The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDON SPIRIT MAIMET.—There is a =I business
doing in ram, at very fall prima. Proof wards, 90.
to 2s. ; proof East India, Is. 9d. to Is. lid. per pl-
- Brandy moves off freely, at 90. to 190. 3d. for this
vintage of 1867, and Bs. ed. to 9s. 54. English
proof, for export, h. 9d. to 3a. per gallon.

Taa.—The demand for all kinds is much less active ;
nevertheless, prices rule vel7 firm, common mound
congou having sold at I.s. sd. per lb. The stock ots-
Wines to decrease.

SUG•ll.—The stock is rapidly on the Mamma, and the
demand continues very inactive. To form salsa lower
rates must be submitted to. The supply in warebouas is
about 82,00 D tons, against 77,0 M tons last year.
Refuied goods are dull, at 48a. for common brown
lumps; Oa. 6d. to 5. 6d. for middling to In.;
F-"ghth crushed, 335. 6d. to 34..; and Dutch, 325. to 33..
per cwt.

Lacuna, Oct. B.—The 'missy trade is without
change, the utmost activity pervading all the branches.
For the home department there are pleDhy of orders on
hand, and for shipping manufacturers continue well em-
ployed. Upon the whole, there is decidedly more
business doing than is usual at this period of the year,
the operative being fully employed, and wages being
good. At Hinckley and Loughborough the hosiery
trade is active. Yarns continue in request, and wools
are making high prices.
NOTTLIIGRAII, 81.11.—Budnue operations in the LAOS
trade have been impeded to some extent this week by
the holydays (it being the great October Fair). Boum
pretty good orders are in band for mosquitoes, and there
is • fair business doing in plain stall luta. Other
branches are for the most part quiet. There is very
little doing in fancy goods. The silk-lace branch is also
dull; in some descriptions of edgings there is a tolerable
inquiry. In hosiery the amount of liminess doing for
the home department is good. The wholesale houses
have within the lust few days been busy in winter goods,
and have been buying frzely. There have been many
°Mei& placed for &hipping. More buyers for this
department have been in the market, and manufacturers
arc all well engaged, making exclusively to order.
Yarns arc trio; silks are inclined to advance.

Axcii Lerch, Oct. 7.—The reaction which set in
last week continues, and we have a limited business to
report, though the tone of the market is equal to what
it was aix or eight days ago. Domestics are in less
demand, and 10111 C conecuion Mu been made in pries,
but small in amount and not very general. Lunge.loth:
and T are also quiet. Printing cloths are firm and the
engagements considerable, but buyers are running low
in stuck rather than renew engagements. For 3tl-inch
shirtings makers are well under orders, and prices arc
steady though there is not much new business. For 40-inch
shirting' the business is small, and the bias of prices is
in favour of buyers. Calcutta telegrams to Sept. 4 say
prices were again lower, but there were no further
failures. Bombay advice' are contradictory, some
saying that prices are unchanged, and others that they
were lower. The yarn-market continues dull, and
sellers are more anxious to make sales. For counts
under Ws prices are id. to id. per lb. lower than last
week.

EXPORT OF CALICO'S, YAILY, •}CD
the month of August It 3,t192,49J yards of plain and
2,267,233 yards of printed calicoes, 6,306,Ur21b. of cotton
yarn, 1,043,5241 b. of linen thread and yarn, and
1,300,2701 b. of woollen and worsted yarn were exported
from HI:IL

THE SCOTCH PIG IRON TRADE.—During the past
quarter the production of Scotch pig iron has been
curtailed, there being on the 30th of September 10 fur-
naces less in blast than at the beginning of the year.
The present number of furnaces in blast is 122. The
returns since June, 1857, have hitherto .bow n an increase
in the stocks, but a docrease has now to be noted. The
shipments and local outuintuption have absorbed 245,000
toes in the past quarter, being an increase of 30,000
tons over the corresponding period of last year, and of
37,000 over the same period of 1857, when there were
131 furnaces in blast. The stocks in warehomekeepere
and makers' stores are now estimated at 315,010 tons.
The malleable iron works and founderies in the Glasgow
district have continued actively employed, and
shipbuilding on a large scale is going on in the
various yuds, while there ix an increasing demand for
all kinds of machinery.
The strike of the men at the Clyde Ironworks is at an
end. The men are to be paid an advance of 6d. per
day, provided they CORIMCDCV work immediately.

RAILWAY 'TRAFFIC RECEIPTS. —The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom for the week ending
October I amounted to £542,200, and foe the cor-
responding week of 1858 to 008.080, showing an in-
crease of 04,110. The gross receipts of the eight rail-
ways having their termini in the metropolis amounted
to £243,811, and foe the corresponding period of lest
year to 1231,799, showing an increase of £12,012. The
=weer on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to
£118; on the Great Northern to £1,978 ; on the Great
Western to £1,411; on the London and North-Weelem
to £6,966; on She London and Blackvrall to £lBB ; on
the London and South-Wastetvi to £1,428; MI on
the South-Eastern to £37; total, £12,190. But from
this mast be deducted £lOB, the decrease on the Loodkui,
Brighton, and South Coast, leaving the increase as
above, £12,012. The receipts on the other lines in
the United Kingdom amounted to £298,388, and for the
corresponding week of last year to 1,178,291, showing
an lilt:MOO of £22,098, which, added to the increase on
the metropolitan ham, makes the total increme £34,110
as iximpared with the corresponding week of 1858,