Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

per annum on the ordinary shares, and appointing
Mr. Saunder3on an auditor in the room of Mr.
Sweetland, who was elected a director. The meet-
ing of the Stockton and Darlington Company was
also held, when the report was adopted and the
following dividends declared :-6 per cent. on pre-
ference shares, 6 per cent. on 'Wear Valley and
Redcars, and 10 per cent, on the ordinary shares.
A special meeting afterwiirds took place, at which
the agreement for working the South Durham and
Lancashire line was unanimously confirmed. The
half-yearly meeting of the Royston and Hitchin
Railway Company was also held, when the
usual dividend guaranteed by the Great Northern
of 6 per cent. was declared. A meeting of the
Northern and Eastern Cmnpany was held, and the
guaranteed dividends at the rate of 5 per cent.
and 6 per cent. per annum on the guaranteed
stocks were declared for the half.year ending on
the 30th day of June last. The shareholders of
the London and North Western Company at their
meeting yesterday adopted the report, which re-
commended a dividend of 21 per cent. for the
half-year. There has also been a meeting of the
Buckinghamshire Railway, at which the directors,
report was agreed to ; and also at' the Great
Western Company's meeting, the motion for
adopting the report and dividend was carried. In
Colonial Shares the transactions during the past
week have not been extensive, but both Canadian
and Indian have ruled flat. The shares of the
East Indian Railway also have improved about 11
but Great Western of Canada have receded about
3/ 10s. per share. The East India shares yester-
day afternoon were generally firmer, in conse-
quence of the advices from the East being con-
sidered m.-,re reassuring. The Foreign Shares have
been neglected, and they mostly remain at
nominal quotations.

The wliole of the gold broueht from New York by
the steamers Atlantic and Vanderbilt, has been
sold for exportation to the Continent, to pay for
silver.

The steamer Tagus has brought 2,0001 in specie
from the Penirnula.

The steamer Baron Osy has arrived in the
Thames from Antwerp, with 50 cases of silver.
computed to be worth about 50,0001.

The steamer Great Britain, from Melbourne, has
been now at sea 86 days, with 406,6001. in gold,
The steamer Indomitable, and the ships Summer
Cloud and Sardinian, from the same port, have
been out 107, 95, and 9;2 days respectively, with a
total of 175,4001.
A general court of the New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia Land Company. is called for the 10th of
September, when a dividend is to be declared.

The half-yearly meeting of the West London
Railway Company is called for the 26th inst.
The agents of the Danish government advertise
the half•yearly dividend on the Five per Cent.
stock, and also the particulars of Bonds to the
amount of 5,6001., which are to be paid off on the
Ist of September.
The Emigration Commissioners will receive
tenders on the 20th inst. for the hire of ships to
convey passengers to Sydney and Geelong respect
ively. The vessels must be ready for passengers
between the Ist and 10th of October.

Subjoined is a report to be presented at the
approaching meeting of the Southampton Dock
Company :
The accounts now submitted to the proprieors show a
net revenue, after payment of the interest on the debenture
debt, of the dividends on the preference stocks, and of all
working expenses, repairs, &c, for the half-year ended
30th June, 1857, amounting to
Add surplus carried over freln last half-

year

1,160 8 7

Making an available balance of .... £7,841 6 10
From this sum the directors recommend
that a dividend for the half year, at the
rate of 4 per cent, per annum, be de-
clared, amounting, on £360,725 ordinary
stock, to

Leaving a surplus to be carried to the credit
the next half-year, of

The following are the Gazette average prices of
Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Aug. 11,
1856, exclusive of Custom's duties payable thereon,
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the West Indies, 30s 7d per cwt.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. —Auo. 15

The sales were 8,000 bales to-day, including 2,000 on
speculation and for export. Holders are rather more
confident, and prices are firmly maintained,

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKET.—Avo. 15.
Per stone, 20Ibs. Per gOlbs. s. d. s.
s. d. (1.1 Potatoes, Pink Eyes 00to 0 0
Flay, 01d...... 0 6 to 0 83 Ditto, Kemps .... 3 6 to 4 0
Ditto, new.. 0 4i to 0 7 Ditto, Whiterocks. 0 o to 0 0
Ditto, clover 0 0 to 0 0; Ditto, Balshaws 0 oto 0 0
Green Clover 0 2to 0 23! Ditto, Beidrums .. 0 0 to 0 0
Vetches 0 2 to 0 0, Ditto, cattle 0 0 to 0 0
Straw, wheat 0 3 to 0 41 Per ton.
Ditto, oat
Ditto, barley .... 0 0 to 0 0 Carrots
Oats, in straw ... 0 0 to 0 0 Mangle wurcel 0 0 to 0 0
'Manure 4 0 to 6 0