The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-28 00:00:00

/ ,ef—/ /// ' f "~, -lAe, miTAFIELD CLUB PRIZE CATTLE SHOW, §MG• —The Animal Exhibition of PRIZE CATTLE, SEEDS, rg, iiiPLESfENIS, &e., will tile plate on the 9th, 10th, 11th, rod mot of December, g the 110 ASE IiAZ AAR, Xing-.fret, Port. 4quart A handsome permanent building, in o gee of the usual ...„...., last 3var erected. and 'the implement galleries are this year Woeto clang over double the space formerly to occupied. Ladies ew bk.d to tiew this . national exhibition with perfect comf or t. 117;ee 0, 30 daylight till Nine in the evening. Lighted up a ft er Th ree Meadernoon. Admittance, One Shilling, NILOCAS'S ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIPODES. p a l publithed, to 2 vols. post 13m, with Twelve Plates from the Aothor'r Drowitts, pries SM., handsomely bound in Moth, §,AVAGE LIFE and SCENES m AUSTRALIA sod NEW ZEALAND; being an Artist's Immesh= of Coos. o d people at the Antipode& By Gicosoc Passes AWLS, Esq. Lomk a: &WM, Elder, and Co., &I, Comhill. A SEW VOLUME. Now reedy, VoL IT., medium Bvo, It. 16s. cloth lettered, of the yeTIONARY of GREEK and ROMAN BIO GRAPHY and MYTHOLOGY. By various Writers. Edited y n ,KILt.IAY Swrys. Mtudrated by numerous Enwrswinp on * c .d. Contents of Vol. II.: Earinus to Nyx. yo, 1., If. 16s. cloth. Vol. 111. (In course of publication) will o niplete the work. Lnn d e n Taylor and Walton, 28, Upper Gower.stre^:,; ma J o h n to.onsrle.street. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. Four o'Clock. At the Central Criminal Court yesterday the grand jury returned a true bill for a misdemeanor against John Charrctie, James Hallett, Ann Stewart, and Sir William Young, Bart., a director of the East India compan y. The three first are indicted as principals, and the latter as Mail% and assisting, in the sale of a cadetship in the East India Company's service, con trary to the provisions of the 49th Geo. 111., chap. 126. The last accounts from Algeria are favourable to the maintenance of French supremacy in Africa. It s mounced in the Moniteur Algrien, under date bore Oran, the 16th instant, that. French a ' nder the cosontand of assagoals and d'Arbouvile, which had marched towards the frontier, anticipating a fresh demonstration on the part of Abd-el-Kader, had returned to Oran and 3lascam, and that the province of Algiers was per fectly tranquil. In the province of Constantine, there had been disturbances near Biscara, which were sup pressed by General Bedesu, after some skirmish ing with the disaffected. Bon Maza, having failed to incite the Kabyles to join the holy war, had proceeded to the south-east, and the Eniir had returned to his deira, near Zohra, from an excursion undertaken in the Sahara of Morocco. The French government has sent a mis sion to the court of the Emperor of Morocco, at the head of which is M. de Chasteau, late Charge d'Affaires. No official personage connected with a foreign mission, has hitherto penetrated to the capital, having invariably stopped either at Mequinez or Fez. The French mission proceeds from '1 angler to M azag an, by sea, and thence by land, to the capital 3larak'sh. Allow EXPEDITION.—Tite Truelove, Capt. Parker, the last of :he whalers from Davis' Straits, arrived at this port on Monday night, the 23rd inst., with two fish, about 20 tuns of oil, and reports that no intelligence whatever had been heard during the season of the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, and the Erebus, in the command of Cap tain Crozier, the vessels sent out by the Admiralty in the spring of 1145, to seek a north-west passage. They were supposed to be up Lancaster Sound, but, on account of the great body of ire to the north, none of the whalers had this year penetrated in search of them. — Hull paper. COMMERCIAL MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & CITY IN"TELLIGENCE. The Rank of England averages for the week end ing the 21st instant, represent the following differences, comparkon with those of the week before : In the depart ment of issue, the note circulation was increased by 71,5451., the full average of issue then being 28,317,8101. In circulation action there was a decrease of 20 4 2,0151.. the notes unused having accumulated to that excess in the banking depart ment; the average of notes out among the public being 20,207.9451. The public deposits were, on average, ;,676,3901.; increase aver last returns, of 1,098,6131. In "other" deposits the decrease was 20,304/. ; the average on hand 7,975,0.58. In " other " securities thee was an in crease of 827.770; the average held being 13 , 353,6 7 51 . In coin and bullion increase 75,0191. ; average held, 14,923,772/, Seven day and other bills were in excess by 18,3721. The test had increased by 8,1831. There is no special feature about these returns. The in crewed fund of deposits was turned to account by the bank in the usual way of laying a portion out upon securities, which would resolve into cash before dividend time. The =all increase of coin and bullion must have been in oo I ntinued m... Nu seirrasueoesTie siTek; for country circulation. Two o'Clot.k.—The funds are steady, and Consols com mand better prices than yesterday. They are now 95 to 1 for money, and 9.11 to 1 for the account. Exchequer Bills remain Ss. to lls. premium. The transactions in the house were not of importance. Monday being settling day, the arrangement of accounts preparatory chiefly engaged the attention of brokers and jobbers. A small advance may be noted in Spanish , th e Vises being now 26 to 1; the Threes, 371 to 1. Poruguesc, 36 to 8. Mexican, 211 to 2. Bunk ipso:, nsi 6! 3 per Ct. Heal, $ per Cent. Cowls, 93 1 ENGUSU FUNDS. Ditto for Acct., 95i 31 per Cents., 951 I Exchequer Bills, Xs. lls. FOREIGN FUNDS. 5 per Ct. Audrinn Ads., 1 per Cent. Grenada Rd.., 19 21 prr Ct. Belgianl3.ll., 941 5% Grenada Deferred Mo., 3 1 26 per Cent. ditto, i per Ct. Mexican, 184 6 , 21 1 2 5 per Ct. Bra-alien lids. 64 6 6 per Cent. rem n lids, 34 6 S per Cent. New Ana. lids., 81 6 I Portuguese Cone. 1148 -, 38 8 6 per Ct. Amens .%yres Ads., 40 3 5 per Ct. Rtmrian Mtg. 110 19 6 per Pt. Ch dian Polo., 95 7 5 per Ct. Spani,h 11418.. 26 1 S per Cent. Columb. def. eds., 3 per Ct. Spanish Bondi 374 6 Colombian Equador Iklo. 31 6 Spanish Deferred Ode„ 161 71 3 per Ct. Dimon &M., 81 8 Spanish Pismire lido., 51 I 2 per Ct. Dutch Ms. 5 , 1 1 2 perCt.Vencznela ltdo., 39 41 4 per Ct. Dutch Certs., 911 2 Venezuela Deferred lids., 12 13 RAILWAYS. The market now remains with little var intion from yesterday. The dealers were generally occupied with making up their accounts, for settling day. The failure of a share and stock dealer is announced sn the house. The North-Western and South-Western share stocks have im proved, and are in demand this morning. North Staffords, Caledonians. Shrewsbury and Birminghams, and other scrips command a fair share of business. SALES EFFECTED UP TO TWO TATS DAY IN LONDON. (Yesterday's prices will be found in last page.) Aberdeen, 18 A Do. Guaranteed, Scrip, 6 51 Bir., wo:v., oral Dudley, 511 p London& York, 21 Br. and Oxford Jn., 61 1 Lynn and Ely, 161 Bristol and Exeter, New, n Lynn and Denham, 152 1 Calnionian, 25 1 4 Man. & Leeds, 104 Do. Halves. 211 Do. Quartets, 6 1 Chester & Ifolyhead, 24 Do. fifths, 10 1 Direct Northern, 2 Do. Extension, 1 p Eastern Counties, 231 21 Manchester &Birmingham,72/ 4 Do. New, 71 p Do. Quarters, A.. 113 12/ Dn. ter. 5 per cent. No. 2, 1 p Man., Btu., and Mat., 1 p Do. York Ex ension, 33 1 Man. and Southampton, 11 2 lament Union, 52 12 Midland, 123 4 East Lancashire, 182 Do. New, 311 1 Do. New, 91 2 Do. do., 61 4 fast Lincolnshire, 11 1 Newcastle and Berwick, 34 4 Min.& Glasgow Halves, 202 North British, 3$ 71 Do. Quarters, 18 Do. Halves, 161 1 Um. and Northern, 15 Do. Quarters, 31 4 By and Huntingdon, 122 Do. Extension, 11 1 G.S. & W. Ireland', 29 North Stagorolohire, 31 4 p Great North of England, 2362 Scottish Midland, 131 Greet Western, 127 Shrewsbury & Birmingham, 41 51 Do. Maven, 76 Shropshire Union, 4 1 d Do. Firths, 305 South Eastern and Dover, 361 7 Do. New, 7 1 South Wales, 34 4 Rut and Manchester, 184 Yale of Newth, 11 I Pwr. and Bury St. Ichn., 121 1 Water., Wel., Wick., &Dub., 1 Do. dn. and Norwich, 21 West Rioting Union, 11; p laneader and Carlisle, 69 York & Newcaotle, New, 121 Iceis and Bradford, 751 2 Do. Preference, 7 1 feeds, Dew., and Man., 61 , 1 York and N. Midland, 912 Ds. Extension (Green), 1 Do. Halves, 412 Zeds and Thirst, 16 4 Do. Selby, 751 Do. New, 5 Do. Extenoion, 37 4 t iT., Man., and Newc. Jn., 21 Do. Preference, 111 12 London awl hlackwall, 81 Do. E. & W. Riding Ex., 17 161 Log , Brig., & &Cot., 59 81 Ilculogne and Amiens, 131 A Do. Fifths, 4S Direct Bombay and Madras, 41 Do. n and N. Western, 194 3 Dutch Rhenish, 41 Do. (Matters, 23 22 East Indian, 5 Do. Do. New, 151 141 Jamaica S. Mid. in., 14 Do. PUMA, Diy Luxembourg, 1 1 Loa and S. Western, 62 632 Paris and Lyons Cons., 41 Lox New, 24 2 Part; and Rouen, 341 Da. Tenths, 51 f Do. Tenths, 4f 1 Rouen and Havre, 254 51ANCIIE9TER nett, Not., & &mon, par 1-16 p lA, lan., & Chnh J.. 1 9.16 I p %mud And Blythe. I d Iftem (uuntiiw, 224 but Lane-whirr, New, No. 1, 44 p Pn. 1n.,. Nn. 2, 4 i p lket.. Prt Won, and W. R. 1-16 d Had. & )lan. H. &C., 44 p lonian.' Think, 14 7-16 d , 6, liew. t o Man., 124 I p .4 v., Man., & Newrwalp, 5-16 d Lou& N. W. Qr., (A), 7 p ' 6 , 15 91.,& Bury Ezten., ip • SALES. Nov. 27. Man. & Leeds Ora, 3; P Do. Sixteenths, 7, Do. Extension, f p llan. and Southampton, Ils. d North Staffordshire, 31 13-16 p North Western, Oldham a p llianee, p Prey. & Wyre Ors. (A), 3 p Do. Do. (B), f p Scottish Midland, II p Shrews. and Diem. (SO, l 3 P Shrews. & Hereford., 7s. . 6s. d Wast Lane. Coast, Bs. &I. 7s. d Wharfdale, f d SALES, Nov. 27. Shrew. & Bir.,A., 3S .9d. 360.3 d. p Do. 8., f p &rap. Colon R. & C., Ile. 3d. d South Stafford. in. Scrip, I p South Stafford. i 1 Se. StL p Do. do. (late Trent Val.), f p ' 6 , Not., and Banton, p.r Outlier, Si p L., II &Sum V 1 ., 21 P an., Aux.. and Matlock. 1 p • ;• 14 . 11, Unlure, 2% 9d. P I, Cot, and Burton, 21 p 51 " 3 ,W 0 1L.,2;c., scrip, d • ' ar tn %IBA , Qrt., 7 s. BLLIs. BAI Neu Th irds, 11.95. p Not., Radon Inc 2 id lan, 'Um, 5 Sir., 29;. funith :Lad Bury, 111 • LEEDS B 4 an k, nln4dr p d Dcw.bury, d 1 p 2a. 64.4 2s. Gd. p fLl:and Bradord, 45 ",,S!- . l dek and f futon, 2 i,. p .a..Sc, Indßeld fn., 15e. p mam , p an d:rnirak, Ws. — ••• , nla—eld & Manaus., 5 p Nov. 27. Ipswich & Norwich Exten., 2j North Western, 7s. p North Staffordshire, 3 p Leicester and Birmingham, Ss. E 9, Nor. 27. N. British Thirds, 450. p North Staffonlshire, 9j g P North British Qrs., 308. p Wharfdatc Junction. Its. d York & N. Mid., PreL, 94 P North Western, 7s. Gd. as. p Sheffield, Bother., &c.. Ss. 78. 61 P West Riding Union, 31. tra. er illep• 5 0 0 tri g io r IT* ICON° we ir, , haw.' Is Barger• , svii• sr Is d ie wee. oda r , 'Num" DUBLIN BALM Nov. 26. Dublin & Drogheda, 33 I Mid. Gt.Wester.Ea. to Did.. 10 . 9 d. Dundalk & Enniskillen, 11 Wat,Wea.,Wiek.,&e.,34.6d.Sa.9d. Newry, War., & ltoastvr., 71 Bandon and Rantry. 7s. 9d. Belfast and County Down, ls. 3d. I New Haas, Car., & Kii . in., laid. Dublin, Don., & sstn. , 3a. 3d. Wax., Wat., & Valentia, 4s. F.nnis, & Kill., in., 321.GeL EDINBURGH! Aberdeen, lei Caledonian New, 445. 6cl. Direct Northam, 35.. 4d. 38e. Dundee and Perth, New,lol.3m9d. East of We, 29a. 6d. & Northern,l4 131. Us. M. Do. Newport, 425. 8.4*. 6d. Edinburgh & Perth, 33a. Ohm, Dum., & Carl., Us. SU. 6d. ALM, Nov. 26. Glos., JUL, & Ardnussn, (treat N. of &attend, 395. North Bridah,6s4 Do. 764. 75e. Do. Qu a rters, 675. ed. 675. Do. New Qrs., Sc., 3ls. 6d, Rtistheern Junction, 774. 6d. IS., Direct Bombay & Mad., 65.4 a, 3d. East Indian Railway, 124.. 6d. - - GLASGOW Si Airdrie and Coatbridge, 495. Ayr and Galloway, 235. Rd. Caledonian, New, 43.. Gd. Caledonian &Dumb., Siis.37B. ed. Direct Bom. & Mad., Ga. 9d. 6.. Direct Northern, 38s. Dundee and Arbroath, 39J Te..stSt Indian Railway, 124. 3d. Edna,. and Glas. Halve', 20 Edinb. and Northern, 151 11 Glasgow General Terminus, 31. GLlsgow, ISil. , & Ayr, Halves, 71 LES, Nov. 26. Chu., Dumf., & ("•.,r,„ rs a „sd, 33a. Gila.. Rid., & A '-dros., 316.6 d. 325. Mos , Air. , et Moak. Jo., 425. Gt. of Madras, 19s. 9s. 'Madras, Netters, & Areal, 3s. 9d. Man. &Southampton, 295. 268.6 d. Midland Halves, 6i N. British, Thirds. 755. Do. New Qrs., Scrip, 335. Scottish Central, 19f. la. Straihearn Junction, 731. 775. 6d. York & New. Prof., 7* PRO] IUCE. A NTWERP,NOT. 26.- : Brazil continues in demand, and sill parcels brought on the market are readily token at steady prices, the sales consist of about 3,700 bags. St. Domingo is also very firm, but business is checked by the indifferent supply of our market. 400 bags Java sold at 241 e. to 241n—Sugar : There is more demand for this article, principally for exportation to Germany. About 1,500 boxes ordinary to fine yellow Havannah found buyers at 1611. to 1701. On Ist December a public sale of about 3,000 boxes damaged Havannah will take place.—Cotton: Holders refusing to submit to the lower rusts at which only the trade ara inclined to buy, no transactions have taken place this week. —Hides: There is little doing, our stock consisting altnoet exclusively of light descriptions for which, at present, there is no demand. About 2,500 dry Buenos Ayres sold at 32c. to 48e.—Itice is selling steadily at previous rates. 500 lap Madras were placed at lf - ‘roodoL alteration. We have to report the sales 014,500 bags Brazil, at 21s. to 45., and 800 bags St. Domingo, at 31s. to 31s. Sugar continues very firm ; holders keep out of the market, and the transactions arc consequently small. About 1,200 boxes brown and yellow Havannah sold at 51s. to 61s. Cotton is in moderate demand ; 67 bags American sold at 645., and 10.5 begs Bahia at 71s. Hides : 2,100 Porto Cabello were taken at Si. Rice is quiet and rather lower. Pepper: 150 bags Sumatra sold at 275. Pimento is firm. Tobacco, by private contract, 1,700 serous Portorico, sold at 4s. to 41s. ; 150 bales Havannah, at 2Gs. to 385.; 40 hales Cuba, at 745. to Bs. ; and by public sale, 200 bales Brazil leaf, at 21s. to 3 11-16ths. ; averaging 31s. %y~ 7 ~,. TALLOW. Our market is rather firmer to-day; the demand is better than for some time. Prices aro looking up again. • Petersburg Y. C. on the spot All the year delivering January to March delivery Hem., Nov. 27.—Tallow has met a fair sale, at 495. 6d. per cwt. CORN. ETCESTER, Nov. 27.-Wheats Is. higher. Other articles firm, at last week's rates. Old Wheat, 131. to 111. : new NVhe.d, 141. 103. to 16/. 109. per qr. Barley.36s. to 40s. ; Beans, 40s to 443. ; Oats, 2.55. to 325. ; Boiling Peas, 4Ss. to 565.; Hog Peas, 38s. to 403. per quarter. Flour, 40a. to 495. per sack. BANBURY, Nov. 26.-Old Wheat, 50s. to 565. ; new Wheat, 545. to 60s. ; Beans, 40s. to 445. ; Peas, 40s. to 545. ; Barley, 345. to 425. ; Oats, 265. to 32a. per quarter. Flour, 40s. to 48s. per sack. HULL, Nov. 27.-Wheat has realized full rates, and is generally held for a slight advance ' • as likewise Oats and Barley. Roans and Peas are slow of sale. The arrivals of Linseed this week amount only to about 1,202 qr. 'say 1,073 qr. from Memel ; 235 bags from Hamburg; and 24 bags from Bremen. Holders of fine Seed have been firm in their demands ; in consequence of which, sales are very limited, and the floating parcels are being warehoused. The demand has been rather slack, and in order to effect sales of inferior qualities (of which the market was well supplied) a reduction of Is. per qr. had to be submitted to. We quote Black Sea, 495. Gcl. ; Petersburg, tine, 475., down to 403. for inferior; Rip, 41s. to 455. • Archangel, 435. to 445. ; Memel and Konigsberg, fine, 46s.;clown to 341. for inferior quality. Rapeseed-a little is offering on sale at 261. 10s. per last. Linseed Cakes have been in steady demand, at 101. 10s. to 10/. 12s. Gd. per tun for town-made. Nut Poppy, and Dod der Cakes may be purchased at 71. per ton. I.lvEnroot, Nov. 27.-Although since Monday last we have somewhat increased supplies from Ireland, they are still very limited thence for the season of the year, and those coastwise arc small; from abroad, however, we have to mute several further arrivals of grain, but of Flour less than usual. From Tuesday's market to the close of yesterday, the trade here in all its leading bearings exhibited a rather ' improved aspect. In addition to a moderate home demand some further purchases of Wheat were made for Ireland, on the full terms lain noted. Indian Corn was taken more freely e fer the same destination, at a alight usMios.et in prise; and western Flour, under bond, of which few parcels appeared for sale, continued to meet inquiry, realising Gd. to Is. per barrel advance; all kinds of free Flour, and other articles during the same period, remaining steady in value. Having a numerous attendance of buyers at this day's market, the trade in general assumed a higher and mere active tone than for some time past ; particularly as regards Wheat, of which several spirited. Irish millers bought extensively, and with a lively sale on English account, an advance of '2il. per 701 b. was readily obtained.-Irish Flour likewise, being in good request, was Is. per sack dearer; whilst States and Canadian, being mostly in second hands, parcels both free and under lock, commanded Is. per barrel over Tuesday's rates. Barley and Malt, upon a very limited supply, met a good inquiry, and fully maintained late prices. Beans and Pease, in all respects, remained unvaried. Oats, attracting somewhat more attention, were the turn dearer ; and Oatmeal, al though not taken freely, was held steadily at our last quo tations. Indian Corn continuing to meet an eager demand for Ireland, some cargoes here are in course of transhipment thence ; and though White Corn has been purchased to-day 51s. to 525., prime samples of Galata, on the spot, have brought 545. per 48011.. LINCOLN, Nov. 27.-We have again had a full market, with much grain of all sorts offering. Wheat sold heavily, at an advance of Is. on last week's rates, which, however, was barely supported at the close of the market. Beans and Barley were a dull sale, with a somewhat lower tendency for inferior sorts. Oats were in demand at fully last Friday's quotations. Wheat, red, 575. to 618. ; white, Gls. to 645. Barley, 403. to 48s Beans, 461. to 50s. Oats, 28s. to 31s. WoonniunGE, Nov. 25.-Our market was shortly supplied with Wheat, well of Barley, and moderately of all other grain. Wheat, a slow sale, at Is. per qr. more money. Barley barely maintained late rates. Beans and Peas ls. per qr. cheaper. Oats fully supported late prices. STOWMARKET, Nov. 26.-The show of Wheat and Barley was not large, and prices of each fully maintained. Scarcely any Beans or Peas at market. No variation in prices. Wheat, white, 31s. to 335. ; red, 30s. to 325. Barley, 21s. to 23.. Beans, Vs. to 235. Peas, 235. to 245. Oats, I is. to 15s. per coomb. DALKEITII, Nov. 26.-The supply of g•rain at this day's market was less than last week; sales dull for Wheat. Oats, Barley, Beans, and Peaa, met a brisk demand ; Wheat on the top quality 7s. dearer, the weight per four bushels being 7lbs above that of the best quality of last week ; the current price was as. below last week's rates of equal weight; average, 3s. 111 d. down. In Oats there was little alteration in price. Barley firm, at late rates. Peas and Beans with out any alteration. KIDDERMINSTER, Nov. 26.-There was a fair sup ply of Wheat at market to-day, but the millers were not disposed to give more money, therefore many of the samples were left over for a future day. The supply of Barley was not large, and prices continue as last. Beans more plentiful, but not lower. Oats, English new, very inferior, of which the supply was likewise short. The following were the prices given: Wheat, white, 7s. 6d. to 7e. Bd. per bushel; red, 7s. id. to 7e. Gd. Barley, malting, 53. fel. to ss. Bd. ; grinding, 17s. to 191. per bag of 10 score. English Beans, 191. to 19s. 6d. *er bag of 10 score. Oats, English, 155. to 16s. per bag of 8 score ; Oats, 17s. to 18s. NORWICH, Nov. 26.--We had a limited supply of Wheat to-day for sale, and all description, found buyers at Is. per qr. over last week's prices. Barley was dull, but prices the same. Oats, none offering. Beans, new tick, are ready sale here. Peas maintain late prices. Prices current : -Wheat, per qr., 631bs. to the bushel, white, G6s. to 68s. ; red, 60s. to 625.; Barley, Chevalier, 40s. to 16.. ' • common, &Se. to 445. ; Beans, tick , 48s. ; Heligoland would fetch, 50s. ; Peas, maple grey, 465. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 27.-There was a decided improvement in our market to-day, and a fair business was done at late prices, while for the best samples of Wheat an advance of le. per quarter was obtained. The trade altoge ther assumed a fair tone. DERBY, Nov. 27.-We have a small market for all descriptions of grain. Wheat, in condition, realised ls. more money. Damp samples, which formed the greater portion of the supply, as last reported. Barley free sale at late rates. Other things slow sale at late rates. itiroN, Nov. 26.-We had only a moderate supply at to-day's market, with little variation from last week's prices. Wheat, per bushel, white, 7s. to 95.: red, Gs. to Ss. 3d. • Beans, Os. 3d. to Gs. 6d. Barley, per qr., 38e. to 435. ; Oats, 245. to 345. CHELMSFORD, Nov. 27.-We had a fair supply of Wheat, and the prices realised were about the same as last week, with a moderately brisk trade. Of all other deserip tionsof grain the supply was equal to the demand, and they were unaltered in value. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, Nov. 25.-The Wheat trade ruled very firm to-day, and finest qualities obtained an ad vance of ls. per qr. Barley held firmly. Beans and Grey Peas rather dull sale. Oats fully maintained late prices. Average: Wheat, red, 588. to Gls. ; white, G2s. to 68s. Barley, 32e. to 345. ; ,nralting, 425. to 465. Grey Peas, 445. to 48s. Beans, 445. to 48s. Oats, 235. to 275. ; fine, 295. to 345. Malt, 665. to 70s. per qr. UXBRIDGE, Nov. 26. -The Wheat market was tolerably good to-day, and best whites fetched rather more money than last week. Lenton Corn the same as last, except 13/ 105 quote :-Wheat, . Beans, which were cheaper. We to 191. per load of 5 qrs. Beans, 44e. to 48s. per v. Peas, 40. to 46e. Barley, 403. to 465. bushel. 245. Flour, to 32 per sacks. Rye,, 404. to 425. Tares , 6 s. 6d. per white, 575. ; households, 525.; seconds, 475. WAKEFIELD, Nov. 27.-Our arrival of Wheat for this days market is moderate ; fully last week's prices are obtainable, but Is. per quarter advance is generally required, and sales are not urged. Barley moves very slowly, finer sorts are pretty steady in price ; other descriptions rather lower. Oats and Shelling as before. Beans without altera tion in value, but demand limited. Other articles have not varied in price. Wheat, per quarter, 601 b. to the bushel, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red, new, 60s. to 655. ; white, new, 625. to 68s. ; Norfolk and Hunts., new, 675. to 625. ; white, new, 61s. to 665. ; Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, red, new, 565. to 61s. • white , new, 58s. to 645. ; Yorkshire, red, new, 555. to 643. ; white, new, 565. to 63.. ; Dantzic and Konigsburg, white, new, 608. to 665, ; Lower Baltic and Hamburgh, red, new, 545. to 60s. ; Mediterranean, red, new, 525. to 665. ; old, red, 48s. to 575. ; Barley, per quarter, imperial, Norfolk and Suffolk, 425. to 485.; Lincoln shiro and Yorkshire, 41s. to 454.; Scotch, 40s. to 435.; grinding, 345. to 365. ; foreign, 38s. to 435. ; Beans, per quarter, 631bs to the bushel, small, fine, 41. to 435.; ticks, 48s. to 475. Oats, per stone, meeting, 14d, to ltkl. ; feeding, 13d. to 154 d. ; foreign, 13d. to 154 d. Shelling, per load of 2611 b., 38... to 41s. Malt, per load of G bushels, 48s. to 54:. Peas, per qr. imperial, blue and white boilers, 50s. to 565. • grey and feed, 40s. to .50.. Rapeseed, per last im perial, English, 221. to 241. • foreign, 221. to 241. Linseed, per imperial qr., 404. to 4SI. FOREIGN WHEAT.—From Marseilles of the 21st, it is reported that the advance in Wheat, which was manifested in the heiie eht # of t h e weellitieitife fresh 1 F1;e ran; also during the . 'week having occasioned the sus pension of discharging operations, it was not peasible to continue the dispatches into the interior, which also contributed to the fall. The easterly winds favoured arrivals from the Black Sea, and the reduction to three days of the varantine from Con stantinople would assist the prompt disposal of cargoes from thence. The probability of an early re opening of the Rhone navigation would conduce to accelerate and extend the carriage into the interior. The purchases in the outset of the week amounted to 50,000 hectolitres. The foregoing causes led to their interruption. The arrivals of the week to Friday evening were : From Odessa, 68,544 heels.; Varna, 2,592; Berdianska, 12,544; Ibraila, 8,081; Alexandria, 11,920; Nice, 888; Genoa, 3,120; Naples, 2,672; Pescara, 2,480; Tagan rog, 4,977; Galati, 5,824; Balchicl., 2,080; Malta, 5,968 ; Bona, 1,984 ; Leghorn, GOO ; Civita Vecchia, 1,424 ; Barletta, 28,308 ; Granatolla, 4,352. Total, 168,200. BRUSSELS, Nov. 2-I.—The .Ifoniteur publishes the law for continuing the free importation, till the Ist of Oct., 1847, of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Buckwheat, Maize, Bran•, \retches, Peas, Oats, Potatoes, and other provisions. The go vernment is authorised to grant for the same term, total or partial freedom from import duty on Flour, Groats, Cattle, and evay species of provisions not enumerated in the follow ing article :—A scale duty of ten centimes per 1000 kilo grammes shall be levied on these articles :—" Article 2. Wheat, Rve, Barley, Buckwheat, Oats, Brans, Vetches, Peas, and Potatoes, are not to be exported till the Ist Oct ., 1847. The government is likewise authorised to prohibit the exportation of Flour, of Groats, of all kinds of bread and biscuits, and Oatmeal. Article 3. The government may, if circumstances permit, before the Ist of October, 1847, sus pend the present law as far as exportation is concerned. It may also prolong it wholly, or in part, till the Ist December, 1847. Article 3. the present law shall be in force the day after its promulgation." COPPER ORES. SYIDj Pearee's Hotel, Truro, Nov. t 613rtcs No. 77.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 28, 1846. [3d. METALS. GLASGOW, Nov. 26.—The Price of Pig Iron de 4verod fo.b. bore, Isee respelled to 70s. for No, 1, end 68.. toe Ne : I t epd thelkio. it, omit. The reset, position Yesesilifremotniety firer to be divulged. Report says. actual deficit will be 120,000/. The fact of such e occurrence so shortly after the late failures in the Iron trade, is in the highest degree reprehensible on the part of the makers and others, who encouraged this party in his specu lations, and has given rise to remarks by several respectable houses, who are generally well informed, that there must be something unsound in the nature of the business, and a great laxity in the mode of conducting it. However this may be, the various occurrences of this year certainly do not tend to give confidence, or to show the trade is in a healthy state. It was very different when the regular iron merchant bought his supply from the iron master, and sold it to the consumer at a remunerating profit, and the sooner this practice is adopted again the better. CATfLE, &c. DARLINGTON, Nov. 23.-At our fortnight fair we had a pretty good show of cattle and Sheep, with a tolera bly brisk demand at steady prices. Beef from 6s. to 6s. 9d. per stone. Mutton, 61d. to 6ii. per lb. DERBY, Nov. 24.-The show of fat Beasts was considered good, and the attendance of purchasers was also large ; but there was very little giving way on the part of the sellers. The greater number of the beasts were disposed of. The supply of Sheep was also good, and most of them were excellent in quality. Beef, sd. to 6d. per lb. Mutton, 6d. to 7d. Veal, 6d. to 73. Pigs, Bs. to Bs. Gd. Rough Fat, ss. per stone. DEDDINGTON WINTER FAIR, Nov. 26.-There NU a good supply of Hormel, which met with ready sale. Cart horses sold freely at high prices. Amongst the cattle, trade was good, and a vet y fair supply. Very few Sheep were penned, it not being usual at this fair to send any. Pigs were not so numerous as we usually ace them. HEREFORD, Nov. 25.-Considering the time of year, and the dulness of the weather to day, there was a fair supply of stock in our market, particularly of Cattle and Pigs. There were, however, few buyers, and all descriptions of animals moved off heavily. Store Pigs were again a complete drug, and, towards the close of the market, com paratively speaking, might have been bought for an " old song." Irswiett, Nov. 24.-Our cattle market was Well supplied to-day, particularly fat Beasts. Sheep and fat Hogs were also an average supply, and the trade was good at a trilling reduction in prices. LYNN, Nov. 24.-There were some few lots of Scots and Shorthorns, end also a few good Cows and Calves, several of which found ready purchasers. In fat Beasts but a moderate supply, the number not being equal to the de mand, so that what came to market were immediately dis posed of. There was a good supply of fat Sheep, likewise of Shearlings and Lambs ; but business was in a rather depressed state. In fat and store Pigs but a moderate supply ; but business more lively than last week. MALTON NiARTINMAS FAIR, Nov. 21.-We had a great supply of stock of all kinds, which were shown in the eow-pasture, but the sale was slow, and prices lower. Irish Beasts were reduced in price from se. to 10s., and Steers from 101. to 20s. each, and others in proportion. Calving Cows were in request, as were also Cows with Calves. A few Sheep were shown, but no particular alteration in price. We had a good show of store Pigs penned, and a fair sale at better prices. A fair show of small Pigs, and prices still low, with little variation. There was a good show of meat in the shambles : Beef, 513. to 7d.; Mutton, did. to 7d. ; Veal, 7d. to Bd. ; Pork, sd. to 6d. per lb.; pork Pig., 6s. ; bacon Pig., Gs. to Gs. 3d. ; small Hams, 7s. 3d. per atone. NEWARK, Nov. 25.-There has been a good deal of stock in this day's market; but, owing to the uncomf,rtable state of the weather there was not so much business done as was expected ; prices as usual. ROTHERHAM, Nov. 23.-We had a u food show of Beasts and Sheep, which met with a better . ale than at last market, although the attendance of buyers was not so numerous. Prices same as last week. Beef, ss. 6d. to Gs. tid.; prime, 7s. per stone. Mutton, 51d. to 61d. per lb. Cattle, 256; Sheep, 1,290. SCARBRO' FAIR, Nov. 23.-This annual cattle Asir was held here to-day ; the number shown wrs a fair average quantity of young stock, for which high prices were asked, but only a partial business transacted. The supply of fat cattle we, very scanty. and those sold realised about 6s. 6d. per stone of 1 116.. We had a poor show of ?ditch Cows, and anything fresh in milch commanded extreme rates. The pleasure fair in the afternoon was only thin of company, and tt passed off in its ordinary way-peaceably and quiet. YORK FORTNIGHT FAIR, Nov. 26.-At our fair this day, there was but little variation in prices. The best Beef brought 6s. 64., but the inferior part tended to keep Pvices down. In lean stock there was not much doing, and ower prices were submitted to. There was a large supply of Irish and Scotch Beasts, the greater part of which did not sell. There was a thin show of Sheep, which sold well, at from Gd. to 7d. per lb. DrmFittEs, Nov. 25.-Cattle sold rather dull, holders being unwilling for a week or two to submit to lower prices, and purchasers not being willing to give what was asked, yet a number of sales were effected on easier terms. SHIPPING. MAILS ARRIVED: I, Waterford ; 1, Do naghailee ; 1, Guernsey and Jersey; 1, French; 1, Flan ders • 1, Hamburgh. LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind this day at noon, N., mode rate breeze, and fine. neat, Nov. 27.—N.W. to W.N.W., light—Arrived : Lady Lilford, Moulmein, and sailed for Chatham; Bolton, Quebec, leaky, and sailed for Shields. Sailed : Glenorchy, Calcutta ; Minerva, Ceylon, &c.: Castle Eden, do. ; New Express, and the Isle of Wight, Mauritius ; Fanny Connell, Cape Coast Castle; Mary Mitchenson, Demerara; Commo dore, Jamaica; Shellinga, Galveston; Georgia, Mobile; Intrepid, and the Sir Robert Peel, Savannah; Pomona, New York; Terpischore, Rio Janeiro. Arrived from the River, for : Bling, Adelaide ;Ellen, Trinidad ; Houghton le Spring, St. Kitt's ; Tropic, Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27.—N.W.—Sailed : H.M.S. Bellisle, Barbadoes ; Rose, Savannah. Off Port : Iberia (s.), Alex andria. YARMOUTH, Nov. 27. S.W. Sailed : Britannia, Charleston. TORBAY, Nov. 27.—W.N.W.—Sailed : Commerce, Ha vannah ; with the whole of the outward bound, except Ren nison and J. Stewart. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—N.N.E.—Arrived': Dahlia, Quebec. Sailed : Gilbert Henderson, Cape of Good Hope. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 27.—Arrived : Falcon, Sequenay ; Moseley, Miramichi. MARYPORT, Nov. 26.—The Hazard, from Douglas, to Maryport, went on shore this morning, but was expected off next tide. SHIELDS, Nov. 27.—The schooner June, from Liverpool, has gone on the rocks this morning. SEARAM, Nov. 25s—The John Huddle was in contact (19th inst.), off Flamborough Head, with a laden schooner, and received considerable damage. JERSEY, Nov. 25.—A timber-laden ship, with foremast and bowsprit painted black with white hoops painted ports and billet heads, top-gallant, forecastle, and poop painted green inside, cargo seemingly washing out, was passed 18th output, in lat. 48, long. 20, by the Christopher Columbus, arrived here. OFF Ixrazieostne, Nov. 26.—Parkfield, Quebec. PENARTH ROAD, Nov. 26.—Regency, Quebec. MUMBLES, Nov. 2G.—Sailed: Cuba, Valparasio ; Mal colm, Rio Janeiro. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 26. N.W. Sailed : Vibelia, St. Domingo. CLYDE, Nov. 26.—W.—Arrived: Carmen, Havannah ; Mary, Montreal. Sailed: Janet Wilson, Ceylon; Eola, Pernambuco. Orr PILL, Nov. 26.—British Lady, Prince Edward's Island. OFF LONOHOFE, Nov. 26.—Hope,Mirimachi. HULL, Nov. 27.—N.N.E.—Armed Wooliouse, St. John's, N.B. ; Venus and the Ida, Quebec. OFF WOODBRIDGE, Nov. 26.—Sylvanus, Quebec. PORT TALBOT.—Part of a vessel's stern, with Yarmouth on it, and a considerable quantity of wreck is washing on shore here. MILFORD, Nov. 25.—Flora, from Aberdovey to Newport, which got on the rocks 21st instant, has been got off. CARDIFF, Nov. 25.—Eliza M'Cleasty arrived here from Minunachi yesterday, reports having been nine weeks on the coast of Newfoundland. DUNBAR, Nov. 22.—Atalanta, of Berwick, struck on the rocks without the harbourthis morning, and received da- wage. GRIMBIIT, Nov. 25.—The British Queen has been laid on sand to stop a leek. 4 . 4 For Yesterday s .aaraets see Me last page. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN.— x. amunrs GRAND SAL Ativ•QUE.-51. JCLLIEN has tlie honour to announce that the above Grand Estertainzur nt will tike place NEXT MONDAY, Nov. 30, and most pceitively be the only Bal Misqu6 this aesion. On this occasion M. hilliest feels the greatest confidence of being enabled to present to his Patrons an evening's sill amunernent, which, as • scene of moiety and daisllng brilliancy, te pronounced unrivalled. • _ . Tickets for the Boa 10s. Gd. each. Every arrangement will be made for the accommodation of those who wish to be Mere spsetstors, for whom the audience portion of the Theatre will *entirely set apart Price** Admission for Spectators--Dress Circle, sa; Some, Is. ; Lower Gallery, 2a; Upper Gallery, la—Private Boxes from £3 is. upwards. Persons taking Private Boxes will have the pri. vilege of pawing to and from tie Ball-room without extra charge. Tickets for the Ball, places, and private boxes mil **cleared on application to Mr. Reilly, at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open from 10 till 5 ; Privata Boxes, derv, at Mr. Mitchell* and Mr. flenis's Libraries, and at M. Judi* and Co.'s Musical Establishment, 214, Regent-street THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. - POSITIVELY THE LAST MOST OP M. J(LLILN'B ......-- PROGRAMME for THIS Lit NING New Polka, Nov. 28. PART L —Overture, Oberon, Reber ; New Podia, Ths Camelia, Julden.—New Song, Miss Birch, " Ok. how can I mile love," T. Baker.—Venetian Serenade, ?CM Birch, "Come o'er the Sea," Hoch Albert.—Valve. The Hyacinth, Ktroig.—Symphony, The Allegretto, from the Symphony in. F, Becthoven.—Sole, Flute, Mr. Richardson, Richardson.—Quadrille, " The British Army," (assailed by the four Bends,) Junks. Posy IL—Opera, "La Sonnasubnla," Grand Selectdon, wall Solos by Herr Hornig. BellinL —Soma and Cavatina, Miss Birch, from " Ernani," Verdi.—New Comic Palm, "The American." Jullien.— Solo, Violin, M. Saintoo, "The Standard Bawer," and Variations Sainton.—Galop, "The Cost Horn," Ran*. The Concert commences at Eight, and hover at Eleven. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mr. ALLCROFT'S PROMENADE CONCERTS.—Mr. HENRY RUSSELL h., the honour to announce to his numerous friends and patrons, that his BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING (Saturday), Nov. 28, it being his FAREWELL APPEARANCE IN LONDON for tome con. siderable time. Programme : —Part I.—Overture, Euryanthe; Polka, Royal Mail; Operatic Selection from Robert the Devil, by Mr. Dietin and his four Soma, on the Sax Horns; New Quadrille (first time), Night Dancers; Ballad. Mr. Sinclair; Solo Flute, Mr. Carte; Qua drn., Mathes New Military. Mr. Henry Russell will Introduce tome of his descriptive Songs, to. lks. Pori 11.--Opoulie ilateelisa Mel Das Jam; Sob lb. Okla • Polka. Clads ; lab Ops. efrairei 111isis; Cos. -- Mom will Thosera—Ptt Deem 101.;:Petoste mob. IR Ile SMOGS!. s — ta W she enirtoo. MAILS. The mails for New South Vales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand CU be made up on the evening of the 30th November. The West India malts, excluding those for Mexico, I fondue" and the Ilneannah, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd December. Tbd overland mails fnr Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will be made up on the morning of the 3rd December. The malts for British North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the event.* of the 3d December. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th December. The overland closed mails, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, &e., will be made up on the evening of the 7th December. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadir, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 15th December. led Nov. 11, and sold at 1, 1846. 31ines. Tons. Prior. Bolen= ..1'8 15 0 Mines. Tans. Pries. Consols ditto 108... 8 3 6 ditto 90 ... 415 0 ditto 76 ... 9 10 6 ditto 71 ... 4 2 6 ditto 63 ... 3 2 0 ditto 61 ... 5 2 6 ditto 60 ... 5 9 6 ditto 59... 314 ditto 57 ... 6 7 6 ditto 55 . . 4 14 0 ditto 43 . . 318 0 ditto 37 ... 215 0 • ditto 18 ... 412 0 ditto 9 5 17 0 United Mines ditto 109 6 8 6 ditto 101 ... 4 3 G ditto 91 ... 4 3 6 ditto 89 ... 5 9 It ditto 70 ... S 13 6 ditto 38... 5 0 0 ditto 27 ... 2 6 6 'Pressruns B7 3 2 ditto 71 ... 5 3 ditto 63 ..• 2 13 ditto 59 ... 3 2 ditto 55... 410 ' ditto 44 ... 2 0 ditto 21 ... 1 5 Sonthairadon 99 ... 5 10 ditto 78... 810 ditto 56... 5 ditto 45 ... 5 2 ditto 42 ... 4 3 Perron St. George 81 ... 3 9 ditto 55 ... 414 ditto 50 .., 213 ditto 32 ... 7 8 0 ditto 23 .. 7 8 6 TOTAL I Consolidated 917...3312 3 0 ist.. 568 13 0 United Mines 643 1258 19 0 lll— 433 14 6 Tresavcan 4OO. 1355 8 6 Wheal Ellen 112... 728 4 0 South Condon —320...2019 9 6 Bonner. 190... 404 15 u Perron It Geo. Vileal Sisters 93... 535 17 6 Bolenna , ...... 1314...1609 3 0 M ‘ ' . ‘ l 4ical ieul . Co tu ns re fof r t . 4 80722 407319 1 6 0 G o Wheal Leisure Grumbler & Bt. t 244 _ 1373 13 6 Nauffiks t Aüben Par Consols 230 .1145 9 0 Wheal Busy 51... 147 15 U Treviskey 226. 1330 3 0 Wh. Mary Consols 50... 291 5 0 Treleigh Consuls 195...1104 15 0 West Grumbler .. 79 10 0 Average stuidard..Elo6 II 0 I Average Produce 74 Average Price per ton .65 5 0. Quantity of Ore 4357 tons. I Quantity of F.Cop., 325t5. 14 cwt... Amountof Monet . £22,731 14 6 Lose SALL—Average Standard £94 3 o—Averuge Produce ....9f COMPANIES BY WHOM THE OItES WEItE PI: Tons. 373 678 539 293 81 ...., 657 .. 817 ditto 25 .. 516 0 Wheal Lekure. .22 . 7 2 6 Grumbler N.St.A. 68 ... 7 IS 0 di:to 66 ... 5 5 6 ditto 61 .. 5 17 0 _ _ ditto 19 ... it t 6 Par Consols ditto 70 5 2 6 Amount. . ..C2,595 5 6 3.628 6 9 ... 3,949 15 0 ... 9,523 18 3 ... 1,809 11 6 ... 483 17 3 3,024 8 6 4,723 3 9 Mines Royal English Copper Company Vivian and Sons Freeman and Co. P. Grenfell and Sons Crown Copper Company Sims, Widrams, Neville, and Co lostcr, and Co. Total tons CoppefOres for sale on Thursday next, at Andrew's Hotel, Redruth.- T Mines and Parcels.—Camberne Vcan, 604—East Wheal Crotty . , 533—Wheal Seton, 505—Tincroft, 383—Dolcoath, 291-1 owey Consols, 205 —South Wheal Basset, 186—Condurrow, 153—South Wheal Francis, 150— North Pool, 150—Fast Pool, 82—Lanivet Consols, 70 — Wheal Bucketts, 61—Godolphin, 60—Tretoil, 56—Hanson Mines, 32.—Total. 3,574 tons. Copper Ores for sale on Thursday next, at Andrews' Hotel, Redruth.—Mines and Parcels.—Care Brea Mines, 575—Par Consols, 250—United Mills, 241—'.Vbeal Prosper, 219—Wheal Virgin, 196 —NV heal Tremavne, 165—Trenow Consols, 64—Providence Mines, 56—Wheal Rodney, 50— Wheal Kayle, 41—North Wheal Basset, 28—Bastian's Ore, 22—Wheal Trenwith, 21.—Total, 1,928 tons. COPPER ORE. simpied Nov. 4, and sold at Swansea, Nov. ss, ISA Tons 95 . Produce. 26i .... Stand. Prior . 118 . .£2l 91 86 79 97 96 83 319 42.47.5 s 1 es 100 ... 141 67 85 80 75 59 109 71 i l 1151 8 . 971911 100 90 90 92 43 4 ... 25 619 TOTAL PRODUCE. Chili 694... 16,977 3 6 lanI an Kamntoo ... 78 £1,259 14 C o bre 657 .. £9,973 15 0 Cronebane ... 62.. 219 14 Berehaven _2o2 1,577 11 0 i Kaw.aw Cuba 190... 1,975 0 0 Llaniclioes . . 7... 48 6 Ballymurtagh 90... 219 15 0 Total tons, 2,005.—T0tal amount, 32,5031. 10s. 6d. COMPANIES BY WHOM THE ORES WERE PURCHASED. Tons. Amount. English Copper Company Freeman and Co. P. Girenfells and Sons Sims, Willyams, Ncvill ,md Oa. 237 Vivian and Sons Williams, Foster and Co 4691 10,511 3 3 Minot. Chili ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Cobre ditto ditto ditto Cobre . ditto ditto ditto Berehaven - -- - ditto Cuba ditto Ballymurtagh Kitn.mantoo Crottfp , me . Kow-a. Llanidloes Total tow Copper Ores for sale Dec 9.—Chilli, 86; do, 84; do., B'2 ; do., 51 ; do., 50 ; do , 40—Cobra, 105 ; do., 80; do., 67 ; do., 58—Cuba, 86; do., 84 ; do., i9—Burrs Burra, 61; do., 60 ; do., 59—Australia, 54 ; do., I—Glasgow Slag, 36—French Slag, 3.3—Sidney, 27—Montacute, 24—Parings, 19—Santa Anna, 11—Cwm Sebon, 13—Florida, I.—Total 1,356 tons. SKINS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 27,—At this market to-day there were many Sheep Skins, the best South Downs making from 31. I.od. up to 4s. 6d. each; Half-breds, with Leicester and Cotteswold, from 4s. to 4s. 9d. On Hides sell here at prices caning between 21d. and 41d. per lb., accord ing to weight. Calf Skins are also sold similarly, at from 4;tl. to 61d. per lb. Horse hides, at from 16i. to 14s. each. HAY. SMITHFIELD, Two o'clock.—Messre. Cooper and Davis, Hay anti Straw Salesmen, report the trade very heavy. Prime Meadow 6ss to 75s I Clover 7os to 951 inferior ditto sss to 65e Straw 288 to 120 Bowen 4ss to 55s HOPS. BOROUGH MARKET, TW6 0 1 C7ock.—Mesers. Patten den and Smith, Hop Factors, report that there is no altera tion to notice since yesterday. bed and East Kaiht, from per Csrt.Cs Os. to £6 10s. Weald of Keats Sussex, from „ 315 to 410 Parolisms ~, 512 to 610 .. Yearling Kent, Yearling Soros. „ 3 0 to 4 0 Old Hops 2 0 to 4 0 SOUTHAMPTON Nov. 27.—Several have speculated largely in this article, and now they begin to feel the neces sity of reducing their demand from 71. 108. per cwt. to from 6/. to 61. 10e. for the best. Farnhams ; 'mild quality, at from 61. IN. to N. Those grown around Farnham, and known as country Hops, are selling or offered at from 6/. to to five guineas per cwt. ; Bents about the same price. Last last scar's Hops at from 31. 15s. up to four guineas. The retail price is from 16d. to 18d. per lb. ditto 55 ... 4 15 G ditto 31 .. 5 0 6 Treriakcy ditto 74... 419 0 aiito Oi ois 6 Treleigh C 49,31.4.107 . . 3 17 0 ditto 49 ... 11 . 0 6 ditto Ting Tang Cons 82 ... 4 ft 0 ditto 40... 5 7 G TretheUan 93 . 219 G ditto 37... 818 0 Wheal Ellen 102 ... 6 17 0 Barrier • 10 2 111 6 4 6 • • 4 ill -6 ditto 43... 0 Ntleal Sisters ... 35 ... 41/ 0 ditto ~~~ ~0 dins Wheal Conkfurt... 5.7 ... 4 9 6 4 ii 6 ditto 27 ... 3 1 0 'heal Andrew... 36 ... S 6 0 Nangiles . . 22 6 6 6 ditto 14 ... 3 10 6 Wheal Clifford... 53 ... 4 11 G ditto 9... 3 7 0 Wheal Busy ditto 22... f 6 0 Wbeal Man• Comb° ... 916 6 Wed Grambler l3 ... 3 6 0 RODUCE. Ting Tang -Cretin.llan TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, in my way, any communication tharis rent to ne anonymously; but tame who choose to adders us in confidence will find their confidence respected. NEMI ER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANURCRIPTS WHATEVER. Advertisements intended for The Express, London evening payer, must be at the Mee by Two o'cloci on the day al publication. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tests nAT. Morning, 20 min. past 9 ; Afternoon, 55 min. past 9. To.atoasor.—Morning, 33 min. past 10 ; Afternoon, 5 min. past 11. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 28. Tuoton the movements now in progress in favour of reductions of various taxes may not rise to the dignity or importance of agitations ; and though they may, as at present, remain chiefly confined to the mercantile and agricultural classes, or to those con cerned in our export trade and in the cultivation of the soil, still the disturbance of such questions is sure to prove embarrassing to ministers, and that at a period when they require every support. Finance has never, in popular opinion, been a strong point in Whig policy ; and the discredit which former finan cial difficulties brought on Whig governments, very naturally makes the present Chancellor of the Exche quer unusually sensitive on this subject. " What will the country say if another Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer gets into debt ?" is a question constantly present to Mr. Woolf's mind ; he repeats it to deputations ; and with it closes the mouths of volunteer financial advisers. And very justly ; for nothing would more quickly bring disaster on the present cabinet than a deficiency brought about by tampering with taxation. The last deficiency has been severely paid for by the Income-tax. Another deficiency would assuredly augment the burthen of that most disagreeable of imposts ; and this would prove no flattering recom mendation to go to the country with. All, therefore, who regard the best interests of the country as likely to be promoted by the con tinuance of the present Government, ought to refrain from urging Mr. WOOD to try experiments on the revenue. Ile cannot afford, and he will not attempt, to do anything of the sort. The great changes that have been made in the commercial legislation of the country must be fairly tested as to their effects on revenue before a prudent Chancellor of the Exche quer will risk any considerable alteration in taxa tion. If, by education and sanatory improvement, Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his colleagues succeed in raising the moral and physical condition of the people, their elevation must necessarily have so important an effect on revenue as to render a complete supervision of our present fiscal system an improbable occurrence, until the policy of ministers on these great social questions be fully developed. And in truth, what with the de mands on the Treasury which the Irish famine must beget, and which the expenditure now going on and contemplated on the national defences must require, there is small expectation of Mr. Woolf having, in April, a surplus to deal with ; and without a very large surplus it will be impossible for him to reduce any tax. There is no tax that we know of which is not very disagreeable, very oppressive, and very impolitic. The malt tax limits the growth of barley and restricts the use of beer ; the tobacco tax inflicts on the poor man's luxury a weight of cost, such as would drive rich men's luxuries out of consumption ; and the tea tax prevents an extension of our trade with China and retards the improvement of the labouring classes. Yet are these three taxes three of the most important items in the national revenue. Reduce any one of them materially, and the consequence will be a deficit therein. Reduce them all materially, and the Treasury will be shipwrecked. The enormity of the receipts of these taxes shows that they have been pitched at revenue points ; and though it may be possible so to alter and re-arrange them as to yield the present amount of revenue, it is scarcely possible that any considerable benefit would be thereby con ferred on the consumer. Though to say so may savour somewhat of a bull, in the present circumstances of the country, the true mode, nay, the only possible mode of reducing taxation in this country, is to make the people better able to bear its burthen ; to make them feel its weight less. He must, indeed, be a sanguine politician, who can anticipate any great reduction in the national expenditure ; perhaps he is the more rational who expects an increase. The maintenance of our pre sent establishments, and the payment of the inte rest of our debt, form the price we pay for our national greatness ; they constitute its cost ; there is no escaping from them with integrity or in honour; and there is no wish that we ever heard expressed to escape from them. In one way or other, the present amount of taxation, or an approximation thereto, must be raised ; and the only honest question any man can ask himself is, can it be raised in any other than the present mode with less injury to the con sumer? Mr. JONES LOYD has contended that all taxation is in itself so unjust and unequal, that the more various its sources, the less injurious it is likely to be. Mr. MACGREGOR, on the other hand, advocates a much smaller number of subjects of taxation than we now have. And with authorities so eminent as these on either side of the question, any government may well hesitate before it decides to enter on a field of alteration so important to individual welfare and national character—until, at least, it has a surplus of a million to speculate with. A STATEMENT has been going the round of the papers, that government intend to discontinue sending male convicts to Van Diemen's Land, and to found a penal establishment in the Isle of Portland. We doubt whether the views of government, in reference to the question of secondary punishments, are so far matured as to be embodied in a specific plan ; but the rumour is probably based upon a foundation of truth. Government, we have reason to believe have arrived at the conclusion that, in order to a fair trial of any experiments they may institute for the improvement of prison discipline, and a good system of secondary punishments, as also on the score of economy, it is necessary that these experiments be made at home, immediately under their own superintendence and control, not with the diameter of the globe between them. Nay, we believe we are not going too far when we state that there is a strong incline- ' tion to abolish the punishment of transportation 1 altogether. It is certainly much to be desired that her Ma jesty's councillors may be endowed with sufficient resolution to undertake the abolition of our system of transportation. It has not only entirely failed as a system of scondary punishment, but been the means of increasing natural and acquired depravity in individuals to a degree of inveteracy unknown be fore; of planting the full-blown professional crime of complex and artificial society among savages and infant colonies. It has been a costly instrument of evil. From the foundation of the settlement of New South Wales in 1787 to 1836 there were sent to that colony and Van Diemen's Land, 78,000 con victs. The military and convict services alone of these two colonies, " as far as the same has appeared in the accounts," from 1788 to 1836, amounted to about five millions. This is but part of an expenditure, the items and total of which it is impossible to ascertain. And all this outlay has literally been incurred in order to make bad men worse, to impart to the savages of Australia and Oceania a precocious acquaintance with the refined vices of civilisation, to poison at its source the morality of New South Wales, and to render the seas and shores of the Pacific uns afe for single mer chant vessels. Nor have the outlay and the evils in flicted on remote regions been compensated by any visible improvement in the tone of public morals at home, or by any diminution of crime that can at all be traced to transportation. Our English system of penal transportation may be said to date from the last century—under the modified 4 , form in which the present general:um lmowit. laglip •• " i i • of filussirru transportation is mentioned am a • ~, Itec - . e ment in an Act of the legislature ; and an CHARLES 11. authorises jtulges to exile • , troopers of t e a t4 ti ll on be l slia li "14" t h aoiea. 0 ,-: under these acts m a nsisted only of ex il e to a particular ' place, and did not embrace compulsory labour there. From the writings of DE FOE, and other sources, it would appear that a practice of combining compul sory labour with exile had been irregularly gaining ground in his time : the first statute, however, which warrants the employ ment of transported offenders as slaves, is the 4th osoncs 1., c. 11, which gave to the person who contracted to transport them (" his heirs, successors, and assigns"), a property and inte rest in their services for the period of their sentences. Several of the colonies, among others Ilutadoes, Maryland, and New York, testified their disinclina tion to have their want of labour thus supplied ; but the law continued to be acted upon till the war of independence placed it out of the power of the mother country to vomit forth her moral nuisances into the new states, and rendered it inadvisable to insult the loyal colonies by making them receptacles for its surplus crime. It was about this time that a new colony was planted to receive our felon slaves, or more correctly our felon slaves were sent out to a region previously untenanted by civilised man, in the hope that specu lators might be induced to follow with the prospect of growing rich upon their labour. From the beginning this mode of punishing by consigning to slavery was in every point of view objectionable. It was au in fliction ill calculated to deter from criminal acts. The convict was withdrawn from the public eye : what he suffered was unknown : it made no distinct or tangible impression upon the minds of those tempted as ho had been. They could not realise its terrors. It was an infliction ill calculated to reform the vicious. It produced upon masters and slaves all the bad effects known to have resulted from negro slavery, with this addition, that the white slaves being all of the felon class, the tone of social morality was in their case rendered still lower and more gross. Even the comparative driblets of convicts annually sent to our American possessions, to be absorbed into an honest and hard-working community preciously existing there, had the effect of visibly lowering the moral tone, and adding to the insecurity of society. But in the Australian penal colonies the felons (with the ex ception of their guards) constituted at first the only so ciety of the settlements, and fora long time the majority. There have been governors in New South Wales who regarded the convicts and emancipiats as the only rightful occupants of the soil, and the honest men as intruders. In this anomalous society, crime was the rule, respect for the law the exception. The effect of the modified sys tem of transportation introduced under the Act 24th GEORGE 111. c. 56, and the Orders in Council of the 6th and 30th of December, 1786, was, to relegate criminals to a region so wide and full of lurking places, that effective superintendence and control on the part of their keepers was impossible ; and so re mote from the observation of well-regulated society, that all shyness in the presence of virtue, and all fear of its disapprobation became extinct. Accordingly, in 1838, after a trial of half a century, a committee of the House of Commons, which had been tasked to listen to a voluminous evidence unpa ralleled in the annals of moral loathsomeness, re ported : Your committee consider that they have automated the moat un queationable proofs that the two main charaeterintica oftransportution, :te a m a grto u Lt i e " reno! l : rt n . o i tl e n fik re i f ' o n il e iiin i :, but in Ttillfu rr iTer c c ri o m rr ' o.. , .prng time who undergo the punbohnont ; that thew qualities ofinefficioncy for good and efficient, for evil, are inherent In the cyonetn, which in therefore not suoiceptahle of any ratiafactory Improvement ; and lastly that there belongs to the syntem, extrinsically from ito strange cha racter us a punishment, the yet ruorecurtous and monstrous evil of calling into indigence, and continually extending, societien, or the germs or IlatioliA, 1111.11. t thoroughly depraved as respect, both the cha racter and degree of their vocluasinyoiconeities. The subsequent history of our transportation sys tem deserves to be considered apart. It is another melancholy instance of the bad effects of that moral cowardice which makes legislators and governments mutilate and weaken wholesome measures, to evade the censure of the unreasoning vulgar (both in high and low station), invariably hostile to everything to which they are unaccustomed. THE opinions of the Times are, on many subjects, rather peculiar: on no subject are they more so thaa on what constitutes fairness in public discussion. The revulsion of the railway mania last year was attended by great and angry . excitement. To universal confi dence succeeded universal suspicion. Allottees looked upon provisional committeemen as decoys; provi sional committeemen upon allottees as dishonest repudiators; and the (not very numerous) uncompro. mised public regarded both parties as diamond-cut diamonds. Fierce and clamorous was the recrimina tion. At the very height of the excitement, actions between many of these parties, arising out of relations previously unknown to the legal or commercial busi ness of the country, came to be tried in our courts of justice. Judges and juries were called upon to deeide in cases where there was neither statute nor precedent to guide them, while exposed to the contagious in fluence of the fierce partisan spirit abroad. Under such circumstances most journalists would have felt, that common honesty and common decency required them to abstain from seeking to bias the minds of men called to discharge such a delicate responsible office at so untoward a period. Not so the Times. that journal thought and thinks, " It was necessary that we should express some opinion, and we did so at the earliest moment and without reservation." Influenced partly by the epidemic partisanship of the moment, and partly, there can be little doubt, by the inflammatory appeals and reckless exaggerated statements of the Times, verdicts were obtained from juries, of the legality of which strong doubts were entertained by a majority of the judges of the court, in which the cases were tried. :Motions for new trials have been made, and these cases remitted for the consideration of other juries, with clear and weighty explanations from the Bench of the miscon ceptions which led the former juries into error. An appeal was thus made "from Pntur drunk to l'inur sober "—from the public (speaking through the legi timate channel of the jury -box), in a state of panic irritation, to the public in a tranquil and impar tial mood. In sanctioning this appeal, however, the luckless Barons of the Exchequer have been guilty of fiat rebellion against the Times, and all the vials of its wrath are poured upon their head. It is admitted that they possess "vast intellectual powers," that they possess "a large amount of public confidence," 4 but these virtues have unfortunately only tempted them to " forget there is such a thing . q. s9p ill opinion "—that is, the opinion of the Tisbsp.; -,K Barons have decided to favour of the , 1 sional committeemen, and " our ope.., — ice' -' - against the provisional committeeme h'Thi hi a Judges have dared to differ in opinion with a Tarn which forthwith bewails their " fall," w 'it cha— ritably imputes to pride, and the desire tii" _wing a flight above the range of modest mecli i ••-#"—the range of the Times. They are sarcastically reminded that " it is wiser for all men, especially for judge', to keep the general level''—the level of the Times. The Times does not condescend to argue the ques tion on grounds of law and equity. It announces that " our opinion was against the provisional com- IL a; et • seal. illiro wt. it • V. II r 17. • ✓e. erlarb rem a. 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