The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-12 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, MARCH 8.
Sugar. There has been a steady demand for all descriptions, at
very full prices. The sales consist of 1000 hhds. 8.P., 2000 bags
Mauritius and 2500 bags Bengal ; the latter at 65s to 67s 6d. Fo-
reign Sugar continues in good demand; the sales are 120 cases
Bahia and 74 brls. Pernams, the brown qualities ruling at 21s 6d to
225, middling to good dry yellow 22s 6d to 245, and greyish white
at 25 up to 27s for good; 107 hhds. Cayenne have also been sold at
215 to 25s per cwt. The demand for Molasses continues, and 500
puns. have been sold at 30s to 30s 6d per cwt. for Demerara and
Antigua, to 31s for Barbadoes.—Coffee. No public sales of Plan-
tation have been attempted this week, and the transactions are very
limited, comprising a few small lots of Jamaica and Demerara, at
present prices. Nothing done in Foreign.—Nothing done in
Cocoa or Pimento.-500 bags Malabar Ginger sold at 20s, and 600
bags Black Pepper at 4id to 4d.—Rice. The demand being. coil-
fined to the home-trade, only a small parcel of dressed Carolina is
reported, at 40s per cwt. duty paid, at which price the holders are
firm; 100 bags yellow Bengal at 14s in bond.—The transactions in
Rum amount to 220 puns. chiefly fine Demerara, at 5s 2d to 5s 5d
per gallon.
There is almost a suspension of business in East India Drysaltery
Produce, there being scarcely an inquiry for any one article. 700
bags Nitrate of Soda are reported at 16s 6d, and of Saltpetre about
600 bags have realized 28s and 295.-60 cases Cassia sold at 60s.
Dyewoods.—Several parcels have been offered, but generally
taken in ; of Campeachy about 100 tons sold, at various prices, up
to t'l6 for prime wood ; about 100 tons of Jamaica and St. Domingo
at the quotations ; Fustic being scarce has advanced, 80 tons of
Savanilla sold at 2to .t'l2 2s 6d a few tons of Nicaragua Wood
sold at tl6 for Lima, and .£l4 lOs for solid, with some Angola
Barwood at st'l 0 per ton.—The Turpentine market continues very
dull, and the only sale reported is one of 200 brls. in store, at 12s 3d.
—Nothing new in Tar.—There have been a few trifling sales only of
Montreal Pot Ashes, at 258 6d to 26s for new, and at 24s 6d for old
brands ; Pearl Ashes dull, at previous quotations.—ln Quercitron
Bark scarcely any sales effected.—Nothing done in Flaxseed for
sowing, and in Cloverseed only some very small parcels have been
disposed of, at the quotations.—Hides. There are no sales to re-
port, the trade being engaged at the Bristol Leather Fair this week.
—The sales of Tobacco are about 100 hhds. principally to the trade,
at the quotations.
For Brimstone there has continued to be a fair inquiry, and a few
hundred tons have been sold, chiefly to dealers and consumers, and
nearly all at a small advance on the prices of last week.—Only a
limited business has been done in Sumac, Argols, and Cream of
Tartar.—Madders and Madder Roots have been in limited request.
—Nothing done in Valonia.—The demand for Olive Oil has been
limited, the principal sale of the week having been 40 tuns of Gali-
poli for export to the Baltic, at and subject to a deduction of
10 guineas per tun duty.—We have experienced more inquiry for
Cod Oil, and the sales are about 50 tuns, at £29 to .e 29 lOs per tun ;
in Seal Oil very little is doing ; a parcel of about 30 tuns Greenland
Whale has been taken by the trade at a full market rate.—Linseed
Oil is in good demand; pale Rape is taken only in small parcels, at
the prices quoted.—ln Palm Oil the sales have been very trifling.—
Oil of Turpentine is in better request, at a trifling improvement in
price.—Hemp remains steady, but the business of the week is trifling,
a parcel of Bombay has been taken at .e2B, and some common
Italian at £36 ; some parcels of Manilla were offered to-day, by auc-
tion, but nothing done • some little has since been sold by private
at .t'3s per ton.—The Tallow market during the early part of the
week was dull, but prices having experienced some improvement in
London, has had a corresponding effect here, and sales have to-day
been made at Is to I s 6d per cwt. advance, with a disposition on the
part of holders to withdraw their stocks from the market, which has
in 'some instances been done, and there is little offering at present
rates.