The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-21 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.

The "Mark• Lane Express" of to.night says, the past
week ham been one of constant fluctuations—so bard
flint little field work emit' be done, while it then
became too wet ant soft from th, frost. Sio.,t of thu
wheat being already sown and well up, th..ru has been
NI yet no severity t 3 hurt it; but. should these fiuctu.
Mims continue, there will be again • poor look out for
spring. The London granaries and every great shipping
port in ngland is at present well provided, but
their entire capacity can hardly be estimated at a
mouth's oonsumption, and should Franco suddenly
some in as an urgent customer, there would be a rapid
dietributioo. As monitory difficulties teem passing
away, there will be doubtless greater facility in
the trausmission, but until spring unlocks the
ice bound seas and canals we must patiently welt,
Farmers on the least hint of firmness are very ready to
respond by the withdrawal of samples for the antici-
pated rise. Very little change hot been noted during
the week in France, or indeed any part of Europe,
but New York rates have Improved, notwithstanding
the advent of winter.

bildtli-LANE, TRis DAY.

Market firm. English and foreign wheat One
Shilling dearer. Town flour unchanged; country and
American marks firm. Barley dull. and rather cheaper.
Oata Bixpenee to One Shilling dearer on the week•
filers' firm, Beau and Feu unchanged. British—
wbeat. 6.433 ; barley, 1,848; oats, 4)4; flour, 21,231 ;
orei,•• —Wheat, 17,267; barley, 33,215 ; nate, 28.719;
136 sacks.

MK 'ROPOLITAN CATTLE. TIL I, DAY..

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f.:nneTal mu of ben( lower ; Immo qusiity sumo* hot
assisr t. buy. Scotch tel anima., woll mad° and neat
weight!, about the earn° Al last week; but thole) are
aserpt. nil. All other Twopence per stone lower.
Fair tr.', doing at the abrve conoession, but an entire
&saran 1101111110 t be lookod for. Choico English mutton
H,aip...„o Its price. 'l'M' applies to well•brad D3lll/14
0..: select weights; larger bre)ds exp•rionc a
of twopence. and, some report, as much a.

o, with • heavy dragging trade. Foreign lido
coept for finest quality. Limited supply of
Tea yen close sales on rather easier terms. Dowo-
ward tendeney in pork. Beef, 31 101 to s'lol ; mut-
ton, 3i64 to 7e; Vogl, 4,24 to 61 44; pork, 3,61 to
1.81. Tolal supply—beseta, 5,000; sheep and lambs,
19,900 ; calves, 184; pigs, 150: of which f oreign—
yeast«, 2,600; sheep and lambs, 10,600.

PROVISIONS, Tins DAY.

: Moderate enquiry (or Irish, and finer sorts
attwr !tater. Foreign description in fair demand, a t
ti rates. Friesland, 1264 to I Pis ; Aturrican
ftten• icon: Good enquiry at firrn rte. listus :
Leas d . and and prises a tritio lowor. Ulionso quirt.
Assert., klaastive at s)s to 62i. L ri c.utinuer dull.
Mary sw, Jvlsican quiet.

Doses nu, Saturday.—Whest sold at the rate, of ye-fenny
mion,ght, when the ogleial average wwi his 911 per impendl
qr. Lark supply ul malting barley at the rate, of last week,
when tb average ems 3111 lid per qr., n. 14 qrs. realising
A 160210 6.1; inferior sorts a at from II less money
than lasi weak. Oats from 61 to Is dearer. Moan. and 'ma.e
at late raw.. At Mr. Kosor's fortilkshUy .ale of cattle and
cheep lichknompetition prevailed. Heifers and calf°. realiwil
from £l5 to £2l W. ; three-year-old heifer., Cli per Ile 1.1 ;
,nrnansni. Alb to £l9 1. Middling quality beef ranged from
•fe to mr score; fat fresh oxen from .C 42 to .1:72 per lair.
• 1 4y a 4 cheep; "'ethers from Silo 91.1 per lb ; ewe.,
kid to I 041 Cart hones from £2l to LID aach.

FATAL SLIIPWRECK.
Ibe bargee Charles, of Newcastle. Ism griniudiA
near A'. Mean, acid the crew of six were ilrowu ed.

CEIAKOZ OF THEAiON.

.‘ agistratee' lurk at Brixton to-day (Monday)
•;•;.lic for • warrant against • teetotal lecturer, for
tre..oi.. la 'barging the Q. 113011 with intemperance.
lloatioo yea retuned.