Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-04 00:00:00

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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
PooL, Thursday Evening.
The Cotton Market has not been so active to-day,
and previous rates were barely supported. The
• day's business is estimated.at 8,000 bales, including
one-fourth on speculation and for export. The
North American, arrived here this day, reports
the New York Cotton Market as being active, at
an advance. On the 21st January Middling.
Uplands were quoted at 121 c per lb.
In the earlier part of the forenoon the Liverpool
Share Market exhibited some signs of activity and
prices slightly advanced: Afterwaids, however,
there was not so . much firmness, and a part of
the advance was lost. The following were the
. transactions :---Eastern Counties, 12 7-16 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 96, 961, 96, 961, 96; London
and North Western, 951, 951, 95/, 954; Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 371; Midland, 102*, .
1021, • 1021, 1021,' 1021.; Dovers, 223 ; Dutch
Rhenish, 5 -1-16,' d ; Chester Guarantee (£2O
shares), 141; Chester and Holyhead, ;
Midland ' North Western, 13 9-16 ; ' Liver-
pool and London Fire and Life, 9 13-16 p.
The following were the clnsing prices :-
Blackburn, 11 5-16, 11 7-16 ; Chester and Birk-
enhead, 671, 68 ; Caledonian, 86, 86*
Chester and -Holyhead, 473; 48 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 121 121 ; 'East Lancashire, 95, 951 ;
Do. £9 shares, 3, p ; Great Northern, 104,
106; Do. A, 88, 89 ; Great Western, 553; 561;
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,-903, 96: ; Do £9
shares, p•, -London . and North Western,
953, 951 ; Do. one-eighth shares, 1; ed;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, .371, 37* ;
Midland Stock, 1023, 1021 ; North British,
621, 624- ; North Western, .133, 133 ; North
Staffordshire, 41, 43 d ; North Eastern-Berwick,
933; 931 ; York and North Midland, 78, 781 ;
Leeds Capital Stock, 48, 481; South Eastern and
Dover, 22 1-16, 221 • Dutch Rhenish, 53, 5d ;
Great Western of danada, 161, 161 ; Do. New
Shares, 42, 41 d ; Great Luxembourg, 63, 63;
Grand Think of Canada, 8 3-16, 8 5-16.
At Messrs. Cunard, Wilson and Co.'s Sale of
ships to-day, the Black Eagle, 1,358 tons, sold by
order of the High Court of Admiralty, was knocked
down, after a spirited competition, at £5,165.
In the Market for the Public Funds and Secu-
rities to-day, business was extremely light, pend-
ing the Queen's speech ; nevertheless, prices were
generally firm, and • Consols have recovered the
decline they sustained yesterday. Consols opened
dull, and have been alternately buyers and sellers
at 953. At noon they were quoted at 951 to 95,t,
but they closed rather lower, viz., 951 to 951.
The New Threes were at 954 to 96. .
The London Railway Share Market was far from
being active to-day, and, towards the close, prices
were supported with difficulty. The following
are the closing quotations, which- in many
instances are merely nominal :-Ambergate' 61,
61 ; Caledonian, 861; Eastern Counties, 621 ; East
Lancashire, 943, 95*. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
69, 70 ; Great Northern, 105* ;' Ditto, A. 86, 87 ;
Great Westerns,. 551, 56 ; Great Western of
Canada, 163, 161; Grand Trunk of Canada, 81, ;
Great Southern and Western, 105, 106 ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, ,951, 96 ; London and North
• Western, 951; London and South Western, .951,
953 ; Leeds Northern, 481, 49 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 371, 371 ; Midland
Stock, 102*; • North British, 621 ; South
Eastern and Dovers, 731, 73/ ; York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 931,- 931 ; York and North Mid-
land, 783, 781.
The various Corn Markets held to-day were very
firm, with, however, very little business going
forward.
Business in the general Produce Markets re-
mains steady. Sugar, Tea, Coffee, and Rice are
moderately enquire for, and prices are well sup-
ported. Saltpetre is rather dull and cheaper.
To-day the Glasgow Pig Iron Market was quiet
but steady at 53s nominally, cash prompt.
Birmingham advices state, that the iron trade
of the district continues healthy, all the principal
works are in. full operation, there being a very
active demand.for all descriptions of finished iron,
and the better the quality the brisker the demand
is, consumers no longer finding it to their interest
to purchase the inferior class of iron which it
became the fashon a few years since to produce in
South Staffordshire. Since Quarter-day the amount
of business done has not been large, which is attri-
butable to the faCt of the quantity of iron at that time
sold being unusually large. For the best descriptions
of marked iron prices are firm. The colliers in the
OldburY district are still uneasy on the subject of
wages ; and, at a meeting held a few days since,
some intention was expressed of giving notice for
an advance early in February. The state of the
trade is not yet such as to enable the masters to
make any advance, and it is to be hoped that the
men will be restrained from acting so unwisely as
to seek to enforce it at present. The Nail Trade
is remarkably dull: A meeting was held at Dudley
a few days since, at which it was resolved that ho
alteration should be.made in the workinens' wages,
but that the advanced scale of the 26th of August,
1857, should be strictly adhered to.
MesSrs. J. P. Platt and Co., of . South Castle-
street, in their monthly freight Circular, state :
AUSTRALIA.-In confirming our last report on high
freights to this colony, we nave still a scarcity of suitable
vessels on the berth, and, in most instances, extreme
rates are obtained. During the past • month there has
been a much better inquiry for goods for Melbourne,
which has not failed in having its effect. Freights now
asked are•-1--To Melbourne Wharf, 70s to 80s for fine
goods ; earthenware and hardware, 60s to 65s per ton
measurement; iron, salt, &c., 50s to 55s per, ton weight.
To the Bay, lOs per ton less. To Sydney : Fine goods,
45s to 50s; hardware, earthenware, &c., 40s to 45s per
ton measurement ; salt, 42s 6d to 45s per ton weight. To
Adelaide, 40s to 45s per ton measurement ; 35s per ton
weight. The total value of British goods exported from
Liverpool for the month of December, 1858, was
£4,850,398 ; and for the year ending 31st December, 1858,
£51,721,774: against corresponding periods of 1857,
3,071,559 and £56,529,493.. The declared value of
exports from this port to the United States for the'month
of December, 1853, was £1,446,643; and to the Aus-
tralian colonies, £lBl,OOO. • ,
Subjoined are the particulars of specie on board
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Indus, which leaves Southampton to-morrow (the
4th), for India and China:-Ceylon, gold, £2OO ;
Madras, ditto, £1,330; Calcutta, silver, £62,190;
Penang, ditto, £4OO ; Hong Kong, ditto, £70,167 ;
Shanghae, ditto, £61,541-total, £195,828.
The subjoined information is of interest to the
English creditors of Mexico :-
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have received
Mr. Whitehead's letter, per Parana, dated Ist ultimo, and
a duplicate of a letter of the 18th December, - which- has
. not yet arrived. Mr. Whitehead had again received from
the agents in Vera Cruz $25,989 44c in bills on Mexico,
making the amount thus received . by him
.now £74,900
55c.; and the agents on the West Coast had also some
55,000 odd in hand, belonging to the bondholders. The
political news in this letter are'three days older than those
received two days since, vie United States, and therefore
of no interest.
- The North AmeriCan arrived here to-day, with
New York' advices to the 21st inst. Flour was
again firmer, and in better reqUeste with tolerably
free sales to the trade, closing at higher rates for
nearly all descriptions. Wheat was firmer, while
sales, were limited-being restricted by the en-
hanced views of holders. Corn was less buoyant,
and sales limited, though without change in the
quotations. Pork. was animated, and a speculative
feeling was manifested. Lard was also firm and
more active: There was quite a movement in rice.
Sugars were firm.. Coffee was firm. Freights
were without change of moment, while engage-
ments were moderate.
The following are the Railway Traffic Returns :
Bristol and Exeter, 5,313/.; GreatWestern,26,7o4/.;
London and Brighton, 11,6331.; London and North
Western, 60,9211.; ,Lendon and South Western,
12,724/.; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
10,4061.; Midland, 33,114/.; Great Northern,
22,971/4 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 23,260/.; Ox-
ford, Worcester, &c., 4,114/.; North British, 4,5381.;
North London, 2,123/.; South Eastern, 16,293/.;
Glasgow and South Western, 6,678/4 Great North
of Scotland, 1,135/.; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
5,098/.; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 2,794/.;
Scottish North Eastern, 3,4851.; Cork and Bandon,
2451.; Newport, Abergavenny, &c., 1,351/.; Water-
ford and Kilkenny, 232/.; Great' Luxembourg,
1,70 K; Grand Trunk of Canada, 6,0431.; Great