The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-03 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, FEB. 28.

au;Zr.—There continues a very good demand for all descriptions,
and 700 hhds. B.F. have been sold at an advance of fully Is per cwt.
2600 bags Bengal have also been disposed of at full prices, and a
cargo (2300 bags) Mauritius have been taken at 63s to 69s 6d, being
also an improvement of Is per cwt. on the last sales. The sales
in Foreign Sugar are confined to small parcels of brown, at the
quotations ; 50 hhds. of loaves, refined in bond, are also reported,
but the price has not transpired.—There is a good inquiry for Mo-
lasses, but the market is at present very barely supplied, and no
transactions of moment have ocecurred this week.—Coffee. The
only sale reported for home consumption ccnsists of 60 bags Brazil,
at gd duty. 120 casks Jamaica are announced for public sale on
Tuesday next. Of foreign, 250 bags were sold, ordinary Brazil at
46 6d, and fine ordinary South American, very :clean and coloury,
at 55s to 56s 6d per cwt. 20 bags Trinidad Cocoa sold at 625, and
40 brls. Jamaica Ginger at £4 45 to £5 for ordinary to fair quality.
Nothing done in Pimento, but 400 bags black Pepper have been
taken, at 310 for Sumatra, and 4id for good al alabar.—Rice. 3400
hags BerigrJ have been taken at 14s 3d to 15s 3d per cwt.—The
business in Hum amounts to 100 puns. of Demerara, 14 to 36 per
cent 0,P., at 4s 7d to Is 10d per gallon, and 40 hhds. of East India,
27 per cent. O.P. at 4s 4d to 4s 6d per gallon.
Tea. The market continues heavy, and very little business has
been done; holders are firm, and not inclined to sell at the present
rates.
Indigo. There was a fair attendance yesterday at the public sales,
which comprised about 64 chests Bengal, 313 of Oude; 97 chests
Bombay Fig, and 117 serons Caraccas Indigo. A large proportion
of the East India consisted of ordinary qualities of Oude and
which did not appear to be in request, consequeritly but a small
proportion found buyers, viz 95 chests of Oude at 3:‘i to 6s id, prin-
cipally, however, at 35 5d to ss, and 5 chests of Fig at 39 7d to 4s ad ;
the better qualities of Bengal, being scarce, found ready buyers at
very full prices, ranging from 5s 7d to 7s. The inferior qualities of
Caraccas were withdrawn for want of buyers, but of the better
sorts about 55 serons sold at as to 6s per lb, or at an average of
as 8d per lb round, in hond.—There is a better inquiry for Shell Lac,
and considerable sales might be made, if the currency of recent
sales were accepted; about 60 chests are reported.—Lac Dye. 10
chests sold at I lid; 5 serons ordinary silver Cochineal at 49 Bd, and
200 bags Cutch at 24s 60.—0 f Saltpetre, about 700 bags have been
taken at 24s to 26s 6d.—There has been a good demand for Nitrate
of Soda, and nearly 400 tons sold, to arrive and on the spot, at 178
ad to 18s, which is an improvement.
The demand for Logwood continues steady, and an advance of
lOs per ton has been realized for Campeachy, and Is on other de-
scriptions ; the sales reported are 100 tons Campeachy, at .-eg lOs
for inferior, to £lO les for good quality, 25 tons Jamaica, at £7
12s 6d to Iss, 100 tons Fustic, at t 5 as for Savauila, to £8 los
for mixed Cuba and Jamaica.—There are no sales of Turpentine or
Tar to report this week.—For Pot Ashes there has been some dis
position to purchase freely, and 400 brls have changed hands at our
q notations. Pearl Ashes are neglected, and the sales arc trifling,
at previous prices.—About 1000 bags East India Linseed have been
disposed of at 41s to 42s per, quarter.—Nothing done this week in
sowing Flaxseed.—No alteration in Cloverseed.— Ilid es. Salted
Monte Video are in better demand, at an advance of id to id per
lb, and several sales have been made, at 4id for plain, and 5d to Sid
for good ; the other sales are chiefly for export, at full prices; con-
sisting of 4200 dry Valparaiso at 7id to sgd for sound, and Rd to
L 7id for wormed, 1200 Bahia at 7id for sound, and 6,W to 6d for
w ulmcd. 750 Batavia at 70, 050 dry salted Paraiba at tild. 800 Bahia
at Sid, 6700 East India Kips at Sid to 90 for brined sound, 7id to
7id for Ist rubbed, and Rd to 7d fOr 2nd rubbed; also '270 Buffalo
I Hides at 4Zd per lb.—Tobacco. The transactions of the month
amount to 516 hhds. viz. 182 Virginia leaf and 95 stemmed. 44 Ken-
tucky leaf and 194 stemmed; of these the home-trade have taken
t 297 birds, Irish Dealers and Manufacturers 1-15, and Exporters 81.
Purchasers continue extremely cautious in their operations, buying
only to supply immediate necessities, and the quotations are with
difficulty maintained.