The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

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280th",
Dentro, May 5.-Our supplier of grain this week have
been MAIL and on Tuesday Wheat realized an advance
of 64. tole, per barrel ; whilst Indian Corn receded 6d. to
Is. per quarter. This day we have no further change to
notice in the value of any article. The following was the
general currency .-Wheat, white, 28e. to 31s. 64. ; red, 264.
to 295. 6d. :40111s. Ohs, 10s. to Ils. 6ti. per 196 lbs.
Barley, 14.. to 16.. 6d. per 2241 b. Oatmeal, Ils. to 12s.
per cwt. Flour, second,. 15s. to 16s. per cwt. Indian
Corn, 28s. to 335. per 4801ba.
BET.FART, May 4.-We have got into fine seasonable and
even forcing weaths r, ant, from the smallness of the supplies
forward at market we conclude that every hand is enraged
in the fields cempletiog the spring sowing. Wheat bass ad-
vanced 64 rinee this day week, and is in demand; parcels of
both foreign and home-grown are inquir:d for. Flour un-
charged in e.ilue mains saleable at late prices. Barley scarce,
and priori well ined Oats sell at the advance noted on
Friday, lo tug fully 2d on the week. Oatmeal sells slowly at
former rates. Indian Corn sells elowly at th advanced rates
of last week. ray, 71. 6e. to 71. 7v. Od. per ton.e
Coat, May 5 -Trade continues far less brisk than is
desirable, and there is still an absence of that animation sad
actitity whit h should characterise commercial operations
The run on our local savings bank has nearly ceased, confi-
dence in the admirable system on which it is conducted, and
the regular manner in which the details of the business are
cirri d nut, having relieved the minds of the depositor, fr ma
all spirt h ashen and doubt as to its security. We have had
one or two arrivals of foreign grain (chiefly Indian Corn)
during the week, The supply of home grim is trilling.
The supply being mall. the value of all descriptions of grain
is pretty well supported. Wheat realizes the prices of last
week, while the rates for prepaid Wheats also are much the
same as at our last, namely 275. to 28s. per barrel. In Bar-
ley these is little alteration, except in the matter of prime
samples, which, for seed purposes, brought more money.
The mime reinsrks apply to Oats, of which the receipts
this week have been the lightest since the season opened.
For prepared Oats we do not alter our quotations of last
week. ,The trade in Indian Corn is quiet. We have less
doing, god prices rule in favour of the purchaser. Of Indian
Meal the same may be said. The inquiry for prime Flour is
languid The lower kinds of coarse Flour, however, con-
tinue in fair demand.
LIMERICK, May 6.-The lateness of the seams, end fine
favourable weather for tillage, caused the supply of grain
this week to b, merely nominal. A large arrival of Indian
Corn ; site demand continues good; yet holders are anxious
to sell, and price ha receded 2s. 6d. to 6s. et ton. Very
little doing is free-on-board Pales of any gra. Some Oa's
were wild st lle. 3d. to lle. 6d. per barrel, 4241b5. In other
breadstaffs a liberal demand, without change in price.
Wheat, red, 154. to 154.1.; white, 16d. to 184 d. Oats,
Old. to 104. Barley. 1044. to 12d. per at. Indian Corn,
0a1u5,.71. 12. 6d. ; Ibreil. 71. 10s. Other ports, 71. ss. to
71. 10s. Indian Meal, 71. 15s. to 81. 25.04. per ton Flour,
324. pee b g.
Wsvggeonn, May 6.-Areturn of fine weather during the
week has ena"led our farmers to resume their field opera-
tions ; in consequence of which, the supplies of all kinds of
grain to our market have been limited in the extreme. The
few samples of Wheat on offer have with difficulty been
quitted,,st a decline of ffil. to Is. per barrel; but Barley and
Oats have been in wool demand at the full currency of Satur-
day last. Indian Corn has been quite neglected, and, except
at a re4pc,ion of 6d. per barrel, sales to any extent could not
have ben eff, cted. The best descriptions of Flour command
a read Pale at the prices of this day se'nnighe ;
but in)eyior sorts mutt b' noted rather lower.
Present prices of Grain, Flour, Ac.: Undried Wheat, mile 1
lers', per 20 stone, 275. to 28s. ; shipping, 2.55. 6d. MI
265. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 14s. 9d. to 15s. ; grind-
ing,2t
13 .to 14s, Oats, white, per 14 at., 10s. to Its.;
black, Os. to 10s. 9d. Prepared : Wheat, millers', per
20 st., 0. to 305.; shipping, 275. 6d. to 28s. Barley, malt-
ing, per 16 at., 15s. 64. to 16.. ; grinding, 15s. to 15e. 6d.
Oats, white, per 14 at., ails. 3d. to Its. 6d.; black, ails. to
Ils. 3d. Flour, superfine, per each, 36e. to 375. 64.; se-
conds. 345. 6d to 35e. ; thirds, 30s. to 25.; fourths, 235. to
2.5 e. Intlian Corn, Danube, per 20 st. 3,
18s. 64. to 19s. 3d.
Americipa, yellow and red, 18s. to 18e. 64. ; Spanish and
Portueue.e, 15s. to 161. 6d.; white, 15s. to 16e. Gd. ;
damaged, for cattle, 12e. to 14s. Indian Corn Meal, per
cwt.., 7s. -6d. to Bs. Oatmeal, pet cwt., 10s. to tie. Brian,
per 6 stone, 3s. to 3s. 2d.
KIRKCALDY, May 6 -We have this week a most COM-
plete change in the weather; from being bleak, wet, and
cloedy,it has become mild, dry, and even brilliant, auchlss
we do not &ten experience in May. Already its effect is
app.:rent in the improved appearance of the fields. At our
country markets this week the; little graha offering was
readily token off. Wheat at last week's rates. Barley,
Beane, and Pt as at le. per qr., and Oats at 6d. per qr. ad-
viltee. Dere to-day the supplies of all kinds of ;train were
very small. Wheat met a Ter/ slow sale, at about 21. per
qr. decline from lost week's prices. Barley and Oats sold
quietly :'the former at Is. per qr. &demise, and for fine
qualities of the latter, 6d. per qr. over last week's rates was
paid. Wheat, 43e. to Ms. per qr. Bosley, 28e. 6d. to 31s.
Oats. 20s to 245. Oatmeal, per bag of 2801 be., 335.
MaaelettLats, May 2.-Lfttle or no improvement has yet
taken place in our market ; everything, however, remains
quiet, ata, now that the elections are finished, and that the
majority ' belongs to the moderate republican party, we
inset he* that confidence will shortly return and some
amendment:take place in commerce. Inuit follows the
guns inactive course m other merchandise : fine, 62 to
Yellow Polish Oder' could be purchased at 395. free on
board.
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Starapvtbos, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009
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LONDON. MONDAY. MAY 8.
LEARNED professors may encourage. their young
disciples to make a revolution but to give that revo-
lution and the interests which spring from it stabili,y,
to or
the new state of things and attain unity
and order—thew are tasks somewhat beyond proke-
serial habits. DAHLMAN/4, the learned antiquarian,
.uceeeded in raising the students of Kiel against his
Majesty of Denmark. The poor boy s have been
slaughtered, and Prussian soldiers obliged to be called
in to devastate the disputed portion of Schleswig by
war. The same Professor DAHLNIANN has now con-
, cocted a constitution toe Germany highly Clattering
0 Frankfort, which is to be the seat of the new
I empire, but with as little chance of being carried into
effect as the empire of Samtasitts has to be resus-
citated.
The only persons who have set seriously a
have bout tbeen
he
work of erecting German unity and empire
M. sere. HECKER, STRUVE, and HERWECII. They
air d, „Down with princes, royal and ducal!" But
except amont the erman operatives from Paris,
inoculated with ParipiaGn theorice, and certain of the
ignorant peasantry of the Black Forest, these demo-
crats could mute no followers. Th 'Germa
ns re-
pudiated HECKER and his republi and d have both
n
out at the point of the bayonet.
Princes and principalities, therefore, survive and
flourish by the will of their people, the people
Itaking pleasure in exercisin prtheir local influence and
power in the name of theirince, which a German
emperor in a central republic would curtail. With
all the cry of the Germans for unity it does not
therefore appear that they are likely to arrive at
anything more than the old federal bond. They can
never, indeed, attain so much. To elevate any federal
head, or Frankfort Emperor, as Lord Paramount.
over the King of PRUSSIA or the Emperor at
AUSTRIA would be impossible. These pot's-
tates have far outgrown the dimensions of the old
princes of the empire. Each of these potentates Cr
ther too
great, and their people too proud, to obey to.
oin in forming a
Both together with Germany may j
common army, a common tribunal of appeal, in re-
moving commercial barriers, and establishing many
institutions in common ; but that they should abdicate
in favour of a German emperor may make a pretty
fairy legend for Messrs. GRIMM,, Dst.limsNN, td'
()Lams us. But any attempt to realise such a scheme
a ould prove either a ridiculous abortion or cause a
sanguinary civil war.
ces of the
There are, indeed, as yet, no appearan
present German revolution becoming a social one.
There has been no outcry against the nobles, u in
Galicia, some very partial menaces or outrafes
against the rich. And so far from insurrection taking
a republican tone, princes have everywhere, even
these most obnoxious, been able to stand their
ground, by merely bending before the storm, and ac-
ceding to popular demande. 1
In the minor constitutional states of Germany the
old liberal opposition has shown itself decidedly anti-
republican, and this liberal opposition has not, like'
MM. PARROT and THIEL% in France, lost popularity'
or itfluence. In Berlin, administrative power has
been wrested from the Lands of the courtiers, the
military chiefs, and the old functionary class, but it
has not descended to the people. The Berlin cabinet
iscomporied chiefly of bankers and large manufacturers,
of provincial celebrities and notabilities. Just as CASIMIR
PERRIER and LAFFITTE were the great men of the
French revolution of 1830, the BECKERATHS, the
CAMPHAUSESS, and the Aueaswriteis are the inheri-
tors of the Prussian revolution of 1848. Although uni-
versal suffrage has been granted in Prussia, elections
in two degrees neutralise its democratic conse-
quences. The bourgeoisie of Berlin are as alarmed
and hostile towards the mob as that of Paris in 1831.
Everything, therefore, in North Germany portends a
Juste milieu reign, and a Berlin LOUIS PHILIPPE in
FREDERIC WILLIAM.
In Austria the 'evolutionary movement has not pro-
Ilgressed even so fur. The aristocracy here, therefore,
'continue to hold power. FIQULLNIONT, the favourite
lecholar of METTERNICH, iS still retained, and although
ha may be treated as TALLETRAND by republican
France—his experLnce made use of, whilst hie
councils are rejected and his tendencies checked—
still Austria has Up new school of statesmen,
as Prussia has, to replace her old once.
The Viennese bankers have, however, been celled
in to share power and responsibility, with
the old noblesse. They command the national guard,
and hence the support of their fellow-citizene.
This is fortunate for Austria, for it has enabled her to
keep up her army, and to equip and send a large por-
tion of it for the defence of Italy, at least to the Adige.
From all this it would appear that the German
'movement has been checked—that in Austria it will be
carried no further,not even in its assembly; and that even
in Prussia there will be a majority for a juste-milieu
system. The hopes and efforts of the enthusiasts will
thus be confined to central and Southern Germany,
hrough out which the future progress of events is
more uncertain ; but in which, whatever elements
there may be for a confederation of the Rhine,
there are few for the reconstruction of a German

empire.
Very fortunately, indeed, there is no German
empire for the present. The simultaneous attitude
assumed by Austria and by France towards
North Italy, leads to very anxious fears of
a war. And this war, should it take place, it ie most
desirable to confine to Austria and to Lombardy.
The government of Vienna has been able to aespatch
a large army to the Adige. France, on the other
hand, has with publicity, rather than reality, devoted
some three millions sterling to an " army of the
Alps." France cannot allow the Lombards to be
crushed, nor can Austria abandon her Italian domain,
if the Italians be not able to resist her.
Lord MINT() has been to CHARLES ALBERT':3 head-
quarters with the proposal that Austria should be
left quietly in possession of the Venetian territory, on
condition of her not molesting the Lombards west-
ward of the MinciO. CHARLES ALBERT, we learn, has
rejected the proposal, nor could he have done otherwise.
We do not think that such an accord would be pos-
sible or lasting. Italians must look to have all Italy
free and independent. It would be base, cowardly,
and inconsequent to abandon one of the nobleet
portions of the country, the brightest jewel of
the Italian tiam. If Italy cannot conquer the
freedom of Venice, Italy retains the independence
of the rest of the peninsula but by sufferance: her
territorial deliverance is incomplete, and her liberal
regeneration an insecure compromise. Net if an
Italian army cannot reduce the fortresses of the
Adige, France must do it for them, and France, in
I, doing so, ahquires the virtual suzerainty of Italy, i
, which Austria has lost; and Italy sinks thereby into
the wre shed dependent condition of Spain, ruled
by ministers who dare not trust the national strength,
and who instead of ruling their own country inde-
pendently, are busily cringing to the foreign
I powers : their cares and anxieties being directed to