The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-17 00:00:00

NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1856.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

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LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING

There has been a better feeling in the Cotton
market to-day, and rather more business has been
done, the sales reaching 7000 bales, of which
1500 have been taken for speculation and export.

The Liverpool Share Market opened with con-
siderable briskness upon the advance in Consols
and the Peace rumours, and the improvement
continued until late in the afternoon, when a
slight reaction took place upon the im-
pression that the Bank would raise the
rate to-morrow :—Aberdeen, 101 1L Chester
and Birkenhead, 121-, 13&. Caledonian, 27 5-16
271 Chester and Holyhead, 1111;. Eastern Coun
ties, 8 5-16

East Lancashire, 171 18. Great
Northern. 22 224. Ditto A, 91, 91. Great Western,
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 77 77,1.
iverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 14 141. Lon_
q.orth Western Stoek, 94 95. Manches

don and

fold and Lincoln, 2371 231 Ditto Prefer
ence, 131 13k. Ditto New 6 per cent Pref., 7-16 ip
Midland Stock, 64 64k. North British, 7 3-16 71
North Staffordshir(
17 3-16 17 5-1(

ter, S

South Eastern

York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 161-
17. York and North Midland, 221 22k. Dutch
Rhenish, x all 7,d. Ditto New Shares, s Ip.
Western of Canada, 25 251. Ditto New
2 3r:p. Great Luxembourg, 101 lOd.
rho following are the Traffic returns, by Pas-
senger and Goods trains of the Great Western
Railway of Canada, for the week ending 28th
December, 1855 :-10,3141 , being 361. Os. per
mile, per week, on 283 miles. Corresponding
week in 1854, 6,0831., being 251. 55., per mile, per
week, on 241 miles. Aggregate gross receipt from
commencement of current half year 229,8461. The
like for corresponding period of preceding half-
year, 131,8001. All sterling money. An accumu-
lation of snow on the line has impeded the regular
working of traffic for the week ending 28th Dec.
last.

Greftt

The half yearly meeting of the London and
Bank was held to-day. The report
profits of the concern for the

stated that the net

last s

.x months was 7

:94/. Bs. 5d., wliicl

1, added

_ ated profits of the pre-
_
ceding half year, made a total of 86,2201. ss. 2d.
From this amount the directors now recommended
a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum,
and also a bonus of 5 per cent upon the paid-up
capital. After a short discussion the report was
adopted.
The English stock market to-day exhibited great
buoyancy. The four o'clock quotations were about
one per cent.eabove those current at the same hour
yesterday. After the official close this afternoon,
a further rise of one quarter per cent. was quoted,
and prices stood at 87 7.16, 87 9-16. In explanation
of this sudden upward movement, no tangible
fact has transpired. The telegraph failed to bring
the usual quotations from to-day's Paris Bourse.
The wind having just changed to the westward,
the arrival of the " Champion of the Seas," and
other vessels from Australia, is looked for.
The amount of specie brought in by the La
Platal from the West Indies, is about 171,8001,
of which 269,537 dollars is described as sil-
ver and 589,000 dollars gold. The rise in
Consols, and the influence by which that rise was
occasioned, have. exercised an important effect
upon the Railway Share market. The firmness of
this market is greatly strengthened by the
appearance of the last half-yearly dividend period.
The closing quotations were thus quoted :—Cale-
donian, 54 541. Eastern Counties, 8 5.16 8 7-16.
East Lancashire, 701 71i. Great Northern, 89 89g.
Ditto A, 749 751. Great Western, 53 539. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 761- 77. London and
North Western, 941 95. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 231 231. Midland Stock, 633,-
64. North British, 289 29*. South Eastern and
Dover 571 571. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 66!
67k. York and North Midland, 44; 45.

the unapp

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—WEEXLY REPORT,
JAN. 16TH, 1856.—1 n patients :—Discharged : cured, 11 ;
relieved, 1; at own request, 1 ; irregular, 1. Dead, 0 ;
entered, 26 ; under treatment, 74. Out patients : cured,
25 ; entered, 30 ; under treatment, 35. Treasurer, James
Houghton, Esq. Visitors, Mr. J. Ingram, and Mr.
T. Rogers. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry,
B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the wee;;, Dr. Cameron,

and Mr. Minshull. House surgeons, Mr. Charles Royston
and Mr. E. C. Garland.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.—On Tuesday morning, the atten-
tion of constable 518 was called by some boys to the body
of a child, wrapped in a piece of old cloth, in the brickfields
off Mersey-street. It was a full-grown female child, and
from the evidence of Mr. Kemp, surgeon, it appeared that
the infant died of exposure to cold ; and the jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons
at present unknown.—On the body of a child named Han-
nah liollingbergh, aged five years. It appeared that the
child lived with its parents in Limekiln-lane, and on Tues-
day evening a large gate, at the entrance of a yard near to
the house, fell on, and killed, the child. It seemed the gate
had been badly secured, and that when the child touched it,
it fell on her. The jury, in returning a verdict, presented
that " there is great blame attributable to the owner of the
property, for allowing the gate to remain in so dangerous a
state as it appears to have been in during the last fort-
night."

WALLASEY LADIES' CHARITY BALL.-011 Tuesday
evening, the ball annually given in aid of the funds of this
most excellent charity took place, under most successful
auspices, at the new Assembly-rooms, New Brighton. The
attendance of the votaries of the " mazy dance," was very
numerous, and comprised not only the belles of the immediate
neighbourhood, but a gav sprinkling of the fashionables of
Liverpool. The Lady Patroness of the evening was Mrs.
W. Chambres, and among the company present were—Mr.
Ewart, M.P.; Mr: Commissioner and Mrs. Perry, Mr. and
the Misses Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Banning, Mr. and Mrs.
Hughes, and Misses Maddock, Mr. and Misses Murray, and
Miss Bevan, Major and Mrs. Semple, Mr. Daunt and
party, Mr. and Mrs. Kerford and party, the Misses Pritt
and Miss Barber, Mr. and Mrs. Byerley, Mr. and the
Misses Boultbee, Mr. and Miss Rogerson, Mr. and Mrs.
Harrison, Mr. and the Misses Rimmer, Mr. and the Misses
Laird, Mr. and Miss Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs. Verelst, Mr.
and Miss Crump and Mrs. Dutton, Mr: Jacob and party,
Mr. and Mrs. North, the Misses North and Miss Haworth,
Mr. and the Misses Cazenove, Mr. and Mrs. Littledale,
Mr., Mrs. and the Misses Hassell, Mr. and Mrs. T. G.
Bateson, Miss Francis and the Misses Mozley, Mr. and the
Misses Addison, Mr. and the Misses Wright, Mr. and
11 rs. Coulborn and party, Mrs. and the Misses Bouch, Mr.
and Miss Tobin, Mr. Charles and Misses Mozley, Mr. and
Mrs. Statter anl party, Dr. Paw, Mr. Fox (34th Regt.),
Mr. Barber (97th Regt.), Mr. Boyd (33rd Regt.), Mr.
Bishopp (18,h Regt.), Dr. Gibb (medical staff), Mr.
Oulton, Mr. C!arke, Mr. Raisoii, Mr. Hall, Mr. Hirtzall,
Mr. Bold, Mr. Claxton, Mr. Maude and Mr. Briggs, Mr.
Ryrie, &c., &c. The ball-room was decorated and
illuminated with gnat taste and brilliancy ; the music ii
department was well supplied by Gribbins' excellent band,
_ _

and the refreshments (supplied by Mr. S. Garrett, of the
Victoria Motel,) were at once liberal and recherche. With
all these appliances t is scarcely necessary to add that the
evening passed off with immense spirit until an early hour,
nest morning, when the company separated in a perfect
furore of delight in the pleasures they had enjoyed.

M. Tamberlik, says a Paris letter, is engaged for Rio at
£l,OOO a month. Steiger, a favorite tenor at Vienna has
accepted an engagement at New York.
LONDON CONFIRMATIONS.-11 is expected that, on account
of the Bishop of London's indisposition, the Bishop of
Oxford will take his lordship's annual course of confir-
mations.

PRINCELY BEQUESTS.—The late John Ferguson, Esq.,
of Cairnbrock, who died at Irvine on the Bth of January,

was born in that burgh on the 28th of March, 1787. At
his death he had amassed a fortune estimated at about a
million and a quarter, vested in British, Continental, and
American securities, with small landed estates in Ayr-
shire and Wigtonshire. Besides recently distributing
among certain of his relations sums and properties vary-
ing from 10001 to 30,0001, and contributing largely to
charitable and educational institutions, he has left lega-
cies amounting to 681,0001 to and amongst his known
relations by the father's and mother's side—the degree of
relationship varying from cousins-german to cousins in
the third degree once removed; the legacies being from
5001 to 50,0001, and the legatees upwards of 100 in number.
There are also bequests to the amount of 20,0001 among
twenty-four personal friends.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP.—T. Heap and J. Noble,
Halifax. Yorkshire, silk dressers. R. Garfitt and J. Barber,
Halifax, Yorkshire, screw bolt manufacturers. J. F.
Martin and W. W. Taylor, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff

merchants. S. Simon, L. Simon, E. Jacoby, M. S. Meyer,
and E. Preller, Bradford, Yorkshire, merchants. J. Nor-

minton and J. T. Shaw, Eadfield and Glossop, Derbyshire,
coal dealers. W. Dunkerley, T. Friend, and J. Jacques,
'Mossley, Yorkshire, mechanics. E. Whipp and It. Procter,
Over Darwen, Lancashire, curriers. 11. Nixon, W. K.
Deane, and T. Garratt, Manchester, commission agents: H.
Stead, J. M'Kay, and J. Lumsden, Manchester, Kingston-
upon-rfull, and Liverpool, wharfingers, so far as regards
H. Stead. R. Stott, J. Nield, jun., I. Booth, and W.
Stott, Butterworth, Lancashire, colliery proprietors, so far
as regards J. Nield, jun., and I. Booth. H. Sharp, C.
Higgins, and J. Cattle, Liverpool, wholesale druggists, so
far as regards H. Sharp. F. B. Whittaker, W. Whittaker,
and R. Whittaker, Reyton, Lancashire, cotton spinners, so
far as regards F. B. Whittaker.

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