The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL. THURSDAY EVENING

The tone of the Liverpool Cotton Market has in
no degree changed to-day A small business has
been done at Friday's quotations, the sales amount-
ing to 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 have been taken
for speculation and export.
The amount of business done in the Liverpool
Share Market, has not been large. The market
opened heavily, but improved during the day,
and closed firm at the following quotations :--
Aberdeen, 138 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 151-
16. Caledonian, 281 281. Chester and Holy-
head, 17 171. Eastern Counties, 9 11-16 91. East
Lancashire, 208 xd 21. Great Northern. 241 241.
Ditto A, 101 1074. Great Western, 654 65i. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Stock, 982 98t. Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 18k 181. London and
North Western, 1071 1071. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, 34i 34k. Ditto New 6 per cent.
Pref 11-16 13-16 p. Ditto Pref., 124 124. Mid-
land Stock, 841 841. North British, 98 xn 9,1.
North Staffordshire, 4i xd 44d. South Eastern
and Dover, 221 22 9-16. York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 21 3-16 211. York and North Midland, 291
30. Leeds Capital Stock, 18 181. Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 1 jp. Dutch Rhenish, 21 21p.
Great Western of Canada, 257, 25 7-16. Ditto New
Shares, 21 27,p. Great Luxembourg, 9 9-16 9id.
The business done in the Manchester Goods
Market has been small to-day, but prices remain
without change.
The Funds have been quiet to-day at yester-
day's quotations, and the transactions still remain
limited. The unfavourable aspect of the day
combined for such as this, and its influence

would have been manifest except for the abun-
dance of money on the Stock Exchange. The
Three-per-gents for the 10th September closes at
95 5-16, 95 7-16.

In the Foreign Stock Market there was a limited
amount of business done in Turkish and Russian
at full rates. Turkish 6 per Cents., MI ; ditto
4 per Cents. Guaranteed, 1038 ex div. Russian
5 per Cents., 11] ; ditto 4i per Cents., 98. Portu-
guese 3 per Cents., 46. Spanish 3 per Cents.,
441; ditto New Deferred, 24a. Dutch 2i per

Cents., 64 ; ditto 4 per Cent, Certificates, 96.
Mexican Bonds, 24 Buenos Ayres, 81 ; Brazilian,

01 ; and Grenada, 19

The Railway Share Market is quiet without any
important alteration in prices. We append
the principal quotations :—Caledonian, 57 57k.
Eastern Counties, 9 9-16 9 11-16. East Lancashire,
831 849 Great Northern, 98 989. Do. A, 95k 96k.
Great Western, 65i 651. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
988 98k. London and North Western, 107 k 107 t.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 344 341.
Midland Stock, 8484 x. North British, 36 371 South
Eastern and Dover, 741 751. York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 84 85. York and North Midland, 60 609.

THE STEAMSHIP KHERSONESE.—This fine steamship
went into the river, yesterday, preparatory to sailing for
St. John's, Newfoundland, Halifax, U.S., and Portland,
U.S., on Saturday, the 23rd instant. All letters to go by
said vessel must be posted by one o'clock (addressed per
Khersonese) on Saturday afternoon, or until half-past one
with a late fee.
CHARGE AGAINST TEE FERRY COLLECTOR AT TRAN-
MERE.—Joseph Pickering, late collector at the Tranmere
Ferry, was brought up, on remand on a charge of embezzle-
ment, before the Birkenhead magistrates, yesterday. Mr.
Willoughby, the proprietor of the ferry, was present, and
intimated that, in consideration of the prisoner's long
service and previous respectability, he would not press the
charge. The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
ARRIVAL OF A RUSSIAN SHIP.—On Wednesday after-
noon some interest was caused on the Princess-pier and
Landing-stage, by a vessel that was observed coming up
the river, with the Russian flag flying at the mast head,
she proved to be the Ahti, Captain Javelin, a Russian
brigantine, from Wasa, and was reported at the Custom-
house, yesterday, by her agents, Messrs. Vos, Browne, and
Co. This is the first Russian hip that has arrived at our
port since the conclusion of peace.
PUBLICANS' LICENSE. —Yesterday being the annual
licensing day for public-houses, Mr. Alderman Holme, and
Mr. J. A. Tobin, sat in the Nisi Prius Court, in order to
dispose of the applications that came before the court. There
were about 1,450 applicants, but there was nothing very
remarkable in the details yesterday, as the only cases dis-
posed of were such as were not opposed, and those in which
single small fines were inflicted. In the latter cases, the
applicants were cautioned. In cases where three reports by
the police, and where more than one fine had been recorded.
their worships adjourned such for a week, in order to
consider theta.
CONTRIBUTION BY THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH TO
THE MANCHESTER MECHANIC? INSTITUTION EXHIBITION.
—We have already stated that Lord Palmerston has con-
sented to deliver the inaugural address at the opening of
this exhibition next month, and have before referred to the
nature of the objects of art and industry proposed to be
exhibited. When it was first proposed to inaugurate their
new building by an exhibition, the secretary addressed the
Minister of the Interior of France, to bring under the

Emperor's notice their project, and suggesting that his
Imperial Majesty would render important aid to the directors
of the exhibition by graciously condescending to lend for
exhibition specimens of such of the. art manufactures of
France as have given that country a distinguished pre.
eminence over others—such as porcelain, tapestry, buhl
work, and bronzes. The letter, it appears, should have been
directed to M. Fould, the Minister of State, and was
handed over to him by the Minister of the Interior
The directors subsequently sent a deputation to wait
upon M. Fould. In these applications they received
advice and aid from Lord Cowley, our own Ambassador,
and have now received the following note from his
lordship—" Paris, Aug. 16, 1856. Sir,—l have the pleasure
to inform you that the Emperor has given the necessary
permission to enable the Minister of State to send to
Manchester the objects you desire to have for the Mechanics'
Institution, and they will consequently be expedited imme-
diately.—fam, &c, COWLEY. E. Hutchins, Esq."

FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH.—
On Wednesday a sad accident occurred to one of the party
employed in the timber yard belonging to the carriage
department. The unfortunate man was a wheeler by trade,
named Malings, and appears to have met his death in the
following manner : —The party had been engaged removing
timber from trucks and stacking it, when by some unlooked
for casualty several of the logs rolled off, and one of them
struck the unfortunate man and broke his neck. He was
instantly conveyed to the hospital in the Arsenal, but life
was extinct. The deceased had but recently returned from
the Crimea, where he had through the war followed the
same trade. -
CANADIAN RAILWAYS.—The marked alteration in the
opposition against the wise and far-sighted policy of the
Canadian administration—not only the present, but of all
during the last few years—with respect to the encourage-
ment of public works and railways, is very great, now that
the political animosities of the moment are dying away. At
this distance we can hardly enter into the feelings of the
latter; but, looking at the benefits which must result to the
province from these undertakings when they are eompleted,
we are glad to see that this is the case. The communication
with the West will then be thoroughly opened, and the
development of its traffic and resources in full progress. It
was to restore this traffic that Mr. Hincks, under Lord
Elgin, propounded the grand trunk system of Canadian
railways, in lien of protection and bounties, which will
enable the Canadians to ply their industry all the year
round, and render them independent of canals and danger-
ous river and lake navigation. Liverpool will also
essentially participate in the growing prosperity of Canada,
in the way of exports and imports, being, via Quebec, 1,000
miles nearer Chicago than by New York. The works in

the course of execution are being rapidly proceeded with,
and the preliminaries for the othe:•s are going on most
satisfactorily. Nearly all these undertakings have at
present representatives in this country; most of whom are
either connected with the government of Canada, or are
amongst the most prominent men in the province.—
Canadian News, London.

A SOMNAMBULIST AT SBA..—One evening last week a
matron, living on the Wick side of the river, created a stir
among her neighbours by her anxiety as to what could have
become of her " laddie," who had failed to make his appear-
ance as bed time approached. He had brought home the
kye, of which he was the herd, at the usual hour, but from
that time no one had seen him, and she, in her motherly
solicitude, was impenetrable to any other conviction than
that he had met with some sad fatality. At length some
passer-by con3oled her by the information that he had, in
the course of the evening, seen the errant youth leave the
river in a fishing boat with another of his young companions.
And this, it appeared, he had done but instead of this fact
being a consolation, it increased the mother's anxiety f rty-
fold. From his childhood the lad had on repeated occasions
risen in the night time, and, though sound asleep, had
toddled " but" and " ben't the house, and committed a
variety of eccentricities, to repeat which at sea might—so
thought the mother—be the death of him. And, as it
happened,-her fears were not altogether groundless. In the
grey of the morning, as a crew were hauling their nets in
ti the offing, one of their number was surprised to see a boy in
another boat close at band—none other than the aforesaid
prodigal—get up on one of the thwarts, walk to the boat's
side, place his foot upon the gunwale, and finally step de-
liberately into the sea. Being unable to move from their
nets, they shouted and better shouted until the crew in the
other boat were awakened, when they were apprised of what
had happened, and fortunately eueeedea in rescuing the
youth, not before he was much exhausted, but otherwise
uninjured by his sudden, and to him, surprising immersion.
.-.-John fi Groat Journal.