The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-19 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

PRODUCE.—Mixtviso Leak, Dry. 18.—The absence of colonial
public solos to-day ham given a dull appearance to the market, hut it
k customary, so near the close of the year, for importers nut to prism
tales, the trade being disinclined to increase stack on hand at thin
period of the year. Sugar ; 100 hhils. Went India sold, but prices are
6d. dearer than at the tierce or last week, and opinion Ws become
more firm in this article. Refined remains very fine, and prices have
advanced Od. to Is during the week : standard quality, 64t. Coffee
dull. Rice continues in good demand; good middling white Bengal
sold in public sale 18s. 6d.; for a very fine parcel 200. was offered
and refuted. Cotton: The fiat accounts received from Liverpool have
had a depressing influence, and scarcely any hosannas has been done
to-day. Tallow has been. active, and a further advance ot Is. has
been paid; Ste. on the spot : town advanced to Ms., rough 14 2s. Ild.
Tea The speculative demand has entirely ceased, and old prices are
about resumed. Common Conlon, 9td. to 10d. Gambier fold 12s. Id.
6d. Cumwood. 127. 10v, Manilla Hemp, arias Ms. 61 per cwt.
C.allicut Ginger sold 275. 6d., Ms. Gd. . . .

Livi Imo-, Dec. 18. - Sugar: There appears a better feeling in the
market, and the sales during the lost few days have been at an im-
provement of lid. to Is. per cwt. on low brown qualities; in other
descriptions no change can be noticed. The Moine., consists of 701
hhils. 11. I'., 3,000 toga of Bengal, and 2,700 bags of Madras. Foreign :
1,000 boxes Havannah were sold yesterday by auetion, and brought
steady prices; ordinary to middling yellow, 4:s. nti. to 495., and mid-
dling white, 495. to 595. O. per cwt. ' • of other descriptions only 20
bads. Cuba have been sold. Molasses: No safes. Coffee: There is
very little demand for B. P., and the oaleo of the week are confined to
Gil tierces Jamaica, at former rates. 230 bags damaged Costa Rica are
all that bare been sold of foreign. 100 bags of Para Cocoa brought
335. per cwt., and 800 bags of black Pepper, 21d. to 3ld. per
lb. Rice : Owing to an extensive inquiry for Ireland, a large
Moines: has been done, both on Om spot and to arrire, and an advance
of 2s. may he quoted in prises. The sales me 5,4100 bags, at t es. for
yellow cargo, and 19s. to 211 s. for middling to good white Bengal, and
12,000 bags to arrive at 18.. to 205., according to the expected time of
arrival. Rum : The market is very firm, but the sales, owing to the
limited supply, continue small. Tea : The market continues in the
same state as noticed last week. About 170 chests of East India Gum
Arabic hare been sold, all faults, at low rotes ; 10 chcoto of Annul at
400. to 1355., and a few chests of ordinary Olibminum and 70 caws gum
Demmer at 235. ; 39 chests of orange Shellac at 52a.; a few halm of
Bengal Safflower at 80.. to 115 s ; COO baskets Terra Japonica brought
13s. to 13s. 3d., and 250 bags Sago Flour, 200. lid. to 21s. per
cwt. There has continued a good demand for Saltpetre,
and the sales reach to 5,000 bags, at 225. 6d. to 265. per cwt.
Nitrate of Soda is offering lower, and several small iota sold at I7s. ps r
cwt. Guano : Several hundred tons of Peruvian, as also of African, have
been divined of at 53. ICS. for the former, and 71. 10s. nir Ichabtx.,
and the lower sorts at 755. to 1153. per ton. Dyesoods: There is no
change, and the sales are to a fair extent, consisting of 40 tons Cam-
, peachy logwond at 7/. 155., 30 tons St. Domingo at 31.50. to sf. 7s. Cid ,
20 tons Jain:deo at 41. 17e. Gal., 200 tons 7.apote rustic at 4/. 103., 30
tons ordinary and damaged Madras Red Sanders Wood at V., and 30
tens Lima Wood at 151. to IQ. her ton. No wales of Turpentine re-
ported, and of Tar only 120 barrels of Archangel at 18,. Of American
Ito-in. 300 banes of common quality have been sold at Is. Them
has been a revival of demand for Montreal Pot Ashes, and 1,000 bar-
rel. have been sold at 275. to 275, Cid. ; this extensive busi-
ness has encouraged some principal holders now to require
higher prices. Montreal Pearl Ashen ore rather lower, but
200 to 300 bib. have found buyers at 265. Cal. Air the brand 1846.
/fides: Several parcels were offered by auction on Tuesday, but only
a small portion found buyers ; the whole of the East India Rips (about
20,000) sold briskly at full prices, dry silted Calcutta realising 9,1. to
Ltd. for sound; brined, 7lti. to b, and rubbed in proportion. About
5,000 silted Rio Grande Ox sue reported by private at lid. per lb.
Brimstone : The otoci: In the port being all stored, in few hand', and
held for high prices, dealers and consumers purehav nporingly, for
immediate we only. No business done in Argots, importer', being
quite bare of stock, but some fosh supplies expected with a change
of wind. A few small sales of Palermo Sumac at Ils.
to 13s. 64. per cwt. • nothing done in other sorts. No sales
of fine Cream of Tartar; small parcels, slightly tinged, ktehed
655. bd., and good gecy 53a. per cwt. No business of any moment
done in Persian yellow Berries ; one Mt of late fine current quality sold
at 161. per cwt. No material transactions to notice in Quorcitron
bark; the late advanced rate of Ile. per cwt. fully supported. Molders
and madder roots : No change in poses, but the demand fur the pre-
sent appears to hare subsided. olive .011• Upwards of 300 tans sold at
very full prices. We raise our quotations to the established rates of
the day, but even at the highest prices named bolder, are not disposed
to sell any large quantities. Ni, transactions of moment have taken
place in fish oils. Rape and Linseed oils ore without alteration. Oil
of Twpentine has been sold at 495., which is rather lower. Palm
Oil has advansed this week 1/. per ton; 160 tons are reported
at 35/. 10s. to 361., but V/. Is now the lowest price, and at this
advance there are few sellers. Remo is quiet this week, though
prises continue steady; about 950 bales of Jute have been sold at
19f. 154. to 201. 103. per ton. Tallow has been much inquired for, but
the sales hare been limited, In consequence of the advance required ;
Petersburg Y. C. has been sold through the week at from 465. 6d. to
300. Gd., and sta is now demanded, and has been paid for some small
parcels ; Odessa Tallow to rnirce, and wanted ; about 240 packages of
inferior North Amerfson were sold at 435. 6d. to 470., and a few brio.
of good quality at 496 pet cwt. lhrd higher ; American, of fair
quality, havingresheed 435. Bd. to 44a. Gd., and Petersburg and Trieste
42a. to 430. 3d. per cwt.
SI:GAIL-Tux AVKILIOR PRICK or Scoots, the produce of the
British Pacisessions in America, computed from the returns made in
the week ending the 17th day of December, 1841, is 335. Id. per cwt.
Bomar, the produce of the Mauritius, is -s. -4. pv cwt Sugar, the
produce of the Emitindien, Is 2ffs. lid. per cwt.- 'lie average price
of the three foregoing description, of Susinejointly, is 320. Id. perewt.
COTTON.-Livmuou, Due. Id. - The market today has hew
steady ; the sales amount to 3,009 Wes, awhielt 1,300 arc 06. sIWWII-
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'*-11.7ivnz, Dix. 16.—The speculation in cotton has been as great in
tide market as In Liverpool. It began before the arrival of the Great
Western. The stooks in the warehouses, which irseatly Mnoont to
a hundred thousand bales, and sometimes to doable that quantity,
.were brought as low m seven or eight thousand. • The short supply
was attributed exclusively to the non-arrival of reuse!, detained by
contrary winds, yet prices continued to riac. 011 Mllpa.ly holders wore
, more tenbeious than last 'week, and 6n Tuesday prices advanced ht
' mist qualities Rom 2 to 3 cents. per lb. en those of Monday. On
Wedneadsy the tempt of the intelligence by the Great Western and
the accounts of the Hof
ferment caused great excitement in the
market. Prices new S cents. per lb. on the rate, of Tuesday, and
everything offered for sale was greedily snatched at. A further rise
was looked for : 'the eOected arrivals would barely satisfy the de-
Meads of th manufes*rers ; blab priors till Mareb are confldehtly
expected.
wottertm STUFFS, &o.—Busorento, Dex. 17.—There was a
pretty large attendance of merchants 'tails, which is all but the last,
market in the year, and their pureluwes were fully equal to the ave-
rage of the season; and there.svere indketions of SA improved demand
shortly after the eimmentsement of tKc new year. Already prices
hare taken an upward turn, end therm...Ed production seems only to
be stayed by the relative root of the raw materiel, and the current
prices of rmumfactured articles. The Napkin ark, higher rates for
their weois'anktlue spinners arc restrained tram perehashar as eateaa
sively as usual, only by the apprehension that thew may not be able to
realtee corresponding prices fur their yarns, as the manufacturers,
(epochally in the country distrietts; are reluctant to give any advance.
Owing to this mate of things, the Pales of both Wool and Yarns were
emewhattlimited.

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LlaiLEKti AND 1.4C11 TRADfIi.. -Norma:a sal, Mc. tn—The
wrought cotton hose brattr.h, the most important manufacture in the
. midland casettes, keeps, Ai anything, slowly imposing; and as we
are now Within a few days of Mriatinaa, it is but reasonable to sup.
pine that there ate wane topini of a rather better trade in the spring.
The since glove trade is Aso a shade improved in some quarters,
and even the caisson are considerably better in appearance, as there is
• derided Improvement In sewing than. The drawer and pantaloon
branch con scarcely be considered improved, but the extensive orders
for the army materially supnaticthis -manufacture, which, upon the
whole, has been for some time on the decline. The silk glove trade in
some few shops is a shade better, while in others it is worse. The
fancy bobbin net trade is still extremely acid heavily depressed, but
when compared with its state in December lag year, the actual sales
tro to Imumensex. Wii e ate ,snreit, nearly duskiest ; but this Le no
mood general, and oven in the plain trade many factorial Work short