The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STAAPARD.

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LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL MARKET, DEC. 24.
Sugar.-The market continues steady, with a good demand,
particulvrly for strong brown descriptions, which are scarce,
and the sales are 300 hhds. British Plantation at full prices, and
3,600 bags Bengal, at rather easier rates -Foreign.-The sales
of the week are 35 cases Mace* chiefly low brovin, at 148. per
cwt., 617 boxes brown and yellow Havana, at from 375. 6d. to
425. 3d. per cwt., duty paid, and 150 hhds. Porto Rico at from
355. to 398.-The business in West India Molasses is trifling;
a parcel of Mauritius brought 17s. per cwt.-Coffee.-The
market shows no improvement, and, at auction, 70 tierces
Jamaica were sold at a decline of 2s. to 38. per cwt. Of Foreign
the sales are' 1,300 bags Costa Rico (about two-thirds sea da-
maged) at 30s. 6d. to 335. 6d. for pale ordinary sound, and
15s. 6d. to 295. for damaged; 400 bags good and fine ordinary
Laguayra at 325. to 355., and 300 bags St. Domingo at 28s. per
cwt.-100 bags black Pepper sold at 22d. per lb., and a small
lot of Jamaica Ginger at 555. per cwt.-No sales of Cocoa or
Pimento.-Rice.-200 tierces Carolina brought 19s. 6(1. to
20s. 6d., and 6,000 bags Bengal Bs. 9d. to 9s. 3d. for yellow cargo,
9s. 9d. for small broken, and 12s. 6d. to 14s. 6d. per cwt. for
middling to fine white.-The sales are chiefly of East India,
of which 220 casks have been sold at Is. 70. to Is. Bd. for proof
strength.

TEX.—Business to a fair extent has been done in both Black
and Green Tea, at previous prices, with the exception of the
new seasoned Congous, which may be quoted Id. to 2d. per
lower.
30 chests of Indigo have been disposed of at 2s. Id. for Ben-
gal, and Is. 9d. for Kurpah.—About 70 chests of Shell Lac
have been sold at rather lower prices, and 70 chests Gum Ara-
bic at 13s. for small, up to 495. for fair bold, with one lot of

155.-Small sales in Gambier at Ils. to 1 ls. 64., and N bags
Sago Flour on lower terms.-50 slabs Straits' Tin sold at 78s.
per cwt., 100 hales of Senna, ordinary at slid. to 2d., and
good at 30. per lb., and 30 cases of Castor Oil at sd. to sid.
-About 500 bags Saltpetre brought .28s. 64. to 295., and
East India refined 31s. 6d. per cwt.-Nitrate of Soda remains

without change, and CO ton; sold.
GUANO.-600 tons of Patagonian and S
been disposed of at .t 1 15s. to .e 3 per ton.

aldanha Bay have

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE

During the week the trade have again bout
but the recent import of the new crop of Am
to be freely offered, prices of the better qual
declined *d. per lb., whilst in the middling in
tions little change can be noticed. Some fort

T. DEC. 24.
;ht to a fair extent,

lerican continuing-
ities have further
ml, lower descrip-

have been inadeat a considerable reduction
on reference to the altered quotations. No
taken place in Egyptian ; and Surat is in g,
vious rates. Exuorters have taken C5O Amr

as will be observed
fecided change has
)d demand at pre-
_ _ _

hazg of Spa Iraq nri will ho affpr-pri'h-;571/41‘;;;

inthe.6thDroxiMo,

ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORT
For the week ending Dec. 24,

OF COTTON,
--

Prices paic
,in the ',Neel

SALES OF THE WEEK

Imports
This WkiThis Yr

100 Sea Island
40 Stained ...
4370 Bowed Georgia • 3
Q,, f Mobile 3l
2,1 1 Alabama and Tennessee 4
8350 New Orleans 3
280 4
t
Pernambuco & Paraiba 0
Aracati and Ceara
910 Bahiaaanhndallnllyceio
1 i‘ira
160
I. Sawginned.. . , 4
.... Minas —
.... Para —
20 Demerara, Surinam, &c 5/
360 Egyptian 6 8
.... Barbadoes —
.... Peruvian
.... Bahama I
• ... Laguayra
.... Common West India, &c —
.... Carthagena - --
.... Smyrna -
.... Manilla
3150 Surat
.... Madras
.4.. Bengal

@ 18
6
4
4
4,
6

1, 3251 301363
} 1907 517354

} 18511 33814

40994
....

I 640
20667

.... 1 4283
1

I 120543

520 bales,

12796' 1072560

parcels of Laid

ke following is the
s. d. s. d.
5 6 to 6 3
6 9 to 7 6
8 6 to 9 3
9 0 to 9 6
8 0 to 9 6
8 6 tolo 6
8 6 toll 0
11 6 tOl5 6

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