The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

-THIS DAY.

The receipts of foreign wheat and 'bur have been mode-
rato this week, sad consist chiefly of Russian wheat and Ca-
nadian flour. The weather, without being wet, appears en.
settled. The few parcels of English wheat on sale realms('
the full pnces of Monday. Foreign was quits as dear,
with lus business passing than on Wednesday. Fresh
flour was rather dearer. Murales held at Me.
Barley scarce, and value well maintained.
Oats of all descriptions brought former prime, and, in
some instance, ed. advance was obtained for fine corn.
Beans and pus unchanged.
ARILITUN INTO LONDON TROY JULY 7 TO JOLT 11.
English& &Ash. Dish. Toren 1,
Whild 1550 ...26 4ll,
I UO,
370 1100 30
Malt
lbas —sates, 1,730 bunts.

.
Loss= Assasess.—Wbest. Ills. 4d. : Barley, 40s. 04. ; OM.
fled.; Rye,—; ROM. 421. 10. ; PIM 421.241.

tiontAL

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Ins
Went. lisary. 0414. , Rye. Brad. P.
Ilby 31 ... .. 644 SLAM Id 434 104414 44 id Id
June 7 ... ... 671 94 Re 74 Hs 44 414 104 Oh 64 Ns 114
14 ... ... 1144 Id 344 671 344 34 474 64 134 SC 94 OS
SI ... ... 694 id 354 44 km 74 Oa 44 Ile Id 41. 04
se ... ... 724 44 Ma 34 131 94 Old 104 Hs (4 434 9d
July I ... ... 744 74 Mk 7711.34 14 444 1174444 4d444 Od
• mit Mg. MIT. 7,'• Sd SU 94 244 941434 1041444 34 414 34
Iliow-inisat. - _,. - -

Price. Illay 11.
—74—r
72 6
69 11
ea 1 17-11
sr 9 I

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(2T NAONITIO tiessolAre.)
(PROW OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
There was a large 'Wisdoms@ at our eon market this day,
aid tte demand was extremely goad as the following °—
Waist obtained 21. par bushel advisee sa Tiesday's rates.
All other articles were steady at Tuesday's Wrests prices.
Weather wet.

Soaki.—We have had en animated market this week
with a very lug. of business done, both in public
salts and by private contract, including several cargoes
sant, to arrive, and at near ports oar the Cantllolll, the
result showing an Myna of Is. to le. 6d. on last week's
currency. The refined market has also advanced. Blown
lumps now quoted 67s ; grocery, 575. 6d. to 59s 61.
Comm—There bee been a fair amount of be mem done
at last week's prices, bat speculators hems not appeared.
TEA —A limited basin**. done at previous rates.
Ilicu.—Peces have been supported, end a fair amount
of busmen done.

RUK —The market hes been dull, bat we do not alter
cur quotations.
BALTPITZI has been in good distend, and • farther
*doom of 61. his been established. Price are from 31s.
to 34i., a-cording to refraction.
109100 —Third day.—The total quantity now pared
suction is 7,200 chests, of which 4.2.50 have been withdrawn,
1,640 bought in, Laying only 1,320 sold. The resat of the
these day. gives the f Mowing quotations—Good and One
Bengal 3d. amount ; middling to good middling Bengal,
at temente'. prices ; ordinary and low, 3d. discount. A sew
Ina of Medias and Kurpalm sold from last sas's prima to
id. dissonnt. _ _

Cotrosc—A fats mount of business done at a shade ad-
TAZO.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Tte inarast remain him at the d quotations .
Town tallow, 495. watt cash ; Petenbarg Y C. on the soot,
50i. 61. ; July, 60s. 61.; August and September, 60a. ;
o:tober and December, 601.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARLET.
(THIS DAY.)
The number of beasts is very email, and the quality very
meddling. There are so few of the chohwet kinds ow offer,
that our top quotations may be coseidered almost nominal.
There is a fair aversp supply of sheep and lambs.
The best qualities meet with a ready sale at
about Monday's rates, but trade is heavy fey other hied*.
Celtn are rather low. r. From Germany and Holland there
are 120 beast., 1,200 sheep. 440 calves, end 00 Pik • Spain.
870 sheep. Nosfolk and Buff 'lb, 270 beasts; Northern sad
Midland, 100 beast' ; end 140 miLch cows from the Home
Counties. _ _ _

Pdt Now of es. • ad. ad Per dam of' Vbs. as ad
114416,444,H4r010rdit 410 5 3 Not Dos I /1/4:00do 314 6 0 5 4
Pad dbortdorao 4 8 5 0 Dot Loapwoolo ......
Boxed gislay hied 38 4 4 Do. do. tibona... ..... 4 5 0
Calm ...... ........ 3 8 6 0 SIMS sadßecoad 0d16149 4-0 4-6
No 3 8 5 0 Do. do. Shorn
boa Dili ... udif...bnidi. lamb 4 8 5 8
8.,,,.. ii, mutes. 9:1; lamp end !mobs. 11.600. offilve, 4 T 2; 914 d.
145.

, Barley. Oete. Rye, Been., and' Peas, U.
.1 June 7. June... 14. June 11. Jane ft July 7.
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ITALY.

ITALY AND PIEDMONT.

IT AN ITALIAN *HO IS NOT ♦ NATIVE OF PIEDMONT.
LETTER IV.

is —lf •here is a sovereign in Italy with whom
it is difficult to bear patiently, it is most undoubtedly
the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Of all people in Italy,
in Europe, in the world, the Tuscans aro those who
can be put to the best uses. They have in the twiddle
ages displayed higher spirit.. greater valour and
genius, and ct,bler patriotic virtues than tall the other
Italian communities put together. For the last three
eewuries they have undergone the process ot such a
mild, and smooth, and narcotic government, as would
have enervated any other race of men ; but they are
yet, though over-refined and somewhat frivolous, ca-
pable of steady endeavour and lo•ty aspirations. A
silken thread might lead them ; and he must indeed be
en inconsiderate prince who would dream of disturb-
ing their easy slumbers with the clank of fetter. and
chain..
Th. Grand Duke of Tuscany is no tyrant, and the
tale by him established is not tyrannical : good, easy,
though narrow-minded and bigoted mi.n, he would
rather be at peace than at war with his suejects.
From father to son the family cf Lorraine Gave
always striven after popularity—they have, that is,
always sued for the favour of the populace, forgetting
that there is a word more comprehersive tbz.n that
Of populace, forgetting that the populace are only
part of the people. Human codes, mild punishment.,
amounting very nearly to no punishment at all,
great consideration for the welfare ot the masses,
and latitude of speech without true freedom of
thought, have ever been allowed and even encouraged
in Tuscany. It was a kind of happy family, in which
the father aspired to supply the want of mind, and
heart, and providence to its member.. So long as
they submitted to a perpetual noo.age the Tuscans
might indulge all the whims and vagaries of petted
and even spoiled children.
Lett alone with their princes, the Tuscans wouid have
gone hand in hand with the most favoured nations.
Peter Leopold had, even previous to the French revo-
lution of 1789, a constitution laboriously drawn up
sod fitted to the wants and interests ot his people i
which he, however, kept carefully locked up in his
desk till such time as the Tuscans should be, as the
phrase goes, rips for it. Up to the French revointion
there was no load all for constitution. in continental
Europe, and the peat boon might be delayed with-
out any great clamour on the part of the subjects.
One point, however, was very clear at that time—
that, notwithstanding claims of mutual revertibility
between the Houses of Tuscany and Austria, the
two states were thoroughly independent of each
other, and that the Grand Duke could do
what be pleased with his own, being oily
accountable to God and his people. Had that
same fact been clearly established in 1814, or
rather had it been consistently acted upon—for of
the fact itself not the least shade of doubt was ever
entertained—Europe would have had little cause for
uneasiness on the part of the Grand Duchy. Bat
from 1814 the fatal increase of territory tort was
allowed to Austria in Italy engendered a belief at
Vienna that the whole Italian peninsula was little
better than an imperial province, and an Austrian
ambassador was settled at Florence, exercising a
_stamen power over the Tuscan government, all the
more irresistible as it was invisible and intangible.
There may have been hypocrisy and equivocation on
the Grand Duke's part, but *main it is that when-
ever any particularly obnoxious measure was pro-
posed the Tuscan rulers always knew adroitly how to
point to the foreign mover, whose will was fate,
whose supreme authority it was in vain to challenge
or dispute. Thus, when the Aniologio—the hest jour-
nal published out of London or Edinburgh—bad
for several years roused the hot displeasure of the
Antic Council at Vienna, it had to be suppressed,
though the Grand Doke felt, or affected to feel, great
reluctance to sign the decree; and political refugees
who had found an asylum at Florence and made their
bargain with the Grand Ducal police-1 know the
fact from my own personal experience is 1840—had
to decamp on some dark hint conveyed to them
through the Austrian embassy. Nevertheless it
suited even Austria to allow a milk-and-water rule in
Tuscany, and the 10mm-femme, namby-pamby libe-
ralism that presided over the councils of the Grand
Duchy wee for many years an object of envy and
edmiratioo to other Italians, who were fain to repeat
the ancient adage, giving Taman, a pre-eminenoe
over all other countries of the world,