Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

IMMEDIATE INSPECT lON

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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Evening.
The Cotton Market is quiet, with a very mode-
rate business doing, and we must report a down•
ward tendency in prices, buyers of American being
able to purchase about H 1 lower than ,on Friday
last. To-day the sales were about 4,000 bales,
including 1,000 on speculation.
The intelligerce r,:ceived by the Atlantic,
r,spfeting the crops, is rather conflictin,7, but on
the whole we may ennei,ler it mor.t satisfactory
than otherwise. This question is of so much
importance that we need, not apologise to cur
readers for giving a brief outline of the condition
of the crops in various localities, as received
to-lay.

Lf .SIANA,- The Caddo .Gazdte of the 29:b. ult ,
Bays that:-
So fir es the stalk is' c :ncened, it never looked rro-e
p o a isirg, but the I oils are Wanting, and. besides, the
exc .ssive rains of late have s.d the lower bolls or
4, first c op" to ion N;lntly is tet I.ii.king, and there is
an ircely any cotton open. This will shorter, the piikieg
seasein thrt a tir four weeks - a very serious matter, and
on that will tell heavi y when the aggregate of bales is
un vie up et e en! of he 3e
The NatcAitoelte3 Ckronicle of same date says :-
The best iefermetion which we c: n obtain on the sub-
jec', leads us to the belief 'hat the cotton e op in this
parish will eo (Al ,1 what is reg: riled here rs an average
crop. Toe late trusts in April seriously re'ariltd the crop
and she eieent if-ins, which s i 1 coe in re, hive greens-
prejudteel the n 1 r. . The to: is dcin r c 'en bl
cam tge, a d et 'his late dry, Ou'. little pickine has been
done. The (a terpi her or an early frost v4iir reduce the
-crop kart tile.
A LABAMA : The crop on the Warrior River, aria
all through that section of the country, bids fair
to be the finest nettle far a number of years.
Sho 1.1 the we ther c retinue fay •nrib'e a fern days
Ir tiger, rite corn crops will surpass h,ir to s, s:niguine
exprctations. There can be no docbt that cotton h
-if. red m serial yin some secti. 8-et, by the late and
unfavoureb'e seas.in cf planting, and afterwards by the
heavy and fr -Tun- rai^s, while in others the injury has
be, n much liss. As a g neral thing, most of the upland
crees-pt evi eel the wi ether should continue favourable-
will turn out moderately well, Indeed, we have heard of
some plant titian; the appearances of ehiett are entirey
satisf story Eut ro one can nrediet wi,h certainty what
maf b the condi:icn of things a week or a fortnight hence.
Frequent rains during that length cf time would not only
aln ost ruin the enips on the prairies and river bettoms, but
seriously irijir e those of Ihr unlit-Idr. And, so sure as the
rain comes, we may ce tlin'y expect the catterpiller to
follow. This destt uctive insect has, indeed, already made
its appearance, as the following extract from a country
cote e.pondent will show :-" My cotton is of no aceounn
I don't think I will make more than twenty bales, if that.
The wet weather Ivs ruirel in and now there is plenty of
caterpillars in i-.-Y urs, &c.. w. IL et.
The letter is:frein a Mississieian whose crop is usually 100
.b the We may say of the cetera liar, however, its
appearance is too late to be very injurious. Of worms,
the tell or drill worm is nos, most to be dreaded, and, as
will be seen in our dlusion to ,ha coops on the railroad,
contained in our iailroid rxeursian article on yesteiday
morning, repeblished to day, that des!ructire enemy of
the plant is doing serious hurt in some localities. [a 1846,
a remarkably wet year, the cetterpillar was first seen near
the middle of Ju!y. Its havoc that year will be ever-
memorable in the history of the plant.
The Mobile Tribune of the 29th ult., adds :-
Upon the whole. " with tLe lights now before us," to be
caatious in ex renting an opinion, we are morn and mire
confirmed in cur previous i-tp-esson already put forth,
that the crop will be clteilerata'y short.
ARKANSAS -From this place we learn :-
Tae prospect n ;w is, that the cotton crop wi I be seri-
ously damaged front an over abundance of rain. Heavy
*h w s hive Ellen in various pats of the country this
week, and frrm present iadicati .ns, the end is not yet.
Upon the best lands, cotton is from five to eight feet hieh,
and still growing; but very little is opened, and no picking
has yet been done, en] we imagine bat little will be done
before the 15th cf September.
NORTHERN MISSISS PPL.-The latest accounts
inform us that-
The recent rains have caused cotton to grow rapidly. It
is two weeks later thin usoal, but with dry we ,ther and a
late fall, as average yield will be made. 8h:u1.1 it become
wet, with an early fa 1, the crop very very, light. Ir case of
wet, the lower bolls will rot. Should there be an jut),
. fall, the upper bolls will be cut otf by the frost. Thus, it
will be seen, are our planting friends steering their bargees
of hope and expectation between Scylla and Charybdis.
The crops in the Mississippi bottom, are represented as
bean e very fine. The recent rains, co veyer, have crea`ed
some anxiety among planters, as to their effect tap in the
cotton plant.
The Liverpool Share Market opened very
quietly t )-day, but gained some strength, and
closed 4 to I per cent. above last night's prices.
The fodowing was the business done :-Cale-
donian, 421; Eastern Counties, lig; London and
North Western, .96 951, 96k, 961. 961; Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 41+ ; Midland, 80,
801; North British, 12 7 16 ; Norm Eastern, 221.
221; Dovers, 191, 19 15-16; Grand Trunk o
Canada, 111, 11Z; Great Western of Canada, 201
The following were the closing prices :-Blackburn
11, 8; Chester and Birkenhead, 651 xd, 66;. Caledo•
:Ilan, 421 421; Chester and Holyhead, 161, 161;
Eastern Counties, 11 '5-16, 11 7-16; East Lan-
cashire, Stock, 921 xd, 93 ; Do. new 9/. shares,
-1, xd, 9-16 p ; Great Northerns, 241, 241; Do
A shares, 101, 11i; Great Westerns, 531, 54;
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 96 xd, 961; Do
new 91. shares,l xd, j p; Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 181 xd, 184; London and North
Western, 961, 961; Ditto 8•h Shares, 13-16 11.16 d ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 41.
411; Midland Stock, 801 802 ; North British,
123, 12 7-16; North Staff ndshire, 41, d ; North
Eastern-Berwick Capital Stock, 221, ;221i York
Capital Stock, 381, 381; Leeds Stock, 21k, 243 ;
Scottish North Eastern,late Aberdeen, 11,12; South
Eastern, 19 3-16, xd, 191 ; Dutch Rhenish, 31, 31,1;
Great Luxembourg, 61, 62- ; Buffalo, and Lake
Huron, 51, 5 d ; Do. New Shares, 51, 5 d ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 111. Ili; Great Western of
Canada, 201, 201 ; Do. New Shares, a, 1 i.
There is very little business doing in the Market
for the Public Fund sand Securities, but the tendency
to-day was towards buoyancy, and prices were very
firmly maintained, the closing quotations of Consols
for Money being 901, and for the Account at 90/
to 901, and Exchequer Bjls 8 to 3 dis.
In the London Railway Share Market there
was very few transactions to report, and prices were
with difficulty maintained The following were the
closing quotations : - Caledonian, 831, 831 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 96, 97 ; Eastern Counties,
ILL 11k; East Lancashire, 92, 93 ; Great
Northern, A Shares, 85. 87 ; Great West-
ern, 531, 54 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95i,
'96 ; Leeds Northern, 481 ; 1 ondon and North
Western, 951, 96 ; London and South Western
90, 91 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln.
shire, 401, 41 ; Midland Stock, 80i; North British;
491 501 ; South Eastern and Dover, 65i, 661;
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 901, 911 ; York
and North Midland, 77, 78 ; Grand Trunk, 111, 11.;;
Great Western of Canada, 201. 201 ; Do. new, 1, 1
After official hours the prices current were as
follows :-Caledonian, 831. 831 ; Eastern Counties,
11 5-16, 11 7-16; East Lancashire, 92, 93 ; Great
Northern, 961. 97; Do. A, 86. 88; Great Western,
531, 54* ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 9b3, 961;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 401, 411;
Midland Stock, 80* 8 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 651, 661

At a meeting just held of the London, Manches-
ter, and Foreign Warehouse Company a resolution
was adopted to wind up. The company was formed
at the beginning of last year with a capital of
.50,000/ in 101 shares, on which 8/ had been paid.
Nearly the whole has been lost, and it seems to
have been intimated that, unless litigation could
_be avoided, a call of the remaining 2/ per share
might be necessary. The delays and expenses of
;the Bankruptcy CJurt were, as usual, held up to
terrify the shareholders against allowing any
measures to be taken that might bring the com-
pany under that jurisdiction, and by this means a
public exposure of the nature of th 3 management
will most probably he evaded.
The Journal de Constantinople announces the
arrival of some English engineers with materials
to establish telegraphic communication between
Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf.
The suggestion in the recent report of the Select
Committee on the Exchequer Pay and Audit De-
partments for improvements it: the system of issu-
ing Exchequer Bills, so as to get rid of the annual
,inconvenience of their bt i to sent in for renewal,