The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-16 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 12

The demand for Sugar still continues extremely limited, and the
sales B.P .do not reach 100 hhds, and barely supporting previous
prices. 830 bags Bengal sold with all faults at 63s to 64s 6d per cwt.
Nothing done in Mauritius. There are no transactions to notice in
Foreign Sugar.—The transactions in Molasses are confined to 80
puns Demerara at 32s per cwt ; about 200 puns have arrived from
Antigua, which are not yet landed.—Coffee. There has been a very
good demand for Plantation, and the sales amount to 240 casks of
Jamaica; clean ordinary to fine ordinary t!ualities were in most re-
quest, and brought very full prices, in sore instances is to 2s ad-
vance ; no change in other descriptions. About 400 bales of Mocha
sold, chiefly at 87s 6d to 93s 6d for middling to good clean garbled.
Nothing done in Foreign.-20 brls Trinidad Cocoa sold at 41s; 170
bags Bombay Ginger at 19s 6d to 20s per cwt; 500 bags Pimento at
aid to 31d, and 750 bags Pepper at 4fd to 4id per lb.—Rice continues
dull ; 600 bags of Bengal have been disposed of at 16s per cwt —ln
Rum very little business has been done; 40 puns Demerara, 7 per
cent. O.Y. sold at 3s 6d per gallon.
Several parcels of East India Indigo, in second hands, have been
disposed of a' very'full prices ; and 10 serons Guatimala have been
sold at 4s 9d per lb.—Very little was done at the public sales of East
India Drysaltery articles; 40 bales of ordinary Bengal Safflower
went at 59s to 75s ; 21 chests Gum Arabic at 25s to 525, and 38 chests
Lac Dye at led to lld.—A few serons Cochineal at 6s 9cl for black,
and 6s 2d for silver.—The importers hold very little Saltpetre, and
the sales are limited.—A small lot of Nitrate of Soda is reported at
16s.

The ho Iders of Logwood have been anxious to meet the demand
and.some sales made at rather lower rates ; in other descriptions no
change. The demand for Turpentine is regular, at previous prices ;
the sales are 500 brls inferior at 12s, 500 brls fair at 13s, and 100 of
good quality at 13s 2d.—Nothing new in American or Baltic Tar.—
Montreal Pot Ashes are still sought for at 265, and about 400 bris
have been purchased, principally at that price, but for a few small
parcels 26s lid has been given. Pearl Ashes are dull, and there are
no sales to communicate. At a public sale in London yesterday,
219 brls Pot and 581 brls Pearl were offered, and nearly all sold at
26s t 0265 3d for the former, and 31s to 32s 6d for the latter descrip-
tion.—A large parcel of Philadelphia Quercitron Bark was put up to
auction, but withdrawn for want of bidders ; about 50 hhds New
York and Baltimore Bark have been disposed of at 2ls to 23s.—The
business done in Flaxseed, for sowing, has been confined to small
sales of New York, at the quotations.—A small lot of East India
Linseed brought 44s 6d per quarter.—No alteration in Cloverseed.—
Hides. The sales this week are extensive, and at fair prices ; about
32,000 East India Kips have been sold by auction, at 12Ad to 12:1,d for
sound dry salted, 93d to lld for sound brined and dry salted, lid to
9d for Ist rvbqed, 6.1 d to did for second rubbed, 72d to 8d for sound
dry and common brined, 63d to nd for Ist rubbed, and aid to 63d
for 2d rubbed, 870 Buffalo Hides at 43d to sd, 2600 salted Monte Video
at 43-d to sd, Igoo dry salted Brazil at 53d to Sad, and 260 salted
Savanilla at 4d per lb.—Tobacco. The sales this week amount to at
least 180 hhds. of which 90 were for Ireland, and 40 for Scotland.
nearly the whole leaf, and at very full rates, but in quotations we do
not make any change.
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