The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

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LONDON SPIRIT MARKET.-The transactions in ram
are very moderate; nevertheless, the quotations ore
about stationary. In brandy, very little is doing, at last
week's currency. Grain spirit is heavy.
TEA-Our market is very flat, and, to force sales,
rather lower rates must be submitted to. Common
sound Congou is offering at Is. o.id. to Is. Oid. per lb. ;
Ning Yong and Oolong, Is. 3d. to 20.; Souchong,
18.3 d. to 2s. 64.; Flowery Pekoe, 24. 64. to 4s. 64.;
Scented Caper, ls. 3d. to Is. 104.; Orange Pekoe,
is. 2d. to ls. 44.; Scented Orange Pekoe, Is. 64. to
3s. Id.; Twankay, 94. to Is. 3d.; Hyson Skin, 84. to
Is. 24.; Hyson, le. 2d. to Is. 10d. ; Young Hyson, 104.
to 2s. 24.; Imperial, is. to 2s. 44.; Gunpowder, Is. to
3s. 6d. ; Assam Is. 104. to 4s. 6d. per lb.
SUOAR.-Sinee our last report, the transactions in all
raw sugars have been trifling, and prioes have had a
downward tendency. Refined goods are mostly held at
full quotations. Low grocery, 545. to 548. ; wet
lumps, 51s. to 52..; and pieees, 43e. to 498. per cwt.
COPPER, TIN, LEAD, AND ZINO.-Last year 24,143
tons of British copper (ore excluded) were exported from
this country, including 7,146 tons of unwrought copper,
164 tons of coin, 13,726 tons of sheets, rails, Ate., and
3,103 owl. of other wrought copper. The countries to
which the greatest quantities of copper was exported
were the Haase Towns, Holland, Belgium, Franc.,
Italy, Turkey, Egypt, India, and the porta of the United
States on the Atlantic. 9,335 tons of British copper were
exported from London last year, and 9,129 tone from
the sister port of Liverpool. 75,832 tons of copper ore
were imported into the United Kingdom last year. The
imports of tin in 1857 were 2,708 tons of tin, and 1,387
of tin ore and refrains, and the exports included 2,187
tone of British tin, and 380 of foreign. The imports of
sine were 18,001 tons, and the export 3,123 ; of lead the
imports were 12,768 tons of pig and sheet lead, and the
exports 19,272 tons of pig and rolled lead, 2,816 tons of
shot, 662 of litharge, 2,540 of red lead, and 2,875 of
white for the carbonate of lead.
The letters from the shipping ports and manufactur-
ing towns within the past few days have expressed an
opinion that • slight increase of business is generally
taking plate. At Liverpool a disposition to undertake
operations is decidedly more observable, and it is added
that the demean sustained by the better class of firms
by the late crisis has been found to be much less than
was anticipated.
All the continental letters describe a state of com-
mercial dulness suck 88 has scarcely ever before been ex-
porienusd. The accumulation of unsold goods is still such
se to check every tendency to revival. At Marseilles as the warehouses are said to be overloaded.

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The Budget is expected to be introdueed on Friday,
and an impression has gained ground that a loan
will be announced to pay off the £2,000,000 of
Exchequer-bills falling due, and provide for the
expected deficiency of £4,000,000 between the an-
ticipated revenue and expenditure of the year
ending the Kat of March, 1.859. Some persons an-
ticipate that instead of a loan an augmentation of the
ineome-tax in its present form will be attempted, but,
apart from the fact • that Mr. Disraeli is pledged against
any such measure, the public feeling on the subject is so
strong that there can hardly be a doubt it would prove
fatal to any Ministry. In preparation against the possi-
bility of a proposal of this kind the Property and
Income-tax Association, established some time back to
obtain • more equitable adjustment of the charge upon
trades and profeaslons, have been actively en in the
preparation of petitions, which have been readily signed
by all classes in the city. Their proposal is that what-
ever may be the rate henceforth adopted the amount
payable on the preearious profits of trades and professions
shall not exceed one-half of that payable on real pro-
perty—a principle which the present Chancellor of the
Exchequer a few years ago announced to be one he
should endeavour partially to carry out.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RILTURNIC—The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending April 3 amounted to £419,940, and for the
correpponding week of last year to £418,820, showing
in increase of £1,120. The gross receipts of the eight
railways having their terininiln the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £175,870, and for the
oorreaponding week of last year to £174,147, showing an
Increase of £1,723. The increase on the Eastern Conn.
ties Railway amounted to £1,198'
, on the Great Western
to £1,330 ; on the London and Blackwell to £4l; on the
London, Brighton, and South Coast to £91?; on the
London and South• Western to £7Bl ; and on the
South• Eastern to £2,687 ; total, £8,832. But from this
most be deducted 2130, the decrease on the Greet
Northern, and £4,979 on the London and North.
Western, leaving the increase as above, £1,723. The
receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdoin
amounted to £244,070, and for the corresponding period
of 1887 to £244,873, showing a &new of £BB3 in the
receipts of those lines, which, deducted from the in.
crease on the metropolitan lines, I the total in.
crease £1,120, as compared with the corresponding week
of 1887.

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anzod tos &ovum, representing a obtekop Mon, M the time
the Honeareef• Zoe !Mkt Company mated as a trading oar.
poration in September 1880, and In some mopeds the Inman.
Lion was an apt one, When thoy brought low brown WI
Bohai Tee, they brought It to. Bohea ;—Anos that time some
who Noire to sell ailleMnply cheap tea hare Induced the
Chinese to twist the Bob.. Imre* Into ths shape of Gun
uid by the aid of powdered calcium tolnighten tgriet.trr.-
fess of these eoustertsit torts like genuine greens, whilst the
Conpoise undergo a bleokining proms, oommanding higher
Woes to conesquenes ; the Chinese pin is great, but the
eonsumer salters Immensely. You may situ obtain simpty pure
Time, without militial teeing powders—rut%
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