Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

BANKING D:

Debt.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 8,045,099
Other' deposits 9,002,624
Seven day and
other bills 802,670

£36,3;8,049 I Total £36,318,049
Compared with the returns of the previous week
we have the following results :
Active circulation
Increase

£18,901,215
28,067
11,188,560
29,991
3,914,656
Increase
Seven day and other bills . 802,670
Increase
Public deposits
Increase
Other deposits
Decrease
Government securities 10,593,653
No charge
Other securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Decrease

Bullion
Decrease

18,962,051
297,999
6,108,730
, 85,322

The following are the la test quotations for Foreign
Exchanges:—Amsterdam, short, 11 15 to 11 16;
Do. three months, 11 19 to 11 19k; Rotterdam do.,
11 19 to 11 19i ; Antwerp do., 25 35 to 25 42i ;
Brussels do., 25 35 to 25 42i ; Hamburg do., 13 8
to 13 Si; Paris, short, 25 20 to 25 25 ; Do., three
months, 25 578 to 25 621; Marseilles do., 25 60 to
25 65 ; Frankfort do., 1188 to 1188; Vienna do., 10
31 to 10 35 ; Trieste do., 10 33 to 10 36 ; Peters-
burg do., 36i to 361, ; Madrid, 49 to 49i-
A memorial to the Trinity Board, advocating the
making of Folkestone a pilot station, is now lying
for signature at Lloyd's, and is understood to have
the support of the committee. If the measure be
adopted, the communication between London and
the Continent will at certain times be materially
facilitated, particularly when the wind is from the
south-west.

We understand that at the meeting of the share-
holders in the Monarch Fire and Life Insurance
Company, resolutions confirming those previously
adopted for the amalgamation of the Company
with the Liverpool and London Company were
passed. It was mentioned that the income of the
concern from premiums alone will exceed 400,0001.,
and that the funds actually invested are more than
a million sterling.
The Emigration Commissioners have taken up
the ship Caractacus, for the conveyance of passen-
gers from Liverpool to Melbourne, at the rate of
£l5 7s 6d per head.
At the meeting of tho shareholders of the Gee-
long and Ballarat Railway Company, to day, the
resolution for winding up the Company, passed
at the former meeting, was confirmed. The sum
returnable will be lld per share on the whole
capital.

The directors of the Mercantile Bank of India
have announced a dividend of 5 per cent, and
bonus, being equal to 7 per cent for the half year
ending the 30th June.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. —SEPT. 25.
The quietened tone noticed in the cotton market at the close of
last week, has continued uninterruptedly throughout the present.
The daily transactions have been of a most limited character, and
although hoUers generally have shown a careless indifference about
selling, prices of American most be quoted *d per lb lower since
Friday last. Brazil and Egyptian also participate in the quietude,
and are rather easier, Surat more freely offered, and id to id per lb
down. Parcels to arrive (pito neglected, and fully id per lb lower.
The weekly sales are reported at 28,900 bales, of which 4,410 are on
speculation, and 1,710 tor export.
Thi k. IP-

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This week. ,P.,cespald'eurrt. Prices. •
rrnport. Sales. Description. this week• Mid. Fair. Stocks.
---- --".
------
--I---d, d. d. d. --
330 Sea Island -10 to 23 16} 17}1l
•—• 1 4270 Upland - .1 6} to 91 9 9i
.... 1430 Mobile --, 7 to 91 91 91 208470
316 8290 New Orleans lGato 11 9 3-16 9
2070 1670 Brazil ---91 to 11 101 105 15180
... 500 Egyptian -- 11 to 13} 114 115 7820
370 380 West India -', 9 to 911 91 91 160
7466 12030 East India -41 to 81i
65 61 65670
10252 28900 Total I wry.