The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

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12.-t 2s. per qr. higher,-the same of Barley. Date, etl. per ATORNING PEItIfORNIAN.CK. - WEDNI;it Ile. by..l
stone highwe In Beaus no alteration. Flour is 3s. per 151 DAI Next. ST. JAME.s•
8 THEATItk. De Celebrated ETV'• ntsecurr
' sack doarer.-The following are the present prices of grain; Oriaei SERENADERS, Pell, ilarringtou. White. Stanwood, and the low,
I 1 Wheat, per imp.qe., white, faecto 72*. ;red, 83s. to 675. p;-
ley, melting, 465. to 60s. ; grinding, 415:,t0 445. Beans, 4,81.. o on,' will (by desire) give a Grand JUVENILE PERFORMANCE
on WEDNESDAY MORNING, December 30. Doors
t open, at Two nobles,
o'clock. 1 heir inimitable Ensertainment willd
in repeca e..,1 . .
.8 and ur
. Rye, 424. to 441 t, ]Halt, GBs. to 10.. Oats, 161 d. W Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Erongs ur it th
nod t.brtra vagrant
174 d. per atone of 14 lbs. Flour, 525. to 565. per sack of Holidays. Doors open at Fight o'clock. Boxes rat . at
280 lbs. MITCHELL'S Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; and at the Box- the berg
LIMERICK, DEC. 26.-We have no market of any °E3°B___L-----------'--- 'nesers
l kind to-day, nor any buainess transacting. Weather has be- 11HEATRE ROYAL HAMARKET. - Great via leg
. i come
again very frosty, with quite a settled appearance. The Attraction for the Holidava, and Immense SOCeen. of thoef transac
.. I value of Oatmeal haa advanced to 241. per too ; whilst that New Drama, THE ROUND OF tRONG.-Th;new„Caognale Drama
of whole When
and Indian Corn Meal are 201. and 181. sTN:reeteteo,_andorthe new
of
Tlib4,
respectively. So high as 171 d. per steno has been paid for
lalle .Ityle=diliti'scirra be tatgeldtvedry everaingryu. 1 ue ail
vigorot
1 Oateduring the week.
WATERFORD, Dec. 26.-The receipt of the Mark-
lane accounts of Monday, which reached here on Thursday. -----t---------.
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It , , t
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he die
4 arras
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on the
anm
(a day out of course), restored the tone of our market, and -,u-ht 0, , lielegg. the tot
all deweiption4 of grain are quite as d salsset the close of last lizoeuge,„ bartc,.‘fg TILE. ,PBB9
week, while Flour comma s behead
d a readye at an advance of
Is. to 2s. per seek. Indian Corn dues not recede in value, cavalie
I 1 but, being dearer thanWheet, checks its sale to some extent. MAILS. Asilse
for New South Wale,. Van TMemen's Land and New
Below are our prices of Flour and prepared grain : Flour, Th. ~,,,,,„ ,
on aln
per sack of 280 lbs., superfine, 565. to 58e. ; seconds, 525. to erdand win be made up on the evening of the 31at December.
ME ; thirds, 43e. to 46e.; fourths, 38s. to 41s. Wheat, per The West India mails, including duce fur Mexico, Honduras, and this co,
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brl. of 2801 b., millers, 40s. to 41s. ; shipping, 375. to 38s. Barley, the Havannah, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd January,
The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greene, the lonian Islands, castle,
per banal of 224 lba., malting, 21s. to 255.; grinding, 235. to
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and Minn, eiu Southampton, Of the
N. Oats, per barrel of 196 lbs., white, 19s. to 20s. ; black, will be made up on the evening of the 2d January. and th
II 1 , , 188. to 19s. Indian Corn, per barrel 0(280 lbs., 42a. to 415. The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United Trintt3
Indian Meal, per cwt. 17s. c.i. to Ifte. fel. States, 1,111 be made up on the evening of the nth January.
1 1 i The mils for the Beads, the River Plate, Monte Mote O, Pelham- and gi
WOOL. bum Reda, Madden, and Buenos Ayres, will he dispatched on the this tic
The • evening of the 4th January.
j
LONDON.-The market has been firm.
ports or Wool into Loudon during the week ending Thullirs--
y Dave been 1 301 bales of which 153 were from Alexan- esening of the 7th January.
The cad. rland cloned mails, rite Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, FAIRY
Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Heal; litmg, itc., will be made up on rho 'fhe I
"dria, 19 from Sydney, 11 'from Rio do Janeiro, 116 fro
from The mail, for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, how F.
will be made up on the morning of the sth January. Trinit
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Ras- s, 17 from Gerraauy, and 58 from New York.
• ANDOVER.-The prices given are-super Lambs TO CORRESPONDENTS. been a
Wool, 13d. ; second, 11141. ;fine combing, 103.; super broad, ..* Advertisements intended for The i'a•press, London evening paper, ream
l' Is. ; second, 103; inferior, 81d. ; fine greys, Bd.; worst, 41.; must be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publication.
all per lb. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. sumpt
with t
1 ' BRADFORD.-There has not been much business
Tins DAT. -Morning, 0 min. past 10; Afternixara, 35 min. ;wet to. made
done in combing Wools, putty on account of the holiday
To-aloasow-Morning, 12 min. past 11; Afternoon, 43 min. post 11.
season. For clothing Wool there is a good demand. m
ad et
HALIFAX.--The prices of combing Wool are gene- --r.---t------ - - _t_.--s dittere
rally fully a bale,eny per lb. over what was obtainable LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 2S. upper
i shoot a month back fur the low and middling qualities, these to its r
1 Ili at present being most in request. IT is impossible not to entertain the highest hopes
Ileimensersso.-There has been an improvement of success, both in popularity and in solid bene be, frril
ficial results, of that vast and important series of ',..E,."1n '`,
in the Wool market, a circumstance which augurs better
• 1 things in prospect. legislative measures for Ireland, which we were "rare'
• fortunate enough to be
~ the first to announce
.to the came i
But to
Lasas.r-For English, the demand this week haswhichthat
been moderato for the season ; prices are firm, and have an public in the Daily Aetes. The manner in
• upward tendency. There has been less doing in foreign announcement has been received by. the press, not ta rh:
Woolsduring the past week, as is usual at this season of only in every Irish city, but in those cities
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the year, hut prices remain very firm. of England and Scotland most interested in '""
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LEICESTER.-The worsted spinners are very firm the prosperity and redemption of Ireland, cannot but L__ r.
, in their prices. Wools are difficult to buy at late rates. be highly encouraging to the government which con- has if
{ Skin-combing is very scarce, and commands high prices. templates such measures. In London they have not former
OERMANY.-A letter from Berlin, of Dec. 17, says : been met by a breath of cavil. The journals of Liver- '"
" For several years past the produetieu of Wool has becomethe fir
• pool and sanchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow-, teem , „
so considerable in Germany, that this country at present
with congratulations on the boldness, the wisdom, the e` "Ar
Bads itself at the head of all those where this branch ofclosing
trade is carried on. The states of the Customs' Union pea- universalitwhichcharacterise the plan.
y
• I sae 21,961,551 sheep, furnishing each year, allowing a mini- In Ireland they have met, been as was but natural
' and (..
t I 'I : : mum of 221 b. to 10 sheep, 48,500,0001 b. of Wool. The by the indignant execration of the two extreme
the P 1
Austrian States produce each year 700,000 quintals of Wool, parties. By the self-constituted champions of land-
' two-thirds of which come Irons Hungary, Transylvania, and 0 • of the
lord interest, they are denounced as a treason to the
the military frontlers ; the other third is produced in Islo-
I raTia, Silesia, Bohemia, and Gallicie. As to the quality, the
lords of the soil, and though in reality fraught with teeter
t t
' ,! • li Wools produced in Moravia and Silesia are the best ; next benefit to it, relieving that interest
.. from the most un- of cell
come those of Bohemia, Gallic* Transylvtuda, aud the tenable and intolerable of positions, such modes of the eh
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military frontiers." cure, however necessary, are no doubt for the moment_ r
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painful and severe. The other extretne party, the phy er 'ln'
IIOPS. on all
' BOROUGII MARKET, Two o'Clork.-Messrs. Pat- steal-force men, behold in those measure s for lreland not
senate
1 tendon and Smith, Hop Fatten, report that the market is what they ought te behold, if animated by any true spirit
the souse OA on Saturday, without any material alteration in of liberalism; the proposed elevation of the .over and come.
prices. suffering classes at the expense of the high. All they goner
Mid and lime Rents, from per Clat.Ss Os. to LI 10s. descry
.is, the discontent such measures are likely to well r
Weald of Rents „ 4 0 to 5 u munil
• St.-..,en, tram
these
I ' Farnham,
Yearling lienta
1 I Yearling Sussex o 3 0 to 4 0
i I 1, 01,1 Hops „2utu 4 0 But whilst thus denounced by extreme parties in inblo,
Ireland, the series
of Irish measures leave met with
WINCHESTER, I/se. 26.-The trade remains firm at
• I last week's quoted prices the holders not willg to theireue the the instantaneous adherence and applause of every the al
whicl
last
prices asked, some calculating on a rise after ont leaves moderate man and moderate organ. The Dublin
I race I
us. For the best Farnham's they ask 7/. per cwt.; seconds, Evening Post, the ministerial Irish journal, at once, rh
1i . at G/. 103. Country pockets, grown at Bentley, Alton. with cordial frankness, avowed the truth and authen-
. Frnyle, Crandall, &c., from 51. to 5!. 10e. ; retail prices for
ticity of the statement in the Daily .Yetee. The Hee- great
mail quantities under a cwt., from Is. aid. W ls. hil. per lb. guns
i tnan's Journal, a repeal journal of the rational school,
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POTATOES. found the good and the liberal far predominate over the Sew'
, SOUTIIWARK, WATERSIDE, DEC. 28.-The supply objectionable. The same may be said of every Irish ,wer_
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.... to this market during the past week from France was tole- provincial paper. And we quote the Cork Southern "`,lc.,
relay good, but from all other parts it was very limited. Reporter to-day, in proof that in that metropolis of P.-:-
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There was,
an advance in the prices for first-rate samples, but the destitute districts the Whig measures have been a, fox
for inferior or secondary samples there was but little improve-
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il • 11. ment. The following are our present prices: York Regents •
' distress.
160.. to 180 s.; Shims. 140 s. to 1504. Lincoln and Cam- hailed as providing the true remedies for perennial '-'1
Ow
form
bridgeshire Regents, 130 x.
6o 150 s. kidneys 110 s. to 120 s. One cannot but feel that the most important result
wrui
:11, .• i Kent and Essex Regents, 105. to 180 s. ; kidneys, 1404. to of these measures-a result partly anticipated by
1604. trench whites, 120 s. to 140 s. their very announcement-must be the forcing of a aff.e,a
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• • SKINS. salutary conviction upon all classes in Ireland, that a
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• • serious and permanent remedy is instantly to be ap-
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ANDOVER, DEC. 26.-There were 370 Skins sold s cue.
. • plied to the intolerable state of chaos, sufferin6s, and
! this day : the best Downs making 4s. to 44. 6d. each ; info- •
e lect into which the country has fallen; and that eat
Tier, from 3s. to 34. fel. Lon; Wools-Leinster and Coos- 'LE
weld, from 4s. 3d. to 4s. 01 ; inferior 3e. Gd. to 4s. Ox and all classes must seriously set their shoulders to the c 0.., m,
i Cow Bides, at 24d. per lb. Calf Skits, 40. per lb. wheel, and submit to privation and sacrifice, in order "A
i ' to attain the great end. England will not be' wanting read
CATTLE. mad
11 1 •• . SMITHFIELD, Two (latch. -Our supply of Beasts in outlay ; government will not be wanting in direc-
tion and in exertion. All classes in Ireland must law'
is small, and this being the season of the year in which they e( ll come forward ; and these measures ensure
pia y
I are most in request, trade is very brick. A few of the A
I ' choicest Scots made nearly ss. per 8 Pis.; but this cannot he that those who do not come forward will receive
cent
the
quoted as an average fur the best qualities, 4s Bd. being the severe damage arid coercion as the consequence of in
more general price of very good ones. we have 106 from their neglect. The landlord who goes abroad and ;
I' . Holland' and Germany, 100 from Scot'nnd, 60 from Ireland,
about 150 from Norfolk mid Suffolk,l,ooo Lincoln andLeices- picks his tee th, will find absenteeism, if not redeemed e
In s
ty increased attention, a serious thing, almost nmount-
ters, and the remainder from various parts of the country. .
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: The number of sheep is also small, but quite equal to the ing to confiscation. The poor-I.w in one shape or ties.
demand, there being a great deal of the big Christmas mut-
t another will attain other than the aristocratic or pro- itril'._rt
111 i ton left unsold in the butchery' shops. Our largest descrip
- prietorial class, and the farmer and the towns- ''
lions of sheep are rather lower. The choicest Downs are man
tl. I selling quite as dear. A few of the very selling
and Germany.
ones make , now in general (though not perhaps 'l°
fa. 4d. We bare about 1,460 from Hollandin the present crisis) but too indifferent to Lro
Calves are scarce ; the best qureities are readily disposed of the employ and sustenance of those beneath him,
, but no higher will be aroused to cares of a general nature, hitherto our
at full prices. Pigs also are uot so plentiful
prices are obtained. unknown to, or shaken off by him. The poor, too, in I
Best Scots, Iterefunls tee. (per stone of IT Itre) in 4to 4s 13c1 must be taught that government employment and state- has
Beat Short Horns . 4 2 - 4 4
second quality Beasts - 4 0 past are not the halcyon conditions that idlesse loves.
Colves 4- 5 0 It is impossible to deny that the creation of so lab
Pigs - 5 0 An
neat Dowse sea Sabred* 5- 5 2 many salutary checks to idleness, waste, improvidence, 1
Lave Long.wools 4- 4 10 and consequently to crime, must give rise to much err
Laves and peened qeality - 4 4 diseentent. The truly honest, liberal, and patriotic, aer
Beasts :at market, craw; Sheep and Lamle, 17,::80; Calves, 55;
Pigs, 290. Will alone be proof against the temptations of ill Pr.
ANDOVER, DEC. 26. -Of Pigs, a very short supply ; humour, and we trust that they form a majority a'
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yet many were driven away unsold. The prices were lower large enough to defy the apostles of treason and ma- an
for the few sold, except for Sows io i kr, which were much chinntors of rebellion, who already see a harvest of
othni
• inquired for. Fat Bacon Hogs sold at 9e. per score lbe ; fat
small malcontents to be reaped at such a time.
Porkers, 10s. ; lean St ors, from 20s. to 30s. each; The Nation is quite in glee at the prospect of such eh
Pigs (lean), at fkom B.s. to 12s. string measures. The drift of them it declares to
WINCHESTER, DEC. 26.-Of Pigs there was a very be, j'to facilitate the borrowing of money by the land- (a
! short supply, yet more than could find purchasers. The 'rites
were lower than for the lest three weeks • Pig feet! getting lords, rand the subsequent change of ownsrship in the th
I up, operates against the sale of store Hops' and lea. p,,,,, Irish soil to repay it." Stating this, it passes over the at
avowed intention of creating a class of Irish yeomen, ell
,1 Bacon Hogs are not brought in so extensively as for the last
six or eight weeks, therefore the prices hue risen from 3d. and asserts the plan to be " for placing all Irish, men,
,
I to 68. per scare pounds for both Bacon Hogs and Porkers. women and children, at the disposal o f English masters." a'
__ . __ _ . The old plan of government seems to have done r
SHIPPING. this already. With 300,000 men working_ for wages Li :
MAILS ARRIVED: 7, Dublin; 2, Donaghadee ;5, Water- advanced by England, and the property of the country •
t.lliv) il ford •1, French ;1, Flanders ;1, Holland; 1, Hamburg. taxed to pay it hereafter, Ireland and the Irish do not
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Lo'r4Don, Dee. 28. - Wind this day at noon, S.W., light seem, indeed. likely to fall, but already have fallen,
airs, and calm, with frost and fog.
DEAL, Dec. N.W., moderate and fine. 27.-N.N.W. into the hands of those charitable Philistines, the
I c) ~ NN E A • d Xui Calcutta,
fur Melds • Asia,
to .• .- neve : a, Shields , English. But the English are not at all anxious b
ditto; Dunbarton, New Oilcans; X arifa, Monte Video; to continue the office of either taskmasters or pay- r
Elizabeth Granger, S .nta Martha ; American Eagle, New masters The
.measures of government, instead of t
1;11. ill, Took; Bengal, drat ,; Wei. Forster, Nassau; Agave Quebec.
Hailed: Swallow, Valparaiso; Sutbentn, St. Jogs de Cuba ; aiming rata continuance of such things, are destmed to I
Produce the very contrary effect, and to leave Ireland, c
Carnatie, Calcutta ; John Witt, Bombay ; Canton; Sierra s
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Leone ; Westbrook, Jamaica. industrially and. proprietoriallv, to the Irish, and for t
Orr titAnoars, Dee. 25.-Spencer, Sydney, New South that purpose to create a body of Irish, .possessed of 1
Wales. property, industry, security, in large numbers, with- I
II it: 111 RAMBO ATE,Dec. 27.-N.W.-Sailed : Norma, Valpsraleo. out us at present being an imperceptible minority in
Dovsz, Dee. 27.-W., fresh.-Arrived: Neptune, Rio. the land. When there exists a million or so of such a
i Off-Darell, do., for Copenhagen.
111 . It
I 1 NEWHAVEN, Dec. 27.-Arrived: Amite, Callao, WU r
basing been on the Owen, and with part of cargo thrown really independent, industrious, substantial class of
Irishmen, the mission of the Notion will have everpo-
I t I °verb, ard. rated. Hence we are not surprised to find that paper
PORTSEOCTII, Dec. 26.-N.N.W. to N.N E.; 27th, N.-
Istrenuously supporting the existing state of the serfage
.. , Arrived: Nsgaski, Batavia, for Rotterdam. The Nagaitin,
I' i from Santus to Hamburg, arrived yesterday. The Alarm, .. . ..,
of the lower classes beneath a negligent and impo-
-1 sailed yesterday far Jere v, was turned hack to-day, oes- Vero:heel art. tocracy, in preference.to a wider
' and
masted. more independent population of smaller proprietors
Cowss, Dec. 27.-N.N.R.-Arrived: Zoe, New York, and comfortable yeomen.
sailed for Antwerp; John Johnstone, ditto, for Rotterdam,
wit), damage.
Ore SEAFORD, Dec. 13.-Bolitho, Rio, for Copenhagen. THE Cambridge festival of Tuesday last, with
Orr P tee, Dec. 15.-- Solon, St. John's, N. 8., for “lou-
cu( r. which Trinity Cthlege celebrated the third centenary
TENDS', IN e. 18.-Arrived :Mercury, of London, Quebec, of its foundation, might well claim the attention of the
4,,..m Panelly.
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t. emom, 2n. 26.-Arrived : Richatd Brown, Demerara, journalist by the splendour of its appliance-a and the
:
I , sash; Ver,'2ont. New York; RODluills, Sr. John's, . distinction of its guests. But it supplies a theme still
more interesting, when viewed as marking one of
.. Says Sailed : Janet, Va'pareleo; Arethusa, Trinidad.
.... a series of. epochs pregnant with great changes, and
903. •is, Dec. 19.- Arrived : London, Quebtc, 24:
!time ad lApatite, New York. earrying.ln them much valuable instruction. A gnat
1 I ' Aoiline, a. TleC. 25.-S.W.-Sail( d : Thetis, New York. college lei a great university reflects much of the
• 1. Br.i.rvsv, . .1., 21.-The Friendship, of Newcantle, was most important life and most living thought
1 1 , Cattoier, De. '"ht, eIT Barry, with a barque unko son, of a period. Not less in the college itselt
in conch last Ili, .vs put in ton repair ;the latter received
than in the country and its history, we
bet ante leaky, and L. • she (bailee'.
• damage, but pre ceeded up -e.t.a -el, dismasted, and may mark the signs of the times, and read their
DEAL, Dec. 26.-A brig, v,.. •
ra'tcrit tru.:le d''d bul- lessons. Trinity College was founded in 1316 by
alien:Wes el, half full of timber, vs.,
i ed. rts wi,..'lA-ml letters patent of King HENRY VIII. It was the
worksontd,
painted yellow inside, and reat P° 1
sear of the death of Lestisn. The royal reformer of
by the .lama.
,9t Di
e.mtnnt.
1 PLY/sot:Tit e 26.-N.N.E. Sailed: Gentoo, s-ieril IV. -1 died the cary after; persecuting to the lee
1 LIIIV*,.- -es as he retice, the Papists as traitors
ipore. Sailed : Margaret Pullock, ; thc .... ..:. 'r-lt,ity College commemorate
' : Lurnerts•
1 f. I tRInTOL, Dee. 27.-N.N E.
New Orleans; Agnes Gilmour, New Orleans; Brown, New i The erstalth,ehutetsx oe 1t...
Oeetlni.,
GLOUCESTER, Dce 27 .-Artives : Solon, St. John's, N.B.
'Vb.- Sailed : Solway, New Orleans. an epoch. nee of so -e, of the mast aou
' countr •utt te exp. •'- • amenon
! ) v.hx_tt saw Protestantism established in Ilii
SorANSCA, Dee. 28.-B. ' Arrived: Sarah su , p eel li 'on th
• i a - - / with the state recognition of the reform re gi ion,
t 1!
I mr. th v, a . public crimes ever pvirpa.,trated. Itc...,:nmemortitta I
raise.:el
. i 1 dto tunny of royal prerogative, the pot!
C DEC. 2n. -shaea: Champion, St. John's, New- 1 utibriilli .
the_. .
foundland. leesnees of law, profusion of unworthy favourite.
_ __. .wholesale ma
,Il r:. •.• For Satur:lay's Markets see the last page. i the bitterneas of religious persocution ,
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