The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 24.

The demand for Sugar has been general and extensive, and the
market having been well supplied, the sales are 1400 hhds 8.P..
tOgether with 13,000 bags Mauritius, at an advance of fully is per
cwt. on both descriptions. 1000 bags Bengal have also been dis-
posed of, at 70s to 738 per ewt. The demand for Brazil Sugar, for
refining, continues good; the sales are 110 cases, 800 brls and 800
bags, at former prices for browns, but on whites a reduction of 6d
to Is per cwt. has been submitted to. In bonded Refined, 60 hhds.
Crushed were sold at 34s 6d, and 10 hhds. Loaves at the quotations.
—6O puns. Demerara Molasses were sold from the quay, but the
price has not transpired.—The only sale to report of Plantation
Coffee consists of 40 casks of Berbice at 113 s to Ills 3d for good to
fine middling, and 102 s for fine broken. 450 bags, chiefly Sumatra
and Semarang, subject to 9d duty, sold at 50s to 64s 3d per cwt. Of
Foreign, ;0 bags coloury Ceara brought 48s 6d, and 20 bags or-
dinary Brazil 46s 9d per cwt.—No sales in Cocoa, Ginger, or Pi-
mento, but :600 bags black Pepper have been taken, chiefly for
export, at 3 d for ordinary Singapore, up to 444 for middling Mala-
bar.-3000 bags middling white Bengal Rice have been sold at 14s
cwt.— The sales in Rum are limited to 40 puns Demerara, at the
quotations.
The Tea market has been quiet during the week, but prices re-
main very firm. At the London sales, which commenced on Wed.
nesday last, 15,403 packages had passed sale up to last night, of
which 0250 were sold at an advance on March sales of 2d to 3d per
lb, the remainder bought in at prices very much above market rates.
Nothing to report in Indigo.—At the auction sales this week the
following goods were disposed of, viz. 250 chests Shell Lac at 35S 9d
to 40s 6d, and for a few chests fine orange 95s was obtained; the
ordinary and middling qualities are lower: 50 chests East India
Gum Arabic at :is 6d for very low, and 18s for ordinary ; 35 chests
Castor Oil at 7d per lb, and 70 tons Terra Japonica at 21s to 21s 66 ;
500 packages Pearl Sago realized 21s to 28s 3d, and brown 14s 6d to
15s 6d.—ln Saltpetre the sales amount to 800 bags, at 23s for in-
ferior, and 25s 6d to 28s for good and fine.-400 bags Nitrate of
Soda sold at 18s to 18s fid.
The sales of Campeachy Logwood are about 100 tons, at £lO to
£lO 15s for direct, and .Sy 105 per ton for indirect Imports; 100
tons Jamaica have brought .e 7155 per ton ; *5O tons Savanilla Fus-
tic were sold at .45 5s to £5 10s per ton ; 60 tons Cuba -.eV to £10;
30 tons Barwood -it) 2s 6d to £6 15s; and 10 tons solid Nicaragua
Wood £9 per ton.—There are no sales of Turpentine reported, but
prices are firm, and the stock gradually decreases.—No alteration
in Tar.—The sales of Montreal Pot and Pearl Ashes have been ex-
tremely limited, but the late advanced quotations are fully main-
tained.—We have no alteration to notice in Hides, the sales being
confined to a few salted Monte Video Cow at and 5600 East In-
dia Kips, which have brought full rates for the quality, viz. i 2 id for
fair dry salted 7albs, and led for first rubbed, 100 for ordinary 841bs,
id for brined sound, 9id for dry sound, and 84c1 to 84d per lb for
first rubbed.—Tobacco. The sales this week arc about 200 hhds.,
of which 50 were for export, 50 for Ireland, and the remainder to
the Trade.

The demand for Brimstone has been limited, but for the few sales
made full prices have been obtained, and some parcels which had
been previously on sale, (owing to the unsettled state of our rela-
tions with the Sicilian Government,) have been withdrawn from.
the market.—No business reported in Sumac.—The scarcity of
Cream of Tartar has enabled the few holders to obtain a further
advance during the present week, 10 casks having been sold at ;gs
to Res, and 85s per cwt. being now demanded.—Argols have been
in limited request. 20 boxes of good white Bologna brought 51s
per cwt.—Annatto is dull of sale, 5 casks being all that are reported
at Is per lb.—A parcel of 113 bags of Turkey white Galls was sold
at 65s per cwt.—Valonia steady, but sales have been on a small
scale.—The demand for all descriptions of Madder and Roots con.-
tames completely suspended.-50 casks Philadelphia Bark are re-
ported, at 12s 6d to 13s per cwt.—ln consequence of the arrival of
four vessels from Malaga, with about 300 tuns of Olive Oil, there
has appeared more disposition to sell, with a tendency to lower
prices , the sales have been small during the week, and prices rather
unsettled.—The market for Fish Oils is very inactive; notwith-
standing the limited stock of Cod, sales have this week been made
at .426, which is a further decline; in Seal Oil no business has
transpired.—Pale Rape Oil is without the least alteration, but Lin-
seea Oil is again a trifle lower, having been sold in some instances
at 245.—0il of Turpentine is offered in quantity at .456 10s, without
finding ready buyers.—About 150 tons Palm Oil have been disposed
of at £36, and a small lot from Sierra Leone at .435 ics per ton
157 bales Bombay Hemp sold at .419 to .422 per ton, and 105 bales
Jute at .411 10s.—The quotations for Tallow are nearly nominal,
hardly any transactions having taken place; on Tuesday last,
about 300 pipes and barrels of South American were offered by auc-
tion, and only a few pipes of the finer qualities sold, at a reduction
of about Is per cwt. from the previous sale.