The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-02-02 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.

The wheat trade has again been very dulLm. condi-
tion of the samples has been very indifferent and has
greatly hindered Mimosa. Scarcely anything has been
doing, and forced sales have only been concluded on lower
terms.
A considerable proportion of the supply now afloat will
not arrive until March and April, but if farmers show no
more disposition to submit to current rates than they have
recently done, there appears to be no valid reason to
doubt that the markets will continue to he fairly supplied
and, provided that mospects are as satisfactory Sc at 1
present, we need not look for any appreciable fluctuations

—lie--q-u-antity of wheat now on peerage to us from all
quarters, is estimated at one million and seven hundred
and twenty four thousand, one hundred and seventy
quarters, against one millioruix hundred 'thousand nine
hundred quarters, at this time last year.
Barley has been depressed, and has fallen one to two
and a similar decline has taken place in maize.
Beans have been one shilling lower, hut (tale, although
quiet, have been steady. reas drooping. Very little has
been doing in hour; country markets have been rather
lower on the week.

MARK-LANE.—Tnis DAY.
Wheat closed heavily, prices ruling in favour of buyers.
Barley and Beans le, and Maize Is. to 2., lower than on
Boaday last. Oats quieter, but steady. Peas inactive.
Flour dull: country marks eiL easier on the week.

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METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Tam DAN.
Beards, 2610. There is a very slow sale for all qualities
at • deeline of twopence in value. Inferior, 3e. lid. to
4s. ; prime, Ss. to G. Sheen, IS,E4M. The demand
here la also very slow, and only very choice qualities
realise late rates. Inferior, Ss. to rie. 10d. ; Prime, Ga. to
OIL 101. Calves and pigs quiet at late rates.

MONEY IILARKET.—Tais- DAY.
biscount demand moderate. Three months' bulls
charged 21. Consols ontseighth lower.

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BLANDFOII.I) CORN EXCHANGE, Seruansv.
An average attendance at our Market to-day. Thu
supply of both whest and barley was large, trade slow,
but 'previous quotations were maintained, occasionally
exceeded. Official returns :—Wheat, 207 gra, average
425. ; Barley. 533 qrs., average 434. 81d.; Oats, /50
qra, average Mis. 7d.

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THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE
At Saturday's markets there was en improved tone for
wheat in good condition. At Dorchester wheat in full
supply. All the best conditioned parcels in improved
demand at late prices, last week's official average being
41s. Vid. per imperial quarter. Barley in short supply
commanding late rates, last week's official average being
411. 4il, per imperial quarter, MN quarters 4 buiihel. realis-
ins £1.341 lis. eld. At the cattle market there was a large
supply of stock, and a brisk trade wail done at the follow-
ing figures :—Heifere and calves, .Cl 2 to /19.55.; hemmer;
.Cll to EIS per head: fat beef 14e. to 14.. per score, fat
heifers making £l7 to £255,. per bead; fat bulls, £1.5 to
£33 per bead; yeti sold well, at M. per lb.; sheep trade
fair, fat wethers making .12s. to 555, per bead, and fat
ewes 37s to 565. At Bath very slow trade in wheat, at
about last week's prices. At Norwich wheat sold at about
late rates. At Cluny:neer English was the turn in prices
favoured buyers. %Use and grinding barley 6d. per qr.
lower. At Warminster trade in both wheat and barley
was firm, at the extreme rates of late markets. The top
price for barley was 524. Quotations :—Wheat Me. to Its,
per quarter; barley, Ma. to 52a: oats. 24.. te beans.
48e. to 51..; peas. 3da toles.; rye. Dig. to Ms; flour, 335.
to 375. per sack. At Taunton the cattle market was
larsely attended and supplied. Bulls £25 to 1:30; two-
year-old steers, per pair; barrenera £l6 to £22; fat
wethur sheep, B.ld. to Pd. per lb. • fat ewes, 7141. to lid,'
Down wool, 11;1 per lb.; Notts, , Dorset horn and
musehred, 161 d. In the corn market there was • quiet
trade.

A WOMAN SHOT IN RENFREWSIIIRL
A woman named Young was shot in a publiehonse at
Pollock Shews, Itentrewshire, on Saturday night, by a man
named Thompson, who has been apprehended. Mrs.
Young died yesterday.

A WOMAN CHARGED WITH BURNING A
_CHILD.. .

A wotoan named Ireland was charged with attempting
to burn • child at Torquay this (Monday) morning. The
woman ran into the street yesterday morning, crying" I've
done it." Upon searching her room a skull and portions
of a child were found partly burnt. She was remanded.

BURNING OF A STEAMER.
The "Countess of F.rne," a London and North-Western
Company steamer. to”k tire an Situntay night whilst lying
alongside Holyhead jetty. The fire was extinguished at
midnight. lso lives were lost.

STRIKE IN STAFFORDSHIRE
The work-people employed at the Crown Tube works,
Weenesdhu-y and %dealt have struck against a discon-
tinuation of the nine hours system. Over 1,000 people are
thrown out.

DRAM OF SIR WILLIAM STERNDALR
BENNEFF.

Sir William Sterndal;ieWn—eit-ilied shortly after noon
to-day (Monday). Ile was born at Sheffield April 13,1816,
end at eight years of age he became a chorister of King's
College, Cambridge. After studying in Lotolon he went
to Germany for several years, where he formed an intimate
friendship with Mendelssohn. Subsequently be took up
Isle residence In Loudon. Ile was appointed professor of
music at Cambridge in IS:i6, and is widely known as the
author of a great variety of musical compositions of high
merit, including a cantata for the opening of the Interna-
tional Exhibition, me