The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-31 00:00:00

SUPPLY

The report of the committee of the Supply was brought
up and agreed to.
The second readinz of the Shannon Navigation Bill was
postponed until Tuesday. •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that the
first public business on Monday would be to go into committee
on the Civil List, for the purpose of considering the report
of the Pension List Committee.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
house adjourned at half-past three o'clock.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND
MONEY MARKET.

( From the Sunday Times.)
CITY, SATURDAY.—The accounts received from the prin-
cipal manufacturing districts state, that a fair degree of acti-
vity continues to prevail in the chief descriptions of goods,
especially those suitable for the markets of the north of Europe.
The demand for manufactures for the United States is not by
any means so brisk as it was expected would have been the
case. It is satisfactory, however, to remark that the Great
Western steam-boat, as well as the London line of packet-

ship Mediator, and the Liverpool packet. George 'Washing-
ton, which have left our shores for New York within the last
week, have all very valuable cargoes of British manufactured
goods, chiefly of the finest qualities; which are expected to be
in demand for the fall trade. It is stated that the value of
the cargo on board the steam-boat is not less than 20,0001.

The deliveries of Indigo, wool, cotton and raw silk, for imme-
diateconsumption, are lage, and this indicates an opinion on
the part of the manfacturers that a more animated state of
things Will soon arise. The consumption of cotton, it is cer-
tain, will fall short in the country during the present year,
although there is no doubt that there will be an excess of
importations to a considerable amount, as compared with the
arriVals'of previous years. According to the latest estimate,
the produce of the last crop in the United States, as contain-
edin letters to the 3d inst., will be rather over 1,800,000 bales,
of which 1,350,000 bales had already been shipped off for
Europe. There is but little hope of an early revival in the
East India trade. The stores of goods at Calcutta and Ben-
gal, at the latest dates, were full of goods, and merchants, as
well as traders, were in very bad spirits, the restrictions put
upon the opium trade by the authorities of the Celestial Em-
pire operating very materially to render all business very
dull, immense losses having been sustained by the impossibi-
lity of finding a market for the drug.
.Tha. price of opium
was fully 46 per cent. below the lowest value of any former
year. The extent to which the trade in opium with China
has been carried on may. be judged of by the fact, that the
cultiVation was -increased India in about fifteen years, from
5,000 or 6,000 chests, to very nearly 30,000 chests. It may
readily be conceived that the total prohibition of the import
of the article into China. (tl3'e great market hitherto for the
drug) must have led to severe losses among all those who had
entered into contracts for the purchase and the resale of it.
The Funds have been subjected to some fluctuation this
week, having at the same time a downward tendency. The
fall in the priCes of Consols and the heavy Stocks has
amounted to' full i per cent., as compared with the rates
which were obtained last week. It is supposed that the He-
brews have operated to some extent to produce the decline,
with the view of coming in at reduced prices. It is certain
that the -supply of Money Stock has on several days been
abundant. From 91M Consols have declined to 93i, and for
the next account day from 94 th 93; 94. The character of
the market was not improved up to yesterdav—in fact, if an•
alteration took place it was for the worse. -I.'he Three-am
a-Half per Cent. Annuities have declined 1023 to 1011, am
the Reduced Annuities 91 to 943. A great amount of .Ex-
chequer Bills has been sold this week, partly, it is said, on
account of government. The premium has bean reduced
from 8.3 to 72, at which there were un willing buyers yesterday.
Bank of England Stock rose 21- pet cent, a few days since,
but sales were subsequently pressed, and the price fell again
from 2081 to 206. Last India Stock has fluctuated, it was
yesterday at 2641 to 265. The premium on East India Bonds
has fallen from 81 to 72. •

The Foreign Funds have not shown more buoyancy than
those of this country, almost all of the Bonds havingfallen
since this day week. The price of Spanish Stock has declined
to 21k, which is about per cent. lower than it was on Sa-
turday last. For Portuguese and other Foreign Stocks the
inquiries have been small. Dutch Two.and-a-Half has risen
to 55k, but it left off at 55 yesterday. Portuguese Five per
Cents having been shld at 344, The Three per Cents at 23,
Belgian at 102%, and the Scrip of the New Loan at 41 pre-
• miurn. French Stock has declined; the Five per Cents hay,
ing been sold at 111.75, and the Three per Cents at 80.25.
Exchange 25f. 50c. The South American Bonds are falling
in value. Mexican were yesterday sold at 2/1; Columbian
at 27 ; and Brazilian at 84
For Shares the demand has improved this week, especially
as regards those. of the leading railway companies. The
Great Western Shares, after having advanced in the middle
of the week, have declined to 791, or 142 premiuni; the Lon-
don and Birmingham, 172 or 82 premium; the North Mid-
land to 481, or 31 premium ; the Leeds and Manchester to
47, or 17 premium ; the Greenwich 152, or 41 discount; the
Southampton to-43.1, or 64 discount ; the New Shares to 29,
or 19 premium; the Brighton to 9 Jt, or 1% discount ; and
the Blackwall to 6%, or %, discount. Although the expose
made by the directors of the Colonial Bank at the half-yearly
meeting of the proprietary on Thursday was very favourable,
still the shares are not so firm as they were, The price has
fallen to 26, or 1 premium. The other Banking Shares have
remained firm; the London and Westminster at 29%, or 2e'
premium; and the London Joint Stock Bank at 12, or 2
premium, The directors of the Bank have ordered the Ro-
tunda to be laid down with the bitumen of the Bastenne and
Gaucac mines. Little or no influence has been produced
upon the shares of this company, which have remained at
1%, or % discount. The shares of the. Seyssel Company
( Mr. Clarridge's) are 5!4, or 3% premium. Tne adoption of
the bill by the House of Lords, for constituting the National
Loan Fund Assurance Company, has given strength to the
shares, which have improved to 21i, 0r.% premium.
HALF-PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK.—The usual monthly re-

turns of the liabilities and assets of the Bank of England
have been published. The following are the results of a
comparison with the former statement:—The circulation has
been ►ncreased from £19,047,000 to £19,286,000, the deposits
have diminished from £10,426,000 to £10,424,000. The Se-
curities have been increased from £22,354,000 to £22,601,000,
and the Bank Stock of Bullion from £9,722,000 to £9,749,000.
The Rest is rather more in favour of the Bank—it now stands
at £2,61000.
There are no colonial or foreign arrivals this morning of
the least public interest.
In the British market there is scarcely any speculative
business going on. Consols for Account have been quoted
at 9-1, and for Money at 931. Bank Stock is at 236 to 207;
Exchequer Bills at 74, and India Bonds at 72 to 74 prem.;
In the other Securities no variation of importance has oc-
curred.
The Foreign market is a present very thinley attended.
Spanish Consols fetch 211, Portuguese -New Bonds 34?► N,
. Brazil Stock 802, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 55.
The Great Western Railway Shares are worth 141 prem.;
the Brighton 1% discount; the Birmingham" 82 prem., and
the Greenwich 41 discount.

ABSENCE OF MIND.—Dr. Campbell, the author of the
Survey of Great Britain, was so absent, that looking once
into a pamphlet in a bookseller's shop, he liked it so well that
he purchased it; and it was not till he had read it half
through, that he discovered it to be his own composition.
This anecdote he himself told the late David Hume.—Lon-
don paper.
BonouGn of Lip' A x.—The conservatives of Ilalifax
have, during the last year, made considerable progress in
regard to the registration. We have not as yet heard the
number of new claims, but understand a considerable number
who have heretofore voted yellow, have at this time deter-
mined to disfranchise themselves by leaving their rates
unpaid till after the twentieth-instant, which plainly indicates
a gradual change is taking place in the minds of well-wishers
to their country in the good old town of Halifax. —Leeds
Intelligeneer.
A PockErFet.—There is in Gawsvvorth Gardens, near
this town, a fish-pond, in which is •a miniature firte, on the
top of which is a tie,-ure said to represent some Pled Douglas,
overlooking the battery. This figure is represented as having
in one hand a naked sword, and the other hand thrust into
the pocket of his small clothes. In the recess thus formed by
the latter hand, a bird of theltnnet tribs has this season built
its nest, and has there
,deposited six eggs: .Ive hope no in-
. tructtng sehool•boy, may. destroy her Opal or progenye—
Macclesfield Cour*