The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-06 00:00:00

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NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1856.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING,

The Liverpool Cotton Market has shown rather
less activity to-day, but still a fair amount of busi-
ness has been done, the sales reaching 7,000 bales,
and include 3,000 for speculation and export.
Prices remain without change.
The Liverpool Share Market has been dull and
drooping all day, and the announcement of the
Midland Dividend being only at the rate of 31 per
cent per annum, instead of 4 per cent, as was
expected, had the effect of still further depressing
that Stock, and prices closed heavy at the lowest
point of the day. Aberdeen, 123 124. Chester and
Birkenhead, 1:11 14. Caledonian, 28 28k. Chester
and Holyhead, 13 131. Eastern Counties, 9'4 10.
East Lancashire, 18 18k. Great Northern, 23 23i.
Ditto A Shares, 9,3. 91. Great Western, 56 561.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stook, 81k 81-L Liver-
pool, Crosby, and Southport, 01 1:"),. London and
North Western Stock, 1001 100i1 Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincoln, 2473 251. Ditto Preference,
11-!I 11g. Ditto New 6 per cent Pref., B;th
Midland Stock, 691 69k. North British, 71 7-;?..
North Staffordshire, 8 711 South Eastern and
Dover, 181 18 11-16. York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 181, 18k. York and North Midland. 241 241.
Leeds Capital Stock, 141 141. Dutch Rhenish,
. Ditto New Shares, 2 1.16 2 3-16 p. Great
Western of Canada, 25 251. Ditto New Shares,
2i 3p. Great Luxembourg, 841 811
The Corn Market still continues its downward
course, and. at the Liverpool Exchange to-day with
a good attendance of buyers lower prices had to be
accepted. Wheat was from Od. to Bd. per bushel
lower than on Tuesday last, and flour further de-
clined ls. 6d. per barrel, and 2s per sack. Indian
corn was sold at 365. for small parcels of mixed
American.

The Manchester Goods Market was quiet, but
firm in tone. There was not much business done
in either Goods or Yarns, but prices were very well
sustained for both.

Accounts from Odessa to the 21st January state
that the prospects of peace have been received
with unbounded satisfaction by the mercantile
community of that city. Its immediate effect was
to raise the price of wheat. Good qualities, which
could be purchased at four silver roubles per
tchetwert, rose at once to nine roubles five kopecks.
The quantity in store was estimated at 75,000
tchetwerts.

The payments of the fourth of the month have
generally been met with punctuality, but the an-
nouncement of Mr. J. Scott Russell's suspension
yesterday afternoon created some surprise. The
liabilities are stated at 180,0001, but, as yet, very
little is known of the probable assets.
The variation in the Funds to-day were unim—
portant, business being limited. Generally the
market is steady in character, although devoid of
the buoyancy which was imparted lately by specu-
lative operations ; any tendency in the direction of
improvement is restrained by the preparations for
the settlement of the monthly account in Consols,
which terminate on Thursday next. The price for
the new account of the 14th of March continues
to .;1-1.6 per cent above that for money. This
high rate of continuation, coupled with the con-
tinued dearness of money, checks the disposition
to effect speculative purclv ses. The closing prices
today were 001 to . At Paris to-day the French
Funds closed about the same as yesterday. The
whole of the 320,0001 in gold brought in by
the Shalimar, was to-day sold for exportation.
The subjoined are the closing quotations in
Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam short, 11 171-
to 11 18. Do. Three Months, 11 191 to 12.
Rotterdam, Do., 11 191 to 12. Antwerp, Do., 25 50
to 25 55. Brussels, Do., 25 50 to 25 55. Hamburg,
Do., 13 10 to 13 101. Paris, Short, 25 30 to 25 35.
Do., Three Months, 25 70 to 25 75. Mar-
seilles, Do., 25 70 to 25 75. Frankfort. Do.,
120 to 1201. Vienna, Do., 10 45 to 10 48. Trieste
Do , 10 45 to 10 50. Petersburg. Do., 0 to 0.
Madrid, Do., 491 to 40k. The Railway Share
Market to-day was weaker, business closing at
the following rates :—Caledonian, 56 561. Eastern
Counties 0i- 10. East Lancashire, 72 73. Great
Northern, 01 914. Ditto A, 76 77. Great
Western, 551- 551 Lancashire and Yorkshire,
811 Kt. London and North Western, 100 i
1001. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
25 251. Midland Stock, 63'; 66;1. North
British, 30 31. South Eastern and Dover, 62
621. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 741 751
York and North Midland, 401 401.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 5

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-
ship Sultan, Capt. R. W. Evans, arrived here this
morning at 3 a.m., with the usual Peninsular

Her dates of sailing were from Gibral tar, Jan. 29 ;
Cadiz, Jan. 30 ; Lisbon, Feb. 1 ; and Vigo, Feb. 2.
She had no communication with Oporto.
The Sultan brings 10 packages of specie, value
£3304, and her general cargo comprises 175 cases
eggs, 18 casks wine, 11 tubs leeches,, 862 half chests
oramies, 65 bags almonds, 780 baskets chestnuts,
103 bags orchilla weed, 79 boxes dates, and 23
packages sundries.
She also brings 59 passengers, among whom were
George Rennie, Esq., rx-Governor of the Falkland
Islands, his lady, and family.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,

GIBRALTAR, JAN. 16.—Arrived, steamship Emerald,
thirty—two days from Smyrna, with 'fruit, for Liverpool ;
steamship Lebanon, twenty-five days. from Constanti-
nople, with a general cargo for Liverpool (cleared).
17th—Steamship British Queen, eleven days from
Smyrna, with madderroot, for Liverpool ; schooner
Vixen. twelve days from Liverpool, with bale goods, for
Gibraltar. 18th—Schooner Elizabeth, thirty-three 'days
from Nice, with oil, for' Liverpool. 20th—Schooner
William Henry, thirteen days from Liverpool, with a
general cargo, for Gibraltar; steamship Arno, seven days
from Liverpool, with a general 'cargo for Gibraltar and
G"neva (cleared); schooner Barbara, twenty-two days
from Liverpool, with coals, for Gibraltar • steamship
Albanian, nineteen days from Trieste, with fruit, for
Liverpool, (cleared.) 21st.—Brig Elizabeth, 21 days from
Liverpool, with coals for Gibraltar ; brig Isabella, 29 days
from Liverpool, with coals for Gibraltar ; schooner Rip-
ple, 16 days from Liverpool, with bale goods for Gibral-
tar ; steam-ship Tiber, 41 days from Marseilles, with
madderroot, for Liverpool, (cleared.) 26th.—Steam-ship
Teneriffe, 84 days from Liverpool, with general carao.
for Malta and Gibraltar, (cleared.) 27th.—Brig Hero, 35
days from Liverpool, with coals, for Gibraltar.
Exchange on London at 90 days date, 51.
Freights as last quoted.
GIBRALTAR.—The Earl of Aberdern, steam transport,
left, Jan. 29, for Malta and Balaklava, after repairing
damages sustained on her outward voyage. The Win-
ton, steam transport, came in on the 29th Jan., 9 days
from Malta, with shot and marble. After discharging
shot she will leave for Spithead. The French steam
sloop of war Phoenix arrived. Ten sail of merchant
shipping are on shore, a great many with mastheads,
sterns, and bulwarks gone.
AT LISBON.—H.M.S. St. George, 120 guns. The new
Portugese pacts t which ought to have sailed on the 6th
Jan. was still in port, as well as several British and
foreign vessels undergoing repairs, having suffered from
the recent gales, and a French steam ship of war has
arrived.

Off the Barlings on the tad Feb. the Sultan exchanged
colours with the Madrid, steering to the south.

The surprise of the sudden acceptance of the proposi-
tons by Russia continues throughout the country in
Turkey.
STccicitotzt.—The Grand Chamberlain has left this
city for London, hearing the order of the Seraphim, for
His Royal Highness Prince Albert.
At Vienna the Queen's speech had the effect of damp-
ing the ardour of the stock-jobbers, although it was
known the peace protocol had just been signed.
We believe that official intelligence has been received
of the complete destruction of the docks at Sebastopol,
which have now all been blown up. —Morning Post.
The Noniteur of yesterday publishes the names of
the plenipotentiaries of the six Powers which will take
part in the conferences of Paris. Prussia is excluded
from this list.
THE ACCIDENT IN HIGH STREET.—Thomas Jones, the
poor fellow who was so seriously injured in High-street, on
Monday evening, and who was taken to the
i Royal Infir-
mary, had his leg amputated yesterday. He s going on as
favourably as can be expected.
The Euphrate arrived at Marseilles yesterday morning
with advices from Constantinople to Jan. 28, and from
the Crimea to the 26. A Grand Council assembled at
Constantinople, Jan. 26, to discuss the propos;tions of
the Allies on the fifth point. It was believed they
had been accepted.
Though not entirely approving or adopting the pro-
posals to Russia, the smaller German States are disposed
to forward the views of the Paris conferences to send
Russia. As this
Prussia some " moyen
representatives and to accept, as a basis, the conditions
plan agreed
satisfies to by
neithert h the allied
Austrian powersor and
terme " will be adopted.