The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-20 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING
There has been no change in the tone of the
Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, and only a small
business has been done, the sales being 6,000 bales,
of which 1,000 have been taken for speculation and
export, Prices remain without change.
There has been rather less buoyancy in the
Share Market to-day, but a moderate business has
been done, and prices closed firm at the following
quotations :---Aberdeen, 13/ 131. Chester and Bir-
kenhead, 154 153. Caledonian, 31k 311. Chester
and Holyhead, 161 163. Eastern Counties, 103
10 9-16. East Lancashire, 20 3-16 201. Great
Northern, 24 243. Ditto A, 91 10. Great Western,
631 631. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 95 953.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 171 17k. London
and North Western Stock, 1031 104. Manchester
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 301 391 Ditto Pref., 111
12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 9-16 ap. Mid-
land Stock, 80-a- 803. North British, 9 3.16 9 5-16.
North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern and
Dover, 21 15-16 22. York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
21 213. York and North Midland, 291 30. Leeds
Capital Stock, 19 194. Buffalo and Lake Huron,
11 lap. Dutch Rhenish, 11 11p. Great Western
of Canada, 26k 264. Ditto New Shares, 4 31p.
Great Luxembourg, 83 84d.
Accounts from Brussels state that the grain
market dosed with a decline in wheat and rye.
The average price for wheat was 35f. per hectolitre
and 22f. for rye. The market was indifferently
supplied, and sales were limited.
Advices have been received at Hamburg from
Rio to the 14th May, stating that the coffee crop,
this season, will be delayed on account of the
weather; in consequence of which, the demand for
this article in the market is very active, and a rise
in price is shortly expected. At Amsterdam,
business is limited. Java maintains its price, and
West India has been sold at a slight advance.
At Paris there has been an advance of three to
five francs per hectolitre in the price of beetroot
spirit, in consequence of the reduced stocks on
hand, and the increased demand. Good qualities
of 90 degrees strength are now from 118 f. to 120 f ,
but inferior sorts are without alteration at 100 f.
The imports of gold from Australia, and specie
from America last night and this morning are
considerable. The items are as follows :-Per
Baltic, from New York, 162,000 dollars ; per
Medway, from Melbourne, 60,0001., and 44,687
ounces gold ; per Morning Star, from Melbourne,
arrived at Bristol, 45,762 ounces of gold and 10,000
sovereigns, making a total of about 425,4481. The
news from America is unimportant, with very
little alteration in trade since previous dates.
The Medway left Melbourne on the 6th March
and the Morning Star on the 20th, consequently
their news have been anticipated by the overland
mail.
The directors of the Bank of England, as
was generally anticipated, made no alteration in
the rate of discount at their board meeting to-day.
The Funds retain great firmness, but with only
a limited business to-day. In the morning an ad..
vance of -a- per cent was temporarily attained, but
the closing quotations were the same as yesterday,
viz., 944 to 94a. In some other departments of the
Stock Exchange there was a better disposition to
realise the profits accruing from the late rise, but
confidence in the feature of the Money Market
seems to be the prevailing feeling. The steady
influx of gold is regarded with satisfaction The
closing quotations of the Paris Bourse failed to
come to hand this afternoon. The Railway Share
Market to-day showed a little reaction, the late
rise causing a number of the speculators to realise.
Most of the leading stocks receded 4 to 1 per cent.
The final quotations were published as
follows :-Caledonian, 616 614. Eastern Counties,
104 103. East Lancashire, 80 82. Great Northern,
961 97. Ditto A, 781 793. Great Western, 63k 64.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 943 953. London and
North Western, 1031 104. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 303 31. Midland Stock, 804 803.
North British. 363 371. South Eastern and
Dover, 72f 734. York, 2Newcastle, and Berwick,
3 84. York and North Midland, 593 60.

THE TOWN DIIES.—For the present session of Parlia-
ment at least the property legitimately established in the
possession of the good folks of our good old town will not
be assailed. A. reference to the report of the proceedings
yesterday before the Select Committee on Local Dries
on Shipping, which will be found in another column
will shew that Mr. Watson most ably defended the
rights cf Liverpool, and most manfully cc mbatted the
partisanship which, throughout the investigation, has
characterised the conduct of the Chairman, the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, and leader-writer for the
leviathan journal. After an unexampled examination of
the Town Clerk, the Right lion. Robert Lowe was
necessitated to announce that the committee would not go
further during the present session, than the enquiry into
the case of Liverpool. Though that enquiry will be resumed
on Monday, we have thus the assurance of the govern-
ment official, that legislation on the report of the committee
must be deferred until the next session of Parliament.

THE FRENCH INUNDATIONS.—WhiIst we would faintly
echo the eloquence with which the cause of suffering
humanity was advocated at the great meeting held yester-
day, under the presidency of our chief magistrate—while
we would urge, with even greater force (did ;we possess
the power) the claims which our French neighbours have
on our best sympathies, we own we feel dispirited by the
comparatively small amount of contributions which the
addresses of yesterday evoked. The theme to which
each and all of the speakers addressed themselves was
replete with materials for descriptions of dire destitution,
of wholesale demolition of house, home, and shelter, and
of the awful destruction of human life, by which number-
less families least able to work for daily sustenance were
deprived of their chief and natural protectors and left to
wander orphanless and unbefriended over the world's wide

space. These materials, which were ample to,supply graphic
descriptions, were fully made available on the occasion, by
the many gentlemen who presented themselves to the
attention of the numerous and highly influential auditory.
But what we now complain of is, that the results of these
oratorical exertions have not, to our minds, been com-
mensurate with the cause espoused. With unfeigned
regret, we observe that the amounts of donations appended
to the most wealthy names amongst us are not commensu-
rate with the sad but great occasion, the units, where we
ought to mark three figures of the numerals, do not
denote that sympathetic feeling, which we are sure France
would have lavished upon this fair isle, had its population
been visited with such a calamity as that which congre-
gated ourfellow-townsmen together yesterday. We speak
with some animation on this painful topic, excited by the
heart-rending accounts supplied by our own Paris cor-
respondent, and we still hope that the subscription list
will yet be so swelled iu amount and extent that it will be
a solid reflex of the spirit of this town towards their
French Allies, and will indicate the indissolubility of
sentiment which recent events in hardy warfare have
cemented. It is stated that the committee of management
do not intend to publish the list of subscribers to this
truly philanthropic fund. We unhesitatingly reply that
our columns shall be gratuitously open to the publication

of the names of the :contributors, as each list shall be
made up, and this publication, we would fain hope, would
stimulate those who possess the means to show that in
Liverpool, at least, there exists some gratitude for the
generous sympathy manifested to British soldiers by their
French Allies in the moments of the direst distress, and
that her townsmen have some claim to rank among the
merchant princes of Great Britain.

FREE DISCUSSION V. INTOLERANCE.—We have received a
copy of the narrative, published by the Rev. Mr. Macnaught,
of the circumstances attending the expulsion of that rev.
gentleman from the 1 iverpool Clerical Society. Our first
wish would be to place the " Narrative" in extenso before
our readers, but its voluminr us character, and the pressure
on our columns, prevent us that gratification. On an early
day we hope to present a resume of the leading features of
this interesting pamphlet.
WHICH or THEM is IT ?—ln our police report; of yester-
day will be found an account of the committals of two
sisters—one for a period of three months, for robbing a man of
his watch, by means of chloroform, the other for a period of
one month, in default of paying a fine of £1 for disorderly
conduct in the court. It appears that when the " sisters
two," got into the lower dock of the court. after they had
been sentenced, changed bonnets and shawls, and being as
like each other as sisters could be, they resolved to profit
by the fact. Jane Taylor was the person sentenced to pay
the fine of £l, and Anne Taylor to three months. Some of
the " artful dodgers" connected with the f' ladies" paid the
£1 and went away in triumph with the wrong bird, namely,
Anne Taylor. Yesterday Mr. Bluck applied to have Jaue
Taylor discharged, as the fine was paid, but he was told if
he produced the other lady there might be a chance of his
request being granted.