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FOREIGN MARKETS. 
WueAt.—Autumnal weather in the British Islands has hitherto been, 
on the whole, unfavorable to agricultural operations, the rain-fall being ex- 
cessive, and the temperature, except in a few brief intervals of sunshine, 
being low for the season. North British farmers in most cases suc- 
ceeded in getting their grain secured in good order, but others were dis- 
appointed, being compelled to clear their fields for fall plowing, and, 
consequently, to house their crops in unfavorable weather. In Ireland 
farmers enjoyed better opportunities for securing their crops. The same 
causes have hindered the thrashing of the grain, and consequently the 
amount of the new crop marketed is small, and that of poor quality, 
from damp and inferior condition. This kind of wheat can be dis- 
posed of only at a decline of 1s. per quarter from the previous rates, 
and even at these depressed prices the trade is by no means brisk. The 
average imports into the United Kingdom since harvest were but littie 
more than half the amounts of the corresponding period of 1875, when 
the stocks of old British wheat left over were increasing; they are now 
gradually declining. The shipments from the Atlantic ports of the 
United States and Canada for the four weeks ending September 25 were 
228,000 quarters less than during the same period of 1875. British deal- 
ers and consumers are beginning to feel some anxiety at the slowness 
with which supplies are arriving from the United States and Rassia, a 
fact which indicates a speedy rise in prices. The possibilities growing 
out of a war in Scutheastern Europe have had an unsettling effect upon 
the market. As Russia is the main source of supply of red wheat, a 
rupture between her and the British government would cut off one of 
their leading sources of supply, and would gravely affect the prices of 
subsistence in the British Islands. 
The imports of wheat into the United Kingdom during the last week 
of September amounted to 537,622 ewt. The sales of English wheat 
during that week amounted to 65,753 quarters, at 47s. per quarter, 
against 51,830 quarters, at 47s. 1d. per quarter, during the correspond- 
ing week of 1875; the London averages were 49s. Td. on 4,057 quarters. 
During the first week of September the sales of English wheat were 
67,153 quarters, at 47s. ld., against 59,122 quarters, at 45s. 11d., the 
previous year; London averages, 3,961 quarters, at 47s. 1d. 
The first week in September opened in London with very little anima- 
tion; native wheat received, 7,754 quarters; foreign, 23,015, mostly 
from Russia; no supplies from American Atlantic ports. Essex and 
Kent white brought, in Mark Lane, from 45s. to 50s. per quarter; ditto, 
red, 43s. to 47s.; Dantzic mixed, 50s. to 54s.; Konigsberg, 49s. to 53s. ; 
Rostock, new, 50s. to 52s.; Pomeranian, Mecklenburg, and Uchermark, 
red, 48s. to 50s.; Ghirka, 42s. to 44s.; Russian, hard, 42s. to 43s.; Sax- 
onska, 45s. to 47s.; Danish and Holstein, red, 46s. to 49s.; American, 
red, 50s. to 51s.; Chilian, white, 46s.; Californian, 50s.; Australian, 50s. 
to dls, 
In Liverpool, British white was quoted at 9s. 6d. to 10s. 2d. per cen- 
tal; ditto red, 9s. 2d. to 9s. 10d.; Canadian white, 9s. 10d. to 10s. 3d.; 
Red Club and Golden Drop, 9s. 8d. to 10s 2d. ; American red winter, 9s. 
3d. to 10s. 3d.; No. 1 spring, 9s. 7d. to 9s. 9d.; No. 2 spring, 9s. 1d. to 
9s. 6d.; No. 3 spring, 8s. 2d. to 8s. 9d.; Bombay, 9s. to 9s. 6d.; Calcutta, 
8s. 2d. to 9s. ; Saidi, 7s. 2d. to 7s. 4d.; Buhi, 7s. 9d. to 8s. 9d. ; California, 
10s. 2d. to 10s. 4d.; Club, 10s. 6d. to 10s. 8d.; Oregon, 10s. 5d. to 10 7d. ; 
Chilian, 9s. 5d. to 9s. 9d.; Australian, 10s. 6d. to 10s. 8d. 
In France October opened with spring-like temperature, and the dis- 
