The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-13 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Thursday Evening.
We have had an improved demand for Cotton
to-day, the sales reaching 12,000 bales, including
4.00) on speculation and for export, at steady
prwes. The following is a list of Cotton laden
ships now at sea for Liverpool. They were known
previous to the arrival of the America :
NEW ORLEANS. i SAVANNAH.
Bales
J. P. Whitney
Janiscot
Southern Eagle
Samuel Locke
Calliope

Rawl
Yamacraw

Cornelia
Crown
Ambassador
Charles Davenport 3110
Gosport . 1977

TOTAL.

New Orleans 23,691
Savannah

23,691

24,218

The clearances advised per America, being im•
perfect, we cannot give the list of ships—but we
give the totals for the week to Great Britain :
Bales.
New Orleans
Mobile 10,373
Texas
Savannah
Charleston

Add as above

49,173
24;218

Total at Sea

73,391

The Cultivator from New York, had put back
with 068 bales. The only vessel now at sea from
New York, being the Star of the West; cleared
27th Jan„ but cargo not included in the clearances.

The Liverpool Share Market was rather better
to-day, both as regards the amount of business
done and the prices paid. The day's transactions
were-Blackburn, 81 11-16, 1. Caledonian, 321;
Chester and Birkenhead, 68. Chester and Holy
head, 18. Eastern Counties, 91 10 1-16. East Lan-
cashire, 241 1. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 99, 81,
9, 81, 9, 9*, 9. Lancaster and Carlisle. 70. Lan.
caster and Preston, 111/ shares, 51. London
and North Western, 107,1, 1, 1 7, I. Do 1 shares,
13-16 1 dis. London and 4 South Western, 108.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 85 1, f, le,
1, g, 1. Midland, 83, 1, 1,1, *. North Eastern,
21 1. Leeds Capital Stock, 181. Dovers, 221, 1,1,
2-, 1, 11 -16, 1 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
(10/. shares) 121. Dutch Rhenish, Ip. Grand
Trunk of Canada, 12 11.16 Liverpool and
London Insurance, 71p. Royal Insurance,
2a-p. The closing prices are thus reported :-
Blackburn, 8* 81. Chester and Birkenhead,
68 681. Caledonian, 32 1-16 32 3-16. Chester
and Holyhead, 18 18*. Eastern Counties,
91 10. East Lancashire, 24 5.16 24 7-16. Great
Northern, 231231. Ditto A. Shares, 91 10. Great
Western, 68 681. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
981 99. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 18118 z.
London and North Western Stock, 1071 1070.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 354 35/.
Midland Stock, 831 831. North British, 10 3-16 101.
North Staffordshire, 5 qd. South Eastern. and
Dover, 22 11-16, 221. Scottish North Eastern,-
121 13. North Eastern-Berwick, 211 211. York
and North Midland, 31 311. Leeds capital Stock,
181 19. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 11 lip. Dutch
Rhenish, 3-16 Ip. Great Western of Canada, 25
251. Ditto New Shares, 21 21p. Great Luxem-
bourg, 10a 100. Grand Trunk of Canada, 12,4
12 11-16.

Tha Money Market is perceptibly easier. The
dern•.nd is not so urgent, and less pressure is
assuredly felt, yet full rates are exacted, as no re-
duction will be submitted to unless the inquiry so
slackens as to excite competition among the vari-
ous discount houses. If during the next two or
three days the pressure is further lightened, it is
not improbable that the quotations out of doors
will descend to 5.1 per cant., but no hope can yet
be expressed that any early alteration of the mini-
mum quotation will take place. Some quarter of a
million of the recent arrivals of gold from
Australia have been sold to and d3livered
to the Bank of England, and there is a
prospect therefore, of the future weekly returns
showing a considerable addition to the amount of
bullion, This is a very different state of things
from what existed a week or two ago, when the
daily withdrawals from that establishment aroused
the fear that, in order to arrest the drain, the
directors would be compelled to increase the mini-
mum rate of discount. The Bank made no altera-
tion in the rate of interest at their meeting to day.
There was a moderate business done in the
Market for Public Funds and Securities to-day The
Three per Cent. Consols for Money were dealt in
at 931, A, e, f, and for the Account at 94, t The
official closing prices were 931, 94 for Money, and
949 t, for the Account, with a good enquiry. After
official hours they were quoted at 948, 4. The
Three and a Quarter per Cents. brought 941, it
In the London Railway Share Market to day
a slight improvement occurred. The following
were the official closing quotations :
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Eastern Junct. 44 ... 44
Caledonian
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • •
Eastern Counties .... 91- 91
East Lancashire,.
Great Northern
Ditto, A
Great Western
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Leeds Northern
London and North Western
London and South Western
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Midland Stock
North British
South Eastern and Diver

York, Newcastle, and Berwick .
.. 86 .. 87
York and North Midland 6ll ... 62

The business transacted after official hours was
at the following quotations ~

Caledonian
Eastern Counties 9 13-16 15-16
East Lancashire . .
".
: 7699 3371 •:. .: .:. 968948: ill
Great Northern
Ditto A
Great Western
Lancashire and Yorkshire . .
London and South Western
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 35- .. 351
Midland Stock .. •
North British

- -
South Eastern and Dover .. . 751 .. 76
York, Newcastle, and Berwick ....
York and North Midland
._

The Produce Markets, both here and in London,
were very steady today. Sugar was in fair request
at unchanged prices. The demand for Coffee in
London was quiet, and sales to a fair extent are
reported ; but in Liverpool nothing was done in
that article. There seems more disposition to do
business in Saltpetre. Here it is worth 445, 2 per
cent refraction, and in London 455, for 5 per cent
refraction per cwt.
At the various Corn Markets held to-day, a
general degree of inactivity was the predominant
feature. Wheat and Flour met with a very slow
sale, and a decline of 2d per bushel on the former,
and is per barrel and sack on the latter,
had to be submitted to by holders. The
Grain trade in the North of Scotland is not so
firm as was the case last week, Orders for grain
being less pressing than for some weeks past,
prices have assumed rather a downward tendency,
dealers, however, are still disposed to make pur-
chases, but there being less competition, they have
succeeded in procuring sufficient quantities to
meet their demands at lower rates than those
current last week. The same remarks apply to the
state of the trade throughout the whole of Ireland.
The tendency of the French Corn Markets is still
upwards ; and, consequently, shipments of grain
are being made from England to that country.
The accounts from Ipswich state that several
cargoes have been despatched to France and
Spain, and that 5 000 quarters of grain were still
in course of shipment. Should this movement
continue, it will assist the exchanges.
The Agra has arrived in the Downs from
Shanghai, with 517,500 lbs. of Tea and 2,231 bales
of Silk on freight.
It is officially announced that the forthcoming
dividend of the Midland Railway Company will
be at the rate of 41 per cent, per annum, leaving a
surplus of 16,0001. to be carried forward.