The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT

Prop. Capital ... 7£14,553,000,G0v. Securities £9,789,376
Rest .. ... 3,205,482 Other Securities 18,360,761
Public Deposits 4,428,44;iN0tes 6,556,625
Other Deposits 12,322,462 Gold & Silver Coin 643,353
7-day & other bills 840,7311

.4.:35,350,1151

£35,350,115

The SHARE MARKET has been most inactive the last
week, prices varying* to 1 the principal business being
among the jobbers. Great Westerns have advanced,
being oversold. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 771 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 711 ; London Stock, 941 ;
Sheffield Stock, 231 2 ; Midland Stock, 64; North
British, 71 • South Eastern, 17 3-16 ; Dutch Rhenish,
13-16 d; dreat Western of Canada, 24Z ; Pacific
Steam Company,-31.
COTTON.—The market &wing the week has been
comparatively quiet, as late advices reported heavy
receipts, rising rivers, and prices tending downwards,
on the other side the Atlantic. The prospects of the
crop are also more favourable than were at one time
anticipated ; for, although estimates vary, it appears
to be generally admitted that the yield will be a very
large one. With reference to the stock on hand in
this port, an opinion appears to prevail that it is
actually larger than shown by the tables ; but as the
amount will be declared in a few days the question will
soon be set at rest. Holders have freely offered their
stocks, but purchases have been chiefly confined to
immediate wants, and prices are unchanged. The sales
for the week, up to Friday, amounted to 36,130 bales,
of which 2,660 were taken on speculation and 2,420
for export, leaving 31,050 for the trade. On Saturday
the sales were about 5,000 bales, all to the trade. To-
DAY no market has been held. The following is a
ocomparison of present rates with those of the
,torresponding period last year :

New Orleans, middling

„ fine
Upland, middling

SALES.

VKICE3. Week Previ-

ending ously

Dec. 21 this yr.
Sea Isisatd
Stained
Boweda
Mobile 5 6 , 6740 344260
New Orle,ans 4 74 8480 1092110
Pernamilietc 5l 61 1750 47360
Bahia, &C.
Maranham 6 61' 270 48950
Demerara, &c 6,1 8i 60 700
5 9 , 1940 119620
& C0m.W.1..c 5 I 140 7430
Rana ...... 4i, 7170 480980,

Madras .....
Bengal i 3

... 5350
50 3020

36130 29745001

PaoutTac.—The market for sugar has assumed a
steadier tone, and although no alteration in prices can
be quoted, holders show less disposition to realise.
The transactions have been but limited in amount, and
as the year is now drawing to a close there will be no
market suatil Wednesday next week. In Coffee little
business has been done, and prices are unchanged. In
Tea there :axe few sales to report ; common Congous
have sold at Old. to 94d. per lb., and of other descrip-
tions transactions have been quite of a retail character.
There has been no improvement to notice in the demand
for Rice, the only sales having been 2,000 bags of low
middling Bengal at 15s, per cwt. Rum is somewhat
lower in price, and in Molasses there has been nothing
doing. Hides have been sold at public sales at fair
rates. For Palm Oil lower prices would have been
aecepted, but the demand has been on the most limited
scale, the sales being barely 100 tons, at irregular
prices. Tallow has been very flat, and the business
done quite of a retail character, at 68s. to 695. per cwt.
for Petersburgh, Y.C. In Jute a good business has
been done at full prices, about 1,300 bales having been
sold at prices ranging from £l5 10s. for fair common,
to £22 12s. 6d. per ton for extra fine. Bombay Hemp
has fetched £l6 per ton.
WooL.—The demand for good Mediterranean and
Levant Wool still continues, and prices are a little
firmer, but the smallness of stocks limit the transac-
tions to a considerable extent. In low Smyrna,
Barbary, &c., of which the greatest portion of the
stocks consist, there is nothing doing. For Egyptian
there has been less enquiry, but prices remain un-
altered. Generally speaking, the market wears a firm
aspect, and it is fully believed that at the beginning
of the year things will be much better. Imports for
the week-1,334 bales East India, 331 Mediterranean,
39 Portugal, 18 Irish, and 2 Scotch. Total, 1724 bales.

SUICIDE IN WALTON GAOL.—On Saturday morning
Joseph Davies, aged twelve years, who had been committed by
the borough magistrates as a reputed thief, was found dead in
his cell, suspended from a bell fastener by means of his necker-
chief. He appeared cheerful when locked up on Friday night.At the inquest, on Saturday, a verdict of ",felo de se was
returned.