The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-03-09 00:00:00

LTEST

EWS.

REVIEW OF ME CORN TRADE.
A quieter tone has prevailed the grain trade with the
return of milder weather, and the steadiness of vain.,
has been somewhat weakened; the tendency towards
improvement on the wiotations of wheat has been
checked, hut there has been no relapse. Appearances :Ire
In favour of increased ease ; and if the weather keeps
settled, and there be no hindrance to the prosecutiou of
spring sowing, we may look for a further decline in prices.
At present the quantity of wheat on passage to the
united Kingdom a1110U111,4 t., about 4,110 1/liilioll SIX
hundred and twenty thousand quarters against one
million four hundred and twenty-six thousand quarters
at the Mime time last rear. At the game tinie the
accumidation at the chief centres of the Continent
and Ameriea is very large, and there is therefore every
promise f liberal shipments to us so soon as the dis-
abilities to navigation are removed, unless of course
agricultural prospectsshould undergo some deterioration.
Fine barley has been firm, but inferior qualities have
relapsed one shilling per qr. Oats, however, have been
scarce, and have ruled sixpence per qr. dearer on the week.
• basins, and peas have been quiet. Flour dull and
unaltered.

MARK-LANE.—Tms DAY.

The market closed without feature. Wheat sold elowly
at late rates. Fine barley firm : inferior one chilling lower.
Osta sispenee dearer on the week. 3taize, beano, pea%
and flour unaltered.

METROPOLITAN cArrLE, Tms DAY.
Beasts, 2,959. Trade j heavy at drooping values. In-
ferior, :Pi. al. to 4. 84. prime, Is. 194. to IM. Sheep,
23,x5it Demand slow at lower rates. Inferior, 4s. tkl. to
Prim. 56- dd. to 141. S,I. Trade very heavy for
calves. Priceo lii. per stone of 411 i. lower. Pigs unaltered.

MONEY MARKET. —Tins DAY.
Discount demand moderate. 'three months hills charged
3,1 to per cent. Consols unaltered.

THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.
The corn trade was firmer on Natunlay, and, in some
instancess, notwithstanding bad condition,' alight relvance
was rtmlised.—At Dorchester there was a large attendance.
Wheat in smaller supply than last week, in consequence
of the continued datup weather. Fanners asked more
money, there being a brisk demand. but about last week's
praxis—from 314. to 45. per imperial quarter--prevailed
last week's official average wax Mkt 10,1. ltarley in
demand for seed at late prices, Vs. to ft.. per inmertal
quarter; laat week's s official average was 424. 21d. ()ate
may be 1111144,11 at from 275. to :Ms. per imperial touter.—
At the fortnightly stock sale of Mr. T. Ensor, there was •
large supply of bensts, beta small number of sheep. There '
Was a large attendance of buyers, and is keen competition.
The best fat beef realised from 114. to Ire.. per score ; the
general run of barrenera sold at from £l6 to 131 per pair
the best cows and calves febilied as high as £2O. Mutton
hail an upward tendency, ewes selling at °N. to 9d. per
lb., or 40. to 50s. pla• beast; wethers 10d. per 1t.., or
to tisk. each.-- At Reading rather mum disposition to do
business. Wheat and barley were a good supply, at late
quotations—A; Norwich the wheat trade was, if anything,
a shade firmer, but immaterial change was noted in quotas
Mons —At .7aunton the amount of busintais dose trilling,
at about the Milne rates as last week. Wheat, Sr.. to Is. 2sL
per I?lb, nialting and seed barley te. dd. per bushel:
lks. ; oats, 40.: maim, PM, per qr. ; best dour
:Ms., and seconds slis. per sack—At Gloucester English
wheat niet • fair sale at last week's prices; foreign in
retail consumptive demand, Ainerisian being held for Is.
per quarter ~, re money. —At Warminster • good supply
awl improved iletnand for wheat, and in some instances •
trilling advance was obtained. Barley firm, at late rates.
Other grain in demand, last prices unaltered. Wheat,
375. to 47. per jr.;s barbs's. du. ii. ,h.; oats, 240. to :Ws. ;
bean. ise. to .Is; peas, :St to ; rye, 311 e. to :txxs, ;
Itour, :Ds. to his. per sack. --At Rath supply of wheat about
an average, but trade was very dull, sod late rates were
barely supported. Barley quiet. Wheat, red, Ma. to 42.4.
per sir ; ditto white, it,. to ; barley, grinding, Zs. lid.
to 27, 11.1.; ditto, malting, 4415. to 151. oats, black, 275. to
34. ditto white, 2.4. ; Iseans, 214. to gds, per stack Pea.
21A. to £k.; dour, fine, ; ditto, seconds, 311 n,; breast,
bid. per 411, loaf.

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY.
The reisirt of this flourishing company for the past
year has just been published. Its business is extra-
onlinary. The income from pre me has increased
during 171 by £li4J,OllO, and now stands at the vast
ll of Ma7,4s.S. Yet "onward' is still the cry, and
in the current year an income .if a million pounds
sterling is anticipated. Present Widmer promises its
fulfilment. for now, we learn, policies are being issued
at the rate of 21.000 a week ! Just think fit for a
tnoment. Why it tunounts to over eight a minute,
reckoning eight hours work a day for the six days.
Such glielrllS is unprecedented, and shows that the
company meets a public want, and has now public
confidence. fly its deeds the Prudential is judged,
and the result is a marvellously increasing roll of
assurers. Cautious men will mite that the assets of
the Prudential are of better quality than ever, while
the public will Is: content to share with thousands if
others the undoubted benefits it adonis by easy pay-
ments for the assunince of small or large sums, and by
the singular pr ptitiele and facility with which
claims are paid.