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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
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[Feb. I, 
(0TTON—continues in good demand, and the advanced rates since our last have been 
supported. At Liverpool, 1,000 bags of bowed have been taken in on speculation. The 
sales amount, in one week, to 8,800 bags, consisting of 4,918 bowed, 9d. to 93d. for ordi- 
nary to middling ; new, 10d. to 103d. per lb. —395 Orleans, 11d. to 194d. for. fair to very 
good.—158 Albanias, at 10d. to 102d. —230 Sea Island, at 19d. to 28d. —588 Pernam- 
buccos, at 123d. to 14d.—825 Maranhams, at 12d. to 124d,—288 Bahias, at 114d. to 123d. 
—224 Mina “Novas, 113d. to 113d.—30 Mina Gera, 94d.—864 Egyptian, 1]}d. to 123d. 
—55 Demerara, 113d. to 13d. a 1 Barhadoes, 9d3. to 104d. —226 Carthagena, 83d. to 9d. 
—125 Surats, 63d. to 81d. The arrivals are 9, 120 bags this week. 
. Sugar. —The market continues brisk, without alteration of price, for Brown Plantation 
Sugar. Refined Sugars in steady demand, at our quotations. The quantity sold, in the 
week, at Liverpool, to grocers and eee is 950 hogsheads and tierces. 
Coffee. —The coffee market continues very dull. Sales have been attempted, but the 
principal part offered were bought in. 
Rum, Brandy, and Hollands. ~~The market for Rum has been brisk, at an advance of ld. 
per gallon. At Liverpool, in the week, about 500 puncheons have changed hands, at 
1s. 9d. to 1s. 10d. per gallon, for 16 over-proof, and no sales made in Leeward l Island Rum. 
Brandy and Hollands in little or no demand, at our quotations. 
Trish Provisions. —The importation of butter from Ireland and Holland has been very 
considerable ; the market is therefore very dull, and prices may be considered as from 1s. 
to 2s. per cwt. under our prices. 
Hemp, Flax, and Tallow.—The two former articles have not experienced any variation, 
but tallow has advanced from 1s. to 2s. per ewt. The deliveries have been very great this 
year compared to last, and the stock is consequently reduced. To-day, on ’Change, 
the price of tallow continued to advance; the price, therefore, of yellow candle, was 40s. 
er cwt. 
P ourse of Exchange-—Amsterdam, 12. 2.—Hamburgh, 32.0.—Paris, 25.15. mnt 
twerp, 12. 3.— Rotterdam, 12.3—Bourdeaux, 25.45.—Vienna, 10. 2.—Madrid, 36— 
Cadiz, 35%—Gibraltar, 31.—Leghorn, 48}—Genoa, 441—Naples, 394—Lisbon, 51— 
Oporto. 514—Dublin, 93—Cork, 9}. 
The 3 per Cent. Reduced, 943; 3 per Cent. Consols, 933; 4 per Cent. 1822, 105§ 
to 106; New 3% per Cents., 101; Bank Stock, 2293. 
Gold in bars, 3/. 17s. 9d. per oz —New doublons, $l. 17s.—Silver in bars, standard, 5s. 
» Premiums on Shares and Canals, and Joint Stock Companies, at the Office of Epmonps 
and Wotrr.—Barnsley.Canat, 320/.— Birmingham, 320/.—Derby, 225/.—Ellesmere and 
Chester, 1043/.—Erewash, 0.—Forth and Clyde, 600/.—Grand Junction, 250/.—Leeds 
and Liverpool, 3751. —Mersey and Irwell, 0.—Neath, 400/.—Nottingham, 300/.—Ox- 
ford, 850/.—Stafford and Worcester, 900. —-Trent and Mersey, 2,150l.—Alliance British 
and Foreign, 197, — Guardian, 22/. 10s.—Hope, 6/.—Sun Fire, 2201.—Gas Licur 
Chartered Company,. 72/. —City Gas Light Company, 165/.—Phenix or South Lon. 
don, 13/. 15s. pr.—Leeds, 2407.—Liverpool, 250/. 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN JANUARY. 
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N intimation on the part of the British 
Government of its determination to 
recognise Mexico, Columbia, and Buenos 
Ayres, as sovereign and independent states, 
and the usual erposés of the revenue of Great 
Britain for the quarters and years, ending on 
the 5th January 1824 and 1825, since our 
last publication, have afforded to the diurnal 
and other portions of the periodical press, 
both metropolitan and provincial, ample 
topics to enlarge upon. 
All the glowing and inflated epithets in 
our language have been put in requisition,for 
expatiation on the eminence, honour and 
glory attaching to Great Britain for these 
recognitions, and from these financial re- 
sults. 
As friends to mankind, in the sincerest 
and fullest acceptation of the term, we 
shall hail the acknowledged sovereignty of 
the several States of South America er 
wish that Greece could be included). 
shall hail these events—not from ead 
considerations merely, but for the moral and 
social influence which they are so well calcu- 
lated to diffuse over the world. The pros- 
perity and happiness of the British people, 
when demonstrated, we shall also hail with 
the same unmingled, and with the most un- 
qualified, feelings of satisfaction and delight. 
But, as public journalists, conscious of 
the long established reputation which we 
have to sustain, and of the responsibility 
which attaches to our situation; and sen- 
sible, at the same time, that we stand alone 
in the view we take of the situation of politi- 
cal 
