The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.

(Prom the Nark-lase Erprex?.)
The advices from hence reporting an upward
movement in the value of wheat t swards the close of lest
month, caused holders of the article on the continent to
raise their pretensions, and the letters received trims the
Baltic this week speak very sanguinely respecting the
future; indeed, it is perfectly evident that very little en-
couragement would suffice to give rise to it considerable
amount of eiseculation among the Baltic merchunts.
Letters from Llanzig of the 3rd inst. inform us that but
little actual business hail been done there during the week,
holders having asked higher prices than buyers had been
disposeikto give ; fur good old wheat in granary equal to 425.,
null for the finest 455. per qr. free on board hail been de-
manded. The land supplies had been small, and the ex-
pected arrivals down the river had not canoe forward, which
had assisted to strengthen the firmness of sellers ; seine in-
fee.or lots of new, weighing only .17 to 6811 es. per bushel,
had brought 31e. to ais. per quarter free on board. Mew-
whih' iithe was being cud only one vessel (under
the Danish flag) had been chartered. 'll.e freight agreed so
to in this ewe was 2. 6il. per quarter for wheat to Goole, 20
but the English captains had generally refused to accept so
la,
low a rate. at.
At Iteetock the finest wheat, weighing 6211b5. per et. I
bushel, had realised 375. 6d. per qr., tree on board;
but lid to 611 b. qualities bad bawl offered, and were 30
still obtainable, at comparatively low rates; or, in other 23
words, the grauaried stocks were held at relatively higher IS
prices than those at which the supplies from the growers at
were obtainable. Inight to the cast coast of Great 23
Bedsits was 2s. &I. to 2s. 9th, and from 3s. to 3e. 3d. to
the west coast. In spring corn there had been little doing, U
owing to the want of supplies. Barley hail been a good LI
deal inquired for, but too little hod come forward to admit
of bargains of any importance being cloned.
At Stettin, on the ith inn:it, prices were precisely the Po
same as on that day ee'nnight ; and though Hattie accounts p
had iu the interval been received from hence, holders had 441
shown no disposition to give way. The very '[•. st qualities lir'
of red were ((noted 365. to 341, tel., and good Stettin of GO st.l
to 61 lbs. weight, 31s. 6d. to leis. del. per qr. free on board. IT
llerky was 'carte, and bald too high to allow of English 30
orders being executed. 16;!
Hamburg advises of Tuesday's date state that few trans- t4ii;
30
actions had taken place in wheat since the previous post as
day, and prices had remained nrinsinally unaltered. Barley, go
on the other hand, hail been in liv•ly request, raid had rem- en
unaided enhanced terms. Outs had also met with a fair 11l
share of attention, ;cod from 13s. 941. to 1:s. 3il. per qr. free 11
ou board at outports had been paid for as to 39 lbs. feed.
Irons Groningen we leant that most of the oats brought It
forward had been nattily sold, with a view of consigning is
to England, notwithstanding the discrepancy of prices here 10
and in that market. For l'olarrile, weighing 41 to 42Ibs. et.
per bushel, lis. Gil.; for 38 to 3911te. ditto, 141:.; and for 50
tied, of 3.ilbs. weight, 10e. per qr. free on board had been t
paid.
The advices from Prance arc of much the same character 8,
as previously. At some of the ports on the coast, e here et.
storks are not heavy wheat had, it 51.1111,, brought full so
prices ; but at l'aris the, large quantity of dour on heed had g•
eausegreat depression, and the tendency of prices ut the gt
Lwtmained place had continued downwards.

Anittrurtuatir. DISTIIESS.—Mr. H. A. Iferhert paired 57°-
for Ur. Dibrouli'a motion on Friday 12:4 with Mr. liononan t
2g:tura ; and Sir W. W. Wynn fur with Mr. flardeustlo se
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LADY FRANKLIN is again fitting nut, at Aberdeen, g
nn expedition in search for her lost husband and his Arctic at.
followers.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL—The directors of the
London and North Western Railway Company on Saturday .11.
rejected the overtures made by the Electric Telegraph
Company to secure a monopoly or that line for the wires of se;
the coo way. Wo understand that operations will be im-
mediately commenced by the new company to uln•n conunu- 131
nieatom between. Liverpool and Loudon. Lierrpoul

Nimrod and Ath- 1 r

LIVERPOOL—The Cork steamers
lone, which arrived in the Mersey on Sunday evening,
brought no Ices than 1,1011 comfortable-looking emigrant.,
fu
who intend proceeding from Liverpool to America.
THE CASE OF PoIsONING AT 111ARCIL—Wc gave
last week the holing features of a singular ease of poison- SO
ing which occurred at' March, on Tuesday the Bth instant, tl!
in which three servant girls conspirsal together to pot art ;
end to their existence by taking laudanum. Two of Ouse 60
girls were servants to Mr. Miller, brewer, &c., of March, to
and the other servant to Mr. Jones, of the same place, whose at.
house adjoins that of Mr. Miller. One of the unfortunate 2„s
creature's, Mary Ann Sutton, died under the influence of L 0
the drug, awl the other two very nearly shared her fate. "
On Saturday last the adjourned inquest was holden heron.
:tr. Pratt, ut the Griffin Inn, at 10 o'clock. Several wit- 60
noises were examined, who detailed the circumstances of the
occurrence, as already stated in the E.caress. The survis I°
girls, Archer and Itolwrts, were present during the inquiry.
Sarah Lovett, wife •of John Lovett, labourer, said she heard 33
on 'fuerelay night, about 8 o'clock, that two girls were
lying dead at William Went there, and saw SO
lidalw•rty lying on the floor. Saw Archer also on the floor,
hot-wilde. Efforts were made to restore sensibility. Wit-
nt ,a led Roberts shout, and she became sensible in about
halt an hour, and asked for " Martha," meaning deceased.
In the course of the morning, about 4 o'clock, when she
got calm, she amid they all three agreed to go away
together, and cosh got four-pennyworth of laudanum.
Two of them took 12 spoonfals, and " Martha" took 10.
Deceased was browdlit into l'owell'a house about ten at
night; she was hot quite dead at that time, but she ethyl
iu a very few minutes after her arrival. Dr. Letheby, who
made air 4-rnort,ns examination of the laxly of deceased,
deposed that her death was occasioned by opium. The
Coroner caudotted the two girls in the usual way, and told
them they re ..re at liberty to make any statement, which 6,
might, however, be used against them hereafter, to the
prejudice of fin it lives or lit'erty. Archer said the reason 64)
why she bask the laudanum was that aloe did not like to he 12
laughed and scorned at in the streets. Roberts had nothing to ‘„i
soy, except that she and deceased were " partners," and she
loved her so that she thought she would like to die with her.
The Coroner explained to the jury that it' any one en- ei
((invented another to commit suicide, the person so encou-
raging was in the eye of the law guilty of murder. De
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al.o explain. tl the nature of tho crime of fclo-de-se, and
then went through the evidence, commenting upon it as he 33
went on. Fe left the jury to alp whether deceased was in
a sound state of mind when she took the laudanum ; and le
whether the others were aiding and abetting, and encou-
raking each other to conduit suicide, being then in it sound
state of mind, in which case the law held them to he guilty
of murder. The jury, after a consultation of about half
an hour, returned a verdict of feu-de-se in the case of
Mary Ann Sutton, and of aiding and abetting in the
crime of murder in the cases of Sarah Archer and Sarah
Ann Robert.. The two prisoners were subsequently com-
mitted to Cambridge on a charge of wilful murder.
DfailltVe:toN OF A WARlttlOtsli IN TIIE CITY.—
Iktwecn foe: and five yesterday afternoon a fire, suppoeeel
to be occasioned by spontaneous combustion, broke out on
the premises in the occupation of Mr. l'uucheon, marine
stores and paper warehouse, situate in Bread-street-hill,
taper Thanieraarett, City. Thu building was high and
hly, with e, asiderable frontage, and contained at the time
a v.,st collection of miscellaneous goods. The existence of
lire in the warehouse was first evidenced by the issuing of
smoke from one of the windows on the third story There
were three females at work on the floor above, and it ap-
p. ars they were unconscious of their fearful position until
the cries of lire in the street attracted their attention, and
on attempting to descend the staircase to reach the
street, discovered to their utter amazement that the place
below was in flames, and already had the staircase ig-
nited. Two of the females had the presence of mind
to jump down the burning stairs, aed gained the ware-
house-door to tie street in safety. The other female rushed
to the uppermost storey of the buildia,g, imagining she
would find some means of escape to the not of the adjacent
building, but there was none, and presenting herself at the
loop-hole, screamed for assistance. MO situation became
appalling, the flames were bursting forth from the windows
beneath, and her destruction seemed inevitable; suddenly,
however, she sprung to a rope hanging from a crane along-
aide
the loop-hale, and succeeded in grasping it with both
hands. Fortunately the end of the rope reached to within
a few feet of the carriage-way below. After hanging a few
seconds, she let the rope slip through her bands, and to the
delight and che.rs of the bystanders assembled she gradu-
ally elided down to the bottom, where some men
caught her. The poor thing 11144 much terrified, and
her hands were sadly lace rated, but with this excep-
tion she escaped without injury. Fur three hours the
fire raged tremendously, creating an immense cloud
of smoke which enveloped the western portion of the city.
At an early stage, most of the brigade engines from the
stations in the City arrived, and were without loss of time
(the plugs yielding torrents of water), brought to play on
{he flaming warehouse. Numerous other engines subae-
((neatly came up from distant parts of the metropolis, and
these were also gut into operation, and even means were
adopted to prevent the conflagration extending; this, the
firemen, after laborious exertion, managed to accomplish,
though at a sacrifice of the premises wherein the fire com-
menced, which were fur the most part destroyed, with their
contents. 'the warehouse and its contents were insured in
the Imperial and Sun fire-effices.
Isti INCORRIGIBLE lIOCSEBREAKER.—A man who
had earned the title from the police of being " a first-rate
eraeksman," was tried this week at the Manchester Ses-
sions, and transported for ten years. The man has had an
experience of penal settlements which falls to the lot of but
w, this being his third sentence of transportation. When
11 taken by the police, he anal two cesepanions were starting
an a new expedition, having a carpet bag containing 27
skeleton keys very ingeniously constructed, and other im-
plements suggestive of the business on which they were in-
tent. Silk handkerchiefs, value 31., were found also in the
bag, which be had stolen. lie had but recently returned
Irmo transportation.