The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The commercial news reports exchange unaltered ;
cotton and flour dull.

NEw Yong, JAN. 13, 2i P.M.-Cotton--Sales
600 bales, at steady prices. Flour heavy, at 6 dolls.
for common Western. Ashes-150 barrels pots sold
at 5 dolls. 75c. Pearls firm at 7 dolls. 200 brls.
selected whale oil sold at 36c. The leather sale to-
day was thinly attended. There was a slight ad-
vance on heavy and good damaged. There was not a
single best quality hide in middle or light weight;
still prices were fully sustained. Pork heavy. Sterl-
ing bills more plenty, and demand more slack, though
tip-top names have been bought this morning at 11
to 11f pm.; but we quote 10 to 11. Francs have
sold well, at 5,35.
EYE-Sales --Cotton 800 bales, almost all to ship.
Flour very hieavy ; shippers do not buy common
western at 6 dolls. ; small sales southern, at 6 dolls.
37ic. 2,000 bushls new southern yellow corn sold
at 68c. ; 150 bbla. mess pork at 10 dolls. 50c. There
is a good deal of poor cheese in market not fit to
ship, which sells at Sic. to 6c. ; prime 6kc. to 7c.
JAN. 14.-2 1.M.-(By telegraph.)-In Flour no
change from yesterday, though the market is, if
anything, duller. 7,000 barrels received to-day
from New Orleans. There are orders in the market
for shipping lots, but at lower rates. Sales of
Gennessee at 6 dolls. 12ic. to 6 dolls. 25c.; 2,000
barrels of western at 5 dolls. 931 c. to 6 dolls. 12ic.
Corn dull. Sales of new mixed at 65c. to 68c.; for
old, 70c. offered.. Oats dull at .50c. Cotton firm.
Lard firm, and held higher ; for barrels Bic., and for
kegs 9c. was asked. Sales 1,000 barrels new mess
pork, at 12 dolls, per barrel. Sales Western shoul-
ders at 44c.; barns at 7fc. per lb.
ALBANY, 47 41+1 13.-Flour-Sales limited ; 100
barrels Black ]Rock sold 5 dolls. 94c. ; 200 good
Indiana at 6 dolls.; for ordinary run of Westerns, hut
5 dolls. 817ic. is offered; sales of Gennessee at 6 dolls.
12ic. to 6 dolls.. 25c. Barley, 81c. to 85c. Rye, 81c.
Pork without eliange ; sales of 100 still fed hogs at
5 dolls. 50c. ; 100 ditto 'Western, at 5 dolls. 75c., and
parcels in the street at 6 dolls.
BALTIMORE, JAN. 13.-(l3y Telegraph.)-Flour
dull. Sales : 500 H.S., at 5 dolls. 87ic. ; City Mills,
6 dolls. 12ic.. Corn-Sales : 200 bushels, including
md. white arid mixed, at 57c.; yellow, at 62c.
Monms, JAN. 4, EvE.-Cotton-Since the receipt
of the foreign advices the market has been quite ani-
mated. Sales, for two days, 8,000 bales, at firmer
prices. We quote mid. 61c. Arrived since Satur-
day, 6,026 bales ; exported 1,804. Stock, 90,767
bales. Exchange-Sterling, 7; Francs, 5.45; New
York, 60 days, 2 to 2i ; sight, 1 pm. Freights-
A brig tali:en for Philadelphia at 4e.; and a schooner
to load lumber for Havannah.
NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 6.-...(8y Telegraph.)-
Cotton depressed, but a fair demand, at previous
quotations. Sugar--Market poorly supplied; small
sales, at y esterday's
prices. Flour heavy. In freights
several new Qsgagements. Transactions in exchange
imited.

WEST INDIA and MEXICAN MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
The Tewlot, with the West India and Mexican
mail; is aground by Cstlshot Castle, a few miles
down the Southampton Water. A small steamer has
been. dispatched for her mails, and they may be ex-
pected here shortly.
The Tevint left Demerara 19th Dec.; Berbice,
Tobago, 21st ; Barbadoes, 31st;
I.9th; Trinidad, 2'=u;
Antigua, Jan. 3d; Martinique, 2d; Grenada, 23d
] Dec. ; Curacoa, 23a
Porto Rico, sth Jan.; Tor-
t ola, 4th; St. Thomas's, 4th; Bermuda, 10th; New
,gleans, 20th Dec.
She brings 135,000 dollars, 120 serons of cochineal,
15 serons of jalap, two bale: of tobacco, 32 cases of
cigars, 27 bales of plantain fibres. Purchasers for

of Belgium, on account of the contagions disease which cotton at New Orleans have been for France, the eon.
is LIOW preyalent in Flanders. ti, lent of Europe, and the North. English buyers