The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

A RTMENT

Govrut. Debt.. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin & buln. 20,717,076
Silver bullion .. 19,154

£34,736,230

BANKING DEPARTMENT

Prop.'s capita1.£14,553,000 Gov. securities.£l3,9so,37s
Reo. 3,098,897 Other securities 11,179,558
Public deposits. 4,449,346 Notes ....... 11,576,015
Other deposits . 13,670,230 Gold & silt'. coin 508,085
7-day, &c. bills. 1,442,560

£37,214,033 I

£37,214,033

Our SHARE MARKET has been very good all
week. There has not been any wildness, but prices
have steadily advanced each day, and a very con-
siderable amount of stock has been taken by bond
fide buyers. Almost all stocks have equally partici-
pated in the improvement. Our local insurance
companies have been much in demand, at an ad-
vance upon previous prices ; the Fire and Life being
close upon 5 pm., and the Royal £4 per share.
To-day being a holiday in London, we have been
very quiet, but still very strong. We annex the
quotations :—Late Chester and Birkenhead, 21ic ;
Eastern Counties, 12 11-16 '4 11-16 -k 11-16 4 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88i; ditto fifths, 3}d ;
Lancaster and Carlisle thirds, 10ip; Leeds Northern,
171- z 7-16 1 ; London stock, 124 3 431 4 ; ditto
fifths, 31-p 4p ; Sheffield £6 new pref., ip ; Midland
stock, r9l d e 1; North Britisl
Dover stock, 241* ; Cork and Bandon, 18 ; Dutch
Rhenish, ;Id ; Sambre and Meuse, 11 ; Borough
Bank, 11-k; Liverpool and London Fire and Life

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new issue, 51p.
PRODUCE MARKET.—There has been again a
large business transacted in our colonial markets.
SUGAR may be quoted 61. to Is. dearer during the
week. In COFFEE and Rum there is no change,
but prices are supported. In TEA there has been
a general demand both from the trade and
exporters and speculators, and prices have advanced
Id. per lb. from the rumoured low rates current a
fortnight ago. The consumption of this article is
large, but, with a reduced duty, might be con-
siderably increased, and the impression that the
Government contemplate a reduction is gaining
ground daily. The duty on Sugar is id. to 11d.
per lb.,—on all descriptions of Coffee 3d.,—but on
Tea 2s. 21d., which is out of all reason, and cannot
remain in these enlightened times. TO-DAY the
Sugar market continues very firm, and, including
Saturday's sales, we have to report 3500 bags
Khaur at 275., 100 bags Santipore and 500 bags
yellow Cossipore at 405., and 550 bags Benares a
345. to 365. 6d. per cwt. There is nothing to
notice in Molasses, Rum, or Coffee. In Tea a
large business has been transacted, chiefly for
speculative account, in Congous of common to good
quality from 91d up to ls. per lb., the former being
the quotation for sound common ; from the trade
there has been moreinquiry for nearly all descriptions.
In other articles, we have to report 2000 bags East
India Rapeseed at 425. per quarter, 100 slabs Straits'
Tin at 88s., 100 bags Sago Flour at 16s. per cwt.,
15 tons green Ebony at £5 15s. per ton, and 30
chests B Mirzapore Lac Dye at ls. 11d, per lb.

COTTON MARKET.—The business in the Cotton
market during the past week was a very large one,
the sales amounting to 117,560 bales, at an average
advance of 3.16 d per lb. Of this quantity specu-
lators have taken 57,229, and exporters 3,160, leav-
ing 56,180 to the trade. To-day the advices re-
ceived by the Asia being considered more satisfac-
tory as to the new crop, the market has worn a less
active aspect, speculators limiting their operations.
At the same time we cannot note any alteration in
prices. Friday's sales are 20,000 bales, Saturday
12,000, and to-day 8,000; in all, 40,000 bales; of
which speculators took 12,000, and exporters 4,000.
The market closes this evening with a tame but
steady feeling. The imports since Thursday are
10,000 bales.
WooL.—For English Wools there has been a
brisk demand during the past week in the country
districts, and some considerable sales have been
made about the following rates :—Down Tegs,
161 d. to 161 d. ; Down Ewes, 14d. to 142 d. ; half-
bred Hogs, 16d. to 161 d. Delivered in Dublin :
Irish Hogs, 141 d. to 141 d. ; Irish Wethers, 13Nd.
to 13id.
NoN.--Messrs. John Hill and Co. state in their
Circular, that " the demand for manufactured, of
all descriptions, continues unabated, and some of
the manufacturers refuse to book orders unless at
the price of the day of delivery, a still further ad-
vance being confidently expected. The prices of
Scotch Pig, during the past month, have ranged
from 545. to 60s. per ton ; opening on the Ist ult. at
the former figure, and reaching the latter about the
middle of the month. Since then, with slight fluc-
tuations, the price has declined to 57s per ton, cash,
at which sales were made on Saturday. The ad-
vices from the States to-day have caused sellers to
demand an advance, which buyers refuse to give.
Speculators operating principally in Warrants, Iron
for shipment is obtainable about ls. per ton under
the above quotations."

THE RETIRING MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL.

AFTER the eloquent and graceful terms in which Mr.
BRAMLEY -MOORE referred on Saturday last to the ap-
proaching retirement of his Worship, the Mayor, THOMAS
LITTLED ALE, Esq., from his onerous office, we feel that
there is little left for us to say upon the subject. His

'Worship has won the respect and affection of all who
have approached him on matters of business ; and his
hospitalities, dispensed at the Town-hall, have been un-
bounded, and conducted with a happy disregard to mere

party leanings in the selection of his guests. In his offi-
cial capacity he has ever been ready to place himself at
the disposal of his fellow-townsmen, whilst in his place
as presiding chairman over the deliberations of the Council,
his conduct bas been at once dignified, conciliatory, and
impartial. Few men, if there be one indeed, will have
descended from the office of Chief Magistrate of this
borough, leaving behind him less to regret, of omission
or commission, and carrying with him into private life a
larger increase in the number of his friends and admirers
than the gentleman whose year of office is about to ter-
minate.

SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.—A meeting
of shareholders was held at Chester on Monday, when it
was resolved that the report of the directors submitted on
the 20th
of August should not be received, on account of
its containing an incorrect statement of affairs ; and Mr.
Gordon Thomson was authorized " to institute and pro-
secute, at the expense of the company, such proceedings
at law or in equity, on behalf of himself and the other
shareholders, as he may think proper, and as counsel may
advise, to compel a restitution to the funds of the company
of all such sums of money as may be found to have been
improperly paid thereout."