The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-08 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, DEO, 4

There has

tingar.- ~een a moderate demand, and sales of B.P.
are 300 hhds., at former priggs. 1400 Bags Bengal have also been
disposed of, at Bls td for low, to 87s for fine white. No sales of
Mauritius. Foreign.-500 bags damaged Manilla, of low quality,
were taken by the Refiners at 15s 3d to 16s. Nothing done in other
descriptions.' Nn sainS in Bonded Refined. Treacle inquired for.
Nothing reported in Molasses. Coffee. There has been rather
mute inquiry for Plantation, particularly for the middling qualities ;
the sales consist of about 110 casks of Jamaica and a small parcel
of Demerara, at about previous rates. 15 frazils of good Mocha
brought 120 shillings per cwt. Of Foreign, 150 bags Brazil were
sold at 41s to 42s 3d per cwt. Nothing done in Cocoa, 100 bags
klarbadoes Ginger are reported at 4Ss to 46s per cwt., 170 bags
Pimento at 3d, and 200 bags black Pepper at 4d per lb. Rice.-50
tees, dressed Carolina sold at 365, duty paid. The sales of Ruin
are 100 puns. Demerara, at Ss td to tis for 27 to 33 per cent. 0.P.,
35 hhds. East India, 3s for 13 0. P., and 30 puns. American, at
as 3d for 2 per cent. 0. P. per gallon.

Tea.—Very little business has been done, but we cannot quote
any alteration in prices.

Indigo.-16 chests of Oude are reported at 3s gd per lb, all round.
The public sales on Wednesday comprised 324 dints East India
Gum Arabic, 10 chests Animi, 5 Olibanum, 42 cases Castor Oil, 5
chests and 160 bags Mother-of-Pearl Shells, 50 bags East India
Galls, and 150 bags Saltpetre; of which 90 chests Gum Arabic sold,
at prices ranging from 18s to 28s for low and ordinary, 46$ to 50s
for middling to good, and 67s per cwt. for a few chests of unnsually
fine quality, 5 chestd Olibanum at 19s to 30s, the Mother-of-Pearl
Shells at 16s to 29s 6d, as in quality, and the Galls at 655. 4 scrims
silver Cochineal sold at 4s 2d, and 72 chests Lac Dye at Is gd per
lb. For the Saltpetre brought to auction there was not a bidding;
the market has been extremely dull for some time past, and the
transactions during the last six weeks barely exceed 1100 bags, and
these at declining prices, and the quotations arereducedaccordingly.
Of Nitrate of Soda the sales are about 200 bags, within the range
of the quotations.

Dyewoods.—The sales in Logwood are about 200 tons Campeachy,
at .e 9 78 6d to £9 12s 6d, 50 tons inferior Tobasco at .e 8 los, and
20 tons Honduras and Lt. Domingo at lOs ; 20 tons Cuba Fnstic
are reportep at £9 15s to 17s 6d; 10 tons Camwood at £22 to
£26, and 15 tons solid Nicaragua Wood at .e 9 per ton. There are
no sales of Turpentine reported this week, nor is there any alteration
of price. A cargo of 1008 barrels Stokholm Tar was offered by
auction, but withdrawn, and subsequently sold at about 199. For
Montreal Pot Ashes there has been a fair demand, and 200 to 300
brls. have been sold, at 28e for 1838, 28s 6d for 1839, and 30s for
1840. Pearl Ashes are rather dull at 29s 6d, but there are no sellers
below this price. 16 bales very ordinary Jamaica Bees' Wax are
reported at £7 12s 6d per ton. There has been more business
doing in Hides, but at lower prices; about 43,800 East India Kips
were sold by auction last Friday, at lON to 11 id for sound dry
salted. Bid to sozd for Ist rubbed, 83 to 9id for sound dry and brined,
did to lid for Ist rubbed, and Sid to 7itl for second rubbed, 1500
Buffalo Hides and Kips at 6d to 61, 700 drr Valparaiso at bid to
7d, 1000 Lima at 6d to did, and about 3300 dry salted Brazil at si to
64d, (the greater part at 5d to Sid ;) 2500 salted Monte \ ~Leo were
also reported at the close of last week at 4id to 5d per lb. Tobacco.
—The demand has not been so extensive this week ; for the month
the sales amount to 2300 hhds. viz. 620 Virginialeafand4sostemmed,
90 Kentnek leaf and 1140 stemmed; of these, 480 were for Ireland,
so for Scotland, 150 for export, 300 to Speculators, and the re-
mainder to the Trade. The only alteration in prices has been an
advance of fully id per Id od Kentucky stemmed, (previously
noticed,) and a decline in Virginia leaf of id per lb, chiefly on the
better sorts. This stock is still short as compared last year at this
time.