The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

Urabc ant) Commerce.

LosmiN mar:T.—The market for rum is
quiet, although a Government contract for MOM/ gal.
lona is advertised. ('roof Ihnierara is selling at 2s. to
2s. Id, per gallon. Nu change an the value of brandy.
Tr...—Owing to the falling off in the shipments from
China, our market in very firm, and pnoes have an
upward tendency. Common sound Cungou Ism realised
Is. 21d. per lb.

_
bt:G.ta.—Good and fillC raw qualities have changed
hand, to a uiokrat., catcnt, on former terms; but low
and damp parcels have 1110Ve.i off slowly, at a slight
decline in value. Ratted goods are in fair request, at
525. lid. to :13s. per cwt. for common brown lump!.
English crushed, 49a. to :kb. Cal.; piecem, 4.1 to 4. per
cwt.

STRIKE AT Ill'AltoN CoLLIERT.—Owing to a new
plan of cleaning the coal before getting it out of the pit
haying been introduced by the proprietors, the workmen
are non on strike, believing they cannot get good wages
if they comply with the new arrangement. Many are
still suffering front the effects of the lad strike at Acre-
(air, which took place two years ago.
The Committee of the Stock-Eichange directed that
establishment to be shut on Saturday, in order to enable
the members to avail themselves of the three day. from
Good Friday to Easter Monday ; consequently it might
be posaible that when they again asselialile.l the uncer-
tainty in which Europe has been plunged by the con-
stant threat,. alp, Cleasilollll of the last four monthe is ill
have reached ate atom. By the morning of Easter
Monday (yesterday it was apparently to be expecte,'
that Sardinia would have inibuiittell, or that the
Austrian army would have co 11111 l owed its movement
acroas the frontier. Hitherto each alarm hivi breu
wadi:44.ly followed by 1401111: tranquillizing correction, but
it is difficult to conjecture what new iiiterposit can
now take place, aince the last proposition alludtol to by
Lord Derby on Monday eve g having failed, the time
is, as he stated, now arrived " when England t say
that the period has gone by for trilling. and that she
must withdraw from interference in alttirs in which
she cannot longer Isere her interference could be
uaeful."

The oulonial produce-market* during the week halm
been quiet. Several parcels of pl ostation Ceylon coffee
have been mold, comiumers paying nearly former prices.
On Thurs.lay a Rusting cargo of St. Domingo was
reported at M. 6.1. per cwt. Toe sugar market opened
without animation, and has since been dull, quotations
occasiuually receding about G.I. per cwt., notwitlistanil•
ing the moderate supplies brought forward. Strung
redoing kinds, however, sell urn former terms. The
Netherlands Trading Counisuy a nest sale will be held
at Rotterdam en the lith of May, 70,900 baskets and
6,448 bags Java being at present &dared. Teas remain
firm, the dealers having bought freely from the recent
arrivals of ounguu and scented descriptions. The nu.
provement in rims has been maintained, a large quantity
having changed hands. and must holders now ro,uire an
advance. Owing to the light shipments to this country
the future prospects of the minket are consider...l
favourable. Saltpetre liaa berii firmer. The
CUI1(111114, g00.1,a11,1 the stock is much below the aVer.tge
of the ourresputailini; periml of the three preceding year,.
(hi Thunelay all increased 4111.4.41(1...1 was 'lion ii (4i
hut for Arrilr..l. While pepper has. ihidinch l. !ler 11,
I bh.c ..,rt. of %Ike barely .1.1.1.4.11 their former value.
111,441 chests of indigo are now declared for the ensuing
quarterly sales.

Corroe Suretv.—The adaptability of Australia and
South Africa to the growth of cotton of the most useful.
as well as the tinext qualitivg. is placed beyond doubt
by the samples now at Manchester of cotton recently
grown in those colonies. The Covernor ofSydney. Sir
William De 'son, taken a strung iiersonal interest in
the question of promoting the cultivation of cotton in
Australia, and Lieutenant-Covernor Scutt, of Natal. is
doing all in his power to further the same object at the
Cape. Private userchants au,l cultivators in both eosin.
tries are turning their attention to cotton culture, and
we learn that MO labourers have been eNcaged to com-
mence cultivation at Rockhampton, in Australia.

TRADE ANT) i3LIIINES.M PktntrEt-TS IN ANERICA.—On
every side are to be found the evidences that the spring
trade will be one of the most active and vigorous that
has been witnessed for a number of years. The indica-
tor has risen above the fair weather line and stands on
prosperity point. Not only does New York and its trade
grow with the growth of the country, but it exhibitas
the evident signs of a permanent resuscitation from the
depression that has characterized it since the year of
panic. And it is not alone in New York that we per.
euive the signs of • general revival. Everywhere
throughout the country they are equally apparent. The
disappearance of the snow from our Northern and
Western fields shows the fall and winter sown crops
to be in a most pr 1111 l king condition, and in those of the
South the sign% are equally encouraging to the farmer.
Old crops have lilllVssl oil, w.th varying degree+ of
profit, but at prices which, combine.' with the
that followed the panic of MIT, have left everywhere
the broad foundations of • healthy consumption. Our
imports during the present season exceed in quat.tity
tbuw of Wilily previous years, and it is a favourable
symptom that they come in at a valuation which is
generally front 15 to 311 per cent. below the average of
the five years preceding 114 AS, and this fact in its
turn contributes to animate and extend trade. Our
stores are crowded with customers, who, finding prices
to range within the means of their consumeni, carry off
the stocks with wonderful rapidity; and while the
domestic manufactories are run (WWII with orders, the
importers generally lament that they had not extended
the lines of foreign goods to the extent of a pouter or a
third mom As A ilittlll.l CollsCillli.llCC of this prosperous
state of things, everybody is iii good humour, and the
people are not at all disposed to believe that the country
t, going to the devil quite so fast as the politician%
would have Us litliniUSC. We have always observed that
when the politicians lind tunes goad the people %utter,
and when the people have as much as they can do to at-
tend to the active demands of business the politicians
despair of being able to save the country. This is pre-
cisely the state of affairs this spring. The whole country
presents the most satisfactory evidencesof a healthy state
of things in a business point of view, and the people
have something better to attend to than political atm
stract ions about niggers and SUCII nonsense. The result
will be that we shall have a goisl business year for all.
The pmsent prosperity g the manufacturers,
mechanics, and commercial classes now will citable theta
in their turn to become large tousumers. Thus pros-
perity begets prosperity.

11 tILW.tT Ilecsirre.—The traffic returns of railways
in the United Kimig.luin putilished for the week ending
April 16 amounted to £414.290. and for the curn:s-
'moiling week of 18:04 to £420,780. showing an increase
of 1.^.£1,510. The cross receipts of the eight railways
haring their termini in the metropolis amounted to
r. I2* I , and for the corresponding period of last year
to £180,816, showing an increase of ei,665. The in-
crease on the tlrest Northern Railway amounted to
1:1,109 ; on the Ureat Western to £491 ; on the Lon-
don and North-Western to £3,768 ; on the Loudon and
Itlackwoll to ei ; and on the London awl south.
Western to 1.1377 ; total. £6,2:i5 But frum this nitwit
be deducted £1,885, the decrease un the Eastern
skit; on the London, Ilrightun, All.l Smith
Coast, awl 1:317 oil the Soutli-Easterti, leaving the
increase as abore, 13.66:i. The receipt* on the other
lines in the United Kingdom amounted to 1:21k1,019,
for thu corresponding week of lent year to £2441.11i4.
,dlowing an increase of £19,845 ; which, ailed to the
increase 1111 the metropolitan how', makes the total ai-
m-caw £23,510, as compared with the corresponding week
of 18.-itt.