The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-06 00:00:00

THE LONDON FREIGHT MARKET,

Relative to the freight market, Messrs. Offer and Grammar
furnish us with the subjoined report :—The freight market
generally continues very dull and inanimate, and homeward
freights especially are depressed in almost every trade. The
only exception is in the Australian trade, in which we note a
marked and steady improvement, tonnage being in demand
upon more favourable terms than have been offered for a loog
period. For ships to load on the berth to £3 lOs is
readily offered, and goods by vessels on the point of sailing
realise a freight of 50s. to 60s. per ton. Exports to Australia
are very active, to meet the spring trade in the colony, and.
the tonnage on the berth has materially declined. The emi-
gration commissioners have paid much higher rates for the
vessels recently taken up. The last ships chartered were the
Mountstuart Elphinstone at £l4 19s. for Melbourne, and a
Liverpool ship for Sydney at about 30s. below this rate. The
tonnage taken up for conveyance of the Foreign Legion to the
Cape of Good Hope realised 35s to 40s per ton, and the with-.
drawal of these vessels exercised a salutary influence upon,
freights for large vessels. The vessels entered out and cleared
for Australia last week comprised the following :

Entered ont

Cleartd.

Ships. Tonnaze
• 3 1,695

Ships. Toßnace.

Adelaide ...
Launceston
Portland Bay
Port Philip
Swan River
Sydney ....

1 578
1 437
1 723

3 1,666
1 582
I 1,675

1 376

..•••••
1 804

5 2,918

A good deal of tonnage has been taken up for coals to
Australia, and the rates for King George's Sound have, in con-
sequence, fallen to £32 from the Tyne, or 31s per ton from
Wales; for Sydney, £ i 7 10s from the North, and 37s Gd from
Wales is still current. East India chartering continues very dull;
the only enquiry of any importancebeing for continental account.
The rates offered for handed sized vessels are as follows :
Akvab or neighbouring rice ports to the United Kingdom or
Continent, £4 10s; Bombay to United Kingdom, Continent,
or Mediterranean, ; Calcutta, 775 GI; Batavia to the
United Kingdom or Continent, 80s. Ceylon to Hamburgh
or Bremen, 90s; C&umbo and—or Tuticorin to United
Kingdom or Continent, 90s: Ou'warde the rates continue
low, present quotation. being from the Tyne to Aden, £34 a
Bombay or Madras, £2O; Calcutta, £23; Ceylon, ,E,..;
and Suez, £6O, &c. There is rather more doing West
India freights, but rates do not improve, Thivana, out
and home, 70s, taking coals out frcb, or 50s to 52s Gd
home only ; Aux Cayes, out and home, 90s ; Berbice,
out and home, 75s (taking outward cargo from London) ;
St. Domingo, 655, coffee, home only ; Demerara,
70s, out and home; Maozanilla, 70s, timber;
Minatitlau, 77s 6I ; Belize, G2s 61, &c, Coal
freights in this direction are without much alteration :
say, Wales to St. Thomas, 18s. ; Jamaica, 18=.; Cape de
`'girds, 225. ; Teneriffe, 21e. &c. In the South American
trade, the nominal rates are-401., coffee, from Rio Janeiro,
with 275. out front Wales for coals; Rio Grande, 525, Gd
River Plate, 425. 61, hides, with 30s. out from Cadiz for
salt, or 60s. per register ton with general cargo from Ham_
burg, or 295. coals from Wales ; Maroim, 705., sugar in cases
(ships under 11 feet draught), Bahia or Pernambuco, out and
home, taking coals from Wales, 675. Gd. for the round..
Guano freights from the Chinchas continue without variation
at 85s. to United Kingdom for vessels under 700 tons, or 805.., London or Liverpool, for ships above that size. In the Medi-
terranean trade there is great depression, and homeward char-
ters are obtained with great difficuPv. lOs, is the nominal
rate from the Danube ; Gs., beans, Alexandria; 355., valonia„
from Smyrna; 303., timber, from Ancona; IGs., oil cake,
from Marseilles,—are the highest freights current; and out,
wards there is also a very limited demand—say, Wales to
Constantinople, 26.. ; Alexandria, 255. ; Malta, 245. ; CorNs.
235. 6d., &c.

" TIIE NEW SAFETY INKSTAND, we can b`lar personal
mtrooyusntth of
witness to, secures to all classes one which 'Rill keep the ink
always clean and good, will prevent ttat accumulation of
oxi le which spoils
thin finest
inkstand,w fitwriting,
too, ala
dthedeas
t
best pen ; by means of
fe
ink taken up by the pen can be easily regulated."--
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette.—sold by y all Book.
sellers. Price 4s, 3s. and is od---4dvt.
THE CALIFORNIA; PEN.—The everlasting question of
" is this a good pen" has been answered by Mr. E. T. Hall,
of South John street, who has succeeded in producing a
metallic pen, which he designates—not inaptly—as above:
There is hardly anything more annaying than a bad pen--
every one knows the misery. The pen made by Mr. Hall is
fit for any hand to use—light or heavy—and, what is of the
greatest value, it does not corrode, but will work with equal
facility in any ink. From experience of metallic pens, we
can say that this one, which is polished as gold, and will
last nearly as long, is the best one we have ever used,—Adv.

FOR SALE, the handy coasting Schooner
"
• A B EONA ; 62 tons register. Length, 63 feet 3-10Ihs;
r 0,.; breadth, 16 feet 7-10ths ; depth, 7 feet 8-10ths. Built at
Monkton, N. 8., in 1549; is very strong, and suitable for
the coasting trade. Her Balls, &c., are new. Lying in the Bruns-
wick Dock.—For inventories and further particulars apply to
CUNARD, BRETT & AU'iTEN, Brokers for the Purchase and
Sale of Ships, 5, York-buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool ; and 150,
Leadenhall-street, London.

_
FOR SALE, the fine first-class Ship EAGLE,
ass tons register. Length 122 feet 10 inches, breath
27 feet 5-10ths depth 20 feet; brii:t at London in 1834,
,T 77 restored in 1950, A 1 for eight years, copper fastened,
and was yellow metalled last year, and carries 700
tons dead weight, and has delivered 946 tons weight and
measurement; is flush decked sails fast, well found in stores, and is
In excellent condition lying in King's Dock —For further
particulars apply to CUNARD, BRETT, and AUSTEN, Brokers
for the I),chase and Sale of Ships, 5, York-bui:dings, and 150,
Leadenhall-street, Lond n.

Now at London

IRON SHIP FOR SALE.—The magnificent
1,1, A 1 Clyde-built iron clipper ship GLEN ROY, 1'220 tons
yit.r,,AN, register Dimensions, ::34 34 a 21. This vessel was
frel,h VP,,' built under very careful inspection, and under contract
for the present owners, in 1814: sails remarkably fast,
carries a large cargo, and allowed by competent judges to be one
of the handsomest clipper chips afloat, her model being in every
resptct :limiter to the screw steam-ship PFUNCIC ARTHUR, which
has made so many rapid and satisfactory passages in the
Transport Service, during the last eighteen months, having
been built by the same eminent builders ; is admirab'y
adapted for either an auxiliary screw being applied or kept
as a sailing ship ; has just discharged a cargo from Calcutta.
at London, in the best possible order, and is more than ordinarily
well found in stores, requiring only provisions to enable her to
proceed on another voyage.—Apply to Captain 51•Alpin, on board ,
Peter and Thomson Aikman, Glasgow; or here, to THOMAS
BANK 1, Rumford-place.-30,h October, ISM.

"EAGLE" LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA.
Sailing on the 15th of each month.
PASSAGE £l4 AND UPWARDS.
To the consignment of BRIGHT. BROTHERS & CO.
FOR MELBOURNE,
Forwarding Passengers to SYDNEY, lIonAuT TowN, &C.
PACKET OF THE 15ru NOVEMBER.
The renowned Clipper-ship
► 41N,
SHOOTING STAR,
2,000 tons—Capt. Gum Es;
This noble ship, heavily laden, made her last run out to Melbourne
in 74 days, beating every other vessel. Her cabin and other accom-
modations are unrivalled for comfort and convenience.
Apply to GIBBS, BRIGHT & CO., Liverpool.
fhe Liverpool and Australian Navigation Company's steam
clipper GREAT BRI,A IN. 3500 tons. 500 horse Dower. Capt. GRAY.
is appointed to sail 15th February. Fares-16 to 87 guineas.

"MERSEY" LINE OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS.
TO SAIL Ist DECEMBER.
FOR MELBOURNE AND GEELONG,
Forwarding Passengers at Ship's expense to SYDNEY ADE-
LAIDE, &c.
The splendid new Clipper• Ship
JOHN GALBRAITH, Commander;
A I at Lloyd's, 1 365 tons register, row on her first voyage, and is
expected to prove one of the fastest ships in the trade. Tier
accommodations for Second Cabin Passengers, being in the poop,
are unequalled by any other ship in the trade, and the steerage is
unusually well ventillated and tined w,th every convenience.--:,' or
freight or pa.sage apply to
EDMUND THOMPSON, Drury Buildings, Water-street.