The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

Ottrittts.

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MKETAR, JULY 17.
Sugars.—There has been only a very limited demand, and as
holders are not disposed to accept any lower prices, there are no sales
of B. P. to report. 1000 bags Bengal have been taken at the quota-
tions. Nothing done in' Mauritius, Foreign, Bonded Refined, or
Molasses. Coffee.—There is a good demand for Plantation, and
the sales are extensive, comprising 320 casks of Jamaica, at rather
higher rates ; 30 cask and 100 baks Demerara were sold at the
quotations ; also 400 bags Peilang and 70 bags Rio, subject to 9d
duty, prices not reported. Nothing of moment done in Foreign.
No sales reported in Cocoa, Ginger or Pimento. A small lot of black
Pepper sold 31e1 per lb. Rice is in good request, and the stock in
Importers' hands being small, 350 bags Bengal have been taken at
13s 6d for ordinary to 15s for good white. Rum is in fair request,
altd about 120 puns. have been sold, chiefly fine Demerara, 28 to
38 per cent. 0. P., at 5s lld to Os sd, with a parcel of common
Leewards at 3s 10d per gallon.
There has been more inquiry for Tea, and a good business has
Been done in common Congous, Twankays, Imperial and Gun-
powder, at a shade higher than last week's prices.
Several public sales of East India Drysaltery articles we held on
Wedneday last, but the chief part withdrawn. A few chests of
Bengal Indigo found buyers at 4s Id to 5s sd, as also 17 serons of
Caracca at 3d 10d to 4s 3d 30 cheats of Shell Lac sold at 44s to 475,
10 bales of Bengal Safflower at 70s to 80s, 26 chests of Olibanum
at 32s to 355, and 30 of Gum Arabic at steady prices. In con-
sequence of the large purchase of Nitrate last week, the holders
have again realised a further advance of is 6d to 2s, and the sales
are about 200 tons. Of Saltpetre, 2000 bags sold at 25s to 285
per cwt.
Dyewoods.—The sales of the week ar 50 tons Campeachy Log-
ivood, at £9 to 49 15s, 170 tons St. Domingo, Jamaica and
Honduras, at 47 10 to 48 ; 50 tons Cuba Fustic at 49 lOs to
410 ss, 20 tons Savanilla at 45 15; 30 tons Lima Nicaragua Wood
at 414 to 414 10's, 20 tons solid at 412, and a few tons of Camwood
at 424 10s per ton. The sales of Turpentine have been rather ex-
tensive, amounting to 4700 brls., at 118 6cl to 12s, according to
quality. In Tar there are no sales reported. Montreal Pot Ashes,
branded 1829, have been sold in several instances at 24s 9d to 255;
but the price of the new import is not yet established. Small parcels
of Pearl Ashes have brought 31s 6d per cwt. Hides.—The only
sale by auction is one 600 salted New Yorks at 33d, but about 5000
salted Monte Video have been sold by private at 42c1 to 41d per lb.
Tobacco.—The sales have been about 170 hhds., of which 50 were
for Ireland, 50 on speculation, and the remainder to the Trade.
The market is now steady, and prices firm.
There is no change, to notice in the Brimstone market, the
demand continues very limited ; the sales this week do not exceed
60 tons, at the quotations. Sicily Sumac moves off slowly ; 150
bags Verona have been disposed of at 6s 9d per cwt. Small sales
are reported in Cream of Tartar at 80s, and Bologna white Argols
at 50 per cwt. There has been some little inquiry for Berries, and
a few bales Persian, middling quality, have been at 414 ss, and
Turkeys at 90s per cwt. A sale is reported in flag Annato at lld
per lb; and 26 bales Galls, good sorts, were sold at 67s per cwt.
Nothing done in Madders or Roots. A few casks Quercitron Bark
reported at 13s. The business in Olive Oil is cc:Wined to a few tuns,
chiefly Trieste, at 455 to 456 per tun. In Fish Oils there are no
transactions of moment to report this week ; two more cargoes of
Seal Oil have arrived,the greater part of which had been sold pre-
viously, and the remainder will be warehoused, buyers appearing
not disposed to give an advance on former rates ; for a few retail
lots 426 has been given. Rape and linseed Oils are again rather
dull of sale, and the little improvement lately realized is hardly
maintained. Oil of Turpentine has been inquired for' at lower
prices, but nothing has been done. For Palm Oil a fair demand
has been experienced at last week's advance, and nearly 300 tons
have been sold at 436 15s to 437 per ton. In Baltic Ilemp the
only transactions reported are few small sales of Peas at 432. In
East India, 90 bales of Sunn were sold at 416; 400 bales of Jute
at 412 to 412 10s, and 50 bales at 413 per ton. The Tallow market
has been flat, and small sales only have been effected, at 536 6d to
53s 9d for yellow Candle; for a few lots of South American, sold by
private treaty, a reduction of about Is per per cwt. was accepted.