The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-04 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

BASINGSTOKE, JAN. 3.—Corn--The fine seasonable
weather has already much improved the condition
of the wheats offered this day for sale; the supply was
but moderate. All of dry qualities, whether pitched or
offered by samples, made fully the prices of this day
week, millers and corn-dealers purchasing the chief part.
A few very fine samples of old white, weighing 64 ibs
per bushel, made 56s to 58s per quarter; new ditto, 53*
to 553; ditto best old red made 181 per load, or 528 per
quarter; indifferent at from 81 to 101 do. Flour as last
week. Bread, 13d the gallon loaf. Barley was readily
sold for steeping at last week's prices; grinding do.
rather lower; some bright Chevalier (weight 56 lbs per
bushel) sold at 34s per quarter; second-rate ditto 32s
ditto; best grinding 275 to 18s ditto; inferior 26s
to 28s ditto. The malt trade inactive. Barley
meal at from 15s to 16s per sack of 10 score
pounds. Oats varied greatly in price; primest white
Scotch or potato sold at 248 to 255 per quarter, second
rate ditto 22s ditto; good hea►y black ditto 20s ditto;
Farmer's feed at from 175 to 18s ditto. Beans (old
weight), 651bs per bushel, 38s to 40s ditto; new ditto,
631bs weight, 348 to 366 ditto; Egyptian 3 Is to 33s ditto;
some poor, for splitting, 308 ditto; fine white peas for
boiling were in good demand, at 44s per quarter; sccond
rate ditto 40s to 425 ditto; best grey 384 to 40s ditto;
'hog peas 365 ditto. New tares 8s 9d to I Is per bushel;
old ditto 8s to 85 6d ditto. Indian corn 32s to 358 per
quarter; some Indian corn meal offered at 18s to 19s
per barrel of 1961b5. Rye meal at from 78 to 95 per
cwt. English linseed cakes 121 to 131 per 1,000.
Clover seeds, fine white, 36a to 42s per quarter;
second rate 30s to 32s ditto; red clover 36s to
383 per quarter; second-rate 32s to 34s ditto; linseed
for sowing 60s per quarter, for crushing 465 to 50s ditto.
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Pigs: a moderate supply, prices for le in stores as last
week, small ditto Is per head lower; some remained un-
sold; fat hogs for bacon, 103 to 10s 3d per score pounds;
for cutting-up porkers, 10s 6d ditto. A few cows,
heifere, and lean calves, which were of dull sale; fat
calves, 10* 661 per score. Hops: several growers from
Farnham and Alton were at the market this day offering
best Farnhams at from 5l 10s to 61 per owl; rather dis-
coloured at 51 to 51 lOs ditto; those of 1847 at 41 to 4/4s
ditto; Alton's and Crondall's were offered at from 5/ to
5155 ditto; Sussex awl Odihams at 41 15s ditto; inferior

!ditto, 31 to 3/ lOs ditto. Trade rather better for good
'qualities.
GLOUCESTER.—On Saturday our wheat market was
in an unsettled state, and only retail parcels were sold.
English samples brought about last week's rates, but
free foreign was is to 2s per quarter lower, while there
was rather more inquiry fur wheat in bond at former
rates. Barley, oats, and beans were nominally unaltered
in value, but next to nothing doing in either article.
WORCESTER.—On Saturday there was a limited sup-
ply of wheat, and the sales made were at the currency
of this day se'nnigbt. Barley nominally unaltered. Oats
were fully as dear, and tine qualities inquired for. Beans
a slow sale, at former prices. Peas very difficult to sell.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 2.—There were
in the market to-day 77 ~asks cairn. al, each weighing
28016 imperial, whereof 68 sold thus:-
12 at
20 at Il 9s Od i 7at .
8 at
A vurage price of the whole, 118 s 5d 10 -12ths.
10 tacks flour, whereof 3 sold at 335, 2 at 31s, and 1
at 30s; 4 sacks barleymeal, nhereut 1 sold at 265; 3
sacks peaserntal, whereof 1 sold at 22s 6d; 25 sucks pot-
barley, whereot 23 sold thus:-
1 at ll 108 Od I 2at ll 6s 6d
3at ll 9s Od lat ll 6s Od
2at ll 7s 6tl lat ll 5s 6d
1 at ll 7s Od 12 at ll 5s Od
2 sacks brosemeal, whereof 1 sold at 295.
DUBLIN, JAN. 2.—We had a very short supply, but
an extremAy dull market, at our corn exchange to-day.
We have no alteration to note in prices of last
Friday. White wheat, 23s to 275; red, ditto, 20s to 265;
barley, 12s to 17s 6d; oats, 9s 6d to lis 6(1 per bri.;
oatmeal, Ils to 12s ; bakers' iluur, 15s to 18s per
cwt.; Indian corn, 32s to 355, per 4801bs.
BELFAST, DEC. 29. —Graln—The supply of grain at
this .morning's market was moderate, and was taken
pretty freely at }esterday's rates. Monday, Jan. ',—
Grain—The supplies since Friday have been small, and
prices keep firmly up to those of that day. Wheat, 95
to lOs 3d; barley, 5s 6d to 7s; oats, 5s 4d to 61 3d; and
oatmeal, 9s 3d to lOs 6d per cwt. Pork in small supply,
and prices firm from 37s to 46s 6d per 1201 b.

COAL MARKET..IESTEADAY.
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 15s Od Belmont IP. 6d
Carr's Hartley
Chester Main l6. 6d dell
Davison's West Hartley 15s Od Lyons lBs 3d
Hasting's Hartley l4a Od Hetton „,.. l9. Od
Holywell Main lss Od 1 Haswell l9. 3d
New Tantield l4. Od Jonassohns ...... ...... 16s 3dOrd's Redheugh
South Pontop ........ 13. Od Russell'. Hetton
Tanfield Moor .... l4s 6d Shotten
Tanfield Moor Bates... 1:3. 6d,Stewart's
'Townley l4s Od Whitwell
Wiudsor's Pontop ..... 13. 6d Benson
Wylam .. . .. l3s 9d Caradoc .....
West Hartley
Wall's End, &c. Hartlepool l9. Od
Acorn Close
Be wicke and Co
Brown's l6s Od Adelaide Tees
Clarke ...
Clennell l6B Od,Richardson's Tees l6s 6d
Framwell Gate ...... ... 17s 6d Seymour Tees
Habburn l7. 3u fees
Heaton
H arton
Killingworth l7. 6u DirwentwaterHartley 143 6d
Riddell's ..... ... ......
Walker
Eden Main
Lambton Primrose

RAILWAY SHA.ltth NIARKETS.
BRISTOL, JAN. 3. ,-
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The shares today showed evident
signs of improvement, and, the holidays being over, there
was a large attendance, and a good business done. Great
Western, Quarters, were done at 2% to 2% dis.—Midland
Stock, which commenced at 8714, left off at 88—York, New.
castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), at 5-16 p.—South
Devon, Preference, at 13% per share.
LivEßrooL. JAN. 3.

SToca Excuktvors.—The sales are—Birmingham and
Oxford, 25—Caledonian, Preference, 13s. 9d. c. p.—Great
Northern, 94 dis. ex int.—Ditto (A Shares), 514 'ex int.—
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming-
ham), 194 dis. Ditto, Quarters, 514 dis.—Ditto, Fifths,
dis. —Ditto (late West Riding Union), Fifths, 4% dis.
London and North Western, 126—Ditto, Fifths, 5% p.—
Ditto, New Quarters, 2/.35. 9d. p.—Ditto (Leeds and Dews-
bury), 41% Ditto, Halves, 20:4—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 104 Preference, Ili. 6s. 3d.—Midland
Stock, 871,¢—Ditto, New Halves, 67i ex int.—North Staf-
fordshire, 31,Q dis.—North-Western, 81. 13e. 9d.—Scottish
Central, 26—Shrewsbury aid Birmingham, 9L 12s. 3d.
Shares (B), dis. ex int.—Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Chester), 6 dis. es int.—Ditto, Preference, 8 per cent.
guaranteed, 14—Sonth-Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 2214—
Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 141 p. ex int.