The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ... £24,173,580 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
,Other Securities 3,459,900
'Gold coin & bull'n. • 9,698,580
!Silver bullion ...

£245173,580

£24,173,580

BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000 Gov. Securities £12,636,261
Rest ... ... 3,376,632 Other Securities 16,750,656
Public Deposits 3,264,203 Notes ... 4,874,975
Other Deposits (12,871,553 Gold & Silver Coin 647,523
7-day &other bill 844,027

£34,909,4151

£34,909,415

Oun SHARE MARKET his been very buoyant all the
week until this morning, when the tone became more
quiet, owing to the Times article on the American
dispute. The upward tendency, however, has been
scarcely checked by this new phase of that foolish
quarrel ; there is still a disposition to advance. The
London dividend has been announced at 51 per cent.,
with £40,000 surplus, and the report about to be
issued is stated to be most satisfactory. The inde-
fatigable activity of Lord Chandos is beginning to tell
upon the dividends of this company, and, instead of any
further decrease, it is now confidently stated that a
return to 6 per cent. is more than probable. Local
stocks are steady, and continue to be bought for in-
vestment. Large numbers of Insurance and Bank
shares have changed hands during the week. The Fire
and Life Companies are expected to issue a good
statement this week, showing receipts and profits
much greater than those of any previous year. We
annex this day's prices :—Blackburn, 54 ; Caledonian,
281 • Lancashire and Yorkshire, 81/ -14 ; London
and North Western, 101 1004 ; Midland, 698 70 698
70 691 ; North Eastern Berwick capital stock, 18* ;
South Eastern, 18-g- K + 11-16 ; Lancashire and York-
shire 6 per cent., pref., 131 ; Great Western of
Canada, 25+ 1; ditto new, 3p ; Bank of Liverpool,
231 ; Borough Bank, 10+.
Corrox.—There has been considerable animation
during the week, and, while holders have not been
forward in pressing sales, there has been an active
demand, not only for the trade, but also for specula-
tion and export. The consequence is an advance of
*d to 3-16 d per lb., and there is little doubt that a
diminution of the pressure on the Money-market will
cause prices to go still higher. The sales for the week
up to Friday were 84,500 bales, of which 15,080 were
taken on speculation, and 12,000 for export, leaving
57,420 for the trade. To-DAY there has been again a
good demand, the sales being 12,000 bales, including
2,000 American, and 2,000 Surat, for speculation and
export ; and the market closed firmly, without, how-
ever, any change in Friday's quotations. The following
is a comparison of present rates with those of the
corresponding period of last year :-
--- - -

New Orleans, middling .

1855 1856
:.. 5 5 3-16
.. 5
61
... 5 5 11-16
... 51 6

Upland, middling
„ fair

SALES. IMPORTS. STOCK
,_____A--__:, , , ••••••••••-•
DESCRIPTION. PRICES. Week i Prey'. Week This
ending 1 onsly ending -,,,"r. Feb. 1.
Feb. 1.1 thisyr. Feb. 1. n
— --
Sea Island
Stained
Boweds
Mobile 5 53 6300, 16230 1 59909 135350
New Orleans_
Pernams, &c 53 71 13501 3870 30931 5391 22200
Bahia, &c.
Maranham 6 63 860 3040 1751 j 1751 20070
Demerara,&c — .... 1 50 ....! .... 700
Egyptian 5 9 3280: 9510 47, 4984 41150
Com.W.l.&c 5 9 350 960 238 14111 2750
Surat
Madras
Bengal — .... 140 .... I .... 140
. 84500 197710 91837 218348'419480

PRODUCE.—The demand for Sugar for home con-
sumption has subsided, and prices have declined is per
cwt. In Coffee little doing. With Tea the market
has been better supplied, but sales have been restricted,
owing to the firmness of holders. For Cocoa lower
rates have been accepted. Rise much depressed, and
sales with difficulty effected. No business in Rum.
Saltpetre dull. Palm Oil neglected. In Tallow little
doing • Petersburg, Y.C., 59s to 60s per cwt. To-DAY
the sales in Sugar were confined to 500 bags grainy
Bengal, at 44s 6d per cwt. Nothing has taken place
in Molasses. Of Rum, 70 puncheons Demerara have
been disposed of, at barely previous prices. 40 bags
St. Domingo Coffee are reported, at 52s per cwt. The
Tea market continues steady ; common Congou
to 911:1 per lb. Nothing has occurred in East India
Rice, but 100 tierces Carolina have been sold at 25s
per cwt. Saltpetre continues to decline, 40 bags hav-
ing been purchased at 36s per cwt. for 1 per cent.
refraction. We have also to report 500 bags Calcutta
Linseed, part all faults, at 65s per qr. for sound, and
60 bags Cutch, at 32s per cwt.
Woor.—There has been nothing of any moment
doing in this market during the past week. Imports
for the week ended February 2nd :-2,705 bales
Peruvian, 21 Mediterranean, 10 Cape of Good Rope,
88 Irish, and 6 coastwise. Total, 2,830 bales.
Messrs. W. GREAILE and Co., in their monthly
circular, say,— •
Since our public sales, which closed on the 19th ult., the
wool market has been very active, particularly for those sorts
suitable for continental demand, for which there has been a
very brisk competition, and prices in some cases have ex-
perienced a considerable improvement. There has also been
an active demand for home grown wools suitable for combing
purposes, upon which the advance is more marked than on
foreign descriptions. The pacific turn which political affairs
have lately taken has also had its due effect upon the market.
Stocks of all descriptions are very light, and the tendency
towards a still further advance is very general. The supply
of low foreign wools continues very light, and, since the public
sales, some considerable purchases have been made in Egyptian,
Turkey, Smyrna, Syrian, and other Levant and Mediterranean.
Wools, at an advance on the auction rates, leaving the mar-
ket very barely supplied for future requirements. In English
and Irish wools a large business has been done, and some
speculative purchases have been made at an advance of id -to
Id. per lb.; a fair business doing in Laid Scotch Wools, but
without any material change in prices. The next series of
London public sales is fixed to commence on the 14th inst.,
when about 40,000 bales will be offered.
Messrs. Jos. ROBINSON and Co. say :
Since the issue of our annual circular, the wool market has
exhibited great firmness, and all connected with the trade
admit that a drawback is impossible in value, whether war
continues or peace ensues. In the event of the pending nego-
tiations being amicable, the raw material would rapidly advance
in price. The stocks of all descriptions have been almost
cleared, so that purchasers find great difficulty in supplying
themselves. This position of affairs will doubtless be rendered
still more awkward from the announcement by the French
government of a considerable reduction of the import duty on
all wools from this country ; thus enabling the continental
consumers to compete more successfully with buyers here, and
causing a large increase in the export demand, which the last
year has proved to be greatly in excess of all previous ones.
Fleeces grown in this country have already experienced the
influence of the reduction of the duty in France, and a rise of
fully id per lb. is observable on combing sorts. This advance
will, ere long, be increased, the quantity in staplers' hands
being reduced, and what is in the bands of the growers is
chiefly held for rates that are quite unapproachable at present.
TIMBER.—As this is the season when the brokers
in the timber trade publish their annual circulars, we
give the following extracts from the principal ones.
Messrs. A. F. and D. Mackay say :

The quantity of Wood, of all descriptions, at this Port from
the Baltic, has been less during the past than in any one of
the preceding five years. One natural consequence of this
has been an increase to some extent of the value of that which
has been brought in. Probably a more important matter
than the enhanced value of this material will be found in the
fact that it has occasioned a greater consumption of our own
Colonial and other American Woods, such as Pitch Pine,
Quebec Red Pine, and other sorts, which are found by expe-
rience to be equally serviceable, if not preferable, for all do-
mestic and other purposes, notwithstanding the strong pre-
Flake which previously existed in favour of Baltic Timber.