Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL AMERICA.

The screw steamer Guatemala, from Central
American ports, arrived at Panama on the Bth
inst., with the mails for Europe and the United.
States from the republics of Guatemala, San Sal-
vador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
She had the following freight :-1,312 ceroons
of indigo, 124 do. ,cochineal, 4,904 hides, 191 bales
deer skins, 17 do. India rubber, 106 bags coffee,
147 do. silver ores, and $25,600 in specie.
The dates are not published, but are later.
GUATEMALA.

The Congress of this republic was about to
assemble. Some 27 representatives had arrived
at the capital.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL:
NEW YORK, 27th Dec.
The Money Market continues somewhat unsettled,
but as the cessation of business consequent on the
Christmas holiday celebrations had not been concluded,
the opinions expressed are rather retrospective than
Connected with the existing state -of matters. Yester-
day being devoted to the celebration of Christmas was
observed as a close holiday.
Asrms.—The sales embraced about 60 to 70 brls.;
chiefly pots, at 54c., with small lots of pearls at 5-31ic.
BREADSTUFFS.-Flour-The market was firmer, and
holders of some grades of State and Western demanded
an advance of sc. to 10c. per brl., which tended to
check transactions. The sales footed up about 8,000 to
9,000 brls., closing within the following range of
prices --
Superfine State l5 to 5 20
Extra State 5 35 ... 5 40
Superfine Western 5 20 ... 5 25
Common to choice Western extra 5 35 ... 5 80
Extra Genesse - 5 65 ... 7 0
Mixed to straight Southern 5 50 ... 5 80
Straight to good extra ditto 5 85 ... 7 25
Choice extra family and bakers' brands 7 0 ... 8 0
Rye flour 3 60 ... 4 15
Corn meal 3 70 ... 4 20 •
.Canadian brands were steady and in fair request, with
Sales of about 175 brls. at $5 -60 c. to $6 75c. for extra
brands. There was a steady demand for the home trade
for southern flour, and the sales embraced about 1,200
barrels, closing within the range of the above quotations.
Rye flour was steady at our quotations. Corn meal was
inactive and prices dull. Wheat was quite firm, and held
generally above the views of purchasers. The sales em-
braced 4,700 bush., including Milwaukie club at $1 20c,
and including 300 bush. prime white Michigan at $1 20c.
Corn was heavy, while the sales embraced about 18,000
bushels, including New Jersey and Southern new white
and yellow at 83c. to 87c. ' • old was scarce and nominal.
Barley was firm at 77c. to 83c. for State, and at 80c. to
81c. for Canada East. Barley malt was quiet at 82c. to
85c. Oats were in good supply and the market heavy,
with. sales at 45c. to 46c. for Western,, and at 453 c. to
461 c. for Canadian.
COTTON.—The sales embraced 5,000 bales,,including
3,200 in transit. The market closed steady for lots in
store at 11e.,
FREIGHTs.—Rates were firm, with fair amount offer-
ing, especially for Liverpool and London. To the
former port 6,000 bushels of wheat were engageddu

bags at p. t. ; 400 bales of cotton at id. to 9-32 d. ' • 300
,tierces of beef at 3s. 9d. ; 5 tons of clover seed at 255. ;
100 packages of butter at 255. • and 100 barrels of pork
at 3s. To London4o 'half chests tea were engaged at
17s. 6d..; 15 tierces .rice at 275. 6d. ; 100 do. at 255. ;
and 100 tierces beef at ss. Rates to the Continent were
steady, with moderate engagements.
InoN.--Scotch pig was firmly held at $24 to $25 for
six months, with small sales of the hatter delivered from
yard.
PRovlstoNs.—Pork was firm and in fair demand, with
sales of 1,200 bbls., including mess, at $1612 to $l6 20;
new city do. at $l7 121, and thin mess at $l5 25 ; old
prime mess at $l3, and prime sold at $ll 621 to $ll 75.
Beef was in moderate but easy demand, with sales of
300 to 400 bbls., including country mess at $5 to $5 25 ;
repacked do. at $9 to $9 6271, and extra at $lO5O to $ll5O.
Prime mess was quiet at $lB to $l9. Beef hams were
firm, with sales of 400 bbls. at $l4 50c. to $l5 for
western, and at $l4 50c. for Vermont. Cut meats were
quiet, and in fair supply, with sales of 176 packages
and tierces at 61c. for shoulders, and at 94c. for hams :
the latter price for city cured. Lard was unchanged,
while the sales embraced about 600 to 700 barrels, at.
101 c. to 101 c. Butter and cheese were in steady
demand at unchanged prices.

COTTON,

(From the Circular of W. P. Wright 4. Co.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.
_ _

We have had an active demand for cotton on the spot
during the past week, both for home use and for export.
Prices are slightly easier for qualities below Strict
Middling, but there is no decline upon even running
lists of the better grades. Holders are firm, and oily
sell when full prices can be obtained. The sales for the
week are reported at 5,000 bales. The clearances during
same time have been—to Liverpool, 142 ; Glasgow,
233 ; Naples, 788 ; Bremen, 438 ; Rotterdam, 178.
Total, 1,779 bales.
Cotton in transitu has been in more active request;
the sales have been large, and the market petty well
cleared of_ all desirable parcels. Prices have been
irregular, and a decline of fully Ic. has been sub-
mitted to on mixed parcels, averaging barely middling,
low middling, and good ordinary. The bulk of the
sales 11ave been in these grades. We see no lots now of
strict middling or of even running, middling. The pre-
ponderaice of leafy good ordinary and ordinary cotton
increases. The transit business has received a check,
and it may be some weeks before we receive again a fresh
supply of samples ; meanwhile our stock at the moment
is reduced to a few thousand bales, and these cannot be
sold except at a loss. The sales for the week are esti-
mated at 11,000 bales, on the basis of the following
quotations :—From New Orleans, with freight at id.,
strict middling, 111 c. ; middling, 11c.; barely middling,
10-ac. ; low middling, 101 c. ; fully good ordinary, 10c. :
Mobiles, with freight at 17-32 d., and Apalachicola, with
freight jd., at lc. to 74-c. below these quotations.
Southern markets, as reported by mail, are given in
detail elsewhere. By telegraph for a week later, we
learn that a decline of ke. per lb. had been submitted to
in Mobile and New Orleans on the grades below strict
middling, mole, however, in consequence Qf an advance
in the rates of freight than from any other cause. The
business for Great Britain has been less extensive, while
for the Continent of Europe, France, and our northern
markets, there has been more activity. Prices for the
better qualities are firmly maintained, and they become
each week more difficult to buy satisfactorily. Freights
have advanced ; in New Orleans on Saturday for Liver-
pool, 0.; Havre, 11c.; were the current quotations.
By telegraph the folloving has been received:
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 24.—Receipts for the week
102,400 bales (net) ' • same week last year, 72,000. Sales
for the week 62,000 bales. Middling 10c. per lb. Ex-
ports for the week—to Great pritain, 41,000 bales; to
Havre, 3,000. Freight to Liverpool td. P.M.—Market
unchanged. Sales to-day 8,00(1 bales.
MOBILE, Dec. 24.—Receipts for the week 46,000
bales ; same week last year, 38,000. Sales for the week
31,000. Middling 10ac. per lb. Export for the week
to Great Britain, 29,000 bales. Stock on hand
201,000 bales: Exchange on London 108 to 1081 per
cent. Freight to Liverpool 17-32 to 9-16 d. per lb.
P.M.—Sales to-day 6,500 bales; prices without change.
CROP.—The heavy receipts give more confidence in
the larger estimates of crop, beyond which there is no-
thing new on the subject.
• Re cEirrs at the ports for the week amount to
185,000 bales, swelling the excess over last year to the
same date to 311,000 bales. Next week we shall have
another heavy receipt, probably over 200,000 bales, and
it seems now pretty certain that when we receive the ac-
counts :rota the south up to the 31st December,- the re-
ceipts into the ports will show a total of 2,300,000 bales,
or 500,000 more than to same period last year, an
amount unprecedented in the history of the cotton trade.
The business of the season seems likely to occupy a
shorter period than usual this year.
• '

The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous
four years.
1859. 1858. 1857. 1856. 1855.
Rec. at Ports 1,944,0001,633,000 919,0001,338,0001,889,000
Ex. to O. B 734,000 478,000 301,000 282,000 447,000
/I France 176,000 228,000 102,000 127,000 168,000
„ other F. P.
Total Exports 994,000 819,000 48 ~000 4.96,000 734,000
Stock on hand 884,000 700,000 477,000 650,000 584,000
Of which, during the past week, included in the above :
Rec. at Ports 185,000 140,000 117,000 134,000 137,000
Ex to G. B. 73,000 43,000 18,000 45,000 32,000
„ France
„ other F. P.__ 8,000 28,000 17,000 22,000 11,000
Total Exports 92,000 90,000 57,000 78,000 5.5,000

SUMMARY.—Receipts.—lncrease at the ports com-
pared with last year, 511,000 bales. Exports.--In-
crease to Great Britain, 256,000 bales; decrease to
France, 52,000 ; decrease to other foreign ports, 29,000.
Total increase in exports, 175,000.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool. for cotten firm at /d. per
lb., and to Havre at 3c.
EXeHANGES.—On London, 1092 to 1093, per cent.
and on Paris, 5 161 to 5 20.

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