Public Sale Notice On Brokers Names Policy
Announcement explains free insertion for notices of public sales but requires brokers to notify if they want names announced before the sale day and a 6d duty will be charged.
03 Feb 1841
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Newspaper
Commercial Daily List
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 03, 1841
Page
1
Announcement explains free insertion for notices of public sales but requires brokers to notify if they want names announced before the sale day and a 6d duty will be charged.
At No 26 Commercial Sale Rooms and other venues listed, various commodities including coffee, sugar, pepper, sago, flour, cacao, and dyes were put up for sale at precise afternoon times. Items span Ceylon coffee, Bengal pepper, Mauritius and Jamaica goods, and imports from Dominica, Barbary, and West Indies with prices noted. notices indicate public sales and warehouse addresses in Mince Lane and Great Tower Street.
Inventory record from Garraway's Coffee House listing numerous goods in stock and quantities. Items include gums bark spices dyes coffee sugar cocoa various linens and commodities with exact bags casks drums and cases noted, alongside broker details and location at 11 Cannon Street.
A historical catalog fragment lists goods including Barbadoes Aloes 48, Oil Cinnamon 30, Hepatic Aloes 13, Roll Annatto 40, Gum Copal 10, Isingless Brazil 10, Bucca Leaves 6, with quantities in kegs, bris, cs and bls. Sailors and merchants track shipments from Barbados to Canada Baleam AL.
The Eastern question settlement barely affected the English stock market with Consols at 89 1 2 for account and 89 3 4 for money. Money remained tight in discount markets amid New York's negative reports, first-rate bankers bills at 4 percent, merchants at 5 to 5 1 2 percent. Foreign exchanges were heavy with Paris, Hambro, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Trieste, Marseille, Vienna, Genoa quoted. Sugar demand moderate while Mauritius sales showed prices ranged by grade from 4 2s to 8 10s per cwt and total bags sold at public sale.
Report details imports shipments and current stocks across four London dock warehouses for the week ending January 30 1841 with stocks compared to the same period last year. Highlights include wheat corn oats barley and other produce amid ongoing trade activity and supply levels.
The arrivals from the Continent include the Hambro mail due Friday, with no French mail from Wednesday. The Hambro, Mexican, and West India mails are delayed due to bad weather and contrary winds. No fresh arrivals today and Lloyds reports few sailings.
A second passenger arrived via Dublin from New York recounting the wreck of the Garrick. Most passengers were saved on January 7 and notes that four steamers departed New York for an aid effort.
A detailed list of ships passing Gravesend and their cargos. Africa from Calcutta reports 2073 bags sugar while Ganges from Bombay brings 3465 cks various goods. Other vessels note tallow butter cheese eggs flax and timber among Sundries with routes from Odessa Batavia Jamaica and China.
East India Shipping lists vessels arriving from Singapore and Batavia on December 17 to 18 and marking sailings for London Amsterdam Rotterdam and Batavia. Names include Sarah Scott Davison Nehalininia Versta and others with crews and destinations such as Siam Holland and Valparaiso noted.
The report details 1840 market trends in Hamburg for tobacco hides cotton and related goods. It notes price rises in rolls and general declines except for specific origins, stock levels in décembre, import figures for Buenos Ayres and other regions, and cautious spring delivery demand. It discusses dry and salted calves skins sheep and lamb skins horse hides and rising cotton exports and twist stock shifts. It also mentions ginger and pimento price movements and expectations of market firming from England.
Applications for the Commencian Duty List are to be made at the London Chamber of Commerce, 48 Mincing Lane. Printed by Thomas Smith and published by W. Harcraft. Terms 7s 6d per quarter in Town and 15s per quarter in the Country, free of postage.
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