30 JULY 1842, Page 12

The Leeds Mercury of this day (an influential Whig Anti-Corn-law

paper) says—" The markets of Liverpool and Manchester have expe- rienced a decided improvement within the last fortnight. At Liver- pool, where prices and operations are governed by the barometer more than by any thing else, and where as corn falls cotton rises, and vice versa, there has been a material revival, both in the cotton-market and in most other branches of trade." An accredited Liverpool correspond- ent of the Mercury says that the change will be permanent ; and he at- tributes it to the prospect of the harvest being secured, to the settlement of the Tariff, and to changes in foreign markets, especially the favour- able settlement of commercial questions in Portugal and the United States.