The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-02 00:00:00

Alarfuto.

VERPOOL COLONIAL KET;, DECEMBER 29.

- In consequence of holders :iskiog very high prices, and the scarcity
of brown and low•middling qualities, to.which the demand at present
is chiefly confined. the sales of B.P. scarcely amount to 100 hhds.
13 U -bags -Beng.d,sold without variation. Nothing done in Maoritiirs
or Poreign.descriptions,and no sales.made in nolasses..-,Coffee. The •
stock of Plantation in the importers' hands is nearly exhausted, not
exceeding lid casks; the =trade are: also very indifferently supplied;
there are.no sales to report, and the quotations are continued. No-
thing .done 'Foreign...--No sales reported irk brls Jamaida
Ginger sold at £5., a small parcel of East India at 32s per cwt, and 100
bags of Piniento at 3d per lb.-1256 bags of Bengal Thee have been
sold ,at 12s 9d for good, and 14s per zwt for extra fine quality. Nothing
done in Rum.
- Nothing has .occurred in Indigo.—There has been a good dema,d•Cof
Terra Japonica, which has advanced considerably ; 30 tons were sold
early in the Week at £3O and £.31 .per eVrt ; now, however,'£3o is de.'
raanded. —l5 hhds Tincal have been sold at.5.3s per.evrt.=.l4 Saltpetre
there is nothing worthy of notice ; but there is a brisk detnand for
Nitrate of Soda, and the stock being now chiefly held by specUlators,
who are asking I,s, and retail sales have been made at this rate.
Dyewoods.--Theartivals of Campeachy Logwoofi have 'been
siderable, and the public sales. brouiltt forward have gone A* heavily ;
about 410 tons sold at £7 Nato 15s from the ship, il'of Jamaica, to
arrive, ad £6 12s 6.1. In Fustic, 30 tons of Cuba at £7 10s., and 20 tons
of Carriwood at £l6 to £lB, with some trifling sales of other kinds.-
There has-beers an extensive. business.done in Turpentine; 51100.t0
coop brls have been sold at 1 I s 2(1 for ordinary, to Ids 66 for very good;
in London 5,0) bris have been taken•On,speculation at Ils 6d, tir con-
sequence of a fire there, by which 3501 hrls were burnt.-Nothing new
in Titr.--The intelligence brought bythe-packet. relative to' the insur-
rectionary movements in Canada, has given a fresh impulse to the de-
maw] for Pot and Pearl Ashes, and prices have again advanced Is to
Is 66 per cwt, .300 to 400 Inds having been sold at 28s '.6,1 to 29s 64 for
Pot, anal 33s to 33s 6d for Pearl Ashes, and the market is very firm at

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these quetations.—l a Quercitron Bark the sales continue very limited;
at former prices.—Nothing done in Cloverseed or Flixseed,—The
sales of Elides are very limited, and the only transactions to report
are 183 dry African. Kips at 6id, and 1369 salted at aid to 44d per lb.—
The transactions in Tobacco have been about 350 hhda ; of which 200
hhds leaf
.were,taken fur re-sale, and the remainder, chiefly stemmed,
by the home-trade, at very full prices The total sales of the month
of 560 hhlls Virgnia leaf, 218 lihds stemmed, and 141 hhds Kentucky
stemmed, and stocks in the kingdom show a deficiency of 13,000, as
comp ared with last year.
• There have been several arrivals of Brimstone during the week, and
some business would have been done liacrthe holders been inclined to
take rather leasthan the prices asked, but they do not veeent disposed
to cive way. and the sales have consequently been to a limited extent.
—The arrivals or Sumac have brought buyers forward. .1,1 a
tent of business has been done at 14aAkIfoa wo.. Sicily-.7s for old, and
7s 6,1 per cwt for new Verona. —Of Argols and Cream of Tartar, the
sales have been lin:Red.—Brown Tartar in fair request ; a small'lot of
Naples. just arrived, sold at 42s per cwt.—Good Turkey ,'.[ladder Roofs
are tit fair demand at lOs ; other sorts, as well as Nladders, are neg.
lecteit—Olive Oil has been in moderate demand, and rakes have been
fully supported ; the sales of the week have been about 40 tuns.—The
Fish Oil market has been quiet through the week, till to-day, when
news was, received of an extensive fire at Davies's Wharf, London, by
which about 800 tuns Fish Oil (mostly Cod) have been consumeded
only one sale of 50 tuns Cod has since been effected at £49 ; holders
now decline selling, and the Prices are uncertain.—Seed Oils remain
steady at last week's prices.—The sales of Palm Oil are only about,lso
tons, at £34 to .e3l lOs : two vessels have since arrived, bringing about
900 tons, but the price remains steady.—Oil of Turpentine is now held
for GOs per cwt, with more inquiry.—Hemp continues in fair request
at the prices quoted ; Jute is steady but less inquired for.—The busi-
ness in Tallow has been limited this week, but with the light stock
prices are fully supported.

• LIV.ICKPOOL.COTTON NIARKET. DFc. 29. •
The demand this week has been.limited, and the arrivals being con-
siderable, prices of American have declined ha to Id per lb ; in other
descriptions there is, however, no .material change to rtatiee';
American, 150 Pernambuco and 5 0 Surat have been bought on specu-
lation. Ddring the month there have been forwarded to the country
uusold, 40 American and 500 Surat. -

ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMP,ORTS OF COTTON,

Proof the 23.1 to this lay inclusive.

. Current • IMPORTS.
SALES OF TILE WEEK. Prices. This Wk this Year
--..-------- _..___,..--- -
10 I, Sea Island l4d 6 30d -• t
B'i I Stained 6 —l2 17763 310803
5720 1 Bowed Georgia... ....... ...• 7 83
mu on ' 6 Nlnbile
t Alabama and Tennessee 6l 8 • '10583 ‘t 474674
4070 New. Orleans. . • ' . • 63 .91 . •
5 Pernandmeo and Paraiba 74 94 101 t - 53052
1 Aricati and Ceara '(l . 94 S 1.
650
5:)0 Bahia and Mauvio ......,- • .-. 74 —93 1658 27195
9 10. , 1 )
3
350 { laawr
.a;
ruhna:r( ii . . . . .....
74 8.-1 5 •• 2283
Minas .6., ..... ....
Para — -- j•• • •
Demerara• Surinam, Sm.— . 9 —12 t . 1430
.....
540 !Egyptian...—. ........... .. St 13- 20 35568'
Barbados ...... ........ , 8 —8/ .... , 280
70 Peruvian
)• T .
Bahama.
21./ Loguayra., • .•.. .61— St I 1 -
' Common West India, &c Bi. —8/ > 1182 > 24179
....
5:0, Carthagena. - 6 1 I
.
Smyrna
20 Manilla
1560 Surat 43 61. .... 70012.
60 1 Manra5......... .......
30 I Bengal ) .
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15930. bales 320451 1033602'

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. DEC. 30.
We have.had moderate arrivals of Grain: during the week, with fair,
supplies of Flour and Oatmeal. Since this day.se'nnight there has
been a better tone in the Wheat trade, generally, more inquiry frorit
the trade as well as with a view towards holdang ever, and the,quas--
lilies, of either old or new fit fur this purpose have rather exceeded
Our previous quotations. No change in the value of Flour. Ityoats
there bas been little:business passing ; at vesterday,smiarket a'pareel
of Newry was sold at 2s 9id ; fair runs of Irish were offering at 2s ifd
to 2s 8d per 451bs: Priine sample§ of Oatmeal were held at 245, bet
23s to. 23s .9(1 per 1401bs, were-the prices obtained. There has been
little doing this week in Barley, English held at 36s to 28s per qr. ;
Scotch andirish rdaltinir 45 3d to 4s 9d per (16Ibs. there has been none
offer in under 35 94 to 35 Ltd. Beans, and Peas as last noted. Some
small lots of. branded Wheat have been tak(ra at4s 9d *.• r» pre 70Ibs.
the %Tato,. pric,. fcrirm fad, floozie. A few parcels of Baltic sweet and
united States sour Flour have been sold; the former at 25.5 to 269, and
the latter at 21s to 22s per, barrel.

LIVERPOOL PROVISION 'MARKET. JAN: 1.
. The favourable view we have lately.taken of the Butter market is
about being realised ;—speculators' are on the qui wive." and the
trade eagerly pick up everythidg of .fresh* prime quality—the stock
of, which is exceedingly small.--Rather better prices are to be had for
prime Beef and,. Perk, a few hundred.harrels al the-latterhave been
shipped for Sydney, N.S.W. during the past week.—Bacon, Hams and
Lard steady.

s. (I. R.
93 0 6) 95

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0 per cwt.

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Banbridge , •80 0- 88' 0
Coleraine B6 0 —0, 0
Sligo B4 0 86. 0
Derry ..B- 0 86 '1
Limerick -
Carrick -
Kilkenny -
Carlow, -
Waterford
Newry BO 0 86' 0 —,.-
Cork dry 3ds BO 0 0 0, --
Do. pickled gds 9O. 0 91 0
BRIM—New Prune Mess 9O 0 ' lON- 00 per Mow.
Do.
PORK
BACON 4B' 0 50 0 per cwt.
Day Thms
WET Do
LARD.-Firlt in
Bladdered