The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-29 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

121 13

11511 wen. Mike Pm- Wer- Total. Total
open moon. diandleo. 1865. UM.
Week ending August 25. £ £ t 4
(Amon end South Western .. d. 603 GOA
Week ending Aug. Id
Safest and Louncy Deer...

MO 27 ZS

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MARK-LANK—THIS DAY.
The wheat trade was firm but not active at the advance
noted on Moaday last. Flour fa.ly supported that day's
rates.
Barley was in fair request at former prices.
Oats, with a falling off in supplies, were rather donor
than otherwise.
Beans and peas without alteration.
ARRIVALS MO LONDON 11KM AUG. 27 VO AUO. 29.
Qrs. English. flastals. URA. Forel"
3710
Wba55........ I 320
Barley ..... .... 390
- 1970 1390
Ilalt. 330
Insar. 130 MOM. 2120 barrels.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
Bvoxn —The market continues excited, and buyers in
many instances are paying a further advance of fully 61.
The public sale of Porto Rico is progressing at high prices,
and fully confirms the advance paid yesterday on other de•
scriptions. The refined market is bare of goods ready for
delivery. Brown lumps firm et 60s.
Comm.—The public sale of plantation Ceylon is going
off steadily.
SPICI/I.—Popper : Tellieherry black sold in public sale
at 611. to 61.1.; white, lly fine, le. 61d. to le. 111 d.
Nutmegs sold at 2a. 3d. to 3..; fine, 4,. 7d. to 4s. Bd. Mace,
24. 2d. to 24. 3d.
Rtraf.—A fair amount of business done at previous rates.
&mug Jamaica, 3s. 61. to 31. 10d. ; Demerara, proof,
2s. 61. to 2s. 6d.
Rica.—Prices are 6d. d ban last week, and large
speculative purchases continue to be made.
Corrox.-600 bales sold yesterday at fall prices.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is ilms at the following quotations, with a
fair business idols" :—Town Tallow is quntsd 65e. 3d. nett
sub; Peureburg Y. C. on the spot, 66e. 3d. to 66e. 6d.;
October to December, 66e. 3d. buyers.

BOROUGH HOP MARHET.-THIS DAY.
Mears. Fattendea and Smith report that doe 1864 hops
of all districts ere become very scarce, particularly Sussex,
which bring a higher price than either Farnham, Heat, or
Worcester's. The crop progresses favourably, and the
duty-800, 1.

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COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Teed,ld Moor Butes. 10.. ; Walls Bed Russell's Helton,
21s. 6d. ; Walls Bad Hettoe, 225.; Walls Ead Legato's,
21a. 6d.-26 skips at market.

ST. PAUL'S CATIISDIAL.—This day the Cathedral
was visited by an Inman assomblege of perms, brought
by szoarsion Misr. Considerable progress bas bees etas
in renovating the pistons of Sir James Thornhill, ander
the dome, the artists being now engaged en the Mb cat
of the sight. The descriptive library bonging to the m-
ien at the doer met with groat patronage frogs our twastry
friends, and seta kw stroked s point to defray the m-
ynas of desosadiag to the crypt, for Ike viewing of Nei-
eon sad Wellington's tombs.
OltieTeL PALACS.--811ILLINO DAT.s-417017111 28.
en euvisost, 26,1389 ; ditto by mesa Wick,
28,757.

MONEY MARKET-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLoci.

The English fends remain steady, without any
movement of importance. Consols, after touching 911
to f, have returned to yesterday's quotation of
91/ to for money and the 6th Sept. The
Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in
at 911 to 921; the New Three per Cents.,
at 921 to ; the Five per Cents., at 116 to
117; the New 30 Years' Annuities, 1885, at
16 15-16 ; Beck Stock for account at 216; Exche-
quer Bonds at 1001.; Exchequer Bills, March, at
17s. prem. ; ditto, June, at 15.. premium. Omniucz
is quoted 41 to 4f prem.
The foreign stock market is also very quiet.
Turkish Six pet Cents. are quoted 93i to for
money, whilst for the new account of the 12th
September they are marked 931 to 94. The new Four
per Cent. Scrip is quiet at 2 to 21 prem. Venezuela
Active Bonds have been dealt in at 31; Chilian Three
per Cents. at 68; and Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 941. Mexican is quoted 211 to 22; Spanish
Deferred Three per Cents., 18/ to 19; and Russian
Five per Cents., 100 to 102.
It is expected that the settling in the scrip of the
New Guaranteed Four per Cent. Turkish Loan will
take place next week.
The Tagus has taken out 28,1031. in specie for the
Peninsula.
Monday next has been appointed settling day for
the bonds of the Antwerp and Rotterdam Railway,
which are quoted 31 to 3 prem. These bonds are
now placed on the official hat. The settling fixed foe
Ardennes Railway shAres is accompanied by the reser-
vation that buyers shall not be entitled to "buy
them in" against parties failing to deliver them,
except by special sanction of the Stock Exchange
Committee, who apparently base this decision upon
the ground that the whole of the 'hareem not issued
in this country.
The memorial to the Lord Mayor with reference to
the filthy state of the Thames (as published in the'
Exp►ess of last Saturday) has already received
upwards of 200 signature a in the Baltic Coffee-house,
and is also meeting with considerable support on the
part of the merchants and brokers at Lloyd's and the
Stock Exchange.
At the second annual meeting of the London
Printing and Publishing Company, held on the 25th
inst., a third half-yearly divilend at the rate of 8 per
oent. per annum was declared, payable on the nth
September.
The first ordinary general meeticg of the Mid-
Kent Railway Company is called for the 18. h Sep-
tember. -

The Admiralty, in a notice issued yesterday, etate that
"in all future cues of ships taken up by the register
ton, where the fraction is less than half a ton, no
payment will be made for such fraction, but where it
amounts to half a ton or more payment will be made
for a whole toe."

TIMIDLY EVENINO.
The English funds remain totally without move-
ment, business showing no signs of revival. Further
telegraphic intelligence from the Crimea is very
eagerly looked for. This afternoon the market was
a shade firmer in character, but we can scarcely quote
any alteration in price.
Consols ruled during the morning at 911 to 1 for
money and the 6th of September, advanced to 911,
and closed at 911 "sellers." The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Console, for
money, 911, 911; ditto, for account, 6th September,
911, 911. Three per Cent. Reduced, 92, 911, 92,3.
New Three per Cents., 923, I, 3. Long Annuities,
expiring in January, 1860, 4, 4 146 ; ditto Thirty
Years, January, 1860,4 India Stock, 231. Three-
and-a-Half per Cent. Exchequer Bonds, falling pay-
able in 1858, 100 Z. Bank Stock, 2153.
In the foreign stock market the transactions were
more numerous, but gave rise to little change in price.
The Turkish Six per Cent. stook was flatter, closing
at 931 tot The scrip of the New Four per Cent.
loan was also more offered, and is marked as low as
2 prem.; the closing quotation was 21 to 21 prem.
Venezuela Active Bonds met with some baeiness, in
anticipation of the meeting of bondholders to-morrow.

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

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By the calculation given by tbe returns which
we pablished yesterday, the decrease in the seven
months in tho enumerated artieles would be
1,070 0731., and In the greed total of exports
8,782,5410:., ec lowed with last year. The rate 01
den/rase indicated by this latter oumpvrison is rather
non than 91 per ant. It will be noticed that this
ratio of diminution has bean observed throughout
the whole of the current year. The explanstiori of
this state of things is easily afforded by the over-
stocked state of many of the foreign and colonial
markets, especially those of Australia, and by the
war. Thies arc no symptoms, however, of any fur-
ther decline in our general export trade, this re-
dosed rate of movement being maintained with great
eteaJ in ess.
Examining into the chief Items of thee' exports,
we arrive at the subjoined general Boise toe the
month, 1:x. :
Mesa ending 6th Sae., 31st Judy,
1188. 1864. 1866.
L. C. C.
Coital isanufacteres 2,369,645 1,187,811 047.877
Cotton yarn
Lore nranstaetores
Leen yarn 79,442 60,002 86,446
Woollen and worsted

saanufaztares 1,171,262 1,061,912 807,720
Woollen sad wasted
Ten a 12.114 11,903 8,226
Mike
Metals 1,266,884 1,609,491 1,270,950
Luther, onteroughtand
mans lectured
lieberdashery and mil-
linery
lisrdwares sad ochry . 312.224 317.666 260.570
Coals and calm
Beer sod el*
Machinery and millwork 161.883 200 020 186.654
Stationery
'Wool
Ode
Toe chief decrease, as compared with last ye sr, is
in silks, haberdashery and millinery, and hardwares
and cutlery. In cotton, woollen, and linen manure*.
tures the movement is also on the unfavourable side.
-, The exports of wool, on the other hand, have largely
Increased, and extensive shipments of coals are re-
quired by our fleets on foreign service.
Annexed is a statement of the quantities of the
chief articles of food taken far consumption during
the month :
Mouth seeding 6th Aug., 31st July,
1863 1864. 1866.
Nees lbs. 349,269 332,854 457.982
Coffee lbs. 3,127,603 2,966,218 3,891,124
W beet qrs. 691,738 281,050 369,792
Flour cote. 379,249 260,106 WM
Currants cwt.. 18,426 16,341 11,634
Better eats. 38,328 suss Mae
Rice cats. 73,679 64,316 115,4118
Popper I be. 274,943 265,186 376,777
Ram gals. 227,919 209,876 197,607
Brandy gals. 150,427 137,144 123,799
Sager, mare need, e tent. 769 816 728,118 1,049,888
Tea lbs. 4,900,748 6,086,416 8,670,331
Tobacco lbs. 2,477,784 2,397,582 2,630,189
Wines gals 60.5.061 658,437 687,802
Ins no. 12,848,006 12,716,048 10,653,800
It will be remembered that during a portion of last
month an erroneous impression prevailed very gene-
rally, in Mincing-lane and elsewhere, that the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer contemplated making an
addition to the duties on several articles of consump-
tion. Under this impression, great eagerness was
shown to pay duty, especially as regards sugar, tea,
and tobacco, in respect of which the comparison with
former period* is greatly disturbed, last month's in.
crease being very marked. Cocoa, coffee, and pepper,
also show a considerable increase, which may, per-
haps, be explained in part on similar grounds. The
receipts of foreign wheat and flour are shown to be
larger than they were at the corresponding period of
last year.
In respect of the important article of sugar, the
.statistics of which are now exciting great attention,
we annex a statement compiled from these returns by
a practical authority, which shows a very remark-
able increase in the consumption, unaccompanied by
any commensurate augmentation of supplies. It 111
upon this view that the present extensive rise in the
price of sugar is based:

OUGAK IN OkIAT IRITAIN AND IIV.A D 701 TIM
TVILLVi MONTHS INDID AUOVST 6.

1853. 1854. 1856
Raw tom 340.719 679,166 401,748
Refined tons 16,7(9 19.016 17,105
Malawi tom 16,803 19,766 16,799

Total toes 373,243 417,977 436,652

DUTY PAID.

1853. 1864. 1856.
fittw tons 360,358 872,692 423.830
Relined tons 11,307 10,300 17,938
1101, ono tons 14,448 16,747 19,849

Total toss 386,111 399,639 461,117

MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

BIRMINGHAM, TVISDAT EVENING.
The BIM Morning et the Festival has best 00-
espied with the pendulum of tae RbjaA ; sad certainly
W masterpiece of the intimidates tempted has never before
bees so magnificently performed is England, nor, indeed,
we may say, any where else ; foe the French know nothing
•boat blesde'asohn, sad we, in England, have deem greater
Inmost to himself sad his works th•a has ever bees dew
by his countrymen.
Ia this oratorio, the character of Elijah was nestaMmil,
sot Ca* at the last Festival) by Herr Formes but by Ilk.
Weiss. This change was by means intended as • slight la
Forme, +hoes high reputation is ibis part I. usquestimmil.
Bet Formes has to morrow torintais another part of deafen
weight sad magnitude—the part of the high rim%
Ell, is Costa's new oratorio, and it was impomibb
tor him to uadertak• seek • load of able=
duties. In these circumstances Mr. Weiss wee AIM
to replace him, and nothing could be more judicious, then
the choice. Weiss has of late bees rapidly rising bb
art, and has now reached • height not surpassed, we eta
convinced. by any singer of his class in Europe. MIN&
eons voice is of the finest quality—equally remarkable trf
power sad mecum, sad cultivated by expellent valli
studies. His appearance--and that is • thing never to
deemed a trifle—is manly and agreeable; he has dignity et
mein; to ell these exterior advantages he adds the staff
manta of • sound muskies ; sad, above all, be has the seal
isf as artist. With, perhaps, the single exception of the
first Elijah, Stasillejl, I have
she character of the inspired Prophet of Israel maw
nobly represented thee it has bees this twain by Webs.
Another novelty was the appa•raate of Roiehardt—tor
the first time, I believe, in Binalsgbam. The principal
tenor part was divided between him and Sims Reeves—
Reichardt singing the sirs sad esaserted pieces is the first
part of the oratorio, and Reeves those is the sowed
part. Reichardt sustained the reputation be baa
paned in the attar:optic He sang with • rich and
sseuner voice, a sissiciaa-like style, much earnestness, and
truth sad variety of expresaion. Oa Madame Viardn's
performance it is impossible to be silent, though she has
often been hexed in this oratorio. The scene in which she
personates Jezebel the Queen, and excites the furious rod.
tits& to avenge upon the prophet's heed the slaughtered
priests of Baal, is • grand tragic creation of her tine mai
original genius; and a passage of • difierent character, is
which, with the accents of a pitying angel, she announces
the doom brought upon the people by their wiekedoess, is
soother stroke of genies worthy of this most mompliehed
artist. Madame Rudendorfe for the list time, sustained as.
of the most arduous portions of the work, particularly Mr
grand ex. " Hear ye, Israel," which opens the second pun
of the oratorio; a most trying efirt, la whisk she wren.
seosenfel. I ea•not omit to mention Madame Oe►
Milan, though her beautiful performance is this oratorio
is already well known. She never sang more charmingly;
and the beautiful scene of the widow whim deed eon is
emoted 0 life by the Prophet was faU of feminine tender.
hem sad pathos. Nor must Mies D•ilby be paned over.
•he wag beautifully, and her famous " 0 rest in the Lord "
was as delightful es ever.
The programme of this evening's concert is of • varied
deemiption, ►ad exhibits several remarkable hater's, espe.
•icily Madame's Cantata 1.4110011, whieb, for the first
time. will have the ndvaat•ge of an excellest performance.'
Tomorrow morning is to be dedicated to Coin's new Oro•
tort* Eli.

Cheat disappointment bee bon produed by tle fatal
Bence that Msd.ate Bodo, ono of the great stencils, alb.
Festival, is sot t 2 be proseut A ercassaitiastion has bon
nosivod, aseamosaied by a sulked eertleostit, to the offset
that the slats of ber health readers It impossible tee has
again to appear is stabile this mum.