The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-30 00:00:00

441 ar.l-i tts.

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, JANUARY 26.

Theri• has been an improved demand for Sugar, and more business
would have been done lid holders been disposed to proceed with sales
at last week's.prices,. The. transactions eoinprise 700 lihds B.P. with-
out material change, 60.1 bags white Bengal at 66s to. 675, and 400 casks
of very low dark brown at 45s to 47s per cwt, In Mauritius no sales.
The sales hi Foreign Sugar consist of 110 cases and 20d brls Bahia, at
20e to 23s for brown, and 2 .s to 28s per cwt, for white.—ln Molasses
there are no transactions.—Coffee. The trade, being very barely tip-
plied, have, taken 140-casks of Jamaiea. offered at auction, at advanOed
rates ; clean ordinary to fine ordinary, qualities have sold at 3s tofis,
and the finer descriptions 2s. to 3s,per •cwt higher, and the quotations.
ace altered in conformity. Of Foreign ,
,100 bags common ordinary
Brazil ;brought 40s per cwt.--,A small lot of Brazil Cocoa sold at 345.,
1200 bags Bengal Ginger chiefly at 2Js per cwt. a small lot of Barba-
does at 500,100 bags Pimento at Bdto 31d, and 150 bags good black
Pepper •at 446 per .113,—The sales of .2,'-istlndia Rice have been about -
300 bags, at 13s to 14s per cwt in bond for low middling to fair quality,
and 30 tea Carolina have been disposed of at 33s per cwt„.duty paid,—
Tbere• hria been a-good demand for Rum; but; la consequence of 'the
market being barely supplied with , suitable, qualities, the. sales have
not exceed. d 220 puns. consisting of 70' puns. Jamaica at 4s 6d to 4s
lad; and 150 puns. Demerara.at-4s-litto 4s Bu per gallon, • - •
lii Indigo. there i 3 nothing to report.-4 parcel of Gum Olthanum,
'of ordinary quality, has been sold at 20s per cwt.—A few hundred
bags of Linseed have realized 42s —There, is a decline in Nitrate. of
S-odd. ; 3000 bags were brought to auction, when the first two or three
lots sold at 16s 6d to 164 9d, but as the sale proceeded; the price felt to
16s; the.qua may disposed of is about 1300 bags, and 5o bags to arrive
have been taken at similar rates,—Salesof Saltpetre have been effected
at 355,t0 275.3d4 but the quantity sold ls.uot important,
Dyewoods. Campeachy Logwood,has become scarce, and holders
have. advanced their prices ; for about 40 tons £8 10a per ton have
been paid, 70 -tons of Jamaica brought £6 • 12s ad to £.7 5s ; in Fastic
a small of Cuba brought £3, 20 of Tampico £3, and 12 of• Brazil at
1.5 s per ton ; 12 tons of Angola Barwood and .some Camwood and Sir-
pan. Wood at, steady rates,-.The public sales of,Turpentine, corn,
prising 1388 brls, have gone off steadily, at 1 Is 9d to 12s for middling to
fair, quality.—No Tar in first 'hands.—ln Montreal Ashes there is no
alteration, but the market is dull ; about 200 brls have found buyers
at 295.t0 298 6d for Pot, and a t 03s to 33s 6(l'for Pearl Ash,s.—Quer-
citron' Bark is, in limited request, and the sales are confined atew
hhds, first quality of Philadelphia, at 165.--,..Nothing done in Flaxseed:
—About. 7. tons . old American Cloverseed brought 65s.—A few. chests
East India Bees' Wax sold, at £7 per cwt, and a small lot of very in,
ierior at £4.—Hides. The sales are not very extensive, but fair prices
have generally been obtained; 2000 salted Buenos Ayres have been
sold at 4d to 416, and 7200 East. India Kips at 746 to 8d for sound
brined, 5d to 61d for rubbed, aid to 606 for sound dry, and 416 pet-lb
for rubbed.—At the.sales of Horse Hairon Wednesday, 100 hales were
sold at 1446 to 1844 for tails, 51(.1 to'll id for mixed, Bd. to 8411 forabort,
and 8d to 916 per lb fur Cow Hair, -There has again been an extensive
demand for Tobacco, at advancing rates, and . the sales are estimated
to have :been about 450 litids;.of these 100 hhds Virginia steinnied and
70 leaf, and 40hhds Kentucky stemmed, were purchased for resale,
few. hhds for Ireland, 3 / 1311(181'or export. and the.remainderwere taken
by the home-trade. 400 serons .Columhia, leaf ~Tobacco were offered
by auction, but only 60 serous found buyers, at -11 d to 5d per lb.

MEDITERRANEAN PRODUCE.
Britnstone hag been much neglected this week, owing to the diffi-
culty of forwarding. froth the continued stoppage of the canals by the
frost.—For Sicily; Verona and Trieste Sumac there continues a ..st eady
demand.,-Argolsof all . descriptions are scarce, and, go off readily at
full prices ; the. principal sales this meek , have been. of Naples, at :35s
for red, and 11s per cwt of good Oporto have become quite exhausted.
—Cream of Tartir and brown Tartar continue to find buyers at full
prices.—French Madder Roots have been inquired for, but being gene-
rally held for higher. rates, hut little- has been done; in other sorts
there:ishut little ,loing.---Madders go of very slowly.—The low prices
of, Galls have attracted- some notice, and sales ,of a -few parcels have
been
.noade at the quoted prices.—There, has been a good demand for
the common descriptions of Olive Oil, and about.7o tuns of these de-
scriptioni have been sold: with nearly 21 tuns of the better sorts, at
fully the previous rates.—There have been no transactions of farm-lent
in-Fish Oils sine.!-our,last, hut paces may be considered rather 'lower.
—There eon tinues a fa i rdernancl for pale. Rape Oil • at 38s'6dper cwt.—
Linseed Oil also is, rather more inquired for, and., thereare now, few
sellers under 3 .s.—in Palm Oil, the business done has: been very,tri-.
fling:hut holders are steady, and £ll 10.3 is now generally required,
with little upon the•Market.Oil ofTurpentine is without alteration ;•
the demand continues. steady. —lnfiemp and Flax • -there- are no sale
reported worthy. of notice.—Por Tallow the demand has been upon as;
limited scale during, the week and some few sales of:Petersburg yel-
low candle have been made. at Ws 6d ; the inarkri is to-day rather
firmer,.and there appear no sellers under 51s to 51s Gd cwt.
•

LI V Eitpool, COTTON MA li.K JAN. 26.
Thenecessities of the trade have compelle,d them to purchase more
freely this meek, but the business still has, prohahly been cheeked by
continued interruption of the canals by the frost. The market having
been partially cleared of the late illlej}rts, the decline in American oi'
id, per lb, noticed in the Circular of last week, has been nearly re-
covered; though.perhaps the improvement has been somewhat more
difficult to realize yesterday and to-day ; other descriptions are with-
out alteration. There have been taken,on specul4ion 1: 9,J American
and 50) Carthagena.

ACCOUNT OF SALES AND• IMPORTS OF COTTON,
Prow the 1301 to this fitly ineNsive.

Current, IMPORTS.
SALIO OP THE WEEK. , Prices, This.Wk this Year.
7----,- --- I9J Sea Island l.ld iii :30d. —.--.---,-
Stained - 2504 } 161931
9220 Bowed-Georgia 6l 'B4
1820
Mobile ' 61 84
i Alabama-and Tennessee 6l ---- 71 1638 14310-
7100 New Orleans 6l, 9
( Pernambuco and Paraiba,— 9 101 i .
,
230 Aricati and Ceara
380 Bahia and Nlaueio . 71 9 ... • 378
c Maranliarn
460 I Sawginned'
M in as
t
...... Para . ~ -
10 I)einerara, Surinam, Stc 9: 124 .... 3
5:0 Egyptian gl —l3 .... 3793
Barbados 7l 8 .... 15
(10 'Peruvian 8 9 ) 1
Bahama
—I . 1
14i Laguayra 6l 84
30 Common West India, &c . 64 —B4 } .... 7.
938 Carthagena.
1
I. Smyrna
Manilla 7 71 i 1.
610 Surat
Madras 44 6
Bengal
21710 bales 12915 4210,
1
19.0nItT, JAN. 24.
LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. JAN. 27.
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We have- this week had very small arrivals of all kinds of Grain
and of Flour and Oatmeal the, imports are also to alight amount.—
Throughout the week there has been less life in the Wheat trade-than
we had occasion to note in our last report, and the advance then
quoted in prices has not been maintained ; 8s 2d per 70Ib. may again
beeri.consulered the value of the best Irish red.—No change has.oc-
' curred in Flour; prime brands of-Irish are worth-49s to trOs per sack.
Oats have been held more firmly, and, although the continued stop-
page of thet canals has prevented much actual business, rather
higher prices have been paid 2s 10d is still a top quotation for Irish,
but there are few, if' any, oirering, under 2s 81d to 2s 9d per .151bs.
Oatmeal selling at 21s to- 25s per 2101bs.—In•Ilarley there has been
litre done, and all descriptions are oflering on rather easier terms:
Beans Is per quarter cheaper. No alteration, as regardS Peas. A
small parcel of line Baltic red Wheat, iu bond, has been sold at 5s 3d.
per 7011)s.