The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.

(From the Mark-passe Express.)
So long as harvest work has yet to be accom-
plished, the advicea from various parts of the country rela-
tive to the state of the weather will continue to be of great
interest. We are sorry to say a good deal of interruption
has taken place during the week. Much rain fell on Monday
and Tuesday, and no grain was fit to be earned on the Wed-
nesday, although that day proved very fine. In the early
districts ploughing has been proceeded with at every favour-
able opportunity, and wheat sowing has partially com-
et ed: There is, however, a greet want of choice quali-
ties of this year's growth, and in ooneequeace of this
scarcity some people are planting old. This is very much the
case in Scotland, although there is more of fine quality se-
cured than in the south. At Edinburgh some really selectlias
commanded up to 80s. per qr., whilst in some counties the
thin shrivelled fen wheats are resorted to, where the stock
is to be warranted as true. Taunton Dean has a preference
amongst most of these sorts.
From Suffolk, on Thursday, acorrespondent says, " I had
hoped to send you some account of the results of thrashing,
but the weather has been so laid that little has been done. So
far as I can judge of what 1 have seen and heard of the wheat
crop, it is quite one third below an average in quantity, whilst
the weight ranges from 58lbs. to 601bs. per bushel, very few
weds reaching the latter. Barley is not more than half a
crop in this district, and I ens told, and fully believe,
that the half of that is so much damaged by heating
in the barns sad on the stacks, that it is quite useless
for melting. Oats are a geed crop hereabouts, but the
quantity grown very small. Peas not so good as
expected, and carted very soft. Beans, with the suer
tion of a few pieces of winter descriptions, are still in the
fields, and for the moat part are as green as ever. They would
have been a great crop bad they come to perfection ; what
they wi l tonne to now is more than I can take upon my-
rrh to predict from my experience." On the same day,
from the coast of Suffolk, it was observed, "On Saturday,
Sunday, Monday, and up to Tueeday noon we were drenched
with wet ; yesterday was brilliant ; but to-day we have
again rain."
Our accounts on Friday were of an unfavourable cha-
✓acter. From the West Riling of Yorkshire it was stated,
•• We lave rain more or less almost every day, tine retard-
ing still more ono of the latest harvests on recionL In North
Lincolnshire two.fiftle of the crops have yet to be secured,
some quantity being still to reap, and in some parte of this
county one-fifth is yet in the fields ; seeding operati,as are
or coarse delayed is proportioe. It it now generally ad-

Ilabbs—Westlndla.. mks
Mauritius. bap
Bengal sad Madras bap
Penang
Foreign ..... • • •Phito
come—wii casks
Mocha
Ceylon
Cogos—W.l. bags
Foreign
sass Mwt
libm—W

1760

3,217
7,8 N
10,823

15,616
226,2187
1E4,744

39,0 K
64,119

2,010
28
181

12,434
15
297
1,107
369
113
1,119

1,176

1111,848
60
2,7710
11,301
3,760
10,006
34,649

1114;816
322,F4

WS j
4,866
42,769
7.369
3,766
37,836

TALLOW. —The speculative accounts in the market, u
between parties oversold fee a fall, and thou who bad
bought for a rise, haying been vary nearly, if not quite, ar-
ranged by the business done the week before last, we had a
much more steady market throughout last week, and as it
appears probable that what little of oversold account there
may be still unsettled will be supplied by the excess of
docks at the outputs, we havelto repeat what we stated on
the same subject last Monday, that the question of price
appears to us to be between the Russian holders and tho
teed.. Mutt. the trade will only buy from hand to mouth
at the present price is certain, but it is equally certain that
for the reasons stated in our last, they will require more
than an average quantity to meet the consumption, and
as the large Russian holders are well aware (and are pro-
bably calculating upon the fact) that the supply from
Russia next year will be small; there seems good ground to
look forward to a generally higher range of prices for the
next six months than we have been accustomed to. To-day
the market remains steady, and our closing quotations are:
—Spot and all the year, 595. 6d. ; December, 595. 6d. to
595. 9cl. ; January to March, 595. 611. ; March, only 59a. 6d.
buyers. South American, 59a. ; Ist pipes, 58e. to 58s. 6d.
Town tallow, 595. 6d., net cash. Cocoa-nut oil : Cochin
at Ms. lOd. to 545. ; inferior, 52a. to 55.. 10d. Ceylon,
51s. to 51a 6d. St. Petersburg, 475. to 45.. good to fine
Lagos.—(From the Circular of Messrs. Smith and Charles
dated Monday Evening.)

COTTON.—Lnizaroot., OCT. 22.—We have had a steady
market to-day, with a fair amount of business done. The
Wee are 10,000 bales—including 8,620 American, at Rd. to
Bid. ; 800 Surat, 21d. to 31 ; Egyptian, 711 to 90. ;
50 Pernam, 811 to 91d. ; 200 Bahia, at Bd.—of which 2,000
are for speculation and export. The week's import is
3,357 halm.

CATTLE—Lmerool, Ocr. 22. —The supply of cattle
to-day was the largest ever shown here ; of sheep much
larger than last Monday. The demand very dull for cattle,
at much lower prices. A fair demand for good sheep, at
fall prices.

COALS.- LONDON, Ocr. M.-Davison'. West Hartley,
16s. 9d. ; Hastings Hartley, 16s. 9d. ; Holywell, 17s. 6d. ;
Lambert's Went Hanky, les. 6d. ; Tanlield Moor, 14s. 3d. ;
TanSeld Moor Butes, 14s. ; Walter Primrose, 14a. 6d.
West Hartley, 16s. 9d. ; West Wylam, 175. 6d. ; Walls
End Eden, 20s. ; Walls End Marton, 195. 6d. ; Walls End
Medley, 19s. 6d. ; Walls End Hilda, 195.; Walls End
Belmont, 19a. 9d. ; Walls End Hmwell, 21s. 6d. ; Walls
End Hatton, 21s. 6d. ; Walls End Hatton Lyons, 19s. 6d. ;
Walls End Kepler Grange, 20s. 3d.; Walls End South
Hatton, 21s. 6d. ; Walls End Stewart's, 21s. 6d. ; Walls
End Ttuistall, 20s. ; Walls End Clump, 20s. 3d. ; Walls
End North Hartlepool, 17s. 3d. ; Walls End Shinclife,
19s. 9d. ; Walls End Thorpe, 20s. ; Walls End Woodhouse
Close, its. 61.-Ships at market, 110 ; sold, 100.