The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

ham Übe Marl-lase Expresi.
BRITISH.

The very severe weather experienced during the
greater part of the week now about to close, has tended to
Ea:Gnu hoe to the wheat trade ; and though it does not
that leonine we have a week of severe frost in No-
vember the a inter must be earlier than in usual years, still
there Tall he no doubt that the minds of holders have been
fallueneeil thereby. Whether the northern continental
ports be closed early nr nut, would probably make little
teal diffcrena c in regard to supplies, prices being too high
there to allow Qt coosignments being made to this country
with a chance of profit; still, the possibility of such on
occurrence has certainly had more or less effect. The
upward movement has also been assisted by the improve-
meat which the cold, frosty weather has wrought in the
condition of all kinds of grain of this year's growth, and
further by the impetus which has been given to the demand
by the 44111 e cause, it being a well-known tact that the can-
suaiptiun of lend is invariably increased by a low range of
temperature. These several causes have all had their lave
nice in inspiring holders with confidence; but the circum-
stance which has had greater weight than all the rest put
toge Cher he. been the decreased pressure of !menus produce
es the (been ut markets. The falling off which hag for some
time beta shown in the arrivals from abroad, and the belief
that during the winter months the supplies will be mopentively small, have induced holdersof grain in granary to be-
come less anxious to reales. , and the competition between the
home producer and seller of foreign corn having diminished,
buyers,who have till receutlyhiid it all their own way, have
at length found it difficult to secure what they have needed,
without paying some advance on previous prices. The rise
L the value of wheat has been gradual since the beginning
of the precut mouth, and in most of the markets in the
agricultural iliatnets quotations are at present about 2s. per
qr. higher than they were at the close of October. This
dupnnessent has not hitherto bad the effect of drawing
larger supplies from the growers, but ea Christen ap-
proaches, the &Ilse:its will probably increase.
By the official account Just p.ublished, it appears that the
importations of grain, &c., into the United Kingdom
during the month ending the sth inst. amounted to only
141,616 quarters wheat, 23,4'_'3 barley, 51,162 oats, 23,921
Beam, 2,626 peas, 133,591 maize, 256,307 cwt. dour,
against 300,220) quarters wheat, 59,790 barley, 106,676 oats,
1,521 ryr, I beaus, 4,117 peas, 193,211 maize, 624,476
t art. dour in the preceding month. This tact alone is said-
tient to account fur the increased firmness which the trade
has eabibited.
At the Large consuming towns the advance in the value
of Wheat h.O scarcely kept puce with the rise in the agri-
cultural districts, owing, no doubt, to the presence uf snicks
of foreign brogihtuds at the lesdiug ports.
This week business has been more firm than active at the
principal provincial markets.
The arrivals of *heat eueetwise into the port of London
have been moderate, only 2,601 qrs. having been reported
up to this (tiaturday) evening.
Two or throe cargoes of Polish Odessa wheat on passage
have beta taken for the Continent this week, at similar
rake to those previously current, say 33a. per qr. for Polish
Odessa, that price including freight and insurance to the
pert of destination. We have heard of no sales of Egyptian
wheat; the prices asked have been 245. to 245. fal. per, qr.,
cost, freight, and insurance.
Quotations of town-manufactured Flour have not varied

near our last . ail fresh qualities have bees in fair request,
at pervious terms. The arrivals from abroad have consisted
of seeks Iron. France, and 5,994 barrels from Ame-
rica. Stocks of foreign Flour on the wharves have been
• reduced into a eery narrow compass, and even the stale in-
ferior lots nave been mostly cleared of. American Hour is
also it.irec, considerable shipments to the Cape of Good
Hope having been made during the month.
The atriva!i of barley coastwise have been moderate since
our last, and comparatively little has been brought forward
by land-carriage samples. The supply, has, however, proved
sufficient to satisfy the demand, and the tendency of prices
hes been rather downwards. Really line malting qualities
would probably (had say appeared) lhave realised fully pre-
view prices, but the greater part of what was exhibited
both on Wedersday sad Friday consisted of ordinary dee-
seriptions, and such were very Miceli to place, though in
some Cain offered at slightly reduced terms. Foreign bar-
ley has been in good request for grinding, and the recently
enhanced rates have been well supported. Good Egyptian
has brought iso. 6.1. to 19x., and Baltic qualities 235. up to
2es. per qr.
The supplies of malt have not been particularly large, bat
this article has sold somewhat tardily at previous prices.
The total arrival of oats, including 3,294 qrs. from abroad,
has amounted to only 11,091 qrs., and factors have conse-
quently been enabled to place a portion of the supply pre-
viously received from Ireland without making any COCCI:a-
nion ; indeed, the tendency has been the other wey, end
aa• corn, whether of home or foreign growth, could hardly
be bought on as easy terms on Friday es in the beginning of
the week. A. prices are generally higher in the country
markets than is Mark lane, it is tolerably clear that ...large
arrivals can be looked for from out own cm/Lollies' an advance
takes place; and the latest nemesuts from Ireland state, as we
have already intimated, that shipments for England bad been
discouraged by the unsatheMleryansults of previous consign-
ments.
The few English Beam bray* forward have sold on
(pits as good terms as Ware. Foreign of good quality
have alai brought WI pima
Peas have met • sk ail% at late rates.
Though but little som bin been done in Indian corn
Mad, 2tia. 61. has been Memensini fee (Mats on passage.
I,oll=llll.

By the most recent dein—gem the North of Europe, we
learn that the weather bed me lees useseally severe.
Some quantity of snow bad him, bet bell eh emsained
long on the greund, the temmeedese laving sulesquently
risen. The news from tho Bettie k, la • commercia point
of view, of little interest, the Wet range of prices there
checking anytlung like active hominess with the British
markets.
Dentsie letters of the 17th but. inform us that during the
previous week about 160 lasts of new wheat had been re-
ceived from Lower Poland, being the Ant arrival duties
the season. The quality is described os tolerably good;
but, the condition being indifferent, the weight wss only
681 b. to 6811,. per bushel. Old wheat had bees in fair re-
quest, and about 3,000qm. had rionged
_bands during the
week at full terms; I* le tbs. fee mined, not quite delta,
equal to nt. per qr. tree se bead bed been paid. A
maple of vessels had been takes up to Led be London at
2s to 2s 241 per qr., being about the some freight as paid
before.
Prom Stettin we learn that the weather bed bees wet,
and rather mud for the season of the year. lye bed met
with attention, buyers feu the katerios bay* seek visited
that market: this het had gleam meowed eseiblew to
bobbies, mad pried, Ate Mein bees lowa to 31a. to
31a. dl., bad seek dna to lb. to Its. per quarter ; this
rim IA however_ tided to abash beeleasa. The hamar
time whim bed bees unbs geoteme. and ths mine et the
antis bed rierdsd sheet Is. per gerrrteg:
_pod glib. rod
Stitie bring them oblehable et Sin to Ida ed. per gam/
EMUS barna. T• amend linaleikgbeismiltair
sod fir quallass bed bees add et aged is n. to 2b. per
rinerhe, hes es bird.
Ilsehelt hews et the 17* et lieeensber state that the
tine et ell bib et vein had bees wall supported. the

supplies from the farmers having been very small. The
little new wheat brought forward had been readily dis-
posed of at 365. 6d. to 365. per quarter. The samples of
this year's produce exhibited have, with few exceptions,
proved a very moderate quality, and 611 lbs. per bushel
was considered a good weight for new wheat. In spring
corn nothing of interest had transpired. Barley was then
quoted 21s. &1., and good boiling peas might have been
bought at 265. per quarter free on board.
At Llamburgh, on Tuesday, Wheat was inquired for, for
local consumption ; 60 lbs. red marks brought equal to
395. Gd., and 61 lbs. Wahren 41s. per quarter free on board.
Some speculative inquiry had besides been experienced for
parcels deliverable at outporta in spring, and contracts had
been closed at 30s. 6d. for 61 Ilse. Pomeranian, for which
40s. 6d. had subsequently been asked. Barley had met
with a fair share of attention ; Danish, weighing 53 to 54 lbs.
had been sold at 21s. to 21s. 64. per qr. free on board, for
immediate shipment; while fur the same article deliverable
in spring, 225. to 225. 641 per qr. had been asked. Oats of
381 be. weight, from Jutland, had been offered at 14s. 6d. per
qr. free on board.
The reports from Holland are of a firm tone, and at Rot-
terdam, on Monday, new white Zealand wheat brought an
advance of Is. per qr. ; in the value of red no change oc-
curred. The inquiry for rye had again revived, and prices
were quoted 2.. per qr. higher than on that day se'nnight.
From France the advice* are also firm, but no actual ad-
vance could, it appeals, he established at Paris on Wednes-
day, either on wheat or flour.
The accounts from the Mediterranean are of much the
some character as betorc. At Mareeillse supplies from
Odessa were anxiously kaiked (or, the quantity on this mar-
ket Wag greatly reduced; the price on the 15th instant
was Th. 3d. to 295. for 601 b. to 6611 b. Polish Odessa, and
33e. per quarter free on board for 631 b. Marianopoli.
At Leghorn, on the 14th of November, Marianopoli wheat
of the same weight was worth the same price as at Mar
milks, while 6111ba. qualities were obtainable at 30s. 6d. to
31s. per quarter free on board. The quality of the new
Marianople is described as very fine.
By the most recent &deices from America, we learn that
prices of wheat and flour, after having undergone a slight
improvement towards the close of Octuber, had again receded
to about the point they had previously stood at. Sonic
quantity of Flour had been bought at New York and the
other leading ports for export to England.
At New York good shipping broods ad Western Canal
were quoted 16.. bd. per barrel, and war might have been
bought at 145.6.1. per barrel. Frefigbt bed rather advanced
-for Liverpool, 10d. to Is.; for London, Is. 91.; and fur
Glasgow, la. 6d. per bel. bad beau paid for Flour.

A MAN FOUND DEAD IN ME STREET.—YeSter-
day morning, at an sorb hour, as a police constable of the
M division was passing flown Long-lane, Borough, he saw a
man lying insensible on the pavement. The officer procured
assistance and carried hint to the nearest surgeon's, where it
was discovered that life was extinct. A stretcher was pro-
cured from the police station, and the deceased was con-
veyed to the workhouse of St. George's, Mint-street, South-
wark, where an inquest will be held this evening. There
were no marks or bruises about the deceased's face or other
parts of his person to account for death. The deceased's
name was found to be Owen Jones, in the service of Messrs.
Courage and Donaldson, the brewers, of llorselydown-lane,
Tooley•street, Southwark.

FRATRICIDE IN LlVERPOOL—Yesterday an occur-
rence Wok place in Liverpool which crested much excite-
ment. Two brothers, awned William and Joshua Blunt,
quarrelled in the house of their mother, a widow, residing
is Clive-street, and the result was that Joshua, the younger,
stabbed Willis's, the elder brother, with • shoemaker's
knife, and death ensued in a few minutes. The circum-
stances attending this dreadful act were as follows:—The
elder brother bad cot for some time resided with his
mother, but was in the habit of calling occasionally at the
house, and when he did so endeavoured to exercise autho-
rity over his younger brother, who is • shoemaker, aged 18
years, and supported his mother out of his earnings. This
assumption of authority led to frequent disputes. Yester-
day morning William, who was a blacksmith, called at his
a-other's, and some dispute haviug arisen relative to a
shilling which their parent required, he struck Joshua,
who instantly wired a knife with which he had been work-
ing and plunged it into his brother's chest. Mr. Fiddler,
surgeon, was sect for, but the unfortunate man expired
before his arrival. Joshua was taken into custody by
Inspector Boyd, and brought before Mr. Mansfield, at the
police court, who ordered him to be remanded.

STLUICOXMUNICATION BETWEEN ENOLAND,INDIA,
awn AUSTIALIA.—In Saturday's Daily News there ap-
peared• government advertisement for tenders for convey-
ing a mails between Singapore mid Australia every alternate
month. The difficulties which the Australian colonists will
have to encounter, the sudden changes which will arise in
their circumstances, and the fluctuations which will take
place in their markets owing to the gold discoveries in New
South Wales and the consequent influx of population, will
render a tepid communication between England and
Australia more than ever necessary. Referring to the
advertisement above alluded to, it is most important to
notice that the government have deciled on the southern
route to Australia from Singapore. A mail route through
Torres Straits will, therefore, not be adopted ; and the
whole of South-Western and Southern Australia will be
materially benefited by this arrangement. According to
the terms of the advertisement the parties tendering to
convey the mails between Singapore and Australia must
also undertake to establish a fortnightly communication be-
tween this country and the Mediterranean, India, and
China. It appears, then, that at length the highly impor-
tant scheme of an overland communication with India and
China twice a mouth is about to be established.
It will be seen that this mail scheme contem-
plated by the government is almost identical with the
one which the Peninsular and Oriental Company offered
some time since to carry out without any expense to the
country, and which they were prevented from doing by the
East India Company insisting on conveying in their own
ships the Bombay mails. It is to be remarked that Bombay
is not mentioned in the advertisement. It would appear
from this that the East India Company have not given VISIT
to the government on the Bombay mail question. Of
course when the fortnightly communication with India and
China is established the E.ist India Company's line of mail
steamers on the lied Sea will no 'eager be necessary, and
the government mail steamers between Malta and Alexan-
dria will be removed. To carry out the mail scheme con-
templated in the advertisement, via, • fortnightly commu-
nication with India and China and a communication every
other month with Australia, will requne a fleet of twenty
steamers of the largest clam—Daily News.
CENTRAL CONNEXION Or AIETROPOLITAN RAIL-
WAY STATIONII.—WhArther or not Mr. Pearson's be a
sound and desirable nroject we need nut now determine;
there is much in it that wants explanation, and the cost,
notwithstanding what the projectors mid, would be enor-
mous ; but of this we are certain, that some plan should
be adopted to connect the various railways. To speak of
a terminus to a railway so lung as there is say place
farther on to be reached has always seemed to as absurd.
If we wish to go from London to Manchester we find no
break up of the road at Birmingham or other towns, but
can go right on to our journey's end. If, however, when
we come back we woulu travel on, say further south than
London, another sort of conveyance must be taken to,
and probably some hours are wasted betrre the journey
can be continued. The first thing to be done towards ren-
dering our railroad system more complete is to bring into
communication all the existing lines which surround Lon-
don.—Tite Builder.

DIRECT EXETER, PLYMOUTH, AND Devo:vrowr I,
R•ITAIII.T.—Ynteri.7 the effaire et ,We e.0p.0., came on
before the Muter in Chancery Sir William Horne, on the
occasion of the proposal of a call of UM on each of the
members of the managing committee to pay off outstanding
liabilities. The official manager's report gave a curious'
exemplification of the working of the act of parliament for
winding up joint-stock companies on its application to in-
choate
companies. It stated that in pursuance of the leave
of the Master, given by written direction to that effect, I
under the Sth section of the act, the official manager found
it necessary for meeting his necesaiey expenses and charges
in the proceedings for winding up the company, to borrow,
oa the security of the assets of the company, the'
sum of 300 L, the cash disbursements having considerably'
exceeded that sum, aid which was raised by negotiating
• bill of thatamount. The official manager not harind re- I
ceived funds to pay the bill at maturity it was renewed, and
the renewed bill had been purchased by Mr. W. Harris,
solicitor, of Stone. buildings, who had been the acting so-
licitor for Mr. Besley, and other persons opposing the pro-
eeedings of the official manager, against whom, upon the
bill, the solicitor was now prosecuting an action at law ' •
and judgment might be obtained in a fortnight, their being
no legal defence to it. In the ease of blettbarr, ea *Hotter,
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce directed an issue ft be tried,
involving the question of the liability of alletleet, and
which was decided against the official manager, whit was
ordered by the court to pay the costs, ITN., for
which he is being continually prated and theeatened,
his own ants amounting to ahead the ems arm.
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made of 1,3001., have bees insesei, end see me
wets le meet them. The elide' menryer's to I
make ohs to meet theft lishilides hare is every ONO .
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order to nisi up do employ are Row, having bees mode
peesesies agial have the order owskhog, ea
the pet* of these we sonyeay, and haw* eleght
the Meek eft the all door whisk they new 11S-
deavesr 011000. 1J lime Ommenreenese the ad-
Oil maw, as en ei et der the Coot of Chesteery, sow
called apes dte aeon he pearedee. The Master observed
that at pesssst be maid tie as ore than sympathise with
the the prim were pissed in, sad said he must
edhemen the entitien et the call amid the derision of
the cowl as le lesdailiag the ceder was made brown Mr.
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