The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-20 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, AUGUST 17.

The salesof Sugar this week are limited to 500 hhds 8.P., but the
market is extremely steady, and full prices have been obtained for
all descriptions. 600 bags Manritius sold at 66s per cwt., and 3500
bags of Bengal have been taken at 68s to 68s 61 per cwt. for good
white. There has been a good demand for Foreign Sugar this week;
a cargo, to arrive, of 200 cases and 500 brls brown Pernams have
been sold at 22s per cwt. all round, supposed to be on speculation,
and 80 cases good brown Bahias, for refining, at the same rate ; goo
bags Manilla have also been disposed of at 20s to 20s 3d, and 300
bags damaged at Iss gd to I7s per cwt.—The quantity of Molasses
offering on the market is very small, and the sales are confined to
110 puns Demerara, from the quay, at 345, and a small lot of Antigua
at 35s per cwt. ; 300 puns of the latter, just arrived, will be on sale
next week.—Coffee. The sales of Plantation comprise only 120
casks of Jamaica, consisting chiefly of ordinary qualities, which
brought steady ; the finer sorts are at present in limited request ; 70
bags Demerara were sold at the quotations.—No sales in Cocoa or
Pimento, but 30 brls Jamaica Ginger sold at 75s to 79s for ordinary
quality, and 500 bags black Pepper at 4d to 4id per lb.—ln Rice the
sales are only a small lot of fair Bengal, at 15s, in bond.—The tran-
sactions in Rum have been confined to a small parcel of good Ja-
maica, 33 0.P., at 6s sd, and 50 puns Demerara, 34 to 39 O.P. at
6s 3d to 6s 4d; 28 butts, 20 hhds East India at 4s to 4s 7d for 28 to
33 0.P., and 15 pipes Havannah, underproof, at 2s.
There is nothing to report in Indigo beyond 10 chests, at former
rates.—At public sale a few chests of Gum Animi brought .e 4 2s 6d
to £6 5s ; Shell Lac 63s to 645, and Lac Dye lld to is 4d. and very
low quality at 6d per lb.—There has been more doing in Saltpetre
and Nitrate of Soda; the sales of the former amount to 2400 bags,
at 25s 6d to 27s 6d, and 600 of the latter at 14s 9d from the ship, and
lss 6d in store.

There has been rather more demand for Logwood, and about 300
tons of Campeachy have been sold, at .€9 17$ 6d to £lO, and 100
tons of Jamaica at £8 2s 6d to £8 10s. Fustic has been sold at a
considerable reduction; in the early part of the week 40 tons of
Savanilla sold at £9 los, subsequently 110 tons, at auction, only
brought .e 8 per ton; a few tons of Cuba at £l3; in other kinds of
Woods little has been done.—Upwards of 3000 brls of Turpentine,
of fair quality, have been sold this week, at 11s to lis Id, and 300
brls of American Tar at 15s 6d.—There has been an extensive in-
quiry for new Montreal Pot Ashes, and the sales have been large,
at 24s to 24s 6d, which is a slight improvement in price, and at these
rates the market is firm ; Montreal Pearl Ashes are dull, at the
quotations.—ln Quercitron Bark the sales are confined to a few
hhds Philadelphia, at 14s 6d to 15s, and of New York at 14s per cwt.
—Bees' Wax goes of pretty freely at present quotations ; 81
packages East India sold at £5 15s to £6 12s 6d per cwt. in bond,
and 35 bales of Foreign, also in bond, at £5 10s per cwt.—No altera-
tion in Flaxseed or Cloverseed.—Hides. The market continues
steady, at full prices; 12,700 salted Monte Video have been sold at
40 to 40, 1000 dry at 70 to 80, low West India at 4d to 50, 1000
brined East India Kips at 8d for sound and 6d to 70 per lb for
rubbed.—Tobacco continues extremely inactive.
For Brimstone there has been a better demand than for some
weeks past, and the sales have reached 300 tons, at steady prices.—
No sales worthy of notice are reported in Sumac, Argols or Cream
of Tartar ; about 20 casks common brown Tartar have been sold
within the range of the quotations.—The demand for both Madders
and Madder Roots has been limited, and no sales of consequence
have been made.—Olive Oil has been in more request, and rather
higher rates have been paid for Portugal, with an advance ti fully
40s per tun on Trieste ; the sales of the weck have been upwards of
100 tuns, principally of Lisbon, at X 47 per tun for good, and propor-
tionate rates for inferior quality.—A further advance has been
realized on Pale Seal Oil, and some sales made at £29 per tun ; for
Cod Oil there continues a very trifling demand; the price, however,
remains steady.=-Seed Oils more inquired for, and some' consider-
able sales have been 'effected in both Linseed and Pale Rape.—A
very limited business has again been done in Palm Oil.—For Oil of
Turpentine there is a fair inquiry.—In Hemp the sales have been
unimportant; 300 bales Jute sold from £ll to £ll 15s per ton.—
Dutch Flax is inquired for, but other descriptions are without de-
mand.—There has been a steady demand for Tallow at former
prices.