The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

to-day, and no change can be noticed in any of the I
leading articles of the trade.
We have Sydney advices to the 18th December,
by the arrival of the Wooloomooloo in the Downs.
Gold was arriving at the rate of 500 ounces a day
at Sydney. The price was 75s 61 to 76s 6d per
ounce. Breadstuffs were dull of sale, and but
little was being done in the imporrtrade.
All classes of stock in the Great Northern
Railway Company fell 1 per cent and upwards
yesterday afternoon, upon the proceedings at the
!fleeting becoming known, which were of a stormy
character. The company is legally incapacitated
from declaring a dividend under present circum-
stances; and there being little prospect of passing
a special bill through parliament, unless after
great difficulty and delay, the meeting to-day
adopted a resolution authorising no dividend, but
empowering the directors to apply the balance,
which would under ordinary circumstances be
available for dividend, towards cancelling an
amount of stock equal to that fraudulently issued
by Redpath.
Sambre and Meuse Railway shares experienced
an extraordinary rise yesterday. Rumours of
negociations with neighbouring companies are
again circulated.
A call of 2/. 103. is to be Pkid on the new shares
of the Great Western Railw;iy Company of Canada
by the 30th of May. The half yearly meeting is
called for the 9h of April, in London. There has
been an increased demand for the shares of this
company during the last two days, owing to
favourable reports relative to the forthcoming
dividend.
The half-yearly meeting of the General Screw
Steam Shipping Company is called for the 27th
inst. The accounts are open to inspection.
The position of the market for American Secu-
rities is thus noticed by Messrs D. Bell, Son, and
Co: :—" There has been an increase of activity in
the market for American Securities during the
1 past week. A. fair demand for State Stocks in
1 general, and a brisk business in the favourite
1 Railroad Bonds "
I The report of Mr. EF. Sqtterthwaite, relative
to the market for American Railway Securities, is
subjoined :—" Business in American Securities in
London has been limited during the past week,
with more disposition to realise. We note at the
close some considerable transactions in Michigan
Central Bonds, 1869, and Illinois Central Freeland
Bonds."
The Moniteur of this day publishes the monthly
returns of the Bank of France to Thursday, March
12th. We give the most important items, with the
corresponding figures of last month, en regard:
March Fvb.

Coin and bullion, Paris 107,156,914 .. 83,691,530
Ditto ditto branch banks 115,128,539 111,406,843 I
Bills discounted, Paris 239,306,911 252,031,041
Ditto branch banks 262,023,580 .. 277.441,065
Notes in circulation, Paris 518.244,000 .. 531,979,600
Ditto branch banks 62,132,275 63,441,275
Treasury Deposits
Private deposits, Paris .... 107,254 685 117,895,390
Ditto branch banks .. 21 406,077 .. 23 853,800
Advanced on public securities 19 954,136 21,882 936
Ditto by bra- ch banks .... 5,632,20(1 .. 6 034,500
A,'lvaneed on railwaysecuriti:s 14,213 000 .. 14 774,900
Ditto by branch banks . 5,943,150 .. 6,197,400
The increase in the coin and bullion is as much
as L 080 0001. The discounts have diminished by
1,125,0001, and the private deposits by 520,0001.,
whilst the Treasury deposits show an increase of
900,0001. The decrease in the active circulation is
600,000/. In the advances on stocks and shares a
further decline of 125,0001. is shown. These
changes aria generally of a very satisfactory cha-
racter.
The following were the closing quotations of
Foreign Exchen,,-,es :—Amsterdam, short, 11 14/ to
; ditto, 3 months, 11 18 to 11 181; Rotter-
dam, do, 11 18 to 11 18-1; Antwerp, do, 25 40 to
25 50 ; Brussels, do, 25 45 to 25 50 ; Hamburg,
do, 13 71 to 13 71; Paris, shorts; 25 20 to 25 25;
do, 3 months. 25 60 to 25 65 ; Marseilles, do, 25
62,t, to 25 67/ ; Frankfort, d 0,119/ to 1191; Vienna,
do, 10 21 to 10 27 ; Trieste, do, 10 25 to 10 28 ;
Petersburg, do, 37 to 37i ; Madrid, 491 to 491,