The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

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MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.
There was less activity in the demand for wheat in the
=Wry markets held on Saturday, and in most instances,
the supplies on offer could only be disposed of at a reduc-
tion in prices of is per quarter. All descriptions of spring
corn moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Flour ruled
inactive, at:previous currencies.
At New York, at the date of our last advices, an officia
announcement had been made of the re-opening of the
canals, and a further decline had taken place in the value
of breadstuffs. On the continent, however, wheat is
tolerably firm in price.
Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English
grain were very moderate. The imports from abroad
were confined to 9,651 quarters of wheat; 4,592 barley;
31,715 oats; 50 beans; 77 peas; 17 tares; 135 sundry
seeds ; and 250 sacks of flour.
There was a decline in prices of wheat of is to 2s per qr,
CURRENCY PER. IMPERIAL MEASCRR.
ITheat—Essex and Kent
Ditto, old •—s —s
Ditto, white, 1863 404 454
Ditto, old ..... ... ...
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old --s —3
Ditto, 1863
red, 1863, per qr 358 to 40s
Kent,
Talavera, - . —s —s
Rye— ............ • • .............. 22s 278
Barley—G riuding ......
22s 25s
blalting ....... .. ............. —8 —5
Oats —Yorkshire and Li•nc•olush•.;
Malt—Suffolk and Norfo•lk ...
608 66s
Brown
..... 503 54s
.......................
60s
us
Kingstown and Ware
Chevalier.,., . .....
Potato ....... . .. .
Youghal and Cork,... . black . lss 233
Cork, white
Scotch, Feedini•••••••••—• 193 233
Beans—Tick
Feeding lBs 23s
PigeOns,
Peas—Grey.
Maple
White,,,...'..... ••
31s 34s
33s 36s
Boilers ..................................
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk ........ ...
Stockton and NOrfolk •27s 29s
American, per barrel

Particulars

1850,

Stock this clay.

Price of Y.C.
Delivery last week
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town ....

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
The supply of foreign beasts in to-day's market was
rather extensive—of foreign sheep only moderate. Sales
progressed slowly, at about stationary prices.
The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing
districts, as well as from Scotland, were seasonably exten-
sive as to number, and, for the most part, of prime quality.
From Ireland the receipts were again limited, and in but
middling condition. All breeds of beasts moved off heavily,
at fully last Monday's decline in the quotations. In Borne
instances prices were rather in favour of the butchers. The
best Scots and crosses sold at 4s Bd, prime Downs, short-
horns, itc., at 4s 4d per 81bs.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we
received 2,100 Scots, crosses, and shorthorns; from other
parts of England, 700 various breeds; from Scotland 462
Scots and crosses; and from Ireland 150 oxen and heifers.
With sheep we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily
supplied. Good and prime Downs and half-breds moved
off steadily, at full currencies. Otherwise the mutton trade
was heavy, on rather lower terms. The top figure for
Downs was 55 per 811 s.
Lambs—the show of which was tolerably good—were in
request, at very full prices. The general rates wore 6s 4d
to 7s 8d ; but very superior lambs made 8s per 81bs.
We had a slow trade for calves, at from 4s 24 to 5s 2d per
Blbs. The supply was goed.
There was very little doing in pigs, at late quotations.
Per Blbs.to sink the offal.

Imes.

d. s.d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8
Secondquality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Large orse. calves 4 2 4 10
Prime Scots, elc. 4 6 4 8 Prime small d 0... 5 0 5 2
Crse. & inf. sheep :3 6 3 10 Large hogs ..... 3 6 4 0
Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Small porkers ... , 4 2 4 6
Lambs... .6s 4d to 7s Bcl.
Suckling calves, 16s to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
203 to 25s each.

TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY,
Beasts ...
Cows — Sheep and lambs .... 4,570
Sheep and lambs.... 25,520 Calves ........
...... 174
Calves
Pig 5......... 5301

The total imports of foreign stoca into London, last week,
amounted to 6,473 head. In the corresponding week in
1863, wo received 6,189—in 1862, 3,646—in 1861, 5,430
—in 1860, 5,215—in 1859, 3,865—in 1858, 1,239 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDoI LAS WEER.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam .... 464 .. 569 ~ 43 .. 403 .. 259
Harlingen 256 .. 296 .. 44 .. 2
Hamburg; 67 2923 .. .. 269
Amsterdam 142 ..
Boulogne
Bremen 33 .. • • —'
Dordt. 3B .. 131 .. .. ..
Nieu Diep
Antwerp.
2
Ostend 46 ..
Cadiz. 4l ..
Oporto .•
Dunkirk. 24 ..

.. -- .. -- - 77

.. -
.. 15 .. 79

•• --.4 27 .. -

.. 22

Total .... 1111 .. 3919 43 .. 492 913
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1863 728 .. 4,842 .. 313 299 .. 7
18(32 303 .. 2,48,5 .. 315 .. 491 .. 62
1861 756 .. 3,802 .. 299 .. 328 .. 245
18,30
1859 177 .. 3,248 .. 210 .. 206 .24
1858
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, May 1863, and this day,
Monday, May, 16, 1864,

Per Sib, to sink tho offal.

I may- 18, May 16,
1864.
1863.
Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 8 3 2to 3 6
Second quality do ........... 310 4 4 3 8 4 0
Prime large oxen ............ 4 6 4 8 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots, &c. ......... 410 5 0 4 6 4 8
........... 6 0 7 0
Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 6 310 3 6 310
Second quality do. . ...... 4 0 4 2 4 0 4 4
Prime coarse-woolled do ..... 4 4 4 6 4 6 4 8
Prime Southdown do. ...... 4 8 410 410 5 0
Lambs
Large coarse calves ........ 310 4 4 4 2 410
Neat small porkers ............ 4 2
Prime small do. ............ 4 6 410 5 0 5 2
64 7 8
Large hogs ............ 3 4 03 6 4 0
Beasts 5,270
.............. 4,170
Sheep and lambs .• .. 26,410 25,820
Calves ......
370—calves,
........ 209 209
642 4 6
480
Pigs ... ......... 510
SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 19, 1862.—Beasts. 3.980—
sheep and lambs, 25,
MA.Y 20, 1861.—Beasts, 3,s4o—sheep, 20,460—calves,
143—pigs, 390. 181—pigs, 430.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
These marketsraerreBmlb. odbeyrathteelycarsucpapse.lied with most de.
scriptions of town and country killed meat to-day. The
trade generally is dull, and prices rule, in some instances,
2d per albs lower than on Monday last.
salad
Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0
.leliddling do. • • 3 2 3 6
Prime large do. 3 8 3 10
Do. small d 0... 4 0 4 2
ILnafregreiopromrk .... 10
utton.
33
62
33
10

sdsd
lktiddlingmutton 4 0 4 4
Prime do 4 6 4 8
Veal
Saudi pork 4 0 4 6
Lamb

BOROUGH HOP.
The supply of hops on sale here is by no means extensive,
In good and fine parcels a fair business is doing for imme-
at full prices, Otherwise, the trade
mia't drooping currencies. Favourable ac-
countsreceived from the plantations within the
The import last Week was 102 bales from
New York.
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Mid and East Bents Z 5 Os to £9 lOs per cwt.
Weald of Bents 6 Os to 7 7s »
Sussex
Yearlings
Bavarian
Belgian OS tO 0 Os ~
American
OIN to 5 15s „

ALFIELDS.
The arrivalsßOit H ANDOofUpGutatoes T
to these markets have since we
last wrote fallen off, and the market to-day is but mode-
rately supplied with most descriptions. Good and prime
sq
tuaanles move off
money.
steadily, and they command in some in-
unsound produce, however, is a dull
inquiry. Last week 3,356 boxes arrived from Genoa.
in-
stances moremoy.
Yorkshire Regents ..........•• 50s to 60s per ton.
Flukes .................. 55s to 708
''
Rocks ........ . ,
......... 45s to 50s
Rocks ..............t0 45s
Kent and Essex Regents ...... '—'l3 to —8
)Fife Regents 40s to 55,
35s :
Perth, Forfar, and F

.....80.••

SEEPS.

The transactions in cloverseed were very limited, and the
quotations were almost nominal. Canary commanded a
slow sale; while the inquiry for tares has been on the in-
crease, There was an inproved demand for linseed, at ex-
twreermeegruaiteets;anßdapneosecehdanruge has taken place in the quota-
ledd
dull, on former termed. Cakes

Lions.
TurnlP,White,p.bus.llB to 148
Swede —8 -8
itustard, Brown lOB 13s
White,
Tares, Spring....4s Od 48 6d
Old per quarter --s -8
Canary, per quarter 628 6's
Rye grass, new 22s 24s
Clover, Red Eng., et. —s
White
Foreign Red —s —8
White -B —s
Trefoil, new

Carraway ..... 22s 263
Coriander .......... 12s 16s
uempseed, per qr... 44s 46s
Linseed,ling.sowing 76s 78s
Crushing ...... 58s 63s
Baltic .......... —s —s
Odessa ........ —s —s
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English .. 10s£10 IGs
Foreign £9los £lO 5s
Rape Cakes,p ton£s Os £6 Os
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 623 65s

WOOL.

attTenhcle p
buyers. Both for Cape and
Australian
advance on the opening rates has in some instances been
uababylichsoamleasnonfd
fcoorle;onginal wool continue to bo well
qualities the hiddiugs rule active, and a slight
obtained. The export demand is in a healthy state; greasy
Cape and Adelaide qualities have been taken freely on
do combing, is lld to 27d—d°' greasy, is lid to is 6d
American account; and in good and fine wools for shipment
to continental ports a fair business has been transacted.
has realised is lld to 2s 7d
Up to the present time about 35,000 bales has been disposed
of. Good Australian clothing
—good and
fine Cape, is 8d to 2s—medium do., is 51d to
is lid--and greasy, 9d to lld per lb. In the private
contract market, as regards English wool, great firmness
continues to prevail. The supply of old qualities on sale

rHE SITN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1864.

28,562 66 967
I
256.1 to 585 ud to'
Od Od
905 1,31
7 ",908 17,331

733 674
94.389 1117,2L4
52s Oct 56s (id

1862.

s
small, and both combing and clothing descriptions com-
mand extreme rates, Business has been done in the new
clip at high prices.

Last Week's Imports,
From Hobart Town
~ Otago 1,909 „
„ Auckland ............ 897 )1
„ Lyttleton ...............
„ Melbourne 2,075 ~
„ Sydney ............ 3,049 it
Current prices of English wool per lb.
Fleeces —South Down hoggets ........ 1 11/ to 2 0/
Half-bred do ......... 2 4 2 6
Kent fleeces
South Down ewes & wethers 1 9/ 1 10/
Leicester do.
.. 1 11 2 0
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

TALLO \V.
The tallow trade is dull to-day, end prices have a down-
ward tendency. T.Y.C. is quoted at 40a 3d per cwt. on the
spot, and town tallow at 38s 9d net cash. Rough fat 2s (4d
per 81133.