The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-28 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN. TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

North Western, 104, 106 ; London and South
Western, 105, 105 t; Manchester, - Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 37+, 38; Midland Stock, 82+, 82}, xd ;
North British, 44k, 45-1 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 761, 762; York, ivewcastle, and Berwick,
874, 88 ; York and North Midland, 631, 64.
Chester and Holyhead, 37, 38; Great Southern
and Western, 111, 113; Grand Trunk, 121, 12* ;
Great Western, Canada, 254, 25'1; Do. New, 3-1, 3i ;
Mexican, 211, 221 ; NOrthern France, 381; Paris
and Lyons, 571, ; Dp and Strasburg, 321 33+;
Russian, 109, 111 ; Scottish North Eastern Aber-
deen, 28, 29; Paris and Orleans, 55. 57; Western
of France, 32, 33 ; Central do., 4, 44- ; Geneva, 10,
11 ; Bezieres, 3+, 441 Ardennes, 2,3; Sambre and
Meuse, B*, 9; Namur and Leige, B+, 94 ; Great
Luxembourg, 64, 6a ; Antwerp and Rotterdam, 6+,
6+ ; Dutch Rhenish, I, d ; Lombardo Venetian,
61 63..

Business after official hours was at the annexed
quotations :—Caledonian, 684 09 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 10 11-16, 10 13-16 ; East Lancashire,- 991, 100 ;
Great Northern, 954 ; Ditto, A, 82-; Great Western,
671, 68 ex. div.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101;,
1011 ;
_London and North Western, 106 i, 1061,, ex
div, ; Minehester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 371,
38 ; Midland Stock, 82-.1,-83, ex. div. ; South Eastern
and Dover, 761 761, ex. div. ; York, Newcastle
and Berwiztk, 87 88, ex. div. ; York and North
Midland, 631 031,- ex. div.

Our Grain Market offers no new featine for com-
ment. The import is on a reduced scale, as is
also the export of all articles. Wheat realises late
currency, but is only in consumptive request.
Flour of other than the most approved quality is
difficult to move, and to effect sales of Indian Cor❑
a concession of 3d to Gd per quarter would have
to ha made. All articles were of slow Sale at to"
day's market, and to affect realisations a decline of
2d per 701 b on Wheat and Gd tols per barrel on
Flour would be necessary. Indian corn unchanged
in value, but demand moderated.

The Produce Markets are quiet, and a fair busi
ness is being transacted in the leading articles of
consnmption without any material change in
price.
The Manchester Market for Goods and Yarns
presents a reflex of the Liverpc,ol Cotton Market.
So far stocks have been kept under sufficiently to
influence producers in maintaing tolerable firm•
ness ; but operators are not numerous at the prices
demanded, and the business transpiring is incon-
siderable, the market wearing a heavy and unde-
cided appearance.
According to the following extract from a letter
.received by an eminent firm in Liverpool, from
their Tampico correspondent, that part of Mexico
was in a very disorganised and disgraceful condi-
„Lion

Our country is in a complete state of insurrection, and our
city especially is in a critical position. We are besieged ; our
communications with the interior are destroyed, so that we
can neither despatch or receive any thing. The house of her
Britannic Majesty's agent at Sani Louis de Potosi has been
pillaged by the insurgents, and upwards of $240,000
stolen. The 'chiefs of the government troops are doing
equal mi,ehief with the insurgents, seizing gods legally
cleared from this for the interior. It is high time that the
European nations should have their attention turned to the
state of Mexico, as the persons and interests of foreigners
here have ceased to have the guarantee of civilisation. We
are entirely atlthe mercy of any revolutionary chief.
A company is now before the public,- the pro-
fessed objects of which are the importation,
manufacture, and supply of food,- drinks,- and
drugs in a pure state .the, iirospeCtus, a full
detail is afforded of the evils which arise and have
arisen from the pernicious system so frequently
and dishonestly pursued, and means are advocated
and set forth for the improvement and abolition
of practices in themselves. most culpable, and in
their effects highly injurious.
A meeting of the members of the Rent Guaran-
tee Society took place--yentcrday, When "a satisfac-
tory report was presented, showing that the new
business of the year had been of a superior des-
cription, and. to the extent of 6,0001. As the
receipts now began to exceed the expenditure, the
directors looked forward to a speedy division of
profits amongst the shareholders.
The usual periodical sales of Colonial Wool, in
London, have commenced, and yesterday and
to-day .there was a very full .attendance of home
and foreign buyers, and, as was generally anti-
cipate'l, the rates realised, were in considerable
advance of those current at the close of the sales
in November and December last. The demand
for the fine qualities of Sydney Wool was very
active, and the biddings extremely spirited, at an
advance of fully 2d to 3d per pound over those of
the previous sales. Cape Wool, of which there is a
large quantity in the sales, realised an advance of
lid to 2d, the quality generally being very superior,
and the condition good. The quantity at present to
be offered for public competition is about 34,000 -
bales, of which about 2,000 is Low Wool, and East
India and China, and 16,900 from the Cape of
Good Hope. It is expected the sales will close
about the .17th proximo.

!lANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap.
32, for the Week ending Feb. 20, 1857.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT,
Debit. Credit.
Notes issued £24,168,680 Government
Debt
Other securities 3,459,900
Gold Coin and
9,693,680

£24,168,680 Total .... £24,168,680

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Debit.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 7,455,290
Other „ 9,294,508
Seven days, and
other bills.. 726,360

Credit.
Government se-

curities 411,530,213
°tiler securities 17,755,796
Notes 5,553,525
Gold and silver
coin

711,010

Total .... £3.5,650,544

I Total ... £35,550,544
'n of the previous week, we

Compared with the re,tut
have the following results :
Active circulation
Decrease

418,615,155
181,260
10,404,690
145,030
Rest ....
Decrease
Seven day and other bills . 726.360
Decrease
Public deposits .. 7,455,290
Increase
Other deposits
Decrease 479,550
Government securities 11,530 213
Decrease 14,796
Other securities
Decrease 491,998
Notes unemployed
Increase

Bullion
Increase

The following were the closing quotations of
Foreign Exchanges :---Amsterdam, short, 11 15 to
11 16 ; ditto, 3 months, 11 183 to 11 181; Rotter-
dam, do, 11 181- to 11 181; Antwerp, do, 25 42i to
25 50 ; Brussels, do, 25 421 to 25 50 ; Hamburg,
do, 13 71 to 13 8i; Paris, short, 25 20 to 25 27.4;
ditto, 3 months, 25 624 to 25 70 ; Marseilles. do, 25
65 to 25 70 ; Frankfort, do, 1198 to 119-2-; Vienna,
do, 10 26 to 10 29 ; Trieste, do, 10 27 to 10 30 ;
Petersburg, do, 371 to 37Z; Madrid, do, 491 to
496!. _ _

The bar silver brouglit by the steamer Mag-
dalena was sold yesterday for India at 5s lid
per ounce standard. This shows a decline of id
compared with the prices realised for the remit-
tance by the previous packet ; but in the interim
considerable sales have been effected at 5s ltd.
The decline is attributed to the flatness of the
Indian exchanges, and to the magnitnde of the
stock of silver on offer.

The Chillian dollars brought by the Magdalena
have also been sold at 4s. lld. per ounce,
showing a fall of id. compared with the previous
quotation.
Satisfaction is expressed at the announcement
that government intends to bring forward a measure
to amend the law relative to the winding up of
joint-stock banks.
The committee of which Mr. Wyld is chairman
invite a general meeting of the depositors in the
Royal British Bank for the 4th March, for the
purpose of obtaining their assent to a compromise
proposed by the shareholders, and which has been
approved by the committee of depositors and
Asaignees. The proposal is that the shareholders