The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

NORTHERN- TIMES.-LIVERPOOL,

source of supply, inasmuch as it possesses, more than any
other region suitable for the growth of cotton, the main
elements of capital, and of cheap andabundaut labour.

THE COTTON TRADE.

FUTURE•

The Liverpool Share 'Market was tolerably
steady, and although very few sales were effected,
prices remained vevy st.,ad v. The transactions
consisted of Blackburn, 74 ; East Lancashire,
224 23 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 071• k;
London and. North Western, 1054 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 34; Midland, 82'7', 1;
South Eastern, 22k. The market closed firmly, at
the subjoined quotations :—Aberdeen, 13 131;
Blackburn, 74 VI. Chester and Birkenhead, 172
172. Caledonian, 314 311 Chester and Holy
head, 19 19k. Eastern Counties, 9 3-16 9 5 16. Eas,
Lancashire, 23 234. Great Northern, 22 228 ;
Ditto A shares, 0 1.16 9 3-16. Great Western,
692 694. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stook. 97 974
Liverpool, Crosby and Southport, 184 18,-7. Lon-
don. and North Western Stock, 1054 105.1
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 34 344. Mid
land Stock, 821 824. North British, 91516 10
North Staffordshire, 51 5,1. South Eastern
and Dover, 22 1-16 224. York, Newcastle,• and
Berwick, 204 21. York and North Midland,
29 30 Leeds Capital Stock 181 181. Buffalo
and Lake Huron, a Ip. Dutch Rhenish, 11-16
Great Western of Canada, 244 241 Do. New
Shares, 21 24p. Great Luxemburg, 11 104 d.
Money is still in strong inquiry, but the discon
tinuance of specie remittances to Ireland has
tended to promote increased confidence. The al-
teration in the late stringent discount regulations
by the Bank of Franco is also a favourable feature
in connection with m._mey matters, but the tight-
ness
of the market at Hamburg is severely felt, •
and in other parts of the Continent is still very
scarce.

SATTJR DA N

7_PAST, PRESENT, AND

We extract the following interesting facts and s'atistics
from an article in Hunt's Magazine, for November, from
the pen of J. B. Gribble, Esq

At the opening of the present century, the imports of
cotton wool into Great Britain were about 75,000 bales
per annum ; now the consumption of that country is
2,100,000 bales annually, while the rest of Europe and the
United States, that then had no manufactories, use about
1,900,000 more, to say nothing of the consumption of
Asia. Of this 4,000,000 bales, five sixths are the product
of this country. The result of the past three years
proves, that neither the existence of a war involving the
chief nations of Europe, nor the fluctuations in trade
consequent on its cessation, have had any effect on the
demand for our great southern staple; thus establishing
the fact that, the next to the leading articles of human
food, it has become a great and fixed necessity.
A document compiled from the very best data, by one
peculiarly fitted for the task, was lately read before the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, exhibiting very in.
portant facts. The value of the Cotton manufacturing
industry, of the world was estimated at £120,000,000 stet..
ling,, or 600,000,000 dots. Of this amount the entire popu-
lation of Great Britain consumed, in value, about 3 dots
85e per head per annum' England exports to the United
States manufactured goods at the rate of 77c for each
individual in this country, but being ourselves large mann-
s, and in view of the general better condition Of

ive in the country contiguous to

the bulk of our population, it is probable that our co•l_
sumption of our cotton goods will exceed that of Great
Britain 50 per cent per head. England exports to
her North American colonies cotton goods at the rate
of 1 dol 53c per head per annum, for the whole population.
To Russia, only at a rate of 3.sths of a cent per head ; to
France, 2e per head ; to her East Indian possessions, at
the rate of 18c; but these three last countries manufacture
at home, especially France, who mainly provides for her
own wants, while Russia receives goods from several
sources. Estimating the population of the globe at
850,000.000, the apportionment of the whole value of
manufactured goods would be about 70c for every
inhabitant, man, woman, and

The tendency of the age is gradually towards an equali
sa!ion of the moral and physical condition of the burin"

January

the year can scarcely be more than half so large as during
the latter months of 1845, and perhaps not even that, in

consequence of the lateness of the season and diminished
receipts at our ports.
The largest crop ever made has passed into the channels
of consumption at a price per pound higher than for five
years past, leaving us almost no stock in this country—
say about 52 000 bales in all the ports, September Ist,

the stock abroad not being more than enough to supply
the demand, at present rates, beyond the Ist of January.
The incoming crop is fully three weeks later than last
season. The storms in August swept the whole of Florida,
Lower and Middle Alabama, Georgia, the southern
tier of counties in Mississippi and the southern parts of
South Carolina and Louisiana. The drought has been
very severe in Alabama and the Atlantic States; also in

portions of Tennessee, North Mississippi, and Texas
801 l worms and the army worm have been very destruc

Mississippi an

•
Rivers. Altogether the season has been most unpropitious,
though up to the Ist of August it appeared unusually
promising. The slight frost of .September 25, would indi-
cate the probability of a short fall. The crop must be
very short; and for the sake of an approximate estimate,
even 3,000,000 bales is considered too liberal. Prices
opened 2c higher than last year, and will rule high
through the season, especially as Euiepean freights are
likely to be low. A strong element also in favour of

cotton, is the tact that the grain crops are not only good
here, but all over the continent of Europe. with the
exception of Spain and Portugal.

TVIIEAC PRICES FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS.!

The statistics of the corn trade during 1854.5 6 possess
considerable interest, as prices have undergone consider.
able fluctuation in the last three years. Commencing with
January, 1854, we find wheat at the good old Protectionist
(and pinching) price of 803 per qr. It continued to fall
slowly till April, when a brief rally took place, but this
firmness was but brief, and the downward movement again
continued till September. From September to December
the tendencies was again upwards. The following table
shows the average prices of each month cf 1854 (omitting
fractions) :
Months. F. d.

80 1
80 10
78 9