The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL *MARKET, AUG. 31.
The demand for Sugar continues limited, but holders are very
firm, and the sales amount to 7501ihds 8.P., at very steady prices.
There is still a good inquiry for East India, and 3300 hags of Ben-
gal have changed hands at an improvement of 6d to is per cwt ; 800
bags Mauritius have also been disposed of at previous rates. The
demand for Foreign Sugar continues limited.—Molasses very dull,
and nothing doing in the article.—Coffee. The market for British
Plantation remains without any alteration ; the sales consist of 180
tees Jamaica, 20 tcs and 20 brls Trinidad, and 20 tees, 100 bags and
brls Demerara, chiefly by private, at about former prices, excepting
a few lots of unclean, which went rather lower.-40 bags Brazu
Cocoa sold at the quotations.—Nothing done in Ginger, Pepper or
Pimento.—Rice in good demand, at improving prices ; the sales are
3400 bags Bengal at 17s 6d to 19s 6d, and 60 tees dressed Carolina at
38s.—The operations in Rum have been confined to 210 puns of
choice quality and favourite marks, viz Demerara 4s 10d, and Ja-
maica 5s 10 to 5s 6d per gallon.
A few chests of Bengal Indigo have been sold at prices ranging
from 5s 7d to 6s 40 per lb, and 60 chests Shell Lac at 68s to 1255.
East India Gum Arabic, of fair quality, has realized 43s and sift-
ings 285.-70 chests of Lac Dye are reported, prinelpally at 10d,
but for a few chests 3 Nl' R Is 20 has been obtained—The transac-
tions in Saltpetre barely reach 500 bags; prices are, however, very
firm.—Nitrate of-Soda is inquired for, and sales have been made at
lls 6d.

The demand for Campeachy Logwood Dyewood has been steady,
and 150 tons sold at £l2, and about 40 tons Jamaica and St. Do-
mingo at £8 12s 6d to £9 per ton ; a cargo of Cuba Fustic, recently
arrived, was offered at public sale, and only 25 tons sold at £lO 10s,
with 40 of Savanilla at £6 2s 6d to £0 Os ; 20 tons Lima Nicaragua
Wood, in small lots, at the quotations, and 10 of Camwood at £l9
per ton.—The. demand for Turpentine is regular, but not brisk ;
about 3000 barrels have been sold atlls 3d to Ils 7d from tho quay,
and at I Is 9d for a parcel in store ; some Foreign Spirits of Turpen-
tine, which have been imported from London, have been admitted
to entry for home-use, at a duty of 26s 2d per cwt. which the trade
consider injurious to their own manufacture, and have therefore
applied to Government for an alteration in this duty.—No sales in
American Tar ; of Archangel a small lot has been sold at 16s.—
There has been a very animated demand for Montreal Pot Ashes,
and upwards of 700 brls have found bufers, chiefly on speculation,
at 27s 6d to 28s, with a few at 28s 6d!; of Montreal Pearl Ashes about
200 brls have been sold at 32s 6d for old, and 331 to 33s tid for new
brands.—Some small sales have been made in Quercitron Bark, at
former rates.—No alteration in Flaxseed or Cloverseed. —Hides.
The public sales of yesterday went off with spirit, at rather higher
prices ; 900 dry Buenos Ayres brought 71d to 81,1'3601 salted 51t1 to
68d. 150 dry salted Brazil sid per lb, and s'lo salted Buenos Ayres
Horse 12s 3d to 12s 4d each. —The sales of TobaccO during the
month amount to about 657 hhds, of which 216 hhds were Virginia
leaf and 15J stemmed, 138 ',ids Kentucky leaf and 153 stemmed ;
90 hhds leaf and 36 stemmed were taken for Ireland, 70 hhds Vir-
ginia and the Kentucky leaf for exportation, and the remainder by
the home-trade.

For Brimstone there continues to be only a moderate demand,
the advanced prices having restricted the purcheers from taking
supplies beyond their immediate wants; the sales of the week
have amounted to about 2t.0 tons, at £9 5s for inferior, £9 lOs for
good, and £lO per ton fora parcel of best quali;y.—Some parcels
of tine Sieily Sumac have been cleared off the market, and the
prices have become rather firmer.—Argols and Cream of Tartar
have been neglected.—There has been a partial inquiry for Mad-
r Roots, but few sales made ; and for Madders the recent demand
has nearly subsided.—Olive Oil continues in good demand, at full
prices; the sales of the week have reached 70 to 80 tuns.—A fur-
ther advance has been realized upon pale Seal Oil, about 60 tuns
having been sold at £36, and the fame price since refused ; holders
looking with confidence Inc higher prices. £37 is now required,
but has not yet been obtained ; for Cod Oil there has also been
more inquiry, but no sales of moment effected.—Some little im-
provement has taken place in the price of Rape Oil, but the demand
is limited; 46s has been paid for pale ; Linseed Oil has been in good
request, and considerable business has been done at 28s 6d per cwt
6d to Is advance is now required.—The transactions in Palm Oil
have this week been very extensive, for present and forward de-
livery ; upwards of 16..0 tons have been sold. chiefly to arrive, at
prices varying according to the period when the vessels are ex-
pected ; for immediate deliver•, prices have ranged from £42 lOs
to £43 5s per ton, and nearly the same rates have been realized for
the cargoes next expected to arrive ; holders are now very firm at
the highest quotation. Oil of Turpentine is again lower, and the
demand limited.—Hemp continues saleable at the quotations ; 100
hales of Jute brought the advanced price of £l3 per ton.
The market early in the week rapidly recovered froln the slight
depression noticed in the last week's report, and the sales of yellow
candle have been extensive, both for Tallow on the spot and to
arrive, at from 49s to 51s per cwt; the price is now steady at 51s,
and most holders require 51s 6d. A parcel of Buenos Ayres Tal-
low of fair quality sold at 47s from the ship's side.