The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, FEB. 25

Sugar.—The demand is still very limited, the sales of B. P. being
only 100 hhds., and in the present unsettled state of the market
prices are very uncertain. 1500 bags Bengal have been taken at
about former rates. Nothing done in Mauritius. Foreign.—The
sales amount to 200 cases and 900 bags brazil; middling brown
Pernambuco at 17s, fine brown to greyish yellow Bahia at ISs to
18s 6d, and middling to fine dry white at 20s 6(1 to 23s per cwt. ; all
new Sugars. A cargo of Bahia has also been purchased afloat, at
17s 6d to 22s (id per cwt., deliverable here. Nothing to report in
Molasses. Coffee.—There are no sales of Plantation to notice, or
of any other description ; former quotations arc continued. 400
bags Malabar Ginger at 14s per cwt., and 150 bags black Pepper at
3d to aid per lb. No sales of Cocoa or Pimento. 25 tees. fine
Carolina Rice sold at 30s, and 1300 bags Bengal at its 6d to 12s per
cwt. Rum.—The demand continues good, particularly for the finer
qualities ; the sales are 170 puns. Demerara, 30 to 40 per cent O. P.,
at 3s lld to 4s 6d, a few common Berbice, 13 per cent 0. P., at
2s
8d p
7d,Ne vrithgaallsomn.all lot of certified East India, 22 per cent. 0. P., at
2s
Tea.— Throughout the week the market has been firm, and prices
remain without alteration.

There are no transactions to report in Indigo. 47 chests Cowries
have been sold at 590 6d for small, and a few chests of large Shells
at 54s 6d; 540 bags Malabar Turmeric at 20s, and 260 bags of
Bengal, price not reported, and 16 bales Bombay Safflower at 325.
100 bags Sago Flour realized 16s per cwt. In Saltpetre and
Nitrate of Soda more businss has been doing; nearly 3000 bags of
the former sold at 27s 3d to 28s 3d, and of the latter, a cargo of 300
tons to arrive, price not named, and 5.0 bags on the spot at 22s 6d
to 23s 6d per cwt.
llyewoods.—The sales of Logwood are confined to small lots of
Campeachy at £7 5s to £7 15s, according to quality, and Jamaica
£5 7s 6d; 80 tons Savanilla Fnstic are reported at £5 12s 6d to
£5 15s, 20 tons Lima Wood at £l4, £2O tons Red Sanders Wood
£6 10s from the quay, and a few tons Carnwood at £25 to .1.6 per
ton. The sales of Turpentine arc rather more extensive than
usual, amounting to 2350 brs., viz. 780 in store at 1 is gd, 000 at 12s,
and 1250 on the quay at 12s 4d ; the quality of this latter parcel was
good. No sales reported in Tar. Although the market for Pot
and Pearl Ashes is very firm, the business has been trifling;
the few sales which have taken place have heen made at the previous
quotations. Hides.—There have been no public sales, but one or
two large parcels of salted River Plate have been taken by private
at fair prices. The demand for Tobacco has again been extensive,
and nearly 600 hhds. have been sold this week ; of these about 280,
chiefly good Virginia leat, have been taken for export, 120 of a
similar ciass on speculation, 60 for Ireland, and the remainder by
the Ttade.
The consumers of Brimstone being pretty well stocked, are buy.
lug just now very sparingly ; the sales this week are under 50 tons
of Sicily ; 40 tons Smyrna have been sold, from the quay, at £3 ss,
and for the same quantity, now in store, £3 (Os per ton is asked.
—lOO bags Sicily Shumac are reported at lOs 6d to 105 941 per cwt.
No sales to notice in Verona or Trieste.-40 casks Naples white
Argots have been sold at the quotations. 10 casks Cream of Tar-
tar at 675, and so bags Turkey Galls at 576 per cwt.