The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARI.: MAIIKETs.

LtvtuPooL, Arm 29.-There is a considemble improve-
ment in :he chafe market to-day, and a total bu.iness has tarn done
at rather better limes, closing tirtu:y at the quota:toms. Illtkunitend,
Ignes,hire, awl Cherhire, Is 5.16 # f d.--Calerinhinn, 15, --E .tern
f}aiaties, —l,ncashire anti Yorkshire,64—D•Ho (244.Yabat es), If e.
d —Ditto (h(01 ahAn We'd Riding Union). 3# d.—Loa;,,n and
' North Western. 13u)—Ditto (new ,harts), 51 f I c
chaster, Mehl, and lane, In, S6•-Ditto Hirvf. Olives), 12.-Mid.
land, 64)- I)ittu (t shares), 13 d.—North British, In c.- North
Unien (f itharee4, 1), /41 le.—Swath lidera and Hover. 24! 'fork,
Newegstle, and Metwfcl, 22:-Yurk, awed North Midland. 2;4 ).-
Ditto (pref.), 1 1-16 e. d.
fallEG3, APRIL 29.—We have had a letter market this
inorntnt, and un the whole an inane...eon let in prune. ilillUiShife
and Vork.hire., which vole Inane on 4,turclay at 4,2#, have this morn-
ing been dune at 611 for wenunt middle 4.. f. Alsy. The other clew ng
*at,. were: Wog Riding Unions, 51 41:s ; Li 4,414 and Think. 14;
ditto Exten-ions. No. 3, 30. rsl, ; Great :Contort it, 12); North
W•atern., RH die.
MANCIIESTYR. APRIL 29.—There hat. been a good deal
More firniters in price., with an increalwil Mt-inns, induced to POMO
extent by Kites coneequesit on this Irina the hating-in day hor the an.
count. Leeds stuck was doe at 011, 611 , Last Low:au-hire, 174,
3.16; Sheffield Quarter., 13).
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 29.—This market wan rather firmer
to.day. Shres ry and Bontinthani A's ere
account"dne at 1.16 dia., and
1./.lre it and North Westerns Ins the no at at 131 f.
Bitorret., APRIL 29.—The market was firm, but scarcely
Csolve. South aterns were doae at 261, and Great Westerns scarcely
aat 301. Thee were the only variations,.

A NEW PLEA Yule A NEW FWD.—The moisture
contained in the grain [of Ir.dian corn] is an acid. When
the shell of the grain is broken this moisture forms an oxide,
all the sweet qualities of the grain disappear, and a had
flavour is substituted. Whether the meal came over ground,
or merely broken, or kiln-dried, before it sailed, the effect
pas much the same, and people naturally concluded that
the mischief was done by bringing the meal over the sea.
The case was thus supposed to be hopeless, and the " yellow
meal," as the Irish call it, was regarded as a mere refuge, and
an odious one, from starvation. 'Phis is now found to be a
mistake, and, long as it will probably take to remove an im-
pression so reasonable, it may be worth while to declare that
Indian corn flour may now be had in a perfect state, as
wholesome and pleasant as any other flour, and so cheap p
to make it an object of serious importance to establish the
facts of the case. A Mr. Stafford, in America, discovered
the cause of the mischief, and invented a process by which
the acid moisture of the grain is evaporated, without injury
to any of its other constituents. The meal is passed over
warm cylinders, and comes away almost as incapable of de•
terioration as sand. It has been shut up in a garret for
two years ; it has been carried round the world, without
losing its sweetness and delicate flasour. This meal can
now be sold at two-thirds of the price of the best wheaten
flour. With the addition of the cost of carriage into the
country, it may be reckoned at less than three-fourths of the
price of wheaten flour. Owing to the exertions of the Ameri-
can minister, and others in London, an extensive trial is in
progress there; and here and there, in country districts, a
cask has been distributed among neighbours, who im-
mediately become anxious to know how they can obtain the
flour regularly. But, as yet, little is done towards intro-
ducing it where it is most wanted—among the Irish, who
aro still lingering on towards the grave, and the Scotch, who
are in some parts. sinking under the prospect of death by
famine. In the island of Skye, the weather was tempes-
tuous last summer. The harvest season was wet; the
potatoes failed as completely as in Ireland in 7; few of
the peasantry have seed corn or pots •• . w ass
daily driven to consume that w ‘"
another year. it gloom hangs .
the sinking people. On the other
Americas valleys are producing a r', P
-
over and above what the inhabs Am
es yet, sold; and in London are '• V. 1'
-14 .13
ton between those who abou •• • • %one • :
Diciaria's "Household Wadi."
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