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and a few places were unaltered. Liverpool was 

 2d. per bush, cheaper on Tuesday for all but the 

 finest qualities ; and on Friday, with a thin attend- 

 ance, the trade was worse, and prices irregular, new 

 French samples beiug 2d. to 3d. per 70lbs. down. 

 The second Monday was rather better supplied, 

 there being a large arrival of Russian wheat from 

 Cronstadt. Kent and Essex, however, sent but few 

 samples, and the tone of the market was improved, 

 the sale of white English wheat being much more 

 free, but not at higher rates. The same improved 

 feeling was evinced in the foreign trade, which was 

 firm for all sorts. The country reports were nearly 

 all improved; Boston, Lynn, and Newbury to the 

 extent of Is. per qr., and Spalding Is. to 2s. 

 Generally there was only a more ready sale, but in 

 a few instances the previous dulness obtained, 

 Rochdale being Is. per qr. cheaper. Liverpool, on 

 Tuesday, found better demand, at unaltered quo- 

 tations ; Friday's market was less active, without 

 change of rates. 



The third Monday commenced with smaller 

 supplies from abroad and at home, though the 

 number of samples from the near counties was 

 rather increased. Millers, notwithstanding the 

 lower rates of town-made flour were more ready 

 buyers, and the samples of good quality went off 

 smartly. There was also a fair business in foreign 

 chiefly in middling qualities of Russian, at fully 

 the rates of the previous week. The country 

 markets generally were unaltered, and agreed 

 with the London advices ; but some were dull, 

 Birmingham and St. Ives being Is. per qr. 

 cheaper; while, on the contrary, Stockton, Barns- 

 ley, Bristol, and Spalding, with a few others, ad- 

 vanced Is. per qr. Liverpool, on Tuesday, was 

 dull, but without change, and the Friday's report 

 there, as well as that of the metropolis, left quota- 

 tions as at the beginning of the week. 



The fourth Monday was but moderately supphed 

 from abroad, and the samples sent up from Kent 

 and Essex were only few in number. The influence 

 of the French decree was hardly perceptible ; but 

 the scantiness of the supply, and firmness on the 

 part of the country markets, produced more con- 

 fidence, and millers nearly cleared the stands of 

 English qualities at fully the prices of the pre- 

 vious week. Friday's market in London was very 

 dull, in consequence of the sudden change to mild 

 weather. 'Ihe previous advices from the country 

 were firm. 



The imports into London for the four weeks have 

 been as follows, viz., of English 2G,323 qrs,, of 

 foreign 49,281 qi-s., giving a weekly average of 

 18,901 qrs. against 19,487 qrs. for the previous 

 month. The imports for the last four weeks, 

 ending November lOth, into the principal ports of 



Great liritain, in wheat and flour, have been equal 

 to 231,19:") qrs. against 210,814 qrs. for the four 

 weeks previous. The last four weeks' sales were 

 433,941 qrs. against 388,031 qrs. the same time 

 last year, showing an increase of 45,310 qrs. 



The course of the Hour trade, like that of wheat, 

 has been downwards as respects prices. The first 

 Monday, with the best supply, noted a fall of 3s. 

 per sack in town-made flour and Is. in Norfolk 

 and country qualities — making the top price of the 

 former 40s. per sack and the latter 29s. The 

 successive weeks were not characterized by any 

 peculiar features, the rates being pretty steady ; but 

 low American samples out of condition have been 

 quite unsaleable, and the best qualities being worth 

 more at New York than in the London market, there 

 is no inducement to ship them. Extra Southern in 

 that place was quoted 7 d. 60 c. per brl. and Mis- 

 souri 8 d. per brl.— equal, respectively, to 45s. and 

 47s. per Enghsh sack, to which must be added 

 freight,|insurance, duty, landingcharges,and factor's 

 commission. The four marks at Paris were quoted 

 31s. 6d. per sack : worth 35s, per sack here, duty 

 paid. The imports in four weeks have been from the 

 country 73,823 sacks, in foreign 8,645 sacks 2,156 

 brls., against 66,945 sacks Enghsh, 2,308 sacks 

 4,402 brls. foreign last month. The four weeks' 

 exports in wheat and flour were only 420 qrs, 

 wheat and 473 cwt. flour. 



Barley in the course of four weeks has little 

 altered as respects the finest malting descriptions, 

 which have been very sparingly sent to the London 

 market, and have therefore kept their value ; but 

 with a large influx from the Baltic and Black Sea, 

 middling sorts have declined in value about 2s. 

 per qr., there having been a less free sale of the 

 lowest grinding descriptions. Since the decline in 

 oats 53lbs. barley has been selling at 27s. Gd, per 

 qr., and this has brought more inquiry from the 

 country, but there has been no speculative demand 

 for large quantities. Still, the comparatively high 

 prices of beans and peas seem a security against 

 much farther decline, and with an early closing of 

 the Baltic, there may be some improvement, and 

 farmers have the malting trade in their own hands, 

 as foreign sources almost entirely fail. The im- 

 ports into London for four weeks have been 14,328 

 qrs, EngUsh,and 40,146 qrs. foreign; giving an aver- 

 age weekly supply of 13,618 qrs,, against 20,079 

 qrs. last month. 



The oat trade has experienced considerable 

 fluctuations owing to the unprecedentedly large 

 foreign supplies, the balance against prices being 

 about Is. per qr. The first Monday evinced some 

 reaction from the heavy decline of the week pre- 

 vious, and the rates were quoted 6d, to Is, per 

 qr, improved, but the second Monday lost this ad- 



