The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-01

1855 Upland. .............. IS o 80 o
so SEA- st. p ,sShs 30 81 50
20 Pernsmbuco ........,. Q 400 Q
az S sSaSaloups .'..'.'. % 50 50
! lo,7l6 Bales.
report has been succeeded by very slack demand with
rather less 6rmness in prices The sales effected were
only So bbls American Potash, first brands, at "a 10
down 81 So at which latter quotations there are
more sellers than buyers Nothing has been done IN
| Il 25) paid. The Baltimore and Argo, from New
York in with tw hundred and ninetysix bbis Pos
place al Is SO per kill in bond and SO casks Phade
phia Querciron Bark were disposed Of at 10 3d. duty
paid. We have received 81 packages Bees WAX IRON m
the received from La Plata some shipments
Hides may shortly be expected to come forward our
market has therefore been very dull since last report
only Buenos Ayres dry having been sold at 75
and 400 New York wet sailed at seS c. per half Kill
duty paid RceOur stock Of Carolina being quite ex-
hawed the sales consist Of lots in second hands amount
ing $50 terces at 81 l21 to 80 per so kill duty q
$40 paid Some speculation has taken place in East IN.
dia and 76 arrive found purchasers at rs to %
for home use. We have received 90 terces IRON New
York Argo. Tallow.-There has been good enqui
ny for Talow advance previous rates the sales
consisting OF 1870 casks Russia yellow partly to arrive az
per so kill duty paid lot of 81 bbls American Lard
found buyers at SO for consumption The Argo and
and 42e bbls Lard whalebone Scarcely any demand
has been manifested in this article, which, owing to the
large amount OF stock and the haness IN ne
tons north fishery at 40 to 49, and
southern at Ssh to 60 per XII aor CONSUMPTION
dies arrived from New York. stocks 100 tons against
month the price Of home Wheat experienced advance
Of IS per hectotre (2 bushels the average accor
month being "a TO- against 10 50 in ls45, and ID II
in is44. At the last Montivliers market the average
price was 50 90 per sack Of 300 Kill We now bare
Of foreign growth the import duty at present an
per hectoItre by national favored flags No change
quote as pre- vously at SO per Dbl in bond We have
received 1000 bbls from New York, which had already
been sold Woods-The transactions have been to Is,r
during the past week the sales consisting Of 25
tons st Domingo Logwood at 40 10 tons Sapan Wood
10 So and afterwards resold at IL 80 to 2o and ii
Porto Rico at 75 per 90 Kill duty paio some sup
| plies arrived from st. Domingo our colonies, &C.
BoMsAr, August 6.-Cotton-The transactions in this
staple have not been extensive and there is but lit lie al
rat at rs SO Say per candy-which is about ~
lower than last month Other sorts are without change
The quality of the cotton market inferior Cot
ton cures-The market for these has been, till
now almost entirely closed and we have consequently
but ie " to record The only sales indeed
comm unicated to the following $50 pieces grey
ongcloths SO yds by as in per pieces 500 do do.
co yJs by % in rs g. Is expected that the favorable
char acer the will lead, long, to a
m On o an the src,x o
Cochinea has slightly declined quote the article
mnal at rs. per pound Exchange-The money mar
ket having become easier, exchange on England has
given way Since last bills have been sold ct "a
0ad downwards and the rate of transactions for this
date may be quoted at Is l2sd to Is per rupee, at six
months sight On Calcutta sixty days, the rate is
par; Madras at thirty days, rs 99a and on China at
sixty days 206 2ss per 100 dollars Freights have
latterly sustained further decline owing to the heavy
arrivals of tonnage Yarns.-Prices remain without
much change and transactions have been reported
for publication though understand that sales to the
eteat of about 5000 lbs of Water at ~ for No.
90 and sss annas for No 3d. have had effect tnce our
last
We have received the following reports respecting the
Aft in farfn
sailing OF the Cambria
MIseHr,rxR-There was rather less animation in the
tanned and, in cases, further advance de-
manded by manufacturers, though, We believe, not
transacted was not large. The Yarn market
quite firm, and some spinners who last week demand
ed an advance, accepted orders at previous rates
RocHpALr-we have had q better demand for Flan-
nes prices much the those Of the previous
week The Wool msrke, has been slack, and the busi
mass transacted has been upon very limited scale Mid
ding priced Wool is extremely scarce, and difficult to
meet with
HUDDEHsrrELp.- slight improvement has taken place
since las, market day. although there have not been
ny heavy sales The warehouses have been rather bu-
er during the week But little doing in the Wool mar
ket
LEED,-There has been scarcely average tquantity
doing Cloth halls but since the greater part Of
business is chiefly transacted by direct deliveries from
the manufacturers to the merchants market days do
afford just criterion to the general tone OF bust.
ness which may be said to be much the hitherto
NorIrSoHAM-The branches OF the Hosiery trade
with few exceptions, got considerably and lit
tie is heard amongst the poorest class but want of work.
bnnst trade may Be considered as Considerably mpro
we'd, particularly in plain nets, most OF the German
Isipsic fair The Cotton warp Lace trade keeps grad
asy improving the frames being slowly put to work
a The o said o ss
Silk trade, which, on the whole is very dull.
LErcEsrKR.-There is fair average demand for the
home trade and though it is now "betweeD seasons"
tho Anor and al rlr~to
unable to perceive any symptoms in this locality of
those disastrous" circumstances which Of the
opoan and provincial papers declare to have resulted
to the manufacturing districts from the passing of free
trade Indeed there every prospect in the home de-
having been mostly engaged in the fields during the last
month, little work has been brought in from the
villages and stocks Of wrought hose are consequently
low. Prices Of material remain stationary and
firm.
BRApronp-There is full supply of all kinds of comb.
ing Wool in the market but sales difficult to effect
prices generally ruling too high to induce the spnners
to buy freely The demand for yarns continues to i'm
prove, both for export and home consumption. We
glad learn that spinners generally obtaining
vance, spinning for many months past has been most
runous trade. There is steady business doing in ali
kinds of Piece Goods suited to the approaching
manufacturers for the most part making to order
Prices are fully maintained
AVERAGE Pace OF SuoAR.-The average price of
brown OF muscovado computed from the returns made
in the week ending the LIST day of September 1896 ex
elusive OF the duties customs paid or payable thereon
the mporation thereof into Great Britan:-From the
British possessions in America 32s skd Mauritus 33s
East Indies 33s I'd per cwt. The average pdce of
the three foregoing descriptions of sugar SOS I'd per
cwt
TIE IsoS TRApE-The present state of the iron trade
the South Stafordshire district 10 satisfactory as II
has been for many years past The very extensive and
increased demand for home consumption for carrying
the railway projeets with the requirements
of the export trade, calling into requisition all the
improved facilities of production, and must keep them
fully employed for some years The order books both
at the larger and smaller works. well filed with
ders, in many instances of such nature will in their
OyRr n mn riodf han mr.
binary and fresh contracts brought forward every
week Tor various requisites for railway contradiction
These are generally for heavy articles; and though
very considerable quantity of pig sold and dis
ropted AMONG the works in the neghborhood quarter
purchases find their stocks diminishing more rapidy
than they had calculated, and in many instances have
been under the necessity OF giving much higher prices
for extended supplies The uncalled for reduction that
submitted 20 during the last quarter and hich was