Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

86 ; Ditto B, 131, 133 ; Great Western,
581 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 92

07i,
934, ;

Brighton, 111, 112 ; North-Western, _ .14; ,
South-Western, 91, 912 ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 381, 381 ; Midland, 101,
1011 ; North British, 551, 561 ; Ditto Preference,
109, 111 ; North Eastern—Berwick, 90, 901 ; Ditto
Leeds, 451, 461; Ditto York, 744, 741 ; North Staf-
ford, 41, ; South Eastern, 68, 69; Turkish Sixes,
87, 871 ; Ditto Fours, 1021, 103 ; Great Western
of Canada, 15;1-, 157 ; Ditto New, 5, 41; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 8 9-16, 8 11-16.
The following Traffic Returns have been published
to-day : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 23,818/. ;
Increase, 2,133/. ; Manchester and Sheffield, 10,715/. ;
Increase, 1,8381.; London and North Western
Traffic Returns, 62,705/. ; Increase, 3,7481.
Noon to-morrow is the latest period allowed for
sending in tenders for the Indian loan of seven
millions. It is evident that many of the intending
subscribers will act upon the prevailing belief that
the government miniinuaz price will be fixed about
95 per cent.

The drain of Gold from the Bank, in payment for
Silver obtained on the Continent, continues. The
amount withdrawn yesterday was £112,000, making
a tot 11 of about £260,000 since the date of last
return.

The gold by the last packet from the West Indies
has also been purchased for the Continent.
The appearance of the Discount Market has become
rather easier during the last day or two, the diffusion
of the dividend money having a certain effect. In
some quarters the best bills are taken a fraction
below the Bank minimum. The applications at the
Bank yesterday were limited. In the Stock Ex-
change large loans are freely offered on Government
Securities, even at the low rates of 1 to 11 per cent.
per annum, by establishments unable to employ their
funds in commercial channels.

The Funds opened this morning at a fall of nearly 1 per
cent., the feeling of discouragement previously existing being
increased by the ministerial statements with reference to
Continental politics. The downward tendency was checked,
however, by the appearance in the Monitcur of another
official note of a pacific tendency, but more particularly by
the fact that the supply of Stock afloat is limited. During
the afternoon, the market gradually strengthened, and at
the extreme close firmness was evidenced by a statement
that Sardinia has consented to disarm. Consols finally left
off the same as yesterday. The drain of gold from the Bank,
in payment for silver obtained on the Continent, continues.
The amount withdrawn to-day was £112,000, making a
total of about £260,000 since the date of last return.
Accordinm to the telegram, the Exchange at Bombay
presents an alteration of about 11 per cent. in favour of
England. —Daily News City Article, Tuesday Evening.
The statement on the war question in Parliament, last
eveninm'', caused the English Funds to open very heavily to-
day at a decline ofd per cent., at which they remained for
some time. The article in the Moniteur caused a rally, and
the closing prices were the same as yesterday. The telegram
from Bombay to-day announces a favourable movement of
about 2 or 3 per cent. in the rate of exchange, and an
advance of about 11 per cent. in the price of Government
securities. At Calcutta, whence the date is to the 16th of
March, there had also been an improvement in the price of
securities, but the rate of exchange sheaved no alteration,
and the charge for discount was still 9 per cent.—Times
City Article, Tuesday Evening.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—APRIL 20.
Colonial, &c.: The demand for Sugar continues mode-
rate ; 430 hhds Demerara are reported at 36s to 395, 200
bags grainy Surinam at 435, and 1,100 bags Date at 41s per
cwt. Nothing has taken place in Molasses, Rum, or Coffee.
The demand for Rice continues active, the transactions -com-
prising 26,700 bags Necransie at 7s to 8s 6d, with a cargo
of 900 tons new, to arrive, at 9s 6d per cwt. In Dgewoods,
15 tons Manilla Sapanwood, all faults, at £8 lOs ; 18 tons
St Domingo Logwood, also all faults, at £3 7s 6d; 3.tons
Rokelli Camwood, at £39 10s to £39 12s 6d ; 2 tons ditto
Roots, at £29 5s ; with retail sales of Savanilla Fustic at £5
2s 6d per ton. Ashes unchanged; Pots quoted at 31s. Of
Nitrate of Soda, some business done at 14s 9d to 16s, as in
quality; and at auction 150 bags Saltpetre sold at 42s to
43s Gd per cwt for 41 to 3 per cent refraction. Of Brimstone,
40 tons reported at £7 15s for best 3rds, and £8 per ton for
best 2nds. 150 bales Gambier, at.l6s 9d to 17s for heated,
and 17s 3d for sound ; 5 bags Gum Senegal, at 39s ; 280
bags Baltimore Bark, at 7s 3d to 7s 6d, and 5s 3d per cwt
fOr all faults ; 8 chests Kenpah Indigo, at 4s Id per lb ; and
B,tons Piassava, at £8 5s per ton. Oils, &c. : Palm firm,
at £45 per tun ; flothing to notice in Olive. Tallow: 120
packages South American, at 52s to 545. Of Rosin, 70 brls
common at 4s Id ; and 43s to 43s 6d per cwt asked for
Spirits ofTurpentine. In Seeds, 200 bags yellow Mustards ee d
on private terms.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
There has been rather more tone in the cotton market
to-day, and a moderate business has been transacted, at
previous rates. The sales—including 180 Bahia, at 71-d;
300 Egyptian, at Bid to 9d; 600 Surat, at 5,1 d to 60—are
reported 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 are on speculation and
for export.
LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—APRIL 20.

.-APRIL

Sun''ar : Market flat. The public sales consist of 10,400
bas Manilla, the whole of which was taken in.
Coffee : Public sales of Plantation Ceylon are going at
full prices.

TCa market firm; common congou at 14d.
Rice qaiet, but firm ; no public sales.
Saltpetre market rather easier; little doing.
• Hemp 700 bales Manilla, sea damaged, part sold at £2O
5s to £22 15s.

Pepper : Part of the white taken in ; the remainder and
the black not yet offered.

LONDON CORN MARKET.-

-APRIL 20,

•
Supplies of foreign good. Weather east wind.
English wheat firm; next to nothing on offer done.
Foreign held very firmly, rather preventing business, at
Monday's rates. Floating cargoes, nothing but Egyptian,
off coast, such being held beyond buyers' views. Flour,
quite as good as on Monday. Indian corn has been sold at
an advance of 6d per quarter since Monday. Barley a
moderate good trade for light grinding sorts off stands and
off coast. Rye would sell fairly, if off coast. Malt firm.
Peas and beans, ,the latter especially, has an upward ten-
dency. Oats not quite so good as on Monday.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—APRIL 20.
The tallow market is steady, at 54s 6d spot; 54s 9d May

We have no change to notice in the value of any kind of
hops; the demand generally rules steady.

LONDON MINING MARKET,

-APRIL 20,

A good general business has been done this morning in
the market for British mining stocks. The principal trans-
actions have been in shares in Wheal Margaret, Hingston
Downs, East Wheal Russell, Wheal Grenville, and Pednan-
drea mines. Prices are steady. Foreign and colonial min-
im

shares remain quiet. he shares of the Australian
%lining Company have been dealt in at 12s 6d, and those
of the North Rhine Copper Mining Company of South

Australia at 10s prem

LONDON MONEY MARKET

Consols opened firm at 95 to 95k. They steadily ad-
vanced, and were afterwerds very firm at 957 to 95k. Shares
also steadily advanced, and were very firm at about yr per
cent. above opening rates. French firm.

SALFORD CATTLE MARKET

-APRIL 20

Beasts, 1,217: sheep, 5,710 ; calves, 843 ; best wedder
in wool, 8d to 9d ; ditto clipped, 61,d to 7-id owes, 5d to oa
best beef, 7d to 71-d. ; middling, 6d to 61-,d ; cows 4d to Sid

calves, 5d to 61-4

White

CORK CORN MARKET.—APRIL 20.
wheat, 28s 6d ; red, 22s 6d ; barley, 12s Od to 1
_ _

lls 6d to 13s 6d.
GLASGOW CORN MARKET

APRIL

There was a good healthy trade demand to-day. Wheat
is 6d per 2401bs dearer than on this day week. Flour :
Millers have raised the prices is per sack, which checked
business. Barley: Needy buyers paid. 6d advance for
Scotch. Oats improved 3d per boll, and oatmeal is pp'.
load. Beans and peas firmly held for full prices. Indian
corn 3d dearer, demand merest retail.

GLASGOW IRON MARKET
No. 1,51 s 6d to 51s 9d
ls 6d t

APRIL 20

51s 6d to 51s 9d

No. 3,51 s 3d to 51

TO THE REFORMERS OF LIVERPOOL,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE. NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir, Have not the Liberals sufficient courage and
determination to bring out a second candidate ? Are
the Tory party to be our prompters ? Are they to take
the lead in these matters ? lam almost ashamed to
say that I am a member of the " Reform Association"
and of the " Reform Club," who, as a body, are treat-
ing this great opportunity with indifference.
Never had the Reformers of Liverpool so great an
opportunity as the present, for the Tories have told
us that they cannot find a second candidate. They
have even sent to the renowned " Carlton," and there
could not find a second Sir George Bonham. Some
of our party say, " That it is not advisable to
disturb the peace of the town," and are willing
that, in the new parliament, Liverpool should be
represented by once Tory and one Liberal member,
whose votes on every important question shall nullify
each other.

Pray, would the Tories have taken into considera-
tion the peace of the town, had they a candidate to
launch forth ?

It is time we were up and doing. Surely we can
depend on the 3,200 voters, that the late so-called
Reform Bill would have disfranchised, and now that
our time has arrived, where is the staunch reformer
that will not ekert himself to return a second repre-
sentative P What is the use of a Reform Association
and Reform Club, unless the committees, &c., will
move in a matter of this kind. It is their duty to
stir themselves ; if they shirk their duty, more shame
for them.

Some say Mr. Horsfall is inclined to be Liberal, and
we ought not to contest him. Does he_ not in his
address, say : "I consider it most important at the
present moment to strengthen the hands of her
Majesty's Government ?" At the moment they find
themselves in a minority, he should have said, when
they no longer. possess the confidence •of the House
of Commons. Mr. Horsfall does not say a sentence
about Reform. The fact is, the Derby Government
have been, as it were, compelled to deal with a
question tlit did not suit their constitution.

Leaders of the Liberal party, beware ! May be
you will have an opponent at the eleventh hour ; in
political affairs, trust no party. We are all unani-
mous on one point —"That we ought not to stand
still." Then, without another moment's delay, let
us secure the services of a right man, who, with
energy and perseverance, we will put in the right
; a man who will vote for such measures as
will b conducive to the welfare of the country at
large. A man who will be the working man's friend,
and who will watch over and protect our local
rights.

-Reformers of Liverpool, fellow members of the
association and club, begin to work to-day, and, show
our opponents that unity is strength, and ' most
assuredly the day will be ours.

Mr. Editor, Please be good enough to insert the
above few words in your widely circulated paper, and
oblige, sir, yours obediently, J.B.

THE GREAT .BOAT RACE ON THE TYNE.
The great and long-expected race for £lOO a side, on the
Tyne, between Thomas White, of Bermondsey, London,
and Robert Chambers; of Walker Newcastle, which, from
the prowess of the men, has created much interest in
aquatic circles, both in the neighbonrhood of the Thames
and Tyne, came off on Taesday evening, and was attended
by thousands of spectators, there being no less than
fifty steam boats engaged to accompany it, in
addition to which the shores were thickly lined between
the starting point, the High Level Midge, and
the finishing point, at the Suspension-bridge. The men
were so equally matched in age and performances that not

so mach lion()); was laid out as is usnal in these great races ;
but Chambers, probably from the fact of his rowing in his
own river, was the favourite at about sto 4. Both
men are very well known to our readers, Chambers
baying, among other things, beaten Galley, of New-
castle, and Ralph, of London, easily, and White having
won upwards of eight races easily, and contending hard in
two. Umpires and referee having been appointed, and all
preliminaries arranged, the men got to their posts both in
excellent condition, looking confident and doing credit
to their trainers. They started beautifully together,
and the conflict for half a mile was most desperate
and determined, neither giving his opponent the
slightest advantage. When about 900 yards had been
rowed White showed a trifle in advance, and is
said to have borne upon his opponent, the effect of which
was that the North countryman came in contact with a
barge. Owing to this accident White obtained .a lead of
several lengths rowing in his usual style ; but Chambers,
with his powerful stroke, overhauled him soon after a mile
had been rowed. Another desperate • contest ensued, bnt it
was so close that a foul occurred in the heat of it. Chambers
drew away, and came in first at the winning-post by five

How TO KEEP BABIES FROM AN ENTERTAINMENT.—In a
placard, announcing an amateur theatrical performance at
the north end of. London, ' last week, the following plan for
keeping away crying babies was resorted to :—Admission :
Gentlemen, one shilling; ladies sixpence; babies in arms,
one guinea each !

A gentlemanly loafer, recently arrested in Cincinnati,
being questioned by the officer as to his vocation, he replied,
" Sir, I am a doctor; I have cured a pain in the head of
navigation, and drawn teeth from the mouth of the Missis-
sippi ! I have anatomized the side of a mountain, blistered
the foot of a hill, felt the pulse of an arm of the sea,
plastered a cut on the hand of nature, and cured a felon on
he finger of scorn." He was immediately set at liberty.

FOII,IING AN ACQUAINTANCE.—Geprge Selwyn happening
to be at Bath when it was nearly empty, was induced, for
the mere purpose of killing time, to cultivate the acquaint-
ance of an elderly gentleman whom he was in the habit of
meeting in the Rooms. In the height of_ the following
season, Selwyn encountered his old associate in St.. James's
street. He endeavoured to pass unnoticed, but in vain.
" What ! do you not recollect me ?" exclaimed the cuttee.
" I recollect you perfectly," replied Selwyn, "and when I
next go to Bath I shall be most happy to become acquainted
with y®u again."

DESTRUCTION OF KING'S NEWTON HALL.—One of the
oldest and most interesting residences in Derbyshire, King's
Newton Hall, in the occupation of Mr. Richard Green, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Mr. Green and his
family were absent at Hastings, and the hall was left in
charge of two servants, the cook and coachman. The latter
gave the alarm, and every exertion was made by, the vil-
lagers to suppress the fire, but the building was nearly
destroyed. The origin of the fire is not known. The
building was interesting from various historical associations,
as well as for its ancient worth. King's Newton was built
by a. member of the Hardinge family about 400 years ago,
and was visited by King Charles 11., in whose service the
then occupant, another of the Hardinges, raised a troop of
horse. As a memorial of his visit, Charles left on one of the
windows the following anagrkm: " Cras fro lux." Of late
years King's Newton Hall became the property of Lady
Palmerston, but it is not supposed that the hall will be
rebuilt by its present owner,

to June ; 55s June ; and this price is paid for last three
months. Telegrams from St Petersburgh quote prices
quieter : 180 ro. accepted on the spot, and 183 ti for August.
Exchange 358 to 35k.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—APRIL 20.