Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIM AS, FRIDAY, APRIL 15 18#9

MONETARY AND COMMEJICIAL

LIVERPOOL, Thursday Evening.
The Liver')bol Cotton Market Las been quiet to-
day, the sales amounting to 7,000 bales, of which
about 1,000 have been taken for speculation and
export. Prices were heavy, but not lower.
The tone of the Liverpool Share Market has not
improved to-day, and, only a limited business has
been done. The • sales were :-London and North
Western, 934, 931, 934 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 384, 381 ; Midland, 1015 • South
Eastern, 20 9-16, 2011 ; Dutch Rhenish, 5 d; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 8 9-16; Lombardo-Venetian, 15-16 p.
After official hours, sales were Made in Chester and
Birkenheads, at 62 ; Eastern Counties, 114 ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolns, at 389 ; and
North Easterns, 90. The final closing prices were :-
Blackburn, 111, 114 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
62, 62+ ; Caledonian, 804, 804 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 11 9-16, 11 11-16 ; East Lancashire, 92, 921 ;
Great Northern, 101, 102 ; Do. ,A, 84, 86 ;
Great Western, 571, 58 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 924, 935 ; London and North Western Stock,
93, 934 ;, Do. one-eighth shares, 1 1-16,1 15-16 d ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 38,1,
381; Midland Stock, 1004, 101 ; North British,
561, 57 ; North Staffordshire, 44, 49 d ; North
Eastern-Berwick, 891 90+ ; York and North
Midland, 741, 75 ; Leeds Capital Stock, 45, 451 ;
South Eastern and Dover, 20 9-16, 20,4; Putch
Rhenish, 5, 41 d ; Great Western of Canada,
154 xd, 15:4 ; Do. New Shares, 55 xd, 44 d : Great
Luxembourg,. 64, 61; Grand Trunk of Canada,
81, 8b ; Lombardo-Venetian, 13-16, 1 1-16 p ; Ditto
New Shares, 1, 1 p.
Yesterday, Messrs. Cunard and Wilson offered for
sale, by auction, at their sale rooms, the brigantine
Wanderer, the barque Walton, and the wreck of the
Isaac Wright, none of which were sold, in conse-
quence of the owners having put a higher price on
them than the bidders were willing to offer. The
barque Sterlingshire, which 'is at present lying in
the Queen's dock, and registers 640 tons, was sold
for £1,315 ; the biddings commencing at £1,175.
The ship Julius Caesar, 737 tons register, which is
now lying in the Canada dock, was put up for sale ;
the biddings commenced at £5OO, and was finally
knocked down at the sum of £9BO.
The London Stock Market has not shown any
very important change to-day. Consols opened firm at
the closing quotations of yesterday, but late in the day
became flatter, and the final closing prices for Public
Securities were-Consols for Money, 944, 95 ; Do.
Account, 95, 955 ; Three per Cents, 934, 944 ; Bank
Stock, 223, 225; Exchequer Bills, Large and Small,
33, 36 pm.
The London Share Market was quiet all day,
but prices were well sustained until late in the
afternoon, when they became a little weaker,
and finally closed at the following quotations :-
Ambergate, 54, 65; Caledonian, 801, 801 ; Ditto
Preference, 99, 101 ; Eastern Counties, 571, 581 ;
East Lancashire, 91, 92 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
72, 73 ; Great Northern. 1004, 1011 • Ditto A, 84,
87 ; Ditto B, 131, 133 ; Great Western, 571,
58 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 93, 931 ;
Brighton, 111, 112; North-Western, 931, 94 ;
South-Western, 9„1, 911 ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 381, 381 ; Midland, 1004,
101+ ; North British, 561, 564
.; Ditto Preference,
107, 109 ; North Eastern--Berwick, 892' 901 ; Ditto
Leeds, 451, 461; Ditto York, 744, 744 ; North Staf-
ford, 41, 41 ; South Eastern, 68*, 69; Turkish Sixes,
871, 871 • Ditto Fours, 1021, 103 ; Great Western
of Canada, 15,3-, 151 ; Ditto New, 5, 41 ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 85, 84.
The Grain Averages published to-day show the
following result :-Wheat weekly, 41s ; aggregate,
40s 5d ; Barley weekly, 34s 3d, aggregate, 34s 2d ;
Oats weekly, 23s 4d, aggregate, 23s 4d; Rye weekly,
29s 10d, aggregate, 32s 2d ; Beans weekly, 40s 4d,
aggregate, 41s id ; Peas weekly, 39s sd, aggregate,
39s 8d ; quantity of Wheat sold last week, 108,491
quarters.
Letters from Marseilles, mentioning the failure of
the firm of Aquarone, Fils, Porro, and Co., state the
liabilities at about 92,0001., and the asssets at 80,0001.
or upwards. The bulk of the latter, however, is at
present locked up abroad. It is anticipated that the
firm, whose transactions are principally in the Corn
Trade, will merely ask time from their creditors.
An amended notice has been put forward with
regard to the Indian Loan of 7,000,0001. It is now
arranged that instead of an instalment of 50 per cent.
being made payable on the, 3rd of May, the amount
shall be divided, and that the tenders are to be sent
in on Thursday, the 21st, instead of the 19th
instant. Through this modification the amount
tendered to be paid to the Secretary of State for
India on the 6th of May, is to leave 75 per cent of
the capital to be liquidated, as under, viz.:-25 per
cent on the 14th of June, 25 per cent on the 19th of
July, and 25 per cent on the 16th of August. Upon
payments in full a discount of 3 per cent will be
allowed. The announcement was made in the course
of yesterday afternoon, and fippeared to give satis-
faction, especially among the classes for whose con-
venience the alteration of the date for the receipt of
the subscriptions has been changed.
The English funds have closed at'a further improvement.
The accounts from Paris indicating a continuance of buoy-
ancy, it is inferred that some new arrangements have been
made which will give the Derby cabinet, on Friday evening,
another opportunity of announcing that a pacific
adjustment is at hand. The general impression
seems to be that the real danger of Europe
increases in proportion to the magnitude of each new effort
to lull her into security. The mercantile letters from
Marseilles, state that warlike materials and
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provisions are accumulating at that port to an alarming
extent. The demand for discount continues active at about
the Bank minimum rate. The general want of confidence
induces persons to provide for all contingencic
City Article, Friday Evening.
The Funds have this day experienced a fresh improve-
ment of s to a per cent., although information upon which
the late extensive purchases are presumed to have been
based has yet to transpire. The market to-day was also a
good deal influenced by the rise of e per cent. yesterday in
the French Funds, coupled with the remarkable buoyancy
of the other continental markets. At Vienna, yesterday,
the Austrian Funds rose 1 to 12 per cent., whilst the
Exchange on London fell fully 3 per cent. At
Frankfort, yesterday, the rebound in the Austrian
metalliques amounted to five per cent. These
securities, .however, had previously been driven down
to a complete panic point. Lord Stanley has arranged that
only 25 per cent. of the seven millions shall be paid up in
May, instead of 50 per cent. No alteration in the Discount
Market. There are still no withdrawals of gold from the
Bank. —Daily News City Article, Wednesday Evening.
The Daily News says that, in the tea market, on Wed-
nesday, upon the delivery of the China letters, an advance
of a id. per lb. was paid for some descriptions of Corigou.
The liabilities of Aquarrone, Sonporro, and Co., of Mar-
seilles, are said to be about £92,000 ; the assets at £BO,OOO ;
but these are locked up.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC. •RETURNS. —The London and North-
Western shews this week an increase of £5,649 ; the Great
Western, an increase of £1,692 ; the Great Northern, an
increase of £1,636; the London and South-Western, an
increase of £1,178.

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IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY

MEETING

•
WOLVERHAMPTON, April 13.---The usual spring quar-
terly meeting of the iron and metal trades of Staffordshire
and Worcestershire was held in this town to-day, and there
was a fair attendance of the principal firms, or their repre-
sentatives, of the district. Business was represented to be
slack, but the prices of the last quarter, as we anticipated,
were, 'upon the whole, well maintained. The dullness which
prevails in the chief ship-building establishments in all parts
of the country operates prejudicially upon the most impor-
tant branches of the iron manufacture • but still many of
the principal works in the neighbourhood fairly employed.
The great meeting of the quarter will be held in Birmingham
to-morrow, and the concluding one at Dudley on Satnrd
When these have taken place, we shall be able to sp
the absolute state of the iron trade, and its future pr(
with more confidence than at the present moment.

SpDcts,

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—APRIL 14.
Colonial, &c : There is no material change to notice in
the 45:•!gar market, and the transactions comprise 200 bags
grainy Demerara at 44s 6d, 550 bags Cossipore at 47s 3d,
ex quay, 400 bags dates at 38s, 2,000 bags Maceio at
23s 9d, 200 bags white Pernams at 28s 3d, and a small
cargo of Moraim ' afloat for Gothenberg, consisting of 70
cases, 2,000 bags at 25s 9d per cwt, fully insured. 7,000
bags Necransie Rice have realised 8s 3d, and 1,000 tons new
Rangoon to arrive, 9s ; 50 trcs Carolina are also reported at
22s per cwt. 750 bags Penang Pepper have been sold at
31d per lb. Of Dyewoods, 140 tons Barwood, all faults at
£3 per ton, and 5 tons Camwood on private terms. Ashes :
Pots at 30s 6d, and Pearls at 31s 6d per cwt. Of Nitrate
of Soda, 20 tons sold at 14s 9d. Nothing has been done in
Saltpetre. 401, and no business to notice, sma:ll