Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

now pretty abundifit,- and selling at 1-16 d. to Id.
decline on the quotations- of last week. The Com-
mon dusty •kincla, in fact, all qualities containing
dust or sand, are, very unsaleable, and the prices
,quite nominal. • We now quote •" middling" Up-
lands Cld; ; i iobile, 7-d. ;. Orleans, rile_ The Com-
mittee of,Brdkers place "fail" Uplands 7 3-16 d. ;
Mobile; 71d.; Orleans, 70..Surats leave been in
fair demand, but are freely off3red, at Id: decline
Egyptians Ere also a point lower. Brazils, .but
more, pallicularly Maceios, are 44.1...t0 id. lower,
and difficult to-sell at the decline. .1,250 Ameri-
can and SQ Egyptian are. reported to have been
take-won sp3culation ; 2,470 American, and 3,470
Surs.t • for export ; so that the deliveries to the
trade forethe week lave been ab0ut,84,700 bales."

In theliverpool Share Market-to-day the tone
was fiat, and business dull, closing a shade below
the best:Toint of the day. During the week a
better business was done, and at rather higher
prices than those of last week; but .n.o excitement_
-Was shown, and the advance arose- more frOm a
paucity u'f. fellers than from any_ .other obvious
cause. .Th-e business of to-day comprised sales of
Eastern Counties at 11Z,4 ;- Great Western,
67a; Lancashiru and Yorkshire, 991, y, ; Lan-
-caster and _Carlisle Con. Stock, 2011 ; London
and NortloWestern, 981, . 4,• t, ; ditto
ilk shares, 2 9-16, id. ; Midland, 1081; North
Eastern (Berwick Stock), 951 -5 ; South Eastern,
241-; Grand Trunk of Canada, 94, 15,16; ditto
7 per Cent, 1872, cum int., 71; , ditto 7 per
Cent., 1867., .ruin int.; 74 ; ditto 7 per Cent., 1862,
cum. int., 84.:; • Great Luxembourg Censtit.,- 7
5-16 ; Great
,Western of Canada,. 131; Bank of
LiverpoOl, 20:;--Xorthand South Wales Bank, 81;
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance,
dif, 15-16 p.; British and Irish Magnetic Tele-
„graph A., 361.

CLOSING 'PRICES,

Mester & B'head" 78.; 762 N. E. Ber. e, Stock 95 951,
Caledonian. . 924 -03 York capital Stock 781 79
E. Counties ..11 7-16 rl4 Leeds Stock 48,1 4SI
G. N. Stock ....105)J .1061 B:East. .. 24 5-16 24 .7-16
Great Westerns.. 671 674, Dutch Rhenish 4,1 4';:d
Lap. and York'.. 991 -99f,-; Gt. Luxem 7Z-16
Ln. & Nor. West. 98-t 931 .G.T. Cana. 9 11-16 9 13-16
1-.thares . 9-16 Id,G.W.Can.l3 11-16131346
M. S.,and Lincoln 371, , hew shares 62,1 6td
AlidlagdStoek & L. Iluron 4,1 5
N. British Stock-. . 611 61.4-Iflrjat Ship 16 10 6
N. Stafford 4 _
The•market for general Produce has not been
marked by any very striking features, although
the tone has improved within the last week. Tea
has not exparienced any improvement in demand
or Price. Coffee has' been quiet in the market ;
butanimproyment has been felt in the demand
for Sugar, West India having improved. in price
to the extent of about 6d. per cwt. on the week.
In Rum no change has been felt, and Rice has
been dull of sale. •

In ship stores little 'has been dom. • Beef has
been slow of sale, and is :usual towards the close
of the year the transactions ha ie been of quite a
retail character. Pork has also been slow, and
small in sale, Cheese has been in demand, and an
advance of Is. to 2s. per 23vt. has been obtained
on prime qualities.
Messrs. IV. Oreame & Co., in their Wool
Circular, of this day, say :—Our Wool Market
has been very quiet this week, the attention of
the trade being chiefly occupied with the Low
'Wool Sales which- took- place, in London, on the
6th and 7th inst., when about 4,000 bales were
.brought forward, viz. :-792 East Indies ;
. Russian, 223 Egyptian; and-the remainder outli'
American, low mountain Spanish, and sundries,
including 200 Chinese. For the. small quantity
of East India there was a very active competition,
and prices ranged abort sd. to Id. per Ib. advance
on our last sales. Chinese sold at 6d. to 7d.'-;
Russian White Fleece,, inferior, 7,1-,d. to 71d.'; fair
ditto, Bd. ; grey, 611 to_ 61d. For
Egyptian there was a brisk demand, a few lots of
very extra white fleece brought 16d. to 1.7 d. ;
good fleece, 15d.. to - 151d.1 - ordinary and -Skin,
13d. to 131 d.; second and yellow, 103 d- to .1-2 d. ;
black and fawn, 91d. to -111 d. ; locks, Bd. to 9d.
per lb. Other wits without change, and part
withdrawn. Stocks are very light of Foreign
Wools, with a large consumption going on, and-
the market generally wears a favourable aspect.
Mr. S. Hill, in his weekly metal report, says :
—The more cheerful tone registered in my last
has since continued, the conviction being tolerably
general that the reaction in prices was froM the
lowest point likely to be current for the next few
months, unless some unforeseen political complica-
tion arises, and, with an European congress
pending, it is impossible to tell what may turn
up in the chapter of accidents to affect
vitally, at least, the more speculative portion
of the trade, noticed under the head of Pig Iron.
Manufactured Iron is more inquired for, and. a
gradual improvement in tone may be expected,
as the orders -for the American spring trade will
shortly begin to arrive, and the demand to some
extent will be assisted by the Australian,. 'Boni-
bay, and 'River Plate indents by the -mails
recently delivered. On the 17th ultimo, in my
weekly report inserted in the. London Mining
Journal, after insisting upon the importance of a"
superior quality of Plates and Angle_ Iron being
used in the construction of iron vesselS, I directed
attention to "the great desirability of chain cables
being made of the very best Iron, as the safety
of a ship so much depends upon their strength."
As our Corporation and the Mersey Harbour
Board are now taking some action in the matter,
it is to be hoped for the sake of the mercantile
community, and the valuable property in life and
goods entrusted to their care, that the latter body
will make the public chain-cable testing machine
as efficient as possible, and 'endeavour to solve
what at present appears to be a moot point,
whether the system adopted does not, with
chains made of inferior iron, stretch the fibre
to its
straingreatest tension, so that afterwards
aless
applied suddenly will cause a
fracture and the parting of the cables.
A correspondent, who has just returned from
South Wales, reports a more buoyant spirit in
thato b and specially mentions the
D
where there are eighteen
wvaaisst iron
l 'Works,
r district,i
s,
furnaces now in blast, with all the mills and forges
employed. No doubt the comparative easy
state of the Money Market lately has facilitated
the negotiation of foreign railroad securities, and
caused purchases of rails arid other materials, a fair
portion of which has been made from the Welsh
houses. In Scotch Pig Iron the upward movement
was unchecked until Wednesday, when 555. per ton,
cash, mixed numbers, warrants, was paid in Glas-
gow, which price seemed to be the culminating
point, as Ms. 6d. per ton, nett cash, was accepted
here yesterday, but to-day, owing to the stop-
page of a speculator, who has been bearing the
market, causing increased buyers, the price again