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Newspaper
Commercial Daily List
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 05, 1850
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes list produce stocks and desk ware at Cotton's Wharf for the week ending June 1. The entry mentions arrivals on June 4 and references years or periods but is incomplete and difficult to interpret.
A detailed ledger of imports into Liverpool listing vessel counts from Calcutta Bombay Africa and other ports, with cargo categories including spices, coffee, cotton, dyes, woods, tobacco, sugar, rum, tea, tar and more. Numerous quantities in bales bags tons casks and boxes accompany country and port markers.
A long list from a historical shipping record shows broad imports into London including rapeseed, tobacco, sugar, mustard seed, molasses, oats, wheat, timber, flour, wine, and spices. Named origins feature Alkmaar Antwerp Malta Malta and others with numerous quantities and container types noted for each item.
A fragmented list of imported goods and commodities by various vessels from Leer and other ports. Items include beer, cotton, cork, flour, cattle, fruit, metals, oil, provisions, wool, wine, timber, and lathwood with quantities. Mentions multiple ships and ports such as St Michaels Rotterdam Hambro Bremen Memel and Gothenburg.
Shipping cargo from Africa lists cattle 390 head, Cordilla 1440 hds, and APHENES GSA goods. Fruit includes 434 boxes oranges, 7267 palm nuts, and sugar. rum and wine appear with several crates. Mammals like elephants teeth and camwood are noted among varied commodities.
A letter from James Petrie of Liverpool argues for direct purchase of Indian cotton by Manchester firms to bypass middlemen. He cites experiments by the East India Company and new saw-gin machines showing natives can produce and process seed cotton efficiently. He notes transport costs and price issues, urging sustained local cultivation and market development.
Reports from the Bristol sugar market highlight a superior quality sugar with bright color and fine granule. A new centrifugal drying and cleaning process shortens refining from weeks to minutes, making previously unsaleable sugar exportable at about 363 per cwt and reducing drainage waste.
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