The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-16 00:00:00

Erabe anb commerce.

MANCHESTER, Feb. 12. The further reduction in the
rates of discount has increased the tendency to speculate
in cotton as well as other raw products, and prices have
gone up at Liverpool id. to id. per lb. since this day
week. Manufacturers have advanced their terms to
meet this alteration in the market, but find that it
checks business very materially. They appear deter-
mined, however, to exact it if possible, and the position
of the market is one rather more favourable to their
views than of late. Though operations are limited,
there is a moderate demand for most descriptions of
cloth. The T-clothe most in request sell at full rates.
Longclotlis and heavy domestics are also in some de
mend at improving terms. In printers the light makes
are in the best demand, and shirting' for India are
realizing rather better terms, though full rates are not
realized. Yarns are id. to jd. per lb. dearer, at which
prioes there is a moderate business of export, though the
home trade manifest unwillingness to buy.
Owing to the increase in the supply of bullion, to the
limited demand for discount acoommodation—though it
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has slightly increased this week—and ie—tie-stro—ng-
petition for approved paper elsewhere, the Directors of
the Bank of England, at their usual weekly meeting on
Thursday, reduced the rate of discount to 3 per cent.
As dismounts have been obtained at a much lower figure
in Lombard-street, vii., at from 2t to 2,1 per cent.—this
reduction has not had much influence elsewhere. The
Joint-Stock Banks, therefore, continues to we 1 per
cent. for sums under £5OO, lodged "on call,' and 2 Per
cent, for sums above that amount. In the Stock Ex-
change, there is a complete plethora of capital, and
loans may be had on Government security as low as 2
per cent. These figures are likely to continue for some
time, even though it is now officially announced that the
East India Company will shortly be a borrower of
£10,000,000 to meet pressing demands upon its finances.
The figures presented in the monthly return of the
Bank of France on Saturday were favourable as regards
the strenthening of the position of that establishment,
but they show a general contraction of business.
There was an increase £1,260,000 in the stock of bullion,
which stands at £11,315,000, while in the notes in circu-
lation these had been • diminution of £350,000. There
has been a reduction of 21,160,000 in the deposits, and
of £2,840,000 in the discounts; but the Treasury balanoe
shows an augmentation of 2640,030. In the advances
on railway stock there has been the rather large increase
of £644,000, while those on Bente' had been reduced, by
217,1500.

BANICRITPTS.

(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)
Thomas Kent, Brighton-place, Brixton-road, groeer.
Charles Turner, Walthamstow, ironmonger.
William Angel, Compton-street, Brunswiek-square,
poulterer.
Harry Wearne, Piccadilly, woollen warehouseman..

L.—Mee .an-ci-Yero-w-i-ce elia'rle-e-iFaean—,-far—na—gainilane,
Skinner-street, Snow-hill, wine-merchants.
John Henry Morton, Maidstone, grocer.

Johnyells'Fanamll , e Suffolk, co
nmerchant.

David Turner, Crawford-street, Portman-square, straw.
hat maker.
Henry Whale, Noble-street, city, commission merchant.
Francis Warr, Mount Pleasant, Brierley-hill, Stafford-
shire, victualler.
Matthew James, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, hosier.
George Cock, Plymouth, grocer.
Richard Catlin, late of Leioester, plumber.
Joseph Morgan, Gartivaoh, near Nantyglo, Monmouth.
shire, ironmonger.
John Greenwood, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, ohymist.
Francis Fryer Abbey, Huddersfield, woollen manu-
facturer.
Sarah Davis, Halifax, innkeeper.
(From the London Gazette of Friday.)

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William Henry Last, Cannon-street West, and Almon-
terraoe, Glocester-road, Islington commission agent.
John Tabb, Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, licensed
victualler.
Oliver Long, King William-street, City, manufacturer.
Thome' George Shaw, Great Si. Helen's, wine mer-
chant.
Joseph Levy, Jewry-street, Aidgate, merchant.
William Leigh Jolliffe, Salisbury, tea dealer.
James Smith, Lowestoft, brickmaker.
William Inglis Cum, Mai..-lane, and lower Tulse-hill,
merchant.
Marco Fernandez, Devonshire-square, Bishopagste, im-
porter of foreign sand.
William Williams, Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, linen-
draper.
Abraham Henry James and Thomas Roberts, Newport,
Monmouthshire, builders.
Samuel Griffiths, Wolverhampton, broker.
Richard Hope Price, jun., Wolverhampton, scrivener.
John Knight, Beoley, Worcestershire, brickmaker.
Richard Frank Bingham, Nottingham, confectioner.
John Samuel Wilson, Leeds, commission agent.
David Thompson, Ulleskelf, Yorkshire, innkeeper.
John Moore, Pudsey, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer.
Rees Jeffreys, Liverpool, outfitter.
John Ellis, Liverpool, joiner.
Alfred Southern, Manchester, manufacturer.

SINCE TM How. EABT Brink Concise* Connnercial Charter
mewed, the wuppllee of Tea have not been of a reliable quality,
the Chinese producers on the withdrawal of the Tea Inepeotore
from Canton, having made up the low priced sorts to appear
Ilk, the beet The most prevalent, and eertainly the mod ob-
jectionable method adopted to accomplish it is the twe of
powdered colour to the surface of the leaves, to hide the
withered appearznoe of the Autumn (zibeline, thus Pelting
into the hands of the purchaser flavourless Tea, inked of the
valuable spring idn& ; all this tend, to the profit of the
Chinese and °then, but it madame the Interest of the British
&mounter. Roraima k Co. London, in order to avoid having
the withered sort., find It needful to import Tea without the
usual powdered eolour on the surface. Their pure tees ave mid
in packets by authorized Agents in this luety, uadvertieed
In our column.,

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at an advance of la.
Barley was firm.
Beans and peas unaltered.

LONDON MARKETS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MARK-LANE, MONDAY, FEB. 15.

We had a moderate supply of wheat at
market to-day, and there was a fair trade doing

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