Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERJ:.4OOL,. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1857.

MONETARY AND COMMEBIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Thursday Evening.

The drAnand for Cotton is not so active, yet a
good demand continues, and prises are very firmly
maintrAined. The sales tc-day were 7,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 on speculation, and for export.
Without any apparent reason the Liverpool Share
Maxket has become I=l it again, and closed to-day
so, except for Caledonians, which have recovered
t'o 401, buyers. The sales to-day were :-Eastern
Counties, 114 ; Great Western, 551 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 100*, 100 a, 1002 ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 81 p ; London and Noah Western, 100 k,
1001, 100/ ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 40k, 40 ; Midland, 82; North Eastern, 23/ ;
Leeds Capital Stock, 251; Dovars, 211, 211, 211, 212;
Warrington and Stockport, 7* ; Great Western of
Canada, 21 11-16 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 121,
12 11-16. The following were the closing prices :
-Blackburn, 7a, 78; Chester and Birkenhead,
651, 661- ; Caledonian, 401 40-1; Chester
and Holyhead, 171, 171; Eastern Coun-
ties, 11 5-16 xd 111 ; East Lancashire, 96,
96* ; Do. 9/. shares, t, 9-16 p ; Great Northern,
24, 24k; Great Western, 55i, xd 551; Lancashire
and Yorkshire Stock, 1000, 1600 ; Do. 91 shares,
p; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
19, 16/ ; London and North Western Stock,
1001, xd 1001; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 401,-, 401 Midland Stock,. 81j, xd 82 ;
North British, 117-7, xn 12 ; North Stafford-
shire, 41, 4d; North Eastern--Berwick, 23. 7.16 xd
23'9 16; York and North Midland, 398.401; Leeds
Capital Stock, 2517, 25a-; South Eastern and Dover,
211-, 211 ; Scottish North Eastern, 12a, ;
Buffalo and Lake Huron, 41, 41 d ; Ditto New
Shares, 4, 37 d ; Dutch Rhenish, 32-, 31 d ; Great
Western of Canada, 211, 211; Do. New Shares,*
a p; Great Luxembourg, 7, 71 ; Grand Trunk
of Canada, 12a, 12/.
The Funds opened at a decline of I per cent
this morning, owing chiefly to the impression that
the Bank would not make any alteration in the
rate of discount, which impression subsequently
turned out to be right, as the Bank directors
seperated without announcing any change ; to-
wards the close, however, the market became a
a little firmer, the prices then being :-Consols for
money, 90* to 901 and for the Account, 9011 to 901
and 13-16 ; Exchange Bills, 4 dis. to par, and the
New Three per Cents, 911 to 911.

In the London Share Market-there was exceed..
ingly little business transacted to-day, and prices
were with difficutly maintained. The following
were the closing prices :—Caledonian, 801, 81.;
Eastern Counties, 11 5-16, 11 7-16; East Lanca-
shire, 96, 97: Great Northern, 99- 97 ; Ditto, A 89,
91 ; 'Great Western, 55k, 551; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1003, 1004 ; Leeds Northern, 50i, 51i;
London and North Western, 100-77,, 100 a ; London
and South Western, 921, 93 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 401., 401; Midland Stock, 821,
North British, 47k. 483 ; South Eastern and Dover,
70* ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 94, 95 ; York
and North Midland, 801 ; Grand Trunk of
Canada, 12;1-, 124 ; Great Western of Canada, 211,
214; Do. New, 4,
After official hours the following were the prices
current :—Caledonian,. 811; Eastern Counties,
11 5-16, 11 7-16 ; East Lancashire, 96, 97; Great
Northern 553, 55a ; Do. A, 89, 91 ' • Lancashire and
Yorkshire,lool, 1001; London and North Western,
1001, 100;1 ; Manchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire,
; Midland Stock, 823, 824; North British,
484; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 04, .95 ;
York and North Midland, 804.
In the General Produce Markets there is no
change to notice, with a very moderate business
doing in the leading consumptive articles.
Messrs. J. P. Platt, in their Circular just issued,
mike the following remarks concerning the Freight
Market :

To AUsiTRALIA.—We have little-or no change to notice
in Frights. Goode, both weight and measurement, con-
tinue coming forward freely for Melbourne. Our to-day's
quotations, with an upwar3 tendency are :—To Mel-
t'ourne Wharf, by the pickets of the sth and 20th, 50s,
by other vessels 403 to 455, for measurement; weight, 35s
to 37s 61. To Sydney, for Fine Goods, 40s ; weight,
Hardware and Earthen ware, 355. To Adelaide, 40s per
ton measurement.

UNITED STATES.—During the early part of last month
Freights remaicei steady at our then quotations ; lattr rly
they have advanced some little, (more particularly to New
York), but we do not anticipate a long continuance. Our
to-day's rates are :

PER TON MEASUREMENT.
To N. York. Boston. Philadelphia. N. Orleans.
sd ad sd sd s d sd sd sd
Dr) Goods .. 12 6to 17 6..12 6to 20 0..12 6to 20 0..15 oto 22 6
Hardware.... 12 6 to 0 0..15 0 to 20 0..15 0 to 20 0..20 oto 25 0
Earthenware oto 10 011t088.9 oto 13 0..10 otol2 6
PER TN WEIGHT.
Chemicals....2o 0 to 25 0..15 0 to 17 6..17 6 to 22 6..17 6 to 20 0
Iron. ........15 0 to 17 6 .12 6 to 15 0..15 0 to 17 6..15 0 to 17 6
Salt ........150 to 0 0..12 6ta 13 6..15 oto 16 0..15 oto 17 6
Present price of Salt :—Coarse, 5s 6d; Stored, I ls;
Factory Filled, 12s to 163 per ton. Sacks, common, 84-1.
to Bid.; Fine, 15d. to 181. esch. Coals, Orrell, 12s ;
Steam, 9s to lis ; Cannel, 18s to 193 ; Coke, 18s 6d psr
ton, f. o. b. The
.valve of British Goods exoorted from
Liverpool for the month of July, 1857, was £5,677,804,
being £256,581 in excess of corresponding month
of 1856.
Respecting the Sugar Mat ket and the probable
supplies of the article. Messrs. Trueman and
Rouse, of London, remark as follows, under date
the Ist. Sept.
The imp)r's of sugar up to the 31st nitime are
still 11,000 tons less than ein the first eight months
of 1856, being 270,500 against 281,500 tons,
ail striking change in the deliveries, shows a
falling off of 20,000 tons as compared with the same period
of last year. This is almost entirely in the export, for
those for home consumption have been 218,400 against
220 600 tons, an unimportant difference which may be
reversed in another month ; indeed it may be confidentially
stated that the reduction is rather apparent then real, tor,
owing to the determination of the trade to withhold from
buying as long as possible on account of the advanced
prices, they have ran themselves entirely out of stock, and
have letterly merely just taken enough for daily wants.
The stock is nearly on a par with that of last year, being
95,900 against 98 800 tons, which, however, may be said
to comprise nearly the whole quantity both in first end
second bands in the country. As le gards the future
supply, we have not much to look forward• to for
the remainder of this season, the balk having now
come forward from the producing countries; • the Ist of
August ships have still to arrive from the West
Indies, and some leer cargoes from Cuba and Brazils, and
these comprise nearly" all that we can expect before the
new crops begin to arrive. Toe reports from most of the
tropical sources of supply are favourable as to the coming
crops, but the course of the sugar market next year will
be in a great measure dspendenton the out-turn of that of
Louisiana and the beetroot crops in Earope, about both of
which great contrariety of opinion prevails. In only one
season has the increase in Louisiana exceeded 100,000 hhds.
over the previous crop, and taking that of 1856.7 at 75,000
hhds., and adding thereto 100,000, the turn-out of this
year would still fall very far short of the average of late
years (excluding of c urse 1856.7), and exposed as it is to
injury from frost, it may ultimately prove much below
present expectations. Wtth regard to the out-turn of beet-
root, opinions are very conflicting; by some parties the
season is represented to have b,en very favourable, while by
others the unusual heat of the summer is said to have dried
up the reo` ; it is however erobabia that mach less will be
taken this year for distillation in France.
The position and prospects of the Market for
Hides is thus noticed in one of the L)tubn Cireu-
lays just issued :
The trarsactiotes in leather throughout the past month
have far exceeded an average amount, and a tendency to
'higlt or prices has been apparent in most articles. The
supplies have generally been to a moderate extent, bet the
demand has been so urgent that stocks have greatly
diminished during the month. Almost the only exception
to this activity has been in heavy foreign butte, for which
there has been less inquiry than might have hem antic!.
pated. The demand for home consumption is usually
good at this season of the year, and it has no doubt been
in some degree stimulated of late by the exp7ctation of
addition,l requirements for army purposes The exporta-
tion of leather and leather manufactures also continues to
increase. These causes account for the recent activity of
the market, and as such sources of consumption. domestic
and foreign, appear likely to continue, or even under the
favourable influence of the extraordinary fine harvest, to
increase, there is little doubt of the maintenance of a good
leather trade.' In raw goods a considerable business has
also been doing, and generally at advancing rates. The
demand for the Continent has absorbed a large proportion
of the lighter Cape and Australian hides, as well as of the
East India kips.
We believe the total shipments of specie and
bullion for the East by the Indus to-morrow will
be about £695,000 all in silver, with the excep-
tion of £12,000 in gold. The bulk of these supples

is for India. The total exhibits a material dimi-
nution compared. with the amount shipped by
the last few packets. Transactions are already
going forward, however, in silver, intended for
shipment by the following steamer on the2Oth
Sept,
_ _

The weekly traffic of the Great Northern RAH-
viay Company, which is watched with interest,
owing to the competition for the Man eheste,,. traffic,
shows to increase of £1,525 over that, for the
corresponding week of las'; year, The increase
in the London and North Western Company's
receipts is p 1,624.

The Admiralty have accepted the ship Jura for
the conveyance of troops Lora St. John's (New
Brunswick) to Cork; and have ordered the Spartan
and Joseph Shepherd to be surveyed, previous to
accepting them for the conveyance of stares to
Fremantle and Hong Kong..
By the arrival of the r nited States steam ship
Fulton at Southampton, we are in possession of
New York advices of the 22nd ult. Money was
active, but prices for Railroad Stocks continued to
recede. Cotton was in limited request, but not
quoted below the rates previously advised Bread-
stuffs were dull, but rather more was doing in
freights, especially to London and Liverpool. The
Cotton market at New Orleans had an advancing
tendency. The Fulton brought 100 passengers,
and nearly 500,000 dollars specie on freight.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—Serr. 3.
There has been a moderate demand for cotton to-day,
and with average supplies, prices are firm The sales—
including 40 Pernambucos 10d, 150 Bahias 91d, 400
Egyptiaqs lOid to llad, 1,500 Surats 41 to 61d—are
reported 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 are on speculation
and for export.