The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

SEW MARKET,

Our seed market;;;Tibir increased animation, and it
appears probable that ,country buyers will DO longer
doter making their purchases. There are • few samples
of new English red clover seed offering. the qaality
which is for the moat part very poor' but for which the
Is Adore demand extravagant rate'. Home-grown suite
and white clover seed are alao a very short growth this
amnion; the qedity is, however, satisfactory; for thaw
descriptions we ore largely dependent upon Germany ;
the quantity offering thence is mall. Best new trefoil
seed is exceedingly scarce and dear, inferior wool, are
cheap and plentiful. In foreign Italian we note an
advance of 6d. to la. per .wt. Perennial grease* are
abundant and can be bought on quite moderate terms.
Spring tared are now iu improved request. Mustard
and rape seed are firm at the recent advance. During
the last two years autumn and early purchanee have
proved disappointing, consequently vary few of the pro-
vincial trade have as yet gone into stocks. This year,
however, taking into amuideration the limited stocks
on hand, and the certainly deficient growths, instead of
lower quotations we anticipate • speedy enhancement
in valties.—Joux BeAw and Boni, 16, Water-lane,
London, E.C.

PROVISION' MARKET.
"'Lomax, Friday.—There hal been very lilt% doing in Irbil
butter, and prima remain nominally muttered. Foreign doverip-
lions have been prceewl far pale, aid lower rati,s have been
imlimitted to. Frit...land may he quoted at 132, to ISt'..
Zw,.lle and Kanifen, 120, to 112 e. ; Miletein and Kiel, 115r.t0
140 e. ; Jer-ey, 100 e. to 1. ; French, 065. to 1481. per cwt.
Prime Irieh bacon har maintained late mem, owing to the email
quantity offering. The demand, however, hos been di point-
lox. Hembargeur, ham met with a moderate inqulr2, at Mi.
to Me for siseible and light weight landed. Beef and Num
have ruled firm in value. Lard and tort hare been dull, and
lower to sell.

-WOOLIMARRET7--

Beaor.dio, Thursday.- -Nothing has occurred to alter the
market in its main ',attires. There In Jtpit sunk:lent demand
for wool to enable holder., as • syneral ruk, to maintain their
prices • and if here and there there is a little giving way, it
arises from eseepti al cau.es, or from the inferiority of the
wool. Some transactions for America bare Just been entered
Into, and these help I. give tone to the market. Country pricu
Cr. dill very high, and the difllculty of renewing stocks makes
holder. Ann, end not anxious to sell.

tivearuoL, Thunalay. The enudry sale, closed to-day. For
deairable pan.lt have been fully maintained. and
more than the metal preputLion haa changed hands In the
aerie.

)11 oNEY MARKET.

The enormous applications fir the New Ruske and Chillea
Loans hat been the chief topic of alimentation in financial
circles during the week. The subnierlptioi, to both thae Inane
ulnae in nitwit and number, and also In the rapidity with
which they Item emit In, anything that can be remembered of
a similar character. Applic ikon. for the Russian Loan in this
country encoded the amount saved for this country by seven
or etitt times that ant And three timei the amount
naked for In the case of the Chilian Loan was applied I,d on
the first day the suite:rinli. et wan open. These large applica-
tions show the large amount if money that Is smiting to be
Invented. They also .h a t at the public hate in • great
measure regaioed thrir confidence hi public working. and
the t.etei,t ~f the applitatlon. Is the more remarkable bemuse
neither loan was I 4,1%.,1 at a imalica'ary elw..p rate. Anther
remark also sugginst itself—mm.4v, th., num,ss of the second
loan so soon sfter the some of the other, before the
money paid on dlenosit in the find hat been returned, which
further shown 'bat there Is plenty of money to be int ogled if
only channel, to the taste of the public can be found. The
payment of the money to the Telegnaith Companies hen com-
menced, but ma, far hail had Only • slight effect on the Money
Markel The withdrawal of money for the payment of the
deponite on applications for the new haute has made the rate
firmer,lnit the quotathm Ia dill • fraction antler the Bank fate,
On the -ompletion of the telegraph payments, which It is now
expected will have only a temporary effect on the Money
Market -a large amount of it bating been already invested In
different se•urities, the value if money most rise if uses
eecurihengontinite to be brought out, which there tan be no
doubt they rill after the brilliant success of the Russian and
Chilian loans.

The Stock Markets haus been well supported, hut priees have
been generally dull. partly 1111 account of flat prices from Park
and partly on account of the new ban. shich, for the moment
have drawn •.ff In. ustrnents from other securities The sumo...
of the new loans, however, promise 4 well for the future .urto
of prices. The principal transactions and mos entente hat*
been In Telegraph shares, and It. two or three Mining Com-
panies' shares.

The i 1-.11 Funds have been flat, and Consols have fallen,
3-Itiths on some large deliy cries of etock, and ahn on the belief
that the pa)inent of the Telegrsph money will not ha,... I
. -
The market for Foreign Stocks has been dull, with the ex.
reption .1 the scrips 4.1 the two new loans, which have been
largely dealt in—Rumian at from 2 to 2I prom, ant Chllien
from to 2 prem. Argentine are a shade firmer and Brazilian
better. Chilian Sisals have not been affected by the imue of
the new Iran, Wing well held. lg. plain Stocks are rather
better. Mexican and Torklah Flee per Cents are I lower and
Spanish I. Italian are unaltered and Ruesian Railway Bonds
mintlivie firm Perurian have advanced iper cent. en specula-
tive purchases.
There has been a fair amount of business in English Railway
Stocks. The changes in prima are not heavy, and aro about
the raine each way. Caledonian itiel Sheffield are lower,
Greet Northeni and Brighton I. Great Western, London and
North- Weetem, Metropolitan and Midland 1. On the other
hand the North.Eystern Stock. are better, Great Eastern I,
Lawm•hiro and Yorkshire and South•Eastem I.
Tan director.' of the Great Northern Railway say
that the accounts indicate that a dividend may be
declare at the rate of 1.7 15s. per tient, per annum on I
the Otiginal stook of the company.
THI general meeting of the Cridit Fonoier of England
(Limited) leas held on Friday. The ehoirmoin expreissed
his belief that the credit of the company was now fully I
restored, and that they were earning a dividend equal
411 per oent, on the reduced capital.