The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-08 00:00:00

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(Reported exclusively for " Taz Pnzss.")

CORN-EXCHANGE A very limited supply of English
wheat has been received up to our market this week, coastwise
and by land carriage. On Monday a steady business was trans-
acted at an advance in the rates of that day se'nnight of from Ge
to 85 per quarter. Since that day the demand has fallen oil, and
the improvement has been with difficulty supported. Foreign
wheat—the show of which has been extensive—has moved off
freely, at from 7s to 8s per quarter more money ; but on Friday
prices were 2s lower. In floating cargoes scarcely any business
has been transacted. There has been a good consumptive
inquiry for barley, at from is to 24 per quarter advance. In the
value of malt no change has taken place. Oats have improved
fully is per quarter, and the same amount of improvement has
been realised for beans. Peas have produced full currencies.
American flour has risen 3a per barrel.

ENGLISEI—Wheat, Essex and Kent white, 76s to 90s; red,
72s to 84s ; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 7.2 s to 82e. Malting barley,
40s to 44s ; grinding ditto, 36s to 39s ; distilling, 38s to 40s.
Malt, 58s to 735. Feed oats, 27s to 30s ; potato, 30s to 35e.
Rye, 488 to 50s. Tick beans, 44s to 625; pigeon, 46s to 625.
Grey peas, 44s to 46s ; maple, 47s to 49s ; white boilers, 670 to
Ns per quarter. Town-made flour, 68s to 70s; country marks,
563 to 643 per 2801bs.

ARRIVAI.S THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oath. Flour.
English 9SU .. 4120 .. 5710 .. 1490 .. 1360
Irish
Foreign .. 20710 .. 3590 .. 160 sks.
15300 bls.

LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—
Wheat, 993 quarters, 76s ; barley, 1,987 quarters, 37a 11d;
oats, 2,976 quarters, 28s 5d ; rye, lb quarters, 46s 2d ; beaus, 682
quarters, 41s 4d; peas, 248 quarters, 448 Ild.
IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES Wheat, 75. ; bar-
ley, 37s 8d; oats, 26s lUd ; rye, 53s 11; beaus, 44s 3d; peas,
458 7d.
THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 7ds hl ; barley,
38s 3d; oats, 27s 2d; rye, Ws 6d; beaus, 45s 4d; peas,
47s id.

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, 36,111;
barley, 39,01; oats, 16,226; rye, 55 ; beaus, 4,201; peas, 715
quarters.
SEEDS—There has been a steady, though by no means
brisk, demand for both red and white clover seed, at fully last
week's currency. Linseed has sold readily, at the late advance.
Black Sea, 64s to 655; Calcutta, 63s to 655; Petersburg, 62s
to 635; and Archangel, 518 to 52s per quarter. Rapeseed and
cakes command extreme quotations.
TEA—The reduction In the duty has produced more activity
in the demand for most kinds of tea, and prices are fully sup-
ported. Common sound Congou is selling at to is per lu.
Up to Saturday last duty was paid on 0,437,5661b5, against
6,651,1041bs to the same period in 1853.

SUGAR—West India qualities have sold to a fair extent, at
fall quotations; but the value of most other kinds of raw auger
has had a downward tendency. Fine yellow Barbadoes has
changed hands at 38s to 395; low to good, 345 to 37s 6d; yellow
Mauritius, 33s to 35s Gd; tine, 36s to 37s ; grainy, 38s to
335 td ; good to tine grocery Madras, 37s to 390; brown, 27s lid
to 295 per cwt. Foreign sugars and crushed have moved oil
heavily, at barely stationary prices. Relined goods are steady.
Brown 'tulips, 43s Od to 445; and low to tine grocery, 44s tki to
475 Gd per cwt.
MOLASSES—The demand is heavy, and the quotations are
drooping. West India, 16s Gd to 178 tki ; Bengal and Mauritius,
166 to lbs 6d per cwt.
COFFEE—About 4,000 bags good ord native Ceylon have been
disposed of at 455 lid per cwt. Most other kinds of coffee are
held at very lull prices; but the business doing in them is com-
paratively limited.
COCOA—A moderate inquiry exists for this article. Grey
Trinidad, 90s 6d; red, 345 to 395; Granada, 30s to 335; Bahia,
26s to 275; Para, 28s to 29e; and Guayaquil, 34s to 34s Gd
per cwt.
CHICORY—There is more business doing, and the quotations
are well supported. British root, 101 to 111; powder, 161 to
201; foreign root, in bond, 101 10s to 111 per ton.
RICE—The transactions in this article are only to a moderate
extent, at last week's prices.
SALTPETRE—Numerous fluctuations have taken place in the
quotations. To arrive, 47s 6tl has been paid. On the spot, the
price is 485 per cwt.
PROVISIONS—Fine Irish butter is in fair request, at very
full prices; but low and middling parcels command very little
attention. In the value of English and foreign parcels we have
no change to notice. The bacon market is firm, at extreme
rates. Lard is held on rather higher terms. Other kinds of