The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

HOP 141.2.10 ET.

FIIIIIAT. —A fair business is doing in bops of good and
fat quality, at oar quotations. Inferior parcels. how-
ever, sre a dull inquiry, and prices hare a drooping
tendency. The market is abundantly supplied with
foreign hops. The duty, at ljd per lb. for the present
year has been oflicialy declared at £149,610 98.—New
i,ll and East Kent, £9 Oa to Ell Os per °wt. ; New
Wuld of Ken's, LI 7s. to Os Od ; New Susses, Efi 10s
to E 7

BOROUGH POTATO MARKET.

FILIDAY, COOL 25.—Ths 'apply of potatoes is rely
moderate. Good aad line gasities sell steadily at
higher prices ; het inferior parcels are in slow request
on former terms. Ms best Hosea mad Keit &pals
are worth 130 s. per ton.

WOOL MAItHETB.
LONDON, Friday.—Owing to es approsohing
"ales of colonial wool, the business doing in our market
is seek restrisesd. On tbe whole, however, prioss are
ably supported.

LIVERPOOL.—The public tales of wool were brought to a
close on Wednesday. Annexed is Messrs. Ronald and
Son's report of the series :—" Our fourth eerie, of
public sales, whit* commenced here on the Bth instant,
was brought to a close on Wednesday. The total
quantity brought forward comprised: 18,623 baits East
India and Persim.
Buenos Ayres 1,154 bales Raptian and Syrian,
2,862 balm Oporto, Spanish, and Lisbon, 1,578 bales
and Entre Rica, 870 bales Corti:ma and
San Juan, 1,196 bales Mogadore, 1,221 bales Peru and
Lima, 637 bales Rossi., Turkey, fro., 110 bake Cana-
dian Ilene, 877 hales oundnee, 1,193 sheets English
fieeee and skin; in all, 30,328 hales, ko. Ihe East
India wools were offered from the Bth till the 18th
andmisoellaneous descriptiona, from the 215 t to the
23rd inst. The attendance of homs as well as foreign
haven has been very good throughout, and a considers-
able portion of East India and some other low kinds
have been taken for American account. The advance
in Zest India on hut July rates is on the average from
Id to lid pet It,, being greatest on greys and yellows,
particularly the former, namely, from 2d to 4d, which,
being most eagerly competed for, broMht increasingly
enhanced rates as the sales p : white wools.
however, did not undergo any material variation.
About 1,800 bales were withdrawn, part being Persian,
and these latter are said to have keen sold since by
private centred. The Egyptian wools brought about '
last sale rotes, but the Syrian were principally with-
drawn. A few lots of inferior Oporto fieeoe were sold
at about current rates: the lower grades of this
description were eagerly competed for and realised fell
value. Buenos Ayres and Entre Rios were in little or
no request by either home or continental buyers, but
the American demand took off the lower classes at an
advance of from id to Id per lb on late rates veto 81d,
this being the figure for admitting them at the lowest
stale of duty. Cordova—large quantities had already
been taken previous to the sales for the States, and
what was offered at auction found Mayers at rather
enhanced prices. Mogadore met with fair competition,
and current rates were fully maintained. Peru and
Uma were all ded of. Canadian Pleens—A prime
shipment was which commanded a good deal
of attention and hromht high rates. English deem
and akin—The better dam has fully supported last sale
rates, while the medium and lower kinds have scarcely
maintained their ground."
ULM.— Wools remain without any material alteration
in price, but the demands made upon the loeal broken
are wily of • haad-to-noonth character.
ItOCEDALS. --Ban of wool have been comparatively
mid the market has been • dull one.
' Liticorrna:—Wools are not materially changed in
price, but are little less ann. Yams are realising high
prima, and the market continues firm. spinners being
well employed.
; BIADFORD. —There is • very slow and dragging trade
doing in wool. The price of good wools remain tole-
rably firm, but there is generally a little more willing.
ness to sell. Down wools most be again quoted as
en-
oeedingly fiat.