The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-13 00:00:00

Alatittt.

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARLET, AUGUST 10.

There has been a steady demand for Sugar, and full prices paid
for all descriptions ; the sales are 750 hhds. 8.P., together with 1500
bags Bengal, at 68s 6d to 695; no transactions reported in Mauri-
itius. 150 brls. and 30 cases Bahia nave been sold at steady prices ;
50 hhds. crushed lumps are reported at 34s per cwt.—ln Molasses
the sales are confined to 30 puns. Geneva at 33s 6d, a small lot of
Demerara at 335, and go puns. ordinary Berbice at 32s 6d.—Coffee.
There is a better demand for Plantation, particularly for ordinary
to low middling qualities ; the sales amount to 200 casks of Ja-
maica, at an improvement in prices, fully recovering the decline
noticed last week. Nothing done in Foreign.-300 bags black
Pepper sold at 5d to Wig, lb.—No transactions to notice in Cocoa,
Ginger or Pimento.—East India Rice continues in good request,
and about 4000 bags have been sold at 12s 6d for broken, 14s 6d for
middling to 15s 6d for good and fine Bengal, in bond; Carolina
goes off slowly at 40s per cwt. for first quality, duty paid.—Very
little business has been done in Rum, but in the few sales effected
full prices have been obtained, viz. Demerara, 12 o.p. at 4s, and for
29 o.p. 6s ; 70 casks Bengal, 28 o.p. sold at 4s to 4s 2d.
Several public sales of Indigo were brought forward on Wednes-
day, together, about 170 chests East India, and 13 serons Spanish;
there was no disposition to purchase beyond a few chests taken by
the trade, and for export, and rather lower rites were submitted to.
—35 chests Shell Lac are reported at 60s to 70s, and a few chests
of ordinary Lac Dye at 10d.—The transactions in Saltpetre and
Nitrate of Soda are unimportant.
Dyewoods, The sales in Campeachy Logwood have been trifling,
and only 60 tolls of Jamaica sold, at 48 to 48 is. In Fustic, 30
tons of Cuba brought 413, and 25 of Savanilla lOs ; in other
sorts nothing reported.—The transactions in Turpentine are con-
fined to 400 brls. of middling quality, at lls. 300 brls. American
Tar sold on Tuesday at 15s 6d per " barrel.—There has been a very
general inquiry for Montreal Pot Ashes, both for the trade and for
export, and very extensive sales have been accepted, which is a
slight decline.—There has been more business done this week in
Quercitron Bark, in consequence of holders having submitted to
lower rates ; upwards of 100 hhds. have been disposed of, chiefly
at 15s for Philadelphia. No alteration in Bees' Wax ; the sales of
East India, reported last week, should have been at 46 to £6 lOs
in bond.—Hides. The sales comprise 1200 salted Monte Video at
4id to 4/d p Ib, 10,000 East India Kips at 8d to 8/d for brined and
ordinary dry salted, 6.d to 7d for first class rubbed, 8d for sound
dry, and 61d to 7id slb for rubbed.—Tobacco. The market is still
dull, but steady : sales this week 60 hhds.

The transactions in Brimstone have again been on a limited
scale, but holders remain firm in supporting the present quota-
tions; the sales this week scarcely reach 50 tons. Sumac has been
more inquired for, 400 bags Sicily have been disposed of at 125 6d
to 12s gd, and 100 bags Verona at es 3d per cwt.—There has been
less demand for Madder Roots, the only sale is a parcel of 50 bales
Syrian at 38s is. cwt.—Nothing done in Madders.—A few easks red
Argols have been taken at 32s ' • Yellow, and Cream of Tartar, the
former at 60s, and the latter at 69s T. cwt.—For 30 tons Valonia. of
middling quality, elB 5s T. ton was paid.—Olive Oil continues in
fair demand, the sales are about 50 tuns, chiefly Trieste Gallipoli,
at £47 lOs T. tun. Four vessels have this week arrived from New-
foundland with Seal Oil : the principal part is intended to be ware-
housed, but a portion has been sold at £23 for pale ; a cargo to
arrive has also been sold at £2B 10s; taking slightly coloured at
proportionate rates; some sales of pale, of last year's import, have
been made at ..e27 to .4'28; the total business is about 200 tuns ;
holders now ask the prices quoted; Cod 0.1 is but little inquired for.
Rape and Linseed Oils are in better request, and some transactions
have taken place at a small advance. With the excsption of 200
tons Palm Oil sold to arrive, there has not been much business
doing ; some small sales are reported, on the spot, at e 39 105 to
.e4o.—Oil of Turpentine remains without any alteration.—Some
transactions in St. Petersburg clean Hemp have taken place at
£37 10s, and about 400 bales Dilanilla at .t'2s per ton.—A better in-
quiry has appeared for most descriptions of Flax, and for the finer
sorts an advance has been realized.—Early in tie week there was a
brisk demand for Tallow and an advance of fid to gd on the last
quotations obtained; the market has since become dull, in conse-
quence of the decline in London.