The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-07-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AICEETARY AND COMMERCIAL.  LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING  To-day the Liverpool Cotton market, owing to the tenor of the American advices, has shown increased activity, and a large business has been done at very full rates, the sales amounting to 12,000 bales, of which 4,000 have been taken for speculation. The Liverpool Share market continues to manifest a very good tone, and with a good amount of business today, prices have shown a hardening tendeflcy, and closed der :—Aberdeen, 15 15k. Chester and Birkenhead, 8. Caledonian, 31, 311. Chester and Holyhead, 61. Eastern Counties, 111 11 5-16, East Lanca-211 213. Great Northern, 24 244. Ditto A., 91 Great Western, 6:3 64. Lancashire and Yorkshire c, 9S 99. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 13-i London and North Western Stock, 1071- 1071. ....chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 351 35;3. Ditto New aer cent Preference, ;3p. Ditto Preference, 12 121. North British, 9& 10. North South Eastern and Dover, 23 1-16  , . Newcastle, and Berwick, 22-,1 22i. York ad North Midland, 311 32. Leeds Capital Stock, 191 Buffalo and Lake fluron, 12 Qp. Dutch Rhenish, a. Great Western of Canada, 261 26k. res, 3 7-16 3 9-16. Great Luxembourg,  Diu() New  moors recently current that the Austrian of Finance, Baron Bruck, would shortly resign,  ted to be without foundation. It appears, bowby the Austrian journals, that this emminent r had some serious intentions of resigning office, e of the resistance given by other members Is plans of commercial reform, and )tain the admission of Austria into It is said that the Emperor, st confidence in the judgment and n•ould not lis'en to his resigna estv  kely t  2Wion  that Baron Bruck in remaining in office is ncounter no further opposition to his financial  The trade report from 'Prance to the close of the week show a sensible improvement in the state of business, both at Paris and in the manufacturing departments. Merchants from the provinces, who have abstained for some time to make purchases, now begin to buy largely. The retailers have been less busy, as the sales of novelties for the season had terminated ; but the return of fine weather has influenced the ordinary branches of trade, which is added to by the purchases made by foreign visitors. The trade in silks has experienced an important rise in prices. It is said that within the last fifteen days this advance is not less than twenty per cent on raw silks. Other branches of trade are improving, and the depression caused by the inundations is quickly passing away. 'the total amount of specie brought by the two vessels which have arrived from New York, viz., the Niagara and the Washington, is 1,010,670 dollars, or about £202134. The Atrato has arrivad from the West Indies with $2,134,646._  This day the second ordinary meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Asia was held, at which a report was presented, stating that whilst the company had been in its present state of suspense, the directors had exhibited the greatest regard for economy. It is also stated that the differences of opinion which had existed in the detail of arrangements to be carried out for the amalgamation of this with the Mercantile Bank, had been arranged, so that a joint application had now been made on the part of this bank with the Mercantile Bank, for the purpose of procuring from the Privy Council a substituted charter for the amalgamated companies. The accounts were as as follows:—Capital, £79,958 14s ld, and the expenditure £365 4s, leaving £79,565 9s 2d. The report was adopted. At tite close the prices of Railway Shares were quoted as follows :—Caledonian, 681 68!. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 60 62. Eastern Counties, 11,1 111. East Lancashire, 84 85. Great Northern, 47 471. Do. A, 79 80. Great'Western, 631 64. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 99 991. Leeds Northern, 191 20. London and North Western, 1071 108. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 33 36. Midland Stock, 85 8.51. North British 39 44 South Eastern and Dover, 761 771. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 89 90. York and Nor:h Midland, 63 64.  WEST INDIA, MEXICAN  AND PACIFIC  DI AILS  The royal mail company's steamship Atrato, Captain Woolley, arrived at Southampton at two o'clock, a.m., yesterday. with the mails from the West Indies, Mexico, and the Pacific. Her dates are—Vera Cruz, June 4 ; Greytwn, June 5 ; Demerara, June 9 ; Havana, June 10 ; Jamaica, June 10 ; Barbadoes, June 12 ; Trinidad, June 12; An!iqua, June 13; St. Thomas, Jung 16.  The Atrato, hrings 197 'passengers, and in freight 1,638,113 dollars in specie (silver), 490.533 dollars in gold dust and bars, £493 jewellery, £BOO silver plate, 670 serons cochineal, 63 serons jalapa, 18 serons indigo, 3 casks coffee, 2 casks balsam, 4 cases succades, 147 cases cizars, 126 bales tobacco, 7 cases tortoiseshell, 14 turtle, 150 bales sarsaparilla, 831 bales bark, and 148  packaites From Mexico we learn that the Spanish squadron, '-n• of nine ships of war, had arrived at Vera andinir payment of the amount due to Spain den. In default of immediate payment, they aed to seize the Custom house, and appropriate to the payment of their demand. ate g-.vernment of President Comonfort is now estable,' and he has called on the priests at Puebla to pay out of he convent funds the expenses incurred by the  Cruz. 1 from 1%  siege of that p'aee. The West India islands were generally healthy. At Jamaica great quantities of rain had fallen. Exchange on London were quoted for 40 days at per cent. preAt Demerara, the crops had been injured by rains had fallen in large quanties ►ast few days previous to the departure of the  mium  dry weather, but  during the mail.  From Trinidad, we learn that the crops are in fine condition, and about 30,000 hhds of snzar had been made. Lieutenant Jones of the 69th Regiment, had committed suicide by stabbing himself.  The Royal Mail Company's screw steamship Wye was ashore at Guadaloupe, and every exertion was being made to float her. No person had been hurt, and her mails, &c., had been sent forward by the French war steamer Le Grondeur.  The Atrato brings the following intelligence respect. ing her Majesty's ships of war at the various West India stations : On the 13th June H.M.S. Arachne was at Trinidad, having conveyed the Wye's mails there from Barbadoes. The Vestal was cruising among the islands, and the Scorpion was at St. Lucia, At Greytown, on the sth nitimo, there were H.M.S. Eurydice, and the United States states steam frigate Susquehanna, Commodore Paulding. The Hermes, Espiegle, and Imaum, were at Port Royal ; the Termagant and Malacca having gone on a cruise. On the 28th June the Atrato, at eleven a.m., in lat. 48 56 N., long. 12 1 W., passed and exchanged colours with the English ship Electra, from Calcutta, the English ship Rose of Sharon, and the French ship Marguerite, all in com any and homeward bound,