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NEW ORLEANS. 



Cattle, Texas beeves, choice per head. .. 



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western beeves per cental . . 



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Swine per cental, . 



FOREIGl!^ MARKETS. 



Wheat. — The weather in England was unexpectedly favorable for 

 the gathering of cereal crops, and the fears on that head have been 

 dispelled, but only to give way to another cause of public anxiety. The 

 more the character of the new crop becomes known, the more complaints 

 of its quality are rife. It is a matter of general congratulation that it 

 has been saved in such good order. The English Agricultural Gazette 

 says that less than 7 per cent, of its county correspondents report the 

 yield of wheat above average, and that the wheat-fields are unusually 

 " dirty," " knocked about," " dusky," " stained," and " prematurely 

 dead," especially in Staffordshire and Warwickshire, through which the 

 editor had made a journey. Of the returns 6^ per cent, show a condi- 

 tion above average, 36 x>er cent, average, and 57^ per cent, below 

 average. 



The annual volume of reports issued by the firm of Barthelemy, Es- 

 tienne & Co., of Marseilles, in treating of the French crops divides the 

 departments into five classes. In fifteen departments, embracing an 

 acreage of nearly 6,000,000 in cereals, the wheat-crop is good ; in twen- 

 ty-six departments, with a cereal acreage of nearly 12,000,000, the con- 

 dition is moderately goodj in fifteen other departments, with an acreage 

 approximating 7,000,000, the crop is only middling ; in twenty-four 

 departments, with 7,750,000 of cereal acreage, the condition is poor ; in 

 eight departments, with a cereal acreage of over 2,000,000, the condition 

 is bad. In Holland, Belgium, and the wheat-growing region of which 

 Hamburg is the market, the samples of the new crop were of unusual 

 excellence and weight. At the August session of the Vienna Corn Ex- 

 change it was stated, as the result of statistical inquiry, that the average 

 harvest of Austria, Germany, Southern Italy, JSTorthern Eussia, Den- 

 mark, Norway, and Sweden is rated as only middling, while a condition 

 more or less inferior is stated in regard to the crops of Hungary, France, 

 Switzerland, Upper Italy, Southern Eussia, Eoumania, the British. 

 Islands, and Prussian Silesia. In spite of the low valuation it was esti- 

 mated that Austria and Hungary together would export from 5,500,000 

 to 6,000,000 centals. Advices from New York stated the American 

 crop at 300,000,000 bushels, of which 65,000,000 were available for ex- 

 port. The information from France and Eussia being from superficial 

 inquiries, was not regarded as definitive. 



Yet, with a prospect of short home-crops, below average in quality, 

 prices in England were unsettled and showed a^tendency to depression. 



