The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-03 00:00:00

AMERICAN MARKETS.

NEW YORK, OCT. 22.
The market for stocks of all descriptions has improved
materially since the last steamer. The non-dividend pay-
ing stocks have been very active, and improved materially.
In sterling there bas been an active demand, and the sup-
ply of good bills has been mostly taken up. The range of
quotations is 91 to 101, with but few first class bills to be
had below 101. Francs are 3.15 to 5.131. Amsterdam, 401
to 41. Bremen, 771 to 78. Hamburg 3ijy to 36. One
drawer of francs sold a million and a half at 5.121 for three
days' sight. But few southern bills have reached here in
time for the Asia, but considerable amounts are in the mails
due this sweets. _ _ _

Money on call among the large houses may almost be
called abundant at 7 per cent., but persons with few facili-
, ties for negotiating still pay larger rates. First class paper
is scarce and in demand, selling at 7 to 10 per cent. ; second
clam goes at 12 to 18 per cent. There is a considerable re-
vival of confidence in paper within the last week or two.
The banks are discounting with more freedom,
Freights are held with firmness at 122. for flour, but an
engagement of 1,000 bbls. was made to-day at 9sl. Also
20,000 bushels grain at 4d. to 41d. ; 200 bales cotton, ed.
To London, 1,100 bbls. Flour, ls. 92. ; and cheese, 30s.
To Glasgow, 4.000 bushels wheat, sd. A deal freight was
node Ikea Richabucto to Cork, and a market at 4/. se. The
hark Azalea, five years old, 268 tons, was sold fur the Me-
diterranean trade at 9,000 doh. To California there is a
moderate business at 50 to 55e. per foot.
The activity of the dry goods trade is abating, and will
gradually decline as the season advances ; yet • fair busi-
ness is doing, especially for the near-by and northern coun-
ties. From second hands also the activity is maintained,
particularly in French and domestic goods, such as ailka,
merinos, shawls, prints, delaines, ginghama, and camitneres.
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NAVAL PIIONIOTIONS.—ADMIRALTY,NOV. I.—W. F.
Parsons to be Master, U. C. Lee to be Gunner, to Excellent.
—APPOINTMENTS.—LieUt. W. U. 11. Morgan, to Excellent.
Surgeons J,llllOll Still, to be Surgeon Superintendent of As-
cendant convict-ship; 11. Richardson, to Crane; J. Forbes,
to Rosamond. Acting Assist.iut-Surgeon William Ray, to
nosogiond.
DI:VW:PORT, Nov. 2.—Tho Dido, 18, Captain
Morshead, having had some defects made good, completed
her complement of hands, and taken on board some super-
numeraries (boys) for distribution in the squadron of Rear-
Admiral Mousley, sailed front the Sound on Thursday for
the Pacific station. The Sprightly, steam tender, arrived
from Portsmouth on 'Thursday with supernumeraries and
returned the same evening with supernumeraries. The
Rosamond, steamer, was commissioned on Thursday for
Commander F. A. Campbell (1846). She has a com-
plement of IC') officers and men ; she shipped
her complement within forty-eight hours of her
being commissioned. This vessel formerly, "the ill-fated
Ile!iiir," has been taken into dock and will soon be ready
for sea. The Desperate, steam vessel, completed her expe-
riments on 'Thursday. The results will be forthwith re-
ported to the Admiralty. She has been in charge of Mr.
Brown, the second master attendant at the dock-
yard, during the trials; and Mr. Ifinnen, engineer, has
gone out in her to report upon the machinery. Mr. Hum-
phreys, late inspector of machinery at Woolwich, has also
been present to watch the experiments on his own account,
one object of them being to test the value of some applica-
tion of steam expansively suggested by him. It is whis-
pered that the results are satisfactory as to the suggested
improvement, especially on the score of economy. The
Nautilus, apprentices exercise brig, in the command of
Lieut. Dulling, has been out during the week for the in-
struction of the youngsters.

Dmrat:urtt:r. futEs.—On Saturday afternoon,
shortly hefore four o'clock, the passengers on the Blackwell
Railway were most painfully excited ; for, after one of the
trains had started front Fenchurch-street terminus, a huge
sheet of flame arose front one of the arches in Frederick-
street, Back Church-lane, St. George's-in-the-East. The
passengers at first were to imagine that the carriages
had, trona some cause, taken fire ' • but, upon the train
clearing that part of the rail, all fears on that head were
dispersed. It was now ascertained that the fire had hap-
pened in an arch, about 30 feet wide, used as a depository
for hay and straw, in the occupancy of Mr. Cochrane, a
corn chandler. The arch extended the entire depth of the
railway, and, owing to the large quantity of combus-
tible material therein, the flames travelled with such
fearful rapidity that the houses on the opposite
side of the carriage-road in Frederick-street were
expected at one time to fall a prey to the fury of the fire.
The engines of the parish, the London Brigade, and the
West of England office attended with all possible expedi-
tion, and, plenty of water having been procured from the
mains of the East London Company, the firemen set to
work in a most praiseworthy manner, and, although they
succeeded in allaying all apprehensions of any further ex-
tension of mischief, yet, as late as seven o'clock in the
evening, a great body of fire remained, and the engines
were still required to be kept at work. The railway, it is
understood, has not received the least damage beyond the
outer coating of the arch.—A fire attended with a serious
destruction of valuable property broke out shortly after 12
o'clock on Saturday morning in the immense rarge of pre-
mises, formerly Aldgate Workhouse, but at the present
' time in the tenure of Messrs. Ritchie and M'Call, house-
hold provkion manufacturers, situate in Cock and
I Hoop-yard, Houodsditch. The flames originated from
some unknown cause in the staircase of the north
wing, and very speedily three of the floors became tired
I almost simultaneously, and for some time nothing short of
, • the complete destruction of the premises could he appre-
hended. Numerous engines of the London Brigade and
Wtst of England Office, with the Royal Society's fire es-
capes, were remarkably early in arriving, and no time was
lost in setting the machines to work, but in spite of the
I most strenuous exertions of the firemen, it was nearly three
o'clock before the fire could be extinguished. The damage
is thus officially reported : " Three floors of warehouse,
used as store-rooms,burned out ; greater part of roof burned
off one half of north wing. The floors adjoining, together
with their contents, considerably damaged by water, and
fexniture in dwelling-house by water and removal. The
building was insured in the Sub, and the contents in the
Phoenix offices."
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