The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-02 00:00:00

MARKETS.

COTTON.--LIVIII'OOL, Due. I.—The market closed
heavily, without change in prices. The sales have amounted
to 5,000 bales, including 4,000 American (500 upon specu
lation) ; 200 Egyptian, at sid. to nil. ; 700 Surat, at 3d
to 40.; and 10 Sea Islands, at 2s. Import since Thursday,
30.000 balm.
KANCHESTER, Die. I.—The market has been again very
dull, but pries. are rather better sustained in consequence
of a hope that the extensive curtailment of production will
give a speedy opportunity of reducing stocks. The effect
on yarn is rather more generally felt than on cloth, and
some orders hays been placed which would no doubt have
been withheld but for the short-time movement, in the ex-
pectation of lower rater

WOOL.—BRAD7OIII). Duc. I.—The impression is that
prices have seen the lowest point at present. Tee holders
in the country evince no dirpoeltion to give way to meet the
prices recently current here, and the staplers are seeking
prices which cannot be met by the spinners. Bright-haired
wools more inquired after, and a little bigher prices are ob-
tained. In other descriptions of wool not much doing,
spinners only buying for present use. Noils and broker ere
more inquired for ; prices without alteration, and stocks
are low.—Bradford Oeserrer.

MANUFACTURES. BRADFORD, DEC. I. Yarns ;
The prices ought for wool prevent any more machinery
being put to work, and short time working is very general.
In some instances better prices have been obtained for yarns
adapted for the Lancashire market ; upon the whole, there
is a better feeling. Prices, however, are so low, that there
is little inducement to set the idle machinery doing. Pieces:
There is very little doing for the continent, and stocks of
some descriptions of goods are accumulating in some hands,
though manufacturers, to prevent this, resort to stopping of
looms and letting weavers play a few days at a time, in ad-
dition to working short time. Cobourgs and crapes are
more inquired after, but at very low prism. Bradford Ob-
server.

NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—November dullness has at
length come over our hosiery trade—only the fag-end of the
American buyen now remain in the market ; and manu-
facturers are exclusively engaged in workiag for completion
of former orders, and with a view to the opening home
trade. The latter department has this week received a
stimulus by a fall of Is. per bundle in cotton, which it is
anticipated may lead to the immediate appearance of the
London buyers in our market, in expectation of a cones•
ponding reduction in prices. The report of the lace trade
is this week of a somewhat more favourable character than
formerly ; the American buyers at present in Nottingham,
but who in the course of a week or so must now return to
the United States, have at length come out with some good
orders; and a few Germans have also purchased pretty
considerably in all classes of goods. On the whole, manu-
facturers have been doing a very fair amount of business.—
Nottingham Guardian.

TUB CORN TRADE.—Busuisimam, Dec. I.—The
supply of both English and foreign wheat has rather ex-
ceeded the demand during the past mouth, and the prices
of most descriptions gave way Is. to 2a. per quarter, though
holders have not generally been anxious to press sales.
We are inclined to think millen have considerably reduced
their stocks, and the quantity in store at Gloucester is only
about half what it was three months ago, being—wheat,
88,000 qrs.; barley, 6,000 qrs.; oats, 6,000 qn.; beans, 100
qrs.; and Sept. let, wheat, 110,800 gee.; barley, 13,000 qrs.;
oats, 11,000 qn.; beans, 8,000 qn. The accounts from
France show that the large imports have caused some de-
pression in price in most of their market., and it is pro-
bable that on the arrival of the large 'applies now on the
way, a further fall will take place. The same remark
applies to the principal Italian ports. There is every reason
to believe that an almost unprecedented breadth of wheat
has been sown in Great Britain, yet the supply of new
and old English wheat is good, at a period when
the quantity required for seed, together with the close
occupation of our farmers in ordinary seasons, renden their
deliveries unusually light, these deliveries will probably in-
crease for some weeks to come ; and we anticipate rather
large imports from the United States and the Baltic be. I
tween this and the end of the year. From the ports east of
Gibraltar, is the two first months of the new year, the
arrivals will probably be very considerable. Duriag the
last few weeks there has been such a material advance in
the United States as to leave little margin for exporting to
this country; this advance, however, if maintained, will
greatly increase the quantity sent from the interior for
spring shipment, as well as bring forward a much larger
npnly than in any former winter by rail to the coast,
whilst the inland navigation is stopped by tho frost. If
vessels can be found, we may also soon receive a large
quantity from New Orleans. Although by the last accounts
freights were on the decline in most foreign ports, they are
not likely to be much lower during the winter. From
Odessa and the Danube they have reached a point that
was unknown, even in 1817, say from the former
275., and the latter 31s. to 355. per quarter for wheat.
We think that the consumption of wheat in this country
has not vet been materially diminished by the present high
prices. 'This is to be attributed partly to the dearness of
most other kinds of food, especially of piratoes ; as their
increased cost obliges many families amongst the working
classes, more particularly in the agricultural districts, to
lessen their consumption of meat and substitute for it some-
thing cheaper, and bread is still as low as almost anything
they are accustomed to use for food. Notwithstanding the
great reduction in our stock and the advance in the United
States, we are rather confirmed in the opinion we ventured
to express in our last mouthly circular, that unless there is
a considerable further advance in France, Italy, &c., our
present rates are sufficiently high to draw enough bread-
stuffs to this country to make up ler the deficiency in our
own crop, great as that proves to be. By the last ac-
counts a very large number of vessels were still
loading at Odessa, and prices had not much ad-
vanced there, whilst freights were rather lower.
Our present prices are, white English, 9s. 4d. to
10e.; American, 9s. eid. to 9s. 102. ; Dantsig, 9s. 10d. to
101.2 d. ; red Eaglishat3s. Bd. to 9.. 4d.; Polish Odessa,