The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

BY EIPRESS ct BLACTRI C TELHGRAPH

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

MARK•LANE, 3lostoAT, Avo. 13.

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Arrivals of home-grown wheat very moderate and
supply of new produce small, and mostly of but
huing quality. The finest samples reahsed about
per quarter. For old wheat trade was slow, at last
gdonday,s currency. Foreign wheat sold ao.ly at late
rates.
Harley sternly at full quotations.
Malt and oats slow at about late prices.
Maus and peaa dull on former terms.
Flour unaltered.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, AUG. 13.
A large supply of foreign stock, demand somewhat
heavy, and prices had a drooping tendency.
Amval of beasts from our own puling districts mo-
derately good. The primort breeds were in fair request
at full priors. Otherwise the trade was somewhat In.
native, at • decline in the quotations 0(24. per 81b. The
Sop figures were in. ed. to fis. 6,L per B.lb.
Sheep in good supply. Downs, half•breds, Linoolns,
and Leieedas sold steadily at fall currencies; bet most
other breeds declined 2d. per Rib.
Lambe in fair average supply,st from Cis.{BcL to is. 84.
per 81b.
Veal inactive.
Pip fall at previous currencies,

MONEY MARKET, Acc. 13.
Consols are 871 to 871 for money, and 88‘ to 1 for the
antotuat.

CONVOCATION ill prorogued to tho 26th October.
A BOPIRIMIIOOII RAILWAT.-OWlOg to the want el
truffle the Orton branch of the Morayshire Railway,
worked by the great North of %Wand Company, was
shot on the let August. —instructs Carrier.
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Ftmaxim! IN AmnicA.—ln conseqUence of the
msyer of Washington preventing the enlace from
bolding public meetings in the Government fair buildings,
the Senate has passed • resolution granting the use of
the buildings for Fenjan moetinga Stephens has issued
a circular reiterating the etatement that fighting will
commence on Irish soil this year, and cautioning the
Fenian, against alliances with AMIII iCill political
parties.

103548 Or Tnn Bffir UDELL!. —The ship Libelle,
wh4o on a voyage to Honspliong from flan Franciseo,
havto,:4 on board a valuable cargo, specie to the extent
of k 76,000, in dollars, and a number of passengers.
=on whom were Madame Anna Bishop (the wife of
air Henry Bishop, the composer) Miss Phelan, Mr. U.
Behruts, and Mr. Charles La/males, of the English
Opera Company, was cast away on the night of the 4th
of Marsh on an nambabited reef, called Wake Island
In the China Seas. The passengers, having taken to
the long boat, idler encountering great dangers. and
suturing horrible sufferings for 13 days and nights,
arrived off the have of linen.

LONDON AND SoCTII•WINTIllf RAILwAT.—Tbe
report of the directors of this company states that the
available balance for dividend for the half-year ending
the 30th of June last, after deducting all preference
charges amounted to £156,130' out of which the directors
recommended • dividend attho rate of 4 per cent.
per annum' payable on the Lit of September next. lase.
Mg • balance of CMS. The truffle duriug the half-year
had been considerably affected by two causes extremely
exceptional, the one being the cattle plague, whereby
(ender the Order in Conned) the cattle traffic of the
districts through which the line passed was entirely
stopped for a period, and important local cattlemarkets
hod been closed; while the large and constantly Mena*
log importation of cattle from the Continent via the
port of Southampton to the metropolie had been,
nod WM still, wholly suspended. This restriction
the directors thought was eery Unnecessary, as
foreign cattle were permitted to be brought
to the port of London, and then driven
through the streets to the market, whereas such
cattle viii Southampton would reach the London cattle.
market direct by railway. The loss of traffic from these
causes had been considerable. The severe monetary
pnusure hod also affected the traffic by the general con-
traction of trade and in the check pleasure traffic had
thereby sustained. The heavy rate of discount that had
prevailed had caused the average rate on the company's
mortgage debt to increase from 418 to 411 per cent.
The increase to the working expenses was considerable,
owing to the rim of wages which the enhanced price of
provisions had rendered- necessary, and also to the ex.
4-2 naive renewals of engines, carriages, and waggons.
The total receipts for the past half-year amounted to
.F 735,219 the working expenses to £366,429, the Liza-
tion to 1:16,4a). and the net revenue to MaL4OO, against
the total receints for the same half of last year
amounting to 1:094.200, working expenses to .2326,973,
taxation to £36,934, and net
showing an increase in the receipts of £41,049,
in the working expenses of £29,456, and in the
taxation of F. 5.486, but a decrease in the
net revenue of 1.1,893. The increase of 272,974 train
Scume as compared with the half year ending Jane, 1888,
bad principally arisen from the opening of the South-
a.epton and Netley Railway, the working of der. line
frin Alton to Winchester, and the new seniors of trains
between Kensington and Londonsbridge via the Waterloo
Abdul. and between Clapham junction ant Ludgate,
over the London, Chatham, mid Dover Railway. Con-
siihwahle difficulties hod been experienced in carrying
•ni this last-named service, from the incomplete state of
the works, the ..dditional lines of rails on the London,
Chatham. '54 Dover Railway not baring been completed
-us preehled for in the agreement, This had mainly
-iri•en from the failure of the contractors. Arrange-
ments' had. however, been made, by which this would
be iemelied, and the directors hoped that the
ments which had been entered into with other =6
would in • few months place that portion of the line
between Clapham Junction and Ludgate in • more
complete and perfect state. Portions of the main line
in the Weybridge district, the Guddford branch, the
Ilishopetoke and Salisbury line, and the Dorchester
branch had been relaid with heavier materials. The
cool line of rails bad been completed between Oakley
end Whiteheroli, and Sutton Bingham and Crewkeme ;
11.- Litter section completing the double line of rails
between Yeovil ant Exeter. Further portions of the
line between Salisbury and Baainptoke were now being
doubled. The laying of the second line of rails between
Epsom end Leatherhead at the joint cost of this company
and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Company
was compkted. The new station buildings of this corn.
pony at Lestlierbesd were nearly finished, and the line
a oithward of the existing Leatherhead station might be
shortiv opened traffic. A further part of the
sTeund line of rails on the Salisbury and Yeovil line
b AsTreen Itberborna and Templecombo was opened on
the bet of August. The remaining portions of the
second line trelsuging to the Salisbury and Yeovil Com-
pany would Le completed before the cud of the present
veer. The Chertney littensiw, may would shortly
In. opened. The Tooting, Merton. and Wimbledon line
would be completed early next yesr.

:;ELECTIONS FROM SATIJRDAI"S MARKETS.