The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-02 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

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William' Charles Ilmniphreys, a smart-looking lad, 15
years of age (not related to the Alderman), was charged
with absconding with twenty-five pounds in gold and silver,
the property of Mears. linespherys and Son, Hiberniaa-
wharf, Southwark.
It appeared that on the 25th of October the prisoner
wee sent by Alderman Humphery with a cheque for 2-51. to
get embed at the branch of the London and Westminster
Beak, Southwark. He obtained from the cashier IW. in
geld, and the remainder in silver, with which be absconded,
and nothing was heard of him until Saturday, when it was
ascertained that a young gentleman, answering the
prisoner description, was living in style at a lodging-
in Bath, where be told the landlady that he
expected to meet his father in a few days. Accordingly,
Hunt, 84 X, and Mr. Humphery, jun., proceeded to
IBath ea Monday, and on arriving at the lodging-house,
they were informed that the young gentleman was out
riding in the fashionable promenades. They waited for
him, and a few minutes elapsed before he returned,
" booted and spurred," with riding whip in hand, dressed
in the drat style of juvenile fashion. He was, however,
much surprised at being greeted by his young master, who
at ones handed him over to the constable. He was
searched, sad in his pockets were found a very handsome
port-monnaie containing 41. 10s. in gold a bag containing
a small silver watch and 15s. in silver. Besides a new suit,
which he wore, the ofacer found in a leather travelling bag
three coats, one pair of trousers, two vests, a pair ofrWer-
lington boots, two pair of goloshes, twelve hooka, a new
cap and hat, a bottle of wine, and a pair of false moue-
Whim.

Proof having been given of his receiving the money at
the Bank, Mr. Combs remanded him for a week.
He had only lately been taken from a charity school by
the alderman, and plead in his counting•hows.

LAMBETH.
Jobs Royale, a lighterman, was charged with deserting
his wife and two children.
The unfortunate wife, on into the witness box to
give her evidence, presented a most distressing spectacle
from the effects of • loathsome disease. She said that she
was married to the prisoner for live years, and during the
whole of that time he treated her with the greatest cruelty.
He had frequently left her, and compelled her to support
herself and her two children; but her health became so
impaired by his gross conduct, and communicating • dis-
gusting disease to her, that she became totally unable to do
so. On Monday fortnight he left herself and her two chil-
dren without the mews of providing a pennyworth of
bread, and she was compelled to apply to the pariah for re-
lief. In reply to the questions of the magistrate, she said
her husband was in regular employment, and d as
much as from two pounds to two guineas per week.
The defendant did not deny this, but said his wife was in
the habit of going away from him without any cause.
The wife declared she had never left home except to go
to the hospital, where her husband's irregularities drove
her to.

Mr. Elliott observed that there could be nodoubt that the
defendant bad neglected his wife and children, m t►at they
were compelled to become chargeable to the parish, and his
conduct altogether appeared to be of the molt disgusting
and abominable character. He then committed him to one
moath's hard labour.

Its ANNIE JANE.—The Board of Trade have di-
rected Captain Beeehy to investigate into the circumstances
connected with this awful 411410IVAPhe ; sad he will com-
mence his duties at Liverpool do Woloseday first. Wean
informed that it is intended to summon some witnews
among the survivors from this quarter, and it would there-
fore be well that all parties who can give any evidence on
the subject shookl 11111111Mnielite with each other, and also
leave their names and MMus Immediately at the office of
the Mail, when the requisite asrangements can be made
fora full and fair explication a the truth, by obtaining all
thievidence which can lead lo that desirable result. This
is, we believe, about the first time that a shipwreck of an
emigrant ship has been considered a fit subject for a judicial
investigation ; and we believe that were it not for the man-
ner in which the matter has been taken up by the public
press, the shipwreck at Barra would have pawed sway
almost without a passing coaansat.—North Brstig Mail.

MARKETS.

COTTON.—Lterttroox, Nov. I.—The market closed
heavily. without change in prices. Sales : 3.000 bales,
including 300 on speculation, and comprising 230 Perna=
and Maranhams at 61d. to 7id.; 20 Bahia. gd. ; 30
Egyptian, GO. to 9id. ; 400 Surat, 2:il. to 4:d.
MANCHESTER, Nov. I.—The market has been quiet for
yen, and prices tulerablp steady. In cloths there has also
been a moderate demand. There is still a rather better
business in light fabrics for Indta, but not suffieieut to
lesson stocks. Prices have been maintained, but manu-
facturers do not sell freely at the ruling quotations. Under
the heading "strikes," in another column. will be found the
Orerland Circular for India, of Mr. 0. P. Maudsley,which
contains some interesting particulars.
WOOLLEN CLOTH.—Limus, Nov. I.—We have had
• very bad market to-day. There has been a thin attend.
ance of merchants in the cloth halls, and the business done
is extremely small.

WOOLS.--ift:DUERSIFIELD, Nov. 1. —Though a fair
portion has arrived from the present sales there appears to
be but little demand for them, manufacturers evidently
waiting for the close of sales before they will buy more than
present wants require.

MANUFACTURES. —lltrutmaimum, Nov. I.—Our
market still continues in a state of inactivity, and but few
enquiries are made, excepting for new patterns in heavy
fancy goods for the winter season in the home trade, while
general business is quiet and stocks accumulating.

CORN.—Herr., Nov. I.—The views we expressed in
our last circular as to the result of this yeier harvest have
met with a singularly uniform expression of opinion,
namely, that we have underrated the deficiency, and that
instead of the crop of the United Kingdom being " fully
one.fourth," we might safely have written it " fully ens-
third" deficient. We confess we bad our misgivings that
we were reporting too favourably, but our desire was to
avoid any approach to exaggeration, and perhaps we were
too anxious to steer clear of the charge—so easily made—of
being croakers and alarmists. The transactions of the week
have been all to consumers, with hardly any speculation :
a cessation of imports (except from Petersburg) limits our
buyers to granaried parcels, and unquestionably our trans-
actions would have been much more extensive, but for the
interference of Liverpool, the cheapest market in the
kingdom ; that port has been supplying our ordinary
channels to the westward, and even some of the eastern
counties, on exceedingly low terms ; certainly 10s. 3d. to
11s. per bushel for fine white States wheat does seem dis-
proportionately low when compared with 82s. is London,
80e. in Hull, and 80s. in Leith for Dantrie, of no better
quality. The demand will no doubt run upon that port so
long as such disproportion lasts, to be succeeded by a run
upon the small stocks in this and other Eastern ports. We
had to-day a good show of English wheat, with very little
fresh of foreign. Our farmers were unwilling sellers except
at an advance on last week's prices, with which buyers
were not willing to comp'y, and the market had less fire, at
about previous rates ; the prices being paid 78s. to 80s. for
rune of red. In foreign a moderate retail business
took place at below the prices generally demanded.
We have only a single arrival of barley, from Denmark,
and held at 40s. per qr., 52}lbs. A small cargo of fine
Egyptian is daily expected, and orders aro being booked
for it. Oats 61. to is. dearer. Egyptian beans 2s. to 3a.
dearer, and now held for 525. ; no accession to our small
stocks. Peas much inquired for, and no white on sale, but
blue fetch 655. The linseed market quiet, and less doing
also in cakes, both linseed and rape. Many inquiries for
bones, but none afloat en sale. Imports during the week :
Wheat, 3.006; oats, 95; beans, 1,506 ; peas, 252; Indian
corn, 1,300 ; linseed, 6,036 ; rapeseed, 387 qrs. ; oil cakes,
249 tans : bones, 145.
L111)8, Nov. I.—We are only moderately supplied with
wheat. The new samples generally come in poor condition.
Old and the best descriptions of new are held firmly at late
rates. Inferior and out of conditioned parcels sell at irre-
gular prices, but on the whole not much business done.
Bailey fully as dear, Beans still scarce, and fetch late
rates. Oats and other articles steady in price.
this week:—Wheat, 4,324; Date, 18 • barley 228; beam,
526; shelling, 72; rapeseed, 379; linseed, 931.

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LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1.-At this days market there
was a fair attendance of the town and country trade,
who, however, showed leu eagerness to buy than of late,
and, althuigh holders began by aakieg • further advance
on Friday's prices, before the end of the market they low-
ered their pretensions, and only • small business resulted
in wheat and flour, at barely the rates current on Friday,
although still Id. to 2d. per 701bs. and 6d. per barrel above
those of this day week. Oats met with • fair demand, at
id. per 451 b.. advance for tine new mewling; and oatmeal
was saleable at Is. to 2s. per load more money for both old
and new. Barley was in moderate demand, at extreme
rates ; and Egyptian beans sold in retail, at 435. to 495.,
being an improvement of 4s. per quarter. Indian corn
attracted rather less attention, still sales were made at 2s.
to 3a. per quarter above the rates of this day week, 425. to
481. being obtainable for inferior,l4e. toe& per quarter for
best yellow, and as much as 465. for tine white.
LYNN, NOV. 1.-We have had rather more wheat and
barley at market to-day, best dry samples of wheat made
extreme prices, and, the barley, Is. to 2s. per qr. dearer.
Present quotations:-Wheat, old, red, 551bs. to 60th.., 665.
to 745. ; but new, 601 be. to 631b5., 761. te 80s. ; ditto, 571b1.
to 591b5., 68s. to 735. Barley, best runs, 631bs. to 54th.., 445.
to 46e. extra, 48e.; seconds 521b1., 41s. to 435. Beans,
old, 65th.. to 661 M., 58s. to 60i. per qr. to the grower. Oats,
new, Is. 2d. to la. 3d. per,stone. Flonr,:fine, per sack of
2801 u., 63a.

NEWCABTLR, Nov. I.—The weather since Saturday hits
been exceedingly boisteroni, with occasional shower*. The
wheat cutting is nearly finished, and the same remarks will
apply to oats ; but there is still some quantity abroad of
this article, and nearly the whole of the beans, so that fine
weather is much required to bring harvest operations to a
termination. At our market this morning we had a good
supply of wheat from the country, consisting chiefly of the
new crop, and none could be called in fine condition, whilst
the great bulk, independent of being unsound, was totally
unlit for use without a previous preparation on the kiln.
Fine dry new qualities firmly maintained their value,
up to 80s. being acquired for new Norfolk red ; bat, to
male progress in old, more especially where vessels required
clearing, it was necessary to make a slight concession; but
the market cannot be written generally lower. Flour
without change ; there was, however, a dispositioa amongst
the dealers to refrain from purchasing for the present, so
that the amount of business passing was of a very limited
character. Rye as before. Malting barley steadily main-
tains Its value, with a fair inquiry ; grinding qualities
scarce, sad inquired for. Malt tending upwards, and the
same may be said of beans and peas. Old oats in demand,
and fully ls. higher. Choice Scotch worth Xis., weighing
421 be. to 42i1bs. per bushel, and fine sweet Archangel,
weighing naturally 361 be., but made 401ba., 28e. per qr.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE—Tuesday, Nov. 1.

FOREION-OFFICE, OCT. 31.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry
Ernest Blanchard as Consul at Port Louis. Mauritius, for
His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. C.
W. Denison as Consul at Demerara for the United States of
America.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, Om. 22.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Honourable Lord Fol, to appoint George Watkin
Rios, Esq., late Captain 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, one
of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen•at-
Arms, vice Rice.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ocr. 31.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Captain and Brevet-Major
John Geddes Walker to be lieutenant-colonel, vice
Robe, deceased; Second Captain Richard Button Adair
to be captain, vice Walker; First Lieutenant William
Lovelace Dumaresq to be second captain, vice Adair;
Second Lieutenant Robert Henry Newbolt to be first
lieutenant, vice Dumaresq.
Corps of Royal Engineers.—Second Lieutenant James Pon-
sonby Cox to be first lieutenant, vice Hutchinson, de-
ceased.

Board of Trade, Whitehall, Oct. 31.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Brussels, transmit-
ting copy of a royal edict of the 10th of Octob-r, allowing
the temporary withdrawal from bond in Belgium, under
certain conditions prescribed by the Finance Department, of
Cotton Tissues destined to be bleached, dressed, printed,
or dyed in that country.—By order, JAwna BOOTH.

Board of Trade, Whitehall, Marine Department,
Oet. 31.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the Fri
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Mikan, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg, en-
closing copy of a notice to mariners issued by the Chamber
of Commerce of Bremen, respecting the intended altera-
tions to take place nest year in the positions of the buoys
and beacons at the mouth of the river Wcaer.—By order,
Laing BOMA.

Board of Trade, Whitehall, Nov. 1.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the Pricy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, throuiz
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of • de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Alexandria, reporting
that vessels arriving in Egypt from ports infected with
cholera will be subjected to a quarantine of observation of
five days.—By order, JAXZS BOOTH.

[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazelle of the 14th October.]
NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANT.
LZICISTIBIUMIII2.
James Beaumont Winstaidey, Esq.

The following oosimissionsiiireinen signed :
Lieutenant John Golden, jun., to be captain in the Royal
North Lincoln Militia.
Lieutenant James Green Skipworth to be captain in ditto.
Lieutenant Francis Rockliffe Fierce to be captain in ditto.
Lieutenant the Lord Wortley to be captain in ditto.
Lieutenant Ilenry Valentine Grantham to be captain in
ditto.
Ensign John Oraburn to be lieutenant in ditto.
Ensign Robert John Taylor to be lientesaatia ditto.

Samuel Gordon idellakin, jun., gent., to be ensign in
ditto.

Ensign Spencer Fit hi to be lieutenant, vice Story, retired,
in the Ostord,hito Retrimeat of Militia.
Robert Edmond Waters, Etq., to be lieutenant in the
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia.
John Edward Weston, Esq., to be captain in ditto.
Lieutenant Walter tier Gray to be captain in the North-
umberland Regiment of Militia.