Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1857

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Debt.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public tleposits 5,483 881
Other deposits 13,959,165
Seven day and

Credit.
Government se-
curities £6.407.134
Other securities 30 299,270
Notes 1,148,185
Gold and silver

coin

other bills.. 829.541

£38,259,090

Total . £38,259,090

Compared with the previous returns, we have
the tol!owing reeults :
Active circulation
Increase
Bullion 6,484,096
Decrease
Rest ....
Increase
Seven day and other bills
Decrease
Public deposits . 5,483,881
Increase 167,222
Other deposits
Increase
Government securities 6,407,134
Decrease
Other securities
Increase
Notes unemployed 1,148,169
Increase

The following are the latest quotations of the
Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam short, 11 172, 11
184 ; Ditto, 3 month, 12 2 to 12 21 ; Rotterciarn
uo , 12 2 to 12 21 ; Antwerp, do, 25 80 to 25 95;
Brussels, do, 25 80 to 25 95 ; Hatnburgh, do., 13
121:to 13 14; Paris, short, 25 25 to 25 45; do.,
3 months, 26 to 26 15 ; Marseilles, do, 26 5 to 26
20 ; Frankfort, do, 1214 to 122 ; Vienna, do, 11 .5
to 11 10 ; Trieste, do-, i l 8 to 11 15 ; Petersburg,
do., 33i; Madrid, do., 471 to 47a.

THE NEW MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA

According to the new regulations for the improved mail
communication with India, mails will be made up in the
General Post-office for Bombay, via Marseilles, on the
2nd and 17th of the month •, and for Calcutta, via Mar-
seilles, on the 9th and the 25th of the month. The packet
will leave Bombay with mails for London, via Marseilles,
on the 9.h and the f 4 th of the month; and from Calcutta with
m iils for London, via M Tseilles, on the Bth and 22nd of the
Tn. nth. The Mediterranean packets will leave Alexandria
for Marseilles with the India mails, on the 7th, 11th, 22nd,
and 27th of the month ; and arrive at Marseilles on the 2nd,
12,b, 16 In and 27th, and such mails will reach London on
the 4th, 14th. 18th, and 20th of the month. The mail wilt
reach B anbay from London, via Marseilles, in 26 days ; and
Calcutta from London, via Marseilles, in 36 days. Nearly
the same periods of time respectively will be occupied in the
mails reaching London, via Marseilles, from Bombay and
Calcutta. The new arrangements will commence at Bombay
on the 24th proximo. The Calcutta packets will touch a
Kidgeree on the homeward passage. There can be no
doubt that the Trieste steamers will run in connexion with
each arrival at Alexandria, and according to the present
speed of those steamers, we should get telegraphs of Indian
news from Trieste on the Ist, 12th, 16th, and 27th of the
month. But as the telegraph of Indian news. via Mar-
seilles, will reach us on the 2nd. 12th, 16th, and 27th, the
former telegraphs will often be sups/ ceded unless the speed
of the Trieste boats: is improved.
When the telegraphie communication between Calcutta,
Madras, and Bombay, is uninterruptei, we shall have tele-
graphic news from all parts cf India by every arrival at
Marseille., that is fcur times a month—viz., on the 2nd,
12th, 16th. and 27th of the month, as before stated. This
news will be alternately twenty-four and thirty-four days
old. The only additional work ich will devolve
on the Peninsular and Oriental Company in conse-
geence of this modification of their contract, will
be the running of a ate mer to and: from Alexandria
and Marseilles via Malta four times a month instead of
twice, and the calling at Kidgeree from Calcutta. Ac-
cording to the old contract the packets left Bombay on the
3 d aria 17th of the month, and Calcutta on the 10. h and
24th cf the month. It was arranged for the 3rd and 24th
boats to arrive together at Suez, and for the 10th and 17th
boats to arrive at that port also at the same time. Calcutta
being nearly 2,000 miles farther from Suez than Bombay,
this difference of time in leaving the two Indian ports was
absolutely necessary in order to time the two packets to-
gether at Suez. But to carry out the new arrangements and
bring the Bomb y and Calcutta packets to Suez at different
times,it is necessary to despatch the packets from the two
Indian ports almost at the same time. Thus, instead of leav-
ing Bombay or Calcutta on the 3rd, 10th.17th, and 24th of
the month, as has hitherto been the case by which a week
intervenes conveniently between each departure, the
packets will for the fatu e have to leave Bombay or
Calcutta on the B.h, 9th 22nd, and, 24 h of the month,
as has been bef,re observed. Now, these are certainly
rot such convenient times for departure frcm the Indian
ports as the former ones, especially considering that
Calcutta can be nni ed by telegraph to Bombay; but
there is no help for it. A disadvantage of the old
plan was that the packets, owing to the length of
the sea route, the difference in the speed of the steamers,
and casualties, scarcely ever arrived at Euez, toge-
ther ; and than one mail was kept waiting for the other et
Alexandria The advantage of the new plan is that as
so. n as a mail arrives at Alexandria, no matter whether it
is from Bombay or Calcutta, it will be sent off immediately
to Marseilles It will he seen from the above statement
that am will be only two mail packets a month to and
from Suez and Br mbay ; and two to and from Suez and
Calcutta the same as at present There will also be only
two communications a month for the present to and from
Southampton and Alexandria, and to and from Point de
Galls and Hong Kong. The following are the mail route
tables, according to the new arrangements, viz.:—

Duty.—Wheat, Barlry, Oats, Rye, Beans, and Peas, is

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—Nov. 30,
We quote last Friday an advance in several articles. Is conse-
quei c: of the operations or the bank this week, the greater portion
of the advance is lost, as commercial creGit has been affect d I y
large stoppages in several lines.

noes:: We have a dull and depressed market during the week.
and a decline of fully 23 has been sabmitttd to in order to effect
sales, which have been on a limited scale.
CoF,Ex.—A decline of aboat 2s hms been estaiished in this
article.

Tu.—Holders have ban very firm, and have refused to submit

BALTIC
Of this there are no sales of cargoes to report.
DEALs; and BATTENS are chiefly sold for export.
LATIIWOOD is completely a drug in the market.
Since Ist Feb. 56 vessels, 19,992 tons, have arrived
against 63 vessels, 20,050 tons, to date last year.
- A. F. & D. MACKAY.

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