The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

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LONDON MARKETS.

NI EXPRESS if ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
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(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

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MARK-LANE, MONDAY, OCTOBIS 16.

Supply of me grown wheat ve'ry moderate, condition
good, a clearance of all fine qualities wiui effected at la
per qr. advance on last Monday. Foreign wheat was
a large supply, late prices firm. Good and fine malting
barley was very firm, at full prioes ; inferior dull
Malt unaltered. Oats 6d. per quarter dearer.
Beans steady ablate rates. Peas quiet. Flour firm.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Ocrosia 16.

A heavy supply of foreign beasts. Moderate arrivals
from our own districts. Good and prime breeds
commanded tis steady inquiry, and, in some
instances, prices were slightly on the advance..
Otherwise, the beef trade was inactive, at
last Monday's currency. The top figure for beef
was ss. 4d. per 81b. The supply of English sheep was
very limited; but most breeds ORM) to hand in
improved oondition.o The mutton trade was firm, and
the quotations had an upward tendency. Prime Downs
sod half-breeds !produced 6e. to 6s. Bd. per 81b. Good
foreign sheep were rather dearer. A scanty supply of
calves, which moved off freely, from 4s. 6d. to ss. 6J.
per 81b. Pigs a slow sale; nevertheless, last week's
prices were supported. The beat pig'. were worth
Si. 10d. per 81b.

MONEY MARKET, MONDAY, OCT. 16.

There is little doing is English Stooks. Consols for
the sooount ses 89 to A.

Latest.

" ESPEZBB" Office, Monclay Evening.
VARIIIRS Or DIVON are, making great complaints
about the destruction of their growing crops by rabbits.
Tam Bishop et Brisbane hie just had another attack
d illness, which has rendered him totally unfit for
wick.

No further outbreak of disease amongst sheep has
orwerred in Wiltshire, and the settle are generally
reported to be particularly free from disease.
TIIIII Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia leave
Bastin in a few days on a visit of three weeks' duration
to our Royal Family.

Tai public debt of America is now ascertained to
amount in English money to five hundred and forty-nine
millions sterling.

TER Iron Age nye that Mr. Coseham has been exhi-
biting in New York Mr. Galees invention for rendering
gaup° wrier non-explosive.

A SHOCK of an earthquake has been felt in Trinidad
and many other nleoee Guadeloupe had been
devastated by a hurricane.
Tits Sporting Ltle hears, on reliable authority, that is
Lords Stamford's intention to retire from the Turf at

the ead of the present season.

Tem Sporting Life says the rumour on Friday thst
Toot &yen bad died at Tunbridge is not true. He,
however, is extremely ill, and has returned to • -
trona Kent.

Londots 1

Fu.Li Dl L'Ara.—lt is stated that the Turf career of
this agebrated mare haa ended, and that she will in
!Maw be located at Count Lagrange's breeding stud
at Maga.

A Counscrottnutrr of Herapaa's Railway Journal
states that it is rumoured in South Wales that Mr. D.
Gooch, M.P., is to be appointed chairman of the Great
Western Railway Company.
Thum was a public breakfast at the Surrey County
Sehooll—in honour of the opening of that school—on
Thrireday, when the Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. C.
Balton, M.P., delivered addresses.
TH3 Pope's allocution against the Frdemarons has
not been without effect. It is said that within a day
after it was published the two secret lodges in Rome
received twenty-tight new members.
TRII French frigates Eldorado, Gomez, Mogador, and
Labrador are being fitted out to proceed to Civita
Veochia, where they wil meet on the Ist of November
in order to embark 3,700 French troopa, infantry and
cavalry.

Clangs for losses by the Alabama and similar vesrels
are excluded from the jurisdiction of the mixed
Commission proposed by Earl Russell to consider all
claims which the English and American Governments
should agree to refer to it.
THII RIFTING OF TR) NIW EiRLIAMINT.—It is gene'
rally understood the new Parliament will not meet
till the third week in January, when the first bosiners
will be tee election of a Speaker, who haring been
presented to the House of Lords on the following day
a week will be allowed for the swearing in of members.
The regular business of the Session will not, therefore,
commence before the weal hour. No opposition is
expected to the re-election of the late Speaker.—
Observer.