Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

MONTHLY REPORT OF METAL MARKET.

There has been a steady demand for all Metals during the pest
month with a rise in copper, and a s'ight decline in tin and Scotch
pig iron. Iron: Welsh bars and rails are lookier no, with a good
buslne s doing; 71. 51. to 71. 10s. for th- value for bars and for rails
71. lee. Scotch pig iron has declined to 695: for neXed Nos. warrants.
Copper much wa..t,d, and a I..rge quantity exported. On the 26th of
Angtt,t the price advanced id. per le. on manufactured, and 41. 10s.
per toe on unmannfac ured, and many look tor a further advance
shortly. Tin : in the early part of the pst month a few sales of
kauca were made at 146 a., delivered here, btuy owing to one or two
pressing eeliers, and the decline in Holland, the price e out down to
1435. at which one transaction took pla e. The next day 1443. was
paid, and the price is now 1445. to 1565. Straits, whatever offered,
has sokl freely at 141 s. to 142 t, The returns which f 'How will show
a consilera ,:e case this year in the export of English and
Forelgn tin, and we believe the iner.eised delivery for home con-
sumption is even in a larger proportion. The delivery during
August lass also been good, bat English refined being still ehe per in
proportion than F treign, ne, e sarily caup a ag. eater run upon the
former. The smelters nay they never hal ouch difficulty in sap •
plying the demand, which is excessive. Hance in Holland ruled
steady at the commencement ~f toe month at 86f. to 871. ; from that
it declined to 83'., at which the market was bleared of al offering.
Tee price has s lice advanced to 85f , and to•day's value is 84r. The
deliveries in Holland (leen; August have been 15 608 slab t, since
the sale 51,489 slabs; the stock on the 29th Auenst 142,336 slabs,
and the quantity arrived towards the next sale 14,734 s'abs. Daring
the last week there has been a large enquiry for America at the sale
price, and about 1,100 slabs have been done here at about 143 s ,
1. o. b., Holland. The last prise in Nvw York was, for straits 25c.
cash, ter Bence 4"lc. f r smell lota on the spot, and 37c. cash 'or par-
cels' to arrive. len plates: there has been a capital demand, and in Liv-
erpool the stock is quite exhausts 1. 'I here are buyers of coke at
33e. 61., sellers 34t. Eor box, and charcoal 39s to 40s , and in London
.61. moe). Our last adv:ces from New York gave an active demand
at hardening ptizes ; elm-co Itn 11 dots 63i to 83, Terse 10 dots. 75,
now 11 dole. asked. Coke tin 9 dots. 871 to 19 dole., now 10 dole. 25
asked, lame 9 dole. 121.' Spelef : a :air amount of basin as has
been done at 301. 15s. on the spot and for arrival. Stock on 3lst July,
1976 tons. Lead : without change. Swedish Iron has declined in
vlaue. steel: steady.

THE COMMONWEA LTII OF Al AS3ACIIIII3B2II'4.—There are
331 town 3 in the Commonwealth, including 14 cities. The
whole populatioi is 1,132,169, and the whole number of
legal voters 211.309. The number of coloured persons in
the States is 9,9,6, of whom 139 are Indians or half-
breeds. Of the white population 244,685 aro foreizn
born-181,304 (f these, vtry nearly three-fourths, being
Irish. The increase of population, throughout the State,
in the five years from 1850 to 1855, was 16 per cent. The
iacrease in the several cities was as follows :—Lawrence,
92 per cent. ; Chelsea, 65; Newburypart, 40 ; Worcester,
39 ; Cambridge, 38 ; Charlestown, 36 ; New Bedford, 24 ;
Springfield, 21; Boston, Lynn, and Lowtll. each 15 ; Fall
River, 13; and Salem, 10. There are 86 towns in trio
Commonwealth which have diminished in population since
1850.