The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING

The tone of the Cotton Market remains without
change, the sales to day amounting to 10,000 bales,
8,000 of which have been taken by the trade. The
total business of the week reaches 08,060 bales, of
which 52,690 have been taken by the trade, 32,210
for speculators, and 7,100 for export. Piices to-
day are less firm than on Monday, but they are
still quoted an eighth of a penny per pound higher
than on Friday last. •
Iu reference to the Wool Sales which have been
held here during the week, we quote the
following from the circular of Messrs. Perkins and
Robinson : •
The wool sales, which commenced here on the 22nd
instant, have brought a large attendance of buyers for
the home trade, and a few purchasers for export. The
competition up to the present time has been animated,
and the currency of the last London sales is maintained.
The quantity offered comprises about 12,000 bales of all
sorts, including 7,700 bales 'East India wools. White
East India. of superior flocks, is much in favour, and as
much as 131 d per lb has been realised for these. The
best yellows are also in good request ; middle and low
yellows are going off at an advance of id per pound,
while the medium qualities of white are the cheapest.
There is little change in other descriptions.

During the whole of the day the Liverpeol Share
Market was very flat, and exhibited a drooping
tendency, closing as follows :—Aberdeen, 12/
13k. Chester and Birkenhead, 15i 151. Caledonian,
29 291. Chester and Holyhead, 16 16.1. Eastern
Counties, 91-, 10. East Lancashire. 19/ 19k.
Great Northern, 231 231 Ditto A, 91 91. Great
Western, 611 621. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
87a 871. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 174 174,
London and North Western Stock, 1001 100/. Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 281; 28k. Ditto
Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref ,
Midland Stock, 73 74. North British, 81
81. North Staffordshire, 6 skd. South Eastern
21k 21 7-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick.
191 19 19k. York and North Midland, 27k
28. Leeds Capital Stock, 154 151. Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 1a Ip. Dutch Rhenish 11 14p.
Great Western of Canada, 2.5/ 25/. Ditto
New Shares, 3 31p. Ditto 2nd issue, 3 3&p.
Great Luxembourg, 7 3-16 7 1-16 d.

Of the Tallow Market, Mr. F. J. Eaton reports
as follows :

The demand this week has somewhat slackened, and
the business on the snot is confined to small parcels of
P.Y.C• at 50s to 50s 6d, and North and South American
at 494 to 50s 6d per cwt. as in quality ; for the last three
months 600 casks P.Y.C. are reported at 47s 3d per cwt.
Although the deliveries in London have again been large,
prices are quite 6d per cwt lower, the closing rates being
47s on the spot, and 46s 6d to 9d per cwt Oct. Dec. The
half-week delivery is 988 cks againgst 910 cks last year,
and the stock is now 20,079 cks against 32,552 cks in 1855.
Accounts from Constantinople, by way of Mar-
seilles, mention that the cessation of the blockade
of the Russian ports in the Black Sea, with the
free export of grain, and the raising of the restric-
tions on commerce by the Sublime Porte, has
created great activity amongst the maritime traders
of that city, A crowd of vessels of every nation
set sail on the 15th inst , for the Black Sea, when
the notification arrived from Odessa, which was
published officially by order of Count Stroganoff,
the Governor-General of New Russia. This Im-
perial decree announces the export of cereals,
spirits, wines, hemp, &c , to foreign countries on
the old basis, with especial mention of the re-
establishment of commercial relations with France,
England, Sardinia, and Turkey.
Letters from St. Petersburg mention that the
Tallow Market has become active, and prices,
which exhibited a decline on the 11th instant,
were again recovering. The sales for delivery in
August had risen from 136 silver roubles per
berkowitz to 138 and 139, with the greater portion
to be paid in advance. Potashes are dealt in for
July at 20 roubles, with all the money paid in
advance, and 21, with a portion. Linseed Oil is in
demand, and flax rules at 25 roubles. The Grain
Markets are not much improved, but Rye is firm
at 6 roubles. Exchange on London is steady at
37 I, and on Paris at 390, 392.

The Anglesea, Captain Thorne, has arrived off
Plymouth, from Port Philip, with 31,319 ounces
of gold.

The following were the closing quotations on
Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 1.1 194
to 11 191. Do., three months, 12 11 to 12 21.
Rotterdam, do , 12 11 to 12 21. Antwerp, do.,
25 624 to 25 674. Brussels, do., 25 621 25 671.
Hamburg, do., 13 114 to 13 114. Paris, short,
25 374 to 25 474. Do., three months, 25 70 to
25 774. Marseilles, do., 25 701 to 25 774. Frank-
fort, do, nu to 1214. Vienna, do., 10 20 to
10 24. Trieste, do., 10 .21 to 10 26. Petersburg,
do., 361. to 364. Madrid, do., 494 to 494.

BANK OP ENGLAND RETURNS

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap
32, for the Week ending April 18, 1856.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Debit. Credit.
Notes issued . • 123,683,205 Government
Debt
Other securities 3,459,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion .. , . 9,208,205

.£23,683,205 1 Total ... , £23,683,205

BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Debit. Credit.
Proprietors' Ca- Government se-

pttal
Rest
Public deposits 2,969,753 Notes 3,668,600
Other „ 11,907,623 Gold and silver
Seven day, and coin
other bills.. 796,057

Total .... £33,383,323 Total ... £33,383,323

The foregoing Bank Returns show the following
results when compared with those of the preceding
week :—Notes issued, decrease 221.9251; bullion in
both departments, decrease 222,9351; rest, increase
451; public deposits, decrease 473,38:31; other
deposits, decrease 407,0781; seven days' and other
bills, decrease 12,903/. On the credit side govern-
ment securities show an increase of 199,3961;
other securities, decrease 765,1621. Notes
unemployed, decrease, 226.440/. Actual circulation
`?0,014,6051, increase 4,5151.

The Funds showed heaviness to day, more espe-
cially in the afternoon. The Market closed at the
lowest point of the day, and to A worse than
yesterday, the final quotations being 93 934. This
depression was mainly attributable to reports
that a New Government Loan will shortly be
announced. According to the day's rumour,
the amount of the Loan will be 10,000,0001., in
addition to a funding of 5,000,0001. in Exchequer
Bills. The expectation that to-night's Bank
Return would exhibit a considerable decrease in
the bullion, also assisted the prevailing tendency
downwards, depressing at a time when business is
remarkably languid. It may be hoped, however,
that the next loan, unlike the last one, will
probably be called up very gradually, and will
then, perhaps, even if much larger in amount,
occasion less pressure in the Money Market. The
belief that this new financial operation will
suffice to clear out all the remaining expenses
incidental to the war, will also have a favourable
influence. As regards the efflux of gold, it must
not be forgotten that the drain is at present merely
exceptional, being on account of the Turkish
Loan. The remittances will terminate within a
few weeks, and, moreover, 560,000/. in gold is at
this moment off the coast, on board the
Anglesea and Blackwall, and upwards of half a
million more is believed to be close at hand, though
kept out by the prevailing easterly winds. Despite
these re-assuring considerations, however, the
threatened creation of new Stock, at a moment
when the market is already well supplied, must
necessarily, for the time, tend to check any
ten den cy town rd s improvement. The general
demand for Money was to-day more active
in the Stock Exchange. Short leans on Govern-
ment Securities were not &a:linable below
6to 64 per cent. At Paris to-they the 3 per
cent Rentes closed much the same yesterday.
The Railway Share Market was, generally, worse
to-day. The following were the eloaiug quota
tions :—Caledonian, 594 594. Edinburgh and Glas.
gow, 60 62. Eastern Counties, 10 East Lanca.
shire, 76 78. Great Northern, 934 94; ditto A., 78
79. Great Western, 614 62. Lancashire and York-
shire, 874 88. London and North Western; 1004
1001. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 28
284. Midland Stock-, 734 744. North British,
334 34k. South Eastern and Dover, 714 72. York,
Newcastle and Berwick, 764 774. York and North
Midland, 55 56. ,