The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

LATER FROM AMERICA.

By the ship Zurich, Capt. Thompson, arrived at
Havre, there is intelligence from New York to the
19th ult.
According to the latest accounts from Mexico, the
congress: assembled at Queretaro had come to no de-
cision upon the question of an amicable arrangement
with the United States, though a pacific party was
understood to be making strenuous exertions for a
final arrangement.
The commercial news from New York is not of
much importance ; no fresh failures had occurred, and
business generally was dull. In the money market no
grew disposition to operate was manifested, news
from England by the Liverpool steamer Hibernia,
due at Boston on the 16th, being looked for with
some anxiety. United States Treasury Notes were
dull, at 991.
The subjoined had bees received by electric tele-
graph, for the New York Courier and Enquirer:
CINCINNATI, Dec. 19, p.m.—Further news of the great
flood in the Ohio River ; immense distress among the people ;
with gr. at destruction of property.
The market is stagnant, and bu‘iness in a measure sus-
pended, on account of the great flood. The river is within 6
inches of the great freshet of 1832, and rising, the greatest
inundation ever experienced in the Ohio River. The die-
dress of the people, with the destruction of property, is im-
mense. Thera is 15 inches of snow on the ground. The
weather is pleasant. The mails cannot arrive, as the roads
are all impassable. Steam-boats are running through the
public streets. The town of Lawrenceburg is overflown.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
M °NET Maw:cr.—New York, Dec. 17, 6 p.m.—The stock
market opened firm this morning, at price. current at the chic
yesterday, but there was very little disposition to operate, and the
trangution•, therefore, were limited. At the fleet board, Reading
Ronda advanced i per cent.; Long Island, i; Norwich and Worcester,' ;
Farmer.' loan, ; Harlem and Reading Itailroadelosedat ycotenlay'a
prices. The market in in a feverish state, and prices vary from day to
day a fraction- up to day amt down to-morrow. Operators in the
street are satisfied with a rrottt, amounting to a fair commission, as
the scarcity of outside operutore compel" them to speculate upon their
own mmonsibility. A quarter or a half per cent. profit in sufficient
to 111411. C "oleo. The slightest thing would turn the market one way
or the other, although good news from any quarter would create a
greater change thnn bad neww. Primo are now so much depressed
that it would be difficult to press them down much further, and there
in, therefore, such a margin for an improvement that any relief in the
money market would inflate prima very rapidly. Several of our large
capitaluto or this, and are quietly purchasing largely some of the fa-
vourite fancies.
Par.], Sun rot.—The flour market was comparatively quiet, and
sales were moderate, the market cloning without animation. The bad
state of the weather, with the near approach of atwitter steamer, with
like fore gn usus, together with the late period ut which river navi-
gation has remained open, had a tendency to slacken wiles. Holder.,
too, were generally noking priceo chic the views of ohippens
who m..nifested very little dhiposition to eater the market except of
lower prices. 'there was very little wheat offering. In Corn wiles
were spin made at full prices, and the market clewed firm. Steal
wail steady at previous rates. Rye showed no change, while mita ,
were Killing at prices a little lower than thee, prow:on-1y current. in
provision. pork was unsettled; lard sold freely at low Rtes; city beet
changed hands at former priers. In groceries odes were moderate,
without material alteration in prices.
Boarox, Dec. 17.—Floor: The market was firm, and
sales of 1,000 bbla. were made, including Gennewee, o.wego, and
Michigan, at 6 told. 37Ac. to 6 dots. SOc. Wheat : No nice reported.
Corn Fades of 3,600 busht lo ware made at 75c. for western mixed,
and ric. for yelow. itse Sales of 3,000 to 4,000 bnohebs were made
at I dol. (boo gales of 5,000 bushels were made at SOc. Provisions
were comparatively quiet. Freights remained about the same.
Patisvetexta, Dec. 17.—The continued unfavourable
state of the weather Mill operates unfavourably on busineea, and the
market, generally slinking, remains languid and dull. Flour is nomi-
nally leg' at 6 rots. 50e, with a leas rate offered ; we hear of no sales of
any consequence. Corn meal inactive, at 3 dole. 23e. Wheat : Small
tales of good reds, at 138 e. to 143 e. Corn in better demand, with
sales of new, at Mg to are., and old and new mixed at 60c. Oats—
Southem fold at 39e. to 40e. fingeries and Provisimui without
Movement. Seeds—no change. Freights without alteration ; flour
N., and grain id. to to Liverpeol, but little going. Whioky heavy,
at 20c. for Mids., and lie. for bbls.

By her Majesty's ship Modeste, from Rio, there is
news from the River Plate to the end of October, from
which it appears that on the 26th of that month the
government of Buenos Ayres issued a decree stopping
the trade rid Monte Video after the Ist of December,
from which date no produce would be allowed to be
shipped except in vessels exceeding 120 tons burden,
and going direct to their ports of destination without
touching at Monte Video.
This step on the part of the government of Buenos
Ayres is intended to stop the traffic which has
hitherto passed through the blockading squadron.
Letters down to the 28th of October announce the
capture, on the 26th, by the French steamer Pandour,
at Ensenada, of a considerable number of vessels
which were loading at that port under the previous
tacit encouragement of the French, sad all of which
would have paid toll at Monte Video.