The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

Erabe nub 4rontinerce.

LONDON SPIRIT MARKET.—Ruin is • dull inquiry.
Proof Leewards, Is. 91. to Is. 19.1. ; proof Eat India
Is. 9.1. per gallon. In brandy, very little is doing, on
rather easier terms.

TEA.—For nearly all kinds of tea, the demand is still
in a eluggieh state, and late rates are with difficulty
supported. Common sound congou is selling at 101.
per lb. The total stock of tea in the United Kingdom
is 70,800,0001b5., against 87,600,0001b5., in 1857, and
89,634,0001 be. in 1858.
TRAM{ or Certott.—We believe that no colony of
the British empire, if we exclude Australia and Cenada,
can show a trade larger than that of Ceylon. The value
of goods exported is enormous—no legs than 21millions
sterling. The value of goods imported is close on two
millions. In goods alone our trade exceeds four millions
in value. Adding specie, we have a trade the united
value of which is £5,695,124. Some of the figures in
the returns before ma require explanation. Our imports
from Britain appear email when compared with our ex-
ports. But no doubt Suez gets credit for large sums of
specie which really ought to be credited to Britain.
The effect of the Order in Council making the Aus-
tralian gold coinage current in Ceylon is evident in the
large imports from Australia 4111Glit wholly specie. And
so our enormous imports from British India consist of
grain worth half a million, and of rupees to a value
exceeding that. "The balance of trade," it will be
observed, was greatly against France. This was owing
to the large proportion of native coffee shipped directly
last year, an experiment which has not been repeated on
a scale anything so extensive in 1858. To Holland and
Australia we also export extensively. The exports to
Hongkong must have been opium or specie transhipped.
The contrast between the Ceylon Customs' return of
1837 and 1857 is so nettling marvellous, and the progress
indicated worthy of comparison even with that of the
great Anglo-Saxon colonies.
The prolonged dulness of the Paris Bourse continues
to excite remark, but is generally attributed to financial
rather than political considerations. The large subscrip-
tions to the new French railway loan certainly indicate
no distrust of the stability of the Imperial institutions or
of the sagacity of the government as regards its foreign
policy. All French securities have long been prejudiced
by the never-ceasing issue of new securities and by the
incesaant demands for capital for public. works. Even
the new railway loan of three millions sterling now in
the market niuet determine sales of existing securities.
Meanwhile the firmness of the Englpth funds denotes
that the projected visit of the Queen of England to Cher-
bourg is viewed with satisfaction, as affording strong
public evidence of the permanence of the alliance be-
tween the two nations, in spite of the recent subject' of
irritation.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RITURNIL —The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending July 10 amounted to £467,550, and for the
corresponding week of lest year to £483,490, showing
a decrease of £15,940. The gross reoeipta of the eight
railways Wiring their termini in the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £197,255, and for the
corresponding period of 1857 to £404,542, showing a
decrees' of £7,287. The decrease in the London
and North-Western Railway amounted to £7,858; on
the London and Blackwell to £lOl ; on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast to £l6O ; on the London
and South-Western to £33; and on the South-Emden;
to £767 • total, £8,919. But from this most be
leduoted the-Warsaw on the Eastern Counties,
£1,124, on the Great Northam, and £205 on the Great
Western, leaving the decrease as above, £7,287. The
traffic receipts on the other lines in the United
n amounted to 2270,296 and for the corresponding
stet of lad year to £278,948, showing a decree's
at e 8,658 in the reeipte of those lines, which, added to
tbei decrease on the metropolitan lines, makes the total
decrease 940, as compared with she commending
period et 1867.

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