The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-30 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Zte Cab= market.
The LiTerpool Cotton Market to-day was quiet,
and the tendency of prices in favour of buyers.
The sales—including 140 Pernambuco at 74d to
Sid, 70 Maranhom at 71-,d, 350 Egyptian at 7-1 d to
12'd, and 700 Surat at 3d to 4 15-16 d--amounted
to 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 were on speculation
and for export.

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Liverpool Colonial Produce Market to-day
was rather more active.
Sugar : The business comprised 50 hogsheads
• Demerara at 39s 6d, 2,500 bags Cossipore, chiefly
: at 43s 9d to 44s 6d for low to middling, and at
46s 6d for good quality, and 550 bags Bengal
syrups at 45s 6d per cwt.
• Rum: 60 puncheons Demerara changed hands
at previous rates.
Molasses and Coffee: Nothing reported.
Rice: We have nothing further to notice, but
" prices remained unaltered.
Linseed: Prices continued to advance, 2,400
bags Bombay having realised 56s 9d per qr. from
the quay.
Rapeseed: 200 bags Guzerat were •reported at
71s per qr.
' Very little was done at the auctions this morn-
ing, the business being confined to the follow-
ing :
Sago Flour: 1,200 bags damaged, at lOs to 14s
9d per cwt.
Gambier : 470 bales at 16s for first class
damaged, and 16s 3d per cwt for heated.
.Rattans : 5,750 bundles at 2s 6d to 3s 8d per
100.

ire hare Barka.
In the Liverpool Share Market there was a
brighter day, and the more favourable appearance
of the weather gave a better tone to-day, thus a

slight advance in prices was established, and at
the close the tendency was of a hardening cha-
racter. The rates of Contango denote no material
change in the position of the account. The
transactions included—Birkenhead, 791, a ; Cale-

donian, 9374; Great Western, 721, 1 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 109, it ; London and North-
Western, 1011, t, ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 42, ; Midland, 1241, 3 ; Midland
(new shares), 11 ; North Staffordshire, 3 7-16 ;
..sottish North-Eastern (late Aberdeen), 33;
South-Eastern, 26 9-16, ; North and South
Wales Bank, 10 ; Thames and Mersey Marine
Insurance, !p.
The Share Market closed to-day at the following
prices

Sales after 3 o'clock.

Railways. Closing Prices.
Birkenhead &Cheshire Jn. 781 xd 78t-
Caledonian
Eastern Counties
Great Northern ll4l id 1151
Great Westerns
Lancashire & Yorkshire 1091 1094-
London & North Western 99i ad 99fi 993
Ditto i-shares -
Manchester, Shef., & Lin. 43 431 431
Midland Stock
Ditto new shares —1-1 p
North British 63 63*
North Staffordshire 3 id 31d
North Eastern—Berwick .96 961
Do. York and N. Midland 804 81
Do. Leeds Northern
South Eastern
Oxford, W. & Tolverhptn 441 451,
Dutch Rhenish
Great Luxembourg 6—
Grand Trunk of Canada. 7,1 77-
Gt. W. of Canada l2l —12 t
Ditto new shares
Buffalo and Lake Huron 5l 51
Great Ship - 91- .
Thames & Mersey M. Co —9-16 p
The London and North-Western Railway traffic
returns for the week amount to £88,405, showing
an increase, compared with the corresponding
'eek last year, of 13,653.
MEETINGS.

Meetings of shareholders will be held at the
following places :
Aug. 30. Cork and Youghal, at London ; Dublin and
Drogheda, at Dublin ;Margate, at London (half-yearly
and special); Netherlands Land, at London; Sevenoaks,
at London; S'gbourne and Sheerness, at Q'borough ;
South-Eastern, at London ; Wells and Fakenham, at
Fakenham ; Whitehaven Junction, at Whitehaven.
Aug. 31. Ceylon, at London; Dublin, Wicklow, and
Wexford, at Dublin; Eastern Union, at Ipswich; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, at London (half-yearly and
special); 0., Ashton, and Guidebridge, at London;
South-Eastern, at London; Whitehaven and Furness
Junction, at Whitehaven ;_lindalk and Enniskillen, at
Dublin ;, Great Western and Brentford, at London ;
Stokes Bay, at Ryde ; South Wales Mineral, at
London ; South Devon, at Plymouth ; Waterford and
Limerick, at Waterford.

Sept. 4. Londonderry and Enniskillen, at London ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, at Glasgow.
Sept: 5. Glasgow and South-Western, at Glasgow.
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 :
Whicehaven Junctiou.-8 per cent.
cent.—Meeting, 30th inst.
South-Eastern.—L 4 13s 4d per cent.
cent.—Meeting, 30th inst.
3 per cent. 1859, 1; per
Whitehaven and Furness.—
cont.—Meeting, 31st inst.
000. 1859
Caledonian.-41 per cent. ; surplus, £7,
Si per cent.; surplus, £2,547.
Newcastle and Carlisle.-yr.kn intermediate dividend of
62s 6d per cent for the past it-year. 1859, 55s per cent.
gates of trfigilt.
Grain Freights are active, at advanced rates ;
Ss per qr. is freely offered for moderate sized ships
to load at New York, Baltimore, Alexandria, or
Boston, for the United Xingdom. Mediterranean
and Black Sea Grain Freights have also consider-
ably improved. Timber Freights are better, and
there is a good demand for tonnage at an advance
of 2s per load. East India and China outward
;milts are firm but inanimate. Homeward the
from Akyab and
iith option of Con-
Ports rates continue
tcy. There are but
pa in port, and but

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