The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

:PARTMENT

Gov. securities.£l3,962,6BB
Other securities 11,605,603
Notes ..... ... 12,127,350
Gold & silt'. coin 523,819

£38,219,460

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Our SHARE MARK ET has been much more active
this week, and from a large amount of speculative
business, prices have advanced considerably. The
improvement has affected all stocks almost equally,
excepting perhaps Midlands, which have moved
very little, from the injury the line has sustained
from the floods, it is said to the extent of £B,OOO.
We annex this day's quotations :—Aberdeens, 17/ ;
Birkenhead, L. and C., 0.(1 ; late Chester and
Birkenhead, 22; Caledonians, 341-4 41; Chester
and Holyhead, 25 1 1 ; Eastern Counties, 13
13c 1-16 ; East Lancashire, 20i; Edinburgh, Perth,
and Dundee, 7i ; Great Northern B, 151; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 8810 a a 3 4 ; ditto fifths, 3d ;
Leeds Northern, 18 4 *Ili; ditto 6 per cent.
N 0.2, 1-p ; London stock, 1273/41 871 lei-8 4 I ;
Sheffield stock, 33 ; Midland stock, 80 1 i 79-Ic
80- 2 * 791 c 801 791 c *c 801 4 1; North British,
11 10i 15-16 11 10 15-16 11 ; North Staffordshire,
3:17d ; Dover stock, 244 4I; York and North
Midland, 311 1 32; Great Southern and Western,
52*; Royal Insurance, Ip. -

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PRODUCE.—At the commencement of the week
a moderately lively feeling pervaded the market.
The demand, however, ceased towards the close,
except for SUGAR, for which there was a fair con-
sumptive request; and we closed on Friday with a
quiet market generally. To-day SUGAR continues
in fair request, and the grocers have taken 160
hhds. Barbadoes, chiefly at 355. to 395., and 1,800
bags Benares, at 38s. 3d. to 41s. 3d. per cwt.
Demerara Rum continues in brisk demand, 80
puns. having realised an advance of id. per gallon.
70 puns. Jamaica are also reported, at full prices.
There is nothing to notice in COFFEE. 600 bags
Bengal RICE have brought 13s. 6d. per cwt. Of
JUTE 200 bales have been sold at £l6 per ton. We
have also to add 600 bags Calcutta LINSEED, to
arrive, at 475. 6d. per quarter ; and 350 slabs
Straits TIN, at £BB per ton.
COTTON.—The market was flat last week, and
exceedingly so during Thursday and Friday, when
some holders were realising at the best price ob-
tainable. It appears, however, that the quantity
thrown on the market is but small; and since Sa-
turday, when more demand sprung up, the market
became at once steadier, and little or nothing can
now be bought at the lowest prices of last week.
Apparently the time has now arrived when a turn
in the market is to be looked for. With accounts
of favourable weather, large receipts and shipments,
and increasing estimates, we may be depressed ano-
ther week or two, but the market cannot droop
much farther. The larger demand setting in at
these low prices, will keep it at once steadier;
whereas unfavourable weather, or a decrease in the
receipts and moderate shipments, would at once
give a new stimulus to the demand, and, by bring-
ing buyers and speculators into the market, an
advance would at ouce take place. If we look
back, there is really little cause for the serious
decline. It is true the weather has been more
favourable, and the crop may have improved
to the extent of 200,000 bales; but, on the other
hand, we all know that with the largest crop
we ever had, the stocks at the close of the season
were 130,000 bales less than last year. What fear
is there for a three million crop ? None at all.
Last year, notwithstanding the large crop, prices
advanced nearly the whole season through; and,
considering the abundance of money, and the large
consumption in Cotton, it is surprising that there is
only id. difference between middling, compared
With what it was this time last year. TO-DAY.—
Since Friday a firmer tone has pervaded the Cotton
market, and on Saturday 7,000 bales were sold, of
which speculators took 2,000 bales. This day 5,000
bales were sold, of which speculators took 1,000, at
the full prices of Saturday.

AT ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH, on Sunday:last, the sum of
£77 2s. was collected in aid of some of our local charities.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—The total number of petitions
presented is 107, impugning the seats of 120 members.
All these gentlemen are dinugditied from sitting on
committees.