400 



exhibits the same plenteous promise of home production. The weather 

 has been charming, and just suited to the growing crops. The best 

 white wheat at Paris ranges from 40.§. to 50s. per 480 jDounds. Ameri- 

 can spring- wheat has been offered in London at 42s. 6d. per 480 pounds, 

 including cost and freight. The otlier countries of Europe have like- 

 wise been generally favored with good growing and harvest weather. 

 Declining markets are reported in Holland, Belgium, Germany, and 

 Hungary. The new wheat at Hamburg weighed from 61 to 04 pounds 

 per bushel. It had not, at the close of August, arrived in large quan- 

 tities, yet its promise was such that old American wheat, though offered 

 at a decline of 4s. or 5s. per quarter, found few buyers. Eeports from 

 Odessa showed a large crop in Southern Kussia, while samples received 

 indicated good quality. A great decline of prices was the result. In 

 Algiers holders were regretting their refusal to accept former prices. 



The sales of English wheat during the last week in August amounted 

 to 28,087 quarters, at 57s. 2d., against 23,079 quarters, at 60s.3f7. during 

 the corresponding week of 1873. The London averages were 53s. M. on 

 4,039 quarters. The imports into the United Kingdom for the x^revious 

 week were 781,939 cwt. In Mark Lane, Essex, and Kent, new white 

 was quoted at 47s. to 52s. per quarter ; ditto, new red, 44s. to 48s. ; Nor- 

 folk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, 41s. to 48s. ; Dantzic, mixed, 53s. to 

 C2s.5 Konigsberg, 50s. to G3s. ; Rostock, 50s. to 52s. ; Silesian, red, 49s. to 

 51s. ; ditto, white, 54s. to 58s. ; Pomerauia, Mecklenberg, and Ucker- 

 mark, red, 50s. to 51s. ; Ghirka, 43s. to 44s. ; Eussian,hard, 43s. to 47s.; 

 Saxonska, 40s. to 50s. ; Danish and Holstein, red, 50s. to 52s. ; American, 

 red, 46s. to 49s.; Chilian, white, 55s.; Californian, 56s.; Australian, 54s. 

 to 57s. In Liverpool, American red winter, 9s. 3d. to 10s. per cental ; 

 No. 1 spring, 9s. 3d. to 9s. 6d. ; No. 2 spring, 8s. 9^. to 9s. ; Bombay, 9s. 

 6d. to 10s. 6d. ; Egyptian, 8s. to 10s. ; Californian, 10s. Id. to 10s. 3d. ; 

 Oregon, lis. 3d. to lis. 6d. ; Chilian, 9s. 0(7. to 9s. 9f7. ; Australian, lis. 

 3(Z. to lis. 6d. 



Flour. — At the opening of the last week in August there was a 

 moderate supply of country flour in London and a very small stock of. 

 foreign, and the trade in both was by no means brisk during the 

 week. In Paris the market ruled low, but with evident signs of a re- 

 action, the closing prices being 35s. 3d. to 37s. lid. per 280 pounds. In 

 Mark Lane the best town households brought 43s. to 47s. per sack of 280 

 pounds ; best country households, 40s. to 42s. ; Norfolk and Suffolk, 38s. 

 to 39s. ; American, 25s. to 30s. per barrel. In Liverpool, English and 

 Irish superfines brought 38s. to 40s. 3^. per 280 pounds ; extra, 43s. to 

 47s. ; Trieste, 55s. to 65s. ; Spanish, 41s. 3d. to 43s. ; American, western 

 and extra State, 23s. to 25s. per barrel ; Baltimore and Philadelphia, 

 23s. to 27s. ; Ohio and extra, 25s. to 27s. ; Canadian, 26s. Gd. to 28s. 



Maize. — Toward the close of August a great falhng off in the arrivals 

 of maize was noted in the Mark Lane Express ; prices for white, 36s. to 

 38s. per quarter; yellow, 32s. to 34s. In Liverpool there was but lim- 

 ited inquiry, and a fall of 6(7. i)er quarter; American, mixed, closed at 

 32s. 6(7. 



