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FOREIGN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—The conditions of vegetation in the British Islands, during 
June and July, were, on the whole, favorable to the growth and gather- 
ing of the grain crops, yet in many localities the wheat crop fell below 
that of the previous year. In France the growth of this cereal was in 
several departments considerably interrupted by rain-storms. The 
general yield was reported very short, though the deficiency was largely 
made up by the superior quality and weight of the grain. In Germany 
only a tair crop was expected at the close of harvest, whereas the 
previous indications had pointed to a bountiful yield. In Hungary, 
too, a reported improvement was found to have been overrated, while 
the prevalence of cholera threatened a failure of labor in taking care of 
the crop. The London prices continued remarkably steady ; the bril- 
liant weather for gathering the crop atoning, in some measure, for de- 
ficient yield and exhausted stocks. The California crop had been over 
estimated, and hence its effect in supplying the deficiency was not so 
great as had been anticipated. In Southern Russia drought had pre- 
vailed extensively, with considerable blight, precluding the hope of ex- 
uberant supplies from that quarter. New crop supplies at Alexandria, 
in Egypt, were reported as inferior in quality. On the whole the out- 
look was to a higher market rate. 
The gales of English wheat noted in the Mark Lane Express during 
the nine weeks ending with August 3, amounted to 270,952 quarters 
against 377,630 quarters during the corresponding period of 1872, Dur- 
ing the first half of these periods the prices of 1872 were the highest, but 
during the last four weeks the preponderance turned in favor of 1873. 
The imports of foreign wheat into the United Kingdom, during the 
eight weeks ending July 26, amounted to 6,307,160 quarters. The Lon- 
don weekly average prices during the nine weeks ending August 3 were 
as follows: Week ending June 7, 54s. 3d. per quarter on 1,746 quarters ; 
June 14, 57s. 6d. on 3,614 quarters; June 21, 56s. $d. on 2,945 quarters ; 
June 28, 56s. 10d. on 2,930 quarters; July 5, 56s. 8d. on 1,376 quarters ; 
July 12, 57s. 2d. on 1,457 quarters; July 19, 56s. 5d. on 1,131 quarters ; 
July 26, 56s. 9d. on 1,686 quarters ; August 2, 57s. 5d. on 1,038 quarters. 
The Mark Lane (London) prices during this period were as follows: 
English wheats—Essex and Kent, old white 60s. to 68s. per quarter ; 
ditto new white, 51s. to 67s.; ditto old red, 59s. to 64s.; ditto new red, 
51s. to 64s. Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, old red 57s. to 63s. 
Foreign wheats—Dantzic, 60s. to 65s.; extra ditto, 68s. to 70s.; Konigs- 
berg, 60s. to 65s.; extra ditto, 64s. to 68s.; Silesian, red, 57s. to 60s.; ditto 
white, 63s. to 648.5 Pomerania, Mecklenberg, and Uckermarck, red, 59s. 
to 62s.; Russian, hard, 50s. to 52s.; St. Petersburg and Riga, 55s. to 
60s.; Danish and Holstein, 58s. to 60s.;: American, 54s. to 59s.; Califor- 
nia, 60s. to 61s.; Chilian, 60s.; Australian, 60s. to 64s. 
Liverpool rates differed but little from those formerly reported. 
American white wheat brought from 13s. to 14s. per cental; ditto red, 
12s. to 12s. 9d.; ditto spring No. 1, 12s. to 12s. 8d.; ditto spring No. 2, 11s. 
4d. to 12s. 1d.; Canadian white, 12s. to 13s.; ditto red, 11s. 10d. to 12s. 
8d.; California white, 11s. 8d. to 12s. 10d.; Chilian white, 11s. 4d. to 12s. 
1d.; French white, 12s. 6d.; ditto red, 11s. 7d. to 12s.1d.; Spanish white, 
11s. 10d. to 12s. 4d.; Danubian, 7s. to 7s. 9d.; Girka, 10s. 4d. to 11s.; 
Egyptian, 9s. to 11s. 6d.; Australian, 12s. to 13s. 
In Paris the prices per quarter about the 1st of August were, 66s. 6d. 
