The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-02 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, THt7RSDAY EVENING

The demand for Cotton has been rather more
general to day, but still the amount of business
done has not been large, the sales amounting only
to 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 have been taken for
speculation and export. Prices are without
change.

The Liverpool Stock Exchange has been closed
to-day.

The tone of the Manchester Goods Market has
been less buoyant to-day, and, with a limited
business, prices have been irregular, and tending
slightly downward, for both Goods and Yarns.
By way of Callao, we have advices from Mel-
bourne to the 18th of February, details of which
are given in another column.
By the West India mail we have advices from
California to the 20th of March, 'which are a fortnight
later than those previously to hand, and which
will also be found, at length, in another part of
our paper The Greenfield had arrived out at San
Francisco from this port, after a passage of 111
days, being the shortest ever made.
Accounts from the South American Republic
mention that Peru was still in an unsettled state,
but the Eehinique party was nearly exhausted.
The Senate was occupied in the formation of a new
Constitution, but very little progress had yet been
made. Business remained dull, and in the port of
Callao there was a smaller amount of shipping than
had been known for some time previously. A treaty
of commerce between Chili and the Argentine
Republic was being arranged. The project of a
railway from Cordova to Rosario was expected
soon to be carried into effect.

The following is a statement of American
Cotton at sea, Lte., and includes clearances at New
Orleans of 23,349 bales, Mobile 1,906, Charleston
2.326: Total, 27,581 bales, not included in New
York circulars of week ending 16th of April; but
will be included in following week, and appear as
part of the report advised by the steamer Cambria,
due on Monday, next
NE* thtEEAN S.

MOBILE.
:Vesper
Ocean Bride
1
Arran
Carpentaria
Tamarac
Assyria . . • 2911 S Hilda
Wm. Perrie
Ina Rus ell ...
Ostervald
Margaret Pollock .. .. 2621 Eugenie
Frank Pierce
H. Nelson..
Courant 325 Sir H Smith
_._ i H. . 2728

Arthur
Euxine
Kelvin

2726 England
2673 Progress
17161E1iza Morrison 2230

Typhoon
Paragan
North
Western Empire . ,
.. 4251 Sharon
Kate Dyer
Rhea Sylvia
Sciot a .. . . ~ „ .. . -
Samaritan 3827 NEW YORK.
A. B. Kimball
Gulf Stream
Garrick
Peter Maxwell 2375 Recorder
Zephyr
Prince c f Wales .. .. 1929 J. J. Boyd l5OO
Envelope 587
Martin Luther 3448 7012
Euxine ...... .. ,
Clara Wheeler

-!Jane .
82,1271 Tropic

SAvANNAH. 4,774
W. Jackson
Ward Chipman 1849 GALVESTON.
A ffghan 1240 Robt. Mills 1501
Polynesia
Queen ...... 2532
Trap quibar
Agenora
Bate
Coosawattee
Mobile
17,9201 Savannah ..... 17920
'Charleston 10883
New York.... 7012
Apalachicola 4774
2246
2707 Galveston
1468
2136 Actual quantity in-1
2326 eluded in export
-- per New York
10,883 list of April 16

CHARLESTON.

Ontario
Pepperill
Gen. Wiltshire
C. Harrison
Nolmie

183,568

155,987

The subjoined statistics of the imports and con-
sumption of sugar have been compiled by a practical
authority from the government returns (molasses
reduced to sugar) :
Sugar for twelve months erding April 8, 1854, and March

31, 1855 aiid 1856.
IMPORTED.
1854. 1855. 1856.
tons. tons, tons.
374.915 414,516 389,220
16,008 19,122 23,456
3 8,872 17,368 17,171

Refined
Molasses

Total

4M,006 429,847

DUTY PAID

369,480

Refined

10,127
16,483

402,163 348,587
16 584 14,782
16,326 16,751

Molasses

Total .

. 396,090

435,072

380,120

The diminution of the consumption here shown
must be attributed entirely to the late rapid and ex-
travagant rise in the price of the article. According
to the last month's returns, the consumption is
returning to its usual channels.

The subjoined are the Railway Traffic Returns for the
past week, as far as they are yet ascertained :-
1856. Corresponding
week last year.
Deeside 7 245 .. . 218
Great Northern
Kendal and Windermere
Lancashire and Yorkshire.... - 21,785 ~ .. 19,181
London and Brighton.. ..
Manchester and S. Junction ....
North London
North Stafford
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
South Eastern ...

ENGLISH LINES

South Devon .
West Cornwall

West Hartlepool .. .
TRISFI LINES.
Belfast and Ballymena

...... 2,500 ..... 1,623

36,427
10,802
3,867