The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, MARCH 20.
The Sugar market is still very barely supplied, and as the parcels
on show are held for extreme prices, the sales of B.P. are only 100
hhds. at former rates. Nothing has been done in Mauritius, and
the only sale in Bengal is 300 bags damaged, at 63s to 68s 6d per
cwt. The sales in Brazil Sugar are confined to 30 cases and 20 brls
brown. 200 baskets Java, by public sale, brought 23s to 23s 6cl for
yellow, 24s 3d for middling grey, and 27s to 27s lid for good dry
white. No sales in bonded Reflned.-130 puns of Demerara Mo-
lasses have been sold at 34s 6cl per cwt. from the quay.—Coffee. The
business done this week is confined to a public sale of Jamaica, at
which 80 tees. and 30 brls were sold, at full prices for the middling
and good middling descriptions, whilst the few lots of ordinary to
good ordinary were barely supported ; the extreme prices paid were
from 105 s for ordinary, up to 150 s for fine a few lots of the latter
were bought in, and are held at 1525 per cwt. There are not 160
tees now remaining in first hands. Nothing reported in Foreign.-
40 brls Trinidad Cocoa sold at 655, and a small lot of Guayaquil at
3gs ; and 1800 bags good Bengal Ginger at 16s 6d per cwt.—No
sales of Pimento, but 100 bags black Pepper have been taken at 4id
per lb.—Rice. There has been every- good demand, and at a public
sale on the lgth good white sold 6il per cwt. higher ; the sales are
1700 bags, at 148 6d for middling, to 15s 6d for good white Bengal.
A small parcel of white Carolina sold at 365, duty paid, and 300 casks
for export, at 22s per cwt in bond.—Nothing done in Rum.
The great and sudden decline in Teas which has taken place at
the London sales this week, has caused a similar effect here ; the
only assignable reasons for the fall, are the heavy prompts falling
due this and next month, and the alarm of the speculative holders
at the prospect (confirmed by the last accounts from China) of sonic
Teas being imported this year. The only Teas offering here at
present are those of which the prompts are past due; otherwise,
holders are very firm, and not inclined to sell at the present rates.
A few chests Bengal Indigo have sold at Is 8d; 100 bales M 1111-
jeet at 15s • 20 chests Gum Arabic at 525, and 50 bags Stick Lac at
36s ; a small quantity of silver Cochineal at ss, and 25 boxes of Cas-
tor Oil at 64d.-400 tons of Nitrate of Soda have been sold (about
one-half to arrive) at 18s to 185 6d per cwt.—ln Saltpetre an ex-
tensive business is reported, and rather advanced rates obtained for
good quality.
Dyewoods.—The stock of Campeachy Log-wood being small,
holders are asking £l2, but this price is quite nominal ; other de-
scriptions without alteration ; the sales are 200 tons Jamaica. at .E 7
17$ 6d to £B, and 100 tons Honduras, at .t's per ton. No sales of
Fustie worthy of notice.—The sales of Turpentine amount to :600
to 1700 brls. at lOs 10d to I Is 3d for inferior, to 125 3d for fair quality.
—ln Tar there-are no sales reported.—The demand for Pot Ashes
continues. tolerably steady, though not brisk ; '2OO to 300 brls. have
been sold at 20$ for old, and 24s for new brand ; for 100 to 200 Lrls.
Pearl Ashes 291 to 2gs 3d has been accepted, with a few trifling par-
cels at 2gs 6d per cwt.—Some small sales of hew American Flax-
seed, for sowing, have been made at 70s per hhd, but holders gene-
rally are asking higher rates.-1000 bags East India Linseed brought
41s per quarter.—Hides. The market continues brisk, and all de-
scriptions have brought full rates, but the sales of salted Monte
Video are riot extensive; 14,000 East India Kips, chiefly dry salted,
sold by auction at I lid to 12d for sound, gid to bid for Ist rubbed,
bid to 7id for second rubbed, laid for sound brined, and 7-I,d for Ist
rubbed ; also 2300 Bombay Kips and Buffaloes, damaged, at lid to
4id, and 750 dry Monte Video Ox and Cow at Sid to 104 d per lb.—
Tobacco. The sales this week are about 150 hhds. of which 50 were
for Ir eland. In prices there is no change to notice.

The demand fLr all descriptions of Mediterranean Produce has
been on a most limited scale during the week. Of Brimstone, only
100 tons are reported as sold at previous rates, with a small lot of
10 tons, received from Java, at .6'lo per ton.—Nothing worthy of
enumeration has been done in Sumac, Argols, Tartar, Annatto or
Persian Berries.-30 bags mixed Turkey Galls sold at 67a 6d per
cwt. and a small lot of good Camatina Valonia at .t 23 per ton.—A
few casks French Madder have teen sold at the quotations, but for
other descriptions and Roots there has been no inquiry.—The
business done in Olive Oil has been confined principally to sales of
Seville from the ship, of which about 70 tuns have been disposed
of at steady prices. Galipoli has become so scarce, that t 65 is
paid for the supply of small orders.—No business is reported i❑ Seal
Oil, but some parcels of Newfoundland Cod, to the extent of about
50 tuns, have been sold from the quay at X 36 103 per tun, at which
there are no sellers fiom the warehouse.—Pale Rape Oil sells slowly
at 385 to 38s 6d, and Linseed Oil at 24s 3d to 248 6d per cwt.—No
improvement can be noticed in the demand for Oil of Turpentine ,
sales have been made at £56 los, although that price is refused by
most of the Distillers ; for forward delivery some little advance
would be given.—About 280 tons Palm Oil have been sold, part at
£37, but chiefly at very irregular prices ; business to sonic extent
has also been done for arrival, at rates which have not transpired.—
Notwithstanding the improved inquiry last week for Hemp, no sales
whatever appear to have taken place ; Flax is likewise dull of sale.
—For Tallow a moderate demand continues, at our quotations,
which have not varied during the week.