The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

Mr. Hammitt said that tin. wan one of those caws in
which he telt the utter in ids quaey of the powers with which I
he was invested, for the punt.hment of such brutal offenders
so the prisoner, so it w. p. rfectly clear, in the event of his
mending him for trial, that his injured wife would aintain
from appearing against him, and he would thereby he sl-
lowed to escape with abui!uto impunity. Under the.a, cir-
cumstances he should order the prisoner to pay the floe of
M., or to be committed in default for two months to the
House of Correction. . _

rile ',saucer, unable to pay the penalty, was earri,d off
in the van.

MA ItKETS.

COTTON.—Livxuroox, Dge. 11.—The sales of cotton
today are estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales, and com-
prise 4OO Pernambuco and hluanham, Sid. to cla.• 120
Ilahis,old. ; Egyptian 6d. to 104.; 10.1 Surat, aid. to
31d. The market closes heavily. Compared with Friday's
rates, prices of ell kinds are the same.
blericastrrnit, Dec. 11.—Our market wears a rather
healthy appearance, apart from the fluctuation of priers
caused by a decline in the raw material, end the reason we
have had a r much less doing for this month past is clearly
traceable to this cause. buyers are not generatly giving
out large contract", though we have not hod an absence of
them entirely this week, hut they are picking up rather
large quantities, as a whole, for the completion of orders
which the reduction of prices has placed within the limits
at which such orders were assigned to them. Many of the
orders placed six week" ago have still some time to run ;
and thus, with the purchases for shipment, the contracts
still on hand, and the purchases by the large wholcuele
houses for assortments of stocks, we have very little accu-
mulation of goods in lint hands. Prices are still gradually
declining. The last "deices from the United States show •
great increase of receipts from the cotton districts, as com-
pared with the preceding year. Of the now crop since
September, 6.14,000 bales had come in, agaiust 410,000 to
the same time last year ; whilst in the last week of these
"deices the receipts Mad been 108,000 bales, against
48,000 in the corresponding week of last year. Holders
of cotton at Liverpool have necessarily shown great uneasi-
ness under these circumstance', and American descriptions
have fallen this week Id. to id. per lb. This prevents any
steadying of our own market, and induces buyers to hold
off more than might be expected ; for yarns can now be had
very reasonable, say id. to Id. lower than in October in
many cases. lteeltd yarns suit:Oils to home and continental
use an id. lower, and extreme fluctuations in some descrip-
tions of twist give the buyer an advantage of fully Id. per
lb. In cloths there are some new and handsome designs
from the printers to meet the spring trade, and no sue looks
upon the present quietness in the market as likely to be of
any continuance beyond the settling down of prices in
cotton, and the accommodation of those in manufactures to
them.

WOOLLEN CLOTH.—Leans, DEC. IL—The markets
have not shown any change of importance to-day ; about
the usual amount of business has been done. There have
been several inquiries thi, week for cloths of a good cha-
racter in true wool blacks, which class of goods is in fair de-
mand at present, met by only a moderate supply.
There has Leen some improvement in the business of the
warehouse'. Several buyers from Scotland, London, sad
elsewhere have been in the town, this week, which has
caused a better demand for the home trade; this together
with part activity in the American and Canada trade has
given a better tone to the State of business In the ware
houses this week.