The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 13.
The demand for B. P. Sugar still continues to be confined to the bet.
ter descriptions, of which. 600 hhds have been taken; without change
in price. 3500 bags Bengal sold, at. 53s for very. low brown, 62s fid to
65s 6d for low to fine white, and 67s for extra. ,fine. 1100 bags Mauritius
sold at the quotations. The only sale wehave .to notice in Foreign
Sugar is 50 cases and 100 brls of fine white Brazil at 35s per cwt.—No
transactions in Molasses.—Coffee. The market is allhost bare of Plan-
tation, and there are no sales of any mo eat to report. • Nothing done:
in Foreign.-600 bags. Bengal Ginger have been sold at 255, and u small
lot of Pimento at 3id per lb.—Nothing done in Cocoa or Pepper.---40
tcs of dressed Carolina, Rice have have, been sold at 3is per ewt. duty
paid, and 500 bags of fine Bengal at I4s 6(1 per cwt, in bond.—The
sales of •Rum are limited to 5,, puns of Demerara, at 3s 3d for low
'strengths, and 4s 44 to 4s 9d per gallon for favourite marks,
Nola°. On •Wednesday, 40 chests of Bengal sold at very full prices,
but for 50 chests Oude holders took rather lower rates.—Of 1100 chests
of Shell Lac offered, about 700 sold, at 62s for'hard block up to £6 5s
for good orange.-60 chests of Lac Dye sold, diamond lat 313 d to 3s
4d, down as low as 10d pei lb for ordinary kinds.-60 chests of Gum
: Arabic. 9 of Animi, 360 bags of Stick Lac and 20 of Seed Lac were
sold at steady prices.—A small. parcel of East India Bees' Wax went
up to £8 per cwt.—The sales in Saltpetre and Nitrate of Soda have
bean trifling.
About 300 tons of Campeachy Logwood sold at..£B 108 for ordinary,
up to £9 for good ; the transactions in other kinds of Dyewoods have
been very limited, but without change.—The demand for Turpentine
continues regular, and 13s to 13s 6d has been given for 780 brls of fair,
but not good quality.—Nothing new in American Tar.—Montreal Pot
Ashes are dull and lower; 28s has been accepted in several instances,
lint the principal holders require 29s ; some small parcels of Montreal
Pearl Ashes have been sold at 32s 6d per cwt.—The only sale reported'
, in Flaxseed is 100 hhds New York, branded 1826. at 548 per hhd Lin-
seed is held rather more firmly.—Qwereitron Bark continues in limited
request.—Hides. No sales of moment have taken place this week,
but the market continues steady.—The businessin Tobacco this week
has been,very limited.
The demand for Brimstone, continues as limited as for some time
past, but prices remain without alteration.--Sicily Sumac continues to
find buyers at the previous rates; for other sorts the demand is con-
fined
to small parcels.—A fair business continues to be done in Atgols,
but most deScriptions remain ,searce.—Cream of Tartar is much in-
quired for, and there is no stock here.—Madders and Madder Roots
are neglected.—Olive Oil , remains dud of sale, without any change in
value worthy of notice.—ln Fish Oils, we are not aware of any sales
this week ; holders of Newfoundland Cod ask higher rates, in conse-
quence of a further advance in the London Market.—Seed Oils re-
main dull of sale.—The arrival of a vessel with about 400 tons Palm
Oil has caused a reduction in the price of lOs to 15s per ton, and but
little business is doing.—The distillers have obtained a further advance
of 2s to Js per cwt on. Oil of .T,urpentine.--,Hernp. ,continues in good •
demand, and the stock of Baltic on the market being very trifling, our
highest quotations are readily obtained ; Bombay is dull of sale ; 120
bales Jute brought £l2 10s per ton.ln Tallow' little or nothing has
been done this week, and our reduced quotations are quite nominal.

LUVEKPOOL COTTON ik]
The sales to-day are 3,000 bags, and
The business of the week amounts to '2
taken on speculation, and 1,550 forexr
ACCOUNT OF SALES AND
Prnin the 6th inst. to
.thi.

MARKET, APRIL 12.
I the market has closed heavily.
20,5000 bags, of which 1,500 are
port.

AIPORTS OF COTTON,
day inclusive. •