New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-30
THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT.
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... CaEscrsr OFFICE, No. TO- Camp street,
4g4,- aThufSday Evening, May 20, 1856. )
The market quiet to-day in Money Paper and Exchange
Tie difficulties Washington not deemed Of sufficient i'm
porance cause any excitement The dismissal Of the British
Minister has much talked of for the last six months that
the actual Of intercourse with him Is merely con-
sered as one Of the things which expected No lender Of
nopev No captast appears the action Of
ent MS any thing than ordinary anaction which has
been anticipated months. There may be great deal Of
talking and hosiltes but our candid opinion IL II
will all end In talk and surmises. r Il RI 4.s. t.
Re the ease as may there Is difficulty in selling Al paper
at per cent? good o. fair TO irdrate, 10 to II per cent
The Stock market continues quiet The only stock Offering
freely The Commercial Water Works of which the sales to-
day shares 81 and lGi shares at 5A We learn there
are some parcels for sale at 50.
There rather better feeling in Exchange to-day. The
Banks sold at par New York though for large sums less
would have been accepted Five days sight taken
discount sixty days sight demand and sales
made N to III and IL discount the banks buying at ~
Some 90 days date WAS sold at1M discount.
In Sterling there important transactions and the
rates of yeserday-say 9 and 9 for investment
rent to day. For direct remittance rscass drawers held ct
9 and two Of the Banks at Ok to TO- according to the
required Francs Dropping and reduce figures for
first cass drafts at 5l6 with good drafts from 52 to 5s@
The accounts from New York today quote Sterling Bankers
drafts lOe l09 Money, IL to per cent. for and
four months paper pretty stiff rate for tho great financial
metropolis of tho Union. The character Of paper in this
market be negotiated Mt ca TO TX cent? and fair nameE
in New York for the time ~ per cent There were
sales Of IS 500 Louisiana State Bond the ed in Wall street,
New York 9 and in Philadelphia IA shares New Orleans
Light Company 49, The Stock and the Bonds command
more in this market Er
The letters by the Canada through to-day We give be-
low our usual circulars of the markets.
The correspondent of the New York Times writes from
Liverpool under date Of the l0th as follows: %
The particulars of the New English Loan of 1925 100000
s500o seing are that the bids be as for Consos
@ 5as s. S esn Gn 1E
cent to Sept Is 70 cent The awards on the sa Of
n a lie oapss' e s ea es5
as that Coe Of s
the Market the Times Money writer on Friday r NJ re-
sf *. r,nera effect Of the Of the loan at the
% III e. III n bn
there was decline Of quarter per cent Consos for money
iG s'e she
from which there was no recovery The fall vas
ng high interest forward speculative purchases
generally come in as buyers Under the impression
that completed there will be rise have not yet
The Washington Union gives the following statement from
the Treasury Department. exhibiting the imports of nercan
the districts of the United States and the
ports terefrom for the quarter ending March 81 1856 The
columns foot up thus:
Imports of Foreign Merchandise.
Specie a3 s95
Dutiapie goods
Aggregate value ,5S2Il1l
| Exports Of Foreign Merchandise
Specie .s2l9, s6t
Free goods exclusive Of specie. sss
Duable goods So, SU
Aggregate value 81 "a
Exports Of Domestic Merchandise
Goods exclusive Of specie. 149s2Iu
Aggregate value 81. 244 Oe
It will be from the above table that the exports from til
United States during the last fiscal quarter exceeded the import
millions four hundred and forty eight thousand ST
hundred and ftyx dollars. The subjoined table til
of exports and imports the principal ports
the United States for the period already designated