The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY,

As the past week has, throughout the country, been
mostly spent in electioneering, we have little commercial
intelligence to convey to our readers. Money has been
in demand throughout the week ; and, previously to the
settling day on the Consol and Share Market 6 per cent
was freely paid. Stocks were lower and sellers more nu-
merous than buyers, in anticipation of au increasing scar-
city. The Share market was drooping. _

.
Our Cotton market at the commencement of the week
was flat, but recovered itself after the arrival of the steamer.
The sales for the week were 18,130 bales, of which 3,500
were on speculation and for export. The imports amounted
to 22,533 bales.
The Corn markets are E
to qs. per quarter on ti

,y from ss.
of foreign

. . _
and colonial are very large. •
In the Manchester and other manufacturing markets
the excitement of the elections has operated to prevent
much business being done. There is no change in prices.
The number of mills in full work in Manchester has in-

advices from New York, per last steamer, may be
regarded as holding out the prospect of a large business.
The crops, both of corn and cotton were very good, and
large quantities of the former had been sent to the sea-
board. Prices had, in consequence, receded 111(3110,r toll
dollars per barrel. Cotton b.a • Freight
were higher, owing to t
staples -
to 6.1

[so given way

hipments of these two
was at 6

Exchang

and money abundant

By the arrival of the Indian mail we have a Bombay
Commercial Report to the 19th of June, and from
Calcutta to the Sth of the same month. The Import
Market in the former market was dull, particularly since
the burst of the monsoon, on the 2nd of that month. In
cotton piece goods the sales reported were principall
before the close of May, and were very light
pieces, 40 in. 38 yds. gray shirtings had been
4r. 2a. to sr. 10a. ; 3,660 36 in. 40 yds. bleached ditt
sr. la. to 7r. 6a. Other articles insignificant in amout

Of Cotton Yarn, the Report says Cotton Yarn :
The sales since the departure of last mail consist of about
280 bales of gray mule twist, and 100 bales of water, 300 lb
each, as follows :—Mule, No. 20, at 6} to 6A- annas ; No
30, at 6 to 71- annas ; No. 40, at 71 annas ; and No. 50

mas pi

a, nor are we informed of any trap

was a -s1

2 Wool.—Between the 20th and 2P"
of May the purchases consisted of about 1
Broach at 90r. per candy; 600 candies of Oc
85r. ; 2400 bales of Dhollera, 802 r. to 82r. ;
Compta, at 76r. per candy; but holders Navin
pelled to warehouse for the rains, and pay four
rent, they have advanced the

EXPORTS

bales o:

Broach al
Oomrava

Very fe

little if at al

receding.
FREIGHT

to London
days back.

until with

e for half a cargo at £5

aa, for v

Iritain have condi
and £6 to Livery

quarter rates cannot b

day above 14r. I

EXCHANGE

At the
.rsvi r es.,

transactions c

ight, but ti

decline

be obtai:

paper can n(
instant, the Bombay government

n to I

the Ist

soul their bill
government of Bengal, to the

of 500,000 r, at
per 100

cutta at 30 day

The money market is very easy.
From Calcutta, we learn that the commercial intel

gence is again

the mor
ie down'

the increasing pre
severely felt, not onl_
for almost all the pain _
but also in the difficulty experienced in -di
short dated India bills, whilst those having anything 1

eight months to run, were, for the time,
less; this has naturally been the cause of

mpietely

If a cor-

rangement, and will, doubtless, be productiv(
responding effect here, in adding to the previously exist
dulness, although sufficient time has not as yet clap

cl outward, tc

for this to be manifested, the past w
pletely taken up with the mails inward
the almost total exclusion of general busines
have, consequently, but little change to notice in au
branch of business.

;htest alteration has taken

In piece goods not the slid
place, a moderate business having a,
out change in value of any descriptions

been done w

same may I

holders; generally speamlib, ,„ an advance for
mule twist which buyers will not as yet submit to; in red
Yarn, however, a fair amount of sales is reported; the
and minted goods have in

lowei dc

mprovement noticed in our
continue comparatively
ted more atten-
Loing in them of
late; in woollens we have no further improvement to no-
tice. The metal market continues in a most unsatisfac-
tory position, the advance in value at home and great dis-
proportion between the prices current there and here
having as yet apparently been productive of no effect on
dealers ; the further reduction in the value of tile copper,

ime measure main

last, but the better descri
neglected ; Turkey red go(

tion, and i

s have att

re has been:.

businc

as quoted in our last, brought forward a few buyers; and
it has regained the decline ; in other descriptions a fair
business has been done, but unaccompanied by any im-
provement in prices ; iron maintains its value, but there
is but little doing ; spelter has been placed petty freely
at from 10 Company s rupees la. to 10 Company's rupees
Ba. per maund. There has been but little doing in bee;,
but Bass's and Alsopp's are firm at about 85r. per hogs-
head. No improvement had taken place in the money
market.

Of FREIGHTS the Circular says :—When we last wrote
the rate of homeward tonnage had rather a downward
tendency, which continued up to the arrival of the Bom-
bay express on the 14th ; the favourable advices of rice
brought by that opportunity however checked this, and
the demand for China and Mauritius having further re-
duced the limited amount of tonnage previous available
for Great Britain, shippers have had to give way ;our

quotations being Übmit the rates now current, and for
the present every prospect of these being maintained.

Accounts received iii London, yesterday from the Am-
sterdam Bourse refer to fresh flatness in the value of all
public securities, caused by a general disposition to effect

The letters from Rio de Janeiro brought yesterday by
the Express packet quote the rate of Exchange upon
London at 27d. ; Pa.is, at 345 to 348; and Hamburgb,
at 645. The price of the local Six per Cent. Stock was
831. About £135,000 had been done since the sailing of
the last packet. Coffee had experienced a slight decline
in price. Superior, 3,100 reis; good first, 2,800 reis tc
2,900 reis ; good second, 2,500 reis to 2,550 reis.
The last intelligence received from Par--
sentcd that country as suffering dre•
bined ravages of drought and locusts. _
change at Buenos Ayres on the 15th of May

'fully from the corn-
The rat(

ay repre-

3d.; ;the Six per Cent. Local Stock, 98 to 1-01
count 1 to 11 per cent. per month.

4. WEASEL HARE-HUNTING.—A few evenings ago, as
'utleman was driving up the Kirkbean road, and just
as passing near Mabie, he observed a bare run-
iing and doubling as if chased by slow-hounds. On ap-
proaching nearer, the pursuer was discovered to be a
weasel, which followed its prey with amazing swiftness,
and apparently by the scent ; for when the hare got out
of sight by the intervention of some bushes, the weazel
smelt the track and continued the chase. Thee noise of
the gig-wheels alarmed poor puss, and she made a despe-
rate attempt to leap the roadside fence, in which she
failed, fell back, and was nearly caught by the little var-
mint. A boy, at this juncture, jumped out of the gig to
secure them both, but before he could do so they ran
away in different directions. The hare was very much
exhausted, and appeared to have been chased for long
• • and would very probably fall a prey to its
—.Dumfries Courier.
BALLOON.—It was the inter-

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and severely
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Loss or MR. GAI

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