The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Bcc.
Helen Stewart, D Stewart, 419 Manilla, Bold & Starkey
Win. Lockerby, 334 Calcutta, Imrie & Tomlinson

WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Royal Mint, W Seawright, 309 Jamaica, J B Yates & Co
Rochdale, T Shepherd, 191 St. Vincent, J Cropper
'SOUTH AMERICA.
Thomas Battersby, J Leitch, 323 Santa Martha and Carthagena,
J Poole Sc Co

There is a very good demand for Sugar, and in consequence of
the proposed additional duty and unfavourable accounts received
of the probable deficiency of the crop, holders have obtained a fur-
ther advance of Is to 2s per cwt. and the sales of D.P. amount to
750 hhds. 4200 bags of good to fine white Bengal have also been
taken, at 74s 3d to 75s per cwt No sales in Mauritius. 26 cases
and 80 brls Brazil Sugar are reported, at 20s to 22s for brown, and
23s 6d for ordinary white, and 72 hhds Cayenne, at 20s 6d to 22s per
cwt. Bonded Refined-30 hhds Crushed were taken at 34s 6d per
cwt.—The arrivals of Molasses has not transpired.—Coffee. The
demand for Plantation is very limited, the Trade being reluctant to
purchase, except at a considerable reduction in prices ; the sales
are to a moderate extent, and consist of 60 casks Jamaica, at a de-
cline, in most instances, of 2s to 3s per cwt. Of Foreign, a small
parcel of Laguayra was sold at 52s per cwt.—Nothing done in Co.
coa or Ginger; but 100 bags of Pimento sold at 21e1 and 700 bags
of black Pepper at sjd to :rid per lb.-100 bags Bengal Rice sold at
14s, and a small lot of dressed Carolina at the quotations.—No sales
are reported in Rum.
During the week tire Tea market has been very heavy, and little
or no business dole by private contract, and to eflect sales a de-
cline in price must be submitted to, say Id to 2d per lb on black,
and Id per lb on green. At the sale on Wednesday, consisting of
689 packages of good and fine Congou, 168 found buyers, at 2s 4:1
to 2s 6d for cash on Saturday. The additional duty of 5 per cent.
chargeable on Teas from the 15th instant, may partly account for
the reduction, but the general dulness of the market arises princi-
pally from the want of information respecting the progress of ship-
ments at Canton, and the uncertainty of the amount of supply
likely to be received during the year.
Several public sales were attempted of Shell Lac, Safflower, and
other East India Produce on Wednesday last, but without success,
and the market remains dull.—A few chests of good consuming In-
digo sold at 6s to 6s 2d per lb. 16 serons of silver Cochineal at 4s 3d
to 4s 6d, 2000 bags of Saltpetre, chiefly at 25s for good, with small
parcels at 22s 6d to 26s per cwt.—Of Nitrate of Soda, 600 bags were
sold at 175 to 17s 6d per cwt.
The sales of Logwood are only 20 tons Campeachy, at .€lO to
£lO 10s, and 100 tons Honduras and Jamaica, at €7 to .€7 15s ; 65
tons Cuba Fustic sold at £6 to .€lO ss, 170 tons Savanilla and Ma-
racaibo at .W 4 17s 641 to £5 lOs; 60 tons inferior Lima Nicaragua
Wood, the price of which has not transpired ; 20 tons Red Sanders
Wood at £8 2s 6d to .4'B 10s, and 25 tons Barwood at .€6 lOs per
ton.—There are no sales of Turpentine to report this week, but
prices remain unaltered.—ln Tar also there have been no transac-
tions.—There has been a moderate demand for Pot Ashes, several
parcels of the brand of 1838 having been taken at 235, and at 24$ 3d
for those of 1839 ; for a few 24s 6d has been obtained. Pearl Ashes
go off slowly, at 3is to 31s 6d per cwt.—The only transaction in
Bees' Wax consists of a few cases of American at .€8 per cwt. in
bond.—There is no alteration in the price of Linseed ; 228 sacks and
420 pockets East India have been disposed of at 44s per quarter,
duty paid, from the quay.—Hides. Salted Monte Video Ox and
Cow continue dull, but East India Kips have again brought extreme
prices ; 5000 dry salted sold at auction on Tuesday at l2jd to 13d
for sound light, 10id to Ilifd for Ist rubbed, 11 id for sound heavy,
and Sid to 9id for Ist rubbed; 150 salted New York Hides sold in
the early part of the week at 4kd per lb, but this price cannot now
be obtained.—Tobacco. The market had been extremely fiat, only
about 60 hhls having been sold at the quotations.
The demandlor Brimstone has been confined to small parcels for
immediate consumption, without any material change in prices,
though in some instances at a shade lower.—No sales worthy of
notice have been reported in any description of Sumac.—Large
parcels of Argols, both red and white, have been offered by auction
this week, but no sales were effected. and scarcely any thing done
since by private treaty.—Cream of Tartar has become dull of sale,
owing to supplies arriving.—A few casks of flag Annatto have been
sold at I s per lb.—Valonia has been dull of sale : f 0 tons of good
Smyrna, offered at public sale, were disposed of at £l7, and 10 tons
Camata at .€lB per ton.—The transactions in Madder Roots this
week are confined to 100 bales damaged Turkey, at 19s to 445, and
in Madder, 20 bags Spanish at 40s, and 100 barrels of better quali-
ties at 42s to 52s 6(1 per cwt.—Only a moderate business has been
done in Olive Oil, the total sales being about 50 tuns, and with the
exceptic n of lu tuns fine Lisbon, sold at .€53, prices have ruled ra-
ther lower this week.—ln Fish Oils the business is limited to a few
trifling sales of Cod at .€26 lOs to .€27, and a sale of new Seal Oil,
to arrive, reported to have been made a little under the present
quotation.—Pale Rape Oil is still comparatively neglected, but Lin-
seed Oil is rather dearer, with sellers only to a limited extent.—More
inquiry has appeared for Oil of Turpentine, but no business of mo.
ment actually done, the Distillers showing no anxiety to sell at the
present rates.—Abont 100 tons Palm Oil ,have been sold in small
lots, chiefly at £35 105, but part rather lower.—ln Flax and Hemp
there is little to report, except in Jute, the demand for which has
been good, and 1620 bales sold at .t 11 105 to £l2, but nearly the
whole at the latter price.—Tallow has been in fair demand, at steady
prices ; Odessa selling in quantity at 495, and Petersburg yellow
Candle, in small parcels, at 49s 6d to 49s 94 per cwt. On Saturday
last, about 270 pipes and a few serons South American Tallow were
offered by auction, the greater part of which sold at 45s to 46s 9d
for good colour and firm, and fine Grease at 435 6il per cwt. being a
little decline upon previous sales.