The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-14

1913, ue,e wen engaged, ale urn ~ INC eAueihe quo
The money market is quite unchanged. Discounts are
"a s!s on on ort Psp cofois close At
~ CORN MARKEI.-Tbe market is fiat, at decline In the
week OF a. per 20 lbs on wheat. Is per Dbl on -four,
perfns flour. new, per Dbl 4Os 3D. Ais. Cd. Balti
and Philadelphia d. Ais to 42s; Ohio do, 42s Sd.
to ABS Co. white United states wheat per 70 lbs, lis
so TO rs ID; red and mixed do, los. 3D. TO u.s. 30
yellow and mixed Indian ccrn per 4S0 lbs AS 70 43s
white do, 46s. to SIS
to 3ss 3D. Tor pot and Ass. per cwt for pearl. Rosiu
Very little doing this week. Spirits Of turpentine con
tnues dull at 3es 3d. per cwt faow is also dull Y
have brought 66s. TO 70 per cwt Os-Palm oil Is fat
at f4S to f49 per ton No change in pale seal pale
rape OIL Rice-yery little doing in East Indian, and
nothing in American. Dyewoods have been in limited
demand
BROWN, SIMPLIFY AND co.'s CIRCULAR.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 20, 1856.
We have to report dull business in cotton STAGE the
departure of the last steamer, with turn in favor Of
buyers The sales Tor the week ending last evening
calico 100 bales spectators taking $50 and port
ers 300 To-day the business called 900 bales, the
market closing firmly at the following quota iopsFar
nary Cd. 5ssd.; fair Mobiles SD, mddng 91sd.;
hir uplands pad middliDg bKd, inferior AID AID
per To- o TS Sa stock stock in this port 1872 600
sol, coo baies-American 248 900 bales.
Trade in Manchester, usual at this of the
year, il quiet, but prices steady.
The corn market is very duh, at decline OF Sd per
bushel in wheat Is Dbl in four and 2 per quarter
supplied Demand Western Canal
oelphia and Baltimore AIS. 3d. Ohio, AIS Canada Ala
Cd sour 4os Ais. Cd. per Dbl. white wheat, lis 3D.
lis l0d led, los. Sd. lis per 20 lbs. white Indian
quarter.
Nothing doing in turpentine or rosin.
LIVERPOOL BRElDsTuFFs, Dec 29-The returns of sales
OF British wheat. as per Gazette, for the week
ending on tho 22d instant, les,115 quarters,
Il 81 quarter st d ssa ast
arrival Of grain and aour since this dsy se'nnight
barrels and sacks of -four Is lis quarters of In
dian corn, and IL OC0 quarters of Egyptian BEANS OF
As is usual 1t this Of the year the grain trade has
been langud, and few transactions reported With
only amocerate attendance Of millers and dealers at
our Corn Exchange yesterday, there was general in
disposition towarcs business. The importers not
pressing sales but in the small transactions the day
reduction OF about Id buhe red and ID bushe
American white wheat from this day might
submitted to. Flour declined Is per barrel and sack
Indian corn declined about Is quarter. Oats I'D
per bushe beans Cd per quarter and oatmeal Is per
load. Barley and peas unchanged in value After
marAet hours several purchases of wheat made by
milers 10 day NO change has occurred in prices, ana
there Is not muck passing in Brunswick street buyers
putting off fresh business until the new year.
The eegraphic adyices from China to-day indicate
further movement in the exchanges calculated keep
up the export of silver from this de The is stated
to have advanced st Canton from As 92d is 1od and
al Shanghai from 6s Cd 10 6s 7hd.
By the accounts FRONT Egypt appears that the prohi
bon against the expectation Of wheat and Indian corn
which was shortly to have taken effect, has been
sounded
pert moderate demand for o.day and the ,es
do not exceed 5000 bses 500 for export Prices with
cut change.
News from Australia.
MARKET MPRovBMENTs-AcTIvITY IN THE GOLD
MARKET - COMMERCIAL DEPRESSION PASSING
AwAy-ARRIvAL OF LABORERs IN THE COLONY
The royal mail ship Donald Mckay arrived in the
Mersey afternoon Of December %, with dates from Mel
bourne, Australia, to the Sd of October.
The Dorald Mckay had board 104, 600 ounces of
geld Of the value of about s46 and $50 passengers
The Champion of the Seas with the English mails Of
the 9th OF July arrived at Melbourne the 18th of Sep
TENDER
The Defence, and Western Bride from Liverpool, and
the Lord WarTistcn, from Greenock, had arrived at
summary for England the Melbourne Argus makes
the following comments upon the state of the colony OF
For some months past we have been under the neces
sty of giving rather gloomy account of affairs, both
commercial and social, in this country The celonists
have passed through crisis Of ordinary character
During part OF 1852 and up to the middle Of 1854 sort
Of maor possessed both the government and the peo
the da and period Of severe pressure in financial
affairs the natural result. Fortunately we have
passed through this period without any serious calamity
but bave earned great deal OF experience tor
which We have dearly paid. We firmly believe that we
have seen the worst and that hencetorth, for long
time TO come, we shall be enabled to transmit
accounts of gradual and solid Improvement
in the financial and in the Of the
n.y. The month of September has been Of continued
prosperity, far the yield from the various gold
fields Is concerned The amounts sent down by
steadily the increase and the reports of
the diggings and whose Judgment can be relied on lead
to believe that this increase will be maintained. The
has been peculiarly favorable to the miner. Wa
ter has been abundant but not in excess is generally
the in the winter months and the weather has
been 80 to interrupt the operations. To the
would p BE- and e Of
the metal by means of machinery the present sasfac
tory state OF the escort returns must however, be chiefly
ascribed
The Melbourne Age says respecting the diggings:-
The intelligence received from the various diggings
during the past few weeks has confirmed the
gold fields. It would be difficult to select any one To-
clity for special observation, the advces confirming
a uniform Improvement in the yield. From private
communications from Castlemaine informed of
widely extending quartz-c,ushing operations, and al
though the miners there are working quietly, and
scarcely reports have appeared OF their proceed
Igs, still the which has been met with entities
this district to rank with the foremost of quartz local.
Cornish miners. who: with steady persistence which
chsraceIizes their class go quietly on using the old
the least expensive and the best. great error
has been made by the of complicated cum
brous and expensive machinery; and have par
ties who have returned town regreting having
numbered themselve with all OF intricate appa
ratus which experience has taught them to be perfectly
gamaiivn, and Of the machinery In present employ
seems at all adequate to the proper performance this
branch OF the operations From Bendgo the accounts
received than usually cheering and the yield
gold is reported to be larger than it This in
great to be accounted for in the increased
turns from the quartz reefs, where many meeting
WITH considerable results. Rich this colony proved
to be In auval deposits Of the precious metal 1t s
by persons engaged in the operation that the quartz
reefs even extensive and rich and that the
greatest yield of gold which has yet been produced will
be obtained from these reefs The question is exciting
much attention ct present, and q "quartz crushing
MAJ is by no means an improbable event.
MELBOURNE, Oct. 30.-The gold market has been inac-
tive during the day, the parcels for shipment by the
Donald Mckay being made up. Entries passed at
the for 80 6S6 for Liverpool by that
sell and for two small parcels for China the Tremegs
and the Amigos
There has been little no trade doing to-day, the
shipment Of the gold with some, and the European
respordence with Others having fully occupied the
camille mind.
The demand for gold this week for the Donald MKay
brisk, and the price in consequence. 76s 3D.
and es Cd were the prices ruling during the latter part