The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

EPARTMENT.

Gov. securities..Cl3,4BB,Bs3
Other securities 14,926,214
Notes .... ... 9,662,270
Gold & silt'. coin 538,485

£38,615,822 1 £38,615,822
Our SHARE MARKET has bean almost unpre-
cedentedly dull and inactive all week, and prices, in
consequence, have drooped generally. To-day,
after a very limited arnouut of business, we close
i
very heavy ndeed, with every appearance of a con-
tinuance of the
.decline. Business has been done
Ditto
at the following prices :—Chester and Birkenhead,
21i; Caledonians, 31i; .Chester and Holyhead,
Southport, 171 ;
F22ipth;f3,L4Tdcags-hli6rde
;aLndiveYrpooroklshanirde,
London Stock, 118:1 ; Sheffield Stock, 29i 1;
Midland Stock, 761
North British, 9 1-16;
i ;
Dover Stock, 23- + ; York and North Midland,
291 W ; Preston and Wyre Halfs, No. 4, 10ip ;
Commercial Bank, 121; Royal Insurance, 1 3-16 p.
PRODUCE.—Owing to the limited supply of West
India Sugar little business has been done, but the
demand is good, and prices have been well sup-
ported, The sales amounted tco 150 Ilhds, 13,1',,

DESCRIPTION.! PRICES.(

SALES. I IMPORTS.
ThisJr_
Week j Previ. Week STOCK
ending I ously jending
Mar. 4.thia yr.jMar. Year. IMar. 4

d7.7o______l_____l___ i
Sea Island lB @29 1 350 2800 1
Stained 5 113 i 40 370 21941 116285'1
Bowecls 4J 6C 5070 84480 ! }437900
Mobile 4J 611 6430 439901 53520 ! I 1
216
New Orleans. 4I n 16510 136710 1 959
J
Pernams, &c. 6I 71
-1: 1300 11516 1 2120 1q039 1 16510
Aracati, &c 6j 6i -
Bahia, &c 6 6i 530 13420; 1628 10199 13030
Nlaranliam .
Sawginned. 6 —! I i
Demerara,&cl —— 1 ... . ! 70 .... 111! 240
Egyptian s} 14i 2830 23940 269 133561 92780
Barbadoes
IPeruvian — I .... 1 '
Laguayra..
Com.W.l.Sic. —— 1 .. }. 1850 1 338 4130
Cartliagena 4} 1. 0
1 ! I
i I
Smyrna
Manilla
Surat
.. .._a '-i 65680
Madras
840 I .•
Bengal — .... ' .... 2SO 280; 1290

35570 382170 86805 3(..)0199 658100

WooL.—At the public sales here, on Friday,
3,344 bales were offered, chiefly consisting of East
India, Buenos Ayres, Turkey, and other low wools.
There was a good attendance of the trade, and with
the exception of Buenos Ayres, which was partly
withdrawn, the greater part found buyers at very
full prices, leaving the market again very hare. For
English Comb Skin Wool the demand continues
good, and former rates are well maintained.
Irish Hogs are selling at 1514. per lb. deli-
vered in Dublin. Skin is realising 19s. per
16 lbs. nett to the fell monger in Dublin.
Messrs. W. GREAME and Co. report the market
quite bare of Spanish and Lisbon wool, which con-
tinues in very good request, and would realize full
quotations. Messrs. HUGHES and ROWALD re-
port a regular and steady demand for all descrip-
tions of wool, from the extraordinary activity which
still exists throughout the manufacturing districts,
and the long interval that must elapse before any
receipts of importance can be expected, a further
advance in prices seems inevitable.
METALS.—The mania for speculation which
lately prevailed in Scotch Pig-iron, to the serious
loss of numbers who embarked in it, seems now to
have settled upon Tin, the price of which, after
several leaps of £5 a ton, has reached £ll7 a ton
for block, and £l2O for refined. Copper has also
reached the high price of 15d. a pound, and re-
quires but little more advance to withdraw the old
copper coinage from circulation. The latter ad-
vance is owing, it is said, to the sudden decrease in
the supply from Australia and Cuba, and the stop-
page in the working of the Cornish mines, caused
by the recent floods ; but the rise in Tin is attri-
buted solely to speculation, as the stock is reported
to he larger than formerly. The public should be
on their guard against such attempts to force the
market upward, or they may find, as in the case of
Scotch pigs, which from Sys. have gone back to
525. 6d. per ton, that the loss will fall upon the mere
speculators. In the latter article very little is doing,
and quotations are merely nominal.