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

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, FEB. 28.

Sugar.—There continues a very good demand for all descriptions.
and 700 hhds. B.P. have been sold at an advance of fully is per cwt.
2600 bags Bengal have also been disposed of at full prices, and a
cargo (2300 bags) Mauritius have been taken at 63s to tigs 6d, being
also an improvement of is per cwt. on the last sales. The sales
in Foreign Sugar are confined to small parcels of brown, at the
quotations ; 50 hhds. of loaves, refined in bond, are also reported,
but the price has not transpired.—There is a good inquiry for Mo-
lasses, but the market is at present very barely supplied, and no
transactions of moment have occcurredthis week.--Coffee. The
only sale reported for home consumption consists of 60 bags Brazil,
at gcl duty. 120 casks Jamaica are announced for public sale cn
Tuesday next. Of foreign, 250 bags were sold, ordinary Brazil at
46 6d, and fine ordinary South American, very clean and coloury,
at 55s to 56s 6d per cwt. 20 bags Trinidad Cocoa sold at 625, and
40 brls. Jamaica Ginger at .44 4s to .',3 for ordinary to fair quality.
Nothing done in Pimentb, but 400 bags black Pepper have been
taken, at 3-I'd for Sumatra, and 4id for good Malabar.—Rice. 3400
bags Bengal have been taken at 14s 3d to 15s 3d per cwt.—The
business in Rum amounts to 100 puns. of Demerara, 14 to 36 per
cent 0,P., at 4s 7d to as led per gallon, and 40 hhds. of East India,
27 per cent. O.P. at 4s 4d to 4s 6d per gallon.
Tea. The market continues heavy, and very little husiness has
been done; holders are firm, and not inclined to sell at the present
rates.
Indigo. There was a fair attendance yesterday at the public sales,
which comprised about 64 chests Bengal, 3/3 of Oude, 97 chests
Bombay Fig, and 117 serons Caraccas Indigo. A large proportion
of the East India consisted of ordinary qualiti of Oude and Fig,
which did not appear to be in request, conse uently but a small
stt,
proportion found buyers, viz 95 chests of Oude a 3s to 6s Id, prin-
cipally, however, at 3s 5d to ss, and 5 chests of Fig \at as 7d to 4s ad ;
the better qualities of Bengal, being scarce, found ready buyers at
very full prices, ranging from 5s 7d to 7s. The inferior qualities of
Caraccas were withdrawn for want of buyers, but of the better
sorts about 55 serous sold at 5s to 6s per lb, or at an average of
55 8d per lb round, in bond.—There is a better inquiry for Shell Lac,
and considerable sales might be made, if the currency of recent
sales were accepted ; about 60 chests are reported.—Lac Dye. 10
chests sold at llid; 5 serous ordinary silver Cochineal at 4s Bd, and
200 bags Cutch at 24s 6d.—Of Saltpetre, about 700 bags have been
taken at 24s to 26s 6d.—There has been a good demand for Nitrate
of Soda, and nearly 400 tons sold, to arrive and on the spot, at 17s
lid to 181, which is an improvement.
The demand for Logwood continues steady, and an advance of
lOs per ton has been realized for Campeachy, and 5s on other de-
scriptions ; the sales reported are 100 tons Campeachy, at £9 lOs
for inferior, to £lO lOs for good quality, 25 tons Jamaica, at £7
12s 66 to £7 15s, 100 tons Fustic, at £5 5s for Savanila, to .e 8 lOs
for mixed Cuba and Jamaica.—There are no sales of Turpentine or
Tar to report this week.—For Pot Ashes there has been some dis
position to purchase freely, and 400 brls have changed hands at our
quotations. Pearl Ashes are neglected, and the sales are trifling,
at previous prices.—About 1000 bags East India Linseed have been
disposed of at 41s to 42s per quarter.—Nothing done this week in
sowing Flaxseed.—No alteration in Cloverseed.—Hid es. Salted
Monte Video are in better demand, at an advance of id to id per
ib, and several sales have been made, at 4id for plain, and ad to aid
for good ; the other sales are chiefly for export, at full prices; con-
sisting of 4200 dry Valparaiso at lid to 81d for sound, and fiid to
lid for wormed, 1200 Bahia at 7id for sound, and 6,id to 6!-,,d for
wormed, 780 Batavia at 7id, 950 dry salted Paraiba at 6id, 800 Bahia
at aid, 6700 East India Kips at 816 to gd for brined sound, lid to
716 for Ist rubbed, and 61d to 76 for 2nd rubbed; also 270 Buffalo
L Hides at 47,d per lb.—Tol,--,.''' Phi iriricl oti. ii6'nfil;V:, month
amount to sio nuns. viz. is 2 \ irginia e, ,
of and la' stemmed; of these the home-trade have taken
Wiiiilfs;-irrsa sealers and Manufacturers 145, and Exporters 81.
' Purchasers continue extremely cautious in their operations, buying
only to supply immediate necessities, and the quotations are with
difficulty maintained.