The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

COTTON TRADE

The movements of cotton are of vast importance to the
spinner and speculator. The receipts, &c., at the Southern
ports up to the latest dates in each of the past three years have
been as annexed :

MOVEMENTS OF COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES.
Receipts at ports since Sept. 1, 1849, bales 1,753,000
Corresponding dates last year 2,263,000
„ year before 1,836,000
Exports from United States since Sept. 1, 1849
Corresponding dates last year 1,456,000
„ year before
Exports to Great Britain since Sept. I, 1849 620,000
Corresponding dates last year 1,040,000
19 „ year before
Stock in New York and ports of receipt 548,000
Corresponding dates last year 586000
„ year before
Receipts at this port since Ist inst., 29,000 bales ; exports,
7,000; taken by spinners, 10,000 ; taken on speculation, 10,C00;
stock in city in all hands,
120,000 ; amount on sale, 3,000.
In relation to the movements in this market, and the pros-
pects relative to the crops, old and new, T. J. Stewart's circular
of this date says :
; The deficie' cv of receipts at the ports by the last mail dates
from the South has been extended in the fortnight to 510,000
bales, against 402,000, as given in my last circular,—and by te-
legraph accounts last night it has swollen to 562,000 bales,
which must carry conviction to any unbiassed mind that it is
useless to hope for a crop of 2,000,000 bales, as the interior of
the country exhibits evidence of being drained of the fragmen-
tary portions, to a greater extent than during any former
season. A short crop this season being conceded, public
attention appears now to be riveted to the crop which is to be
planted and to be replanted for the coming season, and well it
may. In my circular of February 10th I called your attention
to the fact that although the winter bad been very severe on
the continent of Europe, the reverse was the case here, as up
to that date we had literally no winter in this latitude, and at
the South it had been so excessively warm that fears were
being entertained lest a share of storms should come upon
them during the next two months, which were of such vital
importance to the planting interest, as we never yet have had
a large crop where a disaster by frost, or cold rain storms in
April, destroyed the March planting. This has happened. A
killing frost was felt for tint ee nights in Alabama and Louisiana,
between the Ist and 6th instants ; and at Montgomery ice was
formed in the streets, the young corn was killed, and such of
the cotton seed as bad germinated. Since that date cold rain
storms have been general to the 12th inst. ; and throughout
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana,
the ground is only now being again prepared for the seed over
a great portion of those States, which will render the average
planting at least as late as that of last year—say 18th April,
from which causes we are now suffering under a short crop,
althongh to aid it we have had the finest autumn on record.
For a healthy plant experience has shown that it is essential.
absolutely so, except in rare instances, that there should be an
early planting, as the crop has never proved over an average
one where planting was delayed to this date. The short crops
of '4l, '42, '46, '47, and 'IV,, 10,, stand out promiatatly in