3 TOWER CHAMBERS, Liverpool, October 14, 1853. The iron masters held yesterterday their quarter's meeting, resolving to let prices be as they are leaving each to do his best. The makers, generally, are well supplied with orders, and are refusing to take more at present. Welsh bars, good sizes, continue scarce, and in good demand; hoops, sheets, scarce-in good demand best boiler plates, the demand enormous; tin plates, quiet-demand not so good; block tin, firm, with increased demand; Scotch pigs, advancing-export demand on the increase. Subjoined and annexed is a list of prices of merchantable bar iron here for the last fortyseven years, which may prove interesting. Soliciting your commands, I am your obedient servant, Messrs. EGLESTON BATTELL & Co., New York. FRED. ROBISON. No. 1-Continued. Statement of the selling price of merchantable bar iron in Liverpool, from 1806 to 1816, inclusive. |