The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—MoNEY.--The Stock market
exhibited lower prices, and closed with a dull and down-
ward feeling. Foreign exchange has not yet fairly opened ;
commercial and second class bankers bills on London are
more freely offered at 1081 to 1091, while leading drawers
are holding nominally at 109 a to 1091.
COTTON.—Since the 14th instant there has been a fair
demand daily for home use, which has been freely met by
holders. The lightness of our stock has prevented a ma-
terial decline, the market closing at a reduction only of tc.
to on the quotations last advised. Our New Orleans
correspondents write as follows :—" The weather continues
fine for maturing and gathering cotton, without killing
frost yet in any of the cotton states, and crop estimates are
being further increased." On the morning of the 14th
instant a killing frost was reported at Augusta and Macon,
Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama, which we believe to
have been general throughout the Atlantic States and
Alabama, but, although the weather is reported as cold
and frosty at New Orleans, we have as yet no reliable in-
formation of killing frost west of Alabama. Estimates
here now rangeAt and over 3,100,000 bales, and the opi-
nion strengtheng daily that with this supply, viewing the
political and other causes injuriously affecting the trade of
the world, there is no safety except at low prices.

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(From W. P. Wright's Circular of Nov. 21.)—The
cotton market in this city has continued to exhibit the
same inanimate features as I had occasion to particularise
in my last circular. Exporters keep aloof, and domestic
manufacturers take only for their immediate necessities,
still holders have not pressed their stock for sale ; and,
although prices are irregular, and tending downwards, I
cannot quote a positive decline. The quotations of last
week are renewed, and they must be regarded as almost
nominal, beyond the retail kind of business at present
being transacted. Cotton in transitu is not in favour at
the moment, and I have no sales to report during the
past week.
BREADSTUFFS.—There is a fair export and speculative
demand for common brands of State flour, and the market
is firm, while in the better grades both of State and
Western there is less doing. The receipts of the common
grades begin to show a falling off. In Canadian flour
there is more doing, and the market is without change.
The receipts are moderate, and holders do not manifest
any desire to realise ; sales are reported at $8,50 to $8,621,
closing firm at the latter figures. There is less demand
for Southern flour, and the market is easier. There is no
material change in the market for corn meal. Buckwheat
flour continues in good demand, at full prices.
PROVISIONS.— Mess pork was firm. Lard, 101 c. to
102 c. for prime in barrels ; kegs, 10-Ic. to 11c. Butter, of
best qualities, in fair demand ; common dull.
IRox.—Small sales Scotch pig are making at $35 to $36,
six months.

FREIGHTS.—To Havre The offerings are restricted at
the quotations ; lard, le. ; flour, 50c. ; bacon, 2c. ; grain,
10c., in shippers' bags; potash, $6 ; pearlash, $7 ; rice, $7;
provisions, 871 c. ; measurement, $8 to $10; whalebone,
lc. To Liverpool : Corn at 41d. in bulk ; cotton, 3s. per
bale, and id. per lb. ; rosin, ls. ; and heavy goods, 12s. to
15s. To London : Hops, id. ; cheese, 225. 6d. ; pork, 2s. ;
and beef, 3s. 3d.
NAVAL STORES.—The market is more active for spirits
turpentine, with sales at 53c. to 57c. Of rosin common
Wilmington sold at $2. Tar and pitch quiet. A small
sale of crude turpentine is reported at $4,621.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 21.—Cotton dull; sales 2,200 bales,
at 7c., 91c., and 101 C.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20.—Cotton a trifle lower ; mid-
dling quoted 8 to 8i ; sales to-day, 5,000 bales. Flour
advanced to $8,621, and mess pork to $2O and $22. Corn
$9O to $93. Freights to Liverpool, id.
HAVANA, Nov. 12.—The business in Sugars for the
week past has been very limited, embracing a few parcels
of yellows at $3l to $3 11-16, and whites at $3 to $4.
Rum continues in brisk demand at $•1d) per pipe. Leaf
Tobacco, Cigars, &c., are unchanged. Exchange in Lon-
don, sixty days, 131 to 131- prem. ; Paris, 1 to 1 prem. ;
Spain, sto 6 prem. ; Mexican dollars, per Teviot, at 81
prem.