The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPIR.TMEN T.

Notes issued ... £24,390,330 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
!Other Securities 3,459,900
IGdld coin & bairn. 9,916,330
'Silwr bullion ...

£21,390,330 £24,390,330
BANKING DEPASTMENT.

Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000:G0v. Securities £11,946,006
Rest 3,470,04610ther Securities 19,185i/77
Public 'Deposits 4,141,551 Notes 6,848,810
Other Deposits 14,762,364 Gold & Silver Coin 660,062
7-day &other bills 713,094

£37,640.0551

£37,640,055

Ora 'SHARE MARKET has been very quiet all the
week, waiting the result of the peace negotiations.
To-day it has been more active, owing to these having
assumed so favourable an aspect, and there have been
some extensive purchases of stock at higher prices
than have ruled during the week. The quota-
tions are :—Caledonian, 281 ; Eastern Counties,
913-16.; East Lancashire, 171; Great Western, 591;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 82* 83 s ; London and
North Western, 100 998 100 I ; ditto, 1--shares, Id. ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 244; Midland,
691 48 12 70 70 s 4 ; North Eastern, Berwick
capital stool, 191 ; South Eastern, 901 s 2 ; Royal
Insurance, lip; Liverpool United Gas, 190.
COTTON.—There has been a fair demand during the
week, the last advices reporting a falling off in the
receipts on -the other side, and American descriptions
experienced a slight advance in price. The sales for
the week, up to Friday, reached 65,580 bales of which
13,320 were taken on speculation, and 3,250 for ex-
portation, leaving 49,010 for the trade.—TO-DAY, the
sales amount to 12,000 bales ; of which 2poo are for
export, and-2,000 taken on speculation.
The following is a comparison of present rates with
those of the corresponding period of last year :-
1855 1856

New Orleans, middling
fair
Upland, middling

,751-1 e 51
•• 5i 64
.. q 5 13-16
5t

~ itur
I SALES.
------- tatpoars. ATOCK
r-
. 7% r—./.. -----` ----"--
DESCRIPTION. PRICES.! Week Previ- Week This
lending ously ending Year. Feb. 29
Feb. 29. this yr. Feb. 29.
Sea Island
Stained
Boweds
Mobile 5 4 4690 44350 1 14966 239201 269000
New Orleans 413 7i 27230 197430 )
Pernams,&c 6 7i 880 9720 1149 8897 20620
Bahia, &c.
Maranham 6 7f 1570 6120 .... 4855 19050
Demerara,&c — .... 150 .... .... 600
Egyptian 5/ 91 2150 p 1340 2551 12891 38770
C0m.W.1.3a — .... 2340 .... 1411 900
Surat 3l 5 12770 80020 1
Madras
Bengal
655807482490 28025 394854 394820

1 655

PRODUCIL—Sugar has been in good demand, both
for home consumption and export, and extensive salee
have been made at an advance of Is per cwt. on all
descriptions. No change in Coffee to notice. For Tea
there has been more inquiry, and sales have been made
at full rates. Rice difficult of sale. Rum in more
demand. Palm Oil has been in fair request at £3B lOs
to £4O per ton. In Tallow little doing ; Petersburg,
Y. C., 59s per cwt. To-DAY :---There has been a
strong market for Sugar since Friday, at a further
advance of 6d. per ewt. ; the business comprising 125
hhds. Demerara from 355. 9d. to 375. 6d., including
grainy, at 41s. 6d. to 425. 3d. ; 200 bags Madras, at
335. ; 3,800 mats Mauritius, at 355. for very low
brown, up to 40s. for fine ; and 6,700 bags Brazil,
chiefly at 21s. 6d. to 225. per cwt. About 120 pun-
cheons Rum, chiefly Demerara, have found buyers at
previous prices. Of Coffee, 350 bags Maracaibo, are
reported at 51s. 6d. to 525. ; and 90 bags Rio, at 445.
to 465. ; also 350 bags Bahia Cocoa, at 38s. per cwt.
Tea is steady, but not much business doing. We have
a better demand for Rice, the sales, including 2,400
bags Bengal, at lls. for middling, and 9s. to 9s. 6d.
for yellow cargo ; 700 bags Arracan, at 10s. ; and 70
tierces Carolina, at 235. per cwt. 200 bags fine
Saltpetre have brought 345. to 345. 6d. per cwt. ; and
200 bags black Pepper, 51d. per lb.
Messrs. Jos. ROBINSON and Co., in their monthly
circular, say ;—.

Many parties interested in the trade incline to the opinion
that the present position of the wool trade is attributable to
the prospects of an immediate peace. This is not the fact, the
scanty arrivals and empty warehouses attest a different view,
which is more than confirmed by the exports being in greater
proportion to the receipts than usual. The scarcity, which is
not prescribed to foreign classes only, but also to our home•