Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-01 00:00:00

increase of 78.0/.

The Discount Market yesterday was very quiet.
First-class bills up to two months date were taken
at 3 per cent. There were very few applications at
the Bank, and these, only from regular customers,
whose interests will be prejudiced if the minimum
be maintained at 41 per cent.
A telegram received yesterday from Amsterdam,
announces a rise of about 1 per cent. in Aust
Stock

The Bullion operations at the Bank yesterday,
consisted of a withdrawal of about £lO,OOO in bar
gold.

The Ottoman Bank yesterday received from Con-
stantinople and the Levant, about £21,500 in Turkish
gold coin, a-id 3,000 sovereigns. The former will
be forwarded to the Continent.
The private shipments of Silver by the Calcutta
and China steamer of the 4th of June are expected
to exceed 200,0001., but it appears that the remit-
tances on government account have ceased.
,
About 267 0001. in Australian Gold is now con-

sidered due, by the ships Shooting Star, Ellen
Stuart, and Monarch ; and a similar sum ought to
arrive in two or three weeks by the Chili, Essex,
Indian Queen, and Owen Glendower.
The half-yearly report .of the directors of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company has been
issued. The dividend decided upon has already been
stated. The directors mention that the operations of
the company have been carried on with success and
regularity. A considerable rise in the freight of
Coals to all the company's stations has formed the
principal drawback. Mr. Anderson's mission to
Egypt has been attended with the satisfactory
result of the conclusion of a new transit treaty with
the Viceroy, by which reductions are effected in the
cost of transit of passengers, goods, and specie,
whilst arrangements are also made tending to the
increased safety and comfort of travellers and security
•
of property.
It is stated that the screw-steamer Lady Sale will
sail in a few days for the Mediterranean with about
ten miles of cable on board. On her reaching Malta
the fractured cable between that place and Cagliari
will be repaired if the weather be favourable. The
Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company have
obtained authority from the Neapolitan government
to
,a,y a cable from Sicily to Malta, and the-necessary

rriftgements to carry out this operation are expected
' The line will be about 60

to be shortly complef

miles in lengt

I in the event of any accident

occurring to the Malta and Cagliari wires, the gua:
'e at present allowed by the British government
Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company
will apply to the new line.

Amsterdam Slit

13 to 11 ... 13
15 ... 11 15,
15 .. 11 .. 15
0 ... 25 10
0 .. 25 .. 10

Rotte.rdam
Antwerp..
Brussels....

Frankfort

St. Peterst
Madrid ..

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The upward movement in the Stock Markets to-day was
more decided than for a long time past. Its basis is still
bona fide investments, which are stimulated by the extra-
ordinary ease of the Money Markets. The principal move-
ment to-day was in British Railway Stocks, which rose in
some instances Ito 14- per cent. The

have attained a fresh H

nglish Funds
With

of no less than a per e(
-class bills up to two

the Bank rate still at 41 per

months are taken at 3 Per cent. The bullion operations at
the Bank to-day consisted of a withdrawal of about £lO,OOO
in bar gold.—.. Daily News City Article, .Monday Evening.
The English Funds have experienced a further remarka-
ble improvement to-day. The general buoyancy in the
morning was attributable chiefly to numerous additional
purchases of moderate amounts by the public. There Were
also reports, that there will be no disturbance of the
Ministry at the opening of Parliament, and the tone of the
Continental accounts was less discouraging. The Exchanges