The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-23 00:00:00

COTTON.

In this market, during the past week, a good demand
has prevailed, and I estimate the sales at 8,000 bales. The
amount of cotton offering from store has been rather limited,
and prices have gradually improved, and closed yesterday
very firmly at my quotations, which show an advance of ac
per lb. The business has been principally for shipment to
England and the Continent. The export for the week
amounts to 4,741 biles, viz., to Liverpool, 2,588; Havre,
961 ; Antwerp, 646 ; Hamburg, 442 ; Bremen, 104.
COTTON IN TRANSITII has been again in good request,
with a further improvement of le per lb. The sales for the
week I estimate at 10,000 bales, closing at the following
quotations on the basis of 9-16 d freight : Orleans, middling,
13e ; barely middling, 12/e ; low middling, 122 c ; good
ordinary, 12e. Mobiles, about ic below these rates, and
in Uplands, with td ; strict middling, 13c ; and good mid-
dling, 131 e. There is a fair supply on the market, but
holders ask prices above the quotations and are indifferent
about selling.
By telegraph the following has been received :
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 6 : Receipts for the week, 37,000
bales ; same week last year, 44,000. Sales to day, 10,500
and for the week, 60,500 Exports for the week to Liver-
pool, 16,000 ;to 8...-ere, 21,000. Middling, 12 to 12-,le
per lb. Frei9tA to Liverpool, 9-16 d. Havre, 1 3-16 c per
lb. Excl'':ing-e on London, 107 per cent.
NP:1? ORLEANS, Feb. 7 : The Africa's accounts to hand
'have imparted additional strength to the market, and sales
of 20,000 bales have been made to day at an advance of
kc. 121,e, and not easy to buy. There is a very
large quantity of trash and ordinary cotton, every body
seems afraid to touch it.

Cuor : There is nothing in the developments at the
South received during the past week to shake confidence in
the opinion that the crop will result in a total of less than
3,000,000 bales.

RECE:PTS : As made up in the annexed table, the receipts
for the week under review have been 69,000 bales, against
82,000 same week last year. The excess is reduced to
25,000, and will be further reduced next week. The
receipts at Charleston and Savannah of late are said to
have been greatly at the expense of interior stock, owing
to difficulties at inferior bank agencies ; in confirmation of
this, a reduction of the stock in Augusta and Macon has
taken place of 10,200 bales during last montb, against 4,900
same month last year. A strong point will probably be
shown when the receipts for this month at the various in-
terior markets are known, for during February of last year
they were larger than ever before known. New Orleans,
however, is closely watched, and attracts most attention ;
the receipts at that port, so far, are short of what they were
in 1853, although in excess of last season. During the
following four weeks in 1853, the receipts at New Orleans
were 200,000. The total New Orleans receipts in 1853
being 80,000 less than in 1856, and the receipts so far
30,000 to 60,000 less than in 1853, it would not be incon-
sistent with my opinion of the result of the pres?nt crop,
should the New Orleans receipts to date have been fully
50,000 larger than they are.
A few weeks will make all the probabilities much clearer
to those concerned. I have not space to exhibit the
remarkable reduction of receipts by the Vicksburg Railroad,
nor other facts connected with the interior markets, which
begin to lorshadow a full and palpable confirmation of my
estimate of this crop.

EXPORTS—For Great Britain are large this week, being
66,000 bales. The tables will show a deficit of 225,000 as
compared with last year, and 308,000 as compared with
1853. The buyers for France and the Continent are still at
work, and it will be noticed the clearances for these places
from New York are larger than for some time past. There
is a large business doing in the South for Russia.

SToe'i. —The recent clearances at the South begins to
tell on the stock on hand, and very soon a further dimuni-
tion will take place, as some 120,000 bales have been sold
in New Orleans during the past two weeks.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous
four years : _ _