Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVICRPOOL, Saturday Evening:
This was a complete dies non in Monetary and
Commercial affairs, the Stock Exchange in both
London and Liverpool being closed. Business
was also suspended in the General Produce
Markets.

The Money Market is evidently in a much
easier condition than it was in the middle
of the week, and the opinion seems to be
provelant that a emplete reaction has set in, and
that it is probable, before the end of Jenuary, that
Money will be down to 6 per cent. ; it may even
decline to 5 per cent. The crisis has so far dimi-
nished as to have caused a comparative ease in the
Money and Stock Market:, and the diminished
demand for discount has caused the rate out of
doors to be considerably below the Bank minimum.
The Imports of Gold have also contributed mate-
drially to increase confidence.

The Imports of Specie amount to over 600,0001,
viz., by the Pollen, from Hamburgb, 1 cask gold
coin ; the Dolphin, from Antwerp, 6 cases bullion ;
the Florence Nightingale, from Constantinople, 2
groups specie ; the Belgium, from Ostend, 2 bar-
rels bullion ; the Triton, from Boulogne, 6 boxes
bullion ; the Africa, from America, 340,000/. ;
the Parana, from the West Indies, 586,181 dols,
of which 460.048 dols was in gold, and 126,133 dole
in silver, or 117,0001. ; the Kangaroo, from New
York, 250 000 dols, or 50,000/. ; th 3 Fulton, from
America, 426,737 dols, or 80.350/.; the Alhambra,
from the Mediterranean, 18,0371. The Exports
were about 400,000/; viz., by the Countess of
Lonsdale, for Hamburgh, 8,6001 ; the Pera, for
Alexandria, and the East Indies, 357,2771., of which
16,4971. was in gold, and the remainder in silver.
The Official Return of the Exports of the Precious
Metals from the port of London for the week
ending Dec. 18, show a total of 6,126 OZ3 of gold,
and 246,914 ozs of silver.

The following shows the fluctuations of Consols
during the week :

Lowest Highest Closing
prices. prices. prices.
Monday Money ....shut
Account ...921 931 921
Tuesday Money ..... 94 94 94
Account 92.1 93!
Wednesday Money .... shut
Account .. ..93
Thursday Money .... shut
Account ....93
Friday: , --Money shut
Account ....shut
Saturday Money .... shut
Account ....shut
Respecting the movements in Mines during the
week, the alining Journal of to-day states:—
In the week preceeding Christmas there is seldom much
business doing, and the latter falling as it did this year on
Friday, we have less than usual to report upon, either in
the way of business transactions or mining news. Devon
Great Consols 4221 to 427/ aissets inquired for at 140 to
150, Grambler and St. Aubyn 80, Wheal Edward 62 to 7,
\Vest Alfred 30 to 35, Great Alfred 31- to 4, Alfred
Consols very flat at 12 to 12,1, Grenville 1: to 1;:';, G, eat
Beddens 16s to 17s 63, Herodsfoot 61 to 7, Mary Ann 45 to
46, Wheal Wray 51- to 51, Rodmoor pi, West Francis 15 to
17*, North Francis 9 to 9*-, Clijah and Wentworth 41 to
5, Lady Bertha 17s 6d to 20s, South Tolgus 110 to 120,
Castell 3s 6d to 4s 6i, South Caradon 340 to 350. West
Caradon 105 to 110, Great Wheal Vor 30s. Par Consols
have declined 171 to 18, West Par a to t, Nantios and
Penrhiw 1* to 11, North Robert 3 to 31, Great South
To'gus 14 to 141, North Bassett 111- to 12, West Bassett
22 to 23, Wheal Trelawney 231- to 24 Yatner 11, Bed-
ford United 6 to 61, Hingston Down 4, East Tamar, 12s 6d
to 15s.
Intelligence has been received during the week
from the Linares, the Fortuna, the Lusitanian, and
the Nouveau Mende Mining Cohapanies' agents,
but it is of no general interest. The Meriquita
Cempuny have been informed that at the Marmato
Mine the returns for September were 11,085 dols.,
and the cost 10,184 dols.
At a meeting of the Linares Company on Thurs-
day, a dividend of ss. per share was declared. A
statement and circular have been issued to the
shareholders in the Canada Land Company, show-
ing that the rece:p's, from the operations in the
Colony, from the Ist January to the 27th November,
have been £1,770 more than in the corresponding
period of the previous year. Notwithstanding this,
however, the directors, for reasons stated, think it
inexpedient to make any division at present.
The Traffic Returns of Railways in the United
Kingdom for the week ending December 19,
amounted to 415,340/, and for the corresponding
period of last year to 428,9001, showing a
decrease of 13,5601. The gross receipts for the
eight railways having their termini in the metro
polis amounted, for the week ending as above, to
178,0561, and for the corresponding week of last
year to 181,4451, showing a decrease of 3,3891. The
decrease on the London and North Western
amounted to 5,4891; on the London and Blackwell to
241; on south Eastern to 5791; total, 6,0921. But from
this must be deducted 1801, the increase on the
Eastern Counties, 5961. on the Great Northern,
1,2751. on the Great Western, 31 on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast, and 6491 on the Lon-
don and South Western, together 2,7031., leaving
the decrease as above, 3,3891. The receipts on
the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted
to 237,2841., and for the corresponding period of
1856 to 247,4551, showing a decrease of 10,1711 in
the receipts of those lines, which added to the
decrease on the metropolitan lines, makes the
total decrease 13,560/. as compared with the cor-
responding week of 1856.
Respecting the traffic on the Great 'Western
Railway for this half year, it will be full 35,0001. in
excess of that of the corresponding period last
year. Under the circumstances such an amount of
increase is very satisfactory. It indicates that tha
increase will be large when ordinary times return.
It is a good sign of future advancement for the
Great Western that the traffic of the passing weeks
continues to increase, whilst that of most other
lines decreases. This week the traffic is 28,2471.
against 26,973/. fur the corresponding weak last
year,

93i 93

931 931

The accounts from the Manufacturing districts
are far from satisfactory. The same dull feeling
that characterised business operations last week,
still continues. At Birmingham, the • utmost
quietness prevails in almost every branch of trade.
At Bradford, several additional failures in the wool
trade have been announced. A largo open air
meeting of operatives was held at the beginning of
the week, but the opportune attendance and
explanations of one or two leading Manufacturers,
had the effect of pacifying the workpeople present.
About 1,0001. had been subscribed for the purposes
of relief, the distribution of which has since
commenced. At Belfast there is a considerable
increase of applicants for parochial relief; it is
computed that independently of the muslin weavers,
between 500 and 600 women and girls obtain
assistance in this manner. At Carlisle, hundreds
of handloom weavers are reported to be unem-
ployed, and those who occasionally get employ-
ment have to submit to further reduction in
prices. Many of the factory hands are suffering
great privations, and there is a marked increase
in the numbers of women who go from door
to door seeking alms. At Clitheree the state
of things is rather improving, there being now only
one mill not running full time. At Chorley trade
is said to be on the whole decidedly worse, and the
sufferings of the operatives are not exceeded by
thUse of any other town in the country. At
Halifax matters are still in a very unsatisfactory
state, and only some of the smaller manufacturers
have recommenced running short time ; but
although numbers of people are unemployed, the
working population are better off than those of
other districts, and it has not yet been found ne-
cessary to open soup kitchens or adopt special mea-
sures of relief. At Leicester things are much the
same as they were reported last week. At Man-
chester the applicants for poor law relief are still
increasing. At Macclesfield there is no improve-
ment in the staple trade beyond a little more
employment in one or two establishments. At the
north-east ports the shipping is said to be in a more
depressed condition than it has ever been since the
repeal of the corn and navigation laws At Oldham
the labouring population eontinued in a very'
depressed state, and the applicants for poor relief
weekly increase. At Preston the working hours of
the mills remain about the same as last week, but
a rather more gloomy feeling prevails, owing to the

prospect of an extension of the hours of labour
appearing rather more remote. At Rochdale there
has been symptoms of a slight improvement in the
cotton trade in the outskirts of the town. At
Stafford the staple trade is not under so much
pressure as those of other places. There is
a good deal of stagnation in business, but
this is expected to be only transient. At
Sheffield there has been little more employment
at some establishments, owing to its being
Christmas week, but for the great majority of
workmen there is no change for the better. The
local failures are unimportant. At Swansea, the
trade of the port is increasing. The North
Shields' sailors held a- meeting on Wednesday,
at which they determined to resist the reduction
of their wages from Si to 41 10s par voyage in
the London coal trade, although many of them
are already out of employment, and some suffering
severe privations. The iron trade in Yorkshire
continues extremely depressed, and operations
are confined to the narrowest possible limits,
only a few establishments completing large orders
are on full time. The coal trade is materially
affected by the stagnation in manufactures, and
the demand, usually good at this season of the
year, has greatly fallen off. Notice of a reduction
of wages has generally been given, but the abate-
ment has hitherto been quietly submitted to.
The following are the Gazette average prices of
Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Dec. 22,
1857, exclusive of Custdms' duties payable thereon,
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the West 1ndie5.........,..... 26s Sid per cwt.
Mauritius
„ East India 0 0 If
Average price oft he foregoing descriptions 26 66 „

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARSET.—Dac. 26.
Per stone, 201bs. Per 0015 s. s. d. s. d.
s. d. s. d. Potatoes, Seedlings 40to 4 4
Na7.old ...... 0 7 to 5 s Ditto. /Temps .—. 4 7 to 4 2,
Ditto, sew 0 6 to 0 73 Ditto, Whiterocks. 3 0 to 3 4
Ditto, clover
Green Clover
Grose 0 0 is 0 OW°, cattle 0• to 0 0
Straw, wheat. 0 33 to 0 4, Per ton.
Ditto, oat ........ 0 31 to 0 4 Turnips 22 0 to 23 0
Ditto, barley .... 0 2* to 0 231 Carrots 0 0 Iv 0 0
Oats, in straw .... 0 it to 8 0 Mangle wurzel 1 0 0 to 0 I
Manure 5 0 to 0 6

CARLISLE CORN MARBET.—DEC. 26.
There was very little business done in our market to-day, the
attendance of buyers being exseedingly limited. Prices were un-
changed.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—DEC. 26.
There was a short supply of wheat to-day, and the business was of
a moat trifling description.

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.

Week Endin; December 26, 1857.
ADMITTED.
In the House last Saturday
• •..
In-patients

Out-patients ....
Casuals during week .

DISCHARGED.
Inpatients cured
PP relieved, and at own request..
PP made out-patients ..
6
PP irregular .. .. 1
2-28
dead
.. .... ..
If ....

Remain in the house'
Housa VISITORS—J. G. Livingston, and Hugh Perkin., Esqrs.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON FOR ENSUING WEEK—Dr. Dickinson
and Mr. Long.
HOUSE SURGRON—Mr. E. Morris.
JUN UDR HOUSE SURGEON—Mr. Joseph Allen.
CHAPLAIN—Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A.
itonsav HUTCHISON, Treasurer.

Farly next month be published a "Handy Book
on Property Law, in a Series of Letters," by Lord St.
Leonard's.
JESSIE Wmint.—The Edinburgh Express states that Miss
White, who has returned to this country from Geuoa, was
married OR Saturday to a young Italian, of literary pre-
tensions, named Signor Alberto Mario, with whom she
became acquainted in &floe.
THIS FORTr-B;4ILLTNG FRREEIOLD,—If is understood that
James Caird, Esq., M.P. for Dartmouth, intends to move,
as aeon as ParHimont re-assembles, for leave to bring in
a bill to extend to Scotland a right similar to that enjoyed
by the forty-shilling freeholders of England..
A Ftx —A vast number of the trava!li Americans.
both in London and on the Continent, it is said, have found
themselves in a most unpleasant position, owing to the
sudden suspension of firms upon whom they have had letters
of credit ; and they are not quite certain that the next
mails from America will relieve them of their awkward fix.
—Court .Tournel.
WILLS.—The will of the late Earl Fitzhardinge was
proved in London under £300,000 personalty ; the Hon.
Edmund Phipps, £6 000; Archibald Haste, zO,OOO,
with the province of Canterbnry ; Chaloner Blake Ogle,
Esq., Wimpole Street, £30,000 ; George Farewell Jarman,
Esq., £30.000; John Mercer, Esq., banker, Maidstone,
£40,000; Rev. William Gordon, of Leitchfield, £30,000.
AN EXacr MATcii.—Two old friends met, not long
since, after a separation of thirty-five years. " Well, Tom,"
says one, " how has the' world gone with you, old boy ?
Married yet?" " Yes; and I have a family you can't
match—seven boys and one girl." " I can match it
exactly," was the rep'y, " for I have seven girls and one
boy,"

ihe Manckester Guardian publishes the prospectus of
a Working Man's College at Manchester, the committee
et management including influential and public-spirited
gentlemen of all denorninathns. The scheme of studies
for the first term covers a ✓ery considerable part of the
ground appropriate to a liberal English education ; and
the names of the gentlemen who have undertaken to
direct in the varioa departments furnish guarantee for
the character of the instruction which the polloge will
offer. The institution is not proposed to be entirely
gratuitous ; but the rate at which the fees are fixed
places its advartsges within reach of students of an
extremely humble social class.

WAGES IN SIBERIA.-Wages in Siberia are almost
nothing. Mr. Atkinson in his new book, "Oriental and
Western Siberia," says—l have seen a man engaged carv-
ing foliage on some of the jasper vases, in a style not
excelled anywhere in Europe, whose wages were 3s 83
per month, with two poods, of thirty-six pounds, of rye
flour per month, to make him bread—meat he is never
s•ipposed to eat. I have seen another man cutting a head
of Ajax, after the antique, in jasper of two colours—the
ground a dark green, and the head a yellowiqh cream
colour—in very high relief, and int.nded for a brooch. It
was a splendid production of art, and would have raised the
man to a high position in any country in Europe except
Russia. He a!so, poor man ! received his 3a 81 per month
and his bead.

DR. JOHNSON IN A F.x.—Local tradition in Dumbarton
has preserved something of the illus.rious Samuel which
Boswell has omitted to tell U 6. At Dynbarton Castle,
Johnson, for once in his life, got himself into "a fig'
The dootor is reported to have entered a sentry-box which
stood on one of the batteries, and was rather chagrined on
finding that his egress was a matter of some difficulty.
Seeing the dilemma the doctor had placed himself in, Mr.
Campbell was about to offer his assistance; but Boswell
stepped forward, touched him (Mr. C.) on the arm, end
advised him to take no notice of tie circumstance, and by
no ratans to think of offering his aid, as such a prcceedieg
would only tend to provoke the clover, who was already
somewhat ruffl.d. Acting upon this suggestion, Mr.
Campbell left Johnson to get out of his diffienity by his
own efforts.—lrvinq's History of Dumbartonshire
TAB TYPE OF TITS SUBDUER;—An anecdote is related of
a worthy yeoman, well known in the north of England as
a successful breeder, and who has always rejoiced in being
his own horse-breaker :—" That riding a colt one day
about noon, the animal refusal to turn out of the high road
that led to his own residence, into the direction he wished
him to take. After, for some time, trying every act of
encouragement and kindness to induce him to e,mply, but
in vain, he quietly brought him to a stand-still on the spots
and opposed every attempt the horse made towards how'.
An hour having been passed in simply resisting the alt'
mat's bent, a second essay was made to turn him, but avidn
without effect. Observing a lad pass at the moments
he requested him, in true Yorkshire dialec', to go
to
his wife, and tell her to send him his dinner.. The
repast duly arrived, and was eaten upon t',,"
animal's back. Another effort was then Dole;
but an equally fruitless one. Accordingly t
the servant was desired to return home, and bring his
e
master's supper in the evening, if he did not himself arrl!
meantime. Various other useless endeavours were sub-
sequently made at intervals, till evening, and the suPPre'r
really appeared. The meal despatched, the roesseolfhe
was again sent home for other provisions adapted
sometimes
midnight watch,!and also what, in Yorkshire, is sontet""'
called a neet cap,' but before he could return, the
animal's obstinacy was exhausted, and he became tractablet_
and obedient to his master's hand." Such; wer.e._•l,3,
means which this judicious trainer invariably
strictly prohibiting the use of either whip or
beadi Ince?
opposing every attempt of a young horse at disobedience?
or vice, with patient determination end kindness.
Yand

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