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FOREIGN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—The old year in England closed with very mild, spring-like 
weather, but during the first week in January sharp frosts, with a tem- 
perature of 18° F., and followed by heavy snow-fall at various points, 
indicated the approach of abrupt changes and a class of conditions very 
trying to the short crop of winter-wheat already seeded, and gave rise 
to apprehensions as to the spring-planting. Yet the abundance of the 
supplies of foreign wheat were such as to prevent a rise in prices on 
account of the unfavorable indications of the coming crops. Prices with 
a poor crop range but 1s. 1d. per quarter higher than at the opening of 
1874, with a very good crop. English farmers have but little inclination 
to overstock even the country-markets. Only a third of the last year’s 
crop has been disposed of, and the trade in domestic wheat is very dull 
and intermittent. Frost at various points in France arrested the down- 
ward tendency of the Paris market, but the wheat and flour trade man- 
ifested no buoyancy. The same indications are reported at different 
points in Belgium, Holland, and Germany, but the general discontent of 
wheat-growers with current rates still resists the pressure for lower 
prices. As Saint Petersburg and Odessa were both closed by frost, ship- 
ments from Russia could not be expected for some weeks.” A sudden 
advance upon prices at Adelaide, in Australia, with an unexpected dif- 
ficulty in obtaining wholesale qualities, indicated that the supply from 
that quarter would be below expectations. 
The sales of English wheat during the first week in January amounted 
to 34,557 quarters at 45s. 3d., against 37,921 quarters at 44s. 3d. the — 
same week last year. The London averages were 46s. on 677 quarters. 
The imports into the United Kingdom during the last week of Decem- 
ber, 1875, were 1,290,368 cwt. Monday, January 3, opened in Mark 
Lane upon small supplies of English wheat, with moderate arrivals of 
foreign. The fresh samples of Essex and Kent were in short supply, 
and mostly in very poor condition ; their value was quite irregular, and 
difficult to state. Essex and Kent, white, were quoted at 48s. to 55s. 
per quarter; ditto, red, 42s. to 50s.; Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and York- 
shire, 41s. to’ 50s.; Dantzig, 52s. to 57s.; Konigsberg, 49s. to 54s.; Ro- 
stock, 47s. to 50s.; Silesian, red, 46s. to 48s.; ditto, white, 51s.; Pom- 
eranian, Mecklenburg, and Uckermark, red, 46s. to 49s.; Ghirka, 45s. to 
47s.; Russian, hard, 42s. to 45s.; Saxonska, 46s. to 50s.; Danish and 
Holstein, red, 46s. to 49s.; American, 45s. to 49s.; Chilian white, 518.5 
California, 53s.; Australian, 52s. to 56s. 
At Liverpool, British white brought 10s. to 10s. 4d. per cental; ditto, 
red, 9s. 6d. to 9s. 10d.;: Canadian white, 10s. to 10s. 4d.; American 
white, 9s. 11d. to 10s. 6d.; ditto, red winter, 8s. 9d. to 10s. 6d.; No.1, 
Minnesota, 9s. 9d. to 10s. 2d.; spring No.1, 9s. 6d. to 10s.; spring No.2, 
8s. 10d. to 9s. 6d.; French, 9s. 6d. to 9s. 9d.; Bombay, 9s. to 10s.; Kur- 
rachee, 8s. 3d. to 8s. 7d.; Egyptian, 7s. to 9s. 11d.; Californian, 10s. 4d. 
to lls. 1d.; Oregon, 10s. 11d. to 11s. 1d.; Chilian, 10s. to 10s. 2d.; 
Australian, 11s. 3d. 
In Paris, with fewer offers, the price of wheat remained unchanged. 
Daring the first week of January, 15 provincial markets Were on the 
advance; 58 steady, and 35 on the decline. Prices ranged from 42s. to 
47s. 5d. per quarter, choice samples realizing 50s. 
FLour.—the imports into the United Kingdom during the last week 
in December amounted to 153,343 ewt. The following Monday, January 
3, opened in Mark Lane “upon fair arrivals of country flour and small 
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