The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ptotin BREADSTUFF'S.
e have had a hardening market throughout the
leotat;', and prices have advanced fully 25c per brl on our
the improvement
of the 26th February. In the common descriptizns
per cireravenaent in price from the lowest point is about 37 jg
r'• The demand from the trade, and for shipment to the
bol States, is more than sufficient to relieve the pressing
and the demand for shipment to Europe is steadily
crew_
Nit,"t•
ha "R&T—Prices are nominally as before, but no transactions
yLitaken place for shipment.
Iree):l4/4 Coax is 2 to 4c per bushel lower than this day

It The c COTTON.
Mile, Cotton market in this city for the past week. has been
there hqu'et ; sales when made are at the quotations,
in
11% f.,}! hesh a want of spirit, and an absence of the specu a-
rts% "e"g 'which existed three or four weeks ago. Very good
t1,41:316 exist for this comparative quiet, the operations of our
put is tic spinners have been interfered with for some time
kli q interrupted navigation. Speculators have their hands
teee; at the moment, and must either sell or ship. The large
my_ Pts at Mobile and New Orleans tend rather to limit the
glcdillative export shipment. In spite of these influences,
il,akers are firm and show no wish to crowd the market or
th s,tir,u °lightest reduction in price. I estimate the sales on
cle:,"` 'ince 25th inst. to last evening at 6,000 bales. The.
tei,-,„'ances during the same time have been to Liverpool, 3,906,
rient 237 ; Antwerp, 177. Total, 4,320 bales.
l' -d", OB.LPANs, March 3.—Receipts for the week ending
thri aY
last, 60,000 bales, same last year 24,243. Sales for
lite,Le,el, 72,000 bales. On Saturday 13,000. To-day 15,000.
ou.i:infon94 to 9ac. Fieight to Liverpool 11-16 d, Exchange
8:', per cent.
kinoett.E, March I.—Receipts for the week 28,000 bales,
'es last year 16.000. Bales for the week 40,000 bales, and
t
Z 5,000. Middling 9to 91e. Freight to Liverpool id.,
, Havre 11c. Exchange on London Bto 8} per cent.
filnille following is a statement of the movement in cotton
thee the lst September last, as compared with the previous
rue )ears :

1856. 1855.

1854. 1853.

tzp,,r":4 at the r—arta, 12,366,000 1,6 5,000 1,811,000 2,430,000
to Great Britain 920,000 79000 573,000 958,000
Prance 317,000 168 ,000 165,000 182,000
Iptal other For. Porte 278,000 139,000 124,f100 174 000
kcit '4Ports
628, 398,000 721,000 764,00..

vt`y
_
kee—ii---z-Tu (luring the past week, included in the above :
Expotuiparts
......
to Great Britain.. 151,000 77,000 106,1 00 103-0-0-0
• 4 3.000 48,000 56,000 46,000
11, France.. 22,000 16,000 3,000 8,000
lOW other For. Ports . 17,000 8,000 8,000 15,000
82,00;1 72,000 67,000 I 6000

76507,n44Y Receipts—lncrease at the ports over last year
1;
a7or7 bales • decrease compared with 1853, 64,000.
to ;"1--Increase to Great Britain, 129,000 bales ; decrease
129 same dates in 1853, 38,000. Increase to France,
fore?" 0 bales ; same time 1853, 135,000. Increase to other
itlin'ts, 139,000 bales; same time in 1853, 104,000 bales.
at 371(11111.---To Liverpool engagements have been making
i'6ll. to 7-32c1„; to jTavre, per lb.
to lalel"szuts on London have advanced, with a largebusiness
1,"91; to 1091 per cent ; and on Paris 5.171.
)esB.,,,vlBlnxs.—The market. for pork is 25 cents lower, with
Ist illulrY• The stock lie large, the official exhibition the
29 4. giving 47,283 brls. against 40,660 last month, and
olOtin3onthe Ist March 1855, soles 1500 brls. The market
tog dull at 16 dole to'l6 dols 12ic for mess, 14 dole 18,1 c
(no dela 25c for prime, and 16 dols 50c to 17 dole
ltni
nailY) for prime mess. The beef market is dull, but
25e7 remain steady • sales 675 brls at 8 dols 75c to 9 dols
12 iii„oir ,c°lllltry prime' 9 de 25c to 11 dole for do. mess,
0 --fn.E' Q°C to 13 dole 'for Vermont mess, 11 dole to 13 dole
r,c for repacked Western, and 14 dole 25c to 15 dole for
lilt:a. :Apo Mess beef is firm, but quiet ; 200 tree. ordinary
io sold at i,'.out 18 del' 50c. Beef hams are firm, with
salfir:, °f 50 brls ecrani•su Western st 14 dole. Cut meats are
81-in`r; sales 750 packages it 3 to lite for shoulders, and
?le for hams. Bacon is scarce and in good demand,
ceased 7 Vie.
, hogs are a shade firmer with a fair business at 74 to
Lard is steady, with a fair' demand; sales 1300 brie at
es B
utter and cheese are lower, with a moderate
(Miry at our revised quotations.

Ze
is re ``°rd believes that the question of the Asiatic frontier.
Occupiedsivd as far as concerns the restriction of the districts
The, by the Russians. The latter will restore Kars.
ante -"irks will evacuate Mingrelia, and so the status quo
is waited fOr, in order to the signature of the first protocol
- Peace. '
LO
of
Nor,:,"TEs.—This lady took her departure on the 21st
bee "uer, in the Havilah, for Adelaide, where she has
-4 engaged fur a limited period. On het return, she
proceeds to Ballarat, at which place a theatre is being
ejtbressly fitted up for her. On her return from Ballarat to
fhia city, she will give a farewell performance prior to her
",41 departure from this colony for South America.—
-
,‘"tl6ourne Age.
JENNY
_ L IND AND THE NIGHTINGALE Fu ND.-The Cora-
Xaittee of the Nightingale Fund, announce that they have
received from Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt the munificent
seqntribution of £1,872 Ga, being the proceeds of the concert
given by them at Exeter-hall, on Tuesday, the 11th of
Marc This amount is free of all deduction on account
of the expenses of the concert, which have been entirely
defrayed by Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt.
Z4'-eut.-General Lovelace Wallace succeeds to the coloneley
414 ti,,, sth Fusileers, vice General Sir John Grey, deceased.
The Paris correspondent of the Times writes, that
.many
l'eara past nothing like the illuminations of Sunday ay rpg i
in honour of the infant Prince, had been witnessed in the
Pr
eneh capital, not only as regards the magnificer. ce of the
Th
ulsecorations, but the universality of the manifestation.
back streets and lanes, where illuminations never occurred
e,rt°re, were lighted up.
r,,"" Convensrow.varans --The convulsionnaires have
were enacted
and likewise begun the same vagaries that
last enacted just before the first Revolution. On Friday
-"" a young girl of fourteen was carried off by the gend-
IleB to the Augustine ladies of the Rue do la Sante.
,he inhabitants 'of the Place St. Germain de Pres haft
ven information to the police of the holding of secret
assemblies at one of the houses on the Place ; of course it
es supposed that these assemblies had a political
nee, and a eleseente was immediately made. The sight
resented bafits all description, and even in the flowery
I:Lagunge of the proces-verbal, no expression could be
tt•:.`nsi to paint it. Upon a large crucifix, leaning against
the wa:,!; was stretched the apparently senseless form of a
Young girl, whose hands and feet were nailed to the wood
with lon, „ils • fro the wounds they had made, the
"(1 was flowing in tins drops. Toe girl was every now
and then shaken by coavulsions, 43c1 while under this
influence she uttered, in a ;o Id shrill tone, a series ..o.f
incoherent phrases, prophecies of the mosP
.ature, predictions of the ruin empires, aiid the destrue-
frighttui
tot:L.of nations, while the hair stood upright upon her
and the drops of perspiration rolled from her fOre.
savn'T k
Gradually the convulsions (ceased, and the :girl
aroZ intoec state of insensibility, from which she was not
even when the gendarmes bore her away..—Paris
Correspondent of the eltb.-- •