6.8.0 & 7 Prber. 2.0.0 " 0.1.5 per box. 24.5 yy 270 100 sq, foot Haikwan Sycee Tle. 100=Shangbai Currency Tle. 111.40. Cargo quotations, METALS.—The business reported in Nail-Rod Iron amounts to about 7,000 bundles at Tis."2.10 per picul, nett, for Dawes', Tle. 2.10 a 2.124 por picul, less brokerage, for Rodgers', and Tls. 2.00 per picul for Staffordshire. Lead continues quiet, and quotations are still nominal. Of Tin Plates there have been sales at Ts. 4.10 per box, but the demand is far from brisk. Quicksilver and Tin are both in value, and neither article wanted, j COTTON.—The market keeps quiet, but supplies are now coming in more freely from the country, and as the necessity of selling those increases, prices will probably fall to a point that will induce a large trade.
EXCHANGE.—A isit amount of business in both Bank and Private Paper has been transacted at gradually stiffening rates, quotations at the close Leing fully 4d. above those reported last week. On India, Banks are willing drawers, but equity for Paper li slack, On Hongkong, quotations are slightly easier,
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