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lu Paris wheat averaged 43s. to 50.9. per quarter. At Marseilles prices 

 rauged from 42s. 6(1. to 47s. 6d. for Egyptian and other Oriental wheats. 

 At Antwerp fine American red winter maintained its position at 49s. 

 At Eotterdam the quotations varied between 48s. 6(7. and 53s. 



Flour. — The imports into the United Kingdom during the week end- 

 ing September 19 were 114,858 cwt. The influx of foreign flour, mostly 

 in barrels, was not large. The latter, though with limited demand, 

 maintained its prices. The Paris trade showed signs of weakness, prices 

 giviug way one shilling per quarter. In Mark Lane the best English 

 town households brought 3Ss. to 47s. per 280 pounds ; best country 

 households, 35s. to 36s. ; Norfolk and Suflblk, 30s. to 33s. ; American, per 

 barrel, 24s. to 25s. ; extra and double extra, 25s. to 26s. At Liverpool 

 English and Irish superfines brought 35s. to 39s. per 280 pounds ; ditto, 

 extra, 40s. to 45s. -, French, 37s. to 50s. ; Trieste, 55s. to 62s. ; Spanish, 

 41s. 3(1. to 43s.; Chilian, 33s. 6(1 to 36s. 6(1.-, Californian, 38s. to 40s.; 

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

 and Philadelphia, 22s. 6d. to 26s. ; Ohio and extra, 23s. to 26s. ; Canadian, 

 22s. to 27s. In Paris prices for consumption ranged from 35s. 3d. to 

 to 37s. lid. per 280 pounds. 



Maize. — At the close of the third week in September there was a light 

 supply in London and an upward tendency of prices. White was quoted 

 at 38s. to 48s., yellow at 34s. to 37s., per quarter. In Liverpool Ameri- 

 can ranged from 37s. to 42s. per 480 pounds ; Galatz, 39s. 3d, to 39s. 6d. 



