The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-05 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

Lavicazoon, Manen 3.—At our Corn-exchange yesterday
wheat was in modes ate request for consumption, and fully
Tuesday's prices were obtained. Several purchases were made
for removal into the interior. There was a better demand for
!Lour, and seeks and barrels were not so easy to buy as on Tues-
day. There was a limited demand for oats and oatzeeal, but
prices stand unchanged. The sales of barley, beans, and peas,
were at Tuesday's rates. Indian corn was in good demand for
Ireland, and 6d per quarter dearer ; 30s 6d per 4801 b. was
made of northern fiatellow corn. The business passing to-
day is principally in Indian corn, which brings yesterday's
prices. No change in the value of any other article of the
trade, and scarcely anything doing in them.
0. cl. s. d

d. s. d.
Wheat, per 701 b Barley, Feeding.. 3 6 to 3 9
English, white .• 7 3to 7 6 Rye, par 4801 b .. 0 0— 0 0
Do. red.. .. 6 9 7 0 Beans, English, pr
Irish, new .. .. 6 0— 6 4 imperial quartr 34 0— 36 0
Do., old .. • • 6 4 6 6 Irish and Scotch,
Dantsic.. .. • . 7 3 - 7 6 per 4801 b.. • • 30 0— 31 0
Do., good mixed 70 7 4 Foreign, duty pd. 25 6 26 0
Lowerßaltic,white 7 0 7 3 European, per im-
Do. red.. 610 7 0 perial quarter.. 32 0— 32 II
American . 6 6 7 4 Peas, English, per
Canadian .. .. 6 6—6 11 imperial quartr 32 0— 34
Spanish, red and Foreign .. .. 22 0— 34 0
white.. .. • • 7 0— 7 4 Malt, English, per
Tuscan and Bar- imperial quartr 58 0 61 0
letta, red .. • • 6 6 - 611 Do., Irish .. 55 0— 56 0
Marianopoli • • 60— 6 3 Do., brown ••540 67 0
Odessa, Polish 6 3 6 6 Flour, English, pr
Do., hard.. .. 5 6 6 0 2801 b 35 0— 36
Zgyptian .. 4 0— 4 6 Irish, extra fine.. 37 0 38 0
Oats, per 451 b United States, per
English and Scotch 23 2 10 barrel .. 25 0—27 0
Welsh .. • .. 2 6 2 7 Canadian .. 25 6 26 6
Irish, new .. .. 2 6—2 71 Oatmeal, English,
Do., old • • • 2 7 2 9 & Scotch,pr24oll3 24 25 0
Barley, English, pr Irish, new .. .. 23 0 —24 0
imperial quarter 32 0- 34 0 Do., old .. .22 0-- 23 0
Irish, Scotch, and Indian corn, per
Manx,per6olb.. 3 6 3 9 480th .. 28 0— 30 6
MANCHESTER, nano( 3.—A moderate consumptive de-
mand for flour has been experienced during the week, without
any material variation from the prices current on the preceding
market day ; whilst oatmeal, on the contrary, has continued in
very languid request, and to effect sales it was necessary to
submit to somewhat lower terms.
Weaarszavort, FEB. 28. —The prices quoted were—Eng-
lish wheat, 6s 7d to 7s ; Irish, 6s 4d to 6s 7d ; English oats,
2s 7d to 2s 10d; Irish, 2. 6d to 2. fS d ; malting barley, 33s to
33s 6d ; feeding, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel ; beans, 29s to 34s ;
Egyptian, 25s 6d ; peas, 361; flour, 29. to 38s per load; oat-
meal, 22s 6d to 255.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKRT, MARCH 2.—The indifferent
show of samples offering has caused the past to be a dull week
in our market; the sales since our last report scarcely reaching
250 hogsheads West India, for which extreme prices have been
obtained, and with the exception of a few hundred bags of
Mauritius to the grocers, no transactions whatever in other de-
scriptions are reported. The refined market is rather firmer.—
Bristol Mercury.
ARIRDREN, MARCH 2.—Grain—Oats 141 to 15s 0d,401b per
bushel ; barley, 23s to 245, 521bs per bushel ; bear, 23s to 245,
52 lbs per bushel ' • wheat, bOs to 53. ; oatmeal, 131 to 14s per
boll ; flour, 38s to Os per sack. Provisions—Beef,
4d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 5d
to 8d ; pork, per stone, 4s lid:to 5. ; lamb, per tra.,103 6d to 13s;
tallow, per stone, 4s 6d to ss; potatoes, per peck, 10d to Is ;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each, Os
to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per 110, 10d to lld ;
eggs, per dos, 8d to 9d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per
pair,s3s 6d to 4s ; chickens, ditto, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; ducks, ditto,
3. to 3s ed ; ducklings, ditto, 2. to 25 ; turkeys, each, 4s 0d
to 5s Od ; geese, ditto, Os to Os; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 60s to 645; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, 5d
to Od; 41b loaf, 8d; 21b loaf, 4d ; pork, per stone of 14 lbs
Os Od to 3. 6d ; pork fine, small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork large,
3s 6d to 4. 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 100 s.
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Os Od; bearmeal, is 3d to Os Od ;
peaserneal, 2s to Os Od;
,aids, 6d to 7d ; barley flour, is 31 to
1. 4d ; barley dust, 7d to 8d ; flour, 2. to Os Od ; barley, per lb,
led to 2d.
DALKNITM, MARCH I.—Therelative weight per four bushels
of.the three prices of wheat were 18st 91b, 18st 31b, and 18st
Oats, 12st 41b, 12st 41b,:and list lib. Barley, 16st 131 b,
15st 121 b, and 15st 01b. Peas and beans, 19st 41b, 17st 01b,
and 17st 121bs.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
168 Wheat ... £2 12 0 £2 8 6 £2 2 0
1683 Oats
339 Barley
r 104_Pease and Beans 1 11 0 1 7 0 1 5 6
Average of wheat 461 11d.
Dowsas, Fes. 27.—Wheat, weighing 621bs, brought 47r,
and prices to 425. Barley, weighing 57ilbs, brought 30s, and
prices to 221. Oats, weighing 44Ibs, brought 23s Od, and
prices to 16s. Beans and Peas, weighing 67ilbs, brought 345,
and prices to 295.
Coax, MARCH 2.—Some heavy rain has fallen since our
last, but the weather generally has been dry and cold, as well
as favourable for out-door work. The appearance of the
country is on the whole promising, though in some few locali-
ties the young wheat plant does not look as healthy as usual.
This, however, is not surprising, considering the wet and un-
favourable weather we have gone through. The general as-
pect of the trade throughout these countries is still that of life-
lessness and inactivity. When, however, we take into consi-
deration the great revival of and improvement in trade in the
manufacturing towns of England—Manchester, Birmingham,
Leeds, &c.—which are now in a state of great and increasing
prosperity; and, when we take into account, also, the cheap-
ness of all the necessaries of life at present, we are
sanguine in the belief thit we must shortly have
more life infused into the trade, and a larger
and healthier business doing. The arrivals of foreign grain
have not been so extensive as of late. The receipts of home grain
are very limited, and we have little change in the value of any
article' except oats' which are in demand for seed purposes
and have advanced in consequence. In prepared wheat we
have nothing doing, and the business passinc, in foreign is very
limited. We quote the asking prices of Polish Odessa,
25s 6d to 265, of Marianople 27s per bl. A few transactions
have taken place in grinding barley. Malting samples, which
would fetch high prices, are scarce. In oats we have no sales
to report. We quote their current value 9. 6d to 9s 9d for
blacks. The trade in flour is dull, and bakers confine their
purchases altogether to the minty of the it immediate wants.
We have had a larger business passing in Indian corn, with
a firmer feeling manifested in the trade, but without any
alteration in prices. Indian meal continues to meet but a
moderate inquiry. Flour—Firsts 14s 6d to 15s;; extra 16 ;
seconds 13s Od to 14s Od ; households 11. to 121; thirds 8s to 1 )s
per cwt. Meal—Oatmeal Ils tolls 6d; Indian mealBs ; 'so-at
meal lls per cwt. Indian corn 7i 2. 6d to 7, lOs pe: ton. Bran
31 per ton. Hay Farmers 25s Od to 44s 6d; average 40s;
dealers 42s to 48.; average 00s Od per ton. Str ..w—Farmers
14: Od to 22s Od; average 20s; dealers 00s Ott to 00s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 61c1 to 7d;
household loaf sjd to 6d per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d to
Is per lb. Coals—Newport 171; Lydney 18. ; Landore 17s ;
best Neath Culm 16s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s
per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gal-
lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to bid; veal
sfd to 7d; pork 4d to Sid; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages id per
lb. Hops 61 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 31 2s 6d to 3/ is per
ton. Bark—Barbary 61 to 71; Valonia 11l to 181; French
61; English 61 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone.
Hemp 351 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 00s; red
ditto 25s to 27s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ lOs to 12/ per
ton. Timber—New Memel 4/ 10. ; old scarce; red pine 3/
151 • yellow pine 31 per ton ; deals, first quality, 20' • second
quality 171 per 120. Hides—Market lls to 16s ; salted 115 to
18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 24c1 ; market 2d to 2id per lb.
Potatoes, white 10d to 12d ; Minions 18d to Od.

BELFAST, MARCH I.—The past month has not realized
the expectations, which were pretty general, of an advance in
markets after the release of bonded grain on the Ist ; for, al.
though prices did rally during the first half of the month, yet
there was a weakness in the tone of all the markets, which in-
dicated a speedy reaction, and already we have had a depression