The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-09-28 00:00:00

LATIf3T NEWS.

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.
Nothing fresh has transpired in the grain trade. Busi-
ness has remained very quiet at Mark Lane to-day. The '
new English wheat offered was chiefly new produce of I
indifferevrcarlity, and in consequence prices ruled rather ,
low. 8 tors at Odessa are represented to be holding '
out for more money, and less animation is said to he
noticed in the shipping trade at California. the quotations
there being so high as to reduce to a minimum the margin
te profit on exports to us. The Americana also in the face
of their disappointing harvest are hoping fore solid basis
for a higher market.
Despite this contlii n al ion of circumstances we would warn
growers not to entertain tea sanguine views with reference
to the future of the trade.
In the present depressed business, no doubt whatever
exists that money will remain comparatively cheap,
owing to the limited employment offering for It; and its
chi:apnea must necessarily tell upon the value of wheat.
The quantity of wheat on passage to us from all parts
Is estimated at 1,285,000 qr., against 704,000 qrs last year.

MARK LANE.—THIS DAY.
Wheat aohl quietly. Fine samples unaltered; other
kinds drooping. Oats one ghillies dearer on the week.
Other grain unchanged.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—Tais DAY.
About 5,000 beasts including nearly 3,000 foreign. Trade
firm at 4s. to 6s. 41. About MAIO ebony, for wbich trade
was steady at twenco advance, prices ranging from
Al. to lis. fid. Ca% es, 4s. 6d. to 6a 44. rigs. 4s. ea to
ss. 4d.

THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.
At the markets, on Saturday, the grain trade ruled quiet
at about late rates. At Dorchester ccrn suchango the
supply of wheat was large, and parcels were more in
demand, at late rates. Old wheat sold at 50e. to 525. per
Imperial quarter, and new at 42a. to 465. The official
returno for the previous week give wheat as 927 quarters
4 bushel., the average being 14a. 10id. Barley and oats
were f .ai dear as last week, malting barley
selling at 365. to 40e.. iuid tine old oats at 2Se. to SU. per
Imperial quarter —At Mr. Symonds cattle sale there was
a moderate supply of stock. The best fat beef brought
Ids., and secondary qualities from 14s. to 15e. per sent.;
harrenent, CS 10s, to £l6 10s. per head; fat heifers, £l9 to
VS per head; bulls, £lO 10s. to ; fat calves, Ms to
92e. A brisk trade in sheep, fat ewes making 16. to dffe.
per head, or 111 d. to 1014 per lb. ; fat wethers. 61s. to
; fat lambs, lot to 475. each. At Reading corn
market, there was a fair supply, with • very slow trade.
Prices about le, per quarter more than last week. At
Gloucester ',slue of the beat samples without change.
Foreign very quiet, at rather easier rates. Grinding
barley 6d. per quarter lower. At Taunton considerable
qiimitities of grain were on offer, the sale of which was
strewed at lower prices. English and foreign wheat Is.
lower oa the week. Malting barley inet a aun sale' grind-
ing ample* firm, at late rates. Maize is easier. Oateand
beans lower to sell. Flour, Ele. per sack. At Bath there
was a very small supply of English wheat, nearly every
sample out of condition. An dry commanded fully
the rates of last week; in fact trade may be considered In
favour of sellers for such wheats. Beans • slow sale.
Vetches slow, at late rats. fled wheat, 021 b. the bushel,
Els tolls.; white, Us. to Vs. per tack ; new paw as per
sack. At Taunton cattle market there was • fair, but not
large, supply of animals, many farmers and dealers being
afraid to risk contagion by exposing their stock, the foot
and mouth disease still increasing In the neighbourhood.
On the whole, the cattle and sheep on offer were up to an
&vend, in quality, and prices did not show any material
alteration from recent quotations. Anything of superior
description met • ready sale at full demand, but there was
no anxiety on the part of dealers to buy inferior stock,
unless at some reduction.
WIIIIIOIINZ, Thursday.—Mr. Ensor had at his rePolator7
to-day about 50 fat besets and 1,100 sheep. Trade was
very dull. Fat beef sold at 13e. to 1 lef score, fat
m ewes ranged fro 425. to 75e. per head, or to 9d. per
lb. ; fat wethers from file. to 70s. each, or I . per lb. ; fat
lambs, of which there was • good supply, from 29e. to 51. e,
per head.
Wazaw nit Smear FAlL—This fair was held on Friday.
There was a short supply of sheep, the number being much
below the average in consequence of the prevalence of the
disease. Very few dealers were present Trade opened
brisk for animals lit for the butcher. The best trade was
In lambs, at about Wilton prises ; ewes and withers were
decidedly cheaper. There was • fair clearance before the
fair closed.

THE AMERICAN CORN CROP.
It is officially stated at Washington that, notwithstand-
ing the inundations, the &gaff:Me Oda 0( corn Ii expected
to exceed any previous year.

THE HEHAPPL

The Seraph' hes been ordered to Plymouth harbour to
have • thorough examination of her engines. At present
great speed is iinpossible, owing to the priming of her
boilers.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A portion of • goods train ran into a passenger train at
Keighley station this (Monday) morning The rolling
sto,k WU greatly damaged, and many passengers sevtvely
shiiken.

RUMOURED BETROTHAL OF PRINCE ARTHUR.
Viviga, Sunday Evening.
It is rumoured here that his Royal Highness Prince
Arthur liss been Letruthed to the Archduchess Marie
Christina, daughter of the Archduke Karl Ferdinand.

WEST SUFFOLK ELFAZION.
The writ VMS moire.' this (Monday) afternoon. The
it 'nation is tined for Saturday, and the polling. If any,
on the following Fri lay.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON H.H. SHIP DYAD.
The Weitcra Mn, jag Soca has received intelligence that
the boiler of U.N. Ship Dyad, on the North American
station has exploded, killing two engineerv, three stokers,
ani injuring several other*.

11.ISASTERS AND LOkyk_OF JAM,

(in Sunday, the' tarmirvonohire voTs-se- I Mary Heynolds
struck on the rarriarvon Bar. Her crew of six men were
washed an ay and drowned.
The steamer Adler, from Bremen, arrived at Hull. on
Sunday. with her how completely smashed, having been
In collision with the Swedish steamer Prinz Oscar, bound
from Grimsby for Stockholm. The Prinz Oscar sank in
less than live suinutes. Of the twenty-oils persons on
board, including the captain's wife and child, who were
both loot, fourteen persons perished.
TI4O schooner Intrepid, of \Valiant, Captain Roche,
laden with coati, was run into off Lundy Island, by the
'cleaner Hollyhow, of Barrow, from Newport The
Intrepid had a narrow escape of foundering; but the
Hollyhow would 11,4 render asaistance. The Intrepid
tualia,.:ed to reach Bideford.
Five anon have arrived at, the Sailors Home, Dover, who
were picked opal sea by a Norwe4an barque after having
been exposed to the weather in an Open boat nineteen
days. One loan died from exposure the fourth day after
leaving the wreck of the Forest of Dean, the vessel in
wlakb they were sery lug.