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BANKRUPTS

... (From the Edinburgh Gazette of Tuesday.) SEQUJESTRATIONS. William Cochran & Co., bleachers, Kelvinhaugh. John Ewing Garven, timber merchant, Irvine. Samuel C. Barclay & Co., silk and mousseline de laine printers, Glasgow. Alexander Kennedy, merchant an i commission agent, Edinburgh. s g Bryce -Macmillan, cabinetmaker. Glasgow. Robert Grieve, tenant of Lindean Mill, and millar and grain dealer. ...

Shipping Intelligence

... Oinina Intellfarnre. Balranald, Play 13.-Part of a new vessel, supposed to be American built, and the remainder having been apparently do- stroyed by fire, has been washed ashore at South Uist. Lerwick, May 17.-Several cask;s of palm oil, supposed to be- long to the Marwood, of Liverpool, have been pic ed up round the coast ofShetlaud. Smyrna, 3lay S.-The Claoice, Sturrock, put in here with ...

Published: Thursday 27 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1821 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

PACKET BOATS

... PeALCKET BOATS. GENERAL POST OFFicE, April 27. d esahls Last Packets! Next Packets SOUJTRA.WTlOY despatched i Sie u STATIONr. from London. Sailed. Due. 'Lisbon,Madeira - F (via Lisbon), tth, lbth, and 1 'SpainGsbrai 27th, ]dadrid, Madrid, 'Spain,Gibral- month pril 17. | May 5. ?? eeymnh illalta, *Greece, *Ion. Islands, I 3d 20tof oriental, Egypt, Ceylon. every mnonth. April e0-I India, & ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

London

... Mr uganzilan, TUESDAY, MIAY 18, 1847. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY. Bank tack . 190 IndialBondsunderl000 2pm Ditto for Account ?? -ISouth Sea Stock . - Three per Cent. Red ?? S54 Do. Old Annuities. - Three per Cent An ?? 862 Do. New ?? New 5 per Cent. Ann.,. -3 per Cent. Anns. 1751 - New 34 per Cent . ?? 87>,Consols for ?? 861S61 New 5 per Cents . ?? India Stock for ?? Long Annuities to expire ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1361 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

MANUFACTURES, COMMERCE, &c

... MUAOvlJTUnS, COMM:ERCE, &e. MANCHESTER.-During the week the market has continued to feel severely the effects of the monetary pressure. The want of confildexce and general stagnation have increased as the week advanced, until it may be said that business has been almost brought to a complete stand. Extreme caution is now the policy of all parties, and an abstinence from fresh engagements ...

HERRING FISHERY

... The following communication has been received by Mr .Bannerman, Ma., from the Board of Trade:- ffice of Vnmmittee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, i5th May. 1847. Sjr,_- am directed by the Lords of tie Committee of priy Council for Trade, to inform YOU that it appears, by a despatch from her Majesty's Consul General at Christiania. that the catch of Norwegian herrings has greatly ...

Shipping Intelligence

... -Sttapinv- lIntriltarme, Warkworth. May l S.-Tlhe Matilda, of Leith, fromr Scotland I to this port, drove from her anchors in Coquet Roads yester- de day, came on shore on the sands, and has received considerable mi damage. Sal EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Gravesend,'May 1S.-Arrived the Mary, Blosse, and luisa, ed Carry, from South Seas; Urgent, Tucker, from Sydney, ?? * Viscount Sandon, White, from ...

Published: Monday 24 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK

... BRITISH CORN TRADE DUIUNG THE PAST WEEK. The weather has, on the whole, been favourable during the week for the growing crops, copious showers having fallen in m ost parts of the kingdom ; still the temperature remains low for the advanced period of the year, and the reports from the principal agricultural districts describe the wheat plant as very backward. A few weeks of really warm -weather ...

Published: Thursday 06 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1877 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Commerce 

Markets

... fRargeto. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE-May 8. The show of Wheat from Kent was -very small this morn'g and much excitement prevailed. In this state of affairs sales were made at irregular prices; but comparing the quotations of to-day with those ot this day week-, we estimate the advance at about 4s. per qr. Barley, Beans, end Pease were exceedingly scarce, and Is. to 2s, per qr. dearer than on Monday ...

Published: Thursday 06 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3108 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

STATE OF THE LONDON MONEY MARKET

... STATE OF TIUE LONDON MHONEY MARKET. I 7 Fr , it_ New. lire (From f/ie Glob0e.) cite This (Tuesday) is trulv a day of trial in the Citv, and many of ant our ro't wvealthy and respectable firms liave bee'n put to ten in- of convenience they but little anticipated atfew weeks ago. As toI rts, giving correctly tbe rates charged for accommodation. it is al- I and mnost a hopeless task, because from ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1400 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Miscellaneous

... VisceUa=meous. COM1MiERCIAL MARKETS, FsrD.AT, May 14. The sugar market has been steady to-day; and although there has not been any advance, the amount of business has been large-sav 10,000 bags Mlanritius, 5,000 ba.s Bengal, and 1500 bags Madras, sold in the public sales; also, 450 hhds. West India; and prices must be considered about Is. dearer than at the close of the week (on F'riday last.) ...

Shipping Intelligence

... -qbt:vvtiia *ntriltarna. Portaskaig, Island of Islay, May 3.-The Hydra, Muller, of Copenhagen, from Sligo to Maracaibo, put into Wbitefarland Bay, in the Sound of Islay, 29th ult. with lose of sails, bul- warks, boats, galley, &-c. one man washed overboard, and two others severely injured. North Knapdale, by Lochgilphead, May 5.-It blew a gale froma S. and SSW. early on the morning ofthe 27th ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2243 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce