Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

taken place in the value of most of the leading lir*
Eastern Counties declined 1, Edinburgh, Perth'
and Dundee 1, North Western 4, Manchester,
, Sheffield, and Lincoln North Eastern (Berwick)
and South Eastern Great Northern advanced
1. and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ,
The Foreign and Colonial lines ruled at ratite
firmer rates. Paris and Lyons advanced 1, 101;
bardo-Venetiani, East Indian I, Great Western (1'
Canada I, and Grand Trunk of Canada 3e.
The Board of Trade returns for the Month
ended the 30th November have been issued te-dt11;
and show the following results :—The total declare
value of exports for the mouth last passed Ig,
8 285,8111, whilst for the corresponding month e`A
1855 and 1856 they were respectively 8,759.849/ en'
10,272,0751. The total importation of coffee for tilte
month in 1857 was 7,457,7941 b, against 4,264,7251,'
in the corresponding month of 1855, and 5,067,8101g'
in 1856 ; whilst in the same period there vinre
entered for home consumption, resneetivel)'
2,595,9101 b., 2,978,8161 b. and 2,739,6511 h. V,1,;
refined Sugar shows an importation of 514,frt
cwt. for the month of the present year; 1011,64
for 1855 and 1856 the figures stood respective')
572,246 cwt. and 363,526 cwt.—the quantitiel,
taken for home consumption during the ell;
period being, for 1857, 502,4.76 cwt. ; for 1-84 v;
625,800 cwt. ; and 1856, 526,611 cwt. In Will!:
of various descriptions the importations for the
month of November last amounted to 638.4%
gallons ; for the months in 1855-1856 they were
respectively 565,517 gallons and 807,062 gallon,:,;
The quantities entered for home consumption ill th`
same periods were-1857, 508,413 gallons ; 185,"
1
617,047 gallons ; and in 1856, 843,344 gallons. v
Spirits, including Rum, Brandy, and Geneva, thee
were imported during the month of the proses'
year 500,693 gallons ; for the corresponding month
in 1855 and 1855 the figures were 1,078,969
gallons, and 429,477 gallons. The quantities
taken for hem° consumption during the earns
period were 390.162 gallons, 444,088 gallons, sad
462,677 gallons respectively. As regards ti
Shipping Tra le, we find that in the month na
November last there were 3,020 vessels employed
in the foreign trade, with a tonnage of 754,023
tered inwards ; whilst in the corresponding most'
of 1856 the number was 2,590, with a tonnage
of 755,705. There cleared outwards during tha;
same periods respectively, 3,261 ships, 788,4'1
tonnage, whilst in the corresponding month°,
1856 there were 2,828 ships, 750,111 tonnage.
the Coasting Trade, during the month of the
present year, 10,446 vessels, 1,058,009 tonnage
enterA inwards ; and 11,519 ships, 1,145.44
tonnage, cleared outwards. In the correspondio,
~
month of 1856 the numbers were—ships 10,051
tonnage- 1,063,160, and ships 11,448, tonnage
1,105,853.
853.
During the fortnight ended to-day, the atnonet
~,
of bills drawn by the East India Company, on the
Presidencies, was only £1.782. •
Between £60.000 and £BO,OOO in gold was sold
to the bank to-day.
No failures in London were reported, but thif
suspension of Messrs. Stevens, Vermehren, an
Co., of Newcastle, is announced.
At Paris to-day, the Rentes were depressed, tllfg
closing prices being 67f. 55e. for money, and 61
75c. for the account ; the Four and a Half Per
Cents. were 92r. 50c., and Bank Shares 3,150 f. 1,
At a meeting of the creditors of Charles Nieht)
son and Co., of Lon .-.'ion, to-day, it was agreed to
„t
accept an offer of 12s 6d in the pound, payable 75
4, 8. 12, and 16 months' date. The balance-sheets
give the liabilities at 11,5701, and the peobevii`e
assets at 11,570/; and 56,3141, and 48,7101, for ti"
St. Paul's-churchyard and he Cannon-street estates
respectively.

FRIDAY EvENINO-
- weekly returns of the Bank of England W
ssued this evening. They are again of a 113°-
,
.a. vourable character. The following are the or
•
denial's :

BANE OF ENGLAND RETURNS.
Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria. cep• -
for the week ending Wednesday, 23rd Dec., 1857.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Debit.
Notes issued .. £26,683,790
Of which £2,000,000 are is-
sued under authority of the
letter from First Lord ofTrea-
Bury and Char. of &chewier

Credit.
Government
Debt
Other securities 5,459,90
Gold Coin and
Bullion ~ . . 10,208,790
.----
Total ~

26,683,790

BANKING D'
Debt.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 7,428,807
Other deposits 15,151,818
Seven day and
other bills 870,438

TARTMENT.
Credit..
Government se-
curities , L 5.492,756
Other securities 28,088,11
Notes 7,426,67
Gold and silver.
coin
./4,491

2 10
£41,552,103 Total £41055-' 0
Compared with the previous returns, we hags
.he following results :
Active circulation
Docrease
Bullion
Increase
Rest ....

£l9 257.120
•• 386.440
. 10,753.21
Increase
Seven day and other bills
Decrease
Public deposits
Increase:
Other deposits
Increase
Government securities 15573• 1:
41
4358975821041724;2872G 384820415:530-13141,375630u
Increase
Other securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Increase
Cash to liabilities, per Mil 339
Increase 65
Rate of interest 8 per cent.
Decrease

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We (Edinburgh Express) understand that JameS og
Esq., M P. for Dartmouth, inten,'s to move, as 813° bill
the parliament re-assembles, for have to brie; bf
to extend to Scotland a right similar to that 604'
the Frt,-shilling freeholders of England.
znnerancs
DISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITIES AT ATHENS.—The
bea
of Athens says, "The excavations being made at tDe,ifity•
tre of 13..ca'eus continue to be carried on with great 6te'cisfr
The Minister of Public Works visits the spot every the
and the conservator of antiquities himself directs aotest
works. Among the foreigners who shale the
~gl„gli9D
interest in these excavations is Mr. Wyse, the '"
Minister, who is a great amateur of archmolegv. be
The Burg and Norwich Post says °tire 8°
thought very sceptical, but we must confess that We,(ettl
incredulous as not to believe a word of the ver2;,rlers
tale of Jessie Brown and the pibroch of the lIIP--irca`
at Lucknow, which purports to come to us by the l'itosn
tours route of a letter from the French physician t° end
Rajah (?) at Calcet a, publishrel in a Jm•sry PaPe:icilt
thence transplanted into the Pays of Paris, fronl seote"
by some unexplained process, it is rendered into the
vernacular for the London press. letter
THE EXCISION or A MAN'S TONGUE—Tee followlgter of
has been addresstel, by Prefess 3rSyrne, to the ?„,wellea
tie : —"I regret th it an operation, which a.'ra got
pi
to perform in the Itayal Infirmary of Edinburgh, doe 0
into the newspapers; but, as it has unfortunately objee'
the public should be correctly informed on the, oacer:
Partial removal of the tongue, for the remedy At that
having been found worse than useless, it was theuirdiel
extirpation of the whole organ might afford effeettlerel 13,
lip en this principle Iprecee.ded. The patient tat tdd
gal consequences dire cly from the operst.on ; b.O beele ;
end of a week, when the external wound was (111t;ht 110.
diei suddenly from an interred disease, which 0101, of 1115
been excited by any other irritation in a Pell
constitution and habits." GorgeMETROPOLITAN TOLL GATES.—The Sj°th:
Bong, M.P., has signified his intention to Dial a went,
re-assembling of parliament, foe same returns tothe' tnetres
in relation to the toll-gates end bars rOO,ll their re' 't
polls, and those parishes which now repair a en rely
and streets without any hid or assistance, bat no-jibes who
of their locd means ; and also as to these rtoia riao,
do not renair all their own roads, and vgbh°tigq by the Will
are not maintained out of locd rate,
la torm,tian Wof
collected at local gates and bars. Ttte difa°aill or
important,be as showing where lies tbeti
clearing Liadon of such barriers. Tbcig toii the g.ab.
Lduden '.uthorit: es have abolished all th.eirouring p.aritger
in the City-road is kept up in a 136ughof Weeturstbe
Whilst the principal parishes in the "Yr ova road!' tee
are without toll-gates and maintain thole a vir,cranis
turnpike-gate at Kensington is kept 11P
pariih. the City
to