The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.
THE foreign and colonial produce markets being
more directly influenced than almost any
other, by the monetary movements of this country,
we would direct the attention of the trade gene-
rally to the importations of bullion which have
been reported within the last month in the columns
of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. The influx of
gold for the week ending this day, amounts to

£3,382,221, while the exports for the same period
do not amount to 1,000,000, and if we add
the quantitity of gold at sea., as reported in our
paper of Wednesday last, to that actually received
up to this date, the aggregate amount will be no
less than £3,991,621, which leaves the excess of
imports over the exports something more than
£2,996,621. Of the bullion exported, £234,330
consisted of silver ; therefore, if we add thiS amount
to the surplus of gold imported, we find the amount
of gold imported and retained in the country is
£3,230,951. If.this vast increase in the importa-
tions of the precious metals had in any way re-
tarded the imports of otker.products, their effects
would prove most disastrous to the community at
large ; but coming as they do, as an addition to
the ordinary supplies of the necessaries of life,
they must become a source of increased commercial
prosperity, and enlarged consumption. Opposed
to the general good, and a probable advan9e in
prices, to be anticipated from the present state of
the bullion market, we have the rumoured com-
mencement of hostilities in the East, Should this
rumour turn out to be true, it would be impossible
to form any idea of the course trade will take.
By the Argo, which arrived at Plymouth late last
.night from Port Philip, after a passage of 64 days
only, we have Australian advices to the 24th of
August, which is about 27 days later than those
brought by the Eagle. The intelligence brought
via Singapore and Marseilles will have been antici-
pated by nearly a week by the arrival of the Argo,
which brings in addition to a very heavy mail, no
less than 134,444 ounces of gold, worth about
£537,776. Her advices speak of the discovery of
new gold fields. She reports the sailing of the
steamer Cleopatra from Adelaide on the Ist of
August, and the arrival of the Victoria at Port

Philip after a passage of 61days. The commercial
intelligence brought by the Argo will be found in
extenso in another column.

The Liverpool Cotton Market continued firm
from the opening to the closing of the week. The
daily sales amounted to about 6000 bales Surats
were in demand, but without any advance in
price. The quantities sold were 27,520 to the trade,

with 4,800 Bales for export and on speculation:
The sales of other sorts were—Americans, 3,570,
and Egyptians,66o bales. The actual exports con-
sist of 1450 Americans, 80 Brazils, and 700 East
Indian. Total, 2108 bales. The gross imports
for the week amount to 21,942 bales.

In our Corn Market, flour ruled 6d. per barrel,
and is. per sack higher than our last quotations-
The trade are acting with great caution and
little speculation, of any kind, can be said to be
going on. _ . _

0 CJ -
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets,
business has been a little more active than it was
last week. For Sugars and Teas there has been an
active demand, while. Coffees, partacularly,jamaica,
have been flat. -

The Share Market has been dull to-day, and
closed a shade lower than yesterday ; but without
any remarkable feature. .

Owing to the extraordinary pressure on our
space, caused by the arrival of intelligence from
the seat of war, and Australia, we must iefer to our
ordinary quotations in another column.

BULLION MARKET AND FOREIGN EXCHANGI

We give the current prices of Gold, as follows, to
assist the merchant in calculating the rates of
Foreign Exchange, by the actual current rates of
bullion, as last reported :
London, 775. 9d. ; Paris, —; Hamburgh,— ; Am-
sterdam, —; Vienna, —; St. Petersburg, —; Ber,
lin, —; Milan, —; Constantinople, ---; Alexandria;
—; Bombay, —; Calcutta, ; Hong Kong,— ,
Sydney, 745. 9d. to —s. ; Port Phillip, 775. 6d; Adelaide
—; Victoria, 775. 6d. ; Ovens, 765. 6d.; Montreal, —;
New York, —; Boston, £3 17s. 9d. • San Francisco,
; Mexico, —; Brazils, —; Geelong, 775. 6d.
We subjoin a return of the Foreign Exchanges,
calculated according to the London Mint price of
£3 17s. 101 d. the ounce

Amsterdam, short, 11 161 to 17 ; do, 3 months, 11 18,
to 19 ; Rotterdam, 3 m. 11 18/ to 191 ; Antwerp,
3 m. 25 35 to 40.; Brussels, 3 m. 25 35 to 405
Hamburg, 3 m. 13 61 to 7i; Paris, short, 25 sto
10 ; do, 3m.2535 to 40 ; Marseilles, 3m.25 34 ;
to 42i ; Frankfort, 3m. 1201 to 120 i ; Vienna, 3m. 11 1/
to 19 ; Trieste, 3m. 11 18 to 11 22 ; Petersburgh, 37 ;
to 374 ; Madrid, 3 m. 498 to 50 ; Cadiz, 3m. 50 to 50i ;
Leghorn, 3 m. 30 10 to 30 20 ; Genoa, 3 m. 25 45 to 25 50 ;
Naples, 3 m. 411 to 42; Palermo, 3 m. 124# to 1241;
Messina, 3 m. 1241 to 125 ; Lisbon, 3 m. to 541; Oporto,
3 m. 53/ to 531 ; R. Janeiro, 60 days, 28 to 291; New
York, ditto, 1098 to 110 ; Boston, ditto, to ; Foreign
Gold in bars, £3 17s. 9d. ; Mexican Dollars, Os. Od. ; Silver
in bars stand, Os. Od. ; East India Company's Bills. House
Bills 60 ds ; Calcutta Co's Rupee, 2s. 4/d. ; Bombay do. 6 mo.
Os. 15-16ths„- Madras do., 2s. 41d ; Hong Kong, ss. 9d. to
Os. 10/d. ; Sydney, 30 ds. Idis., 1 pr. ; Adelaide, 30 ds. 1 dis.,
0 pr.; Launceston, 30 ds., 1 dis. 1 pr. • Hobart Town, 30 ds•
0 dis. 1 pr. ; Wellington, &c., 15 ds., 1 dis., 2 pr. ' • Geelong
05 de. dis., * pr.; Alexandria, 99i ; Shanghae, 7s. Od. to
Os. Id, ; Canton, to --.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS.—Up to the rising
of the Court last evening, the following sentences had been
passed :—Andrew Prentice, 3 months, hard labour ; Ann
Dickinson, and Elizabeth McArdy, 2 months, hard labour ;
Edward Hill, 18 months, hard labour ; Margaret Craig,
sen., 1 month, hard labour ; Margaret Craig, jun., 4 months,
hard labour ; Mary McHugh, 8 months, hard labour : Ann

Nugent, alias Walsh, 4 year's, • penal servitude ; Augustus
Shorts, 4 months, hard labour ; Harriet Appleton, 10 weeks,
hard labour; James Campbell, 9 months, two several weeks
solitary, and to be whipped ; William Harrison, 3 weeks,
hard labour ; Charles Musgrove, /Joseph Nolan,: 7 months
each, hard labour ; John Ellis, alias George Smith, and
Richard McGrath, each, 4 years penal servitude ; Eliza
Marshall, 5 months, hard labour ; Ann Store, 9 months,
hard labour ; Margaret Kelly, sen., 8 months, hard labour ;
Margaret Kelly, Jun., 5 months, hard labour ; Richard
Knowles, 5 months, hard .labour; Mary Fury, 8 months,
hard labour; John Totty, 9 months, hard labour; James
Griffiths,' 4 years, penal servitude • Ellen Fallon, Elizabeth
Preston, and William Fallon, each, 6 years, penal servitude ;
Margaret Flanagan, 2 months, hard labour; Owen Cullen,
3 months, hard labour ; Owen Ruddy, 7 months, hard
labour; Edward McDonald, 6 months, hard labour; Isabella
Benban, 4 months, hard labour ; Anu Murphy, 2 months,
hard labour; Catherine Murphy, 2 months, hard labour;
John Shaw, 8 months, hard labour; James Joyce, alias Peter
Joyce, 4 years, penal servitude ; John Roberts, 4 years,
penal servitude ; Richard. Dunne, 4 months, hard labour,
ten days solitary ; John singleton, 6 months, hard labour,
one week solitary ; Peter Pearson, 2 months, hard labour,
one week solitary ; Ellen Blackledge, 5 weeks, hard labour;
Hugh McGrady, 18 months, hard labour ; John McGrady,
4 years, penal servitude; Michael Daly, 8 months, hard
labour, 10 days solitary, and once whipped ; John Usher,
7 months, hard labour ; Elizabeth Smith, 8 months, hard
labour ; Lawrence Clusky, 5 months, hard labour ; Edward
Hodson, 5 months, hard labour ; atherine Wilkinson, 4
years, penal servitude ; Joseph Lenthwood, 4 months, hard
labour ; James Powell, 5 months, hard labour ; Mary
McGratt, 4 weeks, hard labour ; John Ellis, 4 years, penal
servitude ; William Taylor, 15 months, hard abour ;
Martha Sken, 4 months, hard labour ; George Toy, 18
months, hard labour; Frederick Brown, 6 months, hard
labour ' • Elizabeth Renshaw, 7 months, hard labour ; Robert
Hales, 9 months, hard labour; John Smith, 3 months, hard
labour ; John Bevis, 6 months, hard labour.

POPULAR CONFERENCES.—The habit appears to be
becoming prevalent, of dealing with great public objects,
and effecting the purposes of public institutions, by means
of large assemblies, whose proceedings are partly deliberative
and partly iu the nature of demonstrations. Thus within
the last few weeks our savans have met at Hull, at tho
meetings of the British Association—two or three ecclesias-
tical and sanitary conferences have taken place on the Con-
tinent—the Peace Conference has drawn hundreds to Edin-
burgh—the Congregational Union has been in session at
Manchester, and the Evangelical Alliance in London—and,
next week, the Anti-State-Church Association holds a
Conferense in London. This last Association hold a
similar gathering triennially, and is composed of de-
legates exclusively, and usually to the. extent of five or six
hundred.

A SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday evening
the electric telegraph communication between Lewes and
Newhaven was suddenly interrupted. The stoppage was dis-
3overed by the working of the double needle ; and on exa-
mination of the wires, a crane was found entangled by its
ieck, which completely threaded them. The bird was quite
lead.—Brighton Gazette.
A letter dated Sierra Leone, Sept. 22, receivec'l by
he Calcutta says :—" The Governor has paid his footing ;
ie was attacked with country fever on the 23rd of August,
md got over it on the 4th September, having it severely.
Lie has, however, had a rapid and complete recovery. The
2ueen's Advocate is dead. A paid magistrate is dismissed.
[he Colonial Office is likely to be removed. Sierra Leone
s quite healthy ; the rains are all over."