The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

Crate ant) Commerce.

LONDON SPIRIT MARCIT.—Rom is tolerably firm.
Proof Leeward', 2s. ; and proof East India, /..s. lid.
per gallon. Brandy and grain spirit rule about sta-
tionary.
TiA.—We have no change to notioe in prices, and the
demand is rather inactive. The show of samples is
moderate.

Eluo•a.--filnee our last report there has been only •
moderate btuiness doing in raw sugar, and prioes have
shown a tendency to give way. Refined goods are heavy,
at from 53.. Bd. to 595. per cwt. Dutch crushed is
quoted at 355. 55. to 350. 9d., per cant., free on board.
The total stook of sugar ia now 40,000 tons, spinet
37,000 tone last year.
HOP&—Between the Ist of January and the lit of
June, 1857, 818, 5881 b. weight of hope of the growth of
the years 1888, 1865, 1853, 1862, and 1848, were ex-
ported from the United Kingdom to foreign porta, and
between the let of January and the 31st of Deamber,
1857, 831, 5381 b. were so exported. 376evrtn of foreign
hops were exported in the year 1857. The imports of
foreign hope in 1867, amounted to 18,7110 rte., almost
exclusively from the Hanse towns, and 14,4250rt5. of
foreign hope were charged with duty for home consump-
tion. 9,B73cwts. of foreign hope were in bond on new-
year's-day 1858.
CosToms' DUTIES.—IS is proposed by •BM to abolish
the duties now chargeable on the import of chloride of
lime and platina wire, and to levy duties of 55. each on
felt bormets, and of 2d. per lb. on onontolionc manufac-
tures. On and after the sth of April next it is proposed
to charge 3e. 55. per cwt. on stearine, and the game
duty per cwt. on candies of stearin/.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RITURNIL—The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending March 20 amounted to £390,020, and for the
corresponding week of last year to £407,990, showing a
decrease of £17,970. The groas receipts of the eight
railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £158,272, and for the
corresponding week of last year to £165,738, showing a
decrease of £7,466. The decrease on the Great Northern
Railway amounted to £973; on the London and North
Western to £5,444; on the London, Brighton, and
South Coast to £120; on the London and South.
Western to £762; and on the South-Eastern to £357;
total, £7,676. But from this must be deducted £97, the
increase on the Eastern Counties; £BB on the Great
Western; and £25 on the London and Blackwell;
together £2lO, leaving the decrease as above, £7,466.
The receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom
amounted to £231,748, and for the corresponding period
of 1857 to £242,252, showing a decrease of £10,504 in
the receipts of those line, which, added to the decrease
on the metropolitan lines, makes the total decrease
£17,970 as compared with the corresponding week of
1857.

CHUIII3 METHOD OF MAILING 00CETIRFIFT GC/ROVVIL.—"A
most curious sight," says Montgomery Martin in hie work on
" China," "met our view on entering factory, where mine
eve hundred celestials were seen busily eugt4sd altering the
shape to eonvert the low-priced withered 'BOW* tee Into eoun-
terfeit Gtuipowder." Many such factories were EDE wbe.
the Chinese Bret heard that the English Governtheut would to-
the future Mx the common and the best tea alike. By cover-
ing the counterfeit with the &Me colour as the orally true
aort, the imitation is moldered Do exact, that It is rEalltwammea
th Uth aaakar r al.? sea, as spas. sta . gest.
NO NAN r 00., Loettf&c. hi pray to avoid
lhad ialdfal he impart /Wit.trltilditajp
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