The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-30 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

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REVIEW OF TIIE CORN TRADE.

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1...t1 tat I r t lU to. - t ti. at
0$ en weather, If .u.bugb kodit •,ud Ilud•
bettor markers than those of Great Britain in the
IlstJrior of Germany. In southern 11,01 ala there are no
better proeperta Taganrog he. 3(.1 vowels to load
hosting of 60011 during lut year. At Odeon sod
Galati there is scarcely anything 61 for the English
market ; and, if America makes up the probable
Seliclettedee, rates are already higher. Our own
4011•01i110 are again over 28,000 ousters abort of laat
rem, and ether Four and Sixpence below that period.
1,13 ain is still 'elm, but Italy in mine please Is dearer.
Marseilles [lads a ready market for her reoelpts, and
Havre reverie • brisk trade at &log rater.

MARK-LANE, Tun DAY.

Good attendance. Market quiet but firm.
English sells at fully last Morday's values ;
foreign one shilling dearer, for really fine qualities.
Town dour unchanged; Country and American
marks sixpence dearer. Bsrley unchanged.
Oats sixpenoe to one shillinp lower on the week.
Maize firm. Beans and peas unaltered. Weather
dulL British wheat, 5,195; barley, 1175;
oats, 255; Maize, nil • dour. 23,768. Foreign:
—Wheat, 12,977; barley, 9,106; oats, 45,349;
Maize, 45; Flour, 2,662 ; sacks, 1,986 barrels.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, This Day.
Beef trade not quite so good, and if anything, '
with • downward tendency, more particularly in
second qualities. Choice Scots and crosses, of
neat weight, • ready salt) with no apparent
reduction. Trade on the whole at late rates.
Foreign the turn In favour of buyers, and •
clearance will doubtloes be made. English
mutton of all descriptions has fallen. Business
doing extremely languid. Coarse and inferior
qualities difficult to move, even at • considerable
reductioa Foreign ebatteuary, yet witti gaga&
dullness, and tending downwards. Veal supply
Is moderate, equal, however, to the wants of the
trade, with an extreme scarcity of choice descrip-
tions. Pork dull and heavy. Beef, 4s to
5a 84 ; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 8d ; Veal, 34 &I to
Eis ad ; Pork, 3.24 to 41 ; Lamb, is 0d to
Si 104. Total supply :—Beasts, 3,100; Sheep
and Lambs, 24,560; Calves, 96; Pigs, 116: of
which Foreign :—Beasts, GOO ; Sheep and Lambs,
8,900; Calves, 71.

PROVISIONS, 'Nis DAY.

Butter market dull, owing to milder weather
and increasing supplies. Prices four to air
shillings lower on the week. Dutch 1144 to
l 16a ; Jersey, 76s to 1063; Irish, nominal.
Bacon, quiet demand at late advance. Ameri-
can, two shillings dearer. Hams, good enquiry
for fine quality, Irish and American. i.
steady. Obese% fair business in American. avy
provisions quiet but firm.

HOUSE OF LOBOS, MU Day.
NoWDAL—Lora Howell pm outke that he abould portpoo•
his goalies with regard to the American lualrect Claim till
Monday, May sth.
GLibi....7l/01::che Marquis ol Salisbury, Earl °nutria* mid that
k was in hourly expotinuou 01 receiving the
reply el hie Government
lo reply to Lord Bucknurst, Earl Morley mini • bill bad been
rend of ering the registration births in England nod
Vt=d oloptilsory, but its introduction wee delayed owing to
the prewars al other laminae.
Several Bale were kilt-mod • stage and the Mouse adjourned

L THE TICHBORSE CLAIMANT.
The first thing the Claimant has done after
coining out of prison has been ta ask for pens
and paper and write an exultant letter, the whole
of which the newspapers decline to print. That
he shall appear and take his trial none need
doubt, he says. He is ready for it and w.thost
delay. He thanks the public for their support
and acknowledges the receipt of 1:4,000, and
asks for four times as much to continue his de-
fence. He easeds that the tattoo evidence was
false, and says no officers of the Carbine era have
come forward to prove that tack old comrade
we. tattooed.