The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-12 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, Wednesd4 Evening.

There- has b. en a moderate enquiry for Cotton
to day, and prices were well maintained. The
sales are reported at 7,000 bales, including 500 on
speculation and for export.
The Liverpool Share Market continues to exhibit
a downward tendency. To day the business tran-
sacted was very moderate, and prices were barely
maintained. The transactions were as follows ;
Blackburn, 8 15-16 ; Caledonian, 344-, 1; Eastern
Counties, 10a; Lancashire and Yorkshire, Pill k,
1, i; London and North Western, 1041 -I.•' 4. H ;
Manehester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 861, 4, 8.
, k; Midland, 83,i, *, 8; North British, 11 7-16;
North Eastern, 21k ; North Staffordshire, 41.81; Lo-
vers, 22k, 3, 2.1', 3, b, 3 ; St. Helen's Canal and Rail-
way, 4 per cent ; d., 904; Dutch Rhenish,' 3.16 p;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 13, 121 ; Royal Swedish,
11; Pacific Steam Company, 38. The following were
the closing prices :—Blackburn, 84, 8 15.16 ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 681, 081; Caledonian, 348,
34--4-; Chester and Holvhead, 181, 19 ; Eastern
Counties, 102-, 101; East Lancashire, 99, 992 ; Great
Northern, 231,241- ; ditto A shares, 101, 101 ; Great
Western, 081, xd 69a;- Lancashire awl Yorkshire
Stock, 101 k, 1013 ; Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 191, 194 ; London and North Western
Stock, 1041 xd 1041; ditto k shares 3-16, xd 8a ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 36k, 368 ; Mid-
land Stock, 831, 83t- ; NOrth British, 118 111 ;
North Staffordshire, 41, d ; South Eastern and
DeVer,22 15-16 23 1-16; Scottish North Eastern,l34-,
141; North Eastern—Berwick, 211, xd 21k;
York and North Midland, 311, xd 314 ; Leeds capital
Stock, 191, 20 ; Buffalo and Lake Huron, 11,
11 p; Dutch Rhenish, 3.16, 4p; Great Western of
Canada, 26, 26k; ditto New Shares, 3 3.16, 31 p;
Great Luxembourg, 102-, 101- d ; Grand Trunk of
Canada, 12k. 12k.
_

At the Manchester Stock and Share Market to
day the transactions were limited at 98* for East
Lancashire; 1011 for Leeds; 364, for Sheffields;
23 15-16, for Dovers ; 831 for Midlands ; and 26
for Great Western of Canada.

There is an active demand for money, and rates
of discount are maintained with much firmness
The non-arrival of the Blackwall, with upwards of
300,0001. in gold, and now out 100 days, is causing
some uneasiness in monetary circles, hut she will
no doubt turn up in the course of a day or two, as
will also the Admiral, with upwards of 160,000/. in
gold. The gold by the Mermaid, it is anticipated,
will. not go into the Bank of England, as it is ex
pected that it will be absorbed by the purchasers
of silver, and on account of the Bank of France,

The Market for the Public Funds and Securities
to-day was not so depressed, and a moderately
fair amount of blisirieSg Vvas transacted at the full
quotations of yesterday. Consols for Money
opened at 931, advanced to 931:declined to 931,
and again advanced to 0,3), to 931, closing at that
figure COnsois for the Account closed at 931 to
on. Exchequer Bills were steady at par to 4pm
In the London Railway Share Market there was
a somewhat better feeling evinced today, and a
fair business was the keSult. There was not, how-
evei'; any change in the prices of the leading shares.
The closing quotations were as follows :-Ambergate
Nottingham, and Eastern Junction, 47„ 4 ex div;
Caledonian, 691, 691 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
561, 578, ex div ; Eastern Counties, 101, 10f,
East Lancashire, 071, 981 ; Great Northern, 951,
061; Ditto A. 86, 87 ; Great Western, 681 ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1011 ; Leeds Northern, 38,
32 ; London and North Western,' 1041, 105 ;
London and South Western, 1041 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 361, 37 ; Midland
Stock, 812. 811 ; North British, 451, 461; South
Eastern and Dover, 731, 741 ;IYork, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 841, 851 ; York and North Midland,
61/ 621 ; Chester and Holyhead, 37, 38 ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 121, 13 ; Great Western of
Canada, 261; Do. New, 31, 38; Great Southern
and Western, 109, 111, ex div; Mexicans, 221;
Northern of France, 391, 391 ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 332, 34; Paris and Lyons, 58f, 59 ; Russian,
107, 109 ; Scottish North Eastern (Aberdeen),
271, 281 ; Paris and Orleans, 57, 58 ; Western of
France, 321, 33- ; Central of France, 41 5 ;
Geneva, 31, 32; Beziers, 31, 4i ; Ardennes, 3,4;
Sambre and Meuse, 81, 9 ; Narnur and Liege, 8/
9 ; Great Luxembourg, 6a, 6! ; Antwerp and Rotter-
darn, 61, 61; Dutch Rhenish, 1, ; Lombardo-Vene-
tian, 61, 61 After official hours, the business trans-
acted was at the following prices :-Caledonian,
69/ 70 ; Eastern Counties, 101, 10a; East
Lancashire, 99, 100; Great Northern, 961 ;
Do. A Shares, 87 88 ; Great Western, 681
682; Lancashire and Yorkshire,' 101,4 101 a; Lon-
don and North Western, 104/ 105 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 36f, 37 ; Midland
Stock. 81a, 81a ; North British, 451, 461; South
Eastern and Dover, 741, 741 ; York, Newcastle and
Berwick, 842, 851 ; York and North Midland,
611, 62*.
In the Markets for General Produce there is no
change to notice. Sugar meets with a fair demand,
and continues firm in price. Molasses, Coffee,
and Rum are dull of sale, and the same may be
said regarding Rice. Saltpetre is steady, and
Dyewoods are firm. Tea is quiet at 130 per lb.
for common Congou._

Trade in the manufacturing districts continues
in a quiet state. The Manchester market has not
been affected in any appreciable degree by the
tenor of the late American advices, and continues
quiet, with only a moderate business doing, and
without any decided change in prices, which re-
main extremely steady. There appears to be some
business doing in Yarns for India, chiefly for the
Bombay market ; and the Germans, although by
no means extensive operators, are buying a little
more freely in counts and qualities suitable for the
continent. The stiffening tendency' of the raw
material induces spinners, where there may be
any chance of succeeding, to harden in their
terms, and although we cannot quote the market
as generally dearer, the bias of prices is in that
direction

The European and Australian Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamer Cambria is expected to arrive at
Marseilles on Saturday next, with dates from
Sydney extending to the 23rd of January, and
from Melbourne to the 27th ideni. These advices
are expected to reach I ondon on the following
Monday, the 16th inst. The steamer Etna, belong-
ing to the same company, is due at Southampton
on the 20th inst., from Alexandria, with the heavy
portion of the mails.
It is announced that a regular steam com-
munication has just been organised between
London and Mogadore. The first steamer is to
leave the St. Katharine's Docks on the 16th inst ,
carrying a mail.

The first arrival of mails via Suez is expected in a few
days. Her dates will be from Melbourne to January 27.
OXFORD CITY.—At a meeting of Mr. Card weh's friends,
a letter was read from the right hon. gentleman, vindi-
cating his vote on China. The meeting passed resolutions
inviting him to issue his address forthwith, and to meet
the electors on Thursday.
CITY OF LONDON.—Mr. Crawford has issued his ad-
dress, and Baron Rothschild will have the foil support of
the Liberals. Mr. Raikes Currie takes time to think
about the city, and the city takes time to think of Sir
James Duke. Mr. Masterman and Lord J. Russell have
formally retired. Lord Palmerston has written to Mr.
Thornton, of Lloyd's, declining to leave Tiverton.

Great exertions are making in Portsmouth dockyard
for getting ready the steamships Transit, Assistance, and
Sidon, for the embarkation of the troops ordered for
China. A squadron of steam gunboats are also ordered
to be equipped to accompany the larger vessels. It has
been rumoured, also, that two biockships, sixty-gun,
screw two-deckers, will form part of f he China reinforce-
ments. Instructions have ben received at Woolwich
ordering four companies of 1 he Royal Artillery to be held
in readiness for immediate embarkation, atter the arrival
of the next mail from China. _

BUGS.—One of the greatest domestic nuisances. especially
in the spring and summer of the year, is the prevalence of
bugs. Many means have been tried to prevent or extermi-
nate them, but all hitherto ineffectually. Cleanliness may
check but cannot eradicare them. Mr. R. Greer, late one
of the Liverpool sanitary officials, after intense study and
deep research with many practical experiments, in the usual
pursuit of his official avocation, has at length discovered the
great desideratum, " Greer's Patent Anti Bug Lotion," is
an unfailing exterminator of bugs, fleas, &c. It is clean,
simple in application, agreeable in smell, and perfectly
innoxious save to insects. To be had at the Anti Vermin
Office, 49, Brownlow hill, Liverpool, in bottles at ls, 21
sad 4s eaeb,—Aclve