The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

PARTMENT

Gov. securities.Xl3,9so,37s
Other securities 11,137.061

4,898,568 NotEs 11,392,445
13,107,431 Gold & coin 618,153
1,492,839 I

£37,148,034

£37,148,034

In SHARES we have had a more active market
this week. Some of the large speculators are again
turning their attention to this market ; and, as has
been frequently the case at this time of the year,
there are evident symptoms of an approaching ad-
vance. A rise to some extent has already taken
place. French and other foreign shares participate
in the general movement. The stocks most in
demand, at present, are North British and Sheffield
shares ; the former will benefit by the union of the
three York Companies, and the latter by that of the
London and North-Western and Midland. We
close this evening at the best of the wcek ; during
the day business has been done at the following
prices:-Ambergates, d; late Chester and Birken-
head, 22; ditto £22, 2 11-16 d; Caledonians, 26y
Chester and Holyhead, 221; Eastern Counties, 121
1-16 5-16 5-16; East Lancashire, 191 19;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 85i- 6 72-ra ; ditto fifths,
3,3,- 5-16 d ; ditto £l6, ; West Riding Union, 21d;
Leeds Northern, 161; Liverpool and Southport,
191 5-16; London stock, 110; ditto fifths, 3p ;
Sheffield stock, 33c; Midland stock, 77/ 1 ; North
British, 91 1 11-16 q-; St. Helen's pref. guar, 170;
Dover stock, 231. i; York and North Midland,
26A-; Great Southern and Western, 49 ; Borough
Bank, 101- ; Pacific Steam Company, 75A.
The improvement in demand for every descrip-
tion of produce, which we have had the pleasure of
recording for many weeks past, continues ; and a
gene; al advance has taken place in our Colonial
markets. An extensive business was done in
SUGAR up to the publication of Friday's circular ;
and an advance secured of 6d. per cwt. on Colonial
sorts over the previous week's prices. REFINED
SUGAR was also in demand at improving rates.
Native and plantation Ceylon COFFEE were eagerly
sought after; and for the latter an advance of Is. to
2s. was realized. RICE was sold at 12s. 6d., or a
little higher than in the previous week. In other
articles, except TEA, the alteration was slight,
although a lively feeling pervaded the market.
With respect to the latter article-TEA-a large
business was done at extreme rates ; and there is
little common Congou to be had at, or under, 91d.
per lb. A general impression is gaining ground
that the Government contemplate making a reduc-
tion in the present enormous duty on the article ;
and there has been more doing in consequence, the
trade, or wholesale dealers having however freely
met the demand of speculators and exporters.
Whether this is a judicious step on their part re-
mains to be proved ; but they must bear in mind,
that the position of the article this year is very dif-
ferent from what it has been on urevious occasions.
Since the publication of the circular SUGAR has
continued in good request ; and To-DAY, including
Saturday's sales, the transactions consist of
100 hhds. Barbadoes at 345. to 378. 6d., 100 hhds.
Antigua at 325. 9d., to 365. 6d., 1750 bags Dates,
chiefly at 345. 6d. to 38s. 6d., 900 bags Benares at
365. to 395. 6d. and 2000 bags low brown Pernams
at 16s. per cwt. There has been an improved in-
quiry for MOLASSES, 620 puns. Barbadoes and
Antigua having realized 165., and 400 puns. clayed
Cuba, to arrive, 13s. 6d. per cwt. Of Rurs, only a
small parcel of Demerara has been taken, at previous
prices. There is nothing to notice in COFFEE, but
400 bags red Bahia Cocoa have brought 235. 6d.
per cwt. The attention of the TEA trade has been
confined to the new season's Congou, ex " Chry-
solite," nearly the whole of which (about 2000
packages) have found eager buyers, at prices rang-
ing from is. iold. to is. 11,1,,d. per lb. Com-
mon Congou may he quoted at 94d. to 9:ld. per
lb., and not so much in demand. By auction, 1000
bags Bengal RICE, with all faults, went at ss. 3d.
to I is. 9d. per cwt.; for 2000 bags Arracan offered
at the same time 9s. 9d. was refused, and it was
taken in at los. per cwt. 65 tons Jamaica LoGwoOD
brought £4, and a few tons Jamaica FUSTIC
£5 7s. 6d. per ton ; and we have also to report 50
bales Persian BERRIES at 90s. per cwt.
There is an unusually easy TEA MARKET.
Stocks decidedly light, with very moderate sup-
plies on the way, and high prices ruling in China in
consequence of the small supply brought down to
the shipping ports. Should a chance in this be duly
contemplated, they would indeed find themselves in
the wrong box.
Attention has been called to the frauds practised
in the tea trade, by the publication of a circular
containing an abridgment of a long article on the
subject, which appeared in The Times. The writer,
in reviewing Mr. Fortune's book on the tea coun-
tries of China, calls attention to the fraudulent
practices of the Chinese, in colouring their teas
with poisonous matter in order to suit the English
market. The only remedy for such a dangerous
nuisance is to encourage the cultivation of the tea-
plant in our own possessions, such as the Himalaya,
which is well suited to its growth.
COTTON.--In the early part of the week the
more favourable news received of the state of the
crop in the United States, accompanied by a de-
in prices, gave a check to the upward ten-
of our Cotton Market. The stringency in
nerican Money Market, caused by the large
amount of specie locked up in the sub-treasury
department, accounted in part for this circum-
stance ; and it was concluded that the banks would
be speedi/y OM by an 11§ul Pexicdical arriYez

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