The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-04-25 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

3tARK -LA NE —Mo /MAY.

The grain trade at Mark-lane has been characterised by
firmness, but business has been by no means extensive Eng-
lish wheat has been in short supply. The demand has not
been active, but a firm tone has prevailed, and an advance of
ls. per quarter haa been required. As regards foreign wheat
the receipts have been moderate. The trade has ruled steady,
and prices have been Is. per qr. higher toasts Monday last.
Barley has been In short supply. Malting produce has been
rather dearer, and grinding has been disposed of at extreme cur.
rencies. Malt has been disposed of at full prices. Oats, the supply
of which has been short, have commanded a fair amount of
attention, and have been Is per qr. higher than on Monday
last. Maize has been firm, and the tendency upwards in
value. For beans there has been a healthy demand, at 0.1 to
Is. per qr. more money. Peas have been steady in value, with
a moderate inquiry. Flour has been firm. American barrel.
have been 44, and country marks tiki. to la. dearer.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. -MONDAY.
The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
consisted of 18,133 head; in the corresponding week last year
we received 15,768 1872, 16,733; in 1071, 14,733 ; in 1870,
5,563; and in 1869, 12,612 head. Depression has been the
feature of the cattle trade to-day, and tic tendency of prices
has been in favour of buyers. Full average supplies of
beasts have been on offer, and the condition of the home
breeds has been good. Throughout the market has been in
a dull state, and prices have generally ruled 2.1 per 81b.
lower. Occasionally the best Scots have made 55. 10d., but
this figure has been quite exceptional, sa. 841. per 811, being
the more general top quotation. Sales have progressed
heavily, at depressed run-envies. The Blom otsheep has been
good. Transactions have been on a limited scale, and good
sales have only been concluded on lower terms. The best
Downs and half.breds in the wool, have made 68. Bd., and
ditto clipped, ss. 44.1. per 811 h. Lambs have changed hands at
70. titl. to Bs. 651- per 81b. The calf-trade has been quiet, at
about Into rates. Pigs have been unaltered. At Deptford
there have been 277 German beasts Coarse and inferior
beasts, 45. bd. to 45. 104. second quality ditto ss. to 5. 2d. ;
prime large oxen, On. 64.1. to 55. bd.; prime Scots, Ac., be Bd.
to 61. 104. ; coarse and inferior sheep, 45. 6d. to 4. Bd.
second quality ditto, 45. Bd. to 4s. 1011. ; prime coarse woolled,
55. to ss. 24. ; prime Southdowns, ss. 241 to ss. 4d. ; large
coarse calves, 45. 10d. to 55. Id. ; prime small ditto, ss. Bd. to
6s. 44. ; large hogs, 4s. -to 45. 6d. ; small porkers, 45 811 to
55. 2d. ; lamb. 75. 51,1. to Bs. 6.1 Total supply. -Beasts,
3,700 ; sheep and lambs, 20,500; calves, 250 ; pigs, 150.
Foreign Beasts, 630; sheep and lambs, 11,330 ; calves, 200.

METROPOLITAN MEAT MA REET.-MONDAE.

The supply of meat ou sale here was large, and trade was
dull, on easier terms :—lnferior beef, 3. to 45. ; middling
di.to, 4. 2d. to 48. 64. ; prime large ditto, 48. 64. to 4. 10d. ;
prime small ditto, 48 84. o 55. ; veal, Is. o 55. ; inferior
mu ton. 38. to 48. ; middling di to, 45. to 45. 6d. prime di
45. 84. to ss. ; large pork, 35. Bd. to 48. ; small di.to, 48. Id,
to 35. ; lambs, 65. 84. to 7. 44. per Si),. by the carcase.

POTATOES,
Thc supplies of potatoes offering are only moderate, and
the trade is firm, with an upward tendency in the quota-
tions —Regents, 140 s. to 1705. ; flukes, 140 s. to 180 s. ; Vic-
tories, 140 s. to 170 s. ; and rocks, 1060 to 110 s per ton.
Foreign F.datoes ;—The imports of foreign potatoes into
lundon last week consisted of 3,341 sacks and 670 tons from
Dunkirk, 9,480 bags and 392 tons from Antwerp, 890 bags
from Harbingen, 583 bags and 150 casks from Boulogne, 4
hampers from Rotterdam, 2,664 bags from Ghent, 101 bags
from Hamburg, 2 barrel& from Bremen, 20 bags from Ostend,
and 40 cases from Valencia.

HOPS.
The market remains quiet. The plantations are spoken of
as being very backward, but is much too early to form any
accurate opinion as to the yield, and until the blue becomes
further developed there appears little possibility of any im-
portant variation in prices. Business on the Continent IS
extremely slow, and the quotations generally rule weak
Last week, import into London consisted of 481 bales and
200 pockets from Antwerp :--East Kent goldings, £4 to £6
Mid Keats, 4.4 to £5 15. ; Weald of Keats, £3 10s. to £555
Sussex, £3 10s. to £4 44. Worcesters, 4.4 10s. to £5 50
Farnham. F. 5 to £6 ; country, £4 10s. to 415 10s. : yearlings,
£2 15.. to £4; new Bavarians, £4 105. to £6; Belgians, £2 12$.
to #.3 gs. : Alsace, 414 10s. to £5 12s. ; French, £4 togs; and
American, 1870, Li 10$. to £2 it

ftEED.
Lo!muff, Monday, April 20. —There was a limited quantity
of fine English Cloverseed offering, which was taken oft
quietly on about former terms. Fine white samples of
foreign were fully as dear, with a steady trade. Trefoil 0-as
in moderate demand, without any quotable change in price.
German Ilempseed realised as much money steadily. Fine
Canary was fully as dear, with a moderate demand. There
is some very good foreign now offering, the best of which is
held at 62. per qr. Fine Engliah samples are scarce. A few
parcels of white Mustardseed have been placed on former
terms but there is nothing passing in brown, for want of a
supply of good quality. A fair demand was experienced for
good spring Tares, and prices were well sup oiled.

PROVISIONS. "
LOtition, Monday, April 20.—The arrivals last week from
Ireland were 79 firkins butter, and 3,208 bales bacon, and
from foreign ports 25,339 packages butter, 2.241 bales and
320 boxes bacon The supplies of foreign butter have not
been equal to the demand, arid prices advanced considerably,
Normandy and Jersey about 48., and Dutch about 10a per
cwt, but the advices this morning from the northern
markets quote lower prices, which probably will be quickly
followed here, Bacon has sold well, Irish at an advance of
Is. per cwt., but no change in the price of Hamburg.
Butter,

PRICES:

per cwt. : s. ;.--l-tTieese, per cwt.: I.
Dorset l5B to 162 Cheshire . 80 to 84
Friesland
Jersey .
Eng Fresh, per doz. 17s. 64. I
_American. ..... 60
_63
Bacon, per

per cwt. : Hams : York 110
Wiltahire, green.. 84 Cumberland
• Irish, green, tub. 78 86 Irish... ...... llO 116

TALLOW.

Lomxgr, Monday, April 20.—P. Vt.'. le dull at 375. 3.1 pe
cwt. on the spot. Town Tallow is quoted at 38s. CAI
each, while the price of rough fat is is. 9d. per Blhs.

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I d. a d
Town 'I allow, par cwt. 39 0 Rough Staff, per cwt. 14 0
Rough Fat, per Bibs .. 1 9 Graves „ 19 0
Malted Stuff, per cwt, 27 6 Good Dreg* 6 0
Yellow Russian, new.... 375. 3d. per cwt
Ditto Ditto 01d.... 00a Sd,„
Awitralian Mutton Tallow. 30s.
Ditto heti Ditto. 35a. Od.
FLSH.

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Turbot, 7e. to 130. 6d. each . brill. 20. 0.1. to Is. each , cod,
30. 6d. to M. 64. : dory, 2s. to 3a 9d. each; gumard, Is. M.
to 2s. ist. each ; mackerel. Zs 64. to 40. per dozen; lobsters,
Pls. to 2es, per dozen crabs, 10s. to 2i,t per dozen; plaice,
16s. to 20s. per basket. whiting, 12a. to 1.50. per basket.
bloaters. 2a. 64. to ses. per basket ; kipper., N. 94. to 50.. f!‘i •
per basket ; eels, Is. tole Id. per lb , trout, le 44. to Is. ,d
Per lb. ; salmon, Is. isid. to is. ed. per lb.; soles, la 6.1. to
to. pet pair, native oysters, LIO 10a. ; pearl, ditto, a3k
common ditto, lk to atio. par Paget

IDIJI;RIAL PARLIAMENT.
FOR I HE BETTER ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAWS
4EgpECT/ .NO, THE IIFAIVI4TION OF PUBLIC/ WORSHIP.
tiss ill OISE es !ARIA April 20, the Archbishop of Can- i
Lrbury Rft oight under the notice of the House the present !
eate of He !laws restilating Divine service in the Church, and
moved the first reading of the Bill for the Better Adrainistra-
Mon of the Laws respecting the Regulation of Public Worship.
lie obsel xi that he did not propose to make any change tn
.ecinsiss cal laws, as if the bane had come for some unsettle-
ment of te great changes made at the period of the Reforma-
tion, for 111 he desired was greater facility for administering
the 1aw..4 number of strange things, which the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council had condemned, continued lobe
practised , and from a statement which had been placed in his
hands iii .ppeared to be thought desirable in certain parishes
that, selling other innovations, a confessional-box should be
introduce d into the churches. lie was not afraid of the
people Of this great country ever submitting again to the
yoke oil tome, for he thought that as unlikely an event as
the restesration of the Heptaachy, or the destruction of the
ado, irahl e Constitution under which we live but he believed
if the sort of strange practices he alluded to went on, the
plain, holiest, and straightforward English people would have
their conadiroce in the clergy of the Church of England shaken.
ft never, was intended that it should be in the discretion
of any ?voting clergyman going down to a parish to up-
set ever,-thing that existed there before, for it was laid
Vo at in a case of doubt or scruple he should refer to
the Ordinary. It might be said that the law could be en-
forced in the Ecclesiastical Courts but the delay and expense
inei lest to those Courts consti uted serious objections to
invoking their intervention. It was, therefore, thought
that these matters of controversy might in the first instance
he decnied by a Bishop in camera, and the expense of
employing counsel might be dispensed with but upon
further consideration it appeared to be only fair to allow
the inoiembent, whose freehold interest might be inter-
bred with, a more formal hearing, and this result seemed
only ol 'Minable by the formation of a somewhat novel
tribunal, consisting of the Ordinary assisted by three
Assessors. As the hearing of the yawn would be in the
neighbourhood where they occur, he expressed a hope that
the proceeding. which might be instituted by any parish-
ioner, rural dean, or archdeacon, would be More summary
and less expensive than the present process. It was also pro-
posed ',hat there should he an appeal from the Bishop to the
Archbishop, who should have the right to semi the matter for
final decision lathe new Court of Appeal. If the Bishop de-
clared that the acts com plat ined of should cease to be performed,
he weuld then issue a monitiQn wider his hand and seal, for-
bidding them to be done in any church in his diocese, and it was
proposed that the monition should take effect pendettte fife.
Is conclusion, the Archbishop of Canterbury moved the first
reading of the bill, expressing his belief that the advantage
of the proposed course of proceeding would be that there
would be an end put to the wearisome complaints which at
present reach the Bishops by every post, while the expense
occasioned by keeping witnesses waiting in London would be
obviated.

Lord Shaftesbury said that there was a necessity for legis-
lation on the subject, as at present the law could not be en-
forced.

Lord Seßiome could not conceive that there would be ally
serious difference of opinion as to the necessity of legislation
es the subject to which the bill referred, as nothing was
more certain than that no institution could prosper which
Bad not power to enforce conformity with the law. BM
therefore thought that the Legislature was bound to take
some step in the present condition of things, and he believed
that any measmc which would enable a clergyman, who con-
scientiously differed from his Bishop as to the mode of con-
ducting Divine worship, to have the law settled ion summary
and inexpensive manner would be henelicial in its operation.

Lord Nelson expressed an opinion that the iiist step which
should be taken to put an end to the existing state of licence
in the Church was to obtain a clear declaration of the law
front the final Court of AppeaL He hoped that the second
reading of the bill would not be taken, as he heard was
intended, on the very day on which Convocation was ap-
pointed to meet
The Bishop of Lincoln likewise gave expression to a desire
that the bill should not be pressed forward with indecent
haste.

The Archbishop of York observed that it might he ex-
pected that in fixing the day for the second reading the con-
venience of all Interested in the subject would be consulted.
The bill was a very simple one, its object being to put the
law in forew when once the law was thoroughly ascertained.
. .

The Duke of Richmond observed that there could exist no
desire to press forward the measure with intemperate haste,
but every one must admit the necessity of endeavouring to
put an end to the differences unhappily existing in the
Church caused by over zealous persons who endeavoured to
Introduce practices and ceremonies repugnant to the great
mass of the people of this country.
The Bill was then read a first time.

THE FIJI ISLANDS.

Lord Carnarvon presented a copy of the instructions to the
Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the
Fiji Islands Ile observed that a telegram kail announced
the formal cession of these islands to Great 13Atian, but he
had received no official communication to that effect, and he
had no reason to believe in the accuracy of the intelligence.

IRE GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL, AND THE
CATTLE DISEASES BILL.

lhe Gas Orrsde Confirmation Bill and the Cattle Diseases
(Ireland) Bill were read a second time, and their lordships
adjourned.