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the rise Is. to 2s.; Woodbridge and Leicester 

 holding for 3s. more. The rise at Liverpool, on 

 Tuesday, was id. to 2d. per 70lbs., and Irish 

 customers, on Friday, produced another rise of id. 

 per rolbs., and London closed with a belter 

 appearance. 



The second Monday was altogether less plentifully 

 supplied, excepting the morning's supplies from 

 Kent and Essex, and another Is. was then gained, 

 though paid grudgingly, foreign participating in the 

 improvement. Hull, Leeds, Boston, Spalding, and 

 Portsmouth exactly tallied with the London report ; 

 Wolverhampton, Manchester, Newark, and Glou- 

 cester made no change ; Birmingham was in favour 

 of buyers. Newcastle, Leeds, and Bristol, in- 

 fluenced by a favourable change of we.'xther, were 

 Is. per qr. lower; and though Liverpool was 2d. 

 per 701bs. higher on Tuesday, this advance was 

 barely maintained at the final market, a sudden 

 summer-like temperature having subdued the up- 

 ward tone in London, 



The third Monday had less foreign wheat than 

 the two former, with only a moderate quantity of 

 home-growth, and few samples during the morning 

 from Kent and Essex. With the forcing weather 

 came a general change of feeling, which being indi- 

 cated by the state of the last country markets, a 

 reduction of fully 2s. per qr. was necessary to clear 

 oW the small show, which was not effected till 

 about the close of the market, some accepting even 

 still lower terms. Very few country markets fully 

 responded to this feeling, but among them were 

 Sheffield and Spalding. Birmingham found a 

 ready sale at only Is. per qr. less money. Man- 

 chester, Leeds, and Bristol were nearly as much 

 lower as London, but at the week's end advices 

 were less desponding, and the final reports were 

 little altered from the previous week. London, too, 

 on Friday, had a firmer tone. Liverpool was lower 

 at both markets, 2d. per 70lbs. reduction being 

 noted on Tuesday, with id. to 2d. per 70lbs. fur- 

 ther on the last report. 



The fourth Monday was better supphed, with 

 the weather fine; but as the arrivals from Kent 

 and Essex were small, there was some reaction, and 

 fully Is. per qr. recovered of the previous decline. 



The general averages being fully a fortnight be- 

 hind the business done, do not immediately show 

 the progress of markets ; but it is remarkable that 

 the lowest average, of the 19th of April (43s. Id.), 

 had the sales reported as only 72,171 qrs., and the 

 last (43s. 2d.) was only 76,791 qrs., making the 

 fortnight's dehveries 29,572 qrs. less than during 

 the same period last year, and this, reduction in 

 the deliveries has immediately been followed by a 

 better tone. 



The month's supplies into the port of London 



have be. n 17,414 qrs. English, and 23,834 qrs. 

 foreign; making the weekly average 10,312 qrs., 

 against 15,259 qrs. weekly in April, 1857. The 

 total imports in March into the United Kingdom 

 were 201,622 qrs. wheat, and 529,590 cwts. Hour. 



The Hour trade, after undergoing some fluctua- 

 tions, is left little altered. Town qualities have 

 kept to the price at which they commenced, viz., 

 40s. per sack ; Noi'folks, beginning at 29s. and 

 reaching 31s., fell back again to 29s. to 30s.; Ame- 

 rican and French remaining unaltered. The latter, 

 though there has been a steady moderate influx, 

 has lost money ; the four marks being only worth 

 34s. per sack here, on 29s, the value at Paris, is fully 

 Is. per sack against imports; and at Nantes, the 

 rates being 31s. 6d., leaves only 3s. 6d. per sack 

 for duty, shipment, land-carriage, and commission. 

 The imports into London during the four weeks 

 were 65,080 sacks country flour, 7,269 sacks foreign 

 (mostly French), and only 504 brls. from the United 

 States; leaving the weekly supply about 2,400 sks. 

 5,200 brls. below March, but about equal to April 

 last year. 



The barley trade has scarcely varied throughout 

 the month, excepting small occasional purchases, 

 the malting trade being over, and therefore the 

 best parcels have become neglected, and in future 

 must be used for distillation. Large arrivals have 

 during the last three weeks come from the Medi- 

 terranean, but the low rates making these sorts 

 much cheaper than oats, they go off for mixing, 

 and the better sorts for grinding, while but small 

 quantities fit for the distiller come to market, the 

 purchases being made direct. Stocks now seem 

 working close every where, both in foreign ports, 

 London, and the country, and, as we have before 

 hinted, all that can come will be wanted, and a 

 purchase of 5,000 qrs. at Odessa for June delivery 

 at 21s. cost and freight confirms the opinion. The 

 deficiency of fine sorts in our own crop has lately 

 led to the use of the best French both for seed and 

 malting, and though thin it has vegetated kindly 

 and answered well, at Nantes the price for such is 

 26s. per qr. free on board. The imports for four 

 weeks have been only 7,681 qrs. English into Lon- 

 don, but of foreign 56,085 qrs., giving a weekly 

 average of 15,941 qrs., which is below April 1857 

 by 11,824 qrs., though 6,710 over last March. 

 The malt trade has been steady throughout the 

 month, with little or no alteration in the value of 

 first qualities. 



The great deficiency in the supply of oats has 

 raised their value during the month fully Is, 6d. 

 per qr., and the probability is that until the Russian 

 arrivals begin to appear, the market will l)e tight. 

 As Ireland is known to have grown less than last 

 year, and our own crop was below an average. 



