The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT.

Monday Night.
Brighter anticipations being generally entertained of the
approaching meetings, the share market has improved
during the two or three last days of the week ; and a large
business has been done at advanced prices. This day's
quotations are :—Chester £22 shares, 111 dis. ; Leeds
Fifths, 9 819 dis. ; London Stock, 1101 ; Ditto Quarters,
13/9 p. ; Ditto Fifths, sp. ; Ditto C Quarters, 14- p.;
Sheffield and Manchester, 15A ; Midland 50's, 24i 6/3 ;
Dover, No. 4, 41; Newcastle Preference, 54 d. ; Dutch
Rhenish, 2 3/9.
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The latest report received on 'Change to-day was to the
effect that the Schleswig-Holsteiners had been beaten.
This affair has ceased to agitate the public mind to the
same extent as formerly. The question has decidedly
narrowed itself, and is regarded with much less apprehen-
sion as regards the peace of Europe.
There is a good feeling in business generally, and as a
large consumption is going on, the deliveries weekly are
on an extensive scale. There is more enquiry for Sugar
during the last day or two, but nothing of any moment
has been transacted until to-day, when a cargo of
brown Pernams was sold at 17s. 6d, 1000 bags of
Bengal at 395. 9d. to 415., and 150 hhds. of Barbadoes
at 365. 6d. to 41s. 6d. In Tea there is also a fair
inquiry, more particularly for the middling descriptions
of Congou, which realise from ls. to Is. 3d. per lb.: these
kinds have not advanced in proportion to the lower sorts.
250 bags Bengal Linseed have been sold at 465., and 1100
bags of Rapeseed at 425. 6d. to 445. 6d. 300 bags of
Saltpetre, 61 per cent. refraction, at 275., which is 6d.
dearer. 1000 bales of Jute sold at 16s. sd. to 18s. 10d.,
for middling to good, making the market again rather
dearer.

The Cotton market has advanced A-cl. since the Circular,
so that prices are now upon a par with the height of the
market ten days ago. On Thursday the sales were 6000
bales, of which 1000 were for export, and 1500 on specu-
lation, and purchasers were in the market ready to ope-
rate largely in the event of any decline; on Friday, how-
ever, as the demand was more general from the trade,
speculators, and exporters, prices became steadier, with a
business amounting to 7000 bales; but the principal
portion of the advance has been realised to-day, owing
to a considerable extension of the demand, transactions
having reached 15,000 bales, of which 2000 were on ex-
port, and 6000 on speculation.

The late heavy rains have caused some further anxiety
be felt for the safety of the crops, particularly in the

London, where the rains have been -heavy, and a little
grain is reported to have been laid. The consequent ex-
citement has produced a pretty general rise throughout
this country of about Is. per qr. on Wheat. We are
assured, however, that any serious fears are at present
premature; that the grain crops, generally, have a healthy
appearance ; and that, with a return of settled weather,
the harvest will be abundant. Notwithstanding the
rumours about the appearance of the blight, potatoes are
brought forward by growers into most of the Irish mar-
kets in large quantities, and free from taint as yet. A
most trustworthy correspondent, who dates Cork, 27th
July, states that the liberal nature of the deliveries does
not seem to arise from any apprehension of their suffering
by disease; prices are moderate, and will be more so ; and
the poor people are now purchasing them as the

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