About 4,000 bags of Bengal offered at public sale sold from
10s. to 11s. per cwt., establishing a decline of 3d. per cwt.

_SALTPETRE._--The market is sparingly supplied, and importers do not
sell except upon extreme rates, which have been paid for about 3,000
bags, viz. from 23s. 6d. for very ordinary, to 25s. 6d. for good
middling.

_CASSIA LIGNEA._--For small parcels offering in public sale full prices
have been paid; fine by private contract as high as 70s.

_PIMENTO._--Fair quality has been sold 2-1/2d. to 2-5/8d., which is
rather dearer.

_TALLOW._--The demand on the spot is not improved and the price
unaltered, 41s. 9d. to 42s.; for forward delivery there is rather more
disposition to purchase.

_RUM._--The demand is very limited, except for the finest qualities of
Jamaica, and common are rather cheaper.

FOREIGN.

The accounts received from the United States up to the first of this
month by the _Hibernia_ and _Great Western_ are favourable as regards
commerce. The manufactories in the Union are reported to be in a state
of considerable prosperity, notwithstanding which the demand for imports
was increasing. The reports about the cotton crops were various; it was
admitted that the weather had latterly been favourable. Large arrivals
of wheat and flour were expected in the ports from the West.

The commercial reports received this week from the continent of Europe
do not show any great activity in foreign markets, though the prices of
Colonial produce are well maintained. Sugar was somewhat more in demand
both at Antwerp and Hamburg. In Coffee there was rather less doing at
both places.

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PRICES CURRENT, SEPT. 16, 1843.

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ENGLISH FUNDS. | PRICES
| THIS DAY.
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India Stock | 266
3 per Cent. Red | Shut
3 per Cent. Consols Money | 94-3/4
3-1/2 per Cent. Annuity, 1818 | --
3-1/2 per Cent. Red. | Shut
New 3-1/2 per Cent. Annuity | 102
Long Annuities | Shut
Annuities, terminable July, 1859 | --
India Bonds 3 per Cent. | 69s pm
Exchequer Bills 1-3/4d. | 69s pm