The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE

DURING THE PAST WEEK.

(From the Mark Lane Repress.)
We have to report another week of extreme de-
pression in the gran trade, and the expectation that matters 20
would improve cab the new year does not appear likely to so
be realised at prevent. Supplies from abroad continue to
reach as on a more liberal scale than usual at the corres•
priding period of the year, and the winter has passed thus
far with° .1 frost worth naming. Most of the principal 30
rivers and harbours on the Continent of Europe have re- "
maim d free from ice, and though the high rates demanded Jo
for freight, the enhanced premiums for influences, and the Igo
usifeeriarable state el the exalters on England, have pre-
vented shipments of importance being midi, still the know- Ifs
ledge that sue plies might be drawn !rem quarters whence 4t...
la ordinary seasonsit w. uld be impossible to ship during the 14:
writer months, has not been without influence on our mar- 15
hew. The very bad condition in which home supplits so
continue to come to hand, owing to the prejudicel edict on
all con of lest year's growth by the humid state of the to
atmosphere, has ales tended to circumscribe transaction', 71
and we are therefore inclined to attribute the prevailing tet
dulness, in a gloat measure, to the nestasonable weather ig
which we have hitherto experienced. The large quantity of q
rain which has fallen has rendered it difficult tor farmers 114
to cart manure on tee land, and outdoor work has $
not progr red favourably. The young wheat plant is 4
meanwhile growing fast, and is likely to become perms-
tarry forward, if not speedily checked by frost. Tne pos-
sioility of injury, resulting from the somewhat unusual M
manner of toe waiter, is, however, at present regarded as 13
too distant • contingency to engage attention, and prices 23
have, we some time past, and seem likely to continue, to be '24,'
wholly regulated by supply and demand. No one is dis- ss
posed to speculate on future evens, and so long as the to
quantity brought forward fur sale exceeds what is required le
Tor immediate consumption, it is vain to look for any rise in lsi
prices. Toe major part of the resent arrivals of sheat naa
been from ports lying east of Gibraltar, sod • considerable 3p.
aninber of vessels laden with that grain end Indian corn are gi
again reported off Falmouth this week. French flour con• at.
trues to coins forward freely at several of the channel If
ports, and further receipts of that article are calculated on
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from thence and from America.
The deliveries from our own growers have, however, ra Se
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ther fallen off of late, and at 801110 of the meeker in the lei.
astriewltural districts out of the immediate influence of the 30
!reign soppl es, • somewhat firmer use has bees roamed et.
this week by sellers. At the large consurnieg towns in the
monk business has remained in • very quiet state ; stall prices
hoe., on the whole, been tolerably well maintained.
Our letters from Scotland describe the weather there u Se
similar to what we have experienced in the south, and the *
effect thereof had also been the some as wan us. At Edin-
burgh and Glasgow millers and merchants had shown great 1;2,
unwil.iopnisa to add to their stotke. The transactions hod, ‘,..!
consequently, been on a retail scale, and the turn had, in et
meet cases, been against the seller.
From Ireland we leant that large arrivals of Wheat and
Inman corn from the Black Ses, &c., together with the very 0::
discouraging amounts from this side of the channel, had 11l
checked all disposition to enter into investments, and that pa
'R1910014 had been strictly confined to the supplying of prise- at.
iog wants, when purcnarn bad, in many cases, been 25
enabli d to do on somewhat easier terms than previously.
At Mark-lane the op, rations have been very circumscribed
race lest Monday in every department of the trade. The to
arrivals of wheat coastwise into the port of London have not to
been ty any means large, only 3,36'8 qrs. having boon re- So
ported up to this (Saturday) evening, whilst the quantity
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brought forward by land carriage samples teem the neigh-
bowing counties has been very small.
Fureien wheat has recited less attention than might have to
been eapacted, if we tale into consideration the very soft s
condition of the greater part of the English, and the cons.-
quint necessity of employing old foreign extensively tor Se
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mixing. The arrivals from abroad hare been ler than last
week, only 8,111 qrs. having come to hand up to this evening. it.
There is, however, still a considerable proportion of that es
previously received remaining on board ship, end the total gt
quantity efl at at this port is rather considerable. Mean. 80
while, the country demand is by no mime extensive, the •
supplies re°, ived at the different pore on the coast diminishing
the circuit of country which has to draw supplies from the

metropolis.
The salts effected on Wednesday and Friday were prind- 40
pally in small quantities to our own millers, at rates similar 2
to those current in toe commencement of the week. We ir
have bead of no tranaactiocs in floating cargoes to arrive or 8,
.df the nut, the prices asked having, in most cases, been 4
deemed too high by buyers.
The inquiry tar flour has been slow throughout the week, 23
the top quotation for town-made has remei..ed rationary, OJ
and the best country marks have also been held pretty I
firmly at former terms Foreign flour, of which, 8,988 auk. e
and 3,409 barrels have been received, tin been vary difficult Sel
of disponi, and the lower grades have tartly sold so well as
on Monday teat.
Toe aupplii s of English Barley have been moderate, bat
the maluders and distillers have cenducted their o intone 10
with extreme caution, and have paid the recently reduced m
prices with some reluctance; factors have, on the other 14
hand, refused to make any further concesaion, end the U
Lusineu done has been at previtus rates. Foreign barley,
for grie.ditg, bee bets len pressingly offered than last week,
end quite as much mosey was asked for good heavy quail- gg
meson Friday as earlier in the week. fe
Malt has not excited much attention ; seedy buyers have 20
however, had to pay former terms for good goatlike. t•
B ass, of home growth, have sold in read at ebaut pre:
vious terms, and we have no alteration to quote in Emptian
and other sorts of foreign. fu
The mild weather has prevented any improvement Wang 14
place either in the demand for or the value of Peas. Tim IL
quantity of foreign boilers on the market is still cos- 116
enterable.
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Nothing of interest hoe transpired is Indian torn afloat, 1,
orders from Ireland being wanting. a.
TILE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The advices from the Baltic are not at present of 111
much interest. The weather bad continued m.ld, and the
principal rivers and harbours had remained tree from ice.
In
At Dapg, on the 3rd Mot. business was very dull, there
hong no demand fur immediate delivery, and but little 5
din...tidos to buy for shspenvot in spring. Quotations had ge
therefore become almost nominal. The exports from Dung ft
is 1850 had *mounted to 37,023 leers wheat, 6,241 lute rye, 1,
4,0e8 lasts barley, 190 lasts oats, and 2,770 lasts peas. Of the 1151:
wheat upwards at 32,000, of the hurley 4,000, and of the peas 55
2,600 lute had bees for British ports.
At Kooigsbeig, on the 4th January, good hieh.mixed
Wheat was gutted 375. and red 355. per qr. free on board. *
Ti. reads being in an ahnoet impassable state, owing to the ,LIS
*ld open weather, supplies from the interior hod come *.
forward sp.einely ; but in the absence of exret orders the
quantity brought forward had proved amply sufficient to
satiety the demand. Neither the quantity nor the quality of
the last crop is so well spoken of as it eau Immediately atter
a .
From Rostock we learn that the supplies of Wheat from
the grower. nad increased, which, with the dull reports from
hence, and a el ght is.provement in the eschange on Eng-
lead, had caused she value of wheat to recede more or less,
and contents to ship fine 62Ibs. crudity in spring might here
have been closed at 375. 61. per qr. free on board. Boring
corn had come forward sparingly, and 521 be. barley had not
been sold below 17e. 62., whAst for good boiling peas 265.
per qr. free os board had been asked.
Hamburgh letters of Tueaday state that scarcely any busi-
ness had been done since that day c.'nnight either en wheat
or barley, and 'that prices had remained ,nominally un-
altered.
Letters from Emden, of the 6th inst., mate that notwith
stand ng the discJuraging tone of the minces from hence,
oats had coirirued in active demand, and that the decline
from the highest point had not exceeded 6d. per qr. For
brew, of 40:ne. weight, 16e. to 16s. 6d. •' ter superite, weigh-
ing 42115., 17s. to 17s. 6d. ; sad for good feed, 3511 w. to 391 N.,
141. 6.1 to 15e. per qr. free on board had been paid.
At Rotterdam end Antwerp wheat 'Kinn to have en-
gaged very little at sub.'s), and at some of the near French
ports the value of thur his usdergone rather a material
We have nothing new to communicate from the Mediter-
ranean ports; supplies from the outward had, it seems,
increased, which had bad rather a depresaing influence on
prices.
11. the most recent accounts from Odessa we are informed
that the shipments of wheat had been on a very x -twelve
seals. Most of the vessels had, however, then completed
the it cargoes mid sailed, and the shipping seuon was regarded
ae over.

REPRESENTATION OF BEDFORDSHIRE.-00 Satur-
day a ramming wok place at the Gene Hotel, Bedford, and
it was agreed that Colonel Gdpia should receive the support
of all then present. A requisition was prepared, and pater.
day morning it was in *muss of signature. Calomel Gilpin
is the present high sheriff of the county, bat it is expected
he will have completed his tern of of before the el.ction
taken pima. Other candidates sto talked ete but so address
is oat at present.