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Newspaper
Commercial Daily List
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 06, 1850
Page
1
The piece notes a partial market holiday while praising improved commerce for Colonial Produce. It reports higher consumption, increased shipments, and rising prices in many commodities including cotton sugar and refined goods, with broader activity in British manufactured goods and raw materials amid abundant money and cautious selling.
A lengthy report notes no improvement in iron trade as blast furnaces fail to rebalance supply and demand. Despite expectations from furnace shut downs in Scotland and Staffordshire, pig iron stocks remain high and orders for manufactured iron from consumers stay weak.
The Hull port report dated May 31 1850 shows 3331 quarters of linseed arrived, with Memel shipments of 2541 and Konigsberg 300. Prices reached 4d4s 6d per quarter for Memel linseed, and 40s per quarter for fine Peters burg. Oil markets are quiet with limited transactions and prices 298 to 295 3d per cwt. Rape oil demand weak, olive oils slow, and fish oils with small coastwise arrivals.
The Customs at various ports report directions from commissioners to forward to the Registrar-General for shipping a detailed account of Spanish vessels. The data cover entry and departure for 1848 and 1849, listing ports, cargo status, ballast or cargo loads, and fish cargo departures.
Letters from Marseilles report Tunis and Algiers wool sold at a 25 percent premium. Silk demand rises at southern fairs. The Moniteur lists May first fortnight wheat prices across markets, with averages ranging from 11f 95c to 15f 14c per hectolitre in cities including Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes, Metz, and Le Havre.
The weekly gross receipts of traffic on the various railway lines are reported, detailing aggregate earnings and comparisons across routes. The notice lists totals by line and notes overall performance for the period.
Printed and published in London by Wintras Horcraft and W. Everatt Finch Lane. Price 10s per quarter in Town and 178 40 in the Country free of postage. June 6, 1850.
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