The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-15 00:00:00

A VOICE PROM Ai

TO THI EDITOR OF TUI EXPRESS.

8111,-4 should like you to inform some of the
manufacturers of Britain, through your journal, of the
way the Americans are supplanting them in the Australian
market, owing to the superiority of their goods' they being
so much better adapted to work than those si ntfrom home.
Their mining *hovels are sold by all the hardware dealers
in Melbourne; so are their picks, and the miners will give
twice the price of an English tool for an American one,
owing to their excellence. The shovels are cast steel, very
much curved in the handle.
. . . .

The men at home should by this time have learned the
difference of a miner taking from a half to one ounce of
gold per day and a man working furls. per day. The
excellei.ce of a working tool to the miner it a great object,
and he don't mind paying for it. The American wood
shopping axes, their hand hatchets, claw hammers, and
many other tools, are prepared and bought in preference to
English ones of the same make. There is an extraordinary
opening for wood stoves, such as are need in the States or
Canada. There has been a few American in the market,
which have sold readily for 181. to 251. each. Such Moves
I have seen sold in America for 21. 10s. They are admira-
bly adapted for this country. Wood is worth 101 per cord,
and any kind of cooking apparatus that will economise fuel
is • desideratum. They might be put together, then
peeked in a case, and the case and stove filled with oats,
welch arc now worth 13s. per bushel.
They are sending large lots of boots and shoes, but they
bete net yet brought down the price much.
I have taken the trouble to pen this letter solely with a
view to inform the manufacturers, as I do not like to see a
better article furnished to Australia by America than can
be made in Britain, providing the makers set about doing
their best. I see by the papers that American hardware
has paid 100 per cent. ou the invoice, and that will be in-
centive enough to them to send larger and further supplies

I 111011111, youn meat respectfully,
Melbourne, Jane 2, 1853. THOS. J. LABY.
P. 8.—1 have been resident in the United States and Ca-
lifornia for the last six years, se can term, I think, a pretty
good judgment.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP BALTIC.
LIVERPOOL, WZDNISDAT.
This evening, about six o'clock, the United States
mail steamship Baltic, Captain Comstock, arrived at
this port with the usual mails from the United States
and the British North American Provinces. The
Baltic sailed from New York on the 3rd instant, and
besides the mails has brought about 135 passengers,
and 1,600 dollars in specie on freight.
The United States mail steam-ship Hermann, from
Bremen and Southampton, arrived at New York on
the Ist instant.
The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, from
hence on the 24th ult., was passed by the Baltic off
New York on the 3rd instant.

By this arrival we are enabled to announce the
continued abatement in the virulence of the yellow ,
fever at New Orleans, and the decrease in the daily
mortality to one hundred, or one third of what it
was when the pestilence was at the height of its
strength. This decrease of fatal cases cannot, how-
ever, be taken as a criterion of the decrease in the
pestilence to that extent, for the population of the
city is by many thousands less than it was a few weeks
ago. Still, it shows an improvement on the ac-
counts by the previous steamer.
Advice. have been received from Havannah to the
25th ult. The political intelligence is not of much
importance. Sugars remained unchanged in price,
but they were firmer. There was a scarcity in the
supply of shipping.
Intelligence has been received from Mexico to the
21st ult. The leaders of the outbreak at Guanajuato
had been exe:uted.
A marked improvement had taken place in the
New York money market, and business was decidedly
more active. 1 he demand for stocks had improved,
and prices were firmer.
The cotton market at New York was quiet, and
business to a moderate extent only had been done.
Prices, however, were quite steady, the Liverpool
adviees having had the effect of counteracting the
adverse influence of the bad accounts of the growing
crop. The following are the (rotations of the rates
current at the departure of the steamer :—New Or-,
leans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 12c. to 13c. per lb.;
Uplands mid. fair to fair, 111 c. to 12c.
The market for breadstuffs was brisk ; prices had
advanced slightly, and considerable transactions had
taken place at the following quotations :—Western
Canal flour, .5 dole. 62!;c. to 5 dots. 75e. per barrel,
and steady; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 dol. 38e. to

1 dol. 40c. per 601b*. ; Indian corn, round y
rinbaade
for. Lne
France.purchases of broad!
734g0.it0 76c.,
.7 and steady ; Indian meal,' 3 dols.2csc"t.'
stuffsLhadifieepne

In the provision market transactions had been
rather limited, but the business generally was firm.
Shipowners were asking increased rates of freight,
the following being the quotations :—Flour, to Liver-
pool, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. per barrel ; grain, 8 fd. to 9d.
per bushel; cotton, Id. to 5-16 d. per lb.
Exchange on London, 109 to 1091 with moderate
sales ; Paris, 3.131 to 3.15 ; Hamburg, 36 to 361;
Bremen, 79 to 79.

SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.

The Reyal Brazilian mail packet Great Western,
Captain Onslow' arrived at Southampton last even-
ing, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut.
J. Brown, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are:—
Buenos Ayres, August 2 ; Monte Video, August 8;
Rio de Janiero, August 15; Bahia, August 20;
Pernambuco, August 23; St. Vincent, Sept. 1;
Teneriffe, Sept. 6 ; Madeira, Sept. 7; Lisbon, Sept.
10.
Tho Great Western brings among her passengers
General Lopez and suite (7 in number), on diplomatic
mission to England and Europe ; H. A. Cowper,
Esq., her Majesty's consul, Pernambuco; Mr. Marsh,
American consul, Madeira ; and M. Piunneli, French
consul, from Pernambuco.

Her Majesty's ship Centaur was at Monte Video,
Locust and Vixen at Bucous Ayres, Express and
Sharpshooter at Rio de Janeiro, Star at Bahia.
Bonnetta on her passage from Bahia to Rio. Tyne
left Rio for England on 13th August. All well.
Brisk at Madeira, Odin at Lisbon.
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On the 29th August the Great Western passed a
vessel, dismaated and abandoned, lat. 12.36 S., long.
27.01 W.

BRAZILS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aonrsr 13.
In Rio the attention of the commercial body hos
been confined almost exclusively to the formation of
a national bank, with which the two now existing—
the Brazil and Commercial Bank—are to be incorpo-
rated. The laws of this establishment are already in
process of formation, and will probably be published
in a few days.

Passing over such weighty matters as subventions
to theatres and the like, which occupy much of the
time of the legislation, the question of railways is
now a prominent topic in vogue, and, if it were dis-
cussed in a calm business like way, one might hope
that attention was now beginning to be turned to the

material interests of the—country, instead of being
occupied by frivolous wrangling about petty matters.
But it is otherwise. Even railways are doomed to
the common bane of party, and perhaps there was
never a more bitter and personal attack made on a
minister than that of Don Mamie! on Conceives
Martius, the Minister of the Empire, in the still
pending discussion. The minister is certainly not
popular, and the don has the " gift of the gab," which
he uses without scruple or mercy, and this, too, in
the Upper House or Senate, where a modicum
of decorum might be expected. The issue
which really effects the existence of the ministry is
considered doubtful from the recent defection on
some provincial question of the Pernanibucans, who
have hitherto supported government, and the debate
has arisen on a railway proposed in Pernambuco,
which has set all the province on the qui vice. 'fho
minister himself, a Bahian, is of course suspected of
partiality to his own province, which would be no
great affair, but he is openly charged with making a
California for himself out of these railways. It is a
pity that so important a matter for the good of
Brazil should be thus mixed with politics, and still a
greater pity for the sake of the public men of the
country that such respectable names as Abrantes,
Olinda, and many others, should by the power of cir-
cumstances, even appear as sanctioning the scurri-
lities of Manoel. There is nothing in common
between them, except opposition to the government
u at present constituted.
Imports have continued on a scale of far too great
abundance, and the market generally offers no single
feature of improvement. Of flour in particular the
entries have been very large, and we have a stock of
from 80,000 to 65,000 barrels on hand.
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In coffee a very limited business has been done,
the total sales since last steamer not reaching 70,000
bags. Large purchases were made on the 15th, 16th,
and 19th of the past month at advanced rates, since
which dealers have demanded still higher prices;
and this, in combination with the unsettled state of
politics in Europe, has entirely paralysed our market.
The stock in dealers' hands has increased to 150,000
bags, and supplies are becoming more free • but we
notice little disposition on the part of the dealers to
submit to any reduction, and the market will pro-
bably open at or near our present nominal rates soon
after the departure of the steamer. With regard to
the present crop we are still of the same opinion
mentioned in our last.

In exchange 28d. was the opening rate upon Lon-
don; it afterwards became flatter, and business to a
large extent has been done at 274 d. and 271 d., the
treasury taking 20,0001. at 271 d. to 284 d. We esti-
mate the business done so far at 230,0001. on London
and about 800,000 f. upon France. The money mar-
-1 ket is much easier, and the banks are discounting at
9 per cent.
We have in port the American corvette James-
town, English brig Express, Tyne transport (sails
to-day for England), and the Peruvian war-steamer
Ucayali.
No yellow fever cases reported.
P.S. Exchange has closed firm this evening at 28d.