The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, MARCH 6.

The Sugar market is very barely supplied, and the sales in conse-
quence are limited to 700 hhds. 8.P., for which an advance of is
sts cwt. has been obtained ; and at this improvement there still con-
tinues a good demand. 5400 bags of Bengal have been taken at
extreme rates. No sales of Mauritius. In Foreign Sugar the sales
have been more extensive than for some time past, and amount to
about 500 cases and 330 brls Brazil, principally to the Refiners, at
from 17s to 20s for low to middling, and 21s to 22s for good to fine
brown, and 22s to 25s for white; 245 baskets Java, of good grey
quality, brought 240 6d at public sale, and a few damaged 22s to
23s 6d ; 116 bags good yellow Laguayra were taken at 278 6d. The
operation in bonded refined have also been more important, con-
sisting of 60 hhds loaves, at 37s for 121 b to 141 b, and 38s to 40s for
Turkey of 21b to 41b; 30 tees Bastards at 19s, and so puns Treacle
13s 6d to 14s. 40 boxes Foreign yellow Candy brought 46s per cwt,
—Rather higher ;prices have been given for Molasses, 70 puns of
emerara being reported at 345, and so puns of Tobago and ordinary
St. Vincent at 33s per cwt.—Coffee. The sales of Plantation com-
prise 110 casks of Jamaica, which brought steady prices; good to
fine ordinary 110 s 6d to 116 s 6d, good middling 137 s to 140 s, and
fine middling to fine 145 s to 153 s 6d per cwt. 800 bags and 13 cases
of South American, admissible at Is per lb duty for home consump-
tion, have been taken by the Trade at 54s gd to Sgs 3d per cwt. Of
Foreign, 150 bags damaged Bahia sold at 35s to 38s 6d per cwt.-10
brls Trinidad Cocoa sold at 635, and 40 bags Guayaquil at 395.—
Nothing done in Ginger.-800 bags black Pepper have been dis-
posed of at 3d to 4kd, and a small lot of Pimento at 21,c1 to 3d per
lb.—No sales reported in Rice.—The transactions in Rum are limited
to 60 puns of middling Jamaica at 55 5d to 5s 7d, and 10 pipes of
Havana at is 8d per gallon. •
Tea. The market still remains quiet, and very little business Itas
been done; holders are very firm, and anxiously waiting for the
next accounts from China, which may be expected on the 10th
nstant.
64 boxes of Bombay Indigo are reported, without price, and a
few•chests Bengal at us to 6s 6d per lb.-48 chests Lac Dye sold at
131 d to 28 3d, according to quality; 15 chests Last India Gum Arabic
at 52s to 545, aud a small quantity of Honduras silver Cochineal at
5s 4d.-63 tons Nitrate of Soda realized 18s, and a cargo of 2so
tons 117 s, to arrive.—Of Saltpetre the sales are only 200 bags, at
25s Pd.
There has been a good demand for Logwood, aud the sales are
au tons Campeathy, at £9 Jj's sa to .ell per ton, with a cargo to
arrive, the price of which has not transpired ; 50 tons Honduras
and Jamaica sold at £7 155 to .€8 per ton. There has been little
done in Fitstic, a few tons only of Cuba and Savanilla being re-
ported, at the quotations.—There are no sales either of Turpentine
or of Tar to report this week, neither is there any alteration in price.
—The business in Montreal Ashes has been trivial, but the few par-
cels sold have brought 245 to 24s 3d for Pot and 23s to 290 6cl for
Pearl Ashes.—Nothing done in Flaxseed or Cloverseed, the latter
article is very scarce.—Bides. At the public sales last Friday, East
India Nips and salted Monte Video Horse sold freely at full prices,
2000 of the latter having brought lls 8d to 12s 6d each and 8800 of
the former, Yid for sound heavy dry salted, Bid for first rubbed,
Bid to sid for ordinary dry. 7ad for first rubbed, and 6Sd for second
rubbed. Salted Monte Video Ox and Cow have been in less de-
mand, and the sales are limited to 1300, at 5d to Sid for Ox, and
4id to 4Sd per lb for Cows; 1000 dry salted Pernambuco have also
been sold at bid per lb.—The sales of Tobacco have been about
70 hhds., of which is were for export, a few for Ireland, and the re-
mainder to the Trade.