Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

A general improvement has taken place in the Stock
Exchange. The public are absorbing Stock upon an
extensive scale. Consols have experienced the important
rise of •-1 per cent., and closed with firmness at almost the
best point of the day.. The rebound from the lowest point
of the late depression is fully 3 per cent. In all the other
departments of the Stock Exchange advanced prices have
been established, under the support accorded by bona fide
operations. In the Discount Market, a more settled
feeling likewise prevailed. First-class bills up to
six weeks or two months • could be negociated
at the Bank minimum. The supply of money at the dis-
posal of the discount establishments is enormous. The gold
withdrawn from the Bank to-day for exportation was only
£12,000. The £84,400 in Australian gold by the Heather-
bell was at once taken for the Continent. The Great
Britain and Sussex have arrived from Melbourne with a
total of £226,800 in gold, which will doubtless be taken for
the Continent.—. Daily News City Article, Monday Evening.
The paywent of the £2,000,000 exchequer bonds issued
in May, 1854, has led to a considerable increase of invest-
ments in government and other stocks. The market is
likewise influenced by the quietude which has characterised
the commencement of the long-dreaded war, and the
approach of the termination of the elections also assists in
promoting a tendency to steadiness. The result has been
an advance in Consols of 1 per cent. There was an active,
but not heavy, demand for discount at the Bank to-day.
An advance to 6 per cent. is considered probable at a com-
paratively early date, but it will depend on the efflux of gold.
The drain within eight weeks has amounted to £2,745,542,
and the advance from 24 to 4il per cent. has not exceeded
former precedents. In 1855 the Bank lost close upon
5,000,000 in ten weeks, and the rate advanced step by step
from 31 to 7 per cent. The amount of Bank notes in
circulation is larger than at any former period, with the
exception of 1853, when the excitement of the Californian
and Australian gold receipts were at its highest. The
average is about 20,000,000, and the total at this moment
is 22,255,685. The increase is attributed probably to the
Scotch, Irish, and other banks having made extra provision
against emergencies in consequence of the war.— Times City
Article, Monday Evening.
THE CORN MARKET. —The Times city article reports an
extraordinary reaction in the corn markets yesterday, the
quotation being at least 6s below Monday last. The Daily
News says buyers offered 6s to 8s per quarter less than on
last Monday, whilst in the sales effected sellers submitted
to a reduction of 3s to ss.
The Scutari and John Masterman have arrived from
China with 1,307,600 pounds of tea and 1,539 bales of silk.
The freight circular of Messrs. Shard, just issued, states
that in less than a fortnight an advance has taken place of
50 to 75 per cent. in Mediterranean coal freights ; of 50
per cent. in Black Sea homeward freights ; and of 50 to 60
per cent. to and from some of the Baltic ports. Other
freights are enlianced, but not to the same extent.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this week an
increase of £1,716.
The indigo sales to-day (Tuesday) are expected to be
materially influenced by the war.
The Herald remarks that the accounts from the manu-
facturing districts, and the provinces generally, show a
restriction of business, through the outbreak of hostilities.
The only exception is the shipbuilding business at New-
castle, which, it says, has rather improved.
By order of the Austrian Commandant of the garrison,
the lighting of the lighthouse at Ancona is discontinued.
Tins AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—Although tidings have not
come to hand respecting the Australian mail steamer Emeu,
which was due at Suez on the 25th April, ozn pprehens
ion
is felt at Lloyds' for her safety, nor has any era premiumof insurance been given on her.

THE ELECTIONS.

CLOSE OF POLLS.
SUFFOLE. EAsT.—ll.enriker, 2674; Kelly, 2520 ; Adair

1876.
DERBYSHIRE SOUTH.—Evans 3,536; Mundy 3,185,
Vernon 3,184.
POLLING.
MIDDLESEX (12 o'clock).—Byng 1,638, Hanbury 1,626,
Haigh 471. 1 p.m.-Byng 1,969, Hanbury 1,959, Haigh
595. 4 p.m.—Hanbury 3,112, Byng 3,094, Haigh 939.
5 p.m.—The close of the poll has not °been completely made
up, but there can be no doubt that Hanbury and Byng have
each a majority of considerably more than two thousand over
Haigh

MEMBERS RETURNED.
SOUTH DERBYSHIRE. —Evans and Mundy.
DONEGAL (COUNTY).—Hayes and Connolly.
The total number of members returned now amounts to

News classifies them as follows :—Liberals,
262. The same journal complains that