The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

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The Liverpool Share Market was extremely
strong to-day, and a larger business was done at
much higher prices. Lancashire and Yorkshire
and Sheffield Stocks were in the most prominent
demand, and both closed at pretty nearly their
best point, with an improving tendency. The
market. .closed with very great steadiness.
The, transactions included—Great Western, 711,
; Lancashire-and. Yorkshire, 109/, 10, 1, I,
1,1, t, ; London and North-Western, mot, LI,
4, ; Manchester, Sheffield, and.
Lincoln, 43Z, 1, g, /; Midland, 123, k, 5, 1 ; Ditto
New Shares, 1 5-16 p; North-Eastern, Berwick
Stock, 97; 8,1, t ; South-Eastern, 261, 5-16, I ;
iluffalO and Lake Huron, 5d ; Dutch Rhenish,
3d; Great Western of Canada, 131, 9-16; Illinois
Central," 13d.

The Share Market closed to-day at the following
prices

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Railways. Closing Prices.ales after 3 o'clock.
• Birkenhead &Cheshire Jn. 781 ad 79
+Caledonian
Eastern .Counties
Great Northern 1144 ad 1151
Great Westerns
Lancashire & Yorkshire llOl ad 110,4
London& North Western loo- xd 1001 1001 .
Manchester, Shef., & Lin 431 44 43-4-
Midland Stock 125, 125:3 1253
Ditto new shares
North British .
North Staffordshire
North Eastern—Berwick
Do. York and N. Midland 821 831
Do. Leeds Northern
South Eastern 26f ad. 26 5-16 26 5-16
Oxford, W.& Wolverhptn 451- [5-16 1
Dutch Rhenish-
Great Luaseinbourg
Grand tr+lnli- of Canada 7y 8
Gt. W. ',lt Canada l3l 131
Ditto.aew-shares
Buff*. and Lake Huron 5l
Crest nip •
Thwraes & Mersey M. Co I --
ep
MEETINGS.
Meetings of shareholders. will be held at the
- followipg. places :
Sept. 4. Londonderry and Enniskillen, at London ; '
Edinburgh and ,Glasgow, at Glasgow ; Bradford, W.,
and Leeds, at Bradford.
Sept.-Z. Glasgow and South-Western, at Glasgow.
Sept. 7. Submarine Telegraph, at London. -
Sept..lo. Shropshire Union, at Shrewsbury.
Se_pt.l I. Caledonian, afGlasgow; Edinburgh, Perth,
and Dundee, at Edinburgh; East Anglian, at London.
Sept..l4. London, Chatham, and Dover, at 'London.
Sept. 20. Midland Great Western, at Dublin.
DIVIDENDS PROPOSED.
Dividendssat the following rate per'annum will
be recommended for the first half-year of 1860 ;
appended also will be found the dividends for the
last wear„
same period
Glasgow. 1 per. cent.; surplus,
Edinburgh and --
£2,044... 1859, npe;evit.,; surplus, £2)838.—Meeting,
Sept. 4., ~ -
per cent. ; surplus, £7,000. 1859,
per
.33chat.£2,547.—Meeting, Sept. 11.
4,
- 'Great Western.-6 .per cent. 1859, 5 per
cent..—M6eftik, Sept. 20.
intermediate dividend of
Newcastle- and CaTlif3le.---A n
6.2 s 6cl fitr dent for the past Year. 1853, 55s per cont.

• 1.:7:T? " gaffs of faigt•
Freights continue ,firm, ,as there is still.a good
'dehland for ships, for * Grain, 'and the amount, of
:,.available tonnage not being great the rates *ill
probabl7-totoance; tts large imports of Breadstuffs
will be requitfid supply the deficiency in the
harvest here.:---East India and China rates are
unaltered, but,itegleCted, except for Calcutta, for
which .port •4qs for halt, free of consignment, is
paid. Homewards the freights obtainable here
are steak,' at our "qeptatiens, and Rice freights'
.7
7.
fay
.per ton- -better far small ships. Pacific-
freights are nominal, and but little enquiry for
ships. • Brazilian and •WeSt India trades dull, and
rates low. Australian trade confined.to regular
traders. Tonnage to U.S,. ports 14 abundant, and
to notice, as ships are
we have .no improvement
hurrying back to secure return freights.
RAILS-4IRISTOL CHANSEL.
To Galveston (nominal)
To Mobile (nominal)
To New York' • gd.
18s. Od. and 5 per cent.
To Charleson
To New Wean.% (nominal) 19s. Od. and 5 per cent.
To Pernanditia (Florida) do. '268. Od. and 5 per cent.
To POrtBrthduth (nominal)
To Savanhall (nominaly
To Havannah (small cargo) ...30s. and 5 per cent.
o Alezandria 24.