The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL INTEL

kRCH 23, 1852.
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ONEY MARKET.—The demark

P days past, but not sufficiently press
in the rates of interest.

our quotations were not alter
London sold at 1094 to 110;

bales, at a decline of lc. Si!
(From W. P. Wright'

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cotton, and the sales have been on an average 3000 1
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Ales. The export during
To Liverpool, 7820 bales ;

Havre, 1547 ; Marseilles, 490; Trieste, 443
Brenien, 792: Total, 11,954 bales. It may excite some surprise
in Europe, that with an advance of nearly id. per lb. in the
Liverpool market in the past few weeks, prices on this side
should have slightly receded. The tenor of advices, however,
from Liverpool, go to prove that the advance was in some de-
gree owing to the belief in a crop ranging from 2,600,000 to
2,700;000 bales, whereas, on this side, 2,800,000 is now the ge-
neral estimate; and the impression is, that when advised in
Liverpool of our larger receipts, some re-action will ensue ;
operations, therefore, during the past two weeks have been
based rather on the expected reduction, than in the mainte-
nance of the quotations of 6th March, and hence we are the
less likely to give way in price upon such decline being re-
ceived here.

MOVEMENTS IN COTTON.
Ship- Ship- Stocks Stocks
ments ments Total Receipts in the in
to Ship- in the Ship- the Vessels
Great to merits. Ports. ping Inte- loading,
Britain. France. Porta rior-
-786393 275943 1210903 2129920 613634 92961 119
;851 653485 230155 1031468 1797248 654321 141727 97
1850 536620 175042 806103 1660494 606395 119602 86
Shewing an in- Incr. in 7 days, 114782
crease in 7 „ on last yr, 332672
days of 67400 „ on yr bef., 469426
bales.
Receipts for the coming week, 51.000 bales ex New Orleans.
If ff 27,000 „ Mobile.

BRIADSTUFFS.FIOUr varied no further, the sales of the
23rd ultimo. comprising 4,500 bbls.—common to good Southern
at 84 432 to 84 62k; ordinary to choice State at .84 50 to
84 75rand in good demand ; mixed to fancy Western, 682 to
84 932; fancy Genesee and Ohio at .84 932 to 85 25; extra
Ohio at 45 25 to .85 56k; and extra Genesee at 85 25 to .85 932
per bbl. Rye flour commanded, by retail, Z 3 50 to .83 62a ;
and Jersey meal 83 50 per bbl. Nothing new occurred in
wheat, barley, oats, or rye. Corn fetched 64 to 65c. for 10,00
bushels Southern yellow and white—the previous figures.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool rates are irregular; 9,000 bushels
grain were taken in hulk at sd. Cotton was at 7-32 d. for com-
pressed, and id. for uncompressed. Flour was at Is. 7&d. to
s. 9d. To London, 400 packages cassia were ,Laken at 30s. To
Havre cotton was going forward at ac.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

THE KAFFIR WAR,

The Camperdown arrived at Plymouth on Monday
evening, at 7.30, from the Cape, with dates to the 10th
Feb., a week's later intelligence than that brought by the
last mail.

The Propontis, screw steam ship, arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday morning, at 4 o'clock, from the Cape, where
she left on the 3d of March.
By this conveyance, we are in receipt of intelligence
from the seat of war up to the 24th of February, at which
date the demand of Sir H. Smith, for an unconditional
surrender on the part of the Kaflirs, had not been com-
plied with, and, in 'act, peace appeared to be as distant
as ever.

Although official reports had not been forwarded from
all the officers commanding the forces sent to destroy,the
crops of the Kaffirs in the Amatola mountains, yet those
which had been received left no doubt but the troops
despatched against the enemy had been most successful
in their operations. Several hundred of cattle had also
been captured, and some Kaffirs had been slain. The
enemy, with the exception of the rebel Hottentots, had
offered little resistance. " In one of the engagements,
Lieut. Armitage was wounded in the shoulder. At Chu-
mie Valley, the Kaffirs finding that au attack was in-
tended to be made upon them by the force under General
Somerset, did not offer the slightest opposition, but fled
with all their stock into the mountains, from whence they
were driven out ; but were not further pursued. The
enemy continued in several districts to be most daring in
their plundering expeditions, and were not often unsuc-
cessful.

On the frontier the governor's call for a burgher levy
was a failure.

Mr. Davison, surgeon of the 43d, had been waylaid by
the Kaffirs and killed.

Such was the state of the war when these accounts
came away ; and it is the opinion of some of the colonial
journalists, that the enemy is not sufficiently Subdued to
justify his excellency the Governor-General in making
peace at the present time ; for it is contended that to enter
upon terms now would only render another war certain
in 15 months, with all its expenses, and mortifications,
and disasters; whereas if peace be deferred until the enemy
be thoroughly crushed, it will last for years.
Four hundred British troops were in hospital at King
William's Town.

Neither the steamer Megtera, with the COth Rifle Corps,
or the Hydra, with General Cathcart, had arrived out.
The Hydra left Sierra Leone for the Cape on the 2d ult.

INDIA.

Telegraphic advices from Trieste, dated the 11th inst.,
inform us of the arrival of the steamer from Alexandria.
Dates from Bombay are to the 19th ult.

The Burmese expedition consists of 6,000 troops, two
vessels of war, and 13 steamboats. Additional forces
from China were expected.
The departure of the expedition was to take place from
Calcutta and Madras on the 19th of March. The forces
were to rendezvous at the mouth of the Cass, or the eastern
branch of the Irawaddy.

The expedition would probably proceed up the latter
branch to avoid the resistance prepared on the route by
Rangoon, 'where 20,000 Burmese troops were assembled.
The British forces were intended to advance to Prome.
Parties of the Burmese had ravaged the frontier villages.
The money market was firm. Company's Five per
Cents., 1034 ; ditto, Four per Cents., 814.
Exchange on London, at six months, per rupee,
Import market firm.
Cotton forexport 72 to 99 rupees per candy, and declining.
Opium 1,045 rupees per chest.
Freights to London, £2 13s. to £2 18s., and rising.