The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-21 00:00:00

to arrive, were sold at 745, o bags Penang, on the spot, at 695, aid
and 2000 bags Brazil, via Cape, have also *cently been disposed of
at good rates, the exact prices not havhig transpired. Nothing

done in Foreign.-200 bag's ordinary Malabar Ginger sold at 13s per
'cwt., and MD bags black Pepper at Sid to 4id per lb.—Nothing
done in Cocoa or Pimento.—There is more demand for Rice, W. (1
2500 bags have been sold, at 145 to 15s for good to tine white Bengal.
—The sales of Rum amount to 120 puns good and tine Demerara,
at 5s 3d to Is Bd, and common Leewards, 3 to 10 O.Y. at 3s 4d to
Ss 6d per gallon,
There has been a good demand throughout the week for tea, and

the sales have been considerable; consisting principally of common
and good Congous and Twankays, taken chiefly by the Trade,lat
our quotations; for other kinds there is not much inquiry. The
market has closed with much firmness, and prices have rather an
upward tendency.
The public sales have consisted of 600 chests Shell Lac, 83 of Lac
Dye, 220 bags Seed Lac, 1421 Stick Lac, 320 chests East India Gum
Arabic, 10 of Olibanum, 20 of Gum Animi, 290 bags Kutch, 170
packages packages Tincal, 600 of Turmeric, and 1885 bags of Salt-
petre, but the following articles only found buyers; viz. 122 chests
Shell Lac, at 35s for ordinary block liver, to 70s for good orange;
34 chests Lac Dye, at 8d to is led; 200 bags Seed Lac at 17s; 117
chests Gum Arabic, at 125 to 283 6d for siftings, and 45s to 50s for
good quality; 9 chests Guns Anhui, at £3 175 6d to .4.5 12s lid; 10
of 011banutn, at 35s ; 600 bags Turmeric, at 30s, and a few bags of
Saltpetre, at 265.-37 serons Cochineal, (all faults,) brought 4s sd to
5s 3d for silver, and 6s for blacks, and by private treaty 9 serous of
sound sold at 4s red to 5s 4d per lb for silver, and 6s blacks.—Ni-
trate of Soda. 50 tons sold at 17s 3d to 17s 9d.
For Logwood the demand has been extensive; 450 tons Cam-
peachy sold £9 to £9 15s, 170 toes St. Domingo. Honduras, and
Jamaica ..t7 15s to ss; 20 tons Angola Barwood at .e 8 10s.
Nothing to report in Fustic, except a few tons Cuba at .tll 15s per
toss. A cargo of 150 tons Lima Nicaragua Wood sold, but the price
has not transpired; a few tons of Sapan Wood, at £l2 17s tid to
.t'l4 per ton.—There is very little alteration in the state of the
Turpentine market; 1700 to x'lBoo brls have been sold, at Ils tid to
Ils 8d per cwt.—No sales reported in Tar.—For Montreal Pot Ashes
there is rather an improved demand, several small parcels having
realized 235 9d to 243, though the principal sales, consisting of 200
to 306 brls have been made at 23s 6d. A few Montreal Pearl Ashes
have been sold at 295 per cwt.---There are no sales of Cloverseed to
report.—For Flaxseed, for crushing, there is a fair demand, 800
quarters East India brought 42s per quarter from the quay, and a
small parcel of the same description, in store, sold at 463, and 250
quarters Riga at 43s.—About 25 chests East India Bees' Wax sold at
lOs to £7 17s 6d per cwt. in bond.—Hides. The transactions
are limited to 320 inferior dry salted Ceara at Sid, 100 Lima at 74d,
8200 East India Kips at 114 d for sound dry salted, 84d for Ist
rubbed, 94d for sound brined, lid to lid for Ist rubbed, and 62c1 to
qd for 2nd rubbed, 1250 Sincapore at 42d to 4id for Ist class, and
400 Buffaloes at 4d per lb.—Tobacco. The sales have been con-
fined to 80 hhds. of which about 30 were for Ireland, and the re-
mainder to the Trade.