Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Monday Evening.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market there has again
been 'a good' businesS• done, the accounts by the
Africa being regarded as favourable for holders.
The sales amount to 10,000 bales, and included 2,500
taken for speculation and export. Prices have been
very firm. The following is the Cotton statement
from the New York List, per Africa :
From let September, 1858, to 2nd March, 1859.

Total To
Receipts. Clearances. Gt. Britain. Stocks
1858-9 .. 2,864,813 .. 1,492,497 .. 899,003 .. 1,011,589
1857-8 .. 1,879,176 .. 1,083,405 .. 699,292 .. 718,590
1856-7 2,296,936 .. 1,186,295 .. 716,983 .. 680,588
The Liverpool Share Market has been, quiet to-
day, and prices have with some difficulty been main-
tained. The transactions were as follows :-Great
Western, 57h, 571 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 951,
951; London and North Western, 951, 951, 95 ;
Midland, 100-1, 100 ; North Eastern Berwick Stock,
923 ; South Eastern, 21 7-16, 211 ; St. Helen's Rail-
way and Canal 6 per cent. C shares, 124 ; London
and North Western, Chester and Holyhead, 491, 491.
Very few transactions were reported after official
hours, indeed, the only.one was in Midlands at 1001
to 1003. The final closing prices were :-Blackburn,
111, 111; Chester and Birkenhead, 63,
-1 631; Cale-
donian, 85, 85.; Chester and Holyhead,
48, 481 ; Eastern Counties, 12 1-16, 12
3-16 ; East Lancashire, 931 94 ; Do. £9
shares, 1, d p ; Great Northern, 1021,
1031 ; Do. A, 88, 89 ; Great Western,
57, 58 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
951,, 95,1 ; Do. £9 shares, 1, 1 p ; London
and Northi Western Stock, 951, 951; Do. one-
eighth shares, I-, d ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 383, 381; Midland Stock, 1001,
-1003 ; North British, 581, 59 ; North Western, 131,
13/ ; North Staffordshire, 41, 49 d ; North Eastern
-Berwick, 911, 92 ; York and North Midland,
76, 761 ; Leeds Capital Stock, 461, 47 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 211, 21 7-16 ; Dutch
Rhenish, 43, 4;1, d ; Great Western of Canada, 161,
161, 161; Do. New Shares, 43, 4w d : Great Lux-
embourg, 6 11-16, 6 13-16 ; Grand Trunk of Canada,
8 13-16, 8 15-16 ; Lombardo-Venetian, 1, 3 p ; Do.
New Shares, 3, p.
The amount of business done in the Produce
markets has been somewhat large. In consequence
of the holders of Sugar having given way in prices
a little, the transactions have been rather heavy.
18,000 bags of Rice have been sold at from 6s 3d to
8s per cwt.

The London Stock Market has ;been unfavourably
affected to-day by the news of the attitude assumed
by Sardinia, and the otherwise threatening
aspect of Continental matters. The price of
Consols has, in consequence, declined a shade
from the closing quotations of Saturday.
and until something definite is known as to Lord
Cowley's mission, there will, it is expected, be an
absence of business. The final closing prices for
Consols were 95.4 to 96.
In the London Market for Railway Shares
there has been very little 'business done, and in
the early part of the day prices were heavy,
but towards the close of business they became
more steady, and finally left off at the follow-
ing quotations :—Ambergate, 6, 61 ; Caledonian,
841, 85 ; Do. Preference, 103, 104 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 60, 61; East Lancashire, 93, 94 ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 721, 731; Great Northern, 1021, 103 ;
Do. A., 88, 89; Do. B , 133, 134; Great Western,
57, 571 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 941 951 ;
Brighton, 112, 113 ; London and North Western,
95, 951; London and South Western, 921, 93 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 371, 38 ;
Midland, 100, 1001 ; North British, 581 59; Do.
Preference, 111, 113 ; North Eastern—Berwick,
911, 92; Do. Leeds, 46, 461 ; Do. York, 754, 764 ;
North Stafford, 41, 41 ; South Eastern 711, 711;
Turkish Sixes, 921, 93 ; Do. Fours, 103, 1031 ;
Great Western of Canada, 15,1, 161; New, 41, 48 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada, B,i, 9.
The discount market on Saturday was quiet, but
the best bills were not generally taken below 21 to
28 per cent. At the Bank very little business was
done.

Of the 66,0001. in specie by the steamer Lebanon,
a portion consists of gold and the rest of Mexican
dollars. The gold has already been sold for the
Continent.

'The annual meeting of the Bank of Australasia
took place to-day, Mr. O'Farrer in the chair. The
accounts rendered to the meeting were very satis-
factory, showing a net profit on the year's operations
of £160,460 Os 2d. The report stated that the
earnings had diminished in the year, but the
directors felt justified in continuing the next divi-
dend and bonus in April at the present rates, viz.,
interest 6 and bonus 14, or 20 per cent. per annum.
The first portion of the Victoria loan, amounting to
£1,000,000, had been disposed of upon terms that
were satisfactory. It appears that no event of im-
portance had taken place in the' colonies since the
meeting in December last. The chairman merely
commented on the topics of the report, which was
adopted.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—MARCH 14.
Colonial, &c.: The holders of Sugar having been more
disposed to realise, a large business has been done at some-
what easier prices, the transactions since Friday comprising
585 hhds Demerara at 35s 6d to 40s 9d, 100 hhds Cuba at
39s 9d to 42s 3d, 3,060 bags Bengal at 42s 6d to 45s 6d, and
at 47s 9d for Cossipores ; 50 cases Bahia in bond at 25s 9d
to 26s 9d, 3,100 hams Maranham at 24s 6d, and a cargo
(4,600 bags) Paraiba to arrive, for an outport, at 24s per
cwt. The sales of Molasses consist of 140 puncheons Dome-
ram from the quay at 16s 6d, and 1,50 puncheons old Cuba
Muscovado at 14s 3d per cwt. About 70 puncheons Deme-
rara Rum have also been sold without change. Of Co fee,
2,300 bags Ceara have changed hands at 45s to 48s 6d per
owt. A considerable business has been done in Rice, 18,000
bags Necransie having been taken at 6s 3d to 8s per cwt.
OfDyewoods, 100 tons Limawood, all faults, at £l3 13s to
£l4, and 5 tons Laguna Logwood at £7 per ton. Ashes
without change, at 29s for pots and at 21s 6d for pearls. Of
Nitrate of Soda, 35 tons at 15s, and at 14s 9d for 6 per cent,
with 350 bags Saltpetre at 40s to 41s per cwt for 6 to 84-per
cent retraction. 15 tons Brimstone are reported at £8 per
ton for best 2nds. 7 casks Tartar at 97s 6d for brown, 120 s
for discoloured, and 125 s for Cream ; and 300 bags Sago
Flour at 15s per cwt. Oils, &c.: Palm quiet at £44 lOs to
£45 ; of Olive, 23 casks at £46 per ton for Levant. In
Tallow no change, and Lsrd dull. 100 barrels common
Rosin sold at 4s 10d per cwt ; and 60 tons Cotton Seed Cake
at £6 17s 6d per ton.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—MARCH 14.
The news per the Africa is construed favourably for
holders, and a good business has been transacted at full
rates. The sales—including 30 Pernambuco, Bid ; l2O
Bahia, 71d to 7-p; 700 Egyptian, 8d to 111 d; and 700
Surat, at 4id to 6d—are reported 10,000 bales, of which
2,500 ale on speculation and for export.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE lIIARKET.—MARCH 14.
A day of constant heavy rain, and the very high prices
asked for beef, caused a very unsatisfactory sale, and, not-
withstanding the smallness of the supply, a clearance was
not made. Sheep were sold at Is to 2s less per head than
last week, there being an increase of 2,000 in the supply.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-MARCH 24

. _
The following public sales are advertised for to-morrow :
Sugar :. 10ehluls Berbice, 9,000 bags Mauritius; 3,600
bags Pernambuco, and 2,200 bags Manilla. Coffee : 350
bags East India. Saltpetre : 2,400 bags. Pepper : 600
bags. Cochineal : 300 bags.
The private contract markets have been dull since Friday,
and no business of importance by private contract reported.
SUGAR. A floating cargo of good brown Bahia reported
sold at 26s for the Clyde, and one of Paraiba at 245.
COFFEE. —No sales reported.
TEA.—The market firm, but inactive.

LONDON CORN MARKET,-MARCH 14

Weather wet and mild. Arrivals of foreign grain
liberal, and of English small. The market opened
slow for wheat, at about laSt Monday's decline on
English and foreign. Barley and oats in fair request,
without alteration in value. Flour as last quoted.

BOROUGH HOP -MARKET.-

MARCH 14

There is still a good business doing in all kinds
of new hops, at fully the late improvement in value,
and the show of samples is very moderate. Fine
yearlings are steady, but other kinds dull. Midland and
East Kent pockets, 70s to 130 s per cwt. Weald of Kent
54s to 765; Sussex, 68s to 755. ,

METROPOLITAM CATTLE MARKET.—MARCH 14.
The supply of beasts was very limited, and the
demand ruled brie& at an advance of 4d per 81bs.
Sheep were from 2d 4d per Albs. dearer, with an
active market. Lambs sold from 6d to 7d; calves and
pigs were quite as dear :As latit we.ek. Beef from 3s t3d .to

...—.....--..—_,
48 10d ; mutton 4s 2d to 6s ; veal, 4s to 56 8d ; and por
t'
3s to 4s 2d per mutton,
sinking the offal. Total supPl9... I,
Beasts, British 2,680,•f0reign,68 : sheep and lambs,
18,150, foreign 1,420 ; calves, British 35, fora n 5" Pg'
g ,
British 350. --
LONDON TALLOW MARKET—MAucn 14. tt
The market is quiet. Town tallow is quoted 51s neti
cash. The quotations for Petersburgb Y.C., on the silo
is 52s " sellers," and the same for March, April, April
June, and. October to December. Brius

LONDON WOOL SALES.—MARCH d of
No change has taken place in the value of any I"ll,her
wool. Goed and fine qualities have:sold ste,,t;ily, °loop
kinds slowly, with very little export demand. About 2,
bales have changed hands.

LONDON MINING MARKET.—MAncu 14. „
In the mining market to-day, shares in East Wheal They
sell are again depressed, and are quoted 23 to 24. Illpeeu
have been transactions in Providence Mines shares betwist
82 and 84 ; Wheal Margaret, -at 61 to 63; Stray rarl2;
Hi- to 12i; Buller and Basset, at 2 ; West Francestat
is
an Ding Dong at 12k. A good amount of busllless

egoing foi.ward.-
Fortuna Mining shares are fairly supported at the
improvement, and are marked 2. Other foreign de"

tions are inactive. O
eS'
At a meeting of adventurers in South Wheal Fr° co
held on the 7th inst., the accounts showed a credit baland
of £3,765 Os 2d. A dividend of £5 per share was deelg•rtoi
and the balance .of £1,285 Os 2d was carried to the crew
the next account.
At a meeting of adventurers in Ilarwood Mine, be— re.
the Bth inst., the accounts showed a small credit balan-I
The balance of liabilities over assets amounted to Sill'

call of 6d per share was made. Vines
At a -meeting of adventurers in East Providence ' a
cce
held on the 9th instant, the accounts showed a l'— r
against the adventurers of £555 10s. sd. A call of 2s Scir
share was made. -- • .

LONDON MONEY MARKET.--MARcx 14' at
Consols opened at 954 to 96, rallied to 96 bale

hey at

which pric(
of Rentes was 68.15

Canadian steady

Shares ashadE

French firm

last qgo,oo
lower gell'A

BELFAST CORN MARKEII.-11Aucn 14. 60
Farmers' supplies limited. Wheat in demand, and Pbode
2d per cwt higher ; oats and oatmeal dull, and a 6
lower. In parcels ex store there is nothing doing•
change to note in foreign wheat or flour.

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CORK CORN MARKET.—MARCi 14
White wheat, 22s to 23s 9cl; red wheat, 11'
barley, 13s to 15s ; oats, Ils 6d to 14s.

CORK BUTTER MARKET.—MARCH 14.
Firsts, 126 s ; seconds, 1265; thirds, 925; loartlls,
Over 100 in market.

GLASGOW IRON MARKET.—MARCH 14;, 9a;
No. 1,51 s 3d to 51s 6d; warrants, 51s 6d to miis bd
maker'siron, 51s 3d to 51s 6d ; No 3,51 s 3d to °
Market flat. •

SHIPPING IN-TELLIGENC

THIS DAY

HIGH
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WATE R

Height
12 9

At LIVERPOOL

Fresh breeze

" HOLYBEAD,.

—Fresh gale

A It It

I V E D.

Africa (R.M.S.) . . New York
Alliance New Orleans
Sultan New Orleans
Bucephalus Mauritius
Emerald Isle Mobile
Camelia Nantes
Jeltina Nantes
Hope Nantes
Mercury Nantes
Industrie Ostend

Macedonia

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May Queen . •• • • iajaP'
Saladin (ss) •• • pantio
Charles J Mare (ss)•• icig6
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Mystery
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Robert Treat ..AP;lacheiset°oo
W B Travis... • • • G.:1„:::10.,11$
1 Beaver (ss) -• • .„'"rdeg4'
Tamaulipas (ss) . •-v°
LED.

mogr2dAr:

Esultana

International Boston
Bridgewater ....New York
Matrin Luther ..New York
Ann Roxby.... Pernambuco

Zillah ..
lEmpress
Balbec (ss)

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__ EXTRACTS.
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LIVERPOOL, march 14'
The Native Lass, for Old Calabar, has put back.
The Duke of Wellington, for Calcutta, has put b9.o.;itstr
The Cintra (ss), for Oporto; Adelaide; hence for ut for
zas; and Eliza Frances, Watkins, from NewP°l.
Liverpool, all put into Holyhead Feb 13 1, h44The Messenger, Davies, from Cardiff for LiverrL
put into Holyhead Bay, and run on the beach, bay'''
sails split, and both anchors slipped. 04111
The Pintade, Rose, from St. Malo to Liverpool/ oi
wheat, has sunk in Whitesand Bay, near Plymouth+
gone to pieces; crew saved. 50,
bf h Jon

MARITIME

se oarque Amelia, Flint, sailed from Savanna,.
1858, for England, and has not since been heard of. Great
A ship was seen ashore on the Riding Rocks, wide
Bahama, on the sth Feb, and another ship ashore nicaait
Tortugas Light, on the Bth Feb, with main andnuze' ,

gone, and apparently abandoned: row
The brig Francis P Beck, from New Orleans to t.,
dente, was lost on the Riding Rocks, on the 18th Feb' 1r
The salvage in the case of the Swarthmore, of 10;:n tb°
wrecked on the Bahamas, was settled mutually betweieriall
captain and wreckers, namely, 50 per cent. on the
saved, and £lO to the wreck master.
Low,- March 1" " of Sbield*

W ES TO F r,
leaky.