The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

DUBLIN CATTLE MARKET. APRIL 19,

This week being the cattle show we had an extra attendance.
Prices were considerably lower for Beef than for several years
at the same period. We quote Beef, in sink, 355. to 40s. ;
prime, 425. ; prize, 5Cs. per cwt. Mutton, in sink, sd. to 6d.
per lb. Veal, 6d. per lb, Lambs, 14s. to 20s. and 21s, each.
The Pig market (lull, at from 295. to 325. and 335. per cwt.

THE COTTON TRADE.
(From the New York Papers.)
The annexed statement exhibits the receipts, exports, &c.,
of cotton in this country, up to the latest dates, in each of the
past three years:—

MOVEMENTS OF COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES.
BALES.
Receipts at ports since September 1, 1849 1,695,000
Corresponding dates last year.
~ year before
from 'United States since Sept. 1, 1849. 1,702,000
Exports 842,000
Corresponding dates last year .... 1,277,000
„ , I year before. 979,000
Exports to Great Britain since Sept. 1, 1849,.. 558,000
Corresponding dates last year.
t, year before. 549,000
Stock in New Irork and ports of receipt 586,000
Corresponding dates last year
1., year before... 626,000
The receipts at this port during the month of March were
43,000 bales ; exports, 26,000; taken by spinners. 18,000; taken
on speculation, 25,000; stock in city in all hands, 112,000;
amount on sale, 10,000. . . . . _ _

In relation to the movement in this market, and the prospect
relative to the crop, T. J. Stewart's circular of this date says :
"The crop proves to be a short one—and if measured by the
ability of the world to consume, the shortest one since '4l—'42.
The falling off in the receipts regularly exceeds the progressive
estimate I made some time since, and on which I made up my
table of 2,100,000 bales. It will close under two millions of
bales. How far below, I cannot at present say, but the interior
of the country is exhausted of supplies to so great a degree that
it is evident that such a figure is totally impracticable, The
estimates made by me for the past four years, have proved in
their results so uniformly accurate, I hope I have been instru-
mental in guiding the operations of my correspondents, in view
of the great rise which must ensue, when the fact is generally
known, that the crop, when weighed off, will prove smaller than
the figures indicate, as the deficiency in the receipts at New
Orleans is of Louisiana and Mississippi growth, always heavy
bales; and that Mobile will not exceed 325,000 bales, instead of
519,000 bales delivered last year, and it is well known that from
that selection we derive our heaviest bales. For the planting
of the next crop the prospect as yet is very unfavourable. A
large body of land at the great Southwest is now under water,
and it is probable that the mild winter will hasten the melting
of the snows on the upper Mississippi and Missouri, and the
rise which usually conies out of those rivers in May, be down
upon us this month, before the freshets from the Ohio, Red
River, &c., can pass off into the Gulf. The falling off by last
mail dates, accurately compared to same dates last season,
is 402,000 bales ; by telegraph last night, 458,000 bales.
Whatever the figure of the crop may be, the mills north of this
city will consume 575,000 bales of it—the southern mills 25,000
from the ports, in addition to what they take from the interior,
not counted in the crop. Holders here appear aware of the
impoverished condition of European spinners, and are dis-
posed to await their calls. A small amount was sold for three
days after the arrival of the Niagara, at a decline of half a cent.
Since, each day prices have advanced, and now stand c. buoy-
ant over those per Canada. Sales last week, 2,500 daily, chiefly
on speculation."