The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-29 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING.
The Liverpool Cotton Market has been quiet
to-day, with a liberal supply offering. The sales
amount to 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 have been
taken for speculation and export. Prices remain
without change.
The amount of business done in the Share
Market has been small, and at the opening there
was some depressed, but the tone of the market
subsequently improved, and closed steadily at the
following quotations :—Aberdeen, 12113. Chester
and Birkenhead, 151 1511 Caledonian, 297-,
298. Chester and Holyhead, 141 151. Eastern
Counties, 9 11-16 9 13-16. East Lancashire, 19 191.
Great Northern, 231 231. Ditto A, 98 94. Great
Western, 61 618. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock.
87 87:1. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 171 17k.
London and North Western Stock, 99t 100. Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 271 271. Ditto
Pref., 11/ 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., t ip.
Midland Stock, 731 73k. North British, 81
Bt. North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern,
20 15-16 21 1-16. York, Newcastle and Berwick, 19
1-16 198. York and North Midland, 27-i 271.
Leeds Capital Stock, 151 154. Buffalo and
Lake Huron, Ift lip. Dutch Rhenish 11-16 1 3-16 p.
Great Western of Canada, 2.52- 258. Ditto
New Shares, 2 15-16 3 1-16 p. Ditto 2nd issue,
3 34p. Great Luxembourg, 71 74d.
The Australian advices received by the Beemah,
convey some bad complaints of the inferiority of
a large proportion of the goods recently imported
from Europe. Our writer adds :
The people of England seem to know but little, and to
care less, about the politics of the British colonies. They
regard us as a kind of outcast adventurers, and, having
handed us over to the refuse of their own statesmen in
the Colonial Office, they think they have done enough for
us, when they have bagged the millions of gold which we
send home to them, in exchange for the cargoes of devil's
dust, poisoned pickles, factitious alcohol, rotten broad-
cloth, cast iron cutlery, and other products of the dis-
honest loom, the swindling laboratory, and the lying
factory, which they can find no sale for in Europe, but
which were well enough to fill their salted invoices with
imaginary values. This evil is growing to a portentous
magnitude, and it will probably lead ere long to a com-
plete revolution in the state of commerce. European
houses are not likely to hear of it from their correspon-
dents in trade ; but we write in the interests
of the consumers, and we undertake to inform
the English manufacturer and shipper, that
the complaints we refer to are in the mouths
of every body, except the parties interested in the con-
spiracy against the colonial public, and that unless a
change be made in the mode of transacting business and
in the quality of the goods sent hither, the British mer-
chant will lose his character, and the door will be thrown
open to the foreign trader, whoever he may be, that will
supply us with a better article. It is so now, legally, so
far as the tariff is concerned ; but, practically, the
prejudice still runs in favour of British manufactures ;
and as we have some ten or twelve millions which we can
conveniently spare annually in the purchase of foreign
commodities, it would be quite as prudent as otherwise,
for our friends at home to look to the means as well as
the policy of retaining the connection.
From the Trade and Navigation Returns made
up for the month of March, and published yester-
day, we learn that our national exports during the
past month amounted in value to 9,448,5701, being
more than two millions in excess of those of the
corresponding month last year, and about half a
million less than those of March, 1854, the last
month before the declaration of war. For the first
three months of 1856 the value of our exports is
25,149,0001, being an increase of about six millions
and a quarter on the first three months of last
year, and of something less than a million on the
same period in the preceding year.
The Monthlyilieturn of Trade and Navigation in
France are published in the Moniteur of Sunday.
From them it appears that during the month end-
ing March 31, the total of customs duties paid in
France during the month of March of the present
year is 14,382,224 f, against 15,149,671 f paid during
March, 1855. The total paid during the first
quarter of the present year is 38,518,400 f, against
38,358,628 f paid during the first quarter of 1855.
In the course of the first quarter of the present
year 4,950 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of
796,356, were entered inwards in the French ports;
the number entered inwards in the corresponding
quarter of 1855 was 4,307 vessels, with an aggregate
tonnage of 655,342. The number entered out-
wards in the first quarter of the present year was
3,193 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 537,966 ;
the number entered outwards in the corresponding
quarter of 1855 was 2,778 vessels, with an aggregate
tonnage of 428,524.

'f At the close of business Consols were quoted at
)2& to 921,.

TRADE REPORT.-MONDAY,