Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Evening

There was a moderate business done in our
Cotton Market to-day, holders having pressed sales
and lowered their pretensions. The sales were
about 4,000 bales.
Although the amount of business done at the
Liverpool Share Market was not very large to-day
prices were slightly higher, and there was more
" tone" in the market. The following were the
transactions :-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire, 621 ; Caledonian, 371, 371; Eastern Counties,
10 7-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 89, 891, 88/,
881, 88:1, 881; Lancaster and Carlisle New Third
Shares, 71 p ; London and North Western, 931,
931; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 351,
351, 35k, 351; Midland, 811, 81, 811, 81/ ; North
British, 111 ; North Eastern, 221; Leeds Capital
Stock, 39, 391 ; Dovers, 18 5-16, 18a; Dutch
Rhenish, 61(1; Grand Trunk of Canada, 81,
B.a; Great Luxembourg, 52 ; Great Western of
Canada, 171 ; Royal Insurance, 21 p. The
following were the closing prices :-Blackburn,
81, 81 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 621, 621 ; Cale-
donian, 371, 371 ; Chester and Holyhead, 14, 15 ,
Eastern Counties 10 7-16, 10-f ; East Lan-
cashire, 80, 87; Do. 9/. Shares, par, 1 p;
Great Northern, 231, 231 ; Do. A, 91,
10 ; Great Western, 48, 48/ ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire Stock, 881, 881; Do. 9/ shares,
par / p ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 181,
181 ; London and North Western Stock, 931, 94 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 351, 351;
Midland Stock, 811, 811 ; North British, 111, 111 ;
North Staffordshire, 41, 41 d ; North Eastern -
Berwick, 221 23; York and North Midland,
391, 391 ; Leeds Capital Stock, 24, 241; South
Eastern and Dover, 181, 187, ; Dutch Rhenish,
61, 61 d ; Great Western of Canada, 171, 17* ; Do.
new shares, 3 1-16, 3 d; Great Luxembourg, 52,
; Grand Trunk of Canada, 8-g 84.
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The Funds to-day have exhibited remarkable
firmness, notwithstanding the gloomy intelligence
of another Bank failure-that of the Northumber-
land and Darham District Bank. The Capital of
this Bank is £650,000. The Bank has eight
branches. The head office being at Newcastle.
Their issue consists of Bank of England notes.
The reserved fund was last stated at .90,874. It is
feared that unless assistance can be immediately
extended to the Institution, great local distress will
ensue.

Money was more abundant this morning in the
Stock E.c3hange. Bills are now negotiable, which
for some time past have been unceremoniously
rejected, and this proof of restored confidence
cannot fail to fecilitate business.

As above noticed the Funds have been very firm,
Consols closing at the following prices :—For
Money, 90, to 904. ; and for the Account at 90,1- to
901 ; and the New Three-per-cents 898. Atter
official hours prices remained unchanged.
The London Railway Share Market was dull
and inactive, and closed at the following prices:
—Caledonians, 941, 95 ; Eastern Counties, 104
104 ; East Lancashire, 834, 871.; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 58, 59 ; Great Northern, 91k,
92; Ditto A, 78, 80; Great Westerns, 481;
Great Western of Canada, 171, 17: ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 8-a, 81 ; Great Southern
and Western ; 96, 98 ; Lancashire an:l Yorkshire,
888, 884; London and North Western, 934, 94;
London ~.and,, South Western, 85, 86 ; Leeds
Northern, 471, 484; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 351, 351; Midland Stock, 811,
81-a ; North British, 46, 47 ; South Eastern
and Dover, 601, 611; York, Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 91, 92; York and North Midland, 78, 79.
After official hours the following were the nominal
prices:—Caledonians 73; Eastern Counties,
521, 528 ; East Lancashire, 861; Great
Northern, 911 ; Great Western, 48 ; Great
Western of Canada, 17i; Grand Trunk of Canada,
35; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88*, 89, 88i; Lon.
don and North Western, 93k, 931, 91 ; Leeds
Northern, 474 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 36, 35! ; Midland Stock, 81, 81# ;
North British, 46} ; South Eastern and Dover,
601, 611 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 911;
York and North Midland, 771.
The Produce Markets continue without much
alteration.

The following is the report of to-day's London
Wool sales :—Attendance of both home and foreign
buyers was far from numerous, and the biddings
were inactive at unaltered quotations. To support
prices, parcels of Wool continue to be withdrawn
by the importers.
The advises from New York by the Indian,
arrived here this evening, are down to the 13th of
November, inclusive. Commercial affairs continued
to improve. Money was much more plentiful, and
stocks were advancing in price. The Breadstuff
trade had fluctuated, closing at about the rates
current when the Persia took her departure from
New York. Provisions steady-
The Bank of England, yesterday, mirchased an
additional sum of about 156,000/ in newly imported
gold, making a total of no less than 716,0001 in
three days. The favourable feature remains that
nearly the whole of the gold imported from various
quarters is now retained here.
Owing to the confidence inspired by the favour.
able tendency of the bullion movement, money cir-
culated more freely yesterday in the Discount
Market. At the Bank of England the demand,
though still active, was again less pressing than of
late.

A telegraph from Paris announces that the Bank
of France have reduced the premium offered for
gold to 5 per mille, or about 10s. per 100/ We
understand that latterly the Bank have paid as
much as 8 per mille premium. It is inferred that
they find their more stringent regulations, as
regards discounts, sufficient to protect their stock
of bullion, which is alleged to stand now at about
7,700,0001, or 120,0001. more than on Friday last
In the return made up to the 12th inst. the amount
was 7,581,0001.
The Official Returns relating to Trade and Navi-
gation for the ten months ending 31st October, 1857,
have been published. From these it appears that
the total declared value of exports from the United
Kingdom for the ten months was 106,721,381/.i
being an increase of 11,147,8251. compared with
the like period of 1856. The increase is
perceptible in beer and ale, coals and culm,
cotton manufactures, cotton-yarn, earthenware,
haberdashery, millinery, hardwares and cutlery'
linen manufactures, silk manufactures, thrown
silk, sheep and lambs' wool, and woollen and
Worsted manufactures, but there was a falling
off in Butter, Cordage, Seed, Oil, Salt, Soap, British
Spirits, and Refined sugar. The importations of
the principal articles were larger as respects live
animals, Clocks and Watches, Flax, Ft uit, Hemp,
Provisions, Sugar, Timber, Tobacco, Wine, and
Sheep and Lamb's Wool There was a diminution
in Bristles, Cocoa, Coffee, Wheat, Flour, ltaw
Cotton, Rice, Spices, Rum, Tallow, and
tea. The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in
the tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the
United Kingdom, both for the entries inwards and
the clearances outwards; and in the coasting trade
there is also a considerable improvement exhibited
in both the number of vessels and tonnage em-
ployed.

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ROTS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE, at LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL. NOVEMBER 26.
WIND YESTERDAY', N.E.—Moderato Breeze.
HIGH NV...Tim—Morn. 6 6—Even. 6 44—Height, 12 ft. 3 in.

OFF TUE PORT AND INWARD BOUND.

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