The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-18 00:00:00

MOBILE COTTON MARKET.-APRIL 7

The receipts since this day week have been 5146 bales,
and the exports for the same period 10,310 bales, viz. to
Liverpoollo,ol9, Havana 28, Boston 237, and to New Orleans
36, leaving on hand, and on shipboard not cleared, a stock
of 117,869 bales, to against 171,962 bales last season.—
Yesterday there was no new feature in the Market, except
further advanced pretensionsof holders, which checked oper-
ations, the sales not reaching more than 800 or 1000 bales.
The stock now on sale is reduced to about 10,000 bales, which
of itself would be a bar to heavy operations. Liverpool
classification—Good and fine, some fair 11*; inferior and
ordinary 10.

Since the above was written, we have received by the
Columbia and Great Western steam-ships, New York papers
to the Ist instant. _

In the House of Assembly for the State of New York, an
important debate upon the case of Mr. M`Leod had taken
place on the 19th ult., on the motion of a Mr. Homann (a
decided Locofoco) for the release of Mr. M`Leod, Mr.
Homann holding it to be inconsistent with the national
honour to continue Mr. M'Leod in prison after the govern-
ment of Great Britain bad taken the affair of the Caroline
upon themselves. Mr. M`Leod, however, still continued in
prison at the time the Great Western sailed, and nothing
definitive was known of the negotiation between• the United
States government and that of Great Britain, nor would
anything definitive be done in the matter until the extra ses-
sion of congress. It was, however, known that a good un-
derstanding subsisted between the organs of the two govern-
ments at Washington on the subject.
Congress was to be convened on the 31st of May, and the
eyes of the whole country, it was said, would turn in anxious
expectation on the first movements of the dominant party.
The new president was going on well, and the impression
was becoming general that he would infuse into every branch
of the public service a degree of energy and integrity that
had not been seen since the early days of the republic, oc-
cupying, as he did, a position independent of all parties.
In Canada a strong opposition was growing up against
Lord Sydenham, and the Canadians were in a state of con-
siderable excitement at the proposed alteration of the timber
duties in the imperial parliament. A meeting of the com-
mercial interest had been held at Quebec, and strong resolu-
tions against it passed, with which they had waited on the

governor-general.
The American markets remained much in the same state
as by the last advices. The money market was easy. No
difficulty was experienced in obtaining lcans by parties with
proper security. The stock market had not undergone
much fluctuation. The shares in the bank of the United
States were quoted at lid at Philadelphia, while at New
York the price was as low as la. The transactions in

foreign exchange, for the Columbia and the Great Western
had been large. The market was firm, at 1074 to 1071: the
principal transactions were at the latter price. On France
the rate was sf, 281 c. to sf. 274 c.