Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

• MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Monday Evening.
In the Cotton Market to-day there was again a good
and steady demand. The sales reached upwards of
10,000 bales, 2,000 of which were for export or taken
on speculation. The prices were steady, with, if any-
thing in the way of change, an upward tendency.
In the Liverpool Share. Market to-day business was l•
not active, and the transactions reported were compara-
tively few in number, The following are the reported
sales :—Caledout•tlll, 9241; tastern Counties, 11. E ; Great
Westetris, 641 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 961 ; Lan, .
caster and Carlisle, con. stock, 196 c ; dittq Anal'
and Windermere, 14 ; London and. North-Western,:
951; ditto 1 shares, 15-16 d. ; Midland, 106;; South-
Eastern, 23 1-16 1; Buffalo and Lake niiion, 51 3-16.
• CLOSING PRIttS,
Ches. & B'head. _771 771 t N Stafford
4 41 41d
Caledonian 921 934 N.
s E. Ber. c. Stck _B9* 90
E. Countks II 1-16 11 3-16 York capital Stck ..734 74
E. L. atoms ..".. i Leeds Stock 46 461
G. .N. Stock ....102 103 S.. Eastern ....23 1-16 231
Great Westerns ..'64 651 Dutch Rhenish 4l 4,1,d
Lan. and York ..9q 961 Gt. Luxemb'g7 1-16 7 3-16
Ln. & Nor. West. 951 95/ G.T.Canada ..9 11-16 9t
_ „ 1-shares 1 1d G.W.Canada ... 141 1411
M. S. and. Lincoln 351 351., „ new shares 61 61d
Midland Stock ~ 10511064 Lomb.-Venetian .. 11 2p
N. British St. ....59,1,- 60 „ new shares --

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
LONDON, Monday Evening.

The Market for English Securities presented a fair
appearance; and although no great amount of business
was reported, the quotations showed a slight improve-
ment, The price of Consols for money and the account
stands at 96 toe ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 9q,., to 1 ;
New Three per Cents., 94 to 1; Long Annuities, 171.
to ; India Five per Cent. Stock, fully paid up, 1031
tot ; the Four per Cent. Debentures, 96a_ to 1; and
Exchequer Bills, 28s. to 31s. prem.
The English Railway Share Market presented little
variation of importance, and general attention was
chiefly directed to the final arrangement of the account.
Business was transacted on a basis which is looked on as
satisfactory, some extent of stock having been absorbed.
The prices, with few exceptions, are much the same as
Saturday. Caledonian, 921 to 93; Midland, 1051 to
106 ; and London and North-Western, 95,f,- to I
In the Foreign Stock Market there has not been any
great change ; prices incidentally exhibiting a little
heaviness.. Turkish Six per Cents. are not quite so firm,
being quoted 771 to 784 ; the New Six per Cents., 68 ;
Mexican for account stand at 211 to 221 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 651 to 661 ; Brazilian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 951 to 961 ; and Spanish New
Deferred, 32 to 1.
The French Funds still show a tendency upwards.
The present price of the Three per 'Cents. is 65f. 55c.
to 69f. 66c,
Several additional vessels have arrived from China
with cargoes of tea and. silk.
The American packet, arrived at Southampton, brings
about £70,000.

VIE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
Con. Money .... 96 64' Bank Stock .. _225 7
~ Account .. 96 1-16 3-16 Three per Cents. 9,11 1
Exchequer Bills. 28 31 Next Account, .. --

RAILWAY
6 ti
921 31

A. Not. &E. J
Caledonians ....
Dutch Rhenish..
Eastern Counties 551 6,
East Lancashire.
Edinbgh. & Glas. 77-1
Great Northern..lo2 3

SHARES.
Lanc.&Yorkshire 961 7
L.& N.Western. 95:4 6
L. and S. W.... 95 1
Leeds Northern.. 46+
Man.Sheff.&Lin. 35 5
Midland Stock. .106
North British .. 591 60
N. Staffordshire.
S. E. and Dover. 77 '
York,New - --4 n'N't
74 4-

„ A. 88 90
Gt. Western. 65
Gt. W. Canada . . 147,-
VL vuu. . g
Gt. S. and W... 106 8

The following appeared in a part of our
impression of yesterday :

THE MONEY MARKET.

The funds were steady at yesterday's improvement,
until near close, when some depression occurred. The
letter of the Emperor of the French to the King of
Sardinia failed, as has lately been the case with all the Im-
perial manifestoes, to exercise any decided influence.
The demand for money was more active. Little or
nothing now done under 24 per cent.—Times.

The funds to-day, though inanimate, were steady at
yesterday's improvement. The increased demand for
money continued to-day, both at the Bank and in other
quarters. No business appears to have been done below
the Bank minimum. About £5,000 in bar gold was
withdrawn from the Bank to-day for transmission to the
Continent. On the other hand, about 30,000 English
sovereigns, ex the Maid of Judah, were paid in. Govern-
ment will despatch £350,000 in silver to the East,
by the steamer Indus, on November 4.—Dally News.
Melburu and White, merchants of Cheapside, were
adjudicated bankrupts on Saturday. Debts about
£30,000. Stock has been removed and the bankrupts
are absent.—Times.

STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE AND METAL

MARKETS.

In his weekly circular of Saturday, Mr. Samuel
Griffiths says :-The calm referred to in our last still
continues in the Iron trade of these districts, and some
of the second-rate manufacturers begin to complain of
the scarcity of orders for Malleable Iron. The orders
from the United States are meagre again this week, and
the general opinion now appears to be that no improve-
ment will take place in the demand for the States during
the present autumn. Very few orders have come to hand
this week for Sheets, and on the whole trade must be
reported less active than it was a week since. The
eminent firm of R. Napier and Sons, of the
Govan Yard, on the Clyde, and Mr. John Laird,
the well-known iron ship builder, of Birkenhead,
have each taken a contract under the Government,
which will consume 10,000 tons of iron ; and when these
contracts are given out (8,000 tons of which are plates
41 inches thick), considerably more activity will, no
doubt, for a time, be imparted to the mills and forges
of the leading firms of the South Staffordshire district.
The Glasgow house has likewise on hand an order for
twelve pairs of 80-horse marine engines, and six pairs of
200-horse power, and two pairs of 500-horse power each ;
all the above engines are for vessels of war, besides two
screw-steamers now in hand for the New York line, and
a large steamer of 1,200 tons burden for the Russian
Government. The official list of prices of Finished
Iron is as follows :-Common Staffordshire Bars,
£7 lOs , at the works ; best Bars, £8 10s. ; Sheets, £9 ;
Doubles, £lO 10s. ; Nail Sheets, £8 10s. ; Latin, £l2 ;
Boiler Plates, £9 ; Best and Best Best in proportion ;
Common Rods, £7 10s. ; Hoops, £8 10s. ; Gas Strip,
£8 ; Canada Plates, £l2, and all other sorts in propor-
tion. Current prices of Pig. Iron, Staffordshire Cold
Blast, £4 10s.; Best Native Hydrate Pigs, £3 15s. to
£4 2s. 6d. ; first-class All Mine Grey Forge Pigs. £3
los. to £3 16s. ; Good Mine Pigs, with a modicum of
Flue Cinder, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 7s. 6d. ; Mine. Pigs,
deteriorated by Cinder, £2 12s. 6d. to £3 ; Melters,
acckoredsin ogf
Nino. 1,2, and 3, £2 17s. 6d. to £3 2s. 6d. ; superior
mMakineeanMd
quality.eltingl,Fato3
to
01l
Favourite t°ShroP4-,
shire and Forest o f Dean Brands, £4 10s.
The Glasgow market for Sc
by the general uncertait each Pigs has been affected
to Continental affairs. Prices have gradually receded
which prevails with regard
from 51s. 9d. buyers. to 51s. • Mixed
which is the present price. Ro
G.
Nos., warrants.
to 51s. 6d., ditto No. 3, 515., sis.. 3d.,a1l 8., 51s. 3d.
No. 1, Gartsherrie, 555. ; Coltness, s• prompti cash.
635. The shipments for the week are 11enAvntock,
against 6,386 'tons for. the corresponding week 1858.ns'
Copper :-A fair business doing both in English and
foreign ; fixed rates well maintained. At the Swansea
ticketing, on Tuesday, 1,395 tons of ore were sold, which,
compared with the last sale, shows an advance in
the standard of £5 15s, 6d. ; compared with
the corresponding sale of last month, the
advance is £7 17s. 6d. in the Standard. Tin Both
English and Foreign languid. Banca quoted £l3B ;
Straits, £133. These prices must be considered nomi-
nal; public sales this week realising £132 10s. to £133.
Tin Plates : Market quiet; prices continue to droop.
Spelter : A few small parcels have changed hands in the

early part of the week at £2,0 10s.; holders are now
' marl
- h chanircd
firmer, and ask ss. more money. Lead : The
V 4
is sickly for English ; very little business o,ltoti ifts
been done this week ; one or two lots Span
hands at about £2l. The monthly returns of the
Board of Trade show that the exports for i„-ne month,
of September were of the value of
1,
increase.of 84 per' cent. over the ' 631 426
..orre,spon d' ing -.non
of last year, and upwards of ^, n
. per cent. over the
exports for September,
when the depressip; in-
fluences of
es the comm -
themselv. F-
(dal crisis had scacely manifested
exports ar- -I.IM test nine months of the year the
near, 3,037,111, an increase over last year of
-4 14 per eent., and 2 per cent. in excess of the very
Ittrige worts of the first nine months of 1857. Nearly half
the total increase both-for the month and the nine months,
arises from the increased export of cotton goods.
It will be seen that the only kinds of Iron in which
there is a less amount exported than last year, are Pig
and Cast Iron.. The former is not largely exported from
South Staffordshire, and the decline in it is due to the
less quantities taken by Prussia, Holland, and France.
In Cast Iron there is a remarkable decline for the month,
which is occasioned by an extraordinary falling off to the
East Indies and Australia, which were last year taking
an enormous quantity of cast iron. As compared with
last year, the- increased export of. Iron and Steel to the
United States is remarkable ; the total of all kinds sent
to that country in the first nine months of 1858, was of
the value of £997,124, and this year, £2,339,390, an
increase of £1,342,266, which is considerably more
than the whole increase, in the export of Iron
and Steel to all countries; so that had the United
States only taken as much as last year, the returns
for these metals would have shown a considerable falling
off, as compared even with the depressed trade of 1858;
when it is remembered that the exports to the East
Indies have been considerebly above those of last year,
it will be seen how great has been the falling off to
other markets, especially to the Continent. In view of
these facts, a diminution in the demand for the United
States always assumes a serious aspect in,relation to the
•Iron trade.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—OCTOBER 31.
There has been a fair business in Cotton to-day, at
steady prices. The sales—including 50 Pernambuco at
nd, 280 Bahia at 71d., 400 Egyptian at nd. to I Id.,
and 1,200 Surat at 4td. to 5-lel.—are reported 10,000
bales, of which 2,000 are on speculation and for export.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARBET.-OcT. 31.
The Sugar market is quiet, but steady, the sales being
confined to 200 bags grainy Demerara, at 435., and 500
bags Date, at 375. 6d. to 395. 3d. per cwt.
There is nothing to notice in Molasses, Rum, or
Coffee.
The Rice market continues quiet, and we have only
to report 600 bags Necransie from the quay, at 10s., and
900 bags old, at 9s. 6d.
We have also to add 700 bales low middling to fine
Jute at £l5 to £2O per ton, and 130 bales Gambier
at 16s. 3d. to 16s. 6d. per cwt.
DYEWOODS.-Teri tons Honduras Logwood at £5 ss.
DRYSALTERIES, &C.--Eight casks discoloured Tartar
at 110 s. ; 50 cases fine Para India Rubber at 2s. 31d.
to 2s. ; .three hhds. link at 9s. ; 13Q_bales, heated
Gambier 16s. 3d. to. 16s. 6d. ; no business reported in
Brimstone, sellers of thirds at £B,. and of seconds -at
£8 10s. per ton i 50 tons Nitrate of Soda at 14s. 6d. to
15s. 6d. ; 1,000 bags Bombay Saltpetre at 6s. 6d. to
16s. 6d..f0r,73 to 31 per cent.
OILS, &c.-Small sales of Palm at £46 10s. to £47 ;
Tallow, P.Y.C., 60s. 6d. ; 10 tuns Gallipoli Olive, at
£53; and 7 tuns Malaga at £5l ; 30 tons Linseed Oil
at• 28s.,in export casks ; 140 barrels Spirits of Turpen-
tine, at 345. 12d. to 345. 6d. per cwt.