The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-09 00:00:00

THE TRADE IN ORANGES.

Oranges are imported in boxes containing from
250 and more, and in chests hoidiag 500 to 1,000. The gamin.
tity of this fruit imported has been steadily increasing for
some jean past. In the throe pars ending with 1842 the
avenge imports were 334,070 boxes; in As era years eliding
with 1850 they had increased to 380,000 boats. Since then the
quantity has been computed in bushels. The average annual
imports in the five years ending with 1860 were 977,440
bushels. The quantity taken for coasumption has now
reached upwards of 1,000,000 bushels, and, assuming each
bashed to contain 650, this would give 650 millions of
oranges, or about 22 for each soul of the population in the
kingdom. The appended figures indicate the source of
supply of this fruit to Great Britain in bushels •
1655. 1660.
Portugal
Azores
Spain
Sicily
Other quarters

806,153 1.164,410
The Acores or Western Wands, from whew* the Sorest,
or Si. Michael, °ranged come, it will be seen furnish as
with the largest supply. The imports from theme have
doubled in the last five years. The expense of walling
and planting an acre of orange garden is stated to be
shout IV. for the wall, 8/. for &5 trims, and 2/. for labour.
It yields half a crop of beans or Indian corn during eaves
yam, bat Ito oranges ; from sight to eleven years half •
crop al Granges is obtaimed. Afterward. • full crop, which
is mil ler 101. to 15/. Leh tree on arriving at maturity
will prides* sonsally, as an average, 12,000 to 16,000
err los ; ens grower is rid to have picked 26,000 from
a single tees. The tress bloom in March and April,
end arenges am gathered for the Lon 100 market se early
as November. The Portuguese never eat them before the
end of January, at which time they possess their full
Savour. In the season of 1651, which produced by me
mesas an unusually large crop, not lees than 353 esrgow
of oranges, acslaiming about 200,1)00 lame boxes, bddisg
MOO amities, were shipped fres the Western Islam&
Fara formerly exported • t many craws, but the
insect pest, which appeared 1ee1640. 10 4 few jean killed
all the trees there. molars annually exports about 30
=sod Si. Mary a few cargoes, but St. Michael
great smart. Is 1801 the value of the fruit imported
from thence was but 10.0001. ; in 65,0001. ; and iu
1850, 134,123/. It was estimated that the produce of trait
in this island during 18119 was 252,01,9.000 of orange* cad
40,000 lemons ; of these all the lemons and 40,000.000
masses were coosonsed on the island. The export of
oranges from St Michael wee 179,379 boxes in 1652 ;
121,3 a boxes in 16.43-6; 100,079 is 1456.7 ; 179.9= in
1857.8 ; end 130,856 boxes is 1656-9. The trade has
been suffering for several years from severe depression,
owing to the low prices obtained for the fruit in Ragland.
la the season 1656.9 the growers obtained an average of
10... d. per box, which is considers] a very fair remunera•
live price by the proprietors of orange gardens. None
than half the orange crop is shipped in the months of
November cud December. The value of the fruit im-
ported k
Chroosic now reaches ,early 600,0001. annually.—Gardeners'

OLYMPIC THEATRI.—The intelligence of the 1.0-
hen of Meson. Mason and Slidell by the Federal govern-
meat was communicated to the audience at this theatre by
Mr. Robson, and evidently afforded the liveliest satisfaction
to all present.

At the New Adelphi Theatre last night Mr.
Webster assotiocal from the stage that peace with America
was settled. The ausuancenteut was receive' with load
cheering.

Ties SLIM. or THZ SERPENT.—The pestilent
doctrine that the African nices were destined by Divine
Providence to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to
the es-rs civilised peoples--is a word, that involuntary
aorritude is, perhaps, the lot best adapted to their lower
organisation, is stealthily finding its way over from the
Southern States of America and creeping into shelter
among ourselves. We will not stoop to argue the pies-
tiro it involves. We thought the convictioos of English.
saes upon it wore settled years ago. Aod yet such
organs as the Saturday Renew and the London Review
sample not, by their tone of writing, to give
countenance to the slave theory, or, at any rate,
to the phynologieol awiumptions upon which it rests. in all
the references they make to the subject, It !coke aa though
the planting interest were fesliug is way back to the Bri-
tish mead, aid insinuating its vile notions and its still viler
sentiments into every accessible channel of public opiuion.
The overflow of the Southern element occasiosed by the
upbeavinp of the civil war appears to be already leaving
a slimy deposit is quarters is which we should, not bag
since, ham blushed to look for it. If we do sot take hoed
we shall require asother Clarkson and Wilberforce asmonme
ma Depravation of sentiment is marvellously easy and
rapid. aim when a notion is on its guard.—Noaconformier.
Tama *No Tsurrzo.—Truth to tell. little
Katie wee sot how long Shoes stolen itimease eights may
loot. How clever, and handsome, mid gentles ankle be
bolo! How pleamot it is to feel the blush Moslem scram
M hoe as he looks tab her eyes—bow the subtle shock
Cgoosra through her as be takes her lend in his sod traces her
latnsa I. its blue-veined lines ! How small and delicately.
fashimed that hand of his is, ems white compared with her
owes which is not so very large after all, she thinks ! What
decor aims. be can say when be wants her to laugh, and
bow caromingly murmur the toadstool words ! How plea.
east it is, too, to be able to teach kiss ; to teach him to re.
peat this wit North country words which he asst. sot to
kses. ; sad thee how pleasantly the old words of rustic
wooly( come back from the smooth eloquent lips I And
then she is mach • child yet : so charmed with her sew play-
mate, so ignorant of all evil or sin. Beware. Katie. darl-
ing ! a mike lurks in the grass. I can as. how insincere
that damiwoiss mid subtle homage is ; how shallow and
tawdry the hollow.heartod " love "-which is already begin.
°jos to eat into your child-life, and hurt its innocent bloom.
Oh, darling dui you know how cold sod hard that smooth
foss can be when it chooses, how cold and bard the heart
undermatk always is, you would rather sit all night alone
with old Jam" by " the Meal:wok," than listen to these
false scion Bat the child don not perceive the falsetto ;
doss sot perceive that the words do not ring true, but are
tips with deadliest poison. To think of a smooth-tongued,
onimisi knave teaching this little amides in the isooesom of
bar barite believe • lie, is bed enough ; but to think him
rollambly, aoltbersisly, spoiling her whole life, torturieg
weep ameitive fibre of heart and soul—it makes uses I
bleed lei M BMA of it. Could no entreaty induce him to 11
Pekoe 1f..,, Else how could he have disturbed the ch ildish
gleeful bepplasse that smiled up la his eyes when first he
NIA br ; berwreeist the silent appeal which the fair innooeut
hoe Node to hie mercy? Bat he had no Isom, and the
(stake slows held her fist is their smooth grip till
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wished. There are same hearts that bleed to think
of Boma yet. Let emelt of as pray to be &Mewed from
gag evil ; every man of us to be delivered from the hell of
besswieg that he has doe • follow-soul • hurt that sleepily
11:2:sanaot repair ; every woman moss us to be do-
rfrons that seam of abutted ormodaim shame which
oriorcood Katie's neck, and made her Mn—like • wild
wousital animal, with the hunter's dart sushi's is its
bloodies side-to the bowels' mouniniasoverle.—Proser's
limarine for Jammu.