The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPAIITMUNT.

Notes issued ... £29,383,840 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
',Other Securities 2,984,900
;Gold coin & bu11'n.15,383,840
Silver bullion ...

£29,383,840
BANKING DEPARTMENT,

£29,383,840

Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000100v. Securities £13,644,025

Resi 3,295,8130ther Securities 14,663,295
Public Deposits 3,213,993 Notes ... 7,443,015
Other Deposits 14,140,49$ Gold & Silver Coin 685,292
7-day & other bills 1,232,329

£36,435,6271

£36,436,627

PROM:TM—The markets during the week have
presented few features worthy of note. Sugar has
been in active demand, Coffee rather lower, In
Tea little doing. Rice has recovered the previous
week's depression. Palm Oil lower, owing to large
arrivals. Tallow stationary.
To-DIY, Sugar continues firm, but the sales are
confined to 250 bags Benares at 405., 150 bags
Madras at 315., and 20 hhds. Cuba Muscovado at
375. per cwt. Nothing has taken place in Molas-
ses. There continues a very good demand for Rum,
150 puns. Demerara having realised a further ad-
vance. The Tea market remains unaltered, and the
sales small ; common Congou nominally Is. ld. per
lb. The Rice market has again become active,
1550 bags middling Bengal being reported at 16s.
6d. to 16s. 9d., with 100 tons, to arrive, at 175.,
4,000 bags Arracan, chiefly at 15s. 6d., including a
small parcel at 165., 500 bags Madras, to arrive at
155., 6d., and 110 tons Java, also for arrival, at 17s.
6d. per cwt. We have also to report 25 tons Lima
Wood at £l3 25.: 6d. to £l3 10s., 1,000 bales Jute
at £24 10s., for first class damaged M&C 2, and at
£24 15s. per ton for sound, 100 tons Sago Flour,
to arrive, at 235. 3d. to 235. 6d. per cwt., and 100
tons Bengal Linseed, also to arrive, at 595. per
quarter.
hoN.—For the past week the market for Scotch
Pig Iron has been very inanimate, and has gradually
receded from 78s. to 745. 6d., at which it eloses ncry
heavily this evening.
CorroN.—The trade during the week has been
steady, but the arrivals being large, and spinners
buying 'no more than for their immediate necessi-
ties, holders are more ready sellers, and prices have
declined from 1-16 d. to id. per lb. The week's
sales up to Friday amounted to 45,100 bales.
Notwithstanding the recent large arrivals, the
stock of American Cotton in this port is 19,000
bales less than this time last year, but the stock of
Surats is 118,000 bales more, and the total is 65,000
bales in excess of last year. TO-DAY there were no
advices from America; trade was inanimate, and
prices rather in favour of the buyer. The sales
amounted to 5000 bales, of which about 500 were
on speculation and for export. The followino- is a
comparision of present prices with those of the cor-
responding period of last year :-
1853.
New Orleans, midd1ing......... std.
fair

1854.
6 1-16 d.
61d.

Uplands, middling
fair

5 9-16(L
.......

WooL.—With respect to the public sales held
here, we 0-i ve the following extracts from bro-
kers' circulars.Messrs.b W. GREA?fE and Co. say :

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At our public sales 2,238 bales Australian and Cape,
4,541 bales East India, 1,049 hales Egyptian, 1,176 bales
Spanish and Lisbon, and 4,308 bales Turkey, Smyrna,
and sundry other low Wools were offered. We had an
unusually large attendance of the trade, the biddings for
Australian Wools were very spirited throughout, and
late prices well supported. For FAA India there was
also a very animated demand both for the home trade and
for export, particularly for the better classes of true bred
Wools, which were fully Id. per lb. higher. These Wools
are in great favour with our manufacturers, which, no
doubt, may be in a great measure attributed to the careful
and correet manner in which they are classed and as-
sorted. Well-selected parcels of Egyptian sold readily at
full prices, but inferior parcels mixed with Syrian and
other bad-bred Wools were not so saleable even at a pro-
portionate reduction in 'Ace. These Wools would come
into much more general use if greater care was taken in
classing and assorting them. For Spanish frontier and
Lisbon there was not much demand, and a great part
withdrawn, sales have, however, been made since the
auction at our quotations, Of Russian, Turkey, Smyrna
and other low Wools, a great part was also withdrawn,
as the prices offered did not come up to the expectations
of the importers.
Messrs. HUGHES and RONALD say :

The public sales just concluded were very numerously
attended, including many of the leading buyers from the
continent. East India formed the great bulk of the low
Wools brought forward; and, from the continued activity
throughout the Blanket districts, this description com-
manded more than usual attention, and, with some trifling
exceptions, the whole met with ready sale : foi-the better
qualities in white, yellow, and grey, there was a very
active competitition, both by the foreign and home
buyers. On the first and last of these we quote an advance
of fully lid. per lb, ; on good yellow of ld. per lb. ; and
in all kinds below middle yellow of nearly id. per lb., on
the average since our last public sales at the end of
October. A large quantity of Egyptian was put up, but
by fax the greatest part was either bought in er with-

drawn, many of the buyers .not having seen them; the
middle and lower kinds were in great request, and what
was sold brought extreme prices. The principal part of
the other kRi Wools was also withdrawn. Most kinds of
Australian Wools were 1-2 good demand, and the prices
obtained are about Id. per lb. above the average of last
London sales. Port Philip and Van Diemen's Land
Combing Wools engaged less attention, owing to the con-
tinued depression in the Bradford district, and prices
have, consequently, ruled lower than Clothing Wool.