The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

BANKING I):

Debit.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 5,651,924
Other „ 9,589,236
Seven days, and
other bills. , 724,030

Total .... £33,858,391

Compared' with the return of the previous week, we
have the following results :
Active circulation £19,244,925
Decrease: 96,665
Bullion 9,855,609
Increase
Rest ...
Increase
Seven day and other bills
Decrease
Public deposits .. 5,651,924
Increase
Other deposits
Decrease
Government securities 10,329 041
Increase
Other securities
Decrease 184,691
Notes unemployed 4,349,865
Increase

The screw steamer Istanboul has arrived at Ply-
moth from Melbourne with 44,552 ounces of gold
on freight, worth 178,2001. The advices by this
vessel have been anticipated.
The important failure on the Paris Bourse tends
to revive distrust of the stability of financial affairs
in France ; whilst the renewed demand for gold fol.
the Bank of France and the aggravation of the
drain of silver to the East are regarded as calcu-
lated to further retard improvement in our money
market.

Letters from Paris indicate that the estimates
circulated respecting the liabilities of M. Charles
Thurneyssen have been much exaggerated.
Last year's June and December Exchequer Bills
are advertised by the Paymaster-General to be paid
off on the 16th of June next.

The rate of discount at Hamburg remains at five
per cent.

- The specie and bullion ex the steamer Orinoco
have been delivered. The gold by this vessel,
valued at about 86,0001, has been purchased for
exportation to the Continent.

The Princess Royal has arrived from Shanghae,
with 675,6001b5. of Tea and 519 bales of Silk on
freight.

The arrival of the screw steamer Robert Lowe,
from the Cape of Good Hope, is now looked for,
this vessel having left the Mauritius on the 18th
March.
The necessities of the Government service in the
East seem likely to provide considerable employ-
ment for our shipping. Several notices inviting
tenders for the conveyance of troops and stores
were issued to-day. The Admiralty wiil receive
tenders on the 27th inst. for the conveyance of 45
officers, 730 rank and file, 49 women, and 18 chil-
dren from Dublin to Colombo. Tenders will be re-
ceived by the East India Company on the 26th in-
stant for the conveyance of 987 tons of dead
weight (materials for the electric telegraph) from
Liverpool to Kurrachee ; of stores, from England
to Madras and Calcutta ; of 300 troops (Company's)
from, England to Calcutta; of 1,050 troops, (her
Majesty's service) from England to Knrrachce ; and
of 965 troops (H.M.S.) from England to Calcutta.
Tenders will also be received, on the 3rd of June,
for the conveyance of 920 troops (H.M S) from
Portsmouth to Kurrachee ; of 650 troops (H.M.S.)
from England to Calcutta, and of 1,800 troops
(H.M.S.) from Portsmouth to Calcutta.

it is stated that a committee of preference share-
holders in the Great Northern Railway Company
is about to be formed, with a view to compel the
company to pay last year's dividend on the pre-
ference stock, and to oppose the bill now before
Parliament.

A special meeting of the Great Western Rail-
way is called for the Ith of June, to consider
the various bills now pending in Parliament. One
of these is for " making a railway from the Torquay
branch of the South Devon Railway to or near
Dartmouth;" a second is for " making railways
between Bristol and the South Wales Railway, with
a steam ferry across the Severn ;" and a third is
for " making and maintaining" the Stratford-upon-
Avon Railway- The meeting is also to ratify agree-
ments made with the latter company and the Brid-
port Railway Company for working of their repec-
tive lines.

The Union Bank of London is to pay the half-
yearly interest falling due on the State of Alabama
6 per Cent Bonds. The half-yearly dividend on
the Swedish 4 per Cent. Provincial Mortgage Lon
is also advertised.

The position of the market for American Secu-
rities is thus noticed by Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and
and Co. :—" We have no change to report in the
market for American Securities, whilst the present
value of Money will account for the little doing in
State Socks. There is still some demand for the
Boris of a few of the leading railroad companies,
but confidence in American Railroad Securities in
general has been much shaken by the recent failure
of some of the companies to provide for the inter-
est on their bonds.

The report of Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite is sub-
joined :—" There ha:l- not been much activity ill
London in American Securities during the past
week. We note, however, considerable activity in
Illinois Central Shares, at prices ranging from I 32
to 130, closing steady at 130 to 132. Freeland
Bonds have changed hands at 108 i and 108. In
other descriptions tly2re has been very liqle
doing."

AN AUSTRIAN MIDPATII.—The cashier of the National
Bank of Vienna, who lately absconded with a sum of
300,000 florins, was arrested on the 15th at Hermuth, in
Lusatia.

A. GOOD FARE.--011 Friday two l gent emen, who arrived
at Gloucester by the Midland
railway, called for a cab and
got inside. ,‘ Whew to 2" exclaimed cabby. "To the
Western,"
to wtas
ae
the
laconic reply The Western is con-
tiguous
across to the Midland station, and cabby drove them
Western. They arrived, of course, at the
place assigned in a
door, and with a profound
second,
Cabby got down, opened the
a laugh, exclaimed, touching " congee,' a knowing wink, and
g his hat, " Western, gemmen "
The gentlemen got out,
laughed heartily at the distance
and pa
they had travelled, u the bland and polite cabman
his full fare, without a murmur or the symptom of a
grumble. They hal not ridden fifty yards for their money,
a rich joke in the estimation of the cabman.— CheMenhant-
Pxa2niner
OBSCENE BILLS —Yesterday, at the Central Police Co:o.t
—before Bailie Wright—Solomon William Leve!)stoa, 11,
London street, was charged inhisowithtmyi nFriday, suf-
fered or permitted a partyemployment,io d named
Peter Gorman, to distribute a number
of
Trongate
or
obscene bills, or paper prints, to passengers in
in contravention of the Police Act. He was fined ing44ltte:
At the same diet, Peter Gorman was charged with having
occasioned an obstruction of the footway in Trongate, h
standing or loitering thereon, distributing indecent jr
obscene bills, to the annoyance of passengers. rio was
fined in 103 61—{We have repeatedly called the attention
of the Liverpool authorities to the nuisance of this descrip
tion, with which the town is literally overrun, but nothing
has been done in the affair. Why not follow the example
of the Glasgow magistrates ?]