The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

erabe ant Commerce.

SPISITB.—Out market is heavy, and the value of
brandy continues to give way.

&MAR.-There hagbeen• steady demand for nearly all
good and fine raw sugars, and the quotations have had
an upward tendency. Damp qualities are a slow sale,
at about previous rates. Refined good sell freely, at
565. to 61s, per cwt. In crushed sugars, both English
and foreign very little is doing.
TEA.-For nearly all kinds, the demand is far from
active, yet we have very little change to notice in prices.
The exports from China have somewhat increased.
Common sound Congou is selling at Is. id. per lb.;
Ning Yong and Oolong, Is. 3d. to 25.; Shouchong,
is. 31. to 2s. 6d.; Flowery Pekoe, 28. 6d. tO4B. 6d.;
Scented Caper, Is. 3d. to Is. 10d. ; Orange Pekoe,
Is. 2d. to Is. 4d.; Scented Orange Pekoe, Is. Bd. to
3s. id.; Twankay 9d. to Is. 3d.; Hyson Skin, Bd. to
Is. 3d.; Hymen, ls. 2d. to 3s. 10d. ; Young Hymn 10d.
to 2s. II.; Imperial, Is. to 28. 44.; Gunpowder, Is.
to 3s. 6d.; Assam, 3e. 10d. to 4e. 6d. per lb.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Submarine Tele-
graph Company was held on Thursday morning, Sir J.
It. Carmichael in the chair, when the report and ac-
counts were adopted, and a dividend declared at the
rate of 8 per oent, per annum, with a balance of £193.
There has been • satisfactory increase in the messages
transmitted, the number being, in 1856, 68,952 and, in
1857, 84,795. The vacancy in the Board caused by the
retirement of the Ron. F. Cadogan was filled by the
election of Mr. Lightly Simpson, the only candidate.

Our specie transactions with China are now likely for
soine little time to be precisely analogous to those
which were observable with the United States in
November last. Each country is sending silver to the
other. £65,000 has just arrived by the Pere, and the
whole will be sent back by the next mail. This is an
inevitable consequence of the destruction of confidence.
The shipment which has just been made from China
would, of course, have involved a loss as an exchange
transaction, but persons having remittances to make
preferred to purchase specie for the purpose, instead of
bills.
. .

RAILWAY PABRENGgIiIIe AMORANCE COMPAWY.—The
half-yearly cleating of this company was held on Wed-
nesday at the offices, Old Broad-street ; Mr. J. Clay,
M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the total
income for the half-year ending the 31st of December
last received and due was £8,375, being £3,012 for rail-
way assurance, and £5,363 for general accident awn-
ramie premiunis. The income for the year 1867
amounted to £16,931, against £12,000 in 1856, showing
an increase of 41 per oeut. The amount of premiums
received in cash during the half-year was £7,561, which,
added to the balance from the previous half-year and the
interest on investment", formed a total of £11,691. The
expenditure amounted to £4,243, and the charge' for
compensation to 23,897. The balance of the revenue
amount, with £823 still due, amounted to £4,036, from
which the directors recommend the payment of intermit
at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, free of blooms-
tax, on the paid-up capital, reserving the different* to
meet the usual charges. The report gives • list and
descriptions of 169 accidents to venous persons, together
with the sums for compensation paid to each during the
hell-year' also a list of 29 claims on railway assurances
alone. The total amount, from the commencement to
the 31st of December last, paid as compensation for 28
fatal accident' and 916 asses of personal injury was
£29,561. The report was adopted, and the retiring
directors and auditors were re-elected.

SHIPWRIGHTS' STRIII.—A strike has oocurred among
the shipwrighta at Hull, about 600 in number. It ap-
pears from • statement in a local paper that the men
have twice submitted to a reduction of wages, and have
latterly been receiving 21s, per week instead of 33a., as
formerly, but they refused to abandon their *ode of
laws, which limits the number of apprentices in the
trade, the quantity of work per day, the hours of over.
time, dco. Two firms posted notioes in their establish.
manta that no hands would be employed who adhered le
the oode, and the men struck. Sines then shipwrights
have been introduced from other porta, but although
the Hull operatives have attended the arrivals of the
steamers from York and Goole in conaiderable numbers,
no disturbance has occurred, the presence of several
policemen doubtless exerting a salutary influence in the
preservation of the peace.

GRAND PANORAMIC MAP OF CHINA. —On' MOO.
Hay, the 15th of Maroh, will be hinted, with
No. 16 of the New and Improved Serie. Of CAS-
-1110211 ILLONTRATED FAMILY PAMIR (pile. One
Peony, Weekly), • GRAND PANORAMIC MA? OF CHINA,
measuring 21 riche. by 16, with a Chart of the River
Approaches to Canton from Hongkong and Lento*
Islands, end the Porto of China open to British Com.
inane ; also • mus of statistieal and general informa-
tion, giving a clear insight into the hietory, products,
and upabilitlea of this vast empire. In the Paper will
appear • Plan of the City of Canton, with Description.
In this number will also appear the opening chapters of
a new, powerfully written, instructive, and interesting
Tale, entitled, "Rope Evermore ; or, Something to Do,"
a Tale of the Ragged Schools, by a writer of high repute.
The price of the Panoramic Map, together with NO. 16
Of CARYILL'S ILLOSTRATZD PAIIILT PAPER, will be
TAree•halfpenre. Orders should be given immediately.
—Patter and Oalpin, La Belle Seams Yard, LC.

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rcured by their toe ; and, baked, their Atom poshn! Is
cliistam of the Junta" To sed publlo "salon they
are Invaluable for Wearing sod AsegMear the voice. They
lave • pleasant WM. Prim la. led., 111. ed. sod I 1& per hoe.
hold by all druggists.


LONDON MARKETS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MARK-LANE, MONDAY, MARCH, 8.

We had a very moderate supply of wheat at
our market to-day, and there was but a small
attendance of buyers.
Prices of all articles remained unaltered.