18 Feb 1841
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Newspaper
Commercial Daily List
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 18, 1841
Page
1
Notice states that announcements of public sales with brokers' names are free only on sale day. If brokers want prior announcements, they must notify in advance and pay a 1s 6d duty. The policy limits pre-sale naming to brokers who opt in.
At eleven o'clock precise JOMS TEA 617 pkgs 1000 pkgs RG by Sundry Brokers. At Garrakhay's Coffee House two o'clock precise various goods listed including Barb Aloes Camel s and Camphor. Also many other items from Sundry Brothers and other firms with dates noted for March auctions and notices of fur sales.
Readable fragments cover arrivals Scheveningen Adriana Pic Egmond and others, fur stock listings with various animals, and broad commodity prices. Market summaries include stocks, foreign exchange, sugar, coffee, rice, tea, saltpetre, tallow plus telegraphic ship movements and cargoes from Calcutta to Bahia.
Liverpool Monday saw brisk demand for cotton with price advances. The resulting improved enquiry spread to Manchester yesterday, lifting both goods and yarn trades. Yarn saw the strongest activity with many cases at higher rates than last week though not as high as a few weeks ago.
A compact inventory lists wholesale cargoes including 512 bags Ceylon coffee 379 Java Bengal China 540 bags White Bengal 4000 Mauritius 1165 ES 9d duty and 324 chests 2550 mats Cassia Ligier Pepper 196 bags Black White 1 cask Bose Mace Hides Bones Skins for export totals 17300 salted 6200 dry Monte Video cattle 5600 Madagascar ox cow 166 2819 African dry 1450 Costa Rica 575 EI dry salted 153 Madagascar goat 3500 bags Black F and H pieces.
Tuesday February 83S reports limited arrivals and drift in trade. Sugar making has begun in Barbadoes, with uneven rainfall causing patchy cane yields. Plantations vary from six hogsheads per forty acres to two and a half hogsheads per twenty five, signaling a likely poor crop similar to last year.
From Havre dated February 18 the Le Rhone report shows U S cotton market positions with 5170 bales traded at varied prices. Sales include Louisiana Mobile Georgia Floridas and Pernambuco with fr values noted and coffee demand harder with bad St Domingo crops and Rio and colonial sugar steady amid other items like pot ash and pearl ash.
Applications for the Commencian Dang List to be made at the Office for the London Chamber of Commerce, 43 Mincing Lane. Printed by Tuomas Suits and published by W. Horcuare.
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