The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING.
There has been an improved demand in the
Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, and both the
trade and exporters have operated freely, and a
large business has in consequence been the result,
the sales amounting to 12,000 bales, of which 4,000
were taken for speculation and (export. Prices
have been firm.

The Liverpool Share Market has been quiet
but firm throughout the day, presenting no feature
worthy of remark. Prices are without change at the
close—Aberdeen, 14123. Chester and Birkenhead,
131 14. Caledonian, 27 13-16 27 15-16. Chester and
Holyhead, 13 131. Eastern Counties, 93- 10k.
East Lancashire, 18 18k. Great Northern, 221 23.
Ditto A Shares, 9,-1 93. Great Western, 553 561.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 811 815. Liver-
pool, Crosby, and Southport, 15 151. London and
North Western Stock, 1003 1003. Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincoln, 24:3 25. Ditto Preference,
El 113. Ditto New 6 per cent Pref., 7-1.6 9-16 p.
Midland Stock, 694 691. North British, 7,1 73.
-
North Staffordshire, 8 71d. South Eastern and
Dover, 183 18 13-16. York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 19 191. York and North Midland. 253 25k
Leeds Capital Stock, 145 143. Dutch Rhenish, 5
sp. Ditto New Shares, 2 2 1-16 p. Great Western
of Canada, 25 7-16 25 9-16. Ditto New Shares, 34
31p. Great Luxembourg, 983 d.
By the arrival of the clipper Phantom we have
received advices from Pernambuco to Jan. 9, being
a fortnight's later than brought by the last mail.
The Royal Mail ship Avon, from Southampton on
the Bth of December, arrived at Pernambuco on
the Ist of January. The Queen and Rosario from
Liverpool, Amethyst from London, Elizabeth (and
proceeded to Rio Janeiro), Miranda, Jas Stewart,
and Ballclutha (and all three sailed for Bahia),
Chase, Esther Ann, and Spirit of the Times, from
Newfoundland, had arrived at Pernambuco. The
Westmoreland sailed from Pernambuco for Liver-
pool on the 4th of January, and Meteor for the
Channel on the Bth ult. The Sugar Market
was looking up, and large purchases had been made
for the Channel, and on French account, at 25250
to 25350 per arroba for average browns, 25400 to
25560 for selected browns, 25600 to 25700 for very
superior descriptions. Yellows and whites were
without change. There was no alteration in the
value or demand for either cotton or hides.
Freights dull and declining; 50s per ton for sugar
in bags to the Channel, 30s to Liverpool, and cot-
ton to Liverpool -3.4 to 3d per lb. Codfish was
looking up, and 145400 had been paid. At Bahia
it was selling at 155500 to IG$OOO, and at Rio
Janeiro about the same rates were current.
The steamer America has arrived with dates
from New York to the 30th ult., but has not brought
any specie. The New York Money Market con-
tinued easy, but not quite so active as last reported.
Exchange on London was nominally firmer, but
little activity. The quotations were 1084 to 1083.
The markets for Flour were rather heavy, and
Freights were barely so firm.
The bank of France have issued their yearly
statement of account, up to the 31. st January. The
total amount of transactions for the year is put
down at 4,863,000,000 f. against 3,888,000,000 f in
1854, showing an increase of 975,000.000, of which
the discount operations alone give 818,000,000 more
than the preceding year. This latter item was
chiefly increased towards the close of the year.
and during the last month when the directors of
the bank gave extended facilities to the mercantile
community in renewing their bills. The metallic
reserve in the chief establishment and the branches
on the 25th March, 1855, was 431 million francs ;
and on the 11th July, 31.0 millions. Since that
period it has fluctuated a little, and now stands at
290 millions.

Telegraphic accounts from Madrid state that the
new Minister of Finance, Senor Santa Cruz, has
resolved not to re-establish the octroi duties, and
that he proposes to convert the floating debt of the
State into a consolidated voluntary debt. The
government have communicated to the authorities
of the Basque provinces that the sale of the ecele.
siastical lands in that portion of the kingdom will
shortly take place, on the same terms as those
which have been sold in the other provinces.
The effect of this will be to bring some valuable
land into cultivation which has hitherto lain in
a state of waste.

Another Joint Stock Banking Company has been
introduced to the public, under the title of the
Alliance (France and England) Bank. The special
object of this bank is the transaction of business
at and between Paris, London, and Constantinople.
The necessity of such an institution has been long
felt; and there can be but little doubt that with
good management a great success will be achieved.
The capital is fixed at 800,000/., in shares of 20/
each.

The English Funds maintained great firmness
Prices closed the same to-clay as on Saturday,
namely, at 911 911, the recent improvement being
fully supported, Business is limited, but the
approaching Conferences are regarded with great
hope. In the expectation that peace would cause
a further rise in most descriptions of Securities,
there are few sellers at prices. At Paris to day the
Three per Cents. closed H to 4 per cent. higher
than on Saturday. According to advises from St.
Petersburg., the firm tone of the Queen's speech on
the opening of the British Parliament, had created
some feeling of discouragement in commercial
circles in that city. The Exchange on London
closed rather lower in consequenc3. The Tay
has taken out to the Brazils 70,9701. in specie.
This remittance is occasioned by the scarcity of
Bills on Rio Janeiro. The Railway Share Market to-
day. though deficient in business, was steady. The
subjoined were the closing prices :—Caledonian,
551 56. Eastern Counties 9Z- 10. East Lan-
cashire, 72 73. Great Northern, 90 911 Do. A, 75
76. Great Western, 551 561. Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 811 811 London and North Western,
100& 104 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
24-1 251. Midland Stock, 69,1- 69g. North British, 29
30. Southb Eastern and Dover, 621 63. York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 752 701. York and North
Midland, 61 62.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—The tenth
lecture of the series, in connection with this institution, was
delivered last night by the Rev. N. White, in the
Hope-hall, Hope-street. The lecture, the subject of which
was " Rome and Russia," equalled in interest any of the
previous discourses, and was warmly applauded by the
numerous audience assembled.
LIVERPOOL SOUTH TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.—The
usual meeting of this society was held on Sunday evening
last, in the Teetotal-hall, Brick-street, after the service at
the St. Barnabas Working Man's Church. Mr. Hunter in
the chair. Addresses were delive•ed on the importance of
the temperance movement, by Messrs. John Carter, James
Smith, and Captain Nelson, of Whitehaven. The hall was
well filled ; many signed the pledge ; and the promise of
much good by the efforts of the society was indicated.
SUNDAY SCHOOL AND LITERARY INSTITUTE.—Our nu-
merous readers will observe that the talented lecturer,
Rev. J. P. Chown, of Bradford, is to deliver a lecture this
evening in the oncert-hall, in connection with the above
institute. The estimation and fame of the lecturer are such
that his name has become a household word among the
people:of the town,who, a few days ago, presented him with
a testimonial for his popular lectures on week-days, and for
his religious addresses on Sunday afternoons. The topics of
the former have been varied and attractive in a high degree.
We subjoin a few of the topics :—" Jack, the Giant Killer,"
" Jack and the Bean Stalk," "The Year's War Tale."
Less amusing, but not less attractive, have been the Sunday
lectures, the attendance on each day has been immense, and
the interest breathless. We hope he will secure, as we
doubt not, a good audience this evening.
LIVERPOOL CATHOLIC FEMALE ORPHANAGE,—The 35'h
annual meeting of the members and friends of this charity
was held yesterday evening at the schools, Copperas-bill,
The Right Rev. Dr. Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop, was
called to the chair. Mr. Sharpies, the secretary, read the
report, from which it appeared that the income for the past
year amounted to £313 17s. 7d., and the expenditure
£BO4 6s. sd. The income, however, was derived from
other than ordinary sources, and therefore the committee
strongly urged renewed exertions on the part of the friends
of the institution to sustain it. The number of children in
the institution at the commencement of the year was 61 ;
died, 6 ; sent out to service 6 ; admitted since 12 ; leaving
the number the same. The committee called for the co-
operation of the public to sustain the charity, and con-
cluded by offering a vote of thanks to the Siaters of Notre
Dame for their gratuituous aid to the schools. The state-
ment of accounts was then read in detail, and passed on the
motion of the Rev. Mr. Colyns, seconded by Mr. Sheil.
On the motion of Mr. James Levingston, seconded by Mr.
Thomas Carroll, votes of thanks were tendered to the lady
and other patrons of the charity, and the officers who had
given their free services for the year. Lady Gerard was
proposed as the lady patroness, and Nicholas W. Blundell,
Esq , as patron for the year. The meeting was then
addressed by the Rev. Mr. Nugent and Mr. John Yates, and
after the transaction of some routine business the proceed-
ings terminated.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING

M. de Brunow, the Russian plenipotentiary who
was to have arrived here yesterday, did not come,
and it is now said that he is not to come for a few
days, having for some reason not stated, stopped
at Darmstadt. The French Ambassador at Berlin,
the Marquis de Moustier, has arrived here. His
visit is, of course, to advise with his government
on the exclusion of Prussia from the Conferences—
an exclusion which is considered as definitive, but
which the partisans of Prussia are strenuously
endeavouring to set aside, though the Prussian
Government itself affects a sublime indifference to
the matter.

There are two Imperial decrees in the Moniteur
this evening :—One convokes the Legislattve Body
and the Senate for the 3rd March ; the other
makes General Bosquet a senator, that is gives
him an imperial dignity and 1,2001. a year. By
the way, this appointment of the general excites
some little surprise, as he was supposed to be an
ardent republican. It is reported that he is very
shortly to return to the Crimea. On the opening
of the chambers the loan which the French govern-
ment requires will, no doubt, be demanded.
The Bank of France held its annual meeting a
few days ago, and its. report has just been
published. It says, that notwithstanding the war
and the scarcity, the total operations in 1855
amounted to 4,863,000,000 f., whereas in the preced-
ing year they were only 3,888,000,000 f., thus show-
ing an increase of 075,000,000 f., or nearly forty
millions sterling. In these operations discounts
figure for 3,762,000,000 f., whereas in 1854 they were
only 2,944,000,000 f., shewing an increase of 818
millions. In the whole course of the year the Bank is
stated to have sustained no loss from bankruptcies
find even to have got in sums on preceding losses.
The effect of the increase of interest and other res-
torative measures is stated to have been advantage-
ous. One effect of them was to reduce the advances
on public securities from 185 millions to 93. The
government paid back another instalment of 5
millions on the loan of 75 millions, and now only
owes 60 millions. The profits of the bank during
the year were 9,125,319 f (X 365,000).
The students accused of having taken part in
the disturbances at Professor Nisard's at the Sor
bonne were tried yesterday by the tribunal of correc-
tional police. They were 15 in number, and were all
convicted with the exception of one. Three of
the fourteen were sentenced to sixmonths, four to
one month, and the rest were fined X 4 each. The
disturbances, it will be remembered, were caused
from political motives; Nisard having sold himself
to the present government, after being a Repub
lican and a Louis Philippiste.

A number of Protesta- ;its of the department of
the Haute Vienne, have just been fined £360, for
having held meetings for public worship, without
permission of the government. For years they
were allowed to exercise their religion in peace,
but the present government shut up the chapels
and meeting-houses : they nevertheless persisted
in meeting for worship, and the fines are the
result. Such is liberty in France now-a-days !
Accounts from Constantinople to the 31st ult.
have arrived to-day. The Turkish Ministers bad
created difficulties with respect to the manner in
which the religious concessions lately extorted
from the Porte should be incorporated in the Mus-
sulman law, and had demanded modifications of
the concessions. The English, French, and Aus-
trian plenipotentiaries would not consent to any
modifications, and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
peremptorily demanded that the Sultan himself
should issue a law, ordering them to be carried
into effect. His Lordship is stated to have insisted
in his demand in such an offensive way, that the
conferences were put an end to in some wrath, but
not of course definitively. As a set off to this,
Lord Stratford had got the Sultan to promise to
attend a ball—an unexampled honour, which filled
the Turks with supefaction. The Crimean letters
say that in an out-post affair, the Sardinians had
succeeded in capturing 200 Russians.

A St. Petersburg clespateh says that the Czar has
granted a year's pay, as a present, to all the officers
and men of the army and fleet, and also to the
civil employes thereof, who were concerned in the
defence of Sebastopol.

A Trieste despatch announces the outbreak of
an insurrection amongst the Bedouins, near Cairo.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
A day or two ago I told you that the Sardinian
Ambassador had complained to the French govern-
ment of the determination come to, to allow Sar-
dinia only one plenipotentiary in the Peace
Conferences, and that a not very satisfactory reply
had been returned to him. Yesterday the Emperor
received a letter from Count Persigny, his Ambas•
sador in London, informing him that England was
quite determined not to allow any slight to be put
on Sardinia; and in consequence his Majesty gave
immediate orders to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
that Sardinia should, as she desired, have two pleni-
potentiaries in the Conferences. This morning the
Moniteur announces the fact officially, and says
that the two plenipotentiaries, are to be Count de
Cavour, President of the Council of Ministers,
(instead of M. d'Azeglio previously named), and
the Marquis de Villamarina, Ambassador in this
city. The Moniteur contains a new notice to the
French soldiers, entitled to the English Crimean
medal, to apply for it, and to say that the sailors
and marines of the French navy who served ashore
are alSo to have it. The greatest dissatisfaction,
it is said, is felt in the French fleet, at its being
deprived as a body, of the honour which has been
distributed so profusely to the army. lam happy
to state, that contrary to the expectation of most
Englishmen, the officers and soldiers of the army
prize the medal most highly, and wear it constantly.
It is a pity that it is so frightfully heavy, clumsy, and
ugly. As a proof of the esteem in which the medal
is held, I can inform you that a discharged
Crimean soldier, who for months had been seek
ing for employment and had sought in vain, got a
place almost immediately after applying for it with
the medal on his breast

Journal des Debuts has another of its semi-diplo-
matic articles, which contains some interesting
details. It says that a new despatch recently
received in Vienna from Count Nesselrede was
drawn up in such a conciliatory spirit, that it was
impossible, after reading it, to doubt the sincere
desire of Russia to obtain peace. but that the
despatch dwelt on the importance of the conces
sions made by Russia ; hinted that the Emperor
could go no farther, stated that the idea of taking
advantage of the fifth article of the conditions to
demand from Russia an abandonment of other
territory than that comprised in the rectification of
the territories of Moldavia and Bessarabia, must
not be entertained ; and that no indemnity for war
expenses must be demanded. The Debats adds
that when this despatch was communicated to the
Austrian minister of foreign affairs he asked the
Russian ambassador if these declarations were
meant to signify that Russia refused to enter into
engagements not to fortify the Aland Isles, and
not to restore the fortifications of Bomarsund ; but
the RussianlMinister, afraid to compromise himself,
begged time to apply to his government for an
answer.

The German Journal of Frankfort asserts that
the armistice will he for three months, and that a
fortnight's notice is to be given previous to putting
an end to it; also, that it is not to prevent the
belligerents from fortifying their positions, nor
from sending troops to them, nor from blockading
the Baltic ports. The German Journal is sometimes
well informed, but in this case its intelligence
seems premature,