The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-01 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR

The average price of brown or Muscovado sugar, computed from
the returns made in the week ending Aug. 25, is 585 Id per
hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable
thcreou ou the importation thereof into Great Britain

Dyewood.—There has been a fair demand for all Dyewoods this
week ; the sales are 350 tons Campeachy Logwood at .E 9 7s 6d to
455, 150 tons Honduras and Jamaica at £7 2s 6d to £7 58 ; 80
tons Savanilla Fustic at x's los to £5 15s, 100 tons Carthagena at
£4 !Os, a few tons St. Domingo at .0, and 90 tons Cuba at £lO to
£lO les ; 80 tons solid Nicaragua Wood at £9 108 to £l2, 30 tons
Limam Wood at £l4 les to £l5 12s 6d; 10 tons Camwood at £25
per ton. The sales of Turpentine amount to about goo brls., prin-
cipally at lis4d to Ils 5d for fair quality. Tar without alteration,
but in good demand. Montreal Pot Ashes have advanced 3d to 6d
per cwt., 26s having been paid in some instances for the new im-
ports ; 23s has been given for the brand of 1839. Pearl Ashes
are exceedingly dull at 30s, although that price has been obtained
for some parcels. Hides.—Several Parcels of dry Ox and Cow
Hides, suitable for export, were brought to auction last Friday, the
whole of which sold briskly at advanced rates ; 4700 Valparasio
brought 7id to 83d, for sound dry and brined, 74d to 7id for wormed
and damp, 71(1 to 7/(1 for sound dry salted, and lid to lid for (lamp ;
500 dry Bahia 81d for sound, and (iiel to 7i(l for wormed, 500 dry
salted, 6d for sound; 260 dry Grenada, 7id for Ist class; 640 dry
and brined Savanilla, Sid for sound, and 70 to 7id for Ist wormed
and damaged; and 500 dry salted Bombay Kips Ind per lb. for
sound. Tobacco.—The sales during the month reach 250 Mids., of
which 95 were Virginia leaf and 150 stemmed. 80 Kentucky leaf and
205 stemmed; of these so Mids., were taken for Ireland, 120 for
export, and the remainder by Manufacturers. In prices there is
little alteration ; several parcels of recent imports have been sold,
and being of better quality than was remaining of the old, have
realized proportionately higher prices. The import for the month
has been 1500 hhds., but the stock is greatly deficient as compared
with previous years, being now 3100 hhds. against 8000 in mg.
There continues to be a moderate consumptive demand for Brim-
stone, at steady prices; the sales of the week have been about 80
tons Several parcels of Verona and Trieste Sumac have been
offered at the public sales, but all withdrawn, there being no dis •
position to bid. Sicily goes off heavily, and at barely sustained
prices. Rather more business has been done in Argols and Tartar ;
60 casks of Oporto Argot sole at 325, and parcels of Florence white
at 485. Of Cream of Tartar the sales have bee), 10 to 15 casks,
including a parcel from Lisbon, sold at 70s, and fine Venetian at 82,
of brown Tartar about 15 casks, at .528 per cwt. A few casks
of flag Annato brought Is per lb, and about 100 sacks Turkey
Galls his for white, up to 68s to 72s per cwt. for blue. Persian
Berries are in fair request. There has not been much demand for
Madders or Roots, and the transactions are confined to small
parcels, at previous rates. 20 bids. of Philadelphia Bark sold at
12s for 2nd, and 14s for Ist quality. There has been rather more
done in Olive Oil than for some weeks past, and prices have been
firmly supported; the principal sales have been in Spanish, of
which about 50 tuns have been taken, besides small parcels of
Trieste, Corfu and Leghorn, &c. ; a few tuns Lisbon at 453 per tun.
In Fish Oils about 30 tuns pale Seal at £3l 10s, 40 tuna Cod at
£27 10s, and 10 tuns Southern Whale, of good quality, at £2B, arc
the only sales reported by private treaty; about 95 tuns Southern
Oil were offered to-day at public auction, of which 20 tuns were
sold £27 Ins for second, and £26 15s for third quality; the re-
mainder withdrawn. Seed Oils may be considered without altera-
tion ; for pale Rape the demand is limited, and Linseed has again
sold at Sys per cwt. Oil of Turpentine is dull of sale, without the
least change in price. About 360 Rape Oil (part for early arrival)
have been sold at £37 105 to £'37 12s 6d, but £3B is generally
demanded. 15 tons Petersburglt clean Hemp have realized £4O
per ton, and 400 bales Jute £l2 10s ; for the latter article a good
inquiry continues. Tallow has remained steady, and in the early
part of the week new Pctersburgh yellow Candle realized 545, but
the demand has since a little subsided; a few casks Trieste Tallow
were sold at 48s, and some small lots of South American at the
quotations.