COM MERGE, TRADE. &c


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LIVERPOOL, Oct. 2O lo4l.

 Our st Circular under date of the Ith inst. since when have had further advance of td per ib in ton and the state of trade at Manchester less raging than it was few weeks back, the improvement 1 in market is attributed mainly if not entirely to in crensed uneasness in regard the political relations be- the United States and this country, which, doubt less has had influence both sellers and bu,ers and caused speculation Since the arrival of the steamer last night with dates to the 2d ins however, there has been disposition sell and less to buy specuai0rs have appeared in the market to-day, and the full rates of the last days could he realised: still the low and middle qualities 4d higher than the 4h inst the market has become heavy and the of yesterday Manchester market very gloomy. The sales for the week ended sth inst amounted b.; for that ended 10th inst they 2s 4O h. and for days ended this evening" they estimated at 2O 900 b.. of which abou 4O0U have been taken by specuators or last weeks business, 6470 Upland 9s5O Or leans at e!i 23OO Alabama, &c, at 7and 24U Sea Island at ll4 22d per ID. The Cotton Brokers have now united in fixing uniform standard of classica- tion according to which the present quotation of fair Up land is 6d fair Mobile St; and fair Orleans 6td. Prev- ousy parties had higher and some lower stand ard; the fixed upon being about the medium. The stock in this port esimsted to of which about 36l, ,C0J are American.

 As had been anticipated the duty wheat Is now 206 per quarter and Flour l2-5 per bb and will shortly be some shings higher, notwithstanding increasing opinion throughout the country that further considerable foreign supplies will he required before another harvest This opn has been greatly strengthened by excessive bad weather for the completion of the harvest in the late district which has also materially and extensively injured the crop of potatoes.

 22d.-The demand for cotton has been moderate the last two days and the market fiat, but without change in prices. The Brokers differed in opinion to-day the quotation for fair but the majority put it Id higher than quotation ahove, erroneOusly think The sales for the week ended to-day amount to 262 b. of which 1850 Upland at 6} To- TOO Orleans at 54 T; and 36G0 Alabama and Mobile at Al a 63d per lb.

 A parcel Of 5O6 bbs Flour in bond sold this morn- ing at 3s per bbl, for exportatiOn.

 HAvRE, Oct. l5-Coiton.-The alleged injury snstain- ed by the cotton plantations in the south from the nce- mency of the weather has had very little influence among deaers owing the heavy amount of stock in all the European ports, who generally look upon 1t merely nna off Ih.laa lice faAnaf preaching season of the new crop. Holders, however, have evinced more rmness with the impression that the present low scale of prices will admit of important shipments from the other side of the Atlantic and that any extensive orders from heRce, at propoonately low rates would undoubtedly failof immediate execution.

 The transactions last report have therefore been rather moderate scale till within these three days, when demand manifested both for consumption and trans with steadness in prices. 18th Oct 286a New Orleans 66f 50 l0 1276 Mobile, 70 lO4i 276s Upand 70 7s The imports of the week

 Stock Oct l5-ls4l-l32 oOO b, of which i25,5oo are American l80-l25 900 do. lls,5OO do do ls3s-es, 500 do. 6s, 800 do do

 Oct ls.-snce our advices of the l2th per Britannia cotton market has been pretty anmated the sales reaching from 1000 to 2oO per day. with rmness in prices and to-day about POGO sold at i'm provement of to 1tc, caused by the news from New York the 27h Sept concerning the Mcleod and Cro- gan affairs If the advces per Caledonia are of more peaceabe character our prices will of course decline again, if the prospects of good crop are confirmed

 W. 300 b; on the 9th the market quie without any effect from the foreign advices. ..Iaf ,.r.

 Exchange on Mobile 8; Int. Ala. St g, N. Orleans B.

 CHARLESTON, Nov. 13.-The sales of cotton for the week 399 b, prices ranging from st to lOc. The ket duler than previously, with tendency de- cline. The receipts were s577 b.

 AUGUSTA, Nov. l3Sales of cotton for ihe week were about 2OOO b the inquiry confined the better descrp tions, which The quotations 7aet as extremes-prlme in square bags SC.

 COTTON CRops.-The Selma Free Press of the 18th inst says That the present cotton crop will be below average one there longer exists doubt least far this county is concerned. We derive this nfbrma- ton from planters whom we have met In attendance at the present term of Circuit Court. All the young holls and blooms which it was anticipated few weeks ago would mature have been totally killed by early foss

 thus limiting the prospect for good crop very materi ally. In many instances whole fields have been picked over the last time" ar, rra

 NEw ORLEANS, Nov. l5.--Ths sales of cotton to-day reached 2000 at steady prices. Buyers for the North and the Continent continue to be the principal operators

 The arrivals of Sugar and Molssses have been quite plentiful within the past two days, aRd there Is abundant supply the Levee Moasses dull at 22 23c.

 There was much feeling In the Flour market to-day, and the price of superhne is firm at s5 50. 4.' We notice safe of 900 kegs Lard at 6c aud another, 200 kegs A i the same rate,