The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Cotton Market continues very steady, with
a raodarate business doing. The sales to day
Were about 6,000 bales, of which 2,500 were on
aPeeulation and for export.
The Liverpool Share Market opened flat this
I,7l,l,'roing, afterwards hardened, and closed steadily.
The sales consisted of Birkenhead, Lancashire and
Cheshire, 651; Caledonian, 30i; Eastern Counties,
9 7.16 ; East Lancashire, 231 ; Lancashire and
Torkshire, 96k, 1,6, a, ; London and North
Western, 1051, 6; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, 331, ; Midland, 82*, 2, -*, 1,1, 1,1;
overs, 221 ; St. Helen's Canal and Railway, B,
e°4l; Dutch Rhenish, 1 d ; Great Western of
241, do New 21 p ; Royal Insurance, 2a p
,tle following were the closing.—Blackburn, 81
'646, Chester and Birkenhead 65 651. Caledonian,
1 3O-',l Chester and Holyhead, 18/ 19,
23 aStern Counties, 91 91. East Lancashire, 231
1.
51„1 Great Northern, 23 231. Ditto A Shares.
v,,1• Great Western, 65-2- 651. Lancashire and
°l'kshire Stock. 961 961. Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 181 181. London and North Western
1051 106. Manchester, Sheffield and
blocoln. 331 331. Midland Stock, 824 821. North
-s&riliSh, 9 13-16 9 15-16. North Staffordshire, 41,
st_rl• South. Eastern and Dover. 221 22 5-16
eottish North Eastern, 121 13 North Eastern-
82"wiek, 201 21. York and North Midland, 294
0
Leeds Capital Stock, 18* 181. - Buffalo and
ke Huron, 11 x int 20. Dutch Rhenish, a xd
sot Great Western of Canada, 241 244. Ditto
:New Shares, 21 Great Luxembourg, 11 101 i.
Grand Trunk of Canada, 131 x int l 3.
_ The traffic returns received to day were :
Giasgow and South Western, for the week ending
January 17, 5,7781; Kendal and Windermere, for
week ending January 18, 1051; London, Brighton,
and South Coast, 10,6061; Dover, 15,3711
The Money Market was not so stringent to-day,
still the demand for, discounts was large, and rates
for discOunts are yet high. To-day the Funds
Were rather firmer, an advance of 1 being percep-
able, with a slightly better business doing ; a few
Speculative sales having occurred. Consols were
14°ted during part of the day 93,1 to for the sth
:,eh, and at the close at 931 to For money the
.V'ing price was 931 to I. The Three per Cents
raced have been dealt in at 931 to 94. The
atea' Three per Cents. at 931 to 941; Bank Stock
/„,,1.13-; Exchequer Bills at is dis. to 2s prem.;
ig Bonds at 2s dis. to 2s prem.; and Exchange
at"de, 1859, at 981 to 991, being better. Foreign
eicks were steady, with a fair general business.
uckieined is a list of sales —viz., Brazilian Old Five
percents. at 101; DutchTwo-and-a-HalfperCents.,
(exch. 12[1,): Equador New Consolidated Bonds,
41 Granada Active, 211; do, Deferred, 61; Mexican,
R 1; Peruvian Four and a-Half per Cents ,78 ;
oian Four and a Half per Cents. (small bonds).
' ; Spanish Old Three per Cents. 40; the Coupon
c,ertift,ates 51 per cent.; Turkish Guaranteed
• , 4
Llr per Cents., 103 ; ditto, for account, 30th Jan.,
1031
141. a
4' to 31 ; Venezuela Active, 351 ; ditto, Deferred,

lice London Railway Share Market has been
1(.3411er inanimate to-day, closing, however, steadily.
Ir.°. One or two of the leading lines a slight decline
in prices may be quoted. Caledonian have receded
out los ; Eastern Counties Shares, ss; Brighton,
r, The other lines dealt in brought yesterday's
i
va". The French lines were at nominal quota
r,cos, no business having been transacted in them.
kJ!:r eat Luxembourg and Lombardo-Venetian ruled
urrni, and Antwerp and Rotterdam declined about
5'73... The East Indian and Canadian lines have
u°_,lvn no important variations. Mines, Banks,
2`l Miscellaneous Shares are exceedingly inactive
at yesterday's prices, not above half a dozen trans-
actions having been effected.
There have been large arrivals of Wheat and
barrel_o Flour this week from the United States, and
.Cniastwise, and from Ireland, an unusually heavy
;.litirinof
Import
quantity port of oatmeal, a liberal supply of oats, and a
sack flour have been received.
limited
demand
week there has been an exceedingly
for most articles in the grain trade,
std
to-day's market
prices are the turn • inthe buyer's favour—and
not maintained. , the rates of last Friday were
A moderate b
usiness continues to be transacted
in our Produce Markets, and prices are very firm.
r,° (NY a large quantity of rice—fully 24,000 bags
.9und buyers, at Os 9d for Larong, up to 14s 3d per
e'vt- for fine Bengal. For sugar, a fair enquiry
Ttevails, but in coffee, molasses, and rum, there is
little or nothing doing.
fo,,'"e Sugar trade in Glasgow and Greenock has,
some time, been rather dull. The stocks in the
h'Y'le are very low, and, we understand, not more
t
,`:411 wouldkeep the sugar houses going for a fort-
tight during the busy season. The imports have
tielell small, but several vessels have arrived within
'Ve
„,e past week with cargoes from Mauritius and the
st Indies. On account of the low stock at
Present in the warehouses, and the dullness of the
raPort trade for some time past, the sugar refiners
have been obliged to draw upon other ports, and
large quantities of sugar have been received under
'customs' bond, by the steamers and sailing vessels
from London and Liverpool. The drafts upon
thesei ports are likely to continue for some time at
least, the stocks being rather above the average.
"ri account of the high price of the raw material,
and the price of the refined article not rising in
proportion, refiners have deemed it prudent to
curtail their refining operations to a considerable
extent.
The statistical accounts of the shipping trade
o the port of Dublin for the year 1856, which
have just been completed, show that, whilst the
numbk,sr of vessels employed in the coastiug trade
18, all bu,"- stationary, a large increase has taken
Place in th," foreign tr tde. In these returns the
°reign
"der and colonial trades are always classed
the same heads, and the most marked
change is in the ,:rrivals from the British North
trneriemi provinces', the timber trade having
Tehen' as compared wiat 1855, particularly active.
1, us from New Brut.Nswick forty two cargoes
"ave been received in 1856, against fifteen
cargoes in 1855 ; and from Canada eight
goes, against three. From Nova Scotia there
have been three vessels ; in the previous year
there was but one. It is a singular fact that
during the whole-ef last year-there was not a single
arrival from the United States. From Russia
thereis, of course, 'a considerable increase. In 1855'
there were but two vessels, both from ports in the
slack Sea, whilst in the past year there have been
eleven, of which number six have been from
Northern Russia and five from the Black Sea. In
the returns for 1855 Wallachia and Moldavia do
''''.clt.appear at all, whilst in those now issued there
Sentries from the Principalities of eleven vessels.
key, Egypt, Greece, and Morocco, all exhibit a
011siderable increase. On the other hand, a falling
tff has taken place in the trade with Holland,
*/,'"elgium France, Spain, and Portugal, and also with
-useauy and the Austrian dominions in Italy, but
tc, incepase is observable in the arrvals from the
'aPal States. The entries inwards from Prussia
are
fewer by five vessels, the number in 1856 being
Norway
six against thirty-one in 1855. Neither
In or Denmark show any material change.
:II 1855 there were no arrivals from China, Cuba,
-1' Peru ; in 1856 single cargoes respectively of tea,
"gar, and guano have been received from'the three
~`lttntries. From Porto Rico but one cargo of sugar
hag' been received, whilst last year tbere were six.
From Barbadoes there have been twenty
-N-ne from Trinidad four; and from
:"etrierara one. In -1855 the number of sugar
"essels from British possessions were identically
the same as last year; there being from
13
Barbadoes, twen..`v two, and from Trinidad four.
niar
he relative propoi'tions between the British and
:reign shipping engaged in the trade with Dublin
the year have greatly changed in favour of
the former, there being in
he tonnage of British
vessels, an increase over 1855, df upwards of fifty
leer cent, whilst in that of the foreign there is a
'light decrease. The number of vessels clearing
rttvards with cargoes for foreign ports has been,
the twelve months, only twenty four ; of these
ive have been to Portugal, five to the Channel
slands, four to Barbadoes, four to Trinidad, and
I
WO to Prussia ; besides which there have been