The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

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lANDAN Smarr MAllLer.—Ruin ía in Nir request, at
Folly previous rates. Proof Leeward*, la 7,1. to in. 9.1.;
Ed.• India, in. fl. to la 7.1. er gallon. Brandy 11.11t1
grain spirits support former terms.
TrA. —Owing to the limited exports fro n China, our
market ii firm, and price* have an upward tendency.
Common sound l'ongou i* now worth Is. Id. per lb.
Sue, on.,—(Mod and fine raw imalities hove sold
atemlily,•t foil welt itions ; but lowan I damn pircels are
very inactive, at the latededitie in value. Relined gutrl4
$OOl,O off dowdy, at Ua. t, 51i. ti I ir curt., for brown
Noma Crushed sugar*, both English and Dutch, sup.
port preoious late,.

LVICV.PITV.H. February 2.--The hosiery trade is quiet,
mid the continuance of mild weather operates against •
good aeassinable demand. Although less active, the
bit.ineita doing is of a llealthT character. Hinckley,
Loughborough, and other hosiery diatriets, there is not
lunch alteration to report. Wools of drstqate quality
continue high in price. The 'pitmen are pretty well
supplied.
NoT TI ?CONAN, 2nd.— Operations in the lace trade are
still of a limited nature, anil this week the amount of
bitsineoui doing is but email. Souse of the silk branches
are exceedingly dull, There lea tolerable inquiry for
Mechlins. &me orders for the Herman suarket have
been received, but, taken RA a whole, the lace trade
still remains quiet. The 'ear, however, is yet but
young, awl a thorough revival oily shortly take place.
The I oidery trtvle keeps up its biwystier, and many
Manche. remain very boil, The prospects of a good
spring Ira le are of a cheering character. At latittioi•in•
Addl.:ld, and In other frainework•kisitting districts,
there is a imml business doing in the hosiery trash. ; the
"Iwridived continue vim...tingly well employed, and,
for MORN 611111 past all good hands have been fully
engaged.

t neuron, FYN, 4, --Th., market wititiourqukt
but on. far as clotlinii. oniroro...l ',rico+ aro slowly. nod
iiintoilnaturorn, haring hoary contracts for 'l.:rural kiwis
of oloth, in holispownl to oinb .. any alintoilialit. A rittlior
tirmor withoi tunrkot tools to confirm them lei thin moo
Niko), bolikehinings pro li. rathor hottor than
other biliriosrliut for tilos, tho woi•len trannattiotin halm
Woo noolornto. 'rho .loiontol for yarns Ia vury Wu*,
l'rloe4 bay,• not tiny great 11114,1ation, but, In
a.,,,,' nadeol, hare Iwoo willing to make a alight
C 01101.1.1.111,1, Sto4llllllll.otil yin,. alitNV generally
vory light, hot there nr,. *Ma. 6.llo4.nlinn`r an in thu e o•
apry lingo
a i .rint..r.
awl olior fahrius num., low id nur inauulauturvro bold
rollior logo ...oaks, which will probably hot moot with
much attootion until thi. home iris& hoyern wow mon
frroly isib. thy iiinrkut for slip •prlng trade.

ISt sic Inr V, Accoutiontritig munday
week thu Scottish Trade Protection Moclety hail an
interview with the Lord Advocate 111 Edinburgh for the
purpose of calling his foolship's attentiosi to various
sulsjacts affecting mercantile iiitcrests and atiottht
'Ahem a proposed I,rgislative iiisastire for the purpose of
iii„timitoshitig ginning lousiness bills, representing valiie
rcuiss,t, from atwommodation bills, drawn for the solo
purpose .4 raising money. In reply to the ileputstn :o
lila lordshiP that it one period the Scotch Courts
'bonded the legality of accommodation bills altogether ;
hut that wiestion had long been settled ; and so numeromi
and •stentensivs were the transactions carried on in
this country by means of these bills in whole in
I pert, that hi could scarcely say, looking forward
withmat experience, what effect the alterations proposed
will hare on the general trade of the country. Ile
would, however, give the subject big best oonsidstotion,
awl he had no hesitation in saying that the recent coin.
I monis' disasters must call the attention of the tiovern•
mint and of the country to the subject, and load them
'to uomins whether any legislative measure could be got
which would have the effect of placing the ixionnercse of
, the country on a safer and more satisfactory footing.

RAILWAY RIOCICIPTIL —The trail* returns of railways
in the United Kingdom published for the week ending
Jentiery 29 a ttttt noted to £422.1114, and for the ourres-
intuiting week in 16614 to C 194,710, showing an increase
of 637,864. The fres+ receipte of the eight midways
hiving their termini in the metropolis for the week
ending as above mounted to £175,671, and for the cor-
responding period of 18614 to £166,448, showing an
increase of 1.11.3K1. The increase in the reoripts of the
Keetern Counties Railway mounted to £1,115; on the
Great Vorthern to 1:28; on the Great SVeitern to
£1,057; on the London end Nurth•Western to ;
eil the London and Blackwell to £196; on the 1,00d."1
Brighton, and Mouth Coaet to £674; on the London mil
Moutli•Wextem to £1,1123 ; and on the ?Muth-I.:uteri' to
£121; total, £1,3K1. The receipts us tbe other lines in
the United Kingdom amounted to £246,643. and far
the corresponding week of butt year to 1:228.222.
ing an inereaae on (howl lines of e 15,421, whith, added
to the increase on the metropolitan lines, amino
_•"."'
total increaas £27,804,. compered with lb. wigw
tag week of 1866.