The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-18 00:00:00

[ From the London New Price Coarcnt, Dec. 17.1

COTTON.--The cotton market has been very steady this week;
the purchases considerable; the prices rather higher. The letter,
front Liverpool state, 2,30.1 bags of Cotton were sold on IVednce-
day ; the market looked fine.
bl.D.lll.—The Sugar market received a great impulse early in
the week, from the news of the destruction of Colonial prtshice at
St. Petersburg!' ; Muscovarles, in consequence, advanced Is. a 2s.
and very large sales were effected ; since then the market has be-
come heavy, and though the advance is maintained for good and
strong Sugars, yet the middling and inferior are offered on lather
lower tering. The Refined market advanced 2s. a 3s. early in the
week ; since then there is a great heaviness in the trade, and the
prices of low goods arc a shade lower ; the tine did not rive in pro-
portion to low goods, and they are offered to-day on terms nearly
the same as previously. to the advance, and are particularly heavy ;
one reason of the heaviness is, that parcels taken by speculators are
offered for re-sale, and rather pressed on the market. 3lolasscs are
:Gs. tkl. Foreign Sugars advanced 2s. a 3s. early in the week ;1
since then the market has become dull, and at the public sale yea-1
terday, prices Is. ads. lower titan previously obtained by private
contract were submitted to; the sale consisted of 270 chests
Ilavannah Sugar:—White, fine 40s a Ds. ; good 33a. a M.,. CA. ;
yellow 211 s. a 2*. fad. The public gale this forenoon went off Is. a
2s. under the prices obtained by private contract early in the week ;
it consisted of 232 chests Brazil Sugar :—Bernatirt„ white ordinary
Vs- • 31a.; middling 325. a acs. ; Itio, white middling 33r. a 114 s. ;
yellow 235. a 27... • brown 235. a 21s.
COFFEE.—'fare public sales of Coffee this week have gore off
heavily, but without any reduction in the pries; good ordinary
St. Domingo has been sold at 511 a. There were no public salt. this
forenoon, and no purchases by private contract were reported.
TALLOW and HEM P.—'Thera have been extensive purchases
of Tallow, and for parcels here 365. 3d. 1131 been realised with
Ilemp held firmly at Ittl. At the close of the day the
Tallow marker again improved ; the only price tor new 365. fir.
and to arrive 37.. with a tinn appearance-
splccs.—The speculations in Nutmegs has again bean con.
siderablei several sales were reported yesterday at be. and 31. Id.
The inquiries after Pepper increase; white is very scarce; in other
Spices there is no alteration.
RUM, BRANItY„ and III)LLANDS.—The Rum market
continues firm, and there is a general opinion that the prices will
inmros ; few purchases are however reported ; no proof:Leeward*
could be purchased under Is. dd. Brandy continues steadily to ad-
vance; the best marts housed are now 3s. Id. at which several sales
have berm effected. There are sonic arrivals of tleneva, for which
the holders ask 2s. but it has not been obtained ; the nearest quota-
non we Inhere Is. Ild. . . .

I('E.—The requevt for Rice 0-day is net so brisk or extensive
RI previously during this and the tOnii,r week, and purchases may
bt made a shade lower. Br public ask this furenoos, 401.1 bags good
• hite Bengal Rice sold Ills. fel. and RP.
TE.t.—The Ter sale hiss htthhcd ; the quotations are rrgulatell
by the prises obtained. The common Twankeys bear a consider-
able pri.tuiuin.

ADVUNTURES Or A POUND Or COTTON.—The follow-
ing history of a pound weight of manufactured cotton will
show the importance of the trade to the country in a very
conspicuous manner :—The wool came from the East In-
dies to London ; from London it went to Lancashire, where
it was manufactured into yarn ; from Alanchester it was
sent to Paisley, where it was woven ; it was next sent to
Ayrshire, where it was tanaboured ; afterwards it was con-
veyed to Dumbarton, where it was hand-sewed, and again
returned to Paisley, when it was sent to a distant part of
the county of Renfrew to be bleached, and was returned to
Paisley, whence it was sent to Glasgow. and was finishtd ;
and from Glasgow was sent by coach to London. It is
difficult to ascertain precisely the time taken to bring this
article to market ; but it may be pretty near the truth to
reckon it three years, from the time it was packed in In-
dia, until, in cloth, it arrived at the merchant's warehouse,
n London, whither it must have been conveyed at least
lo,Oun miles by sea, and 920 by land, and contributed to
reward no less than 150 people, whose services were news.
sary in the carriage and manufacture of this small quantity
of cotton, aid by which the value has been a.' sauced two
thousand per eent.—Liverpool Courier.
On Thursday last a young woman, named Salmon, on
entering her inuthcr'a house, at brideswell, near Athlone,
was attacked by her sister and mother, who strangled her
with a handkerchief tied about her neck. An iqqnest was
Itch, when a verdict of murder was found against both,
and they were accordingly committed to Roscommon gaol.