The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.7-THIS DAY.

SUGAR.—The mariet is steady to-day. The public solo
of Madras is going off well; the Havannah was chiefly
bought in. The refined market continues dull. Grocery
lumps, 43e. flid. to 475.
,Comte.—The publics sale of 100 casks and 200 barrels
I went off steadily at lull prime.
Cocoa.-130 bags Trinidad sold in public sale at full
prices.
T=A.—The demand has improved, and common Congou
is now scarce at R,l. per lb.
SALTPEIRE.-650 brigs were offered; a part was bought
in ; refraction 7 to S sold 265. to 26e. 651.. which were lull
prices; refraction 7 to 10i, bought in 23e. Gd. to 265. Gil.
INDloo.—The quarterly public sales commenced to-day,
and price. are folly 011. above the last quarterly sale, and
about par with private contract market of last week.
Rice.—The market is quiet hut prices are supported.
Corrog.—The demand has been very limited the lag two
days, but prices are supported.
SPIRITei.—Rum The market continues inactive. Brandy
fully maintain+ the late advaoce.
In other articles no material alteration.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6.

Limn Deativ is not to hold the Lord Wardenehip
of the Cinque Porta, ears the .11vraima Herald,—
Lord listitorste is to be the man. How far the
Ito-Rise Herald is justified in this statement time
only can show, for though its columns are benevo-
lently given to the service of the present helpless
ministry, that ministry are not Ferateful enough to
prevent the Morning -Herald from making statements
with an a;r of authority which are found after-
wards to be groundless—as wooers the allegation
respecting the American Fisheries dispute. In the
absence of more poeitive information on thuln'ect,
there must still be a doubt who is to succeed the
Waterloo hero at Widmer, but we may meanwhile
very fairly take the statement as it stands, and see
what indications it may stem to give on the vital
question of Ministerial intentions.
If Lord Distils, instead of being a breeder of
racehorses, a patron of betting-books, a first-rate
judge of fighting cocks, and a politician who
has been on all sides by turns and with
no side long—if, we say, the Earl of
Deane, instead of being thus distirguisheel, were re- I
markable for a long coarse of open and statesman-
like conduct, we might hail this rumoured refusal
of the Cinque Ports as a sign that he meant to do
something towards the abolition, or at least reform,l
of those offices the valve of which has long since
trowel away. It would be pleasant to see a Pilau
Minister setting an example of self denial, and
when an official prize fell to his lot, say-
ing, " This post has lost its public importance ;
it belongs to a state of society no longer
existing. The pilots of Kent and Sussex should be'
ander, and be licensed by, the authority which regn-
totes pilots in other parts of the kingdom. Dover'
Castle should now be considered as a military post, I
subject to military rule, and need not, in 1852, be
held as a mere royal key of intercourse between
England and France, in order that any successor of
the Conqueror may always there be able to depart
for Calais or re-land in F,ngland. Writs intended
for persons within the bounds of the Cinque Ports
may much better issue and be served as
writs directed to other portiere of the king-
dom are, and since the privileges of Alum
and the " rules" of the Queens Bench have for the
simplification of legal arrangements and the general
benefit of the community been reformed, so let
the Cinque Ports be set in order : I, F.arl of DERBY,
with my princely private fortune, do not want Cinque
Port money; and I, Prime Minister of England,
do not nerd the honour to be thrived from a %Var.
denship." If the PREMIER would treat the Cinque
Forts sinecure in this spirit, we might hope something
from his government; but he does not speak about
the waifs and strays that fall to him in any such
temper: on the contrary, his conduct in reference
to the other offices made vacant by the death
of the Duke of WELLINGTON affords no hope
of his stepping in advance of the narrow views and
rickety policy which have hitherto characterised his
tenure of office. In proof of this, we have only to
remember what was done only the other day with
the Conetableship of the Tower of London. Never
wasa greater opening offered than in that case for
proper adaptation of an ancient office to the changes
of the times. In the days of litensan 111., the
Monarch of England might. for some purposes, want
a (*astable of the Tower, but such an officer is—in
plain English--a mere swindle in the days of Queen
VIt;TORIA. The Tower may be priceless as an
antique, and valuable as a fortress; but neither
as a mediaeval curiosity nor as a post of
military strength is it needful to persist in the
costly mummery of an absent constable with de.
pates to w alk in procession with state keys. During
the life of the Duke of WELLINGTON It was fully un-
derstood thst the abuses in the Tower would be re-
moved the very first time the Canetableship became
vacant. But the Duke died, and the Earl of DEBBY
gave this portion of the n•*l.t thereby accruing to
Lord Con mianear..
With what reason, then, can we hope that the
change announced by the Morning Herald in the
occupancy of the Cinque Ports has anything to do
with intended reforms in their ancient jurisdiction.
Not a sin will be atoned for—no semblance
of improvement will be made. IValmer Castle, with
all the rights, privileges, powers, perquimites, and im-
munities attaching to its proprietor for the time
being, will assuredly be handed over to the Duke's
successor oa the coast of Kent. just as the similar
collection--keys and all—were turned over on Tower-
hill to Lord COMBER/lIRE. In their unreformed
condition the Cinque Ports, like the Tower, will be
all the more profitable gift—all the better worth
taking—by the lucky man for whom they are in-
tended. n. supporter of the ministry declares Lord
DALIIOVRIL to ha the happy man. Why ? Why
should the present Governor-General of India be
selected ? We said a fortnight ago, when criticising
the Burmese war, that the Governor-General's visit to
Rangoon would not assist him in keeping the lucrative
post he desires still longer to retain. India was
wanted by Earl DERBY " for some powerful sup-
porter, or —what is more probable—to buy off some
formidable and needy opponent." Haa Lard DERBY
now made arrangements for giving the Governor-
Generalship to that mum powerful foe ?—and does
be intend to gild Lord DALIIOVSIE'S rseall with the
gift of the Cinque Porte ?—hoping, also, to get in this
way new adherents in the House of Peers? Is it
possible that a political opponent who was expected
to enter the field as a candidate for the Chancelloe-
ship of Oxford may be going to India! The Gover-
nor-Generalship has often fallen to the lot of noble-
men to whom 36,0001. a-year might be serviceable.
The peerage has many such men at this moment,
and one at leut —an excellent man of business—who
bears the title of Duke. Is India to have a Peelite

Few dwellers in this metropolis require to be in-
formed of the enormous advantages that were con-
ferred upon its commerce by the construction—at a
cost of more than 20 millions sterling—of those vast
docks which at once adorn and enlarge to so great an
extent the port of London. Hut there are also few,
especially of those whose c.xperience does not date
back to the first decades of the century, who are suf.
ficiently aware that the results of those spler.did
establishments have redounded not merely to the ad-
vantage of commerce, but to the total change and
signal improvement in the commercial habitudes of
the metropolis, and consequently of the country at
large. It is not only to the cly.k system that we
owe the economy of time, and space, and money,
which has rendered it poesike to carry on the
enormous trade of London within the narrow limits

to which it was necessarily circumscribed; or that
• ten eargoes can be landed and sold with less trouble
sad dose than it took formerly to transfer one from
the hold of the ship in which it was imported to the
bands of the purchasers hy whom it was consumed;
but the entire system of do:nestie life, and business
habits, the whole phyiipee aid tr.,•rgle of the corn•
menial public has undergone a complete and most
happy revolution.
The London merchant—untke his predecessor io
the days of the STU MTV, or ev, n .1 the Geonors—
may live away front the crowded lanes of the City;
may dispense with huge store-homes and their costly
oral of porters, watchmen, and custodians; may
spare himself the trouble of 10-king after the safe
keeping of his rich comtriodities, and the loss attending
their conveyance, stou age, sod the inevitable deterio-
ration incurred during these deli•-ste processes, may
escape nine-tenths of the aniirl r.nee still inflicted by
the semi-barharous Custom•Loo,ef nualiflee, tom'
whole of the risk attending the chances of fire and
robbery on his own premises, and yet transact his
business with perfect ease and regularity. His

Roods are landed at the dock wharf and saki, stewed
a the dock warehouse. There they an preserved.
registeeed, and guarded. kept under • WA which
exonerate* him from the ;Alm a! of the inty‘to
ent until the moment when they are emitted
Cvmarket, and at the same thus t • to
be capable of ready wee and, idea
the part of the owner qa. his dal rt..
company takes all the troubte his
The trader need not even see the goods
in which he deals. All that he wants is
the receipt or " warrant," which, after the
merchandise has been properly scheduled as to
quantity and "sampled" as to quality, is put into his
hands, whence it passes by simple endorsement Into
those of all subsequent holders until it is really de-
manded by its ultimate consumer. Instead, there-
fore, of transmitting cumbrous loads of commodities
hither and thither, at Yost damage and expense, they
rest quietly in the dock warehouses until required
for use. Nothing is transmitted but the dock war-
rant; by which the bulkiest properties are conveyed
in a pocket-book and transferred by a signature.
And while these warrants constitute a valuable
species of mercantile currency, saving many a
million of "circulating medium," their use has ex-
tended the basis of credit and fostered the spirit of
honourable dealing for which the British merchant
has long been so happily distinguished.
Some years since the Irish endeavoured to copy
this system ; but the imitation was tried under
special circumstances, and worked out imperfectly
and in a hurry. No wonder, therefore, that it did
not succeed. The motive that prompted the at-
tempt was indeed occasional, and, so to say, unna-
tural: it was not to fulfil the requirements of an
extraordinary commerce, but to stave off tho distress
arising from paralysis and stagnation. When con-
sumption almost disappeared after the February Revo-
lotion, the provisional government in Paris endeavo3red
to serve the tradesmen, when goods were no longer
saleable, by the establishment of public ware-
houses. A decree was accordingly issued on the
21st of March, 1548, for the construction of national
magazines, and the organisation of a kind of bastard
system of " warrants. Goods lodged in these pub-
lic were weighed, docketed, and stowed ;
a valuation affixed to them, according to the oen-
tralising system of the country, by some national or'
municipal functionary; and a receipt or warrant
given to the owner. This receipt could be trans-
ferred by endorsement, and if placed in the hand of
any other party, constituted an effectual lien upon
the property to the extent of whatever loan he may
have granted on its credit. Attached to a bill of
exchange. the receipt was also accepted in lieu of a
second signature by the national discount banks, and
of a third signature by the Bank of France. Yet
notwithstanding the good intentions of the legis-
lature, these warrants never served their intended pur-
pose. The trade of Paris would not recognise them—for
the reason, among others, t hat at the moment it did not
want them. Distress alone, of the severest though
temporary character, gave them a momentary cur-
rency ; but after all the " national warehouses"
never succeeded in becoming anything better than
se many commercial pawnshops.
The attempt is now renewed under different auspices,
and a decree has just been issued authorising the'
establishment of a great dock company in Paris. In
borrowing this term from England, the French have
shown their usual carelessness for the original, and'
especially the foreign signification of words. In-
stead of limiting its meaning to the depository for
water-borne commodities, they have applied it to a
system of warehouses to be erected far away from
the Seine, and intended chiefly for the accommoda-
tion of a rapidly increasing railway traffic. How-
ever, we need not quarrel about syllables. Our
lively neighbours are entitled to translate our com-
mercial phrases quite as freely as we do their names.
Two enterprises of • similar nature, but on a very
limited scale, already exist in Paris. At the emboid-
Avec of the St. Martin's Canal, and on the Batig-
notice, public warehouses have been standing for
some years past; but the former is intended, and
applicable only, for the goods brought by the canal ;
the latter, for the traffic on the Havre Railway.
The new dock company is to absorb their pre-
existing establishments, to construct enormous build-
ings of its own, and to supersede a system of
dock warrants, which they have never attempted
to organise. The central warehouses are to be
erected in the Place de l'Europe, a locality chosen
AS being sufficiently near to the chief centres of boil-
nems,—to close vicinity to the common termini of
the Rouen, Havre, and Western Railroads—and con-
nected, by the railway de Ceitunre, with all the routes
of communication that terminate in the capital.
The general organisation, says the Cbteetihrtionnel, is
not only to afford great advantages to commerce in
all its requirements for importation, consumptimand
transit, but is to offer that unquestionable security
which is necessary, in order to familiarise the public
with the system of warrants. France, it adds, is
now in her turn to have her docks as well as Eng-
land, and will enjoy no small advantage in being
able to profit by the forty years' experience which
has carried the English establishments to that pitch
of perfection by which they are now characterised.
May they prosper! Call it jealousy, rivalry, or
what not—there is no effort made for the develop-
ment of French commerce—no step taken to place
France more on an equality with England in the
height and plenitude of its commercial businese—that
does not deserve our
i sympathy: nay more, that does
not re aet upon ourselves n an increase of our own
wealth and security. The prosperity of the two
countries is indissolubly bound up together. Every
enhancement of their internal resources makes them
better customers and better friends to one another.
Every new facility afforded to trade—every augmen-
tation in the products of manufacture that either of
them may acquire adds one more impulse to the pro-
sperity of both, and ties one more thread in that
great bond of union which maintains them in peace
with each other, and, in so doing, preserves the peace
of the world. Whilst we lament the political thral-
dom of France, and denounce her enslaver, we can
never fail to sympathise with her social and com-
mercial improvements.

DEATH OF ME. THOHAII TEOMllOtt.—Wie regret to
ban to anecoune the dank of this gentleman, which took
plain at Edinburgh on the tad iagessit. Mr. Thomson was a
very remarkable man. lb was a 11/104111.1111 of Jeffrey,
Sydney Smith, and.Lerd Becregfam be the niablielment of
the EdineturgA Remo, sad nee • Ennio.* member of the
liberal party at the Ranh baw. Ma bad as
better kaowledg• of the blitasy and astilipillseil:=
than say one of his ceatempeinelea. II• held he may
years the °Mos of deputy etedt restakeond I. that eapaeity
rendered the moat valaalle suds. Is the public by collect-
ing the natioaal records, and midst ems available. Fir
thee. services be was very ill reeresied • and it ill, perhaps,
to be regretted that he did not employ the time spent in
arranging and eleeidating this manimuts and ar-
chives of BcotLisd is writhe Its history. Fee this
task he was admirably quay lA as well by his peculiar
attainments as an antiquary as by his relined taste
and tin purity and ease of his style. But a certain
sonatitational aadolenee rendered him averse from grappling
with any gnat or seatisuou labour; end he contented
himself with preparing these materials for othen which he
could have used boner thus say one else. For several years
past Mr. Thouteu officiated as one of the principal clerks of
sessiea. Instead, however, of haying bad to write out the
jadgments of others, he Amid himself have been a judge.
Bit that pufeet kaowledge of** law and the possession of
the other qualities that It • maa to adorn the beach, do not
always ruse him to that ableation. And superficial medio-
I telt', if assisted by • luky_sambination of circumstances,
has Rile difficulty la Edinburgh, as elsewhere, in rising
above the best sense and the meet solid stersireminits it des-
titute of such aid. Mr. Tininess was endeared to all who
I knew him in private life by the ratimite of his manners,
the warmth of his and lbe runty and extent of
I his Information. Though he lad attained to • very advanced
I age, his ebeerhimon mew Mosul' him, and be preserved to
I the lut the fall assssstisaef kin taerltiee.

THE enlists op Ir. MARY-LE-BOW, CHEAP-
411Dr, was f 0.411111•011 for Mobs venire OS Sunday morning,
alter having bees eloped fog "win and renovations. This
beautiful temple, ems of the lust prodections ol Sir Chris-
topher Wren—Me steeple esasidered his masterpiree—pre-
setae,' • very giedlying appearance after it■ restoration,
which has been effected with mach taste. Considerable
additions have been made to the organ by users, new stops
and F.rdal pips 4 which it is said render this Me mutes-
, melt our of the MM in the whole city. The it.,. Marshall
Ilan, the femur, and the Rev. William Webster, the'
evening lecterer preached appropriate sermons in the
/Warning and allabir. TM church wu well attended, and
several of the Ibutilloe who now, according to the custom of
runt years, raids is the suburbs, attended upon this otes-
, siat in the aerestemed sput. The rector, in his anaiety for
the spiritsal sielfaiii of the inhabitants of the three parishes
which wire u,.ited after the fire of London assembling in
this char'li, onnounerd blt intention of establishing a week
I day evening service on Totelgs, sad also instituting a
young men's ease to 'Bettis the vatry. It is believed chat
this arrangement will he of considerable benefit to the
yowl; men s., numerously employed la the wholesale ware-
limo, is the neighbourhood.