The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-20 00:00:00

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METROPOLITAN OATTLE.—Tnis DAY.
Newly two bouts, including about 1,600 foreign.
Duality indifferent ; trade firm. Inferior is. to Ss. ,* prime ,
to n.. 6d. About 25.000 sheep. Trade firm. Inferior
64. te ; prime, Gs. 64. to 7..; Bent lambs make
7a 44 to 72. ad. Calves which are in good suppiv, make
4a. 6d. to sa. 6tl„ lip unaltered. At Deptford 400 beasts.

THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.
The oorn markets on Saturday were excited, and prices
advanced from 3e. to 54. At Dorchester the supply of
wheat was very small, and in consequence of the prom...eta
of a bad harvest and the state of the American markets,
via prices were from to 3e, per imperial quarter in
advance on last week's figures ; quotations ranged from
Sii• to 511 s. All feediug stuffs rather dearer. Grinding
barley 28s. to )e,;3 oat', 28s. to .E.Y. An imrroved
attendance, and • moderate business done—At Mr.
Symondin fortnightly cattle market, about 70 head of
beasts and 500 sheep were disposed of at the following high
figures :—Fat beef, which was of prime quality. 15s. 91
per score ; berrenen, Ll 2 sa. to LW per head; fat heifer,.,
LIM 10s. to £29 fat bulls, £lsloo, to L: fat calves,
Is. to £4 17s. ; fat wethere, kie. to Ms. lid each. or 100.
per lb.: fat ewes, 53e to 71s. ad. or Sid per lb. ; fat lambs,
19s. to Its. per head. A tolerably good business.—At
Norwich wheat advanced about Si per quarter —At
Beading the wet weather caused an advance of Is. or .4,
in wheat, the show of which WWI small. A firm trade in
all kinds of grain, at advanced rates.— At Gloucester
English wheat Ss. to Is. dearer; foreign sold at the same
Improvement. Holders were firm.—A; Warminster a
very small supply and short attendance. Trade in wheat
was quiet, but prices advanced fully 3s. per quarter.—At
Taunton the market was in • very excited condition.
Both English and foreign advanced as much as ss, per qr.
on the week, and grinding barley clear 2s. dearer Maize
and eats have followed the upward tendency, the former
from Is. to 2s. and oats Is. Flour has been similarly
affected, and sold at Vs. the 2901 b sack.—At Rath the
supply of wheat was small, sellers sake' very high prices,
and what business resulted must be quoted fully to. to 30.
per or. dearer than last week. The wheat crops in this
olistriet are very good, and have sustained little or no
damage from the Revere weather of the past week. Barley
seems to have suffered most, and very large quantities of
hay are *polled. Quotations :—Wheat, red. 38s. to 445.
per quarter; ditto, white, 40s. to 45a. ; barley, grinding.
Ma. to Va. ; ditto, malting, Ma. tolls. ; oats. black. Vs. to
tls;ditto white. Va. to 35..; beans, Ms. to Va. per sack
im.2ss. to We.; flour, fine, 35a, ditto, seconds, Ws. ;
54d per 41b. loaf.

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MATCH AT WIMIII.EDON RET'WEEN LORDS
AND COMMONS.
The Commons have won the Lords and Commons match
by 313 to 220 of the LnrlL

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALE.S.
The Prince and Princess of WlLie4 opened a deaf and
dumb asylum at Margate to day (Monday). Heavy rain
fell during the proremden.

THE CHURCH AND THE DEVIL.
Sir Robert Phi Elmore in establishing the devil AR
essential to the belief of every true "established" Church-
man in the case of Jenkins v. Cook, could not expect his
law or his tudgment eseape criticism when to eminent •
man as the late Loni Westbury in the celebrated "Essay
and Eeriest" case was ~al.l to have chuckled with
delight over the fact of haring "dismissed the devil with
oasts." Mr. Jenkins appeals to the Judicial Gourmittae of
the Privy Council.

TRE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL sornr.rT.
The Royal Agrienittiral Society's rotintry meeting at
Taunton is now a thing of the past, and already prelim
being marls at Birmingham,
showynrd