The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LitiegYrett, July Gal.—There is rather more doing in
the hosiery trade, and, the weather leaving become
more seraonable, Madera ere looking forward to • fur-
ther improvement, which will, there is little doubt,
take place in fancy good.. These have hitherto been a
slow sale in corsaeluence Of the cold weather. Is the
country districts the lowiery trade remains quiet, but
future prospects are by no means discouraging. Yarns
are high in price, and wools are firm at eat rout rates.
NorriannAM, 6th. —There is a further alight im-
provement in Knee departments of the hoe trade.
Several gmal onl. re leave been receive:l for Mechlin
'• whips." and there is yet • fixer litunneaa doing in found-
atom nets with a brightened surface. There is sery
little doing tie plain Mechlina. The fancy (cotton) trade
is improving, and more in expected to be done shortly
The recent favourable change in the awather will cause
the demand for summer goods to increaw. There is,
however, • good deal of machinery still tither at a stand
or only working lonited time, and many lact.inakera•re
out of work, manufseteirera tieing determined to keep
stock as low as pswaible. Tic-re is rather more doing en
silk goods, and the continuance of fine weather will
e.4llSe this demand to extend. In hosiery there is very
little change to report. For several weeks pest trade
has been in it depresse I 'date, but manufacturers think
they I:ave seen the. worst, and are looking forward to au
improved state of things.
I.llt. Soorcit hi:Taos TKADE.—The make of pig-iron
in the Scotch eliatrict in the quarter ended the 34tth of
lune ham been very gnat Then! an: 131 furnaces in
blast, steel the production has been 277,000 ton., allowing
an increeexe of 35,000 tin, as compared with the same
penal of 1850. The total deliveries, including leal
consumption and esporta, during the past quarter were
23,5,000 tons, being 5.000 in advance of thr correspond-
ing quarter of 1859, but 5,000 below the .11Ie perk.' of
11457: Stocky have therefore increaseel during the
quarter to the extent of 42,000 tons. They now amount
to 310000 tone, exclusive if Carron. The &el'ement:a-
non of stocks is attributed to the unsettled aspect of the
continental world.
Wool, Tnaue.—DIDCOT Fal R. —The first fair for the
sale of wool was held at Dieloot on Tuewlay, the heel
inst. Its position with regard to railway com 111111 l ica-
tion, being the junction .1 the Oxford, Binniughain,
tint Worcester lines, as well as the main line westward,
rendene it the nnwt convenient of all the fairs held in
Berkaleire. But a few mouths have elapsel since it was
determine.' ley a committee of yeomen and gentlemen in
that part of the e ty to make trial of the experinieot,
and the auccesa liar been in excess of what WAS antici-
pated. There was 4 KOMI .luantity of wool brought for
vale, numbering ;about 2,000 tots, and the buyers were
numerous, several of the large houses in the west an.l
, north being represented, as wed as eminent staplers of
London. Since last year a ruse of 4.. to 5.1. per toil ap-
pears to have taken place, and, as this amount was
asked by the 11.ockniaaters here, the staplers were in a
ule snare quiet for a truer, but the former retnained time
for the tenoa asked, and eventually the whole of the
picky were sold at the following ratc• : Beat tog wool,
17y per teed ; ewe eiittee, from 425. to 435. Ode ; and
mixed ditto, 455. tee 41bs.

Tai LEATHER Tao.—There have been no further
failures of importance in the leather trade, but the
number of dealers compromised is SU large that nume-
rous eases of difficulty must continue to transpire. It
'should generally be recognised, however, that the
break-up now in proer,xs is from no inherent ui.ountl-
ness in this branch of busine., but is simply the re•ult
of undue credit having been grsnted to a single grin,
which 111.1 caused a multitude of smaller ones to keep
up a coestaut system of extension. Hitherto the
tenners. as • body, have always rtseel am.! for prudence
and solidity, aud it is believea that the podtiuu of the
finns that have avoided speculation and carried on only
legitimate opyr.tions was never more healthy or
indepeudent than at this moment. They have enjoyed
• good and lucrative business, especially fur the line
live or nix years, and as soon as the confmdun and incon-
venience created by the occurrences just announced
shall have subsided, the state at the trade will probably
be inure sound than ever.

A Berlin paper affirms that the Anteing of Room-
boleti, the summer rearleuce of the King of Bavaria,
being prepared for tha reception of Francis IL. in
came be alluald Ind it n.os.sar soA. • precipitate
reirsal, frogs Maples.