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sold 12,000 fleeces at Dorchester. Sheep and lambs have greatly improved in condition 

 at grass since the cessation of the heavy and constant rains. Great complaints from 

 Wales, on their markets being overrun with cattle, sheep, and pigs, from Ireland. Some 

 weeks since, bread corn was very scarce and dear in the Principality, and throughout 

 England the stock proves to be even lower than was anticipated. In a great number of 

 parishes, there is scarcely a wheat-rick to be seen. The vast imports encouraged by the 

 expectation of a bad crop, has greatly reduced the price, which must yet have a further 

 considerable decline from that hurrying of the new wheat to market, which from circum- 

 stances must inevitably take place. 



SmithfieldEeef 2s. 9d. to 4s Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. lOd 

 Lamb, 3s. lOd. to 4s. 8s. Pork, 4s. to 5s. dairy Raw fat, 2s. 2d. per stone. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat, 50s. to 80s Barley, (grinding) 26s. to 34s Oats, 22s. 



to 33s London 4 Ib. Loaf, lO^d. Hay, 40s. to 105s. per load Clover, ditto, 50s. 

 to 112s Straw, 42s. to 55s. 



Coals in the Pool, 27s. to 35s. 6d. per chaldron. 

 Middlesex, August 23. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



SUGAB. Muscovadoes continue firm, the demand is extensive, and the holders 

 obtain higher prices. Brown sugars are Cd. to Is. higher ; the fine scarce, and also 

 higher ; the refined market is rather heavy, less doing for export, no reduction in 

 currency; the low quality of lumps have been taken off with spirit; few sales of 

 the middling and better descriptions, for export, have been made; some small 

 parcels of crushed for the Mediterranean. The public sales of foreign sugar, 175 

 boxes of Havannah, of which above 170 sold ; fine yellow, strong, 25s. to 26s. 6d. ; 

 brown and fine yellow, 22s. to 25s. 6d. ; Pernams and white, 25s. to 27s. The 

 market is from Is. to Is. 6d. lower for white Havannah. The sale at the India House 

 of East India sugar consisted of 16,689 bags; Bengal, all sold, white to good mid- 

 dling, 29s. to 32s. 6d. ; yellow, fine, and very fine, 25s. 6d. to 30s. 



COFFEE. Little varied as to prices ; British plantation has given way Is. to 2s. 

 per cwt., but the market seems recovering the depression. Jamaica coffee sold this 

 week is about 900 casks ; Demerara and Berbice, the ordinary and fine ordinary, 

 has been taken for shipment at 35s. and 42s. ; Batavia sold at 27s. and 31s. ; good 

 ordinary Ceylon, 30s. and 31s. ; Sumatra, 25s. 6d. ; good ordinary St. Domingo, 

 mixed, sold at 31s. 



RUM, BRANDY, HOLLANDS. About 250 puncheons of Leeward Island Rum, 

 two over at Is. S^d. ; six over at Is. 9gd. ; and ten and twelve over at Is. 10|d. In 

 Jamaica Rum, we have heard of no purchases. Several parcels of Brandy have 

 been re-sold at a profit. In Geneva there is no variation. 



HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW. The Tallow market is brisk, and Is. higher than 

 our last. Hemp is dull : in Flax there is no alteration. Stock of Tallow in 

 London, in 1 829, 2,826 hogsheads ; in 1830, 13,143 hogsheads. 



Course of Foreign Exchange. Amsterdam, 12. 6. Rotterdam, 12. 6| Antwerp, 



12. 5^. Hamburg, 13. 15. Altona, 13. 15J. Paris, 25.50 Bordeaux, 25. 80 



Berb'n, 0. Frankfort-on-the-Main, 153. O^. Petersburg, 16. 0. Vienna, 10. 12 

 Trieste, 10. 12 Madrid, 36. 0. Cadiz, 36. Of. Bilboa, 36. 0. Barcelona, 36. 0. 

 Seville, 36. 0. Gibraltar, 47. 0^. Leghorn, 48. 0. Genoa, 25. 75. Venice, 

 46. 0. Malta, 48. 0|. Naples, 39. Of. Palermo, 119.0. Lisbon, 45. 0. Oporto, 

 45. 0. Rio Janeiro, 22. Bahia, 28. 0. Dublin, 1. 0^. Cork, 1. O^. 



Bullion per Ox. Portugal Gold in Coin, 0. Os. Od. Foreign Gold in Bars, 

 3. 17s. lO^d.New Doubloons, 0. Os. Od. New DoUars, 0. 4s. 9|d. Silver in 

 Bars (standard), 0. Os. Od. 



Premiums on Shares and Canals, and Joint Stock Companies, at the Office of 

 WOLFE, Brothers, 23, Change Alley, CornhilL Birmingham CANAL, ($ sh.) 291 /. 

 Coventry, 850/. Ellesmere and Chester, 907. Grand Junction, 2801 Kennet and 

 Avon, 29/. Leeds and Liverpool, 462/. Oxford, 635/. Regent's, 24/. Trent and 

 Mersey, (\ sh.) 750/. Warwick and Birmingham, 284/. London DOCKS (Stock), 

 78i/. West India (Stock), 19 1J/. East London WATER WORKS, 1287. Grand 

 Junction, 60/ West Middlesex, 80/. Alliance British and Foreign INSURANCE, 

 9|/. Globe, 155/. Guardian, 28^. Hope Life, 7^- Imperial Fire, 120/.-GAS- 

 LIGHT Westminster, chartered Company, 60/. City, 19 \L British, 14 dis 

 Leeds, 195J. 



