The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

There was a good average demand ; stocks moderate, with for common state brands, and even higher, say 8 dols. 12f
no immediate prospect of excessive importations, owing to cents. The rise on wheat was comparatively greater, say
the scarcity of tonnage. This state of things continued 10 cents per bushel.
for some time, prices of St. John Spruce Deals ruling at PROVISIONS.—Pork firm : sales 700 barrels ; mess, $l4
about £lO per standard. In the beginning of July there to 14,25 ; new prime, $12,75 to 12,87. Beef firm : sales
was an indisposition on the part of buyers to lay in stocks 400 barrels • country mess, $8,25 to 11 • prime, $5 to 5,50;
at the rates which then prevailed, and for a short time repacked dicago, $l3 to $13,60. Lard steady: sales 400
prices were somewhat lower, one cargo having -been sold kegs, at 11c. ' • barrels. at 9c to 10c. Cut meats heavy.
as low as £9 14s. per standard. There was, however, an Hams, 81c. to 81-c.; shoulders, 6-ac.
active consumption going on through the country, build- FRElGHTS.—Shipowners and consignees were firmer in
ing being pretty general, and towards the close of the their views, which checked transactions. About 1,000
month confidence revived, and the attention of the trade barrels. Flour were engaged at 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d., and
was directed towards the necessity of providing for the 15,000 to 18,000 bushels grain were taken at 12d in bulk.
evidently increasing wants of the community. By the NEW ORLEANS, January 14.—Receipts of Cotton for
middle ofAugust, Deals commanded £lO 15s. per standard, ' the week, 40,000 bales. Sales for the week, 26,000 bales.
which was an advance on the opening prices of the season ; Middling, 94c.. Freight to Liverpool, Exchange
but so active was the demand both for shipping and home on London, 81. to 81 per cent. Decreased receipts at all
consumption, and the importers being firm in their deter- the ports, 562,000 bales.
mination to hold—as the first cost and freights had in the MOBILE, January 14.—Middling, 8= c. per lb. Freight
meantime considerably increased—the prices here conti- to Liverpool, eleven-sixteenths of a penny per lb. Decrease
nued to advance, and by the middle of September several by table to day, 571,000 bales. Decrease in total export.
large cargoes were sold as high as £l2 10s. per standard, 389,000 bales. Decrease in exports to Great Britain
and before the close of September the highest point of the 351,000 bales.
year was reached, St. John Spruce Deals having been sold
at £14105., with Yellow Pine at £l7 per standard, or an
advance of 46 per cent. from the commencement of the
season. The price of Deals from other ports being
governed chiefly by those from St. John, they experienced
similar fluctuations. The price of Quebec Pine, at the
opening of the season, was about 20d. per foot for 70 feet
average. After various fluctuations, it reached the highest
point in the month of November, when 80 feet average
sold at 2s. 3d. per foot. St. John Pine at the commence-
ment was 6d. per foot over the average girth, owing to
the short stock, and gradually advanced until the month
of September, when it reached the unprecedented figure
of 10d. per foot over the average, or equal to 2s. sd. per
foot for 19-inch average girth, being the highest price
ever attained in this market for an entire cargo of like
average. Of Baltic Timber the stocks held over from the
previous year were very small. In the month of June,
notwithstanding the small increase of arrivals as compared
with the corresponding period of the previous year, the
supply was insufficient for the demand, and prices in con-
sequence continued to advance from 18d. to 20d. per foot
for common Timber, which were the current rates in the
early part of the year, until they reached 2s. 3d. per foot
in the month of November. This continuous rise of
prices, and the large profits which had been made by
importers, excited attention towards fresh imports and
large increase of shipments, particularly from the Baltic
ports ; and owing to the long continuance of easterly
winds, the arrivals were very numerous within the last
two months. This unpreeedented quantity, which was
altogether unexpected, amounting to nearly fifty cargoes,
has operated in a very material degree to depress the
market value for this description of Wood, and common
Timber has been sold this month at 21d. per foot.

EXTENSIVE FORGERY.

APPREHENSION AND COMMITAL OF THE

FORGER.

YESTERDAY, a well-dressed and respectable-looking
man, about thirty years of age, was brought up at the
police court, charged with forging a cheque for £1,500
From the investigation, it appeared the prisoner, who
gave his name as John Timpson, went to the Bank
of Liverpool yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, where
he presented a cheque for £1,500, purporting to be drawn
by MeEisrs. Glynn and Co., bankers, London. To ac-
count for presentation of the cheque without previous
advice of it having been made, Timpson said Mr. Ledger
Glynn had occasion to be in the north on some business,
for the purposes of which he had taken funds with him ;
that Mr. Glynn, senior, being afraid that some mistake
might happen, had sent him, Timpson, with this cheque.
Such was the tale he told to Mr. G. M. Brown, sub-ma-
nager of the bank. That gentleman having gone to consult
Mr. Langton on the subject of the cheque, Timpson
became evidently uneasy, and endeavoured to leave the
place. This being observed, he was stopped, when he
immediately confessed the forgery of the cheque, adding
that he should adhere to the statement all through. He
was then given into custody, and at the Bridewell he re-
peated his admission of being the forger of the cheque,
stating, further, that he was glad he had not got the
money, as, in that event, he should have been miserable
all his days. When before the magistrates, he once more
admitted his guilt, and was committed for trial at the
next assizes.

AMERICA.