The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.
BY EXPRESS it ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(NROM OUR OWN REPORTER)
MARK-LANE, MONDAY, April 3.
Fresh up to-day the arrivals of English wheat from
Essex exhibited a decided increase as compared with
Monday last ; but the receipts from Kent were only
moderate. The condition of the former was good—of
the latter but middling. The trade for home-grown
wheat was much greater than on Monday last. .At the
close of business, however, a considerable proportion of
it.iss supply had been disposed of, and the late advance
an nearly all transactions was steadily supported. The
cipp'y of American wheat on the stands was small—(
ontinental produce but moderate. Millers operatid
somewhat more cautiously than on Monday last, and
the total business transacted was rather limited.
Prices, however, of all descriptions, ruled firm, and
without change from last week. There was less
activity in the demand for wheat afloat; nevertheless,
the late advanee in prices was supported. Spring corn,
to arrive, changed hands to a moderate extent, at full
quotations.
Good and fine malting barley, owing to the small
supply on offer, sold readily, at extreme rates. Inferior
barley, however, met a slow sale, at late prices, the
supply on offer being tolerably large.
All descriptions of malt sold slowly, at lets rates.
The supply of oats on sale was but moderate. Both
for English and foreign the trade was firm, at fully Lust
Monday's currency. .

The market was scantily supplied with beans, and
the prices realieed were fully equal to those current on
Monday last. .
.. . .

The supply of peas on sale was small, and moved off
steadily, at fall currencies.
No change took place in the value of flour. The
supply of benvehi on isle wa.s very small. English
qualities and foreign sacks changed hands to a fair
average extent.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, 'April :11
There was a large supply of foreign stock on offer
here to-day, In but middling condition. Bales progressed
slowly, at drooping prices.
The arrivals of b,asta fresh up from our own grazing
diitritits were only moderate; but the quality of most
breeds was good. The supply from Scotland was ifs
prime oondition. From Ireland the receipts were
limited. The beef trade was in a sluggish state, at •
decline in the quotations compared with Monday last of
2d. per Sib. The top figure was se. per. Sib.
There was an increased supply of sheep in the pens.
Most English bikeds came to hand in good condition-
The demand for them was somewhat heavy, at 2d. per
silb, less money. Prime Downs and half.breds in the
wool mostly sold at 6s. 6d.; wkilst the top quotation
for shorn sheep was ss. 4d. per 816.
Lambs were in moderate supply and sluggish requeol;
at from 6s. to 7m. per 81b.
DEATH OF MR COBDEN, M.P.

A man of mark and likelihood has gone to hiss
account, one who in the after history of his times
be referred to as the arbiter of their commercial
destining. Richard Cobden died last Sunday Therein
at 11 o'clock, at the age of 61. Contrasted with the
career of other public men, though few of them ever
pass throligh more excitement, Mr. Cobden was then in
the vigour- ef his prime and of his political
influence with his party; but attacks of bronchial
asthma, to whioh he has been liable for the,
last few years, frequently incepasitated him for
active exertion ' • and it was under this distressing
&filiation he at length succumbed to the laid enemy.
I native of Dunford, Midhurst, Sussex, he was born
3rd June, 1804. His family were farmers; but at an
early age Mr. Cobden entered a London City wan-
house, became commercial traveller to it in the north
of England, and finally founded a calioo-printing
business in the neighbourhood of Clithero. On settling
in Manchester as a prosperous man of business, he took
up the subject of public ednostion, and subsequently
those commercial subjects, particularly the powerful
agitation carried on trutteemetrilly by the Anti-
Corn Law League, and ending in the repeal of this
Corn Laws. Not only at home but abroad—in Franca,
Spain, Italy, Germany, and Russia - did Mr. Cobden
become the apostle of free trade, with what effect lee
our altered tariffs tell. He entered Parliament for the
borough of Stockport in 1841, and was also elected for
the West Riding of Yorkshire, continuing to represent
the latter till 1857. In 1859, during his absence in
America, he was elected member for Rochdale, and his
death creates a vacancy in that representation. It is
well known that a baronetcy and privy councellorship
were offered to him in 1861. but Mr. Cobden preferred
the plain simplicity of the designation under which be
had won his fame; and he will certainly be better
remembered as the plain, straightforward Englishman
of unadorned eloquence, than be would have been,
perhaps, as a political baronet.
Owing to the extreme preemie upon Out arkee, we
are reluctantly compelled to leave out sevemi articles
of peat interest.

Drava ow Mi. Joan Caseti.L.—The death of Yr.
John Cassell, whose name is so widely and honourably
known in connection with popular literature, is an.
nonneed as hsvirà Wren plece on Sunday last.
Printed and published for the Proprietor, by CHABLIS
Ws:mimeo ?amain, of Dorchester, Printer, at the
[Office of The Dorset County raprees, Church-street
Dorchester, Tuesday, April 4., 1861.