The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

Coffee.—There has been a very good demand for Plantation, and
the sales comprise 250 casks of Jamaica ; ordinary qualities brought
fully former rates, whilst middling sorts and the finer descriptions
sold with much briskness, and realized an advance, in most
instances, of 4s per cwt. 240 bags of Mocha, of very common
quality, sold at 92s to g4s per cwt. No sales of Foreign. 180 bags
of cocoa have been disposed of at 50s 6d to 52s for Trinidad, and
43s to 549 per cwt. for Grenada ; 120 bags good Bengal Ginger at
20s, and 230 bags Malabar at 16s per cwt. ; 120 bags Pimento at 3d
and 130 bags black Pepper at 4d per lb. 30 tees. of fine Carolina
Rice are reported at 225, in bond, and 20 tees. at 36s per cwt., duty
paid. The business in Rum is limited to a small parcel of middling
Demerara, 32 per cent. 0. P., 5s 8d per gallon.

Tea.—There has been a good demand, and a fair business has
been done at last week's prices, the market closes quiet, but firm.

A few chests East India Indigo have been taken, at steady prices•
396 slabs Banca Tin, at auction, brought 75s 6d. 130 bags Java
Turmeric sold at Itis, and 12 bales ordinary Bengal Safflower at 70s.
The demand for Saltpetre is good, but it is firmly held ; the sales
are about 700 bags, at 25s for low, and 28s 6d to 295 for good quality.
About 300 bags of Nitrate of Soda has been taken at the quotations.

Dyewoods.—The sales are 250 tons Campcachy Logwood at
£9 10s, 100 tons St. Domingo and Jamaica at .e 7 5s to lOs ; 75

tons Cuba Fvstic at .69 Os to £lO ; 49 tons St. Domingo at.eB Ins ;
and 70 tons Lima Nicaragua Wood at £l3 15s to £l4 10s per ton.
The sales of Turpentine have been rather more extensive than
usual, amounting to 3000 barrels, at 126 to 12s 4d per cwt. For
American Tar there is a brisk demand, and at a public sale of 1000
barrels, although 17s was accepted for 100 barrels, the remaining
900 barrels brought 175 ed to 18s. There has been less disposition
to buy Pot Ashes, and the market has consequently become duller,
but 27s has been given for a few small parcels of the new imports,
and there are no sellers under that price. Pearl Ashes are in very
limited demand, at 2ys to 2gs 3d per cwt. Hides.—The public sales
of Friday went off briskly, and the whole sold at full prices, as
follows :-1350 dry salted Ceara at bid to bid, 300 Pernambuco
heated at sid to 6d, 430 Lima at ;id, 3350 dry Valparaiso 84d to
Sid, 410 Lima at 434 d, 1680 salted New South Wales at 4d, 157
Mobile at 40c1; 16,000 East India Kips, at 12id fox sound dry salted,
led to lnidfor Ist rubbed, and 84d to 81e1 for second rubbed, yd to
10d for sound brined and dry, 81d to 811(1 for Is rubbed, and 7 to 7id
for second rubbed, and 270 dry salted Buffalo at 6d to did per lb for
sound ; some considerable sales of salted Monte Video have also
been made at 5d to Sid per lb. About 40 bales Horse Hair arc re-
ported, Sid to go for short, and I lid to llid per lb for fair mixed.
Tobacco. The sales this week amount to 130 hhds.. and would have
been considerably more han our market afforded a proper selection ;
none of the recent imports from Virginia are yet on sale, but are
now in course of sampling, and are expected to open at prices con-
siderably above our quotations; the quality is by no means so tine
as was expected.

The chief business done this week in Brimstone, has been the
sale of a cargo to arrive, at something below the rates now current
in the market. Some small parcels of Sumac taken for immediate
Use, constitute the business done in this article, ruling at 12s 6d for
Sicily, 7s for Verona, and 6i yd per cwt. for coarse ground .Trieste
A fair demand for Argols has taken off about 100 casks, and :
33s for Oporto, and 30s Gd to 78s for the better descriptions,
Nothing reported in Cream of Tartar or brown Tartar. Flag
Annatto has brought an advance, a few casks having been sold at
Is 2d. Berries in limited request. The demand for Valonia con-
tinues nearly suspended. The inquiry for Madder and Roots con
tinues good, and about 200 bales Turkey Roots have fopud buyers
at the °notations. 30 casks Dutch, and 20 :asks French Madder
are reported but the price has not transpired. 20 quarters inferior
East India Linseed have been taken at sus per quarter. Olive Oil
has continued in good demand throughout the week, and prices
have been fully supported ; the sales have reached 150 tuns, a large
portion of which was Spanish, ruling from £55 to £55 lOs per tun ;
other sorts are less easy to buy without paying some advance.
Fish Oils have become very dull of sale; no transactions worth
notice are reported in any descriptions. Seed Oils are also in
limited demand, and Linseed has been offered rather lower, but
without leading to business. In Oil of Turpentine the sales appear
confined to small lots by the Distillers, at about the annexed
quotations Palm Oil.—The market continues steady, but the sales
of the week amount to only 125 tons, chiefly in small lots. at last
week's prices. For Hemp and Flax our quotations are firmly
maintained, and for Jute £l5 has been realized for •'250 bales ; 306
bales Bombay Hemp are also reported at '2O per ton. For yellow
Candle Tallow, in the early part of the week, a moderate demand
continued, at 54s to 545 Gd for new Petersburg, and 53s Gd for
Odessa, and on Monday last 120 pipes South American sold readily,
by auction,at 45s up to 535, the quality being chiefly very superior;
the decline in the London market has since checked transactions
here, but no sales reported at any reduction in prices.