Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

THE WOOL SALES.

Public sales of 7,197 bales East India, and 6,101 bales
other " Low" Wools commenced here lath instant, and
concluded on Saturday.
During the last few weeks the market has been gradually
recovering from the depression manifested in May and
the early part of June, and, notwithstanding some com-
plaints of unremunerative trade in the manufacturing
districts, prices of many descriptions of wool have im-
proved, and still retain a rather upward tendency.
The attendance at the above sales has been average, and
competition active; prices for clean current wools may
in many cases he quoted id to id per lb higher than at
our sales in May. The chief part has been taken for
home consumption, the operations for the Continent being
moderate, and for the United States trifling.
Below are particulars of the various quantities offered,
and prices paid, viz. :-
7,197 bales East India, all sold, and realised 1216 to 140
fair to fine white, and a few bales superior up to 164 d, 86
to llid coarse to middling do., 100 to 146 fair extra
yellow, 6id to 913 coarse to
toddlingmid do., 4d to 6d very
inferior and wasting do., 7id lO fie coloured, 5d to 7d
coarse to middling do., 4d to 6d fair burry, ld to 3d rub
bish. Persian white 12d to 1316, yellow 106 to 141, fawn
and grey eid to 121 fair brown lld to 1116, locks and
burrs 4d to 6d. Native black 5d to 6d, grey 4d to sd,
yellow 4d to sd. 178 bales E.I. of fair quality repacked
and slightly mixed with cotton sold at 6d to lOid.
442 bales Egyptian-Ist white realised 14d to 166 (11
bales extra 172 d), 2nd, or pieces, (lid to 13d, locks 81d to
916, coloured fleece lOid to 1316, Syrian 816 to 1316, short
skin 611 to 916.
West Coast-264 bales Lima, chiefly withdrawn ; a few
locks and pieces sold at 7d to 106, black llid, and 126
refused for white. 569 bags unwashed coarse Valparaiso
sold at 6/d. 1,753 ballots Arequipa, only a small propor-
tion sold; washed fleece 126 to 14d, inferior skin at 916,
unwashed white Bid to 10/d, black do. 9d.
493 bales River Plate, principally unwashed inferior to
fine Mestizo, met with but little competition, and chiefly
taken in.
417 bags from Lisbon.—A. few middling Alentijo U's
realised 13id to 146 ; unwashed white, 61d to 91d ; 921 to
1016 refused for inferior black Spanish. 174 bags Oporto,
consisting of inferior parcels, excepting 22 bags unwashed
in unusually good condition, which realised lid.
Mediterranean.-135 bales Smyrna offered, of which 27
hales realised lOid. 64 bags Salonica : unwashed white
sold at 716 to 82d, black do. 616. 344 bales Turkey—
nearly all withdrawn : 29 bales unwashed sold at 8d white,
and 6id black; 916 to 1026 bid for a few washed long
coarse. 21 bales Crimea: 86 bid for white. 86 mats
rubbishly Siberian sold at 246. 259 bales Donskoi, part
sold, combining fleece at 11d, inferior 911 to 106, 93
refused for autumn. 153 bales Benghasi—passed as usual.
665 sheets English skin or pulled wool: well conditioned
parcels sold readily ; combing at 16d to 171 d first, 156 to
161 d second, 10d to 141 d third. Scotch 106 to 136: short,
Ind; first 151 d to 151 d lamb, 106 to lld second, Gdi to 9d
inferior.
By private a fair business has recently been done, in-
cluding Oporto, at• 141 d to 15d washed fleece; 616 ordinary
unwashed white, 91d brown. Unwashed white and black
Lima at 1216, Cordova 1026, Donskol lld to Md. Irish
fleeces have been in demand at 191 hoggets, and 18d
wethers. The fairs in Scotland have gone off with firm-
ness at about 7d per lb for ordinary laid black faced, and
106 to 12d for laid Cheviot on the spot.
The London public sale of 66,000 bales Australian and
10,800 Cape, opened 16th instant, to a very numerous
attendance of home and continental buyers ;—biddings
spirited, and prices Id to lid per lb higher than the clos_
big rates of the May series. The low wool sales, includ-
ing 3,000 bales East India, will take place there 21st and
(.1 24nd proximo; Jews L. BOWES.
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