The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-03 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, JUNE 29.

The demand for Sugar continues very limited, and the sales o
13. P. are under 400 hhds, at prices barely supporting the last quota-
tions. 2000 bags Mauritius and 1500 bags Bengal have also been dis-
posed of. without material alteration. The sales in Foreign Sugar
are 500 bags Lima and 100 brls yellow Paraiba, without alteration
in prices.-100 puns of Demerara Molasses, of middling quality,
have been sold at 27s per cwt.—Coffee. The transactions in Plan-
tation have been confined to 80 casks of Jamaica and 20 casks De-
merara, for which extreme rates were realized. Nothing done in
Foreign.—lu Cocoa, Ginger or Pimento nothing has been done ; but
100 bags black Per, ?er, of good quality, sold at 41d per lb.-900 bags
East India .have been sold at 13s in bond, and 15 tces of dressed
Carolina it Us per cwt duty paid.—Rum continues in demand, and
upwards of 300 puns have been taken by the trade, chiefly strong
Demerara, at 4s 10 to 4s 40 per gallon.
Scarcely any thing has been done in East India Drysaltery Arti-
cles. About 1500 bags of Nitrate of Soda have been taken at the
quotations.

-n consequence of the large operations in Ca mpeachy Logwood
last week, our prices have improved ; about 280 tons sold at £8 15s
to £8 17s 6d, and much higher rates are now demanded; 15 tons
Honduras sold at £8 2s 6d, and 120 Jamaica at £7 lOs to £7 15s ; 2 0
tons Savanilla Fus tic sold £5 10s, and Cuba has reached £lO lOs for
good wood ; sm all sales made in Nicaragua Wood and Barwood, at
steady prices.—The sales of Turpentine are confined to 300 brls of
middling quality at 138.—A small parcel of 100 brls of American
Tar has been sold at the advanced rate of 18s Gd per barrel.—Mon-
treal Pot and Pearl Ashes remain dull and in limited request, at
previous quotations.—Quercitron Bark is in fair request at the
quotations.—Hides. There has been very little doing, except in
East India, which brought high prices ; 7200 Kips having been sold
at 94d to 101 d for so undtwined and dry salted, and rubbed in pro-
portion ; 1600 Calcutta Buffaloes also brought 4d to 41d, and 380
dry salted Lima 51d per lb.—Tobacco has been in moderate demand
during the month, and the sales consist of 260 hhds Virginia leaf,
and 262 hhds stemmed ; of these 170 Virginia, and 58 Mitts Ken-
tucky leaf, with 47 hhds Virginia and Kentucky stemmed were for
exportation ; 50 hhds Virginia leaf and 40 hhds stemmed for Ire-
land ; 100 hhds Kentucky stemmed for re-sale, and the remainder
to the home-trade, at steady prices.
There has been a moderate demand for Brimstone, and the sales
have amounted to about 500 tons, chiefly in parcels to the trade,
who have bought more freely than for some time past. The business
done in Sumac limited, at prices rather below the previous cur-
rency.—Several parcels of Oporto and Lisbon Argots have been
offered at public sale, but all withdrawn, the business done in these
as well as other descriptions has been small.-,Cream of Tartar and
brown Tartar continue scarce and wanted.—Madders and Madder
Roots are still neglected.—The demand for Olive Oil has been in
limited request without change in prices worthy of notice.—About
30 tuns of the new import of pale Seal Oil have been disposed of at
£32 15s per tun from the quay, part is warehousing for higher rates ;
some small sales of Cod have also been effected at about the prices
quoted.—ln Seed Oil little has been done, and prices remain steady.
—Six vessels having arrived here this week from Africa with Palm
Oil, the price has receded about 40s per ton, and at the decline littl
business done.—Oil of Turpentine is in steady demand.—ln Hemp
no sales to report ; there has appeared more inquiry for Jute, and
about 700 bales have been sold at £ll to £ll los per ton, a consi-
derable part at the latter price.—We continue to experience a steady
demand for Tallow at rather improving prices.