The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-11 00:00:00

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LONDON SPIRIT MARll7.—Riarn ii unaltered in
value, proof Leeward' being quoted at is. lid., and
Bast India, la. 104. per gallon. Brandy and grain
spirits move off slowly, on former terms.

SUGAR—Good and fine raw sugar have oontinned in
steady request, at slightly enhanced rates; but low and
damp parcels have met a dull inquiry, on former terms.
The refined market is finn.

T.—Sinoe our last report, only a limited busieeaa
he./ been transacted in lee.; neverthelese, the fluctuations
in prices have been trifling. Common sound °onion,
11 to llid. per lb ; Congou, 11d. to 24. 44. per lb;
Ming Yong and Oolong, Is. 2d. to 2..; Sottchong, Is. 9d.
to 2s. ad. ; Flowery Pekoe, 2.. 64. to 4c 84. ; Sainted
Viper, ls. 54. to 2*.; Orange Pekoe, Is. 24. to Is. 84.
Scentid Orange Pekoe, ls. Id. to Si. 14.; Twankay,94. to
Is. 3d.; Hyson Skin, Bd. to ls. ; Hyson Is. 2d. to 3.104.
Young Hyson Bd. to 21. Bd.; Imperial le. to 2s 44.;
Gunpowder, le. 50 3., ; ASSAM, Is. 84. tv 4a. 64.
per lb.
A.OOOIIMODATION roe THE TIMBER TRADE AT LIVER-
POOL.—After a long consideration of the subject, the
Mersey Dock Board have decided to let the land which
it is intended to devote to the acoommodation of the
timber trade, at the north end of the dock range, at
the rate of 104. per square yard.
THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.—The Spanish papers
state that some capitalists are about to establish large
mills for grinding corn on different points of the Medi-
terranean Railway. Although in Catalonia and Aragon
there had been drought, the general oondition of the
crops was highly satisfactory.
The prospectus liss been issued of the Imperial Plate
Glass Company, which ii proposed to be constituted by
the union under one management of all the plate glass
companies in Great Britain. The capital is fixed at
£1,000,000 in shares of £lO each, and debentures. The
persons interested in the six existing works subscribe for
£380,000 in shares. Debenture, at 5 percent. have also
been taken for £270,000, and the proportion of shares
offered to the public is consequently £360,000. It is
relied that the oost of production will be materially
lessened by the new arrangements. One favourable
feature in the constitution of the oonoern is the appoint-
ment of two inspectors, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Joint-Stock Companies Act of 1858, Mr.
Robert Stephenson, 51. P., and Mr. John Oliver Hanson
being the persons named.

Ate meeting in the London Bankruptcy Court, Wed-
nesday, Mr. Grantley Berkeley wee ordered to pay £75
towards the liquidation of the debta of the London
Unadulterated Food Company.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RICTURNIA—The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending May 1 amounted to £435,330, and for the
oorresponding week of lest year to .C 446,700 showing
a decrease of £11,370. The gross receipts of the eight
railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £177,740, and for the
oorresponding week of last year to £184,593, showing a
decrease of £6,853. The decrease on the Eastern
Counties Railway amounted to £1,343; on the Great
Northern to £246; on the Great Western to £545; bn
the London and North Western to £3,894; on the
London, Brighton, and South Coast to £160; on the
London and South Western to £105; and on the
South Eastern to £540; total, £6,873. But from this
must be deducted £2O, the increase on the London and
Blackwell, leaving the decrease, as above, £6,853. The
receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom
amounted to £257,590, and for the corresponding pericd
of 1857 to £262,107, showing a decrease of £4,517 in the
receipts of those lines, which added, to the decrease on
the metropolitan lines, makes the total decrease £11,370,
as compared with the corresponding week of 1857.