The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET,.OcT, 1

Sugar.—There has been a very good demand for the better des-
criptions, which are rather dearer, but low brown qualities continue
to be neglected. The sale of B.- P. are 600 hhds.; 3200 bags
Bengal and 2200 bags Mauritius have also been disposed of at full
prices. Foreign.—A cargo of 1040 boxes brown and yellow
Havana has been sold to the refiners at 20s 3d, likewise 190 hhds.
brown and middling. Porto Rico at 17s to 19s, and a parcel of
about 50 cases Pernambuco, at His for fair brown, and 20s per cwt.
for ordinary white. The sale .of B. P. Molasses amount to 750
puns., at 26s 6d for Antigua, and 245 for old Barbadoes. 150 puns.
Porto Rico and Cayenne have also been sold at tis 6d to 7s per cwt.
Coffee.—The transactions in Plantation have been to a lair extent,
and comprise 230 casks Jamaica; for ordinary, middling and good
middling qualities the demand was moderate, and these qualities
sold rather heavily at a decline, in most instances, of 25 to 3s per
cwt., whilst fine and extra line brought previous rates ; for a
favourite mark, being of very superior quality, there was a brisk
competition, and 160 s to 162 s were realized. 30 bags good Rio,
via Cape, brought 50s per cwt. Of Foreign, 70 bags sold;
Bahia at 335, and La Guayra at 455 per cwt. Nothing done in
Pimento or Ginger. A small parcel of St. Domingo Cocoa sold at
375, arid IGO bags black Pepper aid to 4kd per lb. Rice.—Nearly
6000 bags Bengal have been taken at rather lower rates, viz. at
105 3d to 108 6d for ordinary broken, and 135 3d for fine white, and
a small parcel of fine Carolina at 365. Rurn.—The demand for
B. P. is limited, the sales being only 100 puns., at rather lower rates,
excepting for very favourite marks.
Tea.—Throughout the week the market has been quiet and firm,
but few transactions have taken place.
Some trifling sales made in Bengal Indigo, at full prices, with
about 50 serous of Caracca. By auction, so chests of damaged
East India Guns Arabic sold, and, a few chests of Gum Anhui, at
advanced rates ; 20 bales of Bengal Safflower at 955, and 40 bales
of Bombay at 35, 500 baskets of Gambier at Ids to I tis 6d, 200 bags
of Lfnseed at 55s per quarter. For Saltpetre there continues a fair
inquiry, and :iOO bags sold at 29s 6d to 31 s lid, and 700 bags of
Nitrate of Soda at 24s to 24s 6d per cwt.
Dyewoods.—The sales of Logwood this week altogether arc
scarcely 100 tons, at about previous rates ; no sales reported in
Fustic ; 150 tons Garwood were sold at previous prices. The
Turpentine market is rather lower, and 12s 3d has been accepted for
1300 bHs. No sales reported in Stockholm or American Tar. There
is less demand both for Pot and Pearl Ashes, but the stock is so
much reduced that holders have been enabled to obtain former

prices for such small parcels as have been sold. Hides.—Brazil are
in demand, and 1200 dry salted have been sold at lid to did, and
780 wet salted at r.-id per lb ; but prices of salted River Plate are
barely supported ; 4500 Ox are reported at 4d, and a few Cow at
4td.per lb. Tobacco.—There has been a fair business done during

BIRTHS.
On the 14th ultimo, at Langholm, Mrs. WALTER WARWICK.
of a daughter, being her seventeenth child.
On the Ist instant, in Burlington-street, the wife of Mr. HENRY
BOOTH, sailmaker, of a daughter.