The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, MAY 10.
MOSEY MARKET-The supply of money on call is large
at 6to 7 per cent. Demand active, but freely met. Paper
is 7to 8 per cent. There was not a very large amount of
business done at the Stock Board, but generally prices
were well sustained. The market has been moderately
active for Exchange for the Boston steamer, and banker's
Sterling closed firm at 9, with a free supply. Other
good bills were 9to 91 per cent. Francs are 5.15 to 5.131-.
The receipts at the Sub-Treasury were £'141,039 ; Pay-
ment, .8'288,784. Balance, $7,038,294.
(From Mr. TV. P. Wright's Circular, of May 10.)
Corrox.-The operations in this market since the 3rd
instant have been only to a moderate extent, and without
spirit or animation. The market generally is not pressed,
and the principal holders only sell when full rates can be
obtained.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since
the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three
years:- 1853 1852 1851 1850
Receipts at the ports 3,017,000 2,742,000 2,102,000 1,851,000
Exports to Great Britain 1,360,000 1,279,000 1,007,000 711,000
France
„ other for. ports 277,000 269,000 196,000 136,000
Total exports 1,991,000 1,906,000 1,471,000 1,072,000
Stock on hand
Of which during the past week, included in the above :
1853 1852 1851 1850
Receipts at the ports
Exports to Great Britain 52,000 61,000 49,000 18,000
„ France
„ otherfor. ports 10,000 26,000 7,000 3,000
Total exports
From which it will be seen that the excess in receipts
now amounts to 275,000 bales. The increase in exports
to Great Britain is 81,000; other foreign ports, 8,000.
Decrease to France, 4,000. Total increase in exports,
85,000 bales.

(From the New York Courier and Inquirer, of Maylo.)
Without late advices from abroad, all the markets of
the United States are still under the influence of unfa-
vourable advices per Baltic and Asia. Their accounts, as
advised per Humboldt on the 7th, cause general disap-
pointment, and the sales effected after their receipts were
at a reduction of c. Such, also, appears to have been
their effect on southern markets as far as heard from, sel-
lers yielding only to necessity, confirmed in their view of
a moderate crop, with a rapidly decreasing export to Great
Britain, and a very late planting season. The stock in
Liverpool appears to have been a bugbear at last dates ;
but a glance at the annexed statement will show that a
month later (than last advices. April 22d) it will probably
be less alarming :—Stock April 22d, 1852, 366,600, against
this year 792,800.

Import week ending April 30, 1852, 76,437, and stock 414,270
„ „ „ May 7, „ 144,855, 500,570
„ „ „ „ 14, „ 145,114, „ „ 588,910
~ 21, ~ 67.234, ~ 92 601,700
Thus there were imported into Liverpool in four weeks
last season, April 30th to May 21st inclusive, 433,640
bales, or a weekly average of 108,410 bales. The imports
during same period this season will be barely one-half
this quantity, but a deficit of 191,000 bales will be suffi-
cient to absorb the whole excess in stock which existed on
the 23d ult., and to which so much allusion has been
made on both sides the Atlantic.

BREADSTUFFS.-With a very moderate demand, prices
of common shipping qualities of flour have given way to
the extent of 6.1-c. per brl. Prices of the better grades are
unchanged. The advance in wheat of 2c. per bushel,
quoted on the 3d instant, has been lost. The quotations
for Indian corn are as follow :-Northern round yellow,
67c. to 68c. per 561bs. Southern yellow, 68c. ro 69c. per
561bs. White and mixed, 63c. to 65c. per 651bs.
PaovisioNs.-The market was inactive. Mess pork,
4+15. Mc. to 4115. 25c. ; prime, Sl3. 25c. ; clear,
.817 25c. to Sl7. 371 c. Beef is inactive, Lard is heavy
the quotations are 9}c. to 10c. for barrels, and 101 c. to
11c. for kegs, but these prices are now difficult to obtain.
FREIGHTS.-There has been more inquiry for freight
to Liverpool, and engagements for cotton have been made
at 9-32 d. per lb., for several thousand bales. Shipowners
are asking an advance on this rate. Flour, 2s. to 2s. 3d.
per barrel ; and grain, in bulk, 6d. per bushel. To Lon-
don, flour, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per barrel. To Havre, cot-
ton, ic. per lb.
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NEW
ORLEANS, MAY 6.—Sales for the week, 15,000
bales. Middling, 10c. Increased receipts at this port,
215,000 bales; and at all the ports, 273,000 bales. Stock
on hand, 210,000 bales.—May 7 : The sales of cotton to-
day were 3,000 bales, at steady prices. Strict middling is
at 10c.—May 9: The Baltic's letters have caused a dull
feeling in the cotton market, and the sales to-day have as
yet amounted to but 800 bales.—May 10: Cotton heavy;
sales barely 800 bales. Operators anxiously awaiting the
arrival of the English steamer. Stock increasing. 190,000
bales. Freights dull. Cotton to Liverpool 3d.
MOBILE, MAY 6.—Receipts for the week, 3,200 bales.
Middling. Sac. Freight to Liverpool, ad per lb. Exchange
on London, 8-i per cent, Excess at all the ports to be
shown by our table of to-morrow, 278,000 bales.
SAVANNAH, MAY 6.—Receipts for the week, 3,200
bales. Total excess by our table of this day, 277,000 bales .
Market firm. Quotations nominal.

CHARLESTON, May 9.—The sales of cotton to-day have
been 700 bales, at prices ranging from B.lc to 101 c. The
market shows no change.
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 16.—The depression in trade
noticed by last mail continued without any signs of im-
provement throughout the whole of the last and for the
first two days of the present week ; indeed, transactions
were, if anything, on a more limited scale than imme-
diately prior to the sailing of the steamer. Within the
last two days, however, a very perceptible improvement
has taken place. The renewed demand from the country
has begun to manifest itself, and, as a consequence, a
greater degree of activity is apparent in trade generally.
Prices generally have experienced but little change,
although this may be more attributed to the almost entire
lack of transactions from the first hands, rather than to
any willingness on the part of buyers to pay such rates as
were last current. For the ensuing week we look to see
the promising renewal of activity in trade check the down-
ward tendency of the market, or, at all events, render it
possible to effect sales at some prices, which has latterly
been so difficult to accomplish. Money has continued
extremely stringent ; but it is reasonable to expect that,
as business revives, there will be more of the circulating
medium amongst traders. The rates, however, may be
quoted at a shade easier.

AFFECTING INCIDENT.—Daring the late hurricane at
Madras, an English vessel of 1,000 tons having dragged
its anchors, touched land and began to break up. The
natives, a race almost amphibious, endeavoured to assist
the crew, but only few were saved, and the wreck was soon
spread widely along the coast. Among the fragments
rescued was a life-buoy, to which a chubby boy of five
years old was carefully fastened ; and when the child had
recovered itself sufficiently to give some account, he stated thatjust at the moment when the ship was breaking up
an old boatswain had tied him to the buoy, and with a'
word of prayer had dropped him from the side into the
billow that swept by. The old boatswain himself was
found the next morning floating on a fragment of the
wreck, having been eleven hours in the water, and was
restored to the child for whose
Reed the 11103115 of his own, Preservation he had sacri.