The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-26 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL :REVIEW.

MONTREAL, May 5, 1857.—Since last report a consider-
able quantity cf Chicago spring Wheat has been sold at
6s 6d for May delivery, and latterly at the same price for
rune delivery. Upper Canada, spring Wheat has been
placed a• (;y 71. d, and there is now no-.e offering, at
these prices. A parcel of prime Upper Canada spring
Wheat which arrived on Monday. was sold, we understand,
at 7s. There is no white Wheat offering. The Flour
market is excited, and sales hare been made of fancy at
33s 6d, and one of very superior brand of extra at 41s 3d
Oatmeal is firmer, being generally held at 27s 6d. There
are offers of 32s forchoice super fine Flour fir all May, and
31s 6d to 10th of June. We learn by letters from Cobourg,
that a good trend was placed there at 33s 6tl for extra to
go to Rochester. Winter buyers of Peas are shipping by
the vessels in port rather than accept the prices offering,
viz., 3s 8d to 4s. The big'aest Freight yet paid is 5s 6d per
quarter to Britain. The accumulation of freight for the
Batt is much greater than the Grand Trunk can overtake.
With a sufficiency of rolling stock, the Portland branch
of the Grand Trunk would do an immense business. The
wharves at Lennue.nil have been injured by the ice—an
additional reason he completing the bridge speedily.
1,500 barrels of Canada Flour, consigned to a Bostcn house
recently passed over the Atlantic Road, via Portland.
Business is very unsatisfactory in Toronto, Hamilton, and
neighbourhood, Money being exceedingly scarce, and ex-
cessive rates of interest paid for short loans.

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THE FHA VEE,-BOOK. —We Dace good authority for stating
that a plan is being organised by the evangelical. section,
under the sanction of some of the recently appointed
bir.,,bop9, for alteration and " imprOrement" of the Prayer.
Book. We have as yet been unable to learn the particu,
lar Manner in which this will be attempted,. but
petitions to Pazliament arc to be presette i in abundance.

Besuor VILLIERS AT EXETER. MM.—The first of the
series of sp..Cial religious services for the working clanes,
originating with several evangelical clergymen and laymen
of the Established. Church took place on Sunday night.
The great hall was well filled, but- the' audience consi.ted
only in a very small part of the working classes, and pre-
sented pretty much the asnPot of our ordinary congrega-
ii J 2,. The Earl of Shaftsbury, and Mr. Arthur Kinnaird
accompanied the bishop on to the platform, the latter gen-
tleman having; previously intrcduced to a seat next the
preacher a poor old man, perhaps seventy years of age,
with a dirty face, matted hair, a br,,ken hat, and a consi-
derable bundle, done up In a filthy red packet handker-
chief, in his hand, to the astonishment evidently of the
well dressed people who had taken possession of the chief
seats, and to the amusement of the audience. The pre-
liminary service, which occupied about thirty minutes,
consisted of two hymns, and the ordinary Litany of the
Common Prayer Book, and the bishop preached in a very
simple, but natural and very earnest manner, for fifty
minutes, from the words " What ssith the Scriptures." Re
first set forth what the Scriptures are, and how they were
proved to be true, and then divided the subject into three
heads, "What saith the Scriptures to your head, to your
heart, and to sour life ?" The audience was remarkably
attentive.