SYDNEY COMMERCIAL INELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 469, 12 October 1850, Page 3

SYDNEY COMMERCIAL INELLIGENCE.

Trade is at present in as prosperous a state a? could be expected or detired, so far as the retailer* are concerned. Their stocks are limited, their purchaws are made with judgment and in moderation, and on their part there is no appearance of a desire for speculation —their profits are regular, and though remunerative, are not excessive in any instance, and export orders are now being executed by them at as low a rate as they have ever been taken at ; one or two articles, as Coffee and Tobacco, are, it is true, still quoted at extreme rates. The merchants have profited little by their importations, coming in contact, as they have, in their operations with the retailers, who hare indented their goods, and the jealousy existing between many of our principal importing houses materially affects the interests of all. Ale and Porter, in wood and bottle, are dull of «ale. Apples — dried — none in the market. Arrowroot— five island— enquired for. Brandy— Quotations si. 6J.~ n0 sales, Cement — very dull. Cheese— English— dull. Cigars— stock light, and in the bands oi the trade. Clouei— a limited supply. Coffee— A large parcel, ex Albion, is being offered at i)d. The importers are exceedingly firm, in con* sequence of the scanty supply known to be he'd in this as well as in the neighbouring ports. Copper— is in fewer hands, but is sill quoted low. Cordage— English, Manila, and Coir, are each held in limited quantities by the trade at an extreme figure. Currants — are quoted at 4d. to 4£d.; induced by low rates, the consumption it considerably in excett of an average. Fruiti— bottled— are offered at low ratei. Genera— quotations Us. 6d. to 12«. Ginger— bleached— light stocks. Gunpowder— market supplied. Hops— a limited supply. Iron— market supplied. -• Lead— Holders look for bijh ratei. Molasses— enquiries, market bare. Mustard— lbs., dull, £ lbs. saleable. Naili— much enquired for, market bare. Nutmegs — market bire, quotation! 3*. 6d. Nuts— plentiful, quotation! 6d. Oil— linseed— boiled and raw, are quoted by the only holders at 6s. Peas— Split— Enquiries ; quotations Bs. 3d. to Bi. 63, Pepper— Enquiries for export. Pickles — pints are scarce, large quantities baring been taken for shipment. Raisins— some parcels have changed hands at 3£d. per Ib. Rum— This market looks more firm daily, fine sample* are in few hauds. Soda Ash— Heary Stocks. Soda— Crystals— unlygin the handt of the trade. Starch— stocks— the increased manufacture of the colonial article, checks the sale of imported* Sugar— Sales hare again been heavy this week, and at rather improved rates. Tea -has gone off in quantity, no alteration to note. Tobacco— Sales have been heary, stocks are in the hands of the trade, and being fait reduced. Turpentine— market supplied, quotations ss.

Wheat— For the season of the year, a good supply of colonial has arrived by the roads during the week — pricei rule from 49. 3d. to 4i. sd. Imported waeat is quoted at 4s. 6J. to 4s. Bd., according to quality. Other Grain— Oatt, 3s. 3d.; Bailey, 2s. Cd.; and Maize, 3s. b'd. per bushel. Flour— remains at lait quotations £11 for fine, £19 tot second*, and £§ For ration per ton of 2000 lbs. Bran— Bd. to 9rf. per buihel. Biscuit— No. 1, [cabin,) 1 7a., and No. 2 (Mp.) 13«. per cwt. Potatoes— Colonial £3 to £i 109. per ton. No imported in the market. Forage— Hay, £2 lOi. to £& lOi., and straw £\ 10s to £2 per ton. Green food sd. to 6d. per dozen bundles by the load. Cattle, &c, for slaughter—The market continue! to be very inadequitely supplied with good stock, though of inferior there Uno scarcity, Amoo<* the gates of the past week we have heard of a lot of 80 cattle going at £2 a head ; two lots, one containing 80 and the other 30, at £2 55.; and a lot of 98 head at £2 2s. Sheep have ruled from 6s. 3d. to 7*. per head, accord* ing to quality. Calves from 10s. to 255., and limbs from 6s. to Bs. Large fat pigs are worth 2|d. to 3d. and porkers 3£d. per lb. Roasting pigs sell at Is. lOd. to 2s. each. Butchers' Meat— The carcais butchers supply beef at |d. to l£d., and mutton at from Id. to If d. per lb., according to quality. Horses— Sales have not been numerous this week* owing however to the deficienoy of supply, first rata horses being in demand, and meeting with ready sale. Mr. Stewart reports the sale of 21 head, nearly the whole of which went at prices varying from £7 to £15 £20 and £25 each. Poultry— Fowls, 2s. to 2s. 3d.; ducks, 3s. to 3s. 6J.; geeie, 4s. to 4s 6d.; turkeys, 7«. to 95.; wild ducks, 23. to 2s. 3d , and pigeons, Bd. per couple. Eggs, d 6 per (dozen. Dairy Produce— Salt Butter, 4d. to Si.; fresh batter, Bd. to lOd.j oheesc 4d. to 5d.; bacon 4d.to Sd.s an* lard 4d. pet lb,

Bkian Boroihme's Harp —It is well known that tbe great monarch Brian Boroihnoe was killed at the battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014. He left his ion Donah hi» harp ; but Donah bavins: murdered his brother Teige, and being deposed by his nephew, retired to Rome, and carried with him the crown, harp, and other regalia of his father. These regalia were kept in the Vatican till Pope Clement Bent the harp to Henry VIII., but kept the crown, which was massive gold. Henry gave the harp to the first Earl of Clanricarde, in whose family it remained until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it came by a lady of the De Burgh family into that of M'Mahon of Glenagb, in the county of Clare, after whose death it paised into the poisesm'on of Coumellor Macnat»Hra of Limerick. In 1782 it wib presented to the Right Honorable William Conyngharo, who deposited it in Trinity College Museum, where it now is. It ii 32 inchei liigb, and of good workmnnship ; the sounding board is of oal> ; the red sally ; the extremity of the uppermost arm in part is clapped with silver, well wrought and chuelled. It contains a large crystal set in silrer, and under it was another stone, now lost — Tiperarry Free Prtss.