The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-12 00:00:00

CORN MARKETS.

TOSSDAT.—Salisbury : Transactions In wheat slow
and limited ; priees 5.5 a. to SO, yr qr.—Lirrepoof :
wheat a fair inquiry, at a declisse of Id. to 2d. per motel
born the sates of Thursday Mat. Flour firm at late
rates. Data, Isl. per bushel lower on the week. Oatmeal.
61. to Is. per load oheaper.—Eltd 1: Framers' wheat
was bald for its rates, but millers bald off buying, and
only a small amount of business was transastod, needy
buyers having to pay recent prima. Foreign off-red at
Is. per. qr. reduction, but no tranmestions took place.
WICDNISDAT.—Mark- Law : Business in all deserhe
tions of grain was of • nominal MumasSer, without altera-
tion in otiose.— Front : Inds alow, and last week's
rates for wheat searoely maintained.—flottos : Limited
show of wheat, and business was done slowly at re.
duce 4 currencies. White 754, to fel.s.; red, 745. to 76a.
per 36 stone.—Lost4: Wheat a slow demand at rates
in buyers' fevour ; samples sold at 79.. to 745. per qr.
—Uppirsokam : Wheat rather quiet, and curreoctes
tended downwarda.—Workeop: Wheat sales were
made at barely last we. k's price.; white sorts made 295.
to 31a; red, 275. to 29.. 64. per load of three bushels.
Tnnasnar.Besnol English wheat Is. per qr. lower;
oats, 61. per qr. dearer; in other sorts no alteration.
—Olouceattr Wheat, 6d. to Is. per qr. less money;
barley, mine en last week; oata, 6d. per qr. dearer.—
Derius: Wheat, Is. per qr. lower. —Binning/tan ;
Whmt trade ruled quiet.—Mauckezier : Demand foe
all articles quet.
FRlDAT.—Arark•Laite Our market to-day was very
scantily supplied with wheat. The condition of the
samples, however, was tolerably good. The attendant*
of buyen wait limited, and the demand for even the
finest qualities ruled heavy, at prices barely equal to
Monday. The show of foreign wheat we, rather
euteonve. Bales progressed heavily, but no quotable
change took place in prices. Floating cargoes of grain
were held at very full rates; but the inquiry for them
was by no means active. Barley, the ahow of which
was only modevate, changed hands slowly, at unaltered
currencies. There was a fair inquiry for malt, at
late rates. The supply was tolerably good. Oata
commanded previous quotations; bus the sale for
them was inactive. Beans and nem where in short

supply and moderate request, on former terms. lo
flour. seeds, and °ekes, the transactions were on •
limited scale. -- Liverpool: For *hest • limited
inquiry, at • decline of 3cl. per cental on the week, at
the close, however, • somewhat lugs business took
place et the reduction. Flour to fair demand at
previous rates.— Wakefield: Wheat, 'limited demand
at Is. deelin• from last Friday's prices. Barley dulL—
Lincoln : Wheat limited at a reduction of la per qr.
Red qualities realised 73a. to 775., white 775. to 83e. per
36 stone.

BATOIDLT.-Babl : Wheat sold at Iv. per v. under
last week's prices; quotations, 70.. to 78.. per qr.-
Taunton Trade quiet ; wheat 91. 9.1. to 10s.
Warasisueer : Wheat • dull sale at about Is. per qr.
lower. Flour 53.. 61. to 55.. per seek. - A elesbury
Wheat trade dull, at 70s. to 76.. per qr.-Cambridge:
Market quiet, and wheat declined D. per v. Prices,
white 72.. to 74c, red 775. to 82.. per 36 stone..--Cauter.
bevy: Wheat must he quoted at Is. to 24. per qr. cheaper.
Best white 745. to 7 s.; end extra fine, 784. to 81k. per
qr.; secondary, 70e. to 745.; and inferior lots, 68.. to
70s. per qr.; best red samples, 725. to 7544 secondary,
68a. to 725.; inferior, 664. to 72.. per qr.-- Essex : The
Essex markets have been in a dull state during the
week. At Chaltudord wheat declined Is. to 2a. per qr.
Whit, wheat wan quoted at 72• to 754.; rod ditto, 665.
to 714.- I/ ampaA ire : At Southampton Corn Eaehange
yesterday the qactations were : Wheat, £l7 to t'l9 10s.
per load, malt, 684. to 74.4.; beans, 45a to 52.. •' peas
444. to 475.; malting burley. 89s. to 43a.; grinding ditto,
355. to 37..; oat., Ns. to 325. per qr ; hospehold Sour,
545. to 554. per seek. At Alton the sales effected were
at folly late priests. Quotations : Wheat £l7s. 10a. to
£2O per load. At Roinsey • doll trade was doing at
undterod values. At Newport, Isle of Wight, wheat
.41 741... qa. At Ringwood. wheat, 72u At
Winchester wheat and barley averaged 764. 9.1.1. and
425. per qr. re.peetively ; household flour. 56.. per
sack. At Fareham wheat wax quoted at 754. to 804.
At Basingstoke wheat was quoted at 684. to 84.. At
Andover, yesterday, the wheat trade ',sedan. and prices
drooping; other articles unaltered. Wheat, 68e. to 824.-
BastingdinssAire The wheat trade hail been of a quiet
character at our Nei markets during the week, and
prices have been lower-Kent: Businees generally
hie ruled very fiat during the past week, and the sales
effected have been mos,ly in retail, and slightly lower
rates.- Oxford : Nearly the whole wheat on offer was
soon cleared off, at from la to 2a. less money per
quarter than this day se'onight.-Reeinag Wheat
dull, and holders who forced sales were compelled to
accept a decline of Is. per quarter on last week'. rates,
66.5. to 84a. per quarter being the quotations. -Bout/.
Wales During the pest week prices have had a down.
ward tendency, and there is every psobability of their
giving way still further. Old white wheat. 9s. 3.1. to
9..6d. per 60Ibe ; new ditto, 9s. to 9s. 34.; old red
ditto, Ba. 93. to 95.; inferior, 7s. 6d.; foreign white,
72.. to 76e.; and red ditto, 725. to 745. per 4961 k..-
York: Wheat sold slowly at Is. per quartsr under the
Previous Saturday. Red qualities moved off at 724. to
764.; white, 78s. to 112.5. per 36 stone.