The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-21 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(TIIIS DAY.) 01.
(IT KLEMM LED IETERNATIONAL TELEGRAPR.) EL.
100
(FROM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The market steady. Bales 10,000 bales ; speculation and Bs.
export, 3,000 bales. Priors, id. dearer. 20
MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.) 100
SCGA R. -Brown qualities continue in active request, and 1:11
full prices are paid. The private sales included IN
low brown Mauritius, at 295. 9d. ; Bengal brown, 30s. to kw
325. lid.; Madre ordinary Jaggery, 283. 64.; grainy, 301. to 06
30s. 34.; unclayed Mantua, 30s. Refined has sold at rather
firmer prices. 101
COFIEE. -The public melee of Plantation Ceylon are :
mostly confined to small lots, the demand fee which is lees t
active, and former prices are not maintained ; ordinary 2
mold 75e. to 775. • low middling and middling, 78a. 6d. to st
84s. 68. Native Ceylon without change, email to superior, 84
675. to 725. t. as
id
TEA. -The market privately continues fairly active.
Fauir.-Owing to the dealers being well supplied, the so
market is in consequence quiet, without change in prices. is
1
RIC E. -A parcel of new Necraexie sold at 121.
8I
ROM.-30 puncheons of Demerara sold at la 9d. 0.1
SPIC2.B. -Pepper bag sold at previous prices, but there is
lees animation in the demand ; Pensng at 3. Caucaf heavy
Malabar, 30. to 44. ; shot kind, ; Lignsa, g
about 1,500 boxes, out of recent arrivals, have been i
disposed of at le. to 3e. under recent private contract ;
prices fair to good, first pile, 945. to 975. ; setuna. 910. to 8
93e. ; third, 88s. to 90e. Cloves, 2,000 packages of Renzi- s
bar sold at 34. to 3141.
SALTFETRE.-I,OW be
of Bengal sold at 254. for refrac• s
lion 54t0 4.
Comiurxeu-The public sales wont off well, and gene •
rally at ld. per lb. advance. 1,000 bags sold, Teneriffe
silver 31. .to 3s. sd. • black 3e. 6d. to 4a. 9d. •
Honiara, silve3dr, 3e. 2d. to 34..6d. blank, 3s. 6d. to 35.9 d.
Corrost.-The market is rather firmer.
Jura-There is a steady demand at full previous rates.
HIMP.-1. Petersburg clean has advanced to 331.10 e.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is Bat. Petersburg Y.C., ou the spot is
quoted 48.. 9d. ; all the month, 48s. 6d. ; October to
December, 48.. 6d. ; January to March, 48.. 98. ; March,

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The number of beasts to-day is very fair, exceeding the
demand; indeed but few are sold, and at lower prices
than for some time past. There are also many more
sheep than can paribly be disposed of. Calves are selling
at lower prices. There is so little doing in every depart-
ment, that crime are almost nominal. Our foreign =pp]
consists of 630 beasts, 5,060 sheep, 164 calves, and 205 pigs.
Per atme et albs s. d. ad. Per awns et sibs. a. d.
lest Scots, Herslda. 4 1 5 Best Das& lit-lclan 0 0
Best Short-horns 4 4 1 Best Loon-woola•••• 6 6
Second Vaal beads 2 5 I Do. do. Shorn .... 0 0
Calves
Pigs
Best Desalt, Vbeds 6 6 lambs
Beasts at market, 1.6 9 ; sheep and lambs, 6,220 ; calves, 200 ;
Pigs, 245.

L 100
1100
L ,100

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS AY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade sl wh
it lest
day's prices. Prime meadow hay, 95a. to 1055.; inferior
ditto, 80s. to 90e.; prime clover, 120 s. to 1301.; Wiener
ditto, 105 s. to 115,.: straw, 305. to 405.

In the case of Eliza Adkins, showing that hums.
nity would forbid the enforcement of the extreme penalty,
the Crown has granted a reprieve, with a view to • commu-
tation of the sentence.
THE WARDMOTES.—This morning the citizens of
London are assembling in their various wards, for the pur-
pose of electing common councilmen and other ward offioers
for the coming year. In many of the wards notion of
motion have been given with regard to the traffic of the
City, the supply of gas, the Smithfield Dead Meat Market,
civic reform, and other matters which have recently
attracted the attention of the corporation. The members
of the Court of Common Council elected to-day will enter
upon their duties on Plough-Monday. In some of the
wards there is • stroug opposition to the re-election of the
old members, and wherever new candidates are nominated
the_polling will take place to-morrow.
ENLARGEMF.NT OF THE N tTIONAL GALLERY.,--The
land required for the enlargement of the National Gallery
bus been purchened from the pariah of St. Martin-io-the-
field' for 88,0001 The site includes St. Martin's workhouse,
and Archbishop Teniece's library and schools.
VISCOVNT MILTON AND DR. Cazsotz.—Last
evening Viscount Milton, 3LP. for South West Yorkshire,
and Dr. W. B. Cheadle, gave en account, io the Public
Hall, Rochdale, of their expedition across the Rocky
Mountains into British Columbia. Among those present
were also Messrs. J. S. Entwistle, J. Butterworth, J. P.,
J. Holt, 'LP., J. Nield, J.P., Roberta, Ratcliffe. &c. The
Rev. J. C. Bates presided. The audience included the
Mk of the town and neighbourhood. Dr. Cheadle, in the
course of his remarks, described the arduous progress made
by himself. Viscount Milton, end five other gentlemen
over the Rocky Mountain, and minutely depicted the
hardships of the journey, which lasted three months.
Viscount Milton exhibited some Wien pipes, skins of wild
animals, war blankets, and other articles, and related • few
undone in coenexion with them.
THE ATTEMPTED POISONING AT BActiP.--On
Monday • young woman, named Ruth iimgreaves, aged 18
years, had been brought up at the Recap Town-hall foe a
tempting to poison her father, and Henry Heap, a married
man, was charged with being an aconsory before the fact.
Lest night, the prisomrs were brought up oe remand, when
the court was crowded. Mr. Hall appeared for the male
prisoner, who was discharged, as the evidence against him
was not sofficieetly conclusive to justify his committal on
the charge. The proceedings were of • lengthy character,
about a dozen witnesses being in the cue ; after which Har-
greaves was committed for trial for attempted murder, at
the mat Manchester arisen.