The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPARTMENT,

Notes issued ... £29,128,4.35 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
'Other Securities 2,984,900
Gold coin & bu11'n.15,128,435
Silver bullion

£29,128,435
BANKING DEPARTMENT.

£29,128,435

Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000'G0v. Securities £15,043,730
Rest ... 3,198,455'0ther Securities 16,643,651
Public Deposits 11,157,724 Notes ... 8,318,280
Other Deposits 10,607,922 Gold & Silver Coin 690,606
7-day & other bills 1,179,166

£40,696,2671 £40,696,267
Our SHARE MARKET has been more affected
during the past week by political events than at
any time since the opening of the Eastern question.
The almost absolute certainty of war has induced
some few real sales and many speculative ones,
which, together in this holiday season, have had
a more severe effect than they would have had at
another time, having lowered prices some two or
three per cent. all round. At this decline the
market may be called steady, with a disposition
to improve. Local stocks very steady. We annex
prices :—Caledonians, 2674- 2 ; Eastern Counties,
13 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 651 s ; London
Stock, 103 ; Midland Stock, 611 2; North British,
71 • Oswestry and Chester, 111 ; Dover Stock, 18.
WooL.—There is no alteration to note in the
Wool market this week. This being the season of
the year when the generality of the trade are
stock-taking, there is not much business doing,
consequently the transactions are limited to the
actual and pressing requirements of the trade ;
prices, however, continue very firm. The next
public sales are fixed for the 17th instant, when
about 6,000 bales East India, and 3,000 to 4,000
bales Turkey, Russia, Egyptian, and other descrip-
tions, will be brought forward. Imports for the
week, 1,464 bales • namely, 504 Peruvian, &c.,
796 East India, 1 iediterranean ports, 139 Scotch;
12 Irish, and 12 coastwise. In the country dis-
tricts a good business has been doing in English
and Irish Wools during the past week, and for
many kinds id. to id. per lb. higher rates are ob-
tained. Stocks are very light, and holders are ex-
pecting higher prices.
COTTON.—Upon taking the actual stock in Li-
verpool on Friday, there appeared an increase on
the computed stock of 52,490 bales of American,
13,240 bales of Brazil and Egyptian, and a decrease
of 4,200 Surats, which gives an increase of 61,560
bales on the total stock, or 19,690 bales more than
last year. The stock of American is now 286,170
bales, against 338,820 the previous year. By a
decree of the French Government, raw Cotton
may be imported from Great Britain into France
free of duty, but the proposal to admit Cotton Yarn
at a moderate duty has been for the present post-
poned. The business done during the week has
been to a full average extent, the sales up to Fri-
day amounting to no less than 45,660 bales, of
which 7,980 were on speculation, and 2,290 for
exportation. The demand has been chiefly for the
lower qualities, and the advices per Europa, show-
ing small prices and shipments and higher prices,
had a favourable effect on this market, and prices
of qualities below middling fair may be quoted
1-16 d. to Bd. dearer. On Saturday the sales were
between 6,000 and 7,000 bales, and the market
closed firmly. TO-DAY being the first of the year,
no business was done. The following is a com-
parison of prices with those of the corresponding
period of last year :
New Orleans, middling

1853.
6 1-16 d.
6841.
51d.....
....

1854.
61-d.
6d.

fair
Uplands, middling
fair