Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, 'L

The Cotton Market 'remains
since Friday last is now fully id. per lb_
were 6,000 bales, including 500 on specula►.
for export. • -

There was very little business done in the
Liverpool Share Market to-day, and, generailf
speaking, prices were not so firm. The following
are the day's transactions :—Chester and Birkell:
head, 67; Great Northern, -551; Lancashire end
Yorkshire, 971, 97 ; Lancaster and Preston,
Twelfth-shares, 7f4, ; Ditto New One-fourth shares?
Bp. ; London and North Western, 961, 96; Ditto
One-eighth shares,. 1546 d.; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincoln, 38, 371, 38 ; Dover's, 221;
Buffalo and Lake Huron, 7 ; Chester and Holy
head, 5 per Cent. No. 2, 1161 c ; Bank of Liver-
pool, 19.

There is still a very limited inquiry for discount
accommodation, and the terms charged for
negotiating first class paper range as low
as two per cent. Ample facilities, therefore
are now afforded for the active development
of trade as soon as favourable opportunities
present themselves, but it is clear that the
recovery in business will be very gradual, and
no attempt is made to force it by. recourse to spe:
culative adventure. The same prudent course is
adopted in the United States and on the Continent.
It is consequently presumed that the improvement
so generally anticipated during the present
year will be healthy and permanent, and
that no immediate recurrence of disaster
need be apprehended. During the last few
days the supply of capital has largely
increased, and loans and discount are thus obtain'
able on easier terms than for some time past. The
settlements at the. Stock Exchange may tar
porarily augment the inquiry, but at present the
rates of " continuation " are very easy, and ad-
vances on Government Stock are offered freely al
1 to 11 per cent.

The rise on the Paris Bourse yesterday appears
to have imparted additional firmness to the war
kets for English Securities. The movement, up t°
this hour, has been merely fractional ; but it de•
notes a favourable tendency, the result of which
will, in a great measure, be determined by the
quotations of Rentes this afternoon. Consols have
been 951, 96 for Money and the Bth proxiin°'
Transactions have also been reported at the same
price for the March settlement. The• New Threes
and the Reduced An nuities are also rather higher.

In the Marketfor Foreign Securities rather more
firmness is apparent, but at present no alterations
of importance have taken place. Turkish Six per
Cents., are 90*, 911; ditto Scrip, Ist issue, 781'
791 • ditto, 2nd issue, 6* to 51 dis. Spanish Three
per bents., 444, 451. Russian Five per Cents.f
113, 114. Sardinian, 86, 88. Mexican, 19t, 19P
Peruvian Four and a-Half per Cents., 91, 93. per:
tuguese, 46*, 47*. Dutch Two and a-Half per
Cents., 65, 66 and ditto Four per Cents., 101,104'
Chilian Scrip is 21 to 1* dis.

In the London Railway Share Market to-dit9'
very little business was done, and both English
and French shares were a trifle lower. Lombardo
Venetian also declined. Foreign Stocks were nls°
lower,. Mexican, however, improving. Bank 9,
Mines, and Miscellaneous shares, much the wile
The following were the closing prices
Ambergate, 61,, 61 ; Caledonian, 851
Do. Pref 105 ; Eastern

103
East Lancashi

Counties'

62, 63

btrgh and Glasgow, 69, ;710 r'Grea.t' Nor
ern, 104, 105 ; Ditto A. 89, 90 ; Ditto
B. 132,134 ; Great Western, 5417551; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 961 961; Brighton, 113, 114,i
London and North Western, 95t, 961 ; London apiu
South Western, 941, 943: ; Manchester, Sheffield;
and Lincolnshire, 372, 38 ; Midland, 102, 102-1;
North British, 621, 621 ; ditto Pref., 112, il4;
North Eastern—Berwick, 93, 93„1 ; Leeds, 4°'
481 ; York; 761-, 77:1 ; North Staffords, 4t, 4.7-; d'
Dovers, 731, 731 ;- itrkish Sixes, 90, 901; Die
Fours, 1051, 106 ; Great Western of Canada, 1'
161 ; ditto New, 41,. 44 d ; Grand Trunk of Canada'
8t.5-„ 81 ; Bank Stock, 2261, 228.

The circulation of the Private and Joint Stogy
Banks, in England and Wales, for the four wee,V
ending December 18, combine& with the circuit'
tion of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same
period, and the average circulation of the Bank
England for the four weeks ending 15th Deceniln
(the nearest date furnished by their returns),
give the following results of the circulation
notes in the United Kingdom, when comp
with the previous month :

Nov. 20,
1858.

Bank of England
Private Banks .. .

21,077,449
3,456,409
2,970,917

Joint Stock Banks