The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-11 00:00:00

Cleared Outwards

'Week ended
;ill Nov., 1856
Brl Nov:, 1855.
Increase in Ships, 8. increase in Tonnage, 13,665.
Reported Inwards.

No. of Ships
69 ...
81 ...

Tonnage.

50,326
36,661

From Ist January.
Bth Nov., 1856...
81. h Nov., 1855...

Ships
3,788
3,578

Tonnage.
.2 140,068
.1,777,544

Increase in Ships, 210. Increase in Tonnage, 362,524.

The progress of the silk trade during the past
month is thus described :—" Having so recently
reported the result of the public sales, and the
contents of the Overland Mail, there is little to add
to the annexed monthly statistics, showing, it will
be found, as compared with this date last year, a
decrease in the stock of China and Bengal raw
silk, of 6,423 bales, with an increased delivery in
the ten months of 1856 of 9,400 bales over those of
1855. The advises from China of the large early
bales, of which 21,000 had
already been sent forward, and an advance in price

ernents of 33,00

of is 6d to 2s per lb, had at the moment little or
no cffect, but within the last few days the
market has assumed a decidedly improved tone,
and a good business has been dono under the
Impression, it would seem, that in the above posi-
tion of stocks and consumption, the generally
estimated export to Great Britain of 65,000 to
70,000 bales of all sorts, would not exceed our
requirements. In Bengal silk there has also been
1,,,f aczanrtmpnt ig indifferent. a

large portion of the cargo of the last steamerbeing
inferior,: and of the rainy Bond. Prices by the last
mail were high in Calcutta, and the heavy rains
had caused some apprehension for the November
Butid. In the Italian market the stock is ex

remely

limited, and but little doing

Prices are without

Brutias and Persians there is no

alterat

Apernints from Paris contain a decree modifying
the duties levied upon imported combing and dyed
nubing wools have hitherto

Did time permit I could enlarge upon the indomit-
able perseverance and laudable public spirit of
111,-ssrs Baines & Co , in thus re-opening the trade
between Great B: itain and New
s, and I Zealand, to whiCh too much impoi lance cannot be

rem duty of 30 per cent ; and printed

and communication

attached. From the past prog ess of that colony,
its present position, increasing populati,n, and con-
tinued demand for labour, the thrifty and indus rious
y anticipate with certainty tli It their
condi ion and prospects will be materially benefitted;
and all " good men and ti ue" must unite in wishing
Messrs Baines & Co. such a measure of remuneration
as shall warrant them in opening still further com-
munications with the nations of the earth, to the
atop towards a complete reform of the extension of commerce, and the benefit of mankind.
port imported wares as regulated by the But mote of this anon. My time is spout ; the
36th July last. Under the empire steamer departs, and my episl le must here terminate
while these-duties have been enforced there has Committing ourselves to the providence of the
been a decline in the duties of foreign wools, which Almighty, and looking forward hopefully to the
during the past year did not exceed 170,4971 ; future, I subscribe myself, your affectionate brother,
w dle printed wools scarcely appear on the Cus- WILLIAM JACKSON.
tens' return as an article of import. Mr John Jackson, S'ocliport
The following are the particulars of the amount P.S.—ln deference to the individuals named, and
of bills drawn by the lion. East India Company, in justice to the spirited and honourable proprietors
from the 24th nit to the 9th instant, on the three of ihe Black Ball Line, I entreat you to forward this
presideneies:—On Bengal, £65,076 13s 10d ; on communication to the Editor of the Northern Daily
Madras, £9,2)8 gs; and on Bombay, £2OO :—total, Times, Liverpool, with a request that it may be
£74,485 2s 10d. inserted verbatim et literatinz.

ew tariff aubsti-

of 30 per cent upon
for French and 80f

and inste

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to be reduced

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to redu

mile value of the raw IJ
complained of by the manufacti