The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

Great Britain, 141,000 ; France, 15,000 ; other foreign
ports, 28,000. Total decrease in exports, 184,000 bales.
BREADSTUFFS.—FIour, State and Western : My last re-
port was of the 17th instant, per Canada, via Boston. We
have since been in receipt of advices per City of Washington
at Philadelphia, and Niagara at Boston, with Liverpool dates
down to the Bth inst. A fair inquiry has prevailed during the
week both for export and the home trade, but with liberal
arrivals. and influenced by the foreign advices, prices of most
descriptions have receded 10 and 15 cents per barrel. Common
to good State, 6 dole 25 cents to 6 dole 35 cents per barrel;
extra ditto, 6 dols 55 cents to 6 dole 70 cents ; common to
good Ohio and Indiana, 6 dole 40 cents to 6 dole 80 cents; low
to fair grades extra Ohio, 6 dols 90 cents to 7 dols 15 cents ;
extra Genesee, 7 dole 45 cents to 8 dole 75 cents. Southern :
mixed to good brand=, 7 dole 10 cents to 7 dols 40 cents per
barrel ; favourite and extras, 7 dollars 50 cents to 8 dollars.
Canadian : 6 dols 55 cents to 7 dols 70 cents for all grades.
Wheat: Our market during the week has experienced slight
fluctuations. A good inquiry has on the whole prevailed for
Great Britain and the Continent, the closing rates varying
little from these reported by the Canada. Good to prime
white, 1 del 63 cents to t del 70 cents per 60 lbs., two or
three parcels Genesee having been taken by millers at 1 dol
73 cents to 1 dol 75 cents; winter red, 1 dol 51 cents to 1
del 57 cents ; spring, 1 dol 36 cents to 1 dol 40 cents.
ALFRED F. DE LIIZE.

P.S. With large arrivals (43,000 barrels), and under effect
of Persia's advices, flour 5 to 10 cents lower; wheat, prime
white, firm; red, about 2 cents lower; corn, 1 cent better;
rye firm.
IRON : Scotch pig has been steady at 29 dots, 6 months,
with sales for the week of 600 tons ; bar iron has been dull ;
sales 150 tons of common English at .53 dols, 6 months ; and
300 tons refined, 571 dole to 60 dols, 6 months; hoops in
good supply—no sale to report ; rails are held at 64 dols,
cash.
LEAD: The sales for the week include 100 tons Spanish,
for home use, at 6 dols, cash ; 25 do. for export, at 5 dole 123 c
in bond, time and interest; 70 tons English at 6 dole, cash,
duty paid ; and 50 tons German (Stolberg), at 5 dole, cash, in
bond.
PROVISIONS : Pork has improved, with sales of old mess at
18 dols. Old prime is scarce ;wo hear of no sales to report.
New mess sells at 18 dole 50c to 18 dole 75e ; Prime 17 dole
25e to 17 doffs 50c ; hams in pickle 101,-c to 10c; green
hams 9-15 c to 91c ; long and short bone middles 94c to 10c ;
clear 101 c to 11c. Lard is in fair demand at 12:',,c to 13c
fur brls, and 13c to 134 c for kegs. Dressed hogs 74c to 7Z-c.
Beef is in fair demand ; old repacked Chicago and Western
mess 9 dols to 11 dole 50c ; prime 6 dols 50c to 7 dols ; new
repacked Chicago mess 14 dole to 15 dole; extra 16 dole ;
repacked Western mess 13 dole to 14 dole 50c; State mess,
new, 10 dole to 11 dols ; prime 7 dole to 7 dole 50c ; beef
hams 17 dols ,50c to 20 dole.
Rion : The market has continued to drop, with large
receipts, but with more doing for export ; it has been especially
dull for those qualities below the export standard ; the sales are
1,200 trcs, at 3 dols 50c to 4 dole 50c for fair to prime.
SALT : The sales include 4,300 sacks Jeffery') and Darcey's
Liverpool fine at 1 dol 374 c ; 21,600 Liverpool ground 82te
to 831 c; and 3,500 bushels Lisbon at 19.
SUGAR : Raw sugars are dull, holders appear to keep up
good courage, but buyers hold bark ; there is little doing to
the trade, and refiners take only enough to supply their neces-
sities ; we make no quotable decline, but sales could not be
fft cted except at a concession. The sales for the week aro
1.108 hhds, 23 tierces, and 41 brie Cuba, at 81 to 10 ; 200
hhds Porto Rico, part at 9 to 9Z ; and 480 boxes Havana, at
9to 101. Refined are a fraction easier; crushed are quoted
at I*, to 131; ground and granulated, 12a to 12,7; loaf, 134;
coffee, white, 11 to 111, ; do. yellow, 10 to NI
FREIGHTS.— Are rather dull. To Liverpool—Tobacco,
hhds, 30 to 35s ; Cotton, square bales, per lb. 3-16 d ; Flour,
per bbl, 2s. 3d; Rosin, per hbl, 2s 6d to 3s; Heavy Goods,
Cheese, &c, per ton, 25a to 32s 61 ; Grain, per bushel, 8-3 d a
9d. To London—Cheese per ton, 32s 6d a 35s ; Flour, per
bbl. 2s 10d to 3s ; Rosin and Turpentine, per 280 lbs, 3s to
3s 6d ; Fur and Skins, &c, per ton, 30s to 32s 61; Heavy
Goods, Oil, &c, 30a to 35s ; Oil Cake, per ton, 30s to 32s 6d ;
Grain, per bushel, ltd. To Havre—Cotton, square bales,
per lb, ic; Whalebone, &c, per lb, ; Ashes, Pot and
Pearl, ton, 8 dole, to 10 dols; Rice, 9 dole. ; Flour, per bbl,
70c ; Provisions, 871 c ; Grain, per bushel, 20.

GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.-CRYSTAL PALACE'
MAY, 1857.

The arrangements for this enormous musical exhibition, of
two thousand three hundred performers, progress in the most
satisfactory manner. The interest awl enthusiasm exited in
musical circ'es are without precedent. The committee of the
Sacred Harmonic Society have already received offers of
assistance from nearly three thousard persons desirous of
taking part in this great celebration, a number which does not
include the society's own orchestra of seven hundred perform-
ers, nor those members of the nuuskal profession whose
position precludes the necessity of applications for engage-
ments. The provincial towns have come forward in a very
unanimous manner. Bitmingham offers a choir of four hun-
dred voices. Under the organisation of Mr. Oliver Mason,
the able manager of the Birmingham festivals, it is sugges'ed
that rehearsals should at once commence. Bradford has also
a large force of picked Yorkshire vocalists at disposal; while
from Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, York, Hereford, Wor•
ces'er, Gloucester, Norwich, K-ighlev, Huddersfield, Lincoln,
Exeter, Peterborough, Oxford, Gimbridge, Canterbury,
Brighton, Leicester, Nottingham, and many other towns,
applications to take part continue to he received ; and even
horn places as remote as Dublin, Editibur,;h, and Belfast,
communications have been made of the desire to be associated
in this immense musical gathering. Bearing in mind that
1859 is not only one hundred years from the death of Handel.
but also fifty years from the death of Haydn, and fifty years
from the birth of Mendelseohn, it will be apparent that this
great celebration of May, 1857, will be but the precursor of
still greater solemnities, on an occasion on which so many
interesting musical recollections will find their focus and
meeting point. The contract for the organ has been taken by
Messrs. Gray and Davidson, of the New-road, London. It
will be on a really grand scale. with an ample supply of 32
feet and 16 feet stops; the builders binding themselves to
have it fixed complete in the central transept by the 25th of
April next. The plans for the orchestra aro now receiving
the closest attention of the managing committee ' • and when it
is stated that it will cover a space as large as Exeter Hall,
some notion of the magnitude of the undertaking may be
gained.

Although we have heretofore been enjoying theatrical
representations of Negro Life, yet we are gratified to hear
that the Howard's have just arrived from the Lnited
States, under the management of P. T. Barnum, Esq., and
intend gratifying the public with a series of these per.
formances, amongst which will be prominent, " Topsy a
in Uncle Tom's Cabin, " Old Milkey," " Aunt Venus,"
" Market Woman," &c., &c. ; of Mrs. Howard, and the
" Tom Tit," " Ida May," " Hot Corn Girl," " Strawberry
Girl," " Eva," &c., and of little Cordelia Howard, a child
eight years of age, whose truthful and characteristic
representations, have won for them encomiums of no
ordinary cast.
REPRESENTATION OF GREPNWICH.—AdmiraI J. W. D.
Dundas having &dined to come forward as a candidate for
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Peter Rolt,
an address to the electors was issued by Mr. W. Jones,
solicitor, and many years a resident in the town of Green-
wich. In his address Mr. Jones says :—" My opinions on
public questions are well known to you. Religious, politi-
cal, and commercial freedom ; household suffrage, the ballot,
short parliaments, administrative and law reform, e.lucation,
abolition of income and rrduction of property-tax, and a
division of the three important towns of your borough
(Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich) into separate bo-
roughs
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA.—The Montreal
celebrat on of the through opening to the West, which took
place on the 12. h and 13th ultimo, appears to have afforded
universal satisfaction, upwards of 12,000 strangers were at-
tracted to witness the fetes, which were upon a scale com-
mensurate with the Importance of the occ sion to the pro-
vince. Party feeling has entirely ceased, and the Canadians
are now as unanimous in their praise of the work as they
formerly were censor ioa. According to American authorities,
the grand Trunk is admitted to be the cheapest and most
substantial line in the western hemisphere. The Canadian
Government has consented to. modify the Relief-bill of last
session, with a view to enable the directors to apply the
powers in a practical way in the first instance—such as com
pletion of the Victoria-bridge, and expediting the works be-
tween St. Mary's and London (22 miles), where a junction
takes place with the Great Western. This will open the
Michigan and Wisconsin traffic to the Grand Trunk, for that
portion destined for Lower Canada and the Eastern States
of America and New Brunswick. Without the bridge the
line is incomplete, hut the traffic is expected to be sufficient
to pay interest on the shares, and so prevent its becoming a
further charge on capital. The local traffic alone on the
Toronto and Guelph section, according to the statement of
the president, is already £25 per mile per week, and the re-
ceipts from passengers between Toronto and Montreal were
over £lO per mile. When the goods traffic commences,
this will, judging from the eastern sections, show one-third
more revenue than from passengers. The Grand Trunk is
now, therefore, fairly out of its financial difficulties. These
chiefly arose from a miscalculwion in supposing that pur-
chase of the Montreal and Portland, at £6,500 per mile,
placed the concern in possession of an efficient road and
plant. Still, inducing the bridge, it will be one of the
cheapest and most substantial lines in America, should the
whole be completed under 1,000 sterling per mile, includ-
ing intereet. The traffic does not depend on Canada alone,
as hitherto. The trade from Europe and the Eastern Stites
with the Far West will be tapped in the spring, having the
ereat lake feeders at Goderich and Collingwood on the right
flank, Detroit and Sarnia to the west, and Port Stanley and
Cleveland on the left.—Railway Times.