The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-03 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE WEEK.

The late advance in ashes has been maintained, but the
business of the week will not exceed 150 brie at 38, for pots,
and 40s per cwt for pearls. Brimstone: About 150 tons on
the spot sold at £5 Si for best 3ids, and £5 lOs per ton fur best
2nds ; atso two cargoes to arrive are reported at £5 81 9d for
best 2uda, and £5 30 9,1 per ton for beet 3rds. Nitrate has
sold to the extent of 250 tons at 15s 61 to 91 for inferior, and
16s to 163 Gd per cwt for good and fine quality. Saltpetre : An
extensive business has been concluded, consisting of about
2,000 bags Madras at 14s 91 for 35, 169 61 for 30, 17s 61 for
28.1, and 22s to 24s for 25 per cent refraction ; 250 bags fine
Culcutta 11, per cent brought 37s 6d per cwt. Dyewoode :
200 tons Campeachy are reported at £8 7s Gd, and
360 tons St. Domingo to arrive at an out-port at
£6 is 6d, with small sales on the spot at £6 10s. Fustic :
27 tons Savanilla (all faults) brought £5 to £5 21 6.3.
Madder Roots : Small sales of Turkey have been made at the
quotations, and in French 100 b des, which comprised all
the available stock, were taken at 425. in French madders
there is nothing to report. Sumac : Palermo rather better,
about 2,000 bags selling at 110 Gd to lls 91, and 12s 91 for
S. D. P. mark; 400 bags Tyrol brought 8s 61 to So 9d.
Tartars are dull : 12 casks brown ate reported at 87s 61 to
92s 61, and a few casks French cream at 107 s 61. Argots are
without change. Quercitron Bark : '1 he arrivals of Biltimore
are heavy, and only a few tons arc reported at 133. Persian
yellow berries : Small sales at 60s. Annatto : Retail tales of
flag at the quotations. Concentrated lemon juice sold at
Cutch retails at 40s to 42s ; and Gambier is in fair demand at
21s. Nothing in shell lac or lac dye. Sago Flour: 300 bags
brought 20s to 20s Gd, and 700 bags at 16s to 18s 6d for
damaged. Farina : 20 tons Scotch brought 18s. Castor Oil :
Small sales at 61 to Glad. Myrabolams at auction, 750 bags
brought 9s 3d to 9s 61. Oils : Olive in better demand, *he
week's business will amount to 200 tuns, embracing Gallipoli
and Taranto, at £47 lOs to £4B ; Zante at £46 5s to £47 ;
Lisbon at £46 to £47; and Sicily at £45 103 to £46.
Linseed : Sales to the extent of about 100 tons have been
made at 30s to 30s 6d per cwt, the market closing fiimly at
the latter figure for present delivery. Rape retails at 47s 61
to 48s for pale, and 45s 61 to 463 per cwt for brown. There
are no transactions in fish oils worth reporting. Palm has been
in improved demand ; and the total sales will reach 1,500 tons on
the spot, all for export and consumption at X3B lOs to £4O per ton.
Lard continues in steady request ; the sales amounting to
300 tons at 54s to 55s per cwt for good and fine quality ; the
latter description now generally held for an advance. Bees'
Wax : The business in American confined to retail sales at £7
12s Gd per cwt. 10 cases of E.I. are advertised fin Thursday
next. Linseed Cake : American in limited request, at the
reduced quotations ; sales of English have been made at
£9 lOs to £9 5s per ton. Guano : Peruvian, in retail
parcels, is selling at £ll 15s to £l2 per ton nett cash. Bone
ash quiet, at £5 58 per ton. Seeds : The sales of linseed aro
1,000 bags at 50s for Calcutta, and 62s per qr for Bombay,
with very little offering. Nothing to report in rape;
but of Y. mustard 3,500 bees sold at 48s to 50s per
qr ; and 400 bags poppy at 45s 61 to 45s 9d per qr.
Naval Stores : Turpentine—The arrivals are 2140 Iris from
New York, part of which will be offered at auction on Tuesday
next. Spirits are very quiet, the sales being quite of a
retail character at late rates. Rosin : Common is again a shade
higher, 4s 91 to 4s 10 per cwt having been raid for about
2000 brls; there is a good enquiry for very fine quality, at
which the stock is exhausted ; sales of fair and good medium
were made at 6s to is 6d per cwt, Tar : 4000 brls are
reported this week, the bulk of which will be offered on
Tuesday next, 200 tills (small and inferior) American sold
at 8s per bra. Chemicals : Soda Ash is in less demand at 21d
to 2 3-161, Crystals retail at £5 ss, and Bickarbonate at
14s. Bleaching Powder steady at ale to lls Gd. Tartaric
Acid iu rather better demand at is 41d to ls 41d.

F.J. EATON.