The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-25 00:00:00

MONETARY

AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING.

The London Stock Market advanced per cent.
to-day. Owing to a large purchase of stock by the
government broker on account of the Court of
Chancery, which, added to the -,favourable feeling
-Produced by the arrival of tlo large amount of
specie brought by the Arctic, rendered the_market
very buoyant. Consols closed 951 to 952-. Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents., 96t to 96k. -Bank Stock,
2162,t0 218 ; India Stock, 253; Exchequer Bills,
6s. to 9s. prem.; India Bonds, 4s. prem.
In the foreign house, Russian stocks have given
vay:---RUs-siritti prices closed heaVily---at 11l to 1111.
Sardinian Bonds, 91-1--to• 92. Mexican was lower, at
25 to 251. Austrian 4+, 954 and 961;

Buenos

Ayres Bonds keep up at 65 t 07651.. Portuguese ex
Coupons, 381..
Tho Share market was stationary to-day.. East
Lancashire, 65 to 67; Lancashire and Yorkshire;
661 to 671; Caledonian, 561 to 57 ; Great. Northern,
86 to 87;
,Leeds Northern, 131 to 14; London and
N.orthBVestern, 103 to 1031 ; Midland, 63 to 631;
York and. North Midland, 481 to 401. There was
no material, alteration in Gold Mine Shares. Bank
of Australasia were at 83 ; Oriental Bank, 01;
Crystal Palace shares are still well supported at
21 ppa:,;. Australian Agricultural Co: and Peel River
shares were lower ; S. A. Land, 37 ; Steam shares
W6ro actively dealt in, General Steam, 261; Penin-
sular and Oriental 25/. shares, 411; Royal Mail, 63.
The following are the returns of Railway Traffic
. for the week :

ENGLISH LINES. 1853. Corresponding
week last year.
Bristol and Exeter - £4,926 3,963
Cheshire Junction ... ... 1,798 1,484
Chester and Holyhead 3,615 3,219
East Lancashire ... ... 4,553 . 4,532
Great' Northern. ... 18,115 14,237
Great Western ... ... 19,604 19,324
Kendal and Windermere ... 121 152
Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,488 15,940
London and Brighton ... 11,087 10,744
London and North Western 48,505 50,050
London and South Western 10,480 11,642
Manchester, Sheffield, &c. 7,877 6,546
Midland 23,887 22,163
Oxford and Worcester... ... 2,448 655
South Eastern ... ... 14,280 14,471
South Yorkshire ... 1;421 1,345
Shrewsbury and Chester ... 1,777 1,510
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 857 720
Shropshire Union ... ... 788 606
West Hartlepool ... 1,965 1,859
York, Berwick, &N. Midland 26,974 23,790
The amount of bills drawn by the East India
company on the Presidencies by the mail of to-
day, is £89,728. The Arctic steamer from New
York has brought about £BO,OOO in specie. The
Royal Alice, from Sydney, July 30, brings no gold.
.An advance of £9 to £lO per ton has been made
in copper, and the alteration in the French tariff
on iron has created some excitement in the trade.
300 tons Scotch pig iron reported for the French
market at 80s. for number 1.

The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of
the circulation of private and joint-stock banks in
England and Wales for the four weeks ending the
29th of October last, and gives the following as
the average weekly circulation of those banks
during the past month, viz. :

Private banks
Joint-stock banks.

£4,068,287
3,162,934

Average weekly circulation... £7,231,221
On comparing the above with the returns for the
preceding month, ending the Ist of October last,
it shows—
An increase in the circulation
of the private banks of £281,387
An increase in the circulation
of the joint-stock banks of 88,056

Increase on the month £369,443
And as compared with the return for the corre-
sponding period of last year, viz., 30th October,
1852, it shows—

An increase in the circulation
of the private banks of £194,727
An increase in the circulation
of the joint-stock banks of

Increase on the year

£276,763

On comparing the above with the amounts of the
fixed issues, the following appears to be the com-
parative state of the circulation :
The private banks are below
their fixed issues... X548,322
The joint-stock banks are below
their .fixed issues