The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING

The Liverpool Cotton Market has been very
steady, but without much animation to-day. With
a fair demand prices have been maintained, and
the business amounts to 5,000 bales, of which
nearly one half have been taken ,for speculation
and export.
The Liverpool Share Market opened with
great firmness, which was maintained through-
out the day, prices closing strong at the
following quotations : Aberdeen, 141 141-
Chester and Birkenhead, 161 161. Caledonian, 301
301. Chester and Holyhead, 171 171. Eastern
Counties, 101 101. East Lancashire, 21,i 22.
Great Northern, 241 241. Ditto, A, 101 101.
Great Western, 641 641. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
981 981. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 181
181. London and North Western, 1081 1081.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 351 351
Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 11-16 13-16 p. Ditto
Pref,l2l 131. Midland Stock, 85?,-, 851. North British,
91 91. North Staffordshire, 4141 d. South Eastern
and Dover, 221 221. York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 211 218. York and North Midland, 311
311. Leeds Capital Stock, 181 181 Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 1 Ip. Dutch Rhenish, 21 21p.
Great Western of Canada, 261 261. Ditto New
Shares, 31 31p. Great Luxembourg, 91 9d.
The following is a statement of traffic receipts
of the Great Western Railway of Canada by pas-
senger acid goods trains for the week ending 18th
July, 1856, and for the corresponding period
last year :—Week ending 18th July, 1556, total
receipts, 8,3841 Os Ild ; per mile per week, 291 12s.
Week ending 20th July, 1855, total receipts, 6,1201
7s 6d ; per mile per week, 251 Bs. Increase:—
Total receipts, 2,263/ 13s sd; per mile per week, 4145.
Aggregate gross receipts from the commencement
of current half-year to date, 274,193/ is 7d ; for the
corresponding period last year, 193,897/ 15s Ud—
all sterling.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway
_ _

Company of Canada for the week ending July sth,
1856, and corresponding week 1855, is as follows :
—1856, total, 5.630/ 9s 80; 1855, total, 4,7591 16s
5-11 ; increase, 8701 13s 3d—all sterling.
The Liverpool Corn Market is heavy, and the
amount of business done to•day was very small,
buyers only taking sufficient to supply immediate
wants. Wheat declined fully is per bushel, and
Flour was 3s the barrel and sack lower. Other
articles were also easier to purchase, and Oatmeal
was is per load cheaper.
In the Manchester Goods Market there has been
a buoyant feeling, and a good steady business has
been done with prices for cloth from an eighth to
a farthing a pound higher than on the last market

The whole of the 240,000/ in gold ex the New
Great Britain, from Melbourne, was yesterday
taken for exportation to the Continent. The sum
brought in by the Africa, from New York, is noless
than 224,4001, but this supply, which will not be in
hand until to-day, is expected to be also sent away,
About 20,0001 of it was yesterday sold for the Con-
tinent

The steamer Victory has just arrived at
Plymouth, with 10,0001 in sovereigns from Con-

stantinople.
The arrival of the steamer Royal Charter, from
Melbourne, is now daily looked for. The latest
advices received from Melbourne, mentioned that
her departure for Liverpool was fixed for the 25th
of May, and assuming that she sailed on this day,
she has now been at sea 71 days.

As " settling day" approaches, the English
Funds show a slight downward tendency. They
opened to-day at a decline of an eighth on yester
day's ruling prices, from which there has been no
recovery. The closing prices were quoted at 95i
9511. The Money Market exhibits further easiness,
since the demand for commercial requirements at
this period of the month has passed over,
The London corn market yesterday was visited
by a species of panic, owing to the splendid harvest
weather. Prices were very irregular, and transac-
tions difficult, but the price of English wheat is
considered to be no less than 8a to lOs per quarter
lower than on Monday week. In foreign wheat
the fall was 4s to Os per quarter, and in flour 5s per
sack, and 3s per barrel. Since last Friday 12 float-
ing cargoes of grain have arrived off the coast, viz.,
7of wheat, 4of Indian corn, and 1 of rye. Busi-
ness in this branch of the market was virtually
suspended, and stalest enillel not effPnterl at a eon.
cession of 3s to 5s per quarter on the part of
importers. _ _ _

The Foreign Stock Market rules heavy. The
variations in prices have not been to any extent.
The subjoined are the closing quotatirns of the
Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 16
to 11 17. Do., three months, 11 19 to 11 191
Antwerp, do., 25 50 to 25 571.. Brussels, do., 25
50 to 25 5Th. Hamburg, do., 13 7 to 13 81. Paris,
short, 25 25 to 25 321. Do., three months, 25
571 to 25 621, Marseilles, do., 25 60 to 25 65
Frankfort, to , 1191 to 120 k. Vienna, do., 10 17 to
10 2L Trieste, do., 10 18 to 10 22. Petersburg,
do., 37=k to 371. Madrid, do., 491 to 49k. Rotter-
dam', do , 11 19 to 11 MI.
The general meeting of the General Iron Screw
Collier Company Limited, has just been held. The
report showed that the business of the company
had been prosperous during the past year. The
freights received in the past year for colliers were
17,6541, and by transporting 113,090/, which, with
other items, made up 132,5371 17s 10d, leaving,
after the expenditure, the net profits of the year at
39,288/, of which sum 28,3781 received is now
disposable for the usual dividend of 10/ per cent
per annum. The report was adopted, and the
dividend agreed to.

In the Railway Share Market business is steady,
without any material alteration in prices. Shares
of the Riga and Dunaburg Railway yesterday
showed great heaviness. The price had declined,
at the close of the Stock Exchange, to 3 to 3 prem.,
hut subsequently a further reduction was quoted.
The directors of this company have announced
that the statutes are about to be forwarded for
confirmation by the Russian government, but that
the caution-money of 5 per cent on the proposed
capital must at the same time be lodged. For this
purpose a call of 41 per share is to be paid by
the 20th instant. The half-yearly meeting
meeting of the Class A shareholders of the St.
Andrews and Quebec Railroad Company is called
for the 25th instant. We annex the following as
the final quotations of English Railway Shares :
Caledonian, 60a 61. Eastern Counties, 10 116
10 3-16. - East Lancashire, 86 88. Great Northern,
98,i 99. Ditto A, 83 85. Great Western, 631 641.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 981 98a. London and
North Western, 1074 1081. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 35 35k. Midland Stock, 841
85,4. North British, 37 38. South Eastern and
Dover, [741 75. York, Newcastle, end Berwick,
87 88 York and North Midland, 621 621.

. The annual show of the Manchester and. Liverpool Agri-
cultural Society takes place at Wigan, to-morrow (Thurs-
day.)
CORONER'S IrrovErrs.—Yesterday, the Coroner held the
following inquests: --On the body of a youth, apparently
about fourteen years of age, whose dead body was brought
to the Seacambe Slip, and given up to constable Parkin
(64). Two sailors belonging to the steam-tog Iron King
found the body in the river. The deceased was not recog-
n'sed. He was dressed is a barragan coat and trowsers,
and dark cloth vest, and striped shirt. This was all the
evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of found drowsed.
It was subsequently ascertained that the boy's name was
Joseph Bibby, the son of a smith residing in the Potteries ;
and that, on Thursday evening last, the deceased and some
other boys were in a boat, when, by some means, he was
knocked overboard and was drowned, although every effort
was made to cave him.—On the body of John Ileuldsworth,
a labourer, fOrty-one years of age, who lived in Kent.
square. It appeared that the deceased was very much
addicted to drinking. and hardly ever went to bed sober for
months past. On Monday morning he went to work, and
returned about half-past three o'clock, saying he had drunk
a quantity of brandy, that made him very ill. He got
worse, and died at twelve o'clock that night. He had often
had fits from drink before: Verdict : Died from the effects
of excessive drinking.—On the body of John Gordon, twelve
years of age, the son of a labourer, residing in a court off
Henry Edward-street. It appeared that he used to sell
matches in the streets, and on Friday week he came home
and complained that a strange boy had kicked him in the
knee joint. He was subsequently taken to the workhouse,
where every attention was paid to his case, but he died on
Saturday evening, of inflamation of the joint, and the jury
returned a verdict to that effect.—On the body of Patrick
Taylor, a labourer, who resided at a court in Ashton street,
who died suddenly whilst speaking to his wife at ten o'clock
on Monday night. He had been subject to disease of the
heart for some years past, and died in a fit brought on by
J that disease. Verdict accordingly.