The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

LATEST SHIPPING NEWS

FALMOUTH, J. 19 —The General Minna, from Liverpool,
for Havana, has put in leaky and damaged.

GOTHENBURG; JAN. 11. The Carl Sulie, from Konigsberg
to Liverpool, has put in leaky, and cargo reported much
_ _ _ _

'MALTA, 12TH.—Isabella and Jane, from Liverpool to COrfu,
put in on the 10th, with damage. _

VALPARAISO, Nov. 19.—The Jessie, from Liverpool, arrived
leaky.

SWANSEA, JAN. 19.—The Champion, from Liverdool to
Geneva, has put in with damage.
Arrived from Liverpool at Smyrna, 6th, Cupid; at Constan-
tinople, 4th, Grecian, (s) ; at Rio Grande, Henry and Marga-
ret ; at Vera Cruz, Nov. 22 ; Berazza, 29th, Majesty t at
Palermo, Dec. 29th, Lady
.Dora ; at Leghorn, 9th, Brothers,
10th, Campena ; at Jamaica, Dec. 28th, A. F. Moore ; at
Havana, 29th, Cornelia. Sailed for Liverpool from Cephalonia,
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COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT.

Monday. Night.
The Sharemarket has been again very inactive. Until
Thurday prices underwent very little change. Londons
continued steady at 124, the Quarters at 34, and Mid-
lands tit 48. During that day, and until Saturday, prices
slowly receded. Saturday showed some symptoms of re-
vival with the metropolitan and other markets, and all
looked for a brighter day to-day. The French news, how-
ever, arriving early this morning, caused speculators for
the rise to be again disappointed : prices again fell,—one
or two per cent. generally. At the close of the market
this evening there is some little improvement upon the
lowest prices of the day. The day's quotations are :--
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire X 22 shares, 61 7c d;
Caledonian, 91; Chester and Holyhead preference, 144;
Eastern Counties. t; East Lancashire. 12i : Old Leeds,

54 ,314 31 t 4 31 I ; Ditto Fifths, 74 9-16 d ; Leeds
and Thirsk, 121 ; London stock, 1224 ' • Ditto New Quar-
ters, 3* k 4 p ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 24 ;
Ditto preference, 10+ ; Midland, 46 654 ; Ditto
Halves. 201 8 15-16 d ; Old Dovcrs, 224 ' • York, Newcas-
tle, and Berwick, 181; York and North Midland, 21+ k ;

Gas A, 192 194.
The demand for sugar, coffee,, and tea, bas been limited,
and prices are again quoted rather lower. On Saturday►
600 bags of saltpetre, 3 per cent. ref., brought 28s, per
cwt. ; and, 1,000 bags and 1,5.00 packets Bengal linseed,
465. 6d. to 475. per qr. Business, generally, is exceed-
ingly dull; and where sales are effected, lower prices are
accepted. The movements of the directors of the Bank
of England are looked upon with much distrust—there
being so much mystery and uncertainty in all their acts•
Confidence is the life and soul of business, and do away

with it, and all commercial enterprise becomes prostrate.
This is just the position of things at the present moment.
With fifteen million of bullion in the bank cellars, with
the knowledge of large quantities on the we.v from South
America, it does seem monstrous that commercial trap'
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_tions should receive so great and uncalled for a blow
at the will of some fifteen gentlemen, not the bast in-
formed on commercial subjects. It is really time that
such a state of things should not be tolerated. If the
directors have the power, and they are bent upon farther
depressing produce, and, it may be, railway property, let
them act at once, and let us know the worst suspense-:"
not so easily borne the reality. One cause for the conti-
nental exchanges continuing against us is, the unusual
fine winter we have had, which has allowed the uninter-
rupted shipments of grain to this country. which, as 0
matter of course, have been paid for in bullion ; but this
s• I would very soon right itself.