Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-17 00:00:00

MONETARY AND! COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday Evening.
In the Cotton Market there is no change to
notice. The sales to-day were-about 6,000 bales,
including 500 on speculation and for export, at
about previous rates..
The Liverpool Share Market way hardly so firm
to-day- The following were the transactions:—
Caledonian, 871 ; Eastern Counties, 12 9-16 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 699 ; Lancashire
and Yerkship, 973, 979, 97f ; London
and North Western, 963, 96;1 7 Midland,
102 a, 1024, 1021. ; St. Helen's Railway and Canal,.
74 ; Dovers, 22 5-16, 22 t ; Warrington and Stock-.
port, 81, 8 5-16 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 81;
Great Luxembourg, 7; St.. Helen's Railway and
Canal, 5 per Cent., 108.

Messrs. Browne, Hunter, and Co., in their cir-
cular of this evening remark:

Although it is generally admitted that the year has
opened under the most favourable' auspices in regard to
the trade of the country, the activity and improvement in
our Produce Markets which had been expected after the
holidays, have been generally checked by the unsettled
state of politics on the Continent. This disturbed con-
dition of foreign affairs has caused much disappointment,
though, as yet, it has exercised no material influence
upon prices • caution and uneasiness, however, are evi-
dently manifested. On the other hand, the Funds and,
Public Securities have been thereby greatly depressed,
both here and upon the Continent, and the desire of
realising has almost amounted to a panic. Such a state
of matters is greatly to be deplored, and an early settle-
ment of existing disputes is greatly to be desired. In
the Money Market there is no notable change ; the
demand, which had been large, as usual, at the turn of
the year, has somewhat abated. The minimum rate of

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discount at the Bank of England still remains at 21 per
cent.

There is rather less. animation in the Stock
Exchange Markets, but an anxious feeling still
prevails with regard _to the state .of the Paris

slight decline, and 'a
reactionary tendency was at
once apparent on this side, circulation being given
to a variety of rumours, which, although not
authenticated, caused a partial return of the panic
feeling noticed early in the week. Consols, how-
ever, are not lower, being supported by purchases
for investements, and the continued easiness of
money. There is also an indisposition on the part
of many speculators to indulge in gloomy views
regarding the future course of political affairs.
Under these circumstances the quotations exhibit
much strength. Consols at noon were 951 to 951
for MOney, and 954- to 951 for Account. Towards the
close in consequence of favourable neWs from the
Paris Bourse, the market became buoyant, and
Consols closed at 951, to 951 for Money, and 951
for the Account. The NeW Threes and. Reduced
are 96 to 96:1.§India Loan Debentures, 99',/, to 99Z-7;
ditto Bonds, 17s to 20s prem. Exchequer Bills,
35s to 39s prem. ; and ditto Bonds, 100,1. A fair

amount of business is recorded .in th

Foreign

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Stock Market, and quotations appear heavy.
Turkish 6 per Cents are 891 to 90; ditto Scrip, Ist
issue, 801 to 81; ditto, 2nd issue, 4 to 4 discount
Peruvian Uribarren, 84. Portugues(

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sian 44' per Cents, 994-to 993. Sardinian, 864 to
874. Spanish 3 per Cents, 45 ; ditto, Deferred, 30
Venezuela, 43 ; and Dutch 4 per. Cents, 101
Chillan 6 per Cents are marked 1041; and the
Loan Scrip, 3 to 2 dis.
In the London Railway Share Market, to-day ,
the transactions were limited, and a slight decline
occurred in prices. Eastern Counties have receded
to 621 ; Great Westerns to 56 and 564 ; North
Westerns to 9610 96a ; Midlands to 1024, 1021 ;
North British to 614, 62. Great Northerns have
improved to 1064 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire to
974, 974. The Foreign and Color2ial lines are also
slightly depressed. Paris and Lyons have receded
to 33 ; Northern of France to 37 ; and Lombardo-
Venetian to -I, prem. Great Indian Peninsula
have improved Ss. Joint Stock. Bank and Miscel-
lanious Shares are a shade firmer. Oriental Bank
have improved to 38;4 384 ; Union of Australia t 6
354 ; and Western Bank of London have declined
to 301. Australian Agricultural are steady at
354 ; and London General Omnibus Company at
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Respecting the movements in Mines during the
week, the Mining Journal of to-day says :

Bath copper and tin have advanced in prfee this week,
and the demand for lead has so much increased that,
with the small stocks on hand, it is probable a good ad-
vance may take place in this metal also. These circum-
stances are very important to mining operations, and are

giving great impetus to them in Ce-rn‘6ll. It is also a
significant fact, and one which should be properly weighed
by speculators, that among the largest buyers of mine
shares of late have been local investors. The general
stock markets have been agitated by all sorts of rumours,
chiefly, we suspect, for stock-jobbing purposes. The
Mining Share Market has been well supported, and a
good demand kept up for dividend, progressive and spe-
culative shares.

The movements of the Precious Metals during
the past week have not been very important.
The imports have been small, comprising £15,339
from the United States, by the Arabia, and £30,400
by the Kangaroo ; £58,700 from Australia, by the
Teviot, via Suez; £10,785 from Africa, by the
Athenian ; £991 from the Peninsula, by the
Alhambra; and about £66,000 in Silver from the
Continent, making a total of £182,215. The
exports have comprised £81,230 in silver to Bom-
bay, by the Orissa; and shipments to the Con-
tinent through the London Custom-house, estimated
at £36,633 ; the total amounting to about
£117,863.
The Gazette statement of the movement of the
Precious Metals, for the week ending, Wednesday
last, gives the following totals, viz :—lmports
of gold, £96,587 ; exports of gold, £78,425;
imports of silver, £96,247 ; exports of silver,
£563,772.

The Mediterranean Extensim Telegraph Coln,
pany have received a •telegram from their
superintendent at Malta, to the effect, that on the
arrival of the steamer Elba, operations were
commenced by underrunning7 the cable, in the
course of which, an entanglement was met with
off the Bay of Malta. On. Monday, however,
owing to a pie of wind, operations were for the
time suspended. In the event of no further
impediment having occurred, it is probable that
telegraphic- communication- between Malta and
Cagliari will soon be resumed.
The traffic returns of railways in the United
Kingdom for the week ending Jan. S, amounted
to £412;880, and for the-corresponding period of
last year to £381,500, showing an, increase of
£31,380: The gross receipts on the eight railways
having; their termini in., the metropolis amounted,
for the week ending as above, to £1.Z3,566 ; and for
the corresponding week of last year to .£165,294,
showing an increase of £6,272. The increase on.
the Eastern Counties, railway amounted to £37 ;-
oat the Great Western. to £351 ; on the London.
and North Western; to £5;486.; on- the. London.
and Blackwall, to 411 •, on the London, Brighton,
and South Coast, to £787 ; on the ondon and
South Western,• to £1,236 ; and on the South
Eastern, to £295;; total, £8,;.'02. Bnt from this
must be deducted,. £1,930, the decrease on the
Great Northern). leaving the increase as. above,
46,272. The receipts on the other lines. in the
United Kingdom amounted to £241,314, and for
the corresponding period of 1858; to £216,206,,
showing an increase of £25,108 in the receipts of
these lines ; which, tickled to the increase on the
metropolitan lines, makes the total increase
£31,380 as;compared with the corresponding week
of 1858.
The following are the Gazette average prices of
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Aluscov-ado Sugar,. for the week ending Jan. 11
1859, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon,
.on the importation thereof into Great Britain:—
From the West Indies, 28s; from the 'Raft Indies
29.5; average. price of the foregoing descriptions,
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SATURDAY'S MARKETS
Thero has been a moderate demand for Cotton to
with ample supplies, prices are unchanged. • The sale
ing 30 Pernambuco, 71d ; 90 111aranhain, 8d to 83/44 ;
ti3:4.sa. to 93d; 409 Surat, 53/4d to sid—sre reported 6
of which 509 are on speculation and for export.
AGILICULTURAL PrtonucE,--llay old, 8d to 9d; ditto, new,
Bcl to 9d; ditto clover,, 7d to 7::;.1; straw, wheat, 3d to 33/4d
ditto, oat, 3d to 4d; ditto, barley, 2,1 to 20 ; potatoes, Kemps,
2s oa to 3i • ditto, Whiterocks 2s to 2,, 2d; ditto, Balshaw,
Is lld to 2, ditto, 'Flukes, 3s ld to as tt; turnips,,l6s to 198;
man l•-• • ,• 1,16 s to 18$ ; manure, 5s to 7s,
W,`'• , • WOOLLEN Manxr.rs.—Leeda ;, There has not been
• ..- = doing in any kind of wool during the week, but
~Itered. The quiet stnto of the market has been
OWI .g :;,,tless, to the belligerent intoUigence which has come

300 Egsr
,000 bale!