The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATO MARKET,

March 21.
A change of wind has brought into port upwards of thirty
cargoes of Potatoes during the last two tides. There is a very
good demand for the best descriptions of Cups to our retail town
dealers. The country buyers purchase very sparingly ; the
markets in the interior being very dull, particularly in Manchester.
Manx, Scotch and Irish Cups 2s °id to 2s 2d per golb.
We have had a fair supply of Sweed Turnips to hand coastwise
during the last week, for which there is a brisk sale at from 26s to
305 per ton. according to condition and quality.
Our local markets are-pretty liberally supplied with produce by
our neighbouring farmers, for which they experience a brisk sale.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Potatoes, 9 lb. Old Hay .... 0 8 • I I 70, 20tb.
Pink-eye 2 S 2 9 New Hay.... 0 6 0 14 -
Cups 2 3 2 5 Clover Hay.. 0 7 0 10 -
Short Tops 1 9 2 0 Straw, Wheat 0 4 0 5 v 241 b
Cattle
Turnips, 2p, ton -
Carrots i 2 0 36 0 Manglewurzle 0 0 - v ton.

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, MARCH 18.
Sugar.—The announcement that no alteration was intended to
be made in the Duties, has caused an animated and extensive de-
mand for all descriptions, and the sale of B. P. amount to 1300
hhds., at an advance of 2s to 3s per cwt. 12, 00 bags Bengal have
also been disposed of at a similar improvement, viz. at about 3000
bags Khaur, at 4fls for low to Ifs for middling yellow, and the re-
mainder good to fine white at 71s to 74s per cwt. 50°0 bags
Mauritius, not reported last week, were sold at an average of about
665. No transactions in Foreign. Molasses.—The same cause
which has influenced the 8. P. Sugar market, added to the unusually
small stock, has induced the Trade to take off what few parcels
were offering. and the sales =cant to 430 puns. Demerara, at 24s
for old to 2.7 s to 28s for fair to fine new, being and advance o( Is
per cwt. Coffee.-111 consequence of the proposed reduction of
Duty on B. P and the present very limited stock, there has been
an increased demand for Plantation, and the sales comprise 140
casks of Jamaica, at an advance of fully 4s per cwt. 220 bags
Ceylon were also sold at 78s, being an improvement of 6s per cwt.
45 casks Rio (via Cape) were disposed of, price not reported.
The Tea market has borne a quiet aspect, and not much business
has been done.
39 chests of low Bengal Indigo have been sold at full prices ; 40
chests of dark liver Shell Lac at 34s ; 20 chests of Gum Arabic, at
54s for good, and in proportion for other sorts, and 30 boxes Tincal
at 42s per cwt.—For Cutch there has been more demand, and 30
tons sold at rather higher rates, with 160 baskets of Gambier at
13s 6d per cwt.—Saltpetre. 700 bags disposed of at 27s 3d to
28s 6d, and 500 bags Nitrate of Soda at 21s gd to 32s per cwt.—
The sales of Logwood are 50 tons Campeacliy at .t 7 15s, and 150
tons Honduras at £5 ; 200 tons Savauilla Fustie are reported at
£5 lOs to .ess 12s tid, and 30 tons Cuba at 5s per ton.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET• MARCH 21.
Our report of the Cotton market for the last few days does not
vary in the slightest degree from our last, all is quiet and inani-
mate, buyers merely taking for their immediate wants. On Satur-
day 3too bales were sold, and to-day 4000 at last week's prices.
The accounts from Manchester are still of a gloomy nature, and
manufacturers seem disposed to adopt the plan of short time,
though this is always a last resort in a time of low prices, when
the risk of holding heavy stocks is so inconsiderable.

COTTON MARKET.—WEEKLY REPORT.
In the early part of the week the demand was moderate, the
Trade supplying their immediate wants only; since Wednesday,
however, there has been more doing, and as holders have not
pressed their stocks on the market quite so freely, the prices of last
week for all descriptions remain without change. Speculators have
taken 9000 American, and Exporters 9,500 American and 200 Surat.
300 Sea Island are advertised for auction on Friday, Ist April.

ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF corroN,
From the 11th to the 17th instant.inelusive.

SALES OF TOE WEEK

Prices paid LairoßTs
iii the week. iThisW year

120 , Sea Island 9i 0 16 _ )
40 ;Stained
4900 , Bowed Georgia
Mobile
4050 , {
Alabama and Tennessee 4** 41 I 8225 165647
10700 New Orleans
f Pernambuco & Paraiba 7 73 & .... 1 4837
1
380
Aricati and Ceara 7 74 )
230 Bahia and Maceio
460 i Maranham
52 61 1 .... } 13073
l Sawginned
54 5* ,
....

! Minas
Para
Demerara, Surinam, tic
250 j Egyptian

5349

1 .. .. .. ..
- ill 1
}l{ g 7 2672
44 ! I
1

Barbados
50 Peruvian
Bahama..
30 Laguayra
Common 'West India, &e.. j
40 Carthagena
▪ Smyrna
• Manilla
2110 Surat ..
30' Madras
.... Bengal

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44 11 9104 l 1 44618

23390 bales

244;9 I 325410