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plies both English and foreign, and the close of the 

 former week being firm, some advance was de- 

 manded, but the show being good from Kent and 

 Essex, and country buyers absent, there was but a 

 steady trade, at former prices. The following 

 Wednesday being " the day of humiliation," th 

 whole week in the country proved dull, and several 

 places quoted lower prices, to the extent of Is. to 

 2s. per qr. Liverpool found but little trade either 

 on Tuesday or Friday, and the rates for fine wheat 

 were scarcely varied, but second qualities were 

 rather cheaper. London closed on Friday with 

 great dulness, and a tendency to some decline. 



The second Monday's supplies were by no 

 means heavy ; but, in the total absence of all spe- 

 culation, and millers being reluctant buyers, prices 

 gave way fully '2s. per qr. : foreign new being 

 similarly reduced, with some concession made on 

 the best old qualities. Some of the country 

 markets found no necessity for this concession — 

 as Manchester, Birmingham, &c. ; but generally 

 there was a decline, Spalding, Boston, Hull, 

 Louth, Bristol, and Gloucester being fully Is. to 

 2s. down : and this was the general report in later 

 markets. Tuesday's market, at Liverpool, was 4d. 

 per 70lb. cheaper ; but on Friday there was more 

 doing in American wheat, at the decline. London 

 finished still pointing to lower prices. 



The third Monday had liberal supplies, espe- 

 cially from abroad ; but the samples for the 

 morning from Kent and Essex were not numerous. 

 In the absence of country buyers, trade again fell 

 back, with prices reduced 2s. further; and little 

 progress was made with the bulk from Essex, 

 white wheat being most neglected ; and foreign, as 

 usual, being equally dull, and cheaper. The 

 country, influenced by town advices, was generally 

 lower, but without the same decision, Boston, 

 Lynn, Manchester, Newcastle, Gloucester, and 

 most other places, making the dechne Is. to 2s.; 

 but Newark, Wakefield, and Bristol quite equalled 

 the reduction in London, which, as the week 

 closed, was increased. 



The fourth and last Monday was well supplied. 

 This, together with the state of the money market 

 both here and in America, added to the current 

 idea that wheat and flour were about to be allowed 

 to be exported from France, produced quite a 

 paralysis in trade ; and the little that was done was 

 at a fall of fully 3s. per qr. Very little was passing 

 in foreign, needy buyers only supplying their 

 wants, at a like reduction. 



The arrivals of English wheat for the month 

 have scarcely varied from the last, being 30,531 

 qrs. ; hut the foreign imports have increased to half 

 as much again, being G6,903 qrs. ; thus giving an 

 average of 24,359 qrs. weekly, after a favourable 



harvest. The bulk of the foreign supply has 

 chiefly come from Russian ports. The month's 

 exports were 4,343 qrs. wheat and 51 sacks flour. 



Town-made flour, notwithstanding the decline 

 in wheat, has been steadily kept up at 50s. per 

 sack from the month's commencement to its close ; 

 but Norfolks, after being quoted Is. higher on the 

 first Monday, receded Is. per sack on the two 

 following Mondays, and finished by a further fall 

 of 2s. per sack on the last day, leaving oft' at 37s. 

 There having been only one important arrival of 

 American flour, and that occurring in the third 

 week, the samples were not pressed, and prices 

 have Httle changed, the old stock here being nearly 

 exhausted. Country arrivals of late have been in- 

 creasing, the total supply for the month being 

 67,667 sacks, and the foreign received being 3,995 

 brls., with 1,168 sacks. This makes the supply 

 about 5,000 sacks 3,500 brls. over that of Sep- 

 tember. 



The receipts of English barley for the month 

 have increased ; but foreign supplies have been 

 much reduced, the old stocks abroad having nearly 

 run out. As to malting qualities, so few really fine 

 now appear in the London market — being probably 

 bought up by maltsters and brewers — that their 

 scarcity has kept the rates steady, and Is. per qr. 

 is the utmost reduction on such; but the sorts for 

 distillation being plentiful, with a diminished 

 inquiry, in consequence of the permisbion to use 

 grain for this purpose in France, these sorts have 

 almost become of nominal value, after a fall in the 

 course of the month of 3s. to 4s. per qr., which 

 has occurred during the last fortnight. Grinding 

 sorts also are fully 2s. per qr. lower. We do not, 

 however, expect any serious or permanent abate- 

 ment on the best kinds, as they must be in small 

 campass, with a somewhat deficient crop; while the 

 secondary and inferior sorts will be partly kept up 

 by the high prices paid for beans and peas. The 

 supply this month of English qualities was 13,628 

 qrs., and of foreign 36,678 qrs. 



The malt trade has been in sympathy with grain 

 generally; and the last two Mondays noted a 

 decline in the best qualities of 1 s. per qr. each day, 

 the lower sorts having fallen 3s. to 4s. per qr. 



The prices of oats through the month have 

 scarcely varied Is. per qr. ; a reduction of that 

 amount having ensued in the value in consequence 

 of the continued large arrivals from Russia, whence 

 by far the greater portion has come, though the 

 rate of the foreign supply has not equalled that of 

 last month. The weekly average, however, of 

 37,729 qrs. has been kept up by a moderate supply 

 of new corn from Ireland. These latter, from their 

 scarcity, commenced at high rates relatively ; but 

 as soon as supplies of some importance appeared 



