The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

BANKING D:

Proprietors'
ropriDetbors' cam
pital
hest
Public
deposits 5,311,645
Other 9,450,494
seven day., and
other bills.. 725,055

Total .... L33,303,710/1
pa with the retur
have the following results :
Active circulation
Increase
Bullion

£19,788 655
53,910
9,555,235
50,514
3,263.516
Increase
Seven day and other bills .
Decrease
Public deposits .. 5,311.645
Increase
Other depoSits
Decrease
Government securities 11,333 126
No change.
Other securities
Decrease 675,353
Notes unemployed 3,519.630
Decrease 129:390
An extraordinary general meeting of the Peel
diver Lind and Mineral Company is called for the
lit,n .
of May, to alter the period for holding the
tlleetings of the company, as well as the period up
e which the accounts are to be made up, and to
rednee the number of auditors from four to two.
; Wo notice that a meting of the silk trade is
(Tvited by the committee of the London Silk Con-
. House for the sth, 4‘ on important busi-
ness
'
in relation to the conditioning establishment.'
)Vitll reference to the market for American
Messrs.seen-
D. Bell, Son, and Co. report as
'Flie market for American securities
atinues without animation, and prices are with-
eat change."
ike(!utding to telegraphic advices from Vienna,
the embarrassments of the market arising from the
have'
rapid creation of new securities
4_vo at length become so serious that the govern-
hl has been compelled to institute an " emptily'
48 to
„, the advisability of restraining the operations
" all companies which contemplate making fresh
ti'
erilauds upon the market. The result of this

Rest

Decrease ...... .

enquiry, it is stated, is to be communicated with
out delay.

The Paris advises communicate some further
particulars relative to the general meeting of the
Credit Mobilier Society, which was held in that
city on Tuesday. The dividend was fixed at 901.
per share, making, with the 25f. already paid in
the shape of interest, a total distribution of 115 f.
per share of 500 f. for the year 1856. This is at the
rate of 23 per cent per annum. A. sum of 80,0001
was at the same time ordered to be added to the re-
serve fond. The price of the shares fell yesterday
from 1,3051. to 1,250 f., and closed heavily.
The dividend declared for the year. 1855, it
will be remembered, was 40 per cent, immense
profits having been made through the company's
speculations in the Austrian railways. The
detailed accounts of the company have not yet been
received. It appears, however, that the society
holds an aggregate amount of 360,0001 in Rentes,
2,120,0001 in shares, and 1,200,0001 in bonds. The
stock of securities held by it, chiefly on borrowed
money, beieg thus enormous, any important fall on
the Bourse must be a serious matter to the share-
holders. It is to hoped that the mode of valuation
adopted is fair, since otherwise the.alleged profits
of the society would be to a considerable extent
very problematical. Amongst the assets are also
3,020,0001 of investments falling payable at fixed
periods, including loans to railway companies, Sze.
We fear, however, that no inconsiderable propor-
tion of this enormous sum has been emialoyed. in
fi-titionsly enhancing the price of certain stocks on
the Bourse. The bulk of the operations of the
society are evidently of an extremely speculative
character, as even the variation in its dividends
tends to prove, and thus we cannot feel surprised
at the distrust with which its progress is regarded
in England, despite the distinguished success to
which its administrators lay claim. S.) long as
the country continues prosperous and tranquil the
undertaking may exhibit a large apparent surplus ;
but in the event of a new financial or revolutionary
crisis in France, the affairs of .a company with such
vast outstanding engagements would probably be
thrown into utter confusion.

From the freight circular of Messrs. Sharer,
Lamb, and Co., of London, just to hand, we extract
the following :

Our freight market still continues in a very de-
pressed condition, which is somewhat remarkable when
viewed in connexion with the revenue returns just
published, as they indicate an extraordinary increase in
the business of the country, notwithstanding the clearness
of the money. - The value of the exports for the first
quarters of the last three years have been respectively
18,808,5174, 25,149,1031., and 28,827,4931. Doubtless
the enhanced price of goods may in some measure ac-
count for the large increase ; but there can be no question
that the quantities are much greater. And yet (although
in a few exceptional trades, as for instance outwards to
the East Ldies and China, considerable activity has been
displayed) the shipping interest has not benefited
prJciertionably.
Bal'ic: The Cronstadt trade is unusually long in open-
ing this year, a fact partly assignable to the large quantity
of goods lying shipped over the winter, and the delay in
netting produce forward. By last accounts we learn that
the frost has set in again. It is computed that there are
goods:sufficient to employ about 1,700 shtps, being consi-
derably less tonnaae than last year, and less Also than 1853,
before the war. Rates are-21s tallow, 37s 6d hemp,
3s 9d wheat, 50s deals, but very little disposition to take.
Wyf:nrg, east coast, 55s ;, Newport, 65s ; Frederickshamrn,
E.C., 555; Riga, 8.C., 3s 9d seed (1,000 quarters) ; 40t
hemp, 45s Liverpool, Greenock, or Whitehaven, 45s Poole,
21s timber E.C., 25s Belfast. From Dantzic and London
there are still takers at 16s Ar timber ; 3s wheat (1,000
quarters) to east coast; Memel, Leith, 14e ; Dover, 16s,
17s; London, 161, staves; Grimsby, 151; Konigsberg,
east coast, 3s 6d, wheat; 16s oil cake; Sundswal, E.C.,
528 6d, and 5 per cent. ; Swartwick, London, 52s 6d,
and 5 per cent.; Dumfries, 70s, and 5 per cent. (small
ship) ; Bali; E.C., 655.
_ _

Memel, Dumfries, 20s ; Archangel, East Coast, 4s ;
oats, option of grain or seed ; 50s to 52s 6d flax to Brid-
port ; 80s ar d 90s dea's to east and west coast ; 4s Di tar,
gist coast; 4s 4~(1 to 4s 7d tar to Tyre (according to
size); 7s 6d to Leghorn ; 1003 deals to Bordeaux; 52s 6d
flax to a port between Havre and Dunkirk. Druntheim,
Holifleur, 75f and 5 per cent. (SO standards.)
Arnerica.—Qaebec, London, Hul, or Grimsby, 36s ;
Ipswich, 36; Yarmouth, 37s ; Southampton, 33; (1.000
loads) ; Girabwich, Fill, 36s' Sharpness Point, 35.;
Carmarthen, 38A; Liverpool or Birkenhead, 345; Bridge-
water, 33s ; Belfast, 355; Aberayrou, 43s (wad and early
chip) ; Richibucto, East Coast, 92s 61; Belfast, Liverpool,
or Birkenhead, ; Miramichi, E.C., 85s to 87s 6.1;
Newport, Mon , 85s; Dalhousie, Whitehaven, 33s 6d ;
Carmarthen, 353.

Mediterranean : Dullness still eharacter7ses this impor-
tant trade, rnd the prospect is not bright. Odessa and
A zoff, 45s and 55s (days .5 July). Danube, 93 6d to 103;
Alexandria, no demand ; Leghorn, 30s oak (to be out in
June).

Coal Freights: Firmer, generally. Cronstadt, 121.;
Petersburg Town (Alexandrofk), 15/. ; Drontheim, 91. to
101.; Swinemunde, 91. 15s ; Lisbon, 181. 15s ; Alexandria,
291., 25s lo 265; Marseilles or Toulon, 271., 24s to 25s ;
Malta, 21s 6d; Corfu, 22s 6d ; Bombay, 311., 29s ; Gallo,
311., 30A ; Calcutta, 301., 28s ; Hong Kong, 521. 103, 52s
6d ; Suez, 65/., 523 63; Aden, 351., 32s 6d; Singapore,
341, 32s 6d.

Kooria Mooria Bay, U.K., 91:4 guano ; Moulmein, U.K.,
112 s 6tl teake ; Mauritius, U K., 60s to 63s ; Relize or
Libun, €oa ; Roman River, 65s to 67s 6d ; Patook, 653 to
673 6d ; Chinca Islands, 80s.
London to Cape, 30s (on the berth) ; Genoa 303, on
dead weight lump sum.
The following rates paid for emigrant ships to Sydney
show a fluctuating and latterly a rising market ; 171 19s
(26th March) ; 151. 193 91 (2nd April) ; 151. 7s 6d (16th
April) ; 161. Ils 63 (23rd April).