The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-06 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLON IA L MARKET, FEBRUA RY 2,

Thl.re continues a very good demand for Sugar, and 1306 hhds B.P.
have bi.enlilisposed of at an advance bf Od to is per cwt on brown and
middlivg, nut without change in other descriptions. 40..0 bags Bengal,
Sold, chiefly ikt 66s 67s for good white, and 645. 60 to 63s 60 for'
slightly damaged, acid; 61/00- bags Mauritius 'at 63s 3d. to 65s 60 per,
cwt. No sales in Foreign Sugars.—Nu sales in Molasses to report.—
Coffee. ,The continued scarcity of Plantation•causes a good demand,
by the trade ; the sales are about 80 casks of Jamaica, at a further ad-
+Mice; in' Most instaftees: of Is to 2s' pbr itwt. Nothin,, done in Fo-
reign vr nvlrjo.inent —No sales in Cocoh.-2 0 bags Barbadoes Gin-
ger shld and 100 bags East India at 24s perewl.—There is more
inquiry fur Pimento. and 1000 bags `oil; holders now ask 3Ad to 30.
per lb.—No sates of l'epper.-2 :1,0 bags of Bengal Ri(!e were taken
fortleaning, chiefly of good quality; at 13s '6d, to 14s 60 per cwt. in
bond, and there is a piod demand ror Carolina, for exportation, but ;,t
limits below Ouf quothtiohs,'Which' the' trade lire usiwilinglo acec.lit.
—There continues to be it good inquiry; for Rum:. both for borne-use,
and export;, the sales. are 150 puns of Jamaica. at 60 to 4s nil, and'
sO Idids East India, for ,export, at 25 filo to 2s 9d,per
The Tea sale tioished yesterday, and of 31,1,00 packages offered, only
400.!, &insisting prineipallyof l.iwCougous and Twatikaysjound,
buyers; the former et is 7d .to 1s 80, the latter at is 10d to Os per lb.
Since the Sale, a COntiderlible bilineSs has' been done in Corigous;. at'
the quetations. .
Indigo. The only transaction worthy of notice has been the sale of
30:serOns.Caraccas.- of recent import, at..6s• lid per lb in bond • small
parcels of East India continue to find buyers at full prices.—No sales
are reported• in Shell Lac, Lao Dye, Safflower,'Tincal or Burns.—Of
Nitrate of Soda, about 106,0 bags have been sold_ at lc's to Its 3d, and
bags, to arrzve, at nearly thefotmer price:—Saltpetre sodg freely,
and about 1600 bags found, buyers, at the quotations.
Dyewoods. The demand'forall•kinds has been limited, but the few
tales effected are at steady prices.—There is uo alteration in the price
of Turpentine, I la-ld to 1.25, havitig been4i ‘4,11 for 1304 bels ; the par.
eel at 12s seas fair Wilmington.—No sales. In American Tar on-
treal Ashes. are dull, and 't,ither lower •, the .sales of eaCh 'degOripticin'
have been-open a Very limited scale, at 29s to 29s 60 for Not, and 33s to
33S 6d for Pearl Ashes.—Quercitron Bark is without alteratiOn in price,
and only a few casks have been !sold.-,LNotbing• done in Flaxseed' or
Cioverseed.—Hides. The sales are limited to 3s ;0 East I oda Kips,
at4d to 'BlO for sound brined Aid to nad 'for rubbed, also 2800 dry
Manilla Buffalo rubbed at 230 to 311 per lb.—Tobacco. .The sales of
the week anion nt to about 20', MIAs ; of 'whWtva few were taken for
export, 44 hhds for Ireland, Arid . the: Trinainder by. the trade. The'
Sales during. last mouth amounted to 215 d hhds, and of these 140 .hhils
were purchased for - re,sale ; in the course.of January an advance of
id to id per lb was realized, and in some instances 3d to Id per lb, and
the market is firm atthe quotations. The ptesent stock is 5470 hhds
• against 9830 hhds at this time last year.