Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

quiet, at 64s to 94s per
to quality. Bahia 'awt, for Jamaica, according
r...10e0a, to arrive, realises Sas.
Tea hes been act:ae throughoutn
advance of -4el the week, and a
per lb. must be quoted. The specu-
lative deraand which has for some time existed
for Rie.a, has subsided, and we must quote the
article 8a to 6d per cwt. lower than last week.
Tbt Provision Trade has been rather dull. Beef
is arriving in large quantities, and lower price is
the consequence. Pork is a light supply, and
keeps firm Good Cheese sells readily at former
rates. Lard is dull, and lower, and in tallow we
notice a decline of 3s per cwt. during the week.
Light stocks, and the necessity of a portion of
old Grain and Flour for mixing purposes, impart a I
degree of firmness to the trade, but the evident
tendency is towards lower prices for Wheat and
Flour, and buyers operate sparingly; for Indian
Corn there is, in consequence of the potatoe disease,
a firmer feeling than for the finer articles. At
to-day's market Wheat ruled very dull, at a decline
of 21. to 34. per 70 lbs.; and Flour gave way 31.
to 61. per barrel.
The Red Sea Telegraph Company have an
nonneed their inability to raise their proposed
capital on the terms they had too hastily accepted.
They state that they are prepared to nniertake the
task upon amended conditions, which they partly
specify. These, however, seem still to be inade-
quate, since they contemplate a termination of the
guarantee at th© end of any two years after the net
pr.-.fits shall have amounted to 74 per cent. Hence,
if the communication should fait in the third year,
there might be some danger of the shareholders
losing the greater portion '6f their capital. It will
he better to demand at once such guarantees as
will render the subscription not merely probable,
but certain.
It appears that the submarine cable, lately re-
ported as having been laid down between Algeria
and Sardinia, has been temporarily lost, -owing to
its length having been insufficient to perfect it,
landing at Sardinia. The lost end, however, bas
been buoyed, and lies at a depth of only sixteen
fathoms, whence it is expected to he recovered in
the course of a week or two.
In Trinidad the project for laying down railways
in the colony is attracting great attention. The
Government Committee appointed to -examine the
estimates and calculations of the company are
still pursuing its labours. The following is from
the Port of Spain Gazette, of the 22nd ult.:—"The
probability, almost amounting to a certainty, exists
that many products hitherto unknown, or known,
but not available, would be developed or turned to
profitable account in part of the island now 'unex-
plored, if the means of transport were greater and
cheaper. The project to furnish such means is
again proffered to us by a railway company. We
learn," it is added, "that the ealculation-s offer a
very favourable prospect of the profits of the new
undertaking, and are of a nature to carry convic-
tion with them. All the shares reserved for
the colony have been taken up by residents in
Trinidad."
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company
are said to have sent out orders -by the last
overland mail to their agents for two of
their large steamers, one from Bombay and
one &ern Calcutta, to be despatched to Suez, so
that they may be available at that port for the
conveyance to India either or troops or passengers
who may arrive by the overland route. The
agents have also been anthorised to send home
by them, at reduced cost, any sufferers by the
mutiny desirous to return. These vessels have
been engaged in the transport of troops during the
Persian war, and are capable of carrying 1,000 men
each.

The East India Hous© have chartered another
of the vessels of the European and American
Company, the Calcutte, an iron screw steamer of
2,300 tons, which rendered good service during

the late war. She is at Southampton, a.ad is to
proceed at once to India with troops.
The following are the latestluotations for Foreign
Exchanges :—Amsterdam. short, 11 15i to 11 16i ;
Do three months, 11 181 to 11 191; Rotterdam do
11 181 to 11 191 ; Antwerp do., 25 321 to 25 371 ;
Brussels do., 25 321 to 25 371; Hamburg do., 13 71
to 13 8; Paris, short. 25 20 to 25 25; Do., three
months, 25 57i to 25 621; Marseilles do ,25 571 to
25 65; Frsnittott do., 118,x- to 119 f; Vienna do., 10
33 to 10 35 ; Trieste do.: 10 34 to 10 36 ; Peters-
burg do., 361 to 36Z ; Madrid, 49 to 49g.
BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap.
32, for the Week ending Sep. 11.; 1857.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Credit.
Government -
Debt
Other securities 3,459,9 J
Gold Coin and
Bullion

Debit.
Notes issued .. 125,067,2)6

10,592,200

25,067,200

Total .. .. £25,067,200