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per cwt.; 7 chests gum animi, 8l.; 3casks and 4 bags of sugar, at44s.5.1 cask white suger 
cindy, 35s.; 12chests unrefined camphor, 261. 15s. 5 15 chests’refined ditto, Y8l. to 281. 108.57 
A356 planks teak wocd, 1s. 8d.5 1,log, Sqrs. 13i%. ebony, 37s. per cwt.; 14 logs sandal- 
wood, 3s. id. to 3s, 2d. per tb.3 1922 bags harilla, 25s. to S0s., and 82 bags ditto, 16s. to.. 
16s. Gd. per cwt.3 14 Slephants’ teeth, 271. 10s. to Bil. pst CWe.; 656 cornelian stones, pa- 
shed, 15s, 8d. each’; 849 ox hides in the hair, andressed, 1s. 2d. to des 4d. per Ib. The: 
Inarket prices of silk are: of the Chinese, 36s, to 40s ; of Bengal, 20s. 6d. to 303.3 and of 
Novi, 4s. Gd. to 40s. per 1b. 
It is expected, from the attention paid to the culture of cetton in the East Indieg at the 
present period, thet our supplics of.that article will experience an augmentation, « 
The annuel produce of cotton at Bombay, which was formerly estimated at 6000 bales, has 
lately increased to 83,000! This information cannot prove otherwise than pleasing, at the 
Present crisis. Consideravle fears are entertained respecting the four missing ships of the last 
homeward-bound Kast India fleet, and it has been confidently asserted, that two of them 
namely the Calcutta and Lady Jane Dundas, have actually been lost. 
West Inpiges. Weare happy to state, that a number of the homeward-bound Leeward 
Island and Jamar fleets are arrived. We wish it were in our power to add, that their care 
goes Came toa farourable market ; but we have sanguine hopes, that the species of inter 
course designed to ekist between this country and France, will be modified in such a manner, 
that our West IndiA merchants may be enabied to get rid of their colonial burthens: At 
London, the raw sugar market has been duil throughout the greater part of the month, but 
within the Jast week it has undergone something like renovation, and in-one day (Monday, 
the lots) about 2000 bhds. were purchased without, however, aay advance tn prices, 
At Liverpool, the grand mart of the West India trade, the demand. has been languid, and the 
article has suffered a depression of from Ys. to 3s. per cwt. in consequence of-the demand for 
the liish distilleries being suspended, and the home trade declining to purchase at: present 
prices. —Coitee isa heavy article; the finest sort sells from 61. to 61. 103. ; good, trom,41..10sz 
to 61.5 iwiddliag, from 41. 13s. to 51. 10s 3 and ordinary, from Sl. 10s. to 41. 15s. per cwr.. 
Sales of rum, bothat London and Liv. rpool, ary flat: prices of Jamaica, from 5s..to-63. 8d. 3 of 
Leeward Island, from 4s 3d. to 5s. 3d. per gallon. Logwood a jittle depressed. ties 
Nortu America. The Non intercourse Act has not yet been. put in force, but the - 
clea:ances for the ports of the United States, within, the last month, bear no sort of compas 
rison to those Which took place about eight weeks ago. The cotton market has never, pere 
haps, been the sport of such rapid Auctuation as since our last report. At the time in which 
we wrote, the operations at Liverpool particuiarly exceeded all former precedent; and in the 
week prior to the appearance of our statement no less than 40, or 50,000 bags changed hands !- 
It is said, that not above 10,000 of these were brought up by genwine traders, the purchasers 
being mos‘ly speculators. fowever, from the period to which we have first alluded, the arti« 
cle has been gradually on the decline, and at present the sales are absolutely duil The holders. 
seem resolved to await the result of Mr, Jackson’s ar:ivalin America. Georgia cotton ‘etches 
from 1s, 7d. to 3s. 4d. 3 that ef New Orleans, from ts. 8d. to 1s. O$d.—Tar sells at 34s. and 
36s. per barrel.~-American oak, at 91. and 121.3 oak planks, at St. 10s. and 19t.—Pine, at 
Ql. 15s. and 121.5 and pine planks, at 131. and 181, per last. The demand for tobacco is very 
limited, but little or no variation in price since our last. Wheat and flour have been considere 
ably on the decline within the Jast few days. — 
SoutuH America. We understand that it is the intention of the government of Spanish 
America to give dir-ctions, that all toreign ships, whether belonging to mngland or elsewheres 
should withdraw irom the ports of that region. ‘This measure will not be of immediate detri« 
ment to our interests ; ‘for, as it will he perceived by our last repart, South America is literally 
everrun with English goods. The prices of South American commodities, have scarcely vaq 
ried since our last quotations. 
Franct. Permission has been given by the French government, to export corn to thig 
gountry, amd on our part, the importation of that article from France, and the exportation thi- 
ther of colonial produce, have been permitted. “These mutual concessions may, at the first, 
glance, appear. to many to be extremely beneficial to the interests of British merchants; but, 
it yet remains to be ascertained, whether the ruler of france will admit our colonial produce 
into his territories? Iv not, we would ask, how are we to pay for the corn with which he 
ebligingly offers to supply us? for, it is to be recollected, that our own govcrament prohibiis 
the transmission of specie to any foreign nation, 
Iracy. fhe silk crops of the present year have proved very indifferent, owing to the exe 
treme coldness of the spring 3 yet the raw silk has not risen in price, principally because consie 
¢@erable stores remain vn hand, and because no ordevS are now received from England, whie 
ther vast quantities used formerly to be exvorted. ‘The market prices of raw silk in our mare 
ket, vary trom 24s. to 43s. per lb. 3 those of thrown silk, from 42s. to 553.—Genua oil, sella 
from 1851. to 2001.5; and Gallipoli, from 791. to 80]. per ton. The 25 gallun-jar of Luccay 
fetches irom 30), te Sal. 1QseaSicilian shuinac is a good article, it sells at 25s. 6d. aod 27s, 
per ow © 
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