The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

EPARTMENT,

Goy. securities.Xl3,464,s3B
Other securities 15,931,447
Notes .. 10,790,310
Gold & sify..co. in 538,991

£10,725,286 I £40,725,286
The SHARE MARKET during the past week has
been in the same quiet state as of late ; no change
of importance in prices.. Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton have been particularly good.
Should the money market become easier, we con-
fidently look for an advance-the bears-- being out
1-trAylaag WOULa
compel them to re-purchase, and so have an
immediate effect on prices. The traffics are con-
sidered good, which will induce confidence :-
Caledonians, 311; Eastern Counties, 13 12 15-16;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 74*- 751-; London
Stock, 118 171 c.; Midland Stock,. 74 ; Dover
Stock, 221 -I; York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
17 5-16; York and North Midland, 291; Pacific
Steam Company New Shares, 2p.
COTTON.-The accounts by the Cambria, last
week, gave confidence to this market, and the sales
on Thursday last amounted to 22,000 bales, at
an advance of id. per lb., and fully -Ird. on low
qualities. Brazil, Id. higher, for Egyptian a better
demand. On Friday, the sales were 10,000 bales,
of which 4,000 were on speculation and for export,
and on Saturday about 7,000 bales. To-DAY the
accounts by the steam-ship Africa were received,
fully confirming the previous news from the United
States of the falling off in the receipts, they being
for the week 77,000 bales against 125,000 last year,
and they point to a continued: falling off for several.
weeks. There had been excited markets through-
out the States, and prices had further advanced.
The estimates are now generally reduced in many
cases to 3,000,000, but few-exceed 3;200,000 bales.
There was a very firm market here, and the sales were
from 7,000 to 8,000 bales,,but very little excitement,
as the accounts had been, anticipated last week by
telegraph, and this week there is no positive infor-
mation, the telegraph being out of order.
PRODUCE.-Owing probably to theholiday season
of Easter, the market for Sugar has been rather
quiet, the sales being limited to 300 hhds. 8.P.,
and 7,000 bags Bengal. In foreign very little
doing, only 400 bags and brls. Pernambuco having
been sold. A large business in Molasses, the
sales being 1,400 puns., all to arrive, at 18s. 6d. to
19s. per cwt. Of Coffee the sales amounted to a few
tierces Jamaica at about previous rates-400 bags
Ceylon and a few small parcels foreign. Holders
of Tea are still firm,, and business in consequence
has been limited.. Common Congous are in re-
quest at 101 d. per lb. Of Rice the sales amounted
to 250 tierces Carolina, at 215.; 2,000 bags Bengal,
at 9s. 6d. to 9s. 9d.. for broken, and Hs. 6cl. for
good white; and 1,000 bags Arracan, at 98. 9d. per
cwt. Rum is a trifle easier, 450 puns. Demerara
having sold at rather lower prices. Of Saltpetre
1,200 bags sold at 28s. to 28s. 6d. for 5. per cent.,
and 30s. per cwt. for East India refined. Guano
in active request. About 700 tons of the inferior
sorts realised full rates; and Peruvian, in the absence
of sales on importers' account, may be quoted £lO
to £lO lOs. per ton. Of Hides the sales were 2,000
New South Wales at rather higher rates. Olive
Oil in steady demand. Of Linseed Oil 40 tuns
realised 30s. to 30s. 6d. per cwt, pale Rape 385.,
and brown 355. per cwt. Spirits of Turpentine 60s.
to 61s. per cwt., and little doing. For Palm Oil a
fair demand ; the sales amounted to about 400 tuns
at £33 10s. to £34 per tun. Tallow steady at 465.
for St. Petersburg Y.C. 100 tons American Lard
sold at 515. to 535. per cwt. Baltic Hemp easier.
Jute in active demand, and about 8,000 bales have
been sold to arrive at considerably advanced prices.
TO..DAY the Sugar market was quiet, the sales
being limited to a small parcel of Demerara, at
355. to 355. 9d., and 950 bags Madras, at 325. 6d.
to 335. per cwt. The Tea market firm, but little
doing; 150 bags black Pepper sold at 3*d. per lb. ;
40 casks Gum Gedda at 31s. fid.; 13 tons
Cutch at 265. per cwt.; and 250 bags Bombay Lin-
seed at 48s. per qr.
WooL.-This article still maintains its value,
owing to the active demand ; and the best opinions
are, that it will go still higher.-In the monthly
circulars: just published, Messrs. WM. GREAME
and Co. say :-" There has been a large business
doing by private contract; the late arrivals have
been chiefly sold as landed, and a further advance
in prices has been obtained on most descriptions,
particularly for clean long-stapled Wools suitable
for combing and carding purposes, which may now
be quoted mod. to Id. per lb. higher. In bright-
haired English and Irish combing Wools the im-
provement in prices is still more marked; a large
business has been done, and an advance of Id. to
2d. per lb. has been paid on such descriptions : the
demand still continues very active, and fears begin
Ito be entertained that the consumption is overtaking
the supply of these Wools. Stocks in the growers
and dealers hands are lighter now than they have
been known for many years, and holders (from the
difficulty they experience in replacing their stocks)
are unwilling to make sales unless at a further
advance."-Messrs. HUGHES and RONALD say :-
" In our last monthly report we alluded to the extra-
ordinary activity. which prevailed throughout the
and the certainty that
manufacturing ch§tricto,