The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

NEW YORK, 15th Jan.
The demand for money seemed to abate. The leading
financiers, however, confidently expect a change for the better
within a few days. Foreign exchanges continue dull, and, in
some instances, lower rates have been accepted. The quota-
tions were—London, 108 to 108; ; Paris, active and rather
firm, 5221 to 523; Amsterdam, dull, 404 to 41; Hamburg,
firm, 36 to 36*; Bremen, dull, 771 to 78*.
COTTON.—The market has been more active, at prices, if
anything, favouring the purchaser, though not sufficiently
lower to justify a change in the quotations. Sales, 2,000 bales,
about half in transitu.

Mr. W. P. Wright, in his circular, states that " a fair busi-
ness has been done in cotton in transitu, chiefly from Mobile
and New Orleans to Liverpool ; the sales for the past ten days
I estimate at 4,000 bales. I quote, from New Orleans with
id. freight, ordinary, 71c.; good ordinary, 72c.; low middling,
84c. to Sic. • middling, 9c. From Mobile, same freight, ic. to
lc. below these rates. Very little has been done in Atlantic
cottons, owing to the high cost. Southern markets have been
less active during the week under review. By telegraph we
have the following : —New Orleans, Jan. sth : Receipts for the
week, 45,000 bales ; same week last year, 28,000. Sales for
the week, 48,000 bales. Middling, 81-c. to 8/c. Freight to
Liverpool, 11-16 d. Sales to-day, 7,000 bales; market firm.
Freight to Liverpool, id. 7th Jan.: Sales to-day, 15,500
bales. Middling, 9c. 9th Jan.: Sales two days, 25,000 bales.
Middling, 9c. Freight to Liverpool, id. ; Havre, Vic. Mobile,
6th Jan.: Receipts for the week, 31,000 bales ; same week last
year, 9,000 bales. Total excess in receipts over last year, 640,000
bales. Sales for the week, 18,000 bales. Middling, Bc.
Freight to Liverpool, id. ; to Havre, Lie. per lb. Exchange
on London, 7i to 71."
The following is a comparative statement of receipts, ex-
ports, &c.

1855. 1854. 1853. 1852.
Receipts at the Ports 1,540,722 926,281 948,318 1,494,000
Exports to G►eat Britain 502,210 418,467 267,612 555,265
France 185,734 102,472 74,629 94,385
Stock on hand 642,435 353,183 490,000 595,000
BREADSTITITS.—The flour market has been much depressed
since the sth instant, in consequence of the unfavourable
tenor of the English accounts received per Canada and At-
lantic to the 22nd and 29th December respectively. The de-
cline in prices amounts to 37ic. to 50c. per barrel, at which
the business transacted yesterday, after receipt of the advices
per Atlantic, was still on a very moderate seale. Wheat is
quoted sc. per bushel lower, and to effect sales to any con-
siderable extent some further decline would be required.
Indian Corn in fair demand without material change in prices.
FREIGIITS.—There was no material alteration in rates. To
Liverpool : For cotton, 7-32 d. per lb.; grain, Bd. to 8-id. per
bushel; flour, 2s. 9d. to 3s. per barrel. To London_: Grain,
12d. per bushel; flour, 4s. per barrel. To Havre: Cotton,
c. per lb.; grain, 20c. per bushel; flour, 85c. per barrel.
HAVANA, Jan. B.—The past week was almost entirely de-
voted to holiday pursuits. The stock of new sugars, about
5,000 boxes; and remaining of old, 8,000 for shipment; quota-
tions not settled. Molasses sought for at 7r. Cigars in good
demand. Exchanges declined ; London, 82 pm.
LAGUAYEA, Dec. 2L—The country is quiet, and business is
more active, particularly in the produce market. Coffee, how-
ever, arrives in small lots as yet. Fair qualities obtain readily
121 c. to 124 c. Ox and cow hides are in good demand at 201 c.
per lb.; cocoa, $23 per fanego ; indigo, 8 reals per lb. ; and
cotton, 124 c. to 13c. per lb. The agricultural condition has
greatly improved, and next year's production will exceed any
thing this country ever yielded. Its products will consist of
tobacco, Indian corn, hemp, sugar-cane, coffee, and manufac-
tures on an increased scale.

LATER INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 15, 6, P.M.—Stocks are better, but quiet.
Money and exchange unaltered. Erie, 51/ ; Michigan South-
ern, 86/ ; Reading, 84/ ; Nicaragua, 22/ ; Indiana State s's,
80; Galena and Chicago, 125 k; Michigan Central, 89/. Cot-
ton heavy and unchanged. Common and medinm grades flour
a shade higher, with a moderate demand for export and home
consumption; sales, 13,000 barrels at $7/ to $Bl, for mixed to
fancy and low grades extra Western ; $7,94 to $B, for common
State ; $8 to 8/, extra ditto ; and 91 to 111, for extra Genesee,
closing firm : 400 barrels Canadian, at $B/ to 94. Rye flour
dull at $5/ to 55,67. Wheat lower. Corn better ; sales, 31,000
bushels; new yellow and white Southern, $B6 to $9O; mixed
Western, $9l to $93, in store and delivered. Pork in better
demand, at higher prices ; sales, 700 barrels, at $l6l to $l6,
for ,mess ; $l4 for prime—Demand is chiefly for former. Beef
unchanged ; sales, 200 barrels, at $9 to $lO for country ; prime
mess, $lOl to $l2 : and $l4 to $l4l, for repacked Western.
400 barrels beef hams, at $l3 to $l4. Dressed hogs, $7/ to
$7/. Bacon sides held higher. Lard, 500 barrels, $ll/ to
$lll. Butter, $l7 to $22, and $23 to $27. Cheese, $9 to 5102.

(By Electric Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 17, EVENlNG.—European news via Hali-
fax was published here this morning, and caused cotton to
decline. Flour, also, slightly declined. Money to-day steady,
with an improving tone in the money market.
NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 11.—Sales of cotton to-day, 2,500
bales.

NEW YORK, (SEcown DESPATCH.)—The ship St. Denis,
hence for Havre, has foundered at sea. Thirty lives lost,
including all the passengers.

AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CHAMPION OF THE SEAS.
Br the "Black Ball" royal mail ship Champion of the Seas,
Captain WKirdy, which arrived on Friday, we have intelli-
gence from Melbourne to the 28th October ; Sydney to the
24th ; Adelaide, 21st ; Hobart Town, 20th ' • Launceston,
23rd ; and New Zealand, 12th. She had 25 first cabin, 38 in
second cabin, and 118 third cabin passengers. There was
one birth on board on the sth of December, and on the 24th
of the same month, one of the passengers, John Colquhoun,
committed suicide by cutting his throat.
The Champion of the Seas had on board 124,000 oz. of
gold, value about £496,000, 1185 bales of wool, 13 bales of
sheepskins, 40 casks of tallow, 382 bags tin ore, 3120 bags
copper ore, 3 barrels of oil from New Zealand, and 202
packages of sundries.

The'James Baines, M•Donnell, hence, arrived at Melbourne
on the 23rd October, 78 days from Liverpool. In one day she
logged the extraordinary distance of 543 miles.
On her passage home, the Champion of the Seas spoke the
following vessels :—Nov. 7th, the Mercedes, from Sydney to
Valparaiso; 29th, Anglo Saxon, from Liverpool; Dec. 16th,
Woodbrilge, from London to Akyab ; 17th, Electra, from
Liverpool to Melbourne; 19th, Ellen Radford, Liverpool to
Valparaiso ; 20th, Anglo Saxon, from New York to San Frw-
cisco; 22nd, Arequipa, steering north; and 26th, Medora,
steering north.
The following vessels had also arrived out :—Oct. 17th, the
James Paton, from Glasgow; 18th, Statesman, from London ;
23rd, Cromwell, from Plymouth ; the Vriendtrow and the
Bucephalus, from Liverpool, at Adelaide.
The Shalimar was to sail for Liverpool, Nov. 10, and the
James Baines, Nov. 25.
The reports from the gold fields were most promising, and
the produce of the mines greatly on the increase. Another
finding had taken place, in the shape of a nugget weighing
730 ounces, at a working situate between Old Daisy Hill and
Back Creek.

The quantity of gold exported from Melbourne in 1855
(exclusive of the amount shipped per Champion of the Seas)
amounted to 83 tons 9 cwts. 2 qrs. 5 lb. 8 oz., in all above
2,000,000 ounces, of the wine of £8,013,872.
The gold escort for the week was considerably under au
average oue, which may be accounted for from the number of
rushes that have occurred for the last two or three weeks.
When the diggers get settled down to work again we may
look for better returns. The most important of the new fields
is that of Fiery Creek, at which .a population of 30,000 to
40,000 is congregated. _

The-sale of Cr"own lands in the neighbourhood of Melbourne
.continue,s,(sais the Argus) to tahibitazarked change in the

pipit of the people. The competition during the Octobi_r,
ssales has been by no means active, and large quantities we"
withdrawn for want of purchasers.
—Tte
The Melbourne Argus, of the 25th October, says:
spring trade for the supply of inland demands has ralr'' ne
t
in, but many circumstances have prevented that improveoe4
in trade which has been generally looked for. The prices "te
breadstuffs have ruled high, and the uncertainty of adecil!'./d
supplies of this staple article of consumption has
an unfavourable influence on the markets. The unfortunate
state state of commercial affairs in Sydney, where a sort of cr_i!,•
little inferior, apparently, in intensity, to that which r.
bourne has just passed through, checks speculation. !,",
crisis, like that of Melbourne, having arisen from over-traol4
and over-importation, it is certain that a great portion of wo
surplus, in the shape of bankrupt stock, will be forced
this market; and, in this way, the material revival in ne
and confidence, which was anticipated, will, it is fear
retarded. The general prosperity of the population oil
gold-fields, which is evidenced by increasing consumptiont.P.:,
by the presence of buyers in the town markets to meet trise;
present wants, has added to the firmness in prices. W,Te4eit,
remark that sales of merchandise have, within the last "oula
been at an advance of 10 per cent. on the prices that wA.
have been gladly taken at the commencement of the gion"'-of
The conduct of Sir Henry Young, the Lieut.-Governor 1.
Tasmania, has caused the utmost indignation in that 64.,,,°1ink
The consequence was, that on the 15th of October a w,he
exeret:te
numerously-attended and influental meeting was held at"„ 4
Criterion Hotel, Melbourne. and the following resolut
were adopted :—" That the arbitrary conduct of Sir geliro.
Fox Young, the Governor of Tasmania, in suddenly P.
rouging the Council for the purpose of forcibly suPPressli?c't
inquiry into the conduct of certain officers of the C°llcl3l.
Department of the colony, charged with the grossest ii!,A
version of their respective offices, and the unprecedeutTe
mode of prorogation adopted by him, in going int° te,
Council at a late hour of the night, in the midst of a debu
without the usual formal notice, is an abuse of the pc'u're;
confided to him by Her Most Gracious Majesty, which t
calculated to bring her name and authority into conteuir
and which would, if successful, be utterly destructive of te.
independence of the Legislature. That this meeting their
pathises with the Legislative Council of Tasmania, it td
conflict with an arbitrary, and irresponsible Executive, an
tenders to the said Council the assurance of its cordial l,eo
port in maintaining inviolate their right to inquire into On
affecting the welfare of the colony, and thereby maintain,
the rights and liberties of the people whom they represent:

COMMERCIAL. nts
There was no change in the value of gold, but shipoewhe
were active, brokers buying at £3 15s. 3d. per ounce. •""
general rates were £3 15s. 3d. to £3 15s. 6d. per ounce. e,
There was a considerable demand for money at Melbon:6
in small amounts, at short dates. The rate of interest
10 to 10i per cent. for lengthened periods. • es
Breadstuffs were improving in value. Fine flour, £3B,
conds, £36 ; and Chilian, £37 per ton.
WooL.—The shipments of wool from Melbourne to Octob,er
10th were 15,360,784 lbs., of the declared value of £883,;''6,
being an increase of 26 per cent. over the previous seno,.
Very little of the new clip had come forward. The latest (I'lsl
tations were—superior flocks, 150. to 17d. • fair to good, lse,
to ls. 3d., inferior to average, ls. to ls. ld. ; broken, low,
10d. to 11d.; locks, grease, &c., sd. to Bd. ; handwashed afl
slipe, 10d. to ls. ld. ; scoured, ls. 2d. to ls. 5d.; sheep-0
full wool, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. each.
•
TALLow.—A few parcels changed hands at previous prigs'
viz., £37 to £4O per ton.
Exchange on London, drafts against gold purchased, °,l/ee
per cent. Freight of gold, 4d. per ounce, delivered at t'
Bank of England. Insurance, two per cent.
LABOUR.—Labour of every description is rapidly rising!
value, and any man or woman willing to accept work now !:A
perience little difficulty in obtaining it, as a scarcity of a
male and female servants is beginning to be felt. Maras
couples without encumbrance have been engaged as hign,.,
£l3O per annum. The orders from the various gold fleidtu,s2o
female servants are daily increasing, and much less difficulty
now experienced in getting suitable parties to proceed thither'