The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

train anb Commerce.

Biamixonsts, November 30.—The only Wore Is
notice in connexion with the trade of this town is Us*
steadiness which continues to characterise the boom
trade in almost every department; in some instances it
is more active than usual at this period. The conse-
quence is, that notwithstanding the limper which per-
rules the export trade, the effect of it is only felt to a
very partial extent. The country orders may be ex-
pected decline in a week or two ; bat with soak
orders as are already on the hooka, and those which
may come in hereafter, business here will maintain its
present healthy condition up to Christmas. Most of
the manufactories are in work full time, and among the
out-workers scarcity of employment is felt, if at all,
only very slightly. Here, and in the adjoining districts,
there are • good number of Government orders on hand.
The various manufacturing trades of South Staffordshire
and East Worcestershire' are in • satisfactory state, and
with respect to the ironl trade it may be noticed that,
although there is not quite so much activity as there has
been this quarter, the makers of the best quality of
finished iron have safficient to keep the milla and forges
in full work.

BRADroItD, 30.—1 n wools the transaction at our mar-
ket this week have been to a fair extent, and prices,
particularly of lustre wools, are rather in favour of the
seller. There is no change to note in the value of nulls
i and short wool, which continue in fair demand. In
I worsted yarns more business has been done this week,
I boll, for the home trade and for export, but especially
the latter, and on the whole quototions are rather
higher. The demand is steady, hut the prices which
spinners are asking tend to restrict operations, other-
wise the increase of business would have been greater.
Cotton yarn are in good request, and the numbers all
round are rather dearer. In the market for pieces an
average amount of business is doing both for the con-
tinential and home trades. Mixed alpacas, low Orleans,
and novelties in fancy goods are in chief demand at
present. Priem' in thie branch hese undergone no mate-
rial change ; they remain very firm. The condition of
the working classes of this distinct as regards employ-
ment continues very satisfactory, and the pressure upon
the poor-rates is considerably less than at the same
period of last year.
.11ANellesTER, 30.—There is • firm and steady mar-
ket, and although, from the extensive contracts on
hand there is necessarily less new business than might
be expected under the present general demand, the ag-
gregate sales iif the week have not been inconsiderable.
The demand for the moment is hardly so pressing for
goods suited for India and China as it was, principally
owing to merchants being disposed to wait for the letters
by the overland mail. The exceedingly large engage-
ments already in the hands of producers also tend to
cheek business' by inducing the latter to demand higher
rates. Some qualitica of longeloths, T-cloths, and
domestics. are rather firmer in price than last week.
Newctsel.e-ox -Trail. 30.—The recent unsatisfactory
state of affairs on the continent has had a depressing
effect upon the trade of the northern district. which 4
dull in its principal branches, and the freight-market
has a tendency to look down. There is an active de-
mand for homehold coals, and the collieries on the
Wear are actively employed. The chyme:el trade of
the Tyne and Wear is dull. Beet alkali is quoted at
Itbjd., but is obtainable at • fraction below that figure.
Bleaching powder sells at from Ell to Ell 10e. and
Epsom salts at 1:7 ss. per tun. The &swirl Work; are
still employed night and day in the manufacture of Sir
W. Armstrong's rifled cannon. The inhabitants of the
metropolis are this winter deriving immense advantages
from the extensive employment of iron screw colliers
in the coal trade. During the whole of the recent
stormy weather those vessels, with scarcely any inter-
val, have maintained a tolerably good supply of eels in.
the London market, which sailing vessels would have
otherwise failed to do, and have kept freights at about
7s. per ton. Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P., in a letter he has
published this week, states that some years ago he had.
18 sailing colliers employed in the London coal trade.
These ships carry on an average an aggregate of MAW
tons annually. But the same amount of tonnage eeek.
- now, and actually is, carried by two steam tethers of
800 tons each. 155 vessels have cleared at Newcastle
and 39 at Sunderland for oversee since last Saturday.
and 221 vessels, with 43,679 tons of coals, have clearest
- in this town during the week for coastwise. A hand.
sornely modelled iron steamer intended for meridian-
tile and war purposes has beeu launched from the buil&
leg yard of Beers. A. Leslie, builders, Hepburn-gamys
on the Tyne, this week. She is built for 1111•11/14
Itetortello, Brothers, of Cadiz, and is the first iron steam.
shit: built under the Spanish fiag on the Tyne.
IS 011WICH, 30.—The general tenoar of the statement,
made with respect to the position of the manufacturing
trade of this city is satisfactory, the various firms being
now well occupied in preparing For the spring deemed.
The state of employment among the weavers is pretty
good, and wages, which fell to an extremely low past
a few years since, are now better than they formerly
were. The shoe trade is also tolerable twelve.
BHorytILD, 30.—Trade here appears to be somewhat
more quiet in leveret branches than it was • few week,
ago, and some houses touiplain of decided slackness..
On the whole, however, a fair amount of activity pre-
vails, more especially in the home trade.
WOLVISHAMPTON, 30. The iron trade of South
Staffordshire continues flat, as previously reported, but
a rather more hopeful feeling is entertained by 04
trade. The United States' demand remains very dull,
but wore orders are looked for as the end of the ye ,e
approaches. For bars the orders are still few, other di.-
tricts competing in price in this class of iron, but For
kinds in which superiority of quality is essential there
is a good demand. As • result of the present quietne,s
in the iron trade • few blast furnaces are being blowd
out. Generally speaking the hardware trades of this
town and, the neighbourhood are tolerably active. Tie.
Oates are a shade better. Copper was advanced to-dpy
E 5 per ton.
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INLAND BONDING.—The Council of the Bradford
Chamber of Commerce, at their monthly meeting .
Monday last, discussed the claims of Bradford to ti.e
privilege of having bonded warehouses, and five genthe-
men were appointed • sub-committee to make suds
quirks into the subject and take such step., either I.y
memorial or deputation to the Chancellor of the E :-
chequer as they might deem desirable. It was stat d
at the meeting that Bradford paid to the GovemmeLit
nearly I:160,000 per annum in the shape of duties. The
population of the borough is about 1:13,000, and in ill
neighbourhood there is a popuiation of about a s uart •
Of • million.

THE NEW Karon( BILL—The return applied for ..y
Government of the number of tenements in the boron h
rate at E 5 and upwards has been prepared ; and the
suit shows that the extension of the franchise to 'll
householders would more than treble the list of Patti e
mentary voters fur the borough. The number of rob re
on the list for the borough of Salford is now 4,000; hie
the number of tenements rated at various sums from 11
and upwerdi is no len than 13,144. The number of
teuemente in the various townships rated at Lb and up-
wards, will be seen by reference to the statement. awls
be the derl to the guardians at the weekly meeting on
Friday.