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to be heavy, these rates for good qualities do not 

 seem likely to give way much. The best old 

 foreign malting and distilling kinds have receded 

 in value about Is. to '2s.; and grinding parcels, not 

 sweet, fully 3s. Of these there is a moderate stock 

 in London, but very little elsewhere, and foreign 

 ports were pretty well cleared out. Some new 

 Silesian has been sent as a sample here, but it was 

 very thin and poor, and augurs but little favourably 

 for our new receipts from abroad. The arrivals 

 into London have been during the month only 

 825 qrs. of home growth, and 32,776 qrs. from 

 abroad. 



Malt all through the month has remained un- 

 altered in value, its high price having checked sales, 

 and its small quantity on hand supporting the 

 rates. 



The present month as respects the oat trade has 

 been a declining one. The first two Mondays left 

 prices where they were, and the last two succes- 

 sively reducing them 6d. to Is. per qr., making the 

 reduction on really good sweet corn about Is. 6d. 

 per qr. ; but the bulk of the foreign cargoes having 

 been undried and shipped in hot weather, have 

 generally been in a most miserable condition, and 

 sold at prices proportionately low. Though there 

 has been an abundance of foreign, but few arrivals 

 have come from Ireland. The total supplies for 

 London through the month were 832 qrs. only of 

 English, 903 qrs. Scotch, 9,720 qrs. from Ireland, 

 and 122,226 qrs. from abroad. Some Riga and 

 Archangel shipments having appeared, there is no 

 fear as to the trade being well supplied till the new 

 crop begins to be shipped freely ; we have, how- 

 ever, received about 40,000 qrs. less this month 

 than last. 



The hay crop, though excellent in quality, 

 has proved light on the whole ; and the drought 

 has lasted too long since the cutting to permit many 

 hopes of a secondary gathering in the hay coun- 

 tries, or a good pasturage where fed off. 



The arrival of foreign beans this month has been 

 very scanty, but the prices made of English have 

 occasioned a fair supply of native produce, the last 

 crops being decidedly good. Prices through the 

 month have undergone no change ; but as Egypt 

 this season will be in condition to make free ship- 

 ments, we can scarcely expect the present rates to 

 stand. The quantities received have been 2,063 

 qrs. native, and only 604 qrs. from abroad. 



In peas the receipts are reversed, the market 

 through the month having been furnished with 

 only 270 qrs. of home-growth, while foreign arri- 

 vals have reached to 3,090 qrs. ; but the latter have 

 been white boilers, and their importation, after the 

 dullest season known for this description, shows 

 that the old stocks were worked off for cattle feed 



by the prices realized for beans and hog peas. No 

 change can be quoted through the month ; the new 

 samples of dun, however, have been offering at 4s. 

 less than were lately making for the old, the latter 

 having made 46s. and over. New fine white boil- 

 ers have this brought 44s. and 45s. ; they are small 

 this season, but heavy, and at present dry. 



Linseed, too, has been advanced in price, but its 

 being so high has greatly limited consumption, and 

 so prevented the advance which must otherwise 

 have occurred. The places of growth in Russia 

 and Germany all say that the plant suffered in the 

 spring, and so must rule high through the whole 

 season. Cakes have been very saleable, and kept 

 their value. 



In seeds several new samples have appeared. 

 The rapeseed is generally good coloured, and in fair 

 condition ; it has found but a slow sale hitherto, at 

 £36 oer last to seedsmen, the rates being above the 

 attention of crushers. New trefoil is fair, and so is 

 new trifolium from France, both held at about 24s. 

 per cwt. Canaryseed, contrary to expectation, has 

 rather advanced on the high rates. Old samples 

 of Cloverseed have had some speculative inquiry, at 

 rather more money than a little while ago could 

 have been obtained. New winter tares have been 

 offering very small, but pretty sound and dry ; the 

 rates demanded have been 6s. to 7s. per bush., but 

 inquiry has not yet commenced, and speculators do 

 not seem inclined to lay in stock. Mustardseed 

 may be shortly expected ; the old samples, though 

 not first-rate, have been held at full prices. So has 

 hempseed. In coriander, carraway, and other seeds, 

 but little has been doing, at about former quota- 

 tions. 



CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. 



Shillinjfs per Quarter 



Wheat, Essex and Kent, white 48 to 05 extra — to — 



Ditto, red 47 60 — — 



Norfolli, Lino, and Yorks.,i'ed 48 58 — — 



Rarlet, malting 40to41 Chevalier, new 42 45 



Distilling 37 39 Grinding 26 32 



Malt, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk 67 72 — 77 



Kingston, Ware, and town made.. .. 69 73 — 78 



Brown 62 63 — — 



Rte — ~ 30 36 



Oats, English, feed 21 26 Potato 27 32 



Scotch, feed 20 26 Potato 28 34 



Irish, feed, white 20 26 fine 25 32 



Ditto.blaok 20 24 „ - 25 



Beans, Mazagan 34 39 Ticks 36 39 



Harrow 36 40 Pigeon 43 47 



Peas, white boUers .. 40 44.. Maple .. 42 45.. Grey 40 41 



Flour, persackof2801bs., Town, Households. .503., fine 53 64 



Country 41 43 Households. . 44 45 



Norfolk and Suffolk, ex-ship 39 40 



FOREIGN GRAIN. 



Shillings per Quarter 



WnEAT,Dantzio, mixed.. 60 65 high do. — —extra— 70 



Konigsberg 50 70 „ — — — 



Rostock 46 70 fine.... — — — — 



American, white 60 65 red.... 57 60 — — 



Pomera., Meckbg.,& Uckermrk,red 50 60 — — 



Silesian, red 45 50 white 60 65 



Danish and Holstein 45 56 



Russian, hard 45 60 French.. (none) 



St. Petersburg and Riga 46 60 



R'nne and Belgium — 



