The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

IPARTMENT.

'Gov. Securities £11,766,243
Other Securities 16,432,461
Notes ... 7,005,750
Gold & Silver Coin 668,938

£35,873,3821 £35,873,382
Our SHARE MARKET continues not very active,
but buoyant in prices and good in character, with
an increasing business daily.. The Local Stocks,
Insurance Shares, and others are in great demand
for investment, and have been readily taken as
offered at advanced prices. Money,. t00,.1.4 becoming
much more easy in the Share Maalret ; in fact, we
may say everything has a brighter look, both as
to amount of business and range of-prices. We
annex this day's quotations :—Caledonians, 28 2-;
Eastern Counties, 13 3-16 1; East. Lancashire,
161 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 658 6 -,13-1-4-ii;
Ditto Fifths, 61d ; London Stock, 1031 4 ; Ditto
' Eighths 1d ; Sheffield Stock, 21 ; Midland Stock,
63 3133 c 1. 1 • North British, 71 :.Dover
Stock, 1.4,1 9-16 -1 11:16 ; York and North. Midland,
241 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire £lO
pref., 3-16 p; Preston and Wyre, 46-a ; Royal
[ Insurance, Ip.
CoTTox.—The market during, the week has
been steady, the demand being fair for good qua-
lities, while the lower sorts remain difficult of sale.
To-DAY, the advices by Niagara were received,
but had very little effect on this market. It
would appear that some damage' has been done to
the crop, but it is generally believed, that some of
the statements have been' exaggerated in order to
influence the market. The sales amounted to
6,000 bales, of which about 1,000. were on specu-
lation and for export. The following is a compari-
son of present prices with those of this time last
year :

New Orleans, middling...
fair ......

61d. ... 6d.
bid. ... 61d.

Uplands, middling
fair

...

SALES. IMPORTS.
DRSCRIPTION. PRIORS. Week Previ- Week This
STOCK
ending ously ending ;`,,,': --
Nov. lt3,this yr. Nov.lB ''''`' Nov.lB
—l
Sea Island .. 11 Q 314 240 17810 ....
Stained .... 4 94 70 1550 1 3296 498614 ....
Bowels .... 3i 6i 10420 437530 358980
Mobile 3} 64 2530. 266910
.... 926047 '• • •
New Orleans. ai 7} 13950 892030 } .. .
Pernatns, &c. 61 8 1260 61560 .... 51262 10410.
Bahia, &c.
Maranhain
Demerara, Scc 9 20 690 .... 535 490
Egyptian 5 12 17401 116420 .... 98122 85040
Com.W.l.&c. 74 20. 10940 577 76291 4070
Surat
Madras
Bengal 34 10 4850 125 6316 3050
--
3737012133540 7562 1921656 655720

PRODVCE.—The markets during the week have
assumed a firmer tone, particularly for Tea, Sugar,
and Rice. Palm-oil has also been in more-request.
To-DIY there has been a fair inquiry for the refin-
ing qualities of Sugar, the sales, including Satur-
day's business, consisting of 20 hhds. grainy
Demerara at 36s 6d, 70 hhds. Jamaica. at 33s 3d
to 34s 6d, 1,100. bags Khaur at 28s 6d, 200 boxes
brown Havana at 20s 3d, 1,500 bags Pernams and
Paraiba at 18s 9d to 19s 6d, and 30 cases Maceio
at 19s to 20s per cwt. Of Molasses, 90 puns.
very ordinary St. Lucia have been taken by a dis-
tiller at 16s per cwt. • a small Parcel of Demerara
Rum is reported, at full prices. There continues
a good demand from the trade for most descriptions
of Tea, together with further speculative inquiry,
and prices for all kinds are decidedly higher; com-
mon Congou is in request at is 2d, and a con-
siderable parcel of fair quality changed hands • on
Saturday at is 2-id per lb. 200 bags Arracan
Rice are reported at 13s 9d, and 500 bags Ben-
gal at 15s 6d per cwt. We have also to notice
300 bags Saltpetre at 29s 6d for 5 per cent. refrac-
tion, 1,000 bags Sago Flour, to arrive, at 21s, and
120 bags Plate Lac at 34s per cwt.
WooL.—The improved feeling noticed in our
last week's report has continued to characterise
the market this week, and a fair amount of busi-
ness has been done at rather improved rates. A.
portion of the East India Wools withdrawn at our
last auction sales have found a market this week,
at much better prices than were then ruling ; the
general opinion is that the wool market has seen
the 'worst, and we now look for more activity in
this branch of trade. The London salei closed
very firm last Thursday evening, since which this
market has been much more active. Imports for
the week 1015 bales. In English there is not
much doing ; prices are without change. "
Messrs. W. GREENE and Co. in their Circular of ,
Friday, say :
" The London sales, which closed last evening, have
recovered a little from the extreme depression noticed in
our last report, and closed firmly at about opening rates ;
about 53,985 bales Australian and Cape, 5,243 East India,
530 China, and 5,256 sundry low Foreign Wools were
offered. So large a quantity put on the market at one
time, in face of such adverse circumstances, both political
and commercial, had, as was to be expected, a very depres-
sing effect on the market ; and the reduction in prices, as
compared with the August series, is very considerable,
averaging at one period of the sales, from id. to 2d. on
clean first-class Australian wools, 2d. to 3d. on medium,
and 3d. to 4d. on ill-conditioned and burry wools, of which
there was an unusoall large proportion."
TIMBEE.—We extract the following from the
recently published circular of Messrs. A. F. and D.
Mackay :
" Since our last printed circular, of the 14th ult., wood
goods have still further advanced in price, more from a
conviction in the mind of purchasers that the stocks at the
end of the import season will be moderate than from any
immediate extra demand for consumption. Judging,
however, from the stocks at present in the market, and
the general healthy state of the trade, it is reasonable to
seek a still further advance, more particularly in the
article of spruce deals, which are now below their relative
value, when compared with the wood in the log.
" 11u:rm.—Since Ist February to date, 79 vessels, 22,301
tons register, wood laden, have arrived, against to cor-
responding date last year, 56 vessels, 17,126 tons register.
The stock of Baltic timber is now reduced to a few lots in
the bawls of the dealers, anti early arrivals of this cannot