The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-22 00:00:00

--LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY•

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING

There has been a fair amount of business done
in the Cotton Market .to-day, the sales amounting
to 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 have been taken for
speculation and export. Prices remain without
change.
The Liverpool Share Market opened steady with
a firm tone, and continued so to the close, when
prices stood as follows :—Aberdeen, 141 141.
Chester and Birkenhead, 161 17. Caledonian, 301-
301. Chester and Holyhead, 178 171. Eastern
Counties; lot 10 5-16. East Lancashire, 211 211.
Great Northern, 23 24. Ditto A, 91 91. Great
Western, 61162. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
984,- 981. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1811,-
19. London and North Western Stock, 1081 1081
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 331331- Ditto
New 6 per cent. Pref., 13-16 15-16 p. Ditto Pref., 12
11-16 12 13-16. Midland Stock, 831 831. North
British, 98 91 North Staffordshire, 41- 4d. South
Eastern and Dover, 221 227-,. York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 21 15-16 22. York and North Midland, 314
311. Leeds Capital Stock, 18184. Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 1 11p. Dutch Rhenish, 3 3 1-16 p. Great
Western of Canada, 26 264. Ditto New Shares,
31, 3 5-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 91 91d.
The following is a comparative statement of the
exports of Cereals from the United States to July
8, (latest date from New York and all other ports,)
in this and the season of 1853 and 1854 :

Flour. Wheat. Corn.
brls. qrs. qrs.
To British ports, 1853-54 1,770,678 706,856 654 694
Continental „ 92 790,423 238,1.11 8,797

Total 2,561,101 944,967 663,491

To British ports, 1855-56 J,293,722 656,647 737,343
Continental ~ 2, 666,411 290,419 28,884

Total

Less Shipped 1865-56
than in 1853-54 r
More than in „ • • 2,099 102,736
In addition to the above articles, 230,000 qrs. rye have
been exported this season, chiefly to the Continent,
against 40,000 qrs for the season 1853.64
The usual weekly commercial report from Paris
states that business generally has been quiet in
that city, on account of the number of Parisians
who have left town for the country. Amongst the
manufacturers the demand for exportation is
almost nil. The late events in Spain has closed
all trade in that quarter. England and Russia
continue to make small purchases. The last packet
boats from New York and South America brought
no new orders. The commercial operations be-
tween France and the United States during the
first quarter of 1856, as regards imports, amounted
to 416 millions of francs, against 236 millions
in 1855, and exports 240 millions, against
176 ditto respectively. In the principal
sugar markets there has been a rise in prices.
At Havre good Antilles advanced from 66f
per 50 kilos to 68f. The stocks on hand are
said to be very small, and a good many purchases
have been made in advance of arrivals. This rise
at Havre has influenced the market at Nantes,
where there are many extensive sugar refineries.
One establishment purchased 7,475 bags of
Antilles at 67f, or an advance of 50c on previous
quotations. At Marseilles an upward movement
has taken place in foreign sugars, in consequence
of the deficient importations from Havanna and
Brazil, and the increased consumption throughout

600,968

France.
This day the second annual meeting of the
London and Eastern Banking Corporation was
held, the Hon. John Cadwalader Erskine in the
chair. The general manager, Mr. Stephens, read
the report, from which it appeared that this bank
had been very successful within the two years of
its establishment. The profits of the past year were
25,3781., exceeding 10 per cent. upon the paid-up
capital of the bank. The shareholders having been
paid two dividends of 6 per cent. for that year, the
directors felt it more advisable to stop any further
distribution out of that year's profits, and had
therefore put away the balance of 10,3781. towards
a reserve fund. The past half year's profits had
been so far satisfactory that the directors felt
bound to continue, in anticipation of the accounts,
the usual dividend of 6 per cent to the 30th June
last. It appeared from the report that the objec-
tion to this bank offering a higher rate of interest
than others was removed by the corporation having
Indian branches, in which money could be em-
ployed at remunerative rates. The success attend-
ing the Hyde Park Branch had induced the
directors to establish another in Pall Mall. The
report was adopted, and a vote of thanks was
passed to the chairman and directors, and to the
officers of the corporation.
At the annual meeting of the Union Bank of
Australia, held also this day, Robert Brooks, Esq.,
in the chair, the report was read, which included
the statement of the accounts for the half year
ending in the Colonies, 31st December, 1855, and
in London, on the 30th of June last, and they
expected a diminished profit as compared with the
previous year, the fact arising from an advanced
state of exchanges. A dividend was declared by
way of interest, at the rate of 10-!--. per cent for the
half year, being with the previous dividend, equal
to 24 per cent for the year, on the amount paid up
in respect of each share in the capital of the com-
pany, payable in London free of income tax, on
Tuesday, the sth of August, and in the Colonies,
with the addition of income tax, as soon as the
inspector shall fix after the receipt of advices. The
dividend will be at the rate of £2 12s 6d per
share, which will make, with that of the last half
year, £6 per share for the year The report was
unanimously adopted.
The English Funds are exceedingly dull, at
about previous quotations. Speculation appears
to be almost suspended, and the public are not
investing so freely as usual just after the payment
of the dividends. Consols closed to-day at 95
11-16 95 13-16.
In the discount market the enquiry for accom-
modation continues very quiet, and the fates are
about 31- for the negociation of first class paper.
As the foreign exchanges are rather firmer it is
hoped that the remittances of gold to the Conti-
nent will diminish, when the Directors of the Bank
of England would probably be in a position to
reduce the minimum rate of discount.
Foreign Stocks remain dull and quiet. The
committee of Spanish Bondholders have published
a notification announcing the dissolution of their
body.
In the Railway Share Market there is no general
movement of importance in prices, but they remain
exceedingly firm. In many instances the principal
shares are ss. to 10s. higher than on Saturday.
Paris and Lyons and some of the other foreign lines
are rather heavier. Riga and Dunaburg Shares
rule firm. The annexed are the prices of Railway
Shares as quoted at the close of business to day :
Caledonian, 61! 6l B. Eastern Counties, 101,
101,.. East Lancashire, 86 88. Great Northern,
961 971-. A, 761- 772. Great Western, 614 624.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 981 981 London and
North Western, 108 1081-. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 331 33. Midland Stock, 831
831. North British, 38 381. South Eastern and
Dover, 73/ 741. York, Newcastle. and Berwick, 871-
881. York and North Midland, 631 631.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY.—(Before
Mr. Commissioner Perry.)—ln rf, JOHN LAMB.—The bank-
rupt, a drysalter, of Liverpool, passed his last examina-
tion this day, and the 19th of August was fixed for the
certificate meeting. In re WILLIAM STOREY.—The bank-
rupt, tailor and draper, of Great George's-street, Liver-
pool, also passed his last examination, and the certificate
meeting was fixed for the same day.
THE CHARGE OF SCUTTLING THE SHIP JOHN LYNN.—This
case was proceeded with yesterday, when Robert Town,
the second mate of the above ship, was again brought up,
before Mr. R. Gladstone, on the same charge. Mr. Simon,
instructed by Mr. Harvey, appeared for the prosecntion,
and Mr. Tyndall Atkinson, Instructed by Mr. Bluck,
defended the prisoner. The chief facts of this case have
already appeared in our paper, and for nearly three hours
yesterday witnesses were examined to support the charge,
but it finally failed, as the evidence was not deemed
sufficient to sustain it, and the prisoner was discharged.
CORONER'S IrtQuEsTs.—Yesterday, the deputy-coroner,
W. H. Statham, Esq., held the following inquests :—OR
the body of Isaac Roberts, aged 23, who was a labourer
in the employment of Mr. Jones, Duke-street. The
deceased was working at a new mill in Crabtree-lane,
and was on a scaffold, from which he fell suddenly on a
stone, and hurt his head so seriously that he died on
Saturday. The transaction was purely accidental, and
the jury found accordingly.—On the 'body of Patrick
Mathews, a labourer, aged 26. He was employedlas a
watchman at a building in Grayson-street, and on Satur-
day night he fell off a wall and smashed his head. Verdict
accidental death.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE SPANISH INSURRECTION

Despatches from Marseilles, dated Sunday
evening, announce the arrival at that port of the
Spanish steamer Balear, which left Barcelona on
the preceding day, and has brought the intelligence
that the rising which took place to the cry of
" Long live Espartero " has been suppressed. The
barricades were carried. The government par.
doned the insurgents. The ships Suffren and
Toulon sailed for Barcelona yesterday. The 37th
regiment left last evening for the Spanish
frontier.

The Messager de Bayonne of Sunday states that
Espartero is watching Madrid (garde a vue Madrid.)
At Barcelona, on the 19th, Vanquility is said to
have been re-established, and the militia disarmed
and dissolved. There has been a movement at
Janquera. A junta has been formed at Saragossa,
of which General Falcon is President. All Aragon
has pronounced against O'Donnell. Gurrea com-
mands the insurnction. The Cortes is assembling
at Saragossa. Eighty-five deputies have already
arrived.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
4here is no additional news from Spain.
At the close of business on the Bourse to-day,
the French Funds were quoted as follows :—Four
and a Half per Cents, 93f 50c ; Three per Cents,
70f 50c.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, StNDAY EVENING

The more that is known of the events in Spain
the graver they appear. The meeting of the Cortes,
which O'Donnell dispersed by force, was, it
appears, from the numbers present, and the manner
in which it was convoked—constitutionally a par-
liament. Thus then, though O'Donnell was con-
stitutionally nominated Minister, he has, in a legal
point of view, made as arbitrary a coup d'etat as
Louis Napoleon did on the 2nd December. All
Arragon, it seems, declares against him, and Sara-
gossa is completely in the. hands of the insurgents.
The Mexican Embassy announces through the
newspapers the arrangement of the difficulties
between Spain and Mexico.
It is said that the Government contemplates
uniting all the railway companies in France into
five or six gigantic companies.

BELGIUM.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
BRUSSELS, JULY 20.

Whilst France is plunged into complete political
lethargy,—and whilst Spain is in a state of frightful
confusion, all Belgium, and particularly Brussels,
is getting up magnificent fetes, and manifestations
of national joy. The Belgians have this very month
accomplished the twenty-fifth anniversay of their
independence as a nation, under the sagacious and
moderate rule of King Leopold, and they have
wisely resolved that it shall be celebrated with
becoming solemnity, both in the capital and all
over the kingdom. At Brussels the fetes are to be
on a scale of extraordinary splendour, and are to
be the same as those which took place when, this
time twenty-five years ago, Leopold, Duke of Saxe
Coburg Gotha, made his public entrance into
the city to assume the crown and sceptre.
In all the principal squares of the city triumphal
arches are erected, and nearly all the houses
of all the streets are decked with flowers
and foliage, and the national colours of black,
red, and gold. The people, without distinc-
tion of class, seem full of the liveliest enthusiasm.
They are proud of their position in Europe, proud
of their nationality, proud of their prnspPrity. and
proud of their liberty—and they love their king.
Well, then, may they be enthusiastic on such an
auspicious occasion as this !
It is to-morrow that the fetes, properly speaking,
commence, but they have in reality begun to-day,
as all the people dressed in their best, are (in spite
of unfavourable weather), out of doors holiday
making, and the city is literally encumbered with
foreigners and strangers. High mass has, besides,
been celebrated in the cathedral with extraordinary
pomp, by the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines,
and there has been a splendid procession through
the city of the troops of the garrison, bands of music,
the archbishop and clergy, a large body of citizens,
young girls dressed in white, &c., &c., with banners
and statues of saints, and I know not what besides.
In the evening there is to be a discharge of artillery
and illuminations. _

Reports have been current that the King con-
templated abdication, but they have been denied
by authority.
Great numbers of English are here.

THE EAST

The Simois arrived at Marseilles on Saturday,
with Constantinople letters of July 10. M. Masai,
the Sardinian Ambassador to the Porte, had pre-
sented his credentials. Mehemet Ruchdi, the
Minister at War, had offered his congratulations to
Marshal Pelissier. The Marshal was afterwards
presented to the Sultan, who received him most
warmly, and expressed his thanks for the powerful
support which the Marshal had given to the inten-
tions of the Emperor to defend his sovereign
rights. On Saturday there was a review, and after-
wards a dinner of 110 covers at the Dolma-Bagtche
Palace. There was a diplomatic dinner on Thursday.
The Dido frigate and twenty trading vessels remain
still at Kamiesch. The Russians and English
saluted Marshal Pelissier on his departure. Gene
ral Mouravieff was expected at Tiflis to concentrate
the army of the Caucasus. Marshal Pelissier's
departure from Constantinople is fixed for the
19th. Generals Damesure, De Lamoire, and Sol,
the 44th and 94th regiments of the line, and the
17th battalion of Chasseurs, will accompany him.
The Crimea is completely evacuated. The Russians
have promised to allow the merchants at Kamiesch
six weeks to embark their goods.
A telegraphic despatch received at the Admiralty
yesterday announces that the following vessels
passed the Bosphorus, on passage to England, on
the 15th, 17th, 18th, and 2)th inst. :—Clyde-400
men of Land Transport Corps and Army Works
Corps; 60 men D Troop. Horse Artillery. Hima-
laya-Ist and 3rd Regiments of the British Ger-
man Legion. Cumberland—British Swiss Legion,
from Smyrna. H.M.S. Dragon-Ist Company of
Royal Sappers and Miners.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.-,MoNDAy

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsac
at five o'clock.

THE BRAZILS.-RUSSIA,

In answer to a series of questions urged by the Earl of
Malmesbury,
The Earl of CLARENDON said that the Brazilian govern-
ment was most anxious to put an end to the slave trader
and the differences that had arisen between that govern-
ment and the British Envoy at Rio de Janeiry were con-
sequent upon neglect on the part of certain of the
authorities of Brazil. The British government had,
however, signified to the Brazilian minister at this court
their wish to remain on terms of amity with his gover
meat, and he (the Earl of Clarendon) hoped that the
friendly relations between the twe governments would
not be disturbed. With regard to the fortresses of
Ismail and Reni, the noble earl admitted that they had
been dismantled, and observed that nothing was said
at Paris about their preservation, because it was not.
believed that the Russians would have taken such am
improper and malicious step. In reference to the delay of
the Russian Government in sending their minister to
London after the British minister had gone to Russia, the
noble earl held that it was undoubtedly disrespectful to

her Majesty.
The Earl of DERBY remarked that these interruptions
of good understanding between the two Governments did
not seem to augur well for the patched-up peace.

The subject then dropped.
The Court of Chancery (Ireland) Receivers' Bill was,
read a third time.

The Formation of Parishes Bill also passed.
The Bishops of London and Durham Bill was read a
third time and passed, after a division, in which the

numbers were,

For the bill
Against it

Majority 11
A great number of bills were advanced a stage, and
their lordships rose shortly after ten o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

TALBOTS DIVORCE BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of Talbots Divorce
Bill,
Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE said he believed that Mrs. Talbot
was the victim of a foul conspiracy, and remarked that
the case brought before the House of Lords was totally
different from that brought before the Irish court.
Colonel FRENCH defended Mr. Talbot.
The bill was then read a third time and passed.

THE STANDING ORDERS COMMITTER.

Colonel PATTEN, in moving the adoption of the report
of the Standing Orders Revision Committee, stated that
the important recommendations were that no amendment,
except of a merely verbal nature, should be made to a
bill on the third reading, and that the same process should
be gone through with regard to claims upon the revenues
of India, as with regard to claims upon the revenues of
this country. - They proposed that these alterations should
come into operation next session.
The recommendations of the committee were agreed to,
an amendment having been made to the effect that, no
petition respecting Indian claims should be presented
without the consent of the Crown having been signified.

THE BUSINESS OF THE SESSION

Mr. DIsRAELI gave notice that on Friday he should
move for certain papers, and draw attention to the con-
duct of the business of parliament during the present

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AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA,

The British and North American steam-ship Asia arrived
in the Mersey yesterday morning about three o'clock, with
dates from New York to the 9th inst.

The Asia brings 167 passengers, 1,628,645 dollars in
specie, and £220 in English silver.
On the 20th inst., in lat. 52.7 long. 6.15, she passed the
steam-ship Arabia and the barque Albion.
In the Senate, on Monday, the 7th inst., a joint resolu-
tion appropriating 10,000 dollars for the mail service
between Charleston and Havana, during August and Sep-
tember, was paised. The bill providing for the improve-
ment of the mouth of the Mississippi river, which was
vetoed by the President, was then taken up. Mr. Slidell
advocated the appropriation. Mr. Cass spoke in favour
of the improvement of St. Mary's river and St. Clair Flats,
and charged the President with inconsistency with regard
to his action on the subject of river and harbour improve-
ments. On the queston being taken on the Mississippi
river improvement bill, it received thirty one votes to
twelve against it. The Chair decided the bill passed
by a two-thirds vote; but Mr. Mason objected, and
contended that the rule required the attendance of two-
thirds of all the members of the senate. The decision of
the chair was sustained—thirty-four to seven. On the
following day the Committee on Territories reported the
House bill for the admission of Kansas, with an amend-
In, nt striking out the the preamble and all after the enact-
ment clause, and substituting therefor the slave State
Kansas Bill, recently passed by the Senate. After some
little opposition the amendment was adopted.
-

Colonel Brooks, of South Carolina. was on the Bth inst
sentenc'd by the Criminal Court at Washington, to pay a
fine of 300 dols for his assault upon Senator Sumner.

The New Tork Herald publishes accounts from Texas of
serious disturbances on the Louisiana border. The free
negroes, mulattoes and white meo, to the number of forty,
with the Sheriff at their head, who had been ordered to
leave the country, have refused to do so, and have fortified
themselies some four miles above Madison. They are
reported to have a hundred guns, besides pistols and
bowie knives, and to bid defiance to their opponents.
Almosi every man is armed, and all are in continual
apprehension from enemies.
The Canadian Parliament was prorogued by the
Governor-General on the Ist instant, to the 9th of August
next.

' Mr. Herbert, member of Congress from California, has
been committed to prison to await his trial for the murder
of Thomas Keating, the hotel waiter.

A numerous and highly respectable meeting had been
held at the Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia, on Thurs•
day, to reciprocate the pacific feeling manifested towards
the United States by the people of Manchester, Liver-
pool, and other, towns in England. The Mayor presided,
and speeches were delivered by Judge Conrad and others.
The steamship Black Warrior arrived from Havana on
the sth inst. General Concha was busily engaged with
his plan for a 'war with Mexico, as a means of putting a
stop to the extension col the United States in that direc-
tion. The treasury was empty, and government had bor-
rowed 500,000 clols.• St. John's day was duly celebrated.
The porter at Walcott's American House had been mur-
dered by a negro. Yellow fever was raging, and fatal to
Strangers: I' 1
fr The vessel sent out by the New York, Newfoundland,
And Loudon Telegraph Company, for the purpose of en-
deavouring to recover the sub-marine telegraph cable,
lost in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, has succeeded in recover-
ing, in good order, a large portion of the cable.

The extensive foundry and machine shop at Newburg,
belonging to Messrs. Stanton, Mallory & Co., was de-
stroyed on the Bth instant, by the explosion of a boiler.
Fortunately the hands were mostly at dinner, and no lives
were lost.—Four or five persons were seriously injured.
We read in the same journal the following account of
an affray between Governor Wise and Mr. Hugh R.
Pleasants in the capital of Virginia, on the 7th inst. Mr.
Pleasants, formerly editor of the Boston Penny Post, went
into the Executive Chamber of the Capitol, where Gov-
ernor Wise was engaged writing, and taking a seat by
invitation of the Governor, said, after a brief period, " I
thought gizzard foot was here." Governor Wise smilingly
replied, "I am the man." Pleasants, rising from his seat
and approaching the table at which the Governer sat,
said—" By God ! I did not know you, and so you are
Ebo shin and Gizzard foot." "I am," remarked Gov. Wise
with a smile, " and you are Hugh Pleasants." Pleasants
thereupon commenced abusing the Gov. without any pro-
vocation whatever, when the Governor ordered him to
leave the room, but he refused to do so. The • Governor
then rose from his seat, approached Pleasants, and taking
hold of him endeavoured to push him out. Pleasants
resisted, squared off and placed himself in an attitude to
strike, when the Governor struck him with his fist under
the left eye, and cut him pretty severely. He then seized
him by the arm, turned him round, and kicked him. At
this time the Messenger of the Executive came up and
had him removed by order of the Governor. It is said that
Pleasants was intoxicated. The Know-Nothings of the
city are very indignant about this affair.
The Governor and Council, of Boston, have refused to
pardon Messrs. Coburn and Dalton, now confined in gaol
for the assault on William Sumner.
A dreadful accident occurred on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, on the evening of the 7th. The train
was thrown off the track near the Relay House, in conse-
quence of the switch being half opened and broken. The
engineer, James Gough, and Henry Neagle, newsman,
were killed. Mr. Hedges, mail agent, Mr. Worthington,
lawyer, of Annapolis, Wm. Bridges, confectioner, and a
fireman named Russell, were badly injured. Several cars
were broken up.

NEW YORK MARKETS.-JULY 9

COTTON.--The same quietness which has prevailed to our market
during the past two weeks has continued throughout this. The
buying has been restricted to small parcels for our domestic con-
sumers, and here and there a lot for export to Great Britain, and
the total does not exceed 4,500 bales After the Baltic's news, prices
advanced lie to ic per lb , and closed firmly. The small available
stock, 25.000 bales, and the impossibility of purchasing to any extent
without causing a material advance even upon the present high cur-
rencY, will cause this market to possess but little of in•errst during
the remainder of the season. To Southern markets the same remarks
are also applicable. The exports for the week has been
Pool. 4,237; Havre, 228; Palermo. 475. Total, 4,940 bales.
SOUTUIERN MARKETs.—A small business doing in ea,
prices

A higher

NEW ORLEANS, July s.—Reeeipts for the week, 2,000 bales; same
week last year. 6,6(0. Middling, nominally 1 lic per lb.
MOBILE, July s.—Receipts for the week, 500 bales; same wee
lt
last year, 10,1 00. Middling, lOac per lb. Freight to Liverpool, 5 16d.
CROP.—The growing crop promises well. In some places where
tF e complaint was backwardness, it is now admitted to be up to last
year.

The follosvinz is a statement of the movement in cotton since the
Ist September last, as compared With the previous three years:—

1856. 1855. 1854. 1853.
Receipts at the P0rt5...... 3,414,000 2.669,000 2,801,000 3,179,000
Exports to Great Britain .. 1,857,000 1,3 9,000 1,451,000 1,641,000
" France. 476,000 405,000 306,000 413,000
" other For. Ports 494,000 252,000 308,000 333,000
Total Exports 2827,000 2,046,0002,065,000,2 387,000
, Stock on hand. 160,000 204,0001 316,0001 223,000
Of which during the past week, included in the above
Receipts at the Ports 17,000 49,000 11,000
Exports to Great Britain 28.000 10,000 26,000
" France.. 3,000 2,000 8,000
" other For. Ports . 8,000 2,000 10,000
'Total Exports 39 000 14,000 44,000
,

SUMMARY.—Receipts—Increase at the parts over last year,
775,000 bales; over 1853, 2615,000. Exports—lncrease to Great
Britain, 488.000 bales; compared with 1853, 216,000. Increase to
FranCe, 71,003 ; compared With 1853, 63 000. Increase to other
foreign parts, 242,000; compared with 1853, 151,00 cal..s.
FREIGHTB.—T3ere is very little cotton shipping to Liverpool, aid
the rate bas declined and is easy at 5-32 for compressed and uncom-
pressed bales. To Havre, ic.
Excisesiess on London are dull at 109 to 110 per cent. On Paris
there is a lair demand at 5.16# to 5.15. WM. P. WRIOR?.

COTTON STATEMENT.
From Ist September, 1855, to 9th July, 1856

1 Receipts. I

Exports to Total
Great Exportsto
Stock and on
Foreign Shipboard.
Britain.
Ports. I

3,442,787 1,858,538
2,669,546 1.368 675.

2,831;484
2.046,140

157.000
239,897

Incr..
773.241 1 469,86$
Decr.. .7
..,

785,344
II •-•
••• • • •
82,997

BREADSTUFFS.—The prevailing feature In the market, for both
wheat and flour, for the fortnight past, has been that of buoyancy
and firae-ss, and the quotations show a considerable improve-
ment in price. The export trade has been on the increase, and
dealers have awakened to the fact that our supplies of the qualities
suitable for shipment are not of an extent to last through the season
at our present rate of export, hence the advance. The advices by
the last two or three steamers from England are quite fovourable,
and confirm our previous accounts of their light stocks and increased
wants, notwithstanding large receipts and encouraging prospects of
a fine harvest. By the Erie Canal, from the opening this season to
the 22nd of June, we are 82,349 b is of flour and 529.6)3 bushels of
wheat on the increase, and 109,413 bushels Indian corn decrease,
from the receipts of last season to the same period. Our receipts of
flour generally have teen liberal. but latterly hardly sufficient for the
demand, as the home and export demand have been sufficiently active
to prevent any increase of stock. Shippers continue to prefer a higher
range of brands than formerly, and those descriptions have advanced
more in proportion. In Canadian brands there is a light stock,
and a
incre disp on
increased in
to hold for better prices. Southern kinds have
also value, and are held higher. The market closes
with a strong upward tendency tbr most descriptions For wheat
the exp -at demand h on the increase, and the sales for that purpose
lately have br en large. The English orders are chiefly for prime
red, which quality is not Panty. The reeeipts continue on a liberal
scale, but the proportion of choice and prime is small. Prices have
advanced, and the elpsing rates favor the seller. Rye is without
Since the advance in freight. Indian corn has
material change.
been somewhat neglect d brebiPpers. The receipts from the west
are large, but are chiefly elsediay the distillers, as the larger portion
is n in condition for export- Strictly prime quality of yellow is
scarce and in fair demand. White is wanted for local use, and held
above the export rates.
EDWARD BILL.
ASIIRS.—Pot have continued in fair request, \vita sal,s of 150
hes at G dolls 50c to 6 dole etelc—the receipts continue moderate.
there eath n
isg a
some
0u 3
see cents,
little
Pe set are still scarce and wanted.
C9PPER.—There is a fair demand for
an I yellow metal 26, 6 mos. For
Ingot,new h
enquiry.
Hu, es.—The market is well sustained, with few arrivals, and a
chime;
a eeeing stork. and some descriptions have further advanced.
,soe,s.—The English advice.s per Baltic. relative to the growing
tetre"e","lB..lo4ked upon by holders as favourable, and the sales con-
eeeie , partly speculative, at advanced rates ; ha market
'Lowe,
above
the views
of er, rather quiet, the present asking buyers. prices being
Nolo
no sales to
re, ort. o.--.The market is very quiet, and we have

I RON.—There is but little demand for any description, and the
mar,et remains doll.
a
%Ju
pigs
sales include 500
Galena, at 6 dots 564 c 120
tons refined Germs, 6
dots 59c ;and r export, 100 tons soft, 5
50e cash, in bond ; 12 to 15 tons old brought 6 dole cash.
NwvAr, STORKS. Turpentine is without enquiry, or change of
Boy kind, Spirits Turpentiue had sold lower, but holders generally
demand previous rates, and some refuse 37c for whole parcels,
uhile retail lsts command 371 W3B cash—stock 6,000 to 7,008 brLs •

TH

Common rosin is dull, on account of the a4vance in freights. Tar
continues inactive, and is only sold in lots as wanted:

Paovisrom.—There has been an active demand, part specula-
tive, for pork, and with light receipts and nioclerate supply on sale,
an advance of 12ic to 25c has been established. The beef Market
is steady, with a fair trade demand and moderate arrivals. There is
nothing doing in beef hams or prime mess beef, and our quotations
are nominal. Cut meats ate firmer, and active. Shipping bacon is
scarce and wanted. Lard is a shade firmer, with good demand.
Butter and Cheese aro in fair demand at our quoted rates.

Itlcs.—Hai continued in steady good dt
-nd prices are supported.

ad fur export and

home use,

k and bulk have been eunsiderabT.e,
market is a shade easier.

SALT.-LThe receipts of

and ter fine I

SUGAR. -T

Lee our last h

been rather inactive, bu