The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

AIONDXY NIGHT.
'NOTWITHSTANDING the occurrence of a holiday this
week—for Chester Cup day is emphatically one—
there has been a large business done in our leading
markets, gen:rally at advanced prices. SUGAR, up
to Friday last, is quoted at an advance of from 6d.
to ls. per cwt. over last week's rates, with a very
good demand for all descriptions. For COFFEE,
the improved demand continues, and prices tend
upwards. With respect to TEA, however, we have
little that is satisfactory to report this week. The
speculative demand which prevailed last week, and
was probably caused in part by some undefined no-
tion prevailing as to the probability of a reduction
of the duty, has ceased ; and prices of most des-
cription have a downward tendency. DRYSAL-
TEIIIES are generally firm in price, with a good
consumptive demand.
MONEY continues abundant, and discounts low.
It will be seen from the usual return subjoined,
that the bullion still flows into the Bank coffers,
the increase this week being £313,730, and the
total stock £19,901,400.

The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the Ist of May gives the following re-
sults when compared with the previous week :

Public deposits .. £3,194,817 ; Increase £201,444
Other deposits .. 11,365,920; Decrease 106,678
Rest .. 3,102,037; Increase 3,927

,
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £13,338,023; Increase £2,244
Other securities.. .. 11,022,332 ; Increase 22,713
Notes unemployed .. 11,585,615 ; Increase 85,310

The amount of notes in circulation is £21,832,160,
being an increase of £233,315 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,901,400, show-
ing an increase of £313,730 when compared with
the precedin T return.

OUT SHARE MARKET has again been extremely
quiet all week. The races at Chester having taken
away most of the speculative operators, the busi-
ness has been confined to transactions made for
investment. Stock continues very scarce, and it is
said that some bear accounts have been opened in
anticipation of disturbances in Paris to-day, to sup-
ply which no stock comes forward. In case, there-
fore, everything passes off quietly (which there is
every reason to expect), a considerable advance
may be looked for. We annex this day's quota-
tions :—London quarters, 51 p ; Midland stock,
70i 1; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 73i- ; Do.
fifths, 5 13-16 d ; Do. £2O F shares, d ; Do.
West-Riding fifths, 4 1-16 d; East Lanchashire
pref. quarters, 9 t+; Eastern Counties, 9 3-16; Old
Dovers, 211; Chester and Birkenhead, 13}; York
and North Midland, 253:; Caledonian, 201; North
Staffordshire, 7+ d ; Oswestry and Chester, 111;
Dutch Rhenish, 3+ d.

COTTON.—We have had large arrivals of this raw
material, amounting up to the publication of the
Weekly Circular of Friday, to 144,855 bales. Yet
the demand has met the import; the sales having
been 88,180 bales, at an advance of id. per lb. on
American descriptions,i-d. to id. on Egyptian, and
Id. on the common, and 2d. on the finer kinds of
Sea Island. Of the total sales reported, 23,650
were for speculation, and 11,190 for export. The
sales on Friday were 10,000 bags, of which specu-
lators and exporters took 3,000; on Saturday they
were 8,000 bags, 4,000 of which were for specula-
tion and export. The market closed quieter.
On Sunday morning we had further advices from
the United States, by the arrival of the royal mail
steamer America, bringing accounts of a rise of Id.
on better kinds, and id. to Id. on the lower, with
continued large arrivals at the ports. The general
tone of the reports given of the crop, which the
New York Courier and Enquirer still estimates as
likely to be under 3,000,000 bales, and the rumours
of freshets and frosts, convey the idea that consumers
in this country will have to pay higher prices for
that portion which remains to be sent forward.
This is almost rendered a certainty by the abun-
dance of monetary facilities in America, to which
we attach far more importance than to alleged frosts.
Under ordinary circumstances, Cotton must have
come here to provide for the coming due dividends
upon American stocks held in Great Britain and
Europe. The state of the Exchanges, however, and
the quantity of disposable specie, renders it probable
that this commodity will be made the chief remit-
tance. The impression cawsed by the arrival of the
America has been to produce to-day a very strong
market. 15,000 bales have been sold at rather
stiffer prices, speculators and exporters taking 7,500.
The following were the prices of the three descrip-
tions of American fair, as quoted in Friday's
Circular :

1852. 1851.
51,21. .... 61,d. per lb.
New Orleans ........
51d. • • 64c1•
Mobile..
Uplands ..
Stocks
Import since Ist Jan.. 814,388 ~.. 658,700. „
Taken by the trade .. 672,690 .... 4/.9,810
WooL.—There was rather less doing in foreign
Wool last week, owing principally to the poor as-
sortment there is offering by private sale ; but as
it appears to be the prevailing opinion that we shall
not see wools lower for some time to come, holders
are firm at former prices. In Scotch there is no-
thing particular to notice.
Since the publication of :the weekly produce cir-
cular, on Friday, our market for SUGAR has opened
with increased activity, and, in addition to the busi-
ness done with the grocers and refiners, some
considerable purchases have been made on specula-