The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

the crop in thi

of the crop made up to the
follows :

Exports to Great Britain. 1
Stocks

... ifitUtklU
Loading for Gt. Britain.. 58 98 77 vessel
The trade in New Orleans was dull, good middling beim

quoted on the 24th Decemb

at 61 cents per lb., with
declining tendency. Freights were extremely low, cotton
being quoted at *d. per lb. from New York to Liverpool,
and ls. 3d. to ls. Gd. per barrel for flour; and from New
Orleans, 7-16 d. for cotton, and 4s. for flour.
The market for provisions was depressed by the accounts
from Europe, but had not declined sufficiently to afford
any chance of profit for exporters. Genessee flour was
selling at 46 25 cents per barrel ; Oswego, Troy, Michi-
gan, and Ohio at 46 16 cents to 46 18 cents per barrel.
Grain was very dull of sale, and but very little offering.
Old wheat was selling at 75 to 78 cents, the price before
the arrival of the packet having been 80 to 85 cents. Rye
was 88 cents ; canal oats, 48 to 50 cents ; river ditto, 44 to
16 cents ; buckwheat, 43 75 cents. The following were

the exports from the Ist to the 28th DI

Wheat Flour
Corn
Wheat

210,053 barr

nye . ,
Barley

The stock of western flour
rels, and of southern, 10,000

stated at 406,000 bar

The Provision

Market w

vas dull, 8 dollars to 11 dollars
d mess pork, and 9 dollars 50
The exports from the Ist

being the price of prime t.
cents. of Chikago beef hams.
to the 28th December had been

3,803 barrels,
5,590

9,006 19,854 kegs.
there will therefore bc

The canals were closed : anc
material shipments of produce until the Spring_
According to Messrs. Barbour and Co's. circular, the
export of plain and printed calicoes to the United States
for 1847, is 84 millions of yards, against 25 millions in
1846 ! an increase entirely without parallel. There has
been, no doubt, an immense amount of wealth amassed in
that country during the last two years; every packet
brings out numerous travellers for pleasure, none of whom.

spend under their £5OO to £l,OOO in Europe.
The meeting of the Bank of England directors, on
Thursday, broke up without making any alteration in the
minimum rate of interest. This course of proceeding is
generally approved of by the commercial interest, as it is
considered that it would only tend to stimulate further
speculation in public securities, without being any benefit
to trade, unless means are taken to restore commercial
credit.

Headlam, and Co

of Newc

-upon-Tyne, was announced on Thursday
morning in letters from that town.-The firm were of high
standing as brokers, having long been extensively en-
gaged in the colonial produce trade, and the amount of
liabilities is supposed to be large. In one communication
it is remarked, " The prospect of liquidation is favourable.
The firm have been brought into a temporarily embarassed
position by
.their connection with an East India house,

-dly have been foreseen or
worthy of notice, that so

careful were the partners not to speculate,
a mutual stipulation with-each other, and

my way whatever

ued against the firm, wher

he amount of nearly
aa-sets to the extent

:ed Stat

Lerehants, have at last

pound,

.gable by

forthwith brought
The debts am

Krets *I: 04 out
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