Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-17 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES,

Cheater & B'head 732 73:4 N. E. Ber. c. Stock 951 961
Caledonian 04 94 Yorkcapital Stock 79* 80
E.Qounties .... 11,1 11:1 Leeds Stock .... 482 49
G. N. Stook.. ..107A 108:1,- S. Eastern ..26d 26 7-16
Great Westerns.. 681 608 Dutch -Rhenish ....58 4-7 id
Lan. and Y0rk...100 1001 Gt. Luxem6 13-16 6 15-16
lA. & Nor. West. 9)7, G.T. of Can. ..81 8 13-16
ifshares .... 7-16 aG. W.. Canada 121 12,1-
Be. S. and Lin .. 381 381 , new shares 88 7,1 d
Midland Stock .. 1114-114 Buff. & L. .H. 5 3-16 5 5-16
N. British Stock.. 611- 62 Lomb-Venetian 11,, 2p
N. Stafford .. 3d Great Ship ....11/0 12/0

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
Thursday Evening.

The Bank rate of discount has not been altered.

In the market for English Securities, business to-
day has been of the most limited character, though
prices maintained steadiness. Consols opened at the
closing quotations of yesterday, and have not expe-
rienced any material change, the latest values being
94 to I.for Money, and 941 to a for the Account.
Reduced Three per Cents. have been dealt in at
941 H and y ; New Three per Cents., 94y ; India
Stock, 2201 ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 4s. pm.;
Enfaced Rupee Paper, 977, l'ind Five-and-a-Half
per Cents. ditto, 103.4 and 1; Exchequer Bills
are 265. and 235. pm., large and small.
In the English Railway Share Market, shares
were slightly firmer, but the market showed little
activity. Great Westerns are 691 ; Midlands,
108 ex dir. ; London and North-Westerns, 991
to I ; and South-Easterns, 87; and 881.
The market for Foreign Securities was dull in
the extreme, business being almost at a stand,
the few operations, however, appear to have been
effected at generally firm *values. Original
Turkish brought 781 and 79.1- ; and the New
Sixes, 661. Mexicans are steady, at 211.

New Indian Five per Cent. Loan is quoted 103
to;.

Canada Scrip is steady at 2to pm.
Turkey Bank Shares are to a dis.
The price for French Rentes on the Paris Bourse
is 67f. 55c., the market rather flat.

THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols,
money_ 94Z- I Bank Stock .. . 229 31
~ Account ..... 911 f.; Three per Cents.. 943 7
Exchequer Bills.. 23 6
RAILIVAY SHAItEs,
Amb. Not. &E. J. 6
Caledonians . . . 94

.OSING PRICES.
Lancas. & York..loo
L. &N. West. 991 'A
L. &S. W. 921
Leeds Northern.. 471
Man. Shelf. & Lin 38 I
Midland Stock ...108
North British ... 611 21
N. Staffordshire..
S. E. & Dover ..
. York, N. &B. . . 93
York &N. Mid... 761 7

Dutch Rhenish..
Eastern Counties.7sB

Eat Lancashire.
Edinburg & Glas. 80 1
Great Northern . . 108 3
A. 971 t-
Gt!.' Westerns" .68 94-
G.W.Canada . 121 5
G. Tic. Canada . Bti ;
Gt. S. & West ..112 14

The following appeared in a portion of our
impression of yesterday :
" ' MONEY MARKET,. Bre.
' Consols, which opened firmly at yesterday's improve-
ment, fell t per-cent., but the closing quotations were 4.
per cent. below those of yesterday. The best bills were
discounted to-day at 4 to 41 per cent. and the late
stringency in-the market is wearing off. 'There were no
transactions in bullion at the Bank to-day.—Daily News.
The English funds opened steadily this morning at
the firm prices of yesterdaY, but subsequently expe-
rienced a relapse of 4-, principally in consequence of the
distrust indicated by the absence of any tendency to re-
covery on the Paris Bourse. Notwithstanding the

The dividend of the British and Exeter Railway is at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
The half-yearly dividend of the Ottoman Bank is to
be at the rate of 14 per cent. per annum.
A sub-committee of the Stock Exchange has been
appointed to take steps for altering the law with regard
to time bargains. •
It is stated that the Council of India are considering
a plan for the removal of the business of the India-office
to the West end. ~ ' •

The Times says, .the penity rate 'on imported and
exported packages is likely to produce a sum much
beyond the Chancellor's estimate.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHIPPING.—Mr. Lindsay
has given notice that, on going into committee on the
Customs Acts, he will move—" That, in the opinion of
this house, it is expedient, in sanctioning the measures
requisite for executing the engagements entered into by
her Majesty in the treaty with France, that provision
be made for abolishing all differential duties on trade
carried on in British or French vessels between the
ports of England and France, and their respective
colonies and dependencies, and from port to port within
those limits.

The Hudson's Bay Seal Skin Cloaks and Jackets,
One Guinea each, at the New Shawl and Mantle Ware-
house, 40, Bold-street —Shellard and Hodgson, Pro-
prietors.