The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORE, Avorst 11.
The amount Of coin in the ar4staol-treasurer's office in
this city to-day amounts to 4,800,620 dots. Our banks were
never better fortified with the pre'zious metals than they are
at the present time, consequen,',y no apprehension what-
' ever it, felt of an stringency ',n the money market, or even
the
upon stocks by the shiprne7,t of 600,000 or 700,000 doh. by
Sonya.
The activity among the importers and jobbers has im-
parted a healthy amend for money from this branch of

;lAll2..rerdl'ainaol,
rtrade. The amount of capital seeking
largely on the increase, yet it is freely ny. t by capit4647
and rate. are atapdy at our previous quota.ions.
Exchange has been unusually firm and in good met
Weymu quuroortte,
4Loointodonn,
80 to ; Ilreulen, 79 to 79r
COTTON.—Five bales of the :tow crop of ratan E,
been received at New Orleans. This " other
than usual, but is probably owing to instruction,
by factors to the planters not to hurry their tr."
laarkst. The accounts from all tlao cut:.. • pow,
Staten are extremely favourable—in fact we ht.e
known so hw complaints of worm, &c.; but the tt
has not yet come to maturity, and an unfavourable
of the weather may yet produce di,ins.rous result,, ryy
market has been extremely buoyant of lute—the sto
hand is small, and the accounts front Europe being fa to
able, spinners, speculators, and sbippen have c.,a,
market; the latter predominated today. Prices hat.
vented ito I cent pc lb. We revise our ipiotat,,
accordingly. The sales of the la.t three days amotou•
9,400 bales.

On, Atlantic. Florida. GUI, i,....
Interim
Low to good ofd
lAw to mood mid ...
Mod. fair to fair Uri to II i II to II
Fully fair togoud do.— - - to ~
Good and line
CULBILMT PILLS, rift 1-1•1.1.•,1. , I.,•,,vATvw.
Molo!r and New ()dm,
Uplands. F.,,r01a. man T.U..
Inferior
Ordinary
Middling
Middling fair ......
Pair
Omit Fair
Fine ... ........ .
'fhe stock in all the southern ports is now but :fits
hales, of which, probably, Isi,unil is in course of ihii,,,,.„
to Great Britain, 2,11191 to France, and 2,000 to the :e•,,,t,
nent of Europe, leaving hut 14.1100 bales for coastwise •!..p.
meats, and for "Mock on hand." The stock in the inn ri.
markets is also very small. This market, then, is the 00l
one where any amount of cotton can be purchaAed Mann
the coming silty days, a ciretim.tato-e to which the press i.
holders are fully alive, and of which they st-cm don vsl t
take every advantage. 'l'ho exports during the Fe, a.,.
have been: To Liverpool, 1,293 bales; Antwerp, 40. 1,, .
1,333 hales.
.... ... . . . . . .

The following has been received by telegraph
Orleans, August 3.—Sales yesterday and to-day were alms
200 bales ; prices quite nominal. August 6.—Salts
200 bales. August 6.—Sales to-day, 300 bal..,
is quoted at 9e. to 9le. The week's business has leen and
1,300 hales, and receipts in same period, 1,1110 ; suai, nq
hand, 6,000 ; the second bele of new cotton reached here
to-day.'
IitIIADSTUPPI4.—Under the influence of liberal receipts
from the west, and discouraging acc'unta from Eugland
and the continent, as confirmed by the last two arm ,ls, oar
flour market has an unsettled and downward tenden, v.
The latest Recounts from the interior respecting the .44
crop are more favourable, and this, with the,dispesitiun to
hold light stocks, and the absence of speculative fisdirst, has
tended to give less confidence to dealers, and restricts the
operations fur the local trade. With the decline in frehrhts
there is rather more done for export; but still the transits
lions are on a limited scale. fhe supplies of Canadian in
bond are light, and good parcels in demand, a large I, whoa
of the receipts lately having been in an unsound stat,., pf
wheat the supplies frith the west are still large, and hut •
small part of which is in a safe mate fur shipment; holders
have been ready sellers. and prices quite unsettled and
pressed. Canadian corn of sound quality is uasitsd foe
home use, and is in light supply. The stock of wheat is in.
creasing, and the turn of prices has favoured the buy,sra.
The general crop is probably a fair average one, but in thi
State and Pennsylvania there will be a deficiency. The
bulk of the late receipts from Canada have not been in a
sound state, and the sales range from ftle. to it-le. for an
sound, and 90c. to 94c. fur good to prime in bond. ti
nesse, 103 c, to hoc. nominal. White Michigan, 94e. t
97e. Ohio, BSe. to tide. fur red and white. Rye is love
with the prospect of a fair crop at 77e. to 7Sc. Itarlsy
out of season. Oats are easier at 44c. to 46e. Indian corn
with more free receipts is heavy at 63e. for sound irsg,re
mixed. Southern fiat yellow and round ye.low ntatlirm
are scarce and wanted.

}lota. -With a moderate trade prices droop, and t.e
inferior and common kinds of N•eetern are difficult td
tale. Fresh ground State is in better request, and trials
3 dots. 971 e. to 3 do's. 91e. Mixed to fancy Michigan, In-
diana, 3 dole. 94c. to 4 doh. 1'21c.; common to wed
Ohio and favourite state, 3 dois. 94c. to 4 dole. idle. ra.
nadian, in bond, 3 doll. 870. to 4 dole.; sour, 3 dole. 37. e.
to 3 dole. 50c.; uninspected sud No. 2, 3 dol.. 25c. to
3 dole. 620., according to quality. Southern brauda sell at
4 dole. 311 c. to 4 dots. 50c. for old Baltimore, Alixande •
and Georgetown. 'the new is held at at 1 dol.. tdic to
4 dole. 75c. ILye flour inactive, and brings 3 dos. 2;t. to
3 dole. 371 c. Cora meal is scarce, at 3 dole. 12,x. to
3 dole. 2.5 c. fur western and Jersey.
Ploy:stoma are firm. Sales of mess pork have bra
made to a fair extent at 20 dots., a price unusually li.th 4
this seaeon of the year; prime brings 17 dole. 75c.; c.ear
22 dots. Mesa beef brings 15 dols. 50c. to IS doh. be
old prime, S dole. to 9 awls.; prime mess, 22 dull. t 024
Lard is in fair request at 111 e. to 111 c. in barrels, aadli;:.
to 12c. in kegs. Hams in tierces bring 10:c. to 101 e.
NATAL SToars.-Itough turpentine is held, with mode-
rate sales, at 3 dots. to 3 dol.. 121 e. Spirits of turpeutzs
brings 39c. to 40c.. now held at the higher rate. Salt, or
Wilmington rosin have been made at 1 dol. 40c., mist
North County, at 1 dot. 35c.; prime, 2 doh. to 3.10:s;
white brings, 3 dots. to 4 dois., but is scarce.
FREIGHTS.-To Liverpool: Cotton has been shipped at
3s. per bale ; 1,000 bbls. of flour to-day at 9d. To Loudon
the rates are nominal; for tobacco, 225. 6d. to 255. per idl.;
flour, Is. Gd. per bbl. ; turpentine, 2.. per 280 ; measure-
ment goods, 20s. to 30s. per ton ; heavy goods, oil, Ac,
171. 6d. ; beef, 3s. 3d. to 3s. Gd. per tierce ; oil cake, 15.64.
per bbl.

THE MANCHESTER FREE LIBRARY—The result
of the poll, which took place on Friday, for the purpose
obtaining the requisite 'diction of the burgesses of Man-
chester, in favour of applying the provisions of the Public
Libraries and Mueuma Act for the future support of the
Free Library, was • most decisive and creditable test of pubic
opinion. Nearly 4,000 votes were recorded in suppor
the proposition, whilst the dissentients only numbered&
miserable minority of 40. The suffrages actually registered,
we believe, exceed the proportion usually recorded to the
different wards for municipal councillors, and therefor.
there can be no doubt that the ratepayers have fully sad
fairly testified their unhesitating and cordial acceptieco
of the munificent gift which the founders of the Fres
Library have presented, as public property, to the tom
• council of Manchester. The magnitude, of the inijonty
is a fitting a:premien of the public sense of the disinterested
seal and exertions of those who have been the main ill3lll-
- in providing such an institution for the worting-
classes of Manchester. It shows that their laboun hoe
been appreciated; that the public recognises the vast
benefit they have conferred upon the community; and
joyfully undertakes to provide the requisite funds for mare
mooing in full efficiency such a noble and useful institution.
The good work is now thoroughly complete, and it rimier
for the working-classes of Manchester to prove that they
' know how to value the advantages thus placed within thee
Mach by the use they make of them. The Free Library
NW their property, the heritage of their children ; and DO
Ws man In Manchester can henceforth asp that
MGM of self-culture, equal to those enjoyed by the highest
Shoes lam in the social male, are denied to him or ha lel
lows.—MoneAsseer Enansiner.
ComfosfrioN of PARLIAMENT.—The new Home
of Commons comprises the large number of 101 barn•ten
and IS attorneys returned. Of merchants, manufactures+,
and wholesale dealers there are VJ, and to these classes may
also be added 20 bankers and 2 brewers; while of amp
lions more sparingly represented may be mentioned larche
tact, lamer Bell ; 1 builder, William Cabin; 3 engineers,
Messrs. Locke, Stephenson, and Pete); 3 medics; men
Messrs. Hume, Brady, and Michel. An exact estimated.'
scarcely be formed of the railway influence, but Il asp
mates of that interest are certainly present in the perms
Meters. Glyn, Hudson, Waddington, Laing.
Chaplin, H. Brown, Cobbold, Collin, Hawkins, Sti pl+na
and Iticardo. Smaller directors and endless than
will be found among all classes in the house. The urn' 3
fully represented by 67 of its members, while the nail
May count 13. The Irish peers present in the lower 1.... ex
Me Earl Annesley, Viscounts Barrington, Galway. Moos,
sad Palmerston. and Lord Ilotham. Since the Ile%
het not a parliament met without some popular man,
being returned for two places, and having to take hi,eto
between them. But no such occurrence marks the 'roe.:
parliament. Knaresburougb, however, has return, a,o
pilbundance of members, Iron the accident of
the poll ; and death has occasioned three vscanci,-..
oases of Messrs. Duncutt, Watson. and Granger.
closest contest has been Toughal, while in the large 411:4
of 167 places there wen no contest whatever.
AN UNWELCOME I'ASSENGER. The 'Ulan
Captain l'arkia, arrived here on Tuesday afternoon e'
Moulmein, in the East ladies. About three se,le-
while drawing near to the Braglialt laud, a great anal.. +
pent, of the most venomous kind, made his wiesprol
pearsace in the cabin daring the night watch.
board who were asleep were immediately aroused, ell
or less terrified. A light was procured, while the cull
armed himself with a sharp instrument, and aver folios
him for some time and watching his movements. III!,
last succeeded in cutting him right through the 13,
and chopping off hie head, but nut before lie had
several attempts to dart at his pursuers. Ile was Kush'
be about ten or twelve feet long.— :sonde, ra
A NEW CASPAR HAUSER, says a Berlin es
spondent of the Itut.pendessee, who his just /wen
here, is the topic of conversation in every elide. Pon
in this city a school, kept by • person named Maitnel"
man, until lately, of *erne considemtion is the
world, but disgraced, one scarcely knows why bis
mane passed for a mitring conservative. Ili- enemies e
attributed to him certain absolutist articles e loch I
in the ultra.tory journal. His establisline it appnar
have been on a email scale—a house of core, , 1.1
On the 10th of this month the police Ivan,. ,I that
them was chained up in an underground eh.‘inhee
house, and a domiciliary visit accordingly
officers found boy of 15 chained to a he:ivy 1,1,,
lay a paillasse on the floor. The Ind tel e.espeh
from the house, been retaken mid condemned t 0 '
careere duce, where he hail spent ten .1.9., 0 '7".
weak broth, and beaten with a rod. The
him out into the fresh air, upon which lie see:der,'
as if taken with vertigo. Ile has since been
orphan house, and his case in to be brounht
authorities.