The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

her foreign
e. Dutch-

lantity

a lively day in COTTON,
's have been down and pur.

, even for

.nd amongst t

reduction in price would do no
all eventually. The stock o'
against 449,650 L ales this tim,
week were only 23,010 baler
300, exporters 700, and spi
from kd. to id. per lb. br v those rt
week.
Not much doing in tl gIAL
sugar there has been a fair for
ties, and stiff prices have 1- .ainer
rather more inquiry for West India 11,.
are very difficult of sale, and several parcels are offering at
lower rates. The inquiry for rum continues steady: 100
puncheons Demeraras haw been sold since Friday, at
2s. Bd. to 3s. 61. for 14 to 38 per cent. O.P. A cargo of
Logwood sold by public auction at £6 to £6 2s. 6d. 'ii' ton.
Rice is a shadelower. Saltpetre is asked for both on the spot
and to arrive. Jute is scarce, and commands a ready sale.'
There has not been the sI
London markets during the we,_
veral kinds of produce have been a„
mit to lower prices, in order to effect
now be accomplished in any case w
duction on the ruling prices. The
have had to give way 6d. to ls. per cwt. In coffee the
sales have been small. Of 35,000 packages of tea offered
at the public sales last week, only one-fourth were dis-
posed of, at a reduction. The silk sales have as yet pro-
ceeded heavily.
There has been very little done in on
this week: manufacturers are buying wit
to supply their immediate wants. In
been a little more doing. Imports for
Scotch.-378 ; previously, 2972 ; tro-'
Foreign, previously to last-

d but serious

jury to

)n is 288,930-_billes- ,

year. The sales for last
which speculators took
22;010 bat

he Coro

.efining quali_

There has bees
Benzals

lauritit

'icishtest iin
TI-u

provement in the
importers of se-
compelled to sub-
les, which cannot

importers of sugar

WOOL MARKET

th caution, merely
Ach there has

the week

—lmports of

THE IRON TRADE here has becom
depressed, as will be seen on comparing the pri _
with our last week's quotations. In Scotch Pig Iron very
little business has been done during the past week
have gradually declined, and are now nominal, e
43s._for No. I, and 41s. to 425. for mixed number

still further
ices subjoined

Flues
425. to

The CORN TRADE in this town st
inactive state. Prices since Frida,
steady, being incapable of any m
sequence of the inconsiderable a
ceived during the past week ; 3
which arrived on Saturday, is th
of note since last market day.
we find that prices have been
in this country and in

'1 remains in a dull,
continue

howev

n Ulan corn,

:ounts receivers

well sum

reland

h in one or two

instances a decline has been submitt
There is a moderate business doin
the PROVISION TRADE. Irish butte]
ket is quite cleared, has not realised.

rticles of
he mar-

owing to the indifferent, qu
which are barely suffici

y of the recent ar

to keep the trade going untii
n is in fair demand, at the

new comes forward. 13a,_
subjoined quotations. Hams a,
of Lard have a downward tend,
14th to the 20th instant (yeste
2,267 firkins, 835 crocks; bacoi
hhds. ; lard, 1 tierce, 33 keg
yesterday—Butter: Waterford,
Carlow, and Clonmel, 88s. to 92s
Wexford, Carlow, 88s. to 89s. ;
Ballymoney and Coleraine, 86s.
81s. to 88s. ; Newry and Dundalli
Carlow, 84s. to 88s. ; Sligo, 80s.
82s. to 863.—Bacon Long Middl
565. to 60s. ; Short Middles, 58
40s. to 54s.—Lard; fine Keg, 61
40s. to 545.

.
Arrivals from the
riclusive : butter,

in, 1-68

hams, 13

Prices in Liverpool'
to 945. ; Kilkenny,

:o 92s

; _ Banbridge,
Dublin,

Ds. to 82s

e from bone, new,
American.

to 60s.
to 66s

mencan,

American Cheese continues in 6,
all the la!e imports have been taken of
firm, and a good business has been (lc
Strips, at improving prices, have been L.
Mess is much wanted. Bacon : all the late imports
been cleared off, a considerable poition has gone to
don, where it realizes ss. to is. per cwt
in good demand, and the price reir^'
standing the late heavy haw.'

I demand, and nearly
Beef remains

ns steady, n

The imports of TIMBER this mon.
of St. John timber, and 1 of St. An
is an improvement in this branch of
of last week were—A cargo of St. Jol
inches string measure at 181 d. per fa

foot of 2 inches ; birch an d red. pi
at 30s. per fathom ; another
at 18d. per foot, with deals at:
cargo averaging 181 inches at