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MARKETS

... PRESTON MARKET.-Saturday fad. The market was dull, and prices declined about 6d. in wheat, meal, and beans. Pork was a farthing per pound lower. Potatoes and oats maintained last week's prices. For other articles see the following quotations:-- *. (I. . d. WEAT, white, per windle of 2201bs ?? 6 20 G Wheat, Red ?? ; , 17 0 18 6 FL&as superfine, per pack of 2401bs ?? 30 0 32 0 Do. common fine, ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2012 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce 

LATEST MARKETS

... LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The market at present leans in favour of sellers, ana to-day presents a very firm appearance, with a good and general enquiry. Sales of the day estimated .at 10,000 bales-say 1,000 Bahia, 150 Maranham, 100 Pernam, 150 Egyptian, 600 Surat, and 8,000 American; 4,000 speculation and export, and 6,000 trade. Speculators have taken during the week (exclusive of ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce 

REVIEW OF THE BRITISF CORN TRADE

... I - || - (Fom the Mark Lane .xprex.) Though no material increase has taken place In the deliveries of wheat from our own growers, and the supplies of the article from abroad have been only moderate, the trade has lost the firm tone by which It was oharaeterlsed the last week or two In March; and not only has the upward, movement In prices been checked, but a reaetion to the extent of about Is. ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1020 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Commerce 

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE

... REVIEW OF THE BRIT[SH CORN TRADE. (From the Mark Lane Rapras.) Though we are assured, week after week, by the journals advocating free trade, that corn cannot be im. ported into this country from any part of the world, without serious loss, still supplies seem to reach us on a sufficiently liberal scale to depress the value of all kinds of home-grown grain. We have had some arrivals from ports ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 636 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

LATEST MARKETS

... LivERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-YESTERDAY. We continue to experience a good and active demand for cotton, and a gradual hardening of prices, Which, since the arrival of the last steamer, reporting the defi. ciency in the receipts of the crop, as compared with last year, to be 407,000 bales, have assumed a more firm po- sition, and close fully id. higher than we quoted on Fri- day last for American ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce 

THE CURRENCY

... T I It has been publicly announced, in pamphlets and letters circulated by a recently formed Association for the reform of the British currency, that the pro- ject broached some time since by certain Birmingham financiers, has at last been adopted by the leaders of the Tory party, and is shortly to be introduced in form, to the legislature, by the Duke of Richmond. As these announcements have ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

MARKETS

... PRESTON MARKET.-Saturday last. The market was exceedingly dull, and very little busi- ness was done. The prices of most articles were a trifle lower than those of last week, except for potatoee, which were 6d. higher for the best qualities. s. d. t. d. WBV.T, white, per windle of 2201b0 ?? 1S 6 20 6 Wheat, Red ?? 17 0 1s 6 FLouP, superfine, per pack of241ba ?? 30 0 32 0 Do. common fine, do. ?? ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2509 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce 

LATEST MARKETS

... LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-YESTEnRDAY. The trade, in their operations this week have again led the market, which has presented an aective demand, but with little Influence on prices. Fair Uplands have advanced id, being put rather too low last week. Brazils have been taken freely at the extreme rates last quoted, as are also Surat; but Egyptian are more steady, at a decline of about id. for the ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce 

MARKETS

... PRESTON MARKET.-Saturday os. The market was more fully supplied than on the pre- vious week, and sales were slowly effected. Oats were Id. per bushell lower, but wheat, meal, beans, and pota- toes maintained last week's prices. In other articles, there was little or no alteration. s.da . s. d. WsarT, white, per windle of 2201bs ?? 18 0 20 6 Wheat, Red ?? 16 6 18 0 ftso,, superfine, per pack of ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2100 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce 

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE

... I (From the Marh Lane Expres*.) We have to record another week of extreme depression in the grain trade, aud another fall in prices quotations are now reduced to so low a point that many are disposed to believe that the downward movement cannot continue much longer, and those farmers who are in a position to hold appear to have determined to wait for the chance of something turning up in ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 599 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Commerce 

SAVINGS BANKS

... - The recent explosion of the Savings, Bank system, s| pursued since the year 1844, has produced a tardy mea- sure of reform from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The miserable mismanagement of the banks at Rochdale, Scarborough, St.. Helens, and some other places, bad diffused universal conviction that no adequate security was afforded totdepositors; and the result has been mis- chievous to ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Commerce 

MARKETS

... 1: I II PRESTON MARKET.-Satiraday lo. This morning's market was we6 attended, and the prices of last week were readily obtained for wheat. Meal and. beans advanced about j 6d. Potatoes were plentifully suppliedj and fetched the prices, of the pre- vious weeks. There were a few samples of new potatoes at 8d.-and I0d. per lb. s.d. s. d. Wnaz&, white, per windle of 2201bs I ?? 18 6 20 6 Wheat, ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2681 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Commerce