The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-20 00:00:00

Crate attb Commerce.

LONDON SPIRIT MARZET.—Rum is held at full
prices, and the demand for it may be considered steady.
Proof Leewards is quoted at Is. Ild. per gallon. Brandy
and grain spirit are • slow inquiry.
TlCA.—There is only s limited business doing in our
market, and, in some instances, prioes rule the turn in
favour of buyers. The stook of tea in the United King-
dom is 67,168,0001b5. against 98,434,00011 x. at the cones.
ponding period in 1857. .
SUGAR—Since our last report all raw sugars have
met a dull inquiry, and prices have given way Is. per
cwt. Refined goods move off slowly, at from 545. to 595.
per cwt. In floating cargoes of sugars very little is
doing.
We learn that the liquidators of the Western Bank
of Scotland have made preparations for paying by the
beginning of May the depositors and creditors of the
bank ono-half of the debts due to them; in other
words, they will pay 10s. in the pound of the total
debts. _

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE—The firms
public income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland in the year ended the 31st tilt, amounted to
£67,881,513, and the expenditure to £70,378,859, leav-
ing an excess of expenditure over income amounting to
the sum of £2,497,345. Of the expenditure £28,627,103
was appropriated to the payment of the interest on the
public debts, Sta., £2,919,198 to the charges on the Con-
solidated Fund (including £401,257 for the Civil List),
and £36,582,557 to the supply services (including
£12,915,156 for the army, £10,590,000 for the navy,
£7,227,719 for miscellaneous civil services, £900,000 for
the Persian expedition, and £590,693 for the expenses
of the Chinese war.) As regards the revenue,
£23,109,104 accrued from Customs, £17,825,000 from
Excise, £7,415,719 from stamps, £3,152,033 from taxes,
£11,586,114 from the property-tax, £2,920,000 from the
Post-office? and £276,654 from Crown lands. The
balance.' in the Exchequer on the 31st ult. were
£6,657,802. _ . .

ENGLISH WOOL SALE AT BRADFORD.—The first of
several sales of the stock of English wool, of the insol-
vent firm of Messrs. Cheesebrough and Son, took place
at St. George's Hall, Bradford, Friday week. There
was a large attendance of gentlemen from the wool-con-
suming and clothing districts, and very fair orlon were
obtained. We select, at random from the catalogue,
some of the prices at which lots ( which comprised al-
together 1,50) sheets) were sold by Messrs. Hardwick
and Best:--Super leg matching, 130. per lb; dark
wether fleeces, 100. per lb ; prime leg matching, 140.
per lb ; extra wether matching, 140. to 154. per lb;
half-bred hogs, 130. to 140. per lb; diamond wether
matching from 150. to 160. per lb ; fine skin, 100. per
lb; half-bred wethers, 140. per lb; best wether match-
ing, In per lb; Salop fine drawing, 150. per lb ; Salop
neat, 14. per lb ; long coarse, 9.0. per lb ; Stafford
hop, . per lb; dark "rather matching, 130 .per
. r lb;
Hereford matching, 140. per lb; common wether
matching, I3d. per lb; super wether matching, 144. per
lb ; best wether matching, 154. per lb ; best half-bred
wether matching, 140. ; skin combing, 90. per lb;
Kent flews, 14d. per lb ; down ewes, 1.31. per lb ;
down togs, 130. per lb ; Lincoln hop, from I d. to 144
per in; 'Yorkshire cots, 120. per lb ; Yorkshire hogs,
144. per lb ; Yorkshire wethen, 13d, per lb, ko. The
next sale will take place in a week.

RAILWAY COMPICTITION. —lt is to the Great Northern
Company the oount7 owes the disgrace sustained from
the fact that enterprises involving between £40,000,000
And 00,000,000 d capital, and the consequent/incomes of
many hundred families, can be conducted on no better
principles than those which were common to the most
reckless gamesters of half a century ago. During the
past week various meetings have been held of the deputa-
tions from the several companies whose business' is
liable to be affected by the unscrupulous pro-
ceeding of the mammoth concerns, and who
have used every effort to bring about an honest
adjustment. The result, however, has been • failure.
They had arranged an arbitration on every ques-
tion referred to them. but at the lad moment Mr.
Edmund Denison, M.P. the chairman of the Great
Northern Company, refused consent on the most vital
point—that of rates and fares—and actually propoeed to
refer it to the consideration of the traffic managers of
the respective undertakings. It has thus become evi-
dent that the Great Northern Company even in enter-
taining the mediation never had Any intention to submit
to it, except where they could ascertain it might be used
for some unfair advantage, and the deputations have
accordingly brought their labours to • close.

RAILWAY Taiieno Rueoutle—The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending April 10 amounted to £407,230, and for the
corresponding week of last year to £438,710, showing
a decrease of £31,480. The gross receipts of the eight
railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £167,704, and for the
corresponding week of last year to £186,773, showings
decrease of £19,069. The decrease on the &dent Coun-
ties Railway amounted to £2,389; on the Great Northern
to £2,619; on the Great Western to £1,341; on the
London and North-Western to £7,906; on the London
and Blackwell to £133 ; on the London, Brighton, and
south Coast to £2,22+; on the London and South'
Western to £1,644; and on the South-Eastern to
£611; total, £19,069. The receipts on the other lines
in the United Kingdom amounted to £239,528, and
for the corresponding period of 1857 to £251,937, show.
lug a decrease of £12,411 in the receipts of those lines,
which, added to the decrease on the metropolitan lines,
makes the total decrease £31,480, as compared with
the corresponding week of 1857.

RiItEMBIRED AT Home.—Besides their own instinct-
ire nature (which to be rare aids wonderfully in the
matter), the leisure and contemplation attendant upon
their home life serve to foster the tenderness and fidelity
of our women. The men gone, there is all day to think
about them, and to-morrow and to-morrow—when there
certainly will be a letter—and so on. There is the
vacant mom to go and look at, where the boy slept last
night, and the impression of his carpet-bag is Mill on the
bed. There is his whip hung up in the hall, and his
fishing-rod and basket—mute memorials of the brief by-
m. e pleasures. At dinner there comes up that cherry-
half of which our darling ate at two o'clock in spite
of his melancholy, and with a choking little sister an
each side of him. The evening prayer ia said without
that young whole?' voice to utter the due responses.
1114 ht and silence come, and the good mother lies
wakeful, thinking how one of the dear accustomed brood
I. away from the nest Morn breaks, home and
hawk prod away, and toil and labour have begun for
or
bbe.

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MONDAY, APRIL lg.


LONDON MARKETS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MARK-LANE, MONDAY, APRIL 19.

We had a moderate supply of English wheat
at our market to-day, which sold at from one
shilling to two shillings less money.
Foreign wheat was one shilling cheaper.
Oats firm.
Muting barley, sixpence dearer.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

Our market was supplied to-day with four
thousand beasts, and twenty•three thousand
sheep.
Trade lower.

Beef, beat quality 4 0
Mutton, ditto
Lamb, ditto