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

LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

year 1855, are taken from the brokers' annual cir-
cular, issued this day :---
" The total import into this port during the present
year has amounted to 2,140,147 bales, being an in-
crease of 73,852 bales as compared with last year,
and an increase of 111,317 bales as with that in
1853.
" The export from this port amounts to 234,310
bales, against 229,622 bales in 1854, and 259,549
bales in 1853.
" The stock in Liverpool, as declared this day, is
428,810 bales, against 551,340 bales in 1854, and
597,500 bales in 1853, showing a decrease in the
actual quantity this year of 63,840 American, 8050
Maranham, 120 West India, 7,540 Egyptian, 64,410
Surat, and 2,000 Bengal ; and an increase of 17,000
Pernams, and 6,430 Bahia. The actual increase as
compared with the estimated stock being 37,196 bales.
" The total deliveries for home consumption from the
ports of the United Kingdom are 2,096,623 bales,
being an average weekly delivery of 40,319 bales,
against 37,483 bales in 1854, and 35,675 bales in
1853."
The following are the stocks of cotton held in
Liverpool on the 31st of December, 1855 :-
10,240 Sea Island
1,590 Stained
84,220 Bowed
83,240 Mobile
102,590 Orleans
22,560 Pernam
18,440 Bahia
21,V00 Maranham
48,290 Egyptian .
750 Demerara ......
60 Barbadoes
Peruvian
100 Smyrna . ,
720 La Guayra
800 Carthagena
970 West India, Sz.
81,610 Surat ..
590 Madras
140 Bengal

428,810
Last year..

231,880 ArAtrlcali.

62,000 Brazil.

413,200 Egyptian.
810

2,590.

82 340
' , •

428,810
551,340.

WooL.—The buginess of the week has been veTy
unimportant, the ,Christmas holidays and the near
approach of the close ,of the year preventing any large
operations. Prices :remain firm, with prospects favour-
able for the confing Tear ; we have, therefore, mo new
feature to adiiise'iince our last. Imports for `tile week,
1016 bales aselnao., 377 Mediterranean, 11:50 Bueno's
Ayres, 139 'Portugal, 31 Irish, and 3 Scottih:; total,
1716 bales.
Mesvrs.-ITOstl4ll ROBINSON and Co., in vleir annual
circular, •says::—
Throughout 'the year manufacturers have been well em-
ployed in Ineaiiyall the departments of the woollen districts.
In sarne'branehts business has not beensolloarighing ; never-
theless, -a. -steady consumption has gone forward': and, where
army elothinrorders have been distribrited, -great activity is
aprretit. .01i the whole, the wool trade is 'sterling in its re-
egureinefits;tand almost free from speedlative demand, which
is 'the 'beit,evidence of its soundness. 'The- imports of wool
far the-yeSiinto this port number 120;870 bales, which shows
an increase- of 30,793 bales on the previons'year's import. This
rnaybeatevonted for by an increase ininure supply of Peruvian
w'biali - are only small packages), an 'additional supply of
MOhair;and the Australian, forwardeirto London. The pro-
'babilityls, that the receipts into allike ports will manifest a
great ilerliine in weight on low wodls,nAichmust cause serious
zincopvernence, if the presentcommmption is maintained. Great
:surprise was apparent when it became known, that the wool
exported in 1854, was double Mei:quantity of 1853, and still
greater will be the apprehension -*hen it is known that, in
1.855-i!ene exportation of low foreign'wools, was one-half the
'receipts, and twice the rpnartity . exported in 1854. The
.qoe'stion now introduced, is, sslttile future supply ; that It
tam i.e for some time precarious, and uncertain, cannot be
idotlited, and as the manufacturers of many goods are entirely
i'dependent on foreign wools, fo:ity-one prospect is prominent,
ornfi its evidence will be a mouirltlerable rise on the present
i •Ivaloe. It is quite certain, iparties will not bring produce with
lthe foretaste of inevitableloss.
SALES OF Snirs.—ln Ir&ference to this important
htiranch of trade, it will lbe i'found that a considerable
I-falling off has been ,expeiienced, in the year which
7ilias just closed, in the amtrunt of tonnage whichihas
1., changed owners.
Compared with the precedir.g year, (say Messrs. Touge and
'Co. in their annual cireular,,ibitol this day), it will be observed
kthat there is a deerease.of aeleast 65 per cent. in the amount
-of tonnage sold, and a retinal:ran of about 20 per cents in the
-prices per ton obtained for-new ships. The year opened with
-the market much depressed, and low prices ruled urftil the
'bulk of ships belonging to' the estate of Mr. E. Oliver were
.disposed of, when a slight-reaction was observable, andsecond-
"class vessels, from 306 -to .1350 tons, were purchased readily,
:at improved rates, for ihe.'Swedish and Norwegian' timber
trade. Our fleet of new -hips this year from the colonies has
been considerably below 'the average, which we stfriibute to
the monetary depresdion mxperienced in Canada, New`Bruns-
wick, &c., for the last.dighteen months, and to the hitt rates
of shipwright wages. rreal April to September,..we may
quote for first-qnallity 'ships, to class A 1 for seven:years,
£7 7s. to £8 per tom, antiPatterly, notwithstanding the check
-caused to trade by The 'high rate of discount, an 'increased
tendency towards firmer prices has been observable, and
which is chiefly attributable to the remunerative employment
at present obtainalieforsliips of large tonnage, fen-conveying
to this country an immense stock of Cotton and Pireadstuffs,
-now in course of shipment in the American ports, amitionlarly
New Orleans, Mobile,anorliew York, as well as to therecent
-decree-of the PrenelLgovernment, permitting the importation
.of foreign vessels, on payment of an ad valorem duty 'of 10
per cent. Several Ships' kave already changed hands, in-
tended for the Prendh Tmerchant service, at an advance of
10s. per ton, and we theme noticed that those vessels selected
have been new offloniabbsilt, seven years ships; .ranging
from 400 tons to 700 tons, of easy draft airf water.
"The new fleet this year., comprises vessels of a _generally
:superior class, andoveare.glad to notice a markedimprove-
vnent in model, finish, and outfit. We would, however re-
-commend our shipbuilding friends on the other side of the
Atlantic to confine themselves to ships of a smaller tonnage,
;as several of those recentlyeent to this market-of from 1,450
-to 1,650 tons-are, With few exceptions, too large for our re-
,quirements, and, consequently, lie long on hand.; -waist
[handy vessels-of from -850 to 1,050 tons register, to-class
"seven years A 1, with goolimowage capacity, fine ends,.a long
.iwoad floor, not toe shallow, and say of about the .followiug
-proportions, viz., length ..170 feet over all, extreme:beam:B3
feet, depth 21 feet-invariably meet with a ready salerat good.
prices. We notice !little fluctuation in the value of British-
-built ships, those of laigh.olass at Lloyd's having throughout
the year maintained fully;pretious rates ; and the shipbuild-
ring yards throughout the kingdom are in full work, -several
of the most eminent ibuildersiliaving entered into large.eon.
'tracts for government purposes. Iron ships seem to have
-somewhat improved in favour, :particularly since the regent
-regailation at Lloyd's, admittiagahose built under survey to
-bix,itine, or twelve years A a...€ clipper-ships, they stand
,unrivalled for speed ; makcould-the difficulty of keeriustberl
(from fouling be overcome, we-see tno reason why they -should
:nest, far many trades, eutirelye't&e the precedence of wood
ships. The war in the lilaok•Senliss caused, throughout the
:year's. very active demand for-stenrc vessels of every &scrip-
'ion-ribose constructed .®f iiron,aand propelled by the screw,
.havirigthe preference ; the smaller class of which, suitable
`'for toiling purposes, carryisigdespatdhes, &c., have, in many
:instances, been purchased Jay ;parties in this country as ow-
, culation, and large profits lassie been. realised on the resale .on
their arriiial at Constantinople.
in regard to American AbiPtilding for the pad
year, ;MeAs' rs. CURRY and Co,, inttheir annual circular,
dated Ist,January, say :-
From.tbe United States, the returna4how an extraordinary
decreaseecemared to that of 1854,the Compiler in New York
accomparlies.them with this remark-..'"Mte past has been a
year of ,depression unexampled within .is generation in the
shippards. t,lt is evident little will be Idoae on speculation.
The ships layidlAing now are for sane flpecific and ascertained
purpose." flndoding sailing and steamrvossels, the returns
in 1851are.47,---,29,867 tons, against 10811;390 in 1854. On
the stoekcateloae 17=21,720, against 1.6--0,933 in 1854. The
total nnealierof -skips in course of construction in our North
American colonies, and which may be look for in all this
year, is as under ,'(tot including coasters,,of which there is a
considerable number expected from Prince J.:Award Island,
Pictou, dre.);-44410-bec, 17=17,850 ; St. JOhWa, 19=20,600;
Miramichi, Sestigoucie, &c.,14=11,100--making a total of
60 large ships, equal:to 49,550 tons. The neturn.of ships in
the employment .of onv government, up to the lat. of August,
including steam and -sailing vessels, is 208, equal tto 207,389
tons. The new mode of measurement has considerably de-
creased the tonnage of .vessels to which it has been :applied,
the average being about l' per cent. We believe theproopects
for the year are good., and sikat prices may become -more re-
munerative to the bulklere.tespecially for those of fpora!;"o9 to
tons.