The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

IVIBTIIINSTia.

The Earl of King;eove was summoned for neglecting to
pay a cabman the amount he claimed.
Hie lordship attended personally at this court about a
fortnight ago to answer a similar complaint, and was then
adjudged by Mr. Higdon to pay the fare for which he had
been said, and costs, amounting to 11 lls.
In the present Isamu his lordship's name wu called in
the ordinary way, and, being unanswered, the case wu
protruded with In his absence.
Edward Noland, one of the summoning officers of the
court, stated that he served a copy of the summons produced
at his lordship's residence, 36, Park-street, Grosvenor.
square. It was at a grocer's shop whore his lordship lodged.
Mr. Arnold—Did you understand whether he was in
town

Sonimoring nil:more be was; the landlady said
abs would g.ve it to bus. She told me she renumbered say
beitg there a little while ego, and that a policemen bad
called on Moody en a similar errand from Marlborough-
tippet.

Thomas Lawrence, driver of the cab 2,007, stated that on
lest Saturday week he was ordered to the house when his
lordship raided, at twenty minutes past nine in the morn-
ing. His lordship,accompanied by a young man, got into his
eats at twenty minutes to tat. He that crave him to
Wilrat-place, Stenos to Titchborne-street, the Union Cluh,
Norfolk-street, Strand, and to the Home of Peen, where
he was discharged, at twenty minutes to one. He then
demanded es. ed., hut hie lordship refused to pay more
than 51. 6d., and he had now summoned him for the re-
mainder of the fare.

Mr. Arnold him to point out the mode by which
he became entitled to it.

Complainant said he had charged his lordship by time
alone, and for the conveyance of an extra person, a page,
taken op in Wilton place.
Mr. Arnold asked whether his lordship had engaged the
fabliau by time.
Complaisant replied that he had not, but he had made
his charge that way exclusive of the few minutes he re-
mained at his lordship's door before he started.
Mr. Arnold observed that under the old law • driver
might make his election between time and distence, but
ender the present he was not entitled to do so unless spe-
cially agreed upon by the hirer, but he possessed the ad-
vantage of being able to reckon both ways. The worthy
magistrate than inquired the amount of distance and time
separately, and
The cabman said he had driven over nearly four
miles of ground, which would entitle him to two @hillier.
The first stoppage he had made was at Wilton-plece, where
he remained an hour and three quarters. It was but a
slight stay at Titchborne•stritet--only while his lordship
was being shaved. There was • delay of twenty minutes at
the Union Club, and half an hour at Norfolk. street, so
that he really had not overcharged his lordship in any
Way.
Mr. Arnold said it wields duty to make en order upon
his lordship to pay the amount of fare claimed and flee
&filings oosts.
Complainant said that he had tarried his lordship about
the day before for lli hours, and could not get a halfpenny
of him, and had to beg and prey of the grocer who kept
I the house when his lordship resided for tome money.
Mr. Arnold said he had nothing to do with that.

MARKETS.

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THE CORN TRADE.
Meow the Nark L.N. Beyress.)
____ BRITISH.

A week's brilliant weather in the very nick of time
has gone far to allay them apprehensions for the k t
which were beginning to prevail as the consequence of the
lots unusually heavy rains. The sickle has been in full em-
ployment in the southern sweeties us well as other early dia.
triers ; nod there is now • prospect of sectaries some heavy
crops of sound wheat, samples having already been pro-
duced, 6311 m. to 6411 e. weight per bushel, which have
brought 74r. per qr.; still we 'aped a large balk of the
new crop will be much below it. Several panels, not so good,
have been offered at Newbury and other places, and more is
now expected in hisrk•lane. In Kent the ravages of the
maggot appear to have bees somewhat overrated; while
mildew must have diminished, and the return of dry weather
is calculated to stop the programs of disease oa those potato
grounds which have begun to be affected. In Ireland the
face of things is equally changed is favour of the crops, and
many pieces of oats, wheat. and barley, have been cut;
some of the forms (grey samples) have brought IGs. Gd.
South of &Aland has also commenced. Asa whole, we
look upon the wheat crop in Great Britain as likely to
prove &hone an average, with • groat variety in samples
even should the weather continue fine; but spring corn,
especially barley, pro:aims to be in ozone of last year. The
new samples are very little behind last and the immediately
preceding years, and show what the warm rains have done.
The usual effects of sunshine at such a season hays g e lly
been felt in all the markets; either a very dull state 01
business has ensued, se a positive decline in priers, to a mo-
derato extent, has berm generally reported. The show of
samples in several principal plums hie continued large i bet
there is more frequent report of diminished arrivals, indi-
sating the conclusion of the season; and the claim for
labour on all sides is calculated still further to reduce them.
France has, however, wonted • contrary feature, the
markets generally being somewhat dower, coasnesora having
kept their stocks so low that any unfavourable repute sn-
ake attention sod raise piths ; and till now smoke appear
in plenty, little Mortise eau be anpssied. With great
abundance swarth in the southern states of Amerithethe
north has been visited with much warm rain just as*,

grain woo ripening, especially in Western New York, and
there wee mach tear of its sprouting in thole par s, ea well
u in Canada; but let us hope that the threatened damage
will not occur.

The deliveries for the past week ,bow a dial&shed
consumption, the quantity being 84,684 qrs. at 775. 7d.,
against 35 860 qrs. last year. Foreign arrival; Dave been
increasing during the put moan), and two cargoes of maize
have arrived on the coast from Galata, whence we hear good
supplies of wheat and ether corn are likely to come on.
Some &lonic& wheat from Antwerp Is held at 645. U.
The foreign imports for the week ending August 8 were
70,624.
Monday's market comeliest:ad with a supply of wheat from
the preceding week, amounting to 18,231 qrs., more than
half of which consisted of foreign, mostly from the Baltic.
The morning's samples from Esse:, Kent, and Suffolk were
altogether moderate. The weather, which had been fine for
• few days, and then continued an prodaced quite a calm in
the trade, and Kentish facten,with some others, held prices
to be Is. to 2a. lower than on the previous Monday ; but
rates were then so uncertain, as scarcely to serve for a basis
and the trade generally held that, with a very limited sale,
quotations were not really lower. In foreign the business
was equally restricted, at unaltered rates. The supply
coastwise on Wednesday, mu only 360 qrs.; the
foreign reported was 6,210 qrs. Fine weather still pre-
vailing, there was a very thin attendance, and prices
rather in favour of those few millers who were buyers, with
scarcely anything passing in the foreign trade. By Friday
the wait arrivals reached 2,120 qn., and the foreign
10,880 qrs. The whole aspect of the market on that day
was holiday.like, and business seemed suspended for the
course of events on the ensuing Monday, with every ap-
pearance of • further reduction in price, should there be a
seatiauenas of (intuitable harvest-time. The few sales
made were at fully 2s. less.
The supply of country flour has kept up unusually well,
the week having furnished 14,851 sacks, together with 3,5681
auks of foreign, mostly from Spain. From this 400 sacks
were szported. The same dulness which marked the wheat
trade pervaded this branch of business, and sales were diffi-
cult, at unaltered prices. 1,000 more sacks per coast arrived
on Wednesday from the country, with only 240 barrels of
foreign, when prices became rather in favour of buyers' and
with but • small increase of arrivals on Friday. Norfolks
were only disposable at • reduction of 2a. per sack ; though
foreign, in the absence of demand, was held for the same
money.
Foreign barley has been more plentiful; on Monday,
9,494 qrs. were reported with 2,690 qrs. English. Good
sweet qualities for grinding sold with a better demand at
rather higher' rates, bat generally the trade was far from
active, and prices underwent no change. On Wednesday
the foreign supply reached 4,420 qrs., the English per coast
was only 620 qrs. Business was transacted on • very limited
scale, without no'isg any alteration in quotations. On
Friday 600 qrs. more English got up, and 3,600 more
foreign, when the market became ezoeseively dull. Had
sales of illtonditioned parcels then been pressed, a reduc-

tion in prices must bails bean coneeded,.the birley crop
being universally well spoken of as to yield, and the im-
proved weather giving a prospect of biter samples than
were lately expected.
The malt trade has presented the nme nevaried aspect
which has for some time been Its charannistic, both as
respects prices and the small amount of business effected.
The oat trade has continued well supplied with foreign
samples, chiefly from Denmark and Sweden; but cargoes
free from taint, as respects condition, are scarce. 30,000
were reported as the week's supply on Monday, with 3,300
from the United Kingdom, principally Scotch. Buyers in
quest of sweet corn found they had to pay quits as much
money, and sellers of this grain out of condition found
themselves still in difficulty, though the late heavy reducel
tion to prices of such qualities lett them indisposed to make
further concessions. Many parcels are, therefore, liens
sarily ordered to Mote ; and as the Russian supplies remain'
shut out, and our own stocks are well nigh exhausted, a I
demand for old oats must eventually . Au abundance
of more foreign arrived on Wednesday, viz., 21,600 qrs.,
with a mere handful of home powtb, and the market was,
of course, very heavy; in which state it remained on Fri-
day, without soy reported change of rates, though by that
time the foreign arrivals amounted to 38,730 qrs.
The limited consumption of beans and peas at this period
of the year leaves the trade with little interest,and %trough-1
out the week the retail business effected has been at former
prices. The bean supply on Monday was 2,000 qrs. foreign,
and 400 qrs. English; while the whole of the peas, home-
growth included, was but 270 qrs.
Linseed, which for • considerable time has met with a
very ready sale at rising prices, has lately rather slackened
in demand, without, however, any probability of • violent
re-action.

Cakes continue in unprecedented favour at full rates.
Repined remains in demand, and little new has yet come
to market, and that very soft and inferior. Hemptead
is firmly held. Mustaselseed remains unusually dull.
Canaryseed rather more in favour, and el d is still
inquired for, bat the unusually small stocks are a check to
business. Other seeds without any quotable variation In
prices.
Among the country markets this week, Boston and Lynn
have taken precedence as respects the tons of the wheat
market; price, there to needy buyers being reported Is.
higher. AU the other principal markets either present an
alutcst suspended demand or lower rates. Hull, however,
was comparatively firm. Leeds, Louth, Market Ruen,'
Melton M )wbray, and Wakefield as last quoted. Liverpool,
Manchester, Wolverhampton, St. Ives, and Bristol, were
21. to 3s. lower, with a like redection on flour; but at Bir-
mingham prices were reported as irregular, sad from 2s. to
6s. down. Indian corn now sells for feeding at Liverpool,
at 375. 61.; prime yellow, which is scarce, at 38..

In Scotland, though unfavourable reports come from the
Bast Lothians as to productiveness, Edinburgh was 2e.
cheaper for wheat; and Glasgow exhibit a nearly similar
abatement; but barley and beans were rather higher. In-
dian aorn,on the coatrary, was Is. less per 23011 w.

The fine weather has been doing mondial, for Ireland, in
stopping potato disease and maturing the crops. New
tawny oats hare appeared at Dublin, and brought 16s. per
brl. white 16s. With exhausted stocks of wheat and small
arrivals, markets have nevertheless been dull, with • down-
ward tendency. Perhaps the most productive and equal
crop of wheat will be grown in that country.
FOREIGN.
The flour market at Paris continues to evince a moderate
rise ; the four marks having reached to 95f., while the lower
descriptions realise 901. to 94f. For delivery in Be2tember
neat 921 to 93f. is made of the best quality. Harvest ope-
rations had diminished the number of wheat samples, and
prices were If. to lif. per sack of 14 hectolitres dearer in
consequence. For old Bordeaux anti Nantes wheat slf. to
53f. are made, for new M. to 651. per 120 kilos. are de-
manded. Little, however, was doing, and few offers were
making for delivery. Good new rye brings 27f. 50c. to 281.;
barley, 201. per 100 kilos. Oats from 26f. 50e. to 28f. 50e.
per 3 hectolitres. The departments g lly note a rise in
wheat of from 60e. to M. with a fall, however, at Gallarden
and Bergen' of 600. to if. 50c. The harvest in the north
is considered defective. At Marseilles and Toulouse markets
were firm, and the heat excessive. In Algeria but few
arrivals as yet were reported; hard wheat being quoted
29f. 50e. to 30f. per 100 kilos., soft at 36f.
The Belgian markeu, though calm, are dearer for both
wheat and rye, especially the latter. Barley was also
higher. Great destruction has been occasioned by storms
in the neighbourhood of Cologne, and brought destitution
on me g growers of corn.
The Dutch markets were also dearer, especially for rye.
, Potatoes are been complained of.
In Prussia prices are firm, though Polish imports are
permitted, the rye crop being defective, and potatoes in
some plisse diseased, though new ones come in great
quantity to market, and sell at low prices. Much of the
new crop is described as greatly damaged in the neighbour-
hood of Konigsberg, where 84s. has been made of fine red
wheat for seed.
Home-grown wheat, as well as Romagna quality, was
firmly held at Leghorn, alter a small decline. Blocks were
very low, and arrivals expected from the Daanbe.
At Hamburg trade bad been very lively, and improved
quotations were realised for wheat and rye.
Accounts from Odessa describe the crops in Great Russia
as severely diminished by drought and hail.
At Riga the heat was intense, but the crops did not
appear seriously hurt. Linseed was not advanced enough
in growth to speak of with confidence.
At New York scarcely ever so mach rain was known to
fall u in last July, and some humeri report serious injury
At Michigan, North Ohio, and Canada there had also been
heavy showers, but not to the same extent. The downward
tendency in prices was wine what checked in wheat, though
there were large arrivals from the south in conseqoence of
an export demand for France and England. Flour had
little varied.
Bt. Louis reports speak very sanguine as to the yield of
all gain, especially wheat, and anticipate reduction in
prices. Flour was down to 6 dols. 50c. for good qualities,
and it was thought would decline still further.
In Philadelphia about the same prices were paying for
wheat as last quoted, via . 1 dol. 85e. for red, and 1 dol.
95c. to 2 dole. for white. Nothing doing in rye. lodise
corn dull at 97 to 98 e. per bushel. It is remarkable that,
with the universal complaints as to the yield of this crop, the
exports should have been so liberal, and so much remain on
hand.
Ban Francisco has found • fair demand for wheat for
export at fully former prices ; good to choice flour being
saleable at 6 dole. 50c. to 7 doll. per brl. of 2001 be. ; Oregon,
6 dole. 25c. to 6 dols. 60e. _ _ .

la Canada a considerable quantity of wheat remains left
over for export.
Last accounts from Alexandria are Brea. Said' wheat,
395. 3d. to 39.. 70.; beau, to 31s. 7d.; Behan wheat,
38s. 64. ; beans, to 295. 3d. ; linseed, dia. 6d. to dae. 9d.,
all trot as board.