The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

absurdity of the system ? unless wool is actually
brought to the fair, it becomes a mere farce ; and ex-
perience has taught farmers that they can obtain quite
as Ivodtrices at home. Again, Bir JOHN TYRRELL
mai , " e wool buyers preferred purchasing the
wool privately, in order that their friends in the
north might not be in the secret as to the
prices the wool cost." And that remark is a key to
the erroneous notions under which landowners labour
in matters of trade. The prices of wool in Essex, and
elsewhere in the south, are no secrets to the manufac-
turers of the north, whether the wool be bought pub-
licly or privately; but the prices they are willing to
give the dealers who boy from the growers, depend
entirely upon the state of trade. They know that the
dealers, who buy up comparatively small quantities
and resell in the mass, must have a profit, and they
have far more accurate information of the growers'
prices than they can derive from the babble of as wool
fair dinner. Mr. Unwm, a buyer at Colchester, put
this rightly when he said "not only in this country,
but in every country in Europe, the labouring classes
had so much to pay for food, that they had nothing
to spare for clothing ; they, therefore, must not alma
to sell their wool at such high prices as last year." So
far as we can learn from the report, the only person
who sold any wool was Mr. REBOW, for which •
buyer offered a certain price " because he knew it had
been well washed and cleaned;" and which Mr.
Renow accepted, "because he was anxious to pro-
mote the wool fair, though the buyer had not come
exactly up to the mark." Then came more toasting.
of first buyer andfirsteeller,which gave Mr. REBOW—a
candidate for the county—the opportunity of saying
that he always felt the greatest pleasure in attending
these meetings, "because they kept together those
links of society which tended to the prosperity of
the country." Afterwards, when Mr. Horns, a good
and practical farmer, spoke, he said—
He was sorry to find there was so little business dons in
the wool sales that day ; he had done all be could for the
wool fair, for his object was, to bring the buyers togetheri
let them see the wools. He regretted to find so little ear
petition for the premiums be had offered, but he hoped
whoever was the successful competitor for his cup would be
deserving of it.
lie then attempted to turn the attention of the
meeting to " tenant right," and other questions in
which farmers take a real interest ; and he made the
following statement relating to the game on Mr.
ATTWOOD'S estate :

That no less than 200 hares ani rabbits were annually
killed by the Eastern Counties steam-engines in the vicinity
of Mr. Attwood's preserves alone; and that the expense to
this aunty in prosecuting poachers was 3001. ; and if that
was the case (added Mr. Hobbs), there was little doubt
that the cost of maintaining the families of such offend,»
while in prison would swell that item to at least 1,0001.
This line of remark, however, caused some
grumbling from the chairman, who said, " that they
would act more wisely in keeping to the business of
the day ;" and the squires soon after departed. If
farmers and wool buters do find wool fairs conve-
,
nient for their traffic, let them be established in a rea- I
sensible business-like manner ; but if farmers mean
to take their right position as men of enterprise, they
must give no countenance to such farcical meetings.

The following appeared in our second edition last
evening:
We have received Paris letters and journals of
Wednesday.
The excitement produced in Paris by the affair
before the Chamber of Peers, and its painful cata-
strophe, has been followed by a calm. The court did
not give its judgment on Tuesday evening, nor was
it likely that it would do so earlier than to-day (Wed-
nesday.) Its deliberations were conducted with closed
doors, nor will anything farther be public until the
judgment shall be pronounced.
Advices have been received from Alger:a, which
cute serious movements among the population on the
frontiers of Morocco, large bodies of which have joined
the standard of Abd-el-Kader, whose influence, far
from being diminished, seems to be more formidable
than ever.

L' Union Monarchique has the following :
The sudden and unexpected visit that Leopold of Bel-
gium has just paid Paris, has given rise to a report which we
repeat, without answering for its exactness, though we have
certainly many reasons to believe it to be perfectly conform-
able to truth. It would sees that, worn-out with the isms-
rant embarrassments cared by the internal administration
of his states, Leopold thought it Incumbent on him to speak,
during his late visit to London, on this subject to the Eng-
lish ministry, to whom he declared his positive intentions of
abdicating immediately in favour of the young prince his
son. The English ministry, as can be easily behaved, op-
posed this project with the greeted energy, as the first result
of an abdication would be to place the regency in the bands
of the mother of the young prince, that is to say a princess of
the house of Orleans. During the latter part of his stay at
London, Leopold seems to have yielded to the objections
offered by the British cabinet, but scarcely had he returned
to Brussels than he found himself again assailed by the cares
of government. For some days, it was easy for every per-
son who approached the kiag to read the greatest sad-
ness imprinted on hie' physiognomy. It was in these
eirmunstenees that Leopold determined upon his jour-
ney to Paris, the motive of which was to fix, in concert
with hislietheirds.law, the basis of a law of regency to the
bunk of the @Wet daughter of Louis Philippe. The nomi-
nation of the Des d'Ancaaa to the poet of governor-general
of Algeria hes just been decided on in one of the last councils
of minivan, Yid at Meanly. It is mid that M. Ouisot made
In nit some timid objections upon the impropriety of this
shades, bat the ephdca of the Minima of the Foreign De-
pastmeat was eeespletady overruled by the manifest expres-
sion doe all-powered will, whir* aaeegqaired, in this env-om-
inous, fresh atreegthlsatimeageradkMsaof the majority
etas esened.o=orimide that this esssinaSon will not
alletelly babes the doing of the chambers.
At all sea" the pemaseLlowlal will not flo to hot. PO4
Won Wuses& of flopeen , perbspothe first fortnight
'of °Weber. The realleitios of iteelest aIW dearer to the
mein, that et for the DUB CAMBIA) • viceroyalty
in ear Alenehe pemeeiaas is put dam meet year.
The weather in the nsftsf Firm is altogether ex-
ceptional Re the season. The boat is more like
that of a tropkol climate then.ot those latitudes. The
thermometer ranges front 80 dog. to 89 deg., during
the day, in the shade. 'This temperature m accom-
panied by various electric' ef&ets. Shocks of an earth-
, quake have been felt in the north-western departments
on the channel coast.

FRANCE.—PIais, JULY 14.—CHAMBER OP DEPU-
TIM. —The debate co the budget of 1818 was brought to a
omcluiden ; a short dimmable took playa on the credits de-
manded for Tahiti. A rednotios peepoyai by M. Lemma
of 180,000 fr. was °Mean& te by who however
promised that the next eetimmieaskombli be diminished. M.
°nisei rebated to produce the ileemeses Motive to the con-
vention between France and Naglissi, with regard to Tahiti,
min that It was not in fact a eenvestion at all, bot merely
• diplomatic note.

RADHNO OP THE BLOCKADE OP OPORTO.—The
following official notificotioa has bees published :—" To W.
Dobson, Esq., Lloyd'o—Portogiess Comalsle, London,
July 14.—Sir: I beg to inform you that I have to-day r.-
mired orders from her most faithful Majesty's minister at
this court, to make known that the blockade of the port of
Oporto has been raised, as per an official communicatioa to
that effect published in the Cfaurta de Madrid, dated the 6th
inst. All the porta of Portugal are now apes.—l am, &a.,
F. J. Vomit's'.