The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-27 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE COTTON MARKET.

Since our last, the market has been exceedingly tame
and reduced. The sales of the week were only 07,530
bales, of which the trade only got about 13,000 bales;
thus skewing that they are not alarmed at the cry of short
crops—which induced speculators to rush on furiously into
the staple article. The daily progress has been as follows :
—on Wednesday, the 21st, 4000 bales; Thursday, 3500;
Friday. 4000 ; Saturday. 4000 ; and Monday (yesterday),
6000; without the slightest change in prices. We may
remark that on Saturday and yesterday there was evidently
a firmer tone about the market, and holders withstood
any attempt to gain a slight decline, which several of the
buyers attempted to do—with this feeling the market has
really gained what it lost during the early part of last
week—no arrivals from the States to affect it.

THE SWAN RIVER NEWS AND WESTERN AUSTRA-
LIAN CHRONICLE.—We have before us the two first
numbers (for January and February) of a new publication
under the above title, which has been got up for the pur-
pose of conveying information, to parties interested in
this colony, of its progress and improvement. It is the
joint offspring of a party of gentlemen in Australia, and
the editor and a few friends at home; and promises to be
great interest, and to be especially useful to parties wish-
ing to settle in this quarter of the globe. It is in a large
octavo form, containing eight pages, and is to be published
at ss. per annum, or Os. 6d. post free.
THE FUNDS: SATURDAY NlGHT.—Adthough business
has been very limited to-day at the Stock Exchange, the
appearance of the market was rather better, and viruses
closed the shade firmer. Consols for money and the ac-
count left off 97i; Bank Stock, 194 to 51 ; Exchequer-
bills, 68s. to 70s. premium ; India Stock, 277 to 279 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 98 to 4; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 1034 to I ; Long Annuities, ig
and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, 1024 to 4. The
foreign securities were, generally speaking, steady, but
there was not much doing among the speculators. Belgian
closed 106 to 107; Brazilian, 79 to SO ; Buenos Ayres, 35.
to 37 ; Chilian, 103 to 105: Colombian, 134 to 4 ; Da-
nish, 87 to 88; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 541 to
55 ; the Flee per Cents. 102 to ; Mexican, 34 to 4- ; the
Deferred, 124 to ; Peruvian, 301 31 ; Portumese, 444
to 454; Spanish Actives, 231 to 4; and the Three per
Cents., 334 to 4.
ARCRDEACONRY OF MANCHESTER.—Our readers are
probably aware, that, in accordance with the provisions
of a recent Act of Parliament, two new Archdeaconries
have been founded for this county. One of these, the
Archdeaconry of Manchester, which includes also the
town of Liverpool, has been conferred on the Rev. John
Rushton. This gentleman has very greatly distinguished
himself in the cause of Church Extension and National
Education. And there are probably but few clergymen
so well qualified, in every respect, for the duties of this
important office. We hear also that the degree of
" Doctor of Divinity" has been conferred on the Arch-
deacon ; and it must be gratifying to his friends to know
this mark of honorary distinction was unsought for by
himself, and that the expenses necessarily attending it
have been paid by a few persons, who were glad of the
opportunity of testifying their respect for him.
EDINBURGH, LEITH AND NEWHAVEN. RAILWAY.—
We observe that the petition for the branch lines to Gran-
ton and Leith, in connection with the above undertaking,
was presented to the House of Commons, on Friday, the
23d inst., by Mr. Gibson Craig, member for Edinburgh,
and that the bill would be brought in by same gentleman,
in conjunction with his colleague, Mr. Macauley, and
Mr. Rutherford, member for Leith. By the carrying out
of these branches, and the completion of the tunnel con-
structing to bring the Edinburgh and Newhaven line into
the heart of the city, important benefits may be confi-
dently looked for to Edinburgh and to Leith, as well as to
Granton, which is shortly destined to become, by means
of a low water pier at Burntisland, the principal point of
ferry communication between the North and South of
Scotland. To the agriculturists of the adjacent localities,
to the proprietors of the great mineral districts and the
mercantile and shipping interests, this undertaking must
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ral meeting of the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Com-
pany will be held on the 14th proximo, when the heads of
a proposed ,greernent with the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Company, with r,spect to the rates to he mutually charge-
able, will be brought forward for cowideration •