01 Feb 1841
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Newspaper
Commercial Daily List
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 01, 1841
Page
1
A dense report lists goods including Honduras sugars, coffee, rice, pepper, and spices among 184 logged ships and multiple cargoes. It notes prices, duties, and cargoes sold or wrecked, with dates February 3 through February 19 and references to Jamaica, Ceylon, Barbados, and Mauritius. Market conditions show heavy sols, varied stock, and steady money rates.
Vessels list arrivals at Gravesend and Downs with cargoes including 5702 bags sugar from Mauritius, 235 bales flax and 2270 casks butter from Harlingen, and goods such as oranges potatoes wine nuts granite and more. Debrief notes arrivals at Dungeness Falmouth and Liverpool with tea and tallow prices and quiet markets in Liverpool.
The circular discusses the Queen's speech urging economy yet adequate public service funding. It notes Corn prices likely fall, reducing foreign import incentive, and quotes discount and bill rates. Manchester trade shows flat demand with cloth and yarn sold on easier terms, steady prices after declines, and mixed activity in cotton with 3000 American and 300 Surat bought on speculation.
Listing of assorted goods and quantities for sale or storage at Garraway’s Coffee House. Items include cowries gum arabic sponge oil peppermint ginger pomegranate peel bark rosemary colocynth scammony antimony and various botanicals with quantities in bags cases drums and bottles. Benjamin and Otto Roses appear among the entries with broker J. T. Jaune noted at 11 Cannon Street.
The document lists prices for cocoa spices and staples and notes limited activity in rum tea indigo and shellac. It details bags of cocoa pimento ginger and pepper, rice rum prices, indigo, caraccas, timbers, turpentine, tar ashes olive oil and other commodities with varying rates and limited sales.
The report notes price fluctuations driven by import stocks, with Britain and the United States exerting limited influence. It projects rising business due to bountiful colonial crops, and outlines coffee and sugar stock levels, prices, and recent shipments alongside notes on cocoa and pepper markets.
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