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demand, at from 203. to 403. per head below former rates, ac- 

 cording to their several qualities. Fat beasts were abundant, 

 at from 79. 6d. to Sa. per stone. Mutton sheep were plentiful, 

 at from 5id. to G^d. per lb. Grazing sheep had a very dull 

 sale, at heavy rates. 



IRISH FAIRS.— Carlo w, Monday: This fair, which was 

 held on this day, was a very excellent one for both buyers and 

 sellers. A very la-ge quantity of young stock was offered for 

 sale, and the prices realized were rather high. Fat stock was 

 exceedingly scarce, and what was exhibited met a ready sale at 

 good rates. Sheep were in fair demand. The bacon fair was 

 held on Saturday, and prices were very good for breeders ; 

 store pigs sold at about SSs. a cwt. Drogheda, Monday : 

 The June fair of Drogheda was held to-day, under the most 

 favourable circumstances. Store cattle were very plenty, and 

 iu brisk demand, especially for bullocks. Some good two-year 

 old bullocks were sold from £9 to £12 per head, and yearlings 



from £5 to £7 lOa. each. la the sheep department of the fair 

 there was evidence of a scarcity with high prices ; for instance, 

 lambs of the weight that brought a guinea last year would be 

 value to-day for from 25s. to 273. each. AVether mutton was 

 7d. to 7id. per lb. ; ewe ditto, 6d. to 6|d per lb. The buying 

 was brisk during the day. In the swine fair the supply was 

 immense, with a great demand for small pigs. Store slips 

 brought from £1 to 55s. per head, and bacon may be noted 

 at lOs. per 201b8. In the wool market I observed a larger 

 quantity of that commodity than was exhibited this time 

 twelvemonth. Black wool by retail was from 2s. to 3s. per 

 lb. for beat kinds, and white ditto (good) 233. per stone, say 

 from 22s. to 22s. 6d. per atone by the pack. The demand for 

 this article was remarkably brisk, and a general animation 

 pervaded the market during the entire day. Fresh butter 

 quotes at lOd. per lb. as an average, and crock buter at 9Jd, 

 per lb. — Saunders. 



REVIEW OE THE CORN TRADE. 



DURING THE PAST MONTH. 



The month of June has exhibited great fluctua- 

 tions in the weather, with more of cold and dryness 

 at the commencement than was quite suitable to 

 the growing crops, especially to spring corn, as 

 well as to the wheat on light and very heavy 

 lands; but the third week being visited with heavy 

 thunder showers, followed by a forcing sun, there 

 is again a more favourable prospect as to the gene- 

 ral yield, though heavy crops can hardly be e.x- 

 pected, the time for tillering out being past. A 

 frost having been experienced on the night of the 

 12th, it was well the wheat was not then in ear. 

 The markets throughout the month have shown 

 more buoyancy and decision than for some time 

 past, the opening of the canals in America for more 

 than six weeks proving that heavy supphes of 

 wheat from that country cannot be again expected, 

 and the Baltic arrivals, as well as prospects in that 

 quarter, being also comparatively small, while the 

 long war in Southern Russia has greatly diminished 

 expectations thence. Scarcely a week has passed 

 without being in growers' favour, and the month's 

 gain may be held at 4s. to 5s. per qr. The circum- 

 stance that the last crop was generally gathered in 

 bad condition, and that America sent abundant stores 

 in splendid order all through the autumn, made 

 the sales of English produce slow, and the weekly 

 sales nearly throughout the season being below 

 those of last year, leave the inference that present 

 stocks are proportionately good, and with about 

 four million qrs. received in foreign imports since 

 last July, it seems fair to conclude that they will 

 prove sufficient for the short period between now 

 and harvest, with the help of perhaps four or five 

 hundred thousand qrs. more in the interim. This 

 would bring us to the position of "an average 

 crop," with " an average importation," which for 

 the last six years has been 4,775,000 qrs. in wheat 



and flour ; but as the population has kept increas- 

 ing, it is equally clear that there must be an in- 

 creased consumption, leaving but small stores at 

 the season's close for mixing with the new crop. 

 The weather, therefore, will determine future prices, 

 which now being remunerative, we think will not be 

 declined; indeed, of late this seems to be indicated 

 by the more free deliveries noted in the weekly 

 sales. Should the Southern States in America be 

 again in condition to ship early (and as everything 

 looks fair at present, they may), there may be 

 something like a renewal of the free shipments of 

 last autumn ; it therefore seems prudent to keep 

 selling, though the averages are about l7s. per qr. 

 less than in June, 1856. Algeria, Egypt, and Italy 

 havealready commenced reaping. There seems little 

 doubt that the restrictions upon exports in the 

 Roman States will soon cease, while Russia has 

 had breathing time again to till her immense area 

 of wheat-producing land. The wants of Spain 

 are yet scarcely satisfied, and with deficient stores 

 there, and perhaps hardly an average crop, it is not 

 expected that this country will resume her station 

 as a source of supply. Flour at Santander is about 

 10s. per sack beyond our own, prices there being 

 about 64s. per sack English. At Madrid prices of 

 wheat were still 97s. to 1 10s. per qr. In other countries 

 prices keep high. In Paris white Normandy wheat 

 is worth about 66s., and red 62s. per qr. At Ant- 

 werp native red was about 62s. per qr. Weak 

 white Zealand wheat at Amsterdam has brought 

 ab&ut 61s., and good red 64s. per qr. Hambro' 

 quotations for red Holstein wheat, 561b. to 59lb. 

 per bush., were 49s. to 56s. per qr. ; Upland, 60lb. 

 per bush., 64s. The market at Rostock, for red 

 wheat of last year, 60lb. per bush., was 54s. 6d. 

 Petersburg quotations for Cubanka were 63s. 7d. 

 on the spot, and 57s, 6d, per qr. for August. At 



