Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

£25,341,280 I Total .... £25,341,280

BANKING DBPARTMENT.

Debit.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 7,863,550
Other „ 9,658,616
Seven days, and
other bills 678,610

Credit.
GOT ernment se-

curities £10,326,065
Other securities 19,315,201
Notes 5,372,745
Gold and silver

coin

Total .... .E36,1G4,587

Total £36,164,587

Compared with the return of the previous week, we
have the following results :
Active circulation £19,468.535
Increase 325,835
11,516,856
137,891
Rest
Increase
Seven day and other bills . 678,610
Increase
Public deposits .. 7,863,550
Decrease 279,687
Other depoSits
Increase
Government securities 10,326,065
Decrease .
Other securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Decrease 163,806

Bullion.

Increase

The bar silver brought by the Atrato from, the
West Indies. &a., was sold yesterday at 5s lid per
ounce standard, being id below the price r(!alised
for the supply by the previous packet, but yet in..
dicating a recovery from the fall which followed the
announcement of the reduction in the East India
Company's rate of exchange. The 'Chilian. dollars
brought by the Atrato were sold at 4s 111 d per
ounce, but the Mexican dollars have not yet been
disposed of.
The recent reduction of id in the East India
Company's rate of exchange has failed to attract any
sums of importance into the Company's treasury ;
and thus the advisability of a further reduction of
Id may come under discussion.
The amount of bills drawn by the East India
Company on their respective presidencies, from
the 26th ult. to the 9th inst. (yesterday), is as
follows :

Rate of Exchange.
Bengal, £29,332 16s 5d 1 2s 014 per company's rupee.
Madras, 4,732 Ils lld
Bombay, 1,409 18s 3d 2s Old per di' to.

Total, £35,475 6s 7d
Mr. James Low, of Austin-friars, London, has
compiled the following statement of the imports of
gold and silver into Great Britain during the first
six months of the year 1857 :
From Africa
„ United States, including
principal imports from
California
„ Australia
„ Brazils . ..........••• .. ~
~ M-xico, West Indies,
Tern, and a portion
from California.....G3ld ind silver „ 3,415,000
„ Mediterranean .... 7, . . 543,000
„ 13,ussla

£13,220,000

The above is as correct an account as can be fur-
nished of the aggregate imports; but does not attempt to
estimate the imports from theCaitinent arising out of
exchange operations, of which no exact statement can be
obtained.

The same authority► states the-shipments of th e
precious metals to the East for the last six months
as follows-:

Gold. Silver.
From Great Britain..
From Mediterranean Ports 30,408 .. 1,814,091

Total.. . £116,700 £10,489,340

The adjourned meeting of the South Australian
Banking Company has just been -held, at which
the resolution proposed at the former meeting for
an increase of capital was confirmed unanimously.
The East India Company will receive tenders
on the 15th inst. for the conveyance of 1,033 tons
of stores (materials for the electric telegraph)
from Liverpool to Kurrachee ; also for the con-
veyance of stores from England to Bombay,
Calcutta, and Madras.
The basis on which the amalgamation of the
Royal Mail Company, and the European and
Australian Royal Mail Company is proposed to be
carried out is stated to be as follows :—The capital
stock of the two companies is to be fixod at
2,000;000/. Half of this is to be represented by
15,000 Royal Mail shares, at .601. 13s. 4d. each,
which are to be regarded as fully paid up. The
remaining 1,000,000/ is to be represented by 9,000
European and Australian shares, at 661. 13s. 4d.,
which would amount to 600.0001., and unissurd
stock for 400,0001. On the. European and Austra-
lian shares 200,0001. has yet to be paid, which
will be called for by four instalments. These
shares are not to receive any dividends -for a
year, reckoning from the Ist of_July, f 857, it being
provided that 'any profits from the Australian ser-
vice, together with the surplus.profits. of the Royal
Mail Company after the latter have paid the usual
dividend on their shares, shall be carried during
that period to a united reserve fund Afterwards,
both sets of shares will rank alike. The conditions
the are subject to the approval of the shareholders of
respective companies, and also to a proviso for
an extension of two years of their existing contracts
being obtained from the government.
The greatest anxiety
telegraphic advises fro-m th is expressed for the next
e East It is calculated
that these might possibly
come
to hand in the
ordinary course by to-morrow (Saturday), but it is
by no means improbable
until Monday.

At Hamburg the rate of discount has advanced
to 7+ to 71 per cent.

With reference to the market for American
Securities, Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite reports as
follows :
There has been very little Investment in American
Securities in London duriog the past week. We mite,
however, some disposition to buy stocks and bonis, where
they are sold under the influence of fear or panic, at
reduced rates. In the present state of railroad matters in
the United States, when the stocks of roads, whose position
is not satisfactory, are selling at almost nominal prices,
and where sound and profitable stocks, paying eight and
ten per cent., are selling at ten and twenty per cent, dis-
count, we are somewhat surprised at endeavours being
made to negotiate in London the Securities of new and
unfinished projects, which are utterly unsaleable in Ame-
rica ; and we must counsel our friends wholly to abstain
from any such dangerous investments.
The Paris Moniteur of this morning (Friday)

This week. jP.,cespaid Currt. Prices.
Import. Sales. Description. I this week. Mid. Fair. Stocks.
--- —_— --
Id. •d, d. d.
'B3Ol 1 820,100 Seaupl
aI
ns lcr d
..- 1 4 toto 3814
815 Ikl
sa 1486450
.... 6610 Mobile - .. 74 to 8i 81-15 St
26696 25940 New Orleans' 5 to 10 84 84
4440 4590 Brazil - • - 8 to 10 8i 84 41390
1107 5070 Egyptian - -J 81 to 134 94 10 18890
70 10J West India -84 to 11 8 84 6 0
2916 15193 East India - 4 to 7 54 . 51 49910
43533 67120 Total I 597240