Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-09 00:00:00

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The following appeared in a portion of our impression

of yesterday

THE MONEY MARKET.
(Frain Me Daily News City Article)

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—In the- Stock Exchange
to-day great dulness prevailed. This was settling day
in Consols ; and in the afternoon, when the account had
been virtually arranged, a little heaviness was shOwn,
prices closing A- per cent. lower than 'yesterday. In the
other departments of the Stock Exchange there was
an equal deficiency of business.
British Railway Stocks were rather weaker in the
afternoon.
Money was again in good demand in LoMbard-street
to-day, and 21 per cent. was demanded for the best bills.
The scrip of the New Indian Loan was officially
markel to-day as 100 k. Owing to the realisations
which were looked for at 100, the closing quotation
was 99z to 100.

The amount of gold sent into the Bank to-day was as
much as nOO,OOO.

, (From. the Times City Article.)
WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The English Funds, to-day
were firm at the commencement; but, notwithstanding the
large anivali of gold, the market was dull at the close.
At the Bank, to-day, there was a falling off for dis-
count, and the ' demand in the open market was less
active, the best bills being readily negotiated at 23.
Instalments in full were paid to-day on a further
portion to the Indian Loan. The total amount paid up
now amounts to about half of the' entire loan of
£5,000,000. The Indian Council find it difficult to
employ these unexpected resources even at 2 percent.

FRIDAY,SITTEMBE:R 9; 1859

THE DAY'S NEWS

By the arrival of the Vanderbilt at Southaw,p-
ampton, we are in possession of news from New
York to the 27th ultiino, or one day later than
that previously-received. - The intelligence thus
brought does not possess any general interest.
She brought 202 passengers, and $801,870 in
specie. Commercial matters were much in the
same state as represented"by'the'news preViously
received.

The Great Eastern is now fairly." off." In. addi-
tion to the statement we gave yesterday, in our
early impression, of her successful passage down the.
'Thames to Purfieet, in the course of.the morning.
we were enabled to publish a private letter from.
one •on board who is well qualified to give an
oPinian, and who describes her success as in all
respects most triumphant. By this time she is
far out at sea, and we shall now soon have her on
the shores of this side of the Island. She has gOt
over the worst of it, and her future career will, no
doubt, be all that has from • the first :been
expected. She has been successfully floated
out of danger-in. the Thames; b,nd-yeSiday after-
noon reached the Nore in safety. The great
problem of her being capable of navigation as a
sert-goirig craft bio.s; thus, in a great measure,. been
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, .
From an explanation which took place at the
meeting of the Health Committe yesterday, it
will be seen that the 'Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to visit
Liverpool to-day, for the purpose of examining
the proposed site for the New Post-office, which
it' is :Suggested -should be erected, in connection
with the other Public Offices, on the south side of
Dale-street. .

Conspicuous among the indications of liberal
feeling and comprehensive judgment, -which dis-:
tinguish the mercantile community of Liverpool,
must be ranked the peculiar interest which the
leading men of the town .manifest in all that
reou, rds,the successful:prosecntion of agricultural
enterprise. The, reality of this feeling has been
shown in many ways, and on many occa-
sions, but probably never more than by the
liberal sum subscribed by them to the special
local fund of the Manchester and Liverpool Agri-
cultural Society, unless, indeed, an exception be
taken_ in favour of -the large numbers assembled
iti the show-ground yesterday, and the deep
interest which they exhibited in all connected
with this important exhibition,

To the reflective mind, there is something exceed-

ingly suggestive in the 'circumstance of a great

commercial emporium, and maritime harbour

like Liverpool, being the arena for an Exhibition

in Agriculture, in all its various and distinctive

objects of rivalry' and competition,—rivalry in a

national, and competition in a local point of
view; as well as rivalry and competition generally,
not to say universally,—this same Agriculture
being an Interest of the country which a mere

superficial observer might think was not at home

in such a town as ours. But it is on this very
account that the fact of an Exhibition like that

witnessed yesterday, and to be again witnessed

Dbjeets. and pursuits so very different, many of

them so very opposite, to those of Agriculture, is
so pregnant with interest and importance. The

very title of the Society indicates the whole case

It is the MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL AGRICUL-

TURAL SOCIETY. Here; then; we have Manufac_

tures, Commerce, and Agriculture combined.
Manchester represents the Manufacturing, Liver-

pool the Commercial and Maritime Interests ; and
these meet and welcome and • encourage Agbricul-

tore, as that great staple Interest of the country

which must ever be regarded, aud treated, as the

solid national basis of our country's prosperity'

It is to the land

after all, that we must look

for stability,

—for the stability of our political

institutions, by the influence of those several

conservative elements which are inseparable from
a Landed and Agricultural community ; while it
is the land on which, no less, Manufactures

and Commerce, and even Shipping, must depend,

because it is the ftundation of the great produc-

five resources of the country. Agriculture, again,
could never flourish without Manufactures, Com-
merce, and Shipping ; and, if Agriculture did
not flourish, of what little value would be the
land ; for how could the Landed Interest of the
country ever maintain their high and palm
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position—L-the highest and palmiest, in this coml.

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which are so indispensable to.the conservation-of
our whole national system? Agriculture,, More-
over, is indebted to Manufactures, more especially,
for those great mechanical and other improve-
ments which have: of lath years been introduced,

and have contributed so manifestly to itsi pro-

gress and, prosperity. No one can visit the great
Exhibition, now holding here, and survey the
vast range of Agricultural machines and imple-

meats, and all those various means and appliances
which are more or less directly connected with
Agriculture, and not acknowledge ,how evident
it is that these things are the consequences of
the remarkable improvement which has been going
on in Alio__Tnechanical
_processes of our_manufac-

turing operations. The introduction of improved

machinery in our manufacturesbegan with our tex-
tile fabrics ; and it is to the: important results which
were soon found to follow from its application in

those operations, that is mainly owing the intro"-
duction of similar mechanical aid to Agriculture.
Further than this; it is the extension of Manufac-

tures—the increase arid prosperitYrof the Manu-
facturing population—to which may be attributed
the encouragement that theAgiicultural Interest
of the country has recei;et, and by which it has
been stimulated to augment and improve the pro-
ductions of the soil by such mechanical applica-
tions. There can be no doubt whatever thit the
first experiment of free trade in corn, and other
Agricultural products, if it had ever succeeded at
all, would never have done so in so short a time,
and with such signal success, but for the assistance
which it Obtained from similar mechanical means to
those which the Manufacturing Interest,
_for whose
more-immediatebenefit the experiment was resolved
upon, had already proved to be so important, so
necessary, and so profitable. Then, as to Com-
merce and. Shipping—see how, as regards this
'first great Interest, it re-acts upon Agriculture,
as well through our Manufactures, as through the
general trade of the country ;. while, as respects
the second, since neither Manufactures • nor
Commerce can be sustained without it, and even
Agriculture itself would become exceedingly
limited and Comparatively insignificant were there
no- ships to' be the great contributors they are to
the enterprise. of the country, as well as the indis-
pensable means of transport for so many of our
natural and artificial products,—from all this, we
say, it' must be admitted, that the Shipping In-
terest is essential to that Agricultural prosperity,
of which there are so many significant and
gratifying evidences at our Exhibition this week.
To hold such an Exhibition, then, .at Liver-
pool, is not only most important, but most con-
sistent, and most interesting in every point of
view. Our own merchants and traders, as well
as the manufacturers and others, from different
parts of the neighbourhood, who yesterday had
the opportunity, as they will again have to-day,
of examining- it in all its diversities, of horses,
cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, machinery,, imple-
ments, roots, and seeds, and- those various other
articles which connect themselves, more 'Or leSs
directly, with Agriculture, cannot but be con-
vinced that, great and advancing though their
own several Interests undoubtedly are, and con-
tributing, as most unquestionably they do, in an
eminent degree, to our national prosperity and
greatness, there is yet another and, in some res-'
pacts, a distinct Interest, to which •the country is

even more indebted, as being, that without which
all the rest would become baseless, and liable, under
any vicissitudes, to fall into decay. For ours is an

insular position. And although, as we see, it is
all-important that we should have as wide and

general an intercourse as possible with the differ-

ent and most distant quarters of the globe,--we
must yet, after all, in case of need, have our own

native land to fall baelcupon; and be enabled to

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