The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING LANE.-THIS DAY.

SrOAß.—The public sales are going off with some steadi-
ness; but the importer meets the buyers, and occasionally
gives way 6d. Refined without alteration.
COFEIII.—The small public sales went off heavily. Good
ordinary native Ceylon remains quoted 39s 6d. to 40s.
TE I.—A chop of the new crop, fine, ex Surprise, has
been sold at Is. 6d. ; and it is reported that a higher price
has been offered for a parcel held at Is. 7d.
Rtca.—The large public sales have gone off well at flal
prices; Bengal, 9s. to 10s.; Madras, 7s. 6d. to Os. ; in all
about 14,000 bags sold.
P !Prim—The sale is progressing steadily.
Corrov —The market is dull but prices are supported

Duty paid on Sugar to last week is /UNISON Liver- • est..
poo4 Bristol, Bull, and the Ctyde 4.950 1.8
To the sass ienud last year 4,994,79*

Deeresee 4L C,17
sumo Nue con vet no bill To Lon ware. IM.
Lagoa 26,768,819
Liverpool
6n ml

Hull
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;got
2,1)7,►94

Tote - 56,114,411(1
ame time In ISSO .... WANT

Inners ...... 1,923,000

TALLOW NIAItHET.-THIS DA/.

The market is flat, although the deliveries continue good.
being upwards of 1,000 casks for two days. Prices aro
as follows ! Town Tallow 36e. 6d. nett cash ; Pctenbturght
Y.C. on the spot, 375. 3d. new ; 365. 6d. to 36.. 3d., old ;
last three months, 365. 6d. ; January and March, 375.

MARK LANE.-THIS DAY.

The Wheat trade was firm this morning, at the quota-
tions of Monday last. The extent of business, however,
was not large. Flour was in fair request, and its value was
well supported.
Choice malting Barley was quite as dear as at the begin-
ning of the week, but secondary sorts hung on hand.
Grinding and distilling Bar.ey was saleable, at former
priers.
The arriva:a of Oats so far this week have been small,and
there was a steady demand this morning, with tke turn in
price in favour of the seller.
Beans and Peas quite as dear.

ARRIVALS INTO IAINDONYItOII.I7th NOV, to 19th NOV.

Wcatol;..
Wheat IOO
Barley I 1910
f1at5...... • CIO 130. 3lO
...... barrels, 620 seeks.; Malt, 1,320 qrs.

BOROUGH MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that there is a firm
and steady trade for middling and fine samples. at fully as
much money.

SAILORS' HOME AT SINOAPORE.—We are glad to
learn that this useful institution has been very successful
during the short period it has been in existence. From
the date on which it was opened (the 4th of August) up to
the 15th of September, 47 distressed seamen had been
received and 40 had been shipped, or sent away. The
officers and men lodging at the home had paid up to the
ahove date 38 dole. towards the monthly expenses, which are
at present about 20 do:s. in excess of receipts, but it is expected
that this deficit will be made up by the revenue derived from
the shipping-office, which, although only established u fort-
night, has already shown a considerable surplus over the
expenses, and prayed of great benefit to the sailors The
Bengal government sanctioned the gift of a piece of ground
for the purpose of building a sailors' home, but could
give no pecuniary assistance, and as the funds subscribed
will not at present allow of the large outlay required for
building, the committee have made such provisional ar-
rangements as will enable them to carry out the views of
the subscribers as far as possible in the meantime.—Free
Press, Sept. 26.
THE COMMERCIAL PORTS OF ENGLAND.—A return
has just been made, by order of parliament, which shows
that Liverpool is now the greatest port in the British empire
in the value of its exports and the extent of its foreign
commerce. Being the first port in the British empire, it is
the first port in the world. New York is the only place out
of Great Britain which can at all compare with the extent of
its commerce. Now York is the Liverpool of America, as
Liverpool is the New York of Europe. The trade of those
two ports is reciprocal. The raw produce of America,
shipped in New York, forms the mass of the imports of
Liverpool; the manufactures of England, shipped at Liver-
pool, form the mass of the imports of New York. The twc
ports are, together, the gates or doors of entry between the
Old World and the New. On examining the return just
made it appears that the value of the exports of Liverpool
in the year 1860 amounted to nearly 35,000,0001. sterling
(34,891,8174) or considerably more than oue-half of the
total value of the exports of the three kingdoms for that
year. This wonderful export trade of Liverpool is partly
the result of the great mineral riches of Lancashire, Che-
shire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire ; partly of the matchless ingenuity and untiring
industry of the populations of those counties; partly of a
multitude of canals and railways, spreading from Liverpool
to all parts of England and the richest parts of Wales ;
partly to Liverpool being the commercial centre of the
three kingdoms, and partly to the tact that very nearly
12 millions of money have been expended in Liverpool, and
more than 12 millions in the river Mersey, in con-
: verting a stormy estuary and an unsafe anchorage into the
most perfect port ever formed by the skillet man. On com-
paring the respective amounts of the tonnage of Liverpool
• and Leaden, it appears at first impossible to account for
I the fact that the shipping of Liverpool is rather less than
that of London, while its export trade is much more than
twice as great. The explanation of this fact is, that the
, vessels employed in carrying the million or million and shelf
of tons of coals used in Lokdon appear in the London return;
while the canal and river flats (to say nothing of the railway
trains) employed in carrying the million and a quarter of tom
of coal used or employed in Liverpool do not. State the caw
fairly, and the maritime superiority of Liverpool will be
found to be as decided as its commercial. We ought also
to add that while the Custom-house returns for 1860 give
Liverpool only 3,262,213 tons of shipping, the payment of
rates to the Liverpool Dock Estate in the 12 months ending
June 25, 1851, gives 3,737,666 tons, or nearly 500,000 tons
more. Comparing the rate of increase of the exports of
Liverpool with that of other ports, it appears that Liverpool
is not only the first port in the kingdom, but that it is be-
coming more decidedly the first every year. During the last
five years the increase of the exports of Liverpool Liu been
from 26,000,000 to nearly 35,000,000, while that of London
has been from little less than 11,00,4000 to rather more than
14,000,000. The exports of Roll, which is, undoubtedly,
the third port of the kingdom, though still very large, have
rather declined, having been 10,87:48701. in 1846, and not
more than 10,366,6101. in 1860. The exports of Glasgow,
now the fourth port of the empire show a fair increase,
from 3,024,3431. to 3,768,6161. No other port now sends
out exports to the value of 2,000,0001. a-year, though
Southampton comes near to 2,000,0001., and Cork passes
I,ooo,oool.—Liverpool Times.
A REPETITION OP THE LAFARGE SYSTEM CF
MI:IIDRR has recently been attempted at the Chateau of
La Poupardiere, in the Commune of Saint Martin (Males-
et•Loire). Mine. de Longeval, the housekeeper of she
establishment, having for some 'yawn excited a spirit
of hatred in one of the female domestics, the latter has
for some time past been administering slight doses of
arsenic in different dishes. Although the lady has
several times been indisposed in consequence, no suspicion
had ever been entertained as to the cause until a few days
since, when, after having taken a bit de poufs prepared by
this girl, Mine. de Longeval was taken so seriously ill that
her life was considered in danger. She has however, sinee
rallied, and hopes are entertained of bee recovery. The
girl has been arrested.—Golignarsi.
THE RAILWAY PROM ST. PETERSBURG TO
Waaluvr bas been, by command of the Emperor,
already marked out, and the earthworks have been
commenced. General Oerstfeldt, who was the assist-
ant of General Kleinmicbel in the works of the line
from St. Petersburg to Moscow, superintends the
construction. As the contemplated line is nearly double the
length of the Moscow and St. Petersburgh, it is not expected
that it will be completed in less than 10 years. The works'
of the last-named line occupied in all eight years.
A MODERN PILORIN.—DaiIy, about noon, the
loungers under the " Linden " at Berlin are startled by the
extraordinary appearance of a tall, lanky woman, whose
thin limbs are wrapped up in a long black robe or coarse
cloth. An old crumpled bonnet coven her head, which,
continually moving, turns restlessly in all directions. Her
hollow cheeks are flushed with a morbid coppery glow ; one
of her eyes is immovable, for it is of glass, but her other
eye shines with a feverish brilliancy, and a strange and
almost awful smile hovers constantly about her thin lips.
This woman moves with an unsteady quick step, and when-
ever her black mantilla is flung back by the violence of her
movements, a small rope of hair with a crucifix at the end
is plainly seen to bind her waist. This black ungainly
woman ss the quondam authoress, Countess Ids Halm-
Hahn, who has turned a catholic, and is now preparing for
a pilgrimage to Rome to crave the Pope's absolution fur her
literary trespasses.—Wean Zsitrasp.
SUFFOCATION BY CHARCOAL.—The Essex Standard
states that on Sunday, a gardener named Desks, living at
Hawkwell, near Rochtord, and his wife, met their deaths
under melancholy cireutastances. They had recently added
a bed-room to their dwelling, and the new wall not being
dry, on Saturday night, induced by the coldness of the
weather, they incautiously made a Ere with charcoal in the
4th't in which they selpt. On the following morning
~,: y.° found by them only child, a daughter, ten years
of age, in their bed lifeleel. Deceased were about 30 ran .
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