The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING

The American advices received to-day have
imparted renewed vigour to the Liverpool Cotton
Market, and a very large business has been done.
the sales reaching fully 20,000 bales ; one
half of which has been taken for speculation and
export. Prices have improved, to the extent of
one-eighth of a penny per pound.
The Liverpool Share Market opened with a
buoyant feeling, and continued steady, with a
moderate business, until near the close, when it
became slightly easier. The closing prices were as
follows :—Aberdeen, 13 131. Chester and Birken-
head, 15/ 16. Caledonian, 30/ 30a. Chester and
Holyhead, 16/ 161. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10
3-16. East Lancashire, 191-3,- 192. Great Northern.
23a 231 Ditto A, 9/- 104. Great Western, 64/
64/. Lancashire and Yorkshire, Stock, 881 89.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1717/. .London
and North Western Stock, 101 101/. Manchester.
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 29 294. Ditto Pref., 111
12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 2 ip. Midland
Stock, 74-a- 74/. North British, 8 11-16 8 13-16.
North Staffordshire, 6 5/d. South Eastern and
Dover, 21 13-16 211. York, Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 19 11-16 19/. York and North Midland, 28/
28;1. Leeds Capital Stock, 15/ 16: Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 1 15-16 2 1-16 p. Dutch Rhenish, ig-
lip. Great Western of Canada, 26 261. Ditto
New Shares, 3 7-16 31p. Ditto 2nd issue, 3 7-16
3113._ Great Luxembourg, 71 7d.

*The Paris Bourse closed on Saturday, after a
week of animation in all kinds of stocks and shares.
The three per cent Rentes advanced 15c for the
account during the day, and 41 stock 50c for
money. Speculators realised handsome profits in
their dealings during the week, and it was stated
that several large houses in Paris had been buying
into the French funds. During the week, the
Bank of France shares had advanced 250 f, which
is attributed to the prosperity of that establish-
ment, which will pay at the approaching dividend
300 f per share. Other bank stocks improved as
follows :—Credit Mobilier, 38f ; Credit Foncier, 35 ;
and, national discount, 40f. The upward move-
ment in railway shares during the week had
been steady, with the exception of Mediterranean,
which declined 35f at the close of the week.
The rise in others comprise ; Orleans,
27f 50c; Northern of France, 37f 75c; Lyons,
50f; Eastern, 22f 50e; and Western, 17f 50c. The
main cause for this improvement in the principal
French Railway Stocks, both on the Paris Bourse
and the London Stock Exchange, is the favourable
returns issued by the companies of their receipts
during the quarter just ended of the present year,
compared with the corresponding period of 1855.
The items are as follows :

1855 1856. Increase.
Orleans ...... f. 10 200,000 f. 11,500,000 f. 1,300,000

9 6o0,0o)

10,900,000

1,300,000

Lyons 7.550.000 8 500,000 1200,000
Mediterranean 3,750 000 5,925,000 2,175,000
Eastern

Western

6,154.000

8,150,000

2,000,000

On the Vienna Bourse, towards the close of last
week, there was a favourable reaction in the
Austrian Funds, which had previously ruled
heavier at lower quotations. The 5 per Cent
Meta Hies rose f, to 85-34-, and the 4t Stock was firm
at 77. Austrian Railway Shares advanced 2:1-
florins to 2631, and the New Bank of Credit 1
florin to 345. Money continued to be easier, and
foreign exchanges lower. On London 10-3, and on
Paris 1101.
Accounts from the Berlin Bourse state that
business had been very inanimate during the last
few days, and the Prussian Funds were languid,
without any variation in previous quotations. The
3.4 per Cents remained at 801.

The following are the particulars of the specie on
board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamship Indus, which was to leave Southampton
for Endia, China, &c., yesterday .

Alexandria (gold)
Bombay (silver) .
Ceylon (gold) ...
Madras (silver)
Calcutta (silver)

2,500
209,993
2,700
14,895
126,486

£356,574

Telegraphic advices from Marseilles announce
that the rumour circulated throughout Europe last
week, that the Russians had officially declared
their ports on the Black Sea open to commerce, as
being premature.
Accounts from Havre state the steamer Fulton,
from New York, which arrived there on the 18th
inst., brought specie to the value of 2,500,000
francs (100,0001.)

The Funds to-day closed at A per cent. lower,
the final quotations being 931 to 93Z. Business
was singularly inanimate, and to this circumstance
the day's decline was chiefly attributable. Some
influence is also exercised by the knowledge that
remittances against the Turkish Loan continue to
operate against the tendency to recovery in the
Bank stock of bullion. The comparative steadi-
ness with which prices are maintained is due to
the belief that this drain is merely temporary, and
that relief will be gradually derived from the
influx of gold from other quarters. Discussions,
as to the probable amount of the next Government
Loan, are now more freely indulged in, and also
tend to restrain the market. The Discount
Market maintains the quiet appearance lately
noticed. The general demand for accommodation
is decidedly less active at present. In Stock
Exchange there is an absence of stringency.
Short loans can be obtained upon government
securities, at five per cent. Some demand
will arise, however, to meet next
Thursday's instalment on the new Loan.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes closed
k per cent. higher for Money, and for account
rf per cent. lower than on Saturday. In the Stock
,Exchange the settling day for the shares in the
Alliance Bank is fixed for the 26th inst.; they will
not •appear in the official list until the
three remaining series are issued. The Rail-
way Share Market to day was rather flatter;
in sympathy with Consols business was very
inactive. The closing quotations were as
follows:--Caledonian, 601. Eastern Coun-
ties, 10 104. East Lancashire, 77 79. Great
Northern, 94i 95. Ditto A, 79 80. Great Western,
638 631. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 881 88g.
London and North Western, 1011 104. Man-
(3l2pster Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 281 29
Midland gi0131.., 741. North British, 344 352.
York, Newcastle, and ...t3erwiCii 781 791- York
and North Midland, 561 561.

CATTLE, &c., FOB, 4.IKBRICA.-Yesterday there was
shipped on board the ship Leona, in Bramley-Afoore dock?
the following cattle, which have been purchased at the
great Fawsley sale. The shipment comprised sixteen cows
and heifers of the short horn breed, and six bulls, the latter
being valued by the best judges at from 120 to 150 guineas.
Some of the heifers had been exhibited at Irish shows, and
had obtained prizes. There was also a pen of south down
sheep, and an entire horse of the Cleveland bay breed,
worth
.200 guineas. The whole are for Mr. Thorp, a
celebrated American breeder, with which be intends to
improve the breed of his stock in " Old Kentucky."

DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON MILL.—OR Thursday morn-
ing, one of the villagers, who was up early, observed a ligh
issuing from one of the throstle rooms of Catshaw cotton
mill. He immediately gave an alarm, and in a few minutes
the inhabitants rendered all the assistanee they could to
extinguish the fire and save the buildings. The nail' they
were unable to rescue, but they succeeded in preserving The
gable end over the scutching-room from destruction. The
mill is insured in the Sun and Manchester Fire Offices, but
not to its full value. Nothing is known as to the origin of
the fire.

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Week ending April 19,
1856.—Admitted : In-patients, 38 ; out-patients, 5 ;
casuals during week, 9. Discharged : In-patients cured,
17 ; relieved, and at own request, 6 ; made out-patients,
11 ; irregular, 0 • dead, 4 ; remain in the house, 178.
House visitors Gregson and Charles Langton,
sqrs. Physician and surgeon for ensuing week Dr.
Dickson and Mr. Stubbs. House surgeon : Mr. G. B.
Halford. Junior house surgeop : Mr. Cecil Webster.
Chaplain : Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Robert Hutchison,
treasurer,

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.--On Friday lasi a man, name
unknown, but evidently of unsound mind, and in a very
weak and exhausted state, was found rambling about Great
Crosby village, without means of subsistence. He was
taken in charge by the police, and attended by pr. Mays till
no,n on Saturday, when he died. The unfortunate deceased
-
is thus ,ascribed by the police authorities :—Abont forty-
five or fifty yja" of art fiv9 feet ten inches high, sallow
complexion, black curly
a little bald in forehead, small
black whiskers, slight make, ant', !Ireined in a plaid Jacket
with horn buttons, pepper and salt coloured 7.2aistcoat, cor-
duroy trousers torn across right knee, check shirt, liannel
singlet, low shoes with five lace holes on a side, and cloth
cap with peak. He had in his pocket a bale hook and
packing needle, such as are used by cotton porters. An
inquest will beheld on the body, at the George Inn, Great
Crosby village, at half-past two o'clock this day.