The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-08 00:00:00

wheat. Exchange on London piastres 101, against Naps.
81, or Soya. 1011.
The following is a return of the Traffic on the Grand
Trunk Railway Company of Canada, for the week ending
Sept. 6, 1156, and corresponding week, 1855:-1856,
Passengers, 8,743 ; Merchandise, &c., 5,570 tons 1 total
steeling, 5,664/. 15s 811 1855, Passengers, 7,756 ; Mer-
chandise; Szc., 5,0841, tons; total sterling, 4,5301. ls. 21d.
Increase, 1856: Passengers, 987 ; Merchandise, &c., 4851
tons; total sterling, 5341. 14s. 61
The fluctuations in the Public Securities during the last
few days have been very ettensive, and the losses have been
large. Consols have been 90k, 7-, 901, 1, and 90a •a for
transfer. The November price is about 911 1. This
afternoon a partial recovery took place, and a further
improvement is anticipated. The public are aware that
the general prosperity of the country, financially and come
mer&ally, has not diminished, bat quite the reverse ; and
they consequently look upon the present tightness of the
Money Market as merely temporary. The low prices to
which Consols have been forced, therefore, tempt them to
purchase, while the Bulls feel encouraged to resume their
dealings. The immediate effect of this is a rally, and
Consols are 91 to 91 for Money, and 911 ;I for November
—a rise of to a per cent. from the lowest point reached
this morning. Exchequer Bills are dull at 5s to 9s, and the
Bonds 981 99.
In the Foreign Stock Market the dealings are limited,
and prices generally have declined. Mexican 3 per Cents.,
for the Aecs)unt, are quoted at 22. Peruvian 41 per Cents.,
76&. Russian 5 per Cents., 106 ; and the 41 per Cents.,
961. Sardinian 5 per Cents., 891 90. Spanish 3 per Cents.,
40k, and the Deferred, 24. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
actively dealt in at 961, 97, and 971, and the 4 per Cents.
Guaranteed at 98y, 991, 991.
The Railway Share Market is very flat, and prices continue
to show a downward tendency. The decline in most of the
principal shares has been about 1 to 1 per cent. Caledonian
are 53 to 53k. Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 311. Great
Northern, 91 to 911. Great Western, 631 64. Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 931 94. North Western, 1001 101. South
Western, 102 104 North Eastern, Berwick, 781 ; ditto
York, 54 541; and South Eastern, 671. The market,
however, is now firmer.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tuts Day.
Amsterdam .... ...... .. 11 16 (Gibraltar

Ditto, three months .. 11 19 'Leghorn

Rotterdam.
Antwerp

Brasses

. 11 19 Genoa
. 25 40 51i1an..

25 40 !Venice

............ 25 85

Hamburg
Altona

25 30 I nessina

Ditto, three months .. 25 82il Lisbon .......

Marseilles

23 85 Oporto

Bordeaux
Frankfort-on-Maine 119 3 uenos Ayre3.... .....
Berlin .. — New York, 6) days' sight

Vienna ....
Trieste
Petersburg :,

10 40 Philadelphia
10 42 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ,
37i Foreign Gold, in Bars ..t0 0 0

Madrid
Cadiz

•.. 49 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0
......... 50 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0

Barcelona
Seville ..

New Dollars .. .... 0 0 0
Silver, in Bars .. 0 0 0

FRANCE.

(FROM ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING,

Public attention is no longer fixed on the Neapolitan
affairs, but on some thing that touches the French much
more nearly—their own financial and commercial crisis.
The Bank of France, yesterday (although it was Sunday),
resolved, as the telegraph will have informed you, not to
admit from this day, bills for discount having more than
sixty days to run—and the resolution has been promul-
gated in to-days Moniteur. Moreover, the bank has
resolved not to make advances of more than 40 per cent.
on deposit of public securities, and 20 per cent. on
railway shares. It is asserted, too, that Bank notes are to
have a freed circulation, that a new issue of notes of a
smaller amount than 100 f (£4), the present minimum, is
to be made, and that other grave financial measures are
in contemplation. Even if these reports should turn out
to be unfounded, the resolution of the bank only to dis-
count bills at sixty days' date, coming so close after the
increase of the rate of discount, and the reduction on the
amount of its advances, ,a ill have no effect on trade
and speculation in their present depressed state. Know-
ing this, the Bourse has been dreadfully unsettled to-
day, and prices have left off at an enormous fall, com-
pared with the closing quotations of Saturday—there
was, in fact, at one time, a veritable panic, people selling
their stock and securities almost for what they would
fetch. The Three Per Cents left of at 66f for cash, and
66f 15c for true time— a fall of if 60c and if 70c, com-
pared with Saturday's prices. Bank of France shares
have fallen 25f, Credit Mobilier 70f cash, and 65f time;
Orleans Railway, 60f and 62f 50c ; Northern, 27f 5c and
35f ; Lyons, 55f and 50f ; Mediterranean, 45f and 75f ;
Western, 36f 25c and 27f 50c ; Eastern (old), 22f 50c
and 27f 50c • Ditto (new), 27f 50c and 35c ; and lastly,
Austran railways, 35f and 40f.
I hear from good authority that the government bas
received very unfavourable reports, indeed, from the
greater part of the Prefects of departments, as to the state
of political feeling in the provinces, and still worse as to
the misery caused by the dearness of food. I have good
reason to believe, too, that the official assertion men-
tioned in a recent letter, that the arrests for political
causes, just effected in Paris, were only between forty and
fifty, was, to use a mild term, a sad " mistake." Several
scores, it might almost be said hundreds, are alleged to
have been made, and if my information be correct, more are
taking place daily. There are also reports of acts of
insubordination having been committed in different
regiments of the garrison of Paris.
The Emperor is to pass a review of the Guards on
Wednesday.

On dit, that Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister in
this city, has expressed the regret of his government at
the publicity given to the circular of Prince Gortschakoff
on Naples and Greece. The-French Government is said
to be willing to accept this as an amende honourable.
It seems, from all I hear, to be definitively settled that
Count de Morny shall remain permanently in Russia as
French Ambassador.

Touching the Neapolitan question, there is nothing
new about it, unless it be that, instead of sending fleets
to Naples, England and France will probably content
themselves with sending a— note. The present appear.
ances certainly seem to indicate that the whole affair will
very likely end in smoke.

According to Le Nord, of Brussels, the Russian organ,
the King of Prussia is so exasperatad at the conduct and
language of the Federal Government of Switzerland in
the Neufchatel affair, that he threatens to proceed to the
military occupation of the Canton of Neufchatel, in the
event of the prosecution of the royalist prisoners not
being suspended.

From Constantinople we have a new arrival today,
which says that the English had obtained possession of
the railway to the Persian Gulf ; also, that they had
again sent some vessels into the Black Sea, and that the
departure of Admiral Lyons had positively been post-
poned. It is worthy of remark that all letters from French
sources in Constantinople attack the Austrians with great
vehemence for the obstacles they threw in the way of the
French obtaining a concession of steam navigation on
the Danube. The French Ambassader, it appears, has
protested against a withdrawal, by the Porte, of a
concession of that kind made to a Captain Magnan. The
Austrian Ambassador is accused by the French of having
been chiefly instrumental in causing that withdrawal,
and the Russian Ambassador is charged with having
assisted him.

'WATERLOO BOARD OF HEALTH.—The newly constituted
board of health for Waterloo and the district, under the
Act of Parliament, met last night at Waterloo. The meet-
ing was the first held by that body. A reporter from our
office was in attendance, but he was informed that the
proceedings were of a purely private nature, and to make
preliminary arrangements for future meetings of the board
which will be open to the Press. ,

ST. MATTBIAS'S WORKING MENS' ASSOCIATION.—Last
night the members of this association gave a musical soiree,
in St. Matthias's Church Schools, Great Howard Street.
Mr. William Brown, M.P., with his usual readiness to
promote all that can conduce to the moral and social welfare
of the people, presided on the occasion ; and he was sup-
ported on the platform by the Rev. Mr. Shelton, the
incumbent, Rev. T. M. Lester, Mr. T. Eccles, and Mr.
Luff. The room was crowded almost to excess, by respect-
able well-dressed young men and women, and the concert,
which composed many pleasing popular ballads and glees,
seemed, if one may take the applause and encores as a
criterion, seemed to afford them unmixed delight. The
principal vocalists were—Mrs. Steedman, Messrs. M'Call,
G. Holden, jun., Johnson, lieelis, and Mayor, and these
were ably seconded in their efforts by the amateur choir of
St. Matthias's Church. During the course of the evening,
Mr. Brown addressed the audience, and impressed on them
the value of early education. He enumerated many in-
stances of men who had struggled from the humblest origin,
through every difficulty, to posts of eminence in this
country, and pointed out to his young auditors that the
same path of honourable ambition was open to them, and
with greater chances of success. He detailed the part
which he has taken since his entrance into Parliament, to
wear the working classes from the public-houses ; but whilst
denouncing such houses in the mass as demoralising,
admitted that there were many of them to which that
objection could not be fairly urged. The honourable gentle-
man also took the opportunity to explain the nature and
advantages of a decimal coinage, and expressed a strong
hope that the system would ultimately be introduced into
these countries. The assembly was also addressed by the
Rev. Mr. Shelton, to whose unwearied zeal the present
laudable association, and the night schools, reading-room,
&c., in connection with the church, owe their origin and
after success.