The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

TH E COTTON MARKET IN AMERICA.-
FOUR DAYS LA TER FROM NEW OR-
LEANS-BY EXPRESS.-

An unusual anxiety has been excited durin2-, the
past week in our Liverpool cotton market, for toe
arrival of the American mail steamer Britannia,
which was expected to he the bearer of important
news for or against the speculators upon a short crop
of this important raw material. In the ordinary
course she was due on the 13th or 14th instant, hut
having been delayed by meeting with ice at the com-
mencement of her voyage. she did not arrive in this
port until Sunday night at a late hour.
The dates brought by her are from New York to
the 31st ult., from Charleston to the 23d, from Phi-
ladelphia to the 30th, and from New Orleans and
Mobile to the 13th only, the mails from the south-
ward having been detained, nine or ten being due
from various ports at the date of the Britannia's de-
parture. By the kindness, however, of Messrs.
Stewart and Wright, of New York, we have been
favoured with information of importance, from New
Orleans,four days later in date, viz., to the 17th
Instant, brought by special express to New York,
and, we believe, at the hour at which we go to press,
the latest known in Liverpool. To enable our read-
ers the better to estimate the value of the impression
which the . arrival of this packet has produced in the
Liverpool market, we shall confine ourselves in the
first instance, to that portion of the news brought by
her, which is generally known.
The latest dates from IV ew York inform us of th
result of the arrival out of the Britannia from Liver-
pool, conveying news of the excitement in this port,
and the advance which had taken place of id. to
2-3 d, per lb. These facts, together with a know-
ledge of the kind of accounts which left New York
on the Ist of January, and had not arrived in Liver-
pool, to produce their effect upon the market, at the
date of the Britannia's leaving the latter port, led
to a confident belief that a further advancee must
take place in the English market, and the result was
on the 23d sales to the extent of 5000 bales, at -th
of a cent 'urther advance on the previously high
rates in New York. On the 24th 2000 were sold at
these prices, and on the 25th, 1500 bales, further
business being checked by increased demands on the
part of holders. On the 26th, 5000 hales were sold
at advancing rates, and on the 27th 3000, making
a total for the week of 19,000 bales, the market clos-
ing firmly at prices equal to the highest point this
season. Up to the 31st ultimo, at which the latest
accounts left, the market was quiet and little doing.
At Charleston, on the 23d, we find the market
almost at a stand, and prices down 14 of a cent,
holders unwilling to make further reductions, and
preferring to wait fnrther advices from England.
At• Philadelphia, on the 30th, nothing doing.
At New Orleans, the market was represented as
having been dull, the speculative feeling having, in
a great measure, subsided. Continued heavy rains
had been falling which had had the effect of facili-
tating the inland navigation; and western produce
having arrived in large quantities, freights had in
consequence advanced, -Id. per bale being demanded
for cotton to Liverpool. Activity, however, had
sprung up on the 13th, and a fair business was doing
at a reduction, however, of fully 4- of a cent.
Holders were, however, unwilling to sell largely at
those rates.

By the more recent advices, however, furnished
us by Messrs. Stewart and Wright, and which had
reached them after business hours, we have a letter
on the 31st by way of Louisville, from New Orleans
to the 17th instant, from which we extract the fol-
lowing important passage :

" NEW OILEANS, 17th Jan. 1843.
" Yesterday some northern buyers made their
appearance in the market, influenced by good ac-
counts from New York ; and the transactions
amounted to 500 bales at very full prices, and in
some instances at a slight advance on Saturday's
rates, making a total business of the past three
days of 10600 bales. We have advanced our quo-
tations to the actual state of the market—Liverpool
clasification—Mississippi and Louisiana inferior VI
to 71-, ordinary 8 ton, middling 8181 to 8-1, middling
fair 9i- to 9a, fair 9f to 9i, good fair 10 to 101,
good and fine 104."

- Our advice adds, that after the Cambridge and
the Sheffield sail from New York, both of which
were full, and their day of sailing the Ist instant,
there would not be a single bale of cotton in that
port, on board any vessel bound for Liverpool, or
a single bale in course of shipment ; and this with
a stock of over 100,000 bales t
The following we give as the comparative state-
ment of roccipto from the lot Scptcrobor, and stocks
of cotton to dates :

Receipts

179,858
57,324
20,000
20,601
37,495
500
2,000
28,000
33,000