Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-15 00:00:00

THE NOI,TIIERN TIMtS, S4.TURDAti.f:ANUARY:IS,. 1559

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tato six siliiiings and, eightpence, or a twelfth:of
that price. Instances of it rising to one hundred
and twenty7eight shillings a7quarter, are not
wanted. But what could be expected, when
an acre of - ground only gave, as .an
average, twelve bushels where it now gives
more than three times that number. A curious
picture of the very limited means of the peop7le is
found in the valuation of the movables and pro-
perty of the city of Col Chester, in the year 1301.
At the period I- am speaking of, when Parlia-
inent granted money to the Crown, it, did so by
what was called'a subsidy, varying in amount; but
Which. was_ really a direct tax on all. the.movable
in.operty in the kingdom. That of the year 1301
Was a-fifteenth, and so vexatiously was-it cirri ed 7
out, that no property, however trifling, escapecL,
Pius, we find a man whose property was ten shil-_
lings, charged eightpence for his fifteenth. One
Alice Meynard, we find, also charged'for her brass
pot, valued at tenpence, or two shillings and six-.
pence of thirsmge; for her towel, Valued at three-
ence, or fifteen pence of this. day-----even the
Solitary old coat of a baker, and a hatchet, the.
only tool-of a carpenter, were made to pay.- It-
will be understood, therefore, that in order to tax,
everything,• it was necessary to take an inveniiiry-
Of everything—a pretty clear , proof that the pro-
perty of each- individual must have--been scanty -
beyond our present conception, when
_such an.

enumeration 'would scarcely be poSsible.' Let us get
an idea then'of the Comforts of the-good townsmen.
of Colchester in the year tlairteesa hundred and one
city -.at that - time contaitung four thousand
inhabitants, and considered the tenth in point of
importance in •
the kingdom. The 'following is .one,
of several catalogues of furniture preserved, and
which represents the usual condition of the
A Mazer cap, or Maple &up,- valued:
Is 6d to 6s (our.rnoney) ; a bed, froth 4s 6d to 20s ;
a tripod, or tribute, from 9d to is 7d ; a brass pot,
from 3s to 7s 6d; a brass cup, from is 6d. to 3s ;
an andivore, a supporter for burning wood, 10d. to
2s; a- braSs: dish, is 6d to 3s ; a gridiron, from
ls 6d to 3s 6d ; a rug, or coverlet, from 2s to 3s 6d."
Such was the furniture of the Colchester-people in
the year 1301. •
. _ .

COmpare this with the fitting up of a working
man's cottage at the present day, and we cannot
fail -to probounce it a very sorry affair indeed.
The nice shining rows of crokery, of plates and
dishes, and the -wonderful tea cups, which our
ancestors would have stared at with astonishment,
and our glass, and our tin-pans, which every
thrifty.. working man's wife loves to have so
scrupulously clean ; and our rugs, and feather
beds; or mattrasS, and sheets, • and -other coa'ven-!
fences which are familiar aid indispensable-to;
every one at 'the present day, were unknown
to the habits of those rude times. Tin
and- iron vessels seem almost .to have been_
unused, and the supply of fuel was very liniited.
Indeed the provision of the latter noted- in this
town is so small, that there is a doubt whether
there were any fire-places. A few tradesmen are
mentioned as having faggots—or tale-wood, as it
was called-=for the use probably of their shops ;
and' though ; sea-coal (carbon nzarin, 'so it. is
written) is found more than once, it seems Chiefly'
to have been used, by..blaCksmiths. It may easily
be imagined that the people in this town were no
great shopper's, the contents of the shops were so
miserably small. Thus, a cobbler's stock was
valued at 21s. A butcher's stock of salt meat
fOr ,fresh: meat' was . not used (it' seems
to have been the fashionable shop), was
worth 5s 6d, containing 1201bs of meat. As
to the mercer, who also was called the spice-
seller, as we should now say grocer, his whole
stock consisted of a piece of woollen cloth, valued
at 21s in our money ; of silk and fine linen, about
£3 ;-' flannel and silk pieces, £3 12s y. gloves,
girdles, and needle-work, 20s ; sundry ,Small
things, Os ; making a total of nine pounds two
shillings for his whole stock ! How the owner
would be astonished to walk into any of the
mercers'-shops, in any of our large towns. Xis
manifest, that traffic could hardly have been
born. The inventory of the mechanics' tools show
the very rude state of their art. -A Oarpeutceo
stock was. valued at 3s-of our money, and ' con-
sisted of a broad axe, fifteen pence ; another,
smaller; minepence ; an adze,. Sixpence; a square,
threepence; a navigor (probably a. spoke-shave),
threepence ;
,making altogether a total of three
shillings ! •A blacksmith's was valued at froth ten
to fifteen shillings ! .

I will now subjoin a list of trades, and quit the
city of Colchester. We find bakers, butchers,
blacksmiths, and bowyers. A bowyer, by the
way,.,may probably, puzzle some of my readers,
but lie was a very important personage in those
days, being a maker of the cross-bows with which
our English soldiers were armed—and the best
bowmen they were—as also of a light kind of bow
for the ch.ase. Next we hava brewers (an
occupation usually exercised by women), carpen-
ters, carters, cobblers, and cook, and a cook-shop
a' dyer, fisherman, fuller, farrier, and girdler.
Here, again, is a name unfamiliar to us of the
present day, recalling a past state of things ; but
at that time the clothes were secured not as now,
by shoulder braces, but by girdles, which were
chiefly made of leather, and sometimes were
highly ornamented with gold and silver. Some-
times they were made of silver entirely. This, as
will be conceived, was a busy occupation. Next
comes a glass-seller, a proof that glass was now
coining into use, though the manufacture was
evidently not common, as no mention is made
of a glass-blower. Then we have glovers, linen-
drapers, and then the mercers and spice-sellers.
The next in the list is the mustard and vinegar-
seller. This was a distinct occupation, and pro-
bably from the meat used being almost all salt, one
in considerable request. In France, about the
period I am referring to, the mustard-makers and
vinegar-sellers were important enough to have
their guilds. Next comes a somewhat useful
persenage, whom we should not have expected to
have found carrying on a thriving business in
.Colchester five hundred years ago, and that is the
old-clothes man. But whatever clothes are
worn,-it is to be presumed that he flourishes.
There is always somebody willing to wear
somebody else's coat. A satirical writer
once remarked that he was puzzled to know
what the English beggars did with their
cast-off rags, until he saw the Irish beggars, when
he at once came to the conclusion that they must
be the buyers. In those days there can be no
doubt that the working classes were wretchedly
provided with clothing, Falstaff says of his
soldiers, that they must find linen in every hedge,
—that is, they were to steal it ; while the soldiers
in Edward the Second's army, at the battle of
Bannockburn, are thus described by Barbour,* an
early post:—
" Wherever they yied men might them ken,
For they well near all naked were,
Or linen clouths had but nare."
Lastly, we come to the saddler, tailor, tanner,
tyler, wood-cutter, weaver, and wool-comber.
In the foregoing list of trades and artizans, it
will be perceived that there is a lack of various
occupations which would now be found in a town
containing four thousand inhabitants. As to
booksellers and printers, they were, of course,
unknown, but not more so than were plasterers,
paviors, bricklayers, stone-masons, and other
artizans, now requisite for the familiar and daily
occupations of a large town. The latter, indeed,
would have found little to do in a country town,
when even the metropolis did not require their
services. It is true that in the year 1192, the
Corporation of London had made an order
that all houses thereafter to be erected were
to be of stone, with parting walls of the same,
and covered with slates or tiles, but so
little was this attended to, that even in the
year sixteen hundred and four, just two hundred

* John Barbour was born in Aberdeen in 1330 ; and
became, under David 11., Archdeacon of Aberdeen in
1356, at the early age of 26. He was a contemporary of
Robert Langlaude, a secular priest of Oxford, who wrote
a famous satirical allegory called " The Vision of Pierce
Plowman, " which has been looked upon as the first
English poem. Though Barbour was a Seetchman, be
wrote in a far more pure English thadiven Chaucer,
echo belcuged to this age.

and fifty-four, years ago, King James the Eirst
was obliged to order that, in future, 'the fronts, at
least, of houses—the rest, it is evident,, might be
of wood—should be of brick or stone, both for the
sake of embellishment and security against fire.
As to - paving, -it was scarcely known. At the
Conquest, the streets of London were, many of
them, mere lanes •of -mud. •In the year ten
hundred and ninety-four, beams of timber, six
feet long, having been blown down froni the'
Church of Saint Mary_ le _ Bow, then under
repair, they sank so deep into the mud that
!scarce a part of them remained. above ground. The
great thoroughfare -of Holborn. was not paved till
a 417, and Smithfield not until 1616. In point of
fact, such a town as Colchester, 'though at that
time considered a thriving one, must have been a
collection of paltry wooden houses, which could
hardly_ be .fmunl_ anywhere at - the -present day.
And the whole amount; of the value of its property,
including all household furniture and utensils,
clothes; money, horses corn, and other provisions,did not exceed £5lB 16s and Old
,of our money !_
The fifteenth of course only produCed. the trifling
sum of X 34 12s 7d ! !

SHIPPING, WRECKS, AND LIGHTHOUSES.
Abstract: of tile ntimber of vessels • wh'ich have pa'ssed'
through the Rock Channel during the year 1858. i

.Month
January ,
February
March ..,
April .. :

Inwards. Outwards
423
317 381 ..
417
510 ..
531
564 ...
469 ..
713 ..
604 ..
474 ..
550 ..
510

September
October..,

NofeMber
December

6,145 5,977
Total intercourse in 1857

Decrease

. 3,027,

• INWARDS.
Abstract of Vessels passed Inwards through the Victoria and
other Northern Channels to Liverpool,dming the year 1858.

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tVebruary
March
April ..

August
September
October ..

November

December

Yearly Total

January.
February
March .
April ..
May

August ..
September.
October ..
November
December .

any Total

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06 ,1,171.78
17 954 112
07 1,356' 83
47 866 94
29 1,435, 56
33 .1,090; 62
23 1,219, 49
93 1,077: 93
56 1,142 70
15 823; 23

..13,278 12,434' 813

OUT WARDS,

864 116
--864 - 110
1,305 71

1,2251 198
1,5351

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- - 1,213
8 16 850
- .38- 1,493
7 20 1,510
- 25 1,771
6 24 1,537
- 12 1,832
- 9 1,399
- 7 1,398
- 14 1,377
- 11 1,279
- 4 j 1,067

206 912 "229 3
99 ' 1,879 89-
' 98' 1,258 133 -
403 996 71 --
106 1,184 139 --
42 1,267 .105 --
60 816 113 --

I 1,722 114,10511,561 1
Inwards .

Total Intercourse .
Total in 1857 ..

IRO' '10.726 R. 982

15 1;142 250
23 -1,159 171
33 1,521 393
28 1,593 336
43, 4914 ' .337
14 , 1,364 325

5 2,072 680
25 1,514 '1,068
18 1,488 404
26 1,455 520
44 1,458, 355
7 9961 185

281 17,676; 5,227
. 16,726

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An abstract of casualties to the lightships, beacons,
d buoys in Liverpool Bay during the year 1854, showed
e following results : —broke adrift,.l; dragged, 1 ;
)vc, 4 ; sunk, 1 ; ditty, 45.

A-. return of the number of gallons, of oil, and the
number of wicks expended, during the year 1858, at the
various lighthouses, lightships, and landing stages, showed
the. following result,:
No. of Lights.
24 .. North-West Lightship
16 .. Formby Lightship .
8 ~.Crosby Lightship
10 ... Crosby Lighthouse
24 .. Rock Lighthouse
8 Leasowe Lighthouse
11 .. Bidston Lighthouse ......
2 .. Upper Hoylake Lighthouse
3 .. Lower Hoylake Lighthouse
13 ... Point Lynas Lighthouse
Buoy Tender
South Landing-stake
North Landing-stage
Telegraphs

In 1857.

4,865 9,133
..4,764 8,878

PATNA, Dec. 3, 1858.—Mr. Money reporti that the
bands of Hurldssen Singh and Meghur Singh are now
both completely dispersed, and that the rebels may be
considered at an end in Shahabad. The only quarter from
which a renewal of disturbance may be feared is Pala-
mow, where a body of Sepoys under Seeda Singh and
Ram Bahadoor Singh have taken refuge ; they will
Probably be joined by Hurkisscn Singh, Meghtrr. Singh,
and the rest of the leaders, who are now hiding in
Shahabad.—Englishman, Dec. 6.

At the Salford Sessions, Eliza and Sarah Ann
Ormerod, two young women who pleaded guilty
to an indictment charging them with atrocious
maltreatment of a girl named Maria Hewett, who
worked for them and lived in their house, in
Ashten-Under-Lyne, have been sentenced to twelve'
months' imprisonment. The, poor girl went to live
with the prisoneri on the 23rd November, from
which time she appeared to have been subjected
to a series of outrages almost unparralled in their
nature. When she was removed by the police,
she was scarcely able to walk. According to her
statement, the elder prisoner, Eliza Ormerod, beat
her with a hammer on the, very day after she first
went. Afterwards the other prisoner struck her
with her hands, with pieces of wood and iron, and
with a " riser." This treatment was renewed from
day to day, leathern straps and a poker being used
at different times. In addition to this the child
was made to sleep at night under the bed, in a
state of nudity ; and when towards morning she
was allowed to creep out, she was only permitted
to seat herself in a chair, with no other covering
than occasionally a piece of sacking. At length
her cries attracted the attention of the neighbours,
who gave information to the police. It was only
fair to the prisoners' mother to state that she
never sanctioned her daughters' conduct ; and that
whenever she interfered with them she was herself
ill-treated.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Friday. Evening. ,
There was but little change in our Cotton
Market to-day. The sales were 6,000 bales, in-
cluding 500 on speculation and for export.
Messrs. Edmund Jardine and. Co. report the
week's proceedings as follows:
The unsettled appearance of European politics, giving
every appearance of resulting in a general war, has natu-
rally affected, our. market, which, throughout the week,
has been' extremely dull 'and 'depressed ; arid; although
do not materially reduce our quotations, they .are sup-
ported only by the position of the market in Manchester,
which, however, on Tuesday, manifested some 'symptoms
of weaknegi, arid by the limited stock held here. The
demand from the trade has been very freely met by
holders, on terms fully 1-16 d per lb below the quotations
of Friday last, for the current:qualities .of American.

Surats are further in favour of buyers about 1-16 d per
lb. Egyptian, Brazil, and Sea Islands remain unchanged.
Messrs. Wright, jun., and Co., remark :
The concluding remarks in our last circular advices of

7th instant, reported irregularity as the ruling feature in
bur Cotton market, at the time of the Europa's departure.
The -business during the week, under ieview, has been
haracterised by the same listless feelingi on the part of
operators, which has for so, long. a.pgriod•been apparent,
whilst an undue pressure Of stock, constantly offered for
•ealisation, inclines prices adversely to holders, not so
much, perhaps, in the altered quotations as is necessary
to induce sales. The American advices stimulate the
desire of importers in clearing parcels on hand,
and as arrivals take place ; regardless of the
loss attending incomings, and thefirm condition.of prices
at the ports of shipment, but which are expected .to give
vay when our recent reports are better understbod, and

it is obvious that all favourabtei-elements fail to influence
a different -order .of , things on this side. A cautious
action is engendered by the prospect of a large ,crop, and
heavy future supplies; for, with only a legitimate trade
demand., without . speculation, accumulating stocks will
press too heavily, and he too burdenseme in the present
state of restricted monetary accommodation. Political
causes also have their. effect, and the akitation in the

funds and public securities has been greater this week

than during the last _ten years. —; At the close,
however, the tone is rather more 'reassuring,
but the future is very undefined. The total sales of the
week, including what has been forwarded from the ship's
side, amount to 45,990 bales, of which 36,070 are
American. SpeCulators have taken 1,520, and Exporters
4,700, leaving 39,770 bales of all; kinds to the trade.
The import for same time is' ;41,832 bales, of which
33,964 are American. The quantity known to be at
sea.from American ports is about 14.8,000 bales.

PRICES TO-DAY :-

New Orleans Fair, 74d .. Middliiii,6lcl Ordinary, 4d to 6
Gld
Mobile - „ 7d „ 64d 5d to d
Atlantic -- „ 63d .:. , 6 9-I6d „ 4N. to d
Totaltaken for consump'n, 1859, 71,170 bls. 1858, 69,270ba1e5.
„ export (actual) „ 11,572 „ „ 3,282 „
American Brazil Egypt'n,E. India W. India Total
Stock this day.. :.254,750 22,430 22,910 31,070 '720 331,880
Same time 1858..222,050 41,210 13,270 133,710 ; 4,750 415,010
The. Glasgow Cotton Market has been dull this
week, and rather drooping, with little business
transacted.

The Market for the Public Funds and Securities
opened at yesterday's closing prices. During the
day the Market was steady ; quotations at one
time fractionally advanced, but closed as at the
beginning. The Government broker again bought
New Threes. Consols closed at 95a to 951 for both
Money and the Account ; the New Threes at
964 to 961, and Exchequer Bills at 35 to 38.
The Liverpool Share Market continues very
firm, but the actual business passing was but
trifling.

The London Railway Share Market opened
very steady to-day, and towards the close became
slightly better, closing firmly. Lombardo-Vene-
tian rallied from / to 1 pm. Caledonians were,
however, hardly so firm. Foreign Stocks
left off rather steadier. In Banks, Mines,
and Miscellaneous shares there is no change to
notice. The following were the closing prices :
Ambergate, 61, 61 ' • Caledonian, 87, 871 ; Ditto
Pref., 103, 105 ; Eastern . Counties, 621, 631 ;
East Lancashire, 94, 96 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
681, 691 ; Great Northern, 106, 1061; ditto A,
90, 92 ; ditto 8., 133, 135 Great Western, 55/,
561 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 97, 971; , Brightonf
112, 113 ; London and North Western, 961, 97;
London and South • Western, -93, 94 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 38, 39 ; Midland,
1021, 1021 ; North British, 611, 62 ; Do. pref.,
112, 114 ; North Eastern—Berwick, 93, 94 ;
Leeds, 48, 49 ; York, 771, 78 • North Stafford,
44 ; Dovers, 74, 741 ; Turkish Sixes, 90,
903 ; Do. Fours, 105/, 1051 ; Great Western
of Canada, 161 17 ;, Do. New, 31 [d. ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 9:, 9 7-16; Bank Stock,
226, 228.

In-the Produce Markets Sugar is quiet but firm.
Refined is in good demand, and 535. 6d. is paid
fbr low lumps. The business in Ceylon Coffee is
at fully previous rates ; Tea is firm, but buyers
pautious ; Saltpetre continues to adVance ; Rice is
firm, with a fair business doing ; Tallow quiet but
firm.

There has not been much doing in the Salt trade
this week, and prices are merely nominal, viz :
common salt, 4s. 6d. ; rough, 6s. to Bs. ; stoved,
7s. 6d., and butter salt; Gs., per ton.'
At the London Corn Market to-day business
in the forenoon was stopped by a dense fog. But
little English wheat was at market, and the value
remained as on Monday ; foreign was neglected,
but firm; beans and peas unaltred ; there was a
good enquiry for oats, at rather above Monday's
prices ; flour was dull of sale.

- Mr. Edward Challoner thus, reports the proceed-
ings of the Timber Sale :

The auction sales of the 12th, 13th, and 14th instant,
were attended by 167 buyers, clearing this market of all
kinds of mahogany, save 250 tons city curls, 200 tons
shipbuilding Honduras mahogany, a small cargo of Cuba,
and a cargo of Mexican baywood just arrived. Eleven
cargoes mahogany, with other woods, were sold as
follows :—Mahogany of City St. Domingo; The 496 logs
ex Pearl at from 7id to 10s, averaging 12d per foot (all
the curls being withdrawn). Of St. Domingo, the cargo
ex Thalestris, from Porto Plata, at from 7d to 2s Bd,
averaging 110 per foot, the logs yielding 101,1-1 and the
curls 15d per foot ; the cargo ex Souvenir, from
Gonaives, at from stid to 3s 7d, averaging 9Zd per foot.
Of Cuba, 100 logs, ex Sphynx, at from 51d to Bd, aver-
aging 6Zd per foot. Of Honduras: The cargo cx
Thornton, at from 5d to 10d, averaging 6 7-16 d ; the
cargo ex Antigua Packet, at from 4d to 94d, averaging
5 7-16 d; the cargo ex Earl of Harewood, say 72 logs,
partially squared, at from 4d to 11d, averaging 60 per
foot, and 22 logs, round with the bark on, at from
£4 to £5 10s, averaging £4 15s Gd per ton. Of Mexican :
The cargo ex Adolph, at from 41d to 9d, averaging
6 5-16 d-per foot ; the cargo ex Bolivar, at from 414 to
101-4, averaging 6 7-10 per foot; the cargo ex Rosita,
at from 41c1 to 944, averaging ,7 1-164 per foot ; the
cargo ex Mary. Waugh, at from Od to 9d, averaging
6-id per foot. Cedar—Havannah : 238 logs, ex
Sphynx, at from '414 to 61d, averaging 5Zd per foot ;
of pencil : 10 logs, at from 4s 2d to 4s 6d.
Satinwood : Porto Rico, 22 logs, at' from is ld to 2s ld
per foot. Bird-eyed Maple :29 planks, ex Antarctic, at
from 3id to 44d. Rosewood : Rio, middling quality, 13G
planks, ex Cintra, at from £lO to £l5 15s, averaging £ll
2s 6d per ton ; 63 planks, cx Braganza, at from £9 to
£l4, averaging £ll 17s per ton ; of Honduras, 15 tons,
at £5 per ton. Walnut.: Italian, 60 planks, ex Corin-
thian, at from 41d to 81d, averaging 6 9-16 d per foot.
Cocuswood : 10 tons, ex Sphyux, at from £5 to £5 5s per
ton. Lancewood Spars (sold on the 7th inst.) : 1,000, ex
Sphynx, at from 8s to 15s Gd, averaging lOs each.
Of Firs, the sales hate been as follows

Ex John Linn, from St. John's : Spruce deals, at from
£7 17s 6d to £8 15s, average £8 5s ; prime deals £8 to
£9 7s 6d, average £8 15s ; 4th quality deals, £7 5s to £7
155,; deal ends, £6 12s to £7 ; 6-inch deals and scantling,
£7 7s 6d to £7 15s; palings, 72s 6d to 755. Ex D. G.
Fleming, from St. John's : '-(Stored) spruce deals, £7 17s
6d to £8 15s' average £8 7s; pine deals, £8 to , aver-
age /8 lOs ; 4th quality, £7 15s; 6-inch deals and scant-
ling, £7 17s 6d ; boiirds, £8 12s 6d. Ex Florence, from
Quebec: 271 logs red pine, 16id to 161 d per foot. Ex
Marion, from Quebec : 71 logs red pine, at 17d per feet.
About 5,000 feet Quebec yellow pine, middling quality,
averaging about 50 feet (stored), at 131 d per foot.
Some very important changes are exhibited in
the Bank of France return for the month ending
yesterday, but for the most part they were fully
anticipated, owing to the usual disbursements at
iho termination of the old and at the commence-
inent of the new year. The discount operations,
for example, show an increase, since the previous
statement, of no less than 1,721,5001., and the
circulation-being largely. augmented, the decline of
1,138,8721. in the bullion is easily understood.
The advances on Foreign Stocks and Railway
Shares represent an increase of about a million
Sterling.
There is a moderate inquiry for Money at pre-'

LIVERPOOL CORN.—The corn market has been fairly attended,
and our heavy stocks are, doubtless, attracting the attention of
more distant dealers. The demand for all descriptions of grain
has been steady rather than extensive, and last week's rates are
fully maintained, indeed have an upward bias. Indian corn, in
fact, must be noted is per quarter dearer, and prices of wheat
and flour in the sellers' favour. The trade is, however, still
void of all animation. All articles were of slow sale at to-day's
market, and prices were barely maintained.
MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT. - There was rather more confid-
ence in the market to-day, and the tone showed an improvement
upon that of Tuesday. Prices were firm, and for India orders
are still freely given out at extreme rates. The German houses
operate very cautiously.

LONDON PRODUCE.—Sugar : There has been a steady market
during the week, but not a brisk one; the fine sorts, both for
refining and grocery purposes, have ben scarce, and a slight
advance has been paid for them ; but low qualities have been
difficult of sale, and in some in stances a decline of 6d to Is has
been submitted to. Refined has advanced 6d. Lumps, 53s to
54s 6d. Coffee : The public sales have been large this week, and
all found buyers at full prices to Is advance. Tea : The amount
of business done this week has been small, yet we cannot quote
any alteration in, prices. Cotton : A limited. business only
don(

Rice : A large businesS has been done, chiefly in low
descriptions, at full prices. Rum : The market is quiet ; common
Leewards, proof, sold at Is 7d to Is 8d; Demerara, 2s Id to 2s 2d,
proof. Spices : The public sales have been large and various
this week, and last week's prices have generally been supported.
Saltpetre : This article has been dull and inactive, but we do not
alter quotations. Jute : The finer sorts have sold at rather higher
prices ; the inferior sorts at rather lower prices. In other articles
no material alteration. Speculators have kept out of market
again this week.

LON'DON CORN.—In Mark-lane to-day the attendance of the
trade was fair, the tone quiet; prices of most articles unaltered.
The supply of home-grown grain was small. The arrivals of
foreign grain into London this week were reported this
morning as small of wheat, barley, and oats. Wheat : English
sold slowly at last week's prices. Foreign unaltered in value.
Flour steady. Barley firm. Oats in fair demand, at 6d. per
qr. over last week's rate's. Beans firm. Peas quiet. Floating
Cargoes : The number of grain and seed-laden vessels reported
arrived at ports of call since last Friday amounted
to 25, viz., 5 wheat, 10 Maize, 6 Barley, 2 Oats,
1 Beans, 1 Rye. In the absence of larger arrivals, and
with a restricted choice of cargoes remaining on sale
from previous imports, the business done this week in floating
cargoes was confined to a few transactions in wheat, nearly all
of which at prices generally higher than were obtainable last
week. Egyptian wheat recovered in value about is per quarter
from last week's decline. Maize was fully maintained upon
last week's prices, and in some instances more money was asked,
but since last Friday no sale was reported up to this day.
Barley and oats were held for an advance of Gd per qr. upon the
rates current eight days ago. Beans' are quoted Is per qr. higher
than last week. Dari and millet-seed nominally unaltered in
value. To-day an arrived cargo of Taganrog barley fetched 21s
per 4001 b., C.F.Y. to London.
BOIiOtTOTI Hop.—There has been an increased demand for.hops
of all descriptions. Fine coloured Wealds and Sussex are becom-
ing very scarce, and command higher rates. Currency : Mid and
East Rents, 60s, 84s, to 1265 ; Weald Rents, 525, 60s, to 68s ;
Sussex, 48s, 565, to 655. . _

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LONDON TALLOW.—The market is steady. Prices are quoted
as follows :—Town tallow, 52s Gd, nett cash; Petersburgh Y.C.,
on the spot, 535; January to March, 53s ; March only, 53s to
53s 3d ; April to June, 52s ; October to December, 525, " sellers."
WAKEFIELD CORN.—There was a slow trade, andto effect sales
is per quarter decline had to be conceded. Barley rather dearer.
Beans is per quarter higher. In oats and shelling no change.
LONDON MINING.—In the mining market to-day a fair demand
has been experienced ; shares in South' Frances, Providence
Mines, St. Ives Consols, Wheal Basset, Par Consols, and Alfred
Consols are in request. The transactions officially reported in
the Stock Exchange comprise Alfred Consols, at 91 ; Providence
Mines, at 66 ; and South Frances. at 230 and 233. Foreign and
colonial mining shares remain quiet. The shares of the North
Rhine Copper Mining Company of South Australia have been
dealt in at 5s prem.
GLASGOW CORN.—The market was quite to-day, but there is no
change to note in prices.
GLASGOW IRON.—The market has been firm to-day, and
53s Gd fourteen days was paid. We close rather sellers at that
price. Nos. 1 and 3, 0.M.8., were quoted at 52s 3d per ton.