The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-10 00:00:00

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small show of bailey, which meta far demand at reran.
neatens pass. The demand fee eras was healthy. Ea.

hems prim wont paid for beam
NIIWIIIIIY, JAN. 9.—W• had an worsts suP9I2 GI wheat
this day. nude heavy, and Is. Imre wag obtained.
Balky planed. and • goad ink at hat weirs sates. No
change in cots or beano.
EDINZOIOII. Jan, B.—na with last yea wheat
was 2s. up an top, and 2a. 11 up on overage. Barley
was 2s. up co top, and 6d. up on avenge. Oats wore 28.
up cot top, and sd. up on average. Beans were ls. up on
top and la. 2d. up on amain Wheat, Nis. to Mi.;
tansy, 325. to 465.; oats, 21s. to 325. Id. ; bolus, 50.. to
545.

CATTLE.-Bnurntonan, Jan. 9.-We received a good
ripply of beasts at this day's market. The trade fair, co
alteration in quotations. Then was an intimate in the
number of sheep on offer, which met a very slow trade ;
late rates maintained. Calves a moderate supply, late
plots realialng. The supply of pigs was 'error ; a fair
&armee made. Beef, tiad. to 7d. per lb. ; mutton, 5'.,d.
to 7d. ; veal, 6d. to lad. ; bacon pip, Bs. to 9s. per scum;
pockets, Bs. to Bs. 9d.
BRISTOL, Jan. 9.-We bad a very large supply of beef
at our market to-day. They were all stall•fed animals,
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at 6ad per lb., and only anything very choice realised
134 d. ; ewes and inferior sorts sold at 541., a number being
left on hand at the aloes of the market. We had a short
supply of miloh cows of indifferent quality, hut there was
a fair demand, and all were sold at prices ranging from 12(..
to 181. We received about 700 head of store cattle from
Ireland, the quality being rather below the average ; good
harmers were in request, and there was a middling
demand for other descriptions. The supply of pigs was
very large, and numbered nearly 2,000. Muds was dull,
and prices lower than last week, from Bs. to Ba. licl. per
score being the average figures, and the latter was an
extreme rate. There were very few horses in the market,
and trade was quiet.
NOTTINGHAM, JAIL 8.-We bad a tolerably good show
of beasts to-day, and they met with a brisk ale, at from
Ba. 3d. to Bs. 9d. per atone for best quality, and for second
I ditto from is. 9d.,t0 Bs. 3d. There was also a pretty good
I show of sheep, which realised from 7d. to lad. per lb.
superior quality, and 6d. to 7d. for second descriptions.
1 Veal fetched M. per lb. Pigs were not quite so plentiful,
sad pockets sold at from fie. 3d. to 6s. 6d.; !noon pigs at
Item 6s. 3d. to Cs. 9d.
I EDINBURGH, JAN. 8.-The supply of cattle this
morning was more than on this day se'nnight, there
being 382, or an increase of 118 head. The quality ;,ease-
rally was of an inferior description. Several lots of the
beet sorts brought ea. 9d., which was the top price ; cur.
rent, Bs. to Bs. fal. ; middling and inferior, 6s. 94 to
7s. fsi. per stone. The supply of sheep was 5,061, being
460 more than last week. Sales were slowly effected,
but the prices of last market were rcaintained. Extreme
top price, id.; current. 64d. to 64d. ; ewes, sd. to 64L per
lb. Fed pip, ss. 641. to 6a. 6d. per stone.

OILEESE.--SALISM:IIT, JAN. 9.—Our monthly market
wee held to-day, when we had a capital supply of all ay.
acriptions. There wan good attendance of buyers. Bau-
man was quick, and by an early hour nearly the whole
had changed hands (over 930 tons), excepting a few rough
aorta, which were left on hurl. Prices of last market were
maintained, which averaged ufollows :—Skims, V.A. to
2fia. ; half ditto, 3ds. to 441. ; Somereets, 50s. to 56e. ;
and fine Cheddars, 008. to 645. per cwt.

IRONMASTERS" QUARTERLY MEETING.

BIRMINGHAM, JAN. g:

The second meeting of the ironniaaters of this
district for the current quarter was held in the Town-hall
here this afternoon. The attendance was not more thin
two-thirds of what it usually is, and from the commence-
ment to the close the sense of the prevailing flatness and
depression was never for a moment relieved • of the buy.
big class there was undoubtedly a considerable number
in the hall, but on one pretence or other they for the most
part abstained from entering into engagements ex.
kept on a very moderate scale, and at best con.
tracts were not given for more than a months
consumption. One section hell off buying on the
ground that the price of manufactured iron will go down ;
another because trade generally is bad, and not likely to
revive at present ; the result was one of the dullest quarter
days ever experienced, and a very gloomy feeling exiitel
throughout. The sluggish demand extends to every de-
scription of finished iron, the consequence is that at several
of the works where they have gone on making to a certain
extent in the expectation of better times, they have got
their minimums fell of stock, which will not be much
reduced by anything which took place at this
meeting. It will be safe to say that there
has been no occasion within the last twenty
years when so little business of every kind was transacted
as on this quarter-day ;so far as the sentiments of those
present could be ascertained there was only one opinion en
this point. Having said so much, those who are familiar
with the trade will be able to form their own idea as to
what turn prices are likely to take unless there springs up
some sudden and unexpected demand. The Shropshire
iron trade is, as a rule, very free from fluctuations ; it was,
however, mentioned in the Hall to-day that they are quiet
in that quarter, but that they would rather work less than
reduce prices.