The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, AuG. 31.

The demand for Sugar continues limited, but holders are very
firm, and the sales amount to 730 blids B. I'., at very steady prices.
There is still a good inquiry for East Julia, and 3300 bags of Ben-
gal have changed hands at an improvement of 6d to Is per cwt; 800
'bags Mauritius have also been disposed of at previous rates. The
demand for Foreign Sugar continues limited.—Molasses very dull,
and nothing doing in the article.—Coffee. The market for British
Plantation remains without any alteration ; the sales consist of 180
tees Jamaica, 21 tea and 20 brls Trinidad, and 20 tees, 10•1 logs and
brls Demerara, chiefly by private, at about former prices, excepting
a few lots of unclean, which went rather lower.-4a,:ba4.-Brazii
Cocoa sold at the quotations.—Nothing done in Ginger, Pepper or
Pimento.—Rice in good demand, at improving prices; the sales are
3,10 U bags Bengal at 17s 6d to 19s Gd, and 60 tees dressed Carolina at
38s.—The operations in Rum have been confined to 210 puns of
choice quality and favourite marks, viz Demerara 4s 10d, and Ja-
maica 5s Idtoss Gd per gallon. •
A few chests of Bengal Indigo have been sold at prices ranging
from 5s 7d to Gs 4d. per lb, and 63 chests Shell Lac at 68s to 1205.
East India Gain Arabic. of fair quality, has realized 43s and sift-
ings 285.-70 chests of Lac Dye are reported, princ'pally at 10d,
but for a few chests •J Wit is 2d has been obtained—The transac-
tions in Saltpetre barely reach 51!0 bags; prices are, however, very
firm.—Nitrate of Soda is inquired for, and sales have been made at
1 Is 6d. _

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The demand for Cam peachy Logwood Dyewood has been steady,
and 150 tons sold at £l2, and about 40 tons Jamaica and St. Do-
mingo at £8 12s Id to £9 per ton; a cargo of Cuba Fustic, recently
arrived, was offered at public sale, and only 25 tons sold at £lO 10s,
with 40 of Savanilla at £6 2s 6d to £,; 5s ; 20 tons Lima. Nicaragua
Wood, in small lots, at the quotations, and 10 of Carnwood at 1:19
per ton.—The demand for Turpentine is regular, but not brisk ;
about 3000 barrel, have been sold at 11s 30 to 1 Is 7d from the quay,
and at Ils 9d for a parcel in store; some Foreign Spirits of Turpen-
tine, which have been imported from London, have been admitted
to entry for home-use, at a duty of 26s 2d per cwt, which the trade
consider injurious to their own manufacture, and have therefore
applied to Government for an alteration in this duty.—No sales in
American Tar; of Archangel a small lot has been sold at 16s.—
There has been a very animated demand for Montreal l'ot Ashes,
and upwards of 700 brls have found buyers, chiefly on speculation,
at 27s 60 to 265, with a few at 20s 6cl'; of Montreal Pearl Ashes about
200 brls have been sold at 31s 60 for old, and 33s to 33s 60 for new
brands.—Some small sales have been made in Quercitron Bark, at

former rates.—No alteration in Flaxseed or dloverseed.—Hides.
The public sales of yesterday went off with spirit, at rather higher
prices • 9,)0 dry Buenos Ayres hrowy.ht 7id to Bd, 1000 salted 51d to
611 d. 1.5() dry salted Brazil 51d per lb, and sla salted Buenos Ayres
Horse 12s 3d to 12s 4d each. The sales of Tobacco during the
month amount to about 657 hhds, of which 216 hhds were Virginia
leaf and 15.) stemmed, 138 hhds Kentucky leaf and 153 stemmed ;
00 hhds leaf and 36 stemmed were taken for Ireland, 70 hhds Vir-
ginia and the Kentucky leaf for expartation, and the remainder by
the home-trade.