The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-18 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, DEC. 14.

The demand for Sugar this week has been good, but confined
principally to the good and fine descriptions, which have been
taken readily by the Grocers at a furilter advance of Is to Is 6cl per
cwt. ; in other kinds there is not much alteration. The sales are
1500 hlids British Plantation ; together with 1600 bags low moist
brown Bengal. at 47s to 48s per cwt. to the refiners. Nothing done
in Mauritius. There continues to be a very fair inquiry for Foreign ;
80 cases Pernambuco offered by auction were sold at 20s Gd to 23s
for ordinary to good dry brown, and 25s to 30s 60 for middling to
fine white; also, by private. 30 cases Bahia brought 21s to 27s 6.1
per cwt.—The transactions in Molasses are limited to 50 puns of
Demerara, at 30s per cwt.—Coffee. There has been a more steady
demand for Plantation, and, the sales-amount to 160 casks of Ja-
maica, at previous rates ; several lots of fine middling and fine
realized 134 s to 140 s per cwt. No transactions in Foreign.-100
brls Jamaica Ginger sold at £4 is 6d to £.5 10s, and 21s 6d has been
offered and refused for good Malabar.-40 bags Pimento at 3d to 30,
and 500 bags black Pepper at 41d to 41d per lb.—Rice continues in
good request, but owing to the limited quantity in the market, the
sales are confined to 1500 bags of middling East India, at 19s per
cwt. :12 bags prepared at the Cossipore Mills, Calcutta, realized
265.-60 puns of Rum have been sold, chiefly Jamaica of fair
qualitt , 23 per cent. 0.P., at 4s lad, with a few common Leewards
at 3s 'id per gallon.
There is less inquiry for Indigo.—Small sales of Shell Lac and
Lac ,Dye are reported at very full prices.—Safflower has been in
better demand. and about 60 hales of Bengal disposed of at 50s to
85s.—Cochineal is more inquired for.-150 hales East India Senna
sold at 2d per lb.—Owing to the high prices asked for Saltpetre and
Nitrate of Soda. the sales are trifling this week.
Dyewoods.—The sales of Campeachy Logwood has been about
100 tons at £l5, and of Jamaica 140 tons at £ll 12s 6d to £l2 ss,
and 20 of St. Domingo at £l2 17s 6d to £l3 per ton ; in Fustic 20
tons of Cuba brought £l3, and 80 of Angola Barwood at £7 5s to
£8 per ton ; Gaboon is held for higher rates.—The Turpentine
market remains withoutalteration, no sales having been effec!ed.—
A cargo of Stockholm Tar, consisting of 1550 brls., has been sold at
16s Gd from the quay,—The demand for Montreal Pot and Pearl
Ashes has been very limited. at previous prices, and the market
continues dull.—Quercitron Bark continues in request; a fresh ar-
rival will be brought on the market in a few days, and the quota-
tions will then be established,—Nothing done in Cloverseed.—
Flaxseed is without alteration ; 730 quarters of Archangel sold at
Vs per quarter ; some small parcels of American Bees' Wax brought
£9 to £9 2s 6d per cwt. duty paid.—The sales of Hides to-day went
oil at very fair prices ; 1870 dry salted Ceara brought 61(1 to 6td,
829 wet salted 54d, 6(10 salted Monte Video Cow sirl, 200 Ox, in-
ferior, sild per lb. and 300 Horse Hides 13s Gd each.—Tobacco.
There has been an extensive inquiry since the commencement of
the month, and the sales amount to about 1300 hhds. ; of which 300
were Virginia leaf. 430 stemmed, and 50 Kentucky leaf and 510
sieinmed. About 404 ',Aids have been taken by speculators, and
the remainder by the home-trade, at higher prices, and we raise
our quotations accordingly.
There has been a moderate demand for Brimstone, and full prices
have been obtain, 0 for the few sales made during the week, con-
sisting of about 150 tons at £9 17s 6,1 to £lO per ton.—Nothing
worthy of notice has been done in Sumac, brown Tartar or Cream
of Tartar.—A parcel of 62 boxes Bologna white Argols sold at 48s
per cwt.—Madders of all descriptions have become scarce, and the
tew Madder Roots now on sale are generally held for higher prices
than buyers are disposed to give.—Valonia is scarce and wanted,
only one cargo remaining in the hands of importers.—After the
large sales reported last week in Olive Oil, the market, as might be
expected, has become more quiet; but the advanced prices have
been fully maintained for about 90 tuns, of all sorts, which have
been sold.—Some further transactions in Newfoundland Cod Oil
took place early in the week, at £3l per tun from the quay ;- there
is now less inquiry for this article.—ln Seal Oil but little doing.—
Linseed Oil steady at the quotations, with a limited demand ; pule
Rape is taken in small parcels at our extreme quotations.—The
business done in Palm Oil this week has been principally to arrive,
being about 400 tons, at £4310s to £44, and about 100 tons on the
spot at £45 to £45 10s, with a few tons at £46 per ton ; two cargoes
of about 1100 tons have arrived this week.—There is more inquiry
for Oil of Turpentine ; and some business has been done at 61a to
61s 6d, but the distillers are now very firm at 62s per cwt.—Holders
of Hemp are asking £46 to £5O for Petersburgh clean, but these
prices have not been paid; 160 bales East India Sunn were sold
yesterday by auction at £.222s 6d per ton.—The Tallow market has-
become rather heavy ; some Odessa, to arrive, sold early in-the
week at £59, and Petersburgh yellow candle, on the sl.ot, at 60s.
On Wednesday a small parcel of Buenos Ayres sold freely by auc-
tion, at 55s Gd for ordinary, and 59s 3d for fine quality ; 40 serous
unrendered brought 46s 3d.