The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

ci pal articles in which there has beet inreu.ot ezporta-
tion are seal, earthenware, and machinery, and anu.ng
those wliieh figure for a. decrease are haberdartiery,
hardwarea, linen., wollenq, and metal. Our total ex•
port tione during the firat,fire months of thi..l year h.,ve
b,en 5 per sent. below fh se of the earn. month* of
1861, an I 10 per cent. +stove those of 1863.

The transactions in the railway share market Into
been merely nominal, but the tendency on the whole
lots been firm.
The t, affic rece:ptiof rsllwa3s in 1,1 e United Kingdom
amount d, for the lietk eliding the 24th of June, on
11,961 miles, to £767,91Ck and for tic corresponding
seek of last year, on 11,605 miles, £671,115, ..howing
an increase of 356 miles, and of £36,785. The gross re-
ceipts on the following 11 railways amounted, in the
aggregate, on 3,422 miles, to £577,736, and for the
corrosponding week of 1861, on 8,167 miles, to £550,218,
slowing an increase of 255 miles and an increase of
£27,518. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to
('608; on the Great Eastern to £1,139; on the Great
Northern to £3,470; on the Great Southern end
Western to £1,304; on the Great Western to £1,093;
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to (2,032; on the
London and North-Western to £3,797; on the London
and Brighton to £843; on the London and South-
Western to £4,026; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln:dike to £902; on the Midland to £2,195; on
the North Britiah to £1,017; on the North-Eastern to
£3,352; and on the South-Eastern to £1,735 total,
£27,51& The goods and mineral traffic on those lines
amounted to £284,587, and for the corresponding week
of 1861 to £270,582, showing an increase of £14,005.
The receipts for passengers, parcels, he., amounted to
£293,287, egainst £279,497, showing an incream of
£13,790. The traffic receipts on 63 other lines
amounted, on 3,539 miles, to £130,244, and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 3,438 miles, to
£120,975, showing an increase of 101 miles and of
£9,269 in the receipts. The total receipts of the past
week show an increase of £25,065 as compared with
those of the preceding week, ending the 17th of June.

The corn markets are dull at rather an advance.
In the eolonial produce-markets during the week the
supplies offered have been rather limited, and the
transactions on the spot have, therefore, not been large,
prices of moat descriptions being fully supported. The
small public sales of coffee have gone off at full rates,
and a floating cargo of San Domingo has changed hands
for the Continent. Three vessels from Ceylon are now
unloading in the dock.. Rather higher rates have
again been obtained for cocoa. The sales of sugar on
the spot have been chiefly confined to West India, at
firm quotations, which have also been obtained for
several floating cargoes of foreign sold for the United
Kingdom and Continental sorts. There has been more
demand for rice, and prices of some kinds show a slight
advance. Tea remains quiet, the trade baying only for
Immediate requirements; good and fine Kaisow and
Mooing maintain their position, but In the lower grades
of both red and blackish leaf the quotations are, In a
greet degree, nominal. Sales of uncoloured Japan
have been made at is. to Ls. 4d. per lb., the better
classes being most in demand. For country green teas
the demand has been limited, and prices are unchanged.
Public sales of Indian tea went off with fair spirit, the
Jorehaut Company's bringing extreme prices, and
private growth selling generally at former rate.. Balee
of China tea are declared for Tuesday next, comprising
38,000 packages, nearly all "without reserve."
Amongst the numerous company prospectuses of the
week, we have only space to notice that the United
Service Company limited, which comes to us highly
recommended as • project for developing on a sound
public, and we should think popular basis, the hitherto
private exclusive and restricted business of Army and
Navy agents and bankers. Major General Balfour, of
the Royal Artillery, Sir William Coghlan whose
name no honourably occurs in the late debate on Abys-
sinia, and Sir Claude Corspigny head the list of direc-
tors. The company propose to act not only as army but
as navy agents, and even to Include the civil service
within the range of their good Aloes, all by means
of a single establishment. Be appears to have acquired
as a basis a well known establialied army agency
business to commence with, and they will by and by
turn their attention towards the principles of Life
Assurance suitable for members of the servioeit The
capital is pitched as high as two millions in £lO shares,
of which the first issue will amount to F 500,000.