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THE ENGLISH MARKETS.

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, February 20. Copper,, spot; £7B 12s 6dt per ton; three .months, £761, 'Tin, spot, £165 17s. 6d; three months' £164 ss. : Lead, £l6 5s per ton. Silver, 2s 6£d per oz. . The wheat and ' flour afloat for The. United Kingdom amount to 3,550,000 quarters, and for the Continent to 1,050,000 quarters. The Atlantic shipments for the week total 164,000 quarters, and the Pacific 50,000 quarters. Bank shares.—Australian and New Zealand Mortgage -Company, 88. THE AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, February 21. Wheat, chick, 3s Id; milling, 3s Id to 3s 2d. Flour, £7 10s to £7 15s; Mani--2s 7dJto 2s 8d; Algerian, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Barley, Cape, 3s 6d to 3s Bd. Maize, old, 3s lid; new, 3s 6d. Peas, 4s 9d to ss! Bran and pollard, lid. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £8 ss. Onions, £7 Bs. Butter, choice, lo£d. -Bacon, 7£d to 9d. . ■ ■; ■•" MELBOURNE, Februarys 21. 2d,, to 35.2£d.,-Flour, £7 ss; Oats, Algerian, 2s 2d to 2s> 4d. Barley, Cape, to 3s; malting, . choice, 4s lid. Maize, 3s. 6d to 3s 7d. Bran, Is. Pollard, llfd. Potatoes, to £6 10s. Onions: £5 7s. ■■;■,..,..■=. ;;.,.;.•. .-,-.y, .-; " '" : ADELAIDE, February 21. ' Wheat, 3s Id to 3s LJd. Flour," £7 5s to £7 10s. Oats, Algerian, 2s Id.' Bran and pollard, llfd. AN, INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. Received 1.5 a.m., February 22nd. MELBOURNE, February 21. An: experiment has been made with a. tell-tale thermometer in the case \jf frozen' produce on the last voyage of the Suevic. When it was placed in the hold it- registered twenty-nine degrees. The track of the needle thereafter-showed a gradual fall. At the end.of the first week it registered eighteen degrees; at the end of the second thirteen; at the middle of the third it l

bore p straight line along twelve degrees. Th'j line made by the needle showed littla or no vibration. The engineers' log-book recorded ten to eleven degrees after about the first, week from Melbourne, and as the thermograph was placed in the warmest part of the hold, the result of the trial is considered satisfactory..