London vid Bombay, 4th December.
An announcement estimating the shortage in the cotton crop as more serious than was expected created the wildest excitement on the Cotton Exchange at New York, where the brokers fought each other in their eagerness, and prices shot up ten and twenty points.
At New Orleans fortunes were made and lost within five minutes——i} Reuter.
Sth December, The advance in American cotton has caused the most intense excitement in Manchester and Liverpool It is declared thit it will be a Ble cawuuty to Lancashire if ili American crop estimates are
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