The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

HAY AND STRAW MARKETS.

Sllllll7lllLD.—Mea4ow hay, £2 to £4 16.; clover ditto,
£4O. to £5lO. ; and straw, £1 10. to £1 164 per load.
Trade 'sly dull.
CUMBEILAND.—Meadow bay, £2 28 to £4 17s ; clover
ditto, £4O. to £5 10s, and straw, £1 10s to £1 16s per
load. A slow trade

w hay, £2 to £4 15i; clover
ditto, £4 Oe to £5 12s ; and straw, a 103 to £1 lea per
load. Trade heavy.

WOOL MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, FILIDAT.--8/11ft the close of OUT public
galas the market has been quiet, buyers having supplied
their wsnts for the present, at all events. Prices remain
unaltered.

BALD/ORD.—The wool market is universally described
as quiet. Prices must be quoted generally easier, the
downward tendency being most marked in lustre wools.
In down wools inure has been done recently, and the
finest claws of down matchings, tegs and wethers are
perhaps nearly exempt from any giving way.
LONDON, FRID AT. —The market for English wool is
quiet but prices firm. In Colonial wool no change; the
demand for low and gressey wool for America continues.
LE/OPTICS. The wool market continues quiet, but
prices are firm.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS.- FRIDAY.

giII:MIL-A quiet tone still pervades the market, and
quotations are unsettled, ruling 6d to ls per cwt, lower
in several cases. There have again been ample supplies
of white 13enares and Gurpatta date brought forward.
Good to fine qualities do rot participate in the decline.
The Week's delivery was 4,34.0 tons the total increase
over the previous mum= being 4,000.t0n5. Present
Mock, 110,560 tons, wind
_49,360 tons in 1861.

0000 A.—A small parcel of Grenada has been dis-
posed of privately at 66e per cwt, which is again lower.
The stock el West India his been augmented to 8,500
bags, which is considerably larger than usual.
COggig.—The market keeps very firm, and the
various parcels of plantation Ceylon brought forward
have sold at full rates to Is advance, upon qualities
suitable to the home trade. A cargo of St Domingo
has sold at 67s per cwt for a near port • and few
hundred bags of Rio on the spot. The ;took of all
kinds is 6,900 tons, against 6,300 tons last year, and
7,150 tons in the proceeding one.
Tea. There has been a moderate amount of business
dling this week, and general quotations remain
unaltered. The arrivals are large, and several public
sales will take place next week, via., Tuesday and
Thursday next.
ittOg.—The sales have been rather large since last
Friday. On the spot, Rangoon has sold at 104 3d to
lls 6c1"; also, some, white Bengal at previous quota-
tions..

SALyyrraz.—This article was dull for some days, and
quotations bad a downward tendency, but the market is
now much firmer. Nearly 1,000 tons were delivered
last week, which reduced the stook to 4,020 tons, against
4,200, and 4,700 tons at the same date in the two pre-
vious years.
GRZIN FlitllT.—An improved marketifor oranges.
Some cargoes St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at
public sales, went at an advance of 3s to 48 per box.
Some:parcels of lemons out of condition have been sold
at lower rates. Nuts of all kinds without alteration.
Seville sours improved in price, the inferior parcels
being bearly'off the market.
Day FRUIT.—The market continued to show dimness,
but very little is selling, and that chiefly of better
descriptions. Raisins are dolVas they have been ever
since the Christmas trade. _ .

ves—fr-e-ely-: Alexandria has been taken
for ezporVat 565. On the spot, Bombay 635, and 57s
has been accepted for 200 tons Calcutta, coat, freight
and insurance, ?inolilding bags.
Otte.—The production rot linseed scarcely continues
equal to the demand, and there are few sellers under
£34 on the spot, and at £35 115 e per ton for monthly
deliveries up to June. Baps oil continues scarce, and
there are few buyers of brown on the spot at £45, and
£47 10s per ton for refined. Consumers of olive,
looking at the value for spring shipments, have little
con fidenee,in present rates, ankbuy only for immediate
wants. At these rates there are buyers for arrival, but
sellers require 20s per ton snore. Palm is further
advanced, land for fine Lagos, which is scarce, £43 to
£43.5s per tennis/ been paid; low qualities, however,
are neglected, unless at very low prices.
TURPRNTIN6.—An arrival of 1,415 barrels rough
turpentine from Wilmington, by a vessel whioh ran
the blockade, for which 25e is demanded. Spirits are
dull at 68e to 69s per cwt for American barr.o.
TALLOW.—Foreign has not recovi
depreesion noticed last week, and prices a
viz: Y.C.. 46e 6d ; March to June 46e
last three months, 47$ 64 to 47e 94 per or

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