only the legal right which the civil law allows. I regret being unable to afford you more precise and satisfactory. information. I remain Gentlemen Your obedient Servant GEORGE DELIUS. 331. Reply to order for Nitrate of Soda. Iquique, 14th March 1864. Mr. Alex. Ritchie, Liverpool. Dear Sir. We are in receipt of your favour of Jan. 31st. Borax. The make of this article has ceased with us, the account sales of several consignments not being favourable. Borate of Lime is also neglected for want of remunerative prices. Nitrate of Soda. We shall have much pleasure in sending you ten tons refined Nitrate at £10 per ton free on board, when we can find an opportunity of shipping it. Nitrate is sold here by the cargo and purchasers are not willing to admit other than their own on board. We write to our Valparaiso friends to endeavour to obtain freight by some ship going to Liverpool. You shall have ample time to effect the necessary insurance. We are dear Sir Yours truly SMITH THOMPSON & CO. 332. Advice of intended Shipment. Iquique, 1st April 1864. Mr. Alex. Ritchie, Liverpool. Dear Sir. With reference to ours of the 14th ult. we have now the pleasure to advise that we have secured room for the ten tons Nitrate of Soda in the Dinah Mulock now in this port. The Nitrate will be on board in three or four days and Bill of Lading forwarded by next mail. The Dinah Mulock after loading with Nitrate at this port, will proceed to Arica and Islay to take in light freight, and thence start direct to Liverpool. We are dear Sir Yours truly SMITH & THOMPSON. 333. Japan Produce. Nagasaki, April 4th 1864. Mr. V. Leesage, London. Dear Sir. • We have duly received your favour of 26th Jan. and note that you reduce your limit of Japan ware to £ 2.We regret to say that at present it is impossible to lay the article down at that price. Present quotations range from $11.50 to 12. 50. In the event however of a fall in prices enabling us to execute your order, it shall receive our best attention. Documents for your shipment per Medina we have forwarded to Messrs. Macpherson & Marshall, our agents at Yokahama, informing them of your wishes regarding this consignment. To save time we have also instructed them to forward account sales and remittance direct to you. For full information regarding the state of our market, we refer you to our circular of this date, and remain We have to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed favour of 9th Feb. We have not as yet had an opportunity to make any shipments of Rattans to you, no vessel having been laid on for England. Your limit at Fr. 5.75 per pcl. for Rattans would generally insure a purchase, but the cane is so very scarce at present that parties willingly give Fr. 6 to Fr. 6 per pcl. for really inferior cane.— We purchased a few hundred piculs ourselves last week at Fr. 6 per pcl. and the quality was far from No. 1. Almost all the Gum Benjamin imported here comes from Barus. The present prices for this Article are No. 1 Fr. 140, No. 2 Fr. 62 and No. 3 Fr. 36 per pcl. We can generally calculate on 90 Pic. a Month No. 1, 250 P. No. 2, and 300 P. No. 3. When prices are not favourable here the Barus Chinamen send their Benjamin to Penang, but when satisfactory rates are ruling here they generally ship all, or at least the largest portion this way. We are in hopes of being able to give a detailed account of the Rameh fibre by next opportunity. We hear it is grown at Paya-Combo a place about 50 miles from this. We should feel much obliged by your letting us know what description of goods you are in the habit of shipping to Batavia, as we might be able to recommend something this way. The great quarterly coffee sales took place this morning and 25,000 Pls. were sold at an average of Fr. 43. 13 pr. pl. very high prices indeed, when compared with the prices ruling at present in the home markets. We remain Dear Sir Yours respectfully DUMAIN & CO. Purchasers at the Government Coffee sale of 29th March 1864. 335. South AmericanProduce. Shipment of PiassavaFibre. Pr. R. M. S. Oneida. Mr. Alex. Ritchie, Liverpool. Dear Sir. Bahia, 11th Feb. 1864. Since we had the pleasure on the 12th ult. as per enclosed Copy, none of your favours have reached us, and we have now little of interest to communicate beyond what you will find in the enclosed market report. Hides you will see have advanced far above your limits but Piassava can now be shipped at about £7.10s per ton. We have this morning arranged freight for a quantity to fill up the Rosamond, Capt. Brown, for Liverpool. The vessel will clear tomorrow, so please to provide for insurance. We cannot say what quantity she will take out, certainly not more than 20 Tons. We have bought 2300 Dbl. Bundles, which we calculate will weigh between 13 and 14 tons, at 700 rs. There are on board the Rosamond 2000 Dbl. Bundles shipped as dunnage under the sugar, but these cannot be confounded with yours, which are on the top of the Cargo. Invoice and Bill of Lading shall follow by next mail when we will draw on you for the cost. We remain dear Sir Yours very truly BURNS & Co. 336. Eastern Archipelago. Business transactions. Koepang, Feb. 10th 1864. Mr. Alex. Ritchie, Liverpool. Dear Sir. By the December Mail I had the pleasure to receive the Bill of lading enclosed by Messrs. Arnold. I also received |