The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN.
Very little change appears to have taken place in
the general tone of the corn trade at any of the principal
Baltic markets. With scarcely any export demand, and
comparatively little disposition to speculate, the tendency
of prices hail it seems been downwards, but the decline hod
not been anything like what it has been here ; and it would,
at present, be impossible to import wheat from say of the
Continental ports into Great Britain without loss.
A good deal of rain appears to have fallen the first week
or ten days of Septemlser, all over the north of Europe
but subsequently the weather had become dry and fine.;
The wheat harvest is reported to have given a goal return _
in most of the countries bordering the Baltic, but rye is
very generally deficient, which will no doubt cause a larger
consumption of wheat than usual, and in so far diminish the """
quantity for export.
At Dantzie more business seems to have been done than
at any of the lower parts. During the fortnight ending 1111
13th inst.. about 9,006 qrs. changed hands, at the following
rates :-High-mixed Upper Polish, of 631 b. weight, 40e.;
ditto, 621 b., 395. ; fine high•mixed Lower Polish, 611 b. to L"
6211 n., 38s. ; fine mixed ditto, 375. • and Inland mixed, of m
601b5., 365. per qr. free on board. iye had been in lively re- to
quest, and equal to 30s. per qr. free on board hail been 13
paid for the article. freights were low; for London two
vessels had been chartered at 2s. and 2s. 4d., one for Hull or 111.
Goole at 2s. 4d., seven to the east coast at 2s. 2d., 2s. 4d. to u
b. 6d., one for the west coast at 33.3 d., and one for the east
coast f Ireland at 3s. Gd. per qr.
Letters from Rostock, dated 15th instant, inform us that U
the rain which hail been experienced in that neighbourhood aol
In the early part of the month had assisted to support tle
confidence of holders, it being the prevailing belief that the et,
quality of the new wheat would not prove equal to the old. ot
Fair stocks of the latter were still held, but supplies from U
the interior had nearly ceased ; and, owing to the protracted 1341
character of the harvest, ne deliveries of new of cone- gi
quence would, it was thought, take place for a time. Under
these circumstances sellers had not offered cool quali-
ties of wheat lower, 375. per quarter free ou board 40
having been demanded; but this quotation must be re- 1611
gardiul as only nominal, rio sales having for sonic time taken r:
place. The wheat had been mostly secured ; and, the quo
having become dry and favourable, the carting of so
barley and oats,which had been interrupted by the wet, had to
again been resumed. 11l
From Stettin we learn that the weather had been St.
changeable for some eight or ten days, but, as the harvest ri
had previously been nearly finished, prices had not been
influenced by the min. kor rye there had been a specula- to
live inquiry, and prices had risen 4s. to Cis. per qr., in a at
comparatively short space of time, owing to the reported So
deficiency in the yield of that crop,. and to the belief that t),
the potatoes would prove extensively diseased. Mean-
while there had been little doing. in wheat for immediate si
delivery, but for delivery in spring 355. to 3Os. fal. per qr., at
free on board, had been paid for red Stettin.
At Hamburg, on Tuesday, there was not much passing st
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in wheat, and prices were about the same as before, say for if
red Upland on the spot, weighing Gollis. per bushel, ge
375. 9d. per qr. ; while from outposts there had been offers
of 6116. qualities at 375. to 38s. per qr. Spring corn had been IL
in fair request, but the prices asked had checked business ; as
for Ribs. new Saale 275. Gd., and for 6311 a. new Danish 141.,
barley, deliverable in October. '2ls. 6d. per qr. free on board ;,;*
had been asked. Oats of 371bs. to 38Iks. weight, to be se
shipped from the Danish islands, had not been offered to
below 17s. Gd. per qr. free on board. The operations since to
the previous post day had been altogether on a retail scale. tit.
Our advice' from Holland arc without interest at present. ,"„
At Rotterdam little or nothing appears to have been done ,-
for export in wheat, and prices were on Monday quoted
precisely the same in that market as on that day sennight.
From Groningen we learn that a few purchases of Oats hail •
been made for England, but that the quantity shipping was
not by any means large, the discouraging reports from hence :IL,
having rendered merchants unwilling to consign.
From France we learn that holders of wheat and flour ii ;
had shown some disposition to raise their pretensions. At SO
Paris, on Wednesday, the latter article was generally held Bt.
If. per sack higher. f
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The most recently received accounts from America describe is
the flour trade as dull, and prices still receding ; good is
brands of Western Canal flour were obtainable at New York, ._
un the tad of September, at 31 dole. to 3 13-16 dots. per brl. So
Some further shipments had been made for Great Britain, 50
but the exports had not been on a very extensive scale. Bt.

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THE HEAVY PORTION OF TIIE INDIA MAIL has 1
arrived by the Pottinger at Southampton.
FOREIGN POSTAGE.—{To the Editor of the Ex- so
press.]—Sir,—Can you tell us why it is, that when a letter
from one end of England to the other cost. a penny, from 341
one end of France to another two-pence, from one end of
Spain to another three-pence, a letter from thu nearest
frontier of England to the nearest of Spain costs just two '"1
shillings? There are regular mails between Irun and 30
Bayonne, Dover and Boulogne, Southampton and Corunna,
sorely the extra carriage of the two first cannot amount to
one shilling and sixpence ? Governments and innkeepers II
have a patent fur fleecing poor travellers.—Yours obediently,
J. B. W.—Tottenham-court-road.

Esticuarlos.—Emigration to Australia proceeds so
steadily from the Frith of Forth, under the superintendence 23
of Mr. William Bowie, the agent at Edinburgh to her
Majesty's Land and Colonial Emigration Commissioners. u
Since the beginning of last mouth the following embarka-
tions have been made :—Thirty-four emigrants on the 20th 20
Aug., on board the Trident, to join the William and Mary
for Sydney ; 132 emigrants on the 23rD August, au board
the Clarence, to join the Stebonheath for Victoria ; 7 emi- 121
grants on the 6th instant, by the Neptune, from Leith to
Sydney; and 63 emigrants, on the 13th inst., on board 10
the Clarence, to join the Charlotte Jane, for Adelaide.— 20
Caledonian Mercury. 50

EMIGRATION FROM SOUTH UIST AND BARRA.—
There has been a very extensive emigration going on so
from these islands, no less than 1,700 having been for- U
warded this season to Canada by Colonel Gordon, the pro- lc
prietor, through Messrs. 'kid and Massey, of Glasgow. as'
This week advice has been received of the safe arrival of
the first cargo of 283 at Quebec on the 28th August, after IN
a passage of 21 days, although 11 days farther intervened
in sailing up the St. Lawrence, in consequence of the a
westerly winds. Only one death had occurred during the
voyage—an old infirm woman. The passengers spoke is
highly of the treatment they had received on board, and
presented the captain with a complimentary address. A
second vessel, the Montezuma, containing 440 passengers,
had also arrived just as the post was leaving, which will
be so 11: satisfactory to the relatives of those on board.
Them are three other vessels on the voyage, of which it
is expected accounts will be received in a few days.—
iketscian.
EMORATlON.—Yesterday a meeting of three han-
drail/migrants was held on the deck of the Athenian •
barepee-ngged vessel, of 670 tons, now lying in the Athenian,
India Docks, for the purpose of hearing addresses from
the Earl of Shaftesbury and other friends of emigrants, be-
fore leaving their native shores. The Athenian is bound
for Sydney ; her 'tween decks are seven feet in height, and
her sides are lined with cabins, of which each family occu-
pies one, proportioned to fts size. The proceedings of
the day were marked by great cheerfulness and hope. to
ESCAPE 010 ANOTHER CONVICT.--Yesterday, infor-
mation was received by the metropolitan police that ono-
ther convict, named James Ashley, had effected his escape
from the Justitis hulk at Woolwich. He found some St.
means of procuring a disguise, as he left his convict suit of Se
grey behind him. Ashley was convicted of burglary, Oct. 15,
23, 1848, at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to
tea sears' transportation. He is well known in Hammer- gt.
smith, Brampton, and Chiswick.
AGRICCLTCRAL STOCK.—The following is a list of t
the prices obtained, at his recent sale, by Mr. Beasley's
herd of pure-bred short horned cattle, at Overstone :—Jac-
quette, 12 gs. • Clove, 32 gs. ; Joan of Arc, 18 gs. •, Gift,
11l gs.; Madame, 25 gs ; Everpeen, 29 gs.; Hope, 39 go.;
Joeasta, 36 gs. ; Nina, 23 gs. hell, 28 gs. ; Jovenini, 63 gs.;
Mantilla, 70 gs.; Jaesotha 70 gs.; Jacinth, 31 gs. ; Ins,
20 gs.; Junia, 29 gs. ; Ro'
sa, 32 gs.; Beauty, 28 gs.; Jea-
nette White, 52 gs. ; Delia, 24gs. ; Dorothy, 35gs. ; Joan,
25 gs. ; Vermillion, 22 p.;
humus, 38 gs. ; Jazetta, 24 gs. ; Amica, 15 gs. ; Enes.
,17 p. ; Ida, 16 p. ; Mantelet, 43 p. ; Clotilda, 26 gs. • Ju-
bilee, 60 gs.; Beatrice, 15 gs. ; Jants, 18 p. ; Lodi-dab
19 p. ; Glitter, 37 gs.; Kathleen, 13 gs. ; Flame, 17 gs. ;
Eclat, 16 gs.; Quaint, IS gs. ; Jardine, 60 p. ; Jasel,
19 gs.; Jaquints, 43 p. ; Jaturna, 19p. ; The Fire Queen,
60 p. , Nymph, 16 gs. ; Jura, 20 p. • Jealousy, 20 gs.
Alert, 25 gs.; Beauty Fourth, 13 gs.; Dorcas, 7p. ; Jes-
sica, 20 p. ; Elf, 8 gs. Bulls—Lymagus, by Orontes,
20 jgs. ; Lord Warden, by Duke of Cornwall, 45 gs.
. ,• Mar-
quis of Rockingham, 35 gs. ; Justus, 28 gs. • Herald,
35 p. ; Castor, 40 p. Demo, 7p. ; Milo, 35p. ; Jack
Tar, 16 p. ; Jen, Up.; Jolly, 8 p.; lon, 7p. ; The
Count, 27 p.—Nnaro&s Menturv.
THE Rooms.—Partridge shooting, like the deer-
log of the fields, bas bees peeseated with peat seas.,
the birds being eacesameakr hags as* &elm red ham ha
to twelve la a any. Ths add dews- at dipa hew boa
favourable he the asset Vbs, eed the les set
bad blow Mel bap he many yews. mouseds par-
tridge is greasy se the biome la tbs bed gZelisarr
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auk is the low prials•—Perli OpwW.