Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-29 00:00:00

petition with deals front -
Ports. They have ruled at frc

ae; from .REI Ms.
, and from £1.2 to £l7 fot
_at diversity of price, in the first
icularly, is owing to the urentsw

ivality

)bta.ined

N.B. AND N.S. PINE & SPRUCE DEALS.—The import
of these favourite articles has, during the past year been
on a much more moderate, indeed a small scale, com-
pared with that of 1857-8, or with any of the three pr(
vious years. The import for the year ending Ist Feb
1859, has been 43,462 standards against 47
and 67,813 for 1856.7

the consumption of the year just
ended, has been 52,140 against 58,151. The stock is
less than it has been for many years back, amounting to
only 17,825, or about four months' consumption, against
27,002 last year. The cause of the apparent diminu-
tion in the consumption of these deals must be sought
for on other grounds than any falling off in their popu-
larity as good and useful articles for all the ordinary
purposes to which sawn wood is generally applied. The
ltuost total cessation of building which took place at
of 1857, and which even to this hour has not
to any large extent revived, either in the neighbourhood
or inland, would of itself much more than account for
the diminished consumption, and if these useful kinds
of wood had not recommended themselves to general
favour, on account of their adaptability to the manifold
purposes to which they are now so profitably- applied,
there can be little doubt that their sale would have been
much more limited than it has proved. St. John deals,
which are looked on as the standard of value, ruled at
from £6 15s. to £7 12s. (3d. during the early and

greater part of the year, until within a month or so of
the present time, when it became evident that the stock
left on hand would be limited, and when, it was known
that shipments from the different ports of dispatch had
almost ceased, then prices began to rise, and cargoes
have been sold at from £8 to £8 ss. for fair average
Spruce. From Other Ports. prices corresponding to
those last quoted, can be obtained proportionate to their
respective qualities.

BOARDB have been imported to the extent of 469
standards, against 800. The consumption, 589 against
524, leaving the stock now on hand 215, against 335.
They have been sold at prices ranging from £7 to
£Bl2s 6d. The latter price has only been obtained lately.
LATHWOOD.—Of this the import consists of 524
fathoms, against 995; the consumption has been 732,
against 973 ; the stock has been reduced to the almost
nominal quantity of 65, against 273. Early in the sea-
son good quality Quebec and St. John wood sold at from
to £5 ; latterly it has advanced, and is now worth
from £5 to .£5 10s. _ _ . _ .

QUEBEC STAVES.—The iMport ofstandard hasbeeit
160 M. against 417 ; the consumption 371, ag
and the stock is 307 against 218. PUNCHECO

813 M

)tion 694, against

ze of standard

staves has ranged from £5O to £65 for merchantable
pipe ; and from £35 to £45 for culls. Merchantable
puncheon at from £l6 to £l9, and culls from £ll to

SPnuCE SPARS have been imported in quantity suf-
ficient to meet the demand. They are worth from 13d.

to 14(1. per foot

RAILWAY SLEEPERS have ceased to be imported

our North American colonies

in demand at the
followingiprices, viz : from 60s. to 70s. for Palings, and
from 12s. 6d. to 20s. for Laths per M.
Fin TIMBER.—The imports for th(
have been considerably in excess of tl

ND LATIIS SAWN ar

x 1858-9

)1,000

5,000 from Stettin

rom Swedeif and
Norway ; making a total of 626,500 feet in all against
411,000 for the previous year. The consumption has
hen good, when compared with other articles of import,
tinst 660,500. The Stock at present on
I at 120,000 feet of Danzie, and 21,000
lust 213,500 feet last year.
and the
by retail

all 150,(

ntly I

,m the yards
DEALS AY

The import has been 1,379
The consumption has in.
It has amounted to
now on hand is 1,004

principally for export
ainst 2,108. The Stoc

against 2,778. St, Petersburg red wood Deals and
Battens have been sold at from £l2 to £l2 10s. by the
cargo. Other kinds imported from different ports at

proportionate prices.
WAINSCOT LOGS have been imported to the extent
of 1,874 pieces, whole and half, against 474. The con-
sumption has been 1,757 against 838 and the Stock con-
sists of 161 pieces, against 44. No sales to report.
LATIIWOOD has arrived in limited quantity, only
125 fathoms, against 747. The consumption has been
326, against 748; and the stock is small, 75 fathoms

against 276. The value of this article has latterly ad-
vanced, and it is now worth 325. 6d. per lineal foot.
—Of these, 19 M. have been imported, and
s now been reduced to 4 M. They are worth

STAVES