The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-03-21 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARK-LANE, Tut', DAY.

Market firm. English wheat realised fully
Monday's priees, and foreign is again the turn
sig*inst buyers. Exports 6,298 (irs.; town flour
unaltered. Country marks fetch here and there
more money. Barley steady. Oats 6(1 cheaper
on the week. Exports 3,419 yrs. Maize firm.
British wheat, 6,996 ; barley, 1,780; wits,
2,925; flour, 22,637. Foreign—wheat, 20,183;
barley, 4,300 • oats, 4,165; maize, 1320 ; Hour,
1,370 sacks, and 26,658 barrels.

exosz.—The wheat trade closed with firmness,
though no advance can be noted. A fair basi-
s:lees was done in English and foreiga, at extreme
rates. Barley, maize, and oats were f
Beans and peas dull. Flour in excess of
demand. but steady.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Till, DA N .
The um* arrivals of foreign beasts have not
as yet some to baud, either hero or at water-
side. Of British fed animals there is a good
fair supply; iketch however are limited. For
theta, aa well as best crosses, prices must be
written firs, and in some instance an advance
on our top quotations is reported. In the sheep
market full rates are obtained for beet Downs
and half bred' of selling weights; other aorta
-Inn. Lamb in less demand, and rather lower.
Choice veal very scarce. Pork unchanged.
Beef, 3e ca to 5e id ; mutton, '35 Gd to Gs 4d ;
Rt 34 64 to Os 4d; pork, 3s Gd to 4s Bd.
supply-13405* 2,850 ; sheep and lambs,
16,O; calves, 75 ; pigs, 35; of which Foreign
—BwAl, 755; sheep and lambs, 510 ;calves, 70.
SECOND SEVON.T.
The condition of the besets is good, and trade
steady at 11 84 to Sc 104 per stone for best
Scotch heifers. Demand for sheep moderately
active, and prices firm. Top price for Down
wetness, Os 44. Lambs sell at Is per lb,

P"v‘gioNs,
Better enquiry for Irish. but prices
Iliamburgh sligktly dearor. A merican
iZrl3atter ; Irish dull : good supplies of
^ idin, but fine qualities shout two shillings
dearer on the week. Hams inactive, holders
would sell at rather lower rates. Cheese firm,
and rather more doing. Pork; Pickled middles
and prime middles a Mow sale. Lard dull.

DOILCIIIntria, Ilth.—At the Dorchester tdom.Exchange to-
day there was • fair .upply el a hiat, and le per qr. advance
on the reams of hist week a a...lditairiod, ad bring the average
quOlation. Berle) wai but thinly iupplieil, en! at 3:is 24.1 per
qr. wee fully IX dear as la.t week. Oats were firm, at last
week's quotatious. Inspector'. r,turn : Wheat, 630 quarter,
habilis. SIMI 13%0.1, avera;;l: 33s 70. Barley, 675 quarter-.
£1,184 10. Sid, average. I", I.

EARTEIQUARKE IN THE NORTH.
About It o'clock on Friday night shocks of an earth-
quake are reported to have been felt In many parts of
swareahirri, Yorkshire, and Westmoreland. Snell was
tke marked peculiarity of the phenomena in some
places, that bads are detcribed as having vibrated from
aide to side, in • motion resembling the heaving of a
ship at another.

THIS MOVEMENTS OF THE GERMAN TROOPS
STOPPED.

BIOIIIIIILB, Sunday.—The Echo du Paricmcnt of to.
day says &wording to news from Hanover received last
night, in consequence of the Paris disturbances, the
Emperor William has sent orders to stop provisionally
U movements of troops that were being executed since
Ike signature of the preliminaries of pesos.