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The demand for sterling bills is rather limited while
the supply of all qualities is large Houses drawing
prime bills firm at 10 per cent premium but others
range from 81 81 per cent is astonishing how high
sterling exchange rules being about one-haf Yer cent
higher then at the time last year This an extra
ordinary fact the face Of the reduced imports this
year compared with last but foreign Indebtedness
has been this year much larger than imports show
Large amounts of stocks have been sent into the United
States from Europe, particularly from Londan fer sails
and The proceeds been RENTED which has created


demand for exchange independent Of that required to
carry on the ssstmate foreign trade Of the country.
me limited demand for sterling bills for remances
mercantile account is good evidence that foreign
trade this been in favor than usual
The value of the importstcns into this port was about
five millions OF dollars less for the first six months cf
this year than last while exports have been within
about seven hundred thousand dollars large they
were for the first six msnths of is4i The foreign
ports from other ports of the country have been much
larger this year than last The expectation Of cotton
alone from the United States has been this year about


i've hundred thousand bales than last for the
period.


AtNew Orleans on the 5th inst, the exchange market
was dull and few bills Offering the rates remained about
the same as previously quotedsay for sterling %
per cent premium francs ST al 81 80, bills on New
York and Boston, 60 days, 3 Philadelphia do per
cent discount Sight checks New York and Boston
per cent premium.


We annex the prices current at the close Of operations


sor the stocks used in this market principally for
, svuay,


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