The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-10 00:00:00

SYDNEY.-SEPT. 6.

The amount of gold issued by the Sydney branch of the
Royal Mint, during the week ended to-day, has been
10,000 sovereigns.
The amount of gold dust imported into the same estab-
lishment during the week for the purpose of coinage, has
been 5,045 ounces ; of this quantity 1,318 ounces were re-
ceived from the Rocky River Diggings.
The Western and Southern Escorts arrived this morn-
ing at the Colonial Treasury, and delivered the following
quantities of gold dust :—Western : from Bathurst, 904
oz 14 dwt. Southern : from Braidwood, 636 oz 4 dwt 9
gr; Goulburn, 51 oz 15 gr. Total, 1,591 oz 16 dwt. No
returns have been received this week from Sofala, Taba-
roora, Avisford, and Louisa Creek.
The quantity of gold dust received through the Post
Office, during the week ended Mb of September, was 589
ounces.
CANDLES : Holders are not anxious to sell at present
rates, in the hope of a revival iu price at Melbourne. The
quantity coming forward will. however, prevent any
considerable advance, unless speculation to a large extent
takes plane.
SUGARS : The intelligence received from Manilla by the
William Oswald of the greatly enhanced cost of sugars in
that market has caused considerable excitement here, and
has had the effect of enhancing prices for both raw and
refined sugars. A large business has been done in both
articles. Several heavy parcels of pampanga have changed
hands at rates but slightly below present quotations, and
the demand for refined sugars still continues unusually
extensive. The Sugar Company quote as follows :—Loaf,
snowdrops, and crushed, .852 ; crystals, £47 to 149,
pieces £45, bastards £4l, treacle /25, pampanga,
Colonial rum, 28 0.p., 14s 3d (duty paid.)
LIQUIDS : Brandy is a shade flatter ; we have heard of
a sale at 14s, but it is still quoted and held for 14s 3d to
14s 6d. Rum is quiet at 5s 61. Gin, JDKZ. 18s 6d to
19s. Good sherries and ports are firm at quotations.
Bottled ale is in demand, and is worth from 103 31 to
103 61 per dozen. There is also some enquiry for Taylor's
porter, which at present is scarce, and commands from
.e 7 to ,e 10s. _ _

FLOUR : The market is dull, but there has been no
alteration i❑ price. We have had no additions of import-
ance to our stocks this week. Fine II mr, £2B ; seconds,
£26.

WEST COAST OF' AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. BTti.

The African Steam Navigation Company's steam
packet Gambia, Commander Rolt, arrived this
afternoon. Her homeward dates are—Old Calabar,
October 31 ; Cameroons, November 2 ; Fernando
Po, November 3; Bonny, November 6; Lagos,
November 8 ; Accra, November 10 ; Cape Coast,
November 11 ; Liberia, November 15 ; Bathurst,
November 24 ; Goree, November 25 ; Teneriffe,
November 30 ; and Madeira, December 2. She ,
brings 1,269 oz. of gold dust, and her cargo includes
330 puncheons and 30 barrels of palm oil, 7 logs
mahogany, 7 pieces 3 packages of ivory, 10
bales of cotton, 77 bags of cochineal, sundry skins,
tapioca, arrowroot, beeswax, wine, and oranges.
Among her 1.2 passengers are Captain Brownell,
G.E.C., and Calmer, 3d West India Regiment, both
from Sierra Leone. Disputes, chiefly between the
natives, appear to prevail all along the coast. The
British Consul visited the Cameroons in the
steamer Gambia, and held a palaver between the
contending tribes. The Gambia brought from
Fernando Po to Teneriffe several members of the
Spanish missions and four coloured youths for
training. Affairs at Lagos arc quiet, but an out-
break is hourly expected. The gunvessel Minx, 3,
Commander Roe, continues in the harbour waiting
any contingency. Oil plentiful, trade brisk, and the
people healthy. Both here and at Accra the con-
flict between the Ashantees and their neighbours
near Cape Coast Castle is not yet at an end, and
only 400 pounds of gold could be shipped in con-
sequence. The river trade at Sierra Leone continues
unsettled, through internal disturbances. The town
trade is brisk, especially in gold and hides, the
latter commanding 10d and l 0 d. According to
the African, the Fellah town of Conscofi was at-
tacked on the 3rd of October by the Junmano, who
killed 3,876 on the field, and took 100 prisoners.
Alpha Mohammed Limi has lost his life, with
most of the chief men of his party. A
severe engagement commenced on the 15th
hostilities
were ro
were completely
making
at
ok k routed.oll Ma
and ended on the 17 of October at Massaiamee,
between Barmoi and Sultan Lahai, whose
forces
killed: and 50 taken prisoners. Preparations for
and there
itllerewearree
rumours of an expected disturbance at Barra, on
the Gambia, to the north of Bathurst The paddle-
wheel steam-sloop Elector, 5, Commander-Hunt
sailed from Fernando Po for the South Coast on the
Ist of Nov.; and the steam sloop Prometheus, 5,
Commander Charles W. Hope, November 4. The
steam sloop Hecate, 6, Commander Alexander D.
Gordon, was at Lagos November 8. Commodore
John Adams, in the steam-ship Scourge, 6, was at
anchor at Cape Coast Castle, November 11. The
steam vessel Myrmidon, Lieutenant-Commander
Edward W. Shaw, left Sierra Leone on the 18th;
and the steam sloop Hecla. 6, Commander Elphin-
stone Aplin, on the 20th for a cruise. The gun
boat Insolent put into Sierra Leone on the 27th
of October, and sailed for Ceylon on the 2nd of
November. The screw steam storeship Hesper,
from Cape Verde, arrived at Madeira on the 2nd of
November. The United States frigate Jamestown
was at Sierra Leone on the 20th of November.
The African mail packet Candace arrived at Sierra
Leone on the 10th of November, and the Ethiope
at Madeira on the 2nd of December. The mail
packet Solent arrived at Madeira on the 2nd of
November, and sailed the same day.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE A.-_r ES TE RDA Y.

Amsterdam
Ditto, three months .. 11 17i
Rotterdam.... ...... .... 11 17i

Gibraltar
Leghorn •
Genoa .... ..... 25 82,
Milan..
Venice ..
Naples
Palermo
,Messina
Lisbon ....... ...... 5
'Oporto
Rio Jcneiro

Antwerp
Brussels
Hamburg
Altona

Paris
Ditto, three months
Marseilles .
Bordeaux ....
Frankfort-on• Maine 1193
Berlin
Vienna ......••• •
Trieste .

..... 10 41

.. 10 42

Petelßburg
Madrid ........
Cadiz
Barcelona —
Seville