The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-09 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, OCT. 5.
In consequence of the intelligence received from the West Indies
of the disinclination on the part of the Negroes-to work under the
new system in several Colonies, there has been an animated demand
for all descriptions of Sugar, attended with a considerable improve-
ment in prices, and the sales during the week amount to nearly
2000 casks 8.P., together with 3000 bags of Bengal, at from 62s to
63s for low white and 66s to 67s percwt for fine ; only a small lot
of Mauritius has •been. disposed of at the quotations. There has
been a good demand for Foreign Sugar, but no improvement in
prices can be noticed; the sales are 270 cases, 350 brls and 150 bags
.Brazil, at 18s to 22s for low brown to middling yellow, 24s to 26s for
ordinary grey to good greyish white, and a few chests white Parai-
has It 29s 60 per cwt ; also 400 bags dry brown Manilla at 20s 60,
and 200) bags Lima, which were offered by auction and withdrawn,
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asking higher prices, and the sales are limited to 120 puns of or-
dinary Berbice, at 23s 6d per cwt.—Coffee. There is a steady de-
mand for Plantation, and 220 casks of Jamaica were sold; clean
ordinary qualities brought full prices, fair to good middling descrip-
tions barely maintained previous rates, whilst some parcels of ex-
tra fine, of favourite marks, sold at high' prices, realizing 143 s to
146 s per cwt; 3.0 bags Demerara were also disposed of at the
qUotations. Nothing done in Foreign.—A small lot of Trinidad
Cocoa sold at 425. a few brls Jamaica Ginger at £5 to £6 5s per cwt.
and 800 bags of black Pepper from 30 to 40 per lb.--,100 bags of
Brazil Rice have been sold at 21s. and 400 bags of Bengal at Its per
cwt in bond.—Rum continues in request, and about 101 puns have
been disposed of. at 4s 80 to 4s lld for good and tine Demerara, and
5s to ha 40 per gallon for Jamaica.
Small sales ofindigo continuto be made at steady prices.—Sales
of East India Gum Arabic are reported at 35s to 42s : Lac Dye at
100 to lrqd, and Shell Lac at 67s 6d to 703.—1 n Saltpetre the sales
are trifling.-100 bales Jute have been sold at £l2.
Dyewoods.—Logwood continues to advance in consequence of
the reduced- state of stocks every-where, and the continuance of
the blOckade of_the Mexican forts; about 150 tons Campeachy
were sold this week at £l4, and holders now ask a further advance,
and 50 tons of Jamaica at £lO to £lO 5s per ton.; Fustic has also
become very scarce ; about 50 tons sold at £7 fOs for common

Spanish, and £lO for Tampico ; of Nicaragua Wood, the sales have
been about 150 tons, viz. 120 tons short cut Lima, at £l2 ss, and 30
tons solid Hache Wood at £lO per ton ; small sales have been made
in Garwood at £4 ss, and in Cainwood at £l9 to £2O per ton.—The
Turpentine market continues steady at previous prices ; 1600 brls
in store, of good quality, have been sold at 12s ; 1000 brls offered
by auction to-day were withdrawn, lls lld being the highest bid.
—lOOO brls of American Tar were sold to-day at public sale, at the
advanced price of 17s 9d to 18s 3d.—There has been a steady de-
mand for Montreal Ashes, but more particularly for Pearl Ashes,
on which an advance of 6d per cwt has been obtamed.—Quercitron
Bark is in fair demand, but as the stock is entirely in the hands of
the dealers, the business done is confined to small lots by them, at
19s to 20s per cwt.—Bees' Wax is in steady request, and a few
packages of American have been sold at the quotations.—Hides.
There continues a good demand, and rather higher prices have been
paid, but owing to the light stocks, the sales are confined to dry
Rio Grande and salted Monte Video, 2400 of the former having
been sold at 71d to Bd, and 6500 of the latter at sid for Ox, and Sid
for a few Cows ; also, 450 dry Monte Video Horse Hides at 10s 10d
each.—There has again been an extensive and brisk demand for
Tobacco from the trade, and the sales are about 680 hhds, a propor-
tion of which were new Kentucky stemmed, at 10d and 10(d, and
to-day at Ild ; the advance in Virginia stemmed has not been so
great, but 9d has been paid for a parcel, not of fine quality; 200
hhds have been taken for re-sale. • _

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Brimstone has been much neglected during the week, and only a
few small parcels sold to consumers, without any change in prices.
—The business done in Sumac, Madders, and Madder Roots has
been to a limited extent only.—For Argols there has been an im-
proved demand, and 100 casks Oporto and Lisbon found ready
buyers, at 30s to 33s 9d, according to quality, and 10 casks Sicilian
white at 35s per cwt.—Some parcels of discoloured Tartar, yellow
Tartar and Cream of Tartar have been sold at full prices.—Valonia
of good 'quality sells freely ; some fine Camata, at auction, brought
£.i to £3 above the present quotations, in consequence of great
competition for it.—There has been a moderate demand for Olive
Oil, and the sales chiefly confined to Portugal, which has brought
£32 for good parcels.— Little or nothing has been done in Fish Oils,
and prices remain without alteration.—ln Linseed Oil, some tran-
sactions have taken place at 29s 6d; pale Rape is without demand,
and offered rather iower.—The sales of Palm Oil this week do not
exceed 80 tons, at the prices quoted.—For Oil of Turpentine there
is more inquiry, and sales have been effected at our advanced
quotations.—The improvement which has taken place in Baltic
Hemp has occasioned more inquiry for East India descriptions,
and some considerable sales have been effected, consisting of 643
bales Bombay at £22, 200 bales Sunn at £lB, and about 500 bales
Jute at £l2 to £l2 Its 6d per ton.—ln Flax little doing.—Early in
the week some transactions in Tallow took place, both on the spot
and for arrival; the price has since advanced. about 6d per cwt. but
at these rates the business has been trifling, and the market is firm.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 5.
The trade have bought very sparingly. and all descriptions are
►eavy of sale at last week's quotations. Exporters have taken
.400 American and 300 Surat.

ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON

From the 22d inst. to this day inclusive.

Current IMPOALTS.
SALES OF THE WEEK. Prices. ThisWk this Year
II() 1 Sea Island l6d a 36d
70 ' Stained
6010 Bowed Georgia... 5 8 9
c Mobile 5 8f 670 1. Alabama and Tennessee 5 65 1•• • • 601749
6200 New Orleans 5 9
1
640 s Pernambuco & Paraiba. 88 t9q 1 .... 46248
t Aricati and Ceara B5 ....
500 Bahia and Mageio
{ Maranham .. 71 —Bl ..• • 21527
71 9
690 61 —75 1 .... 27074
1 '
Sawginned
Minas —
Para ....
Demerara, Surinam, &c. 8 —l2 24 1127
610 Egyptian 9l 131 90 21513
10 Barbados 6l 71 . ~. 132
Peruvian 7 8 1 1
Bahama
150 Laguayra
Common West India, &c. 6 8 )' 763 > 22763
300 Carthagena.
Smyrna
Manilla
1440 Surat 3l 51 2305 55020
30 Madras 45 51 )
Bengal ... .. 4 —•/ 55 •• • • 1 •• • •
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17440 biles 4114 j 1232756

The market on Saturday was very
bags ; to-dad•, however, we have ha,
who have bought 3000 bags—prices ;

injy 15Q0
the trade,