgting safes, were saved without injury,
although the safe
had been nearly four hours exposed
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to great heat.
TliE FESTIVAL AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. --The
arrangements for the gearki
performance of Handel
sublime oratorio The Messiah 6.7 Friday,
's
the 25th inst.,
are progressing most satisfactorily. The orchestra fills
up the entire south transept,
and Olt contain about
600 performers, band and chorus. Th. magnificent
organ, for the purchase of
which the festiol is helge
towers in the back ground to the gilded roof
(ti, e recent
liberal embellishment of the Goldsmith's Comp."Y);
It will be an exquisite treat to the admirers of sacr..'a
music to listen to the strains of melody rolling through
the vast and glorious dome under which the audience is
to be seated. Full twenty years have elapsed since a
band has been heard in the metropolitan cathedral, but
mnny can recollect the pleasure they experienced when
the Dettingen Te Deu%'.4 was annually given in the choir
by the forty stringed instrrnents and sixty voices sup-
plied by the Royal Society of
Musicians. With the
plan of the present orchestra it is 'etircely-possible to
imagine the wonderful effect that will be produced by a
performance on so extended a scale. No caatedral or
music-hall in England can offer a comparison with St.
Paul's for such a purpose. It is a satisfaction to learn
that the present Dean and Chapter have succeeded in
warming the building so as to render it as comforable
as a private dwelling, even at this inclement season.
THE SCREW STE ‘,IISHIP QUEEN VICTORIA.—FLY•
MOUTH, TUeStla' The telegraphic cable is in course of

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removal in a satisfactory manner from the ship. The
high and dangerous temperature in the hold, caused in
sonic measure by the brightness of the wire used in this
cable, has been completely subdued by the unexpected
submersion when the ship was stranded, and it is DOW
in capital condition. The total length of cable received
on b bard was about 425 knots—viz., the two shore ends,
together, say, 70 knots, the remainder 355 knots. The
weight of the cable is, say, shore end, 70 knots, at 7
t, s per knot, 420 ti(11/8nnsat;onpssnil small
teacallbhlle,ol 3345805 knots,toontso.n s.Tahraeet
t2wlo-7gutioinsbupiegsr,knnootv,er7
moored abreast of each other, directly astern of the
Queen Victoria. The Pilot is to the starboard, receiving
cable from the after hold ; she has the entire of one of
the shore ends, about 27 knots, nearly 200 tons, and
may he able to take about 60 miles of the small eabl_e•
The Rover is to port, and has received from the foreliiiled
of the steamer 23 knots, say 180 tons, and may beus;. of
to stow 70 miles of the lesser cable. There
rij brig' s
course, be a severance of the cable When eac
bite been Leone
damage. •