Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

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, Yet humble though the operations
of these men tee, how noble, how truly. glorious
are they ! What a false estimate has gone abroad
in the world as to what constitutes true glory !
Stars and garters,—high-sounding . titles, and
heavy money-bags successful carnage in a
battle-field, , or unprincipled manceuvring in the
art of dinlomaey-1- -4Q in the world's arena,

if knoNTvledge

them—suet
the fashioi

igh sea

more glorious

according to the
ation ! But how much

without show or noise,

or barbarian clangor, to go quietly and persever-
ingly onward in the work of developing and
improving human faculties, and opening them to
the contemplation of great truths and principles.
To awaken and arouse a mind - to feed it with
instruction, and to implant within it true prin-
ciples of judgment and of action—is a more
glorious work is a far greater service done to the
cause of truth, of virtue, of religion, of huma-
nity, than the gaining of any sort of battle
with swords, or the realization of any sort
of mere worldly fortune, no matter how splen-
did. The man who instructs his untaught
brother-man, in the simple act of reading, is
putting in his possession the key to all written
knowledge ; he is placing within his means the
greatest power in the world—the power of
thought ; he is admitting him to a converse with
all the enlightened spirits of this and of bye-gone
ages—unbarring to him the greatest stores of
knowledge and experience contained in books—
enabling him to sit at the feet of the greatest
teachers who have ever lived—and planting his
ps firmly on the ladder of knowledge, which
- up even unto 'the Heavens. Is it
wonderful, then, that he who knows what such
iirs ' fools

reaches

the elevated and refining influences of such
literary pursuit S—should shun those scenes of

musement

to which the

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hould cheerfully

give up_

nonterous merr

nt and social revelry, and love

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Amerlean Brazil Egypt'n E. India W.lnilia TOtal
Stock this day... 334,890 19,500 21,6:i0 20,380 450 397,680
Same time 1858.147.870 29,470 8.270 95,300 4,310 285,220
Messrs. Edmund Jardine and Co., in their
circular issued this afternoon, say :
\Ve noticed last week that the turn of our market was
against the buyer. During the present, this feeling has
been still more marked, from the more pacific aspect that
Continental politics have assumed, for although faith in
the maintenance of peace is not assured, an immediate
disruption appea-rs to be postponed, imparting more con-
fidence to the trade, who being also influenced .by the
repeated advices of firm and advancing markets in the States,
as confirmed by_ the Niagara (steamer), of Monday last,
have been free purchasers, and a good demand for export
and an active inquiry for speculation, holders have
been enabled to establish an advance of -16 d. to -id per
lb- in the better, and to id per lb in the lower des-
criptions of American upon last Friday's currency, Sea
Islands, Brazil, and Egyptian have all been steady at
full prices. Surats have been firm at the quotations.
9,600 American, .30 Surat, 1,174 American, 4,575 Surat.
—Leaving tp the trade 55,830 bales. Sales to-day
estimated at 10,000 hales, including 2,000 on speculation
and for export-closing firmly.
The grain trade continues in a very languid
state, and the business in wheat and flour is con-
fined to a mere consumptive demand. In Liver-
ly- gifted children in I pool to-day the attendance at market was very

had to

be taken for both wheat and flour. From
Wakefleld.'the reports also state heaviness and
small sales, with prices tending dovinwards.
The Produce Markets continue dull, and during
the week Sugar has 'declined Gd per cwt. Mo-
lasses remain walled change.. In coffee there
have been.no sales. Palm Oil has improved about
X 1 per ton. The sales of Lard have been about
100 tons, and prices are without chanr". A mood
business has been: done in Tallow, calefly South
American. About 60 tons of Kooria Mooria
Guano have been sold at 10s, and some lots of
Peruvian at £lO. Manilla ;Hemp continues de-
pressed,-but the stock of Bombay has been much

The business done in the Liverpool Share
Market has not been large, but
.prices•have been
rather more steady. The following were the

transactions :—Eastern Counties, 121 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 964, 961; New Third shares, 121, p ;
London and, North Western, 961, 961 ; do.
One-eighth shares, .1 13-16 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 39 ; Midland,
1021; North Eastern—Berwick, 94; York Capital
Stock, 781; South Eastern, 221, 22 5-16 ;
Dutch Rhenish, 51; Grand Trunk of Canada, 71,-, 711.
after official hours the quotations were as follows :
—Blackburn, 111, 11+ ; Chester and Birken-
head, 661, 671 ; Caledonian, 851, 86 ; Chester
and Holyhead, 481, 481; Eastern Counties,
121, 123 ; East Lancashire, 96, 961 ; Do.
£9 shares, 1, p ; Great Northern, 105, 106;
Do. A, 88, 89 ; Great Western, 56, 561 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 961, 961 ; Ditto
p ; London and North Western
Stock, 961, 961 ; Do. one-eighth shares, fs-4, 13-16 d ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 38?-, 38.1 ;
Midland Stock, 1021, 1021 ; North British, 62,
Western, 131, 131 ; North Star-
fordshire, xd, 41 d ; North Eastern—Berwick.

94, 944 ; York and North. Midland, 781, 79 ;
Leeds Capital Stock, 48t, 481 South Eastern,
and Dover, 22. 5-16, ; Duteh Rhenish, 51,
.51 d ; Great Western of Canada, 164, 16+ ;
Ditto New• Shares, 41, 4.1 d ; Great Luxembourg,
6 11-16, 61.; Grand- Trunk of Canada, 7 13-16,

' The Secretary of the Association of the Liver-
pool Corn Trade writes us, that as the. " Cental "
has not been received so favourably at Glasgow as
was expected, and as one or two instances have
occurred of individuals objecting to its continued
use in this market", I beg to hand you a copy of a docu-
ment signed this day, which will show the public
that as far as Liverpool is concerned, the opinion
in favour of the new system is almost universal.
The names attached to the document enclosed,
embrace almost everytfirm of note engaged in the

The document' referred to

[e undersigned merchants,

factors, dealers, and
in Liverpool, having
3w and elsewhere the

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Cental4 ha not been received: with that unanimity
which was generally anticipated, desire to express their
entire approval of the new -weight. Since the Ist of
February, the underiigned have bought and sold by the
It' and they see no reason whatever to dOubt that
syst(

new will confer upon :the trade and the, pUblic
the advantages promised for it. The simplicity of the
Centel' becomes every day mere and more evident,
and the undersigned, though they, observe occasional
instances of perplexity among those who are suddenly
called upon to use the new weight, in lieu of the old one,
-71 Y persuaded that few changes of so beneficial
er have ever been made with less real inconre-
_,,,,, and the undersigned are satisfied that all that is
required is a little perseverance, when the difficulties
attending the introduction of the chango will gradually
disappear." This document hears the signature of about
800 of the leadinm firms in Liverpool,

The ManchesteT Goods Market has been very
active, with orders for India, during past two
days, and prices for both goods and yarns have a
decidedly upward tendency. The Continental
buyers still exhibit great want of confidence, and
scarcely operate at all.

The monthly statement of the Bank of France
has been published' in the Moniteur to-day. The
statement is made up to last night, and shows a
decrease of a few thousand pounds in the stock of
Bullion, whilst the amount of Bills discounted
exhibit an increase of 914,755/. The circulation
shows a decrease of 1,186,0001., and the private
deposits an increase of about two millions sterling.
The other features show but little variation.
The Paris Bourse, to-day, has again been very,
unsettled, the Pamphlet of M. Emelie de Ge-
rardin having caused great uneasiness among
speculators. All descriptions of securities were
offered at lower rates, and Rentes declined fully
040 plartcr per cent, Mg 139111.5. e. closed very