The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-20 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

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81:70AR.—Bararoi, Barr. 17.—The raw Ana maika4
here continues firm, and prices are decidedly better than thp quo,
tons of this day se'nnlght. Bellned goods are she in (sir demand.
There was not much inquiry fur ram, bat prices were lino The a.
rivals this week have bei n—ln the Minerva, from Trinidel, 621 Man,
26 tierces, and 14 brie. sugar ; In the Lucy, Gam Antigua,
2 Uerces, 20 brie. sugar, 32 puncheons 111061.1., 111 pUr.o^oll•tia;
in the Sincerity, Gum Limerick, 1,004 bap of augur, .30 lank, 3
tierces sugar.

COTTON.—LIVEI:rooL, SEPT. 18.—The market today
was very dull; the .ales 2000 hales. The till in prices today ho
been from to 4—since Augueet 10,
I in Americo.. Prime to.d.,
New orleana, 6to 74. Bowed Georms, t to 74. burata, 41 to 51.
MANcIIEuTEU, SEPT. 18.—The shipping trade continue
much in the state but quoted, the demand for both yarn• cad rIM
being very languid, with prices slightly in favour of the buyer. The
home trade La tolerably brieek. So (sr en Slaneheatcr I.
there has been no farther stoppage of mills, and the newa from the
United States of a more abundant crop for the ensuing Tray, .01111
few hundred bales of which have already found their nay Into the
market, has had a tendency to revive the confidence of ruanuf.eceureni,
rota ithetanding the deprewing indunices arietng out of the late
failure to London and a leewhere, _ .

WOOLLENS.—LEEIm, Sere. 18.—There was a Rood
attendance of merchants at our cloth-tolls this mon.ing, yet the bun.
mu tunneled was not so barge as at recent markets. The diminished
dernoad In attributed to recent occurrent-es in the metrorolitaw money
market, and not taken as any indication erepresalon In the uswoo
manufacture. likime of the merchant purchased freely of vaned
coloured cb.tha of the finer nosing". In the lower description of
goods, vromled blues, bearer% Note, matinee. Sia, were to reqsin.
tion. In the warehouses the merchant have been pretty busily en-
gaged during the week, u many of the country drapers have been
selecting their winter stocks.
AUL WARE.-13taXMOIIAW, SEPT. 18.—The depres-
sion in trade here scum, to be still increasing, but in the present de.
plorable state of commercial Interest, manufactnurs are acarce), so
heedful about a scarcity of orders as they are about the chance: a
obligations already incurred hung met in proper time. Die time has
not yet arrived when the result of late failures would
derelope themselves here but Po fir 04 we hare been
n i able to a ertaln there s not much ground for apple.
hen.lon that these will be directly harmful to any very
conadesille extent; but of their indirect injury there can be ns
doubt, and the amount of it intliced it would be as didleu It to est*.
mate as to exaggerate. The foregoing remarks will app', not °Ely to
this place, but to the mineral districts; and this information, winch
may be relied Upon, will allay some uneulness which we know his
been felt with reference to these tuts in various quart T. Here It is
not likely that any considerable Inv.ilrement would in any case arbe;
a fact which is mainly attributable to the peculiar eircuinstanors
under which the trade is carried on that it, Me dispersion of the
various and multitudinous breathes of manufactures among.l so large
a number of principals—thew, too, working for the too p.ir) with an
amount of capital barely alequate to carry on their bwinr-s, imluce
such a modicum of caution as to render failures of comparatiuly rare
occurrence; and it has the further effect of rendering unnecessary
lard in fact impossible) th, ikeurrecee of enormous hJlehtles by
single individual% as is the ea,e (and in all probability nrcee,arily
so) in Lancashire and other parts of the country. In tin,. Ike
these halo difference In the mode of carrying on businus is here ad.
untsgeoludy felt.