The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. FEB. 25.

No particular feature can be noticed in the state of the mar-
ket this week, though the general aspect of political affairs has
had an unfavourable influence. Business in Manchester con-
tinues dull, and the manufacturers having been disappointed
in their expectations of a general improvement in trade, Spin-
ners have, in consmuence, .operated with caution in making
purchases; and, as several of the recently landed cargoes from
the Unite States have been brought freely. upon the market,
holtlers have not been able to obtain The prices current at the
end of last week ; American descriptions have declined 4d. per
lb. from the quotations of the 11th instant ; Brazil and East
India are rather less firm ; whilst in other kinds no alteration
can be noticed. 400 bales American and 10j Surat have been
taken by speculators, and by exporters 220 American, 80 Surat,
and 50 arhia. At the pu'ilic sale of Friday last, of 830 Sea
Island offered, 450 sold, at prices similar to the previous auc-
tion. Of 900 h:ast India and 150 Egyptian offered to-day, only
40 Madras sold at 40.

ACCOUNT OF SALES ANC
For the week endi

1 IMPORTS OF COTTON,
ing Feb. 25, 1848.

I Prices paid Imports
SALES OF THE WEEK. lin the week. ThisWk This Yi.
690 Sea Island
30 Stained
2830 Bowed Georgia
f Mobile 4 4
54
5/
2470 1 Alabama and Tennessee, 4 —4i 22946 70657
8650 New Orleans 1 44 7 7
120 {Pernambuco & Paraiba) 51 6f 1
Aracati and Ceara
320 Bahia and 31aceio
90 f Maranham . si 61 1
1 Sawginned sf 54 I • ... 6009
.... Minas —
.... Para
30 Demerara, Surinam, &c 6l .... ....
780 Egyptian 6 9 • ... 2159
.... liarbailoes — 53
....
.... Peruvian —
.... Bahama
.... Laguayra
.... Common West India, &C., } .... 862
.... Carthagena
... Smyrna
.... Ala ti iI la . ,
3000 Surat
200 Madras
.... Bengal I— 10101 2361
_ I ---

19230 bales.

LIVERPOOL CORls.l EXCHANGE. FEB. 22.

Including several more arrivals since Friday, the receipts of
English, Irish, and Foreign produce into this port, during the
entire week ending yesterday, form, in the aggregate, a liberal
supply of most articles, the particulars of which are specified
in our import note subjoined.
There has been a fair business done in Wheat at this day's
market, at the improved rates of Friday.
American Flour also steady in value, on the terms last noted.
Irish Flour in better demand, at the full rates of this day week.
In Barley, Beans, and Pease we have little variation to notice.
Malt rather cheaper.
Oats, upon a moderate demand, maintained late prices.
Oatmeal declined 6d. per load.
Indian Corn much less free sale than during the week, 30s.
being the extreme rates for superior samples of white, and 295.
for yellow.
Indian Meal 13s. to 13s. 6d. per barrel.

Wheat, IR, 701 b.
English red, new
Ditto, white, do
Irish red, do..
Ditto, white, do
Rye, English, la. qr
Barley, English, new
Scotch & Irish, 43, 6016
Malt, English, ip qr.
pale
Irish
Oats, per 45th.
English and Scotch
Welsh
Irish, fine qualities
general do. • •
Beans, English, I. qr
Scotch & Irish, 480th
Pease, English, white
Do. Se Irish.. maid,
Flour, per 28ith.
English & Irish, 2nds
superfine,
Oatmeal, 14 lb. of 2401b.1
Irish, 1847
Canadian
Bran, a> 24th ~,,,,

BRITISH.
s. d. s. d. I
7 6 @ 7 10 Old ....
7 10 8 2 d 0.....
6 4 7 2 d 0.....
7 2 7 6 d 0.....
I rsh6olb
Chevalr.
Old ....

a. d. a. d.
7 I 0 @ 8 0
8 2 8 6
7 2 7 4
7 4 7 9

33 0 -36 0

3 2 - 3 4
3 0 - 3 1
3 11 - 3 0
2 10 - 2 11
42 0-44 0
37 0 -39 0

.84 0 -26 0

Wheat, 70th.
Canadian, free, red ..
United States do
Dan zi golf:Pied & red do
L Baltic & ilmburg do
Riga and Petersbg. do
Odessa, common do
French,Spanish,&c do
Bannat & Marianopoli
Mediter., &c. hard.do
Gen.qualities,bond.do
Rye, ay qr., Baltic, tree.
Barley, 60lb do
Oats, 70, 451b.Russiando.
leans, qr,Eu ropean do
49, 480th, Egyptian do
Pease, qr.,
Baltic, &c., white do
Canadian, &c., do do
Indian Corn, '414, 4801b.d0
Do. Meal. qp, brl. 196tbdo
Flour, at barrel,
Canadian, sweet do
United States do do
Do.&Canadian sour do'
Danzic, &c. sweet....

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—Since Tuesday last a efintinued succession
ue alarming accounts from Paris, brought with treat rapidity
by telegraph, have exercised some influence upon our market.
During the uncertainty which those accounts were calculated
to produce, buyers, whether for export or the home trade, were
little disposed to purchase anything which they did not imme-
diately want. The business done has, consequently, been on a
very limited state, and prices, both of goods and yarns, have
tended slightly downwards.
ROCHDALE —There is no improvement in theflannel market
to report this week. Th:!re has been but a thin attendance of
buyers, and no eager desire, in those who have been present, to
purchase. Wool has been rather firmer, but the business done
has been light.

Ens.—Upon the whole more business has been done this
week, at the Cloth Halls and the warehouses, than for some
weeks past. Prices are very steady, and stocks are not large.
especially of those kinds of goods for the coming season of
spring. The shipping houses are doing more than they have
been doing for many weeks. '1 he unsatisfactory ministerial
budget tends, however, to check trade for the home market.
Ba AD ronn.—Wool Market • There has been a great dullness
during the week, and the purchases less than for some time
back. The supply coming to market is not materially increased,
and prices sought by the growers totally precluding all hope of
realising a profit in this market. Noils and brokes are ready
sale at somewhat better prices. Ennis: The trade is still in a
depressed state, but mohair yarns have been in good request,
both in single and twofold, and c nsiderabls orders in the hands
of the spinners. Pieces: There is a great thirst for anything
decidedly new, and particularly cheap, in fancy goods suitable
for the spring. but so small are the profits in this trade, that
none are disposed to make, except to actual order. Plain goods
are moved off in small quantities, and stocks on hand compa.
ratively low, occasioned by the immense number of looms which
have been standing since last autumn ; and with the confirmed
opinion of nearly all the manufacturers, that the least loss has
been incurred by that course.

HA ',lF...l.—Pieces: We have had again a flat market, only a
few buyers attending, and a very small amount of business do-
ing. Yarns are much the same as they have been for some
time back, and very little doing, but some of the larger spinners
are commencing running full time, and this indicates that a
demand is expected. Wool continues much the same, and not
much doing, though some of the larger spinners have bought
more freely.
HUDDEHSFIELD.—Very little business has been done in
goods here this week, either in the public market or at the
warehouses. The ministerial budget is universally condemned,
and its announcement has certainly tended to check trade.
NOTTINGHAM.—The silk glove branch still continues in a
pretty good condition, but this is by no means the case every-
where. The drawer branch in some quarters has again retro-
graded, and the material is delivered out with a sparing hand,
so that the workmen in many of the large shops have little
more than half work. There is a considerable amendment in
the cotton glove trade at Bulwell, most of the hands being once
more employed. The cut-up hose trade has somewhat improved
in the town, and there are a good many frames to let. We have
not heard of any material improvement in the bobbin-net trade.