The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

MONETARY ;AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EMNING.
The 'Liverpool Money Market Opened in ,a state
bordering on collapse, but raiied considerably
when it became known. thtit the runi.ouit of:yes-
terdsT ti.s to the position of ninths in the East were
not 'confirmed. Still the tone of busineSs bespoke
great Micoiness. Matters must' soon, however,
tate some decisive turn. Ilnt, in the mean time, we
cannot understand why those who
.have invested
money-in 'Goverhinent Stocks or Shares for income,
should become sellers, under the present circum-
stances of the country. If war should grow out
of ministerial procrastination, 4161'8 is no room for
supposing that it wbiild be prolOnged. for such
length 'of tine, as would be likely to endanger
the Dunctual payment of the dividends on the
public debt. Such •an event cannot by :any possi-
bility occur. Where, then, is the cause for sacri-
ficing Government Stocks it§ they haVe been sa-
crificed within the 141 thWe Months ?

Again, with i*fd to railway, banking, and other
shares-,- whith rely on the internal resources of the
country for dividends, who can doubt their sta-
bility? War would, if anything, increase '6O rail-
way traffic. This now ateotth to upwards of
12,000,000/. annually, Mid laSbeCoine one of the most
jowerful Weis our banks hive in their han.ds, to aid
the trade and manufactures of the country And if
we look to foreign countries, where we haire the
largest stakes.—The•United'StAtt'S, Austrdlia, and
South America Can it be thought that our trade
with thee neutral and distant states can be anni-
hilated? On the contrary,- we think that, war
would, most likely; give a fresh, impetus to
trade in those quarters. The prices in this market
are so variable, that we can only refer otir readers
to the ordinary quotations, Which we give in ano-
ther column,

Mao are how about 53 vessels entered out for
loading at Liverpool for the Australian colonies, of
an aggregate of about 33,000' ton, advertised to
sail in the -eourse of the present month. It is,
however, probable that the destination of many of
those, and some of the 116 laid on in London, will
be changed, since the receipt of the information
that the AustraliaU markets are glutted, for the
present, with goods of all kinds. .

We have scarcely any addition to our intelligence
from the East to-day. Thd semi-official Oester-
reiehische Oorrespondeitz of the lstinforms us, that
not only the. result of the Olmutz conference was
favourable to peace, but that a new proposal of
accommodation had been despatched for the Porte's
acceptance.

It appears that the Paris Bourse was, like our
own Stock Exchanges, violently • agitated. The
Three per Cents. closed at '73f. 90c. for the end of
the month, and the _Four-and-a-half per Cents. at
100 f. 45b.,;, Orleans Railway Shares, 1,290 E; Rouen,
1,015 f. ; Havre, 502 f. 50c. ; Paris. and Strasbourg,
217 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 885 f..;• Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 730 f. '; Western of France, 703 f 75c.;
Bordeaux and Cette, 595 f. ;.Great Central, 513 f. 75c.
Lyons to Geneva, .502 f. 50e.; Shares of the Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 715 f.
The London_ Stock Exchange was less agitated
than might have been anticipated; and Consols
opened without alteration at the ,closing prices of
last night-90i 91 for money, and 90-i 91* for the
Account day on the 13th. The Foreign Securities
are a little firmer after the speculative sales yes-
terday, consequent on the fall in Consols.
Foreign. Stocks.—Braxilian, 97 to 99 ex div. ;
Equador, 44 41; Mexican, 214 23+ ; Portuguese,
41 43 ; Spanish
.3 per cents., 44 45 ;. ditto deferred,
211 211; ditto passive, 41- 5 ; Dutch 21 per cents.,
61 63 ; ditto 4 per cents., 92 94 ex div.
In the Share Market prices opened about 10s.
lower. The following are the opening prices this
morning of the principal shares, which are quoted
per share, except in the cases of the Great West-
ern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, London and North
Western, and Midland, Which are quoted per cent.:
:---EaStern Counties, 11+, 11+; Great Northern, 171,
18*; Great Western, 78*, 79 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 601, 11 : London and Blackwall. 78, 72-; Lon-
don and North Western, 101, 1012; London and
South -Western, 371, 381- ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, 191, 191 ; North British, 61, 61 ; Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 18, 19 -
South Eastern, 17, 17-1-; York, Newcastle, and Ber;
wick, 15 141; York and North Midland, 22i ;
Northern of France, 322 33 ; Paris and Lyons, 14+
15 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 351-, 36a ; Australian
Agricultural Company, 32 34; British American
Land, 55 60; N. B. Australian Land, 14 16 ; Bank
of Australasia, 69 71, ex. div. and b.; Chartered of
India, Australia., &c., dis par. ; English Scottish,
and Australian, 21 2 dis. ; London Chartered of
Australia,* dis., 16 prem. ; Royal Australian Bank-
ing Company, 1 dis. par. ;. Bank of South Australia,
'36 38 ; Union of Australia, 63 65 ; • ditto. New, 01
7i; Peel River, 4 dis. ; ScOttish Australian,
Iff la prem.

BULLION MARKET AND FOTtEIGII EXCHANGES

We give Jhe,current price of Gold, as followS, to
assist the rnerchant in calculating the rates of
Foreign Exchange, by the actual current rates of
'bullion, as last'reported
London, 775. 9d. ; Paris, —; Hamburgh,—; Am-
iterdam, —; Vienna, —; St. Petersburg, ; Ber-
lin, —; Milan, —; Constantinople; —7- ; Alexandria,
--; Bombay, —; Calcutta, ; Hong Kong,-7 ;
Sydney, 745. 6d. to 755. ; Port Phillip, 775. ; Adelaide,
—; Victoria, 775. 6cl. ; Ovens, 765. 6d.; Montreal, —;
Neir York, —; Boston, .£3 17s. :9d. ; San Francisco,
; Mexico, --; Brazils, —.
We subjoin a return of the Foreign Exchanges,
calculated according to the London Mint price of
£3. 17s 101 d. the ounce ; •

. Amsterdam, short, 11 17 to 11 174; do, 3 months, 11 19
to 11 193; Rotterdam, 3,m. 11 191 to 11 19i ; Antwerp,
3 M. 25 40 to 25 45 ; Brussels, 3 M. 25 40 to 25 45;
Hamburg, 3 in. 13 71, to 13 71. Paris, short, 25 7i to
25 123; do, 3 m. 25' 40 to 25' 424 ; MarSeilles, 3 m. 25 40
to 25 45; Frankfort, 3 m. 1203 to —.;. 'Vienna, 3 m. 11 10
4).11 15; Trieste, 3 in. 11 12 to 11 18; Petersburgh, 371
to —; Madrid, 3 m. 50 to —; Cadiz, 3 m. 601 to 501;
Leghorn, 3 m. 30 10 to 30 15 ; Genoa, 3 m. 25 45 to' 25 50 ;
Naples,- 3 m. 411. to —•2 Palermo,. 3:m. 1244 to 1241 ;
Messina, 3 m. 1241 to 125; Lisbon, 3 m. 521 to 53; Oporto,
3m. 54 to 53 1; R. Janeiro, 60 days, to —; • New
York, ditto; 10 91 to 10 91 ; Boston, ditto, to —;
Foreign Gold in bars, £3 17s. 9d.; Mexican Dollars,
.os. Od.; Silver in bars stand, Os. Od, ; • East India Com-
pany's Bills: House Bills 60 days ; Calcutta Co's Rupee,
243; Bombay•ditto, 25; Madras ditto, 241. •
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.—The weekly returns
of the Board of Trade, made up to yesterday; the
sth, have not yet been issued. We understand,
that, notwithstanding the depressions.which has
prevailed. in several branches both of consumption
and production, they will chew increased exports
and imports on the previous month, as well as on
the previous eight months.