The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-03 00:00:00

CANTON AND SHANGHAE MARKETS,

EXCHANGE AND BULLION : Canton 'Feb. 12. Oriental
Bank Corporation on London, at 6 months' sight, 4, 11*
to 5.

Mercantile Bank of India, on London, at 6 months' sight, 5.
Hong Kong,-Jan 22 :0. B. Corporation on London, at 6
months' sight, 4,11. Shanghae, Feb. 6; 6. 74.
OPIUM Canton, 13th Feb. New Patna, $4274 ; old
Patna, $108:1 ; old Benares, $4174 ; Malwa, $4BO ; Turkey,
$460.- Shanghae, 6th Feb. Malwa, $395 to $3974. • Patna
new, $3174 to $320; old high Nos.' $305 to $306 ; low
ditto, $303 to $304, all in good demand. •

' FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE : Canton to London, £4 lOs for
tea. Shanghae to London, £4 for tea, and £5 for silk.
Manila to London, £4 2s 6d for sugar ;£4 for tobacco. To
Australia, only chartered ships loading. To United States
612 all round.

ImvrntTs ; A fair amount of business has been done in cotton
piece goods ; accounts received by last mail had the effect of
inducing holders to become firm, and grey goods of nearly al!
descriptions immediately advanced in value.

GREY SEHRTINGS : All descrip!inns are in demand, and
prices on 40 in. have advanced from I to 3 annas, and on 4:1

from to 2 annas a piece

GREY MADAPOLLAMS have advanced from 9 to 1 anna per
piece, and ail descriptions are in good inquiry.
GREY JACCONETS are in fair inquiry,
CoTroN YARNS : The market has been steady, and prices
on mule 20 tl 60 have slightly advanced, as has also 30
water Dyed orange is in moderate enquiry, but Turkey red
is dull,

'EXPORTS—COTTON WOOL: The market has been very
active, and on the new crops, of which supplies have been
freely received, there has been an advance in price.
OIL SEED: All descriptions are in good demand.
EXCHANGE : We quote as the rate of the day 2s 21 to 2s
2g.d. On Calcutta, 60 days' sight, rs 981 to rs 99. Oa China,
fio days' sight, rs 223..
FREIGHTS are firm at £4 2s 6d to £4 5s per tou for Cot-
ton to London and Liverpool. No tonnage is procurable to
London for seed, for which £4 15s would be paid. To China
we quote rs l 7 to rs 18 per candy.
CALCUTTA, Feb. 22.—1 n imports there is no marked
improvement as to prices, and in exports, owing to the light
stock of the principal articles of produce, holders have shown
some firmness in their demand;

There has been no change in the money market since the
departure of the last mail.
The present rates of exchange may be quoted at 2-2-1 with
credits, and 2-2 k to 2-2 a with shipping documents.
'Nemo : The public sales have been as extensive as those
reported in our last issue, and comprise nearly 2,800 chests,
chiefly of up-country produce. The principal quantity now

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left is composed of drab produco and native Benares. One or
two Tirhoot marks still remain for sale • but it is uncertain
when they will be brought forward. There has been no alters•

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tion in prices.
ExciIANGE: : A fair amount of business appears to h
been done for the outgoing mail at 2 24- to 2 21 for et'ear!
.d ! :
bills, and 2 21 to 2 2i for document paper at oil months sight'
We do not anticipate any immediate change. the
FREIGHTS : Hardly any change appears in the rates of
homeward freightage during the period under notice.
signees have shown much firmness, which has caused rates te.
maintain their position, but has tended to cripple
The increasing dulness of themarket cannot bu
p
tend greatly to effect the rates of freight. We may conse-
quently pronounce them as unsteady, and with a dee' °-
ne g
liin
tendency. business,
roduce

AUSTRALIA.

THE DEATH OF SIR C. HOTHAINI

LOSS OF THE MAIL-SHIP SCHOMBEB

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We have received via Batavia ccipics,
or•
Melbonrne 214agus to the date of the 7th Jan
cur
The intelligence they bring corroborates of
former announcement of the lamented dcoean3,
his Excellency Sir Charles Hotham, ted,
Governor of Victoria. As already promulgarn,
the sad event took place suddenly at .4-lelbotibis
on the last day of the year. The- remains -t,'Re(l
Excellency were interred on January 4, Inah:jag
by the most public regret, all the shops "„'or,
closed out of respect for the departed' is
The temporary government of Victoria
the hands of General Macarthur, comnial-1111
vo
the military.

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The Red • Jacket was to' leave Melbourne "u
England on January Bth. - •
110 Wing
From the Sydney Herald we quote the lb.
commercial news : were,
The mining and commercial news from Melbourne at
on the whole, satisfactory. Trade was dull, es ustihad
this season of the year, and very few of the diggers r
5t
quitted the mining districts for Melbourne, as custon23
Christmas. News from Ballarat states that mining °ol3,,ihg
tions were somewhat slack, and the miners were eui 'the
the festivities of the season. Disturbances between the
miners and Chinese were still of frequent occurrenne:ara.
Europeans being the pri-icipal aggressors, Great Pr.e:iags,
tions were made at the digging fur new yer's rt.ln°l axles
which were interrupted by uews of the death of Sir '133
Hotham, and the rejoicings were everywhere postpoe-* .e.
At Melbourne gold-remaiued quiet at 31 183 Per °,l°ljvc'io
On January 5, H.M.S. Fantome sailed for Engl3,inpaey;
Sydney.. The price of wool had a downward ten"-, ar
174 d was realised on one large flock, which, at tile
Ring of December, would have commanded a peunY.Eciverl
Tallow, good mixed, was sold at auction at 391 "st'iii,lcg
superior mutton tallow at 421. A, large parcel e: users
was sold on January 6at 13s 6d: Agricultural lab° the
were in, great demand, as also female servants for
diggings.
Trehtee.rseanmeee
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Schoenberg:su
supplies
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The loss of the royal mail ship SchoMbere ward
about thirty miles 'of Pcirt*PhilliPtleads, on her 4)--1
passage, has caused the utmost excitement in the ca-c°ted
and the peculiar and aggravating cireuMstances Gonna gors
with the disastet hive been notified by the Passloa3J
in, an " indignation " meeting huld at Melbourne. • ad-
days after the , loss was. known Captain .17erbf,-0031
dressed a letter to the Argun, which that „orf
deems most unsatisfactory. From the Argus of by
7, it appears that the matter was to, be taken 11- Jai
government. The emigration agent was about vie
informations at the instance of the passengers-rloyel's
wreck of the Schomberg had been visited by D°
agent; she was not totally broken up. but th,:se ua-s-ot
opportunity of communicating with the wreck—it
expected that anything would be saied.