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limited, and the floating-cargo trade in favor of buyers. The weather 
during the first and third weeks was favorable for wheat growth and 
quite the reverse during the alternate weeks. During the first week 
the London averages were 55s. 3d. on 2,041 quarters, and during the 
fourth week 55s. 1d. on 3,696 quarters. The iniports of wheat into the 
United Kingdom during the four weeks ending April 26 amounted to 
2,168,664, the import trade showing a very great decline in the last 
week. The interior markets of England about the close of the month 
manifested an increased activity in the wheat-trade, the advance of 
prices averaging about a shilling per quarter. The decreased import 
caused a firmer feeling in foreign grain in the London markets, but as 
the weather began to clear up and the prospect of home crops to 
brighten, the tone of the market became Jess buoyant and confident. 
The wheat-trade of Paris, which at the first of the month showed 
a tendency to higher prices, settled down quietly to a steady range. 
Prices were steady also at Marseilles, but rose with fine weather at the 
close of the month. The month closed at Odessa with moderate sup- 
plies at fuil rates. 
At Liverpool, American white wheat ranged from 13s. to 14s. per cen- 
tal; red winter and southern, 12s. to 12s. 6d.; spring No. 1, 11s. 10d. to 
12s. 6d.; spring No. 2, 11s. 3d. to 11s. 10d.; Canadian white, 11s. 8d. to 
13s.; Canadian red, 12s, to 12s. 6d. ; California white, 11s. 4d. to 12s. 3d.; 
Chilian white, 11s. 4d. to 11s. 9d.; French white, 12s. 6d.; French red, 
11s. 7d. to 12s. 1d.; Spanish, 12s. to 12s. 2d.; Danubian, 7s. to 9s. 
FLour.—tThe standing flour quotations of the London market were 
as follows: Best town households, per sack of 280 pounds, 47s. to 54s.; 
best country households, 44s. to 47s.; Norfolk and Suffolk, 38s. to 42s. 
In Liverpool, English and lish superfines ranged from 40s. to 42s. per 
280 pounds; extras, 43s. to 51s; French, 48s. to 53s. 6d.; Spanish, 47s. 
to 47s. 6d.; Trieste and Hungarian, 64s. to 76s.; Chilian and Californian, 
42s. to 48s.; American, per barrel of 196 pounds, western, 28s. 6d. to 31s. ; 
extra, 30s. to 34s.; Baltimore and Philadelphia, 30s. to 35s.; Ohio, 31s. 
to 35s. The Paris market from a state of steadiness gradually rose, the 
later quotations being 44s. 2d. to 48s. 8d. per 280 pounds. 
INDIAN CORN.—In Mark Lane, London, the regular quotations for 
Indian corn were the same as in our April report, 31s. to 33s. per quarter 
for white; yellow, 26s. to 28s. In Liverpool, at the close of the month, 
American white brought from 30s. to 31s.; yellow, 27s. 6d. to 28s.; Trieste, 
27s. Gd. to 28s.; Danubian, 27s. 6d. to 29s.; Galatz, 28s. 6d. to 29s. 6d. 
Woou.—English wool was steady in price, Southdown hoggets rang- 
ing, at the close of the month, from 1s. 10d. to 1s. 11d. per pound; Kent 
fleeces, 1s. 10d. to 1s. 11$d.; Southdown ewes and wethers, 1s. 74d. to 1s. 
8d.; Leicester, 1s. 9d. to 1s. 10d. The second series of colonial wool sales 
in London.opened April 28 with a large number of English and foreign 
buyers. The catalogue embraced 7,000 bales—2,500 Port Philip, 1,200 
Sydney, 1,400 Adelaide, 1,600 Cape, 300 New Zealand. The competition 
was spirited, and Australian washed wools maintained their position. 
ButtEerR.—The later quotations were, for Dorset, 136s. to 140s. per 
cwt.; Friesland, 130s. to 134s.; Jersey, i12s. to 130s. 
CHEESE.—Cheshire, 70s. to 84s. per ewt.; Double Gloucester, 66s. t 
S0s.; Cheddar, 76s. to 94s.; American, 56s. to 80s. 
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