The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-27 00:00:00

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FOR. SALE, a Small PONY: a beautiful animal; quiet and
free from vice —Apply at Walton's Livery Stables.
KENTLEDGE.—A large and well-assorted Stock always on hand.
Also, BALLAST (Pig) IRON.
NA ILLIAM F. SIM & CO., Sweetmg-street.

VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY.—TO be SOLD, by
Private Treaty, the DWELLING-HOUSE, together with a
COTTAGE and WORKSHOP, situate 47, Sir Thomas's-buildings.
—Apply at 49,

A IGBURTH.—TO be SOLD, a capital FAMILY HOUSE, Free-
In. hold, and having a view of the river, with garden and all requi-
site outbuildings. Half the purchase money might remain on at 4i
per cent.—Apply to Mr. J. Boalt, 24, North John-street.

SCHOLASTIC.—TO be SOLD, the immediate TRANSFER of a
CLASSICAL and COMMERCIAL DAY SCHOOL—estab-
lished ten years—highly reputed, and yielding a dear annual
Inc Inc of eiso. For GOODWILL and SCHOOL FURNITURE,
a moderate sum required. Also, a LADIES' SCHOOL, in a
respectable locality, with a good connection. They may be pur-
chased separately or conjointly.—Address C. T. M., Northern Times
SOILS

ADDRESS MR. PRIEST, BIRKENHEAD. HOUSES 1
HOUSES l! LAND 1 LAND 1 I—ON SALE, in large or
small lots, variously situated, and ranging in price from about
Jeioo to t6o,ooo.—See H. P. Priest's Cheshire and Lancashire
Property Circular. Can be had gratis and free by post. Cheshire
offices, tor the Sale and Letting of Land and Houses, Market-cross
Chambers (one door from Market.sjuare) Market-street. Birken-
head.

Commercat 4Aalts.

NEXT WEEK.

TUESDAY,

On Toast:l,4v next, the 30th instant, at Twelve o'clock, in the
Commercial Saleroom, Temple. court,
1354 Boxes
383 +-Drums Fine New Eleme Turkey FIGS,
34 a-Ditto
now landing ex Teneriffe.—Apply to Messrs. Whittall, Lenox St CO.,
Merchants, or to THOMAS PARRY, Broker.

On TUESDAY next.'tbe3oth instant. at Twelve o'clock, in the
Commercial Saleroom. Temple-court,
65 Boxes Old LAYERS, ex Calpe,
120 4.D0. Old LAYERS, ex Teneriffe,
90 Cases SARDINES, all faults,i
90 Dos. American BROOMS.
60 Dos. American WHISKS.
THOMAS PARRY. Broker.

Apply to

D J. NODDER,
. HATTER,
kV

81, CHURCH-STREET,

Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver-
pcol that hi* NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY
for Inspection.

4e ktirthtrn

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1856,

THE DAY'S NEWS

The First of November approaches, and as the
month of October is almost at our door, the Annual
Municipal Elections begin to occupy public atten-
tion. To-day's NORTHERN TIMES contains the letter
announcing the retirement of Mr. Geo. Holt from
the representation of Castle-street Ward. This

will, no doubt, astonish SOME of the people who
deem themselves well posted up in local affairs,
and particularly as our juvenile cotempo•
across the way announced, in the
part sof the week, that Mr. Holt
was the " coming man"—that being noted for
business habits—a perfect gentleman, and a
liberal to boot, he was to be the Mayor of 1856 and
'57. And, moreover, our good-natured cotemporary,
taking for granted that this was a settled fact, in
his short but insinuating semi-leader of Wednesday;
announced that Mr. Holt had actually consented
to act as Mayor, should the Council elect him to
the office. Has the juvenile daily been so ill
posted upon the current local topics of the day, that
ho has been imposed upon ? Or did tho writor of the
article in question merely gives us a sample
of his " Irish Blarney," so that his tact

and newspaper ingenuity might be admi
hrtede,
and made in a certain mercantile locality,
subject of " talk on 'Change ? " Be this:as„
from
what it
,
our Lord-street friend has been at fault; d
he has already said, with him,
Mr. Holt should have found it his duty to retire
m
we regret that
from the Council. Of the rectitude of Mr. Holt's
purpose—his desire to protect the pockets of the
ratepayers of Liverpool as far as his judgment and
influence extends—no one who knows that gentle-
man can doubt. Whether he has allowed the
Pike question to throw cold water upon his ardour,
to serve the burgesses of Castle.street ward,
we leave his letter to the deputation to
decide. One thing is certain, that we are
sure his retirement from the Council will
be regretted, and hope that, ere long, he
may occupy the civic chair of this great
community, where his urbanity of character, bene-
volence, and hospitality, would render him one of
the most popular of Mayors that Liverpool could
boast of for the last half century. Leaving this
topic for the present, it is said that, although there
is as yet no apparent activity in any of the wards,
the next Municipal Election will be unusually
exciting; that, in commercial parlance, many seats
will " change hands ;" that two accounts have to be
settled with retiring members—gas and water ; that
the former is still deficient in quality, and expensive
in cost; and that the compromise with the Gas Com_
pany is not what the ratepayers had a right to expect.
Our recent exposures of the Pike enormities call
fora decided and emphatic vote of the Burgesses,
so that the monopoly of the first, and the out-
rageous extravagance of the second, may be h
the
ever set aside. Our columns have exposed
absurdities of both scheme 3. We could say much
more, but leave to the electors, on the Ist of
November next, to decide, by their votes, whether
they will tolerate such jobbing as marks the move-
ments of the Town Council for some time past.
A reference to another column will ono.blo our
readers to ascertain the nature of the proceedings
which took place in the Liverpool County Court,
yesterday, respecting the Royal Oak Burial
Society. The recent meeting, and its results,
were brought before Mr. Pollock, Judge of the
Court ; and, after Mr. Martin had handed in a
minute, containing a report of the proceedings,
and Mr. Hull had made some remarks thereon,
his Honour offered some observations, hoping
that, as new rules had been introduced, the
society would now go on and prosper. We
hope that this may be so ; but, as we entertain an
idea that the time is come for something to be
done to regulate these societies, we shall take
another occasion of enforcing our ideas upon the
subject. The Birkenhead County Court, yesterday,
was the scene of a singular but painful exhibition.
A gentleman, named M'Donald, was brought before
Mr. Harden, the Judge, as an insolvent debtor.
He detailed in strong, but touching language, the
hardships and the miseries to which he was sub-
ject, simply because he acted, as he avers, faith-
fully towards his employers, the Corporation Of
Liverpool. Nl'
Donald is, as his speech in the
Birkenhead County Court shows, a man of intel
ligence, and reasoning powers. He has suffered
penury and degradation from the unrelenting
conduct of unmerciful creditors, and that cursed
relic of a barbarous age the Wapentake Court.
No one who reads M'Donald's plain and unvar-
nished tale of the sufferings inflicted upon him by
Judge Grace, but must feel indignant that
such a stain upon English jurisprudence, and
glaring misnomer of public justice should, for a
single hour, remain tolerated by the sanction of
the most obsolete enactment upon the book. We will not further comment upon the
absurdity, the legal rascality, and the abominable
practices of the " Wapentake," administered by a
" Grace," whose name, if the unfortunate insolvent
be correct, would not be an ornament, nor a desir-
able member of any church or synagogue. We are
glad that Judge Harden declared from the bench
that what had been done by the Wapentake was
illegal. Were his Grace of Wapentake in other
lands, a Vigilance Committee would take care of
his corpus ; and, if permitted to live, he in
all probability, be tarred and feathered. would
Ena, n
d,
gl
however, is more orderly in her conduct against
public tyrants, but the time has come when she
will abolish such sinks of public iniquity, and do
away with the semblance of
for the protection of
iclosSraodrficintihgneitantlnr
whose only practice is to justice by a court,
and annoy.ontinent inform us that
the expedition to Naples,
persecute The advices from the C
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the Western Powers to the King of Naples. In this note, France and England express their desire
to come to an honourable understanding with the
King of Naples. They admit that, tine h
er t e
sent circumstances, the King cannot grantpre-
a
general amnesty, and therefore
only request
him to grant a pardon to those political prisoners
who may apply for it and make their submission in proper form. But this they particularly insist
on, and therefore give their note the form of
an
ultimatum, which allows the King of Nales a
fortnight's time to consider, after which the Wepstern
Powers will resort to the measures they think
advisable.

With regard to the frontier dispute with Russia,
we learn from Vienna letters, of a late date, that the
20th Article of the Treaty of Peace, concluded at
Paris in,the month of March last, can hardly fail to
lead to a serious misunderstandifig between the

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

lAllied Powers and Russia, should the latter object
to its being somewhat modified. The question at
1 issue is one of great importance. When Austria

proposed to her Allies entirely to remove Russia
from the Danube, it was agreed that the new
frontier between Russia and Moldavia should be
formed by a line, " which, beginning in the
neighbourhood of Chotyni, and following the line
of mountains running towards the south-east,
should terminate at Lake Salzyk " If the original
idea had been carried out, Russia would have ceded
two-thirds of Bessarabia to Moldavia, but when the
question of the ratification of the frontier was dis-
cussed at Paris, the Russian diplomatists spoke in
such strong terms of the unnecessary humiliation
to which their country would be subjected, should
such a large cession of territory be made.
We have Madrid advices of the 21st. A Royal
decree had.been published, suspending, till further
resolution, the sale of the property that devolved
on the secular clergy by virtue of the law of April,
1845. Another decree appoints M. Rivaniera
director of the sale of national property, and M.
Sierra director of the treasury. The decree accept-
ing the resignation of the Minister of Finance,
declares that the Queen is " very much satisfied
with the zeal and intelligence with which he ful-
filled the duties of his post, and that she proposes
to utilise his services when the occasion shall pre-
sent itself." The Gazette also contains the decree
which appoints M. Salaverria his successor. The
Debate, Paris paper, publishes a letter from Madrid,
where, it seems, everything continues to be at sixes
and sevens. The Queen wants a good stout broom
to sweep her palace. She took a new one compara-
tively—O'Donnell finds it no use, and so Sa Majesty
falls back on Rios Roses. But all the rios in the
world would not cleanse, nor all the rosas in the vale
of Cashmere perfume, that Augean stable, and now
recourse must be had to that second-hand but
decidedly efficient balai Narvaez.
It is rumoured in Paris that the United States
have in contemplation to form an alliance with
those European Powers, not parties to the treaty
of Paris, who may be disposed to adopt the addi-
tional article respecting the immunity of merchant
vessels and merchandise from capture even by men
of war. There is not any intelligence of moment
in the news from other quarters of the Continent.
It would appear, from the silence of the Moniteur,
and from the confident tone of the German papers,
that delay is decidedly the favourite policy of the
Western Powers with regard to their interference
between King Bomba and his maccareni-loving
subjects. M. Hubner is going to Biarritz to
endeavour to induce the Emperor to change his
mind on the subject ; but people here are confi-
dent that M. de Hubner will lose his labour. The
health of the Emperor Napoleon is said to be good,
and his views of the alliance with England
unaltered. He is, it is said, determined to make
the union of England and France a bond of con-
cord for the prosperity of both nations, and, as far
as possible, using the alliance for the benefit of
other countries. If any misconceptions have oc-
curred on this subject, they have originated in
those who have not represented the will of
his Majesty. The Emperor's return to Paris is
looked forward to with considerable anxiety,
as it may be connected with important changes.
The Rev. Dr. Booth, formerly Vice-Principal of
the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, has delivered
an able and eloquent address at Lewes, on the best
means of promoting education in this country. We
regret space will not permit us to notice this masterly
essay at some length. Meantime, we would call
attention to an advertisement which appears in
yesterday's Mercury, inviting candidates for
the office of mistress of St. Aiden's school
at the north end of the town, at the magnificent
salary of £25 a year. The lady in question—for
she must be such—is to be mannerly, intelligent,
well-informed on scholastic subjects, and decidedly
pious.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING

During the past week the Cotton Market has manifested
a firm and upward tendency. Not only have the trade
bought to a large extent every day, but the operations of
both speculators and exporters have been considerable. The
week's transactions foot up no less than 72,750 bales, of
which speculators and exporters took 25,460, leaving the
balance, 47,290 to the trade. The imports this week were
only 22,983, so that the stock has been considerably reduced
when compared with the figures in last week's statement.
The total stocks on hand is estimated at 635,680 bales of
all descriptions, of which 494,010 are American ; 39,000
Brazil, 61,610 Egyptian, 1,670 West India and 49,390,
East India. The authorised quotations of fair cotton as
fixed by the Brokers' Committee, are 614 for Upland; 6id
for Mobile, and 71d per lb. for Orleans.
The Liverpool Share Market has not sustained yesterday's
improvement. Business opened very flat, and prices after-
wards receded, the market closing with weakness. The
settlement of the account is occupying attention, and the
following sales for the next account were reported, at the
subjoined rates:—Caledonians, 27 9-16, 12a 9-16 123, I.
Eastern Counties, 9Z, 5-16, 1. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
962, Q 7 1. London and North Western 1031 3. Midland
Stock, 781, 1,8, 7, k. g, I. South Eastern, 211. 31 6,
1, 1-16. As remarked, there was a dull market at the close.
The latest rates were as follows.: —Aberdeen, 13* 131.
Chester and Birkenhead, 151 15i. Caledonian, 27Z 271.
Chester and Holyhead, 16/ 161. Eastern Counties, 9 1 16
9k. East Lancashire, 208 20,11. Greet NotThefn, 23*
23. Do A, 10 101. C-eat Westcrn, 612 65. Lancashire and
Yorkshire Stuck, 97Z- Liverpool, Crosby, e' I South -
port, 18; 18:1- London and Null k Western Stock, 102 1021.
Manchester, ::lheffield, and Lincoln, 31* 32. Midland
Stock, 771 772, North British, 9 11-16 91. North
Staffordshire, 51 sd. South Eastern, 20 15.16 21. York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 19* 208. York and North
Midland, 271 28. Leeds Capital Stock, 17a 178. Buffalo
and Lake Huron, 1-16 d 1-16 p. Dutch Rhenish, 2 2* p.
Great Western of Canada, 23* 231. Ditto New SI, ares,
1 11-16 1 13-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 101 101 d. The rates
of Contangoes paid to day wero ian, 9d, con.
Eastern Counties, 9d, 721, Bd. Great \Vestern, even.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 1, 3-16, f. Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1. South Eastern, 2s 23 3d,
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, kd. Dutch Rhenish, 10d
is 21 Is. Great Western of Canada, New Shares, 70, 9d,
10d, Bd.

The Money Market keeps in much the same state as
reported during the week. There is rather more demand
in the Stock Exchange, to meet the rtquirements for the
next account in the Share Market, and rates of continuation
are heavier than before the last " Settling Day."
The Market for Public Funds and Securities was rather
lower to-day. Consols for the account opened at 931 to
93.1, declined to 93 5-16 to 93 7.16, and slightly reached to
93f to k for both money and account. Exchequer Bills
are quoted at 13 to 16 run.
At the Manchester Share Market to- day, the following
business was transacted :—Midland, 78i, 71, 7, next
account. Leeds, 96, this account, and 971, -I, next account.
Dovers, 21k, 1-16 next account, and Sheffields, 32a next
account.

The London Share Market was very dull to-day, and
prices were on the decline. We note sales of Caledonian,
55. Great Western, 64f, 1. Lancashire and Yorkshire,
961. London Stock, 1021, 1-„. Midlands, 771 South
Eastern and Dover, 70,1. York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
80, 791, I. We append the latest quotations :—Caledonian,
54! 55. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 51 53. Eastern
Counties, 91, 3-16. East Lancashire, 791 801. Great
Northern, 93 94. Account, 80 81. Great Western,
631 64. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 961, H. Leeds
Northern, 171 18. London and North Western, 1021.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 321, 1. Midland
Stock, 77k, North British, 38, 1. South -Eastern and
Dover, 691 70. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 79 80.
York and North Midland, 55 66.
Our reports from most parts of the country represent the
weather as being unsettled, but harvest operations are
pretty forward. We have had a continued succession of
heavy rains in this district since Tuesday, and in those
where the harvest is in progress, the same cause greatly
impedes operations in the fields ; our Scotch advices
report that little more than oue half of the Grain crops
is actually secured, a fair proportion of the remainder
standing out in the sheaf, and some yet unripe and uncut.
The growers iu most parts of the kingdom bring forward
increasing supplies of new Wheat, but the condition is
uniformly more or less complained of, and this produces a
lower' value for such, while dry parcels readily command
full rates. There is a renewed fair demand for good
strong old and new American Wheats upon this market for
transit to the interior; extra qualities of Flour are
exceedingly scarce, and a good many of the middling and
low parcels of barrels have been cleared off during the last
two days at prices rather against buyers; Indian Corn has
been somewhat more enquired for, and a few lots taken at
previous rates, but the aggregate consumptive demand is
only moderate at present Since the beginning of the week
we have been well supplied by further imports of States and
Canadian Wheat, with a moderate quantity of Flour, and
an increased arrival of Indian Corn, but have no other
Foreign Grain produce for insertion to-day. During the
same period supplies from Ireland have continued to come
iu rather sparingly, and from the British coast we have
nothing fresh in to report. At our markets here to-day
the trade was firm, but neither Wheat or Flour commanded
higher rates. At Wakefield a similar feeling prevailed.
The bushiess in Dublin at late rates. _ _ _

Let our readers only think of this offer o
£25 a year, to drudge and toil at the highest of al
labour—intellectual—for a sum far below wha

" my lady" gives to her waiting-maid, not to speak
of the board and lodging ! The offer is not only
ridiculous, but a disgrace to those who make it.
No wonder that our schools are mere machines of
letters, and that the preceptor's chair is deemed the
last refuge of the indolent and the unfortunate.
No wonder that when we thus treat educators,
and ask them to subsist upon the pauper's pittance,
that they who are fitted by natural and acquired
abilities, scorn what ought to be an honourable
profession, and betake themselves to less onerous,
but better rewarded, pusuits. We shall return to
this subject.

The Colonial Produce Markets have kept steady during
the week, and for most articles there has been steady
prices. Sugar meets an improved enquiry, and rates of
most descriptions are advancing. Coffee and Tea are
held at the currency of last week. Rice has commanded
some attention. With regard to Tallow, we have to remark
that, during the week, there was a " fair consumptive
demand for P. Y. C., which sold early in the week at .523
Gd per cwt, but owing to the advance in London, is now
held for 63s 6d to 54s per cwt. Small sales of S. American
made at 53s to 54s per cwt, in other descriptions nothing
worth reporting. The London market, owing to the limited
quantity offering on the spot, steadily advanced all the week,
and as high as 52s 6d per cwt was paid for immediate
delivery, but late yesterday afternoon the arrival of 1,600
casks caused it to decline to 623 to 61s 6d for the spot and
month; for the end of the year there has been little change,
and the nearest quotation is 49i 91 per cat. The deliveries
continue large. that for the present half-week being 1,732
casks against 1,455 casks last year, and the stock on the
22nd instant was 9,165 casks, against 29,344 casks in
1855.

We have the following trade report of yesterday's mar_
ket at Bradford :—The market is abundantly supplied with
all kinds of wool. A fair business doing and prices steady.
The demand- for yarns for export still continues, and an
average quantity is taken into consumption by our local
manufacturers. Prices are firm, with a tendency upwards
The demand for Pieces has again been rather quiet, and
manufacturers generally complain of the slackness of trade.
Orders are coming in very scantily, and prices of goods are
very unsatisfactory. Stocks are low, as at the present rates
of material there is no i❑ducement to speculate, and looms
are only kept running for positive orders.
The Liverpool Wool Sales commenced here to-day, when
2,148 bales were disposed of. There was a good attendance
of buyers, and the bi4dings were, in most instances, spirited.
The two catalogues offered were gone through, the trade
being rather animated. Full details of the sale are in
another column.

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap.
32, for the Week ending Sept. 19, 1856.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Debit. Credit.
Notes issued £26,015,080 Government
Debt
Other securities 3,459,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion

£26,015,080 I Total .... £26,015,080

BANNING DEPARTMENT.
Debit. Credit.
Proprietors' ca- Government se-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 7,909,724 Notes 6,225,895
Other „ 9,958,972 Gold and silver
Seven day, and coin
other bills.. 909,336

£37,074,927

Total 137,074,927

The foregoing Bank Returns show the following results,
when compared with those of the preceding week :—Notes
issued, increase £52,665. Bullion in both departments,
£1,232,602. Decrease, £8 708. Rest, increase £13,080.
Public deposits, increase £1,300,432. Other deposits,
decreare £14,592. Seven days' and other bills, increase
£12,157. On the credit side, government securities remain
in
crease
of same as last week's return. Other securities, an
of £1,367,278. Notes unemployed, increase £15,070.
Actual circulation, £19,789,185, being an increase of
£37,495.
The following is the last quotations of the Foreign
to,
3Exchangesl:l-lA6imtsot a
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11
174. Antwerp, do, 25 271 to 25 32#. Brussels, do, 25
27i to 25 321. Hamburg, do, 13 61, to 13 74. Paris,
short, 25 224 to 25 321. Ditto, 3 months, 25 571 t.) 25
671. Marseilles, do, 25 60 to 25 70. Frankfort, do, 119
to 1198. Vienna, do, 10 31 to 10 38. Trieste, do, 10 34
to 10 40. Petersburg, do, 375. Madrid, do, 497; to 49i.
Accounts from Hollard contain the particulars of the
budget for the year 1857, presented on the 23rd inst. by
the Minister of Finance to the Second Chamber. The
principal items are as follows :—Estimated expenditure,
72,746,433 florins ; and receipts, 72.784,421 ditto ;
exhibiting
.a presumed surplus revenue of 37,932 florins,
It is said !o the expose of the financial situation, that the
actual position of affairs does not present so favourable a
result as it did last year, and that it is to be feared a deficit

may be expected. The only other matter worthy of remark
is that, since 1850, fifty-six millions and a half of the
national debt has been amortised, and which has been
obtained by a reduction of 2,290 890 florins in the annual
payment of interest as stock.
Further advices from Hamburg state that the demand for
silver continues as active as ever for export to Austria,
Sweden, and Russia. The speculators in this article, know.
ing that the banks are bound to pap their notes in silver
specie on presentation, are daily exchanging them, and very
quickly convert the coin into bars of silver, aLd export the
same at profit to the north of Europe. If this continues for
some time longer, and the difference between the relative
values of gold and silver, as medium of exchange, be not
altered, there are serious apprehensions of a disastrous result
in the money markets of Germany. The premium
on the precious metals, which has been rising to 5 and 6
per cent. during the last week at Vienna, is increasing, and
is expected shortly to reach from 10 to 12 per cent. In
this disturbed state of the money market, the state of affairs
on the Bourse at Hamburg is daily becoming more depressed,
and all the new bank projects have declined.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ERICSSON

The United States mail steamship, E'ricsson, Captain
Lowber, which sailed from New York on the 13th inst.,
entered the Mersey at a late hoer last night, bringing the
mails, a few passengers, and some specie on freight.
Her dates aro a few hours later than those telegraphed to
Quebec for the sailing of the North America.
The political news in the New York papers appears to
be destitute of anything of interest or importance. The
Presidential canvass for Buchanan and Fremont was
being prosecuted with renewed vigour, and it was some-
what amusing to witness the manner in which each of the
parties—Democrat and Republican—villified the other.
Fremont seemed to be the favourite candidate, and bets
to a large amount were being laid that he would ocoupy
the White House during the next Presidential term.
No settlement nor prospect of a settlement of the affairs
of Kansas has taken place.

In commercial matters we do not find that any chinge
of moment had taken place. Since the despatch of the
Niagara's mails, currency was in request, and full rates
of interest demanded. Cotton and breadstuff were
in' fair request at late rates, and there was a good
demand for cured provisions, Freights were a little more
active, but no noticeable advance in the rates was
reported. Exchange steady at 1091 to 1091.