The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

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(From the Times of yesterday.)

The public securities maintain their former buoyancy.
India Stock has advanced to 264 to 266, and Bank Stock is 179
to 172. Consols for money and the account closed 944 sellers.
In the arrangement of the settlement, which to-day occupied
principally the attraction of the brokers, eve -v facility was
obtained in the abundance and cheapness fmo ev. The
improvement in the value of stock is taken at about 14 per
cent. on Consols, and a rather greater rise on the Reduced
Securities. during the period the present account has run.
Exchequer Bills closed to. day, 565. to 58s. premium ; India
Bonds, 525. to 545., premium ; Three per Cent. Reduced,
94; Three-and a-Half per Cent., Reduced, 1004; New Th ree-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1014 ; and Long Annuities, 12 9-16
to 4. It is a fact worth notice, connected with the dealings
which have occurred in India Stock, that so lately as March
last its quotation was but 245 to 246.
In foreign securities transactions were limited. The Penin-
sular and Mexican markets are much depressed by the adverse
state of things which has arisen out of questions now current
respecting their stability. Spanish slightly recovered to-
wards the close of business, but Mexican remained heavy at
the full decline of the dav, nearly another 1 per cent. The
latest quotations were, Spanish Actives, 174 to 184; ditto,
New, 224 to 4; Mexican, 314 to 32; ditto, Deferred, 9 to 4;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 524 to 35; Dutch Five
per Cents., 101 to S ; Colombian, 214 to 4 ; Brazilian, 65 to
66 ; Belgian, 102 to 4; Portuguese Five per Cents., 374 to
; and Danish, 83 to 84.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN.

(From the Morning Herald of yesterday.)

We have received by extraordinary express from our Paris
correspondent the following telegraphic despatch, which ap-
peared in the Moniteur Parisien of Tuesday night :
" PERPIGNAN, Nov. 19.

" A courier which left Barcelona the day befiire yesterday
has just arrived. The diligence of Barcelona had not reached
Figueras. The evacuation of Barcelona by the troops is con-
firmed.
" The General Zavala is in the hands of the insurgents.
They speak of three officers and five hundred men having
been killed. _ .

" A popular junta bad been installed. It is composed of
men but little known. The president is Don Juan Manuel
Corsy. It has published a proclamation, which recommends
to the workmen union and constancy, and does not say one
word of the Queen, Espartero, Don Carlos, or of the aim of
the insurrection.

" Montjuich, occupied by the troops, fires upon the town
continually. The citadel is in the power of the rioters.
" They write on the 17th, from Valencia, that troops have
been sent for the Maestraz.

" BARCELONA, Nov. 17.

" The troops were engaged in the streets on the 15th at
eight in the morning. After three hours' fighting, and a loss
of 500 men, killed or wounded, the captain-general seeing
that the windows and terraces of the houses were occupied
in all the city by the armed National Guard, retired into the
citadel with his staff and two regiments. The other regi-
ment and the artillery have gone to Altarozanas. The re-
mainder of the day was employed in making preparations on
one side and the other.

" The 16th there was a firing both of musketry and cannon
a great part of the day. All the streets were barricaded. The
garrison of the citadel was without provisions. The citadel
threw shells into the town during the night. This morning,
before day, the troops evacuated the citadel, and went out
of the town, leaving the place in the possession of the insur-
gent militia, of which the number was increased by the militia
of the neighbouring towns and villages. The fort of Mont-
juich had likewise thrown shells into the quarters of the
municipality.
" A junta has been formed, and it signed a capitulation
with the regiment of the Guadalajara, which had remained
shut up in the building of the university. The general com-
manding the military force had asked of the junta what the
intentions of the people were, and he proposed to come to an
understanding, for the purpose of avoiding greater disasters,
and to stop the destruction of the city. The overtures thus
made succeeded. They are negociating at present.
" No inhabitant had been menaced in person or property.
All the French inhabitants had been respected, and the con-
sul had received assurance that he had nothing to fear.
The royal brig Le Meleager had given an asylum to several
Spanish refugees. The commander had received on board
the family of the captain-general. It is thougbt that the move-
ment, the object of which is not yet known, will spread to all
Catalonia, at Saragossa and Valencia. The members of the
junta say that there is no conspiracy, and that the people had
spontaneously taken up arms to defend their rights, attacked
by the imprisonment of the editor of the journal called the
Republican, and by the orders given by the Government to
submit to the military enlistment. _ _

" The provincial deputation had been called by the junta
to take measures of order and security from the very com-
mencement of the revolt.

" The seven constitutional alcaldes had taken refuge on
board the Meleager.
" The surrender of the Altarozanas has taken place, and a
proclamation to the inhabitants of Barcelona was published
by the political chief on the 14th, in the evening, on the sub-
ject of the troubles which commenced the previous evening."
The proclamation, which was issued by the political chief
Gutierrez on the evening of the 14th November, after allu-
ding to the disturbances, forbids any assemblage of the armed
force or the national guards, unless convoked by the local
authorities, and also the assemblage of more than ten persons
in the streets. It also contains several other provisions for
the maintenance of public tranquillity.

AMERICAN M.A.RKi;; S.

(From the New York Herald of the Ist.)
COTTON TRADE.

The state of the markets in all the ports has had a down-
ward tendency. At New Orleans there has been a good de-
mand for the English and French markets, but the low state
of the exchanges renders it almost impossible to operate.
The principal transactions are made in specie, and the holders
of that medium make purchases almost on the same terms.
This state of the currency at the head of the market for pro-
duce, operating with the great abundance of the new crop,
causes the general decline in prices. The receipts of the
new crop, and the exports, are seen in the following table:—
RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON IN THE
UNITED STATES.
1841. 1842. Decrease. Increase.
Receipts....
Exports to G. 8... 14,772 29,157 14,585
~ France 12,356 8,732 3,624
„ other places 6,186 2,864 3,322
Stock 96,676 110,370 13,694
This gives an immense increase in the stocks, and in the
exports to Great Britain, notwithstanding the necessity of
paying specie for the raw material. The following are the
prices, Liverpool classification, of cotton at the leading
ports :
PRICES COTTON, LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.
New Orleans. Mobile. Augusta.
Ordinary 44 to 51 to 44 to 6
Middling 5l ~ 64 7 ~ 7/ 61 ~ 64
Middling fair
Fair..
Good fair 8 „ 8/ —lt - 7 ~ 71
Good and fine .. „ P, - '--- It -

The transactions at the several ports for the week previous
to date, have been as follows:—
Stocks. Sales. Prices. Remarks.
New York, Oct. 30 10,000 3,710 64-a9l falling.
New Orleans „20 60,311 13,300 41a9i decline 4c
Mobile „21 10,114 1,200 4aBl decline lc
Augusta „22 7,045 300 4a7i declining
Savannah „22 13,731 2,612 siaB decline *c
Charleston „22 16,591 8,567 4a8.1 firm
CORN TRADE.

There has only been a fair demand for broadstuffs since our
last report. We notice no material alteration in prices in
this market. Following are the present quotations :

Per bbl. Per bbl.
Genesee flour, dols 4,25 a 4,31 Georgetown 4,25 a

4,25 a
Bushel.
4,18 a 4,25 Genessee wheat, 87 a
_ _

Michigan, 4,18 a 4,25 Illinois wheat, 85 a 87/
Rye flour, 3,18 a 3,37 Northern rye, 61 a 221
Buck wheat, 2,62 a 3,70 Corn, 50 a 54
Corn meal, 2,75 a 2,87 Barley, 47 a4B
New Orleans flour, 4,12 a 4,19 Canal oats 27 a2B

Supplies are now to a fair extent, having reached to up-
wards of 650,000 barrels for the season. This only includes
that received down the North River. We have had an aggre-
gate supply this year of one million barrels.
Extensive sales of wheat were making in Buffalo on the
26th, at 63 cents. Best brands of flour 3,50 dollars, al-
though inferior miscellaneous samples have been sold as low
as 3,30 dollars. Corn is out of request at 34 cents. Oats
15 cents on the 28th. A cargo of 5,000 bushes wheat from
Monroe was afloat, which was contracted for to arrive, but
the purchaser failed to meet his engagement. It will proba-
bly bring 67 cents. An advance of freights on the canal has
thrown corn out of the market. There was one cargo afloat
but no offers to purchase.
The best samples of wheat were offered freely in Cleveland,
on the 26th, at 60 cents, at which some sales were made.
There was no particular price for flour, holders being un-
willing to accede to rates corresponding with the New York
market-3i would be given.
The potato trade in Wiscasset, Me., appears pretty well
under way. They were selling quick at Is. per bushel, cash,
and 20 cents in exchange for goods. The crop in that sec-
tion was heavy.
The farmers in Canada will probably not have to complain
again this year of the want of rain to facilitate their fall
ploughing. It has rained considerably there lately ; and on
the 19th there was a sprinkling of snow for the first time this
season on the distant highlands. There has as yet been very
little frost, and the crops have been gathered in without ma-
terial injury from the weather. The wheat crops in those
parts of the country where this grain is still sown suffered by
rust. The injury by the fly has been less general than for
many years past.
It is to be seen by these facts that flour cannot rise, but
continue to decline for at least two weeks or a month longer.
Even now prices are as low as they have been known for the
last half century,—as low as they were in 1808. We do not
believe that the average price all over the country will reach
four dollars a barrel : we believe that it is certainly ls. under
that point.

The Courrier Francais contradicts the report which ap-
peared in a morning contemporary, that Louis Phillipe was
about to abdicate in favour of the Duke of Nemours.

Among the miscellaneous news from Egypt as collected
from private letters, it is stated that the mortality among the
cattle continued, and was supposed to have destroyed 150,000,
from which cause and the slow rate at which the Nile was
subsiding, the labours of agriculture were almost suspended.
The importation of mares is being carried on with great ac-
tivity, to augment the breed of horses for the purposes of
agriculture. Four Egyptian frigates have been devoted to
this service, two of which have lately returned from Silesia
with a cargo of 370.
The mystery which prevailed yesterday concerning Mexi-
can stock is not yet cleared up to the satisfaction of the
parties concerned. The agents had, it appears, from time to
time been asked so many questions as to the amount of stock,
that they declined answering any more ; and the last in-
quirer having failed in obtaining the answer he desired, he
made the question an affair of the Stock Exchange Commit-
tee, who wrote to Messrs. Lizardi, requesting to know the
amount of Mexican stock which they bad issued. The re-
ply of the agents was sent to-day, and was to the effect, that
they knew of no precedent for an agent of a foreign govern-
ment answering such inquiries without the authority of the
government which he represented. They added, moreover,
that the conversion being yet incomplete, an answer could
not as yet be given as to the amount of stock issued, but
that when it was finished they had no doubt the Mexican go-
vernment would authorise its publication. The committee
of the Stock Exchange, under these circumstances, intend
to push their inquiries further.—Times.

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The opening of Queen's College, Glasgow, for the educa-
tion of ladies, took place on Friday last in that city, before
the Lord Provost and a number of clergy and gentry.