Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

)MIVIERCIAI

NESDAY EVENIN(

nd for Cotton

g 2,000 on speculation

t, to-day, there has

)een

Dovers,
and Yo

rns were ao:
East Lancas

The London Railway Shar
v. Midlands, Dovers. ar

t was firmer to-

were greatest

Canaditt-ns wex

h Shares w

iondon and

e, afterwards

but -rallied to-

Consols then

95- to

mt, and the new

)ears to have been a

durim, 0 the last day

LAvhat, highe

v at the Bank of

slight increiisc_.

payment of the third
which was completed

difficulty yesterday

The market is now

ared of the greater portion of the
Specie, and as further quantities

they will

taken for export

eased, and the

lvancing

t is believec

Is had

brtnight

s has been much restricted in consequence.
ut few wholesale operations, the demand.
i only for immediate donsumption. The

banks continue 'to restrict their transactions in dis-
counting, and the tightness in the money market has
also had the effect of checking operations. Prices,
however, remain about the same, stocks having been
igmented scarcely any by arrivals, and speculators
g on for an improvement in demand.
South Pacific Mails we learn that in con-
.

By the

business

t,ne pacification of the country,
'mproved, and in Valparaiso consider-
'he northern and southern.
qgain opened, and buyers
are occupied in supplying the stock of goods they
have so long been deprived of. A treaty of commen•
Belgium and Chili has been

cial reciprocity
published.
At the half-yearly
,meeting of the London and

Westminster tiami w-uay, it, Wu.
profits for the half-year amounted to £102,652, after
the usual deductions. A dividend and bonus were
deClared at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum, and a
balance of £l,OOO was carried forward.

I The following review of business in France during
the past week is from the Paris Presse ::—" Althougji

there has not yet been sufficient time for the benefi-

al effects of the restoration of peace to be very ex-

'elt, a marked change in the situation is

already- perceptible. In anticipation of a revival of
business, several speculators took the initiative, and
made large purchases of raw materials and colonial
goods. Some few manufacturers have begun to
put work in hand beyond the extent of their
Osiers, not doubting that a demand will soon spring
.up. There are many reasons for the opinion that the
present high prices of goods in our manufactories are
likely to be maintained. Even during the worst
period of the stagnation cottons were fetching exor-
bitant prices at Rouen and Havre, and now that the
harvest absorbs a great many 'hands, it will be dif-
ficult to meet any large increase of orders. A simi-
• +l,. Q4ll,

RAILWAY., MATTERS

_ NORTHEASTERN - RAILWAY COMP AISTY•--Thd
Wharncliff meeting of the shareholders of this company
was held at York, on Tuesday, to obtain the approval of
three-fifths of the proprietors to bills now before Parlia-
ment. The bill for amalgamating the Bedale and Leyburn
and the Rosedale Branch of the North Yorkshire Railways
with the Forth-Eastern, which has passed through the
Committee of the House of Commons, unaltered; was
approved, with one dissentient. The Harrogate Branches
Bill had also passed the Committee, without alteration,
notwithstanding opposition. An amendment on the motion
for the approval of the bill was proposed, to the effect that
such portions of the bill as referred to the interference with
the quietude of Harrogate be omitted. This was nega-
tived; and the original motion was carried, with only four
rather flat dissentients

COMPENSATION CASE.-I.IOON V. THE LA.NCASIIIILE
YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—TRIED AT THE YORK ASSIZE,.
The plaintiff is a shipowner at Knottingly. In November
last, he intended to go to Liverpool to purchase a ship, and,
when near Rochdale, the train in which he was a passenger
came into collision with another, which was being shunted
on the line. The plaintiff was thrown forward on his chest,
and suffered such severe injuries that he had not entirely
recovered. His loss in not being' able to attend to his
business was considerable, and the accident had entailed on
him much pain. Negligence on the part of the company
was admitted ; but it was contended that the plaintiff's
claim had already been, reasonably met by the payment of
£lOO into court.—Verdict for the plaintiff for £l5O more.