13 Cotton. There has been an increased demand since our last, principally for export, and the previous small stock has been farther materially reduced. Holders continue very firm, and the prices paid within a day or two established an advance of fully j a cent per lb. on the rates current two.weeks since. We do not vary our quotations, though it may be remarked, that there is none in market offering at less than 8 cents, while the bulk of the stock on sale is held at 10 cents and upward. Fish. A cargo of 550 quintals dry cod, just received, was taken at 82 50, being an advance of 50 cents (ope-sixth) upon the last sale of similar quality. Mackerel are wanted, and pnpes have rather an upward tendency. Hemp. The enhanced rates demanded by holders of Russia,‘render the market unus sually quiet. Hides. Prices have rather an upward tendency. Lead. All the recent receipts of Missouri, say 3,100 pigs, have been readily taken up, commencing at 4 3<« 16 cents and closing at 4| cents, cash; and 4 5-8 to 5 cents, 6 months, which is a material advance. Molasses. Good and prime qualities are in request, with a better feeling, and the market generally within the last 30 days has advanced 2 to 3 cents the gallon. Oils. Sales of 80,000 gallons have been made at an improvement of J a cent. Provisions. There is a fair demand for beef and pork for ship stores, city use, and occasional parcels for exportation. The stock of beef continues light. Mess pork has rather an upward tendency, and it cannot now be quoted less than 815 50. 600 kegs western lard sold at 11 cents. Northern may be quoted 11 J. Prime butter continues scarce and in request at 18 cents; ordinary is plenty and dull at 8 and 10 cents. Cheese in boxes is scarce and in quick request for export at 7 J cents. It is unnecessary to make further quotations from the Prices Current of the day. No man can deny but there is a returning soundness in the state of trade generally; giving conclusive evidence that trade can and will regulate itself. Let the laws of commerce be unembarrassed by the visionary projects of needy speculators, and the good sense of the community will graduate with absolute and unerring exactness the prices of all de' " scriptions of prosperty. If there is a surplus of any article, it will fall in price—if a scarcity, it will rise; and on this princple, and on this only, will there be a fluctuation. To further show that business is improving under the new Treasury law, the following is to the point, copied from an English paper, the “ Liverpool Albion,” of the last of July: Revival in the Export of Manufactured Goods to the United States.—‘ The quantity of manufactured goods exported to the United States was remarkably small during the first six months of the present year. Within the last few weeks, however, the quantity has increased, and now there is a fair export to the States. The President steam-ship, although she charged five guineas per ton, got,not less than thirteen hundred packages of manufactured goods on freight. The packet ships as well as the transient vessels also get a fair share of goods. We trust, therefore, that we may hail the present revival of export as a symptom of returning confidence in the United States market, and that the consumption of British goods by our trans-Atlantic brethren will speedily become as extensive as it was before the season of distress. Indeed our foreign commerce is sigually successful. Says a Boston paper of a late date: “ The New England coast is ‘ all alive with ship building.’ At Medford alone there are .nine ships in progress. The past season has been the best which the present race of ship owners ever knew. Many vessels have paid their cost in the clear profits of freight. We know h merchant of Newark, N. J., who twenty-one months ago built a fine brig, which has netted him one thousand dollars, clear profit, per month, every month she has been afloat.” During the four years of Mr. Van Buren’s administration regularbusinesshashad its rewards, and a healthy increase. Lithographic citieshave been ata discount, and so have the bubbles of Wall street. A striking illustration of the prosperity of the Whale Fishery-a most important branch of our nation’s commerce—during Mr. Van Buren’s administration, is found in the following facts copied from the Custom House books by the New Bedford Register. It is a notable table, and should be pondered by every democrat. It refutes some of the whig slanders, most completely:
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