The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL,

COTTON : The cotton market continues without change ;
the demand to-day has been moderately active, the supply
sufficient, and prices very firm. The sales—including 60
Egyptian, 9id ; 1,000 .Surat, 48d to 51d—are reported
10,000 bales, of which 3,000 are on speculation and for
export. . ,

aSCOTCH PIG IRON : Our market for warrants closes at
765, cash ; three months open, 77s ; sellers. Tons.
Shipments from Glasgow last week
Do. ' corresponding week 1855 17,210
Do. do. 1854 19,586

c,-gregate shipments from Glasgow from Ist
149,236

January, 1856, to date
Same period 1855

170,078

Decrease

.. 20,842

Price this time last year, 60s 6d.

Total shipments of pig iron from Liverpool in j 2,521
Marsh, 1856
Ditto, 1855
Ditto, 1854

Ditto, manufactured iron, March, 1856
Ditto, ditto, March, 1855
Ditto, ditto, March, 1854

Pig iron from Liverpool to the United States, 5
1 282
March, 1856 '
Ditto, ditto, March, 1855.. 2,161
Ditto, ditto, March, 1854.. 6,015
Suo.in: There continues a better feeling, and for grainy
East India Is per cwt advance has b. en paid for export,
whilst other sorts command extreme rates ; the sales com-
prise 100 hhds Barbadoes, at 39s to 43s 6d ; 50 hhds, 200
bags (the latter all faults), grainy Demerara. at 42s 91 to
47s 6d : 2,550 bags Cossipore, at 46s to 46s 6o1; 30 hhds
Porto Rico, at 42s 6d ; 1,600 bags Pernams, at 38s 3d, with
1,400 bags at 255, and 50 boxes ilavana, at 27s 6d per cwt
in bond.

MOLASSES : 100 puns Demerara are reported, at 193 per
cwt.

COFFEE : The sales are confined to 70 bags Bio, at 45s
per cwt.

TEA : The market continues steady, and without altera
tion in prices.

Itici: 9,500 bags Arracan have been disposed of, part at
8s 6d per cwt for low quality.
JUTE : Of 4,500 bales offered by auction, 2,000 were sold
at rather irregular prices, ranging from £9 5s for common
to £23 per ton for extra fine.

CORN : Upon a numerous attendance of buyers at our
Corn Exchange this morning, foreign wheat was in good
reques', and a fair amount of sales was effected to consu-
mers, at the full prices of this day se'nnight. Fume's'
wheat, with a good supply from the growers, sold freely at
Id per 70 lbs over late prices. All good qualities of barrel
flour were in demand, and acquired an improvement of 6d to
Is, while sack flour maintained previous rates. Oats, oat-
meal, and barley moved off slowly, without change in value.
Beans are 6d per qr dearer. A good many buyers appearing
for Indian corn, and very few samples being offered, the
market opened at an advance of 6d, and closed firmly at Is
per qr over the enhanced rates of Friday, being au improve-
ment of is 6d on the week. Arrivals and exports from the
16th to the 21st April, 1856, inclusive : From Ireland,
1.542 qrs wheat. 82 qrs malt, 5,900 qrs oats, 25 qrs rye, 8
qrs beans, 110 qrs Indian corn, 5,614 sacks oatmeal, 505
sacks flour ; coastwise, 116 qrs wheat. 323 qrs oats, 320
sacks oatmeal, 25 brls flour; Canada and other British
colonies out of Europe, 687 qrs wheat ; United States, 2,826
qrs wheat, 1,862 qrs Indian corn, 55 brls flour ; Europe, &c.,
3 973 qrs wheat, 951 qrs beans, 1,094 qrs Indian corn, 1,298
sacks flour, 521 brls fluor ; Egypt, 1,500 qrs wheat, 1,200
qrs beans. Into Runcorn, 392 qrs oats. Total, 10,644 qrs
wheat, 82 qrs malt, 6,612 qrs oats, 25 qrs rye, 2,159 qrs
beans, 3,066 qrs Indian corn, 5,934 sacks oatmeal, 1,803
sacks flour, 601 brls flour. Exports : To foreign parts, 698
qrs oats, 30 sacks oatmeal ; Ireland, 1,035 qrs wheat, 2 qrs
malt, 6 qrs beans, 11,532 qrs Indian corn, 40 brls Indian
corrmeal, 976 sacks flour, 920 brls flour ; coastwise, 95 qrs
wheat, 18 qrs oats, 98 qrs beans, 13 qrs pease, 158 qrs
Indian corn, 12 qrs Indian cornmeal; 15 sacks oatmeal, 398
sacks flour, 1,035 brls flour. R. MAKIN & SON.

MANCHESTER.

Market very strong, but not much doing, owing entirely
to the advanced prices required both for gocds and yarns.

LONDON.
SUGAR : The market has opened with a good demand,
and full prices to a shade advance have been paid. The re-
fined market is 6d dearer than last Tuesday. Grocery lumps.
62s 6(1 to 555.

CorrEE: The market is firm, at last week's prices.
TEA : A limited business only done ; prices are unaltered.
RICE : Last week's prices are supported, with a small
amount of business done.

Rum remains steady.
SALTPETRE continues to have a steady appearance.
SPICES : Pimento sold at 4:d per lb ; cloves, 4ad to 411
per lb ; mace, 2s to 2s Id ; nutmegs, is Gd to 2s 4d.
In other articles no material alteration. There will not be
any public sale to-morrow.:
TALLOW : The market continues steady, with but little
doing. Town Tallow is quoted 48s nett cash ; Petersburg
Y.C. on the spot, 47s 3.1 to 47s 6d ; April to May, 47s
to 47s 3d ; May to June, 47s to 47s 3d ; October to Decem-
ber, 46s 9d to 475.

YESTERDAY'S MARKETS

LEEDS CORN : Wheat trade firm, at last week's prices;
barley scarce, and fully as dear; beans and oats, slow sale.
DUBLIN CORN : The tone of the market was firm, without
alteration in the rates lately quoted.
HULL CORN : There was a moderate show of English
wheat at market to-day, which met a free sale at is over
last week's currency; foreign, slow sale. Other articles
unaltered in prices.