The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-28

NOD ana .sn vas seid q, $50 jas psr ton, tsses.
Soad srnrsGh Of fair quality vera sold at frem 81 "a
g !s each vary large az 9, each and 20 large bur
middns AT IS eaah Uyeenbeeft--The last sra BY
private contract is Of 10 logs, at As per foot.
In sleeps wool We have no alteration to note, bust
continuing dull: about 200 East Indias have
been sold, by private SALE at prices same OBJ
tanned at auction 10th April Imports during the past
seek:eBombay, 27S; Peru, 5000 oporto, lIc Monte
There has been general and extensive inquiry for
all descriptions of sugar at further advance Of Cd to
Bengal chiefly at Ais AIS Cd good to fine white;
1000 bags aurtus at 3ss to and 1860 bags Madras
at 30s to 3ls per cwt The demand for foreign good
and the saes of the week amount to $50 cases brown
Bahia of good quality at $685. ZOO bags brown Pernam-
buco and Paraba, chiefly to arrive at 3Ss 100 boxes
middling white Havana at $751; 600 mats Manila at 3Ss
to 1856 Cd 40 hhds Of Porto Rico at 4Os to ABS per cwt
duty paid and 100 hhds Cuba Muscovado. The sales
of $50 Demerara at lis to It's Cd
owt Ia parcel Of last years mport None of the new
crop of Jamaica coffee is yet ready for market 20 last
years import were forced 32 to SIS per cwt but
being mostly unclean they afford no criterion of the
market 100 bags ordinary Ceylon are reported at 2
3D. and of foreign 90 bags Costa Rea at sos to 0s 3D.
with so bags Bahia Doth all faus) at 23s to 23s Cd
$50 bags Singapore at It's to 23s and 80 bags Java at
25s to 27s Cd per cwt. The sales of rum have been
in price be quoted amounting to $50 casks which
includes Demerara. to Upper cent G. p at Is Tod to
Is u.s. 80 to 40 cent O. P at IS I'd to IS 4d with
choice mark at 3s 3D. also parcel of mddling Jamaica
"a per cent 0. p at IS sd per gallon
There has been fair inquiry for all kinds of black
teas during the week, and good business done, at
full previous rates; in green's the transactions have
been limited. There has been only few chests of in
dgo sold
In Manchester, ON Tuesday, the yarn and cloth mar
kets again comparatively dull and irregular
gard prices.
There has been no change since Tuesday Some
inquiries continue to be made but business Is limited
and prices very low.
the condition of the working classes of Manchester.
OF the whole number four mills working full time,
portion of their hands, these six concerns pre-
viously working short time. OF the total number of
previously on short time. and out Of work As
regards the staple trade of the district four mills
on full time, employing 1852 operatives fully,
977 of whom previously short time and about
$50 stopped The comparative state of the weeks,
as regards the operatives employed in the cotton mills
short, and 5293 stopped last week. 1S 6O3 full time
ABB short, and 5,56S stopped
The home failures announced this week are, Mesrs.
Weber Co., merchants, chiefly engaged in the East
India trade; Gabain Co., German commission
house; and Shaw Cufray. all London firms.
From Hamburg three failures mentioned the
parties being G. r. Enet Co., general merchants;
IL. c. Schmidt, in the Belgian trade; and w. j. c.
Schultza, sugar reiner.
The advces from Berlin the failure of the
old and respectable banking firm of H F. Feschow and
Son. Also that of Schafhausen and Co., of Cologne
Gold 90 per cent dearer in Paris than in London,
and 05S per cent dearer in Hamburg than in London.
Foreign exchange in London, on Tuesday. ruled
nearly the the previous post day but with
rather lower tendency. On Amsterdam the nego-
tiations were 124 to h Rotterdam, 1241s to S;
Antwerp no quotations.; on Hamburg 10 IA to Is; on
Vienna II 80 to 45 Leghorn 80 rs to 81; Naples
no quotations; on Madrid 411a-all at three months
except on Paris. On Lisbon at sixty days, SO.
There was little excitement in our share market
this afternoon in consequence Of the electric telegraph
having communicated great fall in Threes 40 and
Elves 72A on the Paris Bourse on Thursday This fall
attributed to express from Buogne having no
titled that rders had been received from Paris put
whole line of coast in state of defence. The same
intelligence operated unfavorably on the money and
share market in London.
Markets.
LONDON MONEY MARKET, Friday, May Up. T.
The English funds were heavy to-day, at fall at one
time of nearly per cent upon the highest prices of
yesterday. Various ascribed as the
of the depression. Continental news of an un.
favorable character assigned by some persons but
the which, than any other, had the greatest
influence was continuance of sales unconnected
with foreign intelligence Consols, from being in the
early part of the morning quiet at S4 quickly receded
to 83H for money, and S31s for account little re-
action however took place previous to the termination
Of business and the last prices S354 to Il for
money, and S3sl for account The transactions were
heavier, and more numerous than for some days past
principally for present transfer.
BANK ENGLAND
An account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Wet
cap. 49, for the week ending Saturday, May 6, 1S4s.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued E26 1925 Government Debt. Ell 0l5 lO
les