Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

foot; A vessel (VW (Vrigaged to • lead with cotton at,
Mobile for Liverpool at private teems.
IRON.-Scotclk pig continued firm, with moderate
sales at $24. In small lots from yard it was sold at $25
per' ton. Mr. 'James Byrne, in his monthly circular
regarding the movements' in metals, remarks as follows :
-A few outside. lots of one-third charcoal tin plate
were disposed of at $9 37 six' months, and two invoices
of refined bar iron, ex ship,
:at $5l 50 six. Months.
However, the market is' now entirely bare of outside
lots, and closes firm at the quotations above. •
PROVISIONS.-Pork The demand opened heavy, and,
lower ; the concession attracted, purchasers, and prices,.
were increased at the decline, which embraced about
1,600 bbls. at $l5 to $l5 15 for mess, $l5 to $l5 121 for
uninspected mess, clear at $l7 10,:and $lO 621 for piinie.
Beef was heavy : the sales embraced abont 350 bbls.,
including Ohl country prime, at -$4 ; new do. at $4 50,
old mess do. at $5, new do. at $5 50, new repacked moss
at $9 50 to $lO, and extra.do. at $lO 50. Beef Hams
were in fair demand,
.with, sales of 150 bbls. at. $l5 to
$l5 50. Cut meats were in fair demand, and firm.
Lard was heavy : sales of 275 bbls. were made at 401 c.
to .11C.; the latter figure for small lots prime quality.
COTTON. •'
(From Misers. IY. P:lVriga and Co.'s• Circular.)
There has been a moderate demand for Cotton in this.:
market during the past week, without change of moment-,
;ininice, the sales consisting' chiefly of Uplands on the.
wharf and to arrive, on the baiis of Die. for middling
quality. Yesterday, after the receipt of telegrams from
various points of the Cotton region announcing the,
occurrence of the frost; a better demand at once set in,
and the sales*of: the day amounted to 2,500 bales, closing
at an advance of fully
,ke. per lb. The sales of the week
are estimated at 6,090 bales. The clearance for the
same time have.been, to Liverpool,' 1,890 bales; Ham-
burg 414 bales ; and Bremen 258 bales. Total,
2,56'2 bales. Cotton in transitu : The market for
floating cotton is more settled •and active. The basis of
the business has been, middling Orleans, with 9-16 d.
freight, at 1 Mobiles, same freight, at 11'c., and
middling Uplands, with Zd. freight, at 1 lc. ; strict mid-
dling, 1 ; good middling, 1 I,lc. The sales during the
pastweek have amounted to 3,000 bales. ,The quantity
offering is not large, and holders are firm. By telegraph
fora week later, we learn that a large business has been
done at full, but, not higher rates. The buying has been
chiefly on English and French account, with some liAle
for our domestic consumers. SO far as we are able to
discover, there has been less doing on American account
for export, sOfar this season, than usual. Yesterday
alt;the markets in' the South were active. At New
Orleans:l2,ooo bales sold, middling lie. ; Mobile, 6,000
bales, middling loge. ;: Savannah, 3,800 bales, lc. advance;
Charleston, 5,000 bales, advancing tendency. Sandy
Cotton.: Weirear more and More of this' evil, and in
New" Orleans ithefaCtOrs have been obliged to sell the
better, and keep-the-poorer grades with sand. This is
a step in the right direction, and: if persevered in by
purchasers, the planters will very soon discover where
their interest lies, and take more care in preparing
tilicgx crops for the market. In Mobile, great .com-
plaints ato made •of sand and leaf; and the
bulk of the: samples received in this city are
more_ or less impregnated with both. Purcha-
sers so far have not been able to buy the good without
taking the lower qualities with sand, hence Mobile
.cotton is riot so easily sold in this market. Crop : The
telegraph 'yesterday brought us accounts from various
points:in the Sduth,, which makes it almost certain that
the further. maturing of cotton for this year is at an
end. A killing frost is said to have paSsed over the
entire cotton region on the nights of the 29th and' 30th
October. Of course it will be some weeks before
we Can learn 'the consequences from this frost. 'ln
the meantime, however, its; effect on the public mind
will :be to regard 4,000,000 bales as any- extreme
estimate for crop, subject to reduction in the 'event
of sufficient evidence being hereafter developed to
warrant it. -Receipts at the ports continue large, and
are likely to be large for months ; the rivers are high,
new railroads opened, roads in good order, and prices
-satisfactory, so that there is every inducement and
• facility for planters to hurry their crops to market and
realise them. 'We have upon several occasions insisted
that large early receipts do not 'of necessity imply large
'amps, and that comparisons are often calculated to mis-
lead. The present table of receipts, compared with last
year, .or of any •previous year, is no oorreet indication, of
the extent of this crop, and we would caution the
trade against the deductionsthese coniparisons- are likely
to produce.' s
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
,since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous
.cur years, .
• ' • 1859. 1568. 1837. 1856. 1855.
Reel a' Ports 645,000 450,000.249,000 448,000 481,000
Ex. to G. B 181,000 103,000 87,000 50,000 162,090
„ Prance 51,009 .54,000 19,000 41,000 33;000
„ other F. P.
Total Eiports
-Stock on hand 450,000 '888;000 169,000 ,303,000 289,040

Of which, during the. past week, included in the above :
Lee. at Ports
Lx to G. B. 33,000. 23,000 30,000 21,000 38,000
~ France ... lO,OOO 20,000, ' 6,000 8,000 9,000
„, others. P. 7,000 2,000 4,000 4,000 9,000
Total Exports:, 50,000 43,000 40,000 33,000 56,000