The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

The Paris flour market has bees well sustained daring
the week, and the four marks for delivery are sow held at
103 f. to 1041., wbiie speculative purchases Dare bees made
for eight inooths bases at the Wrens rate of 965. to 913 s
showtor the confidence of some to • high ramie of pilots
New home grows wheat briars 361 Ma. to 38f. Is the
country markets than has generally bees a rise in wheat of
from 60c. to 2f. 28c., though at Le Blase there was • hi
of 23e. On the 4th, at Ilarmillse, 48f. was bid for
old African wisest is vain. New wheat of Lyons was
quiet, and shapes. Toulouse keeps the rise_ up, in sea-
sequence of ea kosessast demand far `04112. The
foreign advisor wbidt have reached Trims" have gives a
great stimulus W trade then—ever 8,000 qrs. of Galata
have shwas/ home at 3lfr. 23e. per haat., sad- for Veuotisa
Mfr. 25e. has bees paid. Tracsactions la maize have bees
equally impalas; at frost 161, 600. to 18Ir. 760, spectator
to quality, tbs market &ping with • irrespective hither
edema.
At Vesta a good deal of business has boon dose' sad
some calm has ease* ensued, old wheat being bold atUfr.
to 29fr. 23e. per beet. ; sad sew, 27 fr. to NI fr., with few
ostlers. The same anintstios bas Isms observed at Venus. I
where 28fr. 78e. to 27fr. has beta paid fir old wheat, awl,
28k. foe ass.
At Astwasp lbs wags's was fats wind await wad as

market with quite a rising tentio'hey for all sorts of grain,
but the high pretensions of hollers checked business. A
linnet of English wheat brought 66 tr. 260. per 80 kiln.;
o•diaary Baltic, 351 r. 404. ; Eottliah rye, 20r. 6c.
Mecklenburg, 230. 600. per 70 kit...; Danish berley,
I.str. 201 The Belgian markets derail:l-1 the mean rise in
the price of wheat last week 67c., and on rye 01e.
P.vourable weather had set in at Stettin, 'ad harvest
work was proceeding rapidly; the drier time bad a'•mewh.t
benefited potatoes, and in many comedians' as yet appears
limited to the plant above ground. W►eat -was nther
easier to boy, quotations being from 311,. 760 to 33fr. Bye
active at 211 r. to 22fr. 76e. Barley, 131,. 76e. to 141 r. 25z.
A large demand had been experienced for wheat and rye
at Konigsberg. Wheat prices: 28fr. 50e. to 321 e. 25e. per
beet.; rye, 28fr. 25e. to 22fr.; barley 161 r. to 161 r. 25e.;
oats, 10fr. to 101 r. 76e. ; w►its peas, 171,. 60e. to 18fr. 75e- ;
beano, 17fr. 56e. to 18fr. 25e.
At Copenhagen prices were firm, and the few offers made
all caught up for Norway, Holland, England, and the
Baltic. The weather has been fine, harvest not muc► under
an average; but the quality of wheat is not first sate, and
rye is light. It Is expected the King will cause a general
reduction in the Sound dues.
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In Holland the weather has been favourable, and mar-
kets consequently quiet.
Report. from Constantinople advise two shipments of
maize to England, at 16fr. 65e. per beet.
The Danubian Steam Navigation Company are tending
all their tugs to the Lower Danube, to facilitate the ship-
ment of the accumulated stores of corn; but they will prove
insufficient, and any sunnier of row boats would find en-
eouraging freights. The arrival of some of the products
of the new harvest at Smyrna has ins • • d the place, and
a good trade has been doing. Wheat tom Syria has brought
16f. 80c. to 181., and 21f. per heet. fur consumption.
Anatolian 27f. to 311. 200. The stocks of old were very
trifling.
American 'dikes are confirmatory of our previous state-
ment,, as to the abundance and fineness of the crops end
the comparatively insignificant damage done by the late
reins. Prices, however, had es et seen little change—the
old stocks being exhausted and the new not appearing so
freely as expected. Flour at Buffalo was 8 dol. to 8 dol. 50c.
Red Indiana When 1 dol. 60e.; white, old, 1 dol. 85c. ; new,
1 dol. 90c. At New Orleans superfine flour 9 dol. 50e. family
to 10 dol. At Philadelphia some shipments to Rio were
made at 9 dol. ; wheel was sc. lower. Southern' and Pen-
sylvenia red 1 del. 75e. to 1 dol. 860.; white, 1 dol. 90c.
to 2 dot.

LONDON WEEKLY

impcoted.
Svooz,W. 1,530
Ilaoritiva lop 4,400
Boogol, Kodru, top 5,900
Foreign
ct; 1,1.00
Coma, B.P.
Do. bass
Mocha balsa 540
Ceon bop 1
^./000ayl, B.P bop 426
400
Bor, W. Indio ... 900

2 100
11,560
19,000
9,000
21

112
1,000
270
740
1,100

TALWW.

21,300
152,, 00
58,000
100,000
421

4,200
1111,300
9,700
IA 0
21,000

$O,OOO
150,000
13,000
MAO

823
10,600
68,600
10,200
1,600
12,300

The advises from St Petersburg are to the 20th August
(Ist September). Bichange, 36 3-16 to 6 16. In the week,
about 2,600 casks had been taken for exportation, at 110ro.,
carriage, 110 copk. The quantity forwarded this year is
24,005 casks, against, in 1864, 31,524 asks. The latter in.
eludes the quantity not direct from the interior ; the former
is the quantity sent from Petersburg this year. It is
thought that about 6,000 casks have been aheady forwarded
from the interior this year. This would make the total of
this year much the same es that et last year. On Saturday
oar market was firm in all positions, and prices were rather
higher than on Friday. Today the market was quieter at
the opening in oonsequenes of the news from the Crimes ;
but the demand on the spot being again large, the market
became gradually stronger; and we leave off spot Y C. new
68'. fine, 67e. 9.1. infer.; no old offering; Sept., 571 9d.; Oct.
and Dee , 67e. 9d ; Des. and January, 68s. 6d. to 3d.; espa•
rate monthly deliveries, 68'. 34. The stock of "sorts" is
now confiner! to Oderea.-I,FromMeaars. Smith and Charles'
Circular of Monday evening.)

COTTON.—LtvnarooL, San. 10.—The market cloud
with a hardening tendency, and prime of American descrip-
tions are tight—in many our 1 161. per lb. against the
buyer. Other kinds without change. The salts are error
8,000 to 10,000 halm—comprising 300 Pernam and Mann-
hem, 6}d. to ni.; 300 Egyptian, 611. to Old.; 1,200
Surat, Std. to 40. ; and 40 Sea Islands, Is. to Is. Id. per lb.
1,000 sold on speculation, and 1,000 for exportation.

THE LINEN TRADE.—Every available hand belay
now engaged in harvesting operation', the linen markets of
the province have been almost in an inanimate v.:edition
during the week. Tim business transacted has been gene-
rally very trifling. Coarse goods have found a ready sale at
former prices, and fiver descriptions were bought up in
BrHymens, Armagh, and Lurgan. at a slight advance on
previous rates. The tendency of the prices at the different
seats of business is decidedly upwards. Yarns are without
change.—Bonner of Older.

CATTLE.—Livnaroos., SIFT. 10.—The saute demand
continues for sheep, buyers bestowing attention upon
this article, and though we bad an aaaa ge supply, a large
number was 1.11 unsold. The beef trade also ruled dull
this merniag, and a small number was turned out nadir-
posed of. Beef 6d. to 6t1.; mutton, 6d. to 6td.

THE GREAT AMERICAN SNAKE CAUGHT.

(From the Bold. Denby Republic.)
Perry Village, N. Y., August 13.

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This part of the country is wild with excitement.
The illllllll6Oll snake is at length captured. You have un-
doubtedly beard all the particulars of his appearance, the
many doubts and sneers as to the existence or a Innis ntiretre
of this character in a lake but four miles long and not quite
thres-quartan of a mile in width. Daniel Smith, an old
whalemen, came here about two weeks since, after bearing
of the appearance of the creature, and had the good fortune
to see him. He immediately sent to New York for an old
shipmate and his "Irene," and on Friday last both arrived
with everything necessary to catch a monitor. Many
strangers stopping at the Walker House laughed at them for
their pains; but they kept on with their preparations, in
spite of sneers and jeer.. Boats have been stationed all over
the lake for upwards of eight days, and the two whalemen
had a sharp loolvout kept all the time, besides watching
themselves. .

Bandy be came to the surface, displaying about 30
feet of his lone, sinuous body. Oa Monday morning every-
thin was on the alert. About 9 o'clock the animal made
his appearance between the whalemen's beat and the shore,
revealing 20 or 30 feet of his length. He laid quiescent upon
the surface, when the whalemen s boat moved slowly toward
him, Mr. Smith, of Covington, poising in the air • patent
harpoon. When they had got about ten feet from the
animal, the iron whistled through the air and went deep into
his body. In a moment the whole length of the monster
was lashing in the air, at a bound revealing his whole
enormous length. Then he darted off in another dime
tion toward the upper part of the lake, the sudden.
nen of his movement almost dragging the boat under
water. Line was gradually given him, and after the
space of half an hoer, it was plain that his strength was almost
exhausted. The ',helmet then came ashore and gradually
hauled the line in. The body was within 50 feet of the
shore, when renewed life appeared to have been given him,
and with one dart he carried out nearly all the line. This
was his last great effort. He was slowly dragged ashore,
amidst the wildest excitement and tumult ever known in
the vicinity of Silver Lake. Four or five ladies fainted
upon seeing the monster, who although ashore was lashing
his body into tremendous folds, and then straightening
himself out in his agony, with • noise and power that made
the very earth tremble around him. The harpoon bad gone
entirely through a thick muscular part of him about 8 feet
from his heed.
The snake is fifty-nine feet five inches in length, and is
a most disgusting-looking creature. A thick dime covers
his hideous length, a quarter of an inch thick, which
after being removed, is almost instantly replaced by
exudation. The body of this creature is variable in du.
The bead is about the size of a full grown calf's; within eight
feet of the head the neck gradually swells up to the thick-
WM of a foot in diameter, which continues for fifteen inches
and then tapers down the other way, constantly increasing
in sine, however, as it recedes from the head, until the body
of the monster has a diameter of over two feet is the centre,
giving a girth of over six feet. It thea tapers off toward
the tail, which ends in a fin which can be expanded in the
shape of a fan until it is three feet across, or closed in •
sheath. Along the belly, from the head to the tail, are
double twee of film a foot in length—not opposite each other,
bet alternately placed. The head is • most singular affair.
The eyes are very large, white, staring, and terra&
Attached to the edge of the upper and lower lids, which
are like those of a human being, • transparent film, or um-
brae* is wee, which, while it protects the eye of the
animal, dose not Minter* with its vision. He has no
nostrils or gills, apparently. The month of this serpent, or
whatever It may be, is underneath—is almost a counterpart
of the mouth of the fish sailed a sucker, possessing the tame
mistier power pureed up—but it can be stretched so es to
take is • bony of the diameter of a foot or • foot and a half.
No teeth can be discovered. A bard bony substance ex-
tends in two parallel lines around the upper end lower pert
of the head. His colour is • dusky brown on the sides and
bask, but underneath the belly it is of a dirty white. It
is sinuous like • snake, but has along its back on each side a
row of hard substance, knob-like in 'hope—the largest
raised four inches from the surface of the body, 'treading
from bead to tall.
The animal still has the harpoon In him. He lies it the
water, an 'tyska, eantrimace of ropes having been placed
on him while he was on shore, keeping his body in a cum,
preventing biro from getting away or proving dangerous.
He can use but his head and tail, with which he occasion-
ally stirs up the water all about him for rods. He keeps
his head tinder ',Mar except when he rum it up as If look-
ing atoned, and presents • meet kraal aspect. When
rearing he expands his mouth, and exhibits a aavity blood
red, most terrible to look upon. As he due this, air rushes
forth with a heavy, short puff.

Lou OF THE FRENCH SHIP INDUSTRIR.—PARIS,
SIFT. 9.—The Isdoetria (French ship), Bane, from New.
mad. and /Ironed% to Senegal, bee boss Wally lost on U.
, Beef I% ; sour saved.