The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-04-25 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARK-LANE, This DAV,

Market steady. English and Foreign wheat
realised about last Monday's rates. Exports,
13,740 quarters. Flout unaltered. Barley firm.
Oats commanded shout an advance of sixpence
On the week. Exports, 7,644 quarter& Maize
quiet. Britiah : Wheat, 3,950 ; barley, 939;
oats, 290 ; flour, 20,704. Foreign : Wheat,
10,336; barley, 3.500; oats, 18,043; malre,
542; flour, 2,032 sacks and 28,772 barrels.
CLoss.—Market closed heavily, at prices
favouring buyers. Supplies of English grain
shark particularly wheat, of foreign moderate,
Wheat dull (and occasionally One Shilling per
quarter lower. Barley inactive. Oats in slow
request, at about late rates. Beans and peas
undianged. Flour dull, and drooping.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Tule DAY.
'There is an increased amount of steadinem
tLarein the cattle trade. Supplies of beuta
cidtorter, with • healthy demand, prices
rose twopence per Sib.. The beet Scots and
crosses made 5. Bd. Inquiry for sheep better,
at an advance of twopence per Sibs., beat breeds
making 6a. lambs a slow trade, but choicest
quality realised Ss. Calves and pigs quiet.
Another correspondent telegraphs :—Scotch
la in limited supply ; Norfolk. and Suffolk.
sir average arrival, and generally of good
lity. Trade slow, but our quotations
well sup , closing firm. There is more
and for foreign beasts than for British. Sheep
ket fins with a good demand for all qualities
wo to fonrpence advance. Lambe stationary,
&ohm quality scam. No good. veal te
', and wanted; ordinary quality &Sault of
Pork firm at late rates. Beef, 41 to
1; mutton, 4.4 d to 6s 2d; veal, 4s fd to
pork, 3. Od to 4. 13d.; lambs, 6. 8d so Bs.
,ta, 2,490 ; .beep and lambs, 16,300 ; calves.
pigs, 170 ; of which fareign—busta, 430;
, and lantWeoo ; calves, 125 ; pigs, O.

PROVISIONS, THIR DAY.
rrza : Quotations of Irish nominaL Old
exhatuded. Foreign aorta premed for isle,
ower prices. Friesland, 126 ii to I3os.
*Alan a dull sale. Bacot;: Irish firm.
e realized two shillings advanoe on the week.
.burg, 48s. to 58s. landed. aims : Very
sale for Irish and lower prices taken on
spot. Cams: Steady demand. Lard
. PORK More inquiry for ploklod middles.
3me m a dull gala Barr: Large supplies,
ower prices aooepted, without leading to
I:sadness.

I. 12.—L4ttle buena woo done. last wee" prices being
ained with difficulty.
ono., 62.—Iloidare of wheat wore firm, and no great
Ity changed hands.
11. —Short supply and trade in wheat stagnant;
act roles b pee qr lew money had to be generally
ed.
cnierrea, rlad.—At be exchange to-day there we. a
lecound for wheat, but yellers had in some inetancee to
tto a reduchou nit'. per qr the prices al bat week,
:be average was 56. per qr imperial manure. Barley
qr dower; good demand ; avenge last week. 36.61
mad demand for oat., beans, endplate at ewtreme prima.
etor's return: Wheat, 265 qrs, £206. avenge, 51..
y. 641 qrs.
_t969 16., average, 16s 51d.
AMMO, Md.—Very thin attendance. Dull trade. Mod
o transactions that tot place were at terms in favour of
as, and there to every probability that trade will claw at
1, 00 26 per qr
_decline.
teingen, MA—Mr. Ensue. Repository sale was well
ied. Cows and calves fetchod from £l3 to £l9 6. per
The bat fat beef waa quoted at from 12s Odin lis thl
axn. Down wethen 60s etch, averaging 9.1 per lb;
26. to 61.; rams, Its each, or 10.1 per lb; calves—an
ordinarily high price—fully le per lb.
=roe WOOL AWAIT , 81411rday.—The market continues
aibit much galena.. Rudman in all quell tin is con•
d within very TUUTOW limits, and the value of choice
be, which up to the present tiros haa been malatained,
`itly nine.

ARRIVAL AND EXPECTED IMMEDIATE
DEPARTURE OF THE FLEET.
re are now (Monday) five ironelads in Portland
, Aianoonii and Northumberland haring arrived
luraday, Inconstant and Minotaur on Friday. and
wades= Sunday. It Is maid that they will leave on
saes:lay (this) morning for bladed& The dispatch
Mauna kielloon came in on Sunday afternoon.