The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-23 00:00:00

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LONDON SPIRIT MARKET.-OtIT market generally is
fiat, and late rates are barely supported.
TZ4.-We have scarcely any change to notice in the
value of any kind of tea. The demand generally lain-
active, as follows :-Common sound Congou, Is. id.;
Ning Yong and Oolong, la 3d. to 25.; Sow:thong, la. 3d.
to Is. 6d.: Flowery Pekoe, 2a. 6cl. to 4a. 6d.; Scented
Caper, Is. 3d. to is. 10d. •' Orange Pekoe, is. 2d. to
Is. 4d. ; Scented Orange Pekoe, Is. Bd. to 3a. id.;
Twankay, 9d. to Is. 3d. ; Hyson Skin, Bd. to Is. 2d.' •
Hysou, is. 2d. to 34. 10d. ; Young Hyson, 10d. to
2s. 2d.; Imperial, is. to 2s. 4d. ; Gunpowder, Is. to
3a. 6d. ; Assam, 3s. 10d. to As. 6d. per lb.
SUGAR.-For all kinds Of Taw sugar' the stock of
which is 43,000 tons, against 37,000 tons last year, the
demand still rules very inactive, and prices have a down-
ward tendency. Refined goods are a slow inquiry.
Brown lnmpe, Me. 6d. ' • middling to fine, 655. to 61s. ;
and wet lumps, 50s. to 525. per cwt. Dutch crushed
supporta previous quotations.
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Taint WITH INDIA AND CHINA.—The declared
value of the British and Irish produce and manufactures
exported from the United [Kingdom' to the Bast India
Company's territories and Ceylon in the year 1857
amounted to £13,080,662, against £11,807,439,
£10,927,694, £10,025,969, and £8,185,695, in the pre-
ceding years, 1856, 1858, 1854, and 1853. The articles
imported into the United Kingdom from India and
China in 1857, and actually entered for home consurup-
ton, included 35,9651 b. of cinnamon, 166,9811 b. of
cloves, 24,740,1621 b. of coffee, 31,178 quarters of wheat,
4,639 gallons of rum, 1,083,118 cwt. of unrefined sugar,
and 859,5431 b. of tee; a large quantity of wool was
imported, but none of it appears to have been entered
for home consumption, although free of duty. To
China last year were exported British produce and
manufactured goods to the value of £2,*0,307, against
£2,216,123 in 1856, £1,277,944 in 1855, and £1,000,716
in 1854. _

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SUSPENSION OF MR. LATONE, OF LTVERPOOL.-It
appears from a circular issued by Mr. Lafone that his
suspension—arising from the nature of remittances from
a branch house in Monte Video—will be but of •
temporary nature, and that he has no doubt of being
able ultimately to liquidate all his engagements with
interest. A meeting of creditors is to be held on Tues-
day (this day), when a statement of his affairs will be
submitted.
A strike among the colliers in the mining districts of
Hunsworth, Dighlington, &a, in the neighbourhood of
Bradford and Leeds, is apprehended. The masters gave
notice of a reduction of wages to the extent of fifteen
per cent.; and the men declared they would turn out.
Every mail from our Australian Colonies brings large
orders for iron rails and pipes for various purposes. A.
contract with the South Australian Government, for
the supply of water pipes, to the amount of some
£BO,OOO or £90,000 sterling, is now being carried out.

Meagre. Heine Flemon and Co., who suspended with
large engagement. during the crisis in Nov. and who
announced- last month that they would be able either to
meet all claims on the 25th inst., or to pay 10e, in the
pound on that day, and the remainder with interest in
three month., on Monday morning made the gratifying
intimation that they have resumed business, and are
ready forthwith to pay every creditor in full with 5 per
cent. interest. The original stoppage appears to have
been resolved upon solely as a matter of conscientious
precaution, and the conduct of the firm places them
high among the few honourable exceptions in the late
flood of rocirdeseness and incapacity.