Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Monday Evening)

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There has been no change in the tone of .0; e
Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, and a large busiiii(ss
has again been done, the sales reaching 10,000 bales,
3,000 of which have been taken on speculation and
export. ~Prices continue very firm at the highest
point.
Only a moderate amount of business has ,been done
in the Liverpool Share Market, but there' has been I
greater steadiness in prices. The transactions were
as follows :-Great Western, 581 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 95, 951, 95, 944 ; 'London and North
Western, 95, 951, 951, 95 •, Manchester,
Sheffield, . and Lincoln, ,381,; Midland, 1011,
1011, 101, 1011 ; South Eastern, 211. After
official hours only two transactions were
reported, and these were London and North
Weiterns at 951, and South Eastern and Davers at
211. The final closing, quotations were :-
Blackburn, 111, 111 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
631, 641 ; Caledonian, 841; 841; Chester and
Holyhead, 48, 481 • Eastern Counties, 12,
121 ; East Lancashire, 93, 931; , Too. £9
shares, e 7 y p ; Great Northern, 103, 104 ;
Do. A, 88, 89 ; Great Western
_ 'Lancashire and '•Yorkshire Stock,
95 ; Do. £9 shares, 4, 1 ; London
and North Western Stock, 95, 951; Do. one-
eighth shares, 15-16 .1, d ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and • Lincolnshire, 381, 381; Midland Stock, 101,
1011; North British, 601, 601 ; North Western, 132,
13/ ; North Staffordshire, 41, 41 d ; North Eastern
-Berwick, 921, 93 ; York- and North Midland,
76, 761 ; Leeds Capital Stock, 47, 471 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 21 1-16, 21a •, Dutch Rhenish,
44, d ; Great Western of Canada, 15;1, 151 ;
Do. New Shares, 51, d ; Great Luxembourg,
6i, 7 ; Cirand Trunk of Canada, 8 13-16, 8y ;
Lombardo-Venetian, 11, 11 p; Ditto New Shares,
4, 1 p. '
With no very extensive amount of business, the
London Stock Market has been tolerably steady all
day. Consols first opened at about the closing
,quotations, and subsequently advanced a fraction,
but again receded and left off at about_ the same
point as on Saturday. The final closing price was
951 to 951.
The business done in the London Share Market
has been very limited, but prices have not undergone
any important fluctuations. The closing quotations
were as follows : -Ambergate, 6, 61; Caledonian,
811, 85; Do. pref., 103, 105 ; Eastern Counties, 591,
601 ; East Lancashire, 92, 93 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 721, 731' ; Great Northern, 103 ;
Ditto A, 87, 89 ; Ditto 8., 132, 134 ; Great 'Western,
581, 581 ; Brighton, 112, 113 ; North-Western, 95,
951 ; South-Western, 921, 93 ; Manchester,: Sheffield,
and Lincoln, 38, 381- ; Midland 101, 1011 ; North
British, 60, 601 ; Ditto pref., 111, 113 ; North
Eastern Berwick, 921, 93 ' • Leeds, 47, 471 ; York,
761, 77 ; North Stafford, 43, ; South Eastern,
701, 701 ; Turkish Sixes 921, 93 ; Do. Fours, 1024,
1031; Great Western of Canada, 154, 151; Ditto
New, 54, 43 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 81 13-16,
81 15-16, . _

A report of the directors of the Great Western
Railway of Canada has been issued. It appears that
the balance of revenue account is equal to a dividend
at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, but a deduction
has to be made arising from the " accident account."
The directors express a belief that " the worst has
passed, and that a gradual improvement will take
place in general trade, and therefore in the traffic of
this railway."

The report of the directors of the Smyrna and
Aidin Railway elipresses their "unabated confidence

in the eventual success of the undertaking," states
that the contractor is prosecuting the work with
"vigour and despatch," and remarks that " tl4
necessary arrangements will be made for the com-
pany being replaced on the Stock Exchange list as
soon as possible.'
The meeting of the Belgian Eastern Junction
Railway Company, recently advertised, have been
adjourned for one month.
Nothing fresh has transpired ,respecting the
Russian Loan negociation, just concluded. The
rf,pnint, of for renii ite aneuments.frorn St. Peters-
burg is awaited. Numerous applications from the
Continent have already been made to Messrs.
Thompson, Boner, and Co., the London agents for
the loan. Seventy-five millions of Silver roubles are
equal to 11,250,0001., taking the exchange at its
present rate of 36 d., or to 11,875,0001., taking the
exchange at 38 d. The amount of the proceeds
in cash will, of course, depend upon the price at
which the loan may be issued.
About £30,000 in gold was on Saturday withdrawn
from the Bank for remittance to the Continent, in
payment for silver.
The rate for the best bills.is 21 per cent., and from
the impending demands for Russia and India, coupled
with the drain of silver, an easier state of the market
is scarcely probable.
A very' unfavourable inipressiOn was created in the Stock
Exchange by Lord Derby's confession that the seven million
pounds for, India, to be raised in England during. the
ensuing year, will be inadequate, and that an additional
three million pounds, or not improbably five million pounds,
will be required. This announcement has strengthened the
impression that the time is drawing near when the Imperial
guarantee will have to be interposed, at least as regards new
loans. The English Funds declined about 1 per -cent. In
the Discount Market there was a good but not a pressing
demand for money to-day, In all quarters, including the
Bank, the rate for the best bills, is 21 .per cent ; and from
the "impending demands for Russia and India, coupled with
the drain of silver, an easier state of the market is scarcely
probable. About £30,000 in gold was this d
from the Bank for remittance to the Continent in payment
for silver.—Daily News City Article, Saturday Evening.
The Government intimation that an additional sum for
India of certainly not less than three million pounds, and
probably of five million pounds, will be required. in the
present year, following immediately upon the announcement
•of a Russian loan for eleven million pounds, produced a
serious effect upon the Funds to-day, and they have now
almost entirely lost the improvement occasioned by the
prospect of a settlement of the Italian question. The new
demand for India might possibly have created a less
adverse impression but for the want of confidence on the
part of the financial public in the ability of this branch of
our administration.—Times City Article, Saturday Erening

withthanii

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LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.-

3.1.inc1l 28

Colonial,

The Sugar market

white Benar

I to 445,
11 faults, by
s, and 140 cases low' old white Babia
A cargo (400 puncheons) Cuba
es, off the coast, has been placed at 16s 3a
per cwt. The sales in Rum are 125 puncheons Demerara
and 40 puncheons Surinam, at about recent rates. 670 bags
fine Bengal Rice have realised lls 9d per cwt. Dyewoods :
135 tons Jamaica Logwood at £3 12s 6d to £3 15s per ton.
Ashes are dull. Nitrate of Soda : 70 tons sold at 14s 9d
to 16s per cwt for sto 3 per cent refraction. Nothing has

vt in bond

transpired in Brimstone. 11 casks Tartar reportdd at 97s
&d for brown, 102 s 6d for diScoloured, and 125 s for Cream.
50 bags Sumac, at 12s 6d for SDP ; 350 bags Sago Flour, at
MI bales Berries,
Orehella Weed. at £3B

)ut. chiefly at the formei• rat(

at 43s per
per ton.

of Palm, at £45 per
Sperm Head-matter

ton; notl
taken at
Ot Rosin,

Is per cwt for PY(

)n secret terms; and of Sj

ir•its of Turpentine, 100 barrels at
1,250 bags Calcutta Rapeseed at

and 400 b
cwt. Jut
600 bales

`ls to 53s per quarter,
d at 54s to 56s per
A:119 per ton.
but the price

Bombay Linseed at o.
American red Cloversee
200 bales are reported at £l6 to J
have changed hand-

illa H

We have li
Ind 250 ba

40 tons of

150 tons 3fanffCtZ

ma privat

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-MNum 28

good busiu
The sales-
ihia, 74-d to 73-,d
yptian, 8d to 9d ; and 600 • Surat,

There has been
day, at firm ra
84--d ; 1508

transacted in cotton to-
-including 110 Pernambuco,
1; 20 Maranham, 9d; 1.100

)orted 10,000 bales,' of which 3,000 ate'on -specillation and

TOOL CATTLE MARKET.—MAncn 23.
to-day was larger than that of last

ales wer