The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

CATTLE.

BARNSLEY (YORKSIIIIRE)NiICIIARLMAS FAIR, OCT.
12.—This fair was thinly supplied with llorscp, and scarcely a
good one to be shown. The dealers had been in the town
and neighbourhood for oeveral days previous buying up all
the useful horses to be found ; coreoquently few were shown,
and those realised high prices. We had a moderate supply
of Mikh Cows, which ranged from 121. to 221. each, and
were quickly sold. Drapes scarce and dear. Pigs were never
so abundant. Large numbers came which could not find
room to stand in the usual plcce allotted for them. lligh
prices were asked for fat ones in the morning, but receded
20 per c,,nt. before night. Small Pigs were a complete drug;
hundred,3 remained toe. dd. Bacon Pigs sold at from 6P. to
6s. 6d. per stone of 1111).

Noßwtvit, Ocr. 10.—At market to-day, the show
of store cattle was both larg.. and good. The attendance of
buyers was limited, so the trade was dull. Fat Beasts sold
at from is. to To. Col. per stone of 141bs. Good Sheep were
in de:nand at from 34,. to 10s. per head. Fat Sheep S•. per
stone, and all sold. Lambs a short number, and all sold.

GIII:AT FAIR.— Yesterday this great
cattle fair was resumed, and notwithstanding the large Falcs
effected on Saturd iy, the Sheep pens were equally well
fillet, and many fr. it droves of cattle were brought in. The
supple was met with a great demand, and many large buytrs
who lad stood out at laq yielded to the owners' prices.
Prime young Ewes (Southdown) went off at 365. a head,
end some pens of choice.bred lots fetched 12s. a head. Ewe
Lambs of the best description made from ads. to 335. a head.
(food Wethers were eagerly sought after. Two year old
Sheep made 335. to 395., and three year old Wethers, well
bred, were bought for folding off at 355: to 445. a. bead, and
good fat Wetter Sheep maintained prieeevarying from 48s.
to 645. a head. In Bullocks a brisk sale was obtained for the
best steers and young store Bullock•, and well-framed beasts
fir the fattening sheds sold at 12 to 16 guineas. Cows, for
dairying, sold at II to 16 guineas.

_ CIIEESE.
WETHELL FAlR.—Tbie-fair le mach celebrated for
its usual large sale. of Cheese. New Cheese made 563. per
cwt.; old Cheese, 5.55. to 60s. per cat.; and the choicest (eta-
lily of prime old Ch,ese. were caught up at esis., 705., and ,ss.
per cwt., and many waggon loads were consigned to London.

SOAP TRADE.
Price of extra pale Soap (nett price, exclusive of
chests, freight, de.), 4Th. ; Mottled, .15t. to 19s.

BARK.

LIVERPOOL—EngIish Tree, 12'. to 13/. 10s. ; Cop-
pice, 131. to 11/. per load of 45 cwt. Duty Free—Querci-
tron, Si. Gs. to 101. ; Dutch Oak, per ton, 41. to 51. ; Dor-
man, 81. 10s. to Gl.

IRON TRADE.

At the quarterly meetings held during the last
week, Loth here and at Wolverhampton. the greatest ac-
tivity prevailed in every department of the trade, and at
Dudley also on Saturday evening. No nominal admnee
upon manufactured iron has taken place, but something
letter—a real and substantial advance. The order books,
which in the early part of last quarter were filled at prices
very considerably below the list agreed upon, are now pre-
senting a different appearance, and the bri,k demand for Pig
lion by most of the first-rate houses who arc accustomed to
buy, as well as their c ,refulness to accept orders only to
limited amounts, indicate that an upward movement is
looked upon as extremely probable, and near at band. The
pig makers have etrtai .ly succeeded in obtaining better
prices; and fir good cold-blast mine pigs U. 10s. was gene-
rally demand. d, though, we think, scarcely realised. A con-
siderable sensation was created by a report in the Times
newspaper of the inability of a certain house (not named) to
meet their engagements; and it is a very general opinion
that the paragraph was inserted for the discreditable pur-
pose of damping the confidence of the trade, by some party
largely interested in preventing an advance of price. What-
ever might have been the intention or effect, we trust the
report was without foundation, and feel confident that at the
present moment the general stability of the trade, as well as
its encouraging prospects, are much more satisfactory and
durable than we have had the pleasure of recording for many
years.—Aria's Birminyhan Gazette.