The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.

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(Feces the Nark-tam Brows.)
Last Tuesday's advices from the Baltic state that
the weather had become frosty, and Los bad already been
formed es many of the riven • as early closing of the navi-
gation was consequently expiated, and the vessels which
had not previously completed their cargoes were being
loaded as fast as possible, to guard against the risk of being
frozen in.

"-rtLitt, bunnies had bees nearly brought to • stand ;
• few were being leaded for Holland, but for Eng-
lund thine win hardly anything being shipped. Prime had
resesisad semlselly sr blew The **Wag is of cold wea-
ther had inspenedthe senillies of the sew wheat.
Frew SWIM woken OM the shipping season was fest
drawing to s sins, and SW sleeks ladug been reduced
into a very wren essegon, holders bad demanded full
terms, end for good 61 lbs. rad wheat 70e. per qr , cat and
freight, weediest asked. Of open °ors seemly any had
ems forward._ - _ .

ItcaToeicsel;ises of Tuesday state that the deliveries of
grain frees des farmers had beam on a retail soak% and that
stocks as the spot were by no means extreme. The I
'Feather was sold, sad ice was len&ning to form in the
harbour. Further shipments from Psos are therefore not
likely to be made. In prime no change had taken place
@thee the preview pet day.
Frees the nom costinental pert we have she accounts of
the Mph' of fresh From Hamburg we learn that there
was a deal offloating lee in the Elbe, sad that an
early termites of the navigation was expected. Red
upland wheat oa the spot, weighing 69105. per bested, had
not bosa offered below 70s. 6d., and for 60ilbs. quality
75e. 6d. per quarter free en board had been asked. The
offers fromonets had not been numerous, and high prises
bad beenasked.
Sln the Duteeasskets business appears to have bosoms
quiet, and at Rotterdam en Monday wheat was rather
easier to buy than es that day its'asight. For tarp
beans 425., sad small 48s. per qr. free oa board had been paid.
The reports from France are not quite so dull as they
were lest week ,• sad at Paris, on Wednesday, wheat was
hardly obtainable on as easy terms as on that day week.
The esp quotation for wheat wee 61 francs—equal to 796.2 d.
per an
ni and the highest price for flour 625. ld. par sack
el Min
Nina the Mediterranean ports we learn that no particu-
lar &maim had taken place in the value of wheat. At
Mannino, ea the 24th of November, Polish Odessa wheat
was meth Ns. 9d. up to 60s. 6d. per qqr. free on board. At
Leghont en thole& ult., Msrihacpeli was quoted 645. 6d.
per qr. free ea leas& From Teisina, advises of the 24th
of November inkem us that, though there was some pres-
ence on that market, egiden continued la favour of a rise,
and wheat was =6,lllstir rata for January sad Fe-
w label skim dem the it appears that pre-
Mot,
prelim wean Wig made ea bath sides to awry ea the
war with vigour, end all theumble of a pacific arrangement
mutt be 'bendier& Modem bed beam given by the Tura-
ish government that vessels under the Russian flag
would be eseellmed as lawful prim: in consequence of
which, many Rumba ships whisk bad been previously
laden with cent at Galata, Ito., had deemed it prudent to
discharge their argoes, rather than proceed en their in-
tended voyage and run the risk of capture. There is m-
oon, therefore, to conclude that supplies from the Danube
will be greatly interfered with, and the probability is that
the war will cause a material falling :off in the quantity of
grain calculated on from the Black flea, Aka.
Letters from Odessa, dated 21st ult., state that steels
had been materially reduced there and that holders of
prods in warehouse had shown increased firmer. The
Wt sales had been at 31s. to: 38s. per qr. foe soft Polish,
according to quality. Soft (Mirka had staged in value
from 295. to aZe. per qr. free On board. Freights were as
high as at any previous period, 160 s. per ten (equal
to 245. 10d. peoirthriereat) havisy bun paid for tallow
to the United The Wm MI bow en a vary ex-
tensive seals, sail experts &wring the muck endlag Ilth
Nov. bad entenneod to the Moist unposidentedly large
quantity of MAIO chetweth. The ohipmere had been
mostly ler France and Italy, the pieties far Great Britain
having hen comparatively unilopereist
From Alexandria we learn, under date of 18th ultimo,
that the Viceroy had ceneented to allow of the export of
the remainder of the stocks held at that port, amounting in
all to 170,000 quarters of grain and pule*; but that the
boats frets the interior would be stopped at Atti until the
whole of the quantity in port had been skipped, when all
expert would cease.
The Americas advice@ are of a somewhat more subdued
tame, but prices had been well maintained, sad flour is too
high on the other side of the Atlantic to leave much margin
for profit in the English markets.

SUICIDE AT THE PIAZZA, COVENT-GARDEN.—Te•-
tarday a sine's named Tome, who was staying at the
Piazza Hotel, committed nicht* in hie bedroom. The
cuss of this unhappy aosurrnos is &trend unknown.

DRAMA.

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HAYMARKET.

1 Mr. Stirling Coyne's comedy, The Hope of the
Family, was repeated last evening. The second night of a
new play is always a more severe test than the first ; but
Mr. Coyue's excellent piece went triumphantly through the
trial. It was warmly applauded by a full house ; and its
success is now enured. It wee followed by a farce or ex-
ravayanss called Any Port in a Storm ; of which we must
say that we regretted to witness the performance of such
apiece at the Haymarket Theatre. We cannot believe that
Mr. Beekstone had read it, or paid say attention to its pro-
duction. Had he done so, his taste and judgment would
assuredly have led him to rejects thing so utterly unworthy
of his house. It was a coarse imitation of the lowest kind
of fame exhibited at some of the Parisian miner theatres ;
but without a spark of the wit and spirit which, on the
French stage, are the redeeming qualities of pieces of very
questionable propriety. The audience tolerated it to the
close ; but it was then so soundly hissed, notwithstanding
some partial attempts at applause, that we can scarcely
suppose it will be again brought before the public.

ADELPHI.
Thirst of Gold ; or, the Lost Ship, and the Wild
Flower of Mexico, • Dew nautical melodrama, in flee
tableaus, was produced last night at this theatre with
marked manifestations of suceesa.

The story opens with the tableau of the ship Eugenie,
Captain Jules de Valois (Mr. C. Selby), and sailors, Gali-
leo (Mr. Keeley), Porpus (Mr. Paul Bedford), ite., with
Pedro (Mr. Webster) as a passenger. Blanche de Valois
(Madame Celeste), the captain's wife and their child.
Marie, are also on board. Pedro is a man of cool and
calculating character and of swelling ambition. He
has beard from the only survivor of some men
who were wrecked on the coast of California in 1705
(the time of the story), that that place abounds in gold.
With this knowledge, having stabbed the man who gave it
to him, he lays the first step of the ladder on which he
mounts to power and rank. He contrives to get several
men, whom he inflames with the prospect of gold, as
sailors on board the " Eugenie." They mutiny during the
voyage, Mr. Paul Bedford, " like a tower erect," leading
the " rebel hest," whilst Mr. Hotly is among the faithful
found. Fortune, however, remained on the side of the
strong battalions on this occasion, and De Valois, his wife
and child, are lowered into the boat, and sent adrift.
Guillot, after wounding Pedro in the neck, jumps
overboard, and is picked up by De Valois's
boat. So ends tableau the first. The next to-
I bleau represents the Arctic Regions, a capitally painted
scene. The boat has drifted to these deepand cold solitudes,
and a painful portraiture of the misery and privations en-
dures' is exhibited—the too deep colouring of the seen*
somewhat, however, relieved by a description of Keeley's
great fight with the white bear, and pleasant recollections
of Putney—his native home. At last the ice breaks up,
and the child, Marie, alone on a fragment of iceberg, seems
to have a possibility of escaping. The brething up of the ice
and the rush of waters which concluded this tableau, was
admirably executed and greatly applauded. From this to
the next tableau—the Bay and Landscape of Mexico—
also a flue picture—fifteen years are suppesed to have
passed. Here we find Pedro decked in the richest cos-
tume, and abounding in gold, preparing to set sail for
France, and to acquire by means of that potent weapon the
power and dignity he so much covets. The Countess de
Bfissac (Mrs. Leigh Murray) the sister of Madame de
Valois and her niece Adele are also preparing to sail for
France which is their native country. Meanwhile a fight
takes place with some of the India*, who are beaten off.
Bat a girl of the white skinned race is taken, who exhibits
the most decided repugnance to Pedro, now the Marquis
D'Arres, the moment she seas him. The marquis is struck
with the resemblance of Unarita (Madame Celeste) who
sow represents the young Marie, for so the
wild flower is now called, to Madame dc Valois,
but the difference in their ages assures him of the
impossibility of his suspicion notwithstanding some
vague recollections which she manifests of former
seams does not leave him without anxiety. They sail for
Fran*, where the next two tableaux represent splendid
apartments in the Hotel de Brissac and the Hotel n'Arres,
both maintained from the exhaustless funds of the Marquis,
who has become passionately fond of Unarita, whilst he
behaves with imperious insolence to all besides. His in-
fluence with the regent is unbounded, and as he has become
more and more awake to the consciousness of some tie
between Unarita and the De Seismic", he resolves
to send them back to Mexico, in order to enjoy
without fear the earnings of his villany. Meaa-
while Unarita is becoming, day by day, more con.
Ada= of her former self. The sudden appearance of
euillot, who was picked up by a Danish boat after the
breaking up of the ice, pronounces the name of "Marie,"
end recalling other circumstances of her early voyage to
lime:memory, :opens the world of her childhood ; she sees
bet mother in herself, and the murderer of that mother and
of her father in the man who seeks her hand—the man who
sow surrounded by all the pomp and show and circum-
Mows of this world. Her plans are taken; she winds
nand D'Arves, obtains possession of all his secrets,
unravels all his villanies, and at the very moment
wham he is expecting to be united to her,
blasts his fame, and his hopes, and his love, and finally
hands him over to the officers of justice. In bringing about
the dinossensent and the exposure, the omnipresent Keeley
Imo no small share. The success of the piece was not unde-
served. The story, though somewhat too much drawn out,
end Improbable in some parts, is well pat together as a
pro whole, and the moral of the piece—that law and duty are
superior to gold and power—naturally developed. The
diameter of Pedro—a man of unbounded ambition, in-
flexible will, and insatiable avarice—cool, keen, and Galen-
latingt__la uniformly drawn—was admirably played by
Mr. Webster, whilst Madame Celeste was equally
happy in depicting the depths of woe, the
wild imaginings of the lovely savage, and the
indignant outbursts of the injured woman. There is one
grave fault, however, which we must notice in the construc-
tions of her character. We can readily account from her in-
ters:onm with savage life during fifteen years for some
of her strange moods and modes when brought into contact
with civilised and Parisian life. Bat by no possibility could
suit a being all at once divest herself of them and assume
a • y and diplomacy in dealing with D'Arvez.
At the ooncinsion of the play there was a call for the
author, when Mr. Webster cams forward and stated that it
wee the production of a gentleman in Paris in connexion
with himself, who wished his name to remain unknown.

A novelty was produced here yesterday evening,
entitled the Wise hatts of the East, or the Magic
Gong, a Chinese spectacle in three acts, written by Mr. G.
Almar. The chief attraction was the introduction of two
elephants, which had been most carelully trained in the
parts assigned to them and which throughout almost
monopolised the applause of the evening. The plot or
story of the piece, so far ma it could be made out, does net
require to be much dwelt upon. At the commencement
Nubian's, surnamed the Sunbeam, is being forced
into a marriage with Terme the Tartar or Tiger,
a worshipper of the avenging deities of evil,
a sort of Cksifee Froatdebenf, who hoe previously em-
loyed a follower to assassinate ea English husband of the
Pad
in the name of the Hon. Capt. Sir Ernest
A veiled prophet—he of Khoraassa having, it is
presumed, been transported to China for the occasion—
vainly attempts, is the interest of Arden, to rescue the
unwilling bride, though, by mesas of a magic gong, the
symbol of his he strikes terror into the guilty soul
of Tirane. The victim is ultimately sonveyed to a castle
of her oppressor ; and just as her little son by the lost
Englishman is, by order of Tararre, about to be blown to
atoms as part of the ammunition of a Chi-
nas mason, Ardea appears on the battlements at the head
of a larp force, and after a brief sad very noisy struggle,
sitermination and a tableau are presented which both mo-
rally and pictorially are entirely satisfactory to the spec-
tators. The piece depends for its modicum of fun on the
mishaps and adventures of an Hibernian traveller, named
Sir Gulliver Munchassen Wide-awake O'Leary, who, to-
gether with a Mr. Azainadahl Huum-Sarum Stripes, a
Yankee adventurer, manages oat of small materials to keep
the house sufficiently amused. As before intimated, how-
ever, the elephants justly occupy the first place. Beginniag
with the simple picking up of a pocket handkerchief, the ani-
mals advance in their tests till they spin round on small tubs
like a testotum, and rival the feats of the posture-master.
At the end of one of the seta, the curtain having dropped
,
and • cry of " encore " being raised, it was respondedto
by an elephant kicking up its two hind legs and standing
for some seconds on his two fore-limbs. The spectacle was
followed by a fair amount of equetriaaism, and this again
by the first act of the extravaganza, entitled " Jupiter's
Decree." The audience was quite as large a one as could
have bun expected on a damp dismal night.