The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-31 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL,

We yesterday announced, by the publication of
a telegraphic despatch, the arrival of the mail
steam-ship Atrato at Southampton with the
West Indian mails. We have since received the
following,

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

The last dates of the Atrato are as follows : —Vera Cruz
and Greytown, Jan. 4 ; Colon, Jan. 8 ; Havanna and
Jamaica, Jan. 10 ; Hayti, Jan. 11; Demerara, Jan. 9 ;
St. Thomas, Jan. 16.

The Atrato brings in spade 254,502 dollars in silver, and
445,393 dollars in gold ; Plata peria, £4,404 ; jewellery,
£240 ; and pearls, £4OO. The general cargo consists of
504 bags cocoa, 112 bales bark, 10 serons cochineal, 127
cases cigars, 71 bales tobacco, and 78 cases sundries. No
specie was taken on board at Vi ra Cruz, arid neither mails
or specie were received at Tampico in consequence of the
boisterous weather prevalent there,
The Atrato brings the fallowing passengers t—Mr,
Pur',old. Mr. Rodriguez and wife, Mr. MP, Mrs. Thurlby,
Mr. G. Tighe, Mr. W. A. Jones, Mr. Ordaz, Senr. Lozana,
Spanish minister, Mr. Aumigole, Mr. d'Elor ly, Senr. and
Sena. Canas, Mr. Lemaitre, Mr. Gomez, Miss L. and D.
Fe is, Miss Rosa, Mr. Dieudoistne, Mr. Beauvallet, senr., Mr.
Beauvallet, jr., Mr. and Mrs. Latouche, Mr. Felik,senr Ur
Felix, jr., Mr. Cherry, senr., Mr. Cherry, jr., Mr. Palletier,
Major Murray, Ist West India regiment; Captain and Mrs.
Tuitc, 67th refit. ; Captain and Mrs. Synge, 67th regt, ;
Lieut. Mallon, 69th refit. ; Lieut. Codrington, R.N. ;
Lieut. Knevett, R.N. ; Archdeacon Courtnav, Mr. Gayleard,
Mr. Brandon, Mr. James Forbes, Ass'stant Engineer, 8.N.,
Mr. Hoare, Mr. Miller, Made. Roger, Mr. de la Vera,
Mr. Payne, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Girardat, Mr. Carasco,
Mr. and Mrs. Lacave, Mr. Viviro, Mr. Charles, and two
distressed British seamen.
From the Islands we learn that the new Governor of
Barbadoes, the Hon. Mr. Hineks, lady, family, and suite,
arrived at St. Thomas in the steamer from Halifax, and
await the departure of th' packet on the 18th to proceed
to his government. Sir W. Colebroke, the ex-Governor
is exnected to leave by next mail. The islands are all
healthy, except Porto Rico, and there the cholera is raging
to/a great extent.
Advices from Mexico, dated Jan 2, inform us that Gen.
Comonfort, the present President, has succeeded in com-
pelling the late President, Alvarez, to fly to the mountains
with his Indian friends. General Uraga is at the head
of a force in opposition to Comonfort. The present
government is constituted as follows :—Don Luis de la
Rosa, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Don Payno, Minister
of Finance ; General Yaues, Minister of War ; Don de la
Fragua, Minister of Home ; and Don Montes, Minister of
Juestice. This is the third President since the flight of
Santa Anna, and his government, it is expected, will last
no longer than that of his predecessor. The country is
in a very unsettled state, and anarchy and confusion
appear to exist in every way.

REVIEW OF THE MARKETS.
KINGSTON, JAN. 10.
ALEWIVES: The receipts being very limited, sales hare
been made at 265.

BurrEE: Sales of Irish at 14d to 15d; American 121 d.
BEEF : Smith's family sold at 535.
BREAD: The market is yet inundated with bread and
crackers. We have stock enough to last four months.
CORNMEAL : Sales have been made at 235.:
CANDLES : Imports have been very large lately, and sales
at 10d to 10id in small lots.

COFFEE le wanted. Sales at 38s to 40s.
CODFISH has been dull of sale at 15s in tierces ; boxes
have moved off more readily at 19s to 20s. 100 tierces
which were on hands a few weeks, sold at prices not allowed
to transpire, but supposed to be 135. Two entire cargoes,
and portions of two others remain on the consignees' hands.
CHEESE : D.G. is worth 15d.

FLOUR : There is a total absence of speculative feeling,
and the article can only be moved in small quantities for
immediate use, chiefly at 495. Sales of .500 barrels, some
time in the island, at 48s.

HERRINGS : " Shore," and " Newfoundland," have been
moved at 24s and 20s respectively; but as the receipts have
far exceeded the consumption, there is a large stock in
receivers' hands, for which buyers refuse to pay those
prices, and also decline to name others, being themselves
amply supplied for their present requirements.
HAMS : American of best quality is at 91d to 10d.
LARD • Sales of 300 kegs American, at 10d.
.

LumnEu : An over stock of W. P.; and the quotation of
85s is only nominal. W. C. shingles of good quality are
worth 225.

MALT : Steck is now light.

MACKEREL : 26s in cario. The price which has lately
prevailed is not now obtainable, owing to the receipts being
much in excess of demand.

OiL : Cod in cargo at 43, but alone, at a higher figure.
PORK : Limited sales in mess at 112 s, and 101 barrels
at 110 s.

RICE : A lot of about 2,000 bags is held by one party,
sales in small quantities at 20s.

RIME : Sales'at 33 741 to 33 91 per gallon.
SALMON: Sales of No. 1 Halifax, of prime quality, 112 s.
SALT : For 2000 sacks, Liverpool stored, put up at
public sale yesterday, only Os 6d was hid; but we have
heard of sales in moderate quantities at 7s to Bs.
SOAP : 221 and 21s for 60 and 50 lbs. crown, and 14s
for 481bs fe;,e.er, are the prices asked for recent receivals
of both Steele's and Casey's ; but there is still several
hundred boxes in the hands of purchasers at the former
low prices, which must first be consumed before this ad-
vance can be obtained.

SUGAR : Sales at 20s to 254, according to quality.
ExcuArrans—On London. Jamaica, and Colonial Banks
—9O days, 1 per cent. premium ; 60 days, 1 per cent.
premium ; 30 days, 2 per cent. premium.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED AT KINGSTON.—Dec. 31, barque Agnes, from
Cardiff, 58 days, with coals. Jan. 2, barque Glencairn,
from Cardiff, 39 days, with coals. Dec. 31, barque Sir
Walter Raleigh, from Liverpool, 45 days, with general
cargo. Jan. 2, ship Jane, from Newport, 45 days, coals.
Bremen barque Charlotte, from Newport, 32 days, coals.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE MARKETS.
We quote the following from De Cordoua's Mercantile
Intelligencer

KINGSTON, JAN. 10.—The year 1855 has not been a
brilliant one fbr our importers of foreign stuffs, still,
taking it as a whole, we look upon it as a fair average.
The excess in the importation of flour this year over
that of last, amounts to about 1,500 barrels,
and the lowest figure for that article, which
we have reported, is 46s ; at which price the market
was cleared on speculation in the beeinninz of November.
The highest sale we have quoted is 60i, and the average
price of flour has been 51s. The stock on hand at the
commencement of 1856 was not large, consequently the
consumption kept pace with the supply, which was hardly
to be expected from the abundance,of ground provisions
with which we were blessed.

Meal is an article which has gone more out of consump.
tion with us than any other we could mention, and the
demand for it apparently grows less. With an importa-
tion of only 5012 barrels against 12,366 in 1853, the
market throughout the year has been dull and exceed-
ingly heavy, and a large proportion of sales has been made
considerably under the cost of importation.
RlCE.—Bengal and Patna have met with full:demand
and generally been sold at remunerative prices.
BREAD AND CRACKERS have lett very heavy losses on
importations from the fact that their high cost prevented
our retailers from disposing of more than the most limited
quantities.

LARD.—America has taken the place which was once
held by Ireland. The quality of the lard received from
the former place is now superior to that from the latter,
and consequently it generally obtains the preference. It
is an article of great consumption with our populuce, who
prefer it to every thing el-e in cooking, except pork,
which is really one of their greatest staples.
BUTTER, in large quantities, has been imported from
America, and being generally of fair quality, has acted
very unfavourably on importations from Ireland, yet
brokers of the Later have, succeeded in obtaining remu-
nerating prices.

Potti.:.-Our importations of 5425 brls, has nearly gone
out of the market, and in this as in lard, our people give
the preference to American. The year commenced with
an ample stock, and limited demani with nominal quota-
tions of 72s to 745, with little fluctuation till February.
Frem February to April we had no sales to
report, and nominal prices were asked. InApril
693. to 70s. was the figure, Lnt in May, the mar•
ket having been rid of superabundant stock, 803. was
asked, and obtained, and this price was fully maintaine :
and from that period the article has been firmer and in
more demand. In July and the early part of August, 84s.
to 87s. was the ruling rate. Towards the end of August
a speculator cleared the market at 993. to 925., and by
the end of September 1163. was asked, and obtained.
Since this last period 110 s. to 114 s. has been commanded
by importers, but 112 s. has been the prevailing rate. Our
stock at this moment is quite sufficient for our wants.
Fisir : Our demand for dry and pickled fish is great,
but generally our supply is greater.
In other articles of Imeorrr a fair business has been done
and so long es shippers and importers do not inundate us
with goods, fair profits in,y be realised, but if they will
madly outvie with each other, and judge their business by
the amount they sell, and not by the profits they realise,
they must be content to gather the fruits of their own
folly.

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was sold at ruinously low rtes, and which in February we
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We are now feeling the benefits, whits our English friends
are suffering from the evil effects of their wise and judicious
legislation. It is quite time the tables should be turned,
and we hope we shall keep them as they are for a long time.
COFFEE opened in January at 31s to 325, and closed
December at gas 6d to 37s 6d. It has reached 39s ; but
the general ruling rates have been between 32s and 365.
PIMENTO : The crop this year has been enormous, and
has been sPut on to market with stocks lying over from
the previous year. Speculators from the first pla=ced
a fictitious value on the article, and dearly have
they paid for their temerity or generosity—let
them call their want of prudence and foresight what
they will-41 has been the ruling rate, and most
of the crop has realised that price, or 31,-,d. This has paid
the pimento growers handsomely, but with every nierket

overstocked with this 'year's crop.: wh at may be th

pects for 1856 it is not now our province to anticipa
can only say, we hope they will share in the prosp
the sugar and cotton growers. Should we have ,
the Russian ports be thrown open, their prospects will
ilv_come better.

In reviewing the DRY sons operations of the past year,
it is clearly apparent that the 121 per cent. additional duty
on imported goods has tended to reduce profits to wholesale
dry goods houses, to check consumption, and generallk to
diminish transactions, resides the high rates of exchange
which have prevailed here and in England,—the war
tax, stamp duty, and other imposts, have had the effect of
lessening their gains. The total decline of our foreign trade
has been a serious blow to their interest., in common with all
others, and the dry goods merchants have cause to r Bret
this. Added to these circumstances, the coot of yarns since
the war has been another obstacle in the way of invorters,
because the increased prices have checked the import tion
of Oznaburgh and other coarse goods, which are const‘m,d
by the mass of the people. Altogether, tl'c year just elosP4
has been marked by great depression in the dry goods busi-
ness, pith the prospect of a still greater depresLion this Sear.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

The files of the journals brought by the Overr
land Mail have arrived, via Trieste.

The Bombay Times of January 2 gives the following
summary of political intelligence :

The S'antai insurrection may be said to be suppressed.
Tranquillity prevails throughout our dominions, and we
have not for some months had a single disturbance even
on the Punjab frontier. The Kingdom of Oude is about
to be sequestered, the King to be allowed 100,0001 a year,
the army to be reduced from 80,000 to 15,000 ; the entire
administration of affairs to be entrusted to the resident,
General Outran). The settlement of the Oodeypore
differences, which renders the political agent supreme,
has dissatisfied the chiefs. The native princes, whose
administration is admitted to be blameless, are endeav-
ouring to obtain some better security than they have
hitherto enjoyed for the retention of their dominions.
The charges of the Indian navy are about to be
increased from half to close on a million sterling annually;
one fourth the revenue of the Presidency, two-thirds the
charges of our army of 60,000 men.
Lord Canning is expected at the Presidency on his way
to Calcutta a fortnight hence ; the present Governor-
general retires on the Ist of March, after an administra-
tion of eight years' duration.

A fair business has been done in the import market;
money is scarce, and exchange has advanced.

CHINA

54 The intelligence from China Ts unimportant. The fole
lowing is from the Ouerland Friend of China of Dec. 15 :
At Canton there has been another extensive fire; sin-
gularly again on the site of the fire in:1852. There are
now three large spaces in the vicinity of the factories
caused by fires within the last twelve months. We believe
the whole of these fires have been the work of incendiaries.
:Trade in Canton in old teas during the month has been
brisker than it has been for some time. Of new teas hut
few have been brought to market, and operations have
been limited.

In Hong Kong there has been what Americans would
call "an indignation meeting.' deprecatory of an attempt by
Governor Bowring to take away the peculiar benefit of
marine lots, by rnnning a public parade in front of them,
which parade His Excellency thinks should be made
for the benefit of the public by the holders of the
marine lots, so requiring from them an outlay of an
average of 1,0001. sterling per 100 running feet. One of
the benefits to be derived from the construction of this
parade, according to government, would be increased
facilities for police purposes. Our police force and sys''
tern, however, are so notoriously inefficient, that mer-
chants prefer guarding their sea frontages ; and evert
with such additional guarding they are not sale, as
evidenced in an organized attack on Messrs. Wardley
and Co.'s offices, a few nights ago, and successful escape
of the burglars, with about 3,000 dols. in cash; not. 0,
policeman being found for half an hour afterwards.
The failure of several Chinese shroffs at Shanghai, fol-
lowed by the suspension of Messrs. Aspinwall, Mackenzie,
and Co., with liabilities, it is said, exceeding 150,0001.,
have caused something like a panic in that quarter.
Our table of latest dates is as follows Noo•
11th ; Pekin, Nov. 12th ; Shanghai, Dec. Bth ; canton,
Dec. 12th.